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: My bedclothes stained,
: the heady odor
, lingers in my room
• untlll cast my wet window open
, and breathe the crisp winter air.
My head thickens with sadness.
I am slothful,
unable to shake off this sorrow.
Only moments ago (or days?)
you were here.
Ashamed by my actions
I cry for innocence.
His voice tortures me
and clouds my intellect.
Doubt eats at my heart.
Smell. My hands smell of your semen.
It will not wash off.
Obsessively I rub
only making my hands raw.
It was our decision
to embrace this sharing.
I will sleep away the doubt
to wake up with brown eyes
Precious words remain
distant, compel me to question
Was it real? Yes!
the newness made me anxious.
The day seemed unnatural.
Loneliness achieves ~ts strength
just before sleep, when the
moisture leaks-inside my window
and drips upon the sill .
by Giselle Weyte
Several Evergreen students ha.ve
filed grievances as a result of an
altercation Wednesday, March 11.
During a Student Activities meeting
called to discuss the sign on the door of
the Women of Color Coalition office, as
well as other student group concerns,
Paul Blair entered the Student Activities
area, took two photos of the sign and
~was immediately- approached by Ronke Adekanbi, a member of the Coalition,
who told him to stop laking pictures of
the Women of Color office door. As they
spoke, Blair took a picture of Adekanbi
and Adekanbi demanded that the film be
turned over to her because the photo was
taken without consent.
Blair refused.
Adekanbi reached to take the camera;
Blair wrapped his arms around the
camera and dropped to the floor.
Adekanbi continued to try and get the
camera away from him . At this point
Eugene Fujimoto, Director of First
Peoples Advising Services, .md several
others separated t.he two.
Fujimoto ushered l3Iair into the
conference room and explained the
circumstances of the meeting that he had
interrupted. Blair explained that he had
been very upset by the sign. Fujimoto
invited Adekanbi into the room with the
hopes of reaching some s<?rt of an
agreement Adekanbi demanded the film;
Blair refused to give iL up.
At several points during the
discussion in the conference room Blair
attempted to leave and was forcefully
detained. Security was called and Officer
Bob Webb also tried to negotiate a
compromise. None could be found. The newest sign on the Women of Color Coalition's door is not the object of the
Thurston County Sheriffs were called in. current controversy. See the surrounding stories and pages 8 and 9 for more
information concerning, and further discussion of, the issues. photo by David
see Incident, page 10
Mattingly
: Mumbling movements eyelid flutterings
• sheets askew tender touches
•• languid lips surrender
Give in to emotion
-resist bestial stirrings
Expose flesh to flesh
-cover your body from desire.
He comes into·
my room one night.
It is late, but I stay awake.
"You control the pain,"
so I guide him inside
moving to my need.
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The EverJreen State College
Olympla, WA 98505
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Condom?
by Giselle Weyte
As of Monday, April 6, the sign on
the Women of Color Coalition office door
reads, "No racism and no sexism allowed
in this office, by order of the Women of
Colour Coalition."
This sign replaces the original sign
posted Friday, March 6, by Ronke
Adekanbi, a member of the Coalition,
which read, "If you are a white person
you're not allowed in this office especially white males. Don't even bother
knocking. If you're a male of color, we
might consider it. It will all depend on
how we feel about you. Now if this note
is a problem for you, come talk to me
about it. I dare you!"
Since its posting, that original sign
has created heated controversy among the
Evergreen student groups and
administration . The Women of Color
Coalition has been criticized by many for
barring access to their office on the basis
of race and gender; they have also been
supported by many people, both of color
and of non-color, in their efforts to define
their own space.
In the Student Activities area, the
sign has been the topic of much
discussion.
Concerns that it was
discriminatory on the basis of race and
gender, and therefore illegal, were brought
to Jan Frickleton, of the attorney general's
office. Frickleton felt that the sign was
indeed discriminatory and told
administrators that in allowing the Women
of Color Coalition to deny access to
students on the basis of race and gender,
Evergreen was vulnerable to the
withdrawal of all federal funding for the
college, including financial aid.
According to Tom Mercado, Director
see Coalition, page 10
Board selects president: Jane Jervis
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by A,ndrew Hamlin and Paul H. Henry
Dr. Jane Jervis will be the next
Evergreen State College President, the
college's Board of Trustees announced
yesterday at 1:30 pm during its monthly
meeting.
Jervis, currently Dean of Bowdoin
College in Brunswick, Maine, will
assume the office on August I, 1992,
replacing Interim President Thomas L.
"Les" Purce, according to the Board.
Jervis will become the first female
president of a four-year college or
university in Washington slate.
"It's a little scary, and it's very
exciting. I'm thrilled," said Jervis in a
phone interview from Maine. "Evergreen
has been a gleam in the comer of my
eye for 20 years, ever since its
inception."
Jervis will be on campus for a
news conference at 10:30 am Monday,
April i3, followed by a campus reception
for her that afternoon, the Board
announced. The new president said she
plans to spend the next four months
"getting to know the lay of the land" in
. Washington Slate, and wrapping up her
work at Bowdoin.
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Dr·. Jervis has been Dean of
Bowdoin since 1988, and served as acting
president of the college during the
summer of 1990; she was Dean of
Students and Associate Professor of
History at Hamilton College from 1982
to 19S7. She earned a Ph.D in History of
Science from Yale University in 1978,
and participated in Yale's Seminar
Program from 1978 to 1982.
Carol Vipperman, Board of Trustees
Chair,
said
the
Board
finalized
negotiations with Jervis "as of 12:30 pm
today," after a telephone call to Maine
during their executive session (closed to
the public). The announcement came at
1:30 pm, and Board Secretary Lila Shaw
Girvin made the official motion to
approve Jervis at l:4S .
Vipperman thanked everyone who
submitted written evaluations of the six
presidential candidates, saying that the
Board "took those evaluations under very
serious consideration."
The 1:30 meeting, open to the
public, was charged with emotion.
Faculty, staff, and community members
greeted the announcement with applause,
prompting Vipperman to laugh and ask,
"Is that for her or for us?"
Les Purce, who became Interim
President
after
Joseph
Olander's
resignation in September 1990, fought
back tears as Vipperman and other Board
members honored him for eighteen
months of service. "Fred's crying!"
someone said, referring to Board member
Frederick Haley, and someone else
replied, "Good for Fred!"
"I kept trying to look at someone
who wasn't crying," said Vipperman after
the meeting.
According to Vipperman, Puree will
negotiate with the Board and with Jervis
as La whether or not he will Slay 9n at
the college after August 1. Purce's old
position, Vice President for College
Advancement, no longer exists.
Vipperman also said that Jervis will
meet soon with Dr. Art Costantino, who
has been offered the job of Evergreen's
Vice President of Student Affairs.
Coslantino, currently with the University
of Toledo in Ohio, Slated in mid-March
that he would not take the position until
he had an opportunity to speak with the
college's new president.
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NEWS BRIEFS
Senate ignores
financial aid bill
WASHINGTON--State Rep. Ken
Jacobsen, D-Seaule, said he is
disappointed and confused by the state '
Senate's refusal to act on legislation he
sponsored that would have helped
thousands of m'iddle-income families with
their children's college expenses.
House Bill 2729, which was
unanimously approved by the state House
of Representatives, failed to even get
hearing in the Senate Higher Education
Committee. The bill would have extended
state financial aid to families earning up to
$49,000 a year, and made it easier for
some, families to qualify.
Jacobsen's bill also would have
shielded families ' primary homes, a
portion of their savings, and the equity of
their fanns and businesses when
calculating eligibility for fin ancial aid.
Low-income students would still have
received first priority for the aid, but HB
2729 would have made more middleincome stud ents eligible for grants and
work-study assistance, he said.
Costantino
offered VP post
EVERGREEN--An offer has been made to
Dr. Art Costantino for the position of vice
president of student affairs. Dr. Costantino
is currently associate vice president for
student affairs at the University of Toledo
in Ohio, where he served for more than a
year as Interim Vice President for Student
. Affairs.
One of Dr. Costantino's major
contributions will stem from his work in
the area of cultural pluralism.
Dr. Costantino has indicated he is
very interested in the position and
particularly enjoyed his visit to the campus
in January. He wishes to talk with his
family and also wants the opportunity to
talk with Evergreen's new president before
making his decision. If for any reason he
does not accept the position, it will be the
prerogative of the new president to renew
the search process .
"This is such a bad book that you want to
swat it with a rolled up newspaper,
meanwhile scolding 'Bad book! Bad book!'"
Book reviewer, Cyra McFadden, on the thriller novel Embrace the
Serpent, co-written by ~arilyn Quayle and her sister Nancy Northcott.
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Free shots at
Health Center
EVERGREEN--The Student Health Center
will be offering free vaccinations for
measles, mumps, rubella, and tetanus and
diphtheria in the CAB from lOam to 2
pm on Wednesday, April 15.
Many young adults received
vaccinations before the age of two.
Recent studies have indicated the
vaccinations for measles, mumps, and
rubella may not have been effective, and
health care professionals now recommend
a booster shot. Tetanus and diptheria
boosters are recommended every ten years.
If you cannot remember if you have
received any of these vaccinations, it does
not hurt to have the shots again. Two
shots will be available: one for measles,
mumps, and rubella , the other for tetanus
and diptheria.
Pregnant women or those planning
to become pregnant within three months
should not be vaccinated against measles.
If you have any questions regarding
the vaccinations, come to the Health
Center in Seminar Building 2100, or call
at 866-6000 x62oo.
The scoop on
IT's bus changes
THURSTON COUNTY--On Sunday,
March 29, Intercity Transit (LT.)
implemented a new fare structure. This is
the first time Intercity Transit has changed
bus fares in ten years. The changes are
due to inflation and the increasing cost of
providing transit services. The new fare
rates were approved by the LT. Authority
in February after reviewing public
comments on the proposed fares.
The new fares for adults and youths
arc $.50 per boarding and $1.00 for a
dail y pass , which allows unlimited riding.
Monthly passes are now $18 for adults
and $ 10 for youths. Fares for senior
citizens and persons with disabilities are
now $.25 for a single ride, $.50 for a day
pass, and $5 for a monthly pass.
Also Intercity Transit has changed
its bus service to The Evergreen State
College, adding Route 44. Route 44,
which had been deleted in Sept. 1991, has
been restored and now extends from
Capital Mall to Evergreen, providing a
direct connection every 30 minutes
between South Puget Sound Community
College and TESC.
For more information on changes,
call Intercity Transit Customer Service at
786-188 1.
Meeting for
TESC bicyclists
EVERGREEN--Riding bicycles to campus
is good for the environment but can be
hard on fire codes and hand rails,
according to Facilities staffers who have
called a meeting at 1 pm, Wednesday,
April 15, in CAB 110 to discuss
alternative "parking spots" for bicycles
locked to an outdoor Library Building
stairway.
The stairway railing leading from the
Housing.proposes rent
increase for 1992-93
Library overhang to the First Floor Lobby
is often decked with bicycles locked to the
rails and the Fire Department says this
practice violates fire codes, according to
Barbara Crossland; project manager in
Facilities. Access to the rails for mose
who need them most is sometimes
blocke4, and there is also concern about
increase
on hand-rail wood.
Crossland is organizing a meeting
for all students, faculty, and staff to
discuss alternate locations and varieties of
bike racks. Lots of considemtions go into
placing bike mcks (for instance, they block
regular maintenance if they're'on a lawn).
Therefore, in addition to Crossland,
representatives from Grounds and
Maintenance, Security, the campus
architect and safety officer, S&A, and the
College Recreation Center will be there.
Call Barb Crossland at x6135 for more
information.
