The Cooper Point Journal Volume 28, Issue 2 (October 2, 1997)

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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 28, Issue 2 (October 2, 1997)

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2 October 1997

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How Hollywood
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TESC mourns
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Volume 28 • Number 2J|/r October 2,1997

Amber
HINT:
The Bear Nose connected
to the Shark Teeth.
The Shark Teeth connected
to the Arm Bones
The arm Bones connected
to the Smiling Face
And here is the Eye of
them all

The Evergreen State College

Cooper Point Journal 1997

We're #1

U.S. News and World Report ranks
Evergreen best in the West

by Hillary Rossi
Staff writer

could have gone to college in her home state
Connecticut, she explained, and paid twice
what TESC costs her as an out-of-state student.
She had only been to the Pacific Northwest
once six years ago and wanted the adventure
attainable in a new place. Her need for
adventure, the non-traditional education
available at TESC, and the fact that many of
her friends' parents who worked at Yale had
heard of Evergreen, all "compounded" in her
decision to come to TESC.
Radha Sosienski, a fourth-year student,
is looking toward graduate school next fall.
When she first came to Evergreen she did not
think of attending graduate school. But three
years later she "sees how much [she] has
learned and how much [she has] left to learn."
She thought that the graduate schools she may
attend would be accepting of the narrative
grading system from TESC. She explained that
one advantage TESC students had whe

There's a saying which goes something
along the lines of, "Evergreen's not a real
school." People may say this because of the
unusual narrative grading system or because
of the students attending Evergreen who are
The Frog Mouth connected
stereotyped as apathetic hippies. However,
over the past 26 years, the grading system and
to the Fish Tail
atmosphere have gotten Evergreen national
The Fish Tail connected to
recognition.
the Bird Beak
The (7.5. News and World Report last
The Bird Beak connected
month
ranked The Evergreen State College #1
to the Smiling Face
among
regional public liberal arts colleges.
And here is the Eye of
This year and last year TESC also came in #2
them all
for all regional liberal arts colleges. (The
category of private versus public was just
created this year.) The t/.S. News based its
In the tradition of Why ? by Gary Love, A Closer Look invites readers to
decisions on the scores for academic
examine some of the things that make Evergreen special. It is designed
reputation,
number oi students who attend
toe
the college for all four
and :\l hint,
school was the handsyears, resources that the
DISCLAIMER: Hints provided are intended as interpretive fictions
on
experience from the
college
devotes
to
Other colleges are more
concocted by the artist, not necessarily accurate representations of
programs.
instruction
and
faculty,
the image
and more calling the
"There is a high
and student selectivity
narrative grading
expectation
[from
that comes in four
TESC]
to
be
more
components: test scores,
system effective. The
involved
in
the
high school standing,
students focus on what program,"
she
acceptance rate, and the
they need to learn
explained. Sosienski
proportion of students
who are accepted and
rather than compete to thought that TESC
students came out of
actually attend. The U.S.
get a grade.
college with a lot more
News has ranked TESC in
-Mike Wark,
experience
from
their scoring since
College relations
director
_________
internships
and
beginning their annual
by Amber Rack
that students can't get elsewhere, like over at best colleges guidebook
contracts than other
Staff Writer
Cooper's Glen." He also emphasizes a strong 11 years ago. Before 1986, other publications students who graduated from other colleges
goal of the project, to provide for better
As most everyone is aware by now, communication so that students ideally will be and educational institutions regarded and with only mainstream classes to prepare them
rated TESC high on their own college ranking for the real world.
Housing is in the process of undergoing a more informed.
Wendy Freeman, the director of the
cards. Edward B. Fiske, former education
major overhaul of its communication
The Ethernet connection to ResNet is editor to The New York Times, publishes the career development center, said the narrative
infrastructure. Housing's ResNet (Residential designed so residents will get same level of
Network^pfeject will provide cable TV, data service that they would in Evergreen's Fiske Guide to Colleges and rates TESC one grading system had never deterred graduate
(Ethernet), and telephone service to buildings computer center. Statistics show that 60% of out of the top 21 colleges in the U.S. for 1998. schools from accepting recent TESC graduates.
"We've never had a problem to start with
Mike Wark, the college relations director
A through U.
Housing residents own computers. The direct to TESC, says the narrative grading system [because of the narrative grading system],"
It all started with conversation between connection to ResNet using Ethernet will
Housing Director Mike Segawa and ResNet provide faster access than modem dialing. unique to TESC gives us the high academic Freeman explained.
She said that when a college gives a letter
coordinator Pat Castaldo, asking what would Also, buying an Ethernet card presents a reputation.
"[Other colleges] are more and more grade, there is no explanation behind how the
it take to provide students with these services. savings of about $100 over buying a modem.
calling [the narrative grading system] student got that letter grade. But if an
After talking with some 40 different
Phone service will not be ready until next effective," he says. "The students focus on what Evergreen student receives a negative
organizations, Housing began working with fall. According to Castaldo, there is not enough
MacroCom early last year, composing detailed time or staff power to include phone service at they need to learn rather than compete to get evaluation, it "speaks volumes" to the graduate
school acceptance committees who read
drawings of how the wiring could be installed. this time. "Right now," says Castaldo, "the a grade."
through the evaluations. Freeman said if
Beth
Royer,
a
first-year
student
originally
MacroCom was chosen because they proposed project big is enough as it is. If we tried [to
prospective graduate students from TESC turn
from
Millford,
Conn.,
said
she
never
heard
of
the lowest cost to the state.
provide phone service] this year, it wouldn't be
The idea for the ResNet project became done until the middle of Winter Quarter." By TESC before consulting various catalogs and in a graduate school application with all of their
a serious consideration at end of last year. On then, he reasons, "students will have already lists during high school looking for a college. evaluations, three letters of recommendation,
May 14,1997, the college's Board of Trustees called US West and gotten their phones hooked (No verification on what publications these and an essay, then they should be able to stand
approved the project. Housing circulated up." Additionally, Castaldo said that Housing lists and catalogs were from.) "I essentially was up along side the best of them.
Wark said that the national attention
surveys and hosted forums to solicit student does not yet possess the necessary switches to looking for a non-traditional school with no
given
to TESC as a result to U.S. News and
grades,"
she
said.
"1
was
not
looking
for
a
feedback, and came to the conclusion that provide phone service at this time.
school with core programs, or [I was looking other college catalogs and lists raises the
enough people would benefit from the project
When phone service is added, Castaldo for a school with] minimal core programs."
awareness of the college. This national
to make the effort worthwhile.
anticipates that students will get better service
, Royer said that all the lists and catalogs attention rose awareness for Royer, and
The data connection to ResNet is the at a lower price. The service includes voice
she could find of non-traditional schools in the Greeners like her, who would not be at TESC if
driving force of the project. Castaldo is very,
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enthusiastic about it. As he says, "it's a service
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Domestic Abuse exhibit comes to campus
by Hillary Rossi
"Staff WriteT~

because of the Rape Response Coalition, says
Evergreen's sexual assault prevention
coordinator, Mary Craven. Regina Jones, a
Next Wednesday through the following woman working with the Salvation Army's
Monday, thirty-one two-dimensional, domestic abuse program, called Craven after
plywood silhouettes will haunt the third floor she heard of Evergreen's Rape Response
of the CAB building. Painted blood red so as Coalition and suggested the exhibit as a way
not to show race, the 31 models of the Silent to educate the students.
Witness exhibit represent the 30-plus
Craven saw Oregon's own Silent
Washington women who lost their lives at the Witness exhibit last April in Portland. So
hands of their husbands or partners during when she got a chance to have the Washington
1995. A shield on each silhouette's chest tells state exhibit shown at Evergreen, she took it.
her name, age, date of death, information on On Oct. 8, 9 and 10, Craven will show videos,
how she died and the legal outcome of the case. "Defending Our Lives" and "Faces of Fear" in
And one silhouette represents all the domestic the Women's Resource Center, CAB 206. The
abuse murder cases that went unsolved or were Evergreen State College is only the second stop
found accidental during 1995.
for the Washington state traveling exhibit
While no group is sponsoring it, the since its completion last May.
Silent Witness exhibit is coming to Evergreen
The Silent Witness exhibit started in

1990 when several female artists and writers
from Minnesota got sick of murders being
committed against their own sex and decided
show that these women's lives did not go in
vain. So they created 27 life-size wooden
silhouettes to represent the 26-plus women
who died during 1990 in Minnesota.
On Feb. 18, 1991, 500 women met at a
St. Paul church across from the state Capitol
and marched silently carrying the silhouettes
up the Capitol steps and to the rotunda. They
then set the silhouettes down single file and the
Silent Witness exhibit was launched. The idea
was to get Silent Witness exhibits going in
every state.
By the time Washington state finished
their own Silent Witness exhibit, 32 other
states were taking part. On Oct. 18, the
different silhouettes from every state will be in

Washington DC, being marched from the
Washington Monument to the Capitol
building to celebrate Domestic Abuse
Awareness Month. It will be followed by a vigil
to honor those deceased women.
The Silent Witness exhibit's purpose is to
end domestic abuse completely by 2010. Its
goals are:
1. to honor the victims, document their
murders, and tell their stories to the country
2. to raise awareness of domestic abuse and the
silence it projects
3. to promote programs that reduce domestic
abuse
4. to keep tally of the results of the exhibit on
domestic abuse cases
Craven expects the exhibit to be up by
Wednesday afternoon.

