The Cooper Point Journal Volume 16, Issue 9 (November 19, 1987)

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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 16, Issue 9 (November 19, 1987)
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Table
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Contents

Editor pro tem note: Ben was busy
hustling up a job, so I agreed to edit
copy and some other stuff. I am not
responsible for anything I do, or say,
or think.
--Dennis Held

Cover design by Kathlun Ktlly

LETTERS ................... 3-6
• Photos of dead Salvadoreans
bring letters protesting and explaining the display near the
Greenery.

INFORMATION .......... 7-8
• Greener musicians to release
cassette
• New Social Contract drafted

OPINION .................. 9-11

Other Editor pro tern note: We", I'm
usually the photo-guy around here but
this week I got to do some real-live
editorial stuff. Wow! What a revelation! There's gallons of frustration involved in putting this rag out each
week but most of it stems from lack of
organized involvement. In other
words, too few people are working
way too hard. We are supposedly a

newspaper embellished with student involvement yet each week a mere handful of students must scramble to peice
things together. At last Wednesday's
layout, for example, the scrambling
went on until four in the morning.
What's happened to student involvement with the CP H Why aren't
there more writers around to keep up
with important issues and people on
campus like the Board of Trustees, Joe
Olander, Patrick Hi" (what does a Provost do anyway?), Shawn Newman,
the Admission process, and the now
almost dead REC-Center controversy?
I'd like to dwell on more examples
but I can hear my darkroom calling.
Happy Thanksgiving,

--Philip Bransford
Staff: Dennis Held, Whitney Ware, Ben
Tansey, Kristin Fontaine, Philip Bransford,
Kathleen Kelly, Samantha Chandler, Susan
Finkel, Jule Williamson, Andrea Miller, Carol
Poole , Chris Carson. Ale x Harris and
Audrey Mandelbaum .

Letters

FEATURE ............... 12-13
• Does the NetWork?

Thanks

PHOTO ESSAY ........ 14-15

To The Evergreen Community:

• Indigenous Peoples' Day

REVIEW ..................... 16
• Book Review

ENTERTAINMENT ...... 17
• Native American flutist performs on campus

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LITERATURE .......... 18-19
• The Star - a story
• Poetry

CALENDAR ............. 20-22
G REENERSPEAK ......... 23
• What does it mean to be
politically correct?
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As organizers of the two-day Olympia
visit of the Northwest CoMadres Tour,
we would like to acknowledge all those
who helped with security, childcare,
hospitality, transportation , event
logistics, media coverage, and translation. In particular, Patricia Gilbert and
the Women's Center for producing the
noon event, contributing to printing
co~ts, and problem-solving in general ;
Lillian Ford and the Peace and Conflict
Resolution Center for the ease with which
the noon event occurred; Patrick Hill and
the Academic Deans for budget support,
especially Rita Pougiales who took our request to the Deans; the faculty and
students of the academic programs who
interrupted their schedules to receive us;
and Gary Russell and TESC Security for
their cooperation . We thank you all.
Additionally, the Evergreen communi- .
ty is to be acknowledged for the respect
a nd warmth you extended to CoMadre
Maria Teresa Tula and he r son Oscar .

During her stay here, Maria Teresa
shared with some of us that giving her
testimony is difficult since in the telling,
she relives the pain and degradation. The
attentiveness and openess which she en~
countered here helped her to share the
painful experiences of daily life in El
Salvador.
These experiences, as documented
photographically and now on display on
the first floor CAB, have given rise to a
controversy as to the appropriateness of
the placement of those photographs, and
in some cases, individuals have questioned their usefullness at all. We would like
you to know that the photographs were
not part of the tour but a separate project by students Dominique Sepser and
Jim Freeman. While we would have
preferred better networking with the NW
CoMadres Tour in presenting the exhibit, we want to share with you that
when she was shown the display, Maria
Teresa was neither traumatized or
outraged.
The purpose of the tour was to educate
and inform. We encourage those of yuu
who have strong feeling concerning the
photographs to dialogue with each other
a nd the students who produced the ex-

hibit. It would be unfortunate and unjust
if the dignity and courage of the of CoMadres, Maria Teresa Tula, and the people whose deaths are documented in the
photographs were sullied and invalidated
by this controversy .

Andrea Winship
Beth Hartmann

Sacred Files
Dear CPJ:
In your November 5,1987 edition, you
received a letter from Leif Wahlborg,
who expressed dissatisfaction for having
been accused of being a "Network" spy.
Mr. Wahlborg brought forth some
very legitimate complaints in his letter,
and I would like to acknowledge those
grievances.
First of all, the actions of this one individual do not reflect the actions of the
SACRED organization as a whole. This
person was acting on his own accord
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Letters
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when confronting Mr. Wahlborg, and
had not consulted with the other
members of the organization before doing so. This person felt that, based on
what people had told him, Mr. Wahlborg
was in fact a spy for the Network.
Because of this, he proceeded to give Mr.
Wahlborg what he thought was a "treatment of his own medicine."
Upon further review of the SACRED
" files," this person found that Mr.
Wahlborg's name was never mentioned.
Upon further review of his own actions,
this person realized that Mr. Wahlborg
was entirely justified in his response.
Relating what this individual did to what
members of the Network do in practice
was a very good comparison . This person was asing his accusation on "secret"
files, and on reports using "hearsay"
evidence, without any sort of hearing .
This individual accused Mr. Wahlborg
of the crime of being a Network spy,
thereby passing judgement on Mr.
Wahlborg's guilt without first giving him
the benefit of answering to the charge.
I know that -you are not a spy, Mr.
W ahlborg, and I wish to apologize for accusing you of being one. I also want to
thank you for taking the time to constructively criticize our organization. Due to
the magnitude of injustices which have
occurred through Network-related practices, we are very emotionally wound up
in what we are doing . We do get carried
away and lose perspective at times, and
objective criticism is more than welcome.
As far as the reference to SACRED's
"secret " files, the SACRED files are
o pen for inspection to anyone at any
time, and won't cost you a dollar a page .

Sorry, "Not A Spy",
Paul A. Westmoreland

Fatal Line
Dear Editor ,
1.1-

'., tht" November 5, 1987 review of

" Fatal Beauty" in the Cooper Point
journal I came across thi s line: "For a ll
of Goldberg's streetwise ra p', she behaves
like any other white detec tive." How
does a "white detective " behave? Not
only is "white detective" racist but it fails
to provide meaningful information . The
phrase is even grammatically incorrect.
How can she behave like any other white
detective since she isn't white? This
review was a waste of the writer's and
readers' time, money , and considerable
talents. Please , people, think before you
write or speak, this is getting ridiculous.

