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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 19, Issue 24 (May 11, 1989)
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Cooper Point Journal
Drugs: Enforce or Ignore
May 11, 1989
Volume 19 Issue 24
Partying environment or
AA recruiting gro'unds?
Gail Martin, Vice President for
Student Affairs Wld Security supervisor,
says that according to a study she read,
Evergreen enjoys less drug and alcohol
consumption thWl typical universities.
"Comparitively speaking, our problems
are less serious."
She cites three reasons why she holds
this belief: Evergreen students may be
more health conscious than most
university students; there are no
fraternities Wld sororities; the average age
of students is 2S years old overall. She
believes that when students are younger,
drug Wld alcohol use is more prevalent.
The average age of dorm residents is
younger thWl the average.
Security's SergeWlt Larry Savage says
although the drug problem "is no worse
here thWl Wlywhere else," other campuses
employ more enforcement of the law thWl
Evergreen.
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The Greener reputation makes it
sound like few "say nol" when whatever
is being passed around comes to them.
This mayor may not be an accurate
stereotype. But since students are adults,
does it really matter if some decide to
say "well, alright!"
How preveIant is the use of illegal
drugs and alcohol on campus? Or, how
"bad" is the drug Wld alcohol problem?
What Security and mWly dorm residents
may consider a "problem" with drugs,
Wlother student may call a "good supply."
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ChWldler says alcohol abuse · is
"Housing's number one problem," but
added that as far as she knows, it's much
less of a problem at TESC thWl on other
campuses.
99 percent of the incidents in
Housirig requiring at least a warning were
alcohol and/or drug related, Chandler
shared. The "incidents" rWlge from noise
complaints to sexual assault.
To Chandler, the effects of drug and
alcohol abuse form the "problem," rather
lhW1 the drug and alcohol use "per se."
The Director of the Counseling Center,
Sharry Smith, believes alcohol is the
worst drug problem among students. She
said, "Drugs and alcohol are the fifth
highest reason students seek counseling,"
if she includes adult children of
alcoholics.
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Cont. from pg. 6
is for YOUR mama this
month!
Another plan Agee discussed is to
secreLly fund seminars, for example on
the Middle East or Central America that
propagandizes for the CIA. Or students
and faculty may be unknowingly funded
on foreign academic junkets abroad.
Agee told how in Uruguay in 1965
low wails turned into pitched screams
from a tortured political prisoner that
Agee himself had added to a "lynx list."
At this point he began to question his
work, although it was not until three
years later that he left the CIA. As he
humorously pointed out, his falling in
love with a woman at the Mexico City
OlympiC Games where he was sent to do
undercover work proved to be his exit.
His mind was changed because his lover
was a great admirez of Che Guevara.
Anybody interested in leaming more
about the CIA, or getting involved in
antiCIA activist grouPs, can contact the
Evergreen Political Infonnation Center
(EPIC), 866-6000 ext. 6431, Lib. 3222.
Cont. from pg. 12
written a opinion piece about the effects
of Israeli's actions. He could have given
a lecture in response to Mr. Klley-Tal's
visit. He could have invited other
speakers to come on campus to speak on
the issues. Instead Professor Bohmer
chose to attack the objectivity of the CPJ
and one of its reporters when objectivity
was not in question or even an issue.
Professor Bohmer was correct in one
of his statements. The CPJ is like many
of the major media (or the minor media),
we have little money and few people to
cover an abundance of events and gather
information. We depend on people who
know about events to provide information
that we lack. If you have verifJable
information that others lack submit it to
Wly of the media and you will probably
gel a favorable response. However, if you
begin your discussion by attacking the
messenger instead of the message you
follow a long tradition of desuuctive
action without positive effect and you
join the ranks of such luminaries as
Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Jesse
Helms.
Page 16 May 4, 1989 Cooper Point Journal
Drinking and drugging:
The Evergreen reason
The authorities making decisions
about drug Wld alcohol policy, treatment,
and enforcement have some ideas about
what causes students to drink excessively
and/or ingest pot, LSD, mushrooms, and
other drugs.
The "real" reason, after all, cannot
be found as easily as approaching a
stoned or drunk student and asking,"why
do you get high three nights a weelc?" or
"what made you drink seven beers
tonight?" Or can it?
On the ninth floor of A dorm, a
decorates the community refrigerator. It
reads "Alcoholics Unanimous." Peon1p
laugh at it and show it off with pride' 10
guests. The case of beer students
consume on mWly weekend nights,
joking, laughing, dancing, and usiIig a
megaphone to hold playful dialogues with
passers-by nine floors below.
When a ninth floor dweller was
asked abOut peer pressure, he replied,
"There's no direct pressure, but when
your whole floor is drinking, well .. ."
"There's nothing else to do," admitted
another student.
"We are college students!" exclaimed
one tipsy student.
"We are America's future!" another
chimed in.
"That's all · the more reason to get
shit-faced," someone laughed, waving a
beer bottle.
Student Director Gail Martin has
more clinical theories. One use of alcohol
is (mistakenly) to aid adjustment in
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The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505
Address Correction Requested
When It comes to beer:
'Quantity not qualify.'
Do Greeners do time
for having. a good time?
According to SergeWlt Larry Savage,
Security hasn't issued a drug citation for
two years, but did issue several Minor(s)
Consuming citations in the fall. Unless
drug or alcohol use is visible in a public
area, Savage said, Security isn't
summoned.
Savage recalls one case where
"enforcement" could have prevented a
disaster. In 1986, a young person in the
dorms overdosed on LSD, which she had
. '~ received as a "free sample" from a nonstudent. The non-student brought with
him a "room full" of LSD, with hopes of
"drumming up dealers."
The student went through serious
mental and physical trauma. Her father
asked Sergeant Savage: "Why is nothing
being done?"
Security's answer to that question
then and now is "our hands are tied."
Savage says enforcement against dealers
is sparse and ineffective because the
"narcs" are employed in the dorms, Wld
the Administration doesn't want to deal
with Wlgry Wld disgruntled tuition-oayers.
It was early aftemoon on a
Friday and I had nothing to
do, so I wandered over to a small
keg being held for someones
birthday. After drinking a few beers
and making some small
talk, a friend offered me some
shrooms. Half an hour after
taking them and several beers
later I felt thoroughly high.
I went upstairs to another
party where I was offered
chocolate cake covered with
green pot-laced frosting. A
short while later I regretted eating
the cake, because by
this pOint I was completely
confused and unable to socialize
with anyone: so I left.
I ran Into a friend and
together we aimlessly walked
around occasionally running Into
Similarly confused people.
Eventually It got to be late so I
gave up my search for
something to do and wandered
home to bed, feeling pleasantly
confused.
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Administration discourages Security from
working with the Thurston County drug
unit, since that might create "bad
pUblicity" about Evergreen, and decrease
funding and enrollment. Also, he pointed
out, students become very upset when
Gail Martin, Security Supervisor, said
"The use of Narcs feels excessive to me
from what I know."
Martin also stated that she doesn't
believe fear of bad publicity has anything
to do with administrative policy towards
law enforcement.
She prefers Security to simply warn
and cite public drug and alcohol
offenders, then "let the court deal with
them."
"I don't believe in smelling under
doors. They (students) need their privacy- those are their homes."
At the same time, Martin said, "Our
Security has the duty to enforce laws."
As far as she knows, Security is allowed
to call in Thurston County drug unit, but
they must have "the same amount of
cause" required to sear.ch any private
home.
Martin said the Administration and
Security "have a series of agreements"
concerning the limits of drug and alcohol
enforcement actions, but did not specify
what these agreements are.
On the list of Housing's priorities,
Housing Director JeWlnie Chandler
explained, enforcement is quite low.
Housing has a three step policy of
repercussions for violation of the social
contract, which includes a rule forbidding
public drinking and drunkenness, drinking
as a minor, and possession, sale, and use
of illegal substW\ces. The punitive steps
are: for the fust offense, warning; second
offense, a talk with a full time Housing
staff member; and third offense, eviction.