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Body lotion and
racy vi-deos
EVERGREEN--In the midst of the debate
on the dwindling amount of federally
funded controversial art is Martha Wilson,
founder and director of New York City' S
Franklin Furnace Archive, a performance
space and archive of avant-garde art. She
is scheduled to speak at 7:30 pm, April 16
in the Library Lobby at The Evergreen
State College.
Wilson's multi-media presentation ,
"How I Single-Handedly Brought Down
the NEA," will include a screening of the
controversial video which caused the
National Endowment for the Arts to reject
Franklin Furnace's $25,000 grant request.
The 70-minute video, "Appearances Can
Be Deceiving" by performance artist
Scarlet 0, includes scenes of the artist
stripping and inviting the audience to rub
lotion on het body, scenes 100 racy for the
NEA.
Under Wilson's leadership, Franklin
Furnace had received numerous NEA
grants during the past 16 years ~nd is
responsible for boosting the careers of
such well-known performers as Laurie
Anderson and Eric Bogosian.
REDUCE'
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RECYCLE
Student sentenced for
A-dorm Halloween assault
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by Bryan Connors
The Evergreen student arrested for
assault last October 31 (Halloween), pled
gUilty to second degree assault on
Wednesday, March 25 , in Thurston
County Superior Court.
Daniel J. McCluskey, 22, was
sentenced to nine months in the Thurston
County Jail by Judge Paula Casey, and
began serving his sentence on Monday,
March 30. McCluskey was suspended
from the Evergreen State College in
November.
Other stipulations of McCluskey 's
criminal sentence are that he have no
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II SECURITY
Tuesday, March 10
1031: Fire alarm went off in CAB due to
sanding by construction workers on the
third floor.
Wednesday, March 11
0522: Second floor CAB copy machine
found damaged.
1334: A disturbance was reported in the
CAB's third floor S & A office (see
cover).
Thursday, March 12
1806: Person reported the smell of burning
paper coming from around the Bookstore.
Security officers investigated and found
burnt flyer near the CAB ' s first floor
stairwell.
1922: Resident was reported to be
extremely ill. 911 was called and resident
was transported to Capital Medical Center.
Friday, March 13
0035: Visitor reported his pool cue stolen
from A-dorm pit.
0204: Student reported his motorcycle
jacket, willi keys and wallet in the pockets,
stolen from the CAB' s third floor dance
area.
1426: III person transported to Capital
Medical Center.
16 14: Q-dorm resident was transported to
Capital Medical Center.
234 7: Custodian reported a cookie jar
toppled over in the locked up Deli.
Saturday, March 14
1108: Student Manager reported a fire in
the dorm circle.
22 16: Person reported students throwing
bottles off ninth floor of A-dorm.
Sunday, March 15
A relatively quiet day for campus security.
Monday. March 16
2338: Anonymous person from K-dorm
reported seven or eight naked men riding
bikes in the dorm area.
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Tuesday, March 17
1853: Woman A-dorm resident was
reported to be having severe abdominal
pains. 911 was called and she was
transported to Black Hills Hospital.
2230: Person reported to have seen a man
trying to get into a locked car in F-Iol.
2239: Rock & roll disturbance reported in
Modular housing. Possible alcohol
consumption reported.
Wednesday, March 18
]628: Person reported her five-year-old
son missing from the CAB.
Thursday, March 19
A relatively quiet day for campus security.
Friday, March 20
Another relatively quiet day.
Saturday, March 21
1707: Two-vehicle accident reported at the
entrance of the Library Loop. Minor
damage and no injuries reported.
Sunday, March 22
0101: Person at KAOS reported a bomb
threat against the station. The CAB was
cleared and locked up as a result.
Monday, March 23
1246: Faculty reported vehicle broken into
while parked in C-lot.
1620: Person reported mural defaced in Cdorm.
2331: Security Officer reported finding
eight boxes of Washington State archives
on the Se!)'linar building' s loading dock.
Tuesday, March 24
0900: Slide panel from Seminar building
elevator reported stolen.
Wednesday, March 25
A relatively quiet day for campus security.
Thursday, March 26
Another quiet day for eampus security.
Friday, March 27
0954: Vehicle towed from dorm loop.
Saturday, March 28
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Spring break madness ...
0000: Person affiliated with the bike shop
reported that a till bag containing cash was
stolen.
Sunday, March 29
2045: Big vehicle rammed a CPJ staffer's
father's vehicle in the dorm loop.
Monday, March 30
1935: Student reported that his girl friend
had been missing since Saturday.
Tuesday, March 31
1900: Harassing phone calls were reported
to be left on the Woman of Color
Coalition's voice mail.
2038: Crime Watch patrol-person reported
possible drug dealing in F-lot.
Wednesday, April 1
1812: Woman student reported suspicious
nude male at the beach area.
2212: Person reported that the side
window of his vehicle had been shattered
while parked in C-Iot.
Thursday, April 2
1607: Woman reported her nine-year-old
son missing. The boy was later found and
returned.
1625: Fire alarm went off in the CRC due
to pull station being maliciously pulled.
Friday, April 3
1200: Person reported a bike stolen from
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outSide the first floor of the Library
building.
1418: Sign found broken down at the
beach entrance.
1935: Wet cement in front of A-dorm
found defaced.
2325: Two men reported to be making a
disturbance in A-dorm.
Saturday, April 4
1730: Fire blanket reported stolen from
first floor of Lab II.
Sunday, April 5
1215: Student Manager reported a CD
player and VCR stolen from A-dorm's
Edge.
1632: Person reported his bike stolen from
A-dorm.
1802: Person reported her bike stolen from
G-dorm.
Monday, April 6
1452: Fire alarm went off on the eighth
floor in A-dorm due to faulty detector.
Security performed 166 public
services (unlocks, escorts, jump starts,
etc.) the last four weeks. Honorary
mentions go to A. D, R, and S-dorms for
an amazing amount of burnt food fire
alarms during this time period.
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by Loren D. Rupp
Just about every , Housing memo
pertaining to financial matters starts out
with a line something like: "As you are
aware, Housing is ' completely self
. supporting, we receive no monies from the
state .... " Of course private apartments get
no state subsidies either. So why does
your Housing dollar get you less, at least
in terms of square footage, than you can
get by living off campus?
In a few days, Housing will be
presenting a proposal to the Board of
Trustees to raise rental rates by around 5%
next year, which translates into about $lO
extra dollars a month. This follows an 8%
rise this year and regular increases in
previous years. The reason cited for the
rise is an increase in operating costs,
including refuse disposal , bond payments,
utilities,~ and staff salaries.
Housing has had its share of
criticism about how the rent is spent. For
The recycling crew: (back row)
example, for several years now, various
Patrick Gerring, Greg Wright, Allen
parts of the Housing grounds has been
Colhoun, David Potter (front row)
torn up for repairs in a long series of
Bonnie Ward, Cori Salmon and Mark
unsightly, gaping trenches. First it was in
Kormandy. Not pictured is Kris
the Phase II area. Now its the pit in front
Bridgeford. photo by Bob Aldous
of A-dorm, which is still being worked on
after 200 days. There have been many
structural problems with the Phase II and
III apartments, including flooded
foundations, exploding pipes and sagging
floors. It has also been suggested that the
Housing front office is a bit "top heavy" in
contact with the victim, William Baxter, it's administrative staffing. In general, the
for the next ten years, and that he pay full Housing budget statement is a mire of
restitution for medical costs to Baxter, confusing terms and mysterious outlay.
who was beaten over the head and
Jeannie Chandler, Director of
lacerated with a glass container.
Housing, says that she too is concerned
According to the prosecutor of the about these issues, but that in general she
case, Greg Rosen, the amount of believes that the rent at Evergreen
restitution is yet to be determined. Also, Housing is pretty reasonable. She claims
McCluskey'S sentence could be reduced that Housing rates here are a bargain when
for good behavior.
compared to other public schools across
As reported in the November 17 the state. "In fact, at most of those
edition of the CP1, McCluskey and Baxter schools, housing is given a portion of
became engaged in an argument that lead S&A funds from the state. Evergreen
to a shoving match last Halloween in the Housing receives none," she says.
lobby of Evergreen's A-dorm.
Chandler also addressed the issue of
McCluskey then smashed a glass the mechanical repairs in housing. "People
container across Baxter's face and head, might think that the work on the A-dorm
lacerating Baxter severely.
pit is being paid for by Housing, however
Bryan Connors still covers security the problem falls under the jurisdiction of
issues for the CPJ.
Facilities so the school is footing the bill ,
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not Housing." As for the other problen.3
with repairs, Chandler says that Housing
was generally dissatisfied with the quality
of work done by the contractors on Phase
II. "In many cases, the specs were not
met." She added that there may be
litigation pending on this, but that it was
in the hands of the State Attorney General.
In the mean time, Housing's
operational costs have gone up. And it
looks like the students will be paying for
it with a 5% rent increase, which translates
roughly into $100,000. The following is a
breakdown of the notable cost increases
for housing next year.
Staff: There are lO full time salaried
staff on the Housing payroll. Additionally,
there are many student positions including
student managers, office assistants and
maintenance personnel. J cannie Chandler
defends the size of the Housing staff as
comparable to other schools across the
state. The salaried staff and returning
student staff will be getting raj.ses next
year. Chandler says that these mises have
been mandated by the legislature along
with pay raises for all state workers.
Additionally, the cost of the health
insurance provided to the staff is jumping
significantly.
Bottom line: Staff salaries--3%
increase for $20,000
Staff health insumnce costs--inereased
by $17,000
Bond Payments: The Phase II and
III sections of Housing are still being paid
off under a twenty year plan starting in
1987 and 1989 respectively.
Bottom line: Bond payments--l %
increase for $15,000
Refuse and Utilities: There is a
major increase expected in the mtes
housing will have to pay to deposit trash
in area dumps.
Bottom line: Refuse (not including
recycling)--12.5% increase for $4,000
Utilities--2% for $4,000
So why does it cost so much to live
in Housing? Chandler attributes part of it
to state requirements. For instance,
Housing must conduct a yearly audit
which alone costs $20,000. Additionally,
all Housing employees are state workers
entitled to numerous benefits. And of
course Housing maintains a state of the art
fire detection and response system that can
be quite costly. Finally, there are many
special services provided by Housing that
would not be offered in an off-campus
apartment: student managers on duty 24
hours, special handicap access to dorms,
and resident activities including dances,
movies and cookouts.
An alternative plan to a rent increase
is to hold rates at the current level.
Housing claims that this would require
them to reduce personnel, activities and
services.
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Paula Butchko: .1944-1992 Will .Uil~Cola go under?
by Jane Laughlin
On Friday, April 3, communityyouth organized club the Un-Cola was
ordered shut down by the Olympia Fire
Department for not meeting fIre codes,
forcing the cancellation of Saturday's
Dead Moon show. This was the second
Olympia music venue to be closed down
that week, following the shutting down of
the Vortex by Olympia . police the
previous weekend.
The Un-Cola is located in the alley
between the Capitol Theatre on 5th and
Mario's on 4th. Open since early January,
it has hosted numerous musical events,
art shows, and benefit concerts . . But its
main purposes are as an outlet for
unsigned and unknown of bands of
Olympia's music scene, along with wellknown bands. It is the only club in the
area that is entirely run by community
volunteers.
Matt Zodrow, bassist of the band
Lemonade, led Monday's weekly meeting,
which convened to discuss the club's
closure. According to Zodrow, Fire
Brooks
Department Chief George
telephoned the morning of April 3 to
notify the Un-Cola that they would have
to shut down. Brooks then offered to
perform an unofficial inspection to give
a rough idea of what had to be done.
