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It's the seventh week and everything's going to be okay
November 7. 1991
Volume 22 Issue 7
All dressed up with someplace to go
Acquaintance rape reported
in campus housing
by Bryan Connors
Evergreen Housing officials and
Campus Security have reported that an
acquaintance rape occurred in the early
hours of Oct 28., in student housing.
According to Security, the victim, a
18-year-old student and housing resident,
reported the alleged rape to Housing on
Oct. 30. Housing, in turn, reported the
incident to Security.
According to Security, both parties
involved had been under the influence of
alcohol and/or related substances when,
as Sergeant Larry Savage of Campus
Security commented, "Things went too
far."
No criminal charges have been filed
against the subject (a 26 year-old student
and resident) as yet, nor, according to
Savage, is there likely to be any filed.
"The victim made it very clear that
she wanted no prosecution,
no
disenrollment, no criminal trespass
invoked," Savage said, "what she wanted
was this person...that if he was found to
be admitting to the act of [doing
this]...would be sent to counseling to
assist him in understanding what he had
done, and to make sure that it was clear
in his mind that he wouldn't do this
again."
Also according to Savage, the victim
wanted to use this incident to help make
the community aware of the subject of
acquaintance rape.
According to Title 9-A of the
revised codes of Washington state, one
of the definitions of sex offense is
mental incapacity. This states "...the
condition existing at the time of the
offense which prevents a person from
understanding the nature or consequences
of sexual intercourse, whether that
condition is due to illness, defect,
influence of a substance, or from some
other cause."
For those interested, Housing will be
holding a workshop on acquaintance rape
on Nov. 14 at 7 pm in the A-dorm
Edge.
Bryan Connors reports on Security
issues for the CPJ.
Halloween assault in A-dorm
by Bryan Connors
An assault occurred in the late hours
of Thursday, Oct. 31 (Halloween), on the
second floor of A-Dorm.
According to witness reports two
students, William Baxter, housing
resident, and Daniel McClusky, began to
argue. A shoving match ensued.
According to reports, McClusky
pulled out a clear glass bottle and
smashed it up-side Baxter's head,
breaking it in the process.
Medics arrived some minutes later,
and Baxter was transported to Capital
Medical Center. According to Campus
Security, Baxter suffered
multiple
lacerations to the head and face and had
to undergo surgery.
McClusky was arrested for first
degree assault (assault with a deadly
weapon), and, as of this writing, placed
in custody in the Thurston County jail.
He has yet to be arraigned.
Bryan Connors covers Security
issues for the CPJ.
Close your eyes - quick!
Kody Johnson wears his finest for work at the Deli on Halloween, photo by David
Mattingly
Student representation sought
by Julie Slone
This is the latest update on
committees that still need student
representation. In addition to the
Disappearing Task Forces (DTF's),
Committees, Boards, and other campuswide governance opportunities listed
below, there is also a request for a
student representative to be seated with
the Board of Trustees the second
Wednesday of each month.
If you are interested in becoming a
member of any of these committees or
would like to have more information,
please contact Julie Slone in the Student
Affairs Office at 866-6000 x6296.
1. ACADEMIC DEAN SEARCH DTP:
This DTP will conduct an internal
search for the dean whose
responsibilities include the academic
budget, summer sessions and space
allocations.
2. COMMUNICATIONS BOARD: This
board monitors and advises the
student-funded
communications
endeavors on campus.
3. COPYRIGHT DTP: This DTP will
review the College's current policies
and propose language that will bring
them up to date with the copyright
laws.
4. ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY
COMMITTEE: This committee is
studying Evergreen's impact on the
environment
5. FACULTY HIRING DTP: This DTP
conducts searches for new faculty,
and makes recommendations to the
provost for new faculty hires.
6. SEXUAL HARASSMENT DTP:
This DTP will be completing its
work at the end of .fall quarter. In
order to achieve gender balance, they
are particularly looking for a female
student to contribute to this final
phase of their work.
Julie Slone is the Administrative
Secretary for Student Affairs.
The E*erg*0en State College
Glympia, WA 98505
Address Correction Requested
An anonymous student gives blood with a generous vein. Monday's blood drive
in the Library Lobby was coordinated by Puget Sound Blood Program, photo by
David Matting ly
Internal Seepage
F-lot crime spree
Sports and more sports
Bader and Brainboy
Math and Amnesty
Death and Guatemala
Responsible responses
Rags and kings
3 Lovely calendar
4 Barfly Bukowski
5 Beautiful comics
6 Artful Seepage
8
10
11
12
Nonprofit Organization
US Postage Paid
Olympia, WA 98505
Permit No. 65
NEWS BRIEFS
College thrashers
attain Nirvana
NATIONAL-Believe
it
or
not,
Northwest grunge faves Nirvana's current
album Nevermind has just been certified
gold, with 500,000 copies sold in less
than two months. The album is number
35 with a bullet on Billboard's album
chart, and it's number one on Rolling
Stone's college chart Remember it was
just a year ago that these boys from
Aberdeen could be found playing for free
in Evergreen's own mods!
Send grocery
receipts to KAOS
EVERGREEN-Evergreen's radio station
KAOS is collecting grocery receipts.
KAOS will receive 1% of the total value
of all receipts collected from Haggen and
Stormans grocery stores. The money will
be supporting The Olympia Public Radio
Project, upgrading KAOS' studios and
adding a satellite antenna.
Receipts from the following stores
are requested:
Top Foods
Bayview Market
Ralph's Thriftway
Food Pavilion
Hawks Prairie Market
Mail or drop off your receipts to KAOS,
CAB 014 (CAB Basement), Box 11. For
more information call 866-6000 x6397.
Environmental
fellowships open
NATIONAL--Oak Ridge Associated
Universities is now accepting applications
for
the
Alexander
Hollaender
Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship
program.
The program is sponsored the US
department of energy, and is open to
applicants with doctorate degrees and
interests
in
energy-related
life,
biomedical, and environmental sciences.
Application deadline is Jan. 15,
1992.
To receive an application packet,
write to Science/Engineering Education
Division,
Oak Ridge
Associated
Universities, PO Box 117, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee 37831-0117; or call (616) 5764805.
Internships for
MPA students
EVERGREEN-Cooperative Education is
accepting applications for Summer 1992
internships for MPA students interested
in the Washington State Senate.
Interns will be assigned to work on
projects in such committees as: Children
and Family Services, Environmental and
Quote of the Week
"If love were a rag doll, I'd put It In
the free box."
John Silliphant sharing his philosophical notions in a
local context.
Natural
Resources,
Economic
Development and Labor, Education, and
other areas. Intern projects will include
research, reports writing and bill drafting.
Nov. 18 is the application deadline.
If interested, send a resume and cover
letter to the Office of Cooperative
Education. Interviews for finalists will
be scheduled for the following week.
For
more
information,
call
Cooperative Education at 866-6000
x6391 or stop by L1407 in the Hillaire
Student Advising Center. Our drop-in
hours are Tuesday 3 to 4:40 pm,
Wednesday 10 am to noon, and
Thursday 3 to 4:30 pm.
The
measure contains
several
provisions
targeting
rural
timber
dependent communities and timber
workers in the Pacific Northwest. The $5
million will be used to support pilot
projects
establishing
a
special
diversification
program
for
small
communities threatened by sharply
reduced timber harvests from federal
lands. The program was established under
Morrison's legislation contained in the
1990 farm bill.
Yet another
internship...
EVERGREEN~The YWCA is an active
student group at The Evergreen State
College which works to eliminate racism
wherever it exists and by any means
necessary. The YWCA of TESC is highly
involved in the National Student YWCA.
Please come to our meeting on
Thursday, Nov. 7, from 6 pm to 7:30 pm
in L3205. All are invited to attend. It is
an excellent time to get involved in an
active and dynamic student group that
actively works for social change.
CHICAGO-Applications
are
being
accepted at the Chicago Botanic Garden
for the 1992 Internship Program. The
program allows interns to work in a oneto-one setting with professionals, while
gaining experience and skills to enhance
their job qualifications.
Interns rotate through different work
area every two weeks.
Internship
positions are available in three- to
twelve-month increments and provide for
a 40-hour work week.
For more information, write to
Cynthia Baker, intern coordinator,
Chicago Botanic Garden, PO Box 400,
Glencoe 111
60022-0411
Funding for
timber cut
WASHINGTON-Congressman
Sid
Morrison announced that the final 1992
interior appropriations bill contains just
$5 million for a new program designed to
help rural timber dependent communities
develop and diversify. An earlier version
of a House and Senate conference
agreement had included $10 million for
the program.
"I'm extremely disappointed that we
were not able to get the full $10 million
to get this program going," Morrison
said. "It apparently suffered because it is
a new program, and when the final cuts
were made, new programs were cut first."
Security Blotter
Tuesday, October 29
0008: Three vehicles were towed from
the A-Dorm loop.
Wednesday, October 30
2105: Person reported her shoes stolen
from CRC women's locker room.
