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Cultural
Caucus
illegal
poems
It was cold, that night
I summoned her by name.
The nwnbing taste of cool air
like the grasp of anesthetic
in the slowly freezing alley.
My fingers felt dipped in nitrogen
as I lit the candle with my Zippo
I counted the scratches .on the ancient lighter
waiting for the flame to catch
The dull throb of the buildings
slipped away as I called her name
my Demon Mistress
my lover in monochrome
tonight I would be hers
Her hands appeared first,
the nails like talons
then the polycarbon cloak
then the patent heeled boots
then the non-face framed
by the monofilament fibers
that served Her as hair
The scream
of the flesh,
that was not mine,
ceased as her lips
joined mine,
Her tongue
tasting the blood
as it passed my lips.
She drank from me
like a chalice,
Hers for a lifetime
As [ stared
endlessly,
into the cold
beauty of her heart.
With an edge in her voice
like surgical steel
She greeted me as always
with kind disdain.
It was cold, the night
I summoned her by name,
But it mattered not
to the unmoving body
in the slowly freezing alley.
Eric Sknson
Page 16 Cooper
Point
Journal May
3, 1990
Daffodils
In my room
drinking tequila,
I slam my fist
into the door.
I can't stop it
turning to spring,
but I see your face
in every daffodil.
I can't even
watch television
without seeing
one of you.
My fist will heal before
the daffodils are brown.
Michael McNellley
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Exploration, .
DiscoveryI and
Empire took a sailing
trip in the San Juan
Islands last week.
Above, Steve House
sailing one of
Evergreen's mighty
fleet, the Swirrel.
Left, taking bottom
samples at Echo Bay.
·photos by Peter
Bunch
"You summoned me,
My love,
to this cold-hel/?"
She queried.
"[ wish,"
I replied,
"for one more gaze
into the coldness
of your heart."
She shifted,
and reached,
and slowly sank
her talons
through my chest
drawing me close to her.
My breath congealed
in the dry stench
of the alley
Crystals forming
on the pools of lead
at my feet
· · n.te :prhgram
by Tim Gibson
In a board of trustees meeting heavily
attended by those interested in the fate of
the new "cultural caucus," the trustees
said Wednesday that, as it stands, the
new governance system must be reworked
in order to get approval.
"In its present form the proposal is in
violation of the Constitution," said defacto Board member Joe Olander.
Assistant Attorney General and
Evergreen Legal Counsel Mike Grant, in
a memo to the board of trustees
concerning the legality of the new
government, wrote that the new studem
governance system would "not withstand
constitutional scrutiny" and in his
opinion, is illegal. He wrote that the
caucus system violated a host of State
and Federal civil rights laws, including
the 14th amendment to the US
Constitution.
Grant also said that ,he believed the
trustees' decision to send the "cultural
caucus" amendments back to the students
effectively re-establishes the old Student
Union.
However, Grant said he believes the
cultural caucus was an attempt toward a
true multicultural government, and that all
those interested in creating a legal student
government should continue to negotiate
attempts at multiculturalism.
During the open meeting the board of
trustees heard three of the supporters,
Larry Jeffezson, Isa Solanti, and Mary
Lou O'Neil, speak about the new caucus
system, Each spoke of the benefits that
It multicultural student government would
bring to all cultural groups on campus.
In his address to the trustees,
Jefferson spoke of the necessity to
address Assistant Attorney General
Grant's legal challenge.
"The document is not static,"
Jefferson said, "there is room for
change."
However, O'Neil added, that change
should take place within the amendment
procedures as proscribed by the new
government
When asked by board member Carol
Vipperman to identify the "down side" of
the new "cultural caucus" system, O'Neil
see splH page 16
Olander announcesinterim Provost
News Release
President Joseph Olander announced
his appoinunent of Russell M. Lidman as
inIr:rim provost and vice president for
Academic Affairs at The Evergreen State
College.
Lidman joined Evergreen's faculty in
1974, and since 1985 has served as
director of the Washington Stale Institute
for Public Policy. The Institute, housed
on Evergreen's campus, draws on the
state's university and fO\D'-year college
faculty to perform research on topics of
interest and importance to Washington's
policy makers. Currently, the Institule is
conducting the Family Income Study, a
major survey and research project that
The .Evergreen State .College
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WA 98505
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provided comprehensive information about
the state's dependent and "at-risk"
populations.
During his tenure at Evergreen,
Lidman ' helped develop the college's
graduate
program
in
Public
Administration and served as one of its
first directors. He spent a year in Lima,
Peru as a Fulbright professor, leaching in
a government training program and
helping
to
develop
a graduate
management program. He also spent three
years with WashingtOn's Department of
Social and H~th Services Office of
Research. Lidman has also been an
economist for the US Department of
Health and Human Services, a researcher
with the Institute tor Research and
Poverty at. .the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, and a faculty economist at
Oberlin College, Ohio.
In announcing Lidman's appoinunent,
President Olander said that Evergreen
continues to face many significant
challenges, including working toward its
goal of becoming a multicultural teaching
and learning community; the goal of
seeking the fmancial resources needed to
strengthen and support the college's
work, and facing the external pressures
that follow from being a public institution
of higher education.
"The interim provost must have the
skills to step up to these challenges with
the sensitivity and grace that come from
having deep roots in the college and an
historical understanding of our work,"
says Olander.
Three internal candidates applied for
the position, slated to last one year.
Before the process began, Olander said
the inlerim provost will be neither
advantaged. nor disadvantaged, should the
person decide to apply for the permanent
provost position.
In September, a task force will
launch a national search for a permanent
provost
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community member wlw contributes
volumes of material to the CPl.
Nonprofit Organization
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Quote of the Week
'While it Is acceptable to provide a statement of intent
encouraging the general goal of cultural diversity, such goal
may not be implemented through the specific governance
structure set forth in The Student Union document."
Part of a memo from the Attorney General outlining the un-constitutionality on both the state and national level of the new cuhural
caucus student union.
See story on cover.
Security Blotter
Monday, April 30
1148: There was a fire alann in C Dorm
due to burning food.
Tuesday, May 1
1146: A male who'd been known to
harass a certain female student was
spotted on campus.
1820: A Security officer threw a small
bag of marijuana into a toilet and flushed
it as others watched.
Wednesday, May 2
1457: Many bike parts were thought to
be stolen from the bike shop.
1500: Security was informed that the
harassment suspect spotted Tuesday had
a restraining order against contacting the
certain female student.
Thursday, May 3
0021: Graffiti was discovered in the first
floor men's room of the CAB.
0822: More graffiti was found in the
men's room on the third floor of the
Library.
1071: A large black dog harassing
students in the Computer Center was
apprehended. The dog had no tags and
was thus taken away by animal control.
1235: Someone 's bike was taken from
the Library loop.
1310: The fire alarm in C-dorm went off
due to burning food.
1423: A bunch of graffiti was found in
the HCC.
1451: CRC staff reported that someone
was being rude to them. He had been
rude to them before.
2030: A ferr,ale on campus said she got
a sexually harassing phone call.
2303: An incapacitated drunk male was
discovered collapsed on the Library
meadow. He was taken away by medics.
Friday, May 4
0045: A ten-speed Schwinn bike was
taken from outside I Dorm.
0333: One of F-loL' s electrical light posts
had been defaced.
0809: A custodian found graffiti on the
third floor of the Library.
IS5S: The rude patron from Thursday
again made unwelcome remarks, refused
to show identification and complained
about CRC prices to staff there.
1750: Four middle school students
performed
malicious
mischief
by
destroying a sprinkler head on the big
field.
2333: A. fire alarm in J Dorm was
activated by burnt food.
Saturday, May 5
0811: Security found a "Wanted" poster
in the CAB with an officers picture on it.
They took it down.
1932: C-Iot had been marred with graffiti
near the Library loop.
2355: There was a report of male in
Cooper's Glen walking around with no
pants on. He was contacted by an
Cooper's Glen manager.
Sunday, May 6
0046: A person was carrying an open
container of alcohol outside of K Dorm.
Security gave a verbal warning.
0255: The motor pool parking truck had
some graffiti on it.
0417: A male who had been drinking
dropped to the floor in one of the men's
rooms. A friend took: him home.
0514: There was a car crash at 17th and
Kaiser roads.
0943: Both the clock tower stairwell and
the CAB third floor lounge were defaced
with graffiti.
2312: Hot pink graffiti involving Central
American political issues was discovered
in the CAB second floor men's room.
Many
public
services
were
performed last week:. A motorcycle rider
got a verbal warning for speeding in a
parking 10L
The Security Blotler is written mostly
by James Egan , created by interesting
entries in Security's incident log.
Comments and criticisms can be directed
10 the CPJ or him.
docurnment
The S&A ReOrgl team, which was
stripped of final approval from the
Student Union due to the internal ·coup
d-etat" last month, brought its finalized
document to the board of trustees on
Wednesday for approval. Since the
document is so inter· linked with the
Student Union, and needed approval there
fust. the board could only voice approval
of the document "in spitit" rather than
conduct an actual vote officially
recognizing the document The document
is a result of last spring's student sit·in
protesting the firing of Ted Hong and the
control of student fees on campus.
WashPirg re-newel
The board of trustees Thursday
unanimously approved the ie-newal of
WashPirg's Evergreen contracL The
contract included a $1.50 hike in the
optional donation students pay from $2 to
by Tina Cook
The draft also warns the same
The required firing or disenrollment consequences may be applied to fust time
of second·time sexual harassezs is the offenders if the offense is serious, for
most significant change the Sexual example, sexual extortion or assault.
Harassment Policy Disappearing Task
If the offender is a student, expulsion
termination
of
community
Force (OTF) plans to recommend in its and
final" report..
membership apply in the case of a
, One . tune around the bl~k and second offense, according to the DTF's
we re gomg to educ,ate . yo~, ?TF amended policy drafL
member . M8!'Y Lou C? Neil. srud, ~e
The existing Sexual Harassment
bottom Ime IS the policy will say we re Policy does not address repeat offenders.
going to fue yeu after the second
Another change the DTF plans to
offense. "
recommend is the required presence of a
The group was. charged by the third party when the pe!'SQn making a
Fac.u!ty Agenda CommIttee to recommend harassment complaint and the accused
reVISIons
to
the
current
Sexual meet to discuss a conflict
Harassment Policy, frame a working
In the sexual harassment policy as it
definition of gender .harassmen~identify . now stands, "members of the Evergreen
gender harassment ~ssues facmg the community who come into conflict on
Evergreen
commumty,
and
make issues of discrimination and retaliation
recommendations for a gender harassment must first make a determined effort to
awareness program.
.
resolve problems between themselves in
The Sexual Harassment Policy DTF a constructive and mutually agreeable
will hold a community forum May 17 in manner."
the CAB lobby at 8 pm as part of
Only if such a meeting does not
?,omen.'s Empowe~ent. Week. The D'I! meet the satisfaction of both parties
IS seeking commumty mput to help m involved does the present policy advise
making their recommendations.
complainants they "may contact the
According to a DTF draft report, the Affmnative Action Officer for the
most significant policy changes they.plan purpose of policy clarification, informal
to recommend are "a strong educauonal discussion, advice and assistance." The
component and serious consequences for DTF plans to recommend this second
those who harass" and the inclusion of step be avoided by involving the
gender harassment in the Sexual Affmnative Action Officer from the
Harassment Policy.
beginning.
"In the event of a second offense of
The DTF will make its final report
sexual harassment. members of the to the Faculty Agenda Committee and the
faculty and exempt employees will be President' s Office by May 21.
met with immediate termination of
Tina Cook is an Evergreen student
employment
and
co·mmunity and is writing a series on sexual/gender
membership," according to the DTF's harassment on campus for the CPJ.
Sexual Harassment Policy draft.
$3.50 per quarter and asIced the Pirg's to
give an annual report to the board, The
board was also reminded that the contract
included an option for the board to
terminate the PUg's contract if they give
30 days notice. According to the contract
the Pirg's have to have a student
referendwn every two years to assure the
students still want them on the Evergreen
campus. The referendwn this year had
overwhelming support with 96% or 939
voting students approving WashPirg's
presence on campus.
CORRECTION
The teach-in on May 23 is Racism
Awareness Day, not "Racial" Awareness
Day as printed in the CPJ article
concmting the Student Union forum
[Vol. 20 Issue 23]. The teach-in is not on
student governance but on the larger
problem of racism in the Evergreen
community. May 23 will not be devoted
to
discussing
the
new
student
government.
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On Monday, May 14, in lecture hall
#5 from 3:30 to 5:00 pm there will be a
campus wide forum on growth options.
Several options ranging from no growth
to cluster colleges will be discussed.
These options are outlined in a paper
developed by EverRn's Planning
Council. Copies of this paper will be
available in Steve Hunter's office on the
third floor of the library and also in the
S&A office CAB 305. This issue will
have a direct impact on faculty/student
ratio, seminar size, the aVailability of
housing, and almost every other aspect of
campus life. Widespread input is
necessary if administrative strategies and
budget allocations are to be reflective of
campus opinion.
Two more forums will be held to
discuss how the college can strengthen its
commitment to multiculturalism. They
will be held May 17 and 22 from 12:00
to 1:00 in C.' ~ ·no "-tions that are
being considf
om increased
scholarship money to the establishment of
cultural centers such as the l..onghouse.
Copies of the multicultura1ism paper will
be also be available in Steve Hunter's
office and the S&A office.
These forums are a part of the effort
to revise the Strategic Plan, the document
that delineates the goals and objectives
that shape Evergreen's budget priorities.
This project has been under way for
nearly a year now. The revision is
intended to clarifyand/or modify the
college's stand on enrollment growth, to
reinforce Evezgreen's commitment to
multiculturalism, to improve the quality
of life on campus, to expand public
service efforts, and obtain adequate ftscal
support for the college. It is the goal of
the planning council to develop option
papers on all five topics. However,
growth, multiculturalism, and quality of
life are the only three that have complete
drafts. The quality of life option paper
will be available along with the other two
document although discussion on it has
not been scheduled until fall quarter.
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include: Mike Beug, Dianna Caley, Debra
Dillenbeck. Carolyn Dobbs, Kathleen
Garcia, Patrick Hill, Doug Hitch, Steve
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National Nursing Home Week 1990
by Paula Lang
National Nursing Home Week 1990
will be celebrated during Ihe week of
May
l3-19, and nursing homes
nationwide
have
been
making
preparations for Ihis event monlhs in
advance. The purpose of National
Nursing Home Week is to recognize
nursing home residents, encourage
community involvement and promote
public awareness.
Elizabelh Meador, the activities
director at the Olympia Manor Nursing
Home, claimed this is always Ihe most
exciting week of the year for the
residents and staff. "We do something
different each day which will include
everyone," Meador stated.
The most popular events are the
Hawaiian luau at noon on Tuesday, May
15 and Ihe country western barbecue in
the early evening on Friday, May 18.
Residents, staff, and volunteers will dress
appropriately for bolh occasions and
decorations will adorn the establishment.
