The Cooper Point Journal Volume 24, Issue 13 (January 27, 1994)

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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 24, Issue 13 (January 27, 1994)

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THE SEEPAGE PRESENTS A

January has been Freedom of Ibe College Press Month--celebrate with the CPJ

THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE

January 27, 1994

Volume 24 Issue 13

Fake quake shakes lESe
Drill disrupts campus life, evacuates buildings

THE WINNER RECIEYING ONE WEEKS SUPPLY
OF BLACK LICORICE FOR THE BEST BAD POETRY

SPECIAL CONSIDERATION
EXTENDED TOWARDS

hy Sara Steffens
.
Tuesday, 11 :40 a.m.: Campus
di s patcher Steve Albert begins to
hroadcast across the campus emergency
P.I\. system.
"T he Evergreen campus is
hypothetically
cxperiencing an
earthquakc . Buildings are shaking. Slay
II' here you ure, and cover your head."
Students wander around the CAB,
e ating, talking and laughing, seemingly
lind isturbe:{1 by thc announcement.
No one covers her head; no one

YOUR ACTUAL
TEENAGE LOVE POEMS
IOURNALENTRIES
EARNEST EFFORTS
..

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Estrella
Blanca's
verses

A simulated earthquake hits a
simulated clocktower. photo
manipulation by Seth "Skippy" Long

VRS

Where to go in case of
an earthquake:

Blue
Demon's
verses

Library Meadow
Seminar field
Soccer fields
Field 5 (by Childcare Center)

VRS

Call Jill Lowe at 866-6000 x6111
for more info about
earthquake preparation.

Your
verses
Estrella Blanca is entering. He writes really
bad poems about his many loves and the
hardships of the road. He's the favorite.

slays where he is.
Wooop! Wooop! Wooop! Alarms
resound through all campus buildings.
A CAB vendor stares forward,
looking as if she has no intention of
leaving her tables full of pocket-s ized
si Iver jewelry.
Wooop! Wooop! Wooop!
Students slowly begin to gather
wats and books and pick up brown
pl:lstic trays of Deli food.
Dennis Snyder, director of Auxilary
Services , pulls shut the glass doors in
rronl 0[' the Bookstore.
Wooop! Wooop! Wooop!
Finally, people begin to amble out
,)/lit) Reel Square, where a jovial crowd
rom IS .
Tuesday's campus-wide earthquake
dr ill was intended to be an educational
opportunity ror people around campus.
Once lhey had evacuated buildings, some
~ Illd e nls and others were handed a flyer
rl'a ding, " Imagine this is real... What
\\'ll uld you dll'!"
Sludent Colleen Currie was in front
of lhe: CAB when the drill started. "It's
just Iike e le men tary sc hool," she sa id,
"B ut we're not all in lines, s tanding
hchind our teacher,"
RJ. Nesse was standing in front of
the Bookstore. "As I was standing in the
doorway, someone pointed out to me,
'Sumuing next to a big glass door is not
what you want to do, Rachel Jo.' And I
said, ' You're right, what was I
lhinking'!' "
El izabeth Corwine was in the
cOlllputer centcr when the alarms went
oil. She said, "They were asking if it was
\ c rious ,It first, and then people just kind
Ill' sa t lhere, and then someone said, 'Get
out "ow!'"
Lennn Drake was working at the
esp resso cart in the Library lobby .
"Al'lunlly , I was making a double short
ialll' ," she said. " I finished making the
drink ror him and he took it and left... I
was out rirSl antrthen everyone else came
trick ling Olll. I was a trendsetter."
Student Jessica Dolan knew about
.TUl'sday's earthquake drill but was

see quake, page 14

Jeannie Chandler, director of Housing, explains to some A-dorm residents the
specifics of last Tuesday's earthquake drill. photo by Ned Whiteaker

Diversity or just hype?
Naumi Ishisaka
.
According to the 1990 U.S. census,
pl'upk of color constitute 2S percent of
uur population. Twenty-five percent of
Ihe population is equivalent to 61.7
Inillioll pcoplc. That is 61.7 million
l'O ll s umc rs, tax payers, . white collar
workers, blue collar workers, educators
<tnd stude nts.
Out of Ihat 61.7 million, only 424
' Indents have decided to go to Evergreen.
Among the 400 new first-year
studl'lIts in Fall 1993, there were 37
"tudellts of color , That quarter's
:ldlni ssions report on students of color
was pleased to announce that all the Core
pmgr;llll s enroll ed about 10 students of
1'O Ior each. That's a big improvement
I·nlnl last year, when one Core program
,'IHollcd only one studem of color.
Th e Evergreen State College lauds
iI.'; e fforts at diversity in its catalog, and
in Ihe 93-94 edition, showed a quarter of
thl' kaLUred students as people of color.
HUI Evergreen is actually composed of
llnly 12 percent students of color this
year.
This is far below representational
proportion s, To many, these numbets
inLlicat.e a failure on the part of the
i nstitutioll to fairly provide to students of
color - and ultimately to all students
hI·

USS Olympia's arrival meets subdued welcome
Blue Demon is no T. S. Elliot either. His
poems are all about soft little puppies and .
clowns laughing through their tears.

ENTRIES DUE
FEBRUARY 1 8, 1994
WINNER TO BE ANNONCED
SELECTED POEMS PUBLISHED
FEBRUARY 28TH ISSUE

hy Andrew Lyons
About 120 people welcomed the
lJSS Olympia last Tuesday, waving signs
reading " Money for education, not
<In nihilmion," and chanting "44,000
dollars a day; go away, go away."
The USS Olympia is a nuclearpowered attack submarine. This is its
Ihird stop in the city it was named after.
For many, it's a prime example of
how tax dollars shouldn't be spent.
South Puget Environmental
Education Clearing House (SPEECH)
JlCld a meeting to decide what would be
the best way to execute the protest vigil.
"We decided to try and have
something that would be comfortable· for
the community to come. to," said Rick
Fell ows, who attended. "a place peoplc
could bring their kids."
Thc rally started at 4:30 . p.m.

al ong the Percival Landing Boardwalk.
At iL'> height, the protest stretched
lIear ly a block along Water SI. with
people bearing signs and holding candles.
The crowed consisted of both TESC
'>t ulie:nts and community members.
"[t's ge neral community," said
Linn Stockwell, TESC alumni. "I don't
lhink it's just greeners or Viet Nam
pro test leftovers."
Fellows said that the vigil was
di rec ted more at the community then at
lh e: su bmarine. Most signs, instead of
direct ly commenting on the USS
Olympia, carried slogans advocating
using tax dollars to increase health care,
AIDS rcsc..11'ch and helping the homeless.,
in stead"of large scale weaponry.
The Center [or Defense Information
and Michael Allen of the Olympia
Salvation Army shelter. handed out

The Evergreen State CoUege

Olympia, WA 98505

leaflets comparing the various costs of
Ihe USS Olympia and the operation of a
homeless shelter.
According to the leaflet, it casts
S44,OO() to operate the USS Olympia per
day, as compared to the $600 to run a
Sa lvmion Army homeless shelter.
Fellows sa id that it is important to
" not just raise the issue of the submarine,
but the over all spending priorities on the
Ilational level."
" We're trying to show the
community that not everybody is-excited
about stinking fusion reactors coming
into our downtown," he said.
The USS Olympia will be in
Olympia through Sunday. Tours, booked
in rtclvancc, will be given during its Slay.
Andrew Lyons is a CPJ reporter,

- the kind of diverse envi ronment that
Ihe:y will need to prepare themselves for
lirl' in " the real world."
. New. First ~eople' s Advising
SC'rvlces Director Ricardo Leyva Puebla
sces the acquisition of diversity would be
;1 hl' ne fitlo all.
"Our world is going in a world
l'l'ollomic direction, which means that
Istude lllsj will be required to have an
undersulIlding of cross cultural interaction
and sensitivity to other individual:; who
w ill not have the same upbringing
culturally as themselves," he said. "It
he: hooves us all, including white
studcnl s, to have that exposure [10 other
l'lillllrCS 1because it'll prepare us for what
it see ms like our nation is moving
lowa~ds , which is a very global
l'x(lI.' ncnce.
"The more exposed you are to those
<IilTe:rences, the more aware you are and
lhl' .more prepared you'll be to work with
and alongside of all different people."
ACl'()rding to many students this
Ill'e:d has been largely unmel.
Mario Flores, student and coconrdinator ofEvergrcen's chapter of the
l\1uvimienLO Estudiantil Chicano de
I\zllan (MEChA), maintains that
I ~ \'crgrecn is consistent with other
in s titution s in its neglect. " It is
repugnant that the complexion of public
1I1, lltutHlOS have never reflected the

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News

News Briefs
Provost search
nears final stage

Women sought to
lead conference'

leVERGREEN - Finalists in the search
lor <I n('w Evergreen provost will begin
illl ,'n'ie ws Wednesday, Jan. 26. The field
" I ,';lIldidat('s has been narrowed down to
Illr,' ,' : Dr. Barbara C. Mossberg, Dr.
i\krril J. Less ley and Dr. David L. Potter.
'1'11 ,',<' candidates, according to the Provost
S,' arc ll COll1lllillee, "each bring a
lil'lllons tr a t ed
commitment
to
j ntcrd iscipl inary study, educational
Illllovalion, multicultural perspectivcs and
Illl' fostering of diversity on campus."
Copie s of their application
mate rials are on open reserve in the
Lihrar y, and at each facult y mailbox
Im·a lion.

OL YMPIA - Outstanding Evergreen
women arc being sought by the sponsors
of a national leadership conference to be
Ileld in Washington D.C. The 1994
" Wolllen As Leaders" program is
sdleduled for May 16 through May 28.
Three women from each state will '
he chose n to attend, and· tuition and
Illtlging will be provided.
Women
slll<lents arc invited to call (800) 486-8921
for information and applications. The
~ lIblllission demlline is Feb. IS.

