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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 29, Issue 24 (May 3, 2001)
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Vox POPULI "
THE VOICE Of THE PEOPLE
«What's ~ with
May Day?"
Cyrus Berryman
senior
"I think the idea behind it is good, but
the general respo nse from tbe Olympia n
community is negative. so the me ~sage gets
lost.... The message is about international
worker~' rights. Workers' right~ are an i~s\le,
;md it'll continue being <III is,~ue, since living
wage~ are falling."
Karen Lohmann
aillmn; sl'udent
''The wa}'1 sec it, it's a celebration for
the workers and d holiday appropriated by
anarch ists \Vho mayor may never worked
hard in their lives. But to me, it's a
celebration of spring and the merging of
female and. male energies. It's also a day of
honor for pollination and plant life.'
E\'''q;rcen s ludenl Neal ,\hern danc"s in front orOI),l11pi.1 1I rcsidell l D.1I1 Alldc",,,n (w ith bullhurn ) durill~ T",,<d.IY ·' 1\1<1)' D.II'
\ (rt.'ci p;Hl~·. Andcr",o" \\', 11; pro(l'slin~ Iht;:
freshman '
"I saw a sign at the Co-op that said if
you're concerned about workers, then you
should do something for workers. [For
example] organize chi ld care for them
rather than just having a big party,"
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Kevin Wannamaker
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"First of all, it's a celebration. It
offered the potential for problems with
the city because of its grassroots nature.
It comes ITom the people, and therefore
it's the city's job to respect the wishes of
those people.. So I hope next year we. don't
face the violence and arrests from the
Olympia Police Department like we did
this year."
whlle .1 drum
Address Se rvi ce Re'l"csleJ
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tr ied to drov~'11 hirll
oUI.
p i.l1[ulw.\J,lnl lOllll"
r\ ch ild in a
For more --'jester hat dig~ wit h a
spoon in a vacant
May Day
lot. planting sin gle
PHOTOS
blades of grass,
~see page 6- seemingly unawar e
of the chaos that
surrounds him . Helicopter blades beat th e
,ky, techno music pulses on th e street. and
a man wit h a megaphone is ~ houtin g angry
words to th e crowd just ten feet away. The
chi ld keeps on diggi ng.
The child was par t of the guer illa
gardening project during th e May Day
ce lebra tion Tuesday. where ac tivi sts alld
reve lers blocked th e streets for hours and
had a party. Ma y 1. May Day. is an
int ernational holid ay 1'01' worker's ri ght s,
which began with the fatal labor prote~ts in
Chicago in 1886.
La,t year, th e ce lebration blocked a
busy intersertion. Traffic was jammrd for
hour, . This year. howrvcr. the group heeded
the ll ye r handed out by the OlympIa Police
Department. asking them to keep the
intersections clear for emerge ncy ve hicl e,.
May Day's celebrations did not move to
Yauger Park as th e llyer asked, though. After
marching from the Va lu e Village parking lot
throu gh to the out~k irt s of Cap ital ~Iall.
th e)' blocked off a section of Black l.ake
Boulevard and occ upied a vacant. privately the cvcnt was "spontaneous." Il l' felt the
owned lot 0 11 the co rner of I-Iarri~on and eve nt wa s about reclaill1ing puhlic 'pace
Black l.ake. l.ater. the y took their and havill g flln. Il l' wa~ looking for a
celebration to the Sth Avenue bridge. where rea ction , any reac tIon, to spark a dia logue
they fa ced poli ce in riot gear. Po li ce let them in th e co mlTlunit y.
"Some people will be pissed off." he
pa~s though, alld th e group wandered int he
downtowlI area before headin g back to the ~a id, "a nd so me people will weigh the actual
benefits."
spot they cal'll' from.
People were pissed ofT. A man in a gray
Amid the shouts and jumps of blackclad cheerleaders. the May Day g rOllp car det;oin ed by th e march said . "I pay for
,,,selllbled ill the Value Vi ll age parking lot the damn sid ewa lks. They don't have a right
to be o n the ,treet. end of
at 12: 34 p.llI. The workers
story. I alll the Illajorit y. "
in sid e the ,tore held ,odas and
110\\ rver, ,Ollie residents came
peered o"t of their w ind ow~.
" I pay for
Ollt to w;lIch and support the
Tanya Crallt, " Va lue Villa ge
the damn
re\'t'ler,. Chris Fry. a We~t Sid"
worker , sa id she was worried
sidewalks.
rr,idcnt. ,aid the crowd on the
about what the eve nt wOllld to
stft'ct wa' "great kid~ . "
do to the store\ bU\ in ess. She
They
"T hey brin g a littl e
IVa, also bewildered th at the
don'r have
diversit y to the commu nity. "
ce lebration wa' for worke[\'
a right to
Fry said.
righ ts.
After last year's ,'vlay Day
"It', ridi culou\." she ,aid.
be on the
n
elll.
'o m e residen t sa nd
"Half uf th elll probab ly don 't
street. "
bll\inl'\\es lhreatelled tn block
have a job."
the El't'rgreen parking lot, on
Most of th e workc".
~ lIper S;ot llrd;o), III ret;oli;oti Lln.
busines,
owners,
and
As of \\'l'dn",day. till' ,""liege
bvstandef' assumed lhat
Eve rgreen stude nt s org anized th e event. had heard of no sut'h th reats this Y"Jr·
The actllal organizers ha\'e rClllained
Empt y bll\[', ""itl'J tu take 'III":
participant> irthing' got ugly. bllt an i), one
alonY"10 US .
Cray ;\yre. an Evergreen ,tudellt ill the person was arre,t l'd. SO llleon e tore lip the
ce lebration 'po rting a high ~c11001 letter garden planted by th e ,\ Ia, Day participants
jacket and a Kabuki mask. maintained that on Wednesday.
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CAB 3 16. The Eve rgreen Stale
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Garden Sowed, Traffic Blocked> Community Conflicted
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May Day Heyday on Harrison
!3y Erica Nd'(l11
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BRIEFS
Clean-cut high school students descend on campus in suits
and ties! Creeners
shoulders and. act confused!
Those who do not learn from the past ... end up here
By Jm Blackf()f(1
Spri n g is here, w hen a yo un g
person's fanc ies turn to tho ug hts of
vandGlism. The wea ther is nice, you 're
no longer sllffe rin g from season a l
disorders, and YOLi realize tha t soon, YOll
wi ll leave this school. Thus, you tnust
trash it w hile YOLi have the chance.
It's apparently also a time to drink,
loo t, pillage, and party like so many
glu ttonous pirates. How else can YOll
explain the delightful revels in Housing
that wake folk up a t 2 <I .m.?
But tha t is, sadly, a trad ition, so I
do not hope tha tit will ever change. And
I will resign myself to the fact tha t there
have been, are now, and always will be
fire alarms in my life.
O n with the mayhem ...
Story meeting:
Monday 5 p.m.
Paper critique:
Thursday 4 p.m.
Journalism and ethics
forum: (led by CPJ
advisor Dianne
Conrad)
Friday 3 p.m.
The little tykes are in a mock legislature program through the YMCA. They're here to play all .
the roles of the REAL legislature, from senator to lobbyist to reporter. They got kicked out of the
Capitol building due to earthquake damage, so they rented out some buildings here. They'll be
around till Saturday, so make the wannabe bureaucrats welcome and ~eep the language clean.
By the way, I heard some of the kids walking behind me say, "What time is it?"
'1t's 12:15."
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"Yeah, but that's Evergreen time. What ti)ne is it really?"
Just thought you'd all like to know. - Erica Nelson
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Business
La cey, th e love ly little burg ca s t of O ly,
will be hav in g th eir 14 th annual "S pring Fun
Fa ir" thi s weekend, May 5 and 6. Thl' fun wi ll
begin wit h a parade on Saturday morn ing; we
th ink it may have clowns, bu t report s a rc not
co nfirmed . The rest of th e day wi ll be filled
wit h c lass ic Cd r s h o\\'~, arb and c rafts booths,
dnd live en te rt ,li nment on not one, but two ,
count them, TWO s tdge s. The fun stretches
o n th rough Su nd ay, sadly co ming to an end
a t 5 p.m., ,1 t whic h point we ilt'l' on ly left with
a few happy m emories, ,1 ch urnin g stomach
fu ll of co rn dog~, and a burning ,1n ti cipil tion
for ne.>.t yl'M'S La ce)' Spling Fun Fair.
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Trustees will recogn ize the se rvi ce o f s ix
retiring facu lty who have been una nimously
nominated by the faculty and th e Provos t for
emer i tu s s ta tus. Those be in g h o n ored a re
Mi c hael Beug, Steve Herman, Terry Hubbard ,
Meg Hunt, Caro l Minugh , Sa ndr a Nisbet.
There wi ll be J reception for th ese fac ul ty in
the lobby area just ou ts ide o f the Board Roo m
(Library 3112 ) between 12:45 p.m .. 1 :45 p.m .
At 1:45 p. m., the public port ion of the Board
meeting co nve nes. The Board's first ac ti on will
be to present resolut io ns to these filcu lty and
to provide a n oppor tu n ity to hear from th em.
Lacey Spring Fun Fest
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something is stolen by someone.
3:30 p.m. : I would like to jus t ask one
simple question: Does anyone still have
the bike they originally came to campus
w ith? I mea n, anyone who's been here
longer than a month?
Tuesday. Apri124
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Graduation Speaker Auditions
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Tomorrow, Friday, May 4, the Board of
PART II
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Coop er Point Journal office CAB 316, or ema il
your contribution to cpj@evergreen.ed u .
Monday. April 23
7:28 a.m. ; Somewhere in the Greenery,
In the captivating section entitled
" Olympia: a city of people and things"in
last week's A&E ' Briefs, the brief
regarding "On The Crater's Edge" did not
contain very much information. If it did,
you would have known that "On The
Crater's Edge" plays every Wednesday at
7:30 p.m. at the Midnight Sun
Performance Space for the meager price
of $4.99.
Cooper Point Journal • 2 • May 3, 200 1
about" to ge t the debaters' attention The
ca rtoo n was s lipped und er the
conversa nts' door,
The conversa nts called up Police
Services, and an officer responded. They
showed the offi cer the caricature, very
upse t about the nature of the picture. At
some point, the people who drew the
picture ca me o ut a nd exp lained that
they were doing a "political sa tire on
their conversa tion." Apparently, they
felt that the conversa nts were s tating
"some facts that were totally in co rrect
about racism." The suspects are advised
that this was a serious incident, to which
they later respond that "they did not
m ean any harm bllt that they wanted to
ge t into a discuss ion."
After a lengthy discllssion and a
call to both the sllspects' parents and
attorney, two days later Pol ice Services
arc called and advised one of th e
complainant's families that they do not
want to take it any further. The picture
is currently on a fli er posted lip around
ca mpu s with the words" Are you
racist?" and a s ummary of the incident.
6:13 p.m. : Something happens with a
non-contact order. Something happens.
Isn't that my motto?
Las t week's undergr a duat e s p ea ker
audition was ca n ce ll e d b ecause the
ca ndid a tes o utnumbe red the voters three to
one . Graduation Coordin a to r Rafael Lazano
i nvit ed a ll g r adua ti ng sen iors to ei th er
present a five-minute s peech or vo te on whi ch
speaker sho uld represen t the class co m e Jun e
15. Of th e nine studen ts that showed up last
Wednesday, seven h a d speech es prepared,
which left two s tudents to vote on beha lf of
an estima ted 1,100 g raduati n g sen io rs.
Rafael ha s I'esched uled the audi tion for
Tuesday, May 8, and he will not reschedul e it
again. T he speaker's nam e mus t be includ ed
in th e g rad uatio n program, w hi ch is waiting
to go to the printers . "Thi s is it," sa id Rafael.
" It 's a do o r die s ituation. "
On ly th ose spca kers who showed up last
week wi ll be a ll owed to dudition , but Rafae l
encourages a ll grad u a ti ng seniors to
part icipate in the se lec tion process. T hose
who wish to do so mllst be in Lecture Hall <I
by fo ur p.m. on Tuesday and s hould plan to
stay until six . The el igible ca ndidates in cl ude
Chris lophl'r Byrd, Roseanne Catania, Jeffrey
Mason, Edith Nelson, Ange la N ie lsson, Brent
Seabrook, and Jed W hittaker.
Tf yo u h ave any ques ti ons abo u t the
d ud ilion or g raduation in ge n e ra l, con ta ct
Registration and Records at x6180 or Michelle
Airhardt at x6130. - Bren t Sea brook
11:57 a.m.: Three the fts are noted on the
Wednesday, April 25
Blotter, wi th tw o marked as being
coll ege property and one as a theft from
an office. Becallse stealing from students
is a less sa tisfying offense. Since, you
know, they don't have good stuff.
4:49 p.m. : Two s tudents have a private
conversation in their dorm room about
racism and the class they had earlier that
day. Evidently, the discuss ion beca me
" loud and e mo tional," thlls enabling
people in anothe r room to hear them.
They decided to draw a picture of "what
10:14 p.m.: A vehicle is pushed from the
Thursday. April 26
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Direc tor of Co ll ege Rela tions wi ll be. You Illd Y
not. You might wonder to yourself, "what
does thl' Director of Co ll ege Reldlion s do?"
Well, they are in charge of a II the scho ol'
dea lings wi th the m e dia . Anyway, if you
wou ld like to part iCipate in open forulll
discussions with the four captivating
ca n d idates, then it 's your lu cky dCly. The
ca ndidates will be v isiting the campus for
their inte rv iews from May 8 throu g h the 11th .