DecC'rative items in connection wilh
lheme days are needed to enhance the
atmosphere of Ihe recreation area where
residents gather for activities and daily
meals. Offers of artistic talent could help
accomplish this CIldeavor.
National Nursing Home Week begins
on Mother's Day, and residents' family
members have been invited to attend a
tea on Sunday afternoon. "I'm trying to
get people involved more. If families can
see how much fun they are having,
maybe lhey'll come on in more often and
get involved," Meador explained.
Olher events such as Volunleer Day,
Hat/f-Shirt Day, Dress Down Day and
staff potluck will also be included on Ihe
Olympia Manor schedule during National
Nursing Home Week.
Through her experiences with nursing
homes, Meador fully acknowledges the
need for .volunteers, especially during
National Nursing Home Week since many
people are unable to make a long-term
commitment People will be needed
during Ihis celebration to help with
preparations, and those with special
talents are equally encouraged 10 offer
entertainment.
SPEECH:
Meador has been greatly enlightened
We'd like for people to come and
visit, and get to know our residents. by Ihe experience of spending time w:1h
Come and see them on a one.to-one our senior citizens and has suggested !hat
basis. That would be really nice," staled , if everyone would attend just one event
during National Nursing Home Week,
Meador.
maybe Ihe public would begin to
In the past, nursing homes
acknowledge senior citizens as a valuable
nationwide would release helium balloons
segment of our society.
once a year containing invitations
Anyone interested in participating
encouraging a visit wilh a specific
and sharing Iheir time will find nursing
nursing home resident. "They quit doing
home residents most appreciative. For
it last year because of Ihe environment,"
additional information on National
Meador claimed. The current lack of
Nursing Home Week at Ihe facility of
publicity and interest on Ihe part of the
media has left Ihe general public largely
your choice, contact Ihe individual
unaware of Ihis commemoration.
activities director. At the Olympia Manor,
In association wilh this upcoming
Activities Director Elizabeth Meador may
event Meador said, "we want 10 show Ihe
be reached at 943-0910. She is hopeful
public that nursing homes aren't where
Ihe citizens of this community will find
people go to die; Ihey are where people
Ihe time to join in making this annual
go to live.. .1 Ihink a lot of Ihe residents
event a success. People wishing 10
feel this way, too. They're not forgotten
volunteer time and effort on a continuing
people; Ihey're in a big group, Ihat's
basis are always needed and welcomed as
all...We want the public to be aware of
well.
that They're not locked up, and they're
Paula Lang is an Evergreen student,
not scary people. They're just grandmas
CPJ staff writer, and nursing home
and grandpas, and they need people. All
volunteer at Olympia Manor.
of them do,"
Gathering inform.ation
on the environDlent
Sexual Harassment DTF:
No obligations to implement changes
by Tina Cook
As an example of institutional sexism at
Allhough Ihe Sexual Harassment Evergreen, McKoy pointed out Ihat
Policy Disappearing Task Force (DTF) feminist theory is not taught in the
has spent monlhs working on Iheir Political Economy and Social Change
recommendations, no one is under any program.
obligation to implement Ihem.
Like McKoy, faculty member Laurie
The group's final report will be given Meeker is making a special effort to be
to the Faculty Agenda Committee and the on the DW. "During their first year,
President's Office by May 21.
faculty are absolved of any governance
"They can throw Ihem away, right work, but I thought this was really
into the recycle bin if Ihey want to," important and wanted to be on it," she
student
Mary
Lou
O'Neil said. said.
"When I started talking 10 Ihe group
"Hopefully it will have some sort of
influence."
about Ihe Sexual Harassment Policy and
Faculty and DW member Les Wong found out there are no serious
expects the reaction to be varied. "Some consequences and never have been, I
will ignore it, some will work against it, . thought it was appalling," she added.
"That's unacceptable."
and some will be heartened by it."
According to Wong, Ihere's an
The DTF grew out of a group of
element of animosity when any kind of students who staned meeting in spring,
policy is established. "Some people say,
1989 in response 10 attacks
'Look, we' re smart enough (to avoid
harassing people) and don ' t need it' I'm
not convinced by that answer."
Even if the DW' s recommendations
,
COMEI
have no immt:diate impact, "It's important
to have a public record of all the work
SEEK YOUR FORTUNE
that' s been done, the essence of why it
was staned put on paper and people see
WONDERFUL
that," said staff member I acinta McKoy.
SOMMiR QUARTER
While the students on Ihe DTF
started as Ihe Wimmin's Safety Group,
INTERNSHIPS
olhers joined for different reasons.
EXCITING
CONTRACTS
"I'm really burned out on DTF's,"
AWAIT YOU
McKoy said, But Ihe Sexual Harassment
Policy group gave her new energy. "I
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thought it was really important and
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wanted to have the voice of a staff
&
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member" in Ihe DTF.
"There's a kind of myth at Evergreen
that everyone is politically correct and
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women on campus. The gathering became
Ihe Wimmin's Safety Group. According
to O'Neil, the Group "just started
rewriting Ihe sexual harassment policy,"
as a reaction to students "not feeling safe
in Ihe classroom."
The flISt draft of Ihe Wimmin's
Safety Group's amended policy was
distributed on campus for comments and
appeared in Ihe CPJ [Vol. 20, Issue 18].
The DW was charged by the Faculty
Agenda Committee shortly after that. and
has continued revising the Sexual
Harassment Policy since then.
The DTF consists of students Sky
Lacasuo, Micha ne Lona, Gail Witte,
Mary Lou O'Neil, Kelly Wright, Maria
Briganca; faculty members Laurie Meeker
and Les Wong; and staff member Jacinta
McKoy.
Tina Cook is an Evergreen student
and is writing a series on sexual/gender
harassment on campus for the CPJ.
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hub of a community wheel, with spokes
not only going to other environmentalists,
but to the community at large."
Patnude and Moulton have worked
be revezsed if a "demon," as he called it,
on
environmental issues for years
could separate fast·moving molecules
from slow ones. Scientists scratched Iheir (patnude currently chairs Ihe Community
heads for decades trying to exorcise Sustaining Fund and MoullOn has been
Maxwell's demon until in 1950 a French active wilh No Sweat and the Sensible
physicist demonstrated that choosing Growth Coalition) and believed that a
between fast and slow molecules would community environmental center could
require more energy Ihan Ihe energy improve local groups' effectiveness by
gained by Ihe demon's use of !hat eliminating duplication of efforlS--i.e.
stepping into the role of Maxwell' s
knowledge.
But dreamers--sitting late at night in energy-saving demon.
"As information gatherers and
front of Iheir perpetual motion machine
designs or walking beneath Ihe moonlight sharers," commented Moulton , "we might
envisioning a self-contained world where suggest courses of action, but are not
people acted sensibly--still wonder what setting anyone's agenda. What we can do
plug
volunteers
into
local
would
happen
if
communicating is
environmental work, both at the center
knowledge didn't take quite so much
and in Ihe community."
energy.
Volunteer coordinator Ann Butler is
Well, Maxwell's demon is loose
excited about the volunleer possibilities
again and, for now, has found a home in
downtown Olympia. SPEECH, Ihe South SPEECH offers. "We can be a volunteer
Puget Environmental Education Clearing led organization. With our space, facilities
House, opened its Fourth Street doors in and opportunities for meeting with the
April and has been busily collecting and public, volunteers can initiate and carry
distributing
information
on
the out any number of creative projects."
Butler suggests volunteers fist help
environment ever since.
SPEECH arrived on the local scene ' wilh SPEECH's most pressing need:
in March wilh a flyer announcing that. staffmg Ihe center to greet people and
"Out of a growing concern for Ihe state answer questions during public hours-of Ihe Earth and increasing environmental currently Tuesday-Friday noon through 6
pm, Saturday 11 am through 3 pm.
threats to our 1000All ecosystem ...out of an
Volunteers during that time also can
awareness of the need to better inform
pursue their own projects, organize
the community and each other of specific
materials and maintain the environmental
action needed for change... out of a
longing to band closely together and bulletin board.
When not open to the public, Ihe
share our sometimes overwhelming
SPEECH
office can be used by members
commitment
and
energy
and
and member organizations for meetings
underwhelming
material
and events. Already SPEECH has hosted
resources ...SPEECH exists."
Ihe Sensible Growth Coalition, The
Co-founder Gita Moulton emphasizes
Nisqually Delta Association, Earth First,
SPEECH does not supplant any existing
environmental organization. "As a No Sweat, Citizens for Balanced Growth
resource center and service provider we and Thurston Futures. SPEECH also is
can facilitate the work of other groups. helping to coordinate local efforts 10
gather signatures for growth·control
SPEECH simply provides meeting space,
initiative 547, another special project in
access to resources like a bulk mail
need of volunteers.
permit and pUbliCation equipment, and
Future projects for SPEECH include
information on a range of national and
a monthly newsletter with a full calendar
local environmental issues."
of events, educational essays, information
"SPEECH can be a home for
on local groups, activities of local
Olympia's environmentai community"
government officials, and "hot spots" like
added SPEECH's other co-founder Sue
Grass Lakes and Cascade Pole. Moulton
Patnude. "With office space in a high·
and Patnude also hope to open avenues
profile area, it can be what one of our
of dialogue between traditionally opposed
regular volunteers Darien Brown calls Ihe
members of Ihe community like
environmentalists
and timber workers.
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Allhough
pleased
wilh SPEECH's
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start, Moulton and Patnude aren't quite
sure yet about the Maxwell's demon
theory. "I'll believe we're saving
community energy when we have a little
more leftover for ourselves: joked
Patnude.
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Evergreen's Strategic Plan
This fall the President and
the Faculty Agenda Committee
requested that Evergreen's
StrategiC Plan be updated and
revised. The Strategic Plan is
a statement of Evergreen's role
and mission, the guiding
principles of the Planning
Council, and ten strategic
statements accompanied by
proposals which detail planning
goals and objectives. A new
Planning Council was convened
by the Provost to begin
revision. Next week's meetings
will mark the beginning of a
series
of
all-campus
consultations on long range
planning intended to continue
during the 1990-91 academic
year.
Evergreen's Planning Council
met throughout 1989-90 to
identify the major issues facing
the College during the next
several years.
Five issues
have
been
identified:
Enrollment
growth,
Multiculturalism, Quality of Life,
PUbliC/Community Service and
Fiscal Planning.
We have
prepared issue papers on the
first three topics.
They are
available at either the S&A
office on the third floor of CAB
or Steve Hunter's office on the
third floor of the library.
Forum's are only being
conducted on the first two issue
papers this spring due to time
constraints.
The
two
documents reprinted here are
the enrollment growth issue
paper and the multiculturalism
issue paper.
See story on page 3 for
additional InformatIon on
the forums,
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I. WHERE WE ARE NOW
At this point, we can look to a variety
steps taken toward establishing a
multicultllral learning community at
Evergreen. Among these are: hiring wellqualified faculty and staff of color at a
faster rate than ever imagined possible
three years ago; making cultural expertise
an important criterion in many new job
descriptions and most hiring decisions
over the past three years (for both faculty
and staff); revising the admissions policy
to allow for later applications and to give
preference to several factors related to
diversity; an ever-increasing retention rate
for students of color: substantive allcampus events such as' the Black Athena
seminars and guest speaker.; as well as
many smaller staff training sessions on
racism, sexism social justice, intercultllral
communicatio~, and related issues;
substantial funding
for faculty
development related to multicultllral
issues; high exposure of our graduates to
cultural diversity as compared to national
averages; extensive additions to library
resources on diverse culwres and an
increasingly multicultW'al curriculum.
While it is very important to note
these steps, it is equally important to note
that if we are to be successful in our
efforts to establish a truly multicultural
community and education, we have many
problems and issues still to confront In
fact. the steps taken so far serve more to
heighten our awareness of the complexity
of the project and the seriousness of the
obstacles than to provide assurance that
we are near any sort of racial Nirvana.
The problems and conflicts which have
arisen from changes thus far must be used
to help build insight to guide future
progress. Some of us have gained some
slight experience in being multicultural; it
is time to review the issues and challenges
that have arisen in order to determine how
best to strengthen and confrrm oW'
momenlllm toward multiculturalism.
n.
ISSUES/CONCERNS
Various members of the community
have expressed a wide range of concerns
about the drive for diversity.
The
following list is not in any way an
evaluation of the comments recorded; it is
merely an attempt to state many of the
issues that community members have
described to us.
·This community may not recognize
the challenging natllre of a change as
fundamental as building a culturally
pluralistic community. While the
charge exists on paper, many of us
may not admit the cost of translating
theory into practice.
Although much progress has been
made to specify and define cultural
diversity, there is still a lot of confusion.
To some, it means a broad range of
differences including race, ethnicity, class,
lifestyle, sexual orientation, mental and
physical challenges, religion and age. To
other.;, it means international diversity, and
bringing an end to the nationalistic
isolation of our culture. To still others, it
means specifically that historically
disenfranchised U.S. ethnic groups be
significantly represented in the college's
community and services. The danger is
that "diversity" becomes whatever the
speaker wishes it to be, or whatever is
least threatening, and that it becomes,
therefore, meaningless as a pl8nning
concept.
Expanded presentation of multicultural
. issues in the curriculum and the increased
representation of people of extensive
multicultural experience in the faculty are
impressive signs of progress, yet racist
behaviors and attitudes still appear
throughout the community. Sometimes it
appears that racist behaviors are being
protected. We need strategies for
addressing and recognizing our racism and
for getting beyond guilt to social
responsibility.
The peculiar nature of educational
methodology at Evergreen (the intense
focus upon the book, the seminar, the
expectation that each person speak, the
assumption of activism) may be very
cultW'ally based and may not match the
learning styles of a culturally diverse
community. At the very least, there is
sometimes lack of recognition of various
ways of knowing, and lack of support for
such variety.
Some members of the commlDlity
believe that there will be or that there
already is an erosion of intellectual
standards as a result of the multicultural
initiative.
TIle exact nalllre of this
concl"lll varies: some faculty have
experienced multicultW'al education as
merely a critique of the dominant culture
or class, rather than as a serious
exploration of various cultW'e8 and ways
of knowing; others feel their academic
freedom is threatened by vague definitions
of racial or sexual harassment; still others
perceive uncritical acceptance of anything
with cultural significance and a lack of
ways of evaluating such content or
methodology; finally, support for sllldents
who lack traditionally-defmed academic
Page 6 Cooper Point Journal May 10, 1990
skills sometimes appears to allow
"passing" such sllIdents on without
actually making sure they have the skills
they need from their education.
The social ideals of the Evergreen
community (as represented by the Social
Contract, the faculty evaluation policy,
etc.) seem to be constructs primarily of
European-American culture or counterculture and are effective to a varying
degree for individuals from other
heritages.