Jewish Center
sponsors poetry
[V ERGREEN - The Jewi s h Cultural
Cl' lIl e r, Siudent Activiti es and the
Wl lllll'll' S Cente r are sponsoring three free
puhlic pe rformances with Arizona poetp,' rlorllwr Fe rn Davye.
COlllemporary internalional poetry
I I il l he thc s ubject mailer or her firs t
r,' ,l din g 011 Tuesda y, Feb. I al 7 p.m . in
lit ,' Re c ital Hall . A reading from selected
Jco lvi s h wom e n poets will be held in
I.n· tu l\' Hall I at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday,
I:l' h. 1. Her final reading will be a benefit
lo r Til l' [ve rgreen State College Friends
u l Ihe Library , in th e third floor
p,' riml ic als s('cLion of the library.
For more information on th ese
l'\ <'nL~ , co nlactth e Je wish Cultural Center
,It :-;64 1) ] .

Many workshops
offered from APEL
I: VE RGR EE N- Mas ter in Teaching
plannin g sess ions , individual contract
p lannin g work s hops, s tudy abroad
work shops and Inte rnship orienullions arc
110<1' hei ng olfered by Academ ic Planning
,lIld Ex pe ri(' ntial Learning.
SOlll e wo rk s hops arc required for
Ilt n~e intL're s ted In pursuin g tho se
part I l' III~lr li ~ ld s or stud y.
For more informati o n, plea se
c o nlact A c ad e mic Plannin g and
h llL'ri (' ntial L('arnin g at x631 2.

Remodel shuts
doors in library
E VERGREEN-A second phase in the
Central Receiving/Mail Room remodel
will began Monda.y, Jan. 24. The double
doors and overhead door near Central
Receiving, on the first floor of the Library
building, will be closed to traffic for
approximately two weeks for safety
reasons.

II

E-mail is just like 976 numbers
without the phone bill.
-Tom Freeman
KAOS Employee
and Internet Junkie

State welfare
reform proposed

EVERGREEN- A workshop on needle
exchange and harm reduction will be held
,il 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 1 in Lecture
Ilall 3. Tlt e video "Needle Exchange of
Ol ympia , Washington " will be presented
i» Ille Ol ympia Aids Prevention Project.
T hi s eV('11! is sponsored by SODA POP.

OLYMPIA- House of Representatives
Speaker
Brian
Ebersole
and
Appropriations Committee Chairwoman
Helen Sommers introduced a proposal to
rebuild the welfare system in Washington
State.
The proposal focuses on shifting
the system to act as "a temporary safety
net and not a way of life," according to the
House leaders. The plan provides for more
incentives for persons on welfare to seck
employment.
Making heavy mention to a recent
s tudy that found 52 percent of women on
welfare were teenage mothers, the plan
also sceks to curb teenage pregnancy
throug h media campaigns designed and
produced primarily by teens.
For more information on the
proposal, contacl either Speaker Brian
Ebersole at 786-7999 or Rep. Helen
Sommers at 786-7814 .

EVERGREEN-Student Affairs is
orrering another Feminists In Self-defense
Training (FIST). training for all interested
remal e students, staff, and fa culty on
Tuesday, Feb. 1, from 5 :30 p.m. to 8:30
p.m. in CAB 110.
The three hour workshop covers
information on physical and verbal sclrderense practices, 'as well as a discussion
period.
Space exists for only 35 women in
the workshop. Call FIST directly at 4380288 to reserve a space. Student Affairs
wishes to stress that this workshop is
specially designed for women, ir there is
s ufficient interest on campus a men's
workshop will be orfered.

Evergreen forms
alliance-CoPLAC
EVERGREEN- Evergreen has combined
forces with eight other state-funded
institutions from across the country to
rorm the Council of Public Liberal Arts
Colleges, President Jervis announced on
Jan. 19 at the 80th annual meeting of the
Association of American College in
Washington D.C.
The purpose of the new consortium
is to enhance undergraduate education in
state-funded institutions.

SECURITY • BL[]TTER II
Munday , J,lfluary 17
0"0 .': Two ve hi c les we re brok en into in
1, · 10 1.
I (i I 0: A wo man repo rted t.he the ft of her
hil'l'c le !rom in front o r H-dorm .
- Tuesda y, JanUllry 18
t 10(, : T he CA B mail dro p wa s
hurg lart l<'(\ and o pe n mail was s tre wn
;11111111 .
Wednesda y , January 19
I I () lj: A dog was re ported outside th e '
C AB in direc t violatio n of the Pe t Policy.
1.. 22: A grey rour door sedan used by the
0: l' WS Briefs editor was ticketed in C -Iot
lo r lac k o r a pro pe r permit.
II) ·U: A illan was tra nsported to Capital
"kdl l' al Cc: nt (' r ror an injury to his left
II I

1',1.

Thursday, January 20
. \ re lat ively quie t da y at fo r th e Public
" ;tle ty olricc.

public in any serious means and in any way
you measure it," said Flores.
There are many excuses given for
this situation but Flores fee ls the lack of
diversity is a function of a "white quota
system" thaLserves to benefit the status quo.
"[The system] is imposed under the
guise of 'qualification.' What white people
really mean is 'white' qualification," he said.
"When the university is mostly
white, and the education system is mostly
white, and the support systems that exist are
geared mostly to serving people who are
from white culture then it doesn't surprise
people of color that the entrance barriers to
people of color are culturally dependent.
''This is offensive to citizens who
pay a disproportionate share of their income
for taxes to create public institutions that are
supposed to serve everyone equally."
The Education Digest's 1991
"Focus on Diversity" report cites "nonnative
power," or the power to confonn to society's
norms as, "used as a reinforcing agent by

State museum to
present native art

Needle exchange
workshop offered

F.I.S. T. training
offered for winter

Evergreen's commitment to diversity questioned, from cover

edited by: Pat Castaldo

OL YMPIA-Artwork featuring the
importance of water and marine animals to
American Indian people will be the focus
of a new exhibition at the Washington
State Capital, beginning Feb. 12.
A celebration is planned for 1 p.m.
that day, which w ill feature art
demonstrations, traditional music and
light refreshments. The artwork is
presenled by the Chief Leschi Schools of
the Puyallup Indian Nation and the
Washington State Capital Museum.
The exhibition will run from Feb.
12 to June 5. For more information,
contact the Museum at 753-2580.

"It behooves us all,
including white
students, to have ...
exposure to other
cultures because
if II prepare us
for-. .. a global
experience."

Radical Women
present Panthers

Timberland Library
budget increases
OL YMPIA- Timberland
Regional
Library adopted a $14.4 million dollar
budget for 1994, an increase of $1.4
mill ion over 1993. Material acquisitions
account (or three percenl of that budget.
According to Timberland's mission
sUllement, "All people shall have access
to Timberland's resources in varied
formats and from various points of view ."

,

Happy birthday
Thurston County
Til URSTON COUNTY - " The Human
Fac tor: Health and Human Services
Hi s tory or Thurston County" will be the
th~l11e of Thurston County's 142nd
hil'lhda y cele bration. A public party will
1>,' held i II the Mervyn's Court of the
C':lpital Mall , from I to 4 p.m. on
S ~ l llI n la y, J~IIl . 29.
Thurston County was founded on
Januar y 12, 1852. For more information
Oil 111 l' cl'l ehration , call 7R6-5222.

SEATTLE-Radical Women will be
hosting a meeting entitled "The Black
Panther Party and Women's Leadership"
on Thursday, Feb. 3 at 7:30 p.m.
The meeting will feature a review
of Elaine Brown's book A Taste of
Power: A Black Women's Star'!, as well
as personal accounts from Black Panther
Joyce Redmond.
For more information on the
meeting call (206) 722-6057.

Errata
Periodicals such as this often
contain small, but noticeable errors or
inconsistencies. That is the way things
like this are.
This paper is produced by
students. The news, the arts and
entertainment material, and the pages
offorwn and response are all the words
of students.
Not the simple malter of paying
tuition , buJ an Iwnest desire to learn,
to beller oneself and community.
The mistakes made within this
publication should not be viewed
simply as errors, but as valid learning
opportunities.
If you notice an error or
inconsistency, please give us your
Iwnest input. TheCooperPointJoumal
will thank you for it . '

Evergreen. The say they fear hate crimes;
have questions about fitting in and feel
isolated.
In the newsletter, students of color
report being singled out in sem inar as
"experts" on race and experiencing faculty
insensitivity. This is complicated by cultural
incompatibilities with seminar:"geuing" or
"keeping" the floor when you are not used
to interrupting, new expectations to be
"quick," "loud," and "heard." Some students
are disturbed by an attitude in seminar that
the teacher is no longer to be respected and
is now going to be called by her first name.
They say they sometimes feel that only white
students have ever made important
discoveries in education.
These students also report a
tendency to lump all students of color into
one group, rather than to account for the
diversity within that framework as well.
The counseling staff at First Peoples
have found that these are the issues that
concern students of color the most every

photo by Ned Whiteaker

I,

distributing rewards to those who uphold
organizational values.
"Schools disseminate grades, give
course credit and establish graduation criteria
that meet the needs of advantaged, not
minority, students. Those w~o do not choose
th<Ls..ysleru values bec.ome....alienate.d as a
result," the report continued.
Another
explanation
for
Evergreen's lack of diversity is the perception
that somehow diversity is an option, not a
necessity, and that white students will be
"sacrificed" or "penalized" by it.
Flores says, "I\'s sometimes
difficult for Euro-centric people to see
diversity as a plus to their lives. Their cuttural
filter makes them have a feeling of loss as
though instead of something being added to
something they already have, they feel like
diversity is taking something away."
Lack of diversity only perpetuates
the need for increased awareness. Some
students might be surprised by some of the
struggles their peers wrote about in a
newsletter Th e Imelltiol1al Educator put out
by Evergreen 's Student Affairs Di versity
Committee this fall .
In the newsletter, students say the
feel a lack of comfort and diversity at

-Ricardo Leyva
Puebla, director, First
People's Advising
single day.
According to S&A Board President
Darice Johnson, "It's hard being the only
[student of color] in a class. The faculty
doesn't understand. A lot of students of color
walk around angry just wanting an ally. We
end up paying alLt.his tuition to be isolated_
and to feel isolated."
To many students, the efforts of
First People's Recruitment. although well
intentioned, are not going far enough.
In a 1972 report by the ChicanoIndio DTF, members stated their hope that
the current level of enrollment of students
of color (at that time 10 percent) would rise
in the long term to 25 percent, a
representative number for the general
population. Twenty-two years later, the
current level of enrollment is less than hair
of that long term goal, and the number of
students of color has risen only two percent.
First People's Recruitment
counselor Jay Joseph sees this slow increase
as a result of many different factors.
"Students of color may not have any
interest in attending Evergreen. They might
be more interested in colleges located in
cities with 50 or 60 percent people of color.
Students of color may also see schools like

. Friday, January 21

IDO: A mOl orcycle was towed from the

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donn loop.
IX"!!: Mal e T ESC student reports the
lorgcry 0 1 one or hi s personal checks .
Saturday, January 22
0144: Ah intox icated individual was
re ported to be creating a di sturbance at a
part y in J ·dorm.
2237: A third noor room in th e Libra ry
huilding was found in sec ure .
Sunday, January 23
o~ I (J: A veh icle tore up the grass on the
l' a ~t side of the te nni s courts.
0·107: A s us pi c iou s vehicle with two
occ upant s was reported in F-Iot.

