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1The Evergreen St«0 Cotteoe
Men's rape seminar offered, see page 2
October 17. 1991
Volume 22 Issue 4
Foreign students abound
Feeling the crunch
$665,713 may
be cut from
TESC budget
by Linda Gwilym
The looming threat of budget cuts, in
the state's higher education system, has
forced Evergreen's administration to come
up with a detailed plan for up to a 5%
reduction of funding in the next school
year.
Governor Booth Gardner has warned
schools to prepare for a possible 2.5% cut
in funds that would be effective
December 1, 1991. It won't be known
until mid-November whether the cuts will
actually take place on Dec. 1.
The plan was initiated after a gloomy
financial forecast was announced by the
state Office of Financial Management
(OFM) in September. The OFM gave
warning that the state's public colleges
and universities should prepare for cuts. If
November's quarterly revenue forecast
continues to fall below expectations then
the reductions will be ordered by the
governor.
Yesterday, Oct. 16, the TESC
administration detailed $665,713 (the 2.5%
plan) that could be cut by the December
1 deadline. The Office of Financial
Management also asked for a 5% plan,
which may be effective by the end of the
1991-92 academic year (2.5% by Dec. 1,
1991, plus another 2.5% by July 1, 1992).
The 2.5% cuts proposed by the
administration are as follows:
Academics: $413,364
Finance and Administration:$178,108
Student Affairs: $31,100
Office of President: $43,141
Total cuts: $665,713
The 2.5% and 5% plans go to the
TESC Board of Trustees on Friday for
approval. The meeting is open to the
public and will be held in Library 3109
from 3 to 5 pm.
The final version of the school's
reduction plans are due in the state Office
of Financial Management by October 25.
Information for this article was
contributed by many different sources.
Linda Gwilym is a member of the CPJ
staff.
Pres. candidates cut
Miki Okimoto and Noriko Itakura, two Evergreen EF students, socialize in
Red Square earlier this week, photo by David Mattingly
by Tim Johnson
Genuine overheard dialogue: "Hey,
what language was that woman speaking?
Italian?"
"No, I think it was Arabic."
Once again we are all back on board
and sailing a delightfully unpredictable
academic sea on the mighty U.S.S.
Evergreen. Who knows what strange lands
we may encounter? Or what strange
people. By the way, what language was
that woman speaking? Where was she
from? Who are these foreign passengers
on our lovely ship we like to keep
vacuum-sealed?
Don't be afraid, you can show some
emotion. These foreigners seen on various
decks are EF International Language
School students. The EF Language School
here at Evergreen is part of an
international chain of schools that includes
six others in the United States as well as
schools in England, Australia, Spain,
Germany, Italy, France and Canada. All
the students, who come from twenty-two
different countries, are here to study
English as a second language. The EF
school is not a part of the college-they
merely lease the campus office space, as
well as some of the housing space in Adorm.
"It's not bad, it's not good, it's just
different," says director Sue Morrissette to
newly arrived EF students about life here
in Olympia and at Evergreen; expressed,
this idiom might benefit Evergreen
students as well.
It has been my experience as an
Evergreen student, and now as EF staff,
that
students
of
both
schools
see EF, page 14
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505
Address Correction Requested
by David McCaffery
The
Presidential
Search
Disappearing Task Force (DTP) made the
first round of applicant cuts Monday Oct.
14. Roughly 40 applications were chosen
to move on to the next stage of review
and an estimated 40 applications dropped.
According to DTF chair Nancy Taylor,
"Things went well in the Monday meeting
and we're enthusiastic about the quality of
the applications." The DTF will make
more cuts in their next meeting on
October 30.
Prior to the Monday meeting the
DTF had broken into four small groups to
determine which applications could be
dropped.
The applications were judged
upon the degree to which they fulfilled
the qualifications for president set forth in
the Evergreen presidential candidate flyer.
Each application consists of a resume, a
statement describing the candidate's
educational philosophy, and a statement
concerning the issues of diversity within
the college curriculum and community.
The qualifications set forth in the
Evergreen presidential candidate flyer are:
1) A distinguished record of scholarly,
artistic, or professional achievement (a
doctorate is preferred but not required);
2) A commitment to collaborative
interdisciplinary learning;
3) An understanding of the importance of
an alternative educational the process of
collective self-governance;
4) An ability to work within a
multicultural community and support a
curriculum which recognizes issues of
gender, class, ethnicity, and sexual
orientation;
5) An understanding of the importance of
student affairs and its role in a college,
including a strong commitment to student
retention;
6) A commitment to increasing access for
all people to higher education, especially
for students of color, the physically
challenged, adult learners, and the
economically disadvantaged;
7) A record of successful experience on
program development, policy formation
and
implementation,
budget,
and
affirmative action;
8) An ability to work with the college's
external constituencies, such as the
executive and legislative branches of the
government;
9) An ability to work on the board, to
translate policy into actions, and to
communicate in a proactive way the
concerns of the broader college to the
community to the board;
10)
An
understanding
of,
and
familiarization with, the fund-raising
strategies;
11) An ability to work positively with
union members and leadership.
In Monday's meeting, the small groups
presented their selected applications to the
whole group.
While applications are being rejected,
new ones are still coming in.
As the DTF continues to select
applications, the Evergreen community at
large will be denied information about the
applicants until the list of candidates has
been selected and turned over to the
Board of Trustees.
Sarah
Bradley,
graduate
student
representative
to
the DTF, said,
"Hopefully if we stay on schedule the
candidates will be made public in
February."
According to alumni representative to
the DTF, Doug Riddels, "We can not let
information about the applicant out
because many of them have jobs other
places and would not apply if there were
no guarantee of confidentiality."
David
Student.
McCa/ery
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Internal Seepage
Food storage
Wheat grass
Varsity B-bali
Homophobia
Croquet
Metallica meat
Women & yeast
Nude art
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NEWS BRIEFS
Food storage tips
for students
WASHINGTON,
DC--The
U.S.
Department of Agriculture's Meat and
Poultry Hotline gets many calls from
parents and students with questions about
the handling and storage of food in
dorms. Here are some food safety tips
that the USDA offers for college food
shopping and cooking:
1) After grocery shipping, always take
perishable food home quickly and
refrigerate it within two hours. Don't stop
by the library or visit a friend until this is
done.
2) When using the microwave, follow
product directions and plan for extra
cooking time if you're in a dorm. Other
equipment can drain current from the
electrical circuit.
3) Leftover pizza, fried chicken,
Chinese food, and other carry-outs should
be refrigerated as soon as possible.
Remember that perishable food should
never be unrefrigerated more than two
hours.
4) Never store foods on the window
ledge even if the weather is cold (not
even that pizza box). Buildings radiate
heat, making the sill warmer than the
outside temperature. And, using a metal
box to protect food from birds and
animals could act as an "oven" in direct
sunlight.
5) "Care packages" of food from
home are always welcome. But be sure to
check any can or package labels to see if
the products require refrigeration after
opening.
Rape workshop
scheduled
EVERGREEN-According to 1988 FBI
statistics, one out of three women will be
raped in her lifetime in the United States.
The National Sexual Assault Coalition
stated in 1989: one out of six boys are
victims of incest or other sexual assault
before their eighteenth birthday.
Todd Denny invites all men to a
workshop co-sponsored by the Counseling
and Health Center and Housing on
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 7 to 9 pm in the
Lecture Hall Rotunda. This workshop is
designed to help us better understand rape
and its effects on both men and women,
to look at definitions of rape and societal
Quote of the Week
Lawn darts were ruled out last spring because the
late night practices were causing near fatal accidents
in modular housing. The only sensible, and remaining
option was that of donning white garb, having 4
o'clock tea and whacking balls.
A snippet of Rebecca Randall's analysis piece on the formation of
Evergreen's new croquet squad. See Lawn Games, page 10.
factors which allow the existence of rape.
Participants will explore beliefs and
behaviors which contribute to our "rape
culture," and a vision of a rape-free
culture and strategies to get there.
F.I.S.T. workshop
begins
EVERGREEN-Student Affairs is pleased
to offer F.I.S.T. (Feminists In Self-defense
Training) workshops each quarter this
year. Female students, staff, and faculty
are welcome to attend free of charge.
The Fall Quarter workshop will be
held on Thursday, Oct. 24, from 5:30 to
8:30 pm in CAB 110. This three-hour
class covers information, physical and
verbal self-defense practices, and includes
a discussion period.
The workshop can accommodate up to
35 women. Call F.I.S.T. directly at 4380288 to reserve a space; leave a message
on the answering machine if necessary.
This workshop is specially designed
for women. If there is sufficient interest
on campus, Student Affairs will offer a
comparable workshop for men.
First blood drive
Nov. 4
EVERGREEN-The first Blood Drive of
this academic year will be on Nov. 4
from 10 am to 4 pm in the Library
Lobby. Puget Sound Blood Bank relies
heavily on TESC donations. Your
contribution is very important!
F.O.T.L. hosts
celebration
EVERGREEN-The rejuvenated Evergreen
Friends of the Library are hosting a gala
event celebrating Russia and the republics
Security Blotter
Tuesday, October 8
rag top slashed while parked in F-lot.
0028: Custodian reported two suspicious
Saturday, October 12
white men pushing a truck in the Library 0430: Teachers lounge in the CAB found
basement.
unlocked.
1736: Student reported a man obtaining a 1504: Fire alarm in N-Dorm went off due
great deal of change, with a triggering to burnt toast.
device, from pop machine on the first 1639: Three car accident reported in Ffloor of the Library.
lot.
1936: Vehicle accident reported on 2335: Northwest Food Service sign found
Overhulse Road. There were no injuries. taken down in front of CAB 104. A
2934: Alumni reported his car broken into padlock was found missing off a pop
and two stereo speakers stolen while machine in the same area.
parked in B-lot.
Sunday, October 13
Wednesday, October 9
0014: A possible alcohol overdose was
A relatively quiet day for campus reported in N-Dorm. 911 was called, but
Security.
the subject was not transported for
Thursday, October 10
medical care.
0358: Person reported his truck broken 0242: The CLB loading dock door was
into, while parked in C-lot and his back found unlocked.
window, back seat, and stereo stolen.
1411: Fire alarm went off in D-Dorm.
1914: Fire alarm went off in K-dorm due Fire fighters arrived on the scene.
to a burnt hot dog. Fire fighters arrived
Monday, October 14
on the scene.
1756: Person reported a man picking up,
1914: Fire fighters complained about dropping, and breaking cement bicycle
smoking in a non-smoking area in the A- parking slots in front of the of Health
Dorm pit (common area). No arrests Services main entrance.
were made.
2048: Woman reported
her car
2019: Above same K-Dorm fire alarm unsuccessfully broken into and nothing
went off due to burnt Rice-a-Roni. Fire stolen.
fighters were called back.