Brooks noted that the front and fire
doors needed to be replaced so that they
swing out into the alleys, fire
extinguishers needed to be replaced, and
the Un-Cola may need to be equipped
with a battery-powered lighting system in
case of power failure.
All of these things cost money. The
Un-Cola receives all funds from concert
cover charges and donations. Now, they
are $300 in debt, and had to borrow
from supporters to pay the $200 per
by Andrew Hamlin
Paula Butchko, Administrative
Assistant to the Evergreen Academic Dean
Michael Beug, died of cancer Tuesday,
March 31, at her home in Olympia. She
was 47 years old.
Butchko, who had worked under
8eug for six years, was first diagnosed
with breast cancer in July of 1990, but
continued to work while undergoing
treatment. "There were times during
chemo where she had to take extensive
sick leave," according to Beug, "but when
she was well enough to stand, she was at
work."
Her last day of work was Thursday,
March 26, when she completed the current
edition of Summer Times, the Evergreen
Summer school catalog, and sent it off to
the printer. Paula helped coordinate the
Summer school program , among her other
duties. She also co-owned and operated a
gourmet dog food company, Pro-Dog, with
her husband, Stephen Butchko.
"Her cheer and humor and dirty
jokes will be with us always," wrote the
Academic Deans in a memo announcing
her death, dated March 31. "She loved life
and lived her life fully." According to
Beug, when asked what she wanted done
with her body after death, Paula replied
that "she wanted to be freeze-dried and
stood up beside the mantel in her sister's
house."
A combined memorial and family
service for Paula was held Monday, April
6 at 3 pm in Evergreen's Library 4300
lounge.
She was born Paula Horoschak on
OCl. 11 , 1944, in Mahoning, Pennsylvania,
married Stephen A. Butchko in 1965, and
earned a degree in English from
University of Colorado. She began
working at the Registrar's office in 1980,
switching over to the Dean's office in
1984.
Survivors include her husband,
Stephen A. Butchko of Olympia; a
daughter, Andrea Hightower of Salt Lake
City; a son, Stephen G. Butchko of
Olympia; her mother, Anna Horoschak of
Stanford, Connecticut; a sister, Sandy
Horoschak of Stanford; and a brother,
Peter Horoschak of Stanford.
The family suggests that memorial
donations be made to the American
Cancer Society.
Andrew Hamlin is a CPJ staff writer ..
month rent. To acquire the twenty-five
dollars for the pre~occupancy inspection,
a hat was passed around at the meeting,
and the money was quickly raised.
Zodrow said that Olympia has a
history of authorities finding ways of
shulling down venues. "I've seen the
Tropic'ana go down, the Gesko, Reko
Muse, the Vortex, and now us," he said
Monday night. "The : Olympia Police
Department does seem to have a policy
of eliminating anything that deals with
youth organization, especially to do with
music. "
The Un-Cola is unique in that it is
completely organized by community
youth, and open to anyone, not just
bands. Unlike any other venue in town, it
has held free photography and art
exhibits, as well as several benefit shows
for community projects such as Queer
Bollies, and the fanzine Riot Grrri. An
anti-vivisection show is planned for April
12, featuring bands from three states and
three countries, including Japan.
When the Vortex was closed, owner
Baurice Nelson offered April' s schedule
of bands to the Un-Cola. But because of
the Un-Cola shutdown days later, they
were unable to present SubPop's Rev.
Horton Heat on April 8, and may not be
able to carry other Vortex shows.
Zodrow does not want to cancel
any more events, so hopefully a
temporary permit will be issued and
money can be raised to finance the
needed renovations. A meeting is planned
for tonight, Thursday, at 9 pm at the VnCola, and Zodrow stressed ' that all who
are interested are invited.
Jane Laughlin covers the Olympia
music scene for the CPJ, and will report
further on the Un-Cola's status in the
April 16 issue.
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Call the office for location (x6033).
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of everyone? Well then, come join the
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every Tuesday at noon in Library 1509.
Bring your lunch and stories of how you
are surviving being both a student and a
single parent. Meet others who can
identify with your concerns, share what is
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presents Three Approaches to
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Three Approaches... is a documentary
created in the '50s which features the
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treating the same patient. A Matter of
Heart is a contemporary documentary on
the life and acheivements of Carl lung.
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The group meets Wednesdays at 5pm in
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crew of writers came up with this week to
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Brenda.
The basic outline is that while
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Dylan and waiting for Brandon to finish
up closing, Brenda is left alone. A young
robber armed with a rather ominous
looking shotgun shows up and proceeds to
rob the Pit and harass Brenda at the same
time. Where was Brandon and Brenda's
no-good boyfriend at the time? Out back
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will be boys"). During the resulting police
investigation Dylan notices Brenda's purse
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Women of Color Coalition controversy
RESPONSE
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Sign encourages
discrimination
The more that I read and hear about
events that occur here on campus, the
more depressed I become. I begin to think
that nothing that any of us can do will
ever help- bring peace to this world"
especially if we cannot even bring peace
to this campus, where, supposedly, issues
are to be discussed rationally and openly,
and where understanding is supposed to be
prevalent.
I would like to address the sign
placed on the door of The Women of
Color Coalition, which was reportedly
" ...put up with the consensus of The
Women of Color Coalition and the support
of many men of color" (March 12 CPJ). I
feel very sad that three men felt that they
had the right to invade an office and rifle
through an organization's files. I cannot
condone those actions. Those three men
were wrong to do what they did.
However, I cannot condone the
above mentioned notice, either. The fact
that white people--.not to mention
"especially white males"--cannot enter the
office or even knock on the door to the
office and discuss whatever issues may be
of concern to them scares me. The last
line of your note is in vain, because you
have already excluded over half of the
people on this campus from coming and
talking to you.
I sometimes wonder what the
response would be if a "Men of No Color
Union" formed on campus, secured an
office in the Student Activities area, and
then publicly declared that no one outside
of their clique was allowed inside of their
office. How long would a situation like
that last?
I am not trying to be inflammatory.
I would, in fact, oppose a "Men of No
Color Union," even though I am a white
male, on the basis that it further divides
our family--the family of human beings.
We need to come together; Evergreen
seems only to be going further apart in
every way. And it's not just The Women
of Color Coalition. It's all of us.
I am not going to call you a racist
person, as you claim somebody already
did. I don't know any of you, and
therefore refuse to make that sort of
judgement. I will, however, state that, as a
whole, The Women of Color Coalition
encourages prejudice and discrimination.
The fact that you have already judged both
me and my motives, even before you have
met me, tells me that. I would like you to
think about that.
I won't take up any more of your
time. I won't even quote Shylock's
soliloquy, as I had considered ("I am a
white male. Hath not a white male eyes?
Hath not a white male hands, ...?"). I
would ask you to read it though, although
you may consider it to be "euro-centric"
and "racist" It does have some value,
especially in light of any discussion of
discrimination anywhere.
I would like you leave you with one
thought, though. When I enter the public
schools to teach the next generation of our
family, I promise to never treat you or
your children as you have treated me.
Gary Bohon
All white men
aren't guilty
Dear Diana, Ronke and Darice,
In the first place, take a flying leap.
With that off my chest, I must now
address some issues. ' Such as the
transformation of the "multi-cultural"
campaign at this school into an arena of
silliness. You claim that you are an
oppressed group and you deserve a
sanctuary. Well, I'm an oppressed group
too. I don't have a place to live this
summer. Where are my potlucks?
I don't mean to disregard the
sufferings you have gone through. But it is
ridiculous to assert that you can create a
progre ssive community through
isolationism. I have gone through many
sufferings myself, many you cannot relate
to, and many that I'm sure rival your own.
I don't believe in the governing structures
that control us either and I want to try to
stop them. It seems we should work
together to end our problems, both mutual
and individual. Yet, you seem to think I
don ' t "deserve" to collaborate with you.
This used to hurt me very much . But I am
becoming' mostly just annoyed with the
persistence of such an inherently defeatist
and illogical view, and the idea that it is
defendable.
Listen to me. I have never before
oppressed you, directly or indirectly. I, in
fact, fancy myself a bit of an opposer of
oppressors. Yet, it is hard for me to stand
up for you (specifically) when you are so
adamant in claiming that I am a part of
your hardship.
This all leads to the thesis of my
letter:
If you want to create some positive
change, you must fight your oppressors,
not those who arbitrarily resemble them .
You say that women of color have
been harassed, assaulted, and raped on this
campus by white men .and by :>len of
color. What I want so desperately for you
to realize is that women of color have
been harassed, assaulted, and raped on this
campus by white men and by men of color
who are harassers, assaulters, or rapists.
I am none of these and you have no
reason to disallow me from your sanctuary
or bad-mouth me merely because I share
arbitrary characteristics with thym . They
have two arms and you have two arms so
shouldn't you be excluded from your
group as well? )
Let's take me for example. I find
myself fundamentally opposed to people
who discriminate based on gender or skin
color. Yet, I am not against all Dianas,
Ronkes, and Darices, only certain ones.
I have a sign on my door now, too. It
reads, "If you are a racist or a sexist your
pleas of injustice will fall dead on me-especially if you claim to promote positive
growth through idle classification. Don't
even bother talking."
Sincerely,
oppressed by you,
Rev. Joseph McCoy
Strategy doesn't
earn respect
This letter is a response to the
"Women of Color Demand Their Space"
article by Diana Gonzales et al. in the
March 12 issue of the CPl.
Diana, your article is very difficult
to respond to because you seem to be
writing at cross purposes with yourself. I
doubt that very few white men, or any
other men or women, would reject your
right to your "defined space." However, I
believe many would take issue with your
assumption that "white male culture"
delimits your freedom and ability to
empower yourself. Even if this were a
valid argument, do you mean to suggest
that your strategy of refusing · entry to
white males will earn you the respect and
compassion of this community which you
feel women of color are being denied? In
my opinion, you invite the type of
intrusions you suffered by first projecting
all your anger on to what you perceive as
the cause of your oppression (white
males), and then expecting the diverse
individuals of this group to respect your
absolutist indictment of their culture while
refusing them the option of critically
examining the reasons why you believe
this indictment should be propagated as an
unexamined truth. In taking this stance,
you merely espouse the tactics of your
oppressors.
This is not to say that I side with
those men who accused you of racism.
Instead, I would like to suggest that what
may have motivated them to act as they
did was the implied assumption your
coalition seems . to sponsor; i.e. that
culturally enforced norms are the primary
agent that claim to be an authority, but the
biological and theological evidence I have
studied would appear to belie this
assumption; at least from a ,gender
perspective. Eibl-Eibesfeldt sums up the
crux of mis side of the problem of gender
Page 6 Cooper Point Journal April 9, 1992
differences in Human Ethology, and offers, .
I think, a more reasonable prescription that
the separatism you insist uPon: "The male
predisposition to dominate is probably
based on his primate heritage. In the past
as today this led to domination of women
in many societies, a condition that must
change. But this cannot take place by
denying inherent sex distinctions. We must
. be aware of .them in order to bring .those
aspects of our behavior under control. In a
positive sense, sex differences are a
challenge for the establishment of equality
in complementary partnerships." (p. 298)
This is a white European male
speaking, and he seems to be saying
something very similar to your admonition
that we of the Evergreen community
should "Respect the differences between
men and women ... " The only difference is
that he is suggesting that we be aware of
what these differences are fIrst so that we
can act appropriately. Awareness will not
be engendered by closed doors and
childish posturing ("I dare you! "). A
dialogue must be opened up before any
kind of change can even have the
possibility of occurring.