If suitable mitigating circumstW\ces can
be proven, eviction is forgone, during
which time the student recei ves treatment
or other help.
Chandler emphasized that Housing's
role in enforcement remains minimal.
"We don't run around smelling ;)n;!:~
people's doors. But we don't condone the
use of drugs and alcohol."
Chandler
sees
Housing's
role
"primarily as helpers. We can >e a
resource if they aren't afraid to talk to
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Permit No, 65
Governance should discuss purpose
by Suzeue Williams
Once again, this week's student
governance meeting was marked by
fighting and accusations. The Geo-Voice
isn'l working.
A major problem with governance is
the over emphasis on process and lack of
content The original governance proposal
states thai the structw-e will be used to
"actualize student needs" or some such
meaningful phrase, but what does thai
mean? Whal exactly does governance
exist to accomplish?
Reasoning that a governance structw-e
gives students a voice on issues of
importance is meaningless without
defining the issues. The decisions of
the governance General Assembly have
focused solely on process. They've
debated what to do with the steering
commiuee positions for weeks, when and
where to hold meetings, etc. One of the
rust issues the Assembly debated at
length was whether to set a time limit on
speakers and what that limit should be.
What about deciding what the speakers
will talk about first?
When I occasionally sit in on an
Assembly it's because I'm curious and
because I think as editor and S&A Board
member I ought to be familiar with
governance. Otherwise I wouldn't attend.
I don't see a purpose. I suspect many
other students feel the same way, hence
the pitifully low turnout at the weekly
meetings.This stress on process has
driven students away. Even the most
interested students will stop attending
General Assembly meetings if nothing of
substance is addressed. For this reason,
the average attendance at the Assembly is
10-15 people. So much for a participatory
democracy.
I voted for the Geo-Voice rather than
a representative system because I thought
the consensus process would be inclusive.
I liked the idea of a participatory
democracy where everyone, not just a
few representatives, could be heard. I
thought the debate over structw-c would
end with the selection of a structw-e. But
the present system is far more exclusive
and elitist than any representative system
I've seen.
General Assemblies have been filled
with accusations of unfairness, racism and
general wrongdoing, and decisions have
been consistently blocked by a few
individuals. Consequently nothing has
been accomplished. Even a simple
decision about joining the Washington
Student Lobby was drawn out over
several weeks and eventually tabled. The
blame for not getting things accomplished
lies in the lack of a common goal or
purpose.
In a presentation to the Washington
Centennial program earlier this quarter,
staff member Jacinta McKoy spoke about
the bioregional movement and explained
that the group of 400 made decisions
through consensus. I was amazed that a
group of this size could get together a
few times a year and get their work done
when- a group of 15 students who meet
weeldy can't reach a consensus about
anything.
The difference between the groups
lies in a common sense of purpose. The
bioregionalists have a goal; they know
why they are meeting and what they
want to accomplish. Governance General
Assemblies have no purpose.
Besides a common goal or pw-pose,
a participatory democracy requires a
commitment from everyone in the
community to participate. But this creates
a circle: why participate if there's no
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point? And if no one participates will
there ever be a point?
At this stage I lean toward a
representative
system.
Without
a
commitment or pw-pose, only a few
interested
people
attend
General
Assemblies. At least with a system of
elected representatives I could have a say
in who those people were. If we're
simply going to have a figw-ehead
governance system we might as well
make it a popularity contest also.
Representation may be dangerously elitist
but it can't be any worse than a few
random students making campus-wide
decisions.
Olympian journalism is irresponsible
by Darrel W. Riley
It's easy for a journalist to inflame
public opinion by choosing certain words
or phrases, or by selecting a particular
topic to write about, or with many other
techniques. That power to influence is
why journalists have a unique ethical
responsiblity. The journalist is responsible
to the community, it is an obligation that
every reporter, editor, and publisher must
live with as principled and moral human
beings.
The Olympian has violated every
form of responsible jow-nalistic conduct
with their reporting on the Jim Rabie and
Ray Risch Jr. rape charges and
dismissals. Headlining their May 4th
story "Dismissal shocks community
leaders" is immoral, unethical, and
obscene. The story refers to the men as
"rape defendents" when the point of the
story is that they are no longer
dcfendents. They are not defendents
because the charges were dropped. The
choice of the topic, and many others like
it throughout the coverage has been
deplorable. The Olympian coverage has
not been responsible journalism, it has
been character assasination on unproven
charges, what used to be called a witchhunt.
.
Our system of justice dictates a
person is innocent until proven guilty
The staff:
Interim Advisor: Janis Byrd
Interim Editor: Suzette Williams
Managing Editor: Darrel W. Riley
Ad Manager: Chris Carson
Business Manager: Whitney Ware
Ad Layout: Matt Carrithers
Calendar: Honna Metzger
Typist: Alexander Rains
Photo Editor: Peter Bunch
Arts and Entertainment: Honna Metzger
Poetry Editor: Yolande Lake
Production Manager: Joe Hughes
Staff Writers: Kevin Boyer, Tedd Kelleher,
Honna Metzger, Edward Martin III, Scott A.
Richardson.
Contributors: James Dannen, Carol B. Hall,
Mike Sutherland, Dorothy Jackson, Marie
Forsberg, Meg Ann Gallie.
The Cooper Point Journal is published
weekly on the campus of the
Evergreen Slale College, Olympia,
Washington 98505 (CAB 306A);
(206)866-6000 ext. 6213 & 6054.
Copyright 1989.
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That same system that it's up to the
court or jury to decide whether there is
enough evidence to convict. Journalists
don't determine guilt or innocence. Until
the court decides, the accused is assumed
innocent In this country we do not have
trial by mob or punishment by lynching
although it seems The Olympian may
favor that
Let me give you an example of how
to sla'lt a story, courtesy of The
Olympian articles. The front page story
on May 4, 1989 about the reactions of
the community leaders to the rape
charges being dropped, The topic of the
story itself is slanted. Why should we
care what reaction community leaders
have? They are not directly affected.
Dropping the charges was a legal
decision. The men who were affected are
those against whom the charges were
dropped, therefore the story should be
about Rabie and Risch and the other
legal figw-es in the case.
In one of the articles The Olympian
published on May 4 they choose to
rehash earlier claims made by a Tacoma
pyschologist that the men weren 't safe to
be at large. The articles says, "The
dismissal puts Rabie and Risch back on
the street without restrictions." Of course
they are on the street without restrictions,
they aren't being charged with a crime!
The policy:
The Coo per Poin t JrJ1l1'1I([/ (C PJ)
edi to r and staff ma." a m e nd 01· clarify
these policies.
Objective:
Th e C PJ edilor alld staff are de ter milled to make th e CPJ a student
forum for communication which is both
e ntertaining and informative.
Deadlines:
Calenda r-F'l'id ay, noon
Articles-Friday, 3 p.m.
Letters-Monday, noon
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On Monday, May 8, a man
performed an act of indecent exposure in
the meadow, north of the central campus,
off Driftwood Road. The incident was
observed· by a woman who was laying on
a towel and reading in the sun. The man
approached, laid down on his towel
nearby,
disrobed, and began
to
mastw-bate. After the incident was
reported, Security searched the area but
did not apprehend the subject He was
described as approximately 25 years old,
five feet eight inches tall, white, with a
stocky build and medium-length blond
hair.
Until convicted of a crime the defendents
are assumed not to have committed one.
That's the fundemental principle of our
legal system.
I wonder at the callousnes of a
reporter or editor who allows those words
in a news story. I wonder how they live
with themselves. Those kinds of
statements violate every manner of decent
behavior. It brings to mind McCarthy and
lynch mobs, and of papers in bygone eras
that did not care about the damage they
did to others because their only goal was
selling more newspapers.