2100: Person found sleeping on the fourth
Friday, October 11
floor of the Library building
1351: Fire alarm went off in U-Dorm due
Security preformed 68 public services
to burnt toast.
(unlocks, escorts, jump start, etc.) this
1537: Person reported her car's tires and week.
Page 2 Cooper Point Journal October 17, 1991
of the former Soviet Union on Nov. 3 at
4 pm. A lecture by faculty member Tom
Rainey, entitled "Prospects for Democracy
in the Soviet Union" will be featured.
Gela Sulikashvii, a former ember of the
Georgia's Electorial Commission, will
respond to the lecture and faculty member
Patricia Krafcik will perform music. The
event will launch a membership drive for
Friends of the Library. For more
information call Pat Matheny-White,
x6256.
New software co.
formed
SAN FRANCISCO-Apple Computer, Inc.
and IBM announced the formation of a
new software company they believe will
be instrumental in creating the next
generation of computers for the mid to
late 1990s. The joint venture will develop
and license a new genre of system
software
that
greatly
simplifies
programming and allows an easier
customization of software programs.
Chamber of
horrors staged
EVERGREEN--On Sunday, Oct. 26, the
TESC library building will be transformed
into a Chamber of Horrors with two
stages for music and entertainment. Listen
and dance to live music, walk through the
haunted house (children under 12 must be
accompanied by a parent), view videos on
the big screen or celebrate in the
Children's Pumpkin Patch. Prizes for
costumes will be awarded. Admission is
$4 students, $6 general and $12 families,
tickets available at the door. The Haunted
House and Pumpkin Patch will be open 7
pm to 11 pm, music and stage
OLYMPIA-The Washington Outer Coast entertainment 8 pm to 2 am.
Safe and supervised Halloween
Sanctuary Coalition announces a formal
activities
will be provided.
public hearing to be held at 7 pm, Nov.
Child care is available. Please call to
12 in the General Administrative Building,
located at llth and Columbia. The register you child at x6220.
Coalition encourages you to attend and
express your views on the designation of
the Outer Coast of Washington as a
national marine sanctuary. For more
information call the Coalition at 352- EVERGREEN-Computer Center hours
2858 or write: P.O. Box 6106, Olympia, will not be cut.The computer center
WA 98502
previously announced that it would be
cutting it's hours due to budgetary
constraints. They would now like to
announce that for the time being these
reductions will not occur.,
Public hearing
on sanctuary
Computer Center
hours update
Student-parent
wishes
EVERGREEN-A single parent working
to establish a parent support network on
campus has placed three bright-red
Student-Parent Wish Boxes in the CAB,
the Corner, and the Child Care Center.
These boxes are for you to vent your
frustrations as a parent at TESC. Put your
ideas, need, wishes, whether you are
interested in helping to establish a
network, and/or your phone number. Do
you want free child care, a child-clothing
trade, a support group, someone to call
just to bitch? The information you provide
will be helpful in deciding what is really
needed and wanted. If you have any
questions please call 866-7640, or put
them in the Box.
Recycling
information
EVERGREEN-Recycling correction and
update. In last weeks issue (Oct. 10 CPJ,
Pg.3) the tittle of George Leago was
reported incorrectly. His correct tittle is
Building and Grounds Maintenance
Supervisor. Regarding the hiring of a
recycling Program Coordinator the
deadline for applications has been
extended to October 21 by the Human
Resource Services Offices.
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News
Campus drug issues bear examination
by Melissa Weispfenning
Drugs have been a part of
Evergreen's culture since its beginning as
a less public, less condoned but generally
accepted part of experimenting and
learning. There are ideals about taking
drugs passed down to us from our hippie
forbears which clearly say that it's okay
to indulge in order to enhance our
understanding and sensitivity to the world.
This implies responsibility and choice,
and indeed, people do experiment with
drugs without forming habits or harming
themselves or others. But what the college
in general has not acknowledged are the
people here who are abusing drugs or
those who have abused drugs in the past
and are in ongoing recovery. For those
people, drugs (and alcohol is considered
a drug) are a serious problem which
requires the kind of environment where
they can get help and keep recovering.
We do have a growing program here,
headed by Sharon Smith of the
Counseling Center and supported by
students, which tries to meet the needs of
the folks who abuse, those in recovery,
and those who abstain from drug use. Not
out to blast the Evergreen community
with anti-drug slogans-which would
Those were the good or days....
surely have more negative effect than
positive-this program seeks to support
and empower the people who need it in
simple and effective ways.
One innovative group of students who
work on assessing those needs, and
implementing activities, is The Jurassic
Group. Made up of students, the Jurassic
Group has implemented such things in the
past as the drag and alcohol-free housing
(the most successful in the country), the
Jurassic Cafe, and the Greeners Against
Drank Driving campaign.
This year, the Jurassic Group needs a
new batch of students to brainstorm on
activities and how to carry those out This
is a great place for people in recovery,
ACOA's or anyone interested in
dependence and recovery issues to find
support and make a difference to the
campus. Anyone interested should contact
the Counseling Center, x6800. Better yet,
attend our meetings on Wednesdays, 6
pm, in Seminar 2109.
The Self-esteem and Recovery Group
is another resource for students.
Accommodating the needs of the
members, this group provides tools which
encourage recovery and a positive image.
This is a safe place to find support and
understanding. Although this group is full
for fall quarter, it will be offered again in
the winter.
AA and NA programs are also
available on campus this year, and once
again, people can contact the Counseling
Center for more information.
Melissa Weispfenning is the Substance
Abuse Prevention Intern, and can be
reached at x6800.
Theodore Hart reminds us of warmer days...before Wednesday's downpours, photo by David Mattingly
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Graduate School Fair Oct. 23
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Representatives Anthony
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to discuss the Masters in
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News
'PIRG general interest meeting held
by Emily Vincent and Michael Jackson
The Evergreen State College chapter
of the Washington Public Interest
Research Group (WashPIRG) had its
General Interest Meeting on Wednesday,
Oct. 9. It was a great success, with a.
record turnout of an estimated 85 people,
twenty more than at any past meeting of
the Evergreen chapter since the
organization began at TESC in 1983.
Since WashPIRG began at the
University of Washington in 1975, the
organization has grown to become the
largest grassroots consumer lobbying
group in this state, with over thirty
thousand members.
This years organizer for WashPIRG
on the Evergreen campus, Andrew
Gamson, kept a low profile while students
O'Delle Lariviere and Chris Stone ran the
meeting. The General Interest Meeting
(GIM) began with an introduction of
everyone present telling which consumer
product they would do away with.
Students listed everything from disposable
diapers to styrofoam cups to coffins.
After the introductions, Rick Bunch,
the executive director of WashPIRG from
the Seattle office, stood up and spoke to
the group. He mentioned Vietnam, and
how students played a major part in
ending the war through protests. Bunch
stated that the effect of student actions
then suggests that students today can have
a major impact on our environmental,
hunger and homelessness problems.
Following Rick's speech, the three
committee leaders for the main issues on
the WashPIRG agenda this quarter were
introduced.
First,
Kathleen
O'Brian,
the
committee coordinator for the Hunger and
Homelessness project, presented a plan for
a Third WorldXFirst World dinner on Nov.
16 to raise funds from community
members for the hungry and homeless
people of Thurston county. A First
World/Third World dinner feeds the
people in attendance either a "First
World" meal, perhaps meat and potatoes,
or a "Third World" meal, possibly of rice.
Which meal people receive is chosen at
random. The intent of feeding such
different dishes is to cause a change in
people's consciousness of the difference
between First World and Third World
diets, and between the well fed and the
hungry.
Next, Oliver Moffat, the committee
coordinator for toxics use reduction,
informed the group that since 1965, the
use of toxic chemicals in the U.S. has
increased 25 times, an almost exponential
growth in the use of pesticides and other
hazardous chemicals. Moffat claimed that
today, 1400 pounds of toxics are
produced in this country for every man,
woman, and child every year. From that,
nearly 99 percent of all Americans
register high levels of toxics in their body
tissues, built up over years of exposure to
toxic chemicals. He then talked about a
plan for a table set up in the CAB on a
weekly or monthly basis, at which
students would write letters to the
President,
Congress,
and
local
representatives about environmental and
social problems.
Last, the committee coordinator for
Elementary Environmental education, Jen
Conklin, talked about how folks think that
the future is hopeless-that environmental
destruction will wipe out the earth. Jen
affirmed that there is hope with the
children. WashPIRG's goal for the
Elementary Environmental Education
project is to train volunteers with
environmental knowledge, who would
then
present
information
on
environmentalism to elementary school
students, or to elementary school teachers,
to then teach environmentalism to their
students.
After the presentations, people were
asked to meet with the committee that
they wanted to help with. The committee
coordinators answered questions, and then
organized the volunteers for the projects,
arranging times for follow-up meetings.
Largely considered a success due to
the record attendance and the great
amount of interest shown by those in
attendance, this year's General Interest
Meeting indicated that the Evergeen
chapter of the Washington Public Interest
Research Group is growing, and that the
influence of those involved to cause
change is greater.
Emily Vincent and Michael Jackson
are active in Evergreen's WashPIRG
chapter.
SAG holds open house
by Garth Colasurdo
I am pleased to announce that the
Student Art Gallery now has an office
(L1604) and a phone number that is being
answered (x6412). In addition we are
ready to become an actual student
organization, not just some fly-by-night
operation. My office hours are Thursdays
from 10 am to 2 pm and Fridays from 10
am to 12 pm.
On Friday Oct. 18, from 4 to 5 pm,
we are hosting a small open house/office
so that you can: meet my staff and I, see
what we are up to, tell us what we
should be doing, and/or get involved. Not
to mention a free no-host bar (read:
coffee and food). This event is open to
anybody who is interested in the arts on
campus. As we get organized there is
plenty of room for your project or agenda
to get cemented into our plans. If you
have a concern with what we will put in
the
cases, are concerned
about
contemporary arts issues, or are interested
in preparing arts events such as Arts
Alive, come and tell us what should be
going on.
My main goal with the Student Art
Gallery is to direct the organization
toward an agenda of a resource center for
students. I know that the campus art
scene can be very factional and divided
among its disciplines. Rarely do
photographers and ceramicists find much
in common, yet in the reality of the
external arts climate most artists have
similar
economic,
political,
and
expressionistic challenges to face. It
would do the art world a lot of good to
have a generation of artists with a broader
knowledge of not only mediums, but
concerns, whether formal or social, and
tactics for survival.
A reminder: On Monday Oct. 21, at
2 pm, we are going to change the show
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Columns
Five years to life for $20,000 in jewelry
by Inga Muscio
I: Do you ever put a hat on a bed?
J: Uhh.. No. Not now. Not if I can help
it.
I: Why not?
J: Why tempt fate?
I: Tell me about a town somewhere.