The assumption that cooperative
teaching and other joint endeavors will
assure the spread of cultW'al sensitivity
and knowledge (once there is sufficient
. representation of diverse cultures) can be
exploitative. People of color sometimes
get tired of always being the teachers as
once again, the victims are being made
responsible for solving the problems
caused by the dominant culture. Some
faculty of color have to spend so much
~e educating whites that they have little
ume left to teach and support sllldents of
color who need a mentor. At its worst,
this expectation for diffusion can lead to
tokenism as people of diverse backgrounds
may be added to teams, committees or
units solely because of color, with little
regard for the interests, capabilities or
s1cills of the people so assigned.
Faculty of color experience severely
conflicting expectations: on the one hand
they are expected to be a resource for
diver.;e cultllral information; on the other
hand they are criticized for placing too
much emphasis on cultllral examples or
content They feel they are consulted as
specialists in issues of diversity and
ignored as specialists in their disciplinary
fields of expertise. Further, there is a
sense a faculty member (or sllldent) of
color refuses to play the role of expert in'
matters of race and color, they will be
deemed incompetent or be sanctioned in
some other way.
Evergreen places a high value on
sharing administrative duties and the
importance of disinterested perspectives in
decision-making. Rotation (a general
concept applied in the deans' area, DlF
formation, and staff/faculty positions)
significantly supports this value. Rotation, '
as a form of internal promotion, conflicts
with the desire for. greater ~versity if the
~ps ?ut of w~lch rotation occ.urs are
not parucularly diverse. Equally, mlemal
promotion of staff is a way to reward and
~t ~ val,!~ personnel. :"-gain, lack of
~lver.;lty Wlthl~ staff um~ can make
mternal promotion wolk agamst the effort
to enhance diversity, particularly in highly
paid, more responsible positions.
The International Studies DlF
redefined its focus as inta-<:ulturalism in
recognition of the impossibility and
artificiality of segregating the study of
foreign culwres from the sllldy of cultural
relations within countries. As a result, the
DlF, largely made up of .EuropeanAmericans with interests in international
sllIdies, developed recommendations which
significantly involved the way internal
U.S. ethnic issues might be ad<Ircssed.
The relative lack of involvement by people
of ~lor poses a serious challenge to ~e
validity of the process and the DTF s
~mme~dati?ns:
..
~te Slgnificant hiring su~
both m regard to the representabOn ,of
peop.1e of color ~ of people With
multicultural expenence, we noed to do
more to diversify oW' community. We
have not yet been able to expand
significantly the representation of people
of color in our sllldent body, although we
are doing well in comparison to our peers,
and the results of the new admissions
policy look very positive so far.
·Cultural diversification (along with
other changes) is exposing some tensions
as we adjust. Sometimes it seems that
tolerance and civility are becoming less
prevalent. New members of oW'
community are in need of extensive
support (such as time and opportunities
for collegial discussion) to sort through
their experience of this distinctive
community. Experienced Greeners need
the same time and opportunity to absorb
and assess what they learn from new
members of the community. As new folks
meet resistance they wonder if Evergreen
really wants their expertise; "old timers"
wonder whether their abilities are valued
any more and whether established
community values and methodologies as
well as tra!1itional disciplinary contents
have a place in the new multicultllral
arena.
.Individuals need to be able to fmd
support from others who share similar
experiences, issues and problems.
Sometimes that support is hard to find
because there is no organized location for
it, because there is not yet enough cultural
diversity in the community, because the
time of people of color is spread too thin
over a wide range of campus activities
where their representation is needed and
because there is some resistance to
activities which can be interpreted as
"separatist."
.Cultural sllldies need to be organized
into identifiable segments of the
curriculum in order for prospective
students to find them, and in order to
provide the support that 8 separate
community of learning can provide. On
the other hand, cultural issues should be
critical to the whole curriculum. These
appear to be conflicting needs.
•What is the financial/resource cost of
all this? Do we need to grow to provide
the flexibility to diversify our community?
Where is the money coming from for the
retraining and the research we need to
make this change intellectually valid and
stimulating? Are we wearing oW'Selves
out in yet another enormous initiative
when we can barely keep up with what we
are doing already?
.Issues of gender and class often
seem to be shunted aside in our eagerness
to address ethnic issues. For example, the
percentage of women faculty have
decreased in recent years. Also, the issue
of the class background of potential
faculty or staff has been difficult to
address in hiring procedW'e8 (although, for
the student body, we have been able to
give preference to flfSt generation college
students in the new admissions policy).
How do we address issues of gender and
class as well as race?
IV. WHERE DO WE GO FROM
HERE?
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Strategic plan for lD.ulticultural diversity
The Strategic Plan states that "The
College will increase its efforts to make
diversity a resource by focusing curricular
and extracurricular attention on
understanding and learning from
differences rather than just tolerating
them." Since that statement was written,
the College has devoted considerable
energy to developing the diversity of our
campus community and oW' curriculum.
We are now in a state of significant
transition and we are more fully
recognizing that what we are attempting
to establish is a new world view. Such
an undertaking is a long and arduous
process demanding an expenditure of
significant mental, physical, emotional and
fmancial resOW'CCS,
Members of the Planning Council
have been involved in a variety of
discussions and written interchanges
regarding the multicultural initiative, and
have been repeatedly impressed with a
crying need for extensive open and honest
sharing of the fears and tensions felt
around the initiative as well as a
discussion of strategies for building a
multicultural learning community.
Therefore, this issue paper 1) describes
where we are now with the multicultllral
initiative, including the issues and
concerns we have heard expressed; 2)
suggests some options for planning the
futllre of the multicultW'al agenda; 3)
requests your opinion of Ihose options;
and 4) lists, in an appendix, some
examples of specific activities which such
options might generate. This paper is
intended to stimulate thought and
community discussion, not to restrict in
any way the range of ideas or alternatives
considered.
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: CONTINENTAL
Working to be your choice.
The following options are trial
balloons, ideasfor starting a discussion of
where we should go from here in our path
toward multicultural community. We need
to know from you: (1) Do these options
describe the options you would consider
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muHlcultural. from page 6
for further action? (2) Are there other
ideas we should consider? (3) Which
options do you think are best or most
important?
Keep in mind:
All these issues
translate into money. For every choice
made, budget requests, money-raising
priorities, and internal allocations will be
influenced!
The enonnity of the challenge to
create a multicultural learning community
is both daunting and exhilarating. It
requires a complete rethinking and reimagining of many aspects of our
community. For the purposes of the
planning process, the Planning Council has
decided to focus the discussion of such
complex issues on representation and
hospitality (a tenn which we recognize is
controversial). That is, for the purposes of
this planning discussion, a multicultural
learning community will mean: 1) that a
variety of cultures are represented at
significant levels both in the population of
faculty, staff and students :md in the
content of the curriculum and 2) that we
provide a hospitable environment for
people of a variety of cultures.
Representation is supported by activities
such as recruitment, hiring, and
admissions; hospitality is made possible
through the activities generally associated
with retention (for students) and quality of
worklife (for staff or faculty).
The
following choices address how we want
to go about achieving both representation
and hospitality at Evergreen.
-Choice I: What do we want the
college community to "look like" in the
year 201O? If representation and
hospitality are the two elements of
multiculturalism, to what specific groups
do we address these activities? A wide
range of groups have been included in
discussions of multiculturalism: people of
color, United States people of color,
people from any culture other than USWASP (including all non-U.S. folks), all
disenfranchised groups (including women,
Vietnam veterans, the poor, the physically
and mentally challenged, lesbians and
gays, etc.). Which groups do we wish to
include in our definition of
multiculturalism?
-Choice II: Once we have detennined
for which groups we wish to achieve both
representation and hospitality, the next
question is how to marshall our resources
to do so. We suggest two major
alternatives:
--Apply equal effort for each group
across the board with fewer resources
available for each group
--Apply extraordinary efforts to a
particular group or groups (in addition to
current, somewhat broadly distributed
services and efforts), establishing a
sequence by which we achieve significant
success with one group before going on to
another group.
-Choice III: If extraordinary efforts
are to be applied to particular groups in
sequence, what are the criteria for
establishing such a sequence? Following
are some ideas. Which are most relevant
and important?
--Potential for impact on the college
community
--Potential for greatest service to the
group
--Potential for successful recruitment
--Greatest use of existing Evergreen
strengths
V. YOUR IDEAS
Please give us your responses to the
options listed above. Again, we would
like to know: 1) What should we look like
in 20107 2) Do we direct our efforts
across the board or to targeted audiences?
3) lf we focus our resources, how do we
decide where to focus them?
VI. APPENDIX
Following are specific strategies
which came up as a result of the campus
discussions held so far. They represent
examples of a variety of ways in which
the campus could implement the choices
outlined above. People of color were the
selected population to which these
examples are directed, but parallel services
and goals could be established for any
group selected. It should also be noted that
many of these ideas are already partially .
initiated
A. Strategies for achieving
representation:
Note: In discussing a desirable goal for
levels of representation. the Planning
Council has often envisioned a community
in which 1) in seminars, three to five
students of color would usually be present
instead of being isolated in a largely white
arena (similar benefits occurring in teams
and work units) and 2) people of color
could choose to work together in
significant numbers within some situations
T~o faculty lette~s
L etter #1
correct, ~. resourc.e that ~ults ~n those
communlues trusnng us With thelf young
people. I would add that any student
Background: The hiring of a number would.benefit from such openness to any
of faculty of color (now 20% of the analysIS.
"pennanent" staff) has intensified a
. What we do next becomes vitally
wonderful process reflecting TESC's Important as faculty of ~?lor move
commitment to cultural diversity on the toward a. group of self-defiruuon (a new
faculty. The national collegial community, O~rtunlty for man>: facult>: o~ ~Ior)
particularly students of color in graduate while ~t the same. um~ !lUlJn~g a
schools, has recently acknowledged that profeSSional
relabo~ship. With
our
the permanent presence of faculty of . colleagues. And here .IS po~nt #3: Faculty
color is an essential flfSt step in ?f ~olor
working mtenslvely to
developing a full and meaningful
I~ntify therr. roles and ~rsonal
education. While many students ask that alignments. w~th ~C's nOb?n of
colleges begin to add faculty of color to cul~ diversIty WIthOut appeanng ~
their pennanent staff, it is clear we are ~paratJsts nor as ~contents.
It IS
beyond that point. I would argue that we difficult to ~o so while. I am a new
are not that much ahead, but we are f~ulty, working to establish my ra~rt
ahead.
With ~lleagues ~d ~so mhentmg
Point #1: that does not excuse us somethmg of a guardianship role. Cultural
from considering the next important processes have been at the cc:nter of my
question, "what is our next step?" While mtellectual efforts and ce~nly a key
it is always nice to be ahead of the pack, component of my perso~ life. I care a
I would prefer to compare our efforts to lot about co~leagues. Pomt #4: P~rhaps
our own expectations. I've heard little of o~ commu~lty also needs S?me tune to
what these expectations might be. Point think and ~uss and ~tabllSh w~ our
#2: One possible step is to promote the new collecuve ~onsciOUsnesS will be
activity of faculty of color and/or other befo~ we determine our next step.. ~ am
faculty work or program development that convmc~ that. we.are at a transl~~nal
emphasizes cultural diversity so that such n~ With ~cal1o"ns far !Dore cnucal
work appears attractive to students of than past
n~es.
Canng .facu!ty
color. This program development and developed a nouon of cultural diversity
faculty activity must also appeal to the prior to the presence of signiflcant voices
communities and families of color who from faculty of color. Now that faculty
stand to benefit by the exposure of young of. color ru:e present to contribute. their
minds to such ideas and their subsequent vOice to thiS concept, a re-exploral1on, a
return to their families and communities. re-vision.ing is certainly needed.
Such a partnership would be of immense
Rationale for my proposal: I have
benefit to our campus (greater numbers never had the opportunity to discuss what
of students of color) and to communities the nature of cultural diversity is with
and families ( increased leadership talent). colleagues who are also faculty of color.
TESC
becomes
a
resource
to I have always been either alone or
communities of color and history is perhaps one of three full-time tenured
an:
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8 Cooper Point Journal May 10, 1990
(such as First People's Recruitment, the
Tacoma program, native American
Studies, etc.) without gutting
representation campus wide.
-Bridge programs with speciflc K-12
schools
-Scholarships, fmancial aid
Internship and placement programs
-Hire recruiters for each major ethnic
group
-Develop consistent relationships with
diverse communities
-Develop recruitment internships for
students of color based on a partnership
model
-Assess curriculum for attractiveness
to specific groups; provide more obviously
culturally-oriented programs (such as
South Africa; African-American History;
Chicano Arts)
-Assure coverage of issues relevant to
color across the curriculum
-Do a needs and interest assessment
of potential students of color; design
programs accordingly
-Expand and support current on-site
offerings such as the Tacoma program and
community-based Native American
Studies; implement more such programs
-Establish sports programs which
appeal to urban people
.Change campus aesthetic and mascot
-Evaluate curriculum annually for
multiculturalism and develop plans for
curriculum for following years based on
that evaluation.
B. Strategies for hospitality:
-Review Evergreen teaching styles.
policies, practices, and reward systems for
differential negative impact on particular
groups of students (are seminars. potlucks, all-year programs, etc. more
problematic for some groups than for
others?) and consider providing
alternatives
.
-Write program covenants which
specifically address issues of cultural
sensitivity and intercultural
communication. Involve students in the
writing of such covenants rather than
presenting them with pre-prepared
documents for their signatUre.
-Openly recognize raci.sJ:n and
establish more accessible methods for
addressing incidence and training. Include
the entire community in responsibility to
teach and leariJ about multiculturalism.
Support discussions both among and
within various groups (for example. whites
among whites as well as with people of
color).
Make student evaluations of
faculty available to new students so that
they can make infonned choices about the
sensitivity of faculty they selecL
-Seek ways to encourage the
expression of ideas from new community
members to old; reduce the tendency to
expect new members to be learners rather
than teachers.
-Provide greater flexibility in team
assignments of new faculty of color and
for program reassignment for students in
recognition of the devastation racial
insensitivity can cause.
-Organize more campus-wide
functions, events, discussions around race
and culture issues. Work on shared
definitions of words like racism,
democratic pluralism, multiculturalism.
Explore world views, axiologies and
epistemologies. Organize events around
critical issues such as "Does equality
threaten excellence?"
-Provide more (and more visible)
support systems for people of color
(counselors, grievance officers, mentors,
support groups, sludent groups, full-time
staff for student groups, etc.). Consider
greater centralization of existing services
such as recruiting and retention. Create an
ombudsperson or committee for all racerelated grievances.
-Establish ethnic-group-specific
cultural centers, such as the long-awaited
Longhouse, where people can gather to
build and maintain culture-based
communities
-Regularly and frequently, provide
learning opportunities such as racial justice
workshops and cross-cultural
communication training for staff, faculty
and students
-Support a social justice agenda and
the resulting time commitments of
students. Explore ways to incorporate
such service into academic time so that
the whole community will be accountable
for a social justice agenda.
-Provide support for more
individualized faculty attention to students
of color.
