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JOURNAL
Febr uary I I , 1988
Volum e XVI
Number 16
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Table
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OPPOSITION
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by Andy Smallman
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Contents
The night fell
like a curtain on
closing night.
Still,
I acted out
the goodbye scene
until I begged myself to stay.
You fell asleep
quickly .
I listened to your
quiet breathing,
watching the rise and fall
of your chest.
And like The Little Engine That Could
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LETTERS .......................... 3-4
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• Thanks
• Evaluations
• More Military
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NEWS ................. ················· 5
• Town Meeting held on campus for
first time
INFORMATION .................. 6-9
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I said,
"I think I can."
• Cover Story: Evergreen Commemorates the 10th anniversary of the
Longest Walk for American Indian
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rights
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W hen morning came
and you awoke
I was there .
Waiting . Ready.
I brought my lips
to yours
and anticipated a
response.
I felt nothing
but closed lips
and a tongue that lay hidden,
unmoving,
as if giving in to
its inability to form
a long forgotten word .
INTERVIEW .................. ·10-11
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• Fran Johnson
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POETRY .... .............. · · ··· ······ 12
Deadlines for Thursday publication:
Calendar items--one week in advance
Articles--Friday at 3:00
Letters-- Monday at 3: 00
• Women of Color
TRADITIONS OF THE HEART.
13 - 2 0
• Special pullout section
ARTS &
ENTERTAINMENT .......... 16-21
FEATURE ............... ········22-25
• CIA
PHOTOGRAPHY ........... ...... 26
OPINION ........... . .......... 27&30
• No-Doze stares fill classrooms
• Comment on the Board of Trustees
StafT: Chris Carson, Ad Manager; Susan
Finkel, Advisor; Kathleen Kelly, Product ion Coordinator; Lisa Otey, Business
Manager; Benjamin Tansey, Edito~;
Whitney Ware, Typesetter; Julie
Williamson, Ad Production; Aaron
Yanick, Distribution. Volunteers: Janis
Byrd, Managing Editor; Jane Keating,
Photo Editor; Sheila Pullen , Arts and
Entertainment Editor; Kristin Fontaine ,
Calendar Editor; James Oshiro, Vikki
Michalios, Darrel Riley, Ellen Tepper,
John Robinson, Larry John Davenport,
Dayid
George
CALENDAR ................ ····28-30
GREENERSPEAK ................. 31
COMICS .......... . ................. 32
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The Cooper Point JOU/flal is published
weekly on the Campus of the Evergreen
State College, Olympia , Washington
98505 (CAB 306A); (206)866-8000, ext.
6213 & 6054. Copyright © 1988.
You were late for class.
Again.
Me, I was late
for yo ur love so,
in its place, I hated myself.
Again.
CORRECTIONSI
In last week's Greenerspeak (Feb. 4), we
messed up. The photo 3.bove the quo~e
by David Garrigues opting for Wmme
the Pooh for president indeed was not
Garrigues, but rather Even Greene, who
supportsJesseJackson. David Garrigues
picture was inadvertently placed ~bove
the quote by Steven Kant, whose picture
did not appear in the article.
letters
SERENDIPITOUS
Dear Evergreen Community,
Many thanks to all who rallied to end
contra aid. Special thanks to more than
40 Greeners who took time out to rally
at the Capitol Rotunda and the federal
building in Seattle on February 1. Television news reports described the Seattle
rally as "one of the most vocal protests
this city has seen in years." It was unexpected and serend ipitou s that several
hundred demonstrators managed to enter
the building. Those who were locked out
at the front door entered through the
parking garage and other doors. Next,
the elevators were shut down, but
demonstrators climbed 32 flights to
Senator Dan Evans and Representative
John Miller's office. Demonstrators
against contra aid were omnipresent,
both inside and outside the building. We
portrayed a powerful image to the public
and to the media of people taking over
the federal building, peacefully , to demand that our foreign policy be one of
peace in Central America.
Obstacles to organization included
scant time for planning, political
maneuvering around the vote and
counter proposals and a chainlink fence
around the building's plaza that kept the
rally spread out and sandwiched against
the street. It was disorganized. It was
disconcerting for first-time participants
and for those who are not familiar with
the Pledge's spontaneous nature . The
Pledge has asked us to extend an apology
to those who anticipated a mass arrest
and devoted a day to nonviolence trairi·.'
ing in preparation for that. That was the
plan. But apparently the political realities
changed Monday afternoon, when it
became apparent that contra aid would
be defeated . A federal arrest is no trivial
thing. The proceedings can consume
much of one's time , diverting energy
away from other important projects. For
long-term activists with prior arrests, it
meant 21 days in jail after the Pledge's
last federal action. Few were looking forward to "throwing away" an arrest on
the eve of a victory . While the Pledge
promises other arrest opportunities, it is
important to realize that nearly all of us
committed civil disobedience at the
federal building, but because of the collective power of our numbers, none of us
· ·were arrested. To our way of thinking,
that is the best result (we shou ld not be
punished for advocating human rights),
The defeat of conU-a aid resonates that
and it is attributablt> to th e work of many
people over many years.
And it signifies that at leas t in this one
instance, people , not demigods, are making the policy.
The Pledge of Resistance is a national
interfaith organizat ion, created after the
invasion of Grenada to prevent a similar
invasion from occuring in Nicaragua, ·
which has been an adm inistration contingency according to some sources. The
Western Washington Pledge Congress
recently voted to broaden its work to
resist the quagmire of intervention
elsewhere in Central America .
EPIC is a member of The Pledge. We
wil l continue to work for selfdeterminatoin and human rights fonhe
people of Latin Ame rica, South Africa
and the Middle East and others, as well
as many domestic issues. Our meetings
are Thursday even in gs at 5:30 pm in LIB
3222, semi-potluck, bring food. All are
welcome.
Sincerely,
Joe Evenson
Maria Gudaitis
and EPIC StafT
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Letters
POINTLESS
Editors of the CPj,
The critics Michelle Mack and Rene
Alexander have given us a lovely e~a~
pIe of seventh grade playground antICs 10
their response to the short story" Someday". They have stooped to n~me cal~
ing and vulgar insults for the basIs of th:lr
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They are most certamly
cnutlcritique.
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ed to their opinion, but a logical , mor.e
respectable argument might bett.er SU,lt
the topic, and certainly your aU~lence s
intelligence . Instead we faced thel.r crass,
pointless letter because they thmk someone has used too many adjectives. A.nd
might I say, their use of the English
language is immaculate, although there
are no metaphors. Wait, there IS one"like a fish out of water." Very good.
In addition to our critics, you at the
CPj have shown even less respect to the
author by printing their letter. The CPj
offers a forum for fiction; that is wonderful. But the stipulation that as authors
submitting work, we must face child-hke
attacks printed in your paper. is a ppalling, and extremely irresponsible 10 m.y
eyes. To bite the hand that feeds you IS
one thing, to throw it back 10 their face
in unforgivable .
Mark Gaertner
GESTURE
Dear Ben,
A couple of weeks ago a lett er written
expressed a concern I've had for several
years: that evaluations of faculty by
students be made readily available to
students. I've been involoved in some efforts with students to put together and
publish a fair and informative book of
evaluations, but the project has always required more time than any group has
been able to devote .
Belated to availability is an issue of the
completeness and quality of evalua.tions
as currently written. It is my experience
that they are of only marginal value to
a prospective student. Even faculty who
devote serious time in helping students
write faculty evaluations find the products largely lacking in detail and context specificity. Additionally, effort to use
4 numerical scoring a long several dimen-
sions tend to end up feeling both static
and impersonal. We an trying to avoid.
that in the evaluations faculty do of
students and students do of themselves .
S houldn' t we strive for evaluations of the
faculty that give a sense of the students'
involvement and living interpersonal experience with their faculty?
As a first gesture toward both the
availability and quality issues, I've given
Academic Advising copies of the evaluations my students wrote of me last fall
quarter. I specifically asked the .students
to write the evaluations know 109 they
would be used this way and as if advising a friend who would be taking a program from me . That quarter's teaching
effort was a very intense and somewhat
experimental effort for all of us. The
evaluations reflect this and are by no
means completely flattering. On the other
hand I find them refreshingly honest
abou; the students' experience with me.
I also find them considerably more useful
than past evaluations in assessing. changes
I need to make in future teach mg.
I'm not sure how to get other faculty
to get their evaluations into open accessible places and I certainly have work to
do to make the evaluations as useful and
complete as they should be . I also think
that more than one quarter of
teachingllearning is necessary for a good
understanding of a teacher's total
capability. But at least it's a start.
Earle NcNeil
IN TEARS
To The Evergreen Community:
The letter from" Pax Solidus" in the
last issue of the CPj had me in tears. As
someone who had three close friends
e nter the military academies this year, the
militant pacifist issue is something I'm
very sensitive to.
Who says you have to be one or the
other? My friends in the Navy and Air
Force aren't sitting around plotting wars
against Russia. And so~eone ~hose idea
of promoting peace IS blOWing up ,a
govern ment building because they do~ t
agree with the policies isn't exactly a sa lOt
in my book.
I would never enter the military. I do
not support most of the U .S. 's military
actions. But the fault there is in the
government , not in the men and women
who are defending their country . OK,
maybe this sounds like a load of patriotic
shit, but since when is it a dishonor to
support and defend your country.
And I would like to direct all my rage
towards the people who give "Pax
Solidus" such a hard time. How can you
call him a warmonger, and then attack him
physically? Are you the same person who
spit on the Vietnam vets? And to the
Guardsmen who called him a "damned
pacifist" -if hell is where people wanting
peace of, show me the way.
I want peace. Hopefully, you want
peace. Maybe the military is necess~ry,
maybe it's not. But verbally or physl.calIy abusing someone because they belI~ve
differently is never necessary. T~ere s a
word for that bigotry. I would thmk that
Evergreen, especially Evergreen, would
be too open-minded to stoop to that.
So write to your Congreemen and demand for peace, if that's the approach
you believe in. And join the Army and
support your country that way, if you feel
that's effective. But whatever you do,
respect other people . Otherwise, how do
you expect them to respect you?
I hope this hasn 't taken any of the effectiveness out of" Pax Solidus "'s much
more concise letter. His message reached me-I hope it got to you, too.
Most sincerely,
Gretchen Case
Victims Meet Legislators
by James Oshiro
The frustration and anger of victims of
child sexual abuse were heard by
Legislators in an emotionally charge edition of KOMO-TV's Town Meeting.
The show was broadcast live Sunday
evening from the first floor of the
Evergreen library building as part of
KOMO's program , "For Kids' Sake."
