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Volume 26 • Issue 23
The Evergeen State College
Thursday, April 22, 1996
Housing rent meeting yields small turnout, little input
concerned about whether off· campus housing would raise their
BY TREVOR PYLE
Serra Sermet is moving off campus, but that doesn't stop rent as well.
her from worrying. Worrying about the communication
In response to a petition circulated by Sermet, Housing
between the administration and students, worrying about the delayed the vote on the fee increase until the May meeting. On
proposed change in housing staff, but most of all, worrying Thursday, April 18th, students and representatives from
about the housing fee increase that goes before the Board of Housing met to discuss the fee increase.
Trustees next month.
Despite one hundred and six signature~ on the petition
"We shouldn't have to pay more ifwe're here [in housing) and a number of different posters and banners around campus,
a week less," Sermet said in an interview. Evergreen didn't raise . the number of Hous,ing representatives at the meeting (five)
housing rates last year, the first time this happened in at least outnumbered the students (three).
five years, and the four-percent increase is partially due to a
The participants still managed a lengthy discussion of the
lost week's worth of student income. Student check-in will be proposed increase.
September 20 instead of September 15, the five lost days due
Mike Segawa, Director of Housing, says that thirty·four
to the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Housing is looking at a thousand dollars of the money generated by the fee increase
four-percent housing fee increase, which, if accepted, is going will be used for increased housing staff. Five Residential
to be used to pay for the rising cost of utilities, maintenance, Assistants, or RAs, will be added to the current total. At the
and more housing staff.
present time, the ratio of RAs to students is about one to a
ihere are important costs," Sermet said, but claims those hundred; with the housing fee increase, it would be one to
costs aren't worthy of a raise that would range from ten to between 50 and 60.
twenty dollars per month for all students. She was also
"The Assistant Resident Managers (ARMS) were
stretched too thin," Segawa said, explaining the need for the
fee increase. "Their academic life suffered," Going on to talk
about the duty of Housing, Segawa added, "we have the
responsibility to be different from off-campus housing. We
should be improving and enhancing the academic life here."
Student Emma Goltz, who is moving off·campus because
of high expenses, expressed doubts about the plan. "r don't see
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BY JEN KoocUll.
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how adding seven or nine new RAs wiJl make the world a better
place," she said. This statement was addressed by Francis
Morgan·Gallo, a full·time student who is also a steward. He
said the increase in RAs would make interaction between
students and Housing less of a strai~. "Next year," he explained,
"RAs will have more specific boundaries~ we will interact on a
more face-to-face level. instead ofthrowing food at the students.
If an RA knocked on someone's door, they'd be invited in."
Besides the housing fee increase itself, students and
Housing officials talked about the lack of communication
between the students and administration. When Sermet
suggested a 'modified survey' to measure how the students
really felt about the RAs, both sides ended up talking about
how ineffective some communication methods were. A
Housing rep mentioned that one survey last year garnered nine
student responses. The two meetings between students and
Housing brought in a total of six students, or actually, three
students twice.
"If (the rent increase) doesn't bring people screaming in
here. it will be pretty hard to get people to come in for something
as amorphous as RAs," Segawa said.
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D~spite the discussion, Emma Goltz is still moving off·
campus, as is Serra Sermet. who remains dissatisfied with the
communication problem. "I don't feel there's been a sincere
attempt to get community reaction." she said. "The surveys
seemed really vague."
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BY Lucy CRAIG
Take a walk down a trail to the Evergreen beach one sunny
day. Chances are you may see an unclothed figure sprawled
out on the sand. Unfortunately, this may not be the only thing
you see.
Nude sunbathing is not allowed at all on the Evergreen
beach. However. this does not stop a naked body or two from
dotting the rocks and sand along the shore line. Signs that say
"No nude 'sunbathing" have a tendency to disappear, said the
Public Safety Office:
Evergreen's beach was not nearly as infamous until a
former Greener gave it mention in his book,lOO Best Nude
Beaches in North America, now said to be out of print. "Before
it was published, you hardly knew that the beach was down
there, then all of a sudden, the cars started coming," said Larry
Savage, Campus Police Lieutenant. People began showing up
in F Lot, asking for directions to the n'ude beach they had read
about in the book.
However, the presence of nude sunbathers is not what
prompts people to call Public Safety. The office receives some
8 to 10 complaints each year from students and the occasional
visitor who witness a lewd act or gesture performed by someone
on the beach or a campus trail. Such acts can run the gamut
from exposure, or flashing, to public masturbation. Some
callers report that certain perpetrators actually asked them to
join in or watch. Given the size ofthe Evergreen cOlpmunity,10
calls to the office are a significant amount, said Steve
Huntsberry, Director of Public Safety.
Savage said that those who call in to report such an
incident·tend to feel ·alarmed rather than threatened. Often,
these callers are walking along the beach enjoying a
conversation with a friend or heading down a trail by
themselves, when they are suddenly confronted by a man who
begins to masturbate or exposes himselfin front of them. They
are left feeling uneasy and no longer comfortable to walk the
trails alone.
"r used to I~ve to walk down to the beach on my own,"
said one woman who witnessed a naked man masturbating on
the beach two yearS ago. "When the incident happened, I was
walking with a friend. I felt very uncomfortable then, I can't
imagine how I would have 'felt if I were alone." The man
attempted to talk to the two students, but they kept on walking.
Although the woman fdt like she "would seem uptight if
she called," her roommate encouraged her to report the event
to the campus police. "The more 1thought about it, the angrier
1felt. This guy had no right to assume that I wanted to witness
this."
When Public Safety' receives such a caLI, they will talk to
the victim and get the best possible description of the person
who performed the act. They will then contact the College
Relations Office, who put a flyer out as soon as possible, often
within an houror so of the call. Located in various areas around
the campus, these fliers alert the community of the incident
and have helped campus police apprehend people responsible
for such behavior.
Timing is crucial in reporting an exposure incident. Even
if someone were to immediately leave the beach or trail in order
to call Public Safety, the culprit would stiIr have a 15 to 20
minute lead in which to get away,
People often put off mentioning the event, thinking that
they will simply bring a friend along next time. Some choose
to just try and forget about the act. When they finally call hours
or days later, the trail is cold.
The Public Safety Office relies on calls from witnesses to
alert them to what is occurring on the beach. The single officer
on duty cannot patrol the trails and beach regularly. If a major
incident were to occur on the main campus or one of Evergreen 's
roadways, it would take the officer too much time to return to
his vehicle and reach the scene.
At one time, there was talk of putting emergency campus
phones, similar to those found in the parking lots, close to the
Evergreen beach. Around the same time, signs were put up
along the trails, warning people that some acts of exposure had
occurred there. They found little success. One sign that stood
at the start of a trail in F Lot was found in the woods with over
100 bullet holes in it. Because ofthe continued destruction and
theft of the signs, plans for installing a phone by the beach
were scrapped.
It is important to remember that incidents of exposure
and other lewd behavior do not always occur near the beach.
One man was caught on the Organic Farm trail during a (old
November day; another was apprehended in the Lab An nex
about five years ago.
Due to the alarming nature of an exposure incident, Public
Safety does not take reports of such behavior lightly. Yet people
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Yom HaShoah cel'ebrated at Evergreen by Jewish Cultural Center
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BY MICHAEL C BENSON - In 1939, Adolph Hitler rOSe to power at
the head of the National Socialist party in
Germany. For their genocidal acts Hitler and
the Nazis have become symbols of evil and
tyranny. It is important that the impact of their
deeds, suffering and death , is not lost in that
abstraction. To that end Yom HaShoah,
Holocaust Remembrance Day, is observed
internationally. The day of remembrance is
kept onthe 27th day ofNisan, on the Hebrew
calendar, annually. This year Yom HaShoahfeli
on AprU 16. The whole week, April 15-19, .was
observed at Evergreen.