-Continue to expand opportunities for
faculty development in areas supporting
multicultural learning. Make more time
and structures for talk.
on multiculturalism
faculty of color. These past 6 quarters
have been wonderful and confusing for I
now fmd myself within a community of
considerable
"color"
proportions
confronted with an issue whose
practicalities I've never been able to
discuss before. The theory of a diverse
faculty
and
campus
had
seen
considerable, but the practicality of what
you do once you do have significant
cultural diversity on the permanent staff
is quite new to me.
My proposal: There is the need for
Faculty of Color to discuss our notions of
cultural diversity amongst ourselves. It
would be a new opportunity for me ( and
I think for others) and one which I think
would not be served by small faculty
groups in general with faculty of color
dispersed among these groups. That
would appear too much like the dilemma
confronting the few students of color in
seminar. We're guardians again, without
really knowing the sentiment of our
colleagues and in my case, somewhat
unsure of my own vision (though I've
never doubted my commitment). Contrary
to rumor, the faculty of color have not
mel frequently nor have we centered our
discussions on TESC's future. Small
groups of widely varying membership
have gotten together over very specific
items
A second proposal: The idea of how
cultural diversity affects the basic fabric
of TESC life has not been discussed (I
owe Bill Bruner for this idea) and needs
to be. For example, how will the cultural
styles of students influence (or not?)
seminar fonn and evaluation? student
evaluations
in
general?
individual
contracts?
faculty
covenants?
the
assignment of new faculty of color to
teams? How might we alter the
registration process and program fairs to
remove barriers to students of color
unfamiliar with the college process? How
do we re-vision student services, eg
liealth clinic, counseling, housing to meet
the needs of students of color? How does
this effort influence TESC's relationship
with Olympia and other surrounding
communities?
Race relations in the
dorms? etc., etc.
These questions deserve some time
and some discussion. They are not easy
topics nor are they amendable to quick
resolution. They are truly "value"-laden
ideas which need to be translated in19
some kind of action plan which fairly
represents the consensual idea of our
community. I hoped that by raising them,
I might contribute to the discussion your
group will experience. I sincerely hope
I've helped. I certainly apologize for my
long--windedness.
Lea Wong
Letter #2
You and your committee (?) have
listed
several
important
concerns
at
regarding
racism/multiculturalism
Evergreen. Let me add a few more for
your consideration:
1. Faculty of color are disparaged
both openly and privately by some white
faculty as being "affirmative-action" hires.
They are considered to be inferior with
tainted degrees and expel=tise restricted to
areas related to their cultural
backgrounds. F(X instance an economist
of Japanese descent may be invited to
contribute her views on Japanese or
Asian economics but is not seen as an
expert on European economics. Only a
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faculty, from page 8
white economist can possibly be
knowledgeable of both Asian and
European economics. I am often invited
to lecture on Eastern thought and
Buddhism but never on Freud or Jung
simply because I am not white and
therefore couldn't possibly understand the
Western mind
2. Faculty of color are often courted
and hired for their expertise in Ihe ways
of being and knowing of nonwhite
peoples. But soon after arriving here,
they are roundly criticized by faculty and
students
alike
for
not
being
interdisciplinary IUld general enough, i.e.
because their expertise is too focused and
deep. I have been criticized for using too .
many examples from Asia. Japan and
Buddhism, while many of the Western
Ideas I have expressed have either not
been heard or been written off as coming
. from a from a person who could not
possibly know much about the WesL At
the same time, white faculty seem to abe
able to talk about both Western and
Eastern thought and traditions freely and
with confidence and acceptance.
3. New faculty of color are placed
on teaching teams in their first year or
two, which have members who are
known to have had difficulties with
faculty (and students) of color in the
pasL
Then they have to take verbal abuse
throughout the year and be burdened with
hostile faculty evaluations in their
portfolios for the remainder of Iheir
teaching careers. It is even more unfair
that the administration makes decisions
to hire or not to rehire based upon these
damning evaluations written by racist
faculty (and Students).
4. Many of the white female faculty
and students who have had negative
experiences with men are especially
hostile towards male faculty of color.
lhey carry emotion-laden stereotypes of
nonwhite men suppressing women in their
own cultures. Every word and gesture by
male faculty of color seems to fit their
stereotypes, which leads to much anger;
resentment and frustration along with
charges
of
reverse
ungrounded
discrimination,
sexism and
sexual
harassmenL Unfortunately many others in
the Evergreen community (administration,
faculty, staff and students alike) take
these charges seriously because they
haven't dealt honestly with their own
racist baggage.
.
5. In our faculty there are many
who are quite proud of their own
intellectual abilities and love to strut on
the stage "showing off their stuff." If
faculty of color happen to be less
articulate and verbose in speaking and
writing, especially in the instances where
english is their second or third language,
they are criticized for again being
"affrrmative-action" hires and are not
sought out for teaching teams except for
the purposes of "balancing out" a team.
In more spiritual communities, the saying
that "those who speak don't know; those
who know don't speak enjoys much
wider acceptance.
Ryo Imamura
Strategic plan for enrollment growth
A. Enrollment Pressure
The college faces pressure for
enrollment growth currently. It appears .
likely that enrollment pressure will
increase during the next 10 years. Factors
contributing to this pressure include:
1. Thurston County is among the five
or ten fastest growing counties in the
country. The County population is
forecast to increase by 24% by 2000,
amounting to growth of approximately
37,000.
2. Evergreen's appeal to prospective
students has increased each year for the
past five years. The demand for
enrollment has exceeded state-funded
ceilings for the last three years.
3. National and State demographic
forecasts indicate a substantial increase
in the traditional college-bound age group
beginning in the mid-I990s. Enrollment
at both community college and four-year
institutions is expected to increase sharply
beginning in 1995. The traditional
college-age (17-22) population in the state .
is forecast to increase by 100,000
between 1995 and 2006. A dramatic
upturn in the 23-29 year-old population is
forecast to begin at the turn of the
century, yielding a gain of more than
40,000 persons by 2006. State population
forecasts indicate steady growth among
both age cohorts through the year 2010.
4. The State and the Higher
Education Coordinating Board have
identified current unmet educational needs
among "place--bound" adults in the
state's urban areas and expect the College
to meet some portion of that unmet need
in Thurston and southern Pierce counties.
Yet, as a consequence of enrollment
demand among full-time students in
excess of state-mandated ceilings, our
own service to part-time students has
declined markedly at the very time
responsiveness to such students has
gained statewide attention.
5. The legislature continues to
scrutinize Evergreen's comparatively
higher costs-per-student which could be
reduced by enrollment growth.
6. Generated by the reaction to costs
of new construction, the HEC Board
commissioned studies of space utilization
on existing campuses. Evergreen and
HEC Board staff are currently negotiating
the number of additional FrE srudents
which could be accommodated at
Evergreen without new construction. At
this time,
estimates range from
approximately 150 to 450 FrE.
7. HEC Board staff have recommended a
growth rate of approximately 35 students
pez year for the next 20 years at
Evergreen. That rate of growth would
bring us to head count enrollments of
3,581 in 2000 and 3,931 in 2010. Head
count enrollment fot Fall Quarter 1989
was 3,237. While the HEC Board has not
adopted the staff recommendation yet. it
has approved the general direction of this
proposed growth plan.
B. Growth to 3200 FI'E
In the previous planning process,
3200 FIE was identified as a target
enrollment which allowed "duplicative
depth" in the faculty and expaNion of
the curriculwn in necessary 1ImIS.
Evergreen's '1991-93 Budget Request
brings us ' to that target enrollment
Evaluation of the feMibility of a
Weekend/Evening College enrolling 400-
-600 FfE students will occur during the
1991-93 biennium. That evaluation
contains the possibility of concluding that
growth beyond 3200 FfE take the fonn
of a Weekend/Evening College, that a
Weekend/Evening College is not feasible,
or that it should not be additiortal to the
3200 FfE.
The most recent Space Study
conducted by Mike Beug and Ken
Winkley concludes that a new building
will be required even to accommodate
growth to 3200 PTE if the library is
expanded as required and if offices for
emeritus and early-retirement faculty are
provided. The decision has been made to
request planning money for a new
multipurpose building to serve our needs
and the needs of the area. Contingent
upon compatibility with the Office of
Financial Management capital instructions,
a TESC planning group in 1991-92 would
design the building.
C. Need for a Conscious Choice About
Growth Beyond 3200 PTE
In the absence of a thoughtful
response to sustained pressure for
enrollment growth, we run the risk of
growing haphazardly.
Growth has come to the College in
small increments during the past eight
Since 1982-83, Evergreen's
years.
enrollment has increased by nearly 800
FfE - an average of 100 per year. The
1991-93 budget request includes growth
at roughly the same pace: 75 FrE per
year. Current thinking of the HEC Board
sets growth rates at an average of 1% per
year for the next 20 years. There is a
tendency to absorb modest increments of
growth on an annual basis without full
consideration of the effects on the
College over time.
The College needs to decide whether
or not to grow beyond 3200 FIE and to
develop either viable justifications for
opting away from growth or plans for the
form growth should take.
To guard against the dangers of
"incremental expansion", we need to
identify a response to sustained pressure
for enrollment growth. Central questions
the Planning Council has discussed, and
now places before the community, are:
"What should our enrollment be in the
year 2000?" and ".what kind of college
do we want to be?"
D. One Critical Choice:
To Grow
Beyond 3200 or Not
There are many possible responses to
the pressure for enrollment growth. The
first question we face is whether (X not
to grow beyond 3200 FIE. For some,
that choice is conditioned upon the form
that growth might take. A preliminary
discussion of the advantages and
disadvantages to growth beyond 3200 is
pment.ed below.
That discussion is
followed by brief descriptions of a few
forms growth beyond 3200 might take.
We need community responses in the
following areas: (1) whether or not to
grow beyond 3200 FrE; (2) to react and
add to the pros and cons listed with the
growth options; and (3) to add to our list
of options for growth beyond 3200 FJ'E .
~ome Points For and Against Growth
Many aspects of growth are positive.
Relative to certain purposes, such as
critical mass in certain areas of study, or
gen<'~r
equity
or
multicultural
representation, growth is necessary. As a
state college, we have a responsibility to
respond to educational needs in the area.
But, the prospect of substantial and/or
rapid growth raises a variety of concerns
in the Evergreen community. The size of
the College, even with a substantial
infusion of support dolIars, threatens a
sense of community, informality, and the
possibility of participatory governance
valued by many on campus.
In
preliminary conversations with the
campus constituencies, we have heard
that growth, even the growth we have
experienced already, raises the question
of whether or not we can remain the
community we have been. The Planning
Council takes that concern seriously.
Growth without new buildings .will
require more regimented scheduling of
classrooms and sharing of faculty office
space. Growth with new buildings will
have a substantial environmental impact
on the campus I¢d the surrounding area.
THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS ARE
.
daytime curriculum remains about the
same size as it is now. Our response to
increased enrollment demand would be
made through a Weekend/Evening
College growing to as large as 600 FfE.
This option has the advantage of
responding directly to the unmet needs of
"placebound adults" who have attracted
Legislative attention. It could serve to
reduce pressure from the legislature for
enrollment growth within the current
daytime curriculum by providing a fairly
immediate response to placebound adults.
It is possible that teaching in a
Weelrend/Evening College would be
conceived as a faculty--development
opportunity. Weekend/Evening College
provides an opportunity for programmatic
re..~nses more tailored to the needs of
adults in the area. This option does not
address enrollment pressure from the
traditional college-age students, who will
require full-time, daytime offerings and
whose numbers will increase dramatically
in the future. While we have experience
TRlAL BALLOONS
with evening/weekend programs in
-Possibilities for Growth Beyond 3200:
Vancouver and Taconia, and on a small
Note that new buildings are required for scale in Olympia, a part-time curriculum
options 1 - 4.
serving 600 FrE students (likely to
1. Expand the curriculum as amount to 1200+ head count) is a major
currently configured to 3500 FrE.
new undertaking. It could be argued that
This option assumes no major if we agree to grow on the Olympia
changes in the offerings or organization campus, that growth ought to build on
of the College. We would add students what we already do well-a full-time,
and faculty until we reached 3500 FIE. daytime interdisciplinary curriculum. The
We would draw the line on additional ' Weekend/Evening option contains the risk
growth at that point If the State became that we would move toward two separate
convinced of the need for additional faculties and student bodies. There is a
educational options in this region, we possibility that staff and facilities would
would advise them to build another not be funded at the same level as a new
college. This option responds to the college and that this under-funding would
pressure for growth but sets a limit to the generate increases in workloads.
amount of growth. It provides the state 4. Clone Option Plus Weekend Evening
with some lead time to plan for growth
This option combines the second and
in the region beyond the 3500 FrE at third proposals described above. It holds
Evergreen. This option does not address open the possibility of shifting (or
the campus concern that growth to 3200, expanding) emphasis from part-time,
much less beyond, erodes our sense of placebound students to full-time, daytime
community. Growth to 3500 FrE may
students as growth in the traditional
seem too modest to warrant the capital
college-age population places enrollment
outlay required for new buildings and
demands on the college.
lead to a legislative decision to lid
S. The No-Growth Option
enrollment at 3500 within existing
Resist all efforts to make us grow
facilities.
beyond 3200 FrE on the grounds that
2.Develop Clones of the College
such growth will erode the quality of
Accept the pressure to grow by education and with that, our institutional
setting up contiguous, similar but values.
This option deserves real
essentially autonomous, colleges with consideration. It takes a hard stance
maximwn enrollments of 2500-3000 each. against further · erosion of community
Each college would share facilities like values attributed to growth.
It is
the Library, CAB, Rec Center and probably the most difficult position to
administrative services. This option defend with the Legislature and would
responds to the pressure for enrollment require very solid arguments including
growth but att/1I1lpts to preserve the satisfactory strategies f(X addressing
values
of
small-scale
learning educational
needs . independent
of
communities within each college. It could Evergreen. This option also requires that
even allow for colleges with enrollments other objectives (e.g., multiculturalism
below our current size. This model could and gender equity) must be obtained
reduce administrative co. in the within 3200 FfE.
operational budget by spreading costs 6. Other Options: Please use this space
over a considerably larger student FfE
(and/or additional pages) to describe new
enroUmenL The President and others
options and return your suggestions to the
knowledgeable about the . politics and
Planning Council c/o the Provost's
econoolics of higher education in this
Office, Library 3131.
state view the economic impact of this
option as incompatible with the branch
campus planning already underway by the
UW and the HEC Board and therefore as
the least viable in the current political
arena.
3. Add a Weekcnd/Evening College
This option assumes the College's
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Opinion
Is culture only distinction?
by Jon Epstein
SJM, 32, tall (6'3"), Famous Public
Radio Talk Show host, and white racist
seeks love, fulfillment ..Are there
anymore white racists out there? Don't
get me wrong, I'm not prejudiced. Well,
not very prejudiced.