Very truly yours,
Darrel Wayne Riley

Assaulted
Editor, CPj,

Last Tuesday I was assaulted on campus . It happened in the afternoon, on the
first floor of the CAB, just outside the entrance to the Greenery. Twelve 8x 10
black and white photographs had been
hung in the Student Art Gallery . They
were graphic images of mutilated, tortured and murdered peasants in EI
Salvador. After innocently stumbling
upon this display I turned away in horror, shocked by what I had seen and
where I had seen it. Indeed, without any
warning and with no choice on my part ,
I had been assaulted by these images . As
a parent/student who often brings his
children on campu s, I was a nge red.
Because of the very public and ~ncon­
trolled nature of this display, vi rtua lly
any age child could also see them.
My objection to this ex hibition is not
its content nor its message. I fully support Mr. Freeman's efforts to display
these photograph s. Like him , I agree that
as individuals we need to take action to
discourage our government's con tinu ed

support of death squads in EI Salvador,
or in any country for that matter. Unlike
Mr. Free man , I do not agree that people
should have to see these photographs.
Nor do I agree with those who have sa id
that for children, viewing these images is
no worse for them than watchin g Saturday morning cartoons. No matter how
just and noble the cause, the right of the
individual to choose to see or not to see
the display must be protected . I very
much resent anyone decidin g what [
should have to see or using public space
for images which hurt or damage a young
child.
As I read Evergreen's "SociaI Contract ," this display directly con trad icts
the intent of at least sections three, five
and six. As of the writing of this le tter the
display has been up for nine days . Its
presence in its current location has been
a flagrant violation of the right of choice
for both adults and children. I have spent
many hours trying to work throu gh
established channels in the hope that my
reasonable a nd ra tional concerns would
be recognized and acted upon. As of this
moment I h ave been liste ned to , but the
only rights people seem truly concerned
for are those of the "artist," Mr.
Free man . I want to see his right of expressio n protected too , but not to the point
where his message intimidates and exploits myself and/or anyone else on
ca mpus.
I know that there are many others who
may read this that agree that despite the
validity and the necess ity of such an exhibit, its location is ent irely inappropriate. Furthermore , the repeated
refusal of college administration, staff,
students a nd Mr. Freeman to do nothing
more than give lip service to the repeated
concern s of many people is an open
cha llenge to individual rights on this campus . I urge anyone who shares my ro nerns to co ntact the Student Art Gallery
(Ext. 6412), EPIC (Ext. 6144) , a nd Gail
Mart in (Ext. 6296) and let them know
how you feel.

Sincerely,
Burke Long

Censored
Dear Evergreen Community,
I have been censored. I scheduled a
program with the Evergreen Political Infonnation Center: The Palestinians and
State Censorship, for Wednesday,
December 2, 7:30 pm, Lecture Hall 3.
Mr. Ben Tansey, CPj editor, responding to an offer of an article to publicize
the event, effectively if not precisely
stated that the Palestinians are one of
the three groups in the world that he
doesn't care what happens to, and that
he will gladly trample all over their First
Amendment Rights .
My sources on the Palestinian issue include Noam Chomsky and Edward Said.
What do you suppose it is that the CPj
editor "knows" that these intellectual
giants lack? Could it be racism? Do you
want to learn it?
I was news editor for a newspaper with
50 consecutive All-American ratings. It
was also selected several times as the
"best" student newspaper of its size in
the U.S. What Mr . Tansey has tried to
present as high journalistic standards are
not.
I have contributed to the CPj in the
past because it was a community forum
for discourse, education and information
about events . Unfortunately, it seems to
have become a rather biased filter .
I feel as though I have been censored
on two other counts . The CPj failed to
use a news release that The Olympian
saw fit to publish. The release announced last Tuesday's showing of The Shadow
Government. The video documents the
details of a federal criminal lawsuit in
process against Ollie North and 28 others
who were involved with Contragate. The
event cost a lot of money and work to put
on and was sponsored by five student
organizations, but the community was
not informed about the content through
the CP]. It is a different kind of
censorship--what one is concerned with
and what one is not.
My First Amendment Rights and
human rights were trampled this sumer.
I was jailed for six days on false charges

a nd beaten aft er my release, because 1
a nd ma ny others nonviolently blockaded the shipment of bombs to EI Salvador.
I wrote a story about the media ' s selfcenso rship of police brutality and how
such complicity allows violence to grow .
Another newspaper will publish the piece
but not the CP] . 1 have become disgusted
with Mr. Tansey's process of excuses,
that fa iled to edit, perhaps even read
three drafts that languished in his office
for better than a month .
I care less for what people say they
believe; more for what they reveal in acting . But the intent here is not to attack
the' personage of Ben or to interpret his
intentions . He is as much a symptom as
a problem, for people on this campus, in
that he embodies much of what passes for
"common sense" in America. Becoming
c ritical and articulate in dissecting this
com mon sense, is essential. Ben has failed me as an editor. I raise the issue of
wheth er he is :JUfficiently fair or competent to hold the position .
H ector Douglas

Virtue
An Oldie but a Goodie,
Once upon a time, a few thousand
years ago, somebody got the idea that
parti cipa ting in the governance of the
comm unity made us better persons .
Public debate and decision made us
somehow more human . Most people
aren't used to thinking that you have to
do some thing to be human--you just are .
That view makes sense from an abstract
perspective of complete individual isolation but in the regular world, humans are
quite social. What does this have to do
with becoming human? Well, it helps us
see the interdependence of our lives and
maybe learn to empathize with one
another. When we get together to communicate and decide on our collective
future we open ourselves up, we nurtu_re
the fragile seedlings of human digmty
through mutual understanding and trust.
We develop, to coin and old-fashion
word, virture. I have hope for the future

and it lies in you and in your participation in an on-going creation and criticism
of a social vision . I guess some old ideas
are worth repeating , perhaps now more
than ever.
joseph Luders

Experience It~
To The Evergreen Community,
There has been a lot of talk on this
campus lately about the pictures of the
victims of the EI Salvadoran/U .S .
government which are displayed. outside
The Greenery.
Much of the talk has been about taking the pictures down, putting up a part it ion or moving them . As a Jewish Lesbian I must speak out against this
hypocrisy.
Some people find the location of the
pictures offensive, others their content .
To these people I ask, how dare you?
How dare you compare the shock you experience looking at those pictures with the
pain of the tortured, murdered and their
families.
I challange you to consider the fact that
in EI Salvador, people do not have a
choice about where or when their lives
will be interrupted by brutality. At any
moment a person could be subjugated to
torture, murder and the death of their
loved ones. At Evergreen, we do not experience
the
daily
anxiety of
death by our government.
During World War II, millions of my
jewish and Gay predecessors were brutally murdered . For years the Nazi skilled
because non-victims were not made
aware of the existence of the Nazi killing
machine . In fact, some people still deny
that that ever happened .
I'm offended when I hear people talk
about how they've been victimized by being given no choice about viewing those
pictures. My predecessors had no choice
and neither do the people in EI Salvador.
If pictures of the daily and nightly reality of concentration camps had been
displayed on college campuses, in stores,
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at churches and other places of congregation , maybe millions of lives could have
been saved.
You say you are not capable or ready
to deal with these pictures at this time.
I say, do you think those people were
read y to be tortured and killed?
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Ben, Ijust wanted to let you know how
I feel about some of the stuff that is being said about you. Since I am you, I feel
I can speak with some authority about
your feelings .
I draw your attention first to a letter
from Hector Douglas, published in this
week's issue. Hector's stateme'n ts about
what you think of Palistinians represents
neither your true feelings nor the editorial
policy of the CPJ .
Interestingly, Hector knows this to be
true, because you spoke to him about it
for over an hour last Monday. How can
we account for the fact that he still wishes
to make your readers believe that it
is true?
Many things come to mind, but, since
I know I can trust you, I will tell you what
I think it is. I think that there are a lot

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of people around who are more interested
in righteous rhetoric than' they are in constructive dialogue. It excites them if they
think they can use the feelings of others
to satisfy their need for attention and
moral martyrdom. Hector, for example,
would rather have people believe that you
are racist than that you are a long-time
supporter of minority rights . In this way
he is able to form an alliance people who
do not question him beyond wanting to
know if he has discovered a hate-object,
regardless of whether that object is what
he says it is or not.
I know that this is painful for you, not
because people are spreading falsehoods
about you, but because you have this
need to believe that people at Evergreen
are a little more level-headed than that.
You have this seemingly minority opinion that people ought to make informedjudgements . And I know that nothing
has been more disappointing to you at
Evergreen than to find that a lot of people here so neatly fit into the category of
Eric Hoffer's True Believer, that is, blind
obedience to a cause that seems just , inspite of whether it is just or not.
I know that as editor, you have found
this sad behavior to be so dishearteningly prevelant, that you have often considered re-assessing what Evergreen
means to you.
I know that when you decided to come
here it was because you actually believ ed that people here would want to take
responsibility for themselves and, most
importantly, work to make this world a
better place.
I know that you, foolishly perhaps,
refuse to be discouraged from idealism.
Practical idealism, but idealism just the
same. If you cannot find similarly committed people at Evergreen, then you will
find them some place else .
Faith and reality are dangerous lovers .
More often the hopeful die wanting . But
faith is also strong, and belief the only
thing that guarantees a happy life .
Choose what you believe carefully; don't
''be afraid to change, and never lose faith
in people .
Sincerely ,
Ben Tansey,
Editor, Cooper Point Journal