The Jewish Cultural Center OCC) began
its observance of ;Yom HaShoah with a
memorial service on the evening of Monday,
April 15. The service began with the lighting of
special candles, called Yahrzeit candles, meant
for the occasion. For the service the JCC brought
12 candles, one for every million who died in
the Holocaust, Jewish and non-Jewish. Before
each candle was lit a quotation was read and a
dedication made, "With this candle we honor
all who died during the Holocaust. .. With this
candle we honor the generation who never had
a chance to live ... With this candle we honor
partisans and resistance fighters who fought
both spiritually and physically, and those who
could noL. With this candle we honor the
righteous gentiles, who overcame the name tags
and worked for common goals ... With this
candle we honor those who survived the
Holocaust, who remind us to never forget... We
dedicate this last candle to future generations
with the hope that tne horrors will never be
forgotten. "
Following the candle ceremony we said
Kaddish, a traditional mourner's prayer, as a
group. Normally Kaddish is said only by those
who've lost loved ones, but in the case of Yom
HaShoah we are all the bereaved. The
215~: Person of a suspicious nature
re!,o! ted in A-dorm, .
Friday, April 12
1130: Criminal trespass warning
issued to suspicious person.
Willi Unsoeld Seminar
Saturday, April 13
The 1996 Willi Unsoeld Seminar will be held on April 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall at Evergreen State College. The Willi Unsoeld scholar.
Phil Brown, will be spea king. He is a medical sociology professor, and will give a speech on epidemiology.
Mike Moran Featured in lESe Gallery
Ga llery II , th e second floor gallery in the Evans Library presents an exhibition'of the work part-time faculty member Mike Moran and senior
Sebastian Trenens. Opening date is Friday, May 3 from 3-5 pm with the show continuing through May 30.
Mike Moran will be showing a suite of etchings, which is a new departure for his work. Sebastian Trenens will be exhibiting sculpture. All of this
is called New Intaglio Prints. The reception is Monday May 3.
No ' mi sc hi ef was reported today
probably because the ca mpus was too
busy celebrating AI Green's birthday,
Sunday, April 14
0236: Electrical panel vandalized in [dorm.
Monday, April 15
1630: Purse stolen from the Library.
Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Tuesday, April 16
The Ninth Annua l Lesbian and Gay Film Festival will be held May 3 through May 5 at the Evergreen Campus and at th e Capitol Theater. It will
feature 40 film s. The price is $4 TESC students, $5 General, and $50 General pass to all the films . Call ext. 6542 for further details.
2309; Window on the fourth floor of
B-dorm was reported to have been
broken from the outside.
Wednesday, April 17
Access for Students Looking for Help
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Interested in assisting fellow students with disabilities? Th e Office of Access for Students with Disabilities has an on going job openings for
dependable students with strong writing and notetaking skill s. These positions require a notetaker to accompany a student with a disability to
class and take notes for that individual. These pos itions pay $5.25 per hour.
If yo u are interested, this office is offering a "notetaking workshop" on May 8th, 1996. from 1:30-3:30 in L2127: all students who have
worked as notetakers prior to this date must now take the workshop in order to cont inue employment. lfyou are interested in working as a
notetaker you must attend th is workshop.
Maxyne McCall, Notetaker Coordinator at Seattle Central College Regional Education Program for Deaf Students, will conduct the
workshop. Prior to attending:lnterested parties must contact Access Services directly at US 1407D, or make contact at 86q-6000 x-6364.
Access Services supports and ass"ists students with disabilities and provides them access to TESC programs and faciliti es. Our mission is to
ensure equal access to education for students with disabilities who are attending Evergreen.
0019: A suspicious male ente red a
room in Q-dorm to sleep.
0024: Chalk tagging seen on doors and
walls.
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0047: Van in F-Iot broken into.
2200: Report of bike seat stolen
between Lab I and Lab II.
Environmental Studies "rksh~p
A workshop by Charles Wilkerson, an environmental author from from the University of Colorado wili be sponsored by the Master of Environmental
Studies program. It will be held at 7 p.m. in the Longhouse tom morrow. This is free and open to the public. Call ext. 6707 for further information.
"Wild Utah" 'Presentation
An image presentation will be shown over the ecotracings of the Redrock Riverine
Canyonlands of Wild Utah. It will be held Wednesday, May 8 at 7 p.m. in Lecture Hall 3. The
slide show will be sponsored by the Environmental Resource Center and is free of charge,
Help Free Mark Cook
A former George Washington Brigade member, Ed Mead, will speak about Mark Cook, another
Brigaae member who is still in prison after 18 years. Mead's presentation will be on May 9 at
noon at the TESC library lobby, and at 7 p.m. at the Liberation Cafe in downtown Oympia.
The presentations are sponsored by Decoding: The Political Economy of the Media, Evergreen
Political Information, and the Olympia Mark Cook Freedom Committee. For more information
call 352-6342. Donations are greatly appreciated to help free Mark Cook.
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danger of being identified as aJew was extreme, they wouldn't be in this mess.
as Jews had no protection under the lllW, being '
When they came to the Symchuck's attic
caught without an' armba~d meant terrible sanctuary, Friedman's mother was pregnant.
penalties. Friedman's mother and a cousin When she ~ame close to term, Friedman was
were arrested for disobeyingt!,e ordinance. His asked his opinion about how to cope with the
mother was beaten about the shoulders and baby. He argued for the child's death. A baby,
upper arms so badly that she could not raise he reasoned, would endanger them all by its
her arms. His cousin was forced to empty an crying, and who could prevent a baby from
outhouse with her bare hands. "For weeks she crying? His argument prevailed. The child, a
couldn't hold food down," Friedman said.
girl, was killed by Friedman's teacher at birth.
Soon, the Germans erected a barbed-wire Remarking on this murder, he says, "I still wake
enclosed ghetto and ordered all Jews inside. It up at night and wonder, what if I voted the
seemed too dangerous to go into a place with other way?"
no way out, so Friedman's father struck a deal
Asked why, in th e midst of such
to give farming advice in exchange for staying atrocities, Friedman chooses to emphasize his
out of the ghetto. In October, 1942, however, own sins, he said, "To show how desperate [you
based on a warning that the Gestapo were can getl. So you can understand what each one
coming, the Friedmans went into hiding. The is capable of doing."
father hid in a loft at one farm, and Friedman,
Friedman 's guilt feel ings aren't confmed
his brother, his mother, !md a teacher who had to his own actions. He tell s of feeling
become a part of the family, hid in the attic of responSible for denying hi s children the
a sympathetic Ukrainian family, the comforts of an extended family with aunts and
Symchucks,
uncles, grandparents and cousins. In all the
The attic contained a space of about six wor ld, outside of hi s immediate family,
by six feet, in wh ich they had to sit, sleep, eat, Friedman has two cousins. Asked how he can
and perform all other necessary functions . No feel guilty for that, Friedman replied, "If anyone
one was able to stand except Friedman's little "" else had been their father, they would have had
brother. The only light came from a tiny family." Of the 15,000 Jews in Brody at th e
knothole they worked open. Food consisted of beginning of the occupation, less than 100 lived
a single meal of onion and potato soup with to see liberation.
some greens and some bread. The fare was
Friedman hopes he can teac h a lesson
always the same and never enough. They had with his story, "Hateis a virus. Hate will destroy
to remain quiet at all times, and silent much of you. Don't hate. One person-it doesn't take
the time. They never had the opportunity to many-to make a difference. Because each one
bathe or exercise, They were there 'for 18 of you is different, you can make a difference. I
months. By the t.ime they left , Friedman "hope you will not be indifferent to injustice."
couldn't walk. He was fourteen .
" Who can say what it all mean s? In a
When Friedman told his tale , he broadcast clip Friedman showed of th e
emphasized every cause he has for guilt. In his opening of the U.S . Holocaust Museum in
desperate hunger, he stole bread from his WaShington D. e., Elie Wiesel said, "There are
brother while the others slept. When caught, no answers," but he added, "Indifference is a
he blamed it on his mother. Were she not aJew, sin, and a punishment!"
information sheet distributed by the-JCC had
this to say about Kaddish: "Let the prayer be
more than prayer, more than lament; let it be
outcry, protest and defiance. And above all let
it be an act of remembrance. For that is what
the victims wanted: to be remembered, at least
to be remembered."