If you would like to see their app li ca tions or
t<l lk, p lease go v isit Iris Lopez in Lab ll1L5-l
fo r m ore in fo rm at ion.
To leam more about our for--credit
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parking booth to the lot. But what could
calise a car to stop? Lack of gas? Bad
engine ? A inter·dimensional time rift
straight ou t of Tire X-Files wherein you
lose 11 minutes? Hmm.. .
3:46 p.m. : Someone accidentally steps
on a jagged pipe near Child Care and
hurts his leg.
of today's incident. A man reports
that " for the past two days, he had
Saturday. April 28
observed an individual sittin g on the
toil et of th e Men's room" in th e 4 a.m. : Oh, but the past comes back to
handica pped stalL He knew it was the haunt you like leftovers in the fridge.
same man because he wore black socks Today, a n officer responds to a
and there was" a large hole in one of his complaint that someone is in the men's
socks." Apparently, each morning at 6:30 bathroom . When he e nte rs th e
a. m., he would see the man there. Today, bathroom, he anno unces himself and
he looked under the s tall o ut of conce rn the suspect responds tha t he is using the
for the person and thought the man was res troom . He then puts his feet down,
and s ure enough, he is wearing socks.
ei ther unconscious or asleep.
Ver il y, wh e n the cop comes to Black socks. Socks Witll holes in them.
investigate, he find s the selfsa me man The cop asks him " if when he uses a
with black socks in the stalL He knocks public res troom ifhe removes hi s boots,
on the door, and eventually, the sock- a nd picks up his feet a nd hold s hi s
wearing man exits, carrying a medium belongings." The man responds that is
s uitcase. When asked what he w as exactly what he does. Nonetheless, he
doing there, he s tates the followin g gets a criminal trespass from campus.
pOints
(numb e red
for
your 7:38 a.m. : There are fiv e se nses
conv eni ence). One, he hopes to be a commonly known, and today's report
s tudent at Eve rgreen . Two, he has encompasses them. Wha t is seen is a
nowhere to live, so he sleeps here. Three, bunch of Housing res idents milling
he was informed by an officer that it was abo ut. Heard in the evening is an alarm
okay to sleep in the buildings, although shrieking its mournful wail. An odor of
he is unable to confi rm said officer's burnt plas tic wafts in the hallway. One
can almost taste a bitter despair at the
identity.
The man is g iven a verbal warning wlfolding event. And my entire body
and told to leave. He departs, but thi s is can fee l the pain as I repeatedly slam my
head into the d esk for having to cover
not the end of thi s s tory.
1 :27 p.m. : While investigating a this.
campsi te in the woods, police come 10:17 p.m.: " I transported the bottle [of
across a se t of keys belonging to TESC p each schnapps] to Police Services
amidst the possessions left behind. The where I photographed it and an officer
key shop confirms that they belong to witnessed it being des troyed."
Housing, and they loca te the owner of
the keys. It turns out that her purse went
Sunday. April 29
missing two days earlier. They look
It's a day of monotony and the
through the rest of the s tuff, but the keys same old thing, starting with a fire alarm
are the only things there,
. in U·Dorm. Then someone drinks and
drives on the Evergreen Parkway.
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new
student
organization h<l~ been burn; it
is called Uprooting Racism.
With thl' recent political
(hangc~ in the Unit('d S t.lll'~
<1nd all ,n'l'r the world, it'~
qU Ill' clt'ar th,lt a lot ,)1 work
nl'pel, tt> b" d,'nt' te) ,'nd
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ph oro by Adam Louie
Employee of Evergreen's Mechanical Services, Richard Johnson, dances [0 the salsa band. Latin
Expcessions. yesterday in Red Square, The music was part of this week's Cinco de Mayo
activities,
Drill was poorly planned and executed
[or along, long time. But there
is ~Ii ll a lot of ignorance and
avoidance circulating around
race relations and cOl1fronting
th e reality of thl' .. itUdtinl1
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of effort, Ihe pel)~)/c of thh
world ul1ited (,In C01l1pll' lt'h'
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d,,,cu!->s racism in our SOC iety,
Ih e world , Ihl' media , our
school, our f'lmilies and our
personal lives, a~ well as our
own internalized racism from
socia li za tion. We will tak e
turns s haring how racism has
impacted our life, including
the times we have confronted
it, or would have liked to.
People
o[
all
backgrounds are already
working on ending racism all
over the world and have been
'lhl' 'nil' \\',11 Ic> In'dl
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rc1CI,.,m ha" ,1 pro(ound
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and therefore notici 11g color
he lps to counteract tha t effect.
Instead of being color neutral,
we need to notice, much m ore
acutely and insightfully,
exactly th e difference that
color makes in the W<ly people
are treated. " Paul Kivel
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week, Wedllesdays 12:30 V"'. 1:30 p.m.'" Librnr!l2221 .
Noisy Neighbors Nuisance in Housing
By Edilh l\:cl"'n
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fall quarler due to noi .. e
problems from A-Dorm
H e Iherefore lo st financial
aid. His rccnur"e to Ihi~
~iluatiol1
W,h
gelling
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would do nothing . The 1\
residents did n o t yet have
to quiet down , and nOlhing
cou ld be done until their
quiet hour~ began .
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to
the
Housing Contract (sec ti on
#21), "The ){e~ident agrees
to uphold self and others
to accepl"bll' and tol erable
Iloi,.,e le\' e l~ . E~tablished
quiet hour!:> for Housin g
are Sunday to Thursday, 11
p.m. to 9 <1.m., and Friday
10 Sal lirda y, I a.m. 10 10
a.m. For Quiet Housing
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actual conversatioll."
While every re~idellt
in Hou "i n g receive" a copy
of Ih e Hou,.,ing Con lr<l ct
J
UPOIl th ei r ent ran ce into well as it should be.
the
sy!:> ll'm ,
Hou!:>ing
Eisner says that there
Assignment,.,
worker 'arc not as many noise
Monique Vallot agrel's that comp la i nt s as one would
('w people rC<ld thelll , o,pec t , though th ere ilre
which is P,lI'l of Ihl' u!'>ua II)'
more
on
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11ll' i!'>slle i, Ih ,l t people do pl'upl e art' "Iwsitillll Iucelll
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she i!'> U11,.,url' if more cillls
10 Police Se rvl cl's d11d 1110re
repor t~ to th e RI\ 's will
sl)h'l' the problcm .
Ben Eis ner, the RA for
the firsl thr ee floors of BDorm, agrees Ih e re is d
problem , Ih oug h hL' doL'S
state that it was worse f<lll
qua rt er.
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noise
compla inl :. arc supposed
to be re gis t e red onlille ,
though the sys te111 is
apparently nol used a~
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probably more .
Mo,,1
people
intel'l' i l'wed have noi"e
problems a t least once cl
week , though few actually
ca ll Police Services on the
issuc- F u rther, none see m
to believe th ,1 t calli ng more
trequently will so lv e the
problem . In addition, none
were sure when quiet
hours for their building
begiln. Guesses ranged
from I'ight PM to eleven or
even one AM.
What can be done
I
n
Cooper Poin t Journal • 4 • May 3, 2001
about this issue 7 While
every area in Hou s ing has
an RA responsib le for it,
RA's are not on duty ai llh e
time. While they are n ot on
duty, they have, according
to
Vallol,
no
morc
'llIthority than any other
student. They IllUSt go
through th e salllc proCl'ss,
which-if I'iolator~ drc
caught-(In
lead
to
m l'd i ,1 t ion _ L: v e IT s t L1dell t
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rl'spl)n~ib1litl tl) obl'l' Ihl'
tc I' 111,., (ll I h t' H l) U... 111 g
CUnl r.1l t.
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th"I'el"rl'
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nl'cl',.".11'i1l malun' \I,n\
others ,,'mpll' inl·l' ... t III
l'C1 rp IlIg~.
H u\,,'l'\ l'r , (1
,; tud ent Oil the nlnlh Ilel l>r
of /\-Ullrm wh" P"[>., ill
t' a I' P lu g s
t II S I L'l' P I\' ,b
<lwakened
Thur~da)'
morlling ,
and
Renel'
McMallus, who abo wec1rs
earpl ugs to sleep, ha " ~lept
t h I' 0 ugh a fir (' i1 1,11' m
beca lise of il.
Due to the sll'w of
letters re ceived by the
financial
aid
office,
Cri tes 's financi al a id was
restored. The noi se lel'el in
A-Dorm ha s not1ceablv
decreased since fall. Cr it e's
now says that he on ly ha s
to call Police Services
every other week.
Participation Slim, Worth Nil. College's Quake Preparation a Joke
We had an earthquake drill last Thursday. Alarms didn 't
go off, people lingered under the clocktower, and Housing
residents had no idea what was going on.
Robyn Herring calls the drill "a success." She 's the Safety
Officer, and her job was to organize the drill.
Herring says that alarms were to go off over a PA system
(they didn 't because of what she calls an "operating error") ;
once people ducked and covered, they were supposed to
file out to safe areas, Then designated faculty and staff
counted how many people made it out.
Herring would not provide the head count because the
results "were on multiple scraps of paper" in her office.
Although Herring says the drill was a coordinated effort,
you wouldn't know it from what happened. - Kvasager, Pein
Labs:Potential Toxic Bedlam
Chlo ro!:>ulfuniuc acid can burn
through f1l'sh. So can hydrochloric
dC ld . Grild student N ico le Goodwin is
Mound both all day.
Goodwin works in Lib Stores.
That's the place thol doll'S o ut
telescopes, beakers, Ihermom e tersall the thingamabobs science studen ls
need to do t'xperi !nents. Lab Stores
also hOllses chem ica ls and gas tanks.
It's c1 dilngerou!:> pl<lce to be during an
ea rthquake.
When rill'm ica l bottles are in
storage, they're s trapped down. The
noxious ones are also kept under
ventilation hoods that suck out the
poisonous fumes.
But Goodwin says that when the
c hemi ca ls are being used-when
people are pouring them into beakers
or walking them fr0m one classroom
to a nother- the bottles aren't sec ure.
Same goes for the gas tanh ,
"If a gas tank wasn 't screwed
shut, and if a safety cap wasn't on, if
it busted, the gas could blow through
a cement wall," Goodwin said.
Robyn Herring is Evergreen's
safety officer. She says that Goodwin
and o thers in the lab buildings
s h o uldn ' t worry. Vents s ll ck out
poisonous fume . even if the power
goes down, and s helves arc edged
with a tall lip th a t will catch g la ss
bottles before they fall, she said .
Herring
advertised
lasl
Thursdav's
drill
instead
of
u nex pect~d Iy sp ringing it beea use
science st ud ents might be working
w ith chemicals that are dangerous to
wa lk away from. She w<lnted those
s lud e nt s to duck and cove r lik e
everyone else and thought the y
wouldn't while in th e midst of an
exper iment.
Herring doesn ' t know what
s tuden ts work ing wi Ih d a I1geroll s
chemicals or gases would really do if
ca ug ht in an e;uthquake. She says that
eve ryone-chemical reac tion s or no-sho uld get under something <md s tay
there for two minutes.
During the drill Goodwin
coope rated with Duck and Cover, but
in a real quake, it's another s tory.
" What did we do in the last
earthquake? We freaked!" she said. In
tl real one, she'll just skip to Get Out.
Goodwin's boss, Shane Peterson,
says Ihe duck and cover policy isn't
always reasonable. He tells his
workers wha t the policy is, but doesn't
hold them to it. Peterson says he'll skip
to Get Out, too. "Science buildings are
full of thin gs that'll kill you," he said.
"The wor s t c hemicals are in
here-things that, if you breathe them ,
you die. Things that eat through your
sk in ," Goodwin sa id . "In the last
quake, we left because we heard
things breaking. We know th e
dangers . We don' t want to be in here."
Pbolll by Ad:ltn Louie
One o r Ihe Eve r!, ree n C hild c,lre Ce lli er kids r" keS cove r und er ,liable during an
t:.lnhqu,lkc drill I.,s, Thursday. The children ;tJ'e being 1,lU ghl 10 duck ,lnd cover
under J,lbles "nd 10 h:JlIg 011[0 SO IllClhili g so lid.
Two Year Olds More Prepared
By Co ..>:)' Pein
With the efficiency of an elite
commando squad, plus so me
whispering and giggling, the kids in
Evergreen's daycare center pulled
off last Thursday's earthquake drill.
Though it seemed a Herculean
task, head teacher Donna Simon got
17 kids, all under six, to get under
their desks, be still for two minutes,
and file out to the playground in a
shipshape manner.
The drill was probably the most
well-executed on campus.
"Did you drop your body? Did
you cover your head?" said Simon
as the kids lay under the tables.
"Ycsss!"
"You're doing a good job," she
enco uraged. "Elmo would be proud
of you!"
I\t 10 a.m., fifteen minutes past
due, students and staff had started
to dribble out of doors. By that time,
the kids had completed the drill and
been fully accounted for. Simon and
the children celebrated by dancing to
Sesame Street's tune "Beatin' the
Quake."
The kids were unaware tha t a
schoolwide
dr ill
had
been
scheduled, but they were not out of
practice. They have prepared for
emergencies with games, songs and
dril ls since before this year's tremor.