Informat·i on
President Initiates ForulD Greeners Want
To PressAlbum
For over two and one-half years, I have
tried to develop a number of different
kind of communication opportunities
with each of the major constituencies on
our campus. Part of this effort has taken
the form of a president's forum for faculty, for undergraduates, for graduate
students in the evening, for staff, and for
people of color. In October, I notified you
of the schedule for these forums through
the end of this quarter. Several of these
forums I have already held; the remaining ones I am cancelling in order to initiate a community-wide president's
forum. Many of the issues discussed by
individuals in constituency-based forums
are really college-wide issues . Therefore,
in an effort to develop more effective
communications on the campus, I am going to initiate a President's Community
Forum once each month and invite interested faculty , staff, and students so that
there can be more effective communication between constituencies .
The schedule for these community
forums for the remainder of 1987 and for
next quarter will be:
Monday , November 30, 1987,
4:00-5:00 pm , CAB 110
Wednesday, January 6, 1988,
4:00-5 :00 pm, CAB 110
Wednesday, February 3, 1988,
4:00-5 :00 pm, CAB 110

Wednesday, March 2, 1988,
4:00-5:00 pm, CAB 110

I shall use these forums as an opportunity to make announcements about important college-wide matters, and to
discuss issues which affect all of us in the
JWergreen community. If you would like
a particular topic to be structured as an
agenda item for these forums, you can do
so by contacting your representative on
the President's Advisory Board. The current membership of that board is as
follows :
Faculty: Byron Youtz, LabII; Dave
Hitchens, Lab I; Judy Bayard, L1414
Staff: Walter Niemiec, Lab I; Eleanor
Dornan, L3112; Jan Lambertz, CRC
302
Students: Jessy Lorion; Scott Buckley;
Jackie Kettman
At Large Members: Joye Hardiman,
Tacoma Campus; Yvonne Peterson, Lab
II; Willie Parson, Tacoma Campus
Dates of forums cancelled are:
President's Student Forum, November
18
President's Brown Bag Staff Forum,
December 1
-- Joseph D. Olander

EPIC Resurrects Newsletter
by Maria Gudaitis
The eye of an earthquake, the unshaken heart amidst the tumult and fury :
such a still point is known as an epicenter.
A campus publication needs to have that
clear focus, it needs to intrigue, arouse,
inform, incite, invite.
Students, faculty, and community
members wil soon have an opportunity
to present alternative and insightful views
of the college and world around us . The
Evergreen Political Information Center
(EPIC) is resurrecting its newsletter, the .
Epicenter , which last year received acclaim for being on the cutting edge of
issues and ideas .

The Epicenter is intended as a forum
for creative and meaningful expression,
news, opinions, views, and information.
Your support and participation are
welcomed and needed. All manifestos,
news items, opinions, articles, photos,
poetry, exposes, and cartoons are needed by November 30 for the December
issue, which will be distributed on campus, in the community, and to other parts
of the country and world.
Please bring typewritten or neatly
printed submissions with your name,
phone number, or place of contact to
L3222 or to Our mailbox in CAB 305.
You can contact us at X61 H for further
details . Thanks.

I t has been a tradition in past years
that a group of students get together and
produce a record albu m here at
Evergreen. The Evergreen Album is a
great way to showcase the local talent and
offers good experience in high-quality
production. There has not been an album
for the past two years for various reasons;
however, this year a contract has been
sponsored for the project.
At this point we are aiming at a
cassette release because of a lack of funds
and support for an album. If we find
enough support, perhaps through
presales, or if we raise enough money
through fundraisers, we would like to
press an album.
A selection committee comprised of
students and faculty will review all the
submissions for the project. There will be
13 finalists selected, three of whom will
be alternates. The selections will be based on musical quality and potential,
rather than the production quality of the
tapes submitted. So get your pieces on
cassette and submit by December 8th. If
you absohitely cannot get a tape together,
contact the number below and we can arrange for an audition.
A maxium of three songs may be submitted by each composer. If you are
selected you will be recorded and produced in Evergreen's 4,8 or 16 track studio
during the winter quarter. All rights for
future recording and publication will be
retained by the artists. Any and
all proceeds from sales will go back to the
Evergreen Album Fund. So don't
hesitate, get your material in now .
"The students are the initiators, the
planners and the doers in producing the
album. The fact of our interdisciplinary
programs encourages students to work
together as a team to produce results of
such signficance."
--Dan Evans, on the 1981 Album
Project
Tapes my be submitted to--The
Cassette Box at KAOS-FM, or in COM
'302 . For more information , contact
Adam Kaspar, 866-9082 , or Terry Set ter, 866-6000 X6055 .
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News
Social Contract Revatnped
by Tim O'Brien
The Social Contract has been reformatted and a list of prohibited rules
has been added in a new proposed Code
of Rights and Responsibilities, drafted by
Shawn Newman, College Legal Counsel.
"The Social Contract did not meet the
requirements of sub~tantive dueprocess," said Gail Martin, Vice President for Student Affairs. Martin says the
changes to the Social Contract are minor
and were needed to clarify the document.
The proposed code has been in the
works for over a year, according to Martin. Much of the code came out of reccommendations made by a DTF formed

last spring to discuss college grievance
procedures . The main part of the code
that was not addressed by the DTF is the
list of prohibited rules, an issue that the
DTF did not have time to tackle.
The President's Community Forum,
on Monday, November 30, 4:00-5:00
pm, in CAB 110, will be used as a
preliminary meeting to discuss the proposed code . Formal hearings with the
Board of Trustees are scheduled for
January 6. Copies of the code, which will
replace Washington Administrative Code
(WAC) 174-107, will be on reserve in the
Library tomorrow, also a limited number
of copies will be available in Gail Martin's office .

Community Honors Peace Corps

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About 40 Peace Corps Volunteerl>
from the Olympia area will join over
6,000 Peace Corps Volunteers in 150
other U.S. cities to receive the 1987
Beyond War Award. The award
ceremony will be held in Tumwater at the
Tyee Hotel on Sunday, December 6 at
1:30 pm, followed by a reception. The
ceremony will be linked by live television
via satellite with the formal Award
presentation in San Francisco.
The 120 ,000 past and presen~ Peace
Corps Volunteers and staff are being
honored for their continuing efforts to
seek peace through humanitarian service
and to promote mutual understanding
among the peoples of the United States
and developing nations .
The Beyond War Award is presented
annually by the Beyong War Foundation,
a non-proht, non-partisan educational
movement active in 40 states and several
foreign countries. Past recipients of the
Beyond War Award are the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops, International Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War, the Five Continent Peace
Initiative, and the Contadora Group .
Everyone in the community is invited
to join in this ce lebration . Tickets are

$6 .00 per person , which includes dessert ,
coffee and tea. Peace Corps Volunteers
and a guest will be admitted at no charge.
If you know of any returned Peace
Corps Volunteers li ving in Thruston,
Mason , Lewis and Gray Harbor counties, please call 352-814 or write Beyond
War, 720 GovernorStevens Ave., Olympia 89501 with names and addresses, or
for more information.