Tuesday, April 16, brought the KC's
showing of Dear Kitty: the Life ofAnne Frank
on the second floor of the Library building.
Over the course of the day 30 to 40 people
~topped, watched the video, leafed through the
poetry and history books the }CC provided,
and considered the human condition. One
student wondered aloud, "What is it in each of
us that can cause such things to happen?"
Henry Friedman, a survivor of the
Holocaust,spoke in Lecture Hall 1 on
Wednesday the 17th, bringing the week's
events to a close for the JCe. While the group
was small (fifteen, perhaps twenty of us) there
. was an intensity among the listeners. There
may not be another opportunity to hear a
living, first-hand account of the Holocaust. As
Friedman put it, "It's been fifty years since the
Nuremberg trials." .
Friedman said he began talking about his
experiences when, in the mid-80s, he began
hearing claims that the Holocaust never
happened. "Ifit never happened, where are my
aunts and uncles? Where are my cousins?"
He continued, "My enemy today is time.
You are the future. You have the opportunity
to hear just one story, my story."
In June of 1941, Friedman's home in
Brody: Poland, fell under German occupation.
All professionals were then required to register
themselves with the German authorities. All
Jewish professionals except doctors who
complied with the order were killed.
Those Jews that were left were required
to wear identifying arm-bands. While the
Student's interest in women's health spark.s meno.pause workshop
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BY MICHAEL C BENSON
Menopause is the e~ding of the female
menstrual cycle, It starts with erratic cycles,
usually in a woman 's mid-forties, and by the
early to mid-fifties re.sults in the complete
cessation of cycles. According to the National
Institute of Health , more than a third of
American women have been through
menopause. Because the average age of
menopause is around 50, ·and Life expectancy
in the United States has risen to 81, a woman
can expect to spend almost'40% of her life after
menopause. Its medical consequences and
treatment are therefore of increasing concern
to the baby boom generation.
For these reasons, and because she is
experiencing menopause herself, Carol
Merrick, a senior at Evergreen, is doing a fourpart workshop exploring the social, medical,
and alternative treatment issues surrounding
the change of life. The workshops are for
women only.
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Merrick explains her interest in
alternative therapies by her personal health
history. In 1963 she took some of the first, and
harshest, birth control pills. She links them to
a succession
In 1968 she
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used the infamous Deleon Shield, an IUD
be fatal. Osteoporosis has no symptoms."
(intra-uteran device) often associated with a
According to Merrick, though, hormone
variety of complications. An infection linked
replacement may have threatening side
to the IUD left her sterile. While she says she effects . Included in her list are increased "
chance of stroke, blood clotting,
isn't trying to advocate any
depression, weight gain, water
particular therapy, these
. retention, and fibroid tumors.
experiences have left her
naturally
skeptical
of
"I was going to She'says estrogen therapy does
mainstream medical advice.
reduce heart disease but that in
combination with progestin (a
She says, "I was going to let
let someone
someone else be the guinea
common prescription) the
pig."
advantage disappear5. She
else be the
One of the mainstream
stresses that these are all just·
treatments for menopause,
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tendencies and no proof yet
particularly forthose at risk of
gumea pig.
exists.
osteoporosis, is hormone
-Evergreen Student
The conclusion of a recent
replacement
therapy.
Carol Merrick
study published by the Journal of
According to the Planned
the
American
Medical
Parenthood
homepage,
Association (JAMA) refutes the
"Osteoporosis is the loss of
risk of fibroid tumors , Janet
Sanford, Ph.D., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer
bone mass. One of the causes is loss of estrogen
during perimenopause [the phase when
Research Center, studied 1,029 case histories
periods are erratic and less and less frequent).
from Northwestern Washington . She writes,
Women with osteoporosis lose between 1 and
"In this large population-based case-control
1.5 percent of their bone mass each year. Bones
study of middle-aged women, we found no
become more brittle and more likely to break
as they become less dense. Complications can
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reduction in risk of breast cancer. We found
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extended duration (20 years or more) of use
of estrogen replacement therapy."
Merrick thinks that "in rare cases
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stresses that "lifestyle choice~ are a much
better idea." She thinks that diet. exercise. and
vitamins may offer the key~ for better health
to most women.
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of her 12 credit contract with facu lt y sponsor
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remain reluctant to call, not wanting to feel like
a snitch. Some feel that no harm can come from
the incident. Students who enjoy the trails
often feel a sense of safety. Students at
Evergreen tend to feel more secure on their
campus than do students at other institutions,
. said Huntsberry, who has previously worked
at Washington State University. However,
Savage warns that people should not go down
the trails by themselves, day or night It is
simply not safe, he says.
If an incident occurs, report it as soon as
possible. The quickest place for people to
report such an inc iden t off the beach is the
emergency phone in F Lot From this location ,
you may also see the suspect getting off the trail
and into a vehicle. Savage suggests that you
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get the license plate number of the car rather
than its make and color. This is the best chance
that Public Safety has of locating and
apprehending the offender.
In the last five years, three people have
been ar rested by Public Safety for such
behavior. Two of the perpetrators were first
time offenders; one had previous convictions
for similar behavior.
It is important that those convict ed Llf
lewd public behavior receive sex ual deviancy
counseling as part of their sentence. According
to Savage, 80% of all offenders will go on to a
more serious type of sexual offense. "What they
are doing is a big step. And it's not that bigof a
step to the next, more serious [level ], " said
Huntsberry.
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COLU'MNS
'Queer Politics
'~Fight
the Right"
highlights
BY NATII AN VANCE
L3st wee k I att end ed th e "Fight th e
Right " march ill San Franci sco. Sponsored by
Ih e Na ti onal Ol ga niza tio n for Wo men
(NOW). th e march dr ew a pproxim ately
30.000 peop le from all ove r th e co ulltr y,
in cl ud in g rep rese nt ativ E's from TESC.
Speakers includE'd Patricia IrE' land. Pres ident
of NOW. Willi e Brown , Mayo r of S3n
Francisco. and the Rev. jE'SSE' jackso n, founder
of the Rainbow Coa lition. Phill Wil so n. an
openly gay person with AIDS and co-founder
of the Na ti o nal Black Gay an d Les bi an
Lea dE'rship Forum also spoke. The common
th eme of the rally was one of hope. equality
and unitt
Thi s was my fir st tim e visit ing Sa n
Fra ncisco. as we ll as attending a rally of this
magnitude, and with so many people shouting
and cheering for equal rights and common
respect. I'm still fee ling goosebumps. It felt
grea t to be among so many peopl e who ca red.
\\'ho believed there was hope and were willing
to fight fo r it. I urge all of yo u to someday take
adva ntage of your Constitutional Rights and
participate in al least one pro test demanding
you be heard.
Anoth er spea ker at th e rally was a Utah
High School sllIdent named Terri , who had
tri ed to orga ni ze a group at her school ca lled
the Gay-Straight Alliance. The Salt Lake Cit y
'School Boa rd in turn struck down all extracurricular stu dent groups instead of allowing
this oll e group from formin g. Terri and her
su pporters have had to deal with ridicule and
threa ts from other students, parents, and the
co mmunity in general. and the end doesn't
look close at hand. See, "Things to Do"below
to lend her some support of your own.
And in the "Upcoming Events" file, the
Evergreen QueE'r Alliance (EQA) is sponsoring
a dance to celebrate the upcoming Northwest
Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. The festival is
ta king place May 3-5th and the dance will take
place Saturday, May 4th from 10 pm-2:30 am.
Students will need $3 to attend the party. nonstudents. $5. With over 55 films scheduled
throughout th e weekend . you'll need a festi va l
prog ram, ava ilabl E' at th e EQA an d oth er
places'around ca mpus.
Things To Do:
1) Write th e Salt Lake City Schoo l Boa rd
a'nd let them kn ow you're
watching th em. Te ll th em wh at you think I
abo ut bigo try and religious
tyranny. Th eir address is 440 East. 1st South, . I
Salt Lake Ci ty, UT,
84 111 . Or ca ll th em at (801) 578-8599.