I grew up in and around New York
City and I had African-American friends
from an early age. My journey in life to
become a radical has always led me to
believe the Marxist assumption that racial
issues are a smokescreen used by the
powerful to keep the working class
divided. If workers could unite and
overthrow the rich and powerful then
racism would disappear. After all, the
statistical data shows whites are becoming
less prejudiced.
When I challenge the authority or
policy of an African-American official I
always make it clear my judgement is not
based on issues of race. Instead, I claim
my argument to be grounded in matters
of professionalism and experience.
I have justified my actions this way
for many years and I have never claimed
to be white racist in a personals ad. But
I have decided to come out and publicly
proclaim my racism. Two things have
brought me to the surface on this difficult
subject First. the controversy brewing
around the Student Union. Second,
Portraits of White Racism, a book by
David Wellman.
In this book Mr. Wellman challenges
the fundamental assumptions I make as a
white person in America. While many of
us try to come up with eloquent rational
for rejecting the new student union
structure we should keep in mind Mr.
Wellman' s argument.
"If the consequence of whites
acceding to black demands reduces blackwhite equality and if whites choose to
oppose it, then regardless of the
principles invoked, that opposition
perpetuates the status quo."
In other words, if you are white and
you choose to oppose the student union
structure which would decrease the
unequal relationship between whites and
people of color, then regardless of your
argument, you are perpetuating the status
quo. Remember, prejudice is not the issue
here. Plenty of rational, thinking,
unprejudiced people could come up with
all kinds of excellent reasons to reject the
new structure. It's not representative (is
your Federal Government?)
It was created by a coup (sounds
like the history of US politics). It wasn't
fair (did your parents teU you that life is
FAIR?!)
I say let's try this new structure. I
have some racist attitudes about it but
what the heck. If it doesn't work we'll
know soon enough and it will change
again. Nothing stays the same, most
things change, evolve, and grow.
Sometimes they die. One thing is for
certain . Whatever structure you end up
with will have minimal impact on the
college. I say this as a frustrated member
of the S&A Board. I have personally
experienced the weight of the bureaucracy
and it is heavy.
Eppo is an Evergreen fossil and
espouses his thoughts on a weekly radio
show called "Mouthing Off' on KAOSFM f rom 10-1 pm Fridays.
by James Dannen
After attending the community forum
on the "New SU: it is apparent the
controversy
enshrouding
student
government has not dissipated.
There is no doubt a majority of those
in attendance, who ventured an opinion,
were in favor of the very European
concept of dividing people along racial
lines.
The question still lingers: does race
equal culture and, if so, is it the only
meaningful defming C;:haracteristic? To
answer "yes" would be to ignore class
and gender. (Ideology is a product of
one's mind and, as it was explained to
me at the forum, would be "soft
culture.") Nonetheless, only Milton
Friedman would argue that one is not
born into a class or a gender and
subsequently shaped by its advantages
and limitations.
Measuring the effects of race, class,
and gender in order to detennine which
factor is most weighty would be absurd.
Unfortunately, this metaphorical scale is
the philosophical underpinning of the
"New SU."
Despite a
flawed
fundamental
assumption, the proposal goes farther than
the "Original SU" in addressing one
defining aspect of culture. However,
unless the concept underlying the "New
SU" is also applied to its funding body,
the S&A Board, student government will
reek of tokenism.
The
funding
body,
without
requirements for ensured participation,
would hold a fiscal veto over its "multicultural" counterpart. Of course, S&A
Board apologists, citing rules which state
that spring allocations must be aPJX'Oved
by the SU, have maintained this is
patently false.
The fact that spring allocations are
not finished until the last possible
mome!!t before they are to be approved
by the board of trustees, render all
authority meaningless due to time
consttaints.
The S&A reorganization team might
have been able to correct this error if it
weren't for a "proviso" in the ·"New SUo
which effectively eliminates student
government until the fall. Now, there is
no body
to
approve an
S&A
reorganization plan.
The restrictive definition of culture
and the specter of tokenism could have
been avoided. However, the process, or
more accurately lack thereof, by which
the "New SU" was "passed," made it
impossible to address these issues.
Due to the SCC's failure to notify
students of the proposed governance
changes, only a select few were notified.
As a result, attendance at the meeting in
which the "New/ SU" was considered was
restricted to th9 plan's proponents and a
few unwitting others.
Like any group which feels its own
momentum and fears the backlash of
by WlUiam Kramer, Sean J. Starke,
and Scot Wbeat
Coming on the heels of the massive
Exxon Valdez oil spill, the State of
Washington's decision to increase its
holdings in Exxon raised many eyebrows.
Our's were among them. This prompted
our investigation into the policies of the
State Investment Board.
We were surprised to discover the
board invests in corporations with a
history of social and environmental
abuses. Exxon is an obvious example of
such a company, but the State Investment
Board maintains holdings in many
corporations with equally disturbing
records.
The State Investment Boards' purpose
is to invest the retirement funds of
Washington State employees. According
to the Board's statement of purpose: "The
Board and its staff operate under
investment authority which mandates the
prudent person rule and requires the
board to diversify the assets of the funds
under its authority and to establish
investment
policy and
procedures
designed exclusively to maximize
returns at a prudent level of risk
[emphasis ours]."
The total assets which the board
controls amounted to 16.1357 billion
dollars as of June 30, 1989, included in
these investments are stocks, bonds,
11)0rtgages, and cash reserves.
A complete inquiry into all of the
companies which the state holds stock in
would result in a larger amount of
information than this forum allows for;
therefore we will restrict this article to
seven major corporations and their
dealings in Central America:
oExxon-(Market value of bonds held
$2,157,510 and 64,600 common shares of
stock valued at $2,842.4(0)
oRoyal Dutcb SbeU-(Market value of
bonds held $3,939,520)
oCbevron-(Market value of bonds
held $9,899.200 and 120,000 common
shares of stock valued at $3,515,551)
oDupont{Market value of bonds held
$56,041,240 and 50,000 common shares
of stock valued at $543,500)
oDow-(MarIret value of bonds held
$9;784,800 and 23,000 common shares of
stock valued at $1,932,(00)
opposition, the supporters for the plan
passed it as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately, this rules out any serious
consideration of the issues involved.
Because these issues were not
worked out, there are two camps. One is
vehemently in support of the "New SU"
without change. The unlistened to other
is by definition opposed to the ·"New
SU."
The two sides have talked but have
failed to negotiate.
The supporters of the "New SUo couldn't
be blamed for ignoring their perceived
adversaries if it weren ' t for the possibility
the board of trustees will reject any
proposal originating from a divided
student body.
As a trustee stated upon approval of
the "Original SU," "The true test of any
governance structure is the support of its'
constituents. "
It's time to come to at least a
temporary resolution to this dispute. Most
of the issues dividing these camps could
be resolved in an afternoon and, most
likely, with but a handful of additional
caucuses and an accountable funding
body. Fight or talk--there is more than
student government at stake.
James Dannen is at Evergreen and
one of the cofounders of the original
Student Union.
•
Investing In repression
Page 10 Cooper Point Journal May 10, 1990
•
oMonsanto-(Market value of bonds
held $10,945,600 and 93,300 common
shares of stock valued at $9,831,487)
oBankAmerica Corp.-(Market value
of bonds held $970,094 and 1,100,000
common shares of stock valued at
$29,150,(00)
In South Africa, the anti-apartheid
movement has focused on oil companies
due to their significant role as facilitators
of regional oppression. The same can be
said of oil companies operating in Central
America. According to the 1990 edition
of the Worldwide Refining and Gas
Processing
Directory,
Exxon,
in
conjunction with Royal Dutch Shell, owns
the Refineria Petrolera Acujutla S.A. in
EI Salvador. Exxon has many more
operations in EI Salvador, Honduras,
Costa Rica, Guatemala (see 1989
Caribbean and Central American
Databook). Jonathan Feldman states in
his book Umversitles in the Business of
Repression; "...in Central America crude
petroleum plays an - important role in
fueling the war machine in Guatemala
and EI Salvador and is a strategically
important commodity to Central American
nations." Local petroleum production
fuels the helicopters, tanks, armored
personnel carriers, and other weapons
systems which support the regional
oligarchies, intimidate refonn and labor
movements, and in general maintain a
"stable investment climate" for multinational corporations.
Chevron, in addition to petro.1eum
operations throughout the region, also
owns a major pesticide manufacturing
subsidiary in Costa Rica (Quimicas Ortho
De California). This subsidiary sells
pesticides in Costa Rica, Guatemala,
Honduras and EI Salvador.
Chevron
sells the chemical compound "monitor"
throughout Central America. In 1981 the
US EPA put severe restrictions on the
use of monitor, due to its extreme dennal
toxicity and its residual effects on birds.
It can be fatal if inhaled or absorbed
through
skin.
The
world
health
organization classifies the liquid as
"highly hazardous." Another pesticide
which Chevron distributes is "orthocide."
Orthocide is a known carcinogen that has
been restricted in India, yet it is still
widely distributed in Central America.
Dupont is another major player in
the Central American pesticidelherbicide
market Dupont's principal contribution is
the manufacture of "l..annate." Lannate is
regarded as relatively safe if used in a
restricted and well regulated environment
However the National Wildlife Federation
has noted that Lannate is highly toxic
and has caused hundreds of poisonings in
areas of high use.
Dow Chemical Company owns the
Dow Quimica de Centroamerica. While
linkages
of
production
and
the
distribution of Dow herbicides are
somewhat nebulous, the Pesticide Action
Network contends that Dow is responsible
for the manufacture of EDB. BOB is a
potent carcinogen and mutagen which is
known to damage male and female
fertility. BOB has been found in Cenlral
American soil samples and is capable of
penetrating human skin, rubber and
plastic, as well as the skin of various
crops.
In 1984 Dow was named in a suit
filed against Brazilian Electric Company
by 150 Brazilian citizens. The utility
company sprayed the defoliants "Tordon155" and "Tordon-lOl" along a 500 mile
stretch of power lines. These compounds,
produced by Dow, are structurally similar
to another proud member of the Dow
family-Agent Orange.
At least forty campesinos were killed
by the indiscriminate Tordon sprayings
and countless other were injured.
Monsanto rounds out our. study of
chemical corporations in which the State
of WashingtOn invests. As of 1989
Monsanto owned a refinery in Guatemala.
Monsanto also has trade links to Costa
Rica, EI Salvador, Guatemala, and
Honduras.
Monsanto is responsible for produeing
one of the world's most nefarious
pesticides--parathion.
AccOrding
to
Feldman and the Pesticide Action
Network (PAN) parathion is "... so acutely
see Invest page 12
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tracing back to the pre-American
Revolution Era. Two of the documents
that enabled my father to trace .our
ancestry were indentured servant records
and slave ownership documents. Tracing
the roots of my "isms" has been an
emotionally painful process at times, but
it has been and continues to be important
to me because I want to be a part of the
remedy to the social illnesses .that plague
our campus, our country, our world. I
strive to not be a part of the problem.
It has been my observation that
people who whine about reverse
discrimination are a pan of the problem.
I see au protests of unfair representation
in the new student union caucuses as
ignorant and blatant racism and sexism.
And, Pamelyn, your defmition of "we
true Americans" is the very mentality of
people who cloak themselves in hooded
white robes. How dare you compare
yourself to the Mandelas of the world.
RIGHT OFF SISTERThe effort of the student union
caucuses to bring quality dialogue to the
community of Evergreen is not a threat;
it is a gift of hope to all people
concerned with eradicating the many
social illnesses that have long been in
existence and that threaten all of us.
Break through your "fear," dear. You
don't need more time; the time has been
now for a long time coming.
Catberine Dawdy
Whites promote
racial separation
I am inclined to respect the opinion
of any person that takes the time and
effort to voice it However, I reserve the
right to value it. Your little doozy of a
letter to the CPJ [Vol. 20 Issue 23] has
absolutely no insightful value for me. It
is weak, unsubstantiated, and, in my
opinion, a piece of shit
I would like to offa to you a
of mine and many others called the
institutionalization of hierarchal racial
separation. The basic principle behind
this theory is that whites have been and
continue to promote racial separation in
numerous areas of American society. For
example, I had the dubious pleasure of
examining a high school history book
under review for the Olympia School
District. I discovered that slavery was
hardly mentioned until the Civil War.
The Reconstruction period received about
two pages, as did the Civil Rights
Movement
The Harlem Renaissance was placed
in the period of the Negro Awakening.
The depiction of the Japanese and the
18Jl81lese-Americans during wwn was
dep\(x'able. The rest of the book was
devoted to the contributions of whites in
America. I view this as institutional
racism.
"There are some people of color in
power in places outside of Evergreen. I
can't teU you where but I am sure that
they are there. " If you are going to
publicly make a statement such as this
be prepared to back it upl Included in
institutionalized racism is business,
politics, religion, crime (20-25% of the
African-American population in this
country is currently in jail) and the list
goes on and on.
I agree, the climate is changing in
this country, but is it to the benefit and
empowerment of African-Americans? I
say it isn't.
Another problem I have with your
letter is that you are asking that students
of color to stop trying to empower
themselves and leave the power to white
people. If you really believe racism
exists, as you admitted, then is it not
logical to consider the effectiveness of
white rule? In my opinion white rule has
been shameful, disgusting, and most
obviously humanistically disrespectful.
Perhaps it is time ·that white people
relinquished their fearful grip on national
control and left it up to people of color.
In that respect why not start here on our
meory
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campus. After all, this is advertised as a carefully. How ironic to now see all
culturally diverse institution which, if you white people referred to as "European" in
examine the catalog, that promise is origin, and how discouraging to hear
broken.
"European" sloppily used to homogenize
Finally, I am appalled that you many cultures into a singly entity.
attempted to compare the black people of
The tenn "Euro-American" has for
South Africa with the white students of many replaced the term "white." I object
Evergreen. It is a weak, vile, ignorant, to the term "Eum-American," and
disconcerting comparison. Not only that, especially to its use in this manner. It is
but it assumes that people of color will . an attempt to refer to white people in an
behave as do the whites in South Africa. acceptable "cultural" way without overtly
That is placing a highly ambiguous and using the concept of race.
unfair/uncalled for tag on people who are
Let's be honest here, "Eurotrying to do something for the students of American" means "white." But all whites
this campus. Once again, I am appalled.
are not of European descent. all
1 debated within myself as to Europeans are not white, and all
whether or not I should disclose my skin Europeans are not of one culture .
color. To me it is not important But I
To refer to what have formerly been
feel it is important to say that I am white called "white people" as "Eum-American"
because I don't want any student of color is to insinuate that all people of European
to take any of the bad rap which may descent, and I would argue all other
develop because of this. I also didn't whites as ; well, are comparable vis a vis
want it to seem as though they were issues of culture and race. This is simply
tooting their own hom. Although, if they
untrue.
want to my lungs are available.
Apparently little has been learned
Micbael Sell
from the widespread adoption of the tenn
"people of color," which is currently the
'fashionable term used to make a generic
racial distinction between white people
and everyone else. Perhaps some
For a campus that continually speaks confusion can be abated by more
of diversity and expresses so much consistent use of language. Why not get
concern for ending racism I was startled really ridiculous and talk about "people
by the uproar over the new Student without color" or "colorless people?"