Students may notice patches of new grass or
concrete where digging occurred to run wires
underground between buildings. Installation
continued from cover
is still in progress at this time.
With classes already started and
mail, and each resident will have his or her
residents still not able to use the Ethernet
connection, it would seem that Housing is
own 4-digit network extension number.
experiencing technical
Castaldo compares it to
difficulties and the
"having one of the white
[campus] phones in your
project is delayed. On
room." At present, Housing
the contrary: Castaldo
has not figured out how to
reports that the project is
include phone service for the
a "way ahead of
Mods.
schedule."
The Mods are referred
Castaldo recalls that
to as a "technology-free
"[Housing] promised
zone." Mod residents will not
students they would
have cable when they
receive data, and presently it
moved in. And they do,
is not planned for them to
just not the full 77, or
receive phone service. The
however
many
Mods will receive cable
channels."
Also as
service, but not the full 70+
promised, he assures that
channels. Castaldo said the
students will have data
Mods were not included in
access Fall Quarter, just
the project basically because
not at the beginning.
of financial restrictions. "At
Castaldo expects work to
eight people per building and
be completed by Nov. 15.
19 buildings, it was too
expensive [to provide service
photo by Gary Love Anything not completed
by November 15 he says
to each individual room]." Bundles of wires wait to carry
However, being technology- cable and internet to the dorms will definitely be finished
by Dec. 1.
free does mean that the Mods
As of Sep. 24, installation for data service
are less expensive to live in.
was completed in all buildings except A, B, C,
On July 17, a purchase order was filled
D, K, N and J-dorms, and the Community
out for necessary materials. Cost for the
Center. Castaldo reported that C-dorm was
ResNet project, including necessary physical
mostly finished and that cables would be
materials such as copper wires and fiber optic
pulled for it this week. Said Costaldo of what's
cables, and the physical labor to install the
been done, "we have the hardware; now we
materials, totals about $1.6 million.
need the electronics [to make the cables
On July 21, installation of new wires began.

work]."
Castaldo expects to finish installing the
hardware for buildings E through U by the end
of this week. In order to successfully wire
them, each of these buildings made a small
sacrifice of space: one apartment in each
building has a locked door at the end of the
hall, where a linen closet once was. The closet
was converted into the central electrical area,
or "hub," for that building.
Buildings A through D will also have
central hubs located in hall closet space, one
in each building. These closets, however, are
not part of residents' apartments. "If we took
away [residents'] closet space in B, C, or D,
people would cry," Castaldo joked.
Empty holes may still exist in the floors
of a couple of buildings where the cable
conduits have yet to be installed. Castaldo
explained that to avoid inconveniencing
students, all of the necessary drilling was done
first. Students who live in buildings that need
conduits and cables installed are allowed to
remain in their rooms while workers come and
go. Nobody has been displaced from his or
her room because of this project.
Students will find in their rooms two
metal conduits: a larger conduit through the
floor, and a smaller conduit terminating at a
small box with three outlets (some residents
will only have this small box because the
conduits run down the wall in the room next
door). The white outlet will be used next fall
for phone service; the orange outlet is for the
data connection; the metal outlet in the lower
right corner is for cable service.

Metal was favored for its durability. A
plastic conduit was considered, but it would've
been just as big as the metal; and even though
plastic looks less expensive, there really were
no savings, said Castaldo. "I had a sample [of
the plastic] installed, and had people kick it,
jam desks up against it, everything that
happens in dorms, and it broke," relates
Castled. For those who find the metal conduits
unattractive, Castaldo assures that eventually
they will all be painted over the next five years.
According to information given by
Housing, ResNet supports Apple Macintosh
and Windows 95 computers that meet the
hardware and software requirements
designated by Housing. Housing recommends
for those who own computers, or are looking
to buy one, to upgrade or purchase based on
the requirements designated by Housing.
"The whole project was built on the idea
that we're not done; we might need to expand,"
explained Castaldo. "I mean, who would've
thought they would have the (In terjnet in their
room three years ago? Who knows what will
happen in the next three years?" Castaldo
estimates a 60% chance of needing to upgrade
in future.
When the time comes, buildings E, F, G,
and H will be the first to connect to ResNet. ADorm will be the last to connect, because it will
be the last to be physically wired. Castaldo is
obviously excited about the project. "I don't
expect everyone to use every service," he stated,
adding that he thinks "most people will be
happy with what they get when [we're] done."

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Evergreen loses long-time registrar
by Jennifer Koogler
Editor in chief
Judy Huntley, registrar and staff
member more than 20 years, died July 11 from
complications after heart surgery. She was
59.
A celebration of Judy's life was held in
the Longhouse on Friday, July 18. Hundreds
of people, from family members to former
staff and students, shared both laughter and
tears over stories of her life and work at the
school.
Judy will be remembered for her
extreme dedication to the college and its
population.
Andrea Coker-Anderson, acting
registrar, worked with Judy for nine years in

the Registration office. Much of the teamwork
and camaraderie in the office is Judy's legacy
of how to treat and interact with people,
Andrea says. The staff would joke with Judy
about how her back must hurt from bending
over backwards for so many people to make
sure things worked, she says.
Judy's commitment to the college led her
to serve on numerous disappearing task forces
and more than one president search
committee. She had a great enthusiasm for
bringing new people into the college and
looked forward to the beginning of each new
school year, Andrea says. Judy's devotion was
evident even in her daily work. "She believed
in everything about it."
Evergreen graduate John Martin knew
Judy for over 30 years, first meeting her as a

child and then again during his time at
Evergreen. He says Judy was an excellent cook,
always making something, including a New
Year's Day tradition of ham and black-eyed
peas. Judy enjoyed traveling, especially to the
Oregon coast and places around the region
where she could partake in sailing and other
water sports. She was also an excellent knitter,
who often made sweaters for friends and
family. She once made John a traditional
Norwegian sweater which ended up weighing
about 12 pounds. Judy added two extra
stitches on the back so he would know the
back from the front. He says, "to get a Judy
sweater was an honor."
"In many ways, she's still here," says
Andrea, inside the hearts of those who knew
her.

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Death of staff leaves vase empty in Admissions
by Leigh Cullen
Managing editor
Anh Kim Allen, who worked in
Admissions, died on Sept. 17, at Tacoma
General Hospital from complications of her
pregnancy. She was 34.
Anh carried her baby, Maxwell Samuel
Allen, to full term. He is healthy and lives with
his father, Anh's husband Mark in Tumwater.
Anh worked at Evergreen for almost six
years. Everyone who has been admitted to
Evergreen has had their paperwork cross Anh's
desk. She evaluated students' past records to
help decide who would be admitted to
Evergreen. Anh had just left the week before
her baby's birth for a six-month maternity
leave.
Anh was born Feb. 11, 1963, in

Nhatrang, Vietnam. She was the middle child
in a family of nine children. Her family moved
to Iowa. In 1986, she married Mark T. Allen.
Acting Registrar Andrea CokerAnderson, a friend of Anh's, said that Anh was
the definition of spunky. "She's a lively soul
that had lots of opinions and a strong work
ethic," said Andea.
She remembers Anh as a person who had
a passion for growing things. Andrea said Anh
had an amazing garden that "went beyond
what you'd think of as a backyard."
Andrea recalls the start of their
friendship. There was a bouquet of roses on
Anh's desk one day, and since the two women
had a mutual interest in gardening, they soon
became friends. Andrea says she will always
remember the trips she and Anh took to
garden shows and nurseries, where Anh would

become as ecstatic as a child just by seeing a
plant or flower. Andrea remembers the
"excitement [Anh] had when she was showing
me something new— an incredible smile on
her face and a joy in her heart."
Andrea said that Anh "blossomed with
her pregnancy." Anh was excited about having
her first baby.
Leona Walker, Anh's supervisor in
Admissions, said that Anh was a wonderful
person whom she respected and loved. "She
was a wonderful employee, you couldn't ask for
a better employee," she said. "This office has
been hit hard this summer," she says. "I just
have to take it day by day."
"She touched a lot of people at
Evergreen," said Leona.
Services for Anh were held on Sept. 20 at
Olympic Funeral Home in Tumwater.

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There will be an informal homeopathy
study group forming Wednesdays from 3:30 to
5:00. Meetings will be held in Lab 1 Room 1051.
Contact Cindy Beck at cbeck@elwha.
evergreen.edu

Swimming meeting
School is back in session and it's time to
swim. The athletic department and the men's
and women's swim team welcome you to
Evergreen. We invite you to become a part of
the swimming tradition. Meet Coach Jim Baird
and the returning and new swimmers
Monday, Oct. 6. The meeting will be held in
CRC 112 at 3 p.m. Practices will begin Oct. 7
at 3 p.m. We hope to see you there.

Organic Farm hosts
Annual festival
Sunday, Oct. 5, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at
the Organic Farm on The Evergreen State College
campus guests should park in parking lot C at the
main entrance of the college campus and walk on
the marked path to the Organic Farm.

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A Nike picket will take place at 12:30
p.m., Sunday, Oct. 5.
Would you like to be paid $2.60 a day....
or a 10 hours day. Help plan the protest,
meetings are every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at
Liberation Cafe in downtown Olympia
(upstairs from Bulldog News)

Student Health
Center news flash
There are several changes and
construction projects at the Student Health
Center right now. There will be one medical
practitioner at the health center until the first
week of November. During October, we will
only see students who are ill; we will not be doing
any routine physicals. Many students need to
update measles vaccines: we will try to fit this in
as time allows. Many students have medications
and need refills on and we will make every effort
to keep the refills going. New students with such
chronic health problems as asthma, diabetes,
etc. will also be seen quickly, so as to prevent
destabilization of these conditions.

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by John Evans
Sept. 18

5epf. 23

0750 Basement entrance door to
Greenery is discovered to be insecure.
Problem remedied.
1215 A pet policy violation on
campus. Probably a pooch without a pullcord.
1327
B-lot vehicle "boot"
application: Parking ticket scofflaw gets
his bird grounded.
1642 Police Services Ford gets
refueled: 8 gallons. Current mileage:
81446. They'll want to replace the tinning
belt at 90,000 miles, I wager.
1608 Narcotics violation in Bdorm. While resident's possessions are
being moved out, controlled
substances are discovered amongst
belongings.

0754 Theft: someone absconds
with fire extinguisher from covered
recreation area. Goes into the "some
people will take anything that isn't nailed
down" file.
1331 Jump-start provided for
frustrated motorist in B-lot. Motorist
goes on merry way.
1639 Vehicle tires slashed in F-lot.
F-lot officially declared a de-militarized
zone.

Sept. 21
1500 Exposure incident on the trail
linking F-lot to the Evergreen beach.
Woman walking trail is confronted by
randy gentleman, naked, who
conspicuously masturbates. Victim
walks back to F-lot, is not followed by
suspect (described as white man
between the ages of 25 and 35 with wellgroomed brown hair and a muscular
build). Police Services reiterates
recommendation that people do not
walk the beach trail alone.

Sept.22
0100 Someone locks their keys in
their ride. Police Services bails them out.
2037 Someone burning midnight
oil at Q-dorm sets off fire alarm.
Actually, it was 8:30 P.M., but it really
was burnt oil that tripped the trigger.
Seriously.
2201 Disturbance call; excessive
noise reported in A-dorm. Verbal warning
issued.
2330 Wary folks call Police Services
for safe escort to their destination.

October 2,1997

Sept. 24
0357 Wing door in Lab II stairwell
is ruled insecure. What a "wing door" is
remains unknown.
1255 Food being mercilessly
burned sets offT-dorm fire alarm.
1437 Injury reported when person
trips on exposed sprinkler head near
lecture halls. Sprinkler attack may
suspected to be retribution for food
mercilessly burned in T-dorm.
2022 Disturbance call: mother and
daughter dispute in F-dorm. Daughter
may have attempted to intervene on
behalf of food being mercilessly burned.
2150 Another senseless food
burning, this time in Q-dorm, activates
fire alarm. When will it end?