J: I always liked Casper, Wyoming. I
lived there for a while. I got a coupla
good pharmacies up there.
I: You really did that?
J: Ya. For twenty years. First one
[pharmacy] I got was in 1963, in Van
Nuys. I hit the whole valley in Southern
California. Eventually, I starting using
myself. I ended up robbing a jewelry
store called LaChelles. I got busted for
that, got a five to life. Ended up doing
four years on that one.
I: Didja get alot of jewels?
J: Owww...ya. I guess so. We got
$20,000 worth of jewels and sold them
for $2,000. Me an' my wife an' my
sister-in-law did that one.
I: Did they go to jail, too?
Grizzly
bears under
attack
by John Wulfers*
The grizzly (actus horriblus) has been
one of the most celebrated, threatened
predators for years. With conflicting
reports of grizzly bear populations
averaging 200-400 bears in the Greater
Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), it was a
great shock when I found out last spring
that Montana has hunted grizzly for years.
The controversial hunt of a species
which has been listed as threatened since
1975 has gone up against fierce
opposition, especially during recent
Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and
Parks authorization of a first ever spring
hunt Grizzlies, prior to last spring, were
only hunted in the fall. Fifty hunters were
allotted permits to (illegally) hunt the
threatened species according to the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). That
may have been the last grizzly hunt, if
the recent news that filtered from
Montana is correct. It looks as if public
environmental opposition to hunting the
threatened species may have prevailed, at
least for the short term, while populations
continue to recover in the GYE.
This past summer, I had the
opportunity to study the grizzly in
Montana's Gallatin National Forest and
was extremely fortunate to have sighted
eight different grizzlies, including a sow
and two cubs, eleven separate times. The
grizzly population is slowly recovering in
the GYE, but timber, mining, ranching
and development interests are a continuing
threat to grizzly recovery efforts.
While spending a month researching
Oh
J: Ya. Ya, we all went to jail on that
one. My wife got two years. She was
only 17 so she ended up doing six weeks
on that, but then her and another gal
robbed a pharmacy with a gun. Got 25 on
that.
I: So, is life exciting?
J: Ehh...in between joints. I never had
that bad a time in the joints, either. Got
stabbed once in San Quentin. It was a
black and white war, I didn't really have
anything to do with it I guess that's why
I got to go out so early.
I: Tell me about some of the gimmicks
you used.
J: Well, there was the "flasher." You get
a girl, you gotta get a real bold gal.
Anyway, she's got a short skirt on and no
drawers. She goes on in [the pharmacy]
and flops and flails around. The pharmacy
people get real busy trying to keep her
clothes in place and we get the stuff.
Then there's the "crash 'n' dash." We'd
go and get a small prescription for
percadine or codeine. While the
grizzlies in the wild, and meeting with
U.S. Forest Service officials and private
ranchers, I can assure you that the grizzly
should definitely remain on the
Threatened List and must not, under any
circumstances, be taken off the list
through the pressure of special interest
groups such as ranchers.
The recently revised USFWS Grizzly
Bear Recovery Plan of 1982 is the first
attempt to remove the protection of the
Endangered Species Act for grizzly
populations surviving near Glacier and
Yellowstone National Parks. Every year
in Montana more grizzly bear habitat is
roaded, harvested and made useless for
the grizzly. The Recovery Plan violates
basic principles of conservation biology
and attempts to provide a political
solution to a biological problem.
Instead of setting recovery zone
boundaries to allow for adequate
population
numbers
and
genetic
interchange between subpopulations, the
plan limits itself to the same parameters
that listed the grizzly as threatened with
extinction in 1975.
The anthropocentrism of the human
race has already allowed countless species
extinctions. The shortsightedness of such
federal agencies as USFWS and the U.S.
Forest Service in recovery of the grizzly
cannot be tolerated. The grizzly, as well
as all other vertebrate and invertebrate
species, have a right to exist. Although
the "great bear" may have won one round
through a ban on hunting, the species is
in continued danger of extinction by the
extraction of natural resources in its
habitat area and the most destructive
species on Earth-humankind.
John Wulfers is an Evergreen student
who frequently contributes to the CPJ. He
can be reached at the Environmental
Resource Center, x6784.
Wheatgrass: Joy of juice
by Karen Alexander
As a macrobiotic vegetarian who
derives great joy from being as
sanctimonious, offensive, and obnoxious
as a possible to my non-health-conscious
friends, I cackle with great glee every
time I manage to coax one of them into
trying the most nasty-tasting, hideously
disgusting elixir that also happens to be
one the best possible things in the
universe for your body: wheatgrass juice.
Wheatgrass juice is a chlorophyll- and
live enzyme-rich liquid containing many
important nutrients that are immediately
assimilated by the body. Wheatgrass juice,
which essentially tastes like liquified lawn
clippings, is a perfect example of some
twisted law of nature which states that the
more repulsive and disgusting a food item
tastes, the better it is for you.
Drinking wheatgrass juice is an
extremely fun thing to do with
unsuspecting, uninitiated friends. I
recently coaxed one such soul into
consuming a one-ounce shot of the sweetsmelling green stuff.
"Well, what do you think," I asked
after he stopped grimacing and writhing.
"Gack," he answered.
The
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Karen Alexander
If you somehow manage to handle the
repulsive taste, the next challenge is
experiencing your body's reaction to such
intensely healthy stuff. Some people feel
high and energized, while most generally
feel as if they're going to puke their guts
out. Since wheatgrass juice so strongly
enriches and detoxifies, each person's
reaction will vary based on how toxic the
individual is.
So my friends wait rather nervously
as I continue to seek gross-but-good-foryou food items. I mentioned spirulina
smoothies, soybean ice cream and tofu
cheese to some of them the other day and
encountered wrinkled noses and strange
stares, so I could be on to something.
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pharmacist was filling it, we'd watch and J: Ah man, that's where all the drug
see exactly where the stuff was. We'd get dealers are. If you gotta little money, you
it no matter what, once we knew where can always get ahold of a little dope.
the stuff was. Anyway, come round 5 I: Didja ever meet Charlie Manson?
o'clock, we'd crash in there and run to , J: I was over there [McNeil Pen.] when
wherever the stash was. We'd grab it up he was, but I never ran into him. Alvin
and run out They [the pharmacists] never Karpis was over there when I was an' he
locked it up. They'd never lock up stuff was public enemy number one at the
that was worth maybe a hunnerd dollars time.
to them, but then it's worth a fortune to I: What'd he do?
us. Only the ones who were a little J: He kidnapped the Hamm's Brewery
cuckoo would guard their stuff. It was a guy's son. Gave J. Edgar Hoover his
name.
good racket for a while.
I: How many people would you say you
I: Do you miss that b'fe?
J: Oh ya. I miss it. I guess it's just knew that are dead now?
something you have to give up after a J: Oh man. A whole buncha 'em. I know
time. I'm fifty-four, most junkies don't so many people that have died in the
live as long as I have. In 1974, seven of joint. I dunno. Coupla hunnerd.
This Inga-view was with James Fogel,
us lived in a real small apartment and
we'd go and take them narcotics and author of Drugstore Cowboy. Inga Muscio
trash the place ever' day and night. I'm is always looking for people to interviewthe only one that's still alive. Couple of -any ideas? Drop them off at the CPJ
office, L2510.
'em died in the apartment.
I: How did you get drugs in jail?
10/18 ff 10/19
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Travel through time.
Page 6 Cooper Point Journal October 17, 1991
(Columns
Sheriffs Department: Where are real devils?
by Chris Bader
In this third installment of a series,
Chris continues the story of the 1988-89
Ingram case in which several employees
of
the Thurston County
Sheriffs
Department were accused of being
members of a satanic cult that ritually
abused children.
Paul and Sandra Ingram headed what
many Americans would call the perfect
family. Devout Christians, they were
faithful members of the charismatic
Church of the Living Water in downtown
Olympia, along with their two daughters,
Erika and Julie, and three sons. Paul was
a pillar of the community; chief civil
deputy of the Thurston County Sheriff's
office and an influential member of the
county Republican party.
The Olympia community was shocked
to read in the Nov. 29, 1988 issue of the
Daily Olympian that Paul had been
arrested on counts of child abuse. If a
good Christian man, sheriff's deputy and
political leader was a child molester, who
could be trusted? The community would
hear even more frightening allegations
about Ingram over the next few months,
however. Ingram, it seems, wasn't at all
the man he appeared to be. He admitted
that he was not really a Christian but a
satanist, who ritually sacrificed animals,
and perhaps even people. He had not
molested one child, but several children,
and he had participated in gang rapes.
And, worst of all, the victims were
his own children...
The accusations against Paul Ingram
can be traced back to a retreat at the
Black Lake Bible Camp in West Olympia
in August of 1988.
The retreat was
sponsored by the Living Waters church.
Ingram's two daughters, Erika, 22, and
Julie, 18, were in attendance.
After listening to several inspirational
speakers, attenders of the retreat gathered
in a circle to discuss abuse that they had
experienced during their lifetime. It was
sometime during this discussion that Erika
broke down and, through uncontrollable
sobs, revealed that her father had been
Another Washington
sexually abusing her since she was a
child.
Julie later corroborated Erika's claim
of molestation, but added that the abuse
had been at the hand of several men. She
claimed that, since the age of four, she
had been gang raped by her father and
his friends who occasionally gathered at
the Ingram home for poker games.
Based on the accusations of his
daughters, Ingram was arrested in
November and detectives were assigned to
interrogate him.
During his first intense interview,
Ingram admitted to hosting the despicable
poker parties and named several other
employees of the sheriffs department as
being participants in the games!
Although he named several people, he
especially implicated Jim Rabie, a retired
detective and Ray Risch, a State Patrol
mechanic. Both men had been friends of
Ingram's for years.
Risch and Rabie were arrested soon
after Ingram's first interview. The two
men
maintained
their
innocence
throughout the investigation, however,
forcing county detectives to focus their
efforts on gathering testimony from the
Ingram children.
As more interviews were conducted
with Paul, his wife Sandra, and all of the
Ingram children, the story became
increasingly tangled. Charges and countercharges flew. Erika accused her mother
of participating in the abuse. Julie claimed
that her brother, Chad had molested her.
Chad denied his sister's allegations but
added his own charges against his father
and Jim Rabie. Paul Jr. talked of being had to be pushed back to May 1, 1988.
/ raped by several men.
The sheriff's department, meanwhile,
Then the final piece of the puzzle found itself in a desperate race to gather
entered the picture; the devil, himself. the physical evidence it lacked. Ingram
One after another, family members began had mentioned in an interview that
to reveal that the abuse had not taken photographs had been taken of the rapes,
place merely for perverted sexual but no photos were ever found. The
pleasure, but as part of Ingram's activities department dug up the Ingram yard,
apparently in hopes of discovering
and membership in a satanic cult.