I'uh lir Safe ty preform ed twenty-four
{I/I hlie .1('Tvice call s in cl udin g but not
/ill/i red to lin locks, j umpstarts and esco rts.

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"I think greater
diversity would
encourage others
to learn about
other people's
cultures, ideals
and identities."
-Jay Joseph,
First People's
Recruitment counselor
photo by Wi"
the UW or WSU as having more
opportunities for them," said Joseph.
Umoja co-coordinator Omari
Nassorimba-Maulana doesn't see that
explanation as adequate. 'The college needs
to take a position," he says, "What lengths
are they going to be willing to go? If they're
going to recruit people, would they be willing
to lower standards to bring people in? I think
we should go beyond 'representative of the
population' and go for diverse."
Although most students agree that
something must change in order for diversity
to be achieved, few agree exoactly what
should change.
In the fall, MEChA began to work
on a recruitment/retention project simil ar to
the 1972 project.
Although Evergreen now has a
counseling staff for students of color (First
People's Advising Services) as the original
proposal suggested, the recommendation for
an increase in percentages of students of
color hasn't changed.
According to Flores, "We will be
asking for a First People's Financial advocate
in the office of Financial Aid. OUf Financial
Aid department. .. in effect does not respond
to pro-active institutional policies of
recruitment and retention of students ofcolor.
No financial aid [for students of color] means

color .. . who are not being reached because
we aren't allowed enough funds to recruit
them," he said.
Aside from recruiting students of
color from out of state, Nassorimba-Maulana
also sees increasing the diversity within the
student of color popution as essential.
"You have to ask, are you getting
students of color who are from inner city
urban settings or are you getting students of
color from just upper middle class families?
"We've expanded our discourse,
only to allow in more Euro-intellectualism.
Don't think you're breaking any ground
when you don dreadlocks or borrow someone
elses culture. Cut the dreadlocks if you're
not from Africa," he said.
Johnson, however. sees a show of
administrative commitment necessary to
convince students of color they are serious
about diversity.
"Every day I'm on this campus I'm
uncomfortable. I think Jane [Jervis] should
talk to the students of color. She should make
a personal invite to send to students of color
to get together and talk about all this. We
need some action," she said.
Almost everyone agrees that getting
more students of color here needs to be the
first objective.
Joseph hopes that some time in the

"It's hard being the
only student of
color in a class.
A lot of students of
color walk around
angry just wanting
. an ally."
-Darice Johnson,
S&A Board Coordinator
photo by Seth "Skippy" Long

no college education, whereas white students
have traditionally been able to tap into
economic resources outside of financial aid ."
Last fall. MEChA also hosted
Tuesday morning meetings for First People 's
groups to discuss and work out solutions to
.recruitment and retention problems.
The meetings resulted in one of the
coordinators becoming a member of th e
Enrollment Coordinating Committe e.
Anotherconslituent became a member of the
President 's Advi sory Board.
Jay Joseph see s incre a sed
invoivement by students as an important way
to increase enrollment of students of color,
"Students are really the best recruiters . The
power of word of mouth is really incredible."
Although
First
People's
Recruitment travels all throughout the state
to recruit students of color, they do not have
the funding that schools like the UW or
WWU have to recruit students from out of
state. Joseph says this makes them reel their
hands are tied. ''There might be students of

future there won't even be a need for First
People's Recruitment. "I think 50 percent
would be healthy number [of students of
colorl . I think that would encourage others
to learn about other people's cultures, ideals
and identiJies . Maybe , it wou~eliminale
some or these fears and concerns."
Leyva Pu e bla wants 10 see a ll
students of color allending college . He said.
.'!' m thinking of a" the students who are not
going to college for whalever reason . ma ybe
they're migrant workers or what ha ve you . I
want to see them in higher education."
Hopefully, with greater awareness.
the hurt and'isQ\ation relt by student s of color
at thi s campus ca'n someho w be alleviated .
If Evergreen wa nls to maintain its own
estimation of itself as a leader in curriculum ,
learning styles and diversity, it must take a
much more assertive role in providing for
all of its students the kind or environment
that will be reflective of the 21 st century.

Naomi Ishisaka is tire layout editor
for the CPJ .

-compiled by Rebecca Randall

Cooper Point Journal January 27, 1994 Page 3

News

Features

NWFS tries to support community, save earth

Michael Huntsberger speaks freely about his life

Director says food service needs to balance soci'al concerns with profits
h,1 I'alll l\.Iarcontell

Wh,'n Evergreen decided 10 replace
\ brioll, In c " as th e on-campus food
,,' 1' \ Il'l'
,' on tractor in 199 0, five
Ill fjHlralitln s submilled proposals, The
' Il laik sl of th e fiv e, Northwest Food
<;l'l"\ ic,'s (N WFS ) was eventuallycilOsen
;" Ihe repllH.:L!lllent because, in the words
ti l De ni s Sn yder, the college's food
,crv iee liason, " ITheir propo sa l]
:Iddrl'ssl'd the issues lhal we raised,"
For inslance, people were concerned
,Ib,llll elll'ironmcn t.al /social responsibility
Illl Ihl' cnnlract()f 'S pm!. They also wanted
"\V I-'S', l"lex ibili ty to negotiate prices
:lllll 01k ri ngs in o rdl'f to heller serve the
,,'I II'tol'l'tl llllllunity,
.-\ruml ing to ~'li c hacl Cardew, food
,,'1"\ fl'l' d i rl'C!llf. NWFS is co ns tan tl y
11'\ Ill!! 11 ,'\\ i(iL'as 10 be lle r mee t those
l' lld s, BlIl , he said , it 's a diffi c ult
b, rI ~lll r ill g act betwee n be ing politica lly
,'u ll sl' ioliS alld be ing able 10 maintain a
IlI l''I ness; so me thing of which he ' s
painfull y aware, s ince NWFS has lost
Illoncy dllring the reg ular sc hool year
, ', IT)' ),ear sinn: it came to Evergreen,
" 1 sec no reason to make a ton of
1110ll,'Y dllring the school year, I JUSt want
1\) i>rc;lk eVl' n" sa id Cardew,
NWFS docs. how ever, make a
profil during the year as a whole, since
Ih l'~ mak e up lor sc hool-year losses by
l:lle ring during the summer.
Cardew , who's been in his position
,i Jln~ Oc tober 'n, sa id that NWFS was a
big c han ge from his form e r em pl oyc r,
\ 1:11 io lt. \\ hich he characterized as being
Illl l,' h kss Il ex ihle lhan NWFS ,
II i ~ thi ~ eX lra Il ex ibility , accord ing
III Ca rde \\, whi ch c nabl cs NWFS to
l ollsUlnlly try ncw th ings in order to best

hy Jennifer Fiore

Michael iiuntsberger is Ihe
Gencral Manager oj KAOS. fie came to
Evergreen (IS (l siudent in 1976 and
join ed Ihe KAOS scaff in 1981,

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A Closer Look At

NWFS

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"Aware of campus social and
environmental concerns and
willing to take a role in
educating the community,"

r

- from a May 1990 memo,
citing one reason the
Food Services DTF
recommended NWFS as sole
campus food concession.

The Greenery is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but are students buying
the food? NWFS only turns a profit during the summer months.
photo by Paul Marconteli

Illv,'1 th eir customer's needs.
Both Cardew and Snyder agreed
Ih~11 NWFS ha s made a concerted effort to
h't'
e n vifll lllll en tall y and soc ially
rl'~ p()nsibl (' in its business dealings,
For e,\,lInple, thi s year NWFS
Illmed 10 lI s in g durable di shes and
I,\'yc ktlnapkins,
N W FS also s upports areas of
, Ii ILi l' nt inte rest. Thl'Y provide food for
I Ill' ,'a III pus day-carc center at their COSt
:IIlLi OlT<lsinnall y donate pil.l.as to student
;! nlllpS,
Cardew also sees a lot of potential
in the food servi ce's recycling program,
w hi c h operates in conjunction with

Recycling Coordinator Greg Wright and
with thc Organic Farm for composting,
Cardew said lhut Organic Farm
prndllt' e is lIsed hy food service whenever
p(),si hlc ,
Tom Freeman," former employee of
M:lriolt and IlOW a KAOS employee, said
hI' Ihillb NWFS has in some ways
improved over Mariott, but has done
liLLie to improve the status of the food
service staff over its predecessor.
Freeman also said that he didn't
think that the problems were 'oeal, but
rather came from NWFS 's main office in
its attempts to cut costs ,

Cardew and Snyder described the
food services situation as an active
participation between the school and its
interests and the contractor.
Snyder said that his position was
to represent the college's and the
student's interests in the operation of
campus food services and in trying to
encourage NWFS to provide the
maximum amount of service for students,

Paul M arconleli is a C P J
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February 1994

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7:30 am. Jan Smisek. x 6538

Interviewer
Tibet is very interesting to me, but
if I'd been born and raised in Tibet, I'd
be a very, vcry different person! That
~ ort of appeals to the spiritual part of me,
To be born and raised there would be a
vcry powerful thing.
Jenn: Did you do anything to
observe Martin Luther King Jr. 's
birthday?
Michael: On the day, no we didn't,
although we did a lot with our son,
Partly because he was getting some stuff
ill school where they were reading stories,
and partly because we kept saying there
was going to be this holiday and he
wanted to know what it was so we
,~x p lained it to him several times.
We thought about taking him to
the observance that was down at the
Washington Center, but being four, he
docs not have the greatest attention span,
especially when attached to a seat. You
take him down to the Washington Center
and mostly what he wants to do is run up
and down the aisles.
J en n: Did you learn anything
new about Dr. King?
Michael: No. Having grown up
in that period, and having always been a
news hound, and having run
documentaries on that day now for eight
or nine years, I've heard a lot of different
perspectives, positive and critical
perspectives on King. I feel that that's a
historical figure that' know fairly well.
Actually, I learned something new
that is intriguing to me - and I haven't
really learned it. Apparently the last
speech he gave to - I think it was to an
NAACP conference - this was within a
day or two of his assassination - really