Sept. 25
0740 Traffic is delayed by a disabled
vehicle on Driftwood Road.
1221 Loose dog in the CAB building
sparks complaint to Police Services. No
food is harmed.
1417 Medical transfer: student
transported from Health Services to St.
Peter's hospital.
1844 Protection order issued for
unlawful harassment.
1900 Protection order issued for
food, outlawing the cruel and torturous
burning of food on campus. And there
was much rejoicing.

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try to figure out what program to take, much
less decide what you're going to do once you
graduate. That's where the Career
Development Center comes into the picture.
Whether you are a first-year student or about
to graduate, their resources can help you
figure out what career would be best for you
and how to go about finding a job in that field.
Wendy Freeman, director of Career
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Freeman says Career Development "helps to
answer the unanswered questions like,
'What do I do with this education?' and
'How do I make sense of my degree?'"
Freeman says Evergreen is a great place
because you can change focuses as many
times as you want; "you can come as a dancer
and leave as a physicist." As you go along,
you develop a sort of second curriculum,
"separating your truth from everyone else's,"
to decide where you will go from here.
Career Development exists to help students
navigate the challenging path towards a job
Freeman and the rest of the Center's
staff know the daunting nature of the current
employment climate. One of their goals is
to ensure "no student from Evergreen is
afraid of the job market," especially of the
possibility of changing careers several times.
Therefore, they answer the question, "how
do we navigate this new world where change
is the norm?"
You don't have to have a specific
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Center often has students take personality
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preferences and thought processes. The
counselors assist in interpreting the results
of the tests, which ensures students are
shown most of the issues relevant to their
preferences. Students can do this in groups
or have one on one counseling, depending
on your individual needs. Freeman knows
a first-year student will most likely not have
the same concerns as a fourth-year student,
but the paths to discovery are relatively the
same. "We don't have to see you 20 weeks
in row," she says, but "we will work forever
with you," if that is what you want. The
counselors try to identify how students best
learn, and then work with them in that way.
Once students have an idea of what
career they would like to research, they can
take advantage of the Center's vast amount
of information on job placement
opportunities, internships, and graduate
schools. The computer system available
looks up jobs by title and provides
information about it such as duties, skills
needed, typical work environment, wages,
and the current employment outlook.
Freeman hopes to soon have an interactive
Web site up and running which would link
to job placement and information pages and
be accessible from any computer.
The Center maintains a job board, fully
stocked with opportunities from around the
region. They divide the jobs up by general
category (media) and then break them down
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or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
— First Amendment, U.S. Constitution

African-American

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Join WashPIRG

WashPIRG is offering course credit internships

lose one quarter of ai! the worlds

"It is a complex fate to be an American," Henry
James observed, and the principal discovery an American
writer makes in Europe is just how complex this fate is.
James Baldwin

people on racial issues. I feel this particular stance is
feeding the huagry aad providing clothing to the because polluters continue to
selfish and non-productive. In an intellectual community,
the haves share with the have-nots. Nor does it do any
The WashPIRG chapter
was
good to "payback" white people with withering blasts of
Water Watch and Hunger
scorn and contempt because they don't know. If
social, political and environmental ills in our society. campaigns from isst year. W;
Greetings to the Evergreen community; as my someone asks you, they probably want to know, and an
iiastyear, Iv«igree» stodentsrmKwedtea^itfassi strengthen clean air standards,
readers (both of you) know, I studied abroad last year at opportunity to enlighten someone should not be
local
waterways
sad educated elementary kids about opportunity to do stream cleanthe University of Sussex in England. I went on a contract cavalierly dismissed.
and provide environmental edi
the
water
to see how the contributions of African-Americans to
The students at Evergreen seem different this year.
The Hunger and Home
the United States would be looked at by people outside There are more students of color with more visible ethnic
and homeless and participated in Hunger and involve working in local shelte
of the United States. What I discovered was more pride than I remember from the past. I believe the entire
HomdessRessAwai^nessWeek.
;, :
; drives, and holding events ii
illuminating than I would ever have thought. I will share community will benefit from this. With more ethnic
Harvest, The toxin campaign
;;This
quarter's
lead
campaign
is
an
endangered
some of that with you now. I suppose some background students unwilling to sacrifice their color to "fit in," the
with Washington schools an
is in order.
Evergreen community will have to adjust its expectations
affi!irtgton,|he
Columbia
river
has
Part of the reason I chose Sussex is because in the of people of color. I never heard the statement "I don't
To find out more about
been
native habitat damaged so
brochures I was reading, Sussex seemed to be Evergreen see color" while I was at Sussex. I always found that
campaigns,
internships or ways}
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Coho
Salmon
is
on
the
brink
of
in a more advanced stage. Whereas we talk of diversity statement insulting. If you look at me and don't see a
*l||the
office
in the Lecture H;
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;
a
i
toxic
soup
and dealing with different cultures on one level, Sussex black man- well, you must have some kind of a problem.
campus
x6'058
Help us work foi
of
chemiail
pollution
partly
because
cur
national
was able to do this, with more success, on a higher levelWhite people seem friendlier. I can't remember
forests
and
tain
forests
around
the
world
are
being
despite more formidable
people smiling as much or
clear-cut and our coastlines and wetlands paved over. Dm Schiliinger I. ill \s org
obstacles than we face here.
being greeted with hello's
!
!f this destructive practice does not change, we will
Let's face it, at Evergreen we all
from strangers as much as I
speak English and have a set
have seen recently. Evergreen
of cultural references to base
has always had its share of
our interactions on. There
social misfits, but being a
was no such comfort level at
misfit doesn't mean you have
Sussex. I believe this lack of
to be antisocial. Evergreen has
I'd like to take this moment to welcome you all back one day replace antibiotics, or 1
comfort tends to force
a reputation for being
everyone to deal with each
progressive because of its to Evergreen. I'm sure you're amazed at the unusual new to build a particle accelerator c
other minus assumptionsacceptance of those in the carpet in the A-dorm, shocked at the radical readjustment bottles. This is research that will
Sure, science can be prese
which leads to "purer" (for
dominant society labelled of the Housing Community Center, and perhaps a little
to
put
you to sleep in under five i
perplexed
at
the
food
found
at
the
Corner
Cafe.
Yet
chances
lack of better words)
"misfits." I was always leery of
interactions amongst people.
such labels, because although are you are not prepared for what is the most amazing, is often taught in high schools
With over a hundred
they distort and malign me, most shocking, most perplexing thing of all: there are country-but Evergreen is nevi
languages spoken, I found a
they don't accurately describe science courses at Evergreen. It's true. Still stranger: there things the "accepted" way. Kee
respect for (as opposed to
me- but I have found my are science students at Evergreen. I know, I'm one of them. science here is taught with entl
tolerance of) difference that
willingness (need ?) to look Even seasoned Greeners may not have noticed this the overall experience is rather p
Evergreen would do well to
beyond the surface has not scientific subculture, as most of us spend our days shall try to honor this tradition
However, we cannot do a;
emulate.
always been reciprocated. cloistered in the bowels of the Lab buildings conducting
science
student has about three
unfathomable
experiments
and
attempting
to
master
I learned a great deal
Which brings me to the utter
about myself while I was
hypocrisy of Evergreen in arcane mathematics. Occasionally we emerge, blink our and we usually try to spend thi
abroad. For the first time in
regard to attempting to see eyes at the sunlight (or-more likely-the rain), and see a lucky-sleeping. In an attempt t
my life, I got an extended look
past media-manufactured world of red bricks, bongo drums, and giant clocks that maintaining a weekly science i
read 4:20 for more than a decade. We see a world in which accept submissions from the s
at what it was like to be an
stereotypes.
reading audience. Doing cool
unhyphenated American. On a larger stage, I was an
Evergreen touts itself as a place of tolerance, but its we are-perhaps-a little under-represented.
We are attempting to change this. Last year, a group interested in some topic? Wi
American, and people responded to me as such. There tolerance is reserved for a select few. If you are a
are parts of me that loved it. People asked me questions conservative white male, you are also a social pariah.There of students started a project to heighten the Evergreen Working on a project for a pro
about American issues, not just racial issues. I was an is a scorn for athletes on this campus that goes beyond community's awareness to the interesting (yes!) scientific could get your professor to give
American, not just a thug from South Central Los Angeles. the usual disdain intellectuals have for physical prowess. work going on right under their noses. Though only active some or all of your project as a
You would not believe how much of your identity is (Evergreen, by the way, is one of the most physically unfit for the Spring quarter, they managed to generate an your submissions as objective a:
revealed to you as American or how much you take it for campuses I have ever seen. I suspect some envy and impressive number of articles in our beloved Cooper Point include proper references, but
granted until trying to converse with someone that has a resentment masquerading as scorn.) A certain type of Journal about events, research, and insights affecting the scientific journal: make your artii
completely different frame of reference for trying to minority is prized while others are ostracized. Criticism sciences at Evergreen... but that was merely the beginning. The deadline is the Friday befoi
understand. I also found a respect for African-American towards women comfortable with defying the Evergreen We are back, fully rested from our vacation, and ready to which you want it appear. Conta
Interested science students
culture that I do not see as much among Evergreen dress code (baggy and androgonous- this and every year) continue our quest.
Evergreen
Science & Math Ne
You
may
think
that
you
have
no
interest
in
the
sciences
students- even some of the African-American students. is not unlike what one would expect at a conference of
support
group
for math and scier
and,
thus,
have
no
wish
to
read
articles
about
it.
This
is
We may be the only group of students on campus where Puritans. Before I left I had come to a grudging acceptance
They provide help in finding
where
you
are
wrong.
Every
week
scientific
topics
like
Mad
a reluctance to acknowledge your own people and culture of the gap between Evergreen's mission statement and
internships, publicize and assist
would be accepted with nary a glance or question.
the reality of living here. I cannot anymore, because I Cow Disease and our mission to Mars make front page news
conferences, and more. They're
in
the
world's
most
respected
newspapers.
The
now know the Evergreen community can live up to its
ideas, so if you want be in on the
environmental
studies
for
which
this
school
is
renowned
"Every Black writer is, somehow, engaged in a battle mission statement. In my column, I will be asking
big, you'd better hurry and join sc
are
based
largely
on
the
hard
sciences.
Some
of
the
ongoing
with himself to discover his own dynamic vis-a-vis, his questions about some of the obstacles we face. I am not
Wednesday at 1 o'clock in Lib. 35
research
projects
at
Evergreen
should
interest
even
the
status as an artist, and a member of an oppressed group." satisfied with the uneasy truce we maintain by not
staunches!
science-phobe:
take
professor
Janet
Ott's
Ralph Ellison
discussing thorny issues. Peace maintained at such a cost
Mark Mueller, Elizabeth Thoma
is unstable and unreal, and certainly not worth the research on naturopathic medicine, for example, or the T4 (muellerm, thomasel, & wolfech
Lab's
project
to
study
a
bacteria-attacking
virus
that
may
DuBois spoke of the sense of twoness that Black immense effort its maintenance demands.
Americans feel. This twoness is about trying to reconcile
I think we would all be better served by open
your blackness within your Americaness. I think that all dialogue- to identify problems and work on solving them
hyphenated Americans experience this to some degree. instead of ignoring them. I will be talking about racism
I found that I appreciated my Black identity more when I amongst students of color. I will be discussing power
Please bring or address all responses or other forms of con
was not imprisoned by it. It was more often a joy and dynamics between men and women. I will be probing
Cooper Point Journal office in CAB 316. Deadline is at 1 p.m.
not an irritation to explain to people some aspects of the aspects of interactions between the community of color
that week's edition. The word limit for responses is 450 words; i
racial divide in America. I didn't have to be as strident, and the gay community. And I get to be fearless, because
because people were listening. In fact, some times I got I am a senior.
it's 600 words.
(attempted) to be witty and subtle. I think the white
The CPJ wants to use as much space as possible on these j
people in England were not as offended or afraid of
If anything I do, in the way of writing novels or
meaningful exploration of the difficult subject of race whatever I write, isn 'tabout the village or the community
and opinions. Therefore, in practice, we have allowed contrib
relations. I will say, though, that the English love a good or about you, then it isn't about anything. I am not
the word limit when space is available. When space is limited, t
intellectual conflict (a virtue I find sadly lacking at interested in indulging myself in someprivate exercise of
are prioritized according to when the CPJ gets them. Priority is
Evergreen), and it was probably easier to talk about the imagination... which is to say yes, the work must be
American racial conflict because of the emotional political.
Evergreen students.
distance maintained when it's "them" instead of "us."
Toni Morrison
Which brings me to "us"-1 have heard minority
students on campus say they are tired of educating white Peace. VKM