"The kids have been reall y into
it since the quake," said Simon. She
pointed out the center's kitchen
door, plastered with drawings by
Alex , a boy of almost five. One
depicts the Chi ldren's Center (a
brown scribb le) and the playground
(a larger brown scrib ble) during the
quake. Alex titled it "Cool
earthquake huh 7 "
Drill Provides Opportunity for Stretching, Smoking, Chatting
By Eric" Ndson
The intercom was su pposed to
come on at 9:45 a.m. to tell everyone in
the College Activities Building about the
earthquake drill. The voice over the
speakers would have told everyone to
duck, cover, hold, and then evacuate.
But it never came on.
Three women employed by Fine
Hostwaitecl. They had shooed everyone
out of the Deli, gotten their purses and
locked up the registers. It was 9:50. They
heilrd nothing. One woman expressed
her desire for a cigarette.
"They're fakin' us out," said one of
the Fine Host workers. "Maybe there
was a misprint on the e-maiL"
After one more minu te of feet
shifting and standing around, they
wandered out. No duck. No cover. No
hold.
Despite the lack of notification in
the CAB, th e co ll ege had prepared for
the drill. Robyn Herring, the main
organizer of the drill, had sent e-ma ils
and put up posters. The college'S
Emergency Response Team, a voltID tee I'
on-campus organization that help
evacuation and safety during disasters,
were in place arotIDd campus. Staff from
facilities wa ited in each build ing to read
the prepared drill announcement over
the intercom system. People in charge
outside put on orange vests.
The bookstore employees were told
days ahead of time. Corey Birdsall, a
student worker in the bookstore, felt the
who le drill was pointless because
everyone knew about it. She also
thought the evacuation locations were
bad, as many of them required people
to walk over or under "land bridges."
''I'm not going to run," she said .
''I'm going to go smoke a cigarette."
After
the dnnOtlllCements,
evacuated people huddled in groups on
the playing fields near Housing. No one
s tood around the dormitories, though,
because no one from Housing was
evacuated. Housing didn't participate
in the day's drill. Robyn Herring said
she was tmable to coordina te d rill efforts
with Housing and that most students
would be out of their rooms and in class
ilt the time of the drill.
Residential Advisor Teale Canady
wasn't worried about his residents not
being prepared to evacuate in a real
earthquake.
"We have so many fire alarms it
doesn't really matter," he said,
The earthquake drill was held in
response to the 6.8 quake that rocked
May 3, 200 1 • 5 • Cooper Point Journal
Was hington earlier this year. Although
Evergreen came out of it relatively
unscathed, the college saw a need to
make faculty, staff and students more
aware of how to handle an emergency
like an earthquake. More dr ills for
emergencies like bomb threats and fires
are plalUled for later this year.
"We wanted to get people thinking
about where they should go," Herring
said."". [Alnd taking their purses with
them when they leave the building."
The Fine Host workers had their
purses. They walked past fellow
workers from the Greenery standing in
an non-designated evacuation area,
smoking and talking. A man in the
group waved to everyone who passed
by.
"Happy earthquake day," he
called. "Woohoo!"
----------~~~----------
NEWS
Today's Headlines
• May Day Hooray!
• Labor Protests Around the World
Postcards from the Street Party
rh UlO~ 11)'
AJam Louil'
Evergreen studenr, Gray Ayer, dances
to electronic music in the middle of
Black Lake Boulevard during the
May Day celebrarion. Ayer said, "We
need to reclaim our public space."
Evergreen seniors, Lee O'Connor
(left) and Deirdre Coultre, tie tape
around a .light pole near the
intersection of Harrison and
Division ro help create a boundary
of May Day's activities. Yarn was also
tied around telephone poles in the
section of road the celebration
blocked. A man in silver face paint
said it was, "for tying things
roger Iler. "
May Day revelers dressed In all
manner of cosruilles. Four-square
game s, gianr bea c h balls (Ossing,
g unill a gard('ning, smoking por,
d a n cill!.!:, d rummin.g, Lraffic light
l'l i Il1hiI~g, hagel ea rtng , shoLlti~1g ,
iUl1lpIng,
c h ecr k adin g , chalk
dLlwing an d cO ll c h sin in g all too k
pLlll on (he block-s ized .~rrerch o f
rn,ld ()ll BI.lck Llke.
L
L
sc hool s, government offices, ilnd media ov('r the next s ix years . (s('e
outlets. Even Greek Orthodox priests, www.nytimes.com)
-U.N. Secretary Kofi Annan
who ilre technically civi l se rvants ,
on
the
international
s tayed away from their duties, (see called
community to "do far more" to help
www.ananova,co,uk)
those still living with the aftereffects
of the Chernobyl nuclear accident,
International
By Brian Frank . <'; raharn Hamby.
Steph en K.lfmnl. and Vanessa Le",ire
- An Indonesian government which happened 15 years ago this
report leaked details this week about week. The disaster, which occurred on
the U.S. military'S role in arming April 26, 1986, released 50 million units
Local
militias that were responsible for the of radiation, contaminating an area of
massacre of hundreds of unarmed more than 160,000 square kilometers,
- FBI and Secret Service
dissidents
during 1999, Indonesia was Farming communities in Belarus and
personnel are attempting to subpoena
one of the largest recipients of U.s. Ukraine continue to suffer heavily
the IP addresses (i.e., computer
military aid and training during the from radioactive con tamination ;
locations) of all of the visitors to the
massa cres and remains so today. (see among the effects are about 1,800 cases
Independent Media Center (IMC)
of thyroid cancer in children who were
www.shm.com.au and www,hrw.org)
website during the 48-hour period of
. - African finance ministers that exposed at the time of the accident. The
the Free Trade of the Americas
met with officials at the annual spring full humanitarian impact of the disaster
Agreement protests in Quebec City last
meetings of the World Bank and is not yet known, according to the U.N.
week. The FBI is apparently looking for
International Monetary Fun.d have Office for the Coordination of
someo ne that stole secret documents
joined the chorus of anti-debt activists Humanitarian Affilirs (OCHA). (see
from a police vehicle in Quebec City
dt:;mand
in g no less than 100 percent www.oneworld.net)
and posted them on the web; the
debt
cancellation
for the poorest
documents had information on
Labor
Environmental
nations.
Every
year,
s
ub-Saharan
Africa,
undercover investigations and tacti cs
- An estimated 15 million union
- At an Earth Day 2001 event held
for contilining protesters. The FBI also workers struck last week in Bombay, the wor ld 's poorest region, forks out an
put a gag order on the IM C tha t forced India, crippling transportation services, estimated 15 bi ll ion dollars in debt at U.N. Headquarters, a number of
IMC members not to discuss the forcing airlines to reroute flights, and repayments. Al legedly, the World Bank small island states presented their
investigation for a 48-hour period. The closing sc hools and shops, Near ly will not erase debt because it forces wClrk on renewable energy and
[MC is a collective of independent 35,000 police and neighborhood guards them to impose unpopular po li cies, pledged thei r commi tments to
media organizations and journalists in were s tationed at Bomba y's railwa y such as structural adjustment programs, sustainable e nergy plans. Delegates
1110re than a dozen countries that has s ta tion s and bus d e pot s to deter on the poorer nations , (see and representatives from island nations
including St. Lucia, Kiribati and Cook
been the foremost publicist of protest violence and widespread direct action. www.oneworld.net)
Islands described their commitment to
-Shell
Oil
and
the
military
news s ince the World Trade The general strike was called to proles t
Organization protests in 1999. Its main federal and s tate policies that oppned government of Pakistan will face a renewable energy and their work with
offices are lo ca ted in Sea ttle, (see the economy to foreign investment and legal challenge today in a Karachi the Global Sustainable Energy Islands
www.indymedia.org)
imports. The federal government has court over plans to explore for gas in Initiative (GSEll) and the Climate
• Seattle teachers planned a one- taken s teps to reduce subsidies, se ll the country's oldest national park. The Institu teo Although th e small island
day walkout for May 1 and a rally at loss-making s tate-ow ned enterprises, s howdown is over its plans for gas sta tes "prod uce only a tiny fraction of
Westlake Park. Maple Valley, Issaquah, and permit imports of certai n foreig n exploration in Kirthar National Park. global greenhouse gas emissions,"
Duvall, and Enumclaw teache rs also products. (see www.ananova.co.uk)
The park is home to numerou s Hayes said, "they are the most at risk
wa lked out on May 1, with Stanwood
- A new report by the AFL-CIO threatened species. [n written evidence for the calamities triggered by such
teachers walking out May 4, Edmonds finds that more than 6,000 U.S. s ubmitted to the court, Royal Dutch emiss ions." (see www.oneworld.net)
-Tests are being carried out on a
teachers willking out May 7, and many workers died on the job in 1999, and S hell ha s sought to play down
suspected
of
other union s sta tewid e mulling another 5.7 million were hurt. environmental fears by citing examples slaughterman
options, The tea cher wa lkouts hav e Co ns tru ctio n work is the most of where it cla ims the oi l and gas con tracting foot and mouth disease in
been called in response to the expected dangerous indu s tr y in the United industry has operated in "harmonious the UK. The disease is extremely rare
fai lure of the governor and [egis lature Sta tes. (see www.aflcio.org)
coex is tence" and "perfect harmony" and not fatal in humans and is
to fully fund two popular education
the
environment.
(sec charac.terized by blisters in the mouth
-Two consecutive one-day stri kes with
and on the feet. He is the seven th
initiatives - 1-728 on class-size by transportation workers paralyzed www.onewurld.net)
human to be tes ted by the UK's public
reduct ion and 1-732 on teacher pay - in bus and underground services in
the new state budget being prepared, nearly 50 French cities last week. All
Foreign Policy health service, and if he tests positive,
Many say that it is not just raises, c1ass- major French cities except Paris were
-The Bush administration's will be the second human to contract
size money, higher standards a nd affected by the urban transpo rt strikes, intention to fundamentally alter or the disease, (see e ns.lycos.com)
-Twelve anti-nuclear activists
accountability at stake in the sta te the third and fourth since late March, abandon the 1972 Antiballistic Missile
budget, but also the future health of as unions press demands to retire at 55 Treaty, which sets strict limits on the chained themselves to rail wagons in
their profession, (see
instead of 60. The government has testing and deployment of antimissile Germany last week in an effort to stop
sea ttlep-i .nwsou rce .com)
agreed to mediate negotiations between systems, was publicly expressed for the a planned radioactive waste shipment
unions and employers in May, though first time last week. The ABM treaty is from entering Britain. The proteste rs
Protests employe rs arc still publicly opposed to considered by many the keystone of were detached, yet there were
- May D~y protests swept the the younger retirement age. (see arms con trol for the last thirty years. hundreds of other anti-nuclear
world this past week with large www.ananova.co.uk)
The so-called Star Wars missile defense protesters along the shipment route.
demonstrations in dozens of
- A 24-hour general strike last system that the U.S. plans to Germany has no facilities to treat
countries, as well as more than a dozen Saturday brought much of GreecE' to unilaterally develop has been met with radioactive waste. In addition, four
cities in the U.s. May Day is a holiday a standstill. Unions ca lled for the strike international anxiety, with cri ti cs members of Greenpeace climbed an
that evolved in remembrance of the after the government out lined claiming that Washington's pursuit of incinerator amid a "toxic hotspot" in
deaths of s ix protesters at the hands of proposals to cut pens ions and increase a missile sh ield wi ll undermine the the Baltic Sea near Russia. Nine others
Chicago police on May 1, 1886. The the minimum retirement age to 65. basis for existing and future strategic blocked the bridge to the incinerator
1886 protes ts were demanding the Fearing the effects of labor unrest, the arms treaties, A briefing paper island, and all are now i n SI.
eight-hour
workday.
(see government abandoned those plans. circulated by the Pentagon last week Petersburg police custody, (see
www.indymedia.org
and The general strike went ahead anyway, illum in ated Bush administration plans ens. lycos.com)
dailynews.yahoo,com)
-The Puerto Rican government
disrupting all ground and air to increase the project's annual $4.4
-Over 150 demonstrators took to transportation, closing
billion budget by about $78 has filed suit against the U.S. Navy
the streets of Washington, D.C. over nearly all
billion to keep it from resuming bombing
~_ _- - - - - - - - - -_ __
the weekend to protest a meeting of
exercises on their is land of Vieques,
Beyond the Bubble
the IMF and World Bank. The
charging that the navy vio la tes
is published each week as a serv ice from EP IC,
protesters, deemed illegal because
their anti-noise law. The suit
the Evergreen Political Information Center, EPIC has recently begun work on t1us year's
they were parading without a
cha rges that the navy
"Disorientation Manual" (an alternate, student-produced guide to Evergreen),
permit, were met by about
seriously disrupts the lives
EPIC also publishes a weekly email update on politically related events happening
1,400 officers from the D.C.
of the island's 9,300
around our area, and provides resources for activists at Evergreen. To receive EPIC's
police force . The police chose
residents . The exe rcises
email update, for more information on how you can work on or enter submissions to the
to escort the illegal parade
have
always
been
Disorientation manual, to make comments on the news, or for more information on EPIC,
rather than risk negative media
controversia
l
but
came
to a
please contact epicupdate@hotmaiJ.com
exposure by breaking it up. Organizers
head
when
a
wayward
bomb
killed
or 867-6144.
said they expected the small turnout.
a civilian in 1999. (see ens.lycos.com)
~ A
mass
"
demonstratiun is
p lanned for IMF /
World Bank meetings in
September, organizers sa id ,
reminiscent of the 40,000+ who
disrupted IMF / World Bank meetings
in
April
of
2000.
(see
washingtonpost.com)
- Jaggi Singh, a well known
activist involved in the Free Trade of
the Americas Agreement protest, is
being held without bail in Quebec City
for rioting and possession of a weapon,
in what many observers have predicted
may become a politically motivated
conspiracy trial. Singh's "weapon" was
a large wooden catapult that he was
standing near at the time of the protest
that was apparently used to hurl s tuffed
animals
at
police.