Free Box

Coming
by Dennis Held
The S&A Board will be voting on the
proposal by the recycling center to build
a new Freebox on Friday, November 20 ,
LIB 2205,12:30-2:00 pm . The members
of the Board have asked that any concerned community members voice their opinion regarding the new design, etc. The
new box will cost approximately $135 .

Opinion

Queen and
King Clams

Sweep
Swim Meet
by Bruce Fletcher
The Evergreen State College swim
team had a very luck day on Friday the
13th. Both the Men's and women's swim
team edged out Highline Community
College by winning the last event, the 200
yard Freestyle Relay.
In the women's divison, Highline won
ten events to Evergreen's two.
Evergreen's depth won the meet by placing second and third in all events. Individual winner Romy Church sizzled to
a victory in the 100 yard 1M with teammates Annie Pizey and Alison Metheny
finishing second and third to sweep the
event. Newcomer Sophia Baraahkoff
placed second in the the 100 yard freestyle
and was a member of the meet winning
200 yard freestyle relay with teammates
Rachel Wexler, Jenny Allen and Claire
Littlewood.
In the men's division, it also came
down to the last relay for a win. Tino
Ruth, Scott Bailey, Max Gilpin and
Pieter Drummond were the winning
combination. For the men, the King
Clams came through with four straight
individual winners with Mike Hurwitx
(100 butterfly), Max Gilpin (200 1M),
Pieter Drummond (200 freestroke), and
Howard Rose (100 Breaststroke). Other
Geoduck swimmers contributing to the
win included; Aaron Soule, Jerome Rigot
and Justin Pollack.
When the final scores were announced, the swim team went wild and threw
the coach into the pool, clothes and all.

Angry at Violence
The photo exhibition of death squad
victims in EI Salvador (1 st floor CAB)
is an attempt to overcome the media
blanket thrown over the U.S . government's secret war in that country . The
news that is largely available reflects a
campaign of dis information coordinated
by the CIA, and the State Department.
Unfortunately, this exhibit has raised
a controversy. Is it unethical to display
the obscenity of what human beings are
capable of doing to each other? The main
issue raised by the hanful of complaints
has been that the exhibit is so public that
it interferes with a person's "right to
choose" whether or not to view it. The
second issue is that of the possible viewing by children or emotionally vulnerable
adults.
I t is the feeling of the exhibitors that
a person can make a conscious decision
not to absorb these pictures in any detail,
much as one can do when driving past
a freeway accident. Within a moment one
can make this choice without having to
deal with the graphic details of torture
and assassination. It is our feeling that
these victims were given much less
choice, and that their suffering is almost
completely the result of U . S . policy in
their country. It is widely held that the
U.S. embassy in San Salvador is the first
seat of power dictating policy to the
Salvadoran military and its puppet president, Napoloen Duarte, and that the
" death squads" are mainly composed of
military and police security pers~nnel .

- Not Photos

Last week the U .S. Congress approved
another 7.4 million dollars for the
Salvadoran police force.
Someone has mentioned that holocaust
pictures from World War II are available
in films and books, and that this process
respected a person's right to choose to
view them . This is true. However,
although the U.S. and British governments knew of the death camps early in
the war, the public wasn't widely informed until the death factories were overrun
by the Allies at the end of the war. Consequently, twelve million people were killed without any public outcry. This exhibit represents a genocide that is being
undertaken today in Central America.
Thus far it has been responsible for between 150,000 and 200,000 deaths in
three contries. Can we afford to allow this
to continue while we decide whether or
not to endure these diluted images ofhorror? After all, they are only black and
w hi te 8" by 10" photos with the cries of
anguish and smell of death deleted.
As for it being view by children, most
parents queried have responded that it is
necessary for their children to understand
that war and killing are not the romantic
adventure portrayed by Sylvester
Stallone, Chuck Norris and Arnold
Schwarzenegger. Secondly, it has been
pointed out that this is a college campus
where the cutting edge of protest and controversy is traditionally found. Many of
the prime targets of the de,,-th squads
have been the teachers and students of

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our sister college, the University of San
Salvador. Scaling down the available
campus displays, artistic or political, to
a level appropriate to a day-care center
seems unacceptable. If one's children are
on campus, perhaps one has to be responsible for them just as it is necessary in
other adult environments.
At this point it is important to mention
two factors of the effect of this e~hibit .
One is that there has beep extensive
discussions about this exposition in a
variety of classes which have called attention both to the problems in EI Salvador
and the challange of bringing these problems to the attention of the public. A second, and admittedly unexpected,
response has been the organic natu'r e 'of
the display. By the day it has grown and
chang~d with the addition of information
about other Central American injustices
and possible solutions. Perhaps the most
heartwarming supplement has been the
erection of the "Flor de Muertos" as a
tribute to the dead."
In conclusion, it seems more rational
for the people of the campus community
to focus their anger or indignation on the
causes of this terror and voilence, name- .
ly our government's support of the brutal
dictatorships in EI Salvador and
Guatemala, as well as Contra aid, rather
than trying to censure the public exposure of this modern day holocaust.

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Opinion

Educ'a ti'o n ·.N eeds Master Plan
by Kelly Hawk

In all our fervor to STOP the Master
Plan, we as a community have overlooked what would happen in the future that
has no Master Plan.· Ten to fifteen years
from now one, might see that the adoption of this terrible document at our state
capitol would not be as terrible as if
nothing were adopted at all.
The racist elements in the Master Plan
are not nearly as constricting as what may
happen without it. If both the state and
federal governments continue to place
less and less emphasis on educational funding, it will not be long before only the
upper classes will be able to afford the rising tuition . By comparison, the Plan

necessitates increased spending to help
compensate for this trend.
.Further, many persons, including
those of color, are "placebound."
Without a state plan of some sort, the
proposed opening of annex campuses
would never occur, and these individuals
would remain outside the system,
discriminated against based on their
work, marital or income status.
A common complaint about the Plan
is its proposed admissions requirements.
I suggest that many schools on their own
would be forced to adopt even stronger
policies than those proposed. They will
do that to keep enrollment at its current
levels as the number of college applicants
increases. When central planning
distributes students to various campuses

and annex campuses (created with
greater funding), more students can be
absorbed into the system, thus yielding
lower entrance requirements.
I think it is clear now that stopping the
Master Plan isn't a good idea. So the
lesson is to try and change the Plan, not
stop it. There is still the opportunity to
have a constructive dralogue with the
HEC Board. But the HEC Board has
shown its unwillingness to listen to unruly
crowds. We must therefore argue on their
level: rational conversation in a calm atmosphere. If we do not get our concerns
across, the Master Plan will remain much
the same a.s it is now, and the worries of
the community will never be adequately
addressed .