The Olympian coverage has gone
beyond the bounds of common decency
and consideration. I cannot respect the
people at that organization for allowing
such immoral and libelous behavior to go
on. The role of the jow-nalist is to
suspend judgement, to have the courage
enough to say that they don't know.
Lacking even that small bit of courtesy .
which should be extended to every
human being, The Olympian shows that
they hold our common values in
contempt. Every decent citizen should be
protesting this outrageous behaviour, or
we will again rue those famous words
made in Nazi Germany, I did not speak
up, and now there is no one left to speak
for me.
Campus Security Chief Gary Russell
w-ges anyone who encounters a person
acting suspiciously to contact the Security
Office at x6140. Information and
counseling on safety and self-defense is
available by contacting the Women's
Clinic at x6200, Women of Color
Coalition at x6006, Counseling services at
x6800, or the Lesbian Gay resource
Center at x6544.
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In the last ten to fourteen days about
eight bikes have been stolen from a wide
range of places on the Evergreen campus.
Both unlocked and locked bikes have
been taken. Apparently theft for profit is
not the motive, for some have been
found later in the roadside brush. Security
recommends licensing your bike, Both the
Bike Shop or the Security Office will
licence bikes for a dollar. The license is
good for as long as you attend
Evergreen.
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House and Senate negotiators settled on
increasing the minimum wage to $4.45 an
how- over three years. The minimum
wage now stands at $3.35 an how-, where
it has been since 1981. A person working
full time at that wage earns $6,970 a
year. The poverty cutoff for a family of
three is $10,060. President Bush promises
to veto any increase over $4.25.
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All teachers must have a masters to
leach by 1991. The Evergreen State
College has been trying to implement a
Masters of Education Program and
entered a request to the State Legislatw-e
to include funding in the state budget for
such a program. At press time a budget
had been submitted by the Senate and
House Ways and Means Commiuee. The
proposed budget did not include ~nding
for the program.
If interested, call Booth Gardeners'
Office at 753-6780 and ask for a higher
education advisor or call the Legislative
Hodine at 1-800-562-6000 and leave a
message for yow- legislatw-e·.
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Opposition leader Guillermo Endara
has declared himself the winner of the
fraud laden Panamanian elections held
last Sunday. He has asked for world
leaders to back him as the president elect
and put international pressw-e on General
Manuel Noriega to step down and accept
the true election results. President Bush
was briefed by election observers,
including former President Jimmy Carter,
who claimed soldiers entered some
polling stations and burned voting tallies
only to replace them with falsified ones
at polling headquarters. Bush has left
open all options, including military
intervention, to persuade Noriega to step
aside.
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A Public Forum Against Violence
Against Women will occw- on May 30.
Women of varied ages and ethnic
backgrounds, or any women who would
like to participate in a discussion at this
forum about their personal experiences
with violence are encow-aged to auend.
The next planning meeting will be on
May 15 in Library 2204 at five pm ..
Attend this meeting if you would like to
help plan this forum.
For more
information, call or leave a message at
the Lesbian/Gay Resource Center, X6S44.
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Governor Booth Gardner this week
signed a comprehensive bill to fight
drugs
through
tougher sentencing.
expanded treatment programs, assistance
to communities to mobilize against drugs,
funding for drug education programs in
schools and new authority for police to
electronically record drug transactions.
The ~0.7 million Omnibus Drug
Bill was the result of a bi-partisan
agreement by the Legislature and
of the governor's
included all five
request bills dealing with drugs .
Gardner has also vetoed the
prohibition on needle exchange programs
because he wants to give them a chance
to work.
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Olympia Mayor Gadbaw stresses value
of foreign sister city relationship
by Kevin Boyer
In the last installment of the "Piece
of My Mind" series. Olympia Mayor
Holly Gadbaw addressed Olympia's role
as an international city and what is being
done currently to promote that role.
In last Wednesday's lecture Gadbaw
focused on Olympia's sister city
relationships, the importance of Olympia
being a Capitol city and closest fonn of
American Government for countries of
the Pacific Rim. and the important role
the area schools (including Evergreen).
play through exchanges and the leaching
of language.
Olympia's longest running and.
according to Gadbaw. most economically
important sister city is Yoshiro, Japan.
Exchanges have taken place with
students, citizens and the mayors.
Gadbaw's last visit to Yoshiro was for an
event representing well planned out.
livable cities and brought together cities
from allover the world to share their
ideas OIl urban planning.
She also addressed the issue of
lumber exports to Japan. With the huge
demand for housing in Japan our lumber
is also in demand. Gadbaw says. She has
invited Japanese builders to tour Olympia
homes to learn American building
techniques. She claims the Japanese have
a desire to use "perfect wood" and by
showing them American homes that
don 'I. but are still solidly built they will
use Ihat wood instead. Gadbaw says this
will also promote Ihe use of lower grade
American wood and other American
products that will enhance the Olympia
area economy.
The OIl-going project of the Japanese
Garden being built next to city hall in
east side Olympia is also the result of
this sister city relationship. The Yoshiro
mayor has already built an Americanstyle garden outside his governmental
offices.
Olympia also has two other sister
cities. Olympia, Greece, was formalized
last spring and Samerkhan, U.S.S.R., will
be fonna1ized this spring.
Gadbaw says sister cities are where
peace starts. with Olympia. Greece. as
example.
The
official
American
government policy towards Greece is not
conducive to good relations. she says, bUI
the countries can communicate. and share
in peaceful relations through sister cities
that transcend official lines.
Gadbaw ended the talk pointing out
what Olympia lacks most Most of the
excha.'lge groups coming to O~ympia can
speak English, while most Americans
don't have cOmmand of a foreign
language. The three languages she deems
most important are Spanish, Japanese, and
Russian.
The "Piece of My Mind" series has
been fl:1nning approximately 13 years in
Olympia and was co-sponsored this year
by the Olympia Parks and Recreation
Department, the First United Methodist
Church, South Puget Sound Community
College. Saint Martin's College, and The
Evergreen State College.
Recycling to continue
on Evergreen Campus
..
by Marie Forsberg. Recycling Coordinator
Evergreen's recycling program would
like to extend a big congratulations to all
people involved in any aspect of
recycling. A combined total of 82 tons
were recycled from March 1988 to March
1989. This is a dramatic increase from
last year's 46 combined tons recycled.
The total includes cardboard, paper, glass,
and aluminum cans and is expected to
increase even more in the following year.
A recent article in the Cooper PoinJ
JOUTfllJl stated that the college might face
difficulties with cardboard and glass
recycling due to their decreasing value.
Reparations have been made with the
recycling contractor under the agreement
thai they continue to pick up regularly
and in return get the cardboard and glass.
Recycling will continue as usual.
Each year new products are
recyclable which previously have been
considered to be garbage. For example,
magazines, phone books, NCR (no carbon
required) paper, note cards. and paper
wilh staples are all recyclable. The only
items still classified as waste are: carbon .
paper, tissue paper, paper towels, waxed
paper, paper cups or plates, post-it notes.
and paper with labels or tape. Also.
styrofoam peanuts and packing are being
re-used in back of the Library Building
in Ihe refuse/recycling room where a
large box marked "Styrofoam Recycling"
is available to drop off or pick up all
styrofoam.
Students needed for
art submissions
by Meg Ann Gallie
How would you Evergreen Artists
like chance to see your work
professionally reproduced AND help the
arts
at
Evergreen?
The
Alumni
Association wants your great art work for
our art card fundraising
project.
Evergreen students. faculty. staff, and
alumni can all participate. Submit your
drawings.
lithographs,
photography,
drawings. and
·~ulplureS
to
the
Development Office. Library 3114.
elttension 6565 or drop me a note letting
me know you are interested in submitting
your work. If your art is displayed in
Arts Alive. June 2. let Norma Baurn,
extension 6078. or myself. Meg Ann
Gallie. extension 6565. know by" May 26
that you are interested in participating in
the Art Card Projcct.
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Nazism of the 1930s."
