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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 25, Issue 22 (April 20, 1995)
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dear mom
single pacent God of mine
last night [ understood why
letter upon letter, I have
thanked and praised your most
recent husband for helping me to use
the surface conscious of my mind
and why it has been expected for you to know
what ours was about.
But I have not.
Since J pushed away at twelve. whatever ours
was about has not revealed itself
in my surface mind;
Last night, when I was reminded. it was
nor there either, but in a dream where
I laid over you, my penis hard ~d true
against your pelvis. nOl inside, not meaning to,
asexual, ~ut all pans included,
and holdmg myself above you, I smiled down
and you back up, and there was
light to be felt there.
II was the light of your love. somehow okay
to receive after all these years,
and it was the light of my love emitted
back: to you. all pans included, and nothing was
dark. because everything was accepted. and
was capable, only because doubt had
mirnculollsly been refused.
When I was
and we stopped talking. I bad no
new hairs announcing themselves .
.
.
e
l.Rd
not
cracked
but
1
felt
It
COOllng,
my VOIC ....
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change coming, and it meant that
telling you about me
betrayed my beComing. In twelve years
of disl<.x:ation from fathers and
brothers and everything else
you were the single la~t refe~nce. .
the only voice whose instructions sull
.
the single parent god, the last co~tact of trust
before the unaccompanied walk mto a .
mute, nervous world, subtracted ofT the SIde!>,
belonging no place
. . , ods
where I felt the down side of not havtng f~e
,
and learned how to make the :.ounds of fear
so thlll boys who smelled weak~ess
got the attention they wanted WIthout
having to
me.
Isolation is anyone's word, but
J remember watching it grow, seeing new
ways that the same thing
,
had meant to me, puncturing fresh cells in private . .
submerged, healthy gardens of a mind,
Isolation burrowing into crevasses Alone before the TV.
at 4:30 am with the horne shopping networ".
moved by 39.99 Zireonia diamond on
ladylike plastic fingers, turning in dlllplay.
It was the only thing
on at that hour,
and left to welcome the new year ulune
with the same sorry tool that
had split u:. apan. my soft
pink penis reaching for
ladylike plastic fingers.
for zirconias in the showcase,
channel 66,
thirteen years ago today.
Scrambling in the dark,
wilh this thing that hloomed into a great
black peeker. erection spirit born destructive,
in the collapse of a single lasl reference of trusted voice.
Stuff must be coming up for me, mom,
because the following night. after having
laid together
in our light and acceptance, revisiting a purer
strain of contact
than anything available to me nowadays,
I found myself in a related but polar abscess
of lhe undermind:
I was unloading a shotgun
into the windows of a house.
I believe at first 1 had some
justifICation, my employer, some ugly sergeant.
was unloading as well,
insbUcted me to do so,
th"t it UfAU .. 1.... 1>1 mA"""
UUll It was Il,,:glll Jlumc::r.
the owner of said house had broken
COlIllIact andtbe incident-was-sc-ver.e enough to deserve the threat.
these conditions changed rapidly.
was your house now.
your husband under siege,
My cmployel' now W8S even more ugly
and fearsome ..
bis orders carried weight.
said we were going in.
the back: door.
followed him up the path. until
heard someone behind me.
step father.
husband.
coming up from behind a rock.
1 fired on him
he feU over .
·1 remember the horror of the sounds he made
while blood spurted out of his leg.
t had never heard tbat man make such
vulnerable sounds.
1 knew everything was bad here,
that this was wrong.
but my employer ordered me to leave him,
said we were going in. and I knew
what he meant and I knew
he was not my employer and that
aU of this was my dream.
my dream in my mind,
my own mind's creation.
I pulled myself awake before
we had gone in for you.
It was one in the morning. J hadn't
been asleep long.
I went over the course of actions and tried
roaccoun! for thi ngs.
I went over the order of events and
tried to reconcile with myself
if
these were things J had sion.· and
should claim them
or if they were not mine.
not me shooting your husband
find almost raping my mom, and
not me here with a hard on
at one thirty asking me
if I am accountable.
For an hour I understood the universe as having
no course,
no point.
direction of meaning,
and I was afraid of who I was.
Ashamed.
And I told
And for forty five minutes everything seemed
to confirm the story of meaninglessness and all
J could hear
was the sounds of my hoarse stepfather
] understood that no one was really hurt.
that yes I am lost.
but that at lea..t 1 know that] am lost.
and know that I have things in me
that are \\ITOng. yeah, wrong, but to recognize
myself this way
mean~ that I will never let it happen.
And I understood that rape is a kind
of reaction of the lost.
that it in my case
it had a lot to do with losing YOII
at the arrival of my penis.
That rape is a tearing down in anger of the worth
and value of the deepest contact
J have engaged. and since it is no longer
available, reaction is all the entitlement
I am allowed. not a reason to make
such rage legitimate. but as a reaction is nalural,
and nature has things about it that are wrong
of which I am proof, wide awake with a hard on.
. There has recently been a resurgence of effort in
my life,
to deal with the various orders of this experience
that alongside each other do no! add up,
do not match
or fit
or work
or manage anything bill cOnlradiction.
And this is welcomed mom.
because in seven years
1 have been a vigorous slut,
having been on lhe inside of women
whose faces I have forgouen and
having never once found the
eqllivalent of an old trusted voice.
But this woman 1 now wake up beside
makes coffee first thine and
makes coffee first lhing and
. we slart back. in where we left off the day before.
like lJIlls. She has a way of looking out.
and through. into the backs
'Of the eyes, searching for me in there,
lost amidst black weighted balls
and a masculine schilophrenia, and
.
by her broad sense of reception. little
by little. I take shape in her mind, and it
seems to be okay. I am being
completed in a transfer of
contact, and it seems
lhat I am seen.
They have a word for this phenomenal quality.
I think it's called sympathetic.
Perhaps the equivalent of
an old trusted voice. Either way
it feeb good. I come over to her house
. at the end of the day and say, listen,
"I said such and such to someone today
and they looked at me like 1 was nuts,"
and she'll say how it sounds
to her, and she may tell me
I'm nuts. but she'll e~plain why,
and by way of-connection
I feel a little less all
.APRIL
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by Carson Strege-Flora
VOLUME
THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE
Health Center
Director faces
women's criticism
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ISSUE 22
The Health Care Center
t! ~ ,7 Where does that $32 go?
by Dawn Hanson
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CPJ SlajfWriler
CPJ Assistant Managing Editor
So sometime into that second hour
of lhat second nighl. after
I had told myself that I was lost
and wrong. and that this was natural
but still wrong. and part of
a confusing course of meaning. I realized
that raping as a reaction. that tearing
down the reflection of bolh contact
and love-things that grow even in sparse
isolated fields and crevasses. is the
outcome of a simultaneous dropping of balls
fading of the single parent mother.
the fatherless. solitary plunge
below lhe expected dignity,
. without the presumed asSllrance
of the upstanding adult male.
What occurred to me in .
that second hour of self hate.
was lhat it is not tbe only reaction.
That the dreams had
00 discernible order, first
loving despite the losses, then hating
because of them, but
that the first dream was !>till
as luminous as it was
before the chaos of the second dream
That as a reaction.
building connection in an order to reacquire
the deep bright light of merged love may
not be possible with one's mother
but to be resumed elsewhere.
all parts included : dick, head. heart. all
allowed as one.
Maybe that's
what a fathe.r would have
told me
had one been around.
but I'm twenty three still,
there's time,
and I am tired
of tearing down. of destructing
the symbol of what was refused 10 me
For the last twenty minutes before
I fell off back to sleep, I found
a faith in things again.
in the idea of building.
building connection out of the levels
sunk into isolation,
filling the punctured cells with a new
voice. soothing, monotone.
laughing at me in my heaviness.
Faith in the idea of a penis returning
a\l of lhnt, soothing. soothing, love gi ving penis.
Faith in the idea of
building
to reacquire
deep bright light,
of merging my love
where it is compatible.
of finding another kind of reaction
and falling asleep
with a soft piece
of flesh in my
hand, natural
and possibly right.
20, 1995
I
Every quarter students at Ev·
Sitting half naked in front of someone you hardly
ergreen receive their tuition bills
know. Laying down with your legs spread apart on
and, inevitably, each quarter the
stirrups. Waiting for the touch of the cold steel speculum
question gets asked, "Where does
between your legs.
that $32 go to?"
A gynecological exam isn't a pleasant experience
According to David Schoen,
for any woman. Add a discomforting physician assistant
the director of Health Services, the
to the picture and the experience can become downright
money goes towards the "basic
unbearable.
health care" of students and makes
This is exactly what Evergreen student Celeste
up all the funding for the Health
Virago says she found when she went to see David
Center.
Schoen, Director of the Health Center and Physician's
The $32 fee is mandatory for
Assistant, at the Evergreen Health Center.
all students who take more than ten
Virago visited the Health Center on Feb. 19 for her
credits a quarter. For all other stuannual gynecological exam. According to Virago, Schoen
dents the fee is optional. But, ac·
made inappropriate, value laden statements through the
cording to Schoen, 40 percent of
exam. He implied that she was promiscuous because of
students who pay the fee rely on
the number of people she had slept with, although
health services as their only means
Virago said the number is hardly startling. Virago says
of health care and 60 percent utilize
Schoen made her feel bad about her sexuality and made
health services within the course of
he.feel guilty about having sex.
a year.
Virago complained about her treatment to
Services provided under the
Schoen's supervisor, Dean of Student Activities and
.fee include the treatment of colds
Support Services Shannon Ellis in early March. Ellis had
and flu as well as the screening and
received another complaint from Evergreen student Kim
treatment of sexually transmitted
Goforth about Schoen's bedside manner.
diseases, annual gynecological exGoforth says that Schoen's behavior when she went
ams and pregnancy tests.
in to get a Depo provera shot was "creepy".