The legistors who were addressed by
the victims included State Representatives Seth Armstrong, Cliff Bailey, Jean
Marebrough, jim Lewis, John Moyer,
Pat Scott and House Minority Leader
Clyde Ballard . Other Legislators who
were on hand to hear and respond to the
victim's complaints were State Senators
Stu Halson, Bill Kiskaddon, Ken
Madsen and Phil Talmadge.
Program host Ken Schram set the tone
for the event by first asking the audience
to visualize three young girls they know,
then to realize that according to statistics,
one of those girls will be either raped or
sexually abused before reaching her eighteenth birthday .
Following Schram's opening remarks,
painful and angry testimony was directed
towards the legislators. In one instance,
NOT TYPICAL
Dear CPj,
I would like to add my own note to the
anonymous letter in last week's issue.
I enlisted in the Air Force Reserve last
October. Though I was hesitant at first
about telling people here at school, I
made no attempt to keep it secret. Out
of all the people I've told, most have had
interested and/or positive responses, and
those who had ' negative responses were
willing to talk with me about my motives
for enlisting, and my feelings about the
military in general.
. I've been pleased with the way people
have dealt with this issue. It's been better than I had hoped. I'm sorry that our
National Guardsman had the unfortunate experiences he mentions on our
campus, I can sympathize with his position. I'djust like to point out that the attitudes he's encountered are not typical
of Evergreen students.
Sincerely,
j. Alex Harris
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a girl, under the age of eight, made a personal plea to the legislators to help protect her brothers who are still under the
custody of their abusive father.
The legislators gave mixed responses
in their efforts to answer the questions of
why child sexual abuse victims continue
to suffer through the lack of legislation
designed to help them.
The strongest reaction was expresed by
Rep. Lewis.
Lewis shared his feelings that; although
jail is an appropriate punishment for the
first time child sexual abuser, anyone
caught a second time should be chemically castrated . Other legislators expressed
milder opinions.
Sen. Talmadge informed the audience
of the number of bills introduced in the
legislative session this year .
A panel of child sexual abuse specialists
was also available to ask and answer
questions .
The panel comprised Charlie
Langdon, executive director of
Children's Home Society of Washington;
Shirley Caldwell, mental health director
of the Odessa Brown Children's Clinic
and Jon Le Vegue, executive director of
the Alliance for Children, Youth and
Families.
The topic of child abuse was first
discussed on Town Meeting in February
of 1982, in a program titled "Child Sexual Assualt"
But it was not until a recent letter, addressed to Town Meeting from an upset
viewer, asking why offenders get the em. phasis instead of the victims, that the
need to broadcast a live program about
victims was realized .
Town Meeting has pledged to help
keep the public informed of the legislation presently under consideration concerning help for victims of child sexual
abuse. KOMO-TV is also requesting
that cards and letters be sent asking
members of the legislature to fund ' the
much needed programs that support victims and protect children.
Those who al'e interested in helping
may write to the following address:
KOMO
c/o Town Meeting
100 Fourth Ave. North
Seattle, WA. 98109
A rebroadcast of the Sunday editIOn
of Town Meeting will be shown Sunday
morning at 5: 30 am on channel 4.
D TF to Review Social Contract
by Scott Buckley
The original Social Contract was a
document intended to apply equally to
everyone-faculty, staff, administrators
and students alike.
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In recent ycars, however, the community has begun to divide into separate
bodies. Faculty will soon have a facultyspecific re-appointment policy, while one
type ("classifed staff") already have a
specific procedure for firing, reprimand,
etc. buil.t into their union contract.
Last November, a set of proposed revisions/additions to the Social Contract
generated considerable controversy
among students. Many asked the question : "Who is this policy aimed at?"
While some administrators claimed that
the new code would apply equally to
everyone at Evergreen, the penalities in
the new code (such as suspension and expulsion) were aimed specifically at
students. The writing of the policy was
delegated to the Vice President for Stu-
dent Affairs .
Is it still possible to write a community code of conduct which applies equally
to every member of the community? That
is what a new Disappearing Task Force
(DTF) formed by the President's Advisory Board (PAB) will attempt to find
out.
Whether the DTF's task is possible is
not at all obvious. If faculty and staff personnel procedures are too entrenched, it
will be impossible to develop equivalent
punishments and hearing board procedures for all constituencies. In that
case, at least one student on the PAB
made it very clear that a new question
will be asked: "If this is a code for
students only, shouldn't the Evergreen
student body develop a code of student conduct entirely within our own group?"
The DTF which is now being formed
will review and find community-based
alternatives to the recently proposed sanctions (punishments) in the revised Social
Contract. It will also review the proposed list of specific rules, the hearing board
and appeals process, and the college's
grievance and appeals procedure. The
P AB asked the DTF to consult broadly
with the community in an attempt to
determine what changes would be "consonant with community values."
The DTF will have eight memberstwo faculty, two staff (one classified, and
one exempt), and four students. The
students will be chosen through the Student Communications Center.
This particular DTF will work very
fast, with a final report expe~ed by May
11 . Ifyou have
about what should be fUme,
contact the members oj the DTF! To find out
who they are, contact the Student Communications Center (located next to the
Deli on the first floor of the CAB) or any
P AB representative (Scott Buckley, Jessy
Lorain or Jackie Kettman).
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Information_-- Evergreen Celebrates Walk
Wendy Marks
On Campus
Tonight
Wendy Marks, West Coast coordinator for the Christ ic Institute, will
discuss the status of the Institute's pending lawsuit against those involved in the
I ran-Contra affair at 7 :30 pm tonight in
Lecture Hall 5 at The Evergreen State
College.
The Christic Institute is a national interfaith public policy law firm. The talk
is free and open to the public, and is
sponsored by the Evergreen Political Information Center.
For more information, call Austin Kelly at 357-3928 .
Surf Guard
Jobs Open
by Maia Bellon
In 1978, approzimalely 200 Native
Americans set out on foot from San Francisco to walk to Washington D.C. in protest of eleven b ills submit ted to Congress.
Nine of the protested bills were focu sed on American Indian rights. They
ranged form the termination of Indian
reservations to fishing, hunting and tribal
c ivil rights. Another major issue that was
add ressed was a $300 million lawsuit
against the government-run Indian
Health Services which had sterilized over
300,000 native women without consent
and through deceptive medical forms.
The Walk was completed in six
months. By the time the marchers reached the capital city, thousands of 111dividuals had joined in.
The Walk ended with a rally In
Washington D .C. at Malcolm X Park
with native spiritual and political leaders
speaking. Many other people like Marlon
Brando , Joseph Lowery of the Southern
Christian leaders, and Angeles Juarez of
the Puerto Rican Socialist Party spoke
The National Park Service is accepting
lifeguard applicat ions for positions in
New York, Long Island, New Jersey and
Massachusetts. Pre-employment tests will
be conducted in New York City, New
Jersey, Conneticut, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Illinois , Maryland, Alabama,
Pennsylvania, Washington D.C. and
Puerto Rico.
Successful applicants will be offered
surf lifeguard positions at Gateway National Recreation Area in New York City and New Jersey; at Fire Island National Seashore on Long Island and at
Cape Cod, Mass. Limited summer housing will be available at each location .
Applicants must be U.S. citizens, 18
years old or older for jobs at Cape Cod
and Fire Island and at least 16 years old
for jobs at Gateway. They must have
work or education experience and have
a physician's letter indicating the applicant is in good health to take the test.
Information and appl icants are
available by writing Surfguard Program ,
Gateway National Recreation Area,
Floyd Bennett Field , Brooklyn NY 11234
or calling the toll-free number
1-800-NP8-SWIM from outside New
York City startin g Feb. 12. Applicants in
6 New York City should call 718-338-3670.
reinforcing the message of the native
peoples,
As a result of the protest, the bills were
withdrawn from Congress-the cross
country walk had won a major victory for
Indian rights.
I n respect and memory of this event,
the E\'ergreen Indian Center and several
other student organizations are sponsorin g a ten-year commemoration with
speakers, comedians and singers. Max
Gail, of ABC's Barney Miller, will perform and speak on Native American
rights. Other featured performers include
renowned Indian Comed ian Charlie Hill
01 theOniedaNation and A.I.M.
(American Indian Movement) founder
and speaker Dennis Banks from the
A nishabe/Chippewa Nation.
The event will be held at the Recital
Hall on February 12, at 7:00 pm. The
public is invited and donations are
welcome. For more information call the
Evergreen Indian Center at 866-6000 ext ension 6105.
After more than a year of organizing,
dozens of fundraising events and
c?untles.s hours of planning, the Olympia t? Nicaragua Construction Brigade is
makmg final preparations for its major
objective. At 3:00 pm , Mo nay,
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Febrauary 15, the main body of its sixman, five-woman construction team
departs from the Seattle-Tacoma airport
for Santo Thomas, a town of 15 ,000 in
Southcentral Nicaragua.
There the team will erect a two-story,
masonary structures that will become the
workpla~e for a women's sewing
co?peratlve . In addition to the Olympia
Bngade, volunteer construction teams
from Seattle and Portland are currently
at work ~n separate projects in Managua
and Cormto, Nicaragua.
The team will spend seven weeks working alongside Nicaraguan laborers to
bring the project to completion. In early
April the Br~gade will return to Olympia
to share their experiences and continue
w?~king.toward the goal of ending U.S.
military mtervention in Central America
. Brigade construction team member~
pictured are, front row: Steven Groves
Shoshanna Liben, Kari Brown. Second
row: Peter Sen~elbach, Carolyn Roos,
Jeff Snyder. Third row: Jean Eberhardt
Donn Hewes, Ted Lewis. Back row: Bob
Basini~h,Jeffery Coffett. Georgina Warmoth IS not pictured.
Families, friends and Brigade supP?rters will participate in a send-off at the
alrpor~ at 3:00 pm. Those requesting
more mformation or a presentation by
the Brigade are encourage to call
459-1079.
Pirg Seeks Fee
This image, "Four Directions," is symbolic of the north, east,
south and west. When presented in the colors red, black, white
and yellow, it is evocative of the four colors the people of the
world, aoecording to Barbara Lawrence.
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Brigade Heads
for Nicaragua
by Todd Huddak
The Evergreen Chapter ofWashPIRG
will be reaffirming student support for the
chapter here on campus from February
17 to Fei?r:uary ~4 by having students sign
a statement saying they support the
chapter and the waivable 52.50 fee that
funds it.
Look for mor~ complete information
on WashPIRG in next week's paper.
The Olympia to Nicaragua Construction Brigade, names of members
can be found in the column to the left.
What happens when a student
needs to be selected for a Gover nance Committee, DTF, President's Advisory Board, or Board of
Trustees position;>
'First, The Student Communication Center jnvites any student to
apply for the position (via CPJ and
signs), and then second, weroundup a group of students who want to
be a part of The Selection
Committee.