Thursday, October 31
1023: Vehicle parked in F-lot broken
into, with stereo missing.
1117: Fire alarm went off in the Central
Utility Plant due to, it is believed,
improper lighting ballast
2355: Resident reported two men fighting
on the second floor of A-Dorm (see
story on cover).
Friday, November 1
1657:
Resident reported his car
vandalized wile parked in F-loL
1827: Person reported the battery stolen
from her car while parked in C-lot.
Saturday, November 2
0225: The staff lounge found unlocked in
the CAB.
1210: Resident reported that her stolen
checks were being forged.
Help save Indian
& Moxlie Creeks
Sunday, November 3
A relatively quiet day for campus
security.
Monday, November 4
0237: Person reported his car broken into
and tapes stolen while parked in F-lot.
1348: Student reported his vehicle, along
with another, had been broken into and
items missing while parked in F-lot.
1614: Person reported vehicle broken
into while parked in (again) F-lot.
1618: Attempted break-in of vehicle
reported while vehicle was parked in (all
together now) F-loL
1830: Vehicle with "no name" reported
to have broken window in (one more
time!) F-lot.
1934: Fire alarm went off in Lab Annex
welding shop area due to smoke from
outside kiln.
YWCA invites all
to meetings
Monument to be
rededicated
Support for
single parents
EVERGREEN-Are you a single parent
trying to juggle college and childcare?
There are others out there like you. You
are invited to come join Evergreen's
Single Parent Support Group to give and
receive support in a caring environment.
Group meetings are held Mondays at
noon in Hillaire Student Advising.
There are also Evergreen Parent
Potlucks held Mondays evenings from 6
to 8 pm in Library 2130.
BuddeUp
For Life.
OLYMPIA-The 1991 Thurston County
Veterans Day program will include the
unveiling and rededication of Washington
State's Medal of Honor monument. The
ceremony will take place November 11 at
11:00 am on the capital campus in
Olympia.
Featured speakers for the program will
include Major General Patrick Henry
Brady and National Medal of Honor
Society President J. Elliott Williams.
Gary Foote, president of the Thurston
County Veterans Council, will be master
of ceremonies. Frank Kilgore, advocate
for Medal of Honor recipients, will
preside over the monument rededication.
The Medal of Honor monument has
been reworked to include the names of
36 Washington State Medal of Honor
recipients who were not originally
included on the monument. According to
Ron Hoffman, assistant director with the
Washington Department of Veterans
Affairs, the names have been added
following a revision of the terms defining
which Medal of Honor recipients are
considered to be Washington State
Residents.
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Page 2 Cooper Point Journal November 7, 1991
OLYMPIA-The public is invited to
participate in discussions regarding the
future of Indian and Moxlie Creek
drainage basins. A preliminary draft of
the comprehensive basin plan is now
available for public review.
A panel of local officials, technical
staff, and citizens will address some of
these questions: Why do we need to
control flows in the creeks? How much
money should we spend to protect Indian
and Moxlie Creeks? What affect does
public education have on flooding, water
quality, and habitat loss? How can we
prevent flooding problems?
The public meeting will be held 7 - 9
pm, Wednesday, November 13 at the
Olympia Center (222 N. Columbia)
rooms 101 and 102. For more
information on basin planning activities
or for additional copies of the preliminary
draft of the Indian/Moxlie Creek Basin
Plan call Andy Haub, Jean Carr, or Liz
Hoenig, City of Olympia Public Works
Department Water Resources Program,
753-8314.
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Women's
season ends
with tie
by Ruth Frobe
The 1991 soccer season ended for
the Evergreen Women's Team with a 22 tie with Highline Community College
on Saturday at home.
Despite a 2-0 lead on goals scored
by Kelly Lindgren in the 30th and 56th
minutes (assists by Heather Taylor and
Melinda Baxter), Highline came back and
scored in the 72nd minute and again
with 2 minutes remaining to tie the
score. The tie was the only tie of the
season and brought the Geoducks' record
to 5-11-1.
The
team
showed
definite
improvement between the 1990 and 91
seasons, and continued to improve over
the course of this season as well. The
Geoducks were led this year both on and
off the field by captains Heather Taylor
and Kirsten Roberts. Four players were
nominated for post season recognition:
Cami Smith, Kirsten Roberts, Heather
Taylor, and Kerry Holden were
nominated for All Conference and All
District honors; Taylor and Smith were
nominated for All West Region Honors
as well.
Conference, District, and
Region selections will be voted on by
coaches of member schools and
announced later this month.
Ruth Frobe is the Women's Soccer
coach.
Sports
Swim team kicks into gear
Men win final game
by Ruth Frobe
The Men's Soccer Team ended the
1991 season Sunday with a 1-0 win over
Lewis and Clark College in Portland.
The goal was scored as the result of
an indirect free kick in the 80th minute
of the game as Rob Jones sent the ball
to Alex Sigman who finished the play.
The win was the seventh of the year and
brought the Geoducks' final record to 711-1.
Leading scorers this season for the
men were freshmen Scott Foss and John
Hall. Foss had 6 goals and 5 assists for
17 points and Hall had 7 goals and 4
assists for 18 points. Sunday's game was
the last career game for seniors Andy
"Gomer" Pyle, Todd Allison, and Rob
Jones.
Ruth Frobe is the Women's Soccer
coach.
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by Ruth Frobe
Under the leadership of first year
coach Janette Parent, the Evergreen
Swim Team will open the 1991-92 season
this Friday, November 8. The Geoducks
will face Willamette and the University
of Puget Sound in a double dual meet at
UPS in Tacoma.
At this point in pre-season, Parent is
hopeful about the year and says, "the
team is working out consistently." There
are thirteen women and eleven men
currently on the team and "we are open
to new swimmers," Parent said.
For the Women's Team this weekend,
Parent is looking for a good season start
from freshman freestyler Kristie Copp
and the medley relay team of Michelle
Burlitch, Erin Swet, Sarah Leonard, and
Copp. Leonard is the only returner from
last year's squad.
The Men are led by returner Ken
"K.C." Cheney, a sprint freestyler, and
Bobby Caranes, who will be swimming
100 Breaststroke and 200 I.M. this week.
Friday's meet is the start of the season
which runs through mid March and
includes six meets, one of which will be
at Evergreen.
Ruth Frobe is the Women's Soccer
coach, and a regular contributor to the
CPJ.
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Cooper Point Journal November 7, 1991
Page 3
Columns
Local sheriffs satanic saga continues
by Chris Bader
Another installment of Another
Washington's Ingram series.
Paul Ingram, Chief Civil Deputy of
the Thurston County Sheriffs Office, pled
guilty to ritually abusing his children as
a member of a satanic cult in 1988.
He implicated his friends, Jim Rabie
and Ray Risch. His daughters spoke of
forced abortions, human sacrifices and
other horrors.
And then the case fell apart.
An expert on coerced confessions
reported that Ingram had been pressured
into his guilty plea by detectives.
Gynecological examinations revealed that
Julie and Ericka had not suffered the
abortions they spoke of.
The question remains. Did the
Thurston County Sheriffs Office create
its own satanic cult?
There is no question that detectives
used questionable motives in the
interrogation of Paul Ingram. They
preyed on his religious beliefs and the
influence of his pastor to pull from him
a series of vision-like "memories."
But if the methods used on Paul
Ingram were questionable, then those
used in the interview of his second
eldest son, Chad, were an outrage. Chad
was told that his childhood dreams were
real, and, when he couldn't offer the
names of any suspects, the interviewers
enticed him with the offer of a car.
The interview in question took place
on Dec. 8, 1988. Present were Dr.
Richard Peterson, a Tacoma psychologist,
and Brian Shoening, a member of the
Sheriff Department's sex crimes unit
Shoening and Peterson started the
interview
by
questioning
Chad
extensively about his childhood. They
were, naturally, interested in any sexual
incidents and asked Chad several times
whether he remembered any strange
sexual encounters or abuse.
Chad always answered in the
negative. In fact, the only sexual
encounter that he recalled from his
Another Washington
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story of his house. The people would
have had to have been floating to see in
his window, he said.
Peterson and Shoening were not so
convinced. Seemingly thrilled at finding
what could be a satanic incident, they
told Chad that it was not a dream:
Peterson: "What you saw was real."
\ "We know that Chad. You
weren't dreaming."
childhood was a game of "show and
tell" with another little boy.
By his teens, however, Chad was
obviously a troubled person. He revealed
to Peterson and Shoening that he had
once attempted suicide after an argument
with his father.
The incident peaked the interest of
Dr. Peterson, who apparently thought that
the suicide attempt must be related to
sexual abuse. Dr. Peterson then told
Chad that he had been abused, but just
couldn't remember it
Peterson: "...Something happened,
which is so horrible to remember that
you don't want to remember it, which
made you feel so humiliated and took
away whatever less...vestige of self esteem
that you had...."