In fact, ~'may be one-percent"
Another student,lulie Crossland, who saw Schoen
of patients that come through the Q;
last year said that "He does not have a very good bedside
Health Center are referred to out- ~
man~er." She did not take her complaint to Ellis.
side clinics because Health Services "Ellis will no! comment directly on either of the
is unable to do anything further for .~
complaints due to her policy of not speaking about
a patient. For the most part, refer- w
personnel issues.
rals are due to a condition continu- ~
Schoen acknowledges that there have been
ing to persist after treatment. Con- 0
misunderstandings but will not comment directly on
ditions such as fractures, neurologi- ~
either ofthe complaints.
cal problems and diabetic counsel- ~
"I didn't come to work with the intention of making
ing are also referred out.
Examining table at the Evergreen Health Center
anyone uncomfortable, I try to practice medicine in a
Schoen estimates the quar, very positive manner. It is certainly not my intention to
terly fee as "half the price of vi sits outside in the community" and events sponsored by Health Services. In the past, work·
hurt anyone or to make them feel uncomfortable. I want
for similar work, He notes the number of visits each quarter shops and events have included HIV awareness issues on camthem to have a good experience," said Scnoen.
are "unlimited," making the fee for such health services af· pus, a Careers in Medicine Day, National Condom Week on
However, at the beginning of Spring quarter
fordable by comparison.
campus and blood drives.
Schoen voluntarily removed
Also in comparison with clinics
The counseling center also operates on funding from the
himself from doing any
"out in the real world," Schoen says fees collected each quarter. Specifically, the fees are 48 percent
gynecological exams at the
that the Health Center is able to see ofthe counseling center's budget, which makes up the staff sala~ Health Center unless a student
ries. The remainder of the counseling center's budget comes
patients sooner.
specifically requests him. He said
l
hiside,'a look at ...
"When making an appointment from institutional funding.
that this was a very difficult
for an annual gynecological exam at
The counseling center provides professional counseling
·'STDtreatment proce~ures
decision for him to make.
an outside clinic, it may be six to Evergreen students covered under health services, leaving
"It is against everything J
page 4
months until the appointment. [At no additional charge for individual counseling sessions.
believe in . To me, health care
the Health Center] it may be two to
As for the 60 percent of students that have health insuraccess is the biggest problem in
three
weeks,"
said
Schoen.
ance
and
still pay the fee , Schoen explains that most insurance
-The
the United States today," said
Health services does not cover plans have "portability problems· when used if a student comes
Schoen. "If there was a way to
.' CounseJing
the cost of medication, lab tests, or from outside the Puget Sound area.
reduce
[the
risk
of
supplies,
but provides th em at a
"If a student is from Spokane and is covered by Group
Center,
misunderstanding] I would go
relatively inexpensive cost as com· Health Northwest, they may have problems when they go to a
back to doing [pap smears]," said
. pageS
pared to services in the Olympia Group Health Puget Sound clinic. Even though they are man·
Schoen.
area, Schoen explains that this is aged by the same company, it is still not very convenien t be·
Like many workers in the
because health services charges "at cause there are a lot of qualifications," said Schoen.
Medical field, Schoen has never had any special
cost plus handling fees" unlike outside health services.
For out·of-state students the problem can be even more
sensitivity training. He has spent more than half of his
Schoen cites birth control as an example of how "rela- complicated. Insurance companies sometimes restrict the types
professional career working at Washington and
tively cheap" medicine is through the Health Center. At Ever- of services they will cover. They also sometimes restrict the
California Planned Parenthoods where he regularly
green a student pays $8 a month for the birth control pill when doctors or clinics that a student can see for examination.
in the stores the pill can cost between $25 to $30 a month.
If a student wants to use their insurance, Schoen says thaI
see Schoen page 4
The mandatory fee has also gone towards workshops companies will sometimes reimburse a student for their services obtained at the health center.
Focus' on HealtH
Internal
Seepage
• Founding faculty Beryl
Crowe passes away;
page 3
• Cub. They're a band.
They're about as deep
as their smiles
page 12
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CAMPUS NEWS
NEWS BRIEFS
Edited by Dawn Hanson
Figure mutilated Housing welcomes new director
by Dawn Hanson
EVERGREEN
CPJ Staff Writer
Moments of
Awareness seminar
Students who are interested in discussing topics other
th an what they are currently studying in seminar can sign up
for Moments of Awareness.
Moments of Awareness is a non-institutional way of
meeting other people to discuss topics of common interest. All
you have to do is to sign up on the bulletin board with the
following information: name. phone number and what you
want to discuss.
Or, you can sign up over the Internet, send the information
to wustert@elwha.evergreen.edu.
If you have questions, contact Yuri Koslen at 866-1004 or
Tracy Wuster at 866-9354.
Overeaters Anonymous meet
Overeaters Anonymous (OA) will hold its Region One
Spring Roundup and Board meeting in Olympia on Saturday.
April 22, starting at 9 am. The meeting shall take place at th e
United Churches, 11th Avenue and Capitol Way, Olympia and
is handicap accessible.
OA is a twelve step program of recovery from eating
di sorders. The only requirement for membership in OA is a
desire to stop eating compulsively.
The Saturday program will include speakers and
workshops with fun and entertainment activities mixed
throughout the day.
For more information about OA contact Bob at 352-5922.
Audubon Soci~ty
Membership Program
On April 20, the Black Hills Audubon Society will feature
a presentation with George Walter, a NisquallyTribal Biologist.
Walter's slide show and lecture on the geology, fisheries, and
other aspects on the Nisqually River Basin system.
The presentation shall occur in the Olympia Community
Center on 222 North Columbia. Refreshments will be served at
7 pm and the program will begin at 7:30 pm.
Talk held on
Permaculture Design
Bruce Wt:'iskotten. owner of Pan Earth Design, will give a
talk on th e (' thic s. des ign process and methodology of
perm arulture , including landscape and whole house
permaculture.
Permaculture is a holistic approach to the health of the
earth 's ecosystem. the ecosystems which provide us clean air
and water. regulate the climate, build and hold soils and protect
...
...
...
us from harmful radiation .
The talk will focus on the interests of the audience, so
participants are encouraged to come with questions or just
come with questions or just come to listen.
For further information. contact Paul Horton at the
Energy Outreach Center, 943-4595.
Popular Education
workshop on economy
The Labor Education and Research Center will present a
Popular Education workshop on the U.S. economy.
The interactive workshop is for anyone who thinks
economics is important. but has found it boring or too complex.
The workshop will be held Sunday, April 30 in Library
3500 from 1 to 4:30 pm.
The cost is $20 per person and scholarships are available.
Space is limited so reserve your space or for fmther info call
Lisa Smith at 459-3146.
THURSTON
co.
Thurston Land Use
Report available
Matthew Kweskin
Monday, April 10
0033: Car overturned on the parkway.
083 1: Ceiling tiles of the first flo or of the library
were discovered to have been damaged
by vandals.
1526: Theft of a fire extinguisher from KAOS.
0845: A bike left between Lab I and Lab II was
vandalized. The tires were deflated and
the tire pump was stolen.
0700: Sleeper in th e A-Dorm TV alcove.
1525: A person's money and credi t cards were
stolen from the CRC women's locker
roo m.
Tuesday, April 11
0249 Sleeper in the CAB building.
1428: Theft of a bicycle from the CAB.
PAGE 2 APRil
20, 1995
Chicken Soup Brigade's Gay Bingo is back with Blue
Hawaii Bingo on Saturday, April 22 at Temple De Hirsch Sinai
on 15th and East Union on Seattle's Capitol Hill .
For Blue Hawaii Gay Bingo. host Dan Savage will take
players on an imaginary journey to a sandy paradise. Hawaiian
shirts and shorts are encouraged, but surfboards are not.
Proceeds for the event will benefit the Chicken Soup
Brigade which provided everyday assist.ance to people living
with AIDS in King County. For more information call 323-0069.
Wing Luke traces
Vietnamese experience
The Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle will unveil a new
exhibit on Vietnamese Americans Thursday, April 27, marking
the 20th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the beginning of
the Vietnamese community in America.
The exhibit will consist of dozens of photos and personal
keepsakes from the local Vietnamese community.
Wednesday, April 12
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
- photo and text by David Scheer
by Naomi Ishisaka
CP] editor in chief
An 18-year-old student of the
International Education First (EF) program
will now be a little more apprehensive when
riding in the A-dorm elevator.
After not being able to sleep on April 13,
the student says she went downstairs to get a
drink of water. As she was getting back in the
elevator a man described as in his early 20s
accosted her.
The student said, "He was drunk, he
hugged me and tried to kiss me. I pressed the
button of the elevator and got out and ran."
o 96% of those
After talking to EF program director Sue
Morrissette, the student and Morrissette
reported the incident to Public Safety the
following day.
Public Safety was very concerned about
the incident.
The Brazilian EF student, would like to
remain anonymous because of possible
retribution from the accoster.
Although the incident was very
distressing, she still feels A-dorm is a safe place
for her to live.
''I've got many friends here and I think it
was a one-time only thing," she says.
Public Relations issued a bulletin urging
anyone Who may have seen the suspect in the
incident to call Public Safety at x6140.
The suspect is described as a Caucasian
male with a lip ring. He has a dark complexion
and is approximately 5' 6" tall. He has short.
straight, dark-brown hair and brown eyes. He
was wearing a dark jacket, blue jeans and dirty
white tennis shoes. _
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New Housing Director Mike Segawa
similar to those for Evergreen housing policy. He realizes TESC
is very different than what he is used to at UW and he doesn 't
know if the same type of policies at the UW will work here .