The Selection Committee is
responsible for choosing a selection
process (ballot, consensus , student
board: or whatever seems appropnate) and for carrying out that
process until the student rep. has
been chosen.
So, the Student Communication
Center needs a student who want
to be a part of this: we'll put your
name on a Selection Committee
list, and when a student rep. needs
to be chosen we'll call you. If
enough students are interested in
serving intermittantly, your time
commitmen t will be small.
Come to the SCC and talk to us
about it (across from Bookstore
ext. 6785).
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Old Growth Threatened
.. We were hard up worldwide for systems
that are sustainable, that will go on
workiTlg. This whole ecosystem is an intellectual resource. It gives you access to
stuff you can't imagine."- William
Denison, botanist
there will not be enough left to call an
ecosystem-not enough left to support its
dependant species. The re art' many
things that we can all do to save the old
growth, but certainly the simplest and
most timely is to submit a letter of comment to the Forest Service about the proposed Management Plan for Mt. Baker Snoqualmie National Forest plan.
Everyone is invited to stop by and find
out about the plan, and about how to
b), SQlldra Schaad
The Pacific Northwest was once a vast
forest of what we now call ' 'old growth"
I rees. Today there are only remnants. By
1985 only one tree in ten of the original
forest still existed. Over 200 species depend on old growth forests for at least
part of their life cycle in this region,
among them the now-famous spotted
owl. The spotted owl, along with the pine
martin and the three-toed woodpecker,
are cons idered "indicator species." This
means that when they begin dying out,
t hose other 200 species are also dying out.
This, in turn, means the old growth
ecosystem as a whole, the most stable,
nutrient-rich and the oldest ecosystem in
t he Pacific Northwest, is dying out too.
What does this mean and why is it happening? The dying of the old growth
means many things-it means the disappearance of species that evolved in this
area long before we arrived; it means
many sites which are spiritually import ant to Native Americans and others will
be destroyed; and it means the whole
ecology of this region will be threatened
by the disappearance of its stabilizing
"climax" (mature) ecosystem.
The reason the old growth forests are
disappearing is immediately obvious: excessive logging. But the rea·son that this
logging is taking place to such an extent
is more political. It can be summed up
this way: the U.S . Forest Service is essentially a giant timber broker, with a small
touristlrecreation business on the side.
The Forest Service goes to great lengths
to hide its work by leaving green fringes
along northwest roads . But an airplane
f1 ight shows why env ironmentalists call
the fringes "dummy strips," for beyond
them, just over scenic ridges, lie massive
clearcuts of staggering multitude.
Environmental activists estimate we
h ave five years to save the old growth.
After that, at the current rate of logging,
comment. Maps and summaries are
a vail able to make commenting easy and
the comments of Native Americans and
various environmental groups will be
available as models. Please stop by and
talk to Sandra Schaad in the Environmental Resource Center, CAB 305,
on Mondays or Wednesdays from 12
noon to 4:00 pm for more information.
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Rape Awareness on Campus
b)1 Caroline Grober
Rape Awareness Week I S an annual
campus event. This past week, the Of-'
fice of Student Affairs , the Health Clinic
and the Women's Center sponsored a
week long series of events to help educate
the Evergreen community about rape
and what can be done to avert it.
Last week's events included: Myths
a nd Realities about Rape , by Debbie
Leeung from Safeplace ; a talk on sexual
harassment by Margarita Mendoza de
Sugiyama; and a workshop about rape
and its victims by guest speaker Dr.
Almut Fleke Poole from Los Angeles,
California. Evergreen Security's Darwin
Eddie and detec tive Brian Scheoning
from Thurston County Sheriffs Department spoke about their roles in due process and rape issues . Steven Kant held a
men's group on, What Can Men Do?on the vicio us circle of rape. Finally, a
workshop was held by Feminists in Self
Defense Training (FIST) to help wOlllen
be Illore assertive and conlident.
We need to begin breaking down the
societal problems which rape thri,·es on
and encourage people to act on needed
reforms. Following a re a few notes I 'd
like to share with the community.
Sexual assualt is any unw a nted sexua l
behavior. I t can cover a wide range of 0(curances from unwanted touch, COIlllllents , to behavior of any kind. Rape is
not a sexual act. It is when sex is used
as a tool to control and dominate someone. Some believe women ask for
abuse-this is not true. Older women, as
well as babies and physically challenged
adults, are raped . An awareness about
aq uaint ence rape has su rfaceel recently.
Some believe that men cannot control
themselves while possibly aroused on a
date . But the truth is each individual can
have self-control and it is not the
woman's full responsibilty to say no and
feel guilty about not wanting to share in
a sexual act. When a woman says "no",
she does not mean "yes".
When getting to know someone, it is good to talk
about your expec tat ions . Accepting that
rape could happen to you, and taking the
llecessary precautions, can help everyone
li,·e safer lives.
Seven out of ten rapes involve
aquaintences. Trust your intuition when
talking to people you know. Remember ,
yo u cannot characterize a rapist-there
are no sure signs. Rape can occur anytime , anyplace. Eighty seven percent of
all rapes do not include the use of a
weapon-so it is important to stay aware
a nd not surrender all of our authority
\J,·er to another when feeling threatened.
One in three women and one in seven
men will be raped in their lifetimes . Nat ionwide 2,000 rapes are reported daily /
(almost once eve ry 30 seconds).
R ape ca nnot remain only a women's
issue-it is not only our responsibilityrape affects us all. Men should continue
taking a more active role and responsiblit)' for each other's actions.
We hope to make Rape Awareness a
quanely event, which w ill make information mort' accessible and better integrated
int o Evergreen's curriculum.
I would like to thank all who were in,··olved in Rape Awareness 1988.
If you need further resources and
matcrials, contact the Women's Center
at ext. 6 162, or come to Library 3216.
Swiflltners Place High
by Andy Lane
Evergreen's swim team placed high at
the Oregon State University Invitational
in Corvalis Oregon. The men's team
brought home a fifth place plaque wh ile
the women's team took eighth place. The
competion was very high quality with 13
college teams competing.
Senior Max Gilpin finished up the
meet with impress ive swims. He placed
third in th: 200 breaststroke (2:24.40)
and fourth 111 the 400 individual medley.
Senior Pieter Drummond swam a seasonbest in the 100 freestyle (50_88) to fin ish
s ixth.
Trustees Delay Contract
by John RobInson
The Evergreen Board of Trustees
yesterday decided not to accept the proposed Social Contract on a 90-day
emergency basis . The Board agreed to
allow a ~TF ,which has been charged by
the PreSident s Advisory Board (PAB) to
complete a new draft by May 1.
The P AB determined that the DTF
wi ll consist of four students, two faculty
and two staff members. The new contract
will. be written only after the DTF h as
soltcited opinions from the community of
Evergreen.
When the new contract is completed,
and before further Board considerations
it must go to the State Code Revisor (i~
late Apnl) to be published in the
Washington State Register. The Board
of Trustees will receive a copy by Ma
1 , and will decide whether to accept it
a permanent basis at their Jun e 8
meeting.
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Sophomore Mike Hernandez swam a
so lid race in the 200 butterfly (2:21 :63)
that placed him 10th while first-year
sW immer Mike Hurwitz placed 11 th in
the 100 butterfly (57.93) .
Also posting best times were SeniorsJake
T~wle and Jerome Rigot, second-year
sw~mmer Aaron Soule and first-year
sWimmer Justin Pollack.
In the women's division, the lady
Geoducks were led by senior Rachel
Wexler and freshman Claire Littlewood.
Wexler improved her 100 and 200
breaststroke events to finish 12th and
10th place respectively while Littlewood
powered her way to a season -best 200
breaststroke race (2:54.11) to finish
ninth . Sophomore Sara Pearson swam a
season-best 200 I.M. (2:54:97) while
freshman Tami Trefethen finished strong
Booms Bring Fun
A ttention all fun lovers, excitment
mongers and exhilaration fiends: Just
when you had gotten to the point in the
quarter when the only thing you can
thi~k of is sleep, a truly awakening experience comes along. We're talking
about none other than the Team Gel '88
Winter Series.
For the next three Saturdays in
February, (13, 20, and 27), everyone is
invited to come out to the soccer fields
from 12 to 4 pm to have a ragin' time!!
You don't need experience-you get it
here. You don't need money, it 's totally
free I All you need is a willingness to run
a round smiling for a dav.
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in ~he 100 freestyle (1 :06.50). First-year
sWimmer Amy Bohn swam .her first 200
individual medley and 200 freestyle
events and looked very impressive.
In other Geoduck action, the team
swam at the Washington State Invitatonal at the University of
Washington.
Max Gilpin continued to take seconds
ofl' his 400 individual medley time
(4:31.19) and is within two seconds of the
National meet qualifying mark. The
men's 400 medley relay (Matt Love,
?i lpin, Hurwitz and Drummond) team
IS also closing in on the National time.
The swim team will travel to Central
Washington University this Saturday to
take on the Wildcats . The NAIA District
1 and 2 Championships will be held at
The Evergreen State College February
18 , 19 , and 20.
help you
Share the Memories
with our sp~cialized service ·
If you have seen or heard of all the
boomerang throwing on campus, but
have never dorie it yourself, don't fear!
There's still time to learn. Boomerang
classes are still going on every Tuesday
from 2:30 til' dark . But even if you don't
go to one of these, still come and play for
the weekend contests.
The Boom-Tests are historically one of
the most fun events in the world. Prizes
are given to all competitors. Grace and
beauty are defmed by everyone. The time
has come for all good Greeners to come
to the aid of themselves . Throw booms
for furi, health, and art. Be there!
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Fran Johnson's from the Northwest
by Darrell Rilly
NAME: Fran Johnson
HOMETOWN : "The Northwest"
STAFF: Administration Assistant to Pcte
Pietras
STUDENT: Senior
PROGRAM : Environmental Studies
This week I cheated on my interview.
I interviewed FranJohnso n , who is both
a staff member and a student. While I
was interviewing Fran I told her that I
had spent four years in Chimacum,
Washington. I star ted to exp la in to her
where it is ( 12 miles so uth Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula) when she
s topped me and said she knew. Later I
told her she shou ld meet my grandmother
because t hey h ad a lot of th e same interests. Suddenly it struck me, "How did
s he know where C him acum was?"
" I went there to see a women who was
ve ry ac tiy c in the Washington Environmental Council a nd e nvironmental
issues. A very dynamic lady. I can't
remember her name but it was something
like Marian," she said.
Yes folks, we are entering the Twilight
Zone here. Fran Johnson knew where
Chimacum was because she had gone
there to visit my grandmother!
Fran Johnson is special assistant to the
h ead of the computer center, Pete Pietras.
However, her position is unique .