Later in the same interview, Peterson
also told Chad that he had been abused
by a group of people, and that these were
people he knew and trusted. All of these
suggestions came without any input from
Chad, who still could not offer any
incidents of sexual abuse.
In what appears to be a desperate
attempt to extract something from the
interview, Chad was asked if he had ever
had any strange dreams as a child.
Chad offered a dream in which four
strange people with faces painted like the
members of the rock band "Kiss" peered
in the window of his bedroom. He was
satisfied, though, that this was merely a
dream, since he had lived on the second
Peterson: "It's not a dream."
Ingram: "No, this was outside my
window though."
Peterson: "That's right."
A frustrated Dr. Peterson told Chad to
"turn the lights on" in his dream so that
he could see the witch's face more
clearly, but this didn't work either.
The only details that Chad could offer
were that the witch was female, had dark
black hair, an oval shaped face, and
brown eyes.
It was then that Dr. Peterson made
what sounds like a bribe, apparently in
an attempt to entice Chad to name some
suspects.
Peterson: "..Til tell you something,
you'd have a, you have the right to sue
these fuckers and get as much as you
want from "em."
Ingram: "That'd be nice."
Apparently, Dr. Peterson believed in
flying people by this point in the
investigation.
Evidently satisfied that they had
finally found some evidence of
supernatural activity, Shoening and
Peterson asked Chad if he had
experienced other scary dreams. Chad
said that he used to have nightmares of
a fat "witch" flying through his window
and sitting on his stomach.
Once again Peterson and Shoening told
Chad that this dream had really
happened:
Shoening:
"That's exactly real.
That...that's the key Chad. That's what
was really going on."
Peterson: "Chad, these things happened
to you."
Ingram: "Okay."
And so began a fruitless attempt to get
Chad to name the "witch." But despite
intense pressure applied by Shoening and
Peterson, Chad would not offer a name.
He said that in the dream his room was
dark, so he could not see the witch's
face.
Peterson: "You damn rights (sic) it'd
be nice. Pay for a college education."
Ingram: "Yeah."
Peterson: "Pay for a nice car. Get you
started in life."
Ingram: "Well, I already got a nice
car."
Peterson: "Yeah, do you have a
BMW?"
Soon after this shocking exchange, the
cassette tape recording the conversation
went off. Unfortunately, we will never
know for sure what took place during
this lapse in the records.
But, when the tape came back on,
Chad was ready to name the witch.
Somehow, the female witch had
become a male.
Somehow, Chad had managed to
pierce the darkness.
He named Jim Rabie.
Coming up, an exclusive interview
with Paul Ingram...
Chris Bader writes Another
Washington each week. We at the CPJ
love him.
Tunneling for balsa pancakes with Brain Boy
Dear Brain Boy,
What does a Balsa tree look like?
-David Scalza, TESC
Dear David,
Balsa (known in the West Indies as
"West Indian Corkwood") is the lightest
wood used commercially. In fact it is
one third the weight of cork. It's light
because when the wood is dried, air fills
its cells. To answer your question, the
tree the wood comes from (in South
America) is SO to 80 feet tall and has
large ivory colored vase shaped flowers.
These flowers produce its fruit and
seeds.
Dear Brain Dude,
You know when you pour syrup on
pancakes, and you can pour the whole
bottle on, maybe two or three bottles,
and then no matter how much syrup you
put on the pancakes, ten minutes later
it's all gone and you have to put more
on? Where does the syrup go? I mean,
like, y'know?
--Loves Denny's Pancakes
Dear Pancake Lover,
Your question seems reminiscent of
the lyrical style of a band known as
King Missile (cf. "Cheesecake Truck").
Actually, the reason you love Denny's
Pancakes so much is best summed up by
two simple words: Supersubliminal
Psychomanipulationism. I for one find
nothing wrong with using mind control
to sell syrup-that's what makes America
the greatest country in the world.
Dear Brain Boy,
Once and for all, could you once
and for all separate the facts and fictions
pertaining to the legendary tunnels
Visiting parents or family?
We're the perfect place to stay
ATTENTION THOSE CURIOUS TYPES
AT EVERGREEN AND BEYOND:
Brain Boy is feeling kinda blue, 'cause
the questions just ain't comin' through.
But you can make a difference. Support
massing of useless knowledge-listen to
PLUJ II and read Brain Boy. But more
importantly, SEND YOUR QUESTIONS
IN NOW. If I get only five questions for
next week, I will not collapse under the
weight of my own cerebrum. You can
save me. Thank You.
A sadly disillusioned Brain Boy (Mike
Mooney) can be reached through any
number of kindly staffers at the CPJ,
L2510.
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Charming 1910 mansion
overlooking Puget Sound
underneath the TESC campus?
-Bad Spelling BC, A-Dorm
Dear BC,
No, not once and for--no, not this
week. I will tell you this, though. I have
been in contact with someone who has
traversed these tunnels (sometimes known
as the "steam tunnels") for purposes of
Housing maintenance. They do run under
Red Square, but I will provide detailed
information in an upcoming installment
of BB.
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Human rights abuses were common
in Iran under the Shah and have
continued to be a problem under the
current
Islamic
fundamentalist
government. A long, continuing case is
that of Miriam Firouz. She is a writer
and translator in her mid-70's who was
arrested for her political activities on
April 6, 1983. She was held for over
three year in pre-trial detention, often
incommunicado.
Firouz was tried in 1983 and
sentenced to death, but the sentence was
later commuted. Tlie precise charges on
which she was convicted are not known.
At present she is held in Tehran's Evin
Prison and is in poor health.
Firouz was arrested with dozens of
other leading figures in the Tudeh Party
of Iran, which was banned after these
arrests. The Tudeh party was accused of
plotting with a foreign power, the Soviet
Union, to overthrow Iran's Islamic
Government The leaders of the Tudeh
were among the thousands of prisoners
that were tortured by the Iranian
SAVAMA, an internal security force.
Miriam Firouz was the President of
the Democratic Organization of Iranian
Women. She contributed articles on
literature and women's issues to party
newspapers, and she translated numerous
works of French literature into Farsi.
Amnesty
International
believes
Miriam Firouz to be a prisoner of
conscience, imprisoned for the nonviolent expression of her political views.
It calls for her immediate and
unconditional release.
Send courteous letters expressing
concern at the imprisonment of Miriam
Firouz and calling for her unconditional
release. Write to:
His Excellency Hojatoleslam
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
President of the Islamic Republic of
Iran
The Presidency
Palestine Avenue
Azerbaijan Intersection
Tehran
Islamic Republic of IRAN
Iranian Interests Section
2209 Wisconsin Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
Jeff Crane co-writes a weekly
Amnesty International column.
Math history: how the Pythagoreans did it
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by Rafael Marino
Back in the 6th century B.C., the
Pythagoreans and other Greek
mathematicians used to visualize
properties of numbers in a geometric
fashion, with figures. Today we call
these "Proofs Without Words," or rather,
we should say, "with very few words."
The method has advantages and
limitations. Can you visualize in this
way the basic algebraic theorems:
1. (a + b)2 = a2 + 2ab + b 2 ,
2. (a - b)2 = a2 - 2ab + b2 ,
3. (a + b)3 = a 3 + 3a2b + 3ab2 + b3
and
4. (a -b) 3 = a3 - 3a2b + 3ab2 - b3
How about (a + b)4 ? Here they are:
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However, as far as I can tell there is
no easy way to represent (a + b)4 ,
which shows the limitations of the
method.
The arithmetic mean of two
numbers a and b is
a+b
2
while the geometric mean is
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Question: Can you claim any inequality
between the arithmetic and the geometric
means of any two numbers?
Can
you say that one of the two is always
less or equal than the other one?
I will publish my Pythagorean
answer next week. In the mean time
here are some hints: Draw a semicircle
with diameter a+b . Inscribe in the
semicircle a triangle (which must be a
right triangle) with its hypotenuse
coinciding with the diameter.
Rafael
Marino is the Math
Coordinator at Evergreen.
Cooper Point Journal October 24, 1991 Page 5
Guatemalans not ready to celebrate
by Thomas Connelly
In 1954, "Operation Guatemala" was
supposed to be the Central Intelligence
Agency's (CIA) solution to the 'red'
threat of communism in Central America.
Instead, it sowed the seeds for a bloody
civil war that still rages after thirty
years. Francisco Call and Gregorio Coy
traveled to Qlympia last week and spoke
about the history of the troubles in thennative land.
The program carried the title 500
Years of Indigenous and Popular
Resistance, and featured a discussion of
the politics of history within the context
of the 500th anniversary of the sailing
to the New World of Christopher
Columbus. The visitors were hosted on
The Evergreen State College campus by
the Evergreen Political Information
Center, the Olympia Movement for
Justice and Peace, and the Indian Center.
The program was repeated in the evening
at Timberline Library.