In a Dec. 14, 1988 interview with remnants of a satanic ceremony, but
Sheriff's department detectives, Ingram found nothing of interest.
readily admitted to being a satanist and
Nevertheless, on May 1,1988, Ingram
described a ceremony that he claims to pleaded guilty to six counts of third
have attended with Risch, Rabie and degree rape. The plea was part of an
another mutual friend, Gary Edwards (not agreement with the Sheriff's department;
in exchange for his admission of guilt,
the sheriff of the same name).
Though hazy on specific dates or Ingram would not be charged with any
locations, he recalled standing near a fire, additional crimes that might arise from
with a person that he thought might be the investigation. He was sentenced to
"the devil" standing next to him. Around twenty years in jail.
In the community's eyes the sheriffs
his waist was an apron decorated with an
upside down cross. He could hear wailing department had done an admirable, even
heroic, job. Faced with the horrific task
and moaning all around him.
During the ceremony, he says, he of uncovering a satanic cult operating
sacrificed a cat by slicing its stomach within its midst, the department managed
open and pulling out its heart. A "high to keep its cool, gather the needed
priestess," who Ingram claimed was Ray testimony, and put away three of the most
Risch's girlfriend, Dana, watched over the despicable villains in the history of
ceremony. As a reward for performing the Washington State.
At least, that's how things appear on
sacrifice, Ingram was allowed to have sex
with Dana and a woman he identified as the surfaceSoon after the Ingram admission, the
Edward's girlfriend.
Ingram's wife, Sandra, added her own case fell apart in the department's hands.
stories of satanic activities, including an The case against Rabie and Risch had to
especially bizarre instance in which Jim be dropped for lack of evidence. A
Rabie allegedly held her by one hand and sociologist, hired by the prosecution to
held an open book in the other. Blood examine how the satanic cult operated,
purportedly flowed from the book across switched to the defense, charging that the
Sheriffs Department had handled the case
his chest and on to her.
Julie and Erika added that they had in a manner resembling the Salem witch
been forced to have ritualistic abortions trials...
with swords and that trained spiders had
In fact, the deeper one probes into the
walked up their vaginas. Chad, one of Ingram case, the clearer it becomes; there
Ingram's sons, described demonic faces were more devils operating in the
hovering near his window.
Sheriff's department than had ever been
As the Ingram case moved from seen in the Ingram household...
being a simple, though no less disturbing,
To be continued...
case of parental sexual abuse, to one of
Chris Bader writes a regular column
animal sacrifice, ritual abuse and for the CPJ.
satanism, lawyers for the defense and the
prosecution felt overwhelmed. The
original February trial' date for Ingram
Brash Brain Boy tackles snakes and singers
There are four. That would be the
Copperhead, Rattlesnake, Coral Snake,
and
the
Water
Moccasin
or
"Cottonmouth". Also be advised if you
are in the American Southwest, to be
aware that the Gila Monster, a squat,
brightly colored lizard, is venomous.
When enraged it is known to chew it's
victim.
Dear Brain Boy,
What is the origin of the TESC
student government?
-Dave M. at TESC
According to Michael Jackson, a
student involved in the formation of the
student government during the 1988-89
schoolyear, "Students gathered repeatedly
to decide upon what form of government
Evergreen should have. At first, it took a
great deal of effort, much wrangling to
decide upon a consensus government
where decisions would be arrived at by
mutual consent of those attending the
meeting. Enthusiasm wavered during the
year, with some meetings in attendance of
over 100 people, and the final meeting
only five people to decide upon the final
wording of the student government
proposal."
This week, your queries are a clear
reflection of the internal dialogues of this
school: Jazz, venom, local politics, and
loafing.
Dear Brain Boy,
Billie Holiday—is that her real name?
-interested at TESC
Dear Interested,
According to Miss Holiday (dubbed
"Lady Day" and considered by many to
be the greatest jazz singer of all time) in
her autobiography, "Lady Sings the
Blues," she was born Eleanora Holiday on poisonous snakes are there in the United
States?
April 7, 1915, in Baltimore.
—concerned in Olympia
Dear Brain Boy,
How
many different
types
of Dear Concerned,
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Dear Brain Boy,
Where do we get the word,
"Lollygag?"
-Matt Hammond, TESC
Dear Matt,
Lollygag: to do nothing or pass time
with informal activity. Although neither
the Oxford American Dictionary, nor the
new Random House 2nd edition (indeed,
no dictionary which I could find) supplies
an etymology for lollygag (or "lallygag"
which all define as synonymous), one
could suppose the root is derived from
"loll", meaning to recline or lean in a
relaxed, lazy, or indolent manner. Random
House dates the usage of the word as
American 1860-65 but cannot place an
origin. However, it does supply an
additional definition of lollygag as, "to
indulge in kisses and caresses; make love;
neck." This equation of indolent loafing
with lovemaking is interesting when
placed in the context of both the then ongoing Civil War and the American puritan
work ethic.
Brain Boy (Mike Mooney) can be
reached at L2510-the CPJ. Please drop
off your questions today or his head will
turn into a walnut.
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Evergreen's forgotten cause: the elderly
by Dante Salvatierra
This is The Evergreen State College,
a school on the cutting edge of social
awareness. We pride ourselves in our
progressive open-minded attitudes and
thrive in the world of alternative
education. We work hard to make the
world a better place to live by trying to
end oppression of all types all around the
globe.
A week ago, I could not name a
progressive cause or a movement that we
Greeners hadn't formed a front for. From
abortion rights to human rights to animal
rights, I felt we had all the bases covered.
But last night, I found a stone
unturned. Due to my car breaking down
I had to visit a convalescent home for a
phone. I went inside and strode over to
the unattended receptionist's desk. I
waited there in front of the desk for ten
minutes before someone came to help me
get a tow truck, but in those short ten
minutes I was awakened to an issue that
seems to lack any attention on this
campus.
I eavesdropped on the two women on
the couch. The first woman asked, "Is
today Saturday?"
The second replied, "No, I think it's
sometime in the middle of the
week...Tuesday."
It was Friday night.
"My grandson comes to visit me every
so often," the first one went on.
"Really?"
"Yes, I think he lives in Seattle."
"That's a long ways away."
"I really don't know where [he lives].
I don't even know where we are. [She
giggles.]"
"I think this is Olympia."
She was close. It was Tumwater.
I looked around the lobby area and I
felt a heavy syrup-like loneliness dripping
from the walls of the little rooms and
hallways of the rest home. The facility
seemed clean and immaculate like it
should have been and the residents
seemed to be well taken care of but I
couldn't help but feel concerned. All
around me were a hundred or so men and
women who were paying exorbitantly
high prices to spend their last days in
relative isolation from the world and their
families.
The two women on the couch looked
at me and smiled. The lady with the
walker also saw me and began to make a
slow arduous u-turn towards me. A man
with a hunch-back and an oxygen tube in
his nostrils tipped his hat before he bent
to take a drink from a water fountain.
These people were lonely, bored, sick,
and getting financially poorer as the days
passed on. No one should spend their last
days, or any of their days, in isolation as
many of these people are. No one in such
an affluent nation as ours should worry
about being able to afford a decent
lifestyle of dignity and health. Something
must be done soon, for these people are
not only our grandparents, but in the
future our parents, and inevitably
ourselves.
Dante Salvatierra is a regular
contributor to the CPJ.
Men must conquer culture to prevent rape
by Todd Denny
This article is written for men. Men
can stop rape. As a man I find this easier
to accept than most men. Why is it that
all men are not against rape? Why are
there no men involved with a Men
Against Rape group on this campus? I
think that most men rather believe the
cultural misconceptions about rape.
Such misconceptions are comfortable,
but also untrue. Rape victims do not "ask
for it." Talk with any survivor of rape,
they remember it as feeling violated,
assaulted, wanting to die. Rape is not
sexual, it is an attack. To the rapist it is
an expression of anger and violence, a
need to dominate.
Most articles on preventing rape and
other forms of sexual assault are
addressed to women. They present
suggestions for self-protection, ranging
from ideas of effective caution to selfassertiveness and self-defense. These ideas
are necessary yet they address the
problem
symptomatically.
Potential
victims cannot prevent sexual assault.
What are the differences between men
who rape and are reported and those who
are not? The difference may be that most
men stop with lower levels of coercion
and violence. Yet when we force or
coerce a woman we know to have sex it
is legally still rape. The difference is that
most women we know will not report us,
but just break off the acquaintance or
friendship.
It is crucial to understand and
acknowledge that men have been
conditioned into adopting attitudes toward
themselves and women that make rape a
reality in our culture and on this campus.
As young boys we are not fully aware of
the conditioning being imposed. As men
we are responsible for our actions, after
all we're in higher education to learn.
Only when we become aware of this
conditioning can we begin to see that we
are still victims of rape, and that men and
women must work together to stop rape.
Most of us are well-meaning people,
who do not intend to mistreat others. Yet,
because of this, it is easier to blame the
victim (she asked for it) than face the
reality of what we do. As men we are
just doing our best to be the men that
society taught us to be. Tough, confident,
sexually potent, emotionally controlled,
and masculine in every way—that is, not
feminine in any way. Avoid being
labeled as a wimp or non-aggressive at
any cost. Our heros were men like James
Bond, John Wayne, or Clint Eastwood.
We learned mat "winning is everything."
But in our lives we find this to be
unreal. It's all media hype, garbage. We
have all felt like crying, we have all felt
weak, we have all made mistakes, we
have not always been able "measure up."
We learned to ignore or suppress natural
feelings that needed expression. We
learned to pretend. We learned how we
could appear to be as close to the
impossible ideal as we could manage.
Most of us feel okay about our manhood-but we have paid the price.
We have given up a part of being
human. We have given asking for
support, comfort, and love. We have
learned, instead, that only success, sex,
and peer respect (or fear) are important or
possible. This is all "real men" are
supposed to want or get.
So what price do we pay for our
endless quest for the unobtainable
masculinity. Men have higher levels of
stress-related diseases and deaths than
women. A higher level of suicide success,
and a shorter life expectancy than our
female counterparts. Gee, isn't it great to
be a "real man?" The intensity of general
dissatisfaction with life among men is
matched only by our resistance to get
help.
Part of the price of being a "real
man" is knowing women as they really
are, separate from our conditioned
thinking. Women become the stuff of our
dreams, and nightmares. We learned that
it was necessary to do anything to
succeed with women. Yet women seem
frustrating, confusing, and mysterious in
our roles as "real men." The (impossible)
quest for masculinity damages us, and in
it, we damage others. Often that damage
is expressed in the form of rape.
Rape. The extreme expression of male
rage at being trapped.
We men, together, can stop all of
this. We can stop sexual assault and other
male violence against women if we
change ourselves: if we talk about sexual
assault (primarily Date Rape) with other
men in our houses, dorms, and homes; if
we speak out against men who trap and
coerce women with alcohol and
aggressive advances; if we accept a
woman's rights, and accept a "No" at any
point in an intimate encounter.