Thoughts and shit

Science anyon

by Vaun Monroe

How to submit:

All submissions must have the author's name and a ph

8

the Cooper Point Journal

FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

Dinions

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

The Virtuous University
millions of dollars to

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tudents will have the
ps, test water quality
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satisfied to go about
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?asant and, yes, fun. We
we create our articles,
this alone. The typical
ours of free time a week
time eating or-if we're
spread out the load of
lumn, we will eagerly
entific portion of our
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ou credit for presenting
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possible and be sure to
emember, this is not a
es lively and interesting.
the issue of the CPJ in
us for more details,
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work, a newly formed
e students at Evergreen,
raduate schools and
esearch, send people to
till bubbling over with
eginnings of something
n. Meetings occur every
. Hope to see you there!

Editor's note: The following is the speech President Jane
Jervis made at the Convocation ceremony on Sept. 15,
1997
I had intended my convocation remarks today to
be a long riff on technology, on the virtual university (a
nice pun), and on the relationship of teaching and
learning to "information delivery systems." This is an
important and timely subject, and one that we need to
pay serious attention to as an institution. But as many
of you are aware, this summer we found ourselves in an
intense conversation about censorship and racism. We
had published a catalog of last year's anniversary exhibit
based on student reminiscences of 1971. Strong
objections were raised to one of the entries, and we
republished the booklet without that entry, provoking
an even stronger response about censorship. A vigorous
discussion ensued, conducted in person, on the Web,
through e-mail and campus mail, in a seminar during
the alumni reunion, in the press. We recanted,
apologized, and have reissued the original publication.
So instead of talking about technology, I have
decided instead to stick my neck out and take on the
difficult subject of virtue — in particular, academic and
institutional virtue. I'm going to try to define what it is
and, in the course of this discussion, I will refer back to
this summer's experience as a kind of case study. I
consider this a work in progress, and 1 invite all of you
to wrestle with me over what I think is a subject equal to
technology in importance and timeliness.
Now virtue is a tough word. In Latin and in its root,
it means "manliness." The Oxford English Dictionary
defines manly as "possessing the virtues proper to a man
as distinguished from a woman or child; chiefly
courageous, independent in spirit, frank, upright."
Womanly virtue refers to sexual purity. So 1 think we
are going to have to say that neither English nor Latin
serves us very well here, and we're going to have to make
up our own definitions. If I were in the Northeast, I
would use the Yiddish word ment'sh, which means
something like being a really good, fully realized human
being — courageous, independent in spirit, frank,
upright, and generous. But while I'm making up a
definition, I'd like to add something about community,
commitment to others. How do we translate these
qualities into academic and institutional virtues?
Last fall in the magazine called Liberal Education
[published by the Association of American Colleges and
Universities, vol 82, no 4, fall 1996], Hank Payne,
president of Williams College, addressed the question,
"Can or should a college teach virtue?" His answer was
yes. He identified the central academic virtues as:
• the capacity for determined inquiry and for
accountability, whereby no statement is sufficient to

and Christopher Wolfe
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itself but must be open to the work of critical reflection,
sober cross examination, and even humorous testing of
its assumptions;
• the capacity for argument, for stating reasons,
hearing counterarguments, and patient response;
• the capacity for listening, for truly hearing others
out and granting the perspectives of others a provisional
grace and a full-hearted understanding;
• the capacity for pushing investigation beyond
the obvious, to be exhaustive within the bounds of
human energy;
• the capacity for crossing received boundaries
and trying out new maps of learning, new roads to travel;
and
• the capacity to find the right words, numbers,
lines, and movements in whatever domain we choose,
to recognize that the way we express ourselves ought to
be the mirror of the best fruits of our thinking.

We also need to
remember to confront
one another
respectfully, humbly,
even lovingly, as the
social contract asks us

to do.
He went on to say that these academic virtues are not
possible without character virtues; they are impossible
unless "they are acted out against a backdrop of
tolerance, empathy, patience, mutual respect,
cooperation."
Well, I think that's a pretty good list, but I would
like to add some — some that may just be the same thing
said differently:
• the capacity to be moved and changed by
learning, the courage to admit error, and the generosity
to credit the influence of others (this has been very close
to my experience this summer);
• the capacity to make connections, to see and
build relationships — both among ideas and among
people;
• the capacity to apply knowlege in ways that
matter to the world, to make a difference for the better
in the world;
• the capacity to invite and welcome all people,
all views, into the conversation, with respect and
humility.

Hank Payne expressed these academic virtues in
terms of capacity. But I think I would take issue with
him and say that the capacity for acting well is not by
itself virtuous. To be virtuous, we must not only have
these capacities, we must realize them, act upon them,
live them, and live them passionately. This may be the
most important way we can put theory into practice —
a traditional Evergreen focus. And one of the most
important ways in which we can do that is to confront
one another when we fail to meet these high ideals. We
need to confront one another, because the character of
the place depends on it. But because we care
passionately about these things, we also need to
remember to confront one another respectfully,
humbly, even lovingly, as the social contract asks us to
do.
There are at least two more questions that need to
be raised (if not answered) before we can go on. First,
by what test do we decide that these ideals, or values,
are in fact virtuous, and not in some way self-serving,
or sectarian, or trivial? Is it by democratic process? Do
we need to come to consensus? Or is there something
beyond ourselves that measures their goodness? Do we
need to resort to a supreme being, transcendental truth,
natural law, civil religion? Here, I think we are a little
better off than those who struggle with the nature of
good and evil, of right and wrong more broadly
construed, because our purpose is narrower — it is
"merely" to define academic virtue.
So I would propose that the test should be: does
this value support the long-term intellectual and moral
and political and spiritual growth of our students and
ourselves? Will it tend to make us and our students
more courageous, independent in spirit, frank, upright,
generous, and communitarian? The answer is not
always going to be easy. Getting to the answer may
sometimes demand strenuous exercise of all of our
virtue muscles. That means ongoing analysis,
argument, maybe disagreement. Which brings me to
my second question.
What do we do when — in a particular instance
— our values or virtues appear to be in conflict? Implicit
in the academic virtues that I've described is a strong
commitment to free speech, to the admissibility into
conversation of everything. Also implicit is the
respectful welcoming of all people into the conversation,
without ridicule or abuse that demeans their humanity.
The meeting of these two values can produce tangles that
are painful and often confusing. The resolution is hardly
ever easy. And getting to that resolution will almost
always demand strenuous exercise of all of our virtue
muscles.
—The conclusion to Jervis' speech will be continued
next week

The search for chlorine-free paper
As students began pouring back onto the
Evergreen campus this week, flyers went up all over
the bulletin beards, teachers ran photocopies by the
hundreds for class handouts arid students printed
off their final contract and registration forms, Each
day, the Evergreen campus processes thousands of
sheets of paper, and most of this paper is bleached
with chlorine; :
By using and purchasing chlorine bleached
paper, Evergreen is supporting one of the most
hazardous industries in Washington. The use of
chlorine bleach in the paper-making process releases
.many hazardous: arganochlorines into the;
:;environment, An organochioririe is.an organic
molecplfi which is Stfmetl when stray chlorine
bond with organic matter fount! in''the air and water.
Grganochixmnes 'include ^tpiiiejy toxic molecules
. such as goxiris arid .furans wincriV-cip not degrade.
:.The

toxic.orgapocliidrines;accumulate, in..
aquatic matter near polp
, contamMat

posing a serious threat to the fishing industry and
subsistence fisher-families, as well as polluting the
water with toxic waste.
Last winter and spring, a group of students
formed a student group called The Evergreen Students
. For Chlorine Free Paper, They talked1 with the people
in charge of paper procurement and policy at Evergreen
to set up a plan for Evergreen to have chlorine free,
unbleached paper. The talking and negotiating was
very positive on all sides, The students knew a lot about
paper issues, and the school was willing to listen and
help make the change. A paper was found that was
uableached but high-quality, 100 percent recycled and j
cheaper than the white paper. The paper, Unity DP,
was tested in all of the copy machines on campus, and
is still being run through the computer center without
; ;,a:,'gliteh,-. However, there is a serious glitch, now: we
finally found a more sustainable paper, and the
jnanufeeteet
111'-So aQw||lf
school has ail of the support and
a chlorine fre« paper, but, we need a neiv paper to
choose: and some interested people to help talk with

the administration and coordinate the switch. If
enough people help do the research, Evergreen can
be using a more sustainable, perhaps even tree-free
paper by the end of this quarter. It is time for
Evergreen to really be an environmental school in
practice, not just theory.
'•
Switching paper at Evergreen, is not going to .
be too hard. It was already done, there just needs
to be a new paper option. There are also plans to
coordinate a full day clinic for other schools in
Washington and Oregon to learn how to switch
paper policies and possibly form a chlorine free
paper cooperative. If you are interested in helping
.make it happen. ccneed: a project for a'(dass, .there
is plenty of planning aacfstganMng for everyone.
For more Infofirtation^ealT Sarah Vekasi at .the
Environmental Resource Center at x67M or came
to a meeting of the EEC, logef her w« carthelp make.
Evergreen and o:ur surrounding enwonmeht

"FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
ree exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
ess; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
government for a redress of grievances."
— First Amendment, U.S. Constitution

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lerican," Henry
;ry an American
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road last year at
nt on a contract
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people outside
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ght. I will share
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to be Evergreen
talk of diversity
ne level, Sussex
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people on racial issues. I feel this particular stance is
selfish and non-productive. In an intellectual community,
the haves share with the have-nots. Nor does it do any
good to "payback" white people with withering blasts of
scorn and contempt because they don't know. If
someone asks you, they probably want to know, and an
opportunity to enlighten someone should not be
cavalierly dismissed.
The students at Evergreen seem different this year.
There are more students of color with more visible ethnic
pride than I remember from the past. I believe the entire
community will benefit from this. With more ethnic
students unwilling to sacrifice their color to "fit in," the
Evergreen community will have to adjust its expectations
of people of color. I never heard the statement "I don't
see color" while I was at Sussex. I always found that
statement insulting. If you look at me and don't see a
black man- well, you must have some kind of a problem.
White people seem friendlier. I can't remember
people smiling as much or
being greeted with hello's
from strangers as much as I
have seen recently. Evergreen
has always had its share of
social misfits, but being a
misfit doesn't mean you have
to be antisocial. Evergreen has
a reputation for being
progressive because of its
acceptance of those in the
dominant society labelled
"misfits." I was always leery of
such labels, because although
they distort and malign me,
they don't accurately describe
me- but I have found my
willingness (need ?) to look
beyond the surface has not
always been reciprocated.
Which brings me to the utter
hypocrisy of Evergreen in
regard to attempting to see
past media-manufactured
stereotypes.
Evergreen touts itself as a place of tolerance, but its
tolerance is reserved for a select few. If you are a
conservative white male, you are also a social pariah.There
is a scorn for athletes on this camous that eoes bevond

oughts and shit

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Every person may freely speak, write and publish on all i
responsible for the abuse of that right."
— Article I, Section 5, Washington State

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to students intestate! ia prate-ting the environment,
;.||f|l|j| cat himgn- and providing d'rthing to the
was

the water cycle, reewBag sad fubtet preservation,
Siudenfe-slscj-woifediji local, sitf fare to feai the hungry
and homeless and participated in Hunger and
is an. endangered
species
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: ; C Q h O : ^Salmon is on the brink of
of ehemirni pdm*ion'jparti^ 'bees use our optional

lose me quarter of a!! the world'-, species In just 50 years.
IMsaiwxaiflK-rtfat dsgradatjonr - ntmues to go unchecked
because puliatess continue to give millions of dollars to
p&litidaas who prevent the problem from being solved.
The WashPIRG chapter will also continue its
Water Watch arid Hunger and Horneiessness
campaigns from last year. WashPIRG also aims to
strengthen dean air standards. Students will, have the
opportunity to do stream dean ups. test water quality
and provide environmental education.
Ttw Hunger and Horn, lessness campaigns
involve working in local shelters, food and clothing
drives, and holding events T.ke Fast for a World
Harvest. The toxin campaign will focus on working
with Washingtc-n schools a v d colleges to follow
Evergreen's example and twitcr- to chlorine-free paper.
To find out more aboo any of WashPIRG's
campaigns, internship: or ways ;;ou can volunteer, stop
by the o2Ice in the Lecture Hills basement, or call
campus x6058. HeIp us work fir a green future.

||||?|i|i|l||;!|pi;i|ijists around the world are being
dear-tut md our coastlines and wetlands paved over.
if this destructive practice does not cbanat, we wil>

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Ca mpus organszer tor Wa shPf :iG

Science anyone?
I'd like to take this moment to welcome you all back one day replace antibiotics, or last year's student project
to Evergreen. I'm sure you're amazed at the unusual new to build a particle accelerator consisting mainly of beer
carpet in the A-dorm, shocked at the radical readjustment bottles. This is research that will directly affect you.
Sure, science can be presented in a way calculated
of the Housing Community Center, and perhaps a little
perplexed at the food found at the Corner Cafe. Yet chances to put you to sleep in under five minutes-this is the way it
are you are not prepared for what is the most amazing, is often taught in high schools and colleges around the
most shocking, most perplexing thing of all: there are country-but Evergreen is never satisfied to go about
science courses at Evergreen. It's true. Still stranger: there things the "accepted" way. Keeping with this tradition,
are science students at Evergreen. I know, I'm one of them. science here is taught with enthusiasm and care so that
Even seasoned Greeners may not have noticed this the overall experience is rather pleasant and, yes, fun. We
scientific subculture, as most of us spend our days shall try to honor this tradition as we create our articles.
However, we cannot do all this alone. The typical
cloistered in the bowels of the Lab buildings conducting
unfathomable experiments and attempting to master science student has about three hours of free time a week
arcane mathematics. Occasionally we emerge, blink our and we usually try to spend this time eating or-if we're
eyes at the sunlight (or-more likely-the rain), and see a lucky-sleeping. In an attempt to spread out the load of
world of red bricks, bongo drums, and giant clocks that maintaining a weekly science column, we will eagerly
read 4:20 for more than a decade. We see a world in which accept submissions from the scientific portion of our
reading audience. Doing cool research or are simply
we are-perhaps-a little under-represented.
We are attempting to change this. Last year, a group interested in some topic? Write an article about it!
of students started a project to heighten the Evergreen Working on a project for a program? Chances are, you
community's awareness to the interesting (yes!) scientific could get your professor to give you credit for presenting

Editor's note: The following is the speech President Jane
Jervis made at the Convocation ceremony on Sept. 15,
1997
I had intended my convocation remarks today to
be a long riff on technology, on the virtual university (a
nice pun), and on the relationship of teaching and
learning to "information delivery systems." This is an
important and timely subject, and one that we need to
pay serious attention to as an institution. But as many
of you are aware, this summer we found ourselves in an
intense conversation about censorship and racism. We
had published a catalog of last year's anniversary exhibit
based on student reminiscences of 1971. Strong
objections were raised to one of the entries, and we
republished the booklet without that entry, provoking
an even stronger response about censorship. A vigorous
discussion ensued, conducted in person, on the Web,
through e-mail and campus mail, in a seminar during
the alumni reunion, in the press. We recanted,
apologized, and have reissued the original publication.
So instead of talking about technology, I have
decided instead to stick my neck out and take on the
difficult subject of virtue — in particular, academic and
institutional virtue. I'm going to try to define what it is
and, in the course of this discussion, I will refer back to
this summer's experience as a kind of case study. I
consider this a work in progress, and I invite all of you
to wrestle with me over what I think is a subject equal to
technology in importance and timeliness.
Now virtue is a tough word. In Latin and in its root,
it means "manliness." The Oxford English Dictionary
defines manly as "possessing the virtues proper to a man
as distinguished from a woman or child; chiefly
courageous, independent in spirit, frank, upright."
Womanly virtue refers to sexual purity. So I think we
are going to have to say that neither English nor Latin
serves us very well here, and we're going to have to make
up our own definitions. If I were in the Northeast, I
would use the Yiddish word ment'sh, which means
something like being a really good, fully realized human
being — courageous, independent in spirit, frank,
upright, and generous. But while I'm making up a
definition, I'd like to add something about community,
commitment to others. How do we translate these
qualities into academic and institutional virtues?
Last fall in the magazine called Liberal Education
[published by the Association of American Colleges and

itself but must be open to the work of critical reflection,
sober cross examination, and even humorous testing of
its assumptions;
• the capacity for argument, for stating reasons,
hearing counterarguments, and patient response;
• the capacity for listening, for truly hearing others
out and granting the perspectives of others a provisional
grace and a full-hearted understanding;
• the capacity for pushing investigation beyond
the obvious, to be exhaustive within the bounds of
human energy;
• the capacity for crossing received boundaries
and trying out new maps of learning, new roads to travel;
and
• the capacity to find the right words, numbers,
lines, and movements in whatever domain we choose,
to recognize that the way we express ourselves ought to
be the mirror of the best fruits of our thinking.

We also need to
remember to confront
one another
respectfully, humbly,
even lovingly, as the
social contract asks us
to do.
He went on to say that these academic virtues are not
possible without character virtues; they are impossible
unless "they are acted out against a backdrop of
tolerance, empathy, patience, mutual respect,
cooperation."
Well, I think that's a pretty good list, but I would
like to add some — some that may j ust be the same thing
said differently:
• the capacity to be moved and changed by
learning, the courage to admit error, and the generosity
to credit the influence of others (this has been very close
to my experience this summer);
• the capacity to make connections, to see and
build relationships — both among ideas and among

Hank Payne
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igher levelWhite people seem friendlier. I can't remember
people smiling as much or
being greeted with hello's
from strangers as much as I
have seen recently. Evergreen
has always had its share of
social misfits, but being a
misfit doesn't mean you have
to be antisocial. Evergreen has
a reputation for being
progressive because of its
acceptance of those in the
dominant society labelled
"misfits." I was always leery of
such labels, because although
they distort and malign me,
they don't accurately describe
me- but I have found my
willingness (need ?) to look
beyond the surface has not
always been reciprocated.
Which brings me to the utter
hypocrisy of Evergreen in
regard to attempting to see
past media-manufactured
stereotypes.
e, I was an
Evergreen touts itself as a place of tolerance, but its
iich. There tolerance is reserved for a select few. If you are a
e questions conservative white male, you are also a social pariah.There
s. I was an is a scorn for athletes on this campus that goes beyond
os Angeles, the usual disdain intellectuals have for physical prowess.
identity is (Evergreen, by the way, is one of the most physically unfit
itake it for campuses I have ever seen. I suspect some envy and
; that has a resentment masquerading as scorn.) A certain type of
r trying to minority is prized while others are ostracized. Criticism
i-American towards women comfortable with defying the Evergreen
Evergreen dress code (baggy and androgonous- this and every year)
i students, is not unlike what one would expect at a conference of
pus where Puritans. Before I left I had come to a grudging acceptance
md culture of the gap between Evergreen's mission statement and
estion.
the reality of living here. I cannot anymore, because I
now know the Evergreen community can live up to its
din a battle mission statement. In my column, I will be asking
is-a-vis, his questions about some of the obstacles we face. I am not
xd group." satisfied with the uneasy truce we maintain by not
discussing thorny issues. Peace maintained at such a cost
is unstable and unreal, and certainly not worth the
immense effort its maintenance demands.
I think we would all be better served by open
dialogue-to identify problems and work on solving them
instead of ignoring them. I will be talking about racism
amongst students of color. I will be discussing power
dynamics between men and women. I will be probing
aspects of interactions between the community of color
and the gay community. And I get to be fearless, because
I am a senior.