Mr. Cali began the talk with a brief
summary of the "critical" viewpoint of
the "Discovery of America" in 1492. For
him, this year is far from marking the
advent of civilization or progress on a
European model. Rather, it is the
beginning of a "500-year nightmare for
my people. History needs to develop
models of societies within the context of
their own cultures. The history of the
highland people of Guatemala has to
include 1000 years of history," he added.
The celebration of this indigenous
1000 year history seemed to him to be
worthy of some media attention in 1992.
He went on to suggest that perhaps the
upcoming hoopla could be considered a
year-long celebration of 'Self-Discovery'
in the New World. Mr. Cali interpreted
the fact that Columbus died not knowing
that he never did reach the Orient as
sufficient grounds for making the claim
that the Indians discovered Columbus
and not vice versa. For his own role in
history of his people's struggle in the
civil war in Guatemala, Mr. Cali has had
his passport confiscated by the military
Analysis
and now, like thousands of others, he
lives in exile.
Mr. Coy, speaking through an
interpreter, related his own civil war
history. He has lost numerous relatives in
the fighting, including his mother, sister
and several brothers-in-law. He described
the recent discovery of a new secret
cemetery near his home town. The army
buried several civilians in a trench in
hopes of hiding the fact from the people.
This action could be seen as yet another
attempt to deny the people of the area
any control of their own history. Mr.
Coy, by his own admission, rejected any
notion that this might occur and
convincingly
related
his
absolute
solidarity with the cause he espouses. The
shy man from Guatemala thanked the
audience for their warm support and
invited the group to visit Guatemala
where he could offer them the hospitality
of his homeland.
Over 30 years ago a civil war started
after
a
counter-revolution
was
orchestrated by the CIA and removed a
popularly-elected,
reform-minded
president for power. The country had run
afoul of the CIA, when its president,
Jacobo Arbenz, declared that thousands of
acres of undeveloped land belonging to
the United Fruit Company would be
divided among the landless poor. Mr.
Arbenz offered to pay for the land at the
rate based on United Fruit's tax
assessment. Outraged Norte Americano,
led by Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles, demanded 25 times that amount.
Along with his brother, CIA director
Allen Dulles, he concocted the myth of
the 'red' scare and effected the fall of
Arbenz.
The history of the affair is interesting.
For more on the subject, Mr. Cali
suggested checking out works in the
TESC library by the famous linguist
Noam Chomsky. Unfortunately, this
writer discovered that the respective
tomes are lost and/or on reserve at the
college until September 1992.
The Dulles brothers had done legal
work for the United Fruit Company and
the wife of the Company's president
worked in the White House as personal
secretary to President Eisenhower. For
nearly fifty years before that, Guatemala
was a private banana plantation owned
and
operated
by United
Fruit.
Eisenhower's Secretary of Defense,
George Wilson, one-time CEO of General
Motors, declared that "What's good for
GM is good for the U.S.", and by
extension, the planet.
"History needs to
develop models of
societies within the
context of their own
cultures. The history
of the highland
people of Guatemala
has to include 1,000
years of history."
The
same
counter-revolutionary
scheme was proposed to end the rule of
Castro in Cuba. The 'red' scare could be
done away with at a place called the Bay
of Pigs. President Kennedy was told that
it had worked in Guatemala and would
work again in Cuba. Everything was CIA
prepared. All he had to do was give the
green light. Like Ike he would help make
the world safe for democracy and show
the Kremlin who was boss in Central
America.
This was how the fifties viewed
progress and foreign policy. For Mr.
Cali and Mr. Coy from Guatemala, this
version of history is a call to action in
the form of popular resistance.
Mr. Cali also reported on the Second
Continental Gathering of the 500 Years of
Indigenous and Popular Resistance
Campaign which took place on Oct. 12,
in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. This
umbrella organization represents many
progressive groups and is working to
promote orderly change in Guatemalan
society. The military is considering
anyone in this campaign asking for their
rights a guerilla according to Mr. Coy.
Over 1000 observers attend the meeting
and a popular public demonstration of
over 50,000 indigenous Guatemalans
marched in support of the conference.
Such enthusiasm augurs well for the
struggle for solidarity among the people
of Guatemala. Despite the beginning of
peace talks, and apparent progress in
ending the 12-year civil war in
neighboring El Salvador, which has
claimed over 75,000 lives, Guatemalans
are not yet ready to celebrate the
nightmare of their own history nor are
they sanguine about the beginning of a
new era in Guatemalan history.
Guatemala, thanks no doubt in part to
the efforts of United Fruit Company to
maximize
profits,
is
the
most
industrialized country in Central America.
The infra-structure is considered modern
by regional standards. Numerous U.S.
interests seek a negotiated end to the
civil war and a return to antebellum
business as usual. In this context this
would mean 'free trade' for the bevy of
U.S. corporations firmly ensconced in the
area. Today 2% of the people own 72%
of the land in Guatemala. Any hope of
fixing fictional history and making it real
for a change hinges on land reform; the
basic cause of the civil war in the
beginning.
The Guatemalan Solidarity Committee
of Seattle (GUASO) is involved in a
wide variety of functions aimed at ending
the civil war and helping refugees from
the war. For more information contact:
GUASO, PO Box 31903, Seattle WA
98103. Call 781-9653 for the time and
place of the next meeting.
Thomas Connelly apparently is not
an Evergreen student.
Hey people, let's give the dead a rest
by Edward Martin III
I should have seen this one coming
since the cover story wars started.
Michael Landon, recent winner of the
coveted Largest Volume of Forlorn
Photographs Ever Taken and Published
Award, has enrolled into the ranks of the
seen undead.
I wish this was the kind of thing
that you enter just by dialing the tollfree number on your screen or maybe by
sending only $14.95 plus $2.95 for
shipping and handling to receive your
free booklet entitled "How To Be Seen
Around Town Long After You've Struck
Your Last Match," but it just doesn't
seem that easy.
Michael was a special kind of guy,
apparently, 'much like Elvis in that he
possesses a unique ability to appear to
sick children in their beds, to elderly
women who happen to be carrying
cameras loaded with film and will more
than likely next be seen playing footsie
with The King himself in an Alabama
burger joint
...when will Trekkies
begin seeing outlines of
Gene Roddenberry in
rust spots on their cars?
This is a pretty scary trend, all these
dead people getting up and buying
hamburgers and getting their pictures
taken and just generally hanging around
freaking people out Why not Sammy
Davis Jr. or Buddy Holly or Rock
Hudson? Try counting up how many
dead famous poeople you've heard of
and how many live famous people
you've heard of. The balance is not in
the favor of the living and even as you
read this, more people are defecting to
the dead side. Think of all the people in
history and all of a sudden you find
yourself pitching on the wrong team.
So what's really going on here is
that for one mystical reason or another,
Michael Landon is allowed to do
housecalls.
Do you suppose that
somewhere, he and Elvis are bucking for
superiority among the returnees or
arguing over who gets to order fries and
who gets to buy a ticket to see Silence
of the Lambs!
Or maybe by this time, they're pals
and pretty soon, they'll be photographed
together, holding hands in a South
Dakota shopping center. Being dead and
all, they already have a lot in common.
And when are children going to start
reporting Jim Henson's ghost flickering
on the television screen in the middle of
a Sesame Street re-run and when are
people with MD going to receive spectral
visits from Jerry Lewis and when will
Trekkies begin seeing outlines of Gene
Roddenberry in rust spots on their cars?
It's just not fair that out of eightyfive bazillion dead people, only two
manage to make the headlines and it's
even less fair because they got to hog all
the headlines when they were still alivel
Jesus guys, give it a rest. Go visit
JFK on his secret island or something.
Edward Martin HI is the anecdotal
Comics Editor at the CPJ.
treat ourselves with more respect and
support.
Melissa Weispfenning
the bank to have the money from the
taping engagement plus residuals donated
to the College Foundation for the
establishment of a faculty development
fund.
Since completing
the taping,
however, I have had some reservations
and have decided not to do the spot. I
am concerned that as a public sector
employee, it is difficult to separate my
private and public lives and this close
identification with one banking institution
may not be in the best interests of the
college.
I wanted all of you to be aware of
this decision, and also wanted to take
this opportunity to thank all of you who
shared your views with me as I sought
consultation in this matter.
Les Puree
Response
Ban universal
lubricant
Greeners might need something, but
it sure isn't more beer.
I'm writing in response to Loren
Rupp's article (Oct. 31 CPJ) about
Evergreen's need for a universal social
lubricant Rupp's call for allowing
alcohol to be served at events to bolster
attendance seems sad and absurd to me.
A friend of mine put it succinctly, "What
do you want us to do, enable the whole
campus?"
There are some very good reasons
for not having beer at campus events.
Number one being that alcohol abuse is
a major problem on campus (nearly
100% of security and housing infractions
are drug/alcohol related) which needs no
further encouragement Then there are
the students who have chosen to live in
drug and alcohol free housing (15% of
housing) who have a hard enough time
dealing with the party scene here without
it being supported at campus events also.