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I sit on the couch facing his desk
and am impressed by his laugh that
reverberates around the small office ,
Then, as I examine his face, it strikes me
Ih;ll he looks a lot like '01 Saint Nick.
The jolly round face, full beard (of course
Ilot -:ven close to white) and absolutely
sparkling eyes.
.Jenn: Whenever I see you, you
have on an Evergreen or KAOS
sweatshirt. How come?
Michael: I have a lot of "radio
clolhing." [go to these conferences, and
),011 meet producers there who are giving
:Iway shirts and you meet other stations
who want to trade, Well, the last couple
of years the conferences have been
1l:lrlieularly fruitful, so I probably have a
1I'l'l' k's worth of various "radio c lothing,"
And then I've been part of Super
Sallirday for 10 years, so I have a Super
SHl unlay shirt for 10 years. This is what
happens when purt of your business is
prinled T-shirts. What can I say?
Je nn: If you weren't American,
whe re would you have wanted to have
growll up and live today - spending your
"lllire life in one country?
Michael: Denmark . It's a northern
riillial e, ( like northern climates, It's a
f~lirly open soc iety. It's a small country
Ihal 's not - I like , small things ()IYlllpia ' s getting too big for me!
It' ~ easy to give you these an's wers
\\' h,~ n YO ll 've never actually lived there
and been through the issues and Sluff. I
look to other countries and they arc
rn ,lrkedly not in the headlines, there's
something very aLlractive to me about
111:It, YOll know? It's not the 'United
SI,lles, it 's not Bosnia, it's not Russia,
ii's not the Middle East. So that place is
ililerest ing 10 me.

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computer and the telephone, no question,
I live out of this little book, my Franklin
planner, and you'll see here it says
"filing," and if you look at each previous
Friday, you'll see the line that says
"filing" has and arrow that says "do that
next week." This has been going on since
November and I thought this would be an
opportunity for me to talk and do this
mindless task at the same time.
Jenn: What is your favorite time
of day?
Michael: Early morning. I get up
at 5 o'clock in the morning every day. ,
like to be awake before the sun comes up,
I like to be out when there's no one
around. My favorite time of the day is
watching how the light changes [when
the sun comes up],

talked more about class issues in America
than anything else, and about capitalism
and class and how that was the root of
racial struggle in the United States. And
that got me thinking - everyone always
runs the '" Have A Dream" speech - and
what I'd really like to get is this speech,
and I don't even know if it's recorded.
So I did learn something new.
Jenn: Why do you think people
wear colored socks?
Michael: 'Cause they're not as
boring as [ am.
Jenn: What color socks are you
wearing right now?
Michael: I wear white socks [lifts
his feet above his desk for me to see] .
Jenn: I noticed you're filing now
as we talk; what part of your office gets
the most use?
Michael: The computer. The

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Columns

Columns
Cyber-rape exemplifies postmodern reality
The Third Floor
Student Groups Weekly
'Tonight, the Middle East
({('source Center brings us Gaza
G/iC'1I0: A Portrait of a Palescinian
rOll/ify al 6 :30 p.m. in CAB 320.
• Brad lcy DillO, Reggie Garrell and
Ill l' Sl1<lke Oil Peddlers will be playing at
Ihl' Housing Community Center on
Friday, Jan. 28 at 9 p.m. The wonderful
pl'ople at Housing Activities are
' ponsoring this event.
• SPA Z is partly responsible for
Ihl' crealion of the new student art gallery
l'alkd "The Zone" in the third noor of the
(':\ 11 . They will have an opening
I"l'l' plion at 4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 28.
'The ERC will show Global
.· h .\('fIlhly Line on Tuesday, Feb. 1 at 6
p.1I1. in LH5.
·The Jewish Cultural Center
;lI1d the Women's Center will sponsor
,In eve ning with Fern Davye Tuesday,
re b. I at 7 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
'Student Affairs brings us
relTlinists In Self·Defense Training on
Tllesday, Feb. 1 at 5:30 p.m. in CAB
I 10. Call FIST at 483·0288 to reserve a
space in a workshop designed specifically
I·m women.
·Student Activities played with
Iii,' sate llite di sh and found Beyond the
l)r('om VI: A Celebration of Black
IlislOry, ,I video conference from PBS. It
wi ll be downlinked at 10 a.m. on
Wl'<incsday, Feb. 2 in CAB 315.
- compiled by Dante Salvatierra

Whcli you talk to someone,
anyone, do you ever think about what it
is yo u arc say ing? Literally? What I'm
1;llkilig about arc the actual words you
IISl' and their potential impact on the
Pl'J'SOIl yo u're talking to.
Don't worry, this is not another
piece about the so·called speech police of
Ilil' PC brigade. I could care less if people
W:lJlt 10 restrict the way they or others
speak - Ihey arc doomed to fail all by
Ihe mselves.
I can't count how many times I've
o ffended people simply by not t.'1king
illio account the way those people might
rcacl to the language I use. If I say
, olllelh ing with no bad intention, and the
pcr., on I'm talking to takes offense, I tend
III just ignore them. But this isn't really
llil' hesl way to deal with such a problem.
II's interesting that we choose to
ex press ourselves in different ways, to
<ltTl'pl Cl' rlain language from some and
II(H olhers, and that we basically live in
d i Ilerent rca lilies with regards to how we
re lale to one another. What is "real" for
l)llC person might not be "real" for
'1Il(llher.
There was a case of rape reported in
Ihl' Villag~ Vnice not too long ago where
the viclim wa,<; forced to perform oral sex
on her allacker. Another victim was
fon.:ed to rape herself with a kitchen
knife .
Therc was much discussion in the
community in which t~ese violations
look place. The victims felt as if they had
trul y been v iolated and there was
considerable debate as to whether the
crimina l would be allowed to live
:l lllongsl thc community, or whether he
wo uld be "loaded."

In the Multi User Dimension
( MUDs) of the Internet, toading is a
process by which players are banished 111l~ cOlltroller of the MUD simply turns a
user into a LOad who can't move and can't
SIll'<lk.
Thc mpes took place in a MUD and
Ihe citizens who witnessed it were sitting
ill thei r humes at their terminals typing
moves which were then carried to screens
,ill over the country. The rapes were
peri'ormed using a son of sub-program
wlle reby one player can take control of
;IIHlIher's movements.
For some users of the Internet, eInail and MUDs have become the basis of
Iheir entire social existences. Some
people sit at their terminals for hours a
day, more time than they spend with realworld friends or family.
Cyber-rape, for some, is real; and it
is not uncommon. It can be deeply
<lumflgillg and, for some, it can be as
emotionally scarring as physical rape.
When the rapes mentioned above took
place, there was discussion of bringing in
the "real" police, though in the end it was
decided that it would be dealt with in
house.
During the MUD town meeting at

Amnesty launches international gay rights campaign
During 1994, Amnesty Inter·
nalional will embark on a U.S . campaign
III end government persecution based on
scx ual orientation. The campaign is
cal led "Breaking the Silence."
Previously, AI has dipped its toes
into the pool of controversy surrounding
homoscxual rights, but this campaign
marks a plunge into the fight for gay
hllman rights.
In 1979, AI affirmed that people
impri soned for advocating gay rights
wo uld be taken up as prisoners of
consc ience . And, in 1982, AI condemned
Ih e forcible "medical" treatment carried
Dut in detention centers in order to "alter"
prisoncrs' sexual orientation.
Some of the documentation of
gross human rights violations against
gay men and women promoted AI to
IIHlke th e iss ue paramount for the
orl!an ization . These violations include:
, ·Gay men regularly targeted and
k ill ed by c landest ine death squads
ol1l'ra lin g with 'impunity in Colombia.
·In Grecce, the editor of the
l' Ollnlry's largest gay and lesbian
nw gal. ine was se ntenced to five months
ill iail ror publishing her magazine.
·Ga y mcn arc arrested and dctained
IIl1der the anliqualed and fe.'lfCd Artic le 200
ill Romania.
·In Turkey, homosexuals and
Ir;rn~ gL' nd .e r activists are arres ted and
'I lilic'c ted to degrading treaLmenl.
·AIl openl y gay town councilor was
l a~l' ll 10 a rie ld by government orficial s,
, linl and lht' n c\ecapiUlted in Brazil.

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and furniture

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Amnesty
International
by

Carson Streg~
~Itr~ >.q,
Amnesty International hopes to
LTealC a broad coal ition with gay and
les bian human rights activists here and
'Ibroad. Evergreen's chapter hopes to
work with Hands Off Washington to
preve nt the erosion of homosexuals
ri g hls in our own sUites.
During this campaign, AI will
l'tllltinlle its grass roots leller writing
ca mpaign to demand an end to
government abuses.
Mllry Gray, chair of the board of
directors, says, "Amnesty does not
advocate for the full range of gay right

concerns, but only against those
violations which fall within our mandate,
i.e. arbitrary and illegal executions,
torture and ill-treatment, killings and
executIons, and the forcible repatriation
of rerugees to countries where they are
likely to he harmed~
-The AI mandate can at times be
co ni'using and frustrating, but its
s[lCcilicity encoumges focus and success.
A question and answer sheet is
available at the AI office at Evergreen, in
CAB 320, to answer any concerns or
qlll's tions about the . "Breaking the
Silence" campaign. Also, please join us
in our fight to protect the human rights
of homosexuals and all peoples by
attending the weekly Amnesty meetings
on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in CAB 320.

.