Lights

Vaun Monroe

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If anything I do, in the way of writing novels or
whatever I write, isn't about the vulage or the community
or about you, then it isn't about anything. I am not
interested in indulging myself in some private exercise of
the imagination... which is to say yes, the work must be
political
Toni Morrison

of chemical paiUuion partly because our national'
forests and rain Ibrests ground the world are being
clear-cut and our coastlines arid wetlands paved over.
If this destructive practice does not change, we will

campus x6058. Help

; for a green future.

Dm Schiliinger
Campus organizer for WashPIRG

Science anyone?
I'd like to take this moment to welcome you all back
to Evergreen. I'm sure you're amazed at the unusual new
carpet in the A-dorm, shocked at the radical readjustment
of the Housing Community Center, and perhaps a little
perplexed at the food found at the Corner Cafe. Yet chances
are you are not prepared for what is the most amazing,
most shocking, most perplexing thing of all: there are
science courses at Evergreen. It's true. Still stranger: there
are science students at Evergreen. I know, I'm one of them.
Even seasoned Greeners may not have noticed this
scientific subculture, as most of us spend our days
cloistered in the bowels of the Lab buildings conducting
unfathomable experiments and attempting to master
arcane mathematics. Occasionally we emerge, blink our
eyes at the sunlight (or-more likely-the rain), and see a
world of red bricks, bongo drums, and giant clocks that
read 4:20 for more than a decade. We see a world in which
we are-perhaps-a little under-represented.
We are attempting to change this. Last year, a group
of students started a project to heighten the Evergreen
community's awareness to the interesting (yes!) scientific
work going on right under their noses. Though only active
for the Spring quarter, they managed to generate an
impressive number of articles in our beloved Cooper Point
Journal about events, research, and insights affecting the
sciences at Evergreen... but that was merely the beginning.
We are back, fully rested from our vacation, and ready to
continue our quest.
You may think that you have no interest in the sciences
and, thus, have no wish to read articles about it. This is
where you are wrong. Every week scientific topics like Mad
Cow Disease and our mission to Mars make front page news
in the world's most respected newspapers. The
environmental studies for which this school is renowned
are based largely on the hard sciences. Some of the ongoing
research projects at Evergreen should interest even the
staunches! science-phobe: take professor Janet Ott's
research on naturopathic medicine, for example, or the T4
Lab's project to study a bacteria-attacking virus that may

one day replace antibiotics, or last year's student project
to build a particle accelerator consisting mainly of beer
bottles. This is research that will directly affect you.
Sure, science can be presented in a way calculated
to put you to sleep in under five minutes-this is the way it
is often taught in high schools and colleges around the
country-but Evergreen is never satisfied to go about
things the "accepted" way. Keeping with this tradition,
science here is taught with enthusiasm and care so that
the overall experience is rather pleasant and, yes, fun. We
shall try to honor this tradition as we create our articles.
However, we cannot do all this alone. The typical
science student has about three hours of free time a week
and we usually try to spend this time eating or-if we're
lucky-sleeping. In an attempt to spread out the load of
maintaining a weekly science column, we will eagerly
accept submissions from the scientific portion of our
reading audience. Doing cool research or are simply
interested in some topic? Write an article about it!
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could get your professor to give you credit for presenting
some or all of your project as a CPJ article. Please make
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ideas, so if you want be in on the beginnings of something
big, you'd better hurry and join soon. Meetings occur every
Wednesday at 1 o'clock in Lib. 3500. Hope to see you there!
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the alumni reunion, in the press. We recanted,
apologized, and have reissued the original publication.
So instead of talking about technology, I have
decided instead to stick my neck out and take on the
difficult subject of virtue — in particular, academic and
institutional virtue. I'm going to try to define what it is
and, in the course of this discussion, I will refer back to
this summer's experience as a kind of case study. I
consider this a work in progress, and I invite all of you
to wrestle with me over what I think is a subject equal to
technology in importance and timeliness.
Now virtue is a tough word. In Latin and in its root,
it means "manliness." The Oxford English Dictionary
defines manly as "possessing the virtues proper to a man
as distinguished from a woman or child; chiefly
courageous, independent in spirit, frank, upright."
Womanly virtue refers to sexual purity. So I think we
are going to have to say that neither English nor Latin
serves us very well here, and we're going to have to make
up our own definitions. If I were in the Northeast, I
would use the Yiddish word ment'sh, which means
something like being a really good, fully realized human
being — courageous, independent in spirit, frank,
upright, and generous. But while I'm making up a
definition, I'd like to add something about community,
commitment to others. How do we translate these
qualities into academic and institutional virtues?
Last fall in the magazine called Liberal Education
[published by the Association of American Colleges and
Universities, vol 82, no 4, fall 1996], Hank Payne,
president of Williams College, addressed the question,
"Can or should a college teach virtue?" His answer was
yes. He identified the central academic virtues as:
• the capacity for determined inquiry and for
accountability, whereby no statement is sufficient to

We also need to
remember to confront
one another
respectfully, humbly,
even lovingly, as the
social contract asks us
to do.
He went on to say that these academic virtues are not
possible without character virtues; they are impossible
unless "they are acted out against a backdrop of
tolerance, empathy, patience, mutual respect,
cooperation."
Well, I think that's a pretty good list, but I would
like to add some — some that may just be the same thing
said differently:
• the capacity to be moved and changed by
learning, the courage to admit error, and the generosity
to credit the influence of others (this has been very close
to my experience this summer);
• the capacity to make connections, to see and
build relationships — both among ideas and among
people;
• the capacity to apply knowlege in ways that
matter to the world, to make a difference for the better
in the world;
• the capacity to invite and welcome all people,
all views, into the conversation, with respect and
humility.

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next week

The search for chlorine-free
As students begati pouring back onto the
Evergreen campus this week, flyers went up ait over
the bulletin boards, teachers ran photocopies by the
hundreds for class handouts and students printed
off their final contract and registration forms. Each
da}', the Evergreen campus processes thousands of
sheets of paper, and most of this paper is bleached
with chlorine.
By using'and purchasing chlorine bleached
paper, Evergreen is supporting one of the most
hazardous industries in Washington. The use of
chlorine bleach in the paper-making process releases
many hazardous organochlorines into the
environment. An organochlorine is an organic
molecule which Is ionised wS^n stray chlorine atoms
bond with organic matter found in the air and W'ater.
Orgaiifi'diloriiies include extremely toxic molecules
'such as dlaxlHS and minus which do not degrade,
' but rather persist and bioaeeumulatem tatty tissues.
The toxic organochiorines accumulate in small
aquatic matter near pulp Mills ant! biomagnify
• through the food chain, con laminating'the fish and

posing a serious threat to the fishing industry and
subsistence fisher-famlues, as weii as polluting the
water with toxic waste.
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Last winter and spring* "a group of students
formed a student group called The Evergreen Students
For Chlorine Free Paper, They talked with the people
in charge of paper procurement and policy at Evergreen
to set up a plan for Evergreen to have chlorine free,
unbleached paper. The talking and negotiating was
very positive on ail sides. The students knew a lot about
paper issues, and the school was willing to listen and
he{p make the change. A paper was found that was
unbleached but high-quality, 100 percent recycled and
cheapw fea t\K white paper, The paper, Unity DP,
was tested in ail of the copy iwbines on campus, and
is still being run through the computer center without
a glitch. However, there is a serious glitch now: we
finally found a more sustainable paper, and the
manufacturer STOPPED MAKING IT! So now the
school has ail of the support and ground work laid for
a chlorine free paper, but we need a new paper to
choose and some interested people to help talk with

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1 ou've seen your life, your death and all the rest. Did you have a
good life when you died? Enough to base a movie on?"
Jim Morrison

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Black might
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money for Hollywood,
but movies like it with their
big-budget glamour and
celebrity power are heading
for a showdown.
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MIB photo courtesy Columbia Pictures

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How we could learn to love Hollywood again
by John F.Evans
A&E Movie Guru
Can you feel it? The taste of summer air
lingers in the nostrils, an intoxicating
memory of sun-warmed skin, blue skies,
endless days, and... bad movies.
Summer in Hollywood. A stench
descends over
Tinseltown, with the
pungency ofnaked
greed and ignorance.
COMMENTARY That foul odor will
linger, at least in our
video stores, for a long time.
Okay, I realize I'm preaching to the
choir here. There will be no angry letters
written in defense of poor, misunderstood
Hollywood, and its bumper crop of fine
summer entertainment. Not from the CPJ's
readership, anyway. So what's the point?
Beating up on Hollywood is as easy and
somehow as crass as taunting a tottering,
filthy drug abuser desperate for a fix.
Hollywood is addicted to money, and their

pathetic artistic decrepitude is only a
symptom of the disease. Hollywood is
Hollywood, right? Dismiss it entirely and go
to the Olympia Film Festival, right?
It doesn't need to be this way. I
honestly believe that studio films (or, say
those budgeted at $35 million or more) can
make big bucks and still have some
semblance of artistic integrity.
Many of my favorite movies fit in that
category. However, I've noticed that in the
'90s, more and more of my favorite films are
"independent," and that fewer of the major
studio efforts are impressing me. That may
be because I'm growing ever more discerning
as a viewer, but I really suspect Hollywood
films are on the whole getting dumb and
dumber. Eye candy is the rage, vapid
spectacle that, while guaranteed to make its
audience go "Wow," is equally assured of
never giving anyone pause to think,
delivering only conservative, safe messages,
and dealing with old, proven concepts that
even the simplest minds find familiar.
Why are Hollywood movies