Moving toward a culture that reflects
the life-supporting belief that women and
men are equal will not be easy. We have
spent most of our lives believing that
damaging rules of male superiority.
However, we can unlearn these
conditioned attitudes and reclaim new
values, if we make a conscious effort in
our daily lives. This relearning will
require major changes in attitudes and
assumptions about our life and the people
in it.
Above all, it requires learning to
listen-to our lovers, our friends, to
strangers, and to our own gut feelings. If
it doesn't feel right, it probably is not.
Truly listening can bring tremendous
rewards in our relationships and bring us
more in tune with what we really want in
our lives.
Male privilege is only a pretense on
the surface. The average male loses more
than he gains from it. The reward for
giving up our belief in our superiority
over women will be that men can reclaim
our full humanity. Winning is not the
only thing: life is.
Todd Denny has organized a
workshop on rape issues for men that will
be held on October 22 from 7 to 9 pm.
NARAL pushes for 'yes' on 120
by Kathryn J. Brown
On Oct. 2, National Abortion Rights
Action League (NARAL) set up a voter
registration table in the CAB. Some
cynics in the group expected little
response from this action, citing
"Evergreen apathy." I am happy to say
that these doubters were wrong, and by
3 pm the volunteers had run out of
registration forms. Other voter registration
events have met with similar success.
Good, you can all vote now. The next
step is to become informed about the
issues on which you will be exercising
this freedom. I wish I could talk about all
the initiatives, but I am only qualified to
speak of one: Initiative 120.
Initiative 120 is a reaction to the
increasingly anti-choice leanings of the
Supreme Court. Its purpose is not to
initiate new practices. Instead, it is an
attempt to ensure that, in the state of
Washington, a woman's existing right to
choose or refuse birth control or abortion
will be protected, even if the courts
overturn Roe vs. Wade. In order to do
this, several reproductive freedoms are
being made into Washington state law.
These include the legal right to choose
birth control or terminate pregnancy up to
the point of fetal viability (when the fetus
could survive outside the womb with the
help of standard medical procedures), and
thereafter only to protect the life or health
of the woman. The safety of abortions is
also covered in this legislation by a
clause stating that only physicians may
perform them. One of the most
misunderstood features of Initiative 120 is
the continuance of state-funded abortions
for low-income women. This simply
means that women who qualify for statefunded pre-natal care are also offered the
option of terminating their pregnancy,
ensuring that economic factors do not
stand in the way of their right to choose.
Initiative 120 is not a "pro-abortion"
legislation; it neither forces nor advocates
the termination of any pregnancy. Instead,
it ensures that a woman will always be
able to act out of her own beliefs and
knowledge of her own situation before
making a very difficult choice.
Coed varsity basketball at TESC?
by Ron Jacobs
Basketball at Evergreen? No, please
not here in "jock-free" territory. After all,
we've got a reputation to uphold as the
hacky-sack/boomerang capital of the
Northwest, if not the world, don't we?
Does this mean Lefty Driesell will have
a job again? Will steaks be served at The
Corner so the b'ball players can get their
steroids legally? Will they have to wear
Geoduck designs on their shirts?
Actually, I don't have much of a
problem with the concept of a basketball
team at TESC. After all, sports can be
more than just another corporate greed
trip. In fact, they can, and often do,
provide a non-lethal and potentially
positive avenue for the competitive urges
found in most of humanity-especially in
our culture. In addition, the camaraderie
created amongst the players is comparable
to that found in any undertaking requiring
Page 8 Cooper Point Journal October 17, 1991
a group effort.
As long as it did not consume monies
sorely needed for staffing and academic
related
services, an
intercollegiate
basketball team could be quite a positive
addition to the community. The thing that
bugs me, however, is the way the whole
concept is being debated. Some say hey,
let's build a women's team first and then
bring in the men. Others suggest that the
college field only one team, preferably
made up of men. I say, why do either?
Instead, let's do something completely
different. Let's create a team made up of
both women and men that would take on
all challengers-be they male or female.
After all, the basketball court equalizes
gender and places the ball, so to speak, in
the hands of those most skilled at the
game.
We're not necessarily talking giants
here. We are talking about real, human
competition. Any Evergreen team would
most likely be in one of the NAIA
divisions, and not the semi-professional
NCAA of the larger universities. I don't
differentiate between the two leagues to
denigrate the NAIA, but merely to clue
the unaware that there is a less monied
(and, consequently less corrupt) version of
college basketball.
Evergreen considers itself at the
cutting edge in the world of postsecondary education. Whether or not that
is the case is a subject for another time.
Yet, if it wishes to maintain such a
perception of itself, and at the same time
bring in a major intercollegiate sport, it
seems the only way to do so is to
transcend the gender-based divisions so
prevalent in the sports world.
Ron Jacobs is an alumnus and former
employee of TESC.
Harmful or
humorous?
This letter is in response to all the
negative images and references (overt and
covert) of and to women in the last two
issues of the CPJ. I was quite
dumbfounded when I saw Cat Kenney's
"artwork" of a totally unrealistic looking
woman. I thought it was the CPJ, not an
S & M magazine. I have yet to see this
woman on campus, but her image scares
me enough into SUBMITting this letter.
Speaking of images, although Josh Remis
and Brett MacNeil wrote a short tongue
in cheek description of themselves as
"NEO-FASCIST,
MISOGYNIST,
MONOCULTURAL,
INSENSITIVE,
TOTALITARIAN,
ETHNOCENTRIC,
ASSHOLES," the images they drew spoke
louder than the "humorous" joke they
told. I recognize that they are being
sarcastic, however I find the description
of themselves rather accurate due to the
fact they even submitted their material to
the CPJ. Looks like the joke is on them.
Here's another one for you. Did you ever
hear the one about Dante Salvatierra's
frozen banana? Oh, yes, that's right, he
made that story a matter of public record
a few weeks ago. My roommate found it
"disturbing." I did not really know what
to make of it. The only thing I found
disturbing
was
Mr.
Salvatierra's
journalistic abilities. If we are going to be
exposed to what he writes, I'm only
hoping he improves. Maybe he needs a
few lessons in journalistic good taste
(possibly to get rid of the bad taste from
eating all those used frozen bananas).
My expectation is that they continue
their work, striving to produce more
quality thought-provoking material.
Laura Serrano
Borderlands
controversy
continues
I wish to reply to what I believe was
unfair criticism of Academic Dean Les
Wong and members of the Student
Orientation Committee by Tod Streater, in
his conversation with Wong in the Oct.
10 CPJ, and by Jennifer Mudloff and
Cynthia Halfar in their response letter in
the same issue. They imply that Wong's
comment that he did not want to "scare
parents" into a discussion of Gloria
Anzaldua's
Borderlands
and
the
committee's desire not to be "too
aggressive in bringing up issues of
homosexuality
with new students"
necessarily were antigay and antilesbian
remarks or beliefs.
As a gay man, I would like to
educate both students and their parents
about gay, lesbian, and bisexual issues;
furthermore, I realize that effective
education of these issues requires
acceptance
of
certain
realities.
Unfortunately, one of those realities is
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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
students and faculty on homophobia. We
can accomplish this through a gay/lesbian
studies program, and by hiring more
gay/lesbian teachers who are out
Education is the only way to stop
homophobia at Evergreen.
Educate
yourself, speak out about the injustices
done to the gay and lesbian community.
Let's all work together to fight racism
and homophobia, and sexism on campus.
Let the people know that whoever wrote
those statements on the giant closet is
wrong. I am angry that this happened,
and that in part the administration and
faculty are at fault They help breed
homophobia on campus by not including
gay and lesbian authors in the curriculum
and
not
having
discussions
on
homophobia in class. Unite together, my
fellow gay, lesbian, bisexual students, and
demand a safe environment to learn and
grow in at this college.
Brian Keith
CPJ misses the
point
"I don't know why they get all the hype, it's not like our homes
are still around! Nobody gives a hoot about us." cartoon by
O'Delle Lariviere
that some people have discomfort about appropriate of dealing with these issues.
issues of sexuality.
Based on what we know, however, we
Streater says that Wong's quote cannot definitively indict Wong and the
implies that "homosexuality is bad and committee on charges of homophobia and
scary, and it's not." I agree, it isn't, but insensitivity to minority issues.
what is true for me is not necessarily so Darren Dean
for someone else. Although I don't
understand some people's fear of gays,
lesbians, and bisexuals, I recognize the
reality of its existence. I believe the
committee
understood
that reality.
Last
week
was
National
Recognizing that some people do fear this
issue does not suggest that homosexuality Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Awareness week. I
should be considered scary; rather, it feel very proud of the many queers that
allows us to know how we should attempt came out last week and made us visible
to educate these people as effectively as on campus. We had a booth in the CAB
about the rap groups and information on
possible.
I
am
neither
defending
nor AIDS, and about being queer. We showed
condemning the decision not to use the several movies on campus about positive
book. It is possible, as Mudloff and gay/lesbian lifestyles. Several people
Halfar say, that Orientation is the perfect chalked Red Square with some great gay,
time and Borderlands the perfect book to lesbian, and bisexual statements. The
invite people to discuss homosexual queer dance on Saturday was great; there
issues. If this is the case, then the most were so many people there, gay, lesbian,
we can say about Wong and the bisexual and straight, all coming together
committee is that they exercised poor to enjoy and celebrate diversity.
However, I would like to turn your
judgment in rejecting the book. It is also
attention
to the giant "Evergreen State
possible that committee members had
their own discomforts about this issue, as Closet" archway that sits in front of the
such, leading them to disregard the book. library. I feel if you go and read some of
I, among many others, would be very the homophobic statements written on it,
you would agree that homophobia exists
concerned if this were true.
I hope the committee does give at Evergreen. A few of the statements are
further consideration to the book for next "Fucking Faggot," "Burn in Hell," "You
year's Orientation Seminars, and if it bunch of perverts," and finally, the best
rejects the book again, it should be one for last, "Dicks were meant for a wet
prepared to suggest ways it does deem juicy cunt."
I feel that these statements show that
Submission deadline is Monday noon. we have homophobia on campus, that
We will try to publish material submitted the
following Thursday. However, space and there are individuals who would cause
physical and verbal violence to gay,
editing constraints may delay publication.
lesbian or bisexual people. I feel that it is
All submissions are subject to editing.
Editing will attempt to clarify material, not the duty of the faculty and student body
change its meaning. If possible we will of this campus to say there is no room
consult the writer about substantive changes. for homophobia here at Evergreen. These
Editing will also modify submissions to fit statements on the archway indicate that
within the parameters of the Cooper Point we do not have a safe environment for
Journal style guide. The style guide is many students at Evergreen to learn. I
available at the CPJ office.