The South African "framework." as
opposed to our Constitution, does not
begin to guarantee equal rights for the
Black majority of Ihe countty, explained
Nesbitt Instead, it is modeled directly
after Nazism. he stressed. and "exists
solely to re-enforce the deprivation, the
taking away. the alienation. and the
transformation of the Black majority into
just servants for the white minority, and
a source of cheap labor for the world.
particularly the US and Western Europe."
Nesbitt outlined the different facets of
South African violence. The "internal
arm" causes the "eternal suffering" of the
Black majority within South Africa. The
"external arm" of South Africa began
around 1980, says Nesbitt, when "the
Soulh African government decided that in
order to maintain South Africa's
economic and political... dominance of
the region. it had to wage a war against
neighboring countries."
This outward aggression, part of the
"total strategy,". according to Nesbitt, was
conveniently labelled "anti-commWlist" to
appeal to Western nations. and also
coincided with the beginning of what
Nesbitt terms "the Ronald Reagan
regime."
Nesbitt explained that the three
modalities. or modes. of the aggression
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have been: l)invasion and illegal
occupation of Namibia; 2)assassinations
in and out of South Africa, killing
authors and other anti-apartheid. antiSo.uth Africa Blacks 3)surrogate armies,
or "South African contras." that prey on
Black peasants and children, such as the
army in Angola, which has received
$30.000 of US CIA assistance. and the
Mozambique National Resistance, or
MNR, of Mozambique.
Nesbitt concluded thai the external
arm of South Africa has cost the South
African people 900,000 to one million
lives since 1980.
"It's a story that· gets no coverage
here (in the US). Black lives mean little
to the mass media of this countty," he
added.
For example, in Mozambique. a
neighboring country of South Africa.
Nesbitt says the MNR recruits teenage
boys of the countty to "kill their own
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member James Dannen. the crisis will
probably remain wuesolved until May 29
when the final vote on governance
proposals will take place as previously
planned by the Governance Steam. Only
then can alternative governance proposals
be adopted based on a democratic
majority, instead of the consensus
decision required now.
A special session for the selection of
Geo-Voice Steering Commiltee members
will take place on May 17 from 1:00 pm.
to 5:00 pm. in Library room 4300.
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Minute Taker.
by Tedd Kelleher
A symbolic coup occurred at the
Geo-Voice meeting last Monday after
repeated attempts to amend the troubled
governance structure failed. The General
Assembly, attended by a handful of
Evergreen students. has been unable to
reach the consensus required by the
governance structure to fonn the steering
committee.
Although everyone at the meeting
agreed a change in the governance
structure was needed in order to
accomplish anything. all attempts to pass
changes were blocked.
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Assembly's inability to decide, David
Henshaw and several other students led a
symbolic coup by breaking away from
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future the enemy is trying to kill,"
Nesbitt said.
As for the future. he told the
audience that in Mozambique. "people yel
sing." even Ihough hundreds of their
schools and hospitals have been destroyed
by the South African-backed MNR.
. He also shared his alarm at what he
sees as growing apathy in the US
towards the increased racist hatred and
violence.
As an example of this apathy.
Nesbitt shared a case he was · told of
recently. A Black woman was beaten by
a white man for more than two hours.
"almost to death." in downtown Madison.
Wisconsin, while many people passively
gathered around the scene. with others
simply walking by, Nesbitt said. Finally.
a young white man came down from a
nearby building and put a stop to the
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the increase in racial hate groups as one
of the many US "connections" to the
situation in South Africa.
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current South African system, Nesbitl
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Majority live in 23 percent of the land,
while the 30 percent White minority
control. live on. and own 87 percent of
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Cooper Point Journal May 11, 1989 Page 5
At work he's at play
Olander rejects PR style for character and authenticity
Who is this man?
by Philip Bransford
The following are excerpts from an
interview with President Joe Olander
conducted last week.
Starting his career as College
president in January, 1985, Olander
came to Evergreen with experience in
several positions at institutions of higher
education around the country. These
include being Vice President of Academic
Affairs at the University of Texas in El
Paso, Executive Vice president of Florida
International University in Miami, and
Assistant Commissioner of Higher
Education for the State of Florida.
Apan from the more bureaucratic
duties associated with being a college
president, Joe has maintained an
unconventional approach to his work. It
is not unusual, for example, to fmd him
around campus doing the work of a
janitor, post officer, or kitchen aid.
The interview, which has been edited
to maintain space constnlints and for
purposes of clarity, covered a range of
issues including last quarter's incident of
censorship at the student art gallery.
An aspect of the story that has
received less press concerns Joe's
response to 14 legislators, in the form of
both letters and personal meetings, where
he apparently explained what caused the
controversy and what steps were taken to
douse it During the interview, I asked
him about the content of these letters:
CPJ: An interesting thing happened last
quarter involving the student art gallery
with the photographs of a masturbating
man, a preUy public display. It's
interesting because 'there are so many
different elements to the display. It was
an AIDS demonstration, it was student art
work, it was in a more public place than
probably most galleries are on campus,
and it happened while the legislature was
in session. It also had connections to
affirmati ve action (at least to the office in
this building). I know a number of
people in the legislature were upset and
that you went out there and talked to 14
of them, and wrote letters as well. What
did you say? A lot of the things that
occur on campus are considered, at least
from my understanding, immoral by some
people in the legislature. and this might
be such an example. What does a college
president say to such a legislator when
something like this comes up?
JOE: To put it in perhaps ridiculous
terms, on the one hand I suspect I'm
perceived by people outside the campus
as an extremely liberal person who basks
in all kinds of immoral behavior ...who
at ways takes the ideological left position
on public policy maUers. Ironically, inside
campus, I'm sure that a large percentage
of students probably look at me as a
fascist. [Laughter] And so I always walk
that line and I wonder 'Who am I?' If
you let it get to you it can inflict
schiwphrenia on your personality.
I try to remind people outside the
campus that Evergreen is a college, forget
about it being Evergreen, it is a college
and what a college and a university stand
for is diversity of ideas and a logical
search for truth. It is important for a
society to invest in that kind of
institution because we need an institution
where you have people, one of whose
jobs is to critique the larger part of
society. On the other hand, inside the
campus I always remind people that we
are part of a larger society and have
responsibilities to that larger society. I
must keep reminding both external and
internal positions of their reciprocal
[relationship].
There are going to be, even on a
campus, diverse opinions and values
circulating around the episode. For some
students, for some staff, for some faculty,
the photos were necessarily and
intrinsically offensive but for other
students, other faculty, they were ipso
faCIO a manifestation of free expression.
When you have two sets of opinions,
whether it's the dog policy or smoking
policy, then you have to say what is in
the best interest ..and then you get into
all kinds of procedural issues.
One substantial one was the issue of
choice. People who felt offended by it-and I'm not talking about off campus
now but on campus--said "I wouldn't
mind that art being in an art gallery
where my six year old son... he and I
could go in and see it, if we choose to
go," but to have it in a place where he
had no choice to see it is another matter.
If you recall the year before last we
·Character is more
important because it
reveals not only what
p person says but what
a person does and I
stand on record, not
on 'rhetoric. •
the basis of which you judge other
values? Is there an absolute truth? Is
there an absolute moral order which
allows you to make judgments about
whether that opinion is right, wrong,
valid, invalid? That's an area that goes
beyond our conversation today, but does
get into what pan of a university is.
That's why, in the absence of any
absolute standards, the Supreme Court of
our country has argued that you must go
with what criteria there is for community
standards. And community standards are
sometimes not standards of sub-cultural
values.
I'm very truthful with legislators. I
worry about how some individuals on
campus will do things they passionately
believe in as individuals and use the
college's name. That is a real serious
problem with the legislature, board of
trustees, myself and with a large number
of people on campus ....
to my madness. Don't talk to me about
administrative style, talk to me about
administrative character. Character is
more important because character reveals
CPJ: I'm interested in what exactly you
said to these legislators. You said you
were truthful, what was the truth you
espoused when you sent these letters?