Segawa also said that "the numbers and student
.populations (at the two schools) are completely different" and
programs that may have been successful at UW will not
necessarily meet the same enthusiasm at Evergreen_
In order to find out what things are wanted and needed
by the Evergreen community, Segawa said he wants "open
communication with all of the campus community." This
includes input from students and faculty that come in the form
of e-mail messages, phone calls or meeting with Segawa
personally when he will periodically visits Evergreen.
Segawa hopes that his open communication policy will
allow for "change to work and build and improve housing."
If this communication happens, Segawa feels that concrete
plans for change will probably come in the fall. He said he sees
that housing and himself will "have some idea of what needs to
be tackled and what the commitment to them on the long-term
will be."
To get in touch with Mike Segawa, either e-mail him at
segawa@u.washington.edu or call him at his UW office at
(206)543-6709. _
EF student accosted in elevator Original faculty Crowe dies
conducted a survey of
52 housing units
Thursday, April 13
0455 : A suspect of an off campus crime was
apprehended by the campus police
department.
Less than four months after a new
drumstick was donated by an anonymous
staff member, the Welcoming Woman has
again been desecrated last week by an
unknown party.
If you have any information about the
missing drumstick, please contact Public
Safety at x6140._
STUDENTS ARE
RECVCLIN&
o Last week we
0453: A fecal smear incident in the men's fust
floor bathroom of the CAB.
Sunday, April 9
1315: Juvenil es vandalized an apartment in Qdorm during a party.
Chicken Soup
Brigade's Gay Bingo
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Friday, April 7
Saturday, April 8
SEATTLE
The Thurston Regional Planning Council has just released
the 1994 edition of the Subdivision Building Report.
The Subdivisions Bui/dour Report is an annual report
on the status of approved development in the various Thurston
County school districts.
Copies of the report are available from Thurston Regional
Planning Council, 2404 Heritage Court SW #B, Olympia. WA
98502. The cost for e:\ch report is $4 plus $3.50 for postage
and handling.
SECURITY BLOTTER
Compiled by
For months the position of TESC
. Housing Director has been empty because
a perfect choice to- fill the role remained
elusive. Although the position has now
been filled, the man who has the job has
remained elusive.
0
This man is Mike Segawa, who has '0
19
.been hired · to be the new Housing
1/1
Director. Even though he has been hired
19
U
to fill the position, he will not begin
officially until August 14 because he needs 0..19
to complete his duties at his current job
>.
.c
at the University of Washington (UW).
o
At the UW. Segawa is currently
o
working as the Assistant Director for .I:
Q.
Residential Life. In his official position, he
"supervises student directors, desk
services and family housing" for the 4,000
students that use the University's housing system.
In this position, Segawa has helped to implement change
to certain housing policies at UW that the community felt were
. needed.
One of the main changes that Segawa has helped to
implement over the 12 years that he has been at UW was the
professionalization of staff. This has meant that the more fulltime, non-student staff was hired on to live and oversee the
student staff which act as tht Evergreen equivalent to stewards.
Previously the position of supervisors was held by
graduate students, but Segawa said that this didn't work well.
Segawa cited that the students were not trained well enough to
handle all situations that could occur, making the change to a
profeSSional staff necessary.
While at UW, Segawa has also tried to make housing a
part of the campus community. Within housing Segawa has
encouraged and helped implement student activities such as a
theater group that deals with issues of substance abuse.
Segaw.a "hopes that folks aren't looking for [immediate)
change" when he takes over in August. Instead he is looking
for suggestions and knowledge from the Evergreen community
to find out what the needs of the housing community are.
Thus far Segawa is not making any plans to make changes
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3210 COOPER POINT RD. 866-3999
Beryl Crowe, an original planning
faculty at Evergreen, passed away on
April 17.
.
Provost Barbara Leigh Smith, a
friend of Crowe's, wrote a memo to the
campus community commenting on
Crowe's 'collegiality, his sense of humor,
his wide-ranging intellect, his keen
interest in questions about values in
American society and his abiding
. respect for students."
A memorial service will be held at
Evergreen on Wed. May 3 at noon in the
Recital Hall. _
- text by Naomi Ishisaka
-photo provided by Photo Services
S&A Board allocates Tier 1
by Pat Castaldo
CP] Managing Editor
Evergreen's quaSi-equivalent to a student
governing body, the S&A Board, completed
the first round of student fee allocations.
Tier One groups are larger studentfunded entities that employ nonstudent staff
and include the Child Care Center, the
Campus Recreation Center, KAOS, the CPj
and S&A Administration.
The funding for these groups is decided
every two years, 1995 being one of those years.
The S&A Board allocated increases to all
five tier one groups, the largest of which going
to the Child Care Center, up 19 percent from
this year's budget.
The Campus Recreation Center received
only a two percent increase, totalling $131. 104
per year for the next two years.
KAOS received several notable
enhancements, including funding for the
creation of a News Director to bring more local
and regional news to the station.
KAOS's General Manager and
Development Director positions were
extended from nine months to nearly 12 to
reflect a greater number of hours worked and ,
according to the S&A Board, "to increase focus
on student centered radio."
S&A Productions, the group responsible
for bringing such acts as Phish and Big Head
Todd, also received an allocation increase of
$10,000 to bring larger acts to campus.
The S&A Board will decide other student
group allocations next week. _
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL APRIL
20, 1995 PAGE 3
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HEALTH NEWS
Hasty treatment concerns s.o me·
by Douglas Smith
. C(>J StajfWriter
A third year Evergreen art
student, Jill Macek, spellt two
weeks in a panic after hearing
from the Health Center that her
sex-partner had acquired a sexually transmitted disease (SID).
She learned she could h·ave iUoo.
A sex-partner of hers, she
said, had gone to the Evergreen
Health Center in December,
1992, because he had symptoms
of a STD. Macek said the practitioner there diagnosed him as
having chlamydia, an STD which
causes serious health problems if
gone untreated. The Center
immediatly began treatment.
Because of the clinic's
policy of presumptive treatment,
the Health Center begins treating symptons that suggest STDs
immediately, even ifno test has confumed.
Director of the, Health Center
David Schoen said the benefit oftak·
ing the medication for S'rD presumptively far outweighs the risks of
not taking it, especially since STD's
can cause other problems which can
be fatal.
Schoen said the reason Macek
was treated without being tested
first is because test results are not
always accurate, saying that ten to 20
percent ofchlamydia tests are falsely
negative. Furthermore, he said, in
order to relieve a patient of painful
symptoms, they are treated presumptively. He also stated that tests
are fairly expensive: "We were probably saving the person money, and
he probably had very distinct symptoms."
For these reasons, a presumptive treatment is done }¥hen symp-
go to a specialist for, she said. Adsent back from the lab.
ditionaHy, she proclaimed, "I re"[Butl we never tell someone
sent the fact that r pay ($32 aquarthey absolutely have an SID unless
'toms and sigps very clearly indicate they have a positive [testlculture.
ter fot campus health servicesl .. .I
that particular disease, said Schoen.
"In a lot of cases I may say,
think it should be optional."
It is cOmnion, standard practice on 'there's a small chance it might be
Schoen, who says that procecollege campuses and in the commu· .something else', but most likely it is . duces ·at tht: clinic such as prenit)', because the rate ofSTD's'are so this,'~ said Schoen.
sumptive treatment are stimdard
high, he said.
·
"Scientific research states 75
in most hospitals and clinics, said
Atthe suggestion of the Health percent of women who have
that it is understandable that a stuCenter, Macek went in to be tested chlamydia have no.symp to l11 he
dent might be misled by presumpalso. Her test results wer~negative. . confirmed. Victims of chlamydia. tive treatment, saying that treatBoth Macek and her pai:tner may have no symptoms for up to
ment can be misinferpreted as bethen assu~ed that his symptoms two years, and it is pOSSible that seing the patient's diagnosis. But he
were fr~m mfluenza, because he had rious damage can be done· within
says it is a safer route to reducing
gotten It before the supposed ST? that two year period. Chlamydia
STD on the campus and elses~ptoms appeared. Macek also said . causes scaring ofthe fallopian tubes
where.
hIS symptoms never reappeared. And in women which can cause sterility,
Schoen said he was surprised
M~cek never got the symptoms, she he noted. "That's why it's so dangerabout the frustrated student's account. He said 99 percent of pasaid.
. .. .
. ous, that's why we're concerned."
Macek is no longer upset and
Schoen said It IS difficult for clttient feedback is positive. The
nicians to make an accurate diagno- does now not think anything the
Health Center h.. 'i seen approxisis of an STD. Test results, he ex- Health Center did was unreasonabe,
mately 20,000 patients in the past
plained, are not 100 percent accurate. but she prefers to go elsewhere be.
three years or so, he stated, and
He said the test samples, called cul- cause the only medical services she
less than ten have made comtures, are sent off to a lab where they prefers to use are "gynecological
plaints. •
are tested. The test results are then chick stuff," that she would rather
Schoen from cover
s·,"
men.
the specifics of the meeting or the complaint.
"I found it curious that he wanted so
Virago said that Schoen was very respectmuch information about thewomen. [He was) ful and listened to her concerns but she doesn't
examined young women. Schoen says that in
these comments and told her in a gruff and
very lopsided with his approach to this issue," know ifhe totally understood.
his 12 years of working as a physiCian 's assisnon-compassionate way that because she
Virago said. She also noted that studies show
Schoen said he tries very hard to make
tant that he has never received a complaint.
came there for help she should answer the
that women are more likely to get STDs from patients feel as comfortable as possible and
Schoen said, "I feel that I provide an edu- questions.
men than women.
respect their wishes. To help patients feel more
cational explanation of the risks of sex ... I just
Virago recalls
"I
feel
like
he
gets
women
in
this
en·
talk about the facts."
comfortable, Schoen tries to explain exactly
that Schoen made a
vironment where they are uncomfort· what he is going to do and why he needs to do
But when Virago went into the Health
comment about the
able to begin with and he does this it. He also follows the standard practice ofhavCenter she says that isn't what she found.
number of people she
kind of behavior. You are already feel- ing someone else in the room while giving an
Virago had never been to the Health
had slept with.
ing
strange enough just because of the exam.