For more information . on
Amnesty International, call 866-6000
x6(J98.

which the fate of the perpetrator was
being discussed, there was a lot of talk of
immediate LOading without trial. There
was also talk of protecting the perpetrator
on First Amendment grounds because,
after all, he didn't physically harm
anyone. This was a position that many
thought was archaic and that the Internet
reality, especially in the MUDs, was as
serious and valid as any non-electronic
reality.
When the cyber-rapist was
questioned as to why he did what he did,
he replied that he had not realIy thought
too seriously about what he was doing
because the MUD wasn't 'real', and he
wasn't really hurting anybody - not
physically. He left while the meeting was
still in progress, but people there weren't
interested in talking to him anyway.
Later, while the meeting was
winding down, the much-wizened NYU
student and cyber-rapist Mr. Bungle was
lynched by a lone citizen of the MUD.
Mr. Bungle's reality had been
considerably different thal those of his
victims. He was just playing around they were victims of rape.
If you have read up on postmodern communications theory, you
might know that our society has
essentialIy become fractionalized into
tiny "realities" wherein people can
communicate on the same level. Any
larger "reality" game or communication
system deteriorated years ago.
Next time you manage to offend
someone without trying think about it
this way - you are playing different
language games and the same rules do not
apply to both games. You haven't done
anything wrong.
At the same time, when someone
offends you without understanding why,
realize that aecusing them of insensitivity
or maliciousness will not help them to
understand why you are angry - it will
merely reinforce the line drawn between
your game and theirs. ·

Dan is a lousy little so-and-so . .

Well, now is the moment you've all
been waiting for. We received such a
del uge of entries that it was hard to pick
a winner. We were going to say
something flowery here about
inspirational talents and al1 that, but
instead let's just cut to the chase and
announce the big winners.
First of all, though, we didn't
receive all that many count-the-mistakes
e nlries. Perhaps our readers are not
paying allention to the finer details of
()ur writing, or, as some of you pointed
oul, it was too much effort to actually
identify and correct every error. So let's
all give a big, congratulatory hand to one
E. Uenjamin Cornett for correctly
identifying five of the six errors we had
round, and correctly correcting four of
Ihosc five . Thanks E!
II is often difficult to determine
pr ec isely what is wrong with
cUllstruction of an ill· formed sentence.
We can usually tell that something is not
quite right, but when asked to identify
Ihe problem we become flustered. So, for
all you folks who were intimidated by
llii .' first part of the contest, we will now
di sc uss the grammatical errors found in
Ih;lt shprt Pilssage with which we have
become so f(lmiliar.
Error # I: " ... to seriously effect . .. "
T he correct word here is affect. Remember
our holiday checklist? To reiterate, effect
is most oi'ten used as a noun; affect is the
morc common verb. By using the word
('/fed, N WFS is actually saying that we
C III C:llISl\ what is happening to our
fl"IIIL~t, !lot that we can have an effect on
wilat is happening. (Do we really want to
call'iC the destruction of the ecosystem?) "
Error 112: '.' ... to each day do
something .. . " This is a split infinitive.
Though the rules about split infinitives

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technically correct. It is so commonly
used, however, that we can almost excuse
it (as we did in the winning entry). A
semicolon or a period would be
appropriate between globally and act.
As you may have noticed, many
of these problems could easily be avoided
by .changing the basic construction of
these three sentences. Completely
rewriting the passage is less cumbersome
than actually attempting to correct each
and every error.
Chris
Meserve did this
beautifully, and is consequently the
second winner of our very SPECIAL
PRIZE! Her revised version is as follows:

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arc more lax these days than back in the
stodgy days, it is stilI advisable to keep
yo ur cos with your verbs whenever it is
not awkward to do so. In other words, to
modern ears, split infinitives sound
clumsy and should generally be avoided.
A more graceful wording would be: " ... to
do each day ... "
Error #3: ..... do something real but
small, which ... " A simple way to fix
this sentence is to place a comma before
the bUI. Bul sma ll is a parenthetical
phrase, so it needs to be separated by
commas. Notice, also, that which would
110t he preceded by a comma were it not
ror this parcnthetical phrase.
Error #4: " ... each and cveryone
who ... " This is our favorite. Everyone is
Ihe object in this sentence and is being
modii'it~d by the phrase beginning with
IVI/o. Each cannot be the object of a
<;e ntence. Each what? Perhaps the writer
intended to say "each and everyone of
you who" , or "everyone who".
Error #5: " ... everyone who ...
when you ..... As it stands, everyone,
being a third person pronoun, does not
match the second person pronoun you.
The correction for this error depends on
the way in which you correct error #4. If
everyone remains the object, the
remaining sentence should read" ... when
she or he is ... " If, on the other hand, the

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object is changed to you, the rest of the
sentence will read correctly.
Error #6: " ... designated pick up
sites ..... Whal the writer wants here is an
adjective. What we got was a verb.
Correction: pickup.
Notes on Style: Several phrases
in this passage were not technically
incorrect, but were extremely clumsy.
For example, we are asked
"always to return same [durable plates]"
to their proper location.
While this avoids the problem of
spli t infinitives as in error #2, it
sacrifices easy readability and clarity.
Taken literally, it implies that we should
be returning dishes at every moment in
OUf sorry lillie lives, whether or not we
were even able to use durable plates.
We did not list this as an error,
but we feel it IS poor writing nonetheless
and should be corrected.
, Additionally, the closing urge of
"Thin, globally, act locally" is not

The only way we will be able to
reverse our planet's deterioration is to
do something small each day. We are
asking all those who patronize the deli
to use durable plates whenever possible
and to return them /0 designated siles.
Think globally, act locally.
We would like to thank all those
who responded with thoughtful entries.
We received a fair number of poems
(perhaps because they don't have to
follow grammatical rules?) and we would
like end this column with our favorite.

Do you plan to eat?
Do , for the Earth, something
neat.
Durable plates are available, and
we'd like if you' d use them
whenever you can.
Plus, if you are able,
leave them not on a table.
Bring them back to a bin
while Mother Earth grins.
-Lisa Boleyn
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or prohibiting the free exerdse thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the government for a redress of grievances

Response
!JTRR TREK program gets student's goat

I'm glad to see Evergreen has
rediscovered its self-deprecating sense of
humor and once again has elevated the Punch
Line to the level of academic respectability.
It appears a Slacker sensibility has descended
on our mossy Alma Mater.
For the three readers who don't know,
this year's democratically chosen graduation
theme. "You want fries with that?" is also
the correct answer to the age old question;
What did the Evergreen grad say to the Yale
grad? Actually. the punch line is "Will you
have fries with that. sir')" But I digress.
Not until we tum to Where No One Has
Gone Before. a coordinated studies sciences
program. does the lunacy really take off. In
the end though, the joke is on us. A whole
program on Star Trek and its Fox network
spinoffs is pure nirvana to the Greener of
Yore (GOY).
As the legend goes, GOY. who has not
done the readings, sits quietly in seminar,
waiting for the opportunity Lo seize the
discussion of a feminist critique of capital to
compare and contrast it with an episode of
Star Trek. (Kirk fighting with the alien
Godzilla was a popular one .) GOY's
evaluation would include Greener wha wha
babble such as "regular participation" and
"an asset to the seminar."

Let's
try
to
imagine a typical
seminar of "Boldly
Going Nowhere."
A gaggle of late
adolescent, Bill Gates
wannabes sit in a
darkened room gazing
intently at the Idiot
Box. The Jolt and
Doritos flow. Counselor
Deanna "tits" Troi
flicks on the screen and
woodies m'a ke pup tents
out of sweat pants. The
room breaks into Beavis
and Butt-head impressions. Heh, heh. Uh.
A significant number of our Bolders are
suspected Stalkers. They did nasty things to
cats and gerbils as kids. These cretins are all
those little geek brothers your suburban
friends had . You know, the one who had a
traumatic childhood experience and never
quite recovered.
On the other side of the room is a cluster
of 27 to 40-somethings dressed as Klingons
and other assorted aliens, role playing their
butts off and flirting with each other in the
cathode ray light. The women sport harem
pants, gold bras, big hair, pancake make-up

"When I tell friends and
family that Evergreen is
offering 32 credits in Star
Trek 101, I am met with
laughing disbelief until I offer
up the catalogue.
Nobody laughs then."

Workshop will address tensions
between men and women at lESe
On Tuesday, Feb . 7, there will be a
workshop titled Sexual Aggression 101, this
will be held in the Lecture Hall rotunda at 6
p.m. This workshop will address the growing
tensions between men and women at TESC.
The idea behind the workshop is to
respond to the concerns of safety on this
campus. The Evergreen State College is
experiencing an increase in episodes of
harassment and violence based on race,
ethnicity, ·religion. gender and sexual
orientation. We would like to encourage
people to come and participate in this
interactive workshop and open discussion
that will follow.
This workshop will be presented by
Todd Denny, Anna Schlect and Nina Fisher~
Todd is a TESC alumnus, has worked with
Safeplace, and does workshops on sexual
assault. Anna Schlect is an active member
of the Olympia community. She volunteers
with Safeplace and works with Unity in the
Community - a group organized to stop hate

crimes in Olympia. She also does workshops
on sexual assault and oppression issues. Nina
Fischer is a student at TESC. She is currently
getting credit through her internship with
both Safeplace and TESC's Rape Response
Coalition and has done educational
workshops about sexual assault in Core
programs.
We feel this workshop is an impo'r tant
part of the process in addressing the issue of
sexual assault. This workshop provides an
excellent opportunity for the men and women
of this campus to get together and address
this issue wh.ich affe.cts all of us . This
workshop should be an inclusive experience
in which men and women of all race, ethnic
backgrounds and sexual orientations should
feel comfortable to voice their concerns. Your
participation will be a start towards ending
this problem at TESC.
Deanna Brown
Mike Steward

Many activists seek to alienate others
Dear Derek,
A little over a year ago, I was in your
shoes. "Where is everyone?I"I asked myself
every time I attended an event concerning
the active pursuit of social change.
I was new; I didn ' t understand; then I
learned. It became clear to me that many of
the "activists" on this campus are not seeking
to promote an egalitarian, communityoriented atmos phere where like minded
individual s can collaborate to work towards
these self-same ideals in the greater society.
Rather, many of their tactics and
slogans imply that it is an inversion of the
social strata that they seek. In short. they
a lienate many people of concurring points
of view based on skin color and gender.
Let me li st a few examples to c1ari'fy
my meaning : from tw.o years ago - a

meeting, on campus, with a sign on the door
saying , "No Men." From last year - a spraypainted slogan on a fence near campus
reading something to the nature of, "Too
many white males 'are busy denying
everything." From earlier this year - an "art
project" displayed on the first floor of the
CAB containing statements induding, "Dead
Men Don't Rape" and "Watch Your Back."
These are but a few. I refuse to
participate in any organized movement at
Evergreen or anywhere so long as said
organization contradicts its own doctrine, and
more specifically, targets individuals or
groups based · on racial or gender oriented
stereotypes .
A concerned but disillusioned
Soren Flexner