" I don't fit on anybody's mailing lists
because I'm both a staff member and a
student," Fran explained.
Her job is to do whatever Pete asks her
to do, but she says.they have a special
working relationship. "I like it when Pete
uses my services but never knows that
I ' m there. Hejust puts staff in the inbox
and watches it pile up, and when he
co mes back the pile has disappeared and
the work is done . That way I'm not in truding on him and the work gets
accomplished. "
continued on following page
"The idea of an open education is to develop open minds."
Fran has an amazing array of skills.
She weaves, does her own auto repairs,
grows her own vegetables, cooks, bakes,
has built her own house and made her
own clothes.
" I used to be the typical hippie," she
said. "I did everything myself." Nor has
she stopped picking up new skills. Her
Fran: Do you know the way to Chimacum.)
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facility with the computers advances
every day.
But her most impressive ability is
befriending people.
"I think one of the ways I impact
Evergreen the most is by being friendly
a t Computer Services. I can relate to people. Sometimes new users feel they know
so little they won't even talk to the consultants, they idolize anyone wearing a
green vest. They come wide-eyed to me .
After they've talked to me for a while they
will say, 'I'm new here, how do I get
started?' I point them to the student
co nsultant s.
, 'I'm not attached to what people think
about me. There's a good part of me that
really doesn't care how people perceive
me. If I cared I probably wouldn't do
some of the things I enjoy, and I'd rather
do them. For instance, 1 really enjoy being friendly and helpful to the students
using the computer centt"r and I cou ldn 't
be that way if I were attached to what
other people thought of me. "
She also goes to school full-time .
"It was important for my self-esteem
to get a degree," Fran confided . "I used
my lack of a degree as an excuse not to
do things. I came to Evergreen because
it's approach to education is different
from a normal academ ic environment. 1
Photo by Jane Keating
couldn't survive in a place where I was
expected to listen and regurgitate.
"I came back to college to find out how
I could keep doing what I liked and start
making money at it. Environmental
Studies is giving me an avenue to pursue that. I've refined 'The Art ofObserv ation' here . You can learn a whole lot
by watching and listening without imposing any values on what you see. It's
something that I've always known but it's
stressed in the classes I'm taking. I like
that.
"I've also learned that 1 know more
than I thought 1 did. 1 trust what I know
now. Evergreen has provided me with a
safe environment for experimentation. 1
can mess with my style and get positive
feedback without being criticized. This is
a time of accelerated learning for me. 1
squeezed in a lot related to my personal
interests.
..,
"I think that I'm different from some
of the students here becau se I'm willing
to s~eak up. Not only about the ideas but
arso about the teaching materials. I'm not
afraid to organize a group of students to
talk to a teacher if if will deflOnstrate that
there is a problem and the problem isn't
just me . It's not always necessary to do
that, just being willing to speak up in
class when things aren't going well is
often enough . 1 don't want a confronta~ion, just an awareness so that there can
be negotiation."
"Sometimes I think the instructors
here forget they are role models for their
students. Too many professors here suffer from the, 'My position is right and
there isn't any room for negotiation .'
T heir words and actions don't match.
The idea of an open education is to
develop open minds. Some instructors
have been caught in a rut without realizing it. They are imposing their ow'n ideas
and style on their classes when the diea
is to allow each student the latitude to
learn according to their own style . A
single style fosters a reaction rather than
people thinking for themselves and
deciding what their actions will be. It
shuts people down rather than encouraging them.
"Communication is very important to
me. 1 had a former boyfriend tell me that
I was terrible at communication. Rather
than getting huffy I worked on getting
better at it. I'm always asking myself,
'What's the purpose of what I'm saying?'
I really prefer if I'm going to say
something that I have something to say .
"When I look for friends I look for
people who don't take themselves too
seriously and have a sense a fun, joy. I
also like people who are willing to
communicate-not just the fun stuff in
their lives but the yeuchhy stuff and be
truthful about it. There is a difference
between being truthful and telling the
truth to hurt somebody.
"There are so many people afraid to
say stuff, good or bad, because they are
afraid of the ramifications. I wish people
would risk more in what they say to each
other. I don't want to grow old and regret
: the things I left unsaid, and I see so many
people doing that. It's hard to say positive
I things. It's harder for people to be human
with each other , to expose themselves to
I each other. But we have to try ."
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After The Love Slip.
Holding Her And Loving You
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1988, 7:30 PM
CORNERSTONE POTTERY
202 E 4th • 352-9534
A wide variery of unique pou ery pieces by
local pouers, plus paintings, sta in ed glass,
wooden toys. ect. Sem i-annual SECOND
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Join us for Breakfast,
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Always a special experience.
Books for all ages, for all interests .. a gift
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HAUMANN'S FLORIST
408 E. 4th • 357-5232
Flowers, plants & a fin e selection o f gift
items. OPEN VALENTINES WEEKEND ,
FTD, credit card orders by phone welcome.
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Herbs, teas, perfume oils, futons, New Age
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Fifty Ways to Treat Your Lover
by Sheila Pullerl
The day for lovers is here again.
Va lentines Day is a tim e to reflect on o ur
love and find spec ial ways to express it.
Everyone knows there a re little thin gs we
can do to show tender lov ing ca re and
that can continue the trad itions o f heart
through the year. And since we all forget,
or somet im es need help exp ress ing our
feelings, or simply find it ha rd to think
of orig in al ideas here are some crea tive
ways to treat yo ur love r.
Take your love to a park for a walk and
s hare the environment. Try :
•
Mirna Mounds-23 acres of
mounds, unexplained geologica l oddity;
• Capital Lark Park-favorite sit e to
jog ;
• Marathan Park-site of the first
womens ' O lympic rna~athon trials;
• Priest Point Park-trails, picnic,
waterfront ;
• Int erpretive Center- backside of
Capital Lake, great for su nsets;
• McLane Nature Trail , beaver
pond;
• Tumwater Falls and Historical
Park;
• Perciva l Landing-viewing tower,
boats and the Capi ta l.
I'm sure a night of music and danc in g
wi ll soften anyone's heart. So try these:
Ebb Tide , 4th Ave Tavern, Tyee ,
Westwater, Whiskers, Carnegie 's, Barb's
Soul Cuis in e/Jazz City or Olympia
Ballroom (in the old Olympia Hotel).
Have you ever spent a romantic night
at a Video Arcade;> There are some fun
p laces , but watch the crowds at the mall.
VYhy nor try: Hannah's , 4th Ave Tavern
or Godfathers.
Take your love to a museum or gall ery
lik e the Washington State Capita l
Mu se um ,
Henderson
House ,
Childhood's End Gallery, The Evergreen
State Coll ege Galleries or Marianne
Partlow Ga llery.
Do you want to go to the ocean ? Catch
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a G ray lin e Bus for only a buck; or tour
the sights of Olympia on a 75< all day pass
with Intercity Transit.
Does yo ur love like to ski? Head on
down to Olympic Outfitters for some supplies or rentals. They also offer a Ski
Bus-check it out.
Give a special gift of T. L. C. Like a
night at a bed and break fas t or time alone
in a hot tub. There are Town Tub a nd
Touring Tubs. Or, add the specia l care
found at Radiance, Earth Magic, Illu sions or Tan Perfect.
R ent a video and spend a quiet evenin g a t home cuddled up together . Try
R a iny Day, House of Movies, or Village
Mart for that romantic flick.
Do you relate horses with romance?
Then take your love horseback riding or
for lessons at Sherman Valley Ranch.
Along with the typical flowers, cand y
a nd a bottle of wine, try being a secret
ad mirer for a week. Or, put love notes
in asso rted places for your love to find a ll
day lon g. Another way to build a nticipation is to leave clues in interesting places
that wi ll lead yo ur lover to the treasure
of you.
T here are many good restaurants to
spe nd a special night out at, or a lun ch
together on a busy day to just say " I
care. "
• Urban Onion-organically raised
meat, lot s of whole foods with n at ural ingred ia nts and a comfortable a tmosphere .
• Natural Squeeze-fresh fruit and
vege table juice, wheat grass and good,
wholesome food.
.Fuji Teriyaki-good food and friendly service; students are very welcome .
• New Shanghai Cafe-good food
and friendly place.
• China Town-~reat hot and so ur
so up a nd incredible kung pao chicken.
• Nlanann s nouuque-open lor
lun ch , great quiche, soups and desserts.
• Hannah 's - good burgers, tasty
shrimp , wide selection of beers.
• Rainbow-exotic da il y specials .
• Pepe's- inside 4th Ave Tavern
Zaky prepares his delights and munchies
for hungry folks .
• D ad' s Place-homemade food in a
co mfortable dinner atmosphere.
• Gardner's-the seafood fettucini
deserves a standing ovation.
• Seven Gables-wonderful people
serve wonderfu l food in Victorian hou se.
• Casa Mia's-consistant quality pizza to pasta.
• E .R . Rogers-in Steilacoom, a
roma ntic Victorian hom e filled with a nt iqu es overlooking th e sound and worth
the drive.
• Mason J ar- a NO s mokin g
restuarant with homemade soup, desserts
a nd other specialities .
• Mark's After Five-great seafood.
There a re also ma ny good live performances in town and in Seattle . They are:
• Fest ival Sundiata, Seattle Ce nter,
Feb . 12-15.
• Irish Pipers Convention, New
Melody Tavern , Feb. 13-14 .
5 Aberdeen Traditional Jazz Festival,
Feb. 12-14.
5 Dionne Warwick, Paramount , Seattle, Feb. 14.
• The Olympia Little Theatre, "Love,
Sex, and the IRS " Feb. 11-1 3.
Many of our family and friends need
som e extra atte ntion during the year too.
Why not send them a special gift, or, if
yo u know someone in a retin;:ment or
nursing home, go visit them . They will
give more love back than you can give.
One of the nicest gifts to someone all
alone is compa nionship .
Don't leave out the children during
this romantic month. Try some of the
above su ggestions on them-a little love
goes a long way .
Treat Land to Love
by Vikki Michalios
February 14 is traditionally a romantic eve ning over a candle -lit champagne
d inner with your honey. Or perhaps you
se nd it with family, friends and pets, expressing appreication for your rela tionships with each other a nd the sharing of
love . But how do you feel about your
rela tionship with the land a nd the environment a round you ? Sound kinda
crazy;>
I think the first step in showing respect
a nd treating the land with love is realizing that it is not our land , but we are of
it. The earth is alive and growing. Of
course, it doesn ' t think the way we
humans do, yet the earth has its own
cycles and systems of living and if we
keep treating the land we belong to with
polluted air, contaminated water a nd
such, it's going to get indigestion. And,
it might be too late when people finally
realize life is out of balan ce.