JOE: Well, basically the major point was
that we had a situation in which there
was a general policy worked out by the
Vice President of Student Affairs and
other people having to do with choice of
art work coming into that area, and that
one person responsible for putting up the
art work made a decision in violation of
that policy and did not consult with other
people and therefore when complaints
come from inside the campus--where they
fIrst came, by the way--the administration
felt it was absolutely appropriate to move
the art elsewhere because it violated the
policy.
The other thing I emphasized is that
because of this incident and last year's
incident with the EI Salvador display that
there was clearly a need for the college
to refine its policy and make it more
explicit and that's what Stone Thomas
would be working on.
had the same kind of problem. There was
an HI Salvador spread of photos. People
said "That's freedom of expression, it's a
political message, blah, blah, blah, it's
important." Other people said, "I'm
offended by the graphic violence." And
so what happens when you get that kind
of opposition the college as an
organization must begin to reason through
what's in the best interest of the
community.
That incident was compounded by the
fact that for a long time here both faculty
and student expression of art have not
found appropriate places
to be
demonstrated and I think the Academic
Affairs Administration is now aware of CPJ: Which policy item was violated?
that. There is a very genuine and sincere
attempt to get an alternative art space. So JOE: One of the policies was that this
person will abide by, consult with this
I feel pretty good about where the new
group which was put together for judging
policy will go with respect to art.
But the question you raise is a larger the appropriateness of art displayed in
one. Often times I have a very important.
that area and this person, according to
sincere and different challenge than other how I was briefed, single handedly,
presidents of colleges do because a lot of unilaterally approved the display and on
that basis the Dean removed the art.
people here are very activist-oriented.
Evergreen stands
for
a critical
examination of society in all its aspects.
"You assume some risk
At Evergreen, where people are
competent and talented and passionately
when you put on the
concerned with public issues, they are
Easter Bunny outfit
bound to do things that precipitate
and
go around campus
significan t disapproval
from
the
giving chocolate eggs,·
community. And just as long a's it is
done respecting other peoples' values, I
CPJ: There is a criticism that despite your
feel comfortable.
passion, despite the things you do, that
you may be more fluff than stuff
CPJ: What if the values are what the
sometimes. You have this great FM radio
institution needs to question? I don't
deep voice and you wear bow ties and
think anyone disagrees with you that a
put a smilely face on your signature and
college should be a place where people
you were seen at the Greenery a few
try to pursue the truth and that there
days ago serving lunch and you go from
should be no censorship, etc., but what
job to job... people wonder "Is that for
happens when the truth is offensive?
real? Is this kind of a PR thing?" How
do you respond to that?
JOE: Well, I think that that's why the
institution is given by the larger society
JOE: The best way to respond to it is by
certain privileges like academic freedom,
saying I don't want to respond to it. I
so if you do pursue truth and that pursuit
pride myself on the value of authenticity,
offends someone then you're protected
authenticity individually and authenticity
from arbitrary and capricious behavior. If
in institutions.
the President [of the US] is offended by
Most of what I've tried to stimulate
me, he can't flre me. If a powerful
thinking about at Evergreen, as a result
legislator is upset about your search for
of my being involved with many
the truth, he can not flre you. That's the
trade off...
meetings with large groups of students, is
You might ask, "Well, some values
the question of inauthenticity at
Evergreen. They say "By golly when we
are so inherently offensive, like for
example Nazism." I think that 'raises the
say we're. going to do something and it's
question then are there absolute values on in our catalog we'd beUer do it or I want
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it out of the catalog!"
Authenticity is very important to me
when I put on costumes, that's really mel
I might caution you that there's a logic
JOEY ·0· experiences Evergreen from the serving side of the
Greenery. Periodically the prez fills posts about campus,
walking in the other person's shoes.
-
not only what a person says but what a
person does and I stand on record, not on
rhetoric.
When it comes to things like taking
different jobs...you'd be surprised what
you can learn about how one sees the
college. I worked in the cafeteria. I was
a policeman, I emptied garbage cans or
whatever the job. You'd be surprised
about the extent to which, and I feel
strongly about this, you give respect to
people even by the way you try to do
that job.
I never forget, I won't tell you
which job it was, but I had a job that
was very, very menial along the lower
end of the ladder of not only Evergreen,
but anywhere in society. You'd be
surprised at the pride in the person whose
job I replaced that day and how that
person went to great lengths to say "No,
Joe," to point out my mistakes, to say
"you don't do it that way you do it this
way" and my reaction was "Oh, I see."
Every job has its own dignity and that's
something that ain't fluff. Because I'm
tired of dealing with people in society as
a whole who make equal the value of a
human being and what one does for a
Jiving.
Thirdly, I do it to learn, not about
general cultural work place relations, but
specific things. There have been three
jobs I can think of in the last four years
I took where I learned something on the
spot, came back to this office and, as
president, said "We're not going to have
a DTF, we're going to ftx that! That
problem should never happen again and
I want it changed."
CPJ: Can you think of an example?
JOE: I can think of three ell.amples but
I would really embarrass three people
whose jobs I took which were generating
the problem.
So it seems like madness, but there
is a logic to it I'm 50 years old but I
feel like I'm going on 14. Part of that is
the real me and I can honestly say that,
despite tensions at times in the last
couple of years here as president, despite
the obvious challenges I have experienced
here that most college presidents do not
have, I feel that I get up in the morning
and go to play rather than work. I have
a philosophy about how play is intricately
bound up in excellence. For me to
emanate a sense of joy and conftdence
about what I am and about this college,
that's what a college should want its
president to do.
If I have to wake up in the morning
and look at the mirror while shaving and
ask, "Oh my God, do I have to go to
~t place again?" I'd do myself no good,
I d do the college no good, and life's too
short not to do anybody, especially
yourself, any good,
What I regret is that the problem of
authenticity is so critical in our society
that as a CEO of any institution I am
going to be subjected to questions about
"Well, why is he doing that? Who is the
real Joe Olander? Who is not the real Joe
Olander? Is he saying the truth? Is he
saying the truth because of certain
political objectives? Is he lying?"
No matter what I do here with what
ever opinions I have, with whatever
sincerity, there will be people who think
that just because I have the authority of
president I can never be authentic. I
would like to think as president of a
public college..- I mean you assume some
risk when you put on the Easter Bunny
outfit and go around campus giving
chocolate eggs to faculty and students. I
think authenticity has to be measured by
risk. I think a lot of people in my
position would like to do what I do but
they're too afraid and so they take
vicarious pleasure in it All I can say is
I'm having fun.
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In EI Salvador death and democracy go hand in hand
"EI Salvador is a haunted
country. It is haunted by
the ghost of revolutionary
hero Farabundo Marti and ·
the more than 30,000.
others massacred... "
by Austin Kelley
To some North Americans EI
Salvador is a bulwark of democracy, to
others a repressive torture slate. This year
I decided to see it for myself. I was
there from early January 1989 through
the elections in mid-March.
Arriving at EI Salvador's airport, the
fIrst thing I saw was a poster bearing the
images of children with their arms or
legs destroyed. This poster was directed
against the Salvadoran Guerrilla (FMLN)
for its use of land mines. Land mines are
also used by the Salvadoran Armed
Forces, which has indirectly sponsored
this poster through the Governmental
Human Rights Commission (CDHES).
Representatives of the Salvadoran
Armed Forces greeted me at the airport,
carefully searching my bags for signs of
"subversive" activity, and again when I
arrived at the University of EI Salvador.
These soldiers were part of a military
circle placed around the University of EI
Salvador "to stop the terrorist students
from bringing bombs in and out." It also
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acts as part of a well co-ordinated plan
of repression against the. University
community, which actively opposes the
policies of the Salvadoran government.
In l)ecember 1988 a group of
"unlmown right wing extremists," some
dressed in Army uniforms, entered the
University shooting a watchman and
blowing up the biology building.