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local affairs but the first thing they do in
almost every damned episode is intervene.
A favorite rationalization for beaming down
was to save the aliens from themse lves.
Sound fam iliar? H smells like American
Corporate Spirit to me.
Star Trek is worthy of cluster contract,
but to legitimatize such an ideologically
problematic piece of American [mperialist
pop culture doo doo as the core of a
coordinated science program at The
Evergreen State College is not just silly. it's
plain wrong.
When I tell friends and family that
Evergreen is offering 32 credits in Star Trek
10 I, I am met with laughing disbelief until I
offer up the catalogue. Nobody laughs then.
What were the academic deans thinking
of when they gave their OK to "Boldly Going
Nowhere')"
More importantly, what weren't they
thinking of? They weren't thinking about
racial minorities who know all too well the
effects of American Imperialism first hand.
They weren't thinking about college grads
plumbing a tight job market:
"Sam, we've reviewed your transcripts
and portfolio and you're perfect for the job.
You're hired."
"Gee, thanks Mr. Roddenberry, when
do I start?"
I suspect "Boldly Going Nowhere" is
the spawn of people too close to trees to see
the forest.
It' s probably too late to pull the plug
on this little monster, but let's try to keep
this type of crap from happening again. We
must not allow our education and our Iiv.e s
in the Arts and Sciences to be trivialized by
bad jokes such as "Boldly Going Nowhere."
Hey, Butt-head, will you have fries with
that? Heh, heh. Uh. This paycheck sucks!
P.S . I know Gene Roddenberry is dead.
Laurian Weisser

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and all are playing alien vamps. Big dudes
with thick names such as Vlad and Ivan
mockingly threaten ritual dismemberment of
seminar dissenters. Red wine and chocolate
are favored here. These are the same
dysfunctionals as above, only older, who
have graduated to serious fantasy role
playing seen at sci-fi conventions and Society
for Creative Anachronism romps.
Toss in a few Revolutionary
Communist Workers with a closeted Kirk
fixation and a conspiracy buff or two and ,
Presto!, a col\egiate Romper Room for the
Social\y Challenged.
Although 1 admire the brutal
commentary on the state of higher education
that elevating Star Trek to academic
respectability makes, I question whether
watching almost 30 year-old reruns and
musing over the physics of "beaming up" are
really worth 32 credits toward a BS. Let's
get real.
Star Trek is an interesting manifestation
of mid-'60s American culture up to its arm
pits and bank account in Vietnam, Cambodia,
Laos. Indonesia, Central America, Africa et.
al.
An average episode featured Captain
Kirk and his gang whipping around the
galaxy in a craft capable of planetary
genocide, under orders not to intervene in

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Cartoonist.questions Evergreen's
financial priorities and status quo
by Jonah ER Loeb
Mr. Loeb has written here a
question, rather than a statement of this
school's financial priorities.
In doing so, he has also given voice
to those less recognized, adversely
affected individuals (either intentionally
or accidentally).

The purpose of this is merely to
evoke disclissiOns regarding-t~e primary
concerns of the school, while pointing
out possible flaws with the status quo.
Jonah ER Loeb is an Evergreen
srudent who also draws a comic for the
Cooper Point Journal. The comic is called
"Snuggle. ..

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Article I § 5 FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
Every person may freely speak, write and publish on all

subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right.

Jews celebrate New Year of the trees; get back to roots
by James Packman
In the depths of winter, a month after
the darkest day of the year, buried beneath
the weight of wet leaves. feeling the bite of
cold and the coaxing pull toward
decomposition, a tree seed stirs. This is one
of the images the ancient Jewish mystics used
as a metaphor for the yearly renewal of the
trees. In addition, this time of year is when
most 'of the winter rains have fallen in the
land of Israel.
The water cisterns are at their fullest
and signs of spring begin to emerge .
Approximately two to 3,000 years ago,
Jewish scholars in the ancient agronomybased society in the land of Israe l decided to
make this the time for the annual tithing of
fruit and crops. Jewish farmers were obliged
to give a tenth of their yearly harvest to the
Temple in Jerusalem; this was done for the
support of the priesthood, the religio-Iegal
functionaries, and for the poor.
Since ancient times, the new year of the
fruit trees has evolved both spiritually and
practically. About 600 years ago, Jewish
scholars of mysticism, called Kabbalists,
living in the land of Israel used the image of
a tree to express the dynamic aspects of Gd, or S'phirot.
It is believed that through the S'phirot
the creation of the world continually takes
place. This tree is drawn with roots upward
and branches downward, which represent the
invisible and inexplicable, to us (roots), and
that which is known and understood
(branches).

The Kabbalists explained that through the original focus.
More common practice forTu B'Shvat
this tree courses the ultimate flow of
universal life, and its flow is what gives life than the seder, though, is the planting of trees.
to the whole palpable universe. This image Especially since the rebirth of the state of
inspired the Kabbalists to connect this Israel in 1948, many trees have been planted
metaphor of a tree of life to the new year of there in honor of Tu B'Shvat every year,
real trees. Thus, they drew up a ceremony to which have contributed to massive amounts
be practiced on Tu B'Shvat.
of reforestation.
This movement of botanical restoration
The ceremony is called a seder, and is
similar to the more commonly known and inspired the re-finding of biblical* verses and
Jewish biblical compracticed Passover
mentary dealing with
seder. II has a myriad of
trees and ecology; and
foods that are eaten
About 600 years ago,
this reacquaintance
with certain spiritual
Jewish scholars of
has inspired the
ideas in mind.
spirituality of Tu
In the Tu 8' Shvat
mysticism, called
B' Shvat to be directed
seder, fruits and nuts
Kabbalists, living in
toward nature and the
from many of the trees
the land of Isreal used
interconnectedness of
of the land of Israel are
the image of a tree to
all life. For example,
eaten, and a variety of
verses from Deuterwine is drunk, symexpress the dynmaic.
onomy (11:13-21)
bolizing the different
which are included in
types of fruit. The
original seder is called Pri Elz Hadar, Fruit the daily Jewish prayers tell how what we
do affects everything arou'nd us and how our
of the Goodly Tree.
In more recent times, especially since good actions will ensure environmental
the 1970s, the meaning and the practice of health:
lfyoll will listen to My miztvol [roughly
Tu B'Shvat has continued to evolve. Many
people, other than mystical scholars are lranslaled as "commandments"] ... toward
having Tu B'Shvat seders. It has become love of your G-d and serving your G-d with
customary to include fruits both edible and all your heart and al/ your spirit ... then I
inedible to the human tongue, ranging from will give the dew of your land in its seasonthe' fig, which has edible skin and insides to the early and the late rains; you will gather
the pine cone, of which some varieties we your new grain. wine, and oil. I will give
eat nothing. This practice recognizes the grass in your field ... you will eat and be
rebirth of all trees, not just fruit trees as was satisfied... [and] you and your childrell will

Evergreen faculty and
by George Bratina
After reading· the front page article of
the Dec. 18 edition of The Olympian titled
"Freshman Give TESC Poor Grades," I was
amazed at the similarities between my own
experiences and those reasons gi ven by the
then-freshmen (now juniors) for not
returning. I, too, had to consider over the
winter break whether I could return to a
school that was so ingrained in its own liberal
rhetoric that my own perceptions of the
Evergreen "process" were_ disruarded or
consistently denied by faculty and
administration alike.
The difficulties that I have experienced
at TESC are the same that any "minority"
has in altering perceptual beliefs in the
community at large, that dominant cultural

com~unity

break the social contract

mores are at odds with personal and sub- the learning responsibility on the student, and
cultural values. That TESC with its allows the other students to attack culturally
"politically correct" moral overtones and diverse viewPoints by responding to form
wonderful\y presented "Social Contract" is over content, or emotionalism over meaning.
still a tense. uptight white middle-class This argumentati ve tactic allows some
college that pretends multiculturaiism and students to divert emphasis from the question
diversity as educational goals. The differing itself to surface, symptomatic issues of
degrees of social 'power tend to sacrifice grammar, syntax, and politics.
individual ideas and opinions to the group,
At least at traditional colleges there is
i.e., "Why can't you talk, act, and be like us?" no pretense of freedom from intimidation and
Moreover, explanations by faculty and censorship of intellectual ideas. At TESC
staff alike that sacrifice the_ individual for~)' are sanctioned because they are studtml,
group conformity for the benefit of the rather than teacher-generated. Oppression by
"group process," is a direct violation of the one becomes oppression by the many. The
Social Contract and a failure to provide a "white" institution remains the same, with
respectful, safe learning environment for the just the boundaries redrawn and the labels
"culturally different" student. This same changed.
Where is the honoring of diversity?
emphasis on process allows faculty to put
Surely Evergreeners are not so arrogant to

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live a long time on the Earth.
From this movement is arising many
books and educational materials on the rich
tradition of the ecological and en vironmental
side of Judaism. For an excelent source book
see Let the Earth Teach You Torah by Ellen
Bernstein and Dan Fink (contact Shomrei
Adamah (Keepers of the Earth), 804 C, 5500
Wissahickon Ave. Phi ladelphia, PA 19144).
Tu B' Shvat, the New Year of the Trees,
has evolved over thousands of years from a
time for harvest tithing to a mystical ritual
meal to the present Arbor Day, which it is
sometimes called, which includes all the
historical ideas and observances as well as
new ones, such as tree plantings and
education on ecological Judaism. This year
Tu B'Shvat falls on Jan. 27.
For more information about Tu
B'Shvat, this article, or anything else Jewish
contact the Jewish Cultural Center at x6493.
*When the Bible is referred to, it means
the Jewish Bible. The Jewish Bible shares
with the Christian Bible only the five books
of Moses, called Torah in Hebrew (called the
Old Testament by Christians). The Jewish
Bible has two other sections which include
many books each . Many verses dealing with
trees and ecology come from these books ,
as well as from Torah.
James Packman is the coordinator of
the Jewi.vh Cultural Center.

believe that others different from themselves
must adhere to their own beliefs. As cultural
beliefs are challenged, there is always the
possibility of scapegoating because change
is threatening.
During the racist cartoonist Jonah
Loeb's meeting with Evergreen students,
only one white student besides the editorial
staff bothered to attend . Where were you?
Perhaps the most disconcerting aspect
of the front page article on TESC was the
lack of editorial responses fromstudents and
alumni alike. And as for the misleading
college catalog depicting many students of
color, what ever happened to truth in
advertising?
George Bralina is a member of the
Evergreen community.