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You can choose to love yourself in spite
of your past. Hurts that were done to you
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trees , waters, soil-this planet-exciting,
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by Janis Byrd
Kaleidoscope Theatre Productions didn't
bring refin ed or precise dancing from its
home in Victoria , British Columbia.
However, the troupe's energy and
animation was wonderful and it's easy to
see why they give between 150 and 200
performances each year.
The music of the Olympia Symphony
Orchestra was as enjoyably energetic as
Kaleidoscope Theatre's colors were eJectricly entertaining in their joint performance Sunday evening.
From the symphony's unusal solo
snare drum opening in the overture from
Gioacchine Rossini's opera "La Gazz a
Ladra" to the combined mime actorsymphony finale, the family audience was
showered with sound, color and
movement.
Under the direction of lam Edlund,
" La Gazza Ladra" was followed by
J aromir Weinberger's "Polka and
Fugue" from the opera "Shvanda the
Bagpiper . " And though it isn't the
Boston Pop Orchestra, the symphony
performs well and is certainly worthy of
Olympia's support.
The special treat , specially for
children, came after intermission .
Sneaking onto the darkened stage,
Kaleidoscope's five actors, who are also
gymnists, singers and dancers, helped the
kids discover sound.
"First was the voice, then came the
drums... add the strings.. . what a
sound .. . that's the brass . . . are you ready
for a blast?" they chanted.
To the symphony's rendition of "Row,
Row, Row Your Boat" and "Way
Down Upon the Swanee River" the actors turned hula hoops into bicycles,
trains, and yes, even a rowboat.
Did you known music was fat? And
spooky? What about itchy? Shy? Polite?
Or, did you know that music sounds like,
colors shaped of fluorescent ghosts in
pink, yellow, blue, green and orange?
When was the last time you noticed that
symphonic music sounds like a sleeping
caterpillar, a raging storm or beautiful
white birds in flight?
Overall, the joint performance was exThe images and movements of the accellent
family entertainment and a repeat
tors, accompanied by the symphony
performance
probably won't come SOon
delighted young and old alike. Miss
enough
for
anyone
that's a kid at heart.
Melody made a solo appearance and was
later joined by friends Har, Mo, and Ny.
Together the group showed how one new _.
idea could reshape the same eight notes
into new and exciting sounds.
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Duane and Amber Castillo, ages 5 and
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however, as to whether they want to get
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live audience." Asked if they thought
radio demanded more imagination than
theatre or T.V., they said they did. But
they said they were studying film
anyway, because there is no money In
radio.
"I liked the theatre bits," Susan
Dimitroff said. "I'm looking forward to
the next Alive in Olympia."
Cindy Davis said it was "really fu~ny. 1 t hink that's what 1 like about thIs
kind of radio. It comes off real fast. They
can put in different skits and sound effects close together. It changes fast. They
a lot of creativity ... " She added that she
was "amazed that they can come offwit~
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I could never do that." .
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produced by John Rieger, an ~ndepen
dant producer from San FranCISCo .
Director David Ossman 0 b serve d , "In
radio you get to expose more of the way
the event is done than in theatre. You can
s h ow all the elements that go into the
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by Larry Davenport
I'd planned on reviewing the excellent
Smothers Brother's Comedy Hour 20th
Reunion, and David Letterman's 6th anniversary special, but quite frankly, I'm
bored with television.
Some of you may have caught the new
title ofthis column last week and shouted
"HURRAH, no more shit about
telev ision. "
Don't bet on it. I just want to give my
brain a rest and talk about something
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This week's topic: comic books .
I remember when, at the tender age of
sixteen, I decided I was too old to read
comic books. I gathered the few, about
five hundred, I had lying about the house
and took them to a local pawnshop, swapping them for an armload of Penthouse
magazines.
Nine years later I found myself in a used book store trading those same
magazines for a handful of comic books.
Comics, dear readers, are not just for
children anymore .
I first started rereading comics when
I learned my favorite author, Stephen
King, wrote the forward to the 400th
issue of Batman. In his forward , King
talked of a new Batman series called
"The Dark Knight" that was as intense
as anything he (King) had written.
I shelled out eight bucks for four issues
and was immediately drawn into a world
not too dissimilar from our own. There
was David Letterman. There was Dr.
Ruth. But there was also the Dark
Knight, Batman. Indeed, the story was
intense and intelligently written . The art
work was superb. And, I was immediately hooked on comic books again .
Next came the "Green Arrow: The
Longbow Hunters." Another adult series
bringing the green one to our own
backyard, the Pacific Northwest. Not as
brooding or dark as the Dark Knight,
Green Arrow also deals with contem-
porary subjects such as U. S .lSoviet relations and AIDS.
The latest two comics I've been
reading are "Electra Assassin" and "The
Watchmen. " When I say latest, I mean
the last couple of years because both were
first published in serial form during 1985,
but were recently bound as large paperback books, or what are now known as
graphic novels . Both are excellent
reading, and Electra Assassin has the
most breathtaking art work ' I've ever
seen .
Both "Electra Assassin" and "The
Watchmen" have a mutual mistrust of
our government's intelligence bral:lches,
as does" Green Arrow." Any of the three
would make excellent reads this week
since there is a renewed interest in the
C.I.A.
I now check out comic book stores
regularly, like I do video stores, looking
for the good stuff. Comic books aren't
just for kids anymore-they may be too
rough for adults as well.
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Cursing the Hierarchy
by John Robinson
pressed a sentiment of cohesiveness
This is unique . This is Evergreen at its
. prevalent throughout the production.
best. The "Curse of The Starving
"As a lighting designer, and as a coClass," a play written by Sam Shepard,
producer, I feel a sense of responsibilty
will be performed here at Evergreen's
to help with whatever needs to get done.
R ecital Hall March 9-11
H you have free time, you help someone
The story behind the productin of this
else. Obstacles come up, but they've been
play is what makes it exciting. Embodied
pretty easy to get over," she said.
in a group contract sponsored by Richelle
The tasks and obstacles have been both
Potter, The Curse is being co-produced by
minute and monstrous. They range from
seven students.
a consensus decision on how much to
. '''This is not a hierarchical producspend on costumes to how big a sheep will
tion ," says director Bruce Woods, a nd
have to be (a pen will ~ouse a live sheep
the only student sponsored by Ed
during the performance). The decisions
Trujillo.
vary from the design of promotion posters
Generally, the co-producers agree that
to the length of an extended lighting
the structure of their set-up is very tryfadeout.
ing, but well worth the trouble . Stage and
"The key (in the group process) is to
business manager Cindra Harter said,
find the grcup's ego and keep , it positive
"When seven producers all get a say in
throughout the production, " says
every aspect of the play, it can slow down
Woods. "Not only do we collaborate on
the decision making process. But seven
decisions, but there is also open-ended
different points of view also make the end
collaboration in which we can inspire
result that much better."
each others creativity . "
Lighting designer Cathy Brown ex-
Giving rise to new and deeper ideas is
all important in this group.
The play is nobody's "baby." No in dividual egos run the show . Consequently it is a powerful group with evolving
aspirations. A student funded, student
run and student produced play-expect
an incredible performance .
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CIA Links to the Underworld
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Something's
by Jim Mattson
Something 's missing. It's not inform ation. Information is available, should one
h ave the inspiration, time, e nergy and
money to utili ze it. But for most o f midstream America, too much knowled ge
seems to be out of reach. It doesn't matter whether or not this is the result of a
deliberate eITort. What matters is that too
much of what America is a ll about isn't
being told to Americans.
We say we live in a participatory
democracy. The presumptions here are :
rule of the people, a n informed electorate
and justice. But somt of our leaders don't
trust the citi zenry to rule thcmsd';es.
Missing
They e ngage in ac tivit ies sec retly of
wh ich they know we wo uld not approve.
T hey lie to our elected representatives in
Congress . They engage in "dis info rm ation" campa ign s to fool us into supportin g them by lying to us. The C TA in particu lar does a ll of these things. T hey give
us the information we use to make our
dec ision s.
The media is our chief sou rce of education a '1d comm uni cati o n . But th e
mainstream media is co ntroll ed by some
of the largest corporations in America
w hich provide us only with the information they think it best we know. Some o f
it is prepared by the Nation a l Security
Council and disseminated to the media
so we know what they want us to know .
Some of it is prepared by journalists ,
a uthors and scholars working for the
C IA .
We're told that it 's in the interest of
national security that we not know some
things. What's missin g is the truth .
What's missing is democracy. In its place
we h ave the N a tional Security Act of
1947 that protects us. In its place we have
the CIA.
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by Austin Kelley
"I know th at every American parent
conce rned about the dru g problem will
be outraged to learn that top Nicaraguan
government officials a re deeply involved
in drug traffickin g," declared Ronald
Reagan on national T. V. on M arch 16 ,
1986.
The T . V . screen then fla shed a blurry
black and white photogra ph purportin g
to show an airplane being loaded with cocaine in Nicaragua, whil e Sandinista officials alledgedly stood by . Continuing
with his attack, Reaga n said, " There is
obviously no crime the Sandinistas do not
recoil from . This is a lawless regime."
Three month s late r, Congress a pproved $100 million in a id for the contras , undaunted by the fact that senior Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials
had disputed R eagan's allegations of a
Sandinista-dru g connection on many
occasIOns.
Indeed , in a rather Orwellian twist, the
ev idence seem s to suggest that CIA perso nn e l a nd con tr a leaders h ave
themselves been deeply imbedded in the
unde rworld of international drug
running.
Central to the contra/CIA/dru g conection are Jorge Ochoa, a Columbian
druglord, and the M ed ellin Cartel, a
dru g syndicate b ased in Columbia, o f
which Ochoa is a leadin g m ember. The
Cartel controls 80 percent of the coca in e
smuggled into the United States according to U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency
(DEA) estimates. Two fi gures in particular implicated C IA or contra personn el in unsavory relationships with Ochoa
or the Medellin Cartel:
The first whistleblower, a maj or trafficker close to the Ochoa operation , gave
eye witness testimony to the FBI in 1986 .
The informant, a U.S. citizen married to
a Columbian drug trafficker, is know n
only as " J ane Doe,"
Sen ator John Kerry (D-Mass), in
prepara tion for Doe's test imony before
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
oITered a " legal proITer" on what she
knows. T he proITer states that on two occasions Doe witnessed the loadin g of cocaine from the Ochoa family into CIA owned planes by CIA agen ts in Barranquilla, Columbia.
Further evidence li nking the CIA/con-
tra operation to the Medellin Cartel was
o ITered by Ramon Mila n-Rodriquez, a
convicted money launderer who told CBS
N ews that he passed $10 million in drug
profits from the Cartel to the contras at
the request of Felix Rodriguez, a longtim e CIA veteran deeply involved in the
co ntra supply eITort.