Why further Evergreen's reputation as
the drug school? Why does it take beer
to "allow its own unique, proud culture
to flourish"?
It amazes me that a college that is
the cutting edge in alternative education
and progressive thinking is not also
ahead in alternative, more healthy ways
of living. Alcohol might be a "universal
social lubricant" but it is also one of the
largest social and health problems on
earth. Let's treat it that way and also
Page 6 Cooper Point Journal November 7, 1991
Puree declines
Seafirst ad
Some of you many be aware of the
production work that was done on
campus Oct. 30 for a Seafirst Bank
television commercial. I had been
approached by the bank and asked to
appear in a commercial, speaking about
why I had selected Seafirst for my
personal bank when I arrived here.
I consented on the condition that
Evergreen would be showcased. It
seemed an ideal opportunity for a
statewide audience to learn more about
what we do here. I had arranged with
Voting is not
for suckers
Michael Grutehfield's essay Voting is
for suckers (Oct. 31 CPJ) showed a
startlingly obtuse understanding of
politics, government, representation and
responsibility.
Modern democratic forms of
government have evolved as mechanisms
to pool the talents, abilities and resources
of societies to best meet the needs of
their citizens. When citizens are actively
involved in their governmental system it
works extremely well, but this means
more than showing up to vote twice a
year.
Involvement includes creating art and
literature, producing and disseminating
policy alternatives, informing oneself and
others, actively engaging in the choice
and campaigns of candidates, and a
myriad of other activities that collectively
comprise a civil society. In short, taking
responsibility for shaping the government
to serve one's own needs as well as
acting as a proxy for the powerless and
a spokesperson for the voiceless.
I have a comic hanging over my
desk at home called "Uncle Sam talks
tough with today's teens:"
Uncle Sam says: "Say, boys and
girls, why don't you let me sock
you each with a $50,000 debt at
birth, a seriously threatened
environment, and the pall of
25,000 nuclear weapons hanging
over you heads....all in the name
of short term economic gain and
the Emperor's new clothes
argument of safety in the atomic
age."
Boy says: "Can we keep our
walkmans?"
Girl says: "And the VCR?"
This is the attitude of people like
Mike Grutchfield; people whose only
motivation is the satisfaction of their
own shallow interests. As long as The
Evergreen
State College
keeps
functioning, the roads remain passable
and the water keeps flowing from his tap
then everything is fine. Why worry about
how he comes to enjoy these privileges
or that millions of others cannot? Why
worry about the million and a half
homeless people across the country?
Why worry that women get paid less
than 60 cents per every dollar a man
earns for doing the same job? Why take
the effort to create a society that is more
equitable and just? Why bother, I've got
mine so fuck you!
Democracies fail when people refuse
to become engaged. Without the constant
agitation of an aroused citizenry, the
government loses touch with the will of
the common people. It becomes
ineffective and skewed towards meeting
the needs of those who are involved.
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The User's Guide
The Cooper Point Journal exists to
facilitate communication of events, ideas,
movements, and incidents affecting The
Evergreen State College and surrounding
communities. To portray accurately our
community, the paper strives to publish
material from anyone willing to work with
us.
George Bush didn't get elected
because the American population wanted
more weaponry, slashed medical-care
budgets, curtailed student loan programs
and diminished social service funding.
George Bush was elected because the
majority of people who voted wanted
those things. Involvement, not isolation,
is the prescription for progress.
People the world over are struggling
and dying for a voice in their respective
governments. Would the students in
Tiananmen Square think Mike was a
clever guy? How about the marginalized
masses in South Africa or the millions
across Eastern Europe who turned 1989
into the year of revolution?
It's okay not to vote, Mike. That's
your choice as well, but at least be
honest with yourself. Admit that you
don't become involved because you are
too lazy, too smugly self-satisfied, or
because you really don't give a damn
about the suffering of others. Don't try
to dress it up in some pseudo-intellectual
prattle, because in the end, you aren't
impressing anyone but yourself.
Ray Goforth
Abortion
division ahead
In the last years I have seen the
conception and maturation of the
abortion conflict I am not interested in
presenting another bothered apology for
or against abortion. Rather I would
present to you a possible scenario--a
dream I just had.
Soon it seems that the Federal ruling
in support of abortion rights shah1 fall. In
just a short time the people, who
constitute the states of this nation, shall
demand legislation either for or against
abortion. In effect the states shah* line
themselves along one side or the other of
the abortion debate.
The people within a state which has
accepted abortion will not be swayed by
those within a state which has rejected it,
and vice versa. This conflict comes from
the firm belief of each faction that their
specific view is the correct view, and
neither of them speaking to the
justifications and motivations of the
other. Where does this lead? We shall
have states divided upon such deepstricken questions as the value of human
life, its definition, and its rights.
What shall happen when a state
becomes pro-choice, such as Washington,
and its neighbor becomes pro-life, such
as Idaho? What shah1 the future hold
when one state opposes another on such
deep-seated moral issues that neither
state is willing to work towards an
understanding of the common good
because each has taken a view so
polarized from the other?
In my mind there is only one
comparison from our history. What
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difference is there in the conflict of
views that slavery is wrong and that
slavery is justifiable from the views that
abortion is wrong and that abortion is
justifiable.
How is it that dissenting beliefs,
these dissenting realities, may be
reconciled? History holds many examples
of a proven way. What I ask is whether
there is another?
Jason Orloff
Genderbitch
on hold, gone?
Just in case anyone is curious about
the demise of Genderbitch, let me assure
them that it was not "canceled."
Josh and Brett missed the deadline
and they have not submitted any more
strips. I filled the spot with another
cartoon. End of story.
I will not cancel a cartoon simply on
the basis that it offends some special
interest group at Evergreen or in the
community as a whole. My rules for
selecting what is published and what is
not published are far less capricious than
rules developed according to the Whim
of the Year.
But thank you, J. Mikky Wright, for
your stunningly incoherent fan mail.
Cartoonists love feedback, especially CPJ
cartoonists, and if Josh and Brett are still
alive, I'm sure they enjoyed trying to
understand it.
Edward Martin HI
AIDS info is
availible
Several weeks ago, an interview
appeared in the CPJ concerning lack of
AIDS education. We would like to
clarify some of the activities/education
developed by the Student Affairs Office,
and invite students to participate.
1) Housing residents receive one
brochure concerning AIDS in their
'survival packages' during check in.
2) Housing sponsors one major
activity per quarter regarding AIDS and
STD awareness. For fall quarter, People
of Color AIDS Network (POCAN) will
conduct a workshop, Thursday, Nov. 7 at
7 pm at the Edge in A-dorm.
3) Student staff in Counselling and
Health Services as well as Housing learn
about AIDS and STD's during fall staff
training and serve as resources for and
student with questions.
4) Orientation Week has historically
included programming dealing with
AIDS. However, these programs have not
been well attended in the past despite the
high quality and publicity of such
workshops. This year, the topic of AIDS
was incorporated in a program entitled
"Sex, Highs, and Video Rape", which
was attended by at least 200 students. In
addition to the AIDS vignette during this
program, Peter Chapa, director of
Counselling and Health Services,
addressed the audience at the end of the
evening on the high risk nature for
college students and on anonymous
testing.
5) Various health programs on AIDS
will be available throughout the year.
These will continue to be published
through the CPJ, KAOS, and fliers.
Please contact the Health Center,
x6200, or your Housing Student Manager
if you have suggestions or want more
information.
Shannon Ellis
Dean of Student and Academic Support
Services
Jeannie Chandler
Director of Housing
how we are identified or how we
identify ourselves. Some of us are tired
of being referred to as minorities, while
others are offended by the phrase people
of color. Admittedly both have their
moments of inaccuracy.
Considering that the people being
referred to as minorities did not choose
to be identified in such a way, I fail to
see how a reaffirming phrase such as
people of color can be racist
Until I can identify myself as a
person of Pomo ancestry, and have
people know where I come from, then I
see no other alternative than to use a
phrase that I consider less offensive, or
spend 10 minutes explaining that my
people are from what is now known as
northern California.
I do not have the opportunity to talk
about my people and hope that you
recognize something about us, nor do I
come from an area where people of
color are the majority, or possibly hold
certain positions of power where they
can institute changes on a grand scale.
As long as America continues to identify
us by ethnicity, class, gender, and age,
then we must continue to find
reaffirming ways of identifying ourselves.
I agree that the phrase people of color is
ambiguous in many ways, and I pray for
the day when all humans are informed
about where their neighbors come from
and respect the language they happen to
use when identifying themselves. Until
then, I remain a person of color of Pomo
ancestry. To all of my relations.
Gary Wessels Galbreath
Don't arm
Security
After reading your article on arming
the TESC Campus Security I felt
compelled to write. Here is my story...
A few weeks ago I looked at a car
I thought I might want to buy, but it
wouldn't start. The owner and I called
Security to give us a jump. I wanted to
take it to a mechanic to get it checked
out We asked them to meet us in F Lot.