Those who speak against the
government continue to disappear, despite
talk
of
"reforms"
and
the
"democratization."
Sometimes
these
unfortunates are found with clear signs of
torture on their mutilated bodies. The
'lucky' ones are unveiled at press
conferences where their "confessions,"
often extracted under torture, are fuel in
the propaganda war of the Salvadoran
Armed Forces. These 'lucky' Salvadorans
generally go on to lead 'rewarding and
productive' lives as political prisoners.
The
nature
of . Salvadoran
"democracy" is such that when the
national and international pressure is too
great a prisoner is freed. When this
happens the Armed Forces issues angry
fulminations against "phantom" human
rights groups ·secretly run by the
FMLN," saying that all human rights
groups are connected to international
subversion.
But the democracy game must be
played. As election time drew closer
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President Duarte, chief advocate of the Refugees (CRIPDES), as well as other
US-sponsored "low intensity" war, was groups working to bring peace with
dying of cancer. His would-be successor justice to El Salvador.
to the leadership of the Christian
In the Salvadoran mainstream, the
Democrat Party (PDC) was Fidel Chavez- PDC acceded to the Peace Proposal. Far
Mena, a man perceived as continuing the behind in the polls they knew that six
Duarte legacy of a corruption-riddled months of campaigning was an
government, economic crisis, and opportunity to change their position.
prostitution of the country to US
ARENA opposed changing the
interests.
elections, having a secure lead in the
The Nationalist Republican Alliance
Party (ARENA), which controlled half polls and not wanting to blow it This
gave the PDC the opportunity to bill
the mayors and the Constituent Assembly,
itself as the party of peace, in contrast to
had a strong candidate in Alfredo ARENA's more hardline approach.
Christiani. ARENA, founded by the
The Salvadoran Left, generally united
"Godfather of the Death Squads" Roberto around the Peace Proposal. was divided
Daubisson, edged into frrst place in the
around whether to participate in the
pre-election polls on a platform of peace
Presidential Elections. The FMLN urged
and prosperity achieved through "total
a boycott of the March 19th elections,
war" against the Guerillas.
but their allies in the Democratic
The FMLN made a proposal to Convergence Party (headed by Guillermo
withdraw from military struggle and Ungo) , broke with FMLN policy by
participate in the elections which they
running in the elections. The FMLN and
had previously boycotted. Their peace
the Convergence tried not to criticize
proposal stipulated: Postponement of the each other too much, preferring to
elections for six months so the FMLN
maintain as much unity as possible.
could mobilize its support; Absentee
As the elections drew nearer, slogans
voting by the one million Salvadorans and jingles urged the Salvadoran public
who had left the country; A mutual
to vote for one party or another. Each
ceasefrre by the FMLN and the party promised peace, prosperity, and
Salvadoran armed forces for one month happiness. Closer to the election both the
before and after the elections; The FMLN PDC and ARENA utilized graphic TV
would agree to abide by the results of the ads accusing the other of bringing death,
elections and cease armed struggle.
poverty and destruction.
ARENA, assured of victory in the
ARENA, still ahead in the polls, held
pre-election polls, rejected the proposal. huge
rallies,
sometimes
targeting
"Of course we want peace," said the particular sectors like Campesinos or
pany of total war, "but it wouldn't be women. The trick seemed to be to
constitutional to postpone the elections," convince the voting public that ARENA,
said the party which violated the essentially the party of El Salvador's
Constitution at will.
oligarchy and its agents the death squads,
Archbishop Medardo Gomez of the was going to help the Salvadoran
Salvadoran Episcopal Church was among majority achieve peace and prosperity.
the fIrst to counrer, paraphrasing Jesus, ARENA played well, drawing more and
"the law is made for humanity rather more people into the fold.
than humanity for the law- if the law
, As the elections drew closer, it
gets in the way of peace, then the law became clear that the FMLN's peace
must change."
proposal wasn't working. The FMLN
Countless popular organizations called a forced transportation stoppage
backed the FMLN peace proposal, among (Para), for the three days leading up to
them the General Association of Students the elections and election day to protest
of the University of EI Salvador the "electoral force." Buses or cars
(AGEUS), the National Unity of driving during ibis time ran the risk of
Salvadoran Wodcers (lINTS), and the being burned or attacked. Armed soldiers
National Committee of Salvadoran roamed the streets, looking fur subversive
activities. Bombs blew up regularly at
dawn and dusk. It played in the US press
as the FMLN subverting Salvadoran
democracy.
Finally election day; a violent day.
Helicopters strafed the edge of San
Salvador, attacking guerrillas who had
reached the city limits. Three reporters
died at the hand of the army while
covering the elections. Bombs exploded
everywhere.
When the dust cleared, ARENA had
won, with the PDC a poor second. The
elections seemed more like hype than
anything meaningful. Presumably the
Salvadoran public felt the same: only 28
percent of the eligible voters voted, some
because not having a voter's stamp on
one's ID was enough to get one killed
for being a guerilla.
There is a revolution going on in EI
Salvador. Nothing can change that. the
years of institutionalized violence, of
death from hunger, disease, and
degradation, have only pfC('ipitated a
more overt violence. ARENA hopes to
crush that revolution with brute forces
when it takes power in June, using US
made bullets if possible. If ilot they are
prepared to fight without overt US aid.
or if necessary the US has plenty of
covert means at its disposal to continue
carrying out such aid.
ARENA's victory will not come
easily. EI Salvador is a haunted country.
It is haunted by the ghost of
revolutionary hero Farabundo Marti and
the more than 30,000 others massacred in
the bloody "Matanza" of 1932, while US
warships waited off the coast (When
asked why they didn't intervene, the
Warship Commander replied that the
Salvadoran armed forces were doing fIne
by themselves, and didn't need any helpl)
There are more ghosts haunting EI
Salvador, among them the eternally
heroic Archbishop Romero and the more
than 70,000 'others killed in the last ten
years of bloodshed. EI Salvador will be
plagued by nightmares until the IciIlers
and exploiters of the Salvadoran people
are pulled from their places of power,
until the people have enough to eat, a
life with dignity and a country they can
call their own.
Coo,>er Point Journal May 11, 1989 Page 7
·NBC Black athletes special 'stereotypical'
Scientists on the show presented
proof that black athletes are indeed
physically superior, but they couldn't
agree on whether the physical differences
were the results of genetics or
environmental conditioning,
or
a
combination of both. The research
presented on the program included studies
done on whites from both the US and
Canada, and blacks from both the US
and West Africa Blacks were found to
have some differences in their muscle
fibers, and these minor differences were
said to result in black superiority in
"short burst explosiveness." as in jumping
and sprinting.
Of course, if indeed there are minor
physical differences that give blacks a
natural edge in sports. African Americans
have nothing to be ashamed of or
apologize for. Yes, each of us should be
proud of our talents and abilities. But
how often do whites refer' to black
athletes as "natural athletes." while white
athletes are "hard workers." This racist
perception implies that black athletes are
lazy and were given their superior skills
by God, while the white guys achieved
because they worked for it.
Black athletes, like many blacks in
the American workforce, never get any
credit for their hard work and effort. Just
as black athletes are thought of as
another phase in the evolution of racism.
For example, as NBC's program noted, in
the days prior to Jesse Owens, Jackie
Robinson, Joe Louis, and Bill Russell,
whites believed blacks were inferior both
mentally and physically and could not
possibly compete on an equal basis with
whites.
But since those days, African
American athletes have come to dominate
iootball. basketball and track, and now
make up more than 30 percent of major
league baseball players. So today. in the
1980s, white racist lore says that blacks
are indeed superior athletes, and their
athletic prowess merely proves that they
are closer to apes-- great physical
strength but little intellect.
More than 50 years after Jesse
Owens disproved Hitler's theories of
Aryan racial superiority, whites have
come to accept and even appreciate
African American talent, but still doubt
black intellectual capabilities. It's as if
whites are telling blacks, "OK. so blacks
are better in sperts. but we're still
smarter."