AIDS and the· college student
I read this interesting piece of crap, and was
about to edit by mo.tch, when I reconsidered.
Perhaps the Evergreen communiry should know
that an Assistant to the President for Policy
Development thinks that AIDS is a good thing
because it reinforces the "traditional moral
values of our sociery. " I kid you not.
This release was distributed by "The Collegiate Network, " (there's that word again l )
which is part of a non-governmental organization called the "Institute for Educational Affairs (lEA)" located in Washington D. C. Don
MacNamo.ra of the lEA invites suggestions concerning their columnists via their toU--.free
number: 1-800-225-2862. Let them know how
you fell about their "valuable efforts" to inform
our nation about the moral truth .
--Dennis Held

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On hundreds of college and university campuses this year, students have
returned not only to be greeted by the
usual panoply of activities and issues, but
also by a new crusade--safe sex. Reacting
to the growing national preoccupation
with the AIDS epidemic, student groups
and school administrations are attempting to educate students about how to
avoid contracting this fatal disease .
Not surprisingly, given the "open" atmospher~ on most campuses, the safe sex
crusade has not been constrained by
many taboos . On some campuses, safe
sex packages have been distributed containing not only the more common contraceptive implements, but also a variety of devices for the aficionados of more
exotic activities. Despite this, "safe sex"
campaigns are not giving students the full
story about AIDS . Indeed, many
students are arguably being denied the
information that is most likely to assist
them in avoiding the AIDS virus .
A look at those taboo subjects might
be in order. First, few campus efforts
seem to be aimed at promoting the most
obvious a nd effective measure to slow

down the AIDS epidemic--abstinence.
Yet, as Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
has indicated time and time again,
abstinence is the only foolproof way to
avoid this disease. Are we to assume that
highly educated young Americans are so
enslaved by their passions that they are
unable to limit their number of partners
or sexual activities--even if failing to do
so risks death? Actually, much research
shows that many students do abstain or
establish a mutually faithful relationship
with marriage as the long-term goal.
Why the hesitancy to build on these
healthy tendancies particularly when the
issue is life or death?
Second, many of today's educational
efforts are what could be called "sexually egalitarian ." That is, they refuse to
distinguish or even appear to prefer one
type of sexual practice over another. Yet
medical research shows that sodomy is

probably the mos~ efficient method to
transfer the AIDS virus as well as other
diseases--for obvious reasons. Why is this
information censored on so many campuses? Does it illustrate the growing
power of gay rights activists who not only want to be tolerated, but want the
culture at large to affirm and support the
legitimacy of the gay life-style?
In fact, on many campuses· students
are surprised to find that no one is willing to assert and defend the moral and
religious norms they learned from their
families and churches. Even though
homosexual behavior, if embraced by a
sizable proportion of the population,
wbuld result in a dying civilization in a
generation or so, it is taboo to describe
this behavior as socially undesirable, unnatural or deviant . As a result, students
are denied the best medical advice
available--which is to avoid dangerous
sexual activities associated primarily, but
not exclusively, with the gay commu nity.
Writing in National Review magazine,
Jeffery Hart recently alluded to what in
literature is called the "~esence of the
absence." Just as the dog didn't bark
helped Sherlock Holmes once solve a
case, what is absent in the safe-sex campaign may be telling us an important bit
of information about the cultural atmosphere on many campuses.
What is absent is an acknowledgment
of the traditional moral values of our
society. Even before AIDS, heterosexuality was preferable; stable families were
good; abstinence had a medical as well
as a 'moral basis; fidelity in marriage was
a good thing. The absence of these
truisms from many campus anti-AIDS efforts not only cheats stud~nts of information they need, but it helps us understand
the hidden agenda of those who all too
often control the cultural milieu on
campus.
Students themselves will have to
ponder the paradox of getting advice that
denies the wisdom of the ages while a
microscopic virus daily reminds us with
its growing list of victims why that
wisdom was right.
11

Network Controversy Continues
by T im O' Brien
The Network , the pseudo-secret group
of college administrators , may soon Jom
the annals of Evergreen history and
lore. M embers say_they a re in the midst
o f reevalut a ting th e controversial
orga nization and are seriously discussing
pl a ns to put an end to their confidential
weekly meetings.
" I think there is a real possibility of
disbanding ," said Jeannie Chandler
Director of Housing a nd member of the
Network , adding that the group is " worried a bout the way people perceive us ."
Ga il M a rtin , Vice President for Stud ent Affairs, said she would not consider
allow ing the group to dissolve unless
there is a n alterna tive mechanism to deal
with campus eme rgencies . However ,
M artin did say she supported efforts to
m ake the Network a more open forum,
while protectin g the confidential work of
the organization .
T he concept for the Network began in
1975 as an effort to coordinate emergency response among various offices on
campus. Redubbed the Emergency Communication Network , meetings became
form alized in 1979 with the intent to
function as a crisis interve ntion group
able to assist individuals facing a n
e mergency, accident or emtional trauma .
T he need for a n information-sha ring
g roup like the Network was reaffirmed
a nd became more urge nt in 1984 when
a student was shot to death in the CAB
b uild ing. In the aft e rm a th of th e
shooting, several communi ty members
discovered that each had bits of information which , put toge ther, might have
alerted them to the impending tragedy .
"We became hyper-sensitive after that, "
reca ll s Shary Smith , Network member .
"We began to meet more freque ntly and
members were br in ging up ma tters tha t
n or m a ll y wo uld no t h ave b een
discussed . "
Members of the Network are: Dean of
Stude nt Developme nt Stone Thomas,
who coordinates the board ; C ampus Adjudicator Dave H itchens; Chief of Security Gary R ussell ; Ass istant Direc tor of
12 Housing Bob Carlson; counselor Barbara

Gibson; and the Directors of Housing,
Jeannie Chandler; Key Services , Sherry
Warren ; and the Counseling Center,
Shary Smith . Faculty, staff and professionals from the community may also attend meetings should the circumstances
dictate .
Since the discovery of a secret campus
organization was proclaimed on the front
page ofthe CPJ on June 5, 1986, the Network has been accused of violating student rights and confidentiality, and of ac-

ticipation ofthe Counseling Center. Last
year, the Center stopped attending Network meetings for a time because it was
believed that their presence was
misunderstood by students . Shary Smith
stresses that she and Barbara Gibson
serve primarily as advisors to the group
and never discuss clients in Network
meetings unless the person is believed to
be a serious threat to himself or others .
At times, a student may be asked to sign
a "release of information form" as part

'/ think there is a real
possibility oj disbanding
ting as a spy system to incriminate and
disenroll outspoken students.
Members describe the Network as having two primary goals: to plan for and
coordinate an emergency response on
campus, so that people and resources are
used effectively, and secondly, to assist
students with behavioral and/or emotional problems so that they may continue
their education, while assuring that the
community's safety is not compromised.
Chandler explains that in terms of
natural and logical consequences. If a
person is repeatedly caught stealing candy from the bookstore, the natural consequence might be to charge that person
with theft and disenroll her. But given the
information-sharing context of the Network, it could be revealed that the stud ent suffers from a n eating disorder , in
which case the logical consequences
would follow and the student could
receive treatment while remaining in
school.
When a student does come to the attention of the Network because of a violation of the social contract , and is deemed emotionally unbalanced based on the
actions and observations by Network
me mbers , faculty , staff or students, that
student may ' be required to visit the
Counseling Center or other appropriate
p rofessional facility as a condition for remaining in housing and/or ·t he. college.
One of the most delicate issues surroundin'l the Network has been the Dar-

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of a conditional agreement between the
student and a Network member. The
nature of the information to be released
is cited on the form and is strictly limited
in most cases to specific information, such
as if the student is fulfilling an obligation
to see a counselor.
The Network is extremely protective of
me and the Counseling Center," said
Smith . "I am tired of being thought of
as leaking information. That simply is not
true ."
The matter of confidentiality is the main
reason the Network has found it
necessary to operate with such a low profile, claim members. And while confidentiality has never been broken with
the Counseling Center, former ad judicator Ken Jacob claims that it has
been breached by members of Housing
staff. "I am aware of that happening with
some student employees of Housing."
Chandler confirms that in her four years
as Director she knows of one instance
when confidentiality has been broken ,
and adds that the staff member was not
with Housing at the time of the violation
or he would have been dismissed .
These were some of the issues brought
up during the course of a recent public
forum held by the members of the N etwork . Students at the meeting also expressed concern about the Network keeping fIles." Me'm bers steadfastly maintained that no mes are kept by the group and
tha t not even m inutes have ever been