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Hollywood and independent features should
complement each other. Hollywood has the edge
in ambitious visuals, scope of canvas, star power,
and pure lavishness. Independent films offer
stranger, more daring films, essentially free to
deal with any subject matter human
consciousness can conceive.
increasingly heavy on special effects and
visceral "thrills" and less and less driven by
intelligent scripts and artful direction?
Because the largest are going to the mindless
formula blockbusters in droves. If you're a
studio and want to have a film gross over
$300 million, don't over-intellectualize. Just
put in a budget of $100 million or so, buy the
most innovative and impressive computer
generated effects you can, plug in the faces of
a couple stars (don't worry, they won't have
to act) and appeal to the audience's baSest
biological impulses (fear, excitement, humor,
lust) at a nonstop pace and you've got the

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perfect box office bonanza.
I believe that Hollywood and
independent features should complement
each other. Hollywood has the edge in
ambitious visuals, scope of canvas, star
power, and pure lavishness. Independent
films offer stranger, more daring films,
essentially free to deal with any subject
matter human consciousness can conceive.
Hollywood's themes and ideas should be
compelling, interesting, and well-conceived,
but they hold more to "universal" or

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Behind-the-Scenes Interview:

Him Fe:

s

• eva Harrison's title isfilmcoordinator for
the Olympia Film Society (O.F.S). Her job
entails a good deal of responsibility for a 21
year old. Her duties include coordinating the
programming effort for the festival,
coordinating the irregular special events and
guests who wish to visit throughout the year,
and staffing
the office,
leva is one
of the
devoted
O.F.S.
employees
who bring us the opportunity to view films we
may otherwise never see. If you are new to
Olympia, the Film Festival is a tradition that
has been going on here for years. The festival
is one of the most exciting times downtown;
films and special events surround the nine
days of Oct. 17-26.
Teva seemed to be the ideal person to
interview for a paper geared toward Evergreen
students, being young and intelligent. These
days Teva can be found downtown in her office
above Fuji Teriyaki, hard at work preparing for
the Olympia Film Festival. She came here two
years ago to attend The Evergreen State
College, from a town in Oregon so small that it
does not have stoplights. At Evergreen she
studied painting and drawing. Though she
makes Super 8 and 16mm films, she hides
them in her closet where no one can see them.
When 1 asked her why she does this, she
replied in her soft voice that she isn't ready to
show her films; they're very personal. She
explained that film is her passion; it moves her
more than anything else, though she expresses
herself better through other media. When Teva
first moved to Olympia she volunteered in the
O.F.S. box office, tearing tickets during the
1995 film festival. Her interest in the theater
increased and she started doing data entry and
miscellaneous office work for O.F.S. Her
dedication caught the attention of the
volunteer coordinator and she became a lobby
supervisor, which eventually led to her current
position.
I asked Teva how the 1997 festival differs
from Oly film festivals in the past. She replied
that it feels a little younger. All of the staff is
really young and this seems to translate to the
programming. This year's festival revisits the
spirit of early years, presenting a field of more
experimental work. The Olympia Film Festival
tends to live on the fringe. Though it shows
films that have a broad appeal, much of the
festival consists of more challenging work.
This is reflected in the experimental shorts and

tory by Kathryn Lewis
Staff Writer

the fringe events.
A combination of several elements bring
the festival its individual films. The decisions
about programming are based on what the
audience is receptive to; Olympia tends to
embrace experimental and innovative films.
Teva commented that "we have such an 'artists'
community,' which is a scary term to throw
around, that with our huge, solid music scene
and the amount of people who are putting
together artists' collectives, there just seems to
be a very active reception." This explains
much of the work that will be showing during
the festival, such as the Best of the Super Super
8 Festival, and a showing of short films made
in Olympia called Oly Only. There will be
several documentaries playing that would be
virtually impossible to see elsewhere.
Events that correspond with the festival
include The Incredibly Strange Mexican
Wrestling and a jazz speakeasy called the
Mintee. There will be a backstage show on the
final Friday with local bands Behead the
Prophet, and ICU.
Other events at the
festival will include
a tribute to William
S. Burroughs and a
program of student
animation.
Like any world
class film festival,
the OFF will have
special guest
speakers. This year
those people
include Michael
Spiller, Gordon
Eriksen, The Quay
Brothers, Adrienne
Shelly, Andrea
Spurling, Noam
Gonick, and Guy
Maddin.
Michael
Spiller is a
cinematographer whose credits include
Walking and Talking, The House of Yes,
Niagara Niagara, all of Hal Hartley's films,
and Sonic Youth videos. He will be at the
festival for opening weekend. The festival
kicks off with Spiller-lensed The House of Yes,
a black comedy buoyed by a fabulous starring
turn by Parker Posey.
Another guest is Andrea Spurling,
producer of The Doom Generation, Totally
F***ed Up, and Nowhere.
Gordon Eriksen and his wife Heather
Johnston were named among the top ten
independent filmmaking teams to watch in

and the amount of people who are putting

together artists' collectives, there just seems
to be a very active reception.
Harrison

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ASSISTANT- $6.00 /hr 15
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implementation of major
fund-raising projects and
events by performing
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filing etc.Good
organizational skills,
typing and computer
literacy required.

Sarajevo, an affecting look at the crisis in
Sarajevo. Don't miss it.
If you are interested in becoming a
volunteer at O.F.S., there is a wide range of
things that you can do to help out. It's easy to
get involved; stop by the theater or contact
volunteer coordinator Rob Keith. If you are
interested in technical stuff, you may contact
Jeffrey Bartone at (360) 754-5378 x2.
Come check out the festival—it's an excuse
to leave campus, and you are sure to be intellectually
challenged. Full passes to the festival are $50 and
can be purchased in advance at the Capitol Theater
downtown. Individual ticket prices are $7.

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Monday-Saturday 10-8
Sunday 12-5
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Film maker Magazine. Their film is called An
American Independent. Gordon will join
festival-goers in Olympia. The brilliant Quay
Brothers will also be at the festival. Hailing
from London, the twins are leaders in the
fields of stop motion animation and puppetry.
Teva was ecstatic that they are coming (they
seldom make public appearances). Born just
outside of Philadelphia, the brothers attended
the Royal College of Art in London. They
began studying visual art but later went into
film. Among those that are familiar with their
work, they are much beloved.
Also attending is Noam Gonick, a
Canadian documentarian and experimental
filmmaker. He is coming to the festival with
his documentary on Guy Maddin, titled
Waiting For Twilight. Guy Maddin will be at
the festival closing weekend. He makes
beautiful films that are surreal and glorious.
Most of his films will be screened, including
Tales From the Gimli Hospital and Careful.
The festival concludes with Welcome to

e have such an 'artists' community/
which is a scary term to throw around,
that with our huge, solid music scene

The Office of College Advancement has the
following student jobs open. Contact: Rachel
Burke Cusak, director, Development Services,
ext. 6569 or Lib 3117 for info:
WORKSTUDY RESEARCH
ASSISTANT- $7.00 hr/ 15
hrs. a week - Develop your
fund-raising research
skills. Duties may include
gathering information
from electronic sources,
helping to organize
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performing various office
tasks. Good verbal and
written skills, computer
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nd loops and loops and dots
by Ethan Jones
CPJ lab reporter
Stereolab has the best of multiple worlds. They can be
simltaneously square and hip, droning and melodic, grating and
soothing, danceable and relaxing. They confound expectations
and still make records that have that unmistakable Stereolab
sound.
On their fourth major label album, Dots and Loops,
Stereolab once again recombine their influences into a subtly
melodic textured sound world. Dots and Loops doesn't rock
with the spage age groove of last year's endlessly listenable
Emperor Tomato Ketchup — it most frequently lies there in
an electronically induced semi-comatose state. However, if
you're into that, and let me tell you / am, it's going to be one of
your favorite records this year.
Dots and Loops is jazzier and provides more sonic variety
than Stereolab's previous records. Stereolab has traded in the
Neu-like superheats of their first albums for greater rhythmic
variety and subtley. Frequently, the new songs offer an pseudo
bossa-nova feel. Bubbling with synthesized blips and slinking
through delicate, futuristic grooves, Dots and Loops also
furthers the diversification of Stereolab's sound. Moving
further away from the realm of noisy drone rock, the group (or,
'groop' as they prefer it to be spelled) have expanded their sonic

palette to include brass, beatbox, and a newly prominent
acoustic guitar. Sean O'Hagan, a former Stereolab member and
collaborator on all their albums since 1992, is responsible for
the wonderfully fibrous string and warmly lustrous brass

arrangements that color the album.
On their earlier releases, Stereolab frequently created
gigantic walls of noise (see the Refried Ectoplasm collection,
or better yet the song "Jenny Ondioline") that, while thrilling,
began to, frankly, get old. Recently they've begun exploring
the texture of the individual sounds they put into their songs,
indicating thay they've either been paying closer attention to
their influences, or that they've gotten a hold of higher quality
drugs. Rather than produce an album of songs that contain
similar textures, Stereolab has discovered they can be both
warmer and colder.
Of course, 1 don't mean to suggest that Stereolab has
forsaken their Krautrock roots or gone mainstream. In fact,
there are sections of the 17 minute "Refraction in the Plastic
Pulse" that are coldly hypnotic and purely synthesized. In
addition to being cool-sounding, Stereolab effectively reinforces
the inevitable truth that the synthesizer of yesterday is destined
to be the sound of tomorrow.
On the other hand, the infectious "Miss Modular" is the
sunniest song Stereolab has ever written. Similarly, "Rainbo
Conversation" provides a poolside trance that basks in the
warmth of— itself!
Although it is not quite up to the standard set by Emperor
Tomato Ketchup - the best album of 1996 - Dots and Loops
will hopefully prove to the the hit it deserves to be.