Written submissions may be brought to feel that it is the responsibility of the
the CPJ on an IBM formatted 5-1/4" disk. faculty to educate all students on
Disks should include a printout, the homophobia, racism, and sexism, to make
submission file name, the author's name, people more aware of these problems.
I believe this incident is not just a
phone number, and address. We have disks
available for those who need them. Disks can freak episode, that it contains an
be picked up after publication.
important message to us all: this campus
Everyone is invited to attend CPJ weekly is not as safe for gay, and lesbian and
meetings; this week's meeting will be held
bisexual students as it is for straight
Thursday, at 4:30 pm in Library 2510.
If you have any questions, please drop students. It has come time for gay,
lesbian, and bisexual students to stand up
by Library 2510 or call 866-6000 x6213.
for their equal share at Evergreen. Why
do we not have a gay/lesbian studies
Advertising
For information, rates, or to place display program at Evergreen? It must be
and classified advertisements, contact 866- homophobia among some of the faculty.
6000 x6054. Deadlines are 5pm Thursdays to It has come time to demand a safe
reserve display space for the coming issue and environment, and to have a safe
5pm Mondays to submit a classified ad.
environment we need education for
Homophobia not
a freak incident
In response to your photo of the
Lesbian Temptation/Conversion Center on
October 7, in last week's CPJ, we, the
Lesbians who created the booth-two of
whom you photographed (Camilla was in
the fabulous Stars and Stripes and Kelli
in the debonair tie), were quite annoyed
at being referred to as "Campus
Lesbians."
Men who were not even
pictured were referred to by name. It
was much more than an "information
booth," it was an active confrontation of
the stereotype of lesbians trying to recruit
straight women. We know we touched
lots of lesbians, and we got the
impression that it made a lot of people
nervous. We were asking those very
nervous people to think about how they
viewed lesbians. We hope we got them
thinking.
Rebecca Falsenfeld
Camilla Eckersley
Kelli Robson
"not nice"
not correct
John Wilkie's article in the October
10 issue of the CPJ accurately depicts the
public safety dilemma on campus.
However, the security person quoted as
saying Thurston County deputies are "not
nice" is not correct. What they are is
over-worked. Because of the enormous
population increase in the unincorporated
areas of the county, they have
experienced an approximate 20% increase
in calls over the last year. So, if there is
some lag time in a deputy getting to
campus when called, or his/her attitude is
abrupt~but
professional-let's
also
understand the reasons. One may be the
half dozen or so calls waiting for the
deputy's response after getting done with
campus business.
Gary Russell
Security Chief
Cookbook FBI
plot or not?
There was an interesting response to
my review of The Anarchist Cookbook in
the Oct. 3 issue of the CPJ. (At least
someone is reading my column!) To be
honest, I was hurt at the personal tone of
the attack. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I
don't perceive any "responsibility" on my
part to review the right type of book or
to please any specific type of Evergreen
student. As the editor/publisher of a small
political magazine, I have the good
fortune to receive all manner of
alternative flotsam in my mailbox. My
intentions in writing this column are
twofold; the first is to bring this
independent subculture recognition from a
wider audience and the second is to
encourage other creative people out there
to start publications of their own.
see Anarchist page 10
Cooper Point Journal October 17, 1991
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Columns
Leisure lawn games begin
by Rebecca Randall
Evergreen Croquet? It started out as
a joke, or was it a bad dream; needless to
say IT is here, in one form or another.
Evergreen Croquet, that's right, the brain
child of a few souls in desperate need of
some serious tension relief, is in the
midst of a struggle to become an actual
club on campus.
Originally the group, known as the
Leisure Sports Division, had set its sights
upon Nerf fencing; but then there was
that commercial endorsement thing, so
they soon looked into other options. Lawn
darts were ruled out last spring because
the late night practices were causing near
fatal accidents in modular housing. The
only sensible, and remaining option was
that of donning white garb, having 4
o'clock tea and whacking balls.
If you are interested in checking out
croquet; no skills are necessary, but white
clothing and oolong tea are preferred,
contact Molly McCloy at 866-2534, or
Anarchist, from page 9
that science
fiction
classic
drop a line to the CPJ office (LIB 2510) like
for Rebecca.
Solorbabies.}
Rebecca Randall is a member of the
Spring activities may also include,
(but are not limited to,) mountain bike Evergreen Croquet team.
polo, and lacrosse on rollerblades {just
Workers disappear in Phillipines
by Jeff Crane
Women continue to be targeted as
victims of human rights abuses in the
Phillipines. Women in the Phillipines
work actively for change via involvement
in social groups, the community and
politics. The government considers them
subversive and the organizations they
work for nothing more than fronts for the
outlawed Communist Party of the
Phillipines (CPP) and its armed wing, the
New People's Army (NPA). There has
been no proof offered to support
government
allegations
and
the
organizations deny any involvement with
the communist group or the guerilla
insurgency.
Many activists are singled out by
government forces and are "disappeared"
or suffer some other form of human
rights abuse.
Rape and torture are
common.
Josefa Padcayan was a government
nurse before she became involved in
community work. On November 16,
1989 she and two companions went to
villages in Zinundungan Valley in
Cagayan province to deliver relief goods.
At the time there were intense military
operations in the area against the NPA,
and the three health workers were arrested
by members of the government forces.
They have not been seen since.
Josefa Padcayan's family tried to
locate her and her two friends at military
installations, the commanding officer of
the battalion involved in the operations
admitted that they had arrested the three,
but did not produce them. Later the
family filed a petition for habeas corpus
in the courts. There were at least three
separate hearings of the case during 1990.
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All three were inconclusive and the three
community workers remain "disappeared".
A Member of Amnesty International
received a reply to the original action
request on behalf of Joseph Padcayan
relating to the habeas corpus applications,
the letter came from the Regional Trial
Court of the Second judicial region of
Cagayan and states that the military (who
are the respondents in the case) have
denied that she was arrested and detained
by the 17th Infantry Battalion at either of
two bases named in Cagayan. It further
states that the 17th Infantry Battalion was
transferred in March 1990 to Ilocos Sur
province and that the case is still pending
trial.
The commander of the 17th Infantry
Battalion originally admitted the arrest of
Josefa Padcayan and these conflicting
statements give rise to further concerns.
Please write courteously worded letters to
the Government of the Phillipines, and
send copies to the Embassy expressing
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CPJ
meeting
today
Gather with the staff,
Thursday October 17, to
discuss the issues of the
day.
The meeting will be held
in the CPJ office,
Library 2510, at 4:30.
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concern for the safety of Josefa Padcayan
and her two companions, express alarm
that the habeas corpus petition remains
unanswered and their whereabouts
unaccounted for some 20 months after
their arrest; express concern that the court
appears to have accepted the military's
denial that they had been in their custody,
despite their earlier statement that they
had indeed been arrested by the 17th
Infantry Battalion; ask whether the
discrepancy in these two statements has
now been clarified and whether the three
women's whereabouts are known.
Write to:
President Corazon Aquino
Malacanaga Palace
Manila, Phillipines
Ambassador Emmanuel Pelaez
Embassy of the phillipines
1617 Massachusetts Ave. NW 20036
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As per the specific charges: I love a
good conspiracy theory as much as the
next Greener but unlike Michael
Grutchfield, I want at least a little
information to back it up. Who says the
book is a Federal Bureau of Investigation
project? Where is the documentation? Has
he tried to use the Freedom of
Information Act to confirm this? Is there
some hidden fountain of knowledge that
only "true anarchists" have access to?
With my current opinion of the F.B.I., it
wouldn't take a whole lot to sway my
sentiment but I certainly need more than
someone's word. If "everyone who
considers him/herself an anarchist" knows
about this "hoax" then it shouldn't be
difficult for Michael to produce some
evidence.
It's quite an intriguing idea, but I
can't find any verification that The
Anarchist Cookbook was published as a
F.B.I. plot. There are, however, several
holes in that theory.
Using the Anarchist Cookbook's
extensive bibliography, I did the old
compare and contrast routine, revealing
that Che Guevara's instructions on
converting a shotgun into a grenade
launcher remain unchanged from his
classic manual, Guerrilla Warfare. The
Molotov cocktail schematics are accurate.
The marijuana cultivation instructions are
consistent with established botanical
norms, and Ho Chi Minh's poetry remains
timeless. You science majors will have to
verify the various chemical formulas.
Perhaps Michael is right. Perhaps, in
addition to working for world-wide
socialist revolution, Che was also an F.B.I
agent. Why stop there? Maybe the K.G.B,
or the Trilateral Commission, or the
World Anti-Communist League, or the
Illuminati were involved? (Pick your own
favorite conspiracy.) I don't know and I
don't believe that Michael Grutchfield
does either. Without proof, it's all silly
speculation. Read the book for yourself
and remember: "This book is not for
children or morons."
Ray Goforth
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Page 11
Arts & Entertainment
Suburbia kicks off 'Films for the Marginal'
by Michael Grutchfield
Hello, I'm Mike Grutchfield, and I
will be periodically reviewing movies
available on video tape. Before I get
started, I should say a few things about
myself, may background, and my tastes
in movies.
I am a fourth-year student at
Evergreen, born and raised in New York
City, but with enough radical intellectual
education to know I needed to get the
hell out. I have about 20 credits in video
production and ten in film theory, but
don't let that intimidate you. I don't
intend to get highly technical or
theoretical in these reviews. Generally, I
like movies that are "marginal": low
budget, not made in Hollywood, tacky
special effects, some amount of gratuitous
sex and/or violence, some degree of ironic
or black humor.
Some things you won't see in my
reviews are romantic comedies, space
operas, cop movies, Walt Disney films,
movies with actors who are invited to
appear on the Tonight Show, first-run
movies, movies that won't offend your
grandma, movies that have Saturday
morning cartoons based on them (which
means I can't do Attack of the Killer
Tomatoes, unfortunately), or big-name
slasher movies like Friday the Thirteenth
or Nightmare on Elm Street. You also
won't see any entirely negative reviews.
I don't believe in wasting space giving
something I hate a lot of publicityremember, there's no such thing as bad
publicity (something the United Front
Against Fascism would do well to keep in
mind). This doesn't mean I'm going to be
uncritical; if Frankenhooker strikes me as
being sexist and intended to make money
off the marginal audience, then I'm going
to say so. But I won't even mention
movies I don't think are worth checking
out.
Okay, I think you get the basic idea.
This first video I am going to review is
Suburbia, by Penelope Spheeris. If my
memory of the credits is correct, Roger
Gorman was the Executive Producer,
which means he gets his name of the
front cover bigger than Spheeris'. This
video, while certainly of marginal interest,
isn't too hard to find, even in the
nowheresville of Olympia. You can rent
it at Rainy Day Records/Video.