Center for a gynecological exam, but has had
"I kinda felt a
surroundings
of the doctor's office and
His medical supervisor who is legally remore than 10 gynecological exams in her lifejudgmental air in his
getting
a
pap
smear,"
said
Virago.
sponsible
for his behavior Patricia Sylwester.
time. including several done by men. She says
voice when he said
Virago took her concerns to Ellis emphasized that his removal was a voluntary
that she has never experienced the treatment
it... Knowing that I
who encouraged Virago to talk di- removal and she did not require it.
she received from Schoen.
had put down a fairly
rectly to Schoen. Virago felt that Ellis
"I support him in what he does and have felt
"He made me feel like the whore of close number before
was very attentive and committed to no reason to restrict his practice." said Sylwester.
Babylon," said Virago.
when I had gone in
getting her concerns resolved.
Both Schoen and Sylwester say that his
From the beginning. the visit did not go
for annuals and never
Virago
told
Ellis
that
she
thought
removal
may cause some delays for women
well. Virago had a difficult time answering all
had anyone comment
Schoen's
behavior
was
inappropriate
needing
pap
smears. The other physician's as·
of the questions on the pre-exam questionon it before and I just
for any gynecological exam.
sistant Janet Partlow and Swelyster will now
naire that the clinic asked patients to fill out
thought it was incredSchoen
"If he has a problem with women have to do the work do all the pap smears. It
because of the questions' extreme personal
ibly unprofeSSional
having sex, I don't think that pap may increase some of the waiting times.
nature.
for him to just imme- - - - - - - - - smears should be something that he
Schoen has also removed himself from
The questionnaire asks for detailed indiately look at that."
does
especially
not
on
a
college
campus,"
giving
Depo Provera shots, a type of birth conformation about 10 year prior sexual history
said Virago.
said
Virago.
trol
that
is injected every three months. Schoen
and questions regarding exchanging sex for
Virago felt that Schoen paid unnecessar·
Virago
met
with
Schoen
and
Ellis
in
early
will
not
directly comment on why he has remoney.
ily close atten tion to the fact that she has slept
March.
moved himself other Jhan referring to potenAccording to Virago, when she gave
with both men and women. He was very curio
"[During the meeting] he kept trying to tial misunderstanding but the complaint by
Schoen the questionnaire she indicated that
ous about the ratio and wanted to know more
chalk
it up to a personality difference, which Evergreen student Kim Goforth might have
several of the questions were difficult for her
details about her sexual history with women,
was
completely
ridiculous. I told him 'it's not . something to do with it.
to answer because she thought they were un·
not about any of her sexual history with men.
like
I
met
you
at
a dinner party and just didn 't
Goforth goes to the Health Center to renecessarily detailed and an invasion of priSchoen lectured her about the imporlike
your
personality
....
said
Virago.
ceive
Depo Provera shots. Usually she sees
vacy.
tance of safe sex with women but he did not
Virago
said
that
Schoen
and
Ellis
also
Partlow,
but when she went in to get her shot
Virago said that Schoen was irritated by
ask her about her safe sex procedures with
tried to explain his behavior because of his during drop-in hours she had to see Schoen.
commitment and passion for stopping the
During drop in hours the clinic refuses
spread ofSTDs. According to Virago, Schoen to allow patients to specify a particular medisaid in the meeting that he had "come down cal worker. even if the patient agrees to wait
hard on her" because of his concerns about longer.
STDs.
Goforth felt extremely "uneasy" and
"If he is trying to educate people about "creepy" when Schoen administered the Depo
sexually transmitted diseases or HIV that he Provera shot although she doesn't think that
was the worst person I had ever gone to. I got Schoen's treatment of her constitutes any
no information from him and basically all he sexual misconduct.
did was try to scare me into not having sex
According to Planned Parenthood proceanymore." said Virago.
dure which Schoen follows, a woman has to
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Hate crimes in
The.
Rally brings support for
Olympia high school teens speak at a
rally last Friday at Sylvester Park in downtown
Olympia. Sam Schaefer and Bill Clayton were
called "fags" and beaten up on April 6.
TUI
Increase
by Oliver Moffat
CPJ News Editor
Anna Schlect of Unity in the Community
and Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer also
spoke at the rally. Cammermeyer was kicked
out of the military because she is a lesbian.
-text by Oliver Moffat
-photo by Pat Castaldo
Although the state budget
hasn't been decided on yet, it's clear
that tuition will be going up. Most of
this money would go to pay for raises
for state employees, but if the House
gets its way, student tuition increases
E2SHB 1024 would give tax
may fund tax cuts for businesses and first to give cost-of-livingallowances to only those who can afford to pay."
breaks to businesses who move to
(COLA's) to all the hard workers.
property owners.
Washington. Special breaks would
Because of the 1-601 spending The House Budget
During budget debate last week,
The House would raise tuition be given to high tech. industries,
foe of higher education funding in limit, the state is expected to earn
Washington state, Representative $530 million in tax and fee revenue by five percent a year, plus if the businesses who build in "distressed
Board of Trustees felt like it, they areas" in the state or who buy
Gene Goldsmith, offended members for 1995-97 that can not be spent.
could raise tuition over 40 percent environmentally
friendly
of the House when he distributed The Senate Budget
equipment. Cost: $187 million.
Senate Majority Leader Nina more.
what some members considered to be
The House cuts over $10
Rinehart, D·Seattle, the prime
pornography.
The picture appeared in the sponsor of the Senate budget, wants million out of the Higher Education Other Giveaways
Business tax cuts make up 85
Western Front, Western Washington to link funding for higher education budget. The House budget also
University's student newspaper in to the growth of Washington's makes cuts in environmental percent of the proposed tax and fee
March. It was a piece ofart by a WWU economy. This means that as the protection, offender rehabilitation, cuts in the house budget, but it
student which criticized the average Washingtonian's pocket health care and other social services. would also cut taxes on beer and
objectification of women in
House budget lowers the fee on concealed weapons
permits.
pornography.
. .
I cuts would go to fund tax
Goldsmith, a Republican Businesses that will benefit from a 10 percent property ; cuts - mostly for
from Ferndale, distributed the tax (ut proposed under SHB 1937, and the profits they.·. property owners and Pornography or Art?
On Wednesday of last week,
material while arguing for the de- i will reapa«ording to House (ommittee reports:
i.: businesses.
while
making remarks against higher
funding and privatizing of I
!'
The
House
education
spending,
Gene
Washington state's colleges and u.s. West (state-wide)
$677,059
I Budget would cut taxes
universities.
! GTE Northwest
$528,660
and fees by a total $738 Goldsmith had legislative pages
Burlington Northern
$104,095
million. Most of these distribute a packet of information
, AT&T
$104,095
cuts would go to which included a photo copy of an
Good and Bad News
The fate of higher education North Pacific Paper Mill(Cowlitz Co.) $234,716
II businesses and property issue of the Western Front, Western
funding is still uncertain as the Weyerhaeuser(Cowlitz Co.)
$180,497
oWl1ers.
Washington University's student
House and Senate try to come to I..!o::.:--::;=--=.--=-:;:---=:--=-=..::----,,,.---;:;-o-,,,,,,,,;:;;:;o-......,,---' Property tax cut
newspaper.
SHB 1957 would cut the state
The piece of art by WWU
book expands, so would the cost of
a compromise.
property tax by 10 percent in 1996. student Julie McAndrew is a chalk
The good news is the House last tuition.
Economists are guessing that Representative Lynn Kessler says drawing of a Penthouse magazine
week decided to treat Evergreen equal
to the other state colleges. The bad . Washingtonians will be making 4.3 people who own homes worth cover depicting a nude woman
news is that the House wants to raise percent more next year and 5.3 $100,000 will get each get $38 from fondling herself. McAndrew had
hung a raw, bloody piece of meat on
tuition by about 10 to 40 percent at percent more the year after. That's the state in tax cuts.
According to a House the draWing with a spike to make a
why Nina Rinehart wants tuition to
all the colleges.
committee report, a 10 percent statement against the portrayal of
But the Senate seems to be doing go up 4.3 percent and 5.3 percent.
This simple idea is new to property tax cut would cost the state women as objects.
it's best to give Higher Education as
Tedra Meyer is currently the
much money as it can under the Washington where the legislature $74 million over the next two years
decides each year how much to in lost revenue to big businesses like Western Front'seditQr. She said that
circumstances.
Boeing. Sea first, Weyerhaeuser, U.S. the reproduction ofth'e'piece of meat
spend on colleges.
.
West, Alcoa, GTE, AT&T and was not very clear.
The
Senate
would
cut
the
Initiative 601
Meyer said the picture is not
Initiative 601 will go into effect Higher Education budget but uses Burlington Northern. just to name a
this July. I-6011imits the growth of the money saved to pay for salary few. The estimated cost of a 10 pornography because the image
percent property tax cut would be appeared on the newspaper's art
state spending to an average rate of increases for college faculty.
page next to an article discussing the
According to a press release by $184 million.
inflation plus population growth.
intent of the piece. An editorial
1-601 won't let the legislature Rinehart the Senate budget provides
aboutthe art work was prin ted in the
spend more than about $18 billion for $145 million more for colleges than Busines~ Tax Cuts
HB 2072 would eliminate the issue as well.