According to Mila n-Rodriguez, th e
money was intended to win fr iends in
Washington for the druglord s. "The
cartel figured it was buying a little friendship," according to a congressional
source cited in Newsday. "What the hell
is $10 million bucks?
More evidence linkin g what Richard
Secord called "The Ente rprise" to drug
smuggling was oITered by three pilots who
testified about their role in a m ajor guns
for drugs operation in Central America.
The first, kingpin smuggle~, George
Morales, told CBS News that a fter his indictment in 1984 for viola ting U. S . drug
laws, he was approached by contra
lea ders who offered to "take care of' hi s
indictm ent in exchange for his involvement in a co ntra drug smu gglin g
o pera tion.
Furthermore, Mora les told CBS News
tha t h e gave some $3 million to various
leaders in the contra movement betwee n
1984 and 1986 using funds generated by
running guns to Costa Rica and cocaine
back to the U. S. H e testified that the major trans-shipment point was located on
the ranch of John Hull , a self-desc ribed
C IA age nt .
Gary Betzner, one of Morales' pilots,
es timated that drug flights brou ght the
con tras "around fort y million " dollars.
He told C BS News, " I (ook two loadss mall aircraft loads-of weapons toJohn
Hull's ranch in Costa Rica, a nd returned to Florida with a pproximately a thousa nd kilos coca ine."
Pilot , Michael Tulliver, said under
oat h that a fter flyin g a shipment of
weapons to contras in Honduras , he was
ac tually allowed to fl y 25,000 pounds of
marijuana to Homestead Air Force Base
in Florida .
More evidence of contra use of drug
profits was re ported in M arc h of 1986
w hen the San Francisco Examiner
revealed court records in the so-called
" frogman" drug case, involving th e
larges t amou n t of coca ine seized in West
Coast history-some 430 pounds.
The EXGminer stated that records for the
case, frozen by the courts for the previous
three years, reveal that the government
ac tually returned $36,020 sezied as drug
money to Julio Zavala. Zavala , a smuggler convicted in this case, received the
money after he submitted letters from the
United Nicaraguan Opposition, a contra
group, asserting that the money was
the irs . Zavala testified that he delivered
some $500,000 in drug profits to contra
groups.
Understanding the meaning of these
charges requires a historical context
through which to view the CIA and its
connec tion to the drug underworld . A
useful guide is historian Alfred McCoy's
book, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast AsUz.
In his book, McCoy concludes that the
C IA 's reliance on the criminal underworld to help fight its anti-communist
wars resulted in the CIA's "inadvertent
but inevitable" role in drug trafficking.
McCoy cites involvement of the CIA
with the Corsican and Sicilian Maffias in
its fight against communist strikers and
organizers in Europe. He writes that the
C IA 's role as proxy army for U.S . interests helped the mafias to, "playa key
role in the growth of Europe ' s post-war
heroin traffic ... which provided most of
the heroin smuggled in to the United
States over the next two decades."
The heroin supply was also aided by
the CIA at its source when the U.S . supported opium-growing Chinese Nationalist forces in the fabled "golden
triangle" region of Southeast Asia . In
Crimes of Passion, Jonathan Kwitney
a rgues that CIA planes flew supplies into these forces and then flew opium out.
Later, the CIA back Laotian drug lord
Yang Pao who, in return, helped lead the
Hmong people of Northern Laos as a
"sec ret army" for the agency's covert
wa r during the Vietnam era. Christopher
Robbins states in his book Air America,
that Yang Pao and his people prospered
from opium production using airplanes
purchased with the help of the CIA to
transport their illicit products .
These operations and many othersn otably the CWMafia collaboration during the "contra war " against Castro 's
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smuggling) illustrate the interconnections
between the drug underworld and our
"secret government," th e U.S . mtelligence community.
Alfred McCoy finds CIA complicity
with drug trafficking to exist on three
levels: 1) Coincidental complicity by allying with groups engaged in the drug traffic; 2) Abetting the trafficking by covering up for known (drug) traffickers and
condoning their involvement; and 3) Act ive engagement in tht" transport
drugs.
On which levels U.S. involvement in
the CIA/contra/drug connection exists re main to be proven and what it all mean s
is still unclear. Look to Senator Kerry's
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee,
as well as a new investigation by the
House Judiciary Subcommittee on
Crime , (chared by Rep. William
Hughes) to shed more light on the
matter.
Most importantly, look to the upcoming Christic Institute lawsuit to help
break this story open. The Institute will
bring man y of the individuals tied to the
contra-drug connection to cs>urt.
Only when the full story is in will
Americans know what to make of President R eagan's statement that he, too, is
a contra. The truth could persuade the
U.S. to "just say no "money to Julio
Zavala. Zavala, a smuggler convicted in
this case, received the money after he
subm itted lett ers from the United
Nicaraguan Opposition, a contra group,
assert ing that the money was theirs.
Zavala testified that he delivered some
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US Doesn't Seek Democracy
by Erica Getler
If I could get the book, Turning the Tide
by Noam Chomsky, out of my head
perhaps I'd feel better abou, liying in this
country, and for that matter, on this
planet. It's not that it has made me feel
th e whole world is corrupt and evil, it
m erely pointed out to me what a few
power hungry citizens of the United
States, which happen to be controlling
rather large portions of the world, have
done to satisfy their personal greed. This
book addresses the control big business
has over U.S. foreign policies and nuclear
weapon production in a way that is
challenging and insightful for the reader.
Noam Chomsky is a professor of
linguistics at MIT, and according to The
National Reporter magazine is "one of the
best-known critics of U.S. foreign
policy . " Chomsky begins the book by
giving detailed accounts of killings and
tortures happening in Central America
today. He demonstrates how the United
States plays a major role in the instigation of these brutal acts. In fact, there is
no other region in the world that has had
to endure the severity of U.S. intervent ionist policies longer than Central
America and the Caribbean. This region,
as Chomsky points out, can be compared
to the way Russia enslaves Eastern
Europe.
The underlying irony Chomsky argues
is that the U .S. has spent millions of
dollars and considerable effort not preserving democ racy in Central America, but
demolishing it . As the Central American
people work to build their independence
and improve their living conditions, the
U.S. increases its interventionist policies
toward them. This intervention, as
Chomsky reveals , is to protect U.S.
businesses th .t established themselves in
Central America, thus insuring for them
control of the majority of the land,
resources, and labor there. As a result,
the lower class people are forced to work
for American co mpanies to produce cas h
cro ps instead of growing food for
themselves. Although this condition
would still exist to some degree if the U.S .
businesses were not in the country, at
least the peasants would not have to en-
dure the harshness of U. S. foreign
policies which serve to keep the morale
of the populace down.
As Chomsky points out, U.S . foreign
policy in Central America is set up to
keep people under control so they do not
rebel against U.S. businesses . To do this,
the U.S. has played an intimate role in
the setting up of proxy armies. Examples
are the death squads in Guatemala and
the contras in Nicaragua. Various
methods are used to train these armies,
one being the use of neo-Nazis from
Argentina . Chomsky continues by explaining that the armies are then instructed to kill any supporters of their
own government or helper to the people
(ie: teachers, doctors, priests , etc.).
To gain American citizens' support,
and in turn tax payers money, U.S. planners use propaganda showing our
government odering killings and tortures
in the name of democracy and self
defense. Chomsky draws a parallel by
reminding us that the German Nazis
slaughtered thousands of Jewish people
a lso in the name of defending themselves
(against Jews conspiring with the
Bolsheviks and Western capitalism) . He
also points out that Nicaragua is being
targeted by the U .S. because it is closer
to becoming a free democracy than any
other country in Central America. The
fear of Nicaraguan success is based on the
chain reaction theory: nearby countries
would soon follow Nicaragua . So to
guarantee U.S. business interest , U.S.
propaganda claims the contras are
fighting the Nicaragua against communism and for freedom. Chomsky
demonstrates that in order to validate
these claims, the U.S. has carefully
created foreign policies using embargo
tactics that drive the Nicaraguan government toward dependence on the Soviet
Union for a id .
Chomsky stresses the importance of
realizing that what is going on in Cent ral America is not new, and we can find
this same type of intervention in foreign
countries throughout the decades. To
understand the planning behind this in__ '~""f.d on Page on 30
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ArlDs Flow:
The Big Lie
by Goodman
Since 1980, the U.S. has sent over $2
billion in military aid to the government
of EI Salvador. The Reagan administration justifies this aid by claiming the
Soviet Union and Cuba are sending a
tidal wave of guns through Nicaragua to
Marxist rebels operating in EI Salvador.
When asked to prove their assertion they
reply ...
"Trust the President."
Stangely enough, journalists and
others who have spent time with the
Salvadoran rebels say the rebels are quite
poorly armed, often with guns purchased from corrupt Salvadoran supply
sergeants. Undersecretary of Defense
Fred Ikle stated in 1984 that roughly half
of the guerillas' arms are U .S. weapons
captured from Salvadoran troops. But the
President steadfastly insists the rebels are
armed and controlled by outsiders, rather
than admit that 6,000 guerrillas can control about a third of EI Salvador because
they have popular support.
For seven years the Reagan administration has claimed it has "overwhelming and irrefutable" evidence that
the EI Salvadoran rebels are armed and
controlled from the outside by nonSalvadorans. But they' ve refused to show
us this evidence on the grounds that it
would jeopordize intelligence sources.
Last week's revelations suggest th e
desperation of the administration to prove its charges. Jose Blandon , a former
close advisor to Panama's military leader
General Manuel Antonio Noriega, has
stated that Lieutenant Colonel Oliver
North set up a secret operation in 1986
calling on Panama to send Eastern Bloc
arms to EI Salvador, where they would
then be "captured and used as proof '
that Nicaragua was arming the EI
Salvadoran rebels. However General
Noriega cance lled the plans and seized
the arms at the last moment. Previous administration efforts to document this
a lleged anns flow have ranged from the
pathetic to the absurd. Among them:
.
In February of 1981, th e U.S . State- )~~IIIII
Department released a "white paper" ~
featuring "definite evidence" of an
avalanche of communist support lor the
!I!~I~."·
directed,
supplied by Nicaragua is
Salvadoran rebels . Supposedly based on
simply not true. There has not bee n a
19 captured rebel documents, the eightsuccessful interdiction or a "erified report
page paper was widely quoted in the
of arms moving from Nicaragua to El
press. Within days of its release, the NaSalvador since April, 1981 ." H e further
tional Security Council announced it had
suggested, "The Administration and the
approved plans to send an additional $25
CIA have systematically misrepresented
million in military aid and $40 million in
the Nicaraguan involvement in the suppeconomic assistance.
Iy of arms to Salvadoran guerrillas to
On June 8, 1981, the white paper was
justify efforts to overthrow th e
torn to shreds by, of all papers, The Wall
Nicaraguan government."