Penelope Spheeris, for those of you
that have been living under a rock, was
also the producer and director of the
documentaries
Decline of Western
Civilization parts I and II. Part I was
made around the beginning of the 80's
and concerned the punk rock explosion in
Los Angeles. Suburbia was made shortly
afterward and explores some of the same
themes, but not in a documentary format.
Instead, Spheeris got together with some
of the local punks and created a story for
them to act out abut a group of kids
loving in an abandoned suburb of L.A.
The result is one of the few authenticfeeling punk rock movies ever made. No
doubt this effect is supported by the
performances of D.I. ("Richie Hung
Himself), TSOL ("Darker My Love"),
and the Vandals (the classic "Legend of
Pat Brown") on the soundtrack.
There are few or no real actors in
Suburbia. The kids play themselves, a
gang of rockers with non-linear haircuts
known
as
"The Rejected"--mostly
runaways and abandoned or abused kids.
They range in age from ten to seventeen.
Their opponents (read "everyone else")
are unemployed rednecks, concerned
citizens, black cops, handicapped store
owners, and (of course) their parents.
These people probably aren't playing
themselves (no one would inadvertently
look so scummy), but they aren't "acting"
either-they are the frustrated and
disenfranchised of an old generation,
taking out their problems on the kids.
You might think that the lack of people
trained to read lines in front of a camera
would make the acting fall flat. Indeed, a
few emotional scenes are unconvincing.
But generally, the real-life experience of
these people translates to the screen, and
it is easy to believe that this is all really
happening.
For those accustomed to Hollywood,
Suburbia will seem at times badly lit,
hard to hear, and a bit slow-moving. The
only one of the above I find frustrating is
.the sound-evidently the microphones
were a bit cheap (did they use the same
ones the bands had?). But by turning the
volume way up and rewinding whenever
you miss a line, you can get the full
effect. The slow scenes may not progress
the plot, but they do add to the feeling of
frustration and boredom the movies is
trying to convey in the first place.
In short, Suburbia is everything you
remember from your first punk show: the
music the dreams, the camaraderie, the
violence, the drugs, the danger, the anger,
the naive nihilism, the fashion, and the
unhappy ending. It's all here. I dare you
to watch this movie and not get a haircut
as soon as possible afterwards.
Mike Grutchfield occupies space.
Crazoid screams for Metallica meat, boogies avec Stu
by Andrew Hamlin
STAIRWAY TO HELL: THE 500 BEST HEAVY
METAL ALBUMS IN THE UNIVERSE
BY CHUCK EDDY
NEW YORK: HARMONY BOOKS
232 PP., $14
Some of Monty Python Live at the
Hollywood Bowl sags, but one scene that
got me was Neil Innes in his black cap,
his face a Kabuki mask without makeup,
sitting at his grand piano. The loud movie
quiets down, Neil tinkles chords that
sound almost like "I Don't Like
Mondays," and then he sings softly, "How
sweet...to be an idiot..." and the audience
cracks up. Chuck Eddy has seen this
movie, he has taken this concept to heart,
or maybe he had it before, except that he
doesn't want to be quiet. He's a sweet
idiot who has lucked on to a publisher
and while I would not like to be on the
receiving end of some fists I know will
be flying his way, it is nonetheless
refreshing, after a lengthy spelunk through
the seven or eight sociology texts required
to decode Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces,
to read something written by somebody
who is unabashedly a complete lunatic.
I mean, dig: The dude gives us 500
heavy metal albums when most of my
record collector friends would be hard put
to name five (except that he cheats), he
praises Nazareth and ranks on the
Ramones, he puts Zoso (ho-hum) at
number one, Teena Marie's Emerald City
(?) at number nine, and The Osmond
Brothers' Crazy Horses (?!$%A@!)- at
number sixty-six point six, he dyes Jimmy
Page's mop an endearing shade of
GrapeAde purple for the cover, and he
uses phrases the likes of "the ghastily
Jabberwockesque millipede apparition,"
GOING
and "six-string switcheroos that drag you
screaming through the ultratwisted offalencrusted sewer pipes of Gotham City's
black-and-white underworld, plus postGinsberg/post-catechism-upbringing
linguistics pouring like Morton Salt from
Rob Straker's expando-hoarse epiglottis:
No
meaning
anywhere."
Captain
Beefheart, whom I'm somehow reminded
of, did not make the list.
"Microwaveable Lester Bangs" is how
Richard Riegel describes these reviews,
most of them 300-word missives
recouping in heft what they lack in
paragraph delineation. Eddy shares a few
ideas with the late Lester punk and
heavy metal are basically the same thing
(although Eddy is skeptical about classic
end-of-the seventies punk, be it Yank or
Brit), early seventies metal is worthy of
notice (try Black Pearl's eponymous
debut, or White Witch's A Spiritual
Greeting, although Lester preferred their
eponymous debut), obscure can be
beautiful (anybody have Last Exit's
Cassette Recordings 87, with Ronald
Shannon Jackson singing lead on "Big
Boss Man"?), Frank Zappa is a dork
(although Dave Marsh called "Trouble
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the Pixies...oh, I'm just listing the things
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you can read the thing yourself. You may
get pissed off, but there's plenty of glitzy
to peruse (great bathroom book), and
despite the gradual-flux deepgroove hully
gullies-now he's got me doing it-Eddy
makes enough interesting assertations to
make him worth your while. Consider
him a latter-day Arnold Layne filching the
knickers of critical consensus from the
petrified washing line of convention,
putting up Point Blank, Bang, Dust, and
Human Zoo in their place. How sweet.
"He may be stupid, but he knows he's
stupid-and that almost makes him smart"-sample from the first 3rd Bass album.
Andrew Hamlin is perplexed that Lou
Reed's "Metal Machine Music" only made
number 199. Heck, it was number two in
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and honest dumbness win out over
technique wizardry and pretentiousness
(except for pretentiousness chutzpah
points, cf. Meat Loaf, Queen, Amon Duul
II, Led Whozits). Chuck throws one
swipe at the old master though, in his
review of the Velvet Underground's White
Light/White Heat: "Once upon a time rock
critics had a habit of checking each
other's copies for wear and tear in much
the same way German metal bands check
each other's penises for same." On a
cloud over Eddy's native Philadelphia,
Lester is unzipping his fly for a most
non-German purpose.
In a nutshell: Led Zeppelin were
white, but the better for it, Axl Rose is
Bob Dylan, the blues are just the blues,
Kix are the greatest band ever overlooked
(four albums in the top hundred), Poison's
second album is likewise a neglected
masterpiece (number thirty-five), Metallica
although flawed are less pretentious than
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THURSDAY
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).
RALLY FOR INITIATIVE 136, the
"cannabis initiative," today at noon at the
State Capitol Campus.
"THE BIG KNIFE," a play by Clifford
Odets, opens tonight and runs through
Sunday at Pacific Lutheran University's
Eastvold Auditorium. Sunday matinees at
2 pm; all other performances at 8 pm.
Info: 535-7760.
THE ALLEGRO! DANCE FESTIVAL
presents Seattle choreographers Mary Kay
Bisignano-Vadino, Gail Gustafson and
A.C. Petersen, tonight through Sunday at
the Broadway Performance Hall in
Seattle,
1625 Broadway.
Tickets
$10.50/adults, $8.50/students and seniors.
Group rates available. Info: 32-DANCE,
or Ticketmaster at 628-0888. TDD Relay:
587-5500.
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FRIDAY
JACK'S HEADLIGHTS, a swingin' band
featuring Aaron Alexander, Michael Bisio,
Rob Blakeslee, Rich Halley, and Hans
Teuber, plays tonight at 8:30 pm at
Studio 321, 321 Jefferson N.E. in
Olympia. All seats $7. No smoking. Info:
754-3525.
FRIDAY
NIGHT
SPIRITUALITY
SERIES presents
Jeanette Dugan,
professional astrologer, delivering a
lecture on "Astrology and the Natural
Law," tonight from, 6:30 to 9:30 pm in
Library 3500. Free. Sponsored by
Innerplace and Radiance.
TUESDAY
NEAL WOODALL plays "family style
tunes" tonight at the Urban Onion in the
Olympian
Hotel.
Reservations
recommended. Info: 943-9242.
Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges in The Fisher King, at Capital Mall Cinemas
wish to volunteer at Bread & Roses'
guest house for those in need of
temporary shelter, today from 9:30 am to
1 pm. Three-month commitment required.
Info: Heather at 754-0633.
"LOVING THE CHILD, HEALING THE
ADULT," is a conference today and
tomorrow at the University Plaza Hotel,
400 N.E. 45th St. in Seattle. Keynote
speaker is Muriel James, author of Born
to Win; another featured speaker is
William R. Emerson, Ph.D, a pioneer in
the treatment of early age trauma. Info:
284-2126 or 547-6977.
"MAZES," a show featuring a giant
mazes, computer puzzles, and brain
teasers of all sorts, opens today and runs
through January 5 (closed November 30
through December 8 for the model
railroad show) at the Pacific Science
Center jn Seattle. Info: 443.2001,
SMETANA'S "FROM MY LIFE" string
quartet is performed by the Regency
String Quartet at 8 pm tonight in Pacific
Lutheran
University's
Scandinavian
Cultural Center. Also on the bill is
Mozart's five-movement String Quartet in
G Minor. Tickets $5, $3 for students and
seniors. Info: 535-7621.
SEASON TICKETS for the "30 Seconds"
lecture series at South Puget Sound
Community College are on sale through
today at the college. Scheduled events
include the Tony-award winning musical
Ain't Misbehavin', a lecture by former
U.N. ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, and
a special appearance by Shakespearean THE NORTH CAPITOL CAMPUS
actress Claire Bloom. Tickets for the HERITAGE PARK DEVELOPMENT
series $60/70/80, or $50/60/70 for students ASSOCIATION holds its Heritage Park
and seniors. Info: 754-7711 x306.
Meetings today at 7:30 am, at Olympia
City Hall's Executive Conference Room.
BILL DAVIE, "Fine songwriting and Info: 786-5745.
guitar," plays tonight at the Latona
Tavern, 6423 Latona Avenue N.E. in THE THIRD ANNUAL WOLF HAVEN
Seattle, at 9 pm. Info: 525-2238.
WILDLIFE ART AUCTION begins at 7
p today at the Olympian Hotel Ballroom,
117 E. Legion Way. Works by Robert
Bateman, Terry Isaac, John Seerey-Lester,
and others. Admission S3, or $5 for
SATURDAY couples; drinks, hors d'oeuvres, and
musical entertainment included in the
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TAROT CLASSES: Learn
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and to intuit answers to questions.
Information: Call Yvonne 564-6306
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SUNDAY
"THE UFO COVERUP THROUGHOUT
HISTORY" is a lecture by Brad Steiger
and Sherry Hansen Steiger, today at HPN
Productions, 1423 173rd St. S.W. in
Lynnwood. Tickets $47/advance, $57/door.
Info: 742-6891.