1995-97. That's about what it will cost the House budget. She said the
Meyer was quick to point out .
to maintain current state services. But House budget is, "the first step · Business and Occupation tax that
state employees haven't had a raise for toward privatizing higher education, would have gone into effect July 1. that the Western Front is not, as
two years. So the budget has to be cut and limiting access to higher training 1996. Estimated cost: $187 million. Goldsmith claims, funded by tax
The return of Goldsmith and how the money will be spent
t
Focus on.Health; The Couns.e ling Center
by Ariel Burnett
come in to discuss depression, eating disorders, alcohol and drug '
CPJ StajfWriter
~buse, surviving past sexual abuse,.
Life can be overwhelming. . parents arid social ahxiety.
This fact is often heightened by the
Gibson said that some of the
college experience. Issues of rela- problems she hears are specific to
tionships, adjustment and stress college, some specific to Evergreen_
can take their toll on a student's
"When people read the ' cataemotional well-being. The campus log, they get the impression that the
counseling center exists for this r.ea~ school is very community oriented
son and more.
and tight-knit. When some people
The Counseling Center, Jocat- come here it's not that way for
ed next to the Health Care Center, thein ... lf you don't live in housing.
provides personal psychological or if you're not in a program that
counseling free of cbarge to aU full- encourages socialization, there's a
time Evergreen students.
lot ofloneJiness here," she said. .
Mental Health Counselor BarGibson said that she wants the
bara Gjbson said the mQSt common EVer8teen community to know that
. issues that she sees student~ for are . the CounseJjng Center is very welrelaltonship related. People also coming. "We're open to the diversi-
ty that exists on campus. We have a
person of color on the staff; we're
very gay and lesbian friendly. We're
very friendly, non-judgmental people."
She also stressed that confidentiality is very important to the Center, "This is a small community, pe0ple need to know that whel'l they come
here, their privacy is respected."
The Center's confidentiality
policy states th'at no information
about clients is given to anyone outside tbe office without the client's
written permission.
.
TheCounseling Center runs a
number of groups each quarter that
deal with concerns of students. It
als9 grve~ workshops and provides
consultation on such issues as con-
flict resolution and communication.
If students are looking for referrals, the Counseling Center can
offer that as well. Gibson said she
and the other counselors can refer
people to psychiatrists and psychologists in the community. She may
also refer people to the Health Center
which can prescribe anti.<fepressants,
saving students the trouble of requir·
ing outside, more expensive help.
For some people on campus,
the Counseling Center is a necessary
support system. Lisa Chick, a firstyear student, said despite some orig·
inal doubts the office has helped her
greatly, "I first started going because
. 1 was having problems adjusting. r
. needed to talk to someone who was
a professional..."
Chick said that her counselor is
able to help her work out solutions
to her problems, such as staYing in
dollars. Fifteen to 25 percent of the
paper's money comes from student
fees and the rest is from advertising
Fevenue, she said.
Thirty-four of the 37 House
Democrats signed a letter to House
Speaker Clyde Ballard asking him to
reprimand
Goldsmith
for
distributing the "graphically
offensive and pornographic photo of
a woman."
Representative Lynn Kessler, in
a phone interview last week.
criticized Goldsmith and called the
piece of art a "dreadful piece of
porn." She said the picture
embarrassed her although she
thought the article itself was great.
She said that if she had been the
editor of the newspaper she wouldn't
have run the picture.
She was offended because the
legislative pages who delivered the
packet to her desk were under·age
and tax dollars had been spent to
reproduce the image.
Kessler said, "He's (Goldsmith)
fixated on this sex business ... and he
has a problem with Higher
Education ... he's very cranky about
his daughter." Goldsmith's daughter
is a student at the University of
Washington who Kessler said feels
shou ld not be in school.
In a phone interview, local
Representative Sandra Romero said.
"[Goldsmith) ... has his own idea of
right and wrong ... all he's doing is
causing himself harm."
Along with the image,
Goldsmith distributed a welcoming
letter ~ritten by college president
Jane Jervis, published in the program
for the 1993 Northwest International
Lesbian Gay Film Festival.
A letter from the opinion page
in the Olympian by John Burch was
also in the packet. _
school instead ofgoing home every
weekend. She encourages other
students who are thinking about
visiting the Center to do so.
For other students, however,
the match isn't as good. Kim Carter, a student who visited the coun·
seling center, said it wasn't the
right place for her.
"I went there a couple of
times fall quarter and I didn't really find them helpful at all. The
woman I talked to, the times 1saw
her it was just like me pouring out
my soul and her saying, 'uhhuh .. do you have any hobbies?"
You won't know if the center
is right for you unless you try it .
Gibson su.ggests that students ~i
ther go ahead and make an appointment for an initial interview,
or come In during the drop-in
hours, 1 to 2 pm daily. •
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL APRIL
20, 1995 PAGE 5
·j
LOCAL/POLITICAL NEWS
Protestors
DISCUSSIONS OF ·THE LONG-RANGE
CURRICULUM DTF STATUS REPORT
by Todd Davison
CPJ Staff Writer
Protesters took their complaints against
the Right to the steps of the state Capitol last
Saturday afternoon. About 200 marchers
rallied peacefully at Sylvester Park and then
marched through Olympia's streets to the
Capitol.
Speakers Peter Bohmer of the Olympia
Movement for Justice and Peace. Jules Sibbern,
Evergreen Queer Alliance co-coordinator, and
Clint Burelson of the Postal Workers Union
spoke against what organizers called "the right
wing agenda."
Burelson spoke of the "long term attack
by corporate interests and corporate money
on the system," and said that, "corporations
have commandeered the system."
"We need vision, and the corporations
are trying to take your vision away, but people
have the truth in their hearts," Burelson sa id.
"We have a vision of a society where we all live
in harmony - with no hate - because this
can be a beautiful planet filled with beautiful
people."
Indicating that the protesters were not
only displeased with the Republicans, Burleson
said of President Clinton, "Bill Clinton is the
kind of guy who pats you on the back while
pissing on your leg, and most other Democrats
are the same!"
Burleson also spoke about corporate
media control and of GATT and NAFTA
sending jobs overseas. He finished by saying
-that you don't have to elect anyone to make
political change. get involved and support a
local movement.
As soon as the protest took to the street
the march was escorted by six police cars and
police frequently got out of their cars to direct
traffic at intersections. Local traffic was subject
to as much as ten minute delays.
.There were no incidents other than police
attempting
to
herd
protesters with cruiser PA
systems into the right lane.
Protesters responded with
chants of, "The streets
belong to the people."
The march stopped at
the
Urban
Onion
Restaurant where a
protestor spoke to the
crowd
about
the
restaurant's history of
unfair la bor practices and
their stance against
homelessness in Olympia.
Next. the marchers
stopped at De Margerie
Lingerie which , organizers
claim , has taken a stand
against
homelessness
projects in Olympia. The
march continued to the
Salvation Army on Plum St.
The main complaint against
Not all protestors at the April 15 rally were of voting
the Salvation Army was that
they have 30 beds open but
age.The march ag~instthe right wing was nearly 200
empty every night due to
people strong.
their strict policies, which
marchers said helps keep
people in poverty rather
Protesters chanted, "Racism nol
than help them out.
AffirrKative
action yes!" as they carne to the site
At City Hall. a protester spoke against the
city council for keeping a police force which where Thai-American Bob Buchanan was killed
"kills people." The speaker also made reference by racist skinheads. The crowd stopped for a
to the city council's opposition to helping the moment of silence at the site of the murder.
The final stop before the Capitol was the
homeless, the recent closing of the community
center over the objections from both youth and office of Lawyer Shawn Newman. A protest
seniors, and the allegation that police and the speaker claimed that Newman was
council are ignoring problems of threatened representing a group of downtown Olympia
businesses against efforts to address homeless
violence at a local women's clinic.
The speakers conclusion: "We need a new issues and spreading misinformation about the
Fleetwood project being implemented by the
city council. "
To which protesters responded with Low Income Housing Institute .
Marching to the Capitol, protesters
chants of. "Power to the people."
Schoen from page 4
squeezing the cheek to find the right area.
Goforth pulled her own underwear down
but Schoen wanted them down farther and
pulled them down himself. Goforth felt that
the distance was unnecessary for the shot and
his manner made her feel uncomfortable.
Goforth also suggested that she receive
the shot in the arm like Partlow gives it, but
Sc hoen refused and sa id that he had neve r
heard of that before.
"I felt very weird about how the shot was
given ," said Goforth.
Sc hoen says that he was unaware that
Partlow was giving women shots in the arm.
Sylwester says that shots in the hip are
preferable to shots in the arm and she doubts
the effectiveness of shots in the arm.
Goforth brought her concerns to Ellis
and she believes that Ellis and Schoen
discussed her complaint and decided to create
the Tuesday drop-in time for women patients
to see women practitioners.
"There is a difference between how Janet
IPartlow} treats you and how ISchoen} does.
And there is a differen t kind of respect for you
Iwith Partlow], a respect for the fact that you
are standing there with your pants down part
of way. He didn't leer at me, fondle me. or grab
me or anything like that... I have just always
felt uncomfortable Iwith Schoen} and do my
best not to see him when I go in there: said
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20, 1995
Goforth.
Goforth thinks that it is unfair for
patients not be able to see the practitioner they
want to see during drop in hours if they are
willing to let others go ahead of them.
Sylwester says that it would be
"logistically impossible" for them to allow
patients to choose their own practitioner
during drop in hours. Because the walk-in is
designed to deal with urgent medical
conditions. they can not comply with a specific
request for a practitioner, even if the patients
agrees to wait.
She said there is ample time for patients to
choose their own practitioner either by making
appointments any morning or on Wednesday
nights, or women can corne on Tuesday
afternoons and be treated by a woman.
Goforth wants to see a place outside the
Health Center where students can offer
suggestions or complaints.
"If this is happening to other women and
nobody comes forward then it will continue to
happen ... I just don't want that," said Goforth.
Goforth met again with Schoen on April
11 . Goforth said that the meeting went
extremely well and she was pleased to hear that
Schoen will no longer do pap smears or give
Depo Provera shots.