(The process has inadvertently bruised individual student rights. )
recorded . This has since been found to
be false . Minutes of meetings were kept
and circulated among members for a time
during the early 1980s. Shary Smith, who
had received the original minutes and
had denied their existence at the public
forum , said when confronted with copies
of the minutes , "I've forgotten about
these .' ,
The Network as a body does not take
disciplinary action against a student.
However, considering its membership
and the consultative fashion in which the
group operates, it would seem reasonable
to conclude that the Network has direct
input into most disciplinary actions. "In
some instances they lapsed over [into
disciplinary matters]," said Thomas.
An intenm re-accreditation report
written by Ken Jacob to Patrick Hill,
(cc: The Network) in September, 1984
put it more succinctly:
" The outcome of the Network's con sultations may lead to any or several of
the following actions:
1. Housing and/or college probation
2. Implementation of a therapy program with a psychologist, physician or
substance abuse center/program
3. Eviction from Housing
4. Criminal charges
5. Disenrollment from the college
6. Hospitalization
7. Evoking the Criminal Trespass
Law ."
Perhaps the most blatant abuse of a
student's rights was a case originally adjudicated by RichardJones , in which Arthur West was disenrolled from the col ledge and placed on criminal tresoass.
In a note to West, Jones wrote: eel cannot give you the reasons why I cannot
allow you to register at The Evergreen
State College Winter Quarter, because I
need time to think and review the fIle of
evidcence . " West received a letter detailing the reasons for his being disenrolled
four days later, on January 12 , 1987.
West appealed the decision, which was
eventually overturned by Arnaldo
Rodriguez, 'Dean of Enrollment Services ,
who waS asked to adjudicate the case as
an impartial judge . As part of his findinltll. Rodril[Uez ordered two items to be

removed from the Campus Adjudicator's
me because of a lack of any evidence connecting them to West. "That may have
been the result of the Network sharing
information," said Rodriguez.
Also cited as reasons for West's
disenrollment were four alleged violations of the Social Contract. Rodriguez
disallowed two as not being justified and
one for not being' ' properly mediated or
adjudicated." Rodriguez wrote, "it is
my judgement that you were not given
due process when the Campus Adjudicator issued your criminal trespass
Richard Montecucco, Assistant Attorney
General, agrees that you should have
been given an opportunity for hearing
before taking action."
, •I think a mistake was made in Arthur's (West) case, but I don't think it
typifies the adjudication process," commented Martin.
Former student David Koenig was
evicted and a criminal trespass citation
was issued, barring him from all campus
housing areas, without a hearing, when
he was arrested as a suspect in a theft that
occured in Housing. Koenig later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, a move he
claims was prompted by finanical considerations. Coll~ge Counsel Shawn
Newman claims he is not familar with the
specifics of the case and hesitates to say
if Koenig's eviction was legal or not, but
does say that as a general rule students
are entitled to a formal hearing before
suspension or termination, according to
state law. Legal or not, Chandler, who
issued the criminal trespass, now believes
that she was c'e~ic",:lly bound" ~o give
Koenig a hearing before criminally
trespassing him . "In one case I did
violate a st\ldent's due process right ,"
said Chandler. "Clearly, I made a
mistake and I reversed it."
An issue that has received considerable
attention within Network discussions ,
since David Hitchens had been appointed
Campus Adjudicator, is whether or not it
is appropriate for the Adjudicator to attend Network meetings at all. It is Hitchens' contention. that an adjudicator
may be biased by participating in the
information-gatherin'l proces~ along with

other Network members. Hitchens is
concerned that if an individual case
reaches the point where he is forced to
make a judgement as Adjudicator, any
talks he heard in the Network meetings
could color his determination. "I doubt
I'll be meeting with the Network after this
quarter," concluded Hitchens.
Other Network members, while not as
outspoken as Hitchens, have agreed that
it is feasable that the adjudicator could
be biased, but none believe that this has
been the case in the past. Shary Smith
shares that opinion,' but she did
acknowledge, "There is a real possibility of bias the way it is." Rodriguez, having acted as adjudicator in the case dealing with Arthur West, said, "I personally
would feel more confident not being a
part of those (Network) discussions."
While Hitchens will not go so far as to
say that the Network and the Adjudicator
have violated student rights in a
wholesale fashion, he does acknowledge
there have been mistakes . He says that
the distinction between alleged incidents
and facts has not always been clearly
defined. "That got blurred," says Hitchens. "The process has inadvertently
bruised individual student rights."
Stone Thomas concedes that the Network has not been administered as well
as it might have been. "Historically,
there were some administrative errors
that were made," said Thomas.
"We are now in the process of looking at the way we work and suggesting
alternatives. Among the possible changes
being discussed are the separation of the
Adjudicator and the Network, a reevaluation of the role of the Counseling
Center and an end to the standing weekly meetings," Thomas said.
But Thomas believes the Network is a
viable and necessary organization . The
problem with a crisis intervention group
is that the public never sees the good work
it accomplishes, he said . " The students
we help are not too eager to have their
problems aired publicly. The biggest problem I have with the Network is the lack
of public education ," continued Thomas .
That is a problem which is going to
change.

13

Youth
and
Elders
Celebrate
Heritage
Indigenous Peoples' Day, sponsored
by the First Peoples' Coalition, featured
dancers from the Wa-he-lut Indian
School of the Nisqually Indian Reservation. "Honoring Elders and Youth" was
the theme of the seventh annual event.
Sonny Mosquito, an Olympia-area
resident of the Blood/Cree Nation, sang
for the dancers, and also sang the
veteran's honoring song for the opening
ceremony. John Thomas and Helma '
Ward, Makah elders, gave the keynote
address on the Makah language program. Lena Sohappy Owens of the
Yakima Nation, Rosemond Aho a
native Hawaiian, and Alice Frame f:om
the Black community shared their experiences in the final section of the program, the Elder's Circle.

Jay Dotson enjoyed Indigenous
People s Day last week and took

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Lena So Happy-Owens, Yakima Nation; and Delores Bellon,
Apache Nation share in the celebration of Indiginous Peoples.
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15

Reviews

Flutist Nakai Soothes
Native American performer/composer
Carlos Nakai will perform at The
Evergreen State College Recital Hall,
December 5, at 8:00 pm . Nakai, of
Navajo-Ute heritage, is currently gaining national attention with music that
combines the pure tones of the American
Indian flute with electronically synthesized sounds.
Nakai's music, performed on a handcrafted cedar wood flute, has been
described as " ... so soothing, it unwrinkles mind and soul." The Whole
Life Month put it, "It is remarkable how
this music creates a feeling of being outdoors, close to Mother Earth. Listening ... you will remember how beautiful
simplicity is ... "
Nakai was born in 1946 in Flagstaff,
Arizona, the eldest of five children of
Raymond Nakai, a former Navajo tribal
chairman . From early youth he involved
himself in the culture of his people, the
Dine, and eventually traveled, living and

studying with other North American
tribes. Following service in the U.S.
Navy, Nakai earned a degree in education from Northern Arizona University.
Nakai mastered the classical trumpet
before attempting to evoke beauty from
the simpler instruments unique to his
own culture. He began learning the traditional flute melodies of the Plains and
Woodlands People and soon began to
adapt these ideas to fit a style of his own.
A composer and musician, Nakai is
also a visual artist and educator. He has
taught high school and junior college in
Arizona, presents workshops, seminars
and residencies on Native American
culture and music for schools and
museums. Nakai's goal as an educator
and performer is "to give his students
and listeners and awareness of what it
means to be a Native American."
Nakai has released three albums for the
Native . American flute on the Canyon
records 'label (Phoenix, Arizona). His
first album, "Changes," features fourteen songs for solo flute.