Street Journal. The paper noted:
In the face of these public relation s
" Several of the most important documents,
disasters,
the R eagan Administration has
it's obvious, were allributed to guerrilla leaders
backed
off
from trying to provide any
who didn 't write them, and it 's unknown who
proof
for
their
claims. At present , it
did. Statistics of armament shipments into El
doesn't
defend
its
stories and figures with
Salvador, supposedly drawn directly from the
anything stronger than , "Are you calldocuments, were extrapolated. _, and in extremely
ing the President of the United States a
questionable ways it seems, Much informatio'l
liar ?" But the continous lack of available
in the white paper can 't be found in the
documentation for the President's claims,
documents at all. This information is now atadded to the recent disclosure of the eftributed by the Stale Department to other, stillfort to frame Nicaragua, give little reason
secret sources. "
to believe the President. As William
The Journal noted that the "monthBlum put it in The CIA, A Forgotten HistoT)'
by-month arms buildup, of almost blit(A history of CIA interventions in over
zkrieg proportions " described in the
500 counties.) :
report hadn't been followed by any large
, 'Despite American patrol boats in the Gulf
scale attacks indicating big new arms supof Fonseca (which separates El Salvador from
plies. The widely quoted statistic of 200
Nicaragua), A WACS Surveillance planes in the
tons of arms covertly sent to EI Salvador
skies over the Caribbean, and an abundance of
doesn ' t appear in a ny documents. The
aerial photographs, despite a large U. S. radar
documents only mention four tons of
installation in Honduras ma,med by 50
arms brought into EI Salvador from
A merican military technicians, the finest
another cou ntry .
monitoring equipment modern technology has to
Finally, David MacMichael, a CIA
offer, and all the informers monry can buy,
analyst, charged with documenting th e
despite it all, the United States has singularly
arms flow through Nicaragua, drove the
final stake through the heart of th e failed to support its case that Ihe fires of the
Salvadorian revolution are stoked by NicaragUG11
Reagan administration's credibility when
and Cuban coals ... In any case, whatever suphe resigned from the agency, charging the
port the Saladorian rebels may have actually
government with lying. Interviewed for
received from abroad, other than moral alld
the New York Times in 1984, he declared,
diplomatic and office space, it plainly doeS1l 't
"The whole picture that the administrabelong in the same league as the American aid,
tion has presented of Salvadoran inin all itsfonns, to the Salvadorian government. " 2:'
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE
CENTER
by Jacinta McCoy
Earth Fair is scheduled for April 30
and May 1 and we need a Coordinator
for the Event. The we is the Environmental Resource Center (ERC). Earth Fair
is an environmental celebration that occurs every Spring. The day is a response
to Earth Day, a day set aside for communities to look at environmental isses
in their region. The ERC has sponsored
this event for the past six years .
However, Earth Fair is such a large
event that it warrents it's own coordinator. The coordinator will orchestrate
all aspects of producing a successful Earth
Fair-everything from facilitating Earth
Fair meetings (0 making sure that every
last detail is attended to.
We at the ERC are looking for a person who has the time and energy to do
an excellent job. Ideally, a student would
be doing a large part of the coordination ·
as part of a contract or internship . We
have information about what has gone on
at past Earth Fairs and we're willing to
talk about the possibilty of some kind of
stipend for the work.
The first Earth Fair meeting is set for
February 18 at 6:30 pm in the CAB pit
on the third floor. If you have any questions or are interested in investing your
time and energy into a wonderful project,
please contact Colleen or Sondra at ext.
6784, or come by and leave us a note. We
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are located on the third floor of the CAB
next to the CPJ!
TIDES OF CHANGE
To: The Cooper Point Journal
From : Barbara Hinchcliffe, Tides of
Change, LIB 1314 ext. 6511.
RE: Cupid Alert!
Say Jay "Guess what's happening on
Valentines Day?"
"Someone is falling in love?"
"No but you just might have your
chance to find your valentine at the
V alen tines Dance."
"Wow ! Who's playing?"
"Charlie Murphy, Jami Sieber and
Rumors of the Big Wave!"
"My big chance to dance!"
"Yeah Saturday 13 at 8:00 pm .
Tickets are $4.00 students and $6 .00
general and it's a benefit for the first international Lesbian and Gay film
Festival, sponsored by the Lesbian/Gay
Resource Center and Tides of Change. "
"Will you be my valentine?"
HOUSING COMMUNITY
CENTER
by Brian Trinen
Evergreen's sixth Depression Festival
begins Tuesday, February 16, in the
housing commun ity center (HCC) with
free soup from The Corner a nd a lecture
by Stone Thomas, dean of student ser-
Groups
vices, on Black History in Washington
State.
Housing is providing a different activity every night following the Tuesday lecture until Monday, February 22, with
plenty of freebies for all housing
residents. Other activities include: a
sex/condom workshop, BINGO game, all
night video marathon, dance, poetry
readings and live music. Almost all events
offer free food or prizes.
According to Mike Gilman, project
coordinator, the depression festival was
originally started as a result of suicides
and depression among students during
the winter quarter. Apparently the idea
is working. "Actually," Gilman said,
"the number of crises that student
managers have had to deal with in winter
has dropped a lot since the Depression
Festival first started."
Organizers thought of changing the
Depression festival name because of the
bad connotations that go along with it .
"We decided not to change it in the spirit
of tradition," Gilman said, "because the
oddness of the title gets students to come
check it out who might not otherwise."
According to Gilman, off campus
students are encouraged to attend festival
events, however, since the funding comes
from the dorm resident's rent, freebies
will be reserved for the on campus
students.
For more information on the festival,
contact one of housing's student
managers.
Opinion
Everything Always Comes Together
by Ellen Tepper
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Like the ebb and flow of the tide at
Geoduck Beach, so has the mid-point of
Evergreen's winter quarter corne and
gone. Suddenly the terms, "research
paper" and "final project," (the same
words which so inspired great bursts of
creative ingenuity and good intentions in
early January) transform themselves into phrases such as, "impossible undertaking," "pain in the neck," "stupid
assignment," and the likes.
The post-vacation vim and vigor disappears, New Year's resolutions are abandoned like sinking ships, students flock
in droves to the library the way lemmings dive headlong into water. Outside,
all is bleak , gray, silent as the calm before
a storm .
Faculty begin to notice small epidemics
ofCaffine-eye, No-Doz-stare, and Decafnod occurring on a regular basis. The
much acclaimed group process known as
seminaring falters, and the classroom
grows silent as a monastery. Sun an'
moon bob up and down in the sky, hurrying along the days without mercy . Procrastinators bite the ir nails , flip through
the T.V. Guide, drink another beer .
Tension mounts.
And yet, mysteriously, the work gets
done: books get read, sources cited, interviews conducted. With brush in hand,
the painter at last readies himself to place
that first, crucial stroke on the blank canvas before him . And suddenly, like an object set in motion, everything starts to
come together.
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Calendar _ __
ON CAMPUS
Thursday 11
_ _ _ Calendar
from 12:00-1 :00 pm in L1406. Brown
bag lunchers welcome.
Wednesday 17
"When' Spring Comes Late," a
Japanese film sub-titled in English will be
shown in the Recital Hall of the COM
Building from 3:00-5:00 pm. Cost is $2
at the door.
The Sue Washburn Community Forum
will take place at 11:30-12:30 pm in
Lounge 3500.
Friday 12
The Peace Corps will be in the CAB Lobby to talk to interested stud~nts from 9:00
am to 2:30 pm. There will be a question
and answer seminar from 12:00-1:00 pm.
Spring quarter internship orientation session from 3:00-4:00 pm in L1406. For
more information call X6391.
The Peace Corps will be in the CAB Lobby from 9:00 am-2:30 pm and will have
a slide presentation from 3:00-4:00 pm
in CAB 110.
EPIC is sponsorin g "On Company
Business," a film about the CIA, featuring former agent Phillip Agee. The film
will be shown at 7:30 pm in LH3. Admission is $1 for students and seniors, $2
for the general public. For more information call 357-3928.
"C hina's one billion: environment and
population in the world's biggest country" will be the topic of Dr. Adelia Peters
talk that will takf" place in LH2 at 7:30
pm. This event is co-sponsored by the
TESC Graduate Program for Environmental Studies and the Environmental Resource Center. For more
information call X6784.
Saturday 13
"Rumors of the Big Wave" will be
playing at a Valentine Dance from 8:00
pm to I :00 am in the CAB Lobby. Admission is S4 for students and $6 general.
Sponsored by the LlGRC and Tides of
Change.
Wendy Marks will lead an organizers
training meeting for people interested in
supporting the Christie Institute's
lawsuits. The meeting will be held at
noon at Evergreen's Organic Farm. Admission is $5-$15 on a sliding sca le. For
more information call 357-3928.
The Gail Martin Community Forum will
be held in the CAB Lobby from
12:00-1:00 pm.
ON GOING
A merican Sign Language Discussion
Group meets weekly. Basic ASL skills a
m USI. For more information call Ray
Kelleher 357-8432, voice or TDD.
S tudents can now sign up for summer job
The Career Development Center will
28 sponsor a "Resume Writing Workshop"
The Lesbian Rap group meets every
Tuesday from 7:00-9:00 pm in L3223.
For more information call X6544.
The Bisexual Rap group meets every
Tuesday from 7:00-9:00 pm in L3223.
For more information call X6544.
The Environmental Resource Center has
on going meetings each Wednesday at
12:00 pm in CAB 306, the ERC office.
Bring your lun ch and your environmental ideas.
The ' Development Office is requesting
volunt eers for this years campus Phon-
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The Gay Men's Rap group meets every
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For Info/listings.
HOMEWORKERS WANTED!
TOP PAY!
The office hours of the Olympia Palestinian Information Center, L3222 are
5 :30-9:00 pm Thursday evenings.
Contact: COTIAGE INDUSTRIES
121 24th Ave. N .W ., Suite 222
Norman, OK 73069 .
Cooperative Education has open hours
every Monday through Thursday in
L1407. Mon. 3:00-7:00 pm, Tues. &
Wed. 3:00-5:00 pm and Thurs. 3:00-7:00
pm.
Undergraduate students who are involved in community service are being sought
to make application for the Second Annual TESC Humanitarian Service
Award. For more information contact
Che ryl Henderson Peters in CAB 305.
PERSONAL
Woman Researcher
Seeks women 18 or older who
experienced any type of incest as
a child/adolescent. Requires completion
of brief questionnaire . Information strictly
confidential. You may remain anonymous.
Please call Lorraine Trachtenberg
(206) 771-3011, or write me at:
Lynnwood Counseling Center
18631 Alderwood Mall Blvd .,
Suite 101, Lynnwood, WA 98037
MAJOR CREDIT CARDS!