If you won't entertain the possibility
that at least some of us white males could
be of help to you and your coalition, I ask
you to at least consider the thoughts of a
woman of color, bell hooks. In her essay
"Challenging Patriarchy Means
Challenging Men to Change," she argues
that: "Revolutionary feminist activism
must av.oid at all cost investing in
simplistic forms of gender separatism that
offer women the luxury of not having to
engage in ongoing confrontation and
struggle with men." And later concludes:
"Until women committed to [the] feminist
movement fully accept men as comrades
in struggle who have every right to
participate in the movement (and no right
to dominate), and recognize that they
(men) would then be called by political
accountability to assume a major role in
[the] feminist struggle to end sexism and
sexist oppression, the trans formative vision
of revolutionary feminism will not be
concretely actualized in our lives."
Please try to consider this much
more difficult strategy as a viable one for
your coalition to commit to. A politics of
exclusion can only aid and abet the
ignorance that perpetuates your oppression.
Greg Hohnholt
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As a woman of color on this racist
campus it did me good to read the letter
submitted to the CPJ by Ronke Adekanbi,
Diana GonzAles, and Darice R. Johnson.
They were able to clearly and calmly
articulate the necessity of our coalition's
members to have a safe haven on this
college. This space has been much
resented and maligned by various
members of the Evergreen community
since its inception.
Charges of
discrimination, separatism, and even
racism have been thrown at the Women of
Color Coalition. I was hoping (naively)
that their letter would help explain to other
students and Greeners who are not of
color the importance of having our space
respected.
Since the sign went up on our door
there were signatures added to it from
those people who supported our position.
And, there were letters ranging from
indignation to hate that were also posted
on the office door. Hate messages have
been left on our voice mail, one by an
anonymous person who invited us to the
center of Neo-Nazi activity to learn our
"lesson." Women of color have had
complaints filed with the Human Rights
Commission and with the Thurston County
Superior Court, all against our sign.
Members of our coalition express
themselves on their own space and
suddenly every white person on campus
needs to know that they can have the
"right" to enter our office. I'm sorry this is
not a "right" that you have.
Previous to the sign being posted on
our door there were few people who even
knew of our coalition let alone our
function on this campus. But when the
white persons in .our community are
offended by the sign it becomes a priority
and . gets importance. This is just
symptomatic of the racist strUcture of our
society and Evergreen itself. Just because
this place professes to be "multicultural" it
does not exempt the members of this
college from their inherent racism. Our
coalition would be glad of the "publicity"
of the CPJ if only (for once) we could be
represented in a positive light. We are
tired of generating our own article. You
are the journalists--do your job and report
the important facts.
People are so goddamned hung up
on our sign that they can't get past the
language to see the issues which prompted
its existence. There are serious issues of
personal safety and sexual, racial
harassm~t that Women of Color on this
campus face daily. We have an
administration which has for years turned
a deaf ear to our concerns and demands.
Our frustration is.not something new. It is
a slow burning anger that reaches back
into history. History that we, as a
coalition, have to continually dredge up
for the upper administrators to look at to
try and get some support from them.
We don't care to educate those of
you who are too ignorant to start
addressing your racism. Power + Prejudice
= Racism. We cannot be racist. By
defInition that is an impossibility. We have
yet to get this power in this society. And
it seems very clear now that we have yet
to get any respect either. If you can deal
with the fact that Women of Color are
being oppressed and harassed on this
eampus and that You, as white people, are
part of this problem, then maybe
something can be done to put us on some
type of equal footing whereby we can talk
of having a "harmonious" -·community.
Until then, please remember that Silence =
Complicity.
Tomoko Colleen Burke
Women of Color Coordinator
Exclusion is
illeg~lat ·rrESC
In regards to the letter writteJi by
several women of color, I would like to
respond. As a man of color I can
understand your want and need of privacy
and personal space but certain aspects of .
your letter need to be put into context. The '
Evergreen State College is a public
institution that cannot secure any rooms or
exclude any students based solely on race
or gender, it's against the constitution. If
you are challenged by anyone on campus,
read your student conduct code and follow
the procedures. If the college does not
abide by its rules then you have a lawsuit,
it's 'called "false advertisement." There is
also the fact that a member of the S&A is
a woman of color who can give the proper
information and counseling. The sign on
your door was inconsiderate, disrespectful
and offensive to most of the student body
and is not a positive way to gain support
and respect, which I believe most of the
student body has to offer. As to women of
color being assaulted or raped on campus,
I would like to know if these incidents
have been brought to the attention of the
proper authorities and if not, why? They
are the ones who can do something.
Concerning the ability to empower
yourselves, you should read up on your
law. Your note on the door disempowers
you because it leaves you vulnerable to a
possible lawsuit.
Adrian B. Cheeks
Woman of color
is against sign
I am a "woman of color" and I am
greatly disturbed and offended . by the
article written by the three "women of
color" addressing the issue of their rights
and their space. I have several problems
with both the sign and the attitudes that
the Women of Color Coalition seem to be
advocating. First of all, I feel that this sign
is discriminatory and degrading to white
people on this campus. It excludes and
trivializes the input of an important sector
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by Melissa McKee
The AIDS epidemic has exposed the
failure of the public health care system in
meeting the needs of women with mv,
especially women of color who represent
70% of women with HIV.
Women are often denied the services
they need most, simply beeause their
symptoms don't fit the Centers for Disease
Control's (CDC) list of AIDS-defming
conditions.
The CDC' s defInition of AIDS was
composed near the beginning of this
epidemic, and is based largely on the
course of HIV infection in homosexual
men. It does not include symptoms most
often seen in women and intravenous (IV)
drug users.
Women continue to be treated
primarily as vectors through which the
disease passes to men and to unborn
children. The effect of this narrow focus is
powerfully evident in the average survival
time of women of color after and AIDS
diagnosis: 5-8 weeks (compared to 3-6
years for men).
HIV -infected women are likely to
suffer from cervical cancers, HPV (genital
warts), Pelvic Inflammatory Disease,
urinary tract infections, chronic and
persistent yeast infections, and a host of .
other gynecological symptoms, none of
which are listed in the CDC's
classificationJor AIDS.
;'The official definition of AiDS
determines who is reported as an AIDS
case. The number of cases reported plays
a large part in how much federal money
goes to AIDS programs, research, and
health care programs.
Women's cases are severely
underreported: 65% of HIV infected
women die of HIV-related caijSes that
don't fit the CDC definition of AIDS.
Inaccurate statistics perpetuate the myth
that women don't get AIDS, and therefore,
services remain unavailable to meet their
needs.
The CDC's proposed new definition
of AIDS, which is planned to go into
effect in the spring of '92, requires a CD4
count of less than 200 per c/mm.
Women and IV drug users, however,
often experience disabling conditions with
CD4 counts over 200. These conditions
have not been added -to the new
defInitions.
Although the number of women with
HIV is growing (up 29% in 1991) their
problems remain unaddressed. The lack of
interagency cooperation, research, material
resources, and simple awareness continues
after more than a decade of HIV and
AIDS.
The problems of women with HIV
are complex, but hardly insoluble. A
number of fundamental improvements
suggest themselves immediately.
The CDC must include the
symptoms unique to women with HIV in
their criteria for an AIDS diagnosis.
The Social Security Administration
must be corisistent in following the belated
CDC definition revisions SO that women
can get the health care benefits to which
they're entitled.
Clinical trials and research protocols
need to focus not only on women as
transmission ,vectors, but on treatment of
their clinical manifestation as well.
Child care must be offered in
conjunction with all support services in
order to make it possible for women to
participate fully in all available programs.
Melissa McKee is part of the
Evergreen community and a member of the
Olympia AIDS Task Force.
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Wear .red ribbon, shoW'" you care
by Tod Streater
We need to find a cure for AIDS
now. You can tell everybody that we need
to fmd a cure for AIDS by wearing a red
ribbon on your shirt When you put this
red ribbon on think about this disease.
Think about how the government let
it get so out of hand that more than
200,000 people have died from AIDS.
Think about the fact that the fastest
growing group of people that are
becoming exposed to mv are young
adults. (THAT'S YOU).
We know that the only way to put
mv in your body is through unprotected
sex, or contact with blood, or from a
mother to her child during birth.
People will ask why you have that
red ribbon and all you need to say is "We
need to fmd a cure for AIDS." You don't
need to have any fancy sayings, or free
condoms, or booklets about AIDS (though
the world would be better if you did have
these things).
You can even say we need a vaccine
against HIV if you want You can say
anything as long
you use the word
AIDS in a sentence.
Here's a funny comparison: The
Evergreen State College can afford to
outfit security with guns but when you ask
for money to test students for HIV all you
get is the run around and a bill for $66.
I question the absurd logic of this
as
situation. Maybe you should too.
Maybe you should call the Health
Center or the Deans and tell them they are
killing people. If we're lucky they will
figure out how to pass the buck and then
it won't be our problem any more (except
if you have to watch someone die of this
disease).
I'm tired of AIDS. I don't want any
more of my friends to die. I don't want
to die in the prime of my life.
Wear a red ribbon to tell the world
that you want a cure for AIDS and to help
remind you to use your brain and latex
every time you have sex.
Tod Streater is a costume designer,
filmmaker, and recent Evergreen graduate.
Education: we have a long way to go
by Lukan Paulus
A curious thing happened a few
weeks back. It started when our
refrigerator broke and we had to call a
person to come out and repair it.
I chose the first business under the
Refrigerator and Freezer--Service and
Repair section of the Yellow Pages,
Affordable Appliance Repair. Not because
it was first, but because it looked like a
small business and one which didn't work
off the labor of many for the profit of few.
' So after choosing I caned from the
Olympia AIDS Task Force (OATF) office
and worked out a time for the
ownerloperator to come out and take a
look. I left the repair person the number of
OATF because I was going to be in at the
offIce beforehand and thought that,if there
were any changes in the schedule then he
could get a hold of me. As it turned out
there were and the repair person called the
offIce to let me know he would be late.
After having. thephOl,e answered as
"Olympia AIDS Task Force" by one of the
volunteers, the man who was to come out
to fix our fridge was in disbelief. He asked
if this were the right number to reach me
at and when told it was correct said that
he would not come out to fix our fridge
because he was afraid of catching AIDS.
The volunteer spoke with him for
awhile, finding out his sources of
infonnation on HIV/AIDS. They turned
out to be a right-wing religious group who
supposedly quoted a study stating HIV
could live on a table, counter or on a chair
for 20 days.
He was asked to send the article in
and agreed to but would not allow us to
mail him anything because he was afraid
that there would be AIDS in the envelope.
The volunteer then called my house and
passed the message that we would not be
getting our fridge fixed by this person
because of his fear of getting AIDS.
I received the message a few
minutes later and called up to speak with
this person. He said to me that he was
afraid of catching AIDS because I worked
at an AIDS agency.
I simply stated to him that HIV was
a virus that is transmitted through blood,
semen, vaginal fluids and breast milk and
that I didn't think exchanges of any of
those fluids was involved in fIxing my
refrigerator.
He then quoted the study about HIV
living in the air for 20 some days and I
told him that it has been proven,
scientifically, that HIV dies when exposed
to air. He said that there are many things
they (supposedly scientists) don't know
about AIDS and that he didn't want to risk
catching it by coming to fix our fridge.
I stated again the means and modes
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by Camilla Eckersley
Women have AIDS . Globally, in
1991, according to the most conservative
estimates, six million people were HIY
positive. Two ,million, one third, were
women. TJ:!e faSlest growing number of
cases is among women. The World Health
Organization predicts that by the mid- ·
1990s the number of HlY positive women
will exceed th.e number of HIV . positive
men. Already In sub-Saharan Afnca, HlY
positive women outnumber HIY positive
men (The Futurist, Nov-Dec, 1990).
In the US, 10 percent of all reported
cases of AIDS are women. Most
authorities agree th~t thi~ statistic severely
underreports the epidemIC amo~g women.