Union proposal. While paying lip service
This still poses a problem however,
to social change it seems we are seeing for olive-skinned people of Meditenanean
just how many of us have an invesunent descent, or the pinkish ruddy-<:heeked
in the status quo.
Irish. How does "People of tint" grab
I found Chris Chandler's piece a you?
refreshing change from the reactionary
Seriously,
perhaps we should
half-thoughts that had been appearing celebrate
this
new
term "Eumsince the new SU was proposed (the American," because it forces us to look
cartoon
comparing
Olympia
to at the racism inherent in any discourse
Johannesburg
April ' 26,
Pamela that relies in any way on "color" to refer
McMillan's letter May 3). We should all to differences between people. Perhaps
take time to realize the potential for that is what "Euro-American" is getting
cross-culturallcross-sexual
identity at, but because it homogenizes many
communication and education could take distinct cultures under one term, I can't
place within the new SU process.
reject thC sense that it is really simply
Rather than running scared to our another way of referring to "whites."
own kind crying about lack of
When we confuse the language of
representation we should open the lines culture with the divisive and oppressive
of communication between caucuses and rhetoric of race, we are in danger of
constituencies and acknowledge our obscuring both the complexities of culture
common needs as students. I am a white with the subtleties of racism. Isn't our
woman of middle class background, but reliance on the concept of "color" the
I cannot believe that only a white female
very definition of racism? I hope some
representative can address issues I feel
readers believe it's worth thinking about.
are important or make decisions that wiD
Etta Lee
improve this institution. Frankly, I have
more faith in gay men, lesbians, and
people of color to try and enact change,
which I believe is what we are looking
for.
I am writing in regard to the
Krista Paulsen
proposed cultural caucus Student Union
system. I have many complaints with the
system. F"ust. segregating students along
racial, religious, and sexual lines is
The tenn "Euro-American" has contrary to the word UnIon in Student
recently appeared at Evergreen in both Union. It seems obvious that categorizing
casual and serious conversations about people in this way is limiting, and a
cultural and racial issues. Its arrival see Union page 12
makes me both laugh out loud and listen
SU opportunity
for change
Don't blame me
for other's sins
'Euro-Am.erican'
means 'white'
Cooper Point Journal April 26, 1990
Page 11
the Guatemalan government as a source
of working capital for the export sector.
BOA has been involved in the
threat to Evergreen's sense of community. toxic that a teaspoon spilled on the skin
subversion
of human rights throughout
can
be
fatal.
"
PAN
claims
parathion
is
Second, when people are lumped
together into a category, these people can responsible for as much as half of the Guatemala. BOA has financed businesses
with direct 1inks to death squads in
easily be viewed as the other. This pesticide poisonings in the world today.
Guatemala,
such as "PROKES A," whose
convenient separation of U'I and them is Tom Barry and Deb Preusch have
a false dichotomy. It allows people to documented that nearly 90% of the general manager is Fred Sherwood.
In a CBS documentary Sherwood
project their fears onto groups of people parathion produced in the United States is
'
claimed,
"Why should we be worried
instead of dealing with issues within the imported by Central , America. El
about
death
squads? They're bumping off
personal psyche. Jung called it the Salvador's expon cotton crops are treated
shadow. The things we fear the most are with 1/5 of all Parathion used in the the commies, our enemies ...the death
hardest to see in ourselves.
world. Not surprisingly the Salvadorans squads? I'm all for it" BOA also
Could it be the racial, cultural, and in cotton producing regions suffer a financed The EI Salto Plantation own,ed
by Roberto Alejos Arm, where in 1980,
sexual minorities are so afraid of poisoning rate of 5.16 ~ thousand.
Advocates of herbicide/pesticide use 9 workers were killed during a dispute
oppression that they are unable to see the
motive in themselves when seeking more in Cenlral America claim these products over working conditions.
As well as silencing Guatemalans
than a proponional amount of power in control pest damage and increase
who dare question its policies, BOA has
the student union? Oppression of a agricultural productivity. However, a
dominant culture in the name of diversity preponderance of empirical data suggests intimidated stockholders who have had
qualms about institutionalized repression.
is as unacceptable as oppression of the opposite.
In 1982 several groups such as the
minority cultures in the name of the
For instance, pesticides,lberbicides
Interfaith
Center -for
Corporate
dominant one.
perpetuate a self-defeating cycle in which
Responsibility
(lCCR)
and
the
Califcnia
Issues of power, control and · pests often develop high levels of
State Teachers Retirement System
oppression should be recognized and dealt tolerance to the toxins, which necessitates
registered shareholder complaints. Hoping
with on a personal level, not projected increased pesticide use. Additionally,
to defuse a public confrontation at the
onlO innocent groups of people. It is true natural predators are often wiped out due
shareholders meeting, a BOA corporate
that 1 am white. That does not make me to indiscriminate pesticide/herbicide use.
an oppressor by association. I refuse to Thus, while chemical companies can secretary ominously suggested that ICCR
be blamed and punished for the sins of expect increased sales from such a cycle, investors should perhaps consider" what
others,
and
denied
proportional they are the sole benefactors of this would happen to their representatives in
Guatemala should the stockholder action
representation in student governmenL
practice.
I understand that minorities have been
While chemical companies profit be made public."
It is ironic the money of Washington
oppressed. It should be obvious that from this dependency, the people and the
oppression of the majority will only environment of Central America suffer. State workers is going to the funding of
repression, degradation and murder of
create more victims. It was Gandhi who According to the Agency for International
said, "An eye for an eye and the whole Development, the annual per capita people and workers on a Global scale.
pesticide poisoning rate for Central Individuals and,organizations, such as the
world goes blind."
Washington State Investment Board, who
Americans is 1,800 times that of US
Diane Arens
citizens. This is in part due to crop purchase stocks and bonds due not
sprayings which contaminate the water necessarily do so out of some sick desire
supply. Moreover, campesinos who pick to oppress workers and poison the
agro-expon crops are subjected to these environment Instead acquisitive behavior
toxins via aerial sprayings of the fields in in the pursuit of financial security is a
To those responsible for the sign
which they work. As the entomologist logical by-product of the existing
found stuck on the wall of the CAB on
capitalist economy.
Lou Falcon describes:
April 23 I have this to say--right on!
It is crucial, however, to realize that
The people who work in the
Refuse, re-use, JeCycle; that's what the
purchases of stocks and bonds occur
fields are treated like halfsign said. I've heard the same idea stated
through seemingly neutral
market
humans, slaves really. When an
in the words reduce, reuse, JeCycle, but
relations
of
exchange
that
obscure
the
airplane flies , over to spray,
truly one of the best ways to reduce is to
effects of investment As long as "public"
they can leave if they want to.
refuse; refuse to be a party to Madison
corporations provide their stockholders
But they won't be paid their
Avenue's attempts to foist off mountains
with steady and profitable rates of return
seven
cents
a
day
or
whatever.
of worthless and useless excteta the
on their investments, the accountability
They
often
live
in
huts
in
the
population is subjected to night and day.
of corporate policies and actions is rarely
middle of the field, so their
Right onl Refuse, Re-use, Recycle.
questioned. The bottom line for most
homes,
their
children
and
their
Glenn DUDcan
publicly Ileld corporations such as Exxon,
food all get contaminated.
Many
of
the
toxic Shell, Chevron, Dupont, Dow, Monsanto,
pesticides/herbicides sold in Central and Bank of America, despite the fluff
America lack any warnings and safety turned out by their P.R. departments, is
precautions on the product labels. Thus, to maximize rates of return for their
Wow! It is so great to see that the many Central Americans are exposed to stockholders while enhancing corporate
new Student Union has such widespJead these toxins with no idea of the power through expansion, diversification,
and vocal support I daresay, the consequences. Efforts at regulating toxic and control of given markets. In this
amended Student Union document has pesticides!herbicides have been met with context, decent wages and healthy
almost unanimous suppon. It is hard to unified opposition and lobbying by major conditions for workers, along with
believe that such a magnificent idea could chemical companies. For instance, Dow, requirements for responsible handling of
Dupont and Monsanto are members of wastes and emissions, are reduced ' to
be flawed.
But, just in case something goes ANDEF, a Brazilian organization which mechanistic inputs in the cost of
wrong, and I can feel that there is great is attempting to have law 7747 revoked. production which "restrain" capital and
anti-Union sentiment on the campus, I'll This law would require chemical profits.
It is this thinking and approach to
waiting there, on the wings with my own companies to give data on the toxicity
levels of pesticides and bans organo- "development" which makes Central
amendment:
"The Student Union should give up chlorine pesticides and all those America ripe for fluid investment and
chemicals "which are not authorized in shon-term profitability. In the words of a
any pretensions of democracy and fair
UN official from the "Third World":
representations. The Student Union, from their country of origin."
The multi-nationals like to say
the point of the passage of this
Finally, it must be remembered that
they're
contributing
to
pesticide/herbicide
use
is
amendment, shall be a supreme since
development, but they come
dictatorship. The dictator's official title concentrated on export crops that go to
into our countries for one thingtalk of higher
shall be The High Greener. The High "developed" nations,
-cheap
labor. If the labor stops
yields,
whether
accurate
or
not,
is
Greener will be determined through a
being so cheap, they can move
tournament of gladiator-style to-the-death meaningless for the well-being of the
on. So how can you call that
majority
in
Central
battles between would-be SU leaders with malnourished
development? It depends on
America.
However,
US
citizens,
as
chainsaws in the new GymlGeodome
the people being poor and
(Bonus! CRC custodial staff would get consumers of expon crops, are diJectly
staying poor.
overtime hours cleaning up the blood off effected by corporate irresponsibility in
The
development model currently
the nice floor!) The High Greener shall the "Third World."
Central America involves the
operating
in
In
1983·84
it
was
found
that
the
US
be granted all power in all affairs
Food and Drug administration ' used systematic lepression of labor movements.
concerning students.
In the event the tournament finishes methods which were incapable of It co-opIS regulalory agencies, rendering
as a draw (both candidates either die or detecting two-thirds of the pesticides them ineffective or, if nothing else. they
chicken-out), the Student Union shall be registered by the EPA for use on food. are crushed by corporate lobbies such as
permanently dissolved and anyone who When the Natural Resources Defense ANDEF in Brazil.
Complimenting the policies of multiCouncil sampled fresh fruits and
dares to say the words "governance" will
vegetables, they found that 44 percent nationals is US economic and military
be shot by Security armed with sling·
contained residues of nineteen different aid, which entrenches regimes and
shots."
pesticides--several of which were known oligarchies who control light industry and
Of course, such an amendment will
export crops. This partnership of local
carcinogens.
probably never come to be. Sigh. In any
Along
with
petro·chemical and international economic powers
case, I have another proposed amendment
corporations,
multinational
financial perpetuates the social injustice and
waiting that would grant the following
institutions
also
play
a
substantial
role in conflict which marks the legion.
oppressed Greener minority groups the
The repression and environmental
the shaping of Central American policy.
official representation they have been
destruction
in Centllll America affects US
The State Investment Board has major
denied for so long: stray dogs and
citizens
as
well.
The repression of Central
holdings
in
Bank
of
America
(BOA),
Republicans. Priority would be given to
which wields extensive economic clout in American labor movements facilitates
the dogs.
Central America. BOA is second only to capital light from the United States to
Brian Almquist
Union, from page 11
Invest, form page 10
Don't 'reduce,'
'refuse'
Replace SU with
dictatorship?
cheaper labor markets, thus undermining
US labor unions and throwing US
workers out of jobs.
America's
consumption of Central American
products exposes citizens to dangerous
levels of carcinogens in food products
and exacerbates shared environmental
problems such as pollution and
deforestation.
Exxon's recent behavior regarding the
Valdez spill indicates that multi-national
corporations have equal capacity for
irresponsibility and arrogance in both
their neo-colonial flfedoms and their own
backyards. Poor and working class
communities in the United States are
often seen as appropriate dumping
grounds for industrial waste (witness
Love Canal). The same petto-chemical
companies listed above are among the
leading dumpers of toxic waste in the
United States. According to the Council
of Economic Priorities, eight out of ten
US citizens, or some 190 million people,
live near a source of tOxic waste or toxic
waste dumps.
The conditions and relationships that
allow for corporate irresponsibility both at
home and abroad must be changed. On
the local level, concerned state employees
might consider several divestment tactics.
It is imponant to realize that State
pension fund monies belong to State
employees--not the State Legislature, or
the above corporations. Since these
monies translate into substantial voting
blocks in the above corporations, Slate
employees have the power to initiate
changes in current corporate policies.
State employees, through JeSOlutions
issued from union locals, could pressure
the Investment board into re-examining
its policies and prompt it to formulate a
more responsible strategy of investment.
If sufficient pressure is brought upon the
director, State employees could effectively
use the proxy leverage that the Board
holds. Yet the responsibility to prompt
change is not limited to state employees.
A potent coalition of concerned state
employees, students, community activists
and progressive legislators needs to
artic ulate it's disdain for corporate
irresponsibility at home and in Central
America By exposing the role that state
pension funds play in aiding repression
and environmental destruction, advocates
of soCial justice can prompt the State
Investment Board to find a balance
between
profitability
and
social
responsibility.
*'" Sources for this anicle include:
State of Washington State Investment
Board Eighth Annual Report and
Investment Portfolio (issued June 30,
1989); Worldwide Refining and Gas
Processing Directory
(1990
ed.);
Caribbean
and Central American
Dalabook, 1989; UniversiMs and the
Business of Repression by Jonathan
Feldman
(1989);
Pesticide Action
Network,' s "Dirty Dozen" book.Jet (1985);
Central American Factbook (1986).
Sean 'J. Staru and Scot Wheat are
stajJwriters for the CPJ. William Kramer
is a rhetorical consultant.
Anaerobic digestion:
'Digesters' composting energy
by Tom Martin, Paul Horton aDd Jon
Abplanalp
Because of environmental concerns,
diminishing natural resources, economic
hardship, and increased public awareness,
the United States is being forced to
reconsider many energy practices of the
past We are realizing that appropriate
technology can be a sman alternative to
the "traditional" brute- force generation of
electricity. The problems attendant to
fossil fuels and nuclear power are well
known.
'
Resources fonnerly considered to be
waste have been successfully utilized as
energy sources throughout history.
Gasoline is a common example. Today
we are in a position to develop another
waste material into an energy source:
biomass. Biomass is organic matter and
waste from plant, animal, marine sources,
and sewage. It is all natural, 100 percent
bio-degradable and packed with usable
energy.
This energy can be used by burning
the biomass directly to produce heat, or
converting it into methane gas by a
process of natural fermentation called
anaerobic digestion. This process occurs
naturally in swamps with the help of
bacteria which cannot live in an
atmosphere containing oxygen; anaerobic
bacteria.