(see
w w w , a l t e r n e t org)
May 3, 200 1 • 7 • Cooper Point Journal
Fact or Opinion: Who
Makes the Call?
by Mo sang Mil e s
What do the high schools of
Lakewood - Clover Park High
School, specifically - have against
Singapore? There are a number of
problems with the American
education system that I am able to
overlook . It may be fine for the
education system to not challenge
studen ts or even require t hem to
think. This is already accomplished
through a number of methods: by
o nly
having right-or -wrong
answer s , by taking stand ardized
/Q iI1 9---
tests to determine intellig ence, by giving
students the answ ers and allowing them to
use their note s during th eir twice-quarterly
tests. However, it is another thing entirely
to insidiously skew the answers in this sham
of an education system so that they present
negative perceptio ns of another country or
culture. Allow me to elaborate.
The students in the geography class at
Clover Park take a type of tes t where they
are pre sented with a series of statements
about a country or re gion of th e world. The
challenge to the students. in this ca se, is to
determine which of these statements are
Fact s (F) and which are Opinions (0). The
particular test that I perused con cerned the
isl and nalion of Singapore . Th e test st;lrts
off with the statement (and I' m
paraphra~ing
frolll lIl emor y he re ):
Singapore is located near the main land of
Asia in the Pacific Ocean. What do you
think, kids, Fact or Op inion ? This is stra ight
geographical information; obvious ly a Fact.
Next statement: Singapore's location makes
it one of the most beautiful countries in the
world. Hmm, this seems like a judgment call
rather than a simple piece of info; this is an
Opinion .
As th e test progresses, it becomes ever
more evid ent that Fact or Opinioll are
simply stand -illS for the traditional test
answ er s of True or Fa lse ; in fact, the
students who took this test fi ll ed out the
first s ix or seven questions with Tor F
before swit ching to the correct format of F
or O. Beyond that, Fact or Opinion and True
or False are both replacements for the basic
test concept of Right or Wrong . As a
co nsequenc e, every p o sitive s tatement
about Singapore is phrased in such a
manner as to be judged an Opinion. and
becau se of thai , is p erceived as Wrong .
Stat enl eili s su ch a ~ : Singapor e's greatest
Hastily
Scraped Together
At The Last Minute
I s h o u Id beg in by
,ay ill g th a t I'v e got
J lo t 0 1 hOlll ework
to
do
thi ,
s kill ed ill th e a dr e ll a liz e d burst o f
weeke n d.
I'm do ne for th e wee k.
ha v in g o n l' o r th o,!,
Give n t h a t I d OIl ' 1 have tilll e III lo ll produ cti vit y thr ee h o u r~ nero re dt'adlill e,
wer ken(h when you ca n 11 0 ~Ir o un d Ill y a pa r tlll(' n t whil e tr vill g t o ,lnd i'llIn ot s ure wheth e r I prefer it to til l'
lo nger av oi d writin g a dirfi c u lt t hink ofa top ic fo r thi s l'O IU Ill Il , wh ic h i~ al trr nati vl' or 'lO t. 0 11 on e ha nd , I get
a nd imp orta nt pa pl' r (w ld e h i, d iffi cult th e wa)' I am ;lcc u:-.ro l1l t'd to heg lll Ill y good l'v alll:J t ioll ~ :lI11lllll ,lil bill s 0 11 tim e,
a n d im p ort a ll l t o YOll r l'V alU a l io n ar ti , t ic pr o('e~s . I've decided t h a i a alld Ihat Ill ak n life ea , il'r. 011 th e oth e r
b ecau,e there arc onl ~ tl\' O p ape r , di ~cu, ~ioll of p rorra\till.lIi o ll cou ld he han d . I p ut my>e lf thro ugh Illu c h mo r e
re q u i rl'd fo r YU il l' pro gr anl ), w hil e illt e re' lin g. Al l ho ug h , eve ll if lt t u rm o ut i llt e ll ~ l' , t re,~ t han t ho,e wh o ha l'(, s un k
int o apat h v ;lIld refuse to
I\' 0 n d er in g
\\. h l' yo u h a v e n ' I b (' e n not to b e, I\'e :dr e;ldy
ge t II p d o. Th ey accep t
w o rk i n g o n it fo r w e ek , . 1'111 not writt e n half th e clI lunln
t helll seI ve, as 1:1ZI' a nd
wo nde r tll g ver)' ha rd . th o ug h , beca use I o n Ih e 10 1' il. ," l ' lll
illl
illo bil e a nd d o Il ot
k n o \\' p er fect ly \\'e ll wh y. 1'111 an p re tt } Illu ch ''' 1l1111it led.
III \. i t (' 5 i t Il a I io n , II' h ic h
I'm a n irresponsible
ir respo mi b le p r ocr a q inat o r Wl lll ha s And that i, n il(' " I' th e
req ui re
act ive
lea rn ed 10 ge t thil lgs do n e a t Ih l' la,t wOlld er ful Ihi ng' abou t
pro cc]srin ator who
:J ((' olllpli s lllll l' lll. I still
m inu te. o r al t he ve ry le ast acce p t Ihe n OI ge t t in g ;lfO,; lld to il.
has learned to get
do. But ,i ll ce I a lll b y
co nseq uences of no t g etting thin g' dOll e wh a tever it is . Situ a ti ollS
things
done
at
the
last
n a tur e Illo s tl y d e ad, I
g rac e lull y. I ac kn o wledg e th e fac t that t c n d
to
r e~o l\'e
lust
after the n ear -tot a l
th e se wee ke llds ar e part o f th e co llege th emselv es fo r you if you
minute , or a t th e vcry
lack of ac tivity requir ed
ex pe ri e nc e, bu t t ha t do es 110 t ma ke th em wait long e no ug h , Als o.
least accept the
to liv e th e li fe of a tru e
le ss vexin g . II al so do esn't h e lp dampen d esperat e solutioll s you
con
sequences of not
pro c rastin a tor.
the feelill gs of self loathin g they provoke would n e ver tr y if you
If you actually do
In me .
getting things done
had
tim e
to
do
thin gs and simply prefe r
"I cannot believe, " the lo g ic a l, something else ha ve a
gracefully.
to do them later than
practical part ofllle is saying, "absolut ely t e ndenc y to pop up
eve ryb o dy else, then
cannol believe that you just left this until when you le a st exp ec t
th e re is a variety of
the last possible minute l We talked about th e m, Thi s is mor e
degrees to which you can
this last time !"
helpful than you 'd think.
indulge your preference.
" Mmmm," the rest or me say s . "Yo u
Desp e ration is the true mother of
know what would be ni ce? Ir we curled invention , and audacity is rewarded You can be perpetually late in arriv in g at
up in th e sunshine and rcad some of amazingl y oft en . As far as I can tell , you appointments and making deadlines and
Edith Wharton 's short storics."
can live your whole li fe in the last minute become very good at expla inin g and
"NO! God , no," th e logical part of and never ollc e s uiTer for it, apart from excusing. You can be prepared to
me squeals in di s beli ef. "We have to writ e the fact that your stress comES in large accomplish a lot in a very short time and
thi s paper! Yo u know, for scho o l. You chunks instead of a constant flow . It all talk your wa)' around any flaws in your
work ca used b y lack of research or time
re member school, right? Right?I "
d c pelld ~, Ihou g h, on h O Il' you pr u tic e
constraints
. If you're not 'hung up on
"Oh. Yeah , I g ues,. Bu l.. . ..
th e lan guid ar t.
Thi s arguill e nt ha s bee n goi ng on fo r
Til t' r e a re tw o di s ti n c tl y d iffe r e nt s uccess, you can be lat e anddo thin gs at
uays. as my p e r ~o llaliti e~ ~n a rl al ~ac h ki m h o f p eo pl t, \\'h o do Il o t acce pt Ih e th l' last Illinut e and just ac c ept the
ot hcr li ke ,0 IlIJn y glutt o nou s pi rat e,. I co n cep t of t inl e mana ge ment. Th er e are condelllilalioll th;lt foll o ws. I t all
II nall ), m ade p ('ace hy ,p Ulin g d o wn til th 05e wh o get t h in gs do nc anyw ay a nd d e pend s O il how mu c h you WJnt to get
\\f it e thi ~ col ullln , whi c h i, acc ept:lb iL th o~e wh o d o n 't. Th is di s t i n c ti on is don e, ho w Inu eh wo rk vou wallt to do ,
beca use il is bot h ,o lll e th ing th il t need, import a n t beca use , while p eo pl e wh o ,lnd how g ood you are at 'lyin g . Well, th a i
dO ll e an d sO rl l('til in g Ih ~t i, llIo r e fUll fully e m brace slot h are usu a ll y eas), to and how lon g it takes you to decide which
th a n wri t ill g my pap~r would he. for the Identify, people who m e r ely in siq o n wa)' to go. It's a lo t s impl er if you ju st
fi rs t t im e , ill ce I q;n tt'd wr it ing I" r the wo rkin g u n der pressu re ca n app ea r to be wa it ' ti l t he cho ice l.lak es its elf. Th ,]t ';
(PJ. I a m n ot loo kill g fo r \\'a r d to the \' ery effi c i(·ll l . I m yH lf a lll a n wh a t I'd d o.
m o m e nt whe n m y column is officially irr espo n si bl e pr oc r a stin a to r who i,
Cooper Point Journal - 8 -May 3, 200 1
asset is its people; Singapore has a highly
motivated workforce; and other statements
in th at vein are Opinions. They're False.
They're Wrong . This is in stark contrast to
a statement like: Singapore does not have
one of Asia's top economies; which, unlike
the Opinions, is ' not a matter of personal
judgment and perception; it's a matter of
mathematics. It's a Fact. It's True . It's RighL
Virtually cvery sta tement on thi s test
that says something positive about
Singapore is an Opinion (Wrong). Virtually
every Fact (Right) on the test assigns
negative connotations to Singapore; at the
very best, the Facts (Right) take a neutral
stance. None of them say anything positive
about Singapore, just as none of the
Op ini ons (Wrongs) say anything negative.
I may be reading too muc h into this. It is
still with ill the realm of possibilit y that
there is not some pow erful. oppressive
Whit e Man writing th ese te s ts , laughing
maniacally all the while as he finally gains
revenge on Sin gapore ror canill g his SOTl .. _
Noneth eless. t he raci sm and prejudic e was
pres cnt to a d eg re e wh ere it wa s a ble to be
inferred: I just worr y Ihat il is bein g taught
to th ese hi gh sc hoo l stud ent s as Fa ct.
.......
By E. Rose Nelson
M'aidez
Well, May Day has corne
and gone once more . Once
again, the stre et s of Olympia
were crowded with people
a t tern p tin g to b I 0 c k t r a ffi c .
Unlike Portland' s May Day
organiz e r s .
Olympia
coordinators declined to work
with poli ce. It w as n o t until
12 :3 4 p . m. on Tu c~ da y, Ma y 1,
that anyo n e e xce pt the ilandful
yo u r coo ki e-b a king p roject is to b la m e.
Kegard less o f Ih e r~aSO ll , o r wh e th e r it
is no bl e or n o t , ,orneO,l(' i n pvi t ably
g<' t s p isse d . Und e rsta ndab ly ,o- if you
boug ht c h eese, you ('xpe c t it to b e
where YO ll le ft It. Sa lll e goe' with d is h
\O:l P, \\'h ic h I fi gured most 01 th e
11(·ople o n my n ool wou ld ll ' t kilO \\, ho w
I" Lise a n )'way. li D\\' does o ll e dea l w it h
t h is hr c :l c h of t ru s t a n d l oss of
prec iou ~ fo o d , tldTs7 Wr i te ha r as , i ng
a n d ins ul r ill g n o t e, ;llld p osl th e lll in a
I' lace wh ere t h e s u s p ec t ed c u l prit is
BY EMIty D.u..uNG
~ lI re 10 see th e m , n a tur a ll y. I m ea n , if
so meo n e ea ts th e las t o f ),o ur g roce ri es,
w h a t m o r e can yo u d o tha n a nnoun ce
to th e ge n e r a l publi c th a t yo u ' re m a d
,I s h e II. a nd yo u IV i, h yo u W ('[ e n ' t
go nn a tak e it a n y m o re , b ut yo u don't
h ave a fridg e , and you don ' t kn ow wh o
, t o le your food, b ut yo u h a t e them
a n yway , so ther e !
What it comes down to is this:
There is a thin lint' betwe e n forc ed and
Nothin g is sacred in A-Dorm. voluntary communal living. In A·
Think you can buy dish soap and Dorm, the situation seems to resemble
sponges for your Ooor? Don't expect the former more than the latter. Let's
them to be there for long. Keepin g face it ; if you ' re living with seven floors
cheese
in
the
of people, you're
communal
fridge ?
g oing to lose some
Kiss it good - b ye ,
cheese along the way.
buddy.
Food a n d
It is sad, but true. All
What
it
comes
down
to
kitchenware thievery
you can do is revel in
is this: There is a thin
is a common practic e
the fact that on some
amon g the resident s
line between forced and
cabinet som e where,
of
A.