Evergreen student Lynn Burnholdt who
saw Schoen for skin conditions found Schoen's
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
behavior to be very satisfactory.
"He was real careful to make sure that
protocol was followed and that I had privacy
while undressing," said Burnholdt.
She said that even though she doesn't
need a lot of privacy, Schoen was very sensitive
chanted, "Hey, Hoi Corporate greed has got to
go," and "Stop the war against the poor."
Protesters took over the steps of the capitol for
an hour and a half of music and speeches.
folk-protest singer Neva Reece warmed
the crowd for protest speakers. FO'od Not
Bombs provided food to the participants at the
Capitol. State Troopers on mountain bikes
flanked the Capitol steps for most of the
proceedings.
At the Capitol, speakers were Jerome
Johnson, coordinator of the Thurston County
Rainbow Coalition, Paloma Galindo of
Evergreen's ERC, Christine Watts of the
Washington State Education Council (and a
mother on welfare), Anna Sehlect, a candidate '
for the Olympia City Council and Deborah
O'Gara from Radical Women of Anchorage.
Galindo spoke about Initiative 164, the
Takings Act, which she said will give large
landholders and corporations the right to
pollute and destroy the environment.
"We need more regulations to protect the
environment and the people not less regulation
for corporate profit at our expense," said
Galindo.
Watts spoke as a mother of five and a
welfare recipient. She said there is something
wrong with people who have the inability to
understand that people , especially children
have a right to health care.
Schleet spoke of the threat we are all
facing under the Contract with America and
that the safety rope of society is already almost
impossible to get across for many. She said
trickle down economics is a lie of the right,
which in reality only increases poverty and
homelessness.
"There's a war going on and it's a war
against working people and the poor," O'Gara
said, "Our legislators are negotiating our civil
rights.in the name of partisan compromise .. .
My civil rights are not up for negotiation. "
O'Gara wrapped up with the message
that people have the power, and can use that
power to build a third party, an anti-Capitalist
labor party, •
about giving her ample privacy to undress.
"These issues are very complicated and I
think getting feedback makes me a better
practitioner. When concerns have been
expressed, I certainly listened very carefully to
what people have to say," said Schoen. _
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Ramona Africa
Pizza misinformation in
CPJ article spread thick
by Michael Cardew and Jim Robinson
Northwest Food Services
In reference to your article on the new
deli pizza, we are happy for the free plug! We
are however concerned about the
misinformation being reported.
Jim Robinson has never, does not plan
to. and probably never will own a pizzeria.
Kenny, Rich, Ky and Sparky's Old School
Pizzeria does have great pie though and should
be given credit for their accomplishment. Jim's
involvement with their store is purely as a
friend, trying to help them produce the best
product. they can. many students have already
discovered Old School, ifyou haven't, definitely
check it out!
We are also concerned with the quote
concluding the article.
Michael did not say that we don't work
continually to improve our product. In fact, that
is exactly what we do. The quote should have
read, "We're not a Pizza Hut, we don't have a
test kitchen to spend six months working out a
specific product before we try it."
We will continue to develop the pizza
recipe until we and our customers are both
happy. Any suggestions on improving the pie,
or anything else for that matter, are always
welcome!
UnCIrL:umCISlon & The Evergreen Community
Community member longs
for his long lost foreskin
left the matter to rest somewhere in the deep
depths of my subconscious mind.Just recently,
Con tributor
however, I stumbled across the book, The Joy
Shortly after being born , I don't know of Un circumcising, by Jim Bigelow, Ph.D.,
exactly how long after because I was a bit tired (Hourglass, 1992). In his book, Dr. Bigelow
and disoriented at the time, [ found myself describes a procedure that a circumcised male
being strapped down on my back. Someone can use to grow back his lost foreskin. It is a
then started pulling on my penis and stretch- simple painless process where the male
ing it out to where it was really quite uncom- stretches what ever amount offoreskin he has
for table. [ started
over the glans of his
fussing a bit to let
penis. It works
them know that I
similarly to the
I wanted to go back and
wanted to go back
stretching oflips and
and suck on Mom's
earlobes done in
suck on Mom's boob. To
boob. To my horror
some native cultures.
someo ne started
The first step of the
my horror someone
ca rving on my peprocess only requires
nis with a scalpel. I
an investment of
started carving on my
can remember how
about two dollars for
. help less and vica roll of surgical tape.
timized I felt. I was
I also recommend
penis with a scalpel.
just a littl e baby,
that you get Dr.
new to the world. I
Bigelow's book.
could see no reason why someone would want
I was able to special order it through the
to be so cruel to me.
Four Seasons Book Store here in Olympia for
Here I am, 24 years later. My penis has about twenty dollars. I have been keeping my
moslly healed. It is sca rred and the glans of my glans covered by stretching my foreskin and
penis is naked where the foreskin would holding it in place with tape for about two days
normally be covering it. I carry no anger or now. Already it is beginning to regain its
resentment towards my parents or doctor. I natural moisture and is becoming much more
now understand that they were doing what sensitive. My wife and I are both excited about
they truly felt was in my best interests.
the new dimensions that a foreskin will bring
Thinking that my foreskin is gone and to our lovemaking.
there is nothing that can be done, I have simply
by Tristan B. Gilbert
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20, 1995
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Survivor of 7985
racist police attack
by Beth Brown
EPIC Co-Coordinator
Too few of us knew and too many have
forgotten the "mistake" of May 13,1985, when
the Philadelphia Police Department dropped
a bomb containing high-power military
explosives on a house on Osage Avenue. The
resulting fire burned for hours before the
police aJ.1owed the fire department to put it
out. This "mistake", ~s then Philadelphia
mayqr Wilson Goode and other city officials
called it, resulted in the destruction of an
entire city block, made 265 people homeless,
and scorched to death 11 people - six adults
and five children, all members of the MOVE
organization.
The Fraternal Order of Police
remembers. Last year, it declared May 13 "kiss
a cop day." Last year, ~oo. this same Fraternal
Order urged National Public Radio to break a
contract with Mumia Abu-Jamal. former
president of the Association of Black
Journalists.
According to Amnesty
International's definition of a political
prisoner, Mumia Abu-Jamal is the nation's
only political prisoner on death row. His only
real crime was to report the truth in his
practice as a journalist; he exposed the ills of
the U.S. "justice" system through his coverage
of the 1978 trials of the nine MOVE members
who were all charged with the shooting death
of one officer, despite the fact that all evidence
pointed to their innocence.
Ramona Africa remembers May 13, too.
She was the only adult survivor of the tragedy.
She remembers what the heat ofthe fire felt
like; how the burning flesh of her family
smelled; how it felt to be unable to save her
family, whose sole options were death by fire
•
or death by bullet, as the cops fired more than
10,000 rounds of ammunition, even as the fire
blazed. Ramona Africa was one of the "lucky"
ones; she escaped from the fire that killed her
family and was led straightto prison where she
served seven years for "conspiracy to riot."
The bomb contained illegally-obtained
explosives; the fire was allowed to burn
unnecessarily; and 11 people were murdered,
yet Ramona Africa was the only person to be
charged with criminal conduct. Had this
episode happened in a nearly all-white
neighborhood, the investigation that followed
would have found numerous people guilty,
including city officials. But as it stands, the
incident was dismissed as a mistake.
This was a sick and malicious blow not
only in the face of Black America, but also in
the face of anyone who believes in the true
meaning of "liberty and justice for all". And
with the imminent death of journalist and
MOVE-supporter Mumia Abu-Jamal, the
blows continue. It is time for us to remember
that when innocent people are imprisoned and
killed legally, our rights are at stake too.
Ramona Africa will speak at the
Evergreen State College - Olympia campus at
7 pm on Friday, April 28 in Lecture Hall 1 and
at the Tacoma campus on Saturday, April 29
at 7 pm. Both lectures will be followed by
performance by Otunoba African Dance
Theater.
For more information, please call the
Evergreen Political Information Center (EPIC)
atx6144
And fat more information on the MOVE
organization or the case ofMumia Abu-Jamal,
write to: The Concerned Friends and Family of
Mumia Abu-Jamal, 1630 South 56th St.,
Philadelphia , Pennsylvania 19143.
Response
Satire sharp, yet misdirected
To Daryl Frank
Creator of Well-Fed Ed,
While I appreciate Well-Fed Ed, your
well·drawn contribution to the Cooper Point
Journal comics page, [ think that the bite of
your political satire is comprimised by making
fun of"Ed Lintbomb" simply because he is fat.
If it is the political philosophies of Rush
Limbaugh that you are opposed to you should
face them head-on instead of making fun of
hi s belt size. It is almost too easy to dog
Limbaugh and his friends based on their
skewered world views. It certainly should not
be hard for a political cartoonist. Being a
political cartoonist in our society is a position
of great responsibility. Many people form their
opinions based partly offofcartoons like yours.
This doesn't mean that the you have to create
cartoons that agree with the status quo, but
they should say more than "See, he's fat - so
he's bad!WSo do the community a favor and
make your political cartoons political.
Despite my problems with them: I am
excited to see your cartoons in the CPj. I hope
that this little bit of advice can help you to
create more decisive and effective arguements
in your cartoons.
Thanks, Reynor Padilla
What if I told you that there are people
you are helping kill off? What ifI told you these
people live on an island that was invaded 20
years ago? What ifl talking about the biggest
proportional genocide since the Holocaust?
Would you have a clue as to what I'd be talking
about? Probably not.
Make a checklist of all the places you
know where oppression, mass murder and
neo-imperialism predominate. I bet most of
you will not include East Timor. Unknown to
most of us, the small island on the eastern tip
of the Indonesian archipelago is where the
Maubere people live .
Actually, surviving is
probably a fairer way to
describe their existence.