Regardless of credit history. Also,
new credit card. No one refused!
For information call ...
.1-315-733-6062 EXT M2159.
large home. Share living & dining rooms ,
kitchen, baths, appliances, washer, dyer.
TUESDAYS
7-8 PM
TESC Rotunda
Inltrvctor: JOMph Rodin C.Y.T.
ALL WELCOME
Sponsored by Inner ,.Iace
a-Thon. The P-A-T will last for three
nights from Sunday Feb. 21 through
Tuesday Feb. 23. The hours are Sunday
from 4:00-8:00 pm and Monday and
Tuesday from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. For
more information call X6565 or got to
L3114.
OFF CAMPUS
Friday 12
Barbershop Reflections will play at the
Washington Center for the performing
arts at 8:00 pm. The cost ranges from
$2-$9. For more information call
753-8586.
Saturday 13
The Evergreen Mud Bay Rugby C lub
will be playing St. Martins at Portland
Av. Field in Tacoma. There will be a
buspool leav ing from the dorm loop at
12:00 noon. For more information call
866-8044.
CLOSE IN. ALL UTILITIES INCLUCED
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with RENT. $205.
: ·78~.1649 (leave message) ,
HOUSING WANTED
Pleasont, professional, local, married
couple with no children or pets are
.eeklng a year-long house .ltting
po.ltion. We bring redecorating &
maintenance skills, if desired.
FIST, is open to a ll women from
6 :30-9: 30 at the Olympia YMCA, 510 S .
Franklin. For childcare information ~all
357-6609. Donations wi ll be requested.
ON GOING
The Timberland Library is sponsoring a
pre-school story time every Wednesday
through March 4 at 10:30 am and 1:15
pm. For more information on this and
other programs for ch ildren call 352-0595
and ask for youth serv ices .
The Marianne Partlow Gallery will present an invitational exhibition entitled:
"Valentine Variants: Artist Make Love"
from Feb. 5 to March 2. The gallery
hours are Tuesday-Friday 10:30 am to
5:00 pm and Saturdays 10:00 am to 4:00
pm. For more information call 943 -0055 .
Mary Ellen Farley, OSF will facilitate a
"Retreat for Sexually Abused Persons
and Helpers" at the Priory Spiritually
Center. The cost is $50 and preregistration is due by Feb. 19.
Sunday 14
The Evergreen Wanderers are sponsorin g a 10L Sweetheart Stroll starting at the
Lower Columbia College, Longview,
WA. For information on registration/cost
call 857-5771 or759-9339.
February 15
"For the Love of Crystals", a crysta l
workshop designed to assist in the
understanding of crystals and the Mineral
Kingdom, takes place at Earth Magic in
Olympia from 7-10:00 pm. For info, calJ
Ryan at 754-0357. Cost is $45. Preregistration is requested.
Tuesday 16
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Feb. 16· March 8
Tuesday, 16
On the remammg Tuesdays of the
quarter (except evaluation week) Innerplace is sponsoring Hatha Yoga from
7:00-8:00 pm in the rotunda of the lecture halls. Registration is $5. Bring a mat
or towel to sit on. For more information
call X6145.
Thursday 18
The Evergreen Indian Center will be
sponsor in~ a commemoration of The
Longest Walk from 7:00-10:00 pm in' the
Recital Hall.
There will be a celebration to commemorate the I 79th birthday of Charles
Darwin in the LH Rotunda at noon on
Friday. A special birthday cake will be
featured, alon g with coffee and tea. All
are welcome.
interviews in the Career Development otfice. Call or stop by for more information about the summer job fair that will
be taking place on Thursday, March
10th. Interviews will be conducted at that
time.
The Energy Outreach Center and South
Puget Sound Community College are offering a class, Ventilation and Heating
Systems for Energy Efficiency, from
7 :00-9:00 pm at the SPSCC student
lounge. Cost IS $15. For details call
943-4595.
Thursday 18
Call 943-4142.
Basic Self-defense for Women, taught by
The Streisand Center invites applications
for its Sixth Annual Awards for Student
F ilm Makers. The Awards comprise a
$1,000 prize for the best completed student film on aJewish theme and a $1,000
prize for the best student film proposal
on a Jewish theme. For more information/applications write: Streisand Film
Awards, c/o the Stre isand Center, 900
Hilgard Ave, Los Ange les, CA 90024.
The West Valley Kehillah invites applications for the 2nd Annual Recognition
A wards. The awards for the vest film by
an independant film maker on a Jewish
theme comprise a guarenteed screening
of winning film (s) and the presentation
of an Awards Certificate at a public
ceremony to be held in Jan. 1989. For
more information write: West VaHey
Kehillah, 22622 Vanowen St., Canoga
Park , CA 91307.
The Energy Outreach Center and South
Puget Sound Community College are
sponsoring a Energy Efficiency Builder
Series to be held at SPSCC Student
Lounge, Tuesdays, Feb. 2, 9, 16,
7:00-9:00 pm. Fec is $35 for series, 29
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(alendar- - - - - - $ 15/c1ass . Register at SPSCC or call
943-4595.
The National Registration Center for
Study Aboard presents Learn A Foriegn
Language, foreign traveVstudy programs
with homes tays from one week to a
se m ester in areas ranging from Mexico
to Austria. For particulars, write to:
NRCSA, PO Box 1393 Dept. CP,
Milwaukee, WI 5320 1 or ('a ll
414-278-063 1.
The Oregon Shakespearean Festival has
begun processing ticket orde rs. Good
Opinion
seats a re still available . Th eatergoers are
urged to place their orders as soon as
possible. Backstage tours begin Feb. 26
a nd the Exhibit Center opens Feb. 28.
For more information call 503-483-2111.
The Tacoma Art Museum announces a
craft compe tition for Northwest Artists.
Entries will be by 35 mm slides, limit 3
ent ires (6 slides). The deadline is April
1, 1988 . Entry fee $10. For more information send a SASE to : "NW Crafts
88", Tacoma Art Museum, 12th &
Pacific Ave., Tacoma, WA 98402.
continued fronl page 21
tervention, C homsky enlightens us to the
use of the Fifth Freedom, which is the
freedom to rob and exploit. This
freedom, eve n though it is the basis to
U.S. foreign policy, was left out by
Roosevelt when he presen ted the Four
Freedoms to the Western a llies during
World War II.
Toward the en d of hi s analysis of U. S.
foreign policy, Chomsky draws a correlat ion between nuclear weapon production
a nd how T hird World intervention
heightens the threat of nuclear war. This
threat is based on the ideas that the T hird
World is where U. S .lSovie t confronta tio n
is most lik ely to occ ur . Chomsky
perceives that in order to limit the
possibility of nuclear war, we must work
to reduce foreign intervention in the
Third World. He says this is perhaps
more effective than working to eliminate
nuclear weapons production complete ly,
because th e Freeze movement is mostl y
hype and for all practical purposes has little or no impact on America n politics.
C homsky goes on to say that the, reason
nuclear weapons production con tinues to
increase is because it provides high
technological by-products (ie: computers,
lasers, etc.) from which big business ca n
reap hu ge profits. The American public
cannot terminate this cycle because th e
threat of nuclear war becomes overwhelming and they are left feeling
10 powerless.
C homsky does not leave us with a ny
doubt as to what to do to regain power.
He poin ts out that any U.S. citi zen
doesindeed have the ability to take an act ive part in influencing United States
fore ign policy. He clearly states that the
main step is to educate oneself and others.
As aware ness increases among the
population, there will be an effect on U.S.
politics through greater pressure from individuals a nd coalitions on political
representatives. The book concludes by
s tating that there is no one magical
answe r to bring about change , but
s in cerity a nd persistance inspired by the
"hope of a brighter future" is certainly
a key.
Unfo rtunately, in this summary of
Turning the Tide, I was only able to touch
briefly on Chomsky's major points and
cou ld not begin to give many h elpful ex amples of n ames, d a tes and quotes that
h e gives to back all of his conclusions.
Altho ugh C h omsky 's writing style is inclined to be disorganized, thus making it
difficult to read , much insight can be
gained. This book is for all those who feel
there was vital information left o ut of
thei r hi story books and n ewspapers. I
recommend it, not because it is pleasant ,
but because it provides an impo rtant insight int o the con nec t io n between
business, politics and the damaging
re percussion these relations have on
A merican democracy .
What is the sweetest thing you could do for YOu~
significant other for Valentine's Day
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Trustees: An
Error of Good
Intention
by Ben Tansry
The Board of Trustees yesterday
decided not to acce pt a proposal from
V ice President for Student Affairs Gail
Martin to implement a 90-day temporary
grievance and appeal procedures code.
As a result, the school is stuck with a
highly antiquated and convoluted method
for dealing with conflicts between community members. It provides, for example, that the Evergreen Council will appoint a hearing board to review appeals .
However, the Council was disbanded by
t he President in 1985.
Meanwhile , the President's Advisory
Board will have to reconstitute a disappearing task forc e (DTF) which will have
the respon sibility of writin g the final
document. The DTF has four student
members , two staff and two fa culty .
The new document will have to be
prepared a nd readied for the Washington
State Code Revisors' office by late April .
During the inte rim, students lose out
because the grievance and appeals pro cess is so hopelessly in disarray.
Moreover it is doubtful that the DTF
will provide an adequate docume nt.
There are eight m embers on the DTF,
so there will be no opportnity to resolve
deadlocked issues. Also, they have no one
to provide legal counsel and so are unlikely to be able to write a legal document
which contains provisions relating to the
co mplex issu es of procedural and
substantive due process.
The faculty and staff need not worry
over this , of course, because their respective unions provide for conflict resolution
issues. Once again , the rights of students
are being overlooked.
The decisio n to refuse to adop t the proposal was a major error on the part of the
Board . It leaves the school open to litigation based on the fact tha t the resolution
process is so pathetic.
In an effort to support the rights of
communit y members, the Board has
done just the oppos ite, and Evergreen
itself is left vulnerable.
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Rebecca Smith
The nicest thing you could
tio is, say, take them to the
mountains and be in a log
cab in and sit in front of the
fire and snuggle and read a
book and drink coffee and
go play in the snow.
Wyatt Cates
I suppose I could take her
down to Town Tubs for a
n ice hot soak in the bath,
and then take her out to a
n ice restaurant, like Le
Petit Maison or something,
a nd th en fly her to .
Mrzzatlan.
Janelle Crabb
I think it would be what I
am doing, which is making
him a cake, and helping
him catch up on his research
project on the FBI.
GreenerSpeak
Josh Moon
Rikk Murphy
Take her to the Neptune to
Be there.
see a movie. A7ry movie,
and then take her to an Indian restaurant and get
mango JUIce.
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