Many
voluntary communal
th e r e
is a
sp o t
motiv a tion s
ar e
res
erv
e
d
for
yo
ur
own
livin g.
behind th e s e c rim e
p e rs onal h os tilit y and
s pr ee,. Mos tly. the
vendetta. Le t 's make
so ur ce is be in g "broke
thi s happen , kid s ! Let
a s a j ok e," a s th e
a n ge r
fl o uri sh
ln
m is di rec t ed
loca l s s ay. In so m e case" a n ever- l Olllmlin a l areas. I t ma y n o t do
endin g ac id t r ip t h at lea v ~s yo u cravi ng anyth ing to so lve th e pro ble m , bu t it
someo ne else's m ill t ch ip ice crea lll at tllst Illi gh t m ake YOll feel bet t er a nd fill
seve n o' c1 ock in th e m orni n g o r th e Ihat e mpt y space in yo ur sto m a ch
la ck o f one pa rt icula r in g r ed ie nt fo r w h e re your stolen c hi cke n s ho uld b e.
,
"'~
Hold on Tight
to Precious
Foodstuffs
in charge knew what was going o n . Thi s
was not an organic outpouring of
community; it was organized. It was,
therefore, the opposite of anarchy.
May Day as a holiday did start by
celebrating the unions' victory in
achieving t he eight-hour wo rkday . It is
also intended to be a tribute to the hard
work put in by unions t o a chieve th e
benefits that you a nd I enjoy. May Day
is intended t o be to the labor
movement what Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.'s birthday is to the civil rights
movement. (Note there is no holiday
for the feminist movement. I want
Susan B. Anth ony's birthday off, or the
day the Nineteenth Amendment was
ratified.) In this co untry, we do not
ce lebrate May Day as a paid holiday; we
get Labor Day off instead. Yes, many
student workers are unemployed at the
time, but most of the student workers I
know spent May Day on the job.
In many Commun ist countries
during the Co ld War, May Day was not
the cheerful celebration that the signs
around here indicate. Often, people
were forced at gunpoint to go attend
the parades , which were not happy. On
May Day in the o ld Sov iet Union, for
example, one would be forced to stand
in the streets-in an orderly fashionand watch the military parade its might
past you . Instead of colourful signs,
there were olive drab tanks. It was not
ce lebrating the worker ; it was
celebrating the military might of the
Communisl party.
Portland's protestors agreed to
cooperate with police, filing for a
parade permit and posting their route .
Red ScareCirca 1989.
The Fall of the Berlin Wal l.
Map s ch a nge d fa s t in tho se d ays .
{\fri ca was pi ckin g up the pie ces , set tlill g
a nd resetllin g n e w b orders and d ee p
ps yc hologi cal sca rs from co lonization .
Tito's Yugoslavi;] was a re cenl memory.
and the Balkan s stru ggled with age-old
allirn ositi es silllilar't o th ose ill th e "Dark
Continenl. " Th e US ~R was no mor e, and
down went communist satell ite s tates like
dominoes. Islam boil ed with conspiracies
and terrori s m, illsid e and outside it s
disputed borders. South America suffered
rotting
infrastructure
due
to
multinational corporate investors, mainly
North Americans . Western Europe
anxiously watched Eastern Europe as they
pushed forward an agenda of globa l
diplomacy.
When the dust of the Berlin Wall
sett led, two major gods of war were left
standing: the U.S.A, and the People's
Republic of China. "Red" China, heavily
sanctioned by the eurocentric U.N.,
hadn't seemed as paramount an enemy of
democracy as had Russia in previous
years·. The U.S. economy began to gallop
out of Reagan's trickle-down reces sion
with the Age of Computers com ing into
full bloom. A much happier and more
hopeful nation began voting in
Democrats , looking w ithin its own
borders. "Family values , " " Educat ion,"
" Race/Minority Issues , " and "Budget
Reform" surfaced as buzzwords above
those of "Harrier jet," "Harnmas,"
"Libya," "Space Race," ,and " PinkoCommi e. " Long gone was the era of the
Las er Anti-Ballistic Satellite program
"Star Wars," right ?
199 9 or thereabouts
George W. Bush's bid for the U.S .
presidency.
Let no one forget that Bush jr.'s platform
began with speech es upon the importance
of a defen s e budget and a strong
international front . He criticized the
Clinton admini stration's attitude toward
enemies of democracy , despite harsh
sanctions on Iraq and high military
s pending . Bu sh pushed for a seemingly
tougher international face, ignori ng the
re ce n t acts of force overseas. Examples of
the relaxed draft-dodging "hippie "
presid ent's lark offorce include bombing
the Sudan , Ba ghdad (one of th e oldest
c iti e ~ in the cradle of civi li zat ion , the
Fertile Cresc ent) , and a couple of neutral
e mbassie s ; s iding against the Serbs
despite massive ethnic cleansing
perpetrated upon them by Hitler's puppet
state of Croalia in WWII; a very slow
apology t o Italy after a fighter plane
clipped a mountain gOI\dola, plunging
allied civilians to their deaths; and not
only lying ,to his nation under oath,
thereby being disbarred as a lawyer, but
breaking faith by di s regarding the War
Powers Act of the 1973. Interestingly,
during th is soft president's two terms,
welfare was cut to five ,years per
individual and job training and
educational programs still suffer from
lack of funding (the national budget,
despite more than half of citizens paying
one-th ird of their paychecks to the state,
puts less than 5% aside for social
programs, i.e. job Training Program of
America, health care, shelters, bread lines,
etc.).
Circa 2000
With broken promises made by a
bipart isan government that still lumbers
under a Cold War budget, more than 60%
of U.S. citizens do not vote in loca l and
fede ral elections . With disillusionment
high and public morale low, it looks as
though the de facto president Bush is
now, in 2001, working to reverse the lull
in the economy using what he appears to
May 3, 2001 - 9 - Cooper Point Journal
This was, in part ,
so that emergency
vehicles would
know streets to
avoid on their way to
hospital s . Olympia's protestors
would not even announce their route
in advance. A point to consider is that,
while blocking the streets, one blocks
traffic . And while blocking traffic, one
ca use s cars to idle , which wastes gas,
which explOits the Earth's natural
resources like so many gluttonous
pirates. I, at lea st, assume that the
intent of the May Day celebration is
something opposite that.
In Margaret Atwood's book The
Handmaid 's
Tale,
the
secret
revolutionary movement is ca lle d
Mayday. The main character assumes it
.is taken from the aviation call for help,
"Mayday ." Her husband had told her
that this comes from the French word
"M'a ide z," or "help me." Somewhere
between these two, the plea for h e lp
and the military domination, comes the
May Day that blocks the s tr eets of
Olympia every year. Me, I'm going into
the woods to celebrate Beltane.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
The AQE Brief
The Stranger +
Matt Nathanson: Good, Honest,
Fiery Rock and Roll
CPJ = Love
b y Emily
by Mi c hael Tanner
,
When I first came to Evergreen a lmos t
four years ago, o n e of m y fa vo ri te
discoveries was a little fr ee
n e w s p aper / ma gaz ine ca lled The
Stmllger. That weekly pile of sex ads,
funny pictures and cap tions, and those
self-involve d mas turbatory "s to ries"
has enriched my life. Oh, and I feel
abso lutely fine about openly calling
The Strallger's writin g s taff se l finv o lved , s ince Dan Savage, th e ir
e ditor, has said the same thing
publicly Th e Strmlger often holds Ii ttle
co nt es ts for writing , as I ca ll it,
exce ll e nc e . Rec e ntl y, they held a
writing contest for minors. The C P]' s
ow n E rica Nel so n wa s one of th e
winners. And as a winner, she gets to
read her s tory, "Do the Right Thing,"
aloud in front of a crowd of real-life
Sea ttlites and Slrnllger s taff p eopl e.
You are welcome to come up and see
the whole event. It is Thursday, M ay
10, at 7:00PM at the Richard Hu go
House, 1634 1'1 'h Ave nue . There is a
s ugges ted donation of $5.
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If his music isn' t enough to make
you want to watch him perform, Matt
Na th a nso n ha s no prob lem p e rsonally
making yo u li s te n . l:lelieve m e, you
won ' t reg re t it . When I saw him play
a t Orpheum Record s in Sea ttle, Matt
,
h a d n o qualms about s topping in the
middle of hi s se t to cajole cus tom e rs
into s taying to enjoy his music. At one
point, Matt n oticed a yo ung woman
I in a g reen leather jacket ga t.he ring up
her n ew purchase and preparing to
I leave. " It looks like you're going to
l('ave," he pointed out. "Don' t go ... if
yo u s ta y, I prom ise yo u fiery roc k
ac tion ." Nathanson is good o n hi s
word. Hi s "fie ry rock" twelve s trin g
g uita r and powe rful vocals mix with
m e lod y and provocative lyrics to form
a syn thesis of e motio nal o u tpour and
rock and roll.
I m e t wi th Ma tt before the s how
at the Orpheum and was lu cky
II e nou g h to hear hi s s tories o f being on
the road, his love for '80s arena rock,
and hi s g rowth a~ il performer, among
o th e r things . Th e best I ca n do to
describe Matt is to use th e sa m e words
I would u se to describe hi s mu s ic:
honest, genuine, and in sig htful. In his
gray chords, blue V-neck sweater, and
blue " badly drawn boy" beanie, Matt
is rela xed and withou t pretense. The
many "F ra g ile : Handle With Care"
I
.
.
s ti cke rs that a d o rn hiS b lue trave l-safe
gui tilr case boast tha t Nathanson has
liv ed a roc k a nd r o ll lifes t y l e,
consta ntl y to uring and building up a
fan base. Jt is no s urprise tha t he has
b ee n s u ccessf ul, cove rin g new
territory with each tour.
Em : Ha s this been a good to ur?
Matt: It 's bee n good; th e Eas t Coas t
was grea t and Sou the rn Cal iforni a WilS
g rea t. The P ac ifi c Northwest is pretty
new territory fo r me. I've only bee n
Harmony Antiques &
Karinn's Vintage Clothing
here once befo re. It's kind of h il rd
when you a rriv e [ilt a s h ow ) il nd
yo u ' re like, "A ll right! Te n p eople at
the Tra cto r Tav e rn th at are here to
listen to cou ntryl" But it's worked out
well beca u se I was hom e [S a n
Fracisco j for a littl e while to
decompress a bit be fore I came h ere .
Em: How do YO ll judge a good tour?
Attendance? Coo l venues?
Matt: If I ca n be myse lf in front of a
crowd ilnd jus t let stuff roll off, and
it' s rea lly easy to entertain people,
than that's a really good show. And if
I' m so m e where, and I feel like I need
to bus t into a Bon Jovi cove r to get the
crow d into it, that' s sort of a rou g h
s how. I jud ge a good tour by one, if
the s hows go off e ffortlessly, and I feel
g ood , and I fee l like p eople are giv ing
the son gs atte nti on. The second thing
wou ld be if I get names on the mailing
li s ts, if I ge t people buying the CDs,
a nd r feel like it was a worthwh ile
effort.
Em: Do you like touring alone better?
Matt: Yeah, I do. There's nothing
b e tter than plilying in front of people
ilnd inte rac tin g with them, but there's
also nothing bet te r th a n jus t getting in
your car by yourself. Touring allows
me th e freed o m to li s te n to songs over
a nd over again in the car ilnd write
lyrics when I'm driVing, or pull over
and take a nap . And that's why th e
tOllr wi th Jonah l of FAR and
o nelin ed raw ing J was so hilrd. I'm not
j<lded l'nOL' g h to n o t dig being on Ill y
own.
Em: How importa nt are lyrics to yo u
when you ' re writi ng a so n g?
Matt: They're the mos t imp ortan t
thin g, I think. T he lyrics are it. A
te rrible song with g reil t lyrics isn't a
te rribl e so ng . The first thing that turns
me off [from a so ng ) is i f the ly rics
s uck . Me lody is important, too. I g rew
up li s tening to Def Le ppard , who
ccr tainl y h ilve no lyric!' going o n there,
~
but I a lways thought if Bo b Dylan
wrote lyri cs for Def Leppard , we'd
h ave the perfect band .
Em: You co uld put the lyr ics o f "Lay
Lady Lay" into "Pour Some Sugar o n
m e ....
11
Matt: How rad would that b e? Or
"Just Like A Woman " over
"Armageddon It"; that would be the
greates t thing I've ever heard.
Em: Do you feel that you've changed
yo ur musi c a t all throughout yo ur
albums?
Matt: No; I fee l like, as the albums go,
I've grown more and more confident
in myself. I'm working on my fifth
record, and it wasn ' t until my fourth
[S till Waiting For Sprin g) that I sort of
did what I wanted to. All this time that
I was making music ilnd records, I was
trying t6. figure out who 1 wa s, and [I
tried to bel what other people thought
was coot. Now I have a more h ea lthy
relations hip with other artists that I
l isten to. It's not so much, "that
person's cooll want to be like them";
it's jus t, "that p erson is cool," am;! I'm
not coo l, I'm a dark. And now, I'm sort
of down with be ing a dark .
Em: Dorks are awesome l
Matt: Totall y. Dorks a re good.
To embrace the fact thal you like
Matt Na thanson, go to hi s website a t
www.mattnathanson.com
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is performing at
the Bee this
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Part I
Inlagi ne yOlU'SeJf as a 16 year old boy in
Spokane, Washington, 1995. Easier than you
thoug ht it wOL~d be, isn't ie Now irTIilgine
yourself in a basement. Your liie nd Eric's
ba'iCment. You ~swTOunded by your other
friends, Damon, jon, l:lill, Hunter, and josh.
You aU just got done playing a rousingscssion
of VAMPlRE: the Mi\SQUERADE and
gained 5 experience points mdl. You and
your frie nds ill'C all silently thinking to
your.iClves, "Man, this is dorky"
When Er ic, p layin g the g rim hos t, s till
wearing his porcelain fangs Silys, "Hey, you
g u ys want to watch this video?"