2) Take so me time to dro p off a note to
the EQA (Cab 314) or th e CPj
(Cab 316) and let me kn ow what you think
about this co lumn . And be honest. beca use
this could be fun. If you have any suggestions
or ideas. drop a line. Thanks.
dents of Color Anthology .
Are you afraid of Jesus?
Last janu ary, wh en I was in th e middle or self-righteousness.
of my fir st yea r at Evergree n, I became a
Compared to other religions, however, it
Chri stian . Since th en, I have noticed that see ms to me that Chri sti ans aren't much
Christianity is one of those subj ects th at jll~ t different than anyon e else. I have yet to see a
isn't talked about (unless people are referring belief system that fully encompasses equality for
to its oppressive, dehumanizing, patriarchal
nature). Every time I sit at a book table ·
people avoid me like the plague. Often I
wo nder why Christi anity is not considered
in a place where entire programs focus on the
study of religions and spirituality is widely
accepted.
.
I think th at many Evergreen
community members steer clear of Jesu s
because of the history of th e Church and its
hypocrisy. Each time I walk through th e
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parking lot I am sure to see at least one car
with th e "jeslI s, protec t me from your
followers" bumper stlcker. Unfortunately, I women and children, empathy for the poor,
have nothing to offer in defense. <Christianity oppressed or disabled, and love for persons of
is based on the premise that humans are different ba ckground s. Even, a faith th at
inh erently sinful and seek jesus to liberate espoused th ese beli efs in doctrine has yet to
th em from th eir sins, so oaturally that produce a person who is impeccable by these
includes tho se of us wh o have chosen to standard.s. But in Jesus you will find a man who
identify with him. What I can say is th at in a lives out E'very word that he speaks about love,
th orou gh ex amin ati on of th e li fe and mercy, compassion, and righteousness.
teac hings of jesus you will find nothing that
A co mmon misconception is that people
co ndones oppression, love of money, hatred, foll ow Christ bec ause they haven't thought
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found that many Chris'ti arls, including
myself, have thought long and hard about
other options and have come to the
conclusion that Jesus is "the way and the truth
and the life" out of a sincere belief that it is
true. Being a believer in Christ is not at all
easy. Mo st people who profess ' to be
Christi ans refu se to give up th eir life
completely to follow jesus. Often people call
my faith a cop-out or an easy answer to a
complex question. During times of
depression or questioning of my faith, I have
thought that if there was any other way that I
could get through life with the conviction of
knowing the truth, I would choose it instead .
But I honestly cannot , after having
experienced a relationship with God Himself,
follow anyone other than Jesus.
My intention in writing thi s article is
not to convert people . it is only to challenge
people to take a second look atJ e~us with an
open mind. Don't be quick to reject him, but
rather than avoiding hard subjects about faith
in Christ, ask questions. Read the book that
has bec om e the foundation of mo st
civilization. Then make up your own mind
about who Jesus is.
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participates in live, interactive lectures. She has
The great thing about the future is its found the perfect class, one team-taught by two
malleability. If we believe hard enough a n d faculty members and an internationally
click your heels together three times, any renowned expert who parti~ipates from
plausible scenario can seem real. But as the gap Bangkok. When she has a chance she gets on her
between the here and now and the there and then computer, purchased with financial aid, to do
narrows, a lot ofscenarios get blown away like so research on the Internet, request books from
much chaff before a Kansas tornado.
university libraries acros~ the state, or participate
Higher education is a case in point. People in an on-line discussion . She submits
have been predicting for years that new assignments by E-mail and receives detailed
technologies - computer networks, high- comments back. Twice a quarter she travels to
bandwidth telecommunications, the Internet, campus for intensive sessions with her faculty
multimedia and the World Wide Web - will members and other students.
reshape the educational landscape. ' Lew
The second scenario involves a student
Perelman, a senior fellow at the Discovery who wants to concentrate on his studies in a
Institute in Seattle, has gone so far as to suggest community dedicated to learning. Only the state
that by 2020 academia, with its campuses and has stopped building campuses and there just
walled classrooms, "will be mostly in the dustbin isn't room. Technically, he is enrolJed at the
of history."
nearest state university, but he selects courses
Some educators argue that these from all over the western United States and the
technologies - and the new teaching techniques quality is spotty. He has an old computer - all
they are engendering - will make education he can afford - and no way to get a highmore accessible, more inclusive and less bandwidth connection to his rural home, so
expensive. Others say they will encourage factory interactive discussions are not possible. Instead,
schools where a distant faculty member, or a he watches lectures on television and submits
distant piece of software, dispenses facts to assignments over the Internet. He has never met
thousands of p<'.ssive students. .
the faculty member teaching the course or any
To understand what could be at stake, consider of his classmates in person, and probably never
.the foUowing scenarios:
will. He communicates by E-mail and voice mail
The first involves a mythical student a hundred and rarely gets a response.
miles from any state university. She is a single
Both scenarios are plaUSible. From New
motheranddoesn'twant to quit a good part-time York to London, Catalonia to Olympia, students
job and move her family far from supportive are a receiving their syllabi, their reading
friends and family. For a few hours a day, she materials, their assignments and, in many cases,
their instruction electronically, Already,
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Student-Originated Software use the campus
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Pundits are still debating that question , but the
best answer may be: both. It isn't so much a
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Until recently, the eye of this debate has
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collaborative learning, team-teaching and lots
of interaction between students and faculty
members. Except in computer-oriented
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personal contact does not encourage extensive
use of computers and television monitors as
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"The important question ," says faculty
member Thad Curtz, "is whether there is any
way to use this new stuff so that teaching and
learning happen better than when you have a
set of people in a room talking face-to-face. I
haven't seen any evidence tharthat 's true so far."
But with legislative funding for education
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Dcarep),
In her rece nt le tter, Swa neagle
proclaimed that Jonah Loeb "is simply a cog
displaying a view that is immense in it s all
pervasive attempt to strangle hope and hold
lip the buck, ..". After reading this particular
~ tatl'ni ent I was taken aback. The structure of
this sentence and , in fact , the tone orthe article
as a whole implies that a view, which is an
abstract cO ll cep t, a thing that does not exist
as a part of th e phys ica l wo rld, is attempting
to "strangle hope ... ". This is a very interesting
asserti on, that a thing that has no phYSical
for m has developed a will separa te from how
man perceives it. If this is true, then this "view"
must be some thing other than ignorance; for
ignorance implies a weakness or la ck of will ,
and thi s "view" not only had a will but is
seek in g ambi ti ously (and seem in gly
successfully) to strangle hope.
Swan eagle ca lls this "view" "patriarchal
colonialist capitalism". However, this does not
seem to be an apt tile, for it implies that human
hope, and justice flourished within a golden
age prior to the era of ca pitalism. One would
have little problem finding evidence to the
contrary ifhe or she made an inquiry into the
literature of any give n era of the world's
history. It see ms to me that regardless ot the
soc iety in which one lives, one is always
afl1icted and haunted by despair and lack of
hope.
I believe that this view which strives to
strangle hope is more accurately called evil.
It also see ms th at we ca n und ers tand
Swa neagle's ambitious evil to be essentially
Christiall in its conception, in that it is given
a will of its own (Satan). Also. it is apparent
th at Swan eagle beli eve s that it is th e
privileged people of the world who are slave
to this evil, a la Christ's sermon on the mount.
Our capitalist culture is inund ate d by
Christianity and its various dogma ,
If one wants to talk about the abuse of
children, one need not only look to the
Christian ca pitalist society. In some tribal
cultures, undoubtedly preferable to
Swa neagle, the murder of children. and what
in this ignorant society, would be considered
rape, is given the highest religiou s regard.
Native warriors in many tribes were trained to
brutally kill men on a moments notice, with
their bare hands, and were as numb to violence
as any U.S. Gl.
Also, it seems painfully obvious to me
that, while a powerful individual can influence
the situation in which he or she ex ists, it is
beyond the capability of one man, or even a
particular group of men to decide how history
is to proceed. The specific structures of power
which dominate any given era have evolved
from those which preceded them. and it seems
to me that the powers which shape this
evolution are larger than anyone man, or the
conscious effort of any particular group of
men.