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WEDNESDAY
THE JURASSIC GROUP, a campus
group promoting prevention of and
recovery from drug and alcohol abuse,
needs new members for new activities.
Visit their weekly meeting Wednesday
nights from 6 to 8 pm in the Seminar
Building, Room 2109. For info contact
the Counseling Center, 866-6000 x6800.
THE
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ORCHESTRA, featuring pianist Duane "SNAKE TALK: URGENT MESSAGES
Hulbert, opens its season with Bernstein's FROM THE MOTHER" is a one-woman
"Candide
Overture,"
Beethoven's show written and performed by Naomi
"Symphony No. 7," Rachmaninoff's Newman, playing tonight through October
"Piano Concerto No. 2," and Sibelius' 26 at the Washington Center for the
"Romance in C," tonight at 7 pm at the Performing Arts, at 8pm each night, with
Washington Center for the Performing a 2 pm matinee on the 26th. Newman
also leads a post-show discussion on
Arts. Info: 753-0074 or 753-8585.
"Creation of Dramatic Material from Life
THE SPOKANE SYMPHONY opens its and Literature." Tickets and info: 753season with Shastakovich's "Symphony 8586.
No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47," Schumann's
"Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54,"
featuring pianist Panayis Lyras, and
Wagner's "Prelude to Die Meistersinger
von Nurnberg," tonight at 8 pm in the
Spokane Opera House. Tickets $ll-$24.
THURSDAY
Info: 1-800-325-SEAT.
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MONDAY
SLIGHTLY WEST, the campus literary
magazine, holds its first meeting of the
year at 5:30 pm today outside of Library
3223. Do you like poetry? Prose?
Photography? Art? do you enjoy baring
your fangs at people who don't realize
that this, right here, is either the most
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or the most unmitigated, fraudulent piece
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WOMEN AND YEAST is a free lecture
presented by Dr. Jennifer Booker, a
naturopathic physician, today at 7 pm at
Red Apple Natural Foods, 400 Cooper
Point Road N.W. "It's not a life sentence.
You can disconnect the yeast connection."
Info: 754-0104.
"STELLA," a dance performance featuring
one hundred ticking metronomes, flowing
costumes, and music by Gyorgy Ligeti,
opens today and plays through October 24
at On the Boards in Seattle. The
choreographer is Anne Teresa De
Keersmaeker of Belgium. Info: 325-7901.
CPJ
meeting
today
Gather with the staff,
Thursday October 17, to
discuss the issues of the
day.
The meeting will be helc
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News
If we had twelve fingers: part two
THE
by Rafael Marino
Time in Dozenland
In Dozenland, people divide the day
into 12 ( _Q ) hours, each of which is
equal to 2 of our hours. Each hour is
composed of 12 ( _ Q ) minutes, and each
minute is composed of 12 seconds. This
way, one hour in Dozenland has 144
(_DD) seconds. Their scientists continue
dividing time in 12ths.
The hands of clocks in Dozenland
move in the same direction as our clocks,
but the hour hand is at the bottom of the
clock at midnight and at the top at noon;
it goes around the clock once in a day.
The hour hand imitates the motion of
the sun, and Dozenlandians - especially the
ones that live near the Equator - can easily
approximate what time of day it is by
looking at the sun. Dozenlandians don't
have to keep track of A.M. and P.M.
Instead, by looking at their clocks, they
know if it is morning or afternoon.
Additionally, the numbers on the face of
their clocks not only indicate hours but
also minutes and seconds. What would
correspond to the 12th hour is denoted by
the "0" hour. When Dozenlandians want
to refer to "3 minutes after midnight" they
EF, from cover
misunderstand one another. The nature of
this problem stems from the tendency of
the two groups to observe the "others" as
people who strictly congregate amongst
themselves.
When this is further
compounded by the failures of each to
initiate any type of communication,
tolerance between the two groups
disintegrates.
This is an unfortunate situation that [
only leaves Evergreen and EF students
with bad impressions of one another. As
a matter of course this situation would
change if there was more involvement
between the two student bodies.
Integration as left to the EF students is a
matter of difficulty, though, as they are
foreigners here and not that comfortable
with a student population as diverse and
idiosyncratic as Evergreen's.
Since there are among the Evergreen
student population those that are interested
in other cultures—in studying them first
hand as travelers or residents-it is
difficult to conjure reasons why they
might not want to talk to people from
foreign countries, especially when it
would be so convenient.
Just as this school has some of the
most accessible and modern equipment
available to the student population (Media
Loan, Equipment Checkout, etc.) so too
are the EF students a great resource for
cultural exposure, and one that would
enjoy being exploited.
So, if you are interested in knowing
something about another culture, be it the
nature of an unknown country or an
unknown people, or if you are having
problems with EF students partying in
your dorm, better to approach them and
speak to them about it then to just let the
opportunity slip away. They, as well as
yourselves, may come away with a whole
new appreciation of each other.
The EF School, located on the fourth
floor of the Seminar building, is going to
be having an open house on Oct 22,
starting at 9 am and ending at 5 pm.
Anyone is more than welcome to come
by and just take a look or have any of
their questions answered.
Tim Johnson is an Evergreen student.
write D.= , not our confusing "12:03
A.M."
The two outer rings of their
clocks tell the day of the week and the day
of the month.
This is what a
Dozenlandian clock looks like at L . =
o'clock.
NOQN
MIDNIGHT
Can you see that this corresponds to
4:30 p.m. for us?
One week in Dozenland has 6 days: 4
days of .work and 2 of rest. One month
has 5 weeks (30 days), so one month in
their calendar would look like this:
_
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L
I
=
E
=
_D
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However, they very seldom use
calendars since they are so simple that
everybody has memorized them. Day 15
of any month, for instance, always falls
on a third day of the week. College
professors and other people who have to
plan schedules for activities that happen
on the same days of every week have an
easier time doing this than we do with our
system of months having 30, 31, or even
28 days, and months not having an
integral numbers of weeks.
One year has 12 (_fl) months plus 51/4 "lucky" days at the end of the year
when they have a carnival. This way their
year has 365-1/4 days. Clocks in
Dozenland have a special mechanism so
that at the end of every year, they
automatically go backwards 1/4 of a day.
Examining further the clocks in
Dozenland, we observe that they have two
outer rings along which small disks rotate.
The innermost disk, called the day disk,
goes around 2-1/2 times in a month. The
first time around, the day disk is just a
small circle ( O ). The second time, half
of the interior of the circle has been
blackened ( *> ). The third time, the
whole circle is black ( * ). At the end of
each month, a special mechanism
automatically moves the day disk 1/2 of a
circle so that it is in position 0 to start a
new month. This way, the position of the
day disk indicates the day of the week and
the day of the month. The outermost
disk, the month disk, rotates once in
one year, and it is always a simple circle (
O ).
Summarizing, the clock in the
drawing is saying that the time is 8.3
o'clock, that it is the 5th day of the week,
the 17th day of the month and the 9th
month of the year.
Dozenlandians will not have the silly
discussion that we will have when some
people will celebrate December 31 of 1999
as the last day of the 20th century while
others (which will be right) will celebrate
it on December 31 of 2000. This is why:
One century in Dozenland is composed of
_ Q Q years. The first century is called
century zero, not one, and the first year of
a century similarly is year zero, not one.
This way the year i | = is in the s
century, and the year _ | QL is in the =|
century different from our awkward way of
saying that 1492 was in the 15th century.
Rafael
Marino is
the Math
Coordinator at The Evergreen State
College. This is part two of a three-part
series.
Observations from Down Under
by Claire Littlewood
All right. I arrived all in one piece,
a shock to me. The big news here is
Rugby, and the New Zealanders' national
team, the "ALL BLACKS." They are
defending their World Cup title. The
Rugby matches got underway Oct. 3 with
New Zealand defeating England 18-12.
They have yet to play Japan, Italy, and
the United States. Apparently, even
Zimbabwe has a team in the World Cup
series.
Another observation: There are a lot
of sheep here. And, as it's spring, quite
a few lambs. The countryside is extremely
lush and green, very similar to England.
They all drive on the wrong side of
the road, according to Americans. Their
way of driving makes it hazardous for an
unsuspecting pedestrian such as myself;
"Look right, then left." Small cars and
narrow winding roads combined with
highway/motorways which are simply
more-frequently traveled two-way roads.
Dunedin, in the South Island, where
I'm staying right now, is a University
town. The University of Dunedin caters
to about 11,000 students, and is the
largest University in New Zealand. It's
known for producing top medical and law
students.
Dunedin is also known for its
Cadbury Chocolate factory which people
flock to tour. And there is an Albatross
colony on the outskirts of town, featuring
birds with up to 9-foot wingspans.
New Zealand is in recession. Jobs are
scarce. The government is realizing it
can't support its people to the degree it
used to. It is very common here for
people, if they can't find jobs, to go out
on the 'dole,' the dole being a monthly
stipend that the government hands out to
those unemployed. Cutbacks are now
being made in this and other social
programs.
The
government
here
is
Parliamentary~a Prime Minister and
his/her cabinet. The main parties are the
National Party and the Labor Party. The
Maori people are another
large
constituency—more on them ,in my next
letter.
Claire Littlewood has -written for the
CPJ forever. Even now, from far across
the pacific, her letters arrive like
clockwork. She is a godess. Claire is
currently the CPJ's only New Zealand
correspondent.
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Cooper Point Journal October 17, 1991
Page 15
YOUR WAY
We Know We Are Friends Because What We've Been Through
But Somehow To Me, Friends Should Do More Communicating Than
You
Our Friendship Is One-Sided, Has It Always Been That Way?
I Feel That You Care, Although You Don't Say
I Think I Understand, Part Of Your Style
But When I Don't Hear From You, In A Long While
I Just Smile, And Say, That's Just His Way.
Sometimes You Are Scared, To Say How You Feel
For Some Reason It's Hard, For You To Reveal
A Part Of Yourself, You Want Nobody To Know
Will This Always Be? It's Hard To Tell
I Think It's Just Your Way
Your Way Is Fine, But I Wonder If Time
Will Somehow, Someway, Make You Mine.
It's A Silly Thought, But Deep Down In My Heart
You Will Always Be A Part,
And A Memory Of Mine
My Feelings For You Were So Wonderful
And True
And Those Same Feelings
I Felt From You
What Happened?
What Changed?
Was It Our Backgrounds,
Our Names?
It Seemed So Abrupt
Together One Day,
The Next We're Apart
Maybe It Wasn't Meant To Be,
Right From The Start
I Guess It's Just Your Way.
The Stranger
THE LONG EMBRACED
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/ will make tattoos of your
five daggers in my back
five petals on my heart
I will lay them in ink
more like shadows
and blur recollection
And that is my choice since you are not Jipnesf
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•j we made
•-/- have burned
j all their glow
and action is history
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to become
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one stroke
one memory
five daggers blooming.
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