And that is for the ones
who do survive. When
Indonesia illegally
occupied the former
Portuguese colony of
East Timor in 1975, the
island had 650,000
indigenous Mauberes.
Today, almost a third of
the entire population is dead. Indonesian
forces have murdered 200,000 times, and thus
far have gone unpunished.
I know most of you have read similar
horror stories before, either as an historical
footnote or in the form of government
propaganda, telling you who the bad guys
were. But the Timorese plight can be found
under neither heading. Unless you have
bought into that New World Order thing, you
might be curious enough to know why: it is
happening now and the government wants
you to believe the Indonesian are the good
guys. After aU they might butcher and kill, and
they might be fond of ethnic cleansing, but at
least they're not communists!
An unexplained media black out denies
most Americans knowledge of the events;
Indonesia is still officially a "good guy."
Considering communism is no longer a threat,
why is the United States so keen to protect
Indonesia from the free public? Well, it's a
question of money. Being the fourth most
populated country in the world, and
conveniently corporate·friendly, Indonesia is
well-liked by the West. The fact that it has oil,
coffee, rain forests and other marketable goods
is just icing on the cake. A Coca-Cola
Company's spokesman referred to Indonesia
as "heaven," not for its spiritually uplifting
qualities, but rather thinking of the millions
of Indonesian Muslims who don 't drink
alcohol.
,
Indonesia is free to kill thousands of
people in an island it doesn't own. Why? So
that corporations can
exploit the burgeoning
Indonesian economy
and governments can
make'neat profits selling
military contracts.
The deal is that
we keep our public
ignorant, and they let us
make money off theirs.
And should we worry
about the small island on
the fringe of the
archipelago? Nah, why bother? After all, they
are poor and miserable; not the best of
consumers ...
Well, you may wonder, what does any of
this have to do with you? Why did I accuse you
of being accomplices to murder? It's not
because you are Americans, and consequently
guilty of your government's actions. We've all
learned long ago that the government's actions
have little to do with popular will. Nor am I
demanding that you rally and protest. Just
inform yourself. As longasyou aid the politicocorporate silence by remaining ignorant, you
are guilty. As long as you buy Indonesian
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others aware.
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by Brian Coppedge
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The students on the Long Range
Curriculum Disappearing Task Force (DTF)
~ould I~k.e to ~ha~k the w~ole student body for
Its participatIOn m the wmter student forum.
Th d I '
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many of the ideas presented by students have
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will be sent to all programs and faculty who
are sponsoring contracts.
Once again this quarter we have asked
faculty to set aside seminar time for discussion
and recommendations by the students. On
Thursday, April 27 the students will hold their
Spring quarte{ forum to review students
response to the new draft. We hope to have an
even larger turnout than Winter quarter and
all students are invited to attend and
participate in the day's activities. The meeting
will be held in COM 107 from 10 am to 4 pm
with a lunch break. We hope to have
representatives from all current programs '
attend and report out to the meeting the
concerns rose during their program's seminars.
This studen t forum provides the last
opportunity for the student ideas to be
presented to the DTF before it presents its final
recommendation the faculty for their approval.
Please read the draft proposal and come to your
program seminars with suggestion for
improvement of the document. All students
are.encouraged to attend the meeting on April
27. The students on the Long Rang e
Curriculum DTF would like to thank every for
their participation in these up coming events.
Help me, I need support!
Student shares her support group's tribulations
by Jessica Dolin
Contributor
I decide every year to visit some of these
"support groups." And every year I feel rejected
and completely like an outsider. I sincerely do
my best to "fit in" but most of the time the
discussion is angry talk of oppression. [ am
now going to do the same in this article. It's
difficult for me to get a word in at these groups.
Sometimes they tell me that I should go try
another group. I visited the Riot Grrrls, Lesbian
Avengers, Bisexual Women's Support Group,
and finally the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Group.
The ironic thing is I got less support at these
groups than I do talking to myselfl I love the
idea of support groups, but please, people,
make an effort to make others feel welcome.
I admit, I do get angry when I get called
names (e.g. nazi feminist, butch-femme, and
other names that are too evil to say). But I
' realize that these insults are just a result of
people's fear of who I am ... a person who
doesn't judge another person by their genitals!
Or maybe these people are just trying to piss
me off... cool... I like getting all riled upl What
ever happen ed to human pride? Gay and
straight - it's really all Ihe same - we're all
queer. I'd like to meet someone who claims to
be normal!
I was watching Comedy Central the other
evening. Ahhh!! They kept making fun of
everything I know myself to be! I co uldn 'l find
any of it funny. What does this say about our
country? Are we so insecure about dealing wit h
other people that we have to make fun of them?
Maybe I should learn to laugh at myself, that
makes some sense. But when people make fu n
of something th at they know nothing about or
deep down they feel prejudice against. they
should keep their mouths shut!
Anyway, what I am getting at is we need a
real support group! I've been at Evergreen too
long to still be searching for the perfect s.upport
group ... anyone got any ideas?
e need one where we all can be accepted
istened to - men and women - and we
ca be who we are and get respect.
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20, 1995 PAGE 9
Fat Op,pression: A hard,
tiring battle for activists
i've ignored talking about fat oppression them on, dance around the living room for
for so long now, it's hard to make myself ad- hours, making my mom watch me when i
dress it again. i think it's gotta be the most un- thought of some new fancy dance move.
comfortable political issue for me to deal with,
it wasn't until later that i realized that a
because there's so little talk about it, because fat girl with an artificial leg was not exactly the
the assumptions that justity fat oppression are model of an ideal dancer. when i was in eighth
so prevalent, because i have to put so much out grade, i made up a dance and showed it to my
on a line ifi'm gonna address it.
dad.
because of course it's not so simple as
later my mom told me that my dad didn't
being just an "issue" - cuz i end up feeling like my dance cuz i looked fat while i was danclike i'm defending my
ing. i guess this was
own personal worth and "- ,
some sort of lastcharacter, even when
.
ditch attempt to get
talking with so-called
me to lose weigh t.
radicals. i also stopped
saying
"nomy,
writing about fat oppresyou're getting so fat,
sion for quite a while bewe don't even want
cause at some point i got so
to look at you until
fucking sick of it. it got boryou lose weight.
BY NOMY LAMM
ing. people were sick of hearmake yourself
ing about it_ i was sick of hearinvisible (fade into
ing other people's stories about it. i was tired the background) or lose weight so we can stand
of having to use the same arguments over and to look at you again_"
over again_
i learned. i tried to lose weight, yeah we
it gets boring to always be The Fat Girl. all know the story, when we starve ourselves
(i'm a broken record.)
our body always fights back. my body wouldn't
Networking
by the truckload. The ERC will be setting up
but fm feeling guilty, like i'm slacking off allow me to kill it. i stayed fat.
A number of students are working on ridesharing so Evergreen students can voice
on the job. fat oppression will always and forbut i stopped dancing, and it hasn't been
setting up an Evergreen S&A home page on their concerns. This nota stuffY hearing, it's
ever be affecting me, i can't ever get rid of it, until the past couple of years that i allowed
the World Wide Web. Individual pages will an event. Food Not Bombs is arranging food
can't ever get rid of its effects on me. i know myself to feel worthy of dancing again_ i'm a
soon be available for each S&A group so you for activists. There will be music and enterthat fat people are perceived to be unattractive, good fucking dancer_
can check out what they're doing. This, of tainment. This is going to make major news,
unhealthy, unmotivated. god, do i know it.
i have a ritual for getting ready to leave
course, requires these groups to participate. so even if you can't go, watch the news. Voland these perceptions invade me, tell me that, my house in the evening. i pick out my clothes.
The students organizing this ask that all the unteers will be making banners and signs
i'm lazy, that fm unworthy of things that non- tight shirts, short skirts, fuck off fat haters.
coordinators and any other interested indi- at the ERC on Fri. April 21 after 5 pm. Call
fat people can take for granted.
i wear makeup if i feel like it. make sexy
viduals contact them. You can call Brian at )(6784 for info.
these things, the things i feel my fat is pre- faces at myself in the mirror. i put on joy divix5003. Revolutionize the world through the Judy Gorman
venting me from being worthy of, they include sion, shake my leg super-fast, throw my arms
Net!
Her work is described as high intenthe right to leave my house feeling attractive, in the air, sing with the music, swing my arms
Environmental Activism
sity, blues-rooted, original music. Judy
the right to wear tight clothing, the right to back and forth, it's the most mindless and pleaThe House of Representatives Re- Gorman comes to Evergreen this week not
dance in public, the right to get a tattoo on my surable thing, i swear.
source Committee Endangered Species Act only to play her blues-rooted, original muuntoned arm ...
so i'm reclaiming all these things that
Task Force will hold its northwest regional sic, but to share her knowledge and perspecthis isn't about "body image." this isn't aren't supposed to be options for me. fat girls
hearing on proposed changes to the ESA on tive on women in the history of music or
about skinny girls thinking they're fat, that's can do more than eat, although i do that too,
Monday April 24 from 8:30 to 3:00 in Van- women's history through music. Pay just $2
just a symptom offat-hate. this isn't about me duh. i'm not gonna deny myself everyday pleacouver at the Red Lion Inn at the Quay. Tim- (stud.) for her performance on April 25, 7
creating some system of self-hate, self-denun- sures for the sake of making my body invisible.
ber companies are bringing their people in pm in the Recital Hall, or free at 3 pm .
ciation. it's not self-created. i mean, i know fuck offfat haters. heh heh,
p.s. confidential to d: thank you for the
that i can be totally stunning on a good day,
just so-so on others. i have to always be fight- awesome and inspiring letter. i'd like to meet
ing to feel worthy oflooking good, to feel wor- you sometime.
thy of presenting myself as a motivated and accomplished person.
i'm not talking about internal condem- . . . - - - . , . - - - - - - - - - - - - - ,
She served as a network teaching assisnation - i'm talking about honest to god optant for the last year of her high school caree'r
pression, persecution, marginalization ...
at Hell High. She has exhibited excellent abilibut i'm also talking about pride. i'm talkties in acquiring comp uter networking knowling about openness and honesty. i'm talking
edge and applying it to the various tasks that I
about rejecting the system that has created fat
have assigned her,
oppression and sizeism. reclaiming the word
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by Reynor Padilla
Normally comics don't have anything to do with journalism.