Sixty-fIve per~ent of HIY p?sluve women
get Sick and die from chromc HIV-related
infec~ons that don't fit the federal ~enters
for Disease Control (CDC) defImtion of
AIDS . After years of consistent political
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200 or less and a "severely compromised
immune system."
T~ese infections include chronic
pelvic inflamitory disease, cervical cancer,
chronic yeast infections , vaginal
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health care proViders do not Identify or
report cases in women. Finally, the
majority of women with AIDS or related
immune system disorders do not have
access to primary health care. Women are
denied access to Social Security benefits,
public housing and Medicade available to
people with AIDS . Women are denied
access to AIDS clinical trials. Local AIDS
services, such as the Northwest AIDS
Foundation, prioritise services to people
with AIDS . Women who aren't classified
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The CDC insists that it is unable to
identify the transmission category (ie risk
factor) for seven percent of women with
AIDS . At the same time, the CDC refuses
to research, identify, and track woman-towoman sexual transmission. Anthony
Fauci of the CDC, when confronted with
the omission of lesbians in his report
stated that,"lesbians don't have much sex."
There have been documented cases of
lesbian transmission in medical journals,
though statistics .vary. Lesbians who wish
for fast testing and treatment must often
mark a high-risk category on stat sheets;
sex with a bisexual or gay man, IY drug
user, or IY drug use, so any possible
woman-to -woman infection goes
undocumented. Safer sex information for
lesbians and bisexual women remains
unavailable to the majority of women.
In the United States, as of 1991, 52
percent of women with AIDS are African
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American. Already living in poverty, and
fighting the structural racism of the
American medical system and government,
the majority of women with AIDS lack
access to primary medical care and/or
AIDS related treatments. As a result a
white woman with AIDS on average lives
six months after diagnosis. An African
American woman lives an average of 54
days after diagnosis. A Latina woman with
AIDS lives an average of 36 days after
treatment, as compared with a white man
with AIDS who lives an average of 6
years after diagnosis.
Institutional
manifestations of
sexism, racism, and homophobia arc
killing women with AIDS .
Camilla Eckersley is a cocoordinator of the LGBPRC and got most
of her information from ACT UP flyers.
Rent-a-Rubber?
by Diana Johnson
Ironically enough ... in the States, the
task of convincing partners to latex-up
be fore sex is frustnlting, ongoing, and still
considered worth all the effort required.
The necessary equipment, the condom, and
the homemade latex dam, arc available in
drug stores, specialty stores , clinics, or
frequently free through agencies like our
local health department.
Condoms are not the problem.
Attitudes concerning their necessity,
sexual appeal, and all the defensive "1can't-be-bothered-being-so-paranoid-in-thethroes-of- feeling -so-aro used-and-good"
attitudes prevail.
Let me introduce you to AIDS in
Na irobi, Kenya.
The epidemic has
reached the point that denial is gone. Too
many people have left for the villages not
to rcturn, a way from the urban night
scene, highlife, Tusker beer, and sex, back
to homesteads to waste away.
Too many people know AIDS is
silent and sly and the person who looks so
fine and appears so sexy is apt to infect
you. So condoms are not commodities.
Trouble is condoms are scarce. Yery
scarce.
No factories in Kenya produce them;
the GNP is too strapped to import them .
Ingenious vendors have devised a way to
make the few available condoms serve the
needs of many and make a few schillings
too.
Sidewalk stands have condoms for
rent. Rent-a-Rubber.
If only we were so invested in using
latex in Olympia. Ironic, yes?
Diana lohnson is an HIVIAIDS
educator for the Public Health and Social
Services Department in Olympia.
Words and testament from a positive's side
by Ricardo Ayala Cruz
AIDS is the most tragic medical
phenomenon in the history of humankind,
one could say. To tell you the truth I
really didn't give damn about this fucking
virus (well, maybe just a little). So with
this immortal attitude, I kept fucking all
you whiteboz the wrong way. Well the
rest is history, I am now an official person
living with illY. You could say I freaked ,
but I got over it. In fact, I see this as a
physical and mental metamorphosis.
One 's body slowly (but surely) transforms
(before your very eyes) into a lump of
decomposed flesh, while the mind evolves
(quickly) to adjust and understand this new
situation. Maybe all I have to learn in this
process is how to give up all of this and
continue with what comes. I also have the
right to say this isn't fair. That it
shouldn ' t happen to me or anyone (well
maybe one or two people). I have the
right to be angry, yet how different is this
situation than any other?
Yet, I really could care less
anymore, I've got it so I'll continue to live
with it. This does not mean to say that I'm
in denial of my situation, rather that this is
a complicated and fru strating dilemma that
has to be dealt with by all people and not
just by myself.
One of the most annoying things
when dealing with negatives is their
offensive insistence on knowing about my
health . I am consistently bombarded by
ques tions such as "How's your health?"
"How are you feeling?" and "Are you
feeling all right, you're looking a bit
pale? " or statements such as "Take good
care of yourself," and "You should go see
a doctor." I don ' t mean to offend any of
you, but get the fuck off my case. Thank
you for your concern, but this virus is
affecting me and not you. I am not a body
for people to look over as, it decays, but a
human being with choices and decisions
about my own body.
Another thing I would like to talk
about is our mass media ' s response to this
pandemic. To begin with, since the media
began to report on the virus th ey have
a lways highlighted the outbreak within the
gay communities in the early eighties as
the beginning of this pandemic . Even after
cvidencc of AlDS-rclated deaths among
intravenous drug users in the early
seventies, the media still re fu sed to
distribute this information to the
population at large. Key words allow the
mass media to control and manipulal:;! 1:1(;
responses of people and prevent us from
uniting to put an end to this virus. ]t's
amazing; the day after the Soviet Union
broke up the media picked up on it -a nd
has since called them the Unified Nations.
Yet, after more than ten years of this
pandemic, the media refuses to see us as
people living with IT, but instead as
victims. This neglect on the part of the
media hinders the effects of change that
AlDS/HIY activist are striving for. Terms
like "high risk groups" allow people to
believe that the virus is selective, when in
fact any human being is susceptible to this
virus.
Magic Johnson's decision to
announce his positive status was, in my
eyes, a courageous act. Yet the media
responded to the news as if the man had
died. In fact, the media took him for dead
and buried him instantly with captions like
"the Magic is over." I was angry (cried
too) the day he retired from basketball. To
me this reinforced the myth that aU people
living with this virus couldn't possibly
have fuU and enriching lives. We should
just sit down and relax so as not to upset
our fragile state. FUCK OFF! It's sad that
the deaths of 126,000 people (who happen
to be marginalized) really didn't matter to
some of us. True, some of us might have
known someone that died because of
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AIDS-related complexes, but many people
slill have no sense of what's goin' down.
OK, Magic will reach a great deal of
individuals that might not have heard the
screams of all the dead. The media, as
usual , is hanging over Magic like flies
over shit, not bolhering to show the true
slory, whatever that may be.
The time has come for me to end
this with another dilemma--whether I sign
this letter or not. Even though some of
you negatives might know a positive or
two it still hard for me to relate with you
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of transmission and added that he needed
to get correct information. I also stated
that the ignorance he was displaying is
what keeps serious action from being
taken on AIDS .
He responded with some more about
not wanting to catch AIDS.
I again responded with the facts of
transmission and told him that I didn ' t see
any way he would be able to contract the
virus by fixing the fridge, whether I was
HlY infected or not.
The conversation went back and
forth with his ignorance growing stronger
until I told him that he needs to get
educated with the correct information
about HIY. I stated that his ignorance is
on this issue. ME and HIY, by ourselves,
is easy, but when you negs come into the
picture things get complicated. You don't
see things through the same perspective
that I do. As mutation we positives will
eventually dominate the discourse. So keep
it up, then you too might have this
perspective.
PLEASE RESPOND.
Ricardo Ayala Cruz is a filmmaker
and a member of the Evergreen
community.
what heightens inaction by our society and
government around HIY related issues.
I hung up feeling frustrated and
drained. How many more people have to
die before people start addressing HIY by
acquiring correct information?
How many more people need to be
beaten, harassed or denied access to
services because of their HIY status?
How many more years must we wait
for action and an end to the ignorance?
The need to end ignorance about
HlY is NOW. Educate yourself and others
with the correct information and ask your
appliance repair people how they feel and
what they know about illY/AIDS. END
THE IGNORANCE, END THE HAlE!
Yours in the struggle.
Lukan Paulus is a member of the
Olympia AIDS Task Force.
The results of the HIV/ AIDS survey printed in the March 12
issue of the CPJ could not be published. becuase of the
small number of surveys returned would not yield enough
data for an accurate representation of statistics about HIV /
AIDS in the Evergreen community.
We regret to have to let down those who returned their
surveys and were looking forward to the results.
Virus does not recognize racial stereotypes
by Gary Wessels Galbreath
I've been talking about HIY/AIDS
every day since friends of mine began
waking me up to the rcality of who is
affected by HIY/AIDS. Native peoples
have been attempting to deal with
HlY/AIDS in our own communities but
until recently have met with various types
of resistance · from the non-native
community as well as from our own
people. This resistance has caused the
deaths of many brothers and sisters in
native communities.
Many of us arc now aware that the
media hype of HIY /AIDS in relation to
the gay community has caused many
stereotypes about HlY /AIDS and who may
be affected. Because of this media hype
we as a community have been forced to
deal with the after affects. The early
missionaries who came in contact with
native communities found among them
various aspects of traditional ways of
living. Such examples were males who
changed their roles as an in a traditional
society and were often honored in many
native communities. These men performed
various roles in their communities in some
cases as healers or medicine people.
Anthropologists have identified these
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men as berdache.
Because of the
prejudices that these missionary people
brought with them many native men were
chastised, publicity embarrassed, tortured,
and even murdered. The se men were often
fed to the dogs while still alive. Today
society will have us believe that this
tra<J itional way of living is immoral, a
social disease.
I mention all of this because the
social disease of homophobia has played. a
major role in how some native peoples
look at HIY/AIDS. During the 80's when
the gay community was bcing targeted
with educating their . community about
HIY/AIDS , many native men could not
and did not find the ~me sUpPQrt. Racism
in the gay community and homophobia
from the native community made it very
difficult for native men to tell someOne
that they were HIY positive or in many
cases even get tested.
Now thousands of native men,
women and children have either tested
positive for HIY, are living with AIDS, or
have died from AIDS . Education in the
native communities came too slow but
now Indian Health Service organizations
from all over Turtle Island (u.s.) are
educating their respec tive communities
about the HIY /AIDS . AIDS has the effect
of stealing the future of native peoples and
it is up to us to educate ourselves for the
' sake of the future generations yet to come.
I believe it is important to keep in
mind that our commwlities had and
continue to have many abuses forced upon
us, one of which was homophobia. We as
native people can educate ourselves about
our prejudices against each other; but we
must be willing to chaUenge ourselves and
the notions that the supposed conquers laid
upon us. The rest of 'you can · help by
chal]enging your own prejudices, including
racism, and how you may view native
peoples. Do you see us as war painted
heathens racing across your television
screen, or do you see us as many people
deserving of recognition and many voices
asking amerika to wake up, please just
wake up.
Gary Wessels Galbreath isfrom the
Pomo Nation and part of the Evergreen
community.
Concerned parent suggests-dis-c ussio-n wi-th kids
by Allegra Hinkle
When Tod Streater approached me
this weck about writing something about
AIDS for the CPJ, my feelings were many
and varied. First and everpresent, my
anxiety about writing, especially about
something that really matters. Sec 0 n d ,
gratitude about being asked to contribute
because I am who I am (that is, a single
parent of three children, two who have
reached the "raging hormone" stage of
adolescence). Third, some degree of
sorrow because life and love seem so
-. complicated these days.