This is also the case with conceptions of
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Dear Editor,
As I have opened the CP} the last few
weeks to see how the "process" of arming
Public Safety is publicly unfolding, I am
frustrated, The overall picture has blurred
into a chaotic vision of one side battling
another. When I step back I see a sliver of
hope waiting to cultivate into a progressive
change in Evergreen 's history.
Ma·ny of us have been misled into
believing we had any power beyond that of
possible persuasion in this process. We had
no representative voice prior to th e board
meeting, and no vote in the decision. The
deception of legitimate representation goes
on with the role of governance and the DTF.
To deny outsiders access t6 the DTF meetings ,
the administration has chosen to hide behind
the law. While this can indeed keep some of
us out of the meetings , it creates a bigger
problem. Out offear ofadmitting the mistake
of closing the DTF, the admini stration is
denying that DTFs are about governing , If
thi s is tiu e, we nave oeen lied to, Th e
Evergre en handb oo k lists DTFs under
"Governance," Most of us equate DTF's with
helpingsnape policies at Evergreen. In reality.
DTFs are a tool for the preSident, and no
more. Clearly. students are now left with
absolutely no representation. or channel in
which to pa rticipate in school governance. As .
a co nsum er to the sc hool, I find this
unacceptable.
The issue of student government has
been tossed around and beaten up in the
outskirts of the "gun debate, " I believe that
the chain of events that lead to the process to
move toward "limited arming" ha s been a
series of recommendations. forums. and ad
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As graduation draws near, so too does
the pressure to figure out what to do when
life is no longer dictated by academic
schedules. This is a time of tran sition and is
usually accompanied by a range ofemotions:
joy, fear, excitement, sadness, and
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You may be wondering what your first
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job is not the same as find ing summer or part
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search fi lls many people with fear, but that
may be part ly due_to the fact that this is an
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Conference games. And don't eat too much junk food .
You'lI be worried about your waistline instead ofyour
team's shooting percentage. which would be a prime
roll 3-0. But this series should be fairly competitive
without theworld's second best playoff player (to M,J,)
on' the court. Atlanta has some good players, I
personally enjoy watching Mookie Blayloc.k (a,IltIiaU
I enloy just saying "Mookie Blaylosk"~ and ~n .
Laettner was a good addition. lit they're ~ mediocre
club. Without Reggie, Indiana is a m
e c!ub. It
doesn't really matter wha li~pperfs wit this series;
neither team could survM a secorid nd date with
Orlando. Watch the otherjPme..
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hoc committees. Each of these mediums is a
one sided monologue. We have yet to take a
moment o~t of this process to stop, regroup,
and make sure we are speaking with a similar
vocabulary. This is no way to create policy at
an institution that strives to be something
beyond a cold bureaucracy,
Unless the students band together now
to say this is unacceptable, it will happen
again . The decision to rai se tuition for
technology fees loom s in the background .
Now is th e time to represent ourselves. and
become a part of governance,
In. this process, I have learned a bitter
lesso n in the disempowerment of a
bureaucracy. As a single indi vidu al in the
system , I have been ignored. discouraged, and
forgotten. Silence is upholding a bureaucracy
at a pla ce that tries to reach beyond power
struggles. Co llectively we will be hea rd,
encou raged, and remembered.
I have heard much talk about
representation~ but have ~een little action
from either side. l( the administration
continues to do noth ing to support student
governance (not the structure, but the entity)
they are suppressing it, If students don 't
begin to demand representation, we will be
legitimizing a process which we have been
shut out of.
Amid the issues of guns, DTFs , and
recommendations , I hope the moment is
coming wh ere the barrier between
administration's process and the student's
voice will transcend into a fulfillment of
representation.
Aileen Luppert
(Library 1407), we are here to help you
understand the steps you'd need to take and
to support you through them. It's like an
independent contract. We don't find jobs for
you but we show you how to do it and assist
you in the different pieces of the process,
whether that means resume feedback, mock
interviews, access to alumni in your field of
interest, how-tos' for informational
interviewing and networking, employer
information/listings, or simply a supportive
place to touch base every week.
You are not alone,in your job searchplease make use ofour services. We are here
year round and offer our full range of services
to alumni as well as current students at no
charge, Our intake sessions, in which we
explain the career planning process and the
resources we have available, are Monday
through Th ursday at 4 p.m. (please sign up
if you would like to attend at Library 1407
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by Stacia Lewis, Career Development Center
Is it the first round itself or th e teams the Sanies have
played there that bave been their downfall? Methinks
iftheSonics played Sacramento first two years in a row.
we'd Ire tal~ing about" their second round jinx. The
Kings do have Mitch Richmond. who's always fun to
.watch, and ou~ old 'end Sarunas Marcu lonis. But it
won't R) lIkt.mUC~ difference. The Sa nies wil l
trium ' fitiY cast the 300 pound gorilla from their
1wti.W1tlnthereliefofthecurse being broken, and
promptly have to worry about the Lakers or Rockets.
Still though, it should be fun see.
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U tah vs . I'ortLmd .
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Two team s probab ly destined to be
bridesmaids, but they should put on agood show. The
Ja zz have got to be sick of annual playoff
disappointments. but the Trail-Blazers finished the
season as the league's hottest tea m. Ka rl Malone and
John Stockton are going to play like men possessed.
Rod Strickland, Arvydas Sabonis and Cliff Robinson
are one of the most dangerous trios in the NBA. I get
the feeling Sportscenter is going to have hot highlights
aplenty from this series. In the end though , Utah will
want it more badly and they are armed with home·
court. Besides, the Blazers can't shoot free throws.
L() s A.I If! 1O' j IC~; V~;
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ugly. and crrtainly low'scoring, bu t dra~~ sliOul
make up for the inelegant style of play,
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Feorures Edllor' Oscar "Lt. Worf" Johnson
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A&E Edicol Bryan Frankenseuss "Edison Carter"
feminine and masculine beauty. While tHere
are many apparent defects in: this $ociety. it
seems to me that it is ignorant aod deceptive
to call any Significant era in human
development completely evil or damaging. I
say this because there are reasons that things
are the way they are. that exist beyond the will
of anyone man or group of men.
As far as I can see, Swaneagle's problem
is not with capitalism, but with Satan. If she
be lieves the only measure of her success will
be in her ability to unite a peaceful army
which will completely destroy Satan and his
manifestations: Greed, hatred, despair, vanity
and ignorance, she will utterly fail, as have all
who have ever walked the face of this earthi
Sincerely,
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DTF's deny representation
repairing the vandalized bathrooms in the
CRP, and securing the area with a fence to keep
out vandals. Upcoming plan s include
electronic surveillance which would notify
Publi c Safe ty wh en un authorized use is
happening ill the CR P. This somewhat drastic
step has been ta ken, because during the past
five years the building has been trashed.
The trashing bega n when the roof started to
lea k and the CRP co uld no longer be scheduled
nor secured safely. Prior to that it was used
re lative ly by stud ent s and oth ers as a
basketball . volleyball. tennis, in-line skating
and soccer fac ilit y. It was also used for
incleme nt weather graduations.
If authorized use rs see individuals in the
CRP . who are obvio usly attemptin g to
vandalize the faCility, they should be reported
to the Public Safety"offke. Again, individuals
who would like to sc hed ule the Covered
Recreation Pavilion for group use should
co ntact the Co llege Recrea tion Fac iliti es
Ma nager at x6537. I appeal agai n to those of
you who have used the facility to protect it
from va ndalisr.l . Thank you.
Pete Steilberg
. Director of Recreation. Welln ess and Athletics
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Editorial
by John F. Eyans
The playoffs kick off tonight with a fo ur game
Pavilion available for use
The outdoor Covered Rec rea tion
Pavi lion (CRP) is avai lable now for use by
f(lembe rs of Th e Everg reen State Co llege
stude nt body, faculty, staff and their guests.