And while I am always glad to see
racial issues explored from every angle in
the media, I became concerned, as I
viewed the NBC special. that perhaps the
information disseminated by the program
would feed racist stereotypes.
by Carol B. Hall
NBC may have opened a real can of
wonns when it asked in a recent news
special, "Are blacks better athletes?"
African American athletes certainly
dominate college and professional sports
today, with three of every four NBA
players, 63 percent of the NFL and
nearly all of America's male track stars.
This is a fairly recent phenomenon, since
African Americans were not allowed into
professional big league sports until the
19408 and 1950s, and many universities,
especially in the South, still fielded allwhite basketball teams as recently as the
late 1960s.
In the past two years, two white
celebrities got themselves into hot water
when they voiced their thoughts on black
athletes on national television. AI
Campanis, fonnedy of the Los Angeles
Dodgers, said that blacks were certainly
great athletes, but he didn't think they
had "what it takes" to manage a major
league baseball team. Jimmy "the Greek"
Snyder. a year later. speculated that
perhaps blacks are physically superior
athletes because they were "bred" for
their physical prowess during slavery.
Many folks lauded these gentlemen
for having the guts to speak their minds
on the subject, but in my view. their
candid remarks merely represented
"natural athletes" who never worked for
their success, black employees who land
good jobs or promotions are viewed as
the "unqualified" who are being rewarded
merely for their "minority status" by
affumative action.
The NBC program may indeed stir
up some old stereotypes, but I'll give
NBC credit for attempting to air some of
Amenca's racial laundry. As host Tom
Brokaw and sociologist Harry Edwards
summarized, whether or not blacks have
God-given physical superiority, the fact
remains that African American athletes
work very hard, with almost total
dedication to their sports. Professional
sport remains one of the few career fields
that is wide open · for black talent, and
black athletes are mlijor role models for
black youths.
But I'm warning Americans black
and white: let's admire and encourage
black minds as well as black bodies. Too
many white ki~ are giving up on sports,
and too many black ki~ are giving up
on education. Less than 30 percent of
NCAA Division I athletes. most of whom
are black, graduate from college. As long
as this trend continues, African
Americans will continue to dominate the
basketball courts, while whites keep a
fum grip on the judicial courts and board
rooms as America's powerhrokers.
TESC welcomes spiritualist Christopher Hills,
In the late 1950s Christopher Hills
began scientific investigations into human
nature. As he experimented with light and
color and their relationship to the brain,
mind. body, and personality. the inquiry
led deep into psychology. physiology and
physics, as well as social and
evolutionary theory. and Eastern spiritual
teachings.
The
theory
begins
with
"phenomenological" (personal, subjective)
experience, and extends out through the
sciences (and arts) to illuminate the
external universe. including all objective
aspects. from the subatomic. molecular,
cellular and hwnan to the planetary and
universal. This system for understanding
human nature closely mirrors Evergreen's
interdisciplinary approach. and has been
increasingly impacting the Evergreen
student community, both academically
by Mike Sutherland
Christopher Hills, Phd. whose
writings and presentations. are recognized
as direct transmissions of inspired
spiritual knowledge. blended with modem
science for use in the world today, will
give a lecture/workshop at 1:30 pm this
Saturday, May 13, in Lecture Hall Two.
The
presentation
is
titled
"Evolutionary Praxis: techniques for
personal and planetary transformation"
and will focus on manifesting the
changes necessary for our future if
humanity is going to survive this phase
of evolution. The workshop will also
address the question "Does an absolute
superintelligence exist?" The event is
sponsored by Innerplace. and is offered
free or by donation. Afterwards, there
will be an informal reception in the
Rotunda. where participants may meet
and speak with Dr. Hills.
and extracurricularly.
Complementing his original research
into human nature and our place in the
evolutionary picture. Dr. Hills is also
recognized for his more visible
achievements in scientific, philanthropic,
and spiritual realms. Retiring from a
successful career in business at age 30,
he spent two years practicing spiritual
techniques as a disciple of a Guru -in
India. before returning to the west with
newfound insight into present world
conditions. In 1970, as president of the
World Council on Scientific Yoga, he
brought top western scientists together
with realized Yoga masters to focus on
issues of science lind spirituality, and
practical solutions to world problems.
Inspired to help end world hunger,
Hills began work with Spirulina, a fast
growing, highly nutritious "superfood."
which thrives in harsh desert climates.
The richest natural source of protein, beta
carotene and vitamin B·12, spirulina is
also higher in other vitamins, minerals.
pigments, and essential nutrients. These
characteristics point to spirulina' s
potential for natural dietary "preventative
health care" (it is available in Japanese
pharmacies) as well as future planetary
survival. Fuither research led La · the.
development of phycotene, a multicarotene algae derivative which Harvard
Medical School is researching for its
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I asked her if she could look it up
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She tried looking it up in a sales
catalog but the catalog had no prices.
I asked her if her boss would know
where to look.
She made a quick phone-call, but
her boss did not know nor did she have
a catalog that gave the price.
With a bored expression, she looked
me in the eye and said in a level tone.
"If you really must know, I could call the
main store up in Seattle but they might
not know either." I wondered what they
actually did know aside from different
color combinations with mauve prints on
yellow cashmere.
Frustrated, I asked how she knew
how much to charge the customer when
they were buying something like what I
was trying to get a price for. She fixed a
carefully calculated glare upon me and
said that she just ran the scanner over the
UPC bar code on the bottom and the
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I asked if she could do this for the
product I wanted to price.
She said she could only if I were
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Now I could've understood paying
$18.57 for a bar of soap and an eyeliner
pencil if they were gold-plated, but they
weren·t. The bar of soap came with its
own little carrying case so it would not
suffer undue damage in the shower while
the eyeliner pencil came with its own
special pencil sharpener. The blade on the
sharpener was probably made of
platinum.
Later in the car, my girlfriend opened
her "free" gift and discovered at least
half of the things promised were miSSing
and in their places were some cheap
plastic eyebrow combs and a pencil
sharpener with a cosmetics logo on it
I guess that the moral of the story is
if you want to get a free gift by
purchasing a certain dollar amount of
beauty products. you should bring along
at least twice as much money as req,uired
and leave your boyfriend home where he
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Development destroys
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by Dorothy Jackson
I have basked in the peace and
beauty of a wooded hillside since 1975.
Recently, I heard the' rumbling of
machinery in the distance. On inquiring"
I learned that some of the hills nearby
were being cleared for development. "Oh
well." I thought, "we still have our hill
covered with maple, fir and alder." As
the giant Caterpillar chewed its way
across the hilltops, I soothed myself with
the thought that it would stop before
reaching my place.
To my amazement and horror it
continued on its way! Still rationalizing I
reasoned that they would only take the
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Inside of outside? Hmmm... Now where do you suppose this
new competition will head? This game is a chance to think
tantaliZingly hard and find the really smart places to go.
Hidden away on this campus is an uniquely marked card. So,
if you happen to locate it and restore to us the whole gob
(see Chris Carson.) at the CPJ, prepare thine eyes to look
lovingly on your new prize. They're not quite tailored to
individual tastes, of course, but we will try (right .. ) to
bring forth supercool prizes for everyone. It'll be chic,
really! Here is the details: every week (1 hope!), you do
a puzzle in the CPJ. This smallish article contains (Wow!
Really?) this week's puzzle. The encoded puzzle points at
ya-hoo prizes hidden shamelessly around this campus. When
looking in these places, you will only be able to find the
pbsequious cards. Bring this valuable thing to the office
of the CPJ, where it (hopefully) will be traded for (Wow!)
kaleidoscopic rewards. The big prize this week just might
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original walked up to me, proffered a
credit card and said, "It's OK mister. go
ahead and take it, I'm way under my
credit limit."
I left and had not returned until my
girlfriend got the card in the mail.