Writer advocates life of obscurity
by Jay Rebnberg
I'm one of those people who needs a
roadmap with the "road to right living" stamp
of approval on it to know what to do in a
given situation ~i.e., I can get uncomfortable
with aggressive women). I think this is part
of the reason my life gets (has gotten) so
tumultuous here at Evergreen.
llike to get an idea of my parameters,
what's acceptable, what's not.
I think I've always pretty much figured
out what the minimum was for me to get by,
do it, and then melt into the woodwork. I
don't just mean academically either. I do it

with jobs I've had, and in my relationships.
I'm sounding pretty selfish, I guess so. but
who knows? Poor me, right?
My intimidating father instilled a
yearning for failure, an egotistical attitude
destined to cripple sustained intimacy, and
penis envy. However shall I find happiness
after being jaded so? And how come you
never hear about breast envy, you know it
exists?
So back to this minimalist thing. By
slipping into the woodwork, one can find

see breast envy, page 10

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Zapatista soldier speaks, about Chiapas struggle
hy Andrew Lyons
Masked by a black bandanna and
Knil ski cap, Zapatista soldier Luis (not
11 i ,~ reul name) spoke via translator to
[ vc rgreen students and staff yesterday in
Ihe Library lobby.
For his own safety, no one was
alloweu to take photographs while he was
unmasked.
Luis is a member of the primarily
ir.digionous Liberation party, and was in
Chi ;lpas, Mexico, when the party
Ol'Cupieu the town a little over two weeks
:Igo to oppose NAFfA and fight for land
ricl1ts .
.
Th e Mexican military retaliated
:Ind , ac cording to Luis, killed
approximately 500 people. Still others
l1ave simply disappeared. Also families in

since Jan. 4, talking to anybody who will
listen. He had been up since 6 a.m. that
day, talking to reporters via phone.
"I came here to explain to the
American people, to unionists and others,
as an indigenous man, so that you could
hear the voice of the indigenous," he said
in an earlier interview conducted in
Spanish, (hen translated,
Luis stated that the Zapatista have
lillie support in Mexico for land rights.
He also hopes to rally support to
be accepted as a member of the
Indigenous Without Land Commiuee.
" Instead of government people, it should
he indigenous people that are sent in to
nC'gotime," he said,
"The Mexican government is
running this in a very demagogic way,"

he said.
At the Evergreen meeting, he
denounced President Salinas as "the
president of the rich," and stated in a
question and answer period of the
mceting, that rumors of Zapatista allies
in Ihe democmtic party were totally false.
The fight is for land, Luis said.
Acmrding to him, about 500 indigenous .
soldi ers have died, He also said that the
army "has not been respectful of its cease
tire."
"Many are disappeared, or
massacred and put into a common grave,"
he said. "If we didn't take up arms, we
would have starved to death; it was our
la ~ 1 resource."
local student activists plan to
org:lIlize aid caravans to Chiapas.
Andy Lyons is CPJ A&E editor.

Wellness Center welcomes you

Breast envy, 'rompage'O

by Barbara Gibson
. The Addiction Prevention and Well ness
Resource Center wants to let you know about
Ihe resources it has to heIp bring more peace
of mind and physical health into your lives.
First of all, the Center is located in CRC
208 and our phone extension is 6725.
As you can see from our name, our
center has two main foci.
These foci combine together to build a
range of books and references on subjccts
likc alcohol/drug abuse, how to build your
self esteem, stress reduction, smoking cessation , and holistic healing.
Books are available for your use in the
Center, pamphlets arc free, and relaxation
tapes with tape players can be checked out for
two hours, (please bring student id to check
out tapes and players).
Another offering in the Resource Center

peace and happiness (it says so in the Tao Te
Ching). It's true.
It may even be worth growing my hair
long, wearing raggedy hand-me-downs from
some ex-airport grounds crew, and
incorporating a look of grovelling angst just
so I can stand around the CAB and have
people look right through me.
Now 1 can see some of you putting
your noses up at such actions, but I can assure
you that such abilities are true gifts not to be
taken lightly. Besides, it gives you the inside
track to knowing if someone is an asshole or
not (because only cool people would talk to
you stoopid!).
Anyway, Evergreen always seems a
step ahead of me. Just when I think I've
finally cloaked myself, I'll get a darting,
askance look from some hipster that makes
me wet my pants for all to see. Sh<5t down,
it's back to the drawing board for the

Chameleon.
Well, as you may have guessed (or
not), I'm still searching for that special
something. I'm the first to admit that I don't
understand this place, and what it takes to
get by here. So if you have any adviee, .. tell
me how it is,
.
Via con Dios mis amigos! Muchas
gracias!
.
•
Jay dedicates this piece to M.
"Donkey/ace" Logan.

"Many are
disappeared, or
massacred or put in
a common grave."
-"Luis"
Ciliapas have been constantly harassed by
Ill\.' military, Luis doesn't know if his
o\\'n family is still alive.
" I'm not a commander of any
kind," said Lu is through translator Jaime
Mandcz. ''I'm a soldier."
Luis has been touring the U.S.

. Viewpoint
for students, staff and faculty who are
involved with or interested in recovery
from addictions is an ongoing group which
takes place in CRe 208 from 6:00 until
7:30 p.m. every Wednesday evening. This
group revolves around Charlotte Kasl's
book A New Understanding of
Recovery ... Many Roads, One Journey,
Moving Beyond 12 Steps.
Please feel free to stop by and browse,
ask questions, or make suggestions. We
have a comfortable couch, a teapot, and
peaceful space in which to relax.
Barbara Gibson is a substance abuse
prevention intern andfull-time Evergreen
student.

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Sound can't thwart DiFranco
by Dan Ewing
Ani DiFranco played to a standing
room only crowd in the Library last Friday,
and showed the kind of style and energy
whieh has made her a major player in the
independent music world.
Technically, DiFranco's show had
major problems. A long sound check failed
to produce satisfactory results, partially due
to the fact that DiFranco's manager had sent
the spec sheet for a DiFranco solo show.
When she showed up there was a drummer
with her which sent people scurrying around
all day in search of extra equipment.
According to DiFranco, the monitors were
never satisfactory, before or during the show.
Two of the three stage monitors went out for
the second set.
Actually, despite these problems, the
sound was good from the' audience. DiFranco
has a powerful guitar style that relies heavily
on partial open chords and finger picking.
In a town of mediocre guitarists (myself
included) it
a relief to hear someone play
who obviously knew what she was doing .
My only complaint about her playing was
that the guitar signal was sent through a
signal processor which made it sound very
digital and new-agey,notsomething I'm fond
of and certainly not something she needed.
DiFranco has a powerful voice which
some might cheapen with comparisons to
Sinead O'Conner. She has a significant range
which she used to tell her stories about not
fining in,-being her own person and the like.
Sometimes, well, usually, when she would
hit some of the higher notes in her songs her
voice would sort of warble. This was of
course intentional and I'm sure some people
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Between the songs she seemed to be
preoccupied with the young kids in the
audience, which there were plenty of, and
generally seemed giddy throughout the
performance despite the technical
difficulties. Way to go Ani. She also talked
about being on tour and stuff, and being
labeled "may contain mature themes" and
wanting to run over some typically rude Diy
punk rocker type.
The crowd just ate it all up like candy
and there was plenty of dancing around (one
particularly nasty woman hippy-shook by
me too close for comfort, causing me to
change my seat). I wondered about the type
of crowd DiFranco usually attracts, and
wondered how this Olympia crowd
compared. The audience and the performer
seemed to like each other a whole lot.
I left the show during the second set,
shortly after a particularly stirring version
of the song overlap which was played
without the drummer. The combination of
the warbling voice and the crowd started to
get to me and 1had to leave. But I had been
there for two hours - she gave people what
they paid for ($8 to 12 for a two hour-plus
show).
I would prefer to see Ani DiFranco
play in the subway or some place like that
- just her and her guitar. No effects and no
wOl:nen breast feeding their children in the
lobby.
DiFranco has a new compact disc
cbmmg ()jj[in a month or soc alIecrOut of
Range, and if you don't have any of her
material, this is probably a good place to
start. Even if the midi and the vibrato in her
voice don't tum you on, Ani DiFranco is
one of the best song writers of our time.
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The Good: The 194 minutes of colorization that, for reasons unfathomable.
harrowing, shattering beauty in B&W.
Spielberg needed to whomp the audience
The Bad: The 2 minutes of that damned over the heads with, twice. Remove the two
pink dress.
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The Ugly: That this actually happened. startl ing in its perfection.
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Like Gone With the Wind, this is a
When it comes to movies, I'm heartless. movie that defines an era, forever taking rOOI
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Bev: He wasn't to Catholic to sleep with .her
where one man's life work is supposedly
more imporumtthan another' s dreams and
ambitions ,
I' m sure that it's all a penis thing.
I' ve been here too long.
David has really lost it. Two weeks
on speed and he thinks he's a junkie.
Ijving prouf that Reagan-era drug eduprugralllming .worked in some of our
lcssC' f beings .
N ice lO sec him try and make up