Immediately, you assume that this video is
of a na ttu~ you dare not speak of. Perhaps it
will contain images yO lU'yolU1g eyes~ not
legally able to see. He then infon1lS you that
he received this video from the janitor of his
dlltreh.
jon immediately SilyS, ''1hat guy is crazyr"
Tb whidlEric replies, "I know." Ifithelps sct
the mood for you, i111ilg ine lighting striking
just as he SilyS, "I know." Now, that certainly
punctuates his sta te mcnt d oesn' t it?
"What's it ilbout?" you a~k
"AliellS," he replies.
"Alien Autopsy?" someone asks.
''Ha;ted by Commander WlWam Riker of
theStarship Enterpri..'iC." you SilY, then l~ali.ze
that you shouldn' t have.
"No, it'ssupp<lS(.'Cl to be different." EricSilYs.
He pu Is the tape ill. Everyone holds
their br~ath.
The v ideo b<'girlS with two families
fis hing in the woods by a small lake. TIle
dad~ showing off the rL~h they ca ugh t. TIle
dlildren rLUming around. A mom sittin g,
drinkin~ ,1 beel; talking to th other mom,
holding the camera. A typical, boling home
movie.
TIlen, thecamerilcu!s tothe in.~ ideofa cabin.
111e moms illl! cooking d inner and the kids
are heard in the background. A dad i~
ho ld ing the came ra while the other i ~
deaning a rifle. It'sobviously night. You 11mI'
,1 YOlUlg boy yel\, "Dad, dll'Ck this out!" TIle
dad with thecilmera moves towardsildoor.
He shows outside the cabin . TIle young boy
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is pointing up at the sky The dad pans up
and there is a glowing object flying over
them .It hovers, paiSibly 100 feet above them,
and then fli es s lowly away. The glowing
object ilppears to be desaonding into the
woods. The dild with the cameril exdaim s
something and the dad wi th the gem comes
ou t. They sa y thillgSlike, "What the hell was
that?" (md "Goddamn, what'is that thing?"
Finally, one of them Silys, "Should we go
dleck it out?" OfcoulSC, they decide to. One
of the m orns decides to go with them. TIle
o ther stays with the kids. Someone yells,
"Take the camera!" TIle cameril cuts.
You next see illSide the b1.lck. GLUl-dad is
driVing, the o the r dad is appiHently
navigating (He's yelling, "Over thel~! Go ti13t
way!") ilI1d tile mom is now in charge of the
camera. TIleyappear to be roLuldinga come r
when the truck cab L~ bilthed ill I1.U light.
The navigator-dad informs LL~, "l11ere it isl"
TIle camera tums towards the light. The
glowing object is there, big as life, probilbly a
quarter-mile away. The camera zoorns in on
it, and you can barely make out some figmes
movingarUlUld it. You hear il G-u'dooropen
ilnd naviga tor-dad tell camera-mom to get
out. TIle cameta cuts.
You nextsee the g lowing object much d oser
up . TIle figures are more dear. They ilppear
to be aliens, the Coil 11/11 miOf H;tyle: 1aJ},"C head,
black eyes. 111e dads and camera-mom arc
talking ill hus hed tones, but they ~ d(X1J'ly
pill1icked. One of the aliens rums toward
them and begins to approach. It is apparent
tha t the three humans haven't notia.'Cl the
alien approad-ung ye t TIle camera is plilced
a t ilI1 awkward arlgle, making your view of
what's happening obscured. You hear one
of tile dad<;, proba bly gtul-dad yell, "Oh my
God l" ilnd then a shot fired.
You hear another dad, probably navigatordad, yell, "Let's get back to the truck. Crab
the body"
TI1Cl1 cameta-mom yells, "Are you Cfilzy?
Let'sgol" Camera-mom begins to 11.U1 away
from the g lowing object. She runs for a few
n1inutcs, shouting ilt the men to hurry up.
She reddlcs til(' b1.lck Ii~l and gets inside.
She points thecamera back toward tilcobjc.'CL
\Nesc(' tile men cil rryingsomdhinganu 11.ln
P,bt the tl1.l(k cab and appflr(' n~y d l'l1();'it
hOml'~ling in the truck lx.'Cl. lh~' men gl'l
ir1.~ide and smrt the b·uck. W'sec tile aliens
ilppear Just il t the ed~e of th e tru ck's
headlights. TIle camera cuL~.
The c.l meril comes back on in the cabin.
Eve ryone is ~reami ng. 1he two dads art'
c"ITyi.ng whil t appmrs to be till' ,1 lim body.
Olle of the mom.~ telb Ulem to Imve it oul,ide.
Tuesday May 8th, 2001
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Cooper Point Journal • 10 • May 3, 2001
tz· Zprn in ttf TESC library lobby
Mcltt Rossell from In Defense of AnimAls
joins no compromise Activist
She thinks they will come after it. The dads
ignore her and ca rry the body into a
bedroom. TIley place the body on top of a
red plaid-blanketed bed. The camera lingers
on the body for a moment before geln-dad
te Us carnera-mom to get out of the wa y. He
closes the door and appears to lock it.
SomeoneSilYS, "Whatarewe gonna do now?
TIle camera again cuts.
Everyone is now Sitting in the kitchen.
They are playing cards and drinking . The
dlildren are nearoy except for the yOlUlg boy.
We see l13viga tor-dild yell off SOC'Gl, "Get
away from there!"
One o f the d1ildren snys, "Look out the
window."
An adult gets up from the tabJe ilI1d exits
from view. "Oh, my God! They're herei"
" I told you to leave it outside."
"Too late for tilat l Somebody lock ali the
doors."
"Get my ),'1.111"
"GOdll'Cl< on the body"
.
Camera-mom gets up and nll1s to the bed
room. She pushes the door open ilnd only
sees the red plaid blmlketed bed. TIle body
is gone. "It's goner"
"Get back he re!" She 11.U1S bilck to where the
dads are, by the front door and living room.
You see the kids and the other mom ill the
kitchen.
" Block thedool;" someoneyclls. Thedlildren
begin to ay. TIle other mom gilthelS the m
First of all, I wanted to
apologize for my actions in last
week's Cooper Point Journal. As I'm
s ure you've read, I insinuated that
your show, The Simpsol1s, has lost its
e dge. At the time I made that
sta te.ment, I did honestly feel that
way. Your show, while truly
amazing during its 10+ year run, has
shown signs of faltering during the
last three seasons. Need I mention
"Homer joins the Navy" or the "Bart
Filith Healer" episodes? The show's
post-modernist take on everything
and its self-referential comedy was
seem in gly playing itself out. In
addition, the celebrity guest stars
had gone a little too far. The Simpsons
was doing what Batman had done in
the 1960s: becoming a b eacon on
which celebrities gauged their
position in the business. You were
either at the top or on your way
down. And don't get me started on
this season's premiere being the
" Treehouse of Horror." How does a
hit show get away with not debuting
new episodes until October?
Anyway, back to my apology. I
simply point out these flaws in order
to say you're forgiven. All the
wrongs erased, for one reason. The
episode that aired Sunday the 29 th of
April, entitled "Trilogy of Errors."
This episode is something close to
genius. The three beautifully
intertwined stories, some of the
funniest jokes in years, a great film
reference, and a famous voice that
created a character and not just a
ridiculous celebrity caricature, made
this episode, by far, the best episode,
I dare say, ever. Mr. Groening, I
thank you for this, and I hope you
can find it in your heart to forgive
me as I have forgiven you.
"Use the table!" the other mom screams. The
dads pull it over to them. Glm-dad tum.~ to
the carllera and telL~ her to put it down and
help. She does so but fails to tum it off. The
Cilmera is placed on a couch. Camera-mom
helps the dads pasi tiOIl the table to block cl,e
front door. CIh e two dads then step back and
mise tileir guns ' nle two moms and the kids
are ill the backgrOlUld . cTIle dads off to the
rig ht. Eve r yo ne is s titt piln ic ked and
scn:!ilnling at Cildl other. From the left of the
screen in the fOrt'!,>round, three figwes enter
the shot. 'nley ilre the familiar aliens. TIleir
knees appear to bend backwards as they
w<llk They get to theccnterofthefTameand
pa LL';l'. No one l13s SL'l'n tilem yet. One of the
a lil'l1s tu ms to the camera . It raises its hand
,1Ild point!:. a t the Cillllera, almost as if it is
pointing <It you. The ca mera ttlll1S to static.
The re is ,1 momen t of blilck before
pictures of tile ddds, the morns, and the kids
flash on thescn.'CIl. Aphlll1e number is faded
on to tile;,Q'('C]l Witil Ule accompilnying text.
" If you hil\'C !'.<..'l'I1 till'SC people, pleiL'iC call."
Eric ~top~ UK' lilpe.
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with poin t il nd co ntin uous sparri n g.
L.lpt,)in Jesse l iMier do m ina ted h i ~
cont ln u u u s fig h t w ith c la ri ty dn d
skil l b u t was DQ'd nea r t he end o f
th e match . Ha rt e r fin is hed t he day
Owen O'Keefe si reic he> it OUI.
with si lve r in th e poi nt rin g af te r a
lo n g ma tc h w ith tea mmat e S h as t a
Sm ith . j ess ie Sm it h ou t c l ils~ed t he
Ba k S ha Ll lin Ea gle C law Tea m
women's cl.nlin llo ll s s parri n g r in g,
Eve rg rce n com p e ted ,l t Ih £' II' fi r sl
a nd id t e r bea ti ng n ea rl y i11 1 th e
to ur na m e n t of th e 2UO I seaSl1 n Oil
cO lll pe ti t io n , got DQ' d in t he l:ts t
Apr il 28. T h e tc a m a tt e n dl' d t hL'
ro un d of t he fi n a ls· to fini 'i h w i t h
Pacwcs t Tae Kwo ll Do Associat ion
s li ver. j oh n Eastlake
Ma rh al Ar ts C h ampio n s h ips. T Ill'
h ad th e be~ t figh t o f
to u rna m e n t W,lS sa ll c ti o n ed b y t hl'
hi s c<lrecr In th t,
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contin u ous
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contr o l lin g
the
Un io n (AAU). T h iS lVas til(' reg ioll,, 1 g ,1 \' l' H <l l' t era
tem p o o f hi s md tc h
A A U N a ti L) n a I
qua I i f yi n g p L' rlec t W.O, whi lL'
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scori n g
to urna men t for th l.' AAU N,ll io n al.., a n ll t hl' r
Jud ge
r epea ted ly
w ith
of Tal' Kwon D o, ,1Il d can lead to g,lve ,1 L).I). Sh as ta
flur r ies uf h ib.
Amer ica n n a ti o n a f tea m tr yo u h, S mi th
p l Med
Eas tl ake was a s ure
<;ecllnd i n the
il nd th e 01 y m pics.
wi n for th e r o un d
Th e tou r na m e nt di r ec tor Wd, di" is io n w it h hi s
b ut w a s DQ' el a t th e
Mas te r Ri c G ord o n , an d mu c h li ke hi g h , fl y in g C n o k
Team Ca'p" lin Jesse H ~ rl e r
las t p oss ibl e second
th e m a n him se lf , th e tou rnam e nt Fei I n rm . jo h n
rece ives hi gh lll arks ror his
fo r fa ce cont ac t ; h e
w as profe SS i o nal, clea n , dnd fai r. Eas tl a ke ro und ed
incredi ble fo rms performan ce .
pl ace d fifth . O w en
Thi s w as th e fir s t to urn a ment th e o ut th e swee p o f
O ' Keefe h a d so lid
te am ha s b e en t o in a lo n g tim e th e d iv is io n , ty in g
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wh e re c h e atin g w as n o t a fa c tor. In fo r thir d with hi s powe rful f i g ht s
c ontinu o u s . O' K ee fe fou g ht
per fo rm a n ce of Mu i Fa.
In wo m en 's bl ac kb e lt fo rm s, thr o u g h th e co nt i nu o u s fi e ld ,
on
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Mui Fa. It is a rar e ly see n fe at fo r a aga in s t t ea mm a te Gin H a rbold .
Sin g le, bl ac k uniformed kung fu Sh as ta S mith w e nt for the c y cle in
c omp e tit o r to d e fea t a la rge fi e ld o f th e tournament. A fter takin g
whit e unif o rm e d Ta e Kw o n Do s ilv e r in f o rm s, S mith fini s hed
s ty li s ts in th e ir o wn c hampion s hip s . third in th e co ntinuou s s parring
Th e b eg inne r s Be n G ree ne a nd r in g aft e r a tou g h fi g ht w ith a Tae
G in Hilfb o ld , in th e ir seco nd Kwon Do fi g hte r w h o g il ve Smith
to urn a m e nt eve r , h a d s imil a r a hard ti me with hi s evas i v e
511O st,1 5rn ith on Ih e J efel1sive .
res ult s . Th ey to ok go ld and s il ve r fi g htin g s t y le. Sm i th th e n follow e d
re s p ec ti \'e ly in th e beg inn e r form s up b y winnin g go ld in the p o int
div is io n . In a t es t a m e nt to th e ir rin g, ju s t e d g in g out Jesse H a rt e r.