When we went outside, the officer was
circling the parking lot, even though I
had given him the make, model, color,
and license number!
After locating the car the officer
could not locate the battery. We showed
him where it was and while I filled out
a little form, he searched to find which
prong was positive and which was
negative. No one could read it. We
finally decided to simply guess and if it
was right a green light would go on.
Then the security officer asked us if WE
would attach the cables. He didn't want
to get his shirt dirty!
I agreed to hook them up and we
started charging. The owner got in front
to see if it would work. After she got it
started I glanced back to see what the
Security man was doing. He was tugging
on the cables, trying to yank them off
the prongs while not soiling his uniform.
As we drove away, I joked about
thinking twice before calling an escort,
and now there is talk about giving these
people guns? I'm not one for the police
but I think I would rather call Thurston
County myself, before ever dealing with
Campus Security again. I can't trust
them to start my car, why would you
want these men and women carrying
loaded weapons? Besides, what good
would it do to give them guns? They
would probably never fire them for fear
of getting blood on their pants.
Melissa Schomaker
Yes to 'People
of Color"
I would like to write a few more
words about the issue concerning the use
of the phrase "people of color."
During the past several weeks the
Evergreen community has had the
opportunity to read varying viewpoints
from people of color concerned about
Cooper Point Journal November 7, 1991
Page 7
Arts & Entertainment
Fisher King shines with humor and truth
by Leilani Johnson
And now for something completely
different; a spellbinding masterpiece of a
movie that takes the viewer on a twisted
and black journey into the worlds of
insanity, guilt, friendship and love. If you
enjoyed director Terry Gilliam's Brazil or
Time Bandits, both by director Terry
Gilliam, this movie will not disappoint.
An eccentric, surreal film, it depends on
the acting jobs of Bridges, Williams,
Amanda Plummer and Mercedes Ruehl.
The four play off of each other to create
a movie raised above others.
Chronicling the relationship between
Jeff Bridges, who plays a radio talk show
host, and Robin Williams, a man turned
schizophrenic when his wife is killed by
one of Bridges' callers, The Fisher King
journeys into new territory. Williams
fancies himself as a knight of the garbage
heaps and inhabits the basement of a
NYC apartment building. His eclectic
thoughts on life are at once truthful and
amusing: "There are three things you need
in life: respect for all kinds of life, a nice
bowel movement on a regular basis and a
blue blazer." Only Williams can say such
things and get away with it, and such
unpredictable philosophizing runs rampant
C
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Terry Gilliam (right) teaches Robin Williams the mazurka, photo courtesy Tri-Sta
in this movie.
Bridges does an excellent job
portraying a man besieged by guilt. His
conscience gets him involved with
Williams and makes for an interesting
psychoanalysis of how important it is to
feel guilt free. His torment takes him on
the adventure of a lifetime through
NYC's bizarre street and nightlife, and
the insane people who habit these areas.
Bridges' relationship with his girlfriend,
played by Ruehl, adds another interesting
aspect to this movie. The two of them fix
Williams up on a date with Plummer, the
woman he has fallen madly in love with,
and proceed to chaperon them to dinner.
The script, written by first-time
screenwriter Richard LaGravenese, is
entirely unpredictable and never fails to
please. There is a lot in this movie
though, and you might come out of the
theater feeling a bit overwhelmed.
The intensity of the film coupled
with its messages on life, love, and
philosophy, create quite the movie-going
experience. Robin Williams once again
plays an eccentric character who, even as
a bum, is totally inspiring. I recommend
going with a couple friends and taking
some time afterwards to discuss The
Fisher King. It's that kind of movie. It is
a film for anyone who loves NYC, an
enlightening
experience, or Robin
Williams nude in Central Park. The Fisher
King is currently playing at the Capitol
Mall Cinemas with showtimes at 6:45 pm
and 9:30 pm, weeknights. Tuesdays are
the discount night.
Leilani Johnson is an Evergreen
student.
ndependent Press Review' tackles Nazis etc.
by Ray Goforth
The full color cover has Margaret
Thatcher giving the fascist salute while
Ray Goforth, an Evergreen student, wearing a Nazi uniform. The inside is
collects and
reviews
independent literally crammed with weirdness from
periodicals, and also edits one himself- around the globe. Anything that is
Bad Haircut, which is sort of an annual. suppressed or ignored by dominant culture
If you have a periodical you'd like seems to be represented here. This issue
reviewed, contact Ray care of the CPJ.
has marijuana prices in Oxford, crop
circles, squatting news, Stonehenge
Decadent Worker
festivals, poll-tax resistance, homelessness,
c/o Packrat Press
a wounded knee history lesson, a lifeBox 5498
after-death debate and much more. The
Atlanta, GA 30307
cover alone was enough to make my day.
81/2x11 inches, single sheet of paper
Thoroughly enjoyable.
$1.00 for 5 issues
Little Free Press #87
Kerry Wendell Thornley is definitely Box 24
a weird guy. This all could be a work of Cushing, MN 56443
fiction but I don't really think so. It 8 1 / 2 x 1 1 inches, 4 pages
opens up with him explaining how in 29 cent stamp donation per issue
1977 he discovered that his body was
"wired" with a listening device. This
Ernest Mann is an interesting guy.
device has some connection to Lee He's one of those rare people who
Harvey Oswald and Nazi breeding "dropped out" in 1969 and didn't end up
programs. (He's not too coherent about as a real estate agent. The Little Free
why.)
Somehow the Dutch Royal Press chronicles his adventures and gives
Petroleum company and the Rockefeller tips on how we all can live our lives free
family are also behind the scenes of his from "the system". LFP is a unique read.
strange and twisted life. Nobody will I enjoyed this issue except for an
believe him so he started publishing these exceptionally offensive paragraph on how
sheets (designed for wall postering) to try if women would use birth control they
and get the word out. The Decadent could free themselves of "rape fear." He
Worker is interesting reading but I find it sent along a postcard about a week after
difficult to shake the feeling that this the issue arrived apologizing for his
guy's life might become a whole lot idiocy. I'm fairly sure that he didn't
simpler with some counseling and a mean to be offensive but I'm not so sure
Prozac prescription.
that the original statement doesn't reflect
his true feelings. It's worth the stamp if
City Limits Gazette
c/o Steve Willis
PO BOX 390
are you sick and tired
McCleary, WA 98557-0390
8 1 / 2 x 7 inches, 4 pages
only to glimpse into his lifestyle.
POETRY KANTO
c/o William Elliott
Kanto Gakuin University
Kamariya, Kanazawa-Ku
Yokohama 236, Japan
8 1 / 2 x 5 1 / 2 inches, 40 pages
Sample price:
6 International Reply
Coupons
IRC's are available from the Post Office.
Prices vary-around 50 cents each.
POETRY KANTO is one of the most
beautiful publications I've ever come
across. Perhaps the mystique of the
Japanese language helps to create this
impression. The text is in both Japanese
and English. The English pages run from
the front of the magazine backward while
the Japanese language text runs from the
rear forward. They meet in a central page
with the two versions juxtaposed across
from one another. Eleven poets are
featured in this issue, each displayed
elegantly. The overall effect is wonderful.
The very construction of PK is a poem
within itself. A must for poetry fans.
BLUE RYDER
(Radio Free America)
Box 587
Olean, NY 14760
8 1/2 x 11 inches, 40 pages
see reviews, page 10
of lame bands?
No price listed but a dollar would
probably get you an issue or two.
There seems to be a trend developing.
Steve is another Evergreen alumni
involved in the comic publishing world.
CLG is a networking newsletter for those
who are or would like to become
involved in the comics scene. Each issue
has an interview/profile with an artist in
addition to a dozen or so listings of the
manuscripts wanted and/or publications
for sale type. This newsletter would be
great for anyone wishing to share their
artistic talents with a wider audience than
their friends and family.
Gotcha
c/o Oxfin
Unit 1, Paradise Street Business Centre
Oxford, OX1, England
8 1 / 2 x 5 1/2, 26 pages
Donation requested
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THURSDAY
IF YOU WANT to put something in next
week's CPJ calendar, better have it in my
hot little hands by noon today, or else.
For any clarifications you may need, see
me, Andy Hamlin, in the CPJ office or
call 866-6000 x6213.
THE EVERGREEN YWCA meets today
at 6 pm in Library 3205; topics include
the group's goals for this year, and what
can be done to assist human rights
activism in the Olympia community.
ANCESTORS
KNOWN
AND
UNKNOWN is an exhibition of boxworks
running today through December 6 at
Galleries II and IV in the Library Foyer
and the fourth floor of the Library
Building respectively. Gallery II hours are
Monday-Thursday 8:45 am-10:45 pm,
Friday 8:45 am-6:15 pm, and Weekends
10:30 am-6:15 pm. Gallery IV hours are The Righteous Mothers (from left: Lisa Brodoff, Clare Grausz, Wendy Crocker,
Monday-Friday noon-6 pm and 1-5 pm
p/larla Elliott) play the Recital Hall November 9. photo courtesy KAOS
weekends. Info: Peter Ramsey at 8666000 x6488.