In a controlled process, anaerobic
digestion occurs in two steps inside a
sealed container using two types of
bacteria. 1be first, mesophilic, lives best
at temperatures between 86 and 122
Energy Topics
degrees Fahrenheit.
The second,
thermophilic, survive in temperatures
between 122 and 140 degrees. As one
type of bacteria feeds on the biomass
they give off acids as waste, which the
other bacteria consume to produce
methane gas and carbon dioxide. The
remaining organic matter is unglamorously called sludge, and is an
excellent fenilizer. As a result of the
digestion process, the sludge is almost
completely free of disease organisms
which could be harmful to humans or
animals. The few that remain are easily
dealt with using standard sterilization
techniques employed in treatment
facilities today.
The benefits of using methane gas to
power our machinery are many. Methane
is a clean-burning high BTU fuel which
releases lew pollutants.
The carbon
dioxide released by production and use of
methane does not contribute to the C02
problem because it is not a fossil fuel.
Fossil fuels release CO2 which has been
trapped safely for millions of years
underground, while growing plants
continually recycle atmospheric C02. By
reducing the amount of fossil fuels
bumed, methane may help slow the C02
buildup in our environment, and possibly
slow global warming.
Another major contribution this
Droce.~S ('.011111 make is cleaner
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Presently, sewage is processed by dilution
with water, combined with aerobic
bacteria (which need oxygen) and is
released into our waterways. Anaerobic
processing collects and destroys pollutants
and diseases, and allows the resulting
organic mauer to be safely returned to
the soil.
This is not possible with
current treatment techniques.
Anaerobic digestion is not a new
technology. The process has been in use
in China for generations in the form of
composting. Today it is used to produce
methane gas in' small family and village
digesters, as well as large urban facilities.
The large plants produce electricity and
fenilizer critical to the Chinese economy.
operators less trained, resulting in smelly
unproductive digesters and consequent
dissatisfaction with the technology. This
points out some of the problems which
should ~ taken into account before
applying the technology here.
The unreliable productivity and foul
odors emanating from "sick" digesters is
a matter of incomplete training and
improper operation. In order for the
digester to remain in balance it must be
closely monitored; a task: computers are
perfectly suited for. Ph balance and
biomass mixture are also a critical factor,
as are temperature, maintenance of the
facility and waste management. The cost
of construction ranges widely depending
upon the size and fermentation period, as
past experience shows in China and
India Modem techniques of monitoring
and management can be used to
overcome these problems, and are being
implemented in projects here and abroad.
A
Washington-based
company,
Universal Synergenics, is operating a
mid-sized digester facility in Hawaii
which is proving very successful. The
same company is building a large facility
in Holland which will process several
million cubic meters of biomass per year.
If successful, more are planned for
construction throughout Europe with the
goal of energy self-sufficiency within the
plants, as well as energy and fertilizer
production for the surrounding areas.
The plants are thoroughly modem in
design and have been developed from
lessons learned in the past
The technology of anaerobic digesters
is beneficial in many ways ranging from
reducing the size of landfills to cleaner
air and water. In March of this year the
Departtnent of Energy published its 1991
budget proposals.
Biofuels Energy
Technology heads the list, and is slared
to JeCeive $28 million in Federal funding
in 1991. Good news, after so many years
of
government
disinterest
in
environmental and energy topics.
Tom Martin, Paul Horton, and Jon
Abplanalp are Evergreen students
currently enrolled in the Energy Systems
program.
I1 COMPOST ,I
The
government
has
promoted
development by organizing a corps of
educator-engineers that travel the counliy
helping the villagers to build digesters
from local materials at very low cost.
They also provide training to operate
them successfully, so successfully in fact,
that today thele are reported to be over 9
million digesters in operation.
Since the country is severely lacking
in fire wood and industrial fenilizer, the
contributions made by the digesters are
making a huge difference in Chinese
citizens' lives.
India has similar
problems and is conducting a digester
construction campaign, which so far has
not been as successful. The design
employed is more complex and the
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Arts I Enterlainment
Enterlainnlertt
Can 1D.ere
wrm
NEGATIVLAND
STEVE FIsK
nm BACKSTAGE, SEATTLE
Al'RIL29, 1990
by Andrew Hamlin
The white-haired guy played a
cartridge deck, with two holes in it for
tape cartridges, and a big pile of
cartridges on top that he kept picking
from. "Wilderness," said the cartridge
voices, through the sound of falling rain,
heavy rain, "Wilderness .. , wilderness...
wilderness ... " The band's video monitor
showed a neon cross rotating in a dark
sky as Mark, lanky and long-haired,
strode through the audience, honking a
hom made out of PVC pipe.
"Wildemess...carved this nation out
oLwilderness: said the cartridge voices.
Chris, the third band member, held a
box out to Mark, who peered inoo it
sheepishly. They both reached into the
box and pulled OUl.."Guns."
They stood back-to-back and marched
away from each other.
"Guns," said the cartridge voices,
"Guns,
Carved
this
nation
out
oLwilderness ... the Bible and the ax
handle and the Bible and the submachine
gun...carved this nation out of...the brass
knuckles and the club and the
submachine gun."
Mark and Chris whirled to face each
other, smiled, and sprayed the audience
with rain from their squirt pistols. Then
they started up "Christianity Is Stupid,"
from their next-to-last album Escape
From Noise. "The loudspeaker spoke up
and
said .. . Christianity
is
stupid ... communism
is
good ...give
up... give up," the cartridge voices
chanted ..
I want to backtrack just a little bit,
though. I want to tell you about Brian's
cow slippers. Brian didn't bring a pair of
shoes to Seattle, and none of Mariabeth's
shoes fit him except this pair of big
roWld fuzzy cow slippers with little
meekly acquiescent cow eyes and
everything. So he went 10 the concert
with these cows on. I was worried people
would look at him funny. Turned out that
was the most nonna! thing to happen that
night
Whatever you do, don't buy drinks at
the Backstage. I paid two bucks for a
straight Coke after the waitress told me
they didn't slOCk hard liquor. Still, it
wasn't 100 bad for a bar; rows of tables
and chairs surrounding the stage on three
sides, and a sunken dance floor pit in
front of the stage--that's where we
headed right after Steve Fisk took the
stage. Nobody danced, though. People
generally don't dance to Negativland or
Steve Fisk, even when the music makes
it possible. Groggy from a full meal of
Dick's cheesburgers, Dick's fries, and
Mariabeth's spaghetti, I lay down next to
everybody else.
Steve Fisk is a record producer and
composer from Ellensburg. He told the
audience that performing live was "a lot
like working at a desk, like somebody
working in an office," but I don't know
about that.
All I know is that his set started off
with some ostinato shimmering gong
sounds, acquired a beat, then he got some
drone noises going, and suddenly a brutal
guitar riff dropped in there, running over
the beat, and some voices out of
nowhere, saying "What is the attraction
for a child 6, 8, 100" going in and out of
the guitar riff, followed by more beats,
some basso profundo sample sounds,
another monster guitar riff (Ryan later
told me he was sampling the Yes song
"Roundabout") and more voices:
"It
touches the hean... when you're dead .. .it
touches the heart .. "
On stage, not much happening: one
dude, one incantory sound box, two
pedals, a computer monioor we couldn't
see. From down in front it all made
sense. The snare drums snapped to my
right, the bass drum bonked the cartilage
in my nose from three overhead speakers,
the guitar, the messianic chants, the
~ordsdescribe
subsonic belches, all coming from the
engine, the incantory box, and Steve was
driving the box like a digital magic
carpet, feeding it Mac disks and ...playing
a keyboard? Just pushing buttons?
I couldn't see what he was doing
with his hands and it didn't matter--he
was witch-doctoring the sounds through
the speakers, squashing them sharp and
flat with the pedals like sonic Play-Doh,
rolling his toasty-hair-crowned potato
head in sweaty Stevie Wonder ecstacy,
the boliest of rollers, a god in his chariot
spewing multiverses from the tailpipe
while we ate his dust If that's working
behind a desk, I should have gone to the
UW and saved the housing costs.
After Steve exited to great applause,
the Carpenters came over ~~ p.a People
around us began the tradiuonal Karen
..... he was
witch -doctoIing the
sounds through the
speakers, squashruag
them sharp and flat
with the pedals like
sonic Play-Doh,
rolling his
toasty-hair-crowned
potato head in
Stevie Wonder
ecstacy.....
Carpenter chant--"eat ,something! eat
something!"--but eventually the CD stuck
on
one
syllable,
an
obnoxious
ohgohgohgohgohg sound, as Negativland
took the stage. The lights went down and
the phantom rain began to fall.
"Wildemess...wildemess ... " chanted the
cartridge voices ...
Right Negativland is five or six guys
from the Bay Area, but apparently only
Mark, Chris and the white-haired guy
tour. (Mark and Chris wore ice cream
social stick-on name tags, as did
everyone in the audience; the ticket
cbeckers handed them out at the door "at
the request of the band." But the whitehaired guy didn't have a tag, so he's just
the wbite-haired guy).
They all have day jobs down there,
but in their spare time they get together
and do what Kraftwerk used to do at
Kling Klang studios over in Gennany:
customize sounds. To obtain these
sounds, they stick microphones at
televisions, regular radios, short-wave
radios, parents, cbildren, housepets,
houseguests,
telephone
answering
machines, toilets, and other vital elements
of Western culture.
Davis plays a different tune
Negativeland?
To these sounds they add customized
taped drumbeats, guitar squeal, bass
guitar boomph, and squeak toys. It may
not be rock in the conventional sense of
the word; "sonic landscape" describes the
music pretty well, but they also
incorporate
visuals
and
audience
participation.
One piece was a long meditation on
childhood. The band played largo sounds,
relaxing and yet vaguely creepy, 10
blown-up
snapshots
from
Mark's
childhood and the voice of Mark's mom
describing each one. The slides, projected
onto an undulating bedsheet, shimmied
slowly in the current from overhead fans,
and the figures within acquired life, slow,
regular, uncannily natural movement, with
each" undulation.
,, ' .
And I ~memtx:r, S81d. a low,
anonymous vOlce at uregular mt.t:rvals.
After that, Mark came out weanng a
latex glove and sang a song about his
fmgers as he cut them off one by one
with a pair of scissors. They fell to the
stage with a soft ploomp of bloody
yellow rubber.
As you may have guessed, describing
the. band's perfonnan~ isn't ~y; It was
flwd, sure--half the ume I didn t know
what was going on--but it also contained
bits I recognized from their records,
redone for the concert Redone how?
That's another tougbie. Escape From
Noise has a song called "The Playboy
Channel," a monologue with sound
effects. In concert, "The Playboy
Channel" was a guy on the video screen,
probably one of the absent members, who
grinned and said, "Okay, let's try this
again. Let's ~uppose, just suppose, that
you're watchmg the Playboy Channel,
and it's just abou,t ~e for them to ha~e
an orgasm. Let:; Just suppose that s
happening... "
. .The guy on the vi?eo ~n !'"ows
this IS one of the fans favonte pleces-but the new version works both ways. If
you don't know the record, if you're just
there with a friend or to get off the
street, it's a guy with a beard and glasses
on a video screen talking about orgasms
and the Playboy Channel, and that's
acceptably weird. If you do know the
record, it's a double whammy, an ironical
comment on how such a piece can
acquire an audience dedicated enough 10
recite it word for word, which is of '
course what the new version does not
allow.
Their dessication of U2's "Where
The Streets Have No Name" was beyond
words. I heard Casey Kasem, host of
American Top 40, say, "The band
features Adam Clayton on bass, Larry
Mullen Jr. on drums, David Evans,
known as The Edge on--hey, this is
bullshit, who really cares?" I can go to
my grave a happy man.
The last part of the concert featured
balloons. Lots of them, tossed inoo the
audience, who blew them up and tossed
them back. Also meat, which we didn't
toss back--this was during a section
which seemed to equate meat with female
rock stars. Then they started burning
Wonder Bread in a toaster. Mark lOOk a '
bag with a big doUar sign on it and--is
he really gonna--yep, threw real doUar
bills into the audience. I was a little
dismayed by the capitalist grabbing for
green that ensued, but I couldn't be more
than a little ...! grabbed three bucks for
myself, hehe. However, what happened
next is amazing.
Somebody went over and stuffed his
dollar bills in the toaster. A huge cheer
went up and everybody rushed the stage.
Thick curly smoke poured all over the
place and flames a foot high shot up
from the burning pyramid of bills on top
of the toaster. I sat there going ohmigod
it's gonna to tip over, it's gonna shon
the goddamn toaster, it's gonna somebody
get a fire extinguisher the smoke alarms
man, the fucking fire department. But
nothing happened. The fICe put itself out
and the band went right on playing and
no alarms sounded and nobody panicked.
Someh~w I felt, even while freaking, that
everything would be all rigbt, and it was,
which was weird--the band knew some of
what was going to happen, but not all of
it, right? They never brought out a fire
extiJiguisher, nothing. It was all very
weird.
Steve Fisk sat in with them on the
encore, an a cappella version of "Car
Bomb." During "Car Bomb" they shouted
out "names of auto parts. Every now and
then they screamed "CAR BOMBI" and
somebody rushed up to press a cartridge
button and there was this big explosion
and they rolled on the ground and kicked ,
their legs up. Then we went home.
Andrew Hamlin is the CPJ's Arts and
Entertatnment editor who has a way of
describing life using popular children's
consumer items.
by Eric Shuler
In response to ' his sometimes antisocial reputation, Miles has said, "Who
most cn'ti'cs like a lot of the urn'e
depends on whether the person is nice to
them...so a lot of the guys... grinned up on
stage and entertained, rather than just
played their instruments--which is what
they were there for." Given his attilllde,
Ottmar Liebart was an appropriate choice
to open a night of high-quality music,
rather than high-quality showmanship.
Oltmar calls himself a, "Nouveau
flamenco," guitarist He never talked to
the audience. With him was a steady and
obviously well-trained rhythm section
made up of a drummer and a bassist
The group's sound reminded me of what
Carlos Santana might sound like with a
classical guitar.
I asked Ottmar for the song titles;
three of five songs had no names and the
other two were called, "Barcelona
Nights," and, "Serenda to Love." All the
songs flowed from quiet guitar dominated
valleys to all instrument salsa-rhythm
peaks. The crowd bobbed in their seats
and obviously enjoyed the performance.
It's no surprise that Sting borrowed
a couple musicians (Branford Marsalis
and Daryll Jones) from Miles for his,
"Dream of the Blue Turtles," tour. He
wanted to fortify his pop-rock with ' a
little jazz and he needed help. Who better
to hire than tWo of the best musicians in
the business? And what better group to
borrow them from than the one Miles
Davis headed? Both have been soundly
criticized for betraying their own
disciplines and naively trying to cross
over into each other's areas--Sting
blending pop with jazz, Miles blending
jazz with rock. Stanley Crouch, a jazz
purist and writer for the New Republic,
calls Davis, "The most brilliant sellout in
the history of jazz."