I G in H a rb o ld m a d e a n exce ll e nt
s h ow in g a nd fo u g ht hi s way t o
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UlJ'(:ctlll U,l\'l' ~VL'bher, n HllL' dnd ~J\'L'
d lH;elkd bUD,t to ,lthldics. The fL'w
tl'aml' that we re IVlllnJl1g, like Arlcllt'
McMaho n '~ soccer team , john BarbE'L"~
bilsketbil ll squad, nnd the ,;wim lL'ilm
we re bo ls tl'o' red by new en thusias m and
, n L'W p rog rams, w h o we re a lso now
beg innin g to d o we ll.
Team Eve rg ree n Kun g F u the n
s ta rted w inning big: hu ge compe titi ons,
go ld meda ls, g rand cha mpi onships. We
a Iso s tart e d g ettin g n o to riet y in th e
commun ity. We w e re w ritt en up
num ero us times in th e O lympian a nd
pers onally reported on by spo rts edito r
Charles Dye.
As w e b ro u g ht m o re an d mOH'
articl es to the CPJ, I bega n to cover o ther
sp orts as well, became the C Pj spor ts
ed ito r, and we s tarted a stir on campu s
about w inning. Then Shasta's Eve rgreen
Spo rts Sh ow w as crea ted and s tarted
s howin g v id eo co verage o f Kun g Fu
com pe titio ns. It showed the community
an d o th e r team s ports m e n rea li s ti c
coverage of the exci te ment of a winnin g
seaso n . And s u d d e nl y t h e re was a
feeling on ca mpu s uf wanting to w in. [t
all got covered: ku ng fu, basketba ll ,
!-Jw im m in g, te nni s, ru \'Vi n g, c r os!:'J:co un try, (,[)ilc hes int erViews, p layer
interv iews .... T here was excitemcn t in
th e C PJ and on TV abou t Evergreen
sports.
TIll' nex t step up was Team
F,, (' rgreen Kung Pu gOlllg to the world
c hampionships of ~port kilrate. Th e
Olymp ian covered us; Athletics, Rec .
Sports, the President, the V.I'. of Student
Affairs, thl' Alumni Board, and thl' S&A
BOilrd all got behind us. Even penple
who didn't belie"e in r"L'rgrccn sporthelped. P,lJ'ents help ed, cllJl'pa ni("
pitched III and Wl ret u rned I' itl
nUllll'f(\II, wo rld ranklllgs. Uther team,
III the ,chllolwl' re exccllin g In their Llwn
f1~ht; ,wlmllling wcnt to national, and
did \\'ell. thl' women', sorceI' t(><lm Wl'nt
to the plavoff>, thl' Illl'n , ba"kt'tbalJ
team \\'cnt tll th e pla\ ott, Shasta',
I "crgreen SporhShow cll\'e rl'd It all.
ow there I~ a following 01 peopl.e
that watdl Shasta', h ,p rgreen Sp(lrts
~huw dnd read the <... Pj spurt;, sectIOn
weekly. Sports at I-vergreen are gainlllg
prom inence in the school communIty
and the com m unity at large. vVho kn'ows
w h at can ha p pen nex t, w he re teams w ill
go an d wha t th ev wi ll do in the comin g I
yea r, th e pl ayoffs, th e Na ti o n als, th e ~
World Cha m p ionship s ... T he power of
b elievin~~ __
Jesse I larter lto.s i( fly againsl
the oppos ition .
C PJ: So 1l'l'S s ta rt off by ta lking about
w hat ha p pe ned th is lils t seilso n. We
d idn't w in any ga mes. We we re pretty
much last in thp country thL' last two
\'(,MS. What Me we doing th is spring
to illlpn1\ 'L'?
()J{]()". \Vl"rL'I1lL'l'lIn~,l"ltL"lll1, \\T 1'1'
,
tr ad i t io n al Tal' Kwon Do maste r,
Master Co r don, honored the t eam
by In vi t in g u s t o din ne r. T hl' tealll
extends its t h allks to Mdstcr
C;ordll n bo th for his hospit'llity
a 11 d eve n m ol' e ") f () l' t h (' fa i r
o ff i c i il tin g nt h i s to urn ,1 men L
Teil m Evergrc:e n thanks no n competi n g cl u b m embers a n d fa ns
for co m ing o u t to c hee r th e tcam
un. The t eilm a l so t hanks
C r and m us t e r Fu I.c ung il ild
National Coac h S il u Dana for th eir
teaching and coaching th a t m ade
t he team's s u ccc:s~ po~, i b l e.
Ca tc h th e v id eo act ion o f th e
co m pe titi o n o n S h ast a 's Everg ree n
Sp o rt s Sh ow. A l,o s tay tun ed fo r
f ut u r e compet iti ons as TL'am
Ev e rg r een K un g Pu 's 20U1 seaso n
ge ts go in g. Expec t m o re f rom th e
u p-a n d-co min g j un io r team to be
il nd n ex t fa ll 's n ew cap t ain Owe n
O ' Kee fe.
I recentl y ha d a chance to ta lk w ith
som e fo rmer tea mm a tes about what is
goin g o n with the soccer p rogram.
11ll'1l);h'11Illl II)"" thl' nll'n , ba,)"L'lb,lll
thl'\
jessie Smith, #1 r~ l ed WOIl1,IJ1
ligilie r in Ihe No rt hwesi.
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CHA RLI E: T he (S lInuay league) men's
tea m wilsn' t going to happen un le~s
so m eo n e sig n ed Li p a n d paid 525
d o ll ars ... and so I did 'ca use it need ed
to h a ppe n . It's jus t an o ther w ay to get
everyone together, get SO lll e touches o n
t he ball a nd practice.
C P) : So h as the coach contacted yo u a t
a ll about this? Do you know if the co ach
is d oi ng any thing fo r us thi s spring?
SCOTT: O ne thing he is d o ing for sure
that was n' t done las t year is recruitin g
fo r a go alie . H e g ot a kid o ut o f
Washing to n; he's a fo ur time v urs ity
player. Six foot o ne, s upp osed to be
pre tty fit, pre tty big, A[so pl ays wiel e
r ece iv e r fo r ·football and pl ays
ba s ke tba ll. W ith tha t pos itio n fill ed, it
looks like w e're shak ing things out on
t he field pre tty w e ll. We s ho uld be
p re tty solid. O ur g oa l is to have the
s u bs co ming in pretty solid o ff of the
be nch too. I th in k las t year one of the
p ro bl e m s was n o t hav in g th a t key
p osition filled (goali e) and o ur bench
was weak, so if we ca n get a co u p le
deep on the bench then we' ll be set.
T he onlv othe r proble m that we have
i" thill we have ,\ lot of i ndividual
oLitstand ing talent. A lot of peop le
recll)?;nized that Id~t season and thi"
,Cdson, dnd it';, going to ta),.l' iI littlp
lim(' for u~ In learn how tLl pl<lV
t(l~l't Iwr and get 'OIll C stra tegll" down
\I'v., 'J'(' working toward, "ort 01 d
Ct11llJl101l p,lgl' of music What e10 vou
think. Da"e'
DAVE: I ' v e take n a fe w rec ruits
a round campus. I think coach is rea ll y
recruiting fo r us thi s yea r and gettin g
some o f the v ita l p aperw o rk d o ne. It
may no t look li ke he is do ing m uch, b ut
I th ink he is.
•
CPj: So in regards to that, what can we
do or what can an ind ivid lIal do to get
the team out for practice? How do we
do that'
OR[O'\l' I knl'" that to gl't nut tlll'r,'
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how e,lLh other play". Scott calb ml' lip
,\!ld
we need to go out anu pla\ '
,oml' ball, and we nced more of that.
So that's bee n a big th ing, just kind of
doing it yo urse lf type- th ing
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CH ARLIE: I th ink by having so man y
ye ll ow cards, peop le a re getting sick of
the sa m e o ld story. The re is going to
be a lo t o f pee r pressure to s marte n up
on the fie ld , beca use midway th roug h
go m es people have been losing the ir
head s and figh ting or jus t doing s tupid
s tuff. I think mos t eve ryone recogni zes
that cannot continue. I think it's going
to be us p o licing ourselves.
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CPj: C,ln anV(llll' ('lsI' com ment on th at
~(lnl(I" I kilO\". It 'r.., lhll .... pcond game 1I~
the ,e,hlll th,l( we haw' had a fight [.
\\' IS )"lIl,i ot out of Luntr"
\\Il' \,"'r<'
Illll' pi thl' team, that had thl m()~
H'lIo\\ (,.lI'd~ thiS "l'1bOn , J think tht'
most n'd L'ards .1' well. ilnd I think jt',
start111g to shm' In Sunday soccer
What can we do to change that?
SCOTT: O ne o f the thin gs the tea m has
tried so fa r is a Tuesd ay, Thursd ay, 8:00
practice, and that's a difficult thing to
ge t people in b y na ture o f what time it
is. So w hat Jus tin w anted t9 d o w as
ope n up the pa vili on o n Wednesd ays
a t 9:00. It' s a hard s urface, but at leas t
it's later in the day when people have
more control ove r their sch e dules. SCOTT: On that note, a couple of LIS got
Hope full y we can ge t out hitting the toge ther with Brian, the g uy who got
ball around and talking about our own in the scuffle the last game, and we had
s trategies and pos itioning. I think it a g ood talk. It's got to come from the
w o uld increase the p e rformance on the pee r pressure within the team, that
fi eld on S und a y. La s t s unday w e fouls and scuffles don't help us on the
pl ayed the tou ghes t team; it was a re al scoreboard at all. And to go back to
physical game, and it got a little u g ly. that g am e, which was a tough match:
A fte r pla y ing the tough est team, w e we normally match up with teams very
should concentra te on going out the re w ell; w e have a lot of tale nt and that's
and winning eve ry gam e the res t of the w h y the re is s till a lot of posi tivity.
s pring. A no the r ke y is w ha t w e d o , People o utside of this program could
be tween sp rin g and preseason .
look a t o ur scorecard and see no "W's,"
but w e've g ot s uch o uts tanding talent
C PJ : So Dave, co ul d yo u talk a little th a t it's jus t a matte r of time be fore w e
abo u t th at ga m e? I kn o w you w e re in s ta rt pl aying w ell to ge ther. Its not like
the bilck fil' ld so yo u co ul d see wh at w e h a v e these huge holes or maj o r
wat> go ing on u ntil yo u go t inju red . di ffe re nces in the tale nt o f the te ams
Coul d y~u t<i:}k iibout tha t game a little? we' re p laying agains t. It is n't tha t lon g
before we'll p ut it toge the r. I' m pretty
UAVE: [ th inkforthemostpartwehad op timis ti c for nex t yea r.
it under conlrol. Bei ng a sweeper, I
hilve a lot of responSibility, te ll ing C Pj : T h'anks for tak ing the time to ta lk
people wlwrl' to go; for the most part about th e teaIn ilnd Whilt'S going on.
people were l"tening. 1 lelt like I W<l~
dUlllg Ill\, job well. We WL're hanging CHARLIE: And if there i~ dnyollL' out
lIl 'thL're until they got il vNy lucky \2;0.11
there in thl' communi ty who i" coming
'1 hilt gmll ~l1cked . Still we WC'fl' toE\'ergre(,llnl'xtyl'ar,bri ng(lut~ome
nallglllg In tilL're. I didn't gl'l to Sl'C am' booh and come play with LIS, 'caUSl' we
of thl' second half, so J don't know hOIA might be ab le to usc you.
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tha t went. I w a!> pretty confid ent and
p ro ud o f u s t h o u g h th e firs t h a lf.
Appare ntl y Bri an , who had the scu ffl e
in th e second, w as beginning to have
proble m s in the first ha lf that I didn't
rea lly see, so [ can't really comment on
that. For the most part, I th in k we were
doing a lright. I think we had things
under control.
CALENDAR
SPORTS
7 MONTHS,
7 SECONDS
TENNIS GETS ITS FIRST EVER
WIN IN THE PLAYOFFS
hy .Iuei K d o" n"
This POlst weekend was th e
NA IA Region I Tenni~ Tournilment
for both men and women. The
to urnam e nt s, which too k pla ce in
Lewiston, Id a h o, decide what
tea m wi n s a p lace in th e n a ti ona l
tourn a m e nt . The men were seeded
6 th in th e tourn ey a nd were a bl e to
e nd up in 5 th place . The m en were
4th in the co nfere n ce but h ad a 6 th
plac e rankin g go ing into the
r eg ion a l tournam e nt. The seed ing
in th e tournam e nt is not based off
s tandin gs; in s tead , it is based o ff
votes.
Each
coach
in
the
co nfer e n ce votes fo r a seed in g
order with th e number one tea m
receiving s i x pOints and the la st
see d receiving o n e. Evergreen wa s
voted into the last place see d. H a d
the votes followed the s tandings ,
Evergreen would have bee n p laced
4th and had to play Seatt le U (who
they beat on Saturday, April21) in
the first round.
The men played Alberta
College (3,d seed) in th e first
round, lqsing 9-0. The e n e rgy of
competition wa s there, but th e
game was not on th e level. Mike
Ottoboni gave everything he had ,
only to lose to Alberta' s Trist a n
Gilbertso n , 6-4, 6-2. This turned
o ut to be th e on ly sh inin g star in
the m eet, with a ll other m a t c h es
n e ttin g n o m o re than two ga m es
eac h for the C lam s.