Carlos Nalcai

Nakai's next album was "Cycles," the
music track for the H,eard Museum
multi-image presentation', "Our Voices,
Our Land". This work is scored for flute
and synthesized and was inspired by
Nakai's experiences while traveling the
vast NavaJo reservation .
Nakai's most recent release is
"Journeys" which features music for solo
flute plus songs for flute set against a synthesizer background of ocean, wind and
other sounds of nature. This album shows
Nakai's interest in the jazz idiom as many
of the songs were improvised during the
recording session.
For more information regarding this
unique and talented Performer/Composer/Cultural Educator, Carlos Nakai,
or for reservations for the December 5
performance, phone 866-6833. The
Recital Hall is located in the Communications Building at The Evergreen
State College. Tickets are $6.50 general,
and $4.50 for students or Alumni Cardholders and are available at Yenney's
Music, the Book Mark in Lacey, The
Evergreen State College Bookstore or at
the door.
This show is wheelchair accessible and'
childcare is available.

by Sheila Fox

Siren Song to Resistance COlDpelling
A Review of Stamawle's (yes, that's her whole name)
new boole, Truth or Dare.

by Pamela Lent
Starhawk's siren song to resistance is
poetically compelling, her reasoning
flawless. This work is founded on solid
research, grounded in a history that has
all but been lost under a system of tyranny fostered against all of life, not just
against the feminine.
Truth or Dare is a powerful calling to account of the patriarchy since its
beginning--since its conquest of the earthbased Goddess religions. In her new
book, Starhawk defines a patriarchal
system of government as one which is
based on war . The patriarchal system is
an approach designed to control, not to
foster. Its power is over individuals rather
than with· them .
These are the truth; what Starhawk
does in this work is dare us to change
reality, to em brace a liberation
psychology that allows us not only to
resist the denial required in a system
which refused to recognize inherent value
but to create alternatives to that denial.
Truth or Dare is a calling to the community. Within its pages is a concept of reality as a collective event changeable only
by collective action.
Weaving the poetry of the Descent of
Innanna as well as a number of ritual
I itanies into a richness of history ,
Starhawk guides us to an understanding
of the erosion of the feminine. She gives
us a view of early Goddess religions as a
part of an agrarian culture recognizing'
the inherent value of all life . On the other
hand , she defines the rise of patriarchy
as the rise of a "divi nity of rulers" citing
sacrifice as evidence of the ascent of .
kingship. In a culture where human
sacrifice was unheard of suddenly whole
retinues of households died with the
"master" and were buried with him.
Patriarchy as hierarchy, as a culture of
Master/Servant philosophies, as a system
based on an economy of war is so welldefined in this book as to be undeniable .
Starhawk states that patriarchy was

established through an institutionalization of warfare rising out of a need to defend against invasion. Under this system,
women were removed from positions of
power; they no longer fought as comrades
beside their brothers. Rape and war
became synonymous with the devaluation
of the feminie. Women were nothing
more than prizes of war, objects of barter.
In her "Story of Masks," Starhawk
evokes a visual language that depicts
what violence has done to the earth and
the children of the earth. "Cry for it
mourn rage/ There are toxins in your
blood/ Your dismembered parts/ lie scattered around you .. . " The story is a call
to remove the masks that protect us from
the responsiblity of independant action in
the face of authority . This is the message
in Truth or Dare.
Starhawk further defines the
authoritarian system under which we live
as a culture of punishment. Acceptance
of punishment depends on the destruction of our immanent worth. We are obedient because of our doubt regarding our
own value. In the current system there
are four common responses to punishment, all of which confirm authority by
responding rather than challenging.
To comply is to accept (therefore
deeper into the clutches of authority by
acting out in ways for which penal
systems are prepared to deal ; to withdraw
is to ignore reality , thereby allowing the
existing system to continue unmolested;
to manipulate maintains the framework
of authority while giving us a false sense
of control. Starhawk defmes resistence or
empowered action as a non-acceptance of
the terms of a system .
She dares us to act to create a new
reality. She calls on us to "recognize the
patterns of unfree action we adopt in
response to punishment, " to "recognize
the jail inside out own minds." We must
begin to see that choices defined by a
system are choices designed to channel
rebellion into acceptably manageable circuits. We have to create our own alternatives of resistance that challange the
very foundations of a system based on
punishment.

If war and dominance are supported
by individual acts of obedience, then we
must refuse our part in that drama. We
must affirm immanent value. We must
deny compliance by identifying sources
of injustice and holding them accountable. We must stop the "demonization"
of other groups as the enemy and
recognize our own fears of difference are
what makes us susceptible pawns to the
war mentality. Diversity of expression
within a culture creates an acceptance of
difference and a love of life in all things.
"The belief in inherent value is not compatible with genocide or notions pf
manifest destiny."
We must establish an alternative to
war, create global safety. Wars are fought
based on economic interests : we must
learn to think beyond war to sustainability. Starhawk' s concept is one of
"undesirable" or "bad attitude"
diplomacy. As she points out, it would
be an overwhelming defeat to win a war
only to find the prize unmanageable and
uncooperative . Imagine a nation of people the size of the U.S . refusing to comply, forcing conquerers to resort to extreme tactics to accomplish simple
tasks . It ' s been done before . Scandinavian noncooperation deflated the Nazis
in World War II.
Truth or Dare is a big book in its sense
of concept and scope. But it is more than
that. It is an important book . Starhawk
has given I1S fact, alternative and ritual,
weaving them together in her own unique fashion which confronts our senses
on 'so many levels that no matter wh . ur
learning style--we get it. This is one 'we
must all "get."
Creating a sustainable culture, one
'that values the earth, requires preservation of our resources for future generations . Agriculture must improve the soil,
forestry must extend the groves , our
economy must tum to long-term goals
rather than short-term profit. As
Starhawk so eloquently states, "The
healing of our relationship with place
begins with the preservation of the
natural environment.

Jasmine
Changes Hearts
and Fills
Spirits
by Paula Barnett
For those of you who missed the
Jasmine concert Friday, November 13,
you missed perhaps one of the most
dynamic group of women musicians ever
to grace the halls of this college.
Gifted with incredible talent, Carole
Schmidt, Lydia Ruffin, and Michele
Isam successfully moved the audience
towards a state of musical exhilaration.
their lyrics were peppered with insight
about relationship dynamics, self-respect,
heartfelt truths and vivid passion. With
candid commentary onstage, -th,ey were
full of wit and playfulness offstage.
The sound ofJasmine is unique. ThClle
three create a fusion of genres that refuses
to be categorized into pop, jazz, soul,
swing or folk. The styles changed from
one song to the next, often by inserting
3-part acappella into parts of the performance. The three voices are so tight, they
often sound like one voice with three different pitches. Michelle leads the way
with unbelievable cresendos/&Ild feVerish
scatting, while Lydia and Carole fill in
to add the other colors toJasmine's audio
rainbow.
Carole's keyboard forms the base for
Jasmine's songs. Michelle alternates between the use of three different saxophones, electric drums, and provides
the most visual component of the show
by jumping offstage into the crowd, leatting and dancing with high-voltage electricity. Lydia balances the three with her
steady, melodic voice anc;l I!}'nthesizer.
This was their first West Coasttour,
promoting their their current album Wild
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Tough Love