Finally, celebration because the
community that I enjoy being a part of is
generally ready and able to bring open
discussion about sex and relationships to
the forefront of our conscious mindS.
' .I often feel a bit angry that it has
taken something as devastating as AIDS to
facilitate this kind of openness, but we are,
after all, a reactive society .
Now that my feelings are in order,
what can I possibly say of interest to
anyone else on the subject of AIDS?
My experience with AIDS iss ues
covers two very different perspectives.
One involves the relationship of AIDS to
my own personal life as a single,
heterosexual adult and the other involves
my role as the parent of three children. In
the interest of brevity, let's leave my
personal life out of this for now.
So, how does a concerned parent
talk to children growing up in a society
that includes both AIDS and dramatic
stal-istical increases in the numbers of
sexually active teens?
First off, a concerned parent does,
indeed, Ialk. 'Gone are the days when you
could get by with some generic, glossy sex
talk when your kids reach some magical
age .
Frank, open discussion with honest
answers, to sometimes difficult questions,
is important from the beginning. For
those of you who, like me, fear that you
might be too embarrassed to get through it
when the moment first comes up, start
now.
I bought myself a copy of Slww Me
when I was pregnant, figuring I would be
able to get through the book without
dissolving in embarrassment by the time
they could talk.
Our most recent
It worked!
conversation included issues like why
abstinence may be easy to talk about but
hard to practice, how you can end up
having sex on a date even when that
wasn't part of your plans, and how to
begin Ialking about safe sex with someone
you've grown close to (topics I suspect
many of us adults haven' t quite figured
out yet) .
Neither of my kids claim any sexual
experience at this point, but they know
what I mean when I describe that
exploratory hand reaching under clothing,
unbuttoning and unclasping as it goes.
At what point do you stop and say "I
happen to have a selection of condoms
here," and besides, who says that line
anyway?
These conversations provide many
unexpected benefits because the
atmosphere has been set for sharing
frankly without risk. My daughter filled
me in on a couple of issues that she'd
wanted to talk about but the time just
never seemed to be "right" and I got the
chance to work through some old issues
about abuse of power (in sexual
relationships.
It is also important with issues like
AIDS to act privately and in public. We
have had the opportunity as a family to
support the civil rights of gays/lesbians by
traveling with friends to the Seattle Gay
Pride march. This also provided my
children with plenty of free condoms to
examine and, I would assume, try out in
privacy later on.
I strongly believe that safe sex does
not come naturaUy and, as long as
condoms are some strange beast that
you've never touched before, you won't
use them when you need to.
Thanks to a wonderful group of
gay/lesbian friends, I have had plenty of
support in the appropriate education of my
children about many difficult issues. I
want to acknowledge that support and say
that the "burden" of long-term single
parenting has been eased dramatically by
our family's participation in community
with all of you.
Allegra Hinkle wor/r.s in Media Loan.
Lesbians do get AIDS
by Nanci LaMusga
No accurate staUsucs exist. None
Five years ago women were told
have been taken. While the Center for
they were in a low-risk "group" for
Disease Control (CDC) dermes our risk,
infection from HIY (Human Immunothey do not acknowledge our existence.
LESBIANS ARE TOLD THEY
Deficiency Yirus). Yet 1991 saw an
ARE A LOW -RISK "GROUP".
increase of infection rate in women of
Denial of lesbian sexuality is a
29%.
reality. Reality is, lesbian sexuality and
LESBIANS HAVE BEEN TOLD
sexual practices are diverse.
THEY ARE A LOW-RISK "GROUP".
Reality is, vaginal fluids/menstrual
Information of risk was based upon what
blood contain enough of the HIY virus to
"group" you belonged to and a set
cause infection.
standard moral of monogamy (whether
Reality is, rape is an everyday factor
you were or weren't).
in women's lives.
LESBIANS HAVE BEEN TOLD
Reality is, monogamy is based on a
THEY ARE A LOW~RISK GROUP.
trust that can be broken, and depends on
Defining risk in terms of "groups" rather
our partners' sexual and drug-practice
than behavior is fatal. Assuming the
behaviors of everyone in those "groups" is . history.
Reality is, a woman's lifefoolish. And basing information on moral
expectancy, once diagnosetJ with AIDS, is
values rather than reality issues is deadly.
seven months.
LESBIANS GET AIDS. When
Reality is, lesbians get AIDS.
someone asks, "But really, isn't lesbian
No one is immune to HIY. The
sex the safest there is? Aren't they a low"group" a person belongs to is not a factor
risk group?" All I can reply is women
in contracting my. The determining risk
were told five years ago they were a lowrisk "group". Will we find in another five
is. in our behaviors choices, not in the
years we were wrong again?
"group". Until studies and research are
done on lesbians and HIY, NO ONE can
LESBIANS GET AIDS.
tell us with certainty that we are not at
Consider a few things:
risk.
There are no research studies specific to
Should we engage in safer sex? Of
No one really
Lesbian transmission .
course.
knows how high our risk factor is. No one
Nanci LaMusga is the volunteer
really knows how the drugs work on
coordinator for the Olympia AIDS Task
women's bodies.
Force.
LESBIANS GET AIDS.
HIVIAIDS Cooper Point Journal April 9, 1992 Page 3
Women .ofColor Coalition,controversy
HIV/AIDS
FORUM
'network of faCulty, staff and bureaucrats.
Looking·through the percentage of persons
of color on our campus there is a large
disparity. The only way I see to combat
the racism and sexism being bred in our
campus community is to hire more faculty
color, with an emphasis on women of
~_lIi. color. The time has come for people .to
become anti-racist and take a stand on the
hiring practices of our institution. Make
your voice heard. Petition, call and
inundate those in power with your feelings
about the whiteness dominating Evergreen.
State your demands for the hiring of more
~~~~~ women of color faculty.
white people and most men from entering. Lukan Paulus
Meetings and space for Women of Color
only cannot be racist or sexist in the
r:;..-.........
Do we delight in
hu-r ting others?
ABOUT DENTAL DAMS
What are dental dams?
Dental dams, also called rubber dams, are thin squares of latex
which can be used during oral sex to prevent the transmission of sexually
transmitted diseases like HIV/AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, hepatitis,
and yeast infections.
Why use dental dams?
Diseases and infections of the sex organs are spread through skin
to skin contact, and/or through the exchange of body fluids like semen,
preejaculate fluid, blood and vaginal fluids. To help avoid these infections
it is necessary to prevent contact with body fluids. Dental dams provide' a
barrier to prevent direct contact during oral sex.
(submitted: March 12, 1992)
To the Evergreen community:
Yesterday was the eleventh of
March, the day the third floor of the CAB
blew to pieces. The events of th,it day and
the emotions I saw and felt led me to a
real ization.
Through my actions in the past,
including my letters to the CPI, I've tried
to tell people about Unity via Ihe usage of
the tool called humor.
(PELLA TIO) A LATEX CONDOM SHOULD BE USED, INSTEAD OF
A DENTAL DAM. To use a dental dam, place it over the anus, or the lips
(labia) and opening to the vagina.
A water-based lubricant may be used on the side of the dam which
contacts the vagina or anus to help hold the dam in place and increase the
pleasurability of the dam. However, oil-based lubricarits like Vaseline,
hand lotions, massage oils or vegetable oils should NOT be used as they
cause the latex to weaken and/or break.
Other suggestions you may find helpful include holding a dental
Hammer ... Hammer ...Hammer... Dig ... Dig ..
. Dig ...
The fracas in the CAB knocked me
, out.
I'm through! It's over! I give up!
You win! I tried and failed to give people,
all people, a sense of unity. Simple unity.
I foolishly thought that humor was a
common thread that held us together. Yet
it seemed to only pry us apart. Tonight I
wonder if we really want to end racism. It
scems we take delight in hurting each
other and creating hatred.
Through the classification and
division of race we've set the lines of
battle. I guess we were doomed from the
very start to destroy each other in petty
personal hatred and revenge.
To everyone's relief, I'll give this
little dream of unity a rest and hand over
my pen to anyone who'll take it. It's too
hard to write about togetherness when
everyone wants to take a side, dig in and
prepare for war.
It was fun writing those few silly
letters to the CPI, but when no one wants
to listen, the ink doesn't seem worth it
anymore. To all our relations,
Dante Salvatierra
cutl-----i--~------~
How do I use a dental dam?
A dental dam can be used in oral sex with a woman (cunnilingus),
or in rimming (oral sex with,the anus). FOR ORAL SEX WITH A MAN
THURSTON COUNTY RESOURCES
Thurston County Health Dept. .... . .. . .. .. . .. ......... .. ..
(testing and counseling, case management)
Olympia AIDS Task Force ... . ........ . .. .. . . ... .. .. .. ..
{direct services, outreach and education)
Region VI AIDS Service Network . .. . . . . ............ .... ..
HIV\AlDS Support group
contact Deborah Duggan ........... ... . . ............... .
contact Suzanne Hidde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Direct Services Fund .. . . . .. ....... ..... .. .. .. . . . . . ... .
(emergency fmancial assistance)
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mv Intervention Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(contact Becky Martelli)
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(contact Becky Martelli).
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(anonymous phone counseling for Gay/Bisexual men
having difficulty practicing safer sex)
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(Hearing impaired phone)
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Grays Harbor Co. .. ........ . .. .... . ............. . ....
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Mason Co. .. . ......................... ... ... .. .. . ..
Pacific Co. .......... .. ............ . . .... ... ..... ...
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cut 2
HOW TO TURN A CONDOM INTO A DENTAL DAM
1. Partially unroll the condom and cut horizontally across
the tip. (cut 1)
2. Then cut vertically up the side. (cut 2)
3. Unroll and the result should be a somewhat rectangular
piece of latex to be used as a barrier during cunnilingus or
rimming.
Open letter to
Academic' Deans:
dam in place by attaching it to a garter belt, or cutting the crotch area out
of a pair of underwear and using velcro to hold the dental dam in place.
General information to remember:
1. USE EACH DENTAL DAM ONLY ONCE
2. IF YOU ARE AT RISK OF INFECfION GET TESTED
3. Tests and information on HIV/AIDS are available at your
county health departments.
4. Keep your love alive. Don't share needles. Use condoms and
dental dams each time you have sexual intercourse (oral, vaginal or anal).
If you wonder, get tested
by Giselle Weyte
If all this talk of AIDS is making
you nervous, and you wonder if you've
been exposed to HIV, get tested.
According to the Thurston County
Health Department; testing is 95%
accurate six months after exposure to the
virus and 100% accurate after one year.
This test actually tests not for the mv
virus itself, but deteCts antibodies in the
blood (taken in a small amount from your
arm) that are produced by your body if it
is fighting off the virus. AIDS/HIV testing
is available at both the Thurston County
Health Department and at the Evergreen
Health 'Center.
Thurston County Health Department
docs testing by appointment,-or on Fridays
from 1 to 4 pm on a fU'st-come-fll'St-serve
basis (the first seven people will be
tested). Currently appointments are being
booked for four weeks in advance. The
testing appointment itself takes about half
an hout, and results are available in two
weeks (longer over holidays). A $20.00
donation is requested; this is to help cover
the expense of the additional staff they
have hired for the AIDS/HIV program.
However, you will not be denied testing if
you can't pay. Fot testing appointments
call 786-5455; for more infonnation call
786-5581. Health Department hours are
Mondays 9:30 am - 5 pm and Tuesdays
through Fridays 8 - 5 pm.
The Evergreen Health Center does
testing Tuesday mornings by appointment.
Results are also available in two weeks.