Knowing about my previous
experience with cosmetics sales ladies,
my girlfriend opted to guess the prices
and purchase two items that appeared the
cheapest, hoping it would cost around
$10. She told the sales lady she would
like a bar of soap and an eye-liner
pencil.
True to the fonn of any ruby-red
blooded cosmetics sales lady, she passed
the soap and eyeliner under the scanner
and the computer register flashed the
grand total of our purchase.
n$18.57!n I screamed. My girlfriend,
slapping a hand over my mouth to
conceal my obscenities, wrote out her
check for $18.57. grabbed her purchase
and "free" gift, and dragged my
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I went to the mall with my girlfriend
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if she bought $10 worth of a certain
brand of beauty products, she would
receive a free $20 gift package filled
with their newest colors of lipstick and
eyeliner, a small vial of face cream, face
scrub. and face moisturizer; things that I,
myself would buy only if someone
threatened to super-glue a rabid wolverine
to my jockeys. And even in this case it
would have to be under severe duress.
When my girlfriend got to the
cosmetics counter at one of the
departrilent stores at the mall, she had to
wait for about 10 minutes while someone
beyond the help of industrial strength
beauty products debated which shade of
eyeshadow would best accent her lips. I
thought "morning pork-chop" would do
quite nicely.
At the end of the ten minutes, the
uncertain purchaser-to-be of eyeshadow
decided to replenish her cliolesterol level
and come back after lunch.
The sales lady, dressed in a white
doctors' smock, turned her perfectly
unifonned lips towards us and asked if
she could help us with anything. I was
about to say thal I needed some help
jacking up my friends semi when my
girlfriend cut in and said she received a
card in the mail and would like to
purchase $10 worth of beauty products so
she could get the free gift worth $20.
With a wicked look in her color·
coordinated contact lensed eyes, the sales
· Iady fanned her arm out in front of her
and said those fateful words: "Do you see
anything that you like?"
Now right here I knew that
something was up. When there are no
price tags in sight. "Do you see anything
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by one. it swooped down -on its hapless
victims, who were falling like sticks to
the snowy ground.
Nearby a worker coordinated with the
caterpillar. the chain saw buzzing like a
swarm of angry bees. He moved in for
kill when the orange Cat had picked up
the fallen tree in its huge mouth and
deposited it neatly on a fast growing pile.
While he worked to fall yet another tree,
the monster waited, motor purring, its
tentacles poised to grab the next prey.
I constantly watched my maples at
the edge of my property daring them to
go near them. One by one, the hill was
stripped and still the beast's appetite was
unappeased ... every tree feeling the bite
of the saw and the clutch of the giant's
claw.
Not through with the carnage the saw
man moved on, ready for another victim
of the saw. In no time the team had
cleared the hillside of all the ancient fITS.
I stood at my window sick at heart. After
all these years they were slain in a
matter of minutes.
I suppose they call this progress?
Progress for people coming here in
droves for the peace and beauty of our
slate and for the untouched country
living. What irony! So now, gone are the
gentle giants 1 heard whispering in the
wind . bending. but never breaking in a
storm.
I'm trying to look at this in a
philosophical and positive light. but its
not easy! I tell myself:
[ will see gorgeous sunsets that only
filtered through the trees before.
Maybe it will up real estate values.
Maybe there will be interesting
neighbors.
Yes. maybe.
But, I admit I am still desolate.
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Cooper Point Journal May 11, 1989 Page 9
Reality isn't half as fun as the alternative
by Edward Martin III
The cinemas at the Capitol Mall have
one of the neatest things I have ever
seen.
They have ultra-cool custom
letterings on the marquis above each
theatre door which I think are sent to
them by the flImmakers, but this mystery
is best left unfathomed.
I and a group of anonymous
omnivores went to see The Adventures of
Baron Munchausen, ready for all sorts of
high weirdness. Terry Gilliam directed
this twisted little flick and those of you
who have seen Time Bandits or Brazil
have a preUy good idea what to expect
from this man. Gilliam is also known
for his demented animation sequences
during Monty Python's Flying Circus and
the
occasional
cameo appearance.
According to his concise biography on
the back cover of the soundtrack to The
Meaning of Life, Gilliam has mastered
maneuvering large family cars into tight
spaces, uphill. I would definitely say he
has mastered something else as well.
Remember when you were a little smaller
than you are now and it seemed perfectly
reasonable to take a balloon to the moon,
since it only seemed just a liule ways
off? The Baron, played by John Neville,
was always the son of person you
His
expected to do things like this.
adventures are the adventures of a person
who uuerly scorns reality and all it
represents simply because reality is not
nearly as fun as the alternative.
Just as in real life however, there is
that moment when fantasy must giw way
to reality (unless you read a lot of
poetry. What?! Who said that?) and
when it happens, you feel as if something
has been irretrievably drawn from you
and no matter how hard you try, you will
never be able to bring back the fantasy.
You may be able to have it visit for a
while, but pain and tears and cruelty
always drive it away.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
is a strange and compelling movie.
its time has ended. The old leaves for
the new.
Robin Williams fans keep your eyes
peeled. Williams' King of the Moon is
beyond fun, although the credit is given
to a man by the name of 'lUttle
(contractual
obligations,
perhaps?).
Anyone tired of flatulence or orgasms
will be duly sympathetic to the King ' s
needs and you are going to have to see
it to understand what I mean by that
Those who salivate at the presence
of Sting also need to keep your eyes
peeled, and I mean peeled! His cameo is
about twenty seconds long and he has but
a single line.
The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen has action, adventure,
excitement, impossible things, fast people,
good shots, strong men, heavy breathing,
good hearing, beautiful ladies, assoned
Gods of the Underworld, Turks, one big
fish, whirlpools, a few beheadings, two
near-beheadings, bombs bursting in the
air, a crazy hmatic or two and one very
impossible rope trick.
Go and see it at least for these
things, if not because you're tired of
writing that paper on Constantinople.
Also, try to sneak a pizza in and tell me
how you did it because I've been trying
to do it for years.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
is fantasy's final adventure before it
allows itself to fade away from you
forever . It is the climax, where science
and logic win eventually, but not without
the most glorious battle ever witnessed.
Watching The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen is allowing you to be privy
to that last battle, where fantasy pulls all
acquiesces to science anyway, knowing
Lecla
The God is lone.
After the flurry of feathers,
the quick. forced union,
the emptYinC of a god'. de.ire
lnto the mortal receptacle.
Troy is lO8t.
The aeed 1. planted
and w1l1 not be kept from lrowing.
Already Patroclua
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All about h1m the bodies of men
feed carrion.
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13, 1-5 pm. at the Washington Center for
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C Dorm is sponsoring a dance tonight
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Ultimate Frisbee will be played in Field
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Dance to 9 Day Wonder in the Library
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Sponsored by the Environmental Resource
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'The Pedicurist'
May 11
May 13
"New Dances: An Evening of Works by
Independent Choreographers"
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performing together for a modern dance
extravaganza. The Experimental Theater
at TESC at 8 pm. Admission is $5
general, $3 students and seniors. Call
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"Soon
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Moodswing, Barrelhouse Flyers, Mark
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"Una Celebracion!" All women are
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dance, poetry, and stories, featuring Grace
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Dr. Christopher Hills will speak in LH
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Sunday
May 14
The Wooden Boat Festival will take
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Mildred Andrews, author of Washington
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and speak at the Capital Museum, 112 W
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The movie is free. Sponsored by the
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An Internship Orientation session will
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others. Tonight's topic is "What Should
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Conflict?" This talk is pan of a series
called "Bullets, Rocks and Olive
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7:30 pm in the Pierce College
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May 18
An Abortion Support Group is being
facilitated by Wen Yee Shaw, Women's
Health Care Specialist. The group is open
to all women who have had an abonion,
or are considering abortion, and want to
share their experiences with other women.
The group will meet in Library 2219, 69 pm. To register, call the Women's
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Faculty, staff and students of Evergreen,
and musicians of Olympia's music
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Experimental Theater. Tickets cost $5
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