There will be two kind s of uses of the CRP;
lIamely, orga ni zed uses by off or on campus
groups that go through the scheduling process
through the CRC Fac iliti es Manger. Corey
Meador, and Evergreen st udent use via a key
checkout system. Students with a va lidated
TESC photo identification card may check out
a key in one of three ways. The first being via
Publi c Safety. which is located in the Seminar
bui ldi ng; th e second via Equipment Checkou t
Room which is located on th e first floor of the
College Recrea tion Center: and the third being
through t he Assista nt Resident Manager
(A.RM .) on duty in Housing.
The hours of operation will be from
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m . Sunday through
Thursday. and 10:00 - midnight Friday and
Saturday. In addition to reporting th is to you . •
it is also an appea l for members of the
Evergreen commu nity to assistin preventing
the vandalism of th e CRP.
In the last yea r and a half over $100.000
has be en invested into re-roofin g.
refi lrbi shi!"'g. repainting, adjusting the lights,
-SPORTSA Vlay()ff ~ut~s Channel Sur-fin~ Sur-vival (7uid
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Any Pat Riley coached team is going to compete
at a high level. The Heat are fu ll of fl ash and noise.
personified bythe irrepressible Alonzo Mourning and
Timmy Hardaway. They barely ever got to play on
national TV so this is a good chance to see a real up
and comer in action. Oh yeah. and they're playing the
hest team on the planet. The Bulls should win pretty
easily but Miami is better than their record suggests.
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Should be a laugher. Then again. that's exactly
what Sonic fans want to see in thedreaded first round.
* 1/2
A yawner.
Until the season's last day it looked
like Detroit wo uld be playing the Reggie Mi ll er
deficient Pacers. I picked the Pistons to pull an upset
there. Bul the Magic are a horse of a diffe,ent color.
Sure. you got Grant Hill and the vastly improved Allan
Houston. but Shaq will be posing and posluring a lot
en route to an easy second round berth. Even Lil'
Penny might get in Ihe game. If you aren't a fan of
either of these teams, don't bOlher.
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Everyone's picking this as the first round 's best
duel. I can't disagree. The Lakers are one of the most
exhilarating teams to watch in the sport. and Houston
has the hubris of a two-time defendi ng world
champion. Hakeem Olajuwon's "DreamShake" alone
is wort h the price of admission. Throw in Magic
Johnson's first playoffsince the 1991 Finals, and you've
got a marquee match·up. It's a real tough one to call.
too. Ilhink Houston's edge in savvy will be too much
for L.A., who come into the postseason somewhat in
dissaray (suspensions galore). Tell ya' what though. I
wouldn't bet the
on this one.
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
ARTS , AND ENTERTAINMENT
Despite the title, Primal Fear is not exactly a thrilling, visceral experience
by John F. Evans
Every yea r a lot of allegedly gripping
(,llurtroom "thrillers" come out. Primal Fear is
one of them.
Martin Vail (Richard Ge re) is a cynical,
arrogant defense attorney who has become one
of the most prominent lawyers in Chicago. His
latest client is a fresh faced 19 year old from
Kentucky, Aaron Stampler. The kid mayor
Illay not have savagely murdered a beloved
Archbishop.
At first Va il doesn 't care if the kid is guilty;
his idea of the truth is whatever he wants the
jury to believe. But, as you may have guessed,
along the way Vail comes to care quite a bit
whether Stampler did it or not. He also realizes
he still cares about his ex-girlfriend (La ura
Linney), who just happens to be the county
prosecutor he has to outwit in the courtroom.
There are a lot of familiar faces from TV:
John Mahoney (Frasier) as Vail 's old boss the
D.A., Maura Tierney (Newsradio) and Andre
Braugher (Homicide) as Vail's legal team. From
movies, Alfre Woodard is the judge presiding
ove r the case and Terry O'Quinn (The
Stepfather) the mostly extraneous assistant
D.A.
None of these folks, all of them entertaining
performers, get much to do. There's a subplot
about Mahoney and a failed real estate deal
that may have led to murder, but that plot line
isn't tied into the main story and is baSically
left unresolved.
Not surprisingly, this is Gere's show. His
trademark enigmatic smirks, sly winks and
penetrating stares get plenty of play~ narrowly
failing to overshadow what is really a textured
performance.
Gere's cunning lawyer likes dollar signs and
magazine covers and is unafraid to use
sub terfuge and manipulation for his 'own
purposes. But Vail is al·so a closet do-gooder,
admittedly embarrassed by his desire for truth,
but deep dow~ he believes in the· basic
goodness of humanity. It sounds like a
contrived way to make this sleazy guy likable,
I know, but Cere pulls it off.
A bigger problem is the title. Coming from
a long line of courtroom thrillers, like
Presumed Innocent, Class Action, the Grisham
movies, etc., one might expect some legal term
that is used once in the film but really just
serves to tell you the movie is about a trial. In
this case, it isn't legalese, but the phrase Primal
Fear never appears in the movie in any
capacity. It's more reminiscent of the erotic
thriller title, like Basic Instinct or Fatal
Attraction.
There isn't a lot oHear, let alone that of the
primal variety. Primal, meaning original, .
primeval, primitive (I looked it up) doesn 't
seem the best word to describe this movie. If
your mouth waters at the prospect of primal
Richard Gere love scenes, invest in a bib. There
is no sex to be found,' not even a tender
romance. Nor is there a whole lot of violence
or conventional suspense, either.
That's a break from the formula, at least.
The film doesn't rely on the mortal jeopardy
of its protagonists to maintain audience
interest. There's a token chase scene, but it
doesn't involve a single cai: crash or spectacular
stunt. Primal Fear rejects the usual trappings
of a mainstream thriller; the dark figures
lurking around shadowy streets, lots of
breaking glass, etc. Instead, it takes a more
cerebral app~oach; Vail's uncertain morality,
corruption among city officials and the
question of who committed the crime are what
generate the story's energy. Unfortunately, that
doesn't generate a whole lot, and gradually the
movie runs out of steam while the quality of
the dialogue declines accordingly.
The low point occurs when the prosecutor/
ex-girlfriend fS cross-examining the defendant.
She says that if she was a victim of the abuse
Stampler endured, she would stab her
tormentor dozens of times and cut out his eyes.
"But that's just me."
The final line earned well-deserved hoots
from the sizable audience (the movie is doing
brisk business). What possessed the
scriptwriters to have her say something so
dumb? It may be establishing a motive for the
crime, but it sounds callous, diabolical, out of
place.
I can't say there aren't surprises. The biggest
one serves as the film's dramatic climax, and I
sure didn't see it coming. It resonates well with
Vail's growth through the course of the story,
but concludes matters on an abrupt, downbeat
note. I liked that, as well as the suggestion that
while Vail's cynicism may only deepen, he may
be tougher and more honest with himself
about his own motivations.
Despite the variances from the normal
conventions, it feels like a standard courtroom
thriller. There are a lot of helicopter shots,
which create a cool bird's eye view of the
transitions between scenes, but other than that
the movie doesn't have a striking visual look.
The dialogue is relentlessly routine, albeit
embarrassing only rarely. From top to bottom
there are characters rich in possibilities,
perhaps because the script was adapted from
a novel. I'm sure the book used them to better
advantage, but condensed into 90 odd minutes
many resemble Hollywood "stock" characters.
I hate to keep harping on the title, but
Primal Fear suggests a pretty visceral
experience. I can't think of a less appropriate
moniker for this particular flick. Well, I can
(Ernest Goes to Camp comes to mind) but you
know what I mean.
I can't recommend this movie, but if you're
kidnapped by terrorists and forced to watch it,
well, don't worry, you could do a lot worse
(again, Ernest Goes to Camp comes to mind).
It's not like something they mock on Mystery
Science Theater 3000, or anything. I really dig
that show. Don't you?
.
What the hell kind
of 't itle is that?
Eleven other equally inapproptiate
.tides for Primal FeaT
,, 1. Winston McGee and His Pony ofthe
Future
'
.
2~
Recipe For Disaster 2: Critical
Feedback '
.