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The Star

Andrea Utzinger

In my dream , there is you . We are on
the floor , you and me, on a mattress
lumped with piles of twisted bedclothes.
The floor is littered with magazines and
desperate lies. I am hating you, I am
hating you in your second-hand army officer',s jacket, for doing to me what you
did to me earlier tonight when I was
awake, when I was not dreaming, for
raping me . I am lying very still, just like
a crumpled bedspread , so that maybe you
will not be able to distinguish me from
the clutter. You are smoking a cigarette,
and you are fully clothed. I am not. I am
not afraid of you, because you are so
small, so small and loathsome and weak .
I am not j!-,st part of the clutter now, I
am moving and sitting up, and I am telling you that you are an asshole, and as
a tall and shining man enters the room,
I am telling you that you are nothing. I
am saying with spit bubbling through my
teeth that I have always hated sleeping
with you ...
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jacket. His brown hair is fuzzed, tangling around his shining head like cobwebs
in dead leaves . There is stubble on his
face , his wide-open, smiling face. The
rags are thrown aside now , and,thejacket
open, and I can see his chest, and the
muscles like rocks in his stomach . I think
that he is pleasing, and so pure and good,
and suddenly he is upon me, he is making love to me, making love to me with
his clothes on, without entering me, only loving me. I turn my head and I see
you, see you sit there, sour and silent,
and from under my splendid lover I raise
my hand, my middle finger, and I point
it in your direction.
I am waking from dreaming, waking
in the same place , in the same sore pose
when I coupled with sleep. My back is
to you, and I am curled tightly shut,
balancing on the corner of your bed like
spilled liquid on the edge of a table. I am
opening my eyes, but I do not move, so
that if you are asleep you will stay that
way . But you ar.: awake. Your small
hand comes to rest on my hip, and I

sh udder , almost purposely . You slide
closer to me, against me, and I cannot
move at all, only lie there stiff, as you
stroke my hip, my thigh, my shoulder.
"It's time to get up," you say, just to
say something, and you sound strange,
as if you don't know what you are saying at all . We get up, and we shower
together, only I don't wash you today;
and I soap the make-up from my face and
my hair. I can tell that you feel weak and
embarressed, and I will not look at you,
or speak to you, or touch you. In the car
you drive me to campus, you say impotently that you are sorry last night was
such a bad night . I look straight ahead.
As we are having coffee before I go to
school, a man walks past, dishevelled and
bright. He is the man in my dreams--I
guess I have seen him here before. I turn
to you, say "I had a nightmare last
night. " I bring my finger from under the
table and point it at the tall retreating
figure, spilling my coffee. It slides gently
off the table, pooling on the floor, "He
starred in it," I lie.

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My body yearns to press you hard.
Gentle pause, soul touching soul,
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A slow healing spiritual bruise
hovers unseen so near whole,
the arc traces
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DIVERSITY

The Fint United Methodist Church is
offering rides to its 11 :00 am service . The
van will be in the loop behind A Dorm
by 10:30 am on Sunday mornings. Also,
a Christian Sunnort Group meets Monday nights at 7: 30 pm at Innerplace in
L3225. Both events are co-sponsored by
Innerplace and Campus Ministries. For
more information call 6145 .
As a part of the A Poet is a Voice ...
"Imaginary Gardens" Poetry and Fiction Reading Series, Seattle poet Sibyl
J ames will present both her own works
and the works of others. On December
3,7:30 pm James will read at the Olympia Center in downtown Olympia. At
noon December 4, James will give
another reading at South Puget Sound
Community College's student center.
Both performances are open to the
public. A $2 entrance fee will be charged for the Olympia Center evening performance, while the noon reading at the
college is free .

FOR FUN

CRC is sponsoring a Wallyball Tournament For All Greeners: Wallyball is
played in a confined area in teams of 2,
3, or 4. If you're interested, get some
friends together and sign up in the CRC
office. The tournament will take place on
Saturday, November 21 from 10:30 am
to 3:00 pm . For more information, call
X6530 .
Come dance to the live music of The
Local Magnetic Disturbance and The
Gruis, two great Olympia bands. Tickets
are $5 at the door, no age limit. Proceeds
from the dance will be used to help run
the Thruston County Off Campus
School. The dance will take place at The
Olympia Ballroom, located at 116 Legion
Way, S .E . on November 20, Friday,
1987, from 8:00-11 :30 pm.

EDUCATION ~ WORKSHOPS

Radical Women will be sponsoring a
Forum Series on Art and Culture on
Saturday, November 21 and Saturdays,
December 5, 12, 19. Each week the
focus of the Forum will be different, ranging from Visual Arts to Literature. The

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Scandinavian and original folk music will
perform on Saturday, November 21, at
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Recital Hall. Tickets are now on sale in
Olympia at Rainy Day Records and the
TESC Bookstore. Tickets are $4 for
students, seniors and KAOS subscribers;
$6 general admission. For information '
and reservations call 866-6833.
The Total Experience Gospel Choir and
We Three will be in concert on Saturday,
November 21, at 8:00 pm at the Capital
Playhouse '24, 206 E . 5th, Olympia.
Tickets are $6 and $8. All proceeds go to
Olympia to Nicaragua Construction
Brigade. For more information call
352-9524 .
Music at Barb's BBQ: November 20,
Steve Munge 's Jazz from 8 :00 pm to
Midnight. November 21, John Atkin
presents some of his original compositions
from 7:00 pm to 11 :00 pm. November
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T he Bert Wilson Trio will be performing in the dining room of Ben Moore's
R estaurant , 112 W . 4th, Uptown Olympia, Wednesday , November 25. The
performance will begin at 9:00 pm and
there will be no cover charge .

PU BLI C SERVICE

T he C ounseling and Health Center will
be closed during Thanksgiving break,
November 23-27. The Center will also
close during evaluation week, December
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W ashPIRG is sponsoring a Voter
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N ove mberlearly D ecember. Volunteers
a re needed now to help coordinate the
conference a nd do community outreach.
It 's a great opportunity to work with
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sta te . For more information contact Patty Duggan, LB 3228, 866-6000, ext. 6058
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(2) a state resolution advocating the ban
of styrofoam ; (3) Initiative 97 (toxic waste
clean-up); and (4) possibly working to
stop the Master Plan. For more info
mation contact Patty Dugan.
The Asterisk and Cheese Library is having a Poetry Reading at 7:00 pm
December 6. Sign up at the Asterisk
(right next to Rainy Day R ecords) , or
just come to relax and enjoy.
The Thurston County Rural H ealth Services will be offered at the Yelm Moose
Lodge, Wednesday, November 25,
from 9::;u am-3:00 pm. Immunizations ,
WIC, blood pressure checks and other
preventive services are available to
everyone . Family planning available by
appointment. Inquire at the health services site or call 1-800-624- 1234 and ask
f~r the Health Department. For more information call 786-5581 .

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Coach House, 211 W . 21rst, Olympia,
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Evergreen Cassette Project is
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For more info, call Adam Kasper at
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members of the Seattle Center For
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On Saturday, November 21, at the
Washington Center for the Performing
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Evergreen College graduates Geoff
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Advance tickets are available at Ticketmaster or by phone 628-0888 . For more
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10:00 am and 5:00 pm weekdays, or by
stopping by the theatre at 206 E . 5th,
Olympia.
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Gallery 4 on the fourth floor Library
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faculty member and native of the Colville
I ndian Reservation will be exhibiting a
selection of her drawings and paintings
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Olympia Waldorf School . The first exhibit will take place November 16-20 at
Buck's Fifth Avenue , 209 E. Fifth, Olympia. The second exhibit will occur at
Carnegie's Restuarant, S. Franklin and
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the second annual Armchair Traveler .
Series at the Washington Center for the
Performing Arts. "Carribean Gold"
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you're in, and is contingent
on your background. --I
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depends on where you art!.
I could be politically correct
to one person and not be
politically correct to another
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