WOMYN'S OPEN MIKE tonight at 7:30
in the TESC Faculty Lounge, CAB
building. All womyn, all forms of
expression welcome. Performers try to
show up by 6:30 pm. Sponsored by the
TESC Womyn's Center. Info: 866-6000
x6162, or drop by CAB 206.
McNeely and Don Sprague), two art glass
workers (Eric Brakken and Frank
Englesby), and one sculptor (Ross
Matteson). Info: 943-3724.
THE WEAVERS GUILD holds its annual
sale today from 10 am to 3:30 pm,
tomorrow from 10 am to 9 pm, and
November 10 and 11 from noon to 6 pm,
in the lobby of the Hotel Olympian. A
Weavers Showcase in the Palladia room
will run today from 4:30 to 9 pm during
the Art Walk. Sponsored by the Urban
Onion Restaurant. Info: 943-9242.
AN ARTIST REVIEWS THE ROMAN
PAST is a lecture by Kate Delos of
Berkeley, California, today at noon in
room 100 of Pacific Lutheran University
at South Wheeler Street and Eighth
Avenue Court South in Tacoma. Delos
will discuss her current series of mixedmedia works based on ancient Roman THE EIGHTH ANNUAL OLYMPIA
portraiture and cult images. She will show FILM FESTIVAL kicks off tonight after
prints, paintings, drawings, collages and the Art Walk with a "Magic Lantern
Show" with historic slides and strange
books. Free. Info: 535-7573.
music, plus "live performers operating
BRENDA PETERSON will read from her strange contraptions," from 5 to 6 pm.
latest novel Duck and Cover tonight at 7 The festival's first film, John Sayle's City
pm in Pacific Lutheran University's of Hope, plays at 8 pm. It's all at the
Capitol Theater, 206 E. 5th Avenue in
Ingram Hall. Free. Info: 535-7430.
Olympia. Info: 754-6670, 943-3636 or
ERIC FISCHL, figurative painter, speaks 866-8678.
on his work tonight at 8 pm in room 120
of Kane Hall at the University of JULIA WALTON makes observations on
Washington.
Tickets
$2/students, downtown Olympia, collectively entitled,
$4/Seatfle Art Museum members, and $6 "Making Urban Environmental History
Visible: A Downtown Olympia Case
for the general public.
Study," tonight at 7:30 pm at Four
RACQUETBALL TOURNAMENT this Seasons Books, 5th and Water in
coming Saturday; register by 5 pm today Olympia.
Saturday in the CRC. Specify whether
you're a beginning, intermediate, or
advanced player. Info: Corey at 866-6000
SATURDAY
x6537.
Presenters are Vince Horan, D.Min.,
M.A., QCDC, PFC/E4 First Calvary
Division, Central Highlands, and Saralee
Blum, ARNP, M.N., Captain/RN 12th
Evacuation Hospital, Cu Chi. Anyone
concerned with healing the wounds of war
and trauma is invited to attend.
Registration $65/DSfDEPTH members,
$75/nonmembers. Warning: slides of
casualties and war wounds will be shown
during this workshop. Info: Judy Beck
547-6977.
BEYOND ZANCATECAS:
FREE
TRADE OR FAIR TRADE is a lecture
on and analysis of the Canada-U.S.Mexico "free trade" negotiations in
Zancatecas, Mexico, 10 am to 6 pm today
in CAB 110. Sponsored by the Labor
Center. $25 per person. Info: Dan Leahy
at 866-6000 x6478.
THE MEDIUM, a one-act opera by Gian
Carlo Menotti, goes on tonight and
tomorrow night at Pacific Lutheran
University's Eastvold Auditorium. The
Program also includes scenes from
Norma, Barber of Seville, Mignon, and
The Merry Wives of Windsor. Free. Info:
535-7621.
10
SUNDAY
9
8
FRIDAY
MINDSCREEN PRODUCTIONS will put
on a double bill of Fee-Wee's Big
Adventure at 8pm, and Madonna: Truth
or Dare at 10 pm, in Lecture Hall 3.
Free. Info: 866-6393.
VJPASSANA, THE ART OF MINDFUL
LIVING is a lecture by Van and Suzanne
Shafer from 6:30 to 9:30 pm in Library
3500. Free. Sponsored by Innerplace and
Radiance as part of the Friday Night
Spirituality Series.
MARY JOSEPHSON exhibits new
paintings today through December 11 at
the Marianne Partlow Gallery, 500 S.
Washington S. Washington in Olympia,
with an opening reception for the artist at
the gallery tonight from 4 to 9 pm during
the downtown Art Walk. Gallery hours
are Tuesday-Friday 10:30 am-5 pm and
Saturday 11 am to 4 pm. Info: 943-0055.
OLD FRIENDS, NEW WORK is another
show opening this Art Walk night, at the
Childhood's End Gallery, 222 West 4th
Avenue in Olympia. It features four
painters (Alec Clayton, Amy Fisher, Dana
Squires, and Evergreen's own William
Winden), two ceramics workers (Paddy
TUESDAY
GEMINI is San and Las Slomovits,
identical twins who play guitar, violin,
mandolin, flutes, and percussion in their
show devoted to the humor of family life
CARE TO DANCE is a 12-hour dance and growing up. Presented by the
marathon at Seattle Center to raise money Washington Center as part of its Red
Balloon Family Series, Gemini plays
for the Chicken Soup Brigade, a volunteer
today
at 2 pm at the Center's Mainstage
group helping people with AIDS. It
All
tickets
$6. Info: 753-8586.
happens from noon to midnight today at
the Center House. Dancers-cither
individually or in teams-solicit pledges
from going the distance. To register, call
322-CARE.
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THE RIGHTEOUS MOTHERS promise
"tight vocal harmonies, fat thighs,
hilarious lyrics, and ice cream," during
their show tonight at 8 pm in the
Evergreen Recital Hall, sponsored by
KAOS. Rock/folk weirdness with much
humor, the Mothers have recorded three
albums during their ten years together.
Tickets
$10/general,
$7.50/students,
seniors, and KAOS subscribers. Tickets
available at Rainy Day Records, Positively
4th Street, The Bookmark at the South
Sound Mall, the Evergreen Bookstore, and
at the door. Info: 866-6000 x6397.
VIETNAM
EXPERIENCES:
THE
EFFECTS AND RECOVERY is a daylong symposium on Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder, and its relationship to childhood
trauma, today from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
at
Highline
Community
College,
sponsored
by
the
Institute for
Developmental
Education
and
Psychotherapy (INDEPTH) of Seattle.
MONDAY
THE MEN'S EXPLORATION NEXUS,
a group devoted to discussion of the role
of men in the late 20th century and
beyond, meets Monday evenings from 7
to 9 pm in Library 2118. All students,
staff, and faculty are welcome to
participate. Info: 866-0751 or 866-6000
x6462.
THE BEETHOVEN SERIES continues at
Pacific Lutheran University with a
performance the composer's Symphony
No. 3, "Eroica," tonight at 8 pm at PLU's
Eastvold Auditorium in Tacoma. Also on
the bill is Roy Harris* "Symphony No.
3," and William Hibbard's "Processionals
for Orchestra." Free. Info: 535-7621.
13
WEDNESDAY
JOEL DAVIS, Olympia poet and nonfiction writer, reads from his work tonight
at 6:30 pm at the Asterisk, 223 N.
Division. An open reading will follow.
Sponsored by the Olympia Poetry
Network. Info: 459-2621.
RATNA ROY, Evergreen faculty, uses
slides and videos for a lecture entitled
"Japan's Dance of Darkness: Butoh Dance
Theater," tonight at the Port Angeles Fine
Arts Center, 1203 E. 8th Street in Port
Angeles, at 7:30 pm. Free. Info: 4573532.
TOM YODY AND NEIL ANDERSON
present a show of dimensional wall pieces
and landscape pieces respectively, opening
tonight at 6 pm a the Points of Collection
gallery at 6626 Eastisde Drive N.E. in
Tacoma. Info: 927-7202.
14
THURSDAY
BERT BELL, jazz pianist, slams the keys
tonight at Barb's Soul Cuisine, 203 W.
4th Avenue in Olympia. Info: 786-9835.
PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY
presents Victor Ewald's "Quintet No. 4"
at 8 pm this evening in PLU'S
Scandinavian Cultural Center, South
122nd and Park Avenue South in Tacoma.
Also on the bill are a suit of five
Renaissance dances arranged by Colin
Evans, a one-movement madrigal by
Michael East and a quintet by John
Huggler. Tickets $5/adults, $3/students,
senior citizens, and PLU employees. Info:
535-7621.
FULGENCIO LAZO open an exhibit of
his oil paintings, lithographs, and wood
cuts from today through December 4 at
the El Centre De La Raza Gallery, 2524
16th Avenue South in Seattle. Gallery
hours are Monday-Friday 10 am to 6 pm,
Tuesday and Thursday evenings until 9
pm. Info: 329-2974.