The fee is $66.00 at the time of testing to
pay for lab testing; all blood samples are
screened and any that are positive on the
ftrst test are given a second confumatory
test If the first test is negative, the client
will be refunded $41.00, which is the cost
of the second test For appointments or :
more infonnation, call the Health Center at
866-6000 x6200.
Giselle Weyte is a ePJ staff writer.
I
Concerned staff, faculty and students
of The Evergreen State College have been
meeting to discuss relevant issues that
affect the quality of life for wom~n of
color on this campus. The lack of women
of color as faculty members, particularly
those teaching Women's Studies, has been
an issue that is disGussed time 'and time
again. This issue is not a "third world
women's issue"; it affects men of color
and white women and men also. We, the
undersigned, believe that the entire
Evergreen community would greatly
benefit from the hiring of more women of
color faculty.
Historically, white professors in
academia have defined what they think the
realities of women of . color are.
Consequently, misinfonnation has been
spread and our true sociopolitical reality
has been distorted and taken out of
context. We believe as women of color we
must be given the due respect to define
our own experiences, and not have others
speak for us. A white woman teaching
Women's ,Studies can only instruct from
her perspective. While that perspective is
important, it is not the only point of view
that needs be heard.
Currently, there are 15 white women
faculty whose backgrounds are in
Women's Studies. Sunera Thobani is the
only woman of color in the field of
Women~s Studies teaching this year.
There has been a queStion as to the
extension of her one-year visiting contract
upon its expiration in June, 1992. ~a
Roy and Fred Dube will be teaching
"British Imperialism: South Africa and
South Asia" during the 1992-93 academ.ic
year. The colonization of Africa and Asia
includes the colonization of women in
those regions. Sunera Thobani's vast
knowledge of feminisl/economic theory
would enhance and broaden a perspective
that Ibtna and Fred ,could not voice.
How can Evergreen be multicultural
when qualified women of color are not
being hired to teach on this campus?
Women's Studies does not mean White
Women' s Siudies. It is imperative for
women faculty to have more than a
textbook knowledge of the struggles of
women of color. And it is imperative that
all students b~ given the opportunity to
learn the histo! y of women of color taught
by women of color themselves. We hope
that the Evergreen administration
understands this point and takes prompt
action with the hiring of women like
Sunera Thobani and others like her.
Thank you.
The Women of Color Caucus
Right to defend
space supported
To be a woman of color on this
campus often means daily facing offenses
that range from physical assault to
objectifying looks from those seeking the
"exotic". This is the reality in a white
supremacist society. It is also the reality
on a campus that takes great pains to
declare its support Jor "diversity" and
"multiculturalism". It is in this context and
for the following reasons that we, as white
female and male students on this campus,
object to the continued violation of
Women of Color'S space:
1) All student organizations deserve
autonomy. Accepting S&A funds requires
only that an organization's goal be in the
general student interest. This does not
open every stage of the organization to
scrutiny by the members of the student
body in the name of equal access, fairness,
or the S&A origin of the financial support.
S&A fees are paid by all students,
including women of color, whose student
organization deserves the same amount of
integrity to its affairs as any oth~rstudent
group. That this right is being questioned
is another instance of white people
reacting to people of color beginning to
seek autonomy. We, as white students
paying S&A fees, fully support the use of
S&A funds by the Women of Color
Coalition for an office space on campus.
2) Racism and sexism must be
understood historically. When women
demand an inviolable space apart from
men, the intent may be anything from
making cookies to making bombs. The act
takes place in the context of a maledominated society. In the same way, when
people of color demand a separation, this
is a reaction to racism, an attempt to
reclaim what was stolen and what is stolen
every day. The actions of the Women of
Color Coalition are reactions to a racist
and sexist society in the world and on this
campus. This demand for separation is a
' tool of survival, not oppression. Demands
for "whites only" or "men only" are the
expression of , historical, institutional
exclusion. Racism and sexism are not
dermed as "identifying people by race
or sex." Racism and sexism are terms
used to describe historical power
imbalances. The sign on the WOmen of
Color Coalition office door has been
called racist and sexist because it bars
~;~~~t of this campus, this society, this
3) The root of this 'controversy' is
the reaction of people when their power is
challenged, and it is part of a much larger
natiQnal backlash against mild reforms like
"multiculturalism" and affirmative action.
The backlash is also turning against the
hard won laws of the civil rights era. The
irony is that laws made to protect
people of color from a racist majority
are now being taken out of context to
further disempower people of color.
Women of color are demanding their
own space: it is quite a commentary on
this campus and its solid claims to
multiculturalism that the Women of Color
Coalition has to defend its space so
vigilantly. And it's quite another
commentary altogether that women of
color's issues of sexual harassment and
rape are continually ignored and have
never been take seriously. These issues
need not be used to justify the
Coalition's demand for separate space.
These issues must be addressed in their
own right. By its inaction, the TESC
community has allowed much abuse to
happen to women of color. It continues to
deny this abuse by pretending women of
color are the ones at fault for trying to
support and protect themselves.
This is not just a "women of color
issue"; it is one that is vital to every
member of this community. This is
especially true amidst this great backlash
against "political correctness" and other
such humble attempts at refonn, if
Evergreen is to remain even nominally
distinguishable from other factories of
higher learning. For these reasons, we, as
white students on this campus, support and
insist on the Women Of Color Coalition's
right to define their own space on this
campus.
Kate Miller
Owen Glist
Lukan Paulus
Dessida Snyder
Chris Willging
Angela Mapp
Oliver Morrat
Stefanie Brennan
Heather-Irene Davis
Margaret Underwood
L ack
0
-tY
f d IVerSI
breeds rac ism
It's time for things to change. For
too long our campus has been dominated
by white faces, This has not only brought
with it a lack of diversity, but a breeding
ground for racism. The recent episode with
the Women of Color Coalition office
being invaded, their response of claiming
space, and the legal attack waged by a
white male is a prime example of the
degree of racism existing on our campus.
The fact that sexual harassment charges
were made to the Human Rights
Commission and their response was that. it
would take a few months to get someone
out to investigate; while the charges of
"reverse racism/sexism or segregated
space" made by a white male to them
were followed up within a few weeks is
evidence enough that racism, sexism and
complacency are being breed on our
campus and in our community.
The support I see within our
educational institution that supports all of
this dominatory ideology is the white male
WOCC' 's actI-ons
need review
Evergreen was created with the
hopes that people of diverse backgrounds
could come together and work through
their differences to understand each other
beller. Unfortunately,-hope for diversity is
more alive on campus than actual diversity
is. My own experience is only one
example of why diversity is so difficult to
have here at Evergreen.
I was looking for a work study job
and seeing that a position for cocoordinator with the Women of Color
group was open, I went and applied .
Having spoken to Mary Craven, the S&A
director I filled out an application. At no
time was I told that I had to be of a
specific racial background to apply for the
job. So, after sitting through a meeting I
was told that "because you are not a
woman of color you cannot be cocoordinator for the group." I would like to
say here that the position would be strictly
for office work. They were all very polite
when they said it but today, discrimination
is polite. "It's nothing against you
personally but. .. " Discrimination is
discrimination no matter how it is dressed
up.
I am not writing this article to anger
the Women of Color group but to urge
them, their members, faculty, students, and
the administration that the lack of diversity
is a. major problem here at Evergreen. The
problem is not going to go away and if it
is not dealt with it will only escalate until
isolation and violence become the only
course of action. I feel that many of the
groups have already isolated themselves.
The Women of Color group in particular
has done this and from reports I received
did lock a person in a room. To me this is
a form of violence since they are using
force to get their way with a person. I
would urge the Women of Color to ask
themselves why they have acted the way
they have. Is diversity by exclusion a
strategy that they can live with? I truly
regret what Western Civilization has done
to their culture and I hope that they do not
maintain discrimination by renaming it
with their own defmition.
I would recommend that a review
committee be fonned to review the actions
of the Women of Color group to see if
their actions were appropriate and in line
with their mission statement as well as the
mission statement of their sponsoring
agency. I would further recommend that
this review board become a permanent
body that would review practices of all
S&A groups and mediate when questions
of diversity, racism and discrimination
come up.
We all have the right to choose pur
"space" and to expect our space will be
respected. Unfortunately, in too many
instances this leads to isolation and
alienation, not only of the individuals but
the group that is left to fill in the gaps. If
we fail to come , back together and
celebrate our differences we not only fail
ourselves but we fail future "Greeners"
who will take our places once we have
left. I hope that everyone who reads this
article will rethink this thing we call
diversity and change the ideal of diversity
into a reality that we can all live with and
more importantly that we can live with
together.
Sonya Bedillio
Cooper Point Journal April 9, 1992 Page 7
Page 4 Cooper Point Journal April 9, 1992 HIV/AIDS
t
Response
CPJ: Practice
what you preach
In the March 12 issue the Cooper
Point Journal publishing guidelines that
you printed state: "We will not publish
material whose only purpose is to be
hateful and destructive." I would like the
editor to explain what purposes.other than
hate are behind the Quote of the Week in
the same issue: "I pity weak men: They
should be dragged out into the middle of
the street, beaten, humiliated, degraded
and sodomized by my friends and me just
for sport. I love seeing weak men cry--my
heart races." --Diamanda Galas
My guess is that this repugnant
violent sexism is considered excusable
because:
1. The object of the violence is men.
2. The author is a woman.
3. The author is an Avant-Garde
Woman Artist.
You seem to be having difficulty
following your own guidelines so here is
a simple hate test. Take that quote and
replace "weak men" with "the Irish" or
"weak women" or "shy children" and see
how it sounds. Hateful. Dehumanizing.
Destructive. Why is it deemed acceptable
to publish such a statement because it is
directed at men? Maybe there is some
context in which this statement is not
really violent and dehumanizing, but that
context is not provided. If somehow, the
intent is ironic sympathy, it doesn't work.
Maybe the fact that the quote comes
from a book called Angry Women is
supposed to explain and justify the hate.
The CPJ apparently feels that anything
angry women say is profound and
transcends the CPJ's own publishing
guidelines. That is really too bad You
have a great opportunity to be a forum for
meaningful dialogue and you opt for
antagonistic sensationalism.
I repudiate the March 12 Quote of
the Week as well as your selection of it
and I suggest you follow your own
guidelines.
.
Michael McClun
Marijuana is
misunderstood
I would like to reply to a response in
the last issue of the CPJ. On page nine
there was a short paragraph written by
members of the Jurassic group
commenting on an article I wrote the week
before. I feel that some clarification is in
order.
First of all, we are Dot bempgrowers! Growing hemp is illegal in this
country and we feel this needs to be
changed. Hemp is the most useful plant
known to man. I honestly believe this. We
are currently gathering signatures for
initiative 576 which would legalize and tax
cannabis for adults; provide amnesty for
prior cannabis convictions and prohibit
testing for cannabis. With legal cannabis
(hemp) our national demand for paper and
fiber board could be met with out cutting
a single tree. Not to mention the hundreds
of other products that are possible.
Secondly, I was not fingering
Jurassic as the only source of censorship,
mainly because I don't know who's been
doing it. The only person that I've seen
said they were with your group. Maybe
they misunderstand your motives.
If anyone has information that
contradicts or confirms our position, we
are very interested in hearing it. Our office
is in CAB 320. As DEA Administrative
Law Judge, Fransis Young said in 1986,
"Marijuana is the safest substance known
to man."
Jason Gaddy
Evergreen NORML
Helltrout thanks
its fabulous fans
It is now official, the rumors are
REAL, the ultra new-wave band
HELLlROUT no longer exists. I would
like to personally thank everyone that has
helped, hindered or assaulted us over the
past 3+ years, especially the Evergreen
community (yes, that even includes the
Housing office). This also includes
Housing maintenance, which has secretly
supported us with money and loads of
psychological counseling since we struck
that first window-shattering chord, in
November 1988 in Mod 303A.