; {March 21-April 19} We may not
have found our lover in the night or mowed
the lawn, but at least our diamond fire has
by Mason James McGraw
created the virtue of patience and finding a
groove to love the earth. Climb that tree, run
;tftro: {September 23-October 22}
to the shore, float with time through rains and free like the leaves on the trees. Let your true
blue sunshine. Start doing what you should intuition take you where it's taking you. The Hey-hey birthday lovers, sounds as though
tides of the planet support your freedom to see there might be a few celebrations going on,
be doing.
the world in all its truth and reality. Is it tattoo in between the fun choices you get to
experience. Your dreams will come true.
^frtirus: {April 20-May 20} The confidence time??
Follow your heart and clarity will resolve in
level will probably remain strong and each task
attempted will result with prevailing follow __;co: (July 23-August 22} Now is the time. We await your leadership of music
through. Keep your mind in connection with perfect time for you Leo, to let your mane flare and love.
the eternal truth and your guidance along the and your love roar. Express this with dance and
spiritual plane will reveal more clarity and less love for everything in the eternal plane of ^corpio: (October 23-November 21}
spiritual existence. The new challenges should First things first. Life is a big mystery, at
fog. Speak up and start the show.
be examined for strength and supportive self- this point in time. Trust in your inner soul,
your true soul, your t r u e self. And
Qcmini: {May 21-June 20th} Why do knowledge.
everything will be all right. 'Cuz you kick
elephants paint their toenails red? To hide in
the cherry trees. Have you ever seen an '^irgo; {August 23-September 22} Don't ass!!!
elephant in a cherry tree? Works pretty good, lose faith in the bike ride you will find at the
{November 22doesn't it? Keep your eyes open and don't feel end of the rainbow. Sleeping in clouds of
rushed into doing something. Dance as the moonlight shadows- the world as one. No Decernber 21} Give yourself a break. Not
worries, non trouble. Your analytical mind sees everybody is going to get it all done in one
fire, have fun, enjoy, and love yourself.
it all come at the same time, but it leaves at the day, one step at a time goes a long way.
Simply feel relaxed, and co-chill. With your
{June 21-July 22} Let your spirit same time too.

PAUL TAYLOR
DANCE COMPANY
Sunday, October 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets $22-27

Pizza &

• Focaccia

{December 22-January

19} Did the w e a t h e r change? R e c e n t
decisions prove to be wise. Watch out for
lightening bolts and rolling thunder clouds
in your new situations. Listening to die
silence within yourself, the infinite light will
prevail with clarity and peace of mind.
{-?\<\unvius: {January 20-February 18}
Not all forks in the road will have been lost
from a superfluous dinner. Most remain as
a true fork in the road. Decision time again?
Or is it? Time to follow the truth of your
heart. We love you.
/JtSCes: {February 19-March 20} Either
you're swimming in the ocean, or you're
seeing the coastline from the clouds and
stars within. All and all, the beauty of fall
colors your day and night with a coolness
and eager breath for misty mornings. Grow
as the flower grows and don't forget to take
your vitamins.

Homemade
Pastas

] azmines
Pacific Northwest European Cuisine

Sandwiches Stephen Bird
Owner/Chef
Catering Available

The king of modern dance brings his company to
Olympia for an evening of uplifting, intriguing movement.
The program is Mercuric Tidings, Prime Numbers
and Esplanade.

amazing sight for visions, focus could be
dealt to an idea, a creation, a solution.

MUDB/STBOWD
OLYMPIA

ONDEKOZA

Demon Drummers of Japan
Friday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets $20-$25
Take a journey into a rhythmic world of the sounds of nature.
Based on traditional taiko and folk music of Japan, Ondekoza mixes flutes
and stringed instruments with drums ranging from 20 to 700 pounds.

Food, Music,Circus,
Art Auction and more
Saturday, October 18
South Bay Grange 12-12

Don't Forget Student Rush!
Half-price tickets one hour before curtain with
valid student ID; subject to availability.

For Information and Tickets,
Call 753-8586.
(Tues-Sat, Noon to 6 p.m.)

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FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

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HOLLYWOOD
continued from page 10
"traditional" territory for the sake of their
mainstream audience. Independent films are
more financially challenged but are the true
avant garde of cinema's evolution, the bold
expeditionaries into the unknown, while
Hollywood tags along a few steps behind.
My recipe for a successful, quality
Hollywood film (and they used to make
them) that would make the studios their
precious lucre:
1. Make the script your first priority:
Only accept a screenplay that is unique in
some way, a story that is compelling on
multiple levels. Too often fifteen hacks go
into a room and shuffle the puzzle pieces
awhile, coming up with just a re-ordering of
formula elements to be applied to a paint-bynumbers script. WRITERS should write
screenplays, people with stories to tell and
not advertising reps with a grocery list of
"bits" or proven, stock scenarios and
characters.
2. Get a real director: There are a lot of
total losers out there directing three, four or
five brainless cookie-cutter movies and then
disappearing back into the void from whence
they came. Then there are people who seem
to care profoundly about what they do;
directors with a style or craft that is
recognizable and, ultimately, comes from a
sense of personal pride. Hire one of those,
and you're halfway home. Examples are
David Fincher (the failure of Alien*
devastated him), Jodie Foster, Brian DePalrna
and Tim Burton; Hollywood directors all, but
visionaries too.
3. Cast for talent, not name: Too often
Hollywood types choose stars by the millions
of dollars they think those stars' names on
the marquee will add to the gross: "Oh, Demi

Moore! She's good for thirty mil!" or "Get
Willis! That'll add fifty million to the box
office receipts!" Half the time the supposed
big draw mega-star is hopelessly miscast
(Moore in Striptease, Willis in The Fifth
Element) and doesn't do a damn thing for
the movie. A charismatic actor who is right
for her part is going to shine, however small
her name going in. A perfect example can be
found in the most recent honest-to-God good
Hollywood film, LA. Confidential, where
virtual unknowns Russell Crowe (Romper
Stamper) and Guy Pearce (Priscilla, Queen of
the Desert) step seamlessly into starring roles
they bring off so brilliantly that the movie is
elevated to Academy Award level and they
seem guaranteed to join the ranks of the
"stars" themselves.
4. Don't go overboard on the budget:
If Hollywood movies didn't HAVE to make
$250 million dollars to earn a profit,
maybe they wouldn't try so damn hard to
get everyone and their brain-dead uncle
Howie into the theater. If lavish and
breathtaking special effects and
production design are dictated by the
story, then so be it, but if they aren't given
meaning by their context, then they're
hollow artifice. Visual effects are
wonderful when they make the unreal
appear to be reality, but they also drive up

the expectations for a film and further
distance cinema from art, taking it
perilously close to a mere profit-earning
enterprise. There are now "write a
screenplay in three days" books and
workshops. When was the last time you
saw a "produce a gallery-ready
impressionist painting in three days"
offer?
5. Take some risks: Great movies
push our boundaries. They present new
ideas, or look at old concepts from a fresh
or unexpected perspective. It's admirable
to do the same old thing better than
anyone has before, but it's still the same
old thing. Is anyone really excited about
the prospect of a Beverly Hills Cop 4? Or
another dumb kiddie comedy with guys in
furry suits pretending to be great apes?
Hollywood is not devoid of
imagination; they're just afraid of doing
something new, because it might fall flat
on its face. What Hollywood most wants is
something reassuringly familiar, using a
proven formula that they can confidently
bank on. It's ironic because I honestly
believe most people, in all walks of life, are
eternally looking for what's NEW AND
DIFFERENT. Nobody rea///wants to see
the same old thing over and over, even if
it's comforting. Challenge the audience,

and you'll find they're more willing to
accept novelty than you think. The cycle in
Hollywood is that something daring
comes along, everyone loves it, and then it
is repeated and vampirized again and
again until the concept is bled dry. Star
Wars did it for epic sci-fi. Halloween did it
for slasher movies. Platoon did it for
Vietnam movies. Dances With Wolves did
it for the Western. Philadelphia did it for
AIDS and mainstream gay issues. These
movies didn't even have to be particularly
good, but they had the guts to throw out
something that hadn't been done to death
already. When it caught on, Hollywood
made a boatload of money, and they were
happy for about five seconds.
These are just a few ideas for how
Hollywood can go back to serving its real
role in the world of film — giving the
masses extravagant, flashy entertainment
that sparks them to think, that presents
them new worlds, without presenting
anything too radical or difficult to fathom.
True innovation, on the level of story, style
and character, is the beauty of
independent film and I wouldn't have it
any other way. However, Hollywood could
turn over a new leaf, declare '97 its last
intellectually barren summer, and still
make their all-important big profits.

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3:30p.m\-M.E.Ch.A. (Chicano
Student U n i o n ) meets to
discuss a regular meeting time.
CAB 320
6:30 p.m.-"Nukes in Space"
video shown about NASA's
use of p l u t o n i u m in the
u p c o m i n g Cassini l a u n c h .
Freein the Olympia Library.
8 p.m. to 9 p.m.- Mary
Rueffle, author of Cold Pluto.
gives a poetry recital in the
Conference Room, CAB 315.

Friday, October 3
8 a.m. - Go to class. If you
d o n ' t have class, go to
someone else's class.
10
p.m.-Swamp
Mama
Johnson at 4th Ave. Tavern. $6

Saturday, October 4
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.-Octoberfest.
Music, craft fair, food at the
O l y m p i a Center
Lobby.
Sponsored by Senior Services
for South Sound.
8 p.m.-The Investigators, The
Jerks, Code 26. Capitol
Theatre. $5
9p.m.-Calobowith
Strangefolk. Tickets available
at Rainy Day Records, TESC
bookstore, and Fishbowl Pub.
$6 at door. $5 advance w/
student ID. 4th Ave. Tavern

I don't wanna
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Calendar
Sunday, October 5

11 a.m.-5 p.m. - H a r v e s t
Festival. Food, crafts, and
music at the Organic Farm

Monday, October 6

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National Pet Your Cat Day.
Pet your cat. A lot. Alter your
classes so that you can pet
your cat more often. Bring
your cat to class. Let him
express himself in seminar.
3 p.m. -First swim team meet.
CRC Pool

It's National Pet your
cat day! Make your
cat feel loved!

Weeklv
Meetings

Tuesday, October 7
7 p . m . - 9 : 3 0 p . m . - Wa ter
Protection: The next step.
Environmental forum on water
protection.
Timberland
library, 8th & Franklin

Wednesday, October 8
6:00 p.m.- Six week self
defence
training
with
F e m i n i s t s in Self D e f e n s e
Training(FIST)begins.
Charges on sliding scale. At
the Olymia community center.
7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.-Who are
the Savages? F a l l a u t h o r
series. Lacey T i m b e r l a n d
Library. 500 College Street

Men's Challenge &
Discussion Group -Tuesdays
in CAB 110. $15 per person.
Register in advance at x6800
Brown Bag Christian
Fellowship - Library 2221
Wednesdays noon-lp.m.
Homeopathy Study Group Wednesdays 3:30 - 5pm.
Lab I 1051

Evergreen Students for
Christ Tuesdays 8 p.m. in
Library 2116.
Ultimate Frisbee - Tuesdays
& Thursdays 5 p.m.,
Saturdays l l p . m . in the
Soccer Field.
If you have a weekly
meeting you wold like to
announce, turn it in at the
CPJ in CAB 316.

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