h.I' Seth "Skippy" Long
WC'II, the big night was upon us
;In.! wC're we let down? Hell yes!
I' ll be the first to admit that my
Ii ollywood source was slightly off the
1Il ,lrk, All that late November talk about
J,I), fathering Andrea's baby seem to have
l1<'en for naught.
Now that he has moved away from
Andrea's Ooor, we don ' t see him at all.
\Ve neC'd Jay back, it is always nice to
lia ve a long-haired SNAG (Sensitive Ne w
Age Guy) playing the villain on TV .
Jay may return yet. Andrea could
ha ve fingered the wrong culprit. I mean,
le t's face it , she wasn't exactly a
stunning example of virtue this fall. But
that would be blaming her for this and I
rc fu se to get into that.
That tender scene with Brandon in
the dorm room was so damn beautiful!
Did you catch the line about how last
ye ar " I was on my way to Yale ," and
no w ... she' s pregnant. Big deal.
Are they saying that pregnancy is
the polar opposite of the obvious social
high point of attending prestigious Yale
Uni versity? What tripe!
Aaron Spelling may not be the
conservative freak lance thought him to
be. Maybe, just maybe, Andrea will go
through wi th the abortion instead of
cav ing in to Jesse's medieval rantings
co urtesy of the Catholic church. But this
is spcc ulation on my part. All we have to
go on is the trailer.
.
In othcr news. , .
Brandon has decided to throw his
life away in exchange for running Nat's
greasy spoon. This all has something to
do with one of those bizarre male rituals

hy nan Ewing
Abo ut thrce wecks ago I began
li ving in fear. People started casing my
lIou se, driving by really slow and
looking in the windows, people would
ca ll , ask for me, then hang up when they
round o ut whether or not I was at home.
I dyed my hair, I took on disguises,
I rare ly left home. I trusted very few
people, becau se one of my ' friends' had
tri ed to set me up to be iced so that he
lIIight score some of the devil's weed. I
Il ad diffic ullY concentrating on anything
hilt th e game.
. M y first kill was right outside
L"b 2 and I was bubbling with
l'xt'ilement. I shot him down with no
trouble, no witnesses, no gunfights. Slick
as Sllot, chased him down and shot him
in the side.
My second victim was also easy.
The fool had shown himself to me by
milli ng by my house, thinking I wouldn't
be carefu l, looking out for him, Wrong.
A II the doors were locked and I wasn't
about to let him in. I shot him in the
back the next day while his hands were
full in thc projcction booth of the theater.
Once again the blood coursed happily
through my veins.
The n I got s loppy. Two days later I
let Illy g uard down and left the house
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TESC-The Men's Abuse Survivor
Support Group meets every Tuesday from
6 to 8 p.m. in L4004.

SUPER BOWL-It is the official
day of the armchair. Testosterone rises to
lethal levels and pants drop below the
underwear strap.
. Today, ' complete strangers will
form alliances and old friends will
become biller rivals. Many families will
have huge reunions.
Today the dust will be wiped off
the big screen TV at your favorite bar.
People will get mad and yell at other
people who are very far away and cannot
hear them.
It is the day of cheap beer and
starchy foods , the day lO break all Newyears resolutions. It is sacred to some, a
prime ad slot to others. It is a day to get
stupid drunk and watch large men in pads
and tight pants, run kick, tackle and slap
each other on the ass.
It is also a day with one of the
highest increases of domestic violence .
The number for Safeplace is 754-6300.

OL YMPIA-Bon e Cellar,
Il yperlllllg and Tall Toad will be
p,' rrorlll inl' at th e Cupitol Theater at 9
W;IS gunlll.:d down, shot in the back of the
hrad while washing my hands in. the
Illl'JI'S room al Thekla.
The organii'.er of the whole sordid
gamr , whom we will call Joey, consoled
Illl' saying that I had done well and had
Iw;tcll to the final third. It felt good, but I
had been playing to win.
'
My room mate was disgl!sted by
tIll! wholL: tiling , the way everyone lOok it
so seriously. My 'friend' David, the one
\\' Ilo tried to set me up, had this to say of
the game and it's players: "It's way super
gay, and i r I ever l'ind out who any of
thosl! dumb sassy asses arc J'JT] going to
kill them ."

p .111.
13 were killed on the first day (four by a
s ingl e assassin's hand), As I write this
there are eight left, and their days are
numbered. A new game will start on the
13th of February and the old game, if it
is still unresolved, will be voided.
I have learned from my mistakes
:lod will do belter next time. I know this
- it is belter 10 kill and to have been
kill r d, than 10 not have killed at all.

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State Capitol Rotunda. The exhibit
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the CAB TODAY (Thursday January 27th) and next Thursday
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TESC-Evergreen Students For
Christ meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m.
L2219 for singing, friendship and
discussion.
TESC-Bread and Rose's is
looking for people to donate old book
bags, backpacks and duffle bags to the
homeless. The "Bag Drive" will go from
8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the second floor of
the CAB.
TESC-TEMPO (The Evergreen
Music Production Organization) is a
group dedicated to bringing band
performances to campus. They have a
weekly meeting in CAB 320 and anyone
interested is invited to attend.
TESC-It's jazz night at Cafe
Verde. Performing will be The Jacob
Riedt Trio, Bouillon Cube and original
Evergreen jazz. It all starts at 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY
TESC-Beyond the Dream VI, "A
Celebration of Black History," a PBS
Video Conference will be held in CAB
315 from 10 a~m. to noon.

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TESC-The
Environmental
Resource Center holds a film series every
Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Lecture Hall 3.
Tonight's film is Global Assembly Line,

Stepan Chemical, Dirty Business: Toxic
Racism in the "Third World."

SEATILE-In celebration of Black
History Month, THE GROUP, Seattle's
MultiCultural Theatre, presents Lorraine
Hansberry's To Be Young, Gifted &
Black. The performance will be at THE
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TESC-Women staff, students
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on the radio as Brandon awoke, "A
thousand miles an hoUr ... and no wonder
my shrink says I'm tense."
Pure poetry, Bev style. I can't
wait until next week to ' see Skip's ·
predictions prove false, yet again.

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DSB'! Again, Skip, I've got to put
Ill y foot down . On your face.
This particular instance of the Bev
was far from a disappointment. We got to
laugh at the camera work, jest at Brenda's
hairdo llnd see David experience his

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Etc.

Campus drill simulates earthquake, from cover
sleepin g when the alarms went off.
Disoriented, she ran out of A-dorm in her
ni ghtgown, ye lling, "Holy shit, an
earthquake, I'm gonna die! "
Another student, who identified
him self only as "a possible graduating
senior," said, " I was out in the parking
lot, but some guy tipped me off when I
was on the way [to campus]. I was
hqping to be back in time so I could be
in ~he Bookstore when it went off, so
that I could do some looting. I really need
some cough drops."
Student Jeff Kotanzhick, who was
in the Lecture Halls said jokingly, "It
was really scary."
CP J columnist Rob Taylor was
also in the Lecture Halls. He said, "We
were in the middle of a lecture by
Gonzalo Munevar about paradigm shifts.
And we thought that the earthquake [drill)
was a particularly interesting paradigm
shift ... We couldn't exactly see anything
shaking, but what we did is, we moved
our heads back and forth so we could see
the building shaking."

But while studentS joked, and
enjoyed what one student described as "a
big communal smoke break,"
administrators monitored the evacuations
and wo!'ried about what would happen if .
an earthquake actually shook Evergreen.
President Jane Jervis said, "I think
people have evacuated the buildings
calmly and without panic, but I don't
know if that would have been the case
had an earthquake actually occurred."
In an eerie coincidence,
Evergeen's "simulated earthquake" was
actually planned before the earthquake hit
Los Angeles.
On Friday, Jan. 14, Doug
Shanafelt, who distributes campus mail,
was supposed to distribute a campus-wide
bulletin about the drill. But, he says, he
had no help that day and was unable to
finish the distribution until Tuesday, Jan.
18, after the King holiday, and after the
earthquake hit L.A.
Environmental Health and Safety
Officer Jill Lowe has wanted to have such
a drill since last spring.

Lowe chose Tuesday morning for
the drill because Tuesdays and Thursdays
are the highest pop'u1ation days on
campus. She estimated that about 2,000
people on campus participated in the
drill .
Executive Vice President, T.L.
"Les" Puree said that the recent quake in
Los Angeles made the drill more
effective. "We had great timing. Everyone
responded very well. We had a real
increase in interest from people because
of it," he said.
Puree says the California quake
caused him to look at campus in a new
way. "If you begin to look at the way
that buildings are constructed, particularly
what we've learned about the support of
concrete," he said, "I think this probably
gives impetus to the requests that we've
made on an annual basis in our capital
budget for reinforcement in regard to
earthquake preparedness."
College administrators also worried
about the safety of exisiting structures. "I
took a look at that big slab of concrete up

there on those little skinny poles," said
Jervis, gesturing toward the overhang
above the main Library entrance.
"Somehow they : look like
toothpicks now." agreed Puree.
"We've [requested] money in our
capital budget for earthquake
reinforcements for the last couple of
bienniums; it hasn't been funded by the .
legislature," said Purce. "But we'll
continue to include it"
Lowe was pleased with the results
of the drill. "I think it went really well.
My general impression is that people
were interested, and were glad that it was
going to happen. We kept it short and
sweet, trying to get people in and out,"
she said.
In its entirety, the simulated
earthquake lasted less than 15 minutes.
There were no simulated aftershocks.
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This schedule does not include the interviews with Barbara Mossberg because she's already gone. Of course, you remembered to clip
and save the schedule we printed for her two weeks ago, so you could attend
Help choose our new "faculty boss." You can influence the provost search committee via:
·e-mail: prodtf@elwha.evergreen edu
·voicemail at x6386
·evaluation form: available at all fonuns.
All of the following are open interviews and discussions. We have nOllisted fancy dinners and the like which are not open to d:te public.

Dr. Merrill Lessley

Dr. David Potter

Monday, Jan. 31

Monday, Feb. 7

11 :45 am. to 1: 15 p.m.: Diversity/Multiculturalism,CAB 108.
3 to 5 p.m.: Challenges of the Curriculm, CAB 110
5:30 to 7:30 p.m.: Public Service, LAB I 1047

11:45 to 1:15: Diversity/Multiculturalism, CAB 108
3 to 5 p.m.: Challenges of the Curriculwn, CAB 110
5:30 to 7:30 p.m.: Public Service LAB I 1047

Tuesday, Feb. 1

Tuesday, Feb. 8

9 to 11 a.m.: Governance/decision-making, L 3112
noon to 1: 15 p.m.: all campus presentation, Q&A, Library lobby
2 to 3 p.m. Student Centeredness, L4004
3 10 4 p.m.: Doing more with less: High quality, Low Resources, L4004

9 to 11 a.m. Governance! Decision Making Board Room, L3112
noon to 1:15 p.m. AlI-campus presentation, Q&A, Recital Hall
2 to 3 p.m. Student Centeredness, Board Room L31I2
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