Comics are usually sequestered off to tiny corners of a page in the
modern newspaper, sometimes sharing space with "Dear Abbey"
or the crossword puzzle. But the modern comic, which incedently
got started in newspapers, is adaptable to more forms of
communication than simply the mediocre three-panel joke or the
strappling, over-muscled, over-colored superhero monthly.
Recently, in fact, comics have made the dive into journalism.
And as far as I can tell, that's a turn for the better for print media_
Comics provide a mOI:e exciting and immediately visual form
of storytelling and reporting than traditional print journalism.
Using comics to report the news may just be the kick in the pants
that print journalism, a medium floundering against the
competition ofTY news, needs right now.
So far, however, the use of comics in journalism has been
rather limited. The comic printed to the left is my first, and
admittedly meager attempt at using comics to report on something.
In this case I am reporting on a "ska" show held at the Housing
Community Center on April 15. I took the idea of reviewing shows
from a series of one page strips done by Evan Dorkin and Kyle Baker
which were published in Reflex magazine during 1993. The
hilarious "Critics at Large" strips talked more about the
ridiculousness and stupidity of the New York and Los Angeles
music scene than the bands they were allegedly reviewing, but it
was reporting nonetheless. The strips, while far from being hard
news, were an example of the entertaining and informative use of
the medium to report.
Art Spiegalman's Maus , is an excellent example of comics
used in journalism. Maus is the story of Spiegalman's father,
Vladek, who lived through the horror of the Nazi concentration
camps during World War II. Maus won a well-deserved Pulitzer
Prize for Biography, but it is in reality more of a journalistic piece
than anything. The two book series tells both the sto ry of
Speigalmen's father during the war, and the story of how it effects
his relationship with his son now. The book is important and
current (therefore fitting the definition of journalism) in that it
doesn't simply relpte the horrors of the Nazi camps, but the
aftershocks that still effect the survivors a generation later.
Comics are a new and vastly unexplored medium of reporting
that can both intelligently analyze, such as Maus, and lampoon
and criticize like Dorkin and Baker's Critics at Large. Certainly
more experimentation is necessary for comic strip reporting to
become feasible. But because of the their visual appeal in the face
of the modern read~r's-short attention spa~mics could become'
the key to survival for print journalism in ~ 21st century.
~Reynor says, "Don't you hate those taglines that sound
funny when you write them but later seem stupid?"
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APRtL 20, 1995 PAGE 11
Arts anti Entcrtaiulncnt
Arts anti Entertain111cnt
Hey, buddy, it's time to get out your walking shoes
by Demian A. Parker
It"s that time of again. A time which
only comes twice a year. Friday is Olympia
Art Walk time.
For those who do not know, or who
have forgotten since last October, Art Walk
is "a celebration of the Local Arts
Community by Artists, the Business
Community, and the City of Olympia Arts
Commission."
That was from the official Art Walk
flyer, which you can pick up all over
town. Because you, my CPj readers,
might not have picked up your
handy guide, here is a taste of Art
KAOS on
Red Square
Walk events for this Friday, April 21. 1995 Olympian Hotel-Fireside Books 116 Legion Carrie O'Neill and the acrylic on paper work
from 5 to 10 pm.
Way - A smaU faction of the
of Bill Schneider.
____ Olympia Poetry /\~ Bulldog News 116 Fourth Avenue-Come
South Puget Environmental Educational
Clearing House 218 Fourth Ave - The
) Network-consisting ~ check out "26 Letters and Poetry Reading,"
good people at SPEECH have a lot to -(/ .____/ of Jeanne Lohmann,
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poetry by a wide-range of people.
.
,enJoyment. Color photographs by Gay
perform.
Procession ofthe Species From Percival Park
Gordon and Members of the Olympia Gnome's World 207 Fifth Ave - Los St. to Sylvester Park -A parade in honour
Sogetsu Ikebana Study Group will be on Callaveras will perform those infectious of Earth Day's 25th Anniversary. Begins at
hand to tell you about weeds
/' ~ Latin rhythms while you enjoy the mixed 6:45 pm and ends at 7:15 pm. This will be a
media art by the Olympia Waldorf School fun event that everyone should take some
and wildflowers of South .-----"""
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part in, even ifitis just to look at the animals.
~ Smithfield Cafe 212
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Demian is Public Relations.
Fourth Ave - Meet Lisa Hornbrook, into the Art of The Begger's Dozen Group
a local artist, who will be on hand to talk Show ofpaintings and sculpture; while there,
about her painting which will be displayed. check out the drawings and sculpture of
by Robert M Keefe
Canadian Cub play~ Evergreen
by Oliver Moffat
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I got a chance to interview the band
Cub last week when they stopped in Olympia
on their way home from tour.
Cub is almost home frum a big six week
tour all the way across Canada and Northern
and Eastern U.S. They were at Evergreen to
record a syndicated satellite radio show a
group of students are doing with KAOS.
Cub, from Vancouver B.C., is Lisa who
plays bass and sings, Robynn who plays
guitar and sings a little bit and Lisa G. who
plays the drums and sings very little.
Lisa and Robynn have been Cub for
three years; Lisa G. just started last year.
When they started they had no idea they'd
be as successful as they are now.
"I don't even think when we started, it
was like, 'oh, maybe we could put out a CD.
lt was like maybe we could playa show
sometime. Maybe·someone once will let us
open for them maybe at a party,' and now
it's like touring, CDs, videos and the whole
thing," says Lisa.
Cub has five videos out but says it's
really hard to see them in the United States
because of the weird strangle hold MTV has
on independent music by not playing it.
Lisa said, "In Canada there's a station
called Much Video that's really good about
playing independent videos. We've made
videos that have cost about thirty dollars.
"Canada is much more organized and
supportive of independent art forms. You
can get money for recording, tours and
videos if you're an independent band."
Cub played at YoYo-a-GoGo last
summer. Lisa G. said her favorite part of that
week was seeing Ian McKaye of Fugazi,
"... but he didn't play, he was just standing
around looking cute," she said. Their latest
CD has a photo of him standing with the
band outside of the Capitol Theater.
They spent the day at Evergreen to
record with Rob Keefe, Brooks Martin and
Paul Pearson, Evergreen students putting
together a syndicated radio program to
distribute over KAOS's satellite.
The three KAOS programers plan to
produce six shows before summer and then
distribute them to college and other radio
stations around the world for next fall. The
show will likely be called OFFDAY.
They plan to also record Kicking Giant,
Pez, Fitz of Depression, Bone Cellar, Tall
Toad, and Walk the Plank - Calvin's new
band [scenesters take notel. "No bands on
Sony ... you can quote me on that," said
Brooks, "Sony can keep their stupid bands,
we don't want 'em,"
They encourage bands to send them
stuff. "Send it on 120 minute OATs ... that'll
save ten dollars every time we get one ... " said
Brooks, "don't quote me on that."
Oliver can say any word backwards.
You should test him.
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This Tuesday, April 25th, the newly formed
student group, the KAOS Advisory Network
(KAN) , will mastermind their first event: a
day of remote programming taking place, as
with tradition, on Red Square.
The KAN was formed from the ashes of the
ultra-left wing Mission Implementation
Committee (MIC) (a conservative splinter
group of the Satellite Implementation Group
(SIG». In a coup early on in the quarter, their
intrepid leader Lisa Corwine, forced the hand
of S&A (in a bizarre deal involving the
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group status. In a recellt statement, Ms.
Corwine stated, The Inland Empire will rule
the world! No sense could be made of this
remark. She is currently negotiating a book
deal.
The takeover begins at 6 am with free food
for everyone, or at least until supplies run
out. Jason Laurvickand Greg Chapin host the
Breakfast Special; and along with the usual
music, news and ideology, they plan a bagel
bake-off, with local bakeries competing for
the best bagel. Special guest judges in the
State legislature are planned.
Spencer Crandall and his team of Celtic
clans arrive at 10 am. Two special guests:
Michael O'Neill and Judy Gorman will
support the campaign with live music. Ms.
Gorman, who will perform the same evening
in the Recital Hall, plays high intensity, blues
rooted, original music and fires a mean slide
catapult.
Jaime Mendez, author of the KAOS Beat
Manifesto, will fly in on his personal
helicopter from the Caribbean, arriving
promptly at noon. After a short propel down
the clock tower, he will bring Latin American
music and affairs to the ever growing crowds
on Red Square with his show iCaribe!
Sandwiched between disco and funk,
during Groovy Tuesday, a final miraculous
event will occur. KAOS's resident Siamese
Twins, J. R. Indigo and Dave Over will outdo
parthenogenesis, and perform the world's
first self-separation. How this supports the
Revolution is unbeknownst to any of us. Ms.
Indigo's only comment was, "I finally won't
have to sing 'I Got You Babe' with Dave
anymore; I'm willing to take the risk." Mr.
Over's only comment was, "Yo man, we be
funky."
Other events planned during this supersecret well-publicized takeover include :
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The student-produced documentary "Politics,
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Pro's &Concepts, Zookeepers, Rhinohumpers,
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Meg Novak and Beverly Thompson will be
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1405 E. Madison, Seattle.
Monday, April 24
The Empowering Women Film Series will be
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In CAB 110 at 5:30 pm there will be a second
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Irish Dance Class in Library 4300 from 7 - 8
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