QUEER MEETING OF FRIENDS tonight
and every Monday at 7 pm in the Lounge
2100 of the Library Building. For info
contact the LGBPRC at 866-6000 x6544
(ask for Clif).
THE WOMYN'S CENTER hold its
weekly meeting 5 to 6 pm today and
every Monday in CAB 206. All womyn
welcome. Info: 866-6000 x6162.
Cooper Point Journal November 7, 1991
Page 9
Arts & Entertainment
Bukowksi biography is a swing...and a miss...
by Andrew Hamlin
HANK: THE LIFE OF CHARLES BUKOWSKI
BY NEELI CHERKOVSKI
RANDOM HOUSE, NEW YORK, 337 PP.,
$17.50
When Hank saw that almost every
available space in the Webbs' apartmentworkshop was filled with pages of his
poetry, he felt embarrassed. "Those are
my words going into that machine," he
thought to himself. "Jesus, do I deserve all
of this?"
At one point Gypsy Lou began to
scream, "Bukowski, Bukowski, Bukowski!
He's everywhere! I hate the son of a
bitch! And now he's here in our place
drinking beer with his big belly and
looking wise!"
Hank encouraged her outburst: "Hey,
Gypsy. Come on, say it, baby."
* **
"What happened to the other
biographers?" I asked.
"Well, one of them just disappeared,"
Hank said...
"And the other?"
"I finally had to write a poem about
him. He kept coming over with every
available excuse. I couldn't do anything
without him tripping over me."
"I'll give you distance," I said.
"That'd be good," he answered.
* **
Cherkovski follows Bukowski across
the physical world as best he can, and
that's pretty well, but how sad that he
rendered a man of volcanic poetry in
reviews, from page 8
$2.25 sample issue or $15.00 a year
mi
mudbath prose. The poet's fans may
appreciate the names of the women he's
rendered in thirty years of verse,
newcomers to the Bukowski myth won't
even know the point this book is beside.
The beer-swilling, fistfighting, poetry
spewing, and womanizing are funny-Bukowski lives up to his own myth~but
the biographer attempts no serious
explanation of why the man made the
myth, or how the myth eats away at the
man.
Henry Charles Bukowski Junior was
born in German, brought to Los Angeles
at age three, and his childhood emerges,
despite Cherkovski's detached tone, as an
unmitiaged nightmare. His father beat
him, as did neighborhood kids who didn't
like Germans. His mother read her son's
bad report cards and screamed that he had
brought shame upon the family. He
developed acne so severe that doctors
used an electric needle on the pustules;
the affliction, and/or the treatment, left
permanent scars on his cheeks. At
seventeen he cut school to drink whiskey
with a gas station robber, the beginning
of his lifelong alcoholism. On Hollywood
High School's prom night he stood
looking through a fence at couples
dancing in the high school gym.
Cherkovski says Bukowski bore up
something strange in my mailbox from
one of these groups. They're always
looking for new participants and
welcoming of new ideas. The Sneak is
full of contact names and advertisements
for on-going events. Fun stuff.
This collection opens with an
explanation of veganism and why one
should become one. It follows with some
nutritional information to bolster the
moral argument for adopting their
lifestyle. A fairly detailed explanation of
vegan ingredients is followed by 31
recipes ranging from the "Tofu Type
Casserole Tomatoey Thing" to "Carob
Truffles".
The
book
is
nicely
complimented with quasi-aboriginal style
artwork. A nice and friendly way to
introduce changes into your lifestyle.
BLUE RYDER is a bi-monthly
anthology of the best of the underground
press. This issue features extracts from
twenty eight magazines and ten original Toad Hiway #3
pieces. The issue opens with a hilarious Box 44
comparison between the Roman and Universal, Indiana 47884
American empires. It goes on to report 8 1 / 2 x 5 1/2, 22 pages
about court imposed surgical birth control $1.50 or $6.00 for three issues
(in California) and then follows with a
This is a professional (though not
comparison between military and cult
commercial)
looking collection of poetry FACE
indoctrination. Lots of weirdness from the
underground all at your fingertips. I really that more often than not finds some secret c/o Robert Nagler
part of me to torment. Great juxtaposition 421 Park Street
love this magazine.
of imagery and text.
Recommended Oxford, PA 19363
Pamphlet
reading for poetry fans.
No price listed
The Sneak
c/o Josean M.L.
Cruelty-Free Cookbook #1
Apdo449
c/o Animal Rights Collective
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8 1 / 2 x 6 inches, 4 pages
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8 in x 5 1/2, 37 pages
No price listed
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No Price Listed
The Sneak is a news bulletin for the
llfyfrrtd Capital Way
mail-art
community.
Mail-artists
collaborate across territorial and language
barriers to learn from and share with each
other. Most mail-art events will focus
JAPAN EXCHANGE
upon a specific theme. Items are swapped
& TEACHING
between participants or collected for one
central event It's always fun to find
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Travel Guides • Cookbooks
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35 years of age, in principle, earned a
B.A. degree by 8/92.
• Position begins: August 1992.
• Salary: ¥3,600,000 approx.
• Benefits: Air fare, housing assistance.
• Application deadline:
December 20,1991.
Please contact:
Consulate General of Japan
601 Union, Suite 500
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 224-4374
stoically under these humiliations, that for
example, he didn't hate his father for
beating him, but for his hypocrisy in
doing that and still insisting he was a
good father. Hank grew up to rail against
hypocrisy and political dogma of any
bent, to the point of faking Nazi
sympathies to rile leftist classmates at Los
Angeles City College.
But is a "stoic" who once provoked a
fistfight between another poet and a
magazine editor, who stood to one side
urging, "That's it boys, go for the
jugular"? Who has consumed several sixpacks of beer each day, and sometimes
much more than that, since age seventeen,
despite two near-fatal illnesses, thirty-six
years apart, after both of which doctors
told him to stop? Near Hank's end the
poet toasts father: "Thank you for those
beatings that taught me how to endure."
Endure Bukowski did, but what fell apart
inside him? What happens when a son
visits his parents to find that "we told the
neighbors you went off to war and got
killed"? What does that do to a sensitive
man? "He grinned, winked at his guests,
and drank more wine."
Perhaps Neeli should have given less
"space" to a man already reclusive and
set in his ways. Cherkovski gives us
Hank drunk, Hank pushing people around,
Hank heckling hecklers at readings-indicating excesses like a professor with
a pointer, but never seeing the picture
they make. Bukowksi in print waxes
alternately, and abruptly, hot and cold,
insightful and pompous, unafraid of
bellyflopping to catch inspiration's
butterfly. Cherkovski's "a man walked in
and sat down and began to eat and
finished eating" book damns him with
faint prose.
This is a series of six seemingly
unrelated short paragraphs. The only
common factor between them all is their
pointlessness.
Some
are
mildly
entertaining while others are simply
annoying. I'm sure that this collection
means something to somebody out there.
Northwest Pet Gazette
9651 22nd Avenue S.W.
Seattle, WA 98106
8 1/2 x 11 inches, 16 pages
$1.00 a back issue
No big surprises here. There are lots
of ads for assorted animals and pet
paraphernalia. Squeezed in amongst the
advertising there are a couple of pet care
tips. If you're thinking about buying a
pot-bellied pig, you might want to pick
up an issue.
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Super Queen and Butch Boy by Karl Tobias Steel and Donald Gene Coffin
•Terry Nelson: With inesteempble grace, Super Queen cuts a
iazzling swath through
Dlympia's sky.
Arriving at the scene, our
lovely duo find themselves
faced with tris gauche, out
of-control, shoulder pads!
Qrant, the
espresso Boy
with. the.great
cheekbones,
becomes 'Butch
'Soy!
Shattered Daze by Scott A. Maxwell
Jelkujiin the Viper by Todd Tjersland
The Neverending State College by Paul H. Henry
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Strip by Heather-Irene Davis
Cooking for the Apocalypse by S. K. Gray
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Bullets Are Cheap by Edward Martin III
THE HOBBJESOF DOCTORS
A Cliche' in Every Pot by Robert M.
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Cooper Point Journal November 7, 1991
Page 11
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EVENING
by rebecca a. oosterwyk
You dreamy •
bunnies.
So cool and so
creamy.
The sun on your
little shiny nose
like a pear ripe about
to drop
with breasts
like a cluster of grapes.
Pearls before swine?
Here's a live one,
Jim.
God calling.
Here
now
on time
for supper
Winsome girls
men with
support
hose
God
calling
simpering, slyly
I hear death's
radio, shack
teases me gently,
bites my ear...
postcard
LATTE'
The memory of
your last touch,
like the red telephone
you left behind,
rings, but is
never you
Michael McNeilley
AUTUMN
In the chill
the breeze
the leaves' flutter
A slow sleep dance begins
Frost chasings
Owl wanderings
(BRYNN)
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