After countless numbers of shows,
parties, chart-bustin' hits, and hassles with
the law abiding citizens of this great
country, the 'lROUT is now floating belly
up in that great sea of alternative
independent music that is readily available
to you and your kind. All is not lost
though, as Neil Young once said, " ...Rockn-RolI - will never die!" and indeed it
won't, but no time is better than now to
support your local music and arts.
Again, I'd like to thank everyone
that has allowed me and my freaky bandmates to amuse, offend or just get naked
and play really loud music for you. Peace.
Don Stewart (aka Donny 'TROUT)
Security out of
touch with TESC
Concerning the case of officer Webb
and the demand for an apology on behalf
of all those who have questioned his past,
I would say this: Robert Webb has
confessed to inadvertently hitting and
forcibly pushing a woman friend of his
while on duty at Evergreen. If you don't
believe it, look it up in the deputies report
at the Thurston County Courthouse. If you
lJIt)
~' -'
think this. information should not be made
. available to the Evergreen community, you
are way out of line.
.
Furthermore, I condemn Chief of
Security Gary Russell for not releasing the
information to · the hiring committee that
Webb was facing criminal prosecution at
the time of his hiring as a full time
security officer. Russell's inaction shows
negligence and incompetence. , Here is
another example of the security ·
management being screwed up and out of
touch with the Evergreen community. If at
any time you believe it is important to
withhold information from the community,
I suggest that you leave Evergreen.
Jonathan Keyes
9
THURSDAY
ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS
MEETING today and every Thursday in
Lab I Room 1055 12:30 to 1:30 pm.
Info: x6800.
TESC FENCING CLUB meets tonight
and every Thursday from 7 to 9 pm in
the TESC Library Building, 3rd Hoor
mezzanine. Info: Russ Redding at 7868321.
RESPONSE
Woman, from page 6
of this community and serves as a barrier
for communication.
Further, the women say that they are
accused of being racist beca~se they want
to "control who gets in their space" but is
this not what racists want? In my opinion,
any group who tries to have control is one
who fails to make themselves open to new
people and new experiences.
Another problem that I have with the
article is that it operates solely by placing
guilt on the reader. Any white person
reading this article is implicated as being
gUilty. It leaves little room for discussion,
despite the fact that it "DARES" anyone
that disagrees to come to the center about
it. I seriously doubt that most people
would feel welcome to approach the"
women in the office.
Mostly, however, I am disturbed that
a campus facility is abused in this manner.
In the time that I have been at Evergreen,
I have always been impressed by the open
channels and resources available to all
students. It is fine for these women to
want to have a sanctuary, but that
sanctuary should not be a campus office.
It should be the responsibility of
Evergreen students and staff to provide
non-threatening areas where studentS can
feel comfortable and grow.
Recently I walked past the CRC and
saw a Jewish festival being celebrated and
it occurred to me that this is perhaps a
more effective means of achieving the
same end. Celebrate, don't segregate. I do
not feel that it should be. known to all that
I am "different" from the white people on
this campus. If I see myself as "different,"
then I most probably will be treated that
way. While it is important that we
acknowledge differences, it is equally
important to work together to learn about
and grow from each other. Mainly, I am a
human being and wish for respect as such.
While I can sympathize with the wish of
these three women to have a specified area
for the Women of Color grOUP, I feel that
Coven House let
off too easy
I am not going to let Cat Kenney off
the hook so easily for her Feb. 20 cartoon
of Coven House. It was both racist and
ignorant. I have sent that cartoon to many
relatives and friends, it was shown to
students at a Black college, and all agree
that the cartoon is racist and ignorant.
They can't believe that it was even printed
and being defended! I think that when you
have that many people reacting to an
article like this, there is a legitimate cause
for concern. I don't think it is a
coincidence more white people than people
of color found this article funny and
satirical in nature. White people have no
clue as to our (people of color's) lives. It
is my life you are satirizing, and I don't
find it funny at all.
I think that all of you who found the
cartoon "funny" or "satirical" have some
serious self-exploring to do. Your
reactions are typical of what people of
color get everyday when they try to
confront racism and prejudice. It is the
same old song sung to a different tune: we
get called oversensitive; we can't see the
humor in all of it; we missed the point; we
need to lighten up. Whatever the phrase,
it's all the same thing: "You people of
color need to sit down and be quiet while
we show you the way--our way."
Well, no I'm not sitting down and
shutting up this time. Cat Kenney and
anyone else who found that article "funny"
needs to know there are some angry
people of color on this campus who are
going to speak up against articles and
comments spoken out of ignorance and
denial. If you think that I am being
oversensitive, well too bad. If that's what
you want to call it--so be it. I react when
it comes to my life and the life of my
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and every Thursday from 5 to 6 pm in
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THE CUNNING, an original theater work
first presented in these parts a few years
back, returns in a new production,
and
directed
by -Reuben - Yancy
written/performed
by
the
Cunning
Ensemble, tonight and tomorrow night at
the Artist Grange, 3712 Sapp Road S.W.
in Olympia, 8 pm both nights. Tickets
$3. "This piece is particularly relevant
regarding
the
upcoming
president
election." Info: 352-9443.
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REGftLlft.
Women of Color Coalition controversy
it is a violation of other members of the
Evergreen community's rights to advocate
segregation in an area that is common
campus space; this area should be open to
all members of the Evergreen community
in the hopes that it can be beneficial to all.
Kristy Teele
MOVEMENT" is a discussion\Critique of
Robert Bly's book Iron John as part of
the South Sound Feminist Lecture Series.
It happens tonight at 7:30 . pm in the
Olympia Community Center, 222 North
Columbia in downtown Olympia; the
facilitator is Peta Henderson, Evergreen
The public
is
welcome;
faculty.
interpretation for the hearing available if
requested ahead of time. The South
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Thurston County N.O.W., Safeplace, and
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HB 2554's intent
isn't censorship
Despite protests to the contrary,
House Bill 2554, relating to the sale of
"erotic" sound recordings, is not an
attempt at censorship. Current state law,
dating back to 1969, ~efines sexually
explicit materials as "printed material,
photographs, pictures, motion pictures and
other materials" found to be inappropriate
for minors. House Bill 2554 adds
"sound
recordings"
to
existing
language--notbing more.
I have grave concerns about the
hatred and violence against women
espoused in the recordings I reviewed,
and I believe that citizens have a right to
a judicial process through which minors'
access to such material could be limited.
.. .1 am disappointed that so little
care has been taken to get the facts
straight on this legislation.
Richard A. King, State Representative
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history and ourselves throughout the whole
year.
I hope that you all leamed
something, anything at all from reading
'this. I believe that you have to be held
accountable for your actions. Especially
when it involves any kind of racism. Only
at Evergreen would this type of blatant
racism (attempted by masking it with
sarcasm) be tolerated.
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The things that we have worked for
our whole lives, and our life on this
campus, were destroyed in one day by that
cartoon. I'm sure many of you will say
(once again) that I am being melodramatic.
But I'm not. I'm here to say that people of
color are a force to be reckoned with on
this campus and allover the world. We
are empowering ourselves for a battle that
needs to be fought. We are not a doormat
for white people to wipe their dirty feet
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Coalition, from cover
of Student Activities. his first reaction to
this sign was to call a meeting of
coordinators of the Student Activities
groups to discuss the concerns behind the
sign. This meeting was interrupted by a
confrontation between a member of the
Coalition and a student who came into the
Student Activities area to photograph the
sign on the door (see related story).
"Some of the students were adamant
that they had the right to keep the sign-up
there. so I felt it was in the best interest
that we go to the auorney general to show
them that it wasn't something we just
created. that we had certain laws we had
to abide by," said Mercado.
According to Mercado. the decision
didn't come until early in evaluation week.
when most of the students. were gone.
What he was hearing from the Women of
Color Coalition members. says Mercado.
was that the sign had sprung out of over a
year of unresolved issues. "... finally [they]
said 'We're not going to take it
anymore. '" and he felt that it was
important to deal with the issues behind
the sign.
During evaluation week, Mercado
says he met with Carolyn Dobbs. Vice
President for Student Affairs, Shannon
Ellis. Dean of Students and Ermelindo
Escobedo to discuss the situation.
Mercado says it was important " ...to let
them [Women of Color Coalition]
understand that this sign was illegal and
inappropriate and needed to come down
but also [let] them know that by taking
that down we weren't trying to stifle their
voice," said Mercado.
The sign was removed by Shannon
Ellis, Dean of Students, on Tuesday,
March 24. Two others signs were put up
by the Coalition and removed by the
administration over the next few days.
But according to members of the
Coalition, they are not being
discriminatory. Says Diana Gonzales, a
member of the Coalition, "Nobody who's
come up to us in a civil marmer and asked
for access to our space has been denied
it .. white males have been in our office,
white females, all sorts of different people
- people haven't been barred on the basis
of color and gender."
The posting of the sign by Adekanbi
was triggered by a several instances of
men, both of color and non-color. coming
into the office and not leaving when
asked. But the sign itself, according to
Adekanbi and GonzAJes, is only
manifestation of ~tration built up over
'many instances of disrespect for women of
color on this campus. While the original
sign received a great deal of attention and
tended to be the focal point of discussions
about the Coalition in the past few weeks,
Coalition members say the sign is a
reaction to much deeper issues at
Evergreen.
According to Gonzales, "Women of
color are being sexually harassed and have
been sexually harassed on this campus and
nobody cares."
The two women explained that
Women of Color Coalition members are
angry that their concerns about their safety
and respect have been disregarded by
administration and faculty.
"How do you expect us to feel when
you see the people who are supposed to be
here working for me and saying 'I'm here
to work for you and make you at ease.'
and they're not .. We don't walk alone by
ourselves anymore... ," says Adekanbi.
"There are faculty that make the
racist comments in class. And when I go
and bring it to them. they take it out on
my evaluation, and the system (doesn 't) do
anything about it," she continued.
"The point is. the system... many
.
people of color and women of color do
not feel safe on this campus. It doesn't
work, they don't have faith in the system.
Both people who've gone through it and
people who haven't. And they expect us .
to change it .... " says Adekanbi. "Nobody
in the administration is taking the
responsibility to change the policy and
process for it to work." she continued.
On Monday, April 6. members of
the Women of Color Coalition met with
administration, including Carolyn Dobbs,
Shannon Ellis and Ermalindo Escabedo,
Affirmative Action officer. to discuss the
Coalition's concerns.
One of the demands presented at this
meeting by the Women of Color Coalition
are that more women of color be hired as
faculty and staff. specifically women of
color to fill the positions of an additional
Affmnative Action officer, a counselor.
and a position in First Peoples Services.
The administration is also ID fund
and implement required workshops on
ciJltural sensitivity and racial justice.
incident, from cover
Support Services were in the area at the
time and escorted Blair away from the
office.
Blair has filed grievances against
Fujimoto and George Hermosillo. stating
that they physically restrained him from
leaving; against Webb for insisting that
Blair remain in the room while admitting
he had no legal right to detain him; and
against Adekanbi, staling that she
physically threatened him . Adekanbi and
Gonzales have filed against Blair for
harassment
Giselle Weyte is writing under space
constraints.
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The responding deputies allowed Blair to
leave the area.
Later in the afternoon Blair returned
to the Women of Color Coalition office
to learn the naffies of the people involved
in the incident in order to file grievances
against them.
Adekanbi and Diana
Gonzales. another member of the Woman
of Color Coalition. felt that he was being
aggressive and confrontational and that
after the afternoon's incident. he was
harassing them. Fujimoto. Tom Mercado,
Student Activities Director and Shannon
Ellis Dean of Student and Academic
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