3, Return'to Gobotron .."
4; People's Court: The Joseph Wapner
Story
5. Home~ard Bound: The Incredible
Jouf!Jey 2; Lost In San Fransisco
6. Sizzle!
7. American Viking
8. Bram Stoker~ Batman
9. Alyssa Milano's Teen Steam Movie
10. Krazy Monkey Goes To Town
11. Primal Fear: The Movie
At least it's origin~l , The Substitute tries to be a teacher movie and a crappy action flick
by Bryan Frankenseuss Theiss
Did you see last summer's Michelle Pfeiffer
teacher drama Dangerous Minds and.think
"Man, I wish they would have taken that scene
further" when she briefly demonstrated karate
on her misbehaving students? If so, then The
Substitute is for you. It's your basic shitty
action vehicle except for the fact that it's also
trying to be a teacher-saves-at-risk-teens movie
along the lines of Stand and Deliver or Lean
On Me.
Tom Berenger plays Shale, a professional
badass disowned by the government after
taking part in a top secret CIA drug raid.
Hoping for a little break from ass-kicking while
looking for a new gig, the unemployed
mercenary hangs out with an old flame in
Miami who happens to be a school teacher. But
like always seems to happen in these drug
infested urban schools, she breaks up a fight
and gets her ~ee cap broken in retaliation.
Shale tries to help out by calling up potential
subsitutes so the poor woman can spend two
weeks safely at home. Unfortunately, nobody
seems to be available.
So Shale does what any red-blooded
American would do: he has his disowned
government killer buddies hack him up a fake
identity with impressive teaching credentials
and teaches the class himself.
Of course he's not a born teacher, and he
has other motives for being there. The school
is run by a deadly gang called the Kings of
Destruction, and he's pretty sure (get this) that
they deal drugs. So he tries to beat up and/or
kill the drug dealers and corrupt officials of
Miami and at the same time teach a classroom
full of kids. Sort of a teen Kindergarten Cop,l
guess.
Make no mistake about it, this is not a good
strangest combination of genres award.
The most hysterical scenes involve Shale (or
Mr. Smith, as his students call him) trying to
be a good teacher and badass at the same time.
Like many real-life high school substitutes, he
loves to tell the class stories about the horrors
of the Vietnam war. Since these are hardcore
inner city kids, they can relate - and they
gladly show him plen ty of knife and bullet scars
that rival his own.
When Shale is not throwing kids through
the library window or helping his disguised
mere buddies install hidden cameras that are
connected to a computer monitor hidden in his
briefcase, the movie tries hard to beDangerous
Minds. It has the same booming rap
soundtrack, washed-out footage of urban
decay, and depressing view of the state of
American education. It has the classroom full
of kids who do virtually nothing but applaud
each other for their unoriginal sexually explicit
insults and reward each line of dialogue with a
high five. It even has Shale, like Pfeiffer's
Louanne Johnson, teaching only one class per
day.
Shale is subjected to the same treatment
that Johnson and all teacher movie
protagonists are: the kids ignore and insult
him, listen to loud music during class and
generally pretend that they are not at school,
not at home, but at some sort of avant-garde
performance space where everyone is
encouraged to strive for 100% pure chaos. In
the spirit of one-upmanship, these movies
always seem to slightly top each other in
classroom disorder. In The Substitute the
students are not really a disobedient class,
but a scene out of Gremlins.
Insert one badass action hero and what
do you get? Hilarious scenes like the one
where Shale blindly catches a hurled can
and returns it to its thrower's head,
knocking him out of his chair. The only
scene missing is the one where the teacher
wanders into the rough neighborhood to
talk personally to a student's parents. It's a
shame that that scene's not in here since
Shale would have probably been attacked and
could have roughed up some troublemakers
like that bastard in Falling Down. The
possibilities are endless, but the movie moves
on.
The plot is actually more complicated than
one might expect, though trite and formualaic.
Ernie Hudson plays a seemingly respectable excop principal who - gaspf- turns out to be the
head of a major drug operation centered in the
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school. This turns out to be really funny stuff.
Somehow the principal's corruption has
remained a secret for years, despite some
rather careless criminaltactics. His security
guards, for example, run around the school in
full uniform firing guns at the good guys.
Worse, the big man himself counts an
enormous shipment of cocaine in the unlocked
school basement just a few minutes after
parent-teacher'conferences.
As the plot reaches a climax alld Shale and
his buddies end up running around the sc~ool
killing bad guys, things start to get less
interesting. None of the action is particularly
well choreographed or filmed, though
Berenger does make an okay action hero.
There's
not even
-a-
anything absurd or over-the-top enough to.be
very humorous, just worn out cliches like the
fatally wounded good guy who decides to take
his killer with him by way of a grenade and a
one-liner. (Which brings up a question: in the
afterlife, do action movie sidekicks regret that
their dying words were bad one-liners?)
As an action movie , The Substitute is
somewhere near the bottom of the barrel. But
as a bad action movie, you could certainly do
worse. Most of it's not boring, which is more
than you can say for some Brian Bosworth or
Lorenzo Lamas movie you might catch on
cable. It would be a shame to recommend 'a
movie like The Substitute when there are
excellent movies like Fargo and James and the
Gia nt Peach still playing in theaters. But if
you're looking for crap, The Substitute is
w hat
you're looking for.
Bananas Is My Business
Latin American Film Festival explores Hollywood tragedy arid racism via Carmen Miranda
by Christian Miller
stores blared the song into the strets and alleys and became addicted to pills. She also
throughout Rio. Overnight the record became underwent shock therapy treatment. In her last
The Latin American Film Festival concluded a success.
performance she passed out while the cameras
Sunday with a documentary on the famous
Miranda then became a star and started to were rolling on a comedy show. The crowd,
performer Carmen Miranda entitled Bananas perform. For her performance she adopted a being oblivious to her plight, laughed as if it
Is My Business.
style from the Biyana women of South were a joke. Carmen regained her breath and
The narrator's creative communication of America. These women wore a bandana on rose to her feet, amazingly able to smile and
Miranda's biographical information makes their heads and often held a basket full offruit, play the scene as ifher swoon was in the script.
Bananas an interesting and entertairiing which they would sell to customers on the However hours after this performance she died
documentary. Real footage interspersed with street. Miran4.a incorporated the idea of the of a heart attack.
the narrator's dreams and a Miranda bandana ' ill1d the fruit and rea ted her
This documentary also communicates the
impersonator keep the flow of the fUm from distinctive gimmick: The headdress with fruit racist reverberations that were left in Miranda's
becoming stagnant and provide a realm where on top. This gimmick later evolved into an wake. One actress says "it was just assumed
the narrator's deeper spiritual insight melt into archetypal symbol of South America to that if you were a Latin American woman, no
European Americans. It can be seen on the European man was going ~o take you seriously
Miranda's persona.
The film documents Miranda's personal sticker of a Chiquita' Banana. However on an emotional level. " She goes on to add "I
rise to stardom and her tragic death Hollywood and Europe helped to create a wanted to do other things, play Shakespeare,
underneath the foot of Hollywood's relentless derisive stereotype based on Miranda's image and not always talk like this (affecting a
soulgrinding ethics. Along the way her friends, and its reverberations are still felt today in the stereotypical Latino accent) because it gets
lovers and family tell stories that lend to film industry as well as our society.
damn boring."
It was around this time that Lee Schubert,
approachable and personal insight into her
Despite the obvious tragedy of Miranda's
the Broadway producer, took notice of life and the ignoble racism of Hollywood,
character.
The film starts with us viewing the Miranda. Schubert was on a cruiseboat in Rio Bananas Is My Business still ends on a positive
narrator's dream vision of Miranda coming to when he saw Carmen performing. Captivated note. The narrator brings Carmen's life and her
life in a wax museum and escaping to take care by her image and her talent he signed Miranda dream vis ion to an epiphany at the fi lm 's
of unfinished business. Miranda heads to the to a contract.
climax. The narrator explains that Carmen
Oliva hills of Portugal where she was born. The
However upon arriving to America, the appears on top of the church that her shadow
narrator leaves her dream vision with press instantly typecast Carmen as an appeared upon earlier. Behind her is
Miranda's shadow quavering along the' rustic entertaining bimbo, 'Miranda Fever' quickly irridescent light illuminating Miranda, giving
spread through America. Miranda later signed her the quality of an Angel. The narrator
and austere church.