He not only calls the music of Miles'
current band, "A sound so decadent that
it can no longer disguise the shriveling of
its maker's soul," but he accuses Davis
of racism for embracing "white" rock and
a, "Youth culture vulgarity that vandalizes
the sweep and substance of AfroAmerican life."
No one was questioning Miles on
Monday nigbt. They came 10 see a
legend and bis band and they got more
than enough. Miles took the stage alone
in a gaudy purple outfit He squinted in
the spotlight, took the applause without
a smile, and quickly donned his Yoko
Ono sunglasses for the first number.
His band consisted of Foley on a
four string ~itar iliat looked like a bass
with light gauge strings, Kei Akagi on
keyboards and synthesizers, Benny
Reitvald on a five string bass, Kenny
Garrett on sax and flute, and Ricky
Wellman on drums. Miles punctuated
each member's improvisations by bolding
up large cards with the player's name to
illicit applause. The crowd was happy 10
oblige.
To see a Miles Davis concen is 10
witness a thousand cool looks exchanged
between members, a million aloof
glances. In fact these guys were so cool,
I wondered if they were enjoying
themselves at all. The players constantly
gave their equipment suspecting look
after they played a few notes. They
fiddled with volume controls on the
guitars, buttons on the synthesizers, and
microphones on their horns. It was as if
no sound was ever good enough.
The cliche, "If you've seen the first
five minutes of a Miles Davis show,
you've seen the whole thing," defmitely
stands. There is little to do except close
your eyes, feel the music, and admire the
'Murder' walks. the dog
,
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DOA
MURDER
RES11.ESS RECORDS
by Dan Snumn
If this was a dog, I'd walk it Don't
ask me what that means.
"Murder" is a good, standard attack
by a ~and that has been around for .a
long bme. DOA hasn't changed theU'
sty Ie 100 mue h over all th ese years, an d
they don't need to. Their , simple,
powerful guitar licks, strong beat,
vocals and political thoughtgrowling
.
. '
,
provoking lyncs always seem to work 10
make a good album
.
.
"We Know ~t You Want" !s an
~~. on a:v"~mg, ~o~p: ~: a
uy or . e.
s. um
ew mes 0
~so .f~tures a c"?r, tighter. ~ersIOn of
W81t1:"g for You, a tune ongmally off
of theIC Bloodfed but u.nbowe~ LP.
Now here s something weird. After a
flashback mtro complete WIth mach me
guns, the band does a cover of Credance
Cl~at.t:r Revival's "Midn.ight .Special"-WIth lyncs about repressIOn 10 South
Africa! Sure caught me off guard.
"Concrete Beach" is a throbbing tune
that I originally heard on the TemzjnaJ
City Ricochet soundtrack. Diehard DOA
fans might want to pick this up, 'cause it
also has two unreleased DOA tunes on It,
.
a cover on the Subhumans "Behind the
Smile," and a tune with Jello Biafra on
ocals u·tled "That' P r o "
v
s
gress.
A sticker on the front says "Includes
the
bo
k "Wh
E '1
secret
nus trac
ere
VI
Grows." Wrong. If they tell you about
the song on the front o~ ~e album, !t's
~ot really a secret now. IS It? One thing
IS for sure: I wouldn't call it a bonus.
You call this "DOA takes drugs and tries
t do a song with funky guitar licks." No
bonus here.
.
Still, how can ypu lose with song
titles like "Afrieana Security" "Guns
Booze and Sex," "The Agon; and th~
Ecstasy" and "Banana Land?" Ci
can't) Other tracks include "B~mlO o~
"No Productivity" "The Warri
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Again" and "Sui~idal "
or
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IS a f ync
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th
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e
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would have helped to clearly get out the
message of each song
0 erall I Iik th: alb
"M de"
v,
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um.
ur r
is fine combination of good music and
intelligent lyrics. DOA fans should get
this (if the)! don't already have it.) The
rest of you should give tis a try; ou 'ust
might like it Walk this dog!
Y J
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a cover of Michael Jackson's, "Human
Nature."
The jazz was defmitely rockinfluenced. The band hit some heavy
rhythms. Foley even indulged in some
distortion-driven, fmger-flying guitar
solos. Is Miles Davis's music a sellout,
though?
Stanley Crouch's remarks are
certainly laced with some purist snobbery.
He should be the first 10 know that jazz
was originally criticized as nothing more
street rhythm and decadence. No one
denies that Davis's sound has changed
over the years but anyone in music will
change their sound given time. While I
am not convinced his music changed for
the sake of more money, I would not be
surprised if it did. He admits in his
autobiography, Miles, to much worse than
dabbling in different musical genres.
Davis makes good music, though, as his
performance showed. It is different,
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split, from cover. ..
New SU deemed unconstitutional
said, "we seem to have split the
students."
"It goes against some of the major
tenants of society," she explained, "like
majority rule."
After the three caucus supporters
fmished fielding questions from the
trustees, the board members opened the
meeting to those in attendance. Those in
opposition to the new governance quickly
used this opportunity to voice their
concerns.
Brenden Williams spoke of his
ongoing concerns with the structure of
the "caucus" form of government.
"I refuse to be confined to little
forging a more inclusive and multicultural
government.
"I'd encourage you to look at what's
the real issue here." she said, "Don't get
too positional. Work with each other."
After the meeting. Dannen indicated
his willingness to participate in a meeting
to rework the caucus system.
Dannen said that he believes the
next step should include a well-advertised
meeting open to all students. In the
meeting, he continued, smaller groups
could tackle problems such as the
constitutionality and structure of the
amendments.
However. caucus supporter Soltani
boxes by bigots," he said. He also
accused the new system of neglecting
gender issues in its basic 14 member
"cultural caucus" structure.
James Dannen also spoke of his
reservations with the new governance
system. His objections, however; focused
on the manner in which the supporters of
the system passed the new government
through the old Student Union. and their
actions since that April 18 meeting.
"They have not shown a willingness
to discuss," he said.
At the end of the presentation.
board
member
Carol
Vipperman
counseled all students interested in
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spoke of the problems facing any form of
dialogue between sides that have
sometimes become embittered.
"Regardless of what James [Dannen]
and Brenden [Williams] may say about
their desire to involve 'both sides' in a
negotiation process." she said. "their
hostile attitude and behavior at the board
of
trustees
clearly
displays
an
unwillingness to work toward any
equitable compromise."
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Page 17
WORDS FROM UMOJA
by Rita Cooper
I have been honored to be the
advisor to Umoja this year, with the help
of Stone Thomas. I believe there was
much accomplished this year, for which
the students can take pride. There are
fewer than SO Afro-American and African
students on this campus therefore the
amount of activity generated by this
small number is amazing. Following is
a summary of some of the activities.
·Outreach to other black student groups
in the area:
-Umoja representative went to
meetings and social activities sponsored
by the black student unions of the
following schools: St. Martins. UPS, Ft.
Lewis, Seattle University, University of
Washington. Evergreen Tacoma.
-Umoja invited these unions to
participate in our activities, and many
have.
·Social activities outside Evergreen:
-Weekend Hike
-Trips to Seattle for Ethnic theater,
dinner at an African restaurant., dances at
University of Washington and St. Martins
·Social activities at Evergreen:
-Potlucks
-Two dances for everyone at
Evergreen to participate
-Yideos--Eye on the Prize
·Educational Activities at Evergreen:
-Minority aides coalition from SeauIe
came to campus Lo talk and distribute
material
-Black Muslim representatives came
one week to talk; next week Umoja
weekly meeting devoted to discussion of
philosophies of the faith.
-Cross cultural/racial dating, marital
relationships discussed, with guest
speakers
-Jewish-African relations discussed
with guest speakers
-Meeting with Wallace Terry
-C~sponsored multi-cultural panel on
Environmental Issues
-Black History moth brought videos
by black film makers as well as videos
about
black
people;
brought
representatives from African bookstore
and African clothing store to the CAB
-Creation of a library dealing with
African-American life and values.
.Participation in Evergreen activities:
-C~sponsored activities with other
groups on campus such as the AntiApartheid groups and the First People's
Coalition
-Weekly column in CPJ
-C~coordinator of Umoja assigned
participation in student governance
activities. Other members agreed to attend
S&A meetings and Student Union
meetings
-Served on interim Provost advisory
committee.
Conferences
attended
include
National black student convention, New
York.; conferences on ethnic diversity in
California and in SeauIe.
Umoja students serve as advisors
and as a support system to fellow
students who encounter problems at
Evergreen.
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by Cbris Bader
D.P. of Carson, Washington knows
Bigfoot well.
According to D.P.• a Bigfoot is. on
the average, about 9 feet tall. They have
black hair (he has never seen other
colors) which forms a cone on the top of
their heads. They have ape-like faces and . .~~~.;..:.~
appear to be very intelligent.
where his
The creature is omnivorous and
D.P. always knows when Bigfoot is
enjoys deer, tree roots and berries. In migrating, because some of his rabbits or
fact, according to D.P., Bigfoot takes the pigs will disappear and he will find
pelts of deer, elk, and bear and wears
them during the cold winter months.
tracks in his yard.
He also knows Bigfoot's likes and
Bigfoot is also fond of making highdislikes:
pitched screams and whistles. Its favorite
Bigfoot hates guns, says D.P. It
cry, which D.P. is happy to demonstrate, observes humans from afar when they
is a loud "Yeee-teeeeeel!"
D.P. has acquired his intimate enter its territory. If Bigfoot sees a gun,
it will flee, leaving humans none the
knowledge of Bigfoot behavior through
personal experience. Besides seeing wiser.
The creatures can become used to a
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certain
human, especially if that human
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brings
them
food. It also hates messy and
tracks.
smelly
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Mter seeing a person many times,
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Bigfoot
may "drop its guard" and become
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time, says D.P., "you will see it."
Is all this true?
Hell if I know. D.P, sounds sincere
and perhaps he has real experiences to
back up his conclusions; that's as far as
I'll go.
Chris Bader has only two
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single issue of the CPJ this year.
Wilson and 'Rebirth'
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News Release
Bert Wilson plays his hometown
Olympia with a red-hot jazz ensemble in
a free performance on Friday May 11 at
1 pm on Evergreen's Red Square.
In his thirty-year career, Wilson has
performed with such jazz greats as John
Coltrane, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Barbara
Donald and Sonny Simmons.
Wilson began playing the saxophone
to overcome the crippling effects of polio
when he was a child, and developed
many of his own techniques. These
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ORIGINAL PHOTOS, POETRY, SHORT
FICTION, & CARTOONS for publication in the
CPJ. Please bring work with name & phone
number to CAB 306A.
ATTENTION: EARN MONEY TYPING AT
HOMEI 32,OOOIYR income potential. Details,
(1) 602-838-8885 EXT. T·I4471.
Mile model for Sat.lSun. IIflHlrawing sessions .
Work to conllnue through the summer. Fee
negotllble 943-8830.
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NANNYIHOUSEKEEPER NEEDED. Creative
outgoing, non-smoker with driver's license, for
suburban NY City home. Help run household &
nurture 5 yr. old & new bom. Area offers
cultural. academic activities. Weekends off. Two
weeks paid vacation. Summer travel with family.
Minimum 1 year commitment References
required. 1·914-763-5376.
Fistful of Droolers by Kenta Hadley
VocalistlPerfonnance Artist desires nonfunctioning kitchen appliances. Tcasters,
blenders, whatever. Don't throw them away,
give them to Dan in 0114 or call 866-9926.
LOSTI Rugby shirt. Lg. dark blue, long sleeved.
Missing from community laundry room. Reward
offered. Call RON 866-1764.
LOST: On April 30, Monday, around 9:45 pm.
a slide projeclor, box of books and numerous
notes and papers were placed aceldentally In
the wrong vehicle (a truck) by a sllldent in
PROTEST U.S. NAVY'S CRUEL, UNETHICAL,
ABUSIVE USE OF DOLPHINS FOR MILITARY Wedands Ecology. This material is needed back
PURPOSES, SEND LETIERS CAlliNG FOR desperately by the adjunct faculty to whom it
AN IMMEDIATE HALT OF SUCH PRACTICES · belongs. P..... oonllot the MES leoretl/'Y,
TO:
PRES.
GEORGE
BUSH
1600 Jlne Lorenzo, (lab I, Rm 3015, ext. 8700) If
you have any knowledge of thll,
PENNSYLVANIA AVE. NW., WASHINGTON,
D.C. 20500. FOR MORE INFO CONTACT
Ring Iostl Great sentimental value (16th birthday
PAWS: 206-743-1884.
present). Gold w/dark blue hear-shaped stones.
Er"tl - My faith in my own beliefs is so shaky Please call 866-8949.
that I feel threatened by a cartoon. I am just
too sensitive for this world. I must consult my FREE - A6J1t female MOUSE. Free to good
home. Doesn't bite, good breeder, comes with
therapist
food & bedding. NOT SNAKE OR OTHER
CREATURES FOOD. Call Maty 352-7282HOUSING
PERSONAL
Spring quarter housing contract for sale. One
room in a spacious four bedroom apartment.
With neat, intelligent, non-smoking women.
Contact Catherine at 866-247B.
looking for llCiult woman to Ihlre my
waterfront hou... $250/mth. plus 1/2 all
utilities. Please call 866-9575 (mag.) or
866-8201 after May 15. Grelt p"cel Vert
quIet. WiD return calls ASAP.
OPPORTUNITY
Would your organizalion like to make $600 for
a one-week campus marketing project? CALL:
CORINE OR MYRA II 1-800-592·2121.
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Bullets are Cheap by Edward Martin III
Found: guitar, call TESC campus security
x6140. Deeorlbe to o"lm.
Free Goldllsh. Pets or feeder fish 30 fish
available. 3 inches. Call 754-8211.
-------.----.-------------Tlpe C1I.. fell out of a white car leaving !he
dorm loop May 9 around 5:30 pm. Call Housing
Maintenance at x6114. Describe to claim .
Slolen from Capital District - blue baokpaok
contaJning irreplaceable photo negatives In a
red binder. Also missing box 01 photo paper &
prints. Items have extreme personal value. If
you have found anything that resembles these
items, or have any info, please call 866-9527.
Missing from locker in lESC COM BdIg.
Ylng..8WII Ano Su In brown lea!her case &
artley nute also In case. Instruments urgently
ACUPUNCTURE & BODY WORK CHRIS
needed by music major. Any Info on !he retum
SYNOD IS, certified acupuncturist, licensed . 01 these can be left at 866-Q)()O x6054. No
massage therapist, masters In Counseling . questions asked.
Practice of acupuncture inl9grated with
aalpressure, and chinese herbs. Covered by
student insurance. 1415 W. Harrison
cll. 788-1195 for appt or consultation.
SERVICES
LOST/FOUNDIFREE
THE CPJ WANTS TO HELP. NO CHARGE
FOR
LOST/FOUND/STOLEN/FREE
CLASSIFIEDS.
LOST - Black, short-halred female shop CAT
from downlown Olympia area April 7. Very
friendly. O,.ltly mIlled I Call 351'7117.
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