Miranda was born in 1909. Her parents a contract with 20th Century Fox and moved explains that Miranda has returned to
immigrated to Brazil that same year hoping to to Hollywood.
perpetuate her cult so that she may become
find better opportunity in Rio de Janeiro. It was
The narrator documents the patronizing ingrained into Portugal's mythology. The film
in Rio that Miranda was influenced by the American press, paralleling it with the disdain then cuts to a beautiful Biyana lady dancing at
Samba. Samba music originated from the that began to arise within the Brazilian public a festival. She is smiling and her movements
ghettos of Rio. It was the rhythm and spirit of as Miranda became a slave to the European seem to celebrate life. We see the pure spirit
the Samba that inspired Miranda to sing. She entertainment industry. She became caught that Miranda embodies still lives on in others
was always singing at work. Although her first between two worlds. Alienated by her native and we know it always will.
employer found this to be distracting, it acted Brazil and patronized in America, Miranda
as impetus to throw Miranda into the torrents began a gradual disintegration of self that
of fame and notoriety.
continues throughout the film.
While selling neckties to private customers
Watching the film we become aware of the
at a specialty necktie shop in Rio, Miranda was crushing pressure that Hollywood put on
invited to perform for a Benefit of Brazil's Miranda to play her typecast role to her
National Music. Jose De Barros - a famous unfortunate end. Unable to break free from the
Brazilian musician and composer - noticed her mold that Hollywood imprisoned her with,
. .. .
talent. He later cut a record with Miranda. He Miranda struggles with her own identity.
wrote the lyrics and the music, playing guitar
ca-rmen ended up in an abus ive
behind Miranda's vivaciqus vocals. The record relationship with a Hollywood film producer
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luck and for good things to happen.
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was pretty half-assed. That shouldn't come as
a surprise since I don't know how to write
horoscopes. 1don't even know how to write
fake horoscopes. I don't even know what order
the zodiac signs go in.
SIAMESE TWINS - Okay, so I don't even
know the names of all the zodiac signs, let
alone how many there are. Are you supposed
to capitalize Zodiac? I have no idea. I doo't
even know what a zodiac is. What the hell is a
zodiac? There was that one guy in He-Man
called Zodac, but that's a whole different
thing, probably.
GOAT - Let's face it, I'm making an ass of
myselfhere.1 guess I shouldn't worry about it
since nObody reads horoscopes around here
anyway.
WATER THING - On the other hand, how
would I know if people around here read
horoscopes? I don't know anybody. I have no
friends. I stay in my room most ofthe time rereading old magazines by candelight.
CANCER - I just remembered, cancer is one
of the zodiac signs. The reason I. know is
because I'm supposed to be a cancer. I wonder
what my horoscope would be?
POPEYE - I've always liked Popeye a lot.
Today I bought a Popey pillow case, I like it
even though they drew Olive Oyt's nose
wrong.
BUllHORNS - Maybe I'm being too hard on
myself. That Popeye one I just did was pretty
good.
CAPRICORN - Never mind. I just re-read it
and it was horrible. I doo't know what I was
thinking.
CAPRICORN - I'm really sorry about this you
guys. I don't know what the hell my problem
is.
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filling in for Mr. Andy Schoenstein this evening are Ms. Cristin Carr and Ms. Jennifer Koogler
Thursday, April 25
A CillCo de Mayo even t: The Latinas de
Evergreen will be in Lerture Hall One from
noon to 1 p.m. Sponsored by MEChA.
Another l inrn de Mayo event: MEChA hosts
screenings of Mayan Voices" American Lives,
and Chichana. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The exclus ive Disco and Swing Danci!1g
beginning and brushup class meets today
from 7:30-8:30 p.m. in CRC 116. Cost is $55
for commu nity members; $49 for alumni,
faculty. staff, and sen iors ; and $44 for
st udents. The class runs through May 30. The
beginning and continuing Jazz dancing class
is from 6:30-7:30 p.m., with the same price
range as the other class. Register for both in
the CRe. For more info, check out a copy of
the Leisure Education catalog, ava ilable in the
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available at Toys in Babeland. If you are 21
and can't get into Moe, hang out a' couple
buildings down at Cafe Paradiso.
Saturday, Apri127
Monday, April 29
The Environmental Resource Center will be
having a series of walks through the ancient
forests on the Olympic Peninsula. Forest
act ivists and natura lists wili share their
knowledge about the area. Meet at the Mud
Bay Park N Ride at 8 a.m., not forgetting some
water, food, and appropriate clothing
se lections. If you'd like more info or are
interested in camping overnight there, call
the Cheetwoot WIlderness Alliance at 3520521.
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The Bisexual Woman's Group meets in the
Woman's Resource Center from 6-7:30 p.m .
Greeners Groove Villa Ce lebration , in
memory of student Jachin Thomas, will be
held at the Corner in the Housing
Commu nit y Center. You can play Nerf
football or volleyball and win fabu lous prizes,
including a $75 gift certificate to Dumpster
Values. There will also be a dance starting at
8:30 p.m. with Drs and a special guest band.
For more information , call Housing steward
JAz at x 5116.
Friday, April 26
Sunday, April 28
ARBOR DAY MANIA!!!!! Plant a tree. It's
sassy.
At The Midnight Sun, located at 113 N.
Columbia in beau tiful downtown Olympia,
see musical sensationsJadFair, Phono-Comb,
Old Time Relijun, and Dub Narcotic Sound
System. Jad and Calvin will be driving the
ladies wild. One request, though. Dub
Narcotic: Please, please, play "Booty Run".
The fun starts at 6 p.m. Get there early and
cruise the scene.
The Men's Group meets from 5-6:30 p.m. in
the Conference room, CAB J.15.
At Four Seasons Books (7th and Franklin in
Oly), there will be a panel discussion entitled
"Stop Sexual Violence! It takes all of Us. " at 7
p.m. The panel offour women: a survivor, a
therapist, a volunteer worker, and a nurse who
assists sexual abuse victims will address issues
of sexual violence. A $2 donation is suggested
and will benefit Safeplace.
Bond with your fine feathered friends every
Friday with the Wilderness Action Group's
Bird Walk. Meet in front of the CAB at 7:30
a.m . (prime hour for birds, it's worth it to get
up early). Bring binoculars and bird scopes if
you've got them, or use the ones nicely
provided by the W.A.G. Call x.6636 for more
info.
Spending the weekend in Seattle? The
Northwest Lesbian&Gay Pink Pages present
the way rad bands Pansy Division, Real
Mackenzies, and Salon Betty at Moe's
Mo'Roc'N Cafe. Tickets are $6 and are
distinguished medical socio.logist and
environmental health activist will speak on
Popular Epidmiology: An Informed Citizenry
and a Democratic Science.
The Near Death Experience Group ineets
today at the aforementioned Four Seasons
Books. They meet from 2-5 p.m. Call 7860952 for more details.
At the lovely Capitol Theater: Best of Black
Maria Film Festival Shorts., a cornucopia of
award-winning independent, experimental
films including animation, video,
documentary, drama , and comedy. Now in
its 15th year. Also playing: French Twist:
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woman falls for other woman.
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trick the Pastor into smash inc the pulpit.
· When the Japanese conquered the
Vikincs, they stole the ancient None secret
of origami.
• When the waitress comes by to refiD your
coHee, pour a canteen of pig's blood on her
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· U you play the bagpipes on the Space
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Tuesday, April 30
Unofficial Air Guitar Day. Play some
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A forum to discuss the future of technology
uses at Evergreen (like if we will be able to take
c1asses via the Internet, satellite, or other
stuff) in the Cedar room of the Longhouse
from 1-3 p.m.
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6098 or e.A.G.E. at x. 6636.
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