The men mov e d o n to th e losers
bracket to play 5'" seed Northwest
Nazilre n e. The co mp e tition was
s tr o n g a nd s harp with Everg re e n
pulling a so lid 6-3 w in to take fifth
pl ace in the co nf e r e n ce. Neal
Ah e rn d e fea t ed NN U's Luke
Du e rrI' iIi a s ingl e se t, 9-7. More
wins came fr o m Mik e Sc hor, Will
TubmOln, and j ordan Oaks, who a ll
won th eir s ingle s mat c he s. The
doubl es tea m of Mike Sc hor and
Will Tubman a lso se t a s tandard
fo r the team , winning their se t, 85. Neal Ahern and Mik e Butte
followed to a lso win, 8-5 . Thi s was
th e firsl regiona l playoff win for
the m e n 's tenni s progr a m ever.
Congratulations t o the men in
th e ir 5 th pla ce finish.
The women also had their
co nference tournament on the 27th
They playe d hard , but were unable
to get things moving, lo s ing to
Albertson 9-0 in th e first round .
The loser's bracket was mor e of
the sa m e, res ulting in another loss,
thi s time to Northwest Nazarene,
9-0.
Looking ba c k on th e past
seve n month s, J cannot b e li eve
th a t I h ave be e n rowin g thi s
whole tim e. Wa king up at 4:15
i n the m o rnin g so that I co u!d
once again test m y physical
limit s. Ju s t lik e I did the day
before and the day b e fore that
and so on . Believe m e, I h a d
mom e nt s of doubt, asking
my se lf why am 1 doing thi s?
Whil e sea r c hing for that
an s wer, I had many th o ught s
rac in g through my head.
" Beca us e you a re c ra zy," one
would
yell.
Others
soo n
fol lowed, be co ming louder and
louder, and th e n it hit me . It was
about h a lfway through our first
race th a t I fe lt so methin g that I
had n e ver fe lt b e fore . All of a
sudden I wanted to win lik e I 've
n e ver wanted to win in my life.
My vi s i o n had gone from full
s pe c trum to a narrow tunnel
s howing only the back of the
p e rson in front of me.
F o r the first thousand
m e t e rs , my body was telling me
to s top rowing . I eve n remember
my body co unting down until
de s tru ct ion . T-minus 3 seconds
T-minus 2 se conds .. and I
s aid, " No . I' m not about to g iv e
u p." My co mp e titiv e n ess ki c k ed
into overdrive. I fo rced m yself
t o n o t s t op rowing. Every tim e
I fe lt lik e I was go in g to die I
s tart e d r ow in g hard e r. 1 brok e
all pre co n ce iv e d n o tion s about
my phy s ica l a bilitie s. Enduring
thi s pain has changed my life
for the better.
Thi s wa s not on l y a great
lea rnin g experience for me , but
it also s howed m e that wi th
det e rmination ,
you
ca n
accomp li s h anything. It is thi s
same at titud e that ha s made
Evergr ee n Crew a co mpetitiv e
t ea m in on l y one seaso n. W e
demand {he re s pect of our peers
and w e have shown eve ryone
that we will row as hard if not
hard er than they will
If you are inter es ted in
joining ne x t year's c re w plea se
ca ll Aaron at 357-4932 or email
him at Astarks@turbotek.net. If
you are cur i ous about rowing ,
the University of Washington is
hosting
Op e ning
Day
on
Saturday, May 5. Races start at
10 a.m. There are not only some
amazing teams rowing , but also
the course i s on e of th e best
place s to w a tch rowing .
Sat, May 5
Thu, May 3
12 noon to 2 PM
Somewhere in the CAB
It's ... /resdl' 11I1Il/OI Celebrate it wi th
tradit ional folk m~lsir from Oaxaca,
Mex lco-" Vielltu /lS IlIe l 10. " Somew here
in th e CAB; for more infor m a ti on,
con tact MEChA a t ex t. 61 .1 3 or LASO at
~'xt. 6583.
6:30 PM
LIB 2103
Are you ~ware of your fe rtility?
Would yo u like to be? If so, attend thi s
class, presented by Jud y Hi ckmann and
held in LIB 2103. For more information,
ca ll (360) 446-3640.
Fri, May 4
6PM
TESC Tacoma Campus
The Tacoma campus is celebrating
their g(and opening this week. Tonight,
there will be campus lours from 6 to 7
PM and the "Festival of the Drums and
Community
Bread-Brea king
Ceremony."
9 toll PM
Lib 4300
Cinco de Mayo fun continues today,
el cuairo de mayo. MECM and LASO are
sponsoring "G mpo Tabique," a live Latin
band, which will be performing for a
dance. join the festivities in LIB 4300.
1 to 5 PM
TESC Tacoma Campus
More fro m the exci ting EvergreenTacuma
carnp u ".
"A lumni
H o mc com i ng a n d Fa e ul ty-S ta ff
Reunion ." Return to your Taco ma a lm ~
l11nter.
All Day
Timberland Library
It's act u a ll y C in co de Ma yol
Ce lebra te it at th e down town
Ti mbC'rl and Library, 313 Eighth Ave SE,
O lympi ~.
Sun, May 6
~eed
a job for next year? Want to work on campus?
.The Cooper Point Journal is hiring ·the Ad Representative and the
Distribution Manager for 2001-02.
~-:::II
5 to 7:30 PM
TESC Tacoma Campus
The fun continues in Tacoma with
Gospollo, a Gospel Music Celebration.
"Choirs from Olympia, Tacoma, and
Seattle will be featured ." For more
information, including tickets, ca ll the
college at (253) 680-3000.
Directory~
AFISH
EARN
(Advocates fur Improvil1g
Salman Habitat)
(Evergreen Animal Rights Network)
Discuss environmental & salmon issues.
Meeting time: Monday 4 p.m. in CAB
320. More info: CAB 320 or x6105
Amnesty International
International
human
rights
organization. Meeting time: Monday 5
p.m. in CAB 310. More info: x6724
ASlA
(Asiml Studellts ill Alliance)
Meeting time: Wednesday 1 p.m. in CAB
320. More info: Emiko Atherton, Miral
Ghimire at x6033
Bike Shop
Volunteer-operated bike shop. Meeting
times: Call or stop by; sched uJe is on
door. More info: Ari or Jayro at x6399
Capoeira Angola
Meeting time: Thursday 6:30 p.m. in Ub
4300. More info: c.j. Hanekamp at 8664811 or haoekamC@evecg:reen.edu
Common Bread
Working for justice and peace. Meeting
time: Monday 5 p.m. in CAB 110. More
info: Julie Boleyn at 943-9144
cpr
(Cooper Poillt Journa l)
We are the group that produces a weekly
paper about Evergreen. Story meeting:
Monday 5 p .m .; Pa per critique:
Thursday 4 p.m .; Forum on ethics:
Friday 3 p.m.; These meetings are in
CAB 316. More info: x6213
DEAP
The Ad Representative sells ads and works on
commission basis,
with the possibility of earni~g tip to$3;OOU
' ~lte yea~: .,'
, ' . '
Tue, May 8
10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Ellis Cove Trail
ROldiance H e rbs and Mas sage
brings u s another fa sciniltin g even t.
There will be an herb walk in Priest
Point Park. For $15, you, too, can "learn
about plants that have been revered for
their healing properties for countl ess
generations." The walk begins at 10:30
AM s harp at the Elli s Cove Trail.
Student Group
(Developillg Ecological
Agru:ulture Projects)
Resource center for organizing farm
projects. Meeting time: get on our e-mail
list, send to deapgreen@hotmail com.
More info: x6493
4to 7 PM
Lei us consid er the lowly oy~ter. A
m ollusk, it is a simp le organi~m. It is also
one of the primary producers of pearl~,
prov ing that not all irrita ti on is useless .
O lym p ia moyor Sta n Biles has declared
today "She ll fis h Lovers' Day." I Ienry
Weinhilrd's is spo nso ring SLUR P, or
Shellfis h Lovers' Ultimate Rejuve n.llion
Pa rty. This will feature live jazz, a s ile nt
a u ct ion, a n a rt s h ow, a nd lo ts of
she ll fis h-rela ted stuff, includinga "mos t
bea utiful " oys te r co ntest. l3oy, you ca n' t
moke this s tuff up. Tickets arc $55. They
will be ava il ab le ilt th e Wine Loft ,
Washington Wine Wa rehouse, Indian
Summer, and at (360) 754-2744. Did I
mention there'll be alcohol?
Promoting the ethical treatement of animals.
Meeting time: first and third Wednesday of
each month 5:30p.m. in CAB 320. More info:
,.
Laurel and Tom at x6555
Eveq;reen Dance Team
Meeting time: Wednesday 2-4 p.m. in CRC
316 and Thursday 3:30-5 p.m. in CRC 116
Eve~reen Investment Club
Meeting time: Thursday 2:30 p.m. in CAB
315. More info: Andrew Bucher, Adam
Smith-Kipnis, 786-9161
EOA
(Evergreen Queer AlliQJ/Ce)
Genera l interest meeting: Tuesday 5 p.m. in
CAB 314; Film Fest planning 5 p.m.
Wednesday in CAB 314. More info: x6544.
evergreen qyeer alliance@hotmail com
Eve~reen Students for Christ
To und erstand, to grow, to serve. Meeting
time:Tuesday7p.m. in LIB 2101. More info:
ES4C@aolcom
The Evergreen Swing Club
Beginners welcome, singles okay. Meeting
ti me: Friday 7 p.m. on the first floor of the
library. More info: David, 866-8324; Kristina,
867-4939
Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance
Working for equality for women. Meeting
tim e: Friday 1 p.m. More info: Whitney
Bindreiff a t 888-2166 or x6636
GRAS
(Giant Robot Appreciatioll Society)
Evergreen's Anime club! Screenings Friday,
8 p.m. at the Edge. More info: Megan
Connolly at conmeg21@evergreen.edu
12 to 2 PM
Library Lobby
Animal Libera tion' EARN Presents
two speakers, Matt Rossell from InDcfcnsc
of Animals and Wayne Johnson from the
Northwest Animal Rights Network. They
will discuss vivisection and primate
experimentation in Washington.
2PM
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center
Bird Brain is a dance troupe who is
follOwing the migration of the grey whales
from Baja Mexico to Vancouver Island.
This group of "dance artists, scientists,
conservationis ts, educators, whale
watchers and the public" will perform free
of charge. The Fine Arts Center is located
at 1203 E. Lauridsen BouJevard, between
Race Street and Peninsula College.
Q
The Eve rgreen September Sympos ium
"You and your colleagues arc invited
to share your paSSions aJld aspirations for
two days at The Evergreen Sep tember
Symposium." This organ ization i~
cncoLl ragin gsubmi~sion~ through Friday,
june 1, for an even t on the Tacoma
ca mpus. For more informa ti on, ca ll
Nancy Tay lor a t ext. 6398, Emily Decker
a t ext. 6637, or G illi es Malnarich at ext.
6609.
Fools Play
Can' t get enough improv? Are yo u
a Wh(lse Lilli' /" It Allywny? junkie? Go see
Foo ls Pl ay Imp rov a t St udiu 32 1 in
downtown Olympia -321 Jeffe rso n .
"Among improv shows, Fools Play is iI
rare jewel." $6, $5 for s tudents. Saturday
night;, a t nine; for m ore information,
contact Sind i Somers a t (360) 867-1229 or
www.fools-playcom .
Writing Center Mural Contest
The Writing Center, which is loca ted
in LIB 3407, is sponsoring a mural contest.
The finished mural will be 4 feet by 8 feet
and painted on glass. The prize will be
$100, as weUas up to $SO for required paint
and brushes. Please submit a detailed
drawing to Don Foran by May 15. For
more information, contact ext. 6382.
STRAY
Independent
Film
&
Multimedia Festival
Mindscreen is looking for
submissions for their festival; submissions
are due by May 15. The entry form is
available online at www.evergreen.edu/
mindscreen. More details are there as well.
*This list is not comprehensive, If you want your student group
listed, drop off your information at the CPT (C~B 316).
SUgbtly West Uteruy Maraz;jne
We publish TESC's literary magazine.
The JCC celebrates Jewish culture and is Meeting time: Monday 2 p.m. and
devoted to combating all forms of hate, Thursday 9 p.m. More info: Patricia
including Anti-Semitism. Meeting time: . Kinney, Jen U!vinson at x6879
UmQja
Wednesday 3-4 p.m. inCAB315. More info:
Steve or Carmel at x6092
An activities and support group for all
MECbA students of African decent. Meeting
M~re
The Chicano student movement of AztJan. time: 1-3 p.m. on May 16 and
Meeting time: Wednesday 2 p.m. More info: info: x6781; Cassetta Stroud at (360) 4550470; Loretta Brad ley-AIIen at (360) 352x6143
Medjeval Society 9906
Recreating medieval martial arts, crafts, and
Uprooting Racism
performances. Meeting time: Thursday 5:30 White students work on ending racism.
p.m. in CAB 320. More info: x6036
Meeting time: Wednesday 12:30-1:30
Men's Resource Center p.m. in US 2221.
To provide resources for people to grow in
WasbPlRG
mind, body, and spirit. Everyone welcome. We run environmental, social, and
Meeting time: Wednesday 3-4 p.m. in Lib consumer campaigns. Meeting time:
2221. Moreinfo:x6092
Wednesday 4 p.m. in Lecture Hall
The Middle East Resource Center rotunda. More info: Rebecca x6058 or
Meeting time: Wednesday 4 p.m in CAB 320 evergreen wasbpiIg.@bo\mail.com
in office 15. More info: x6033
The Wilderness Center
Mjndscreen We run trips outside (rafting, rock
Free movies on campus! Meeting time: climbing, hiking, snowshoeing) as well
Wednesday 3:30 p.m. in CAB 320; Free as skill.
movies: Wednesday 5:30 p.m. in Lecture hall
Women of Color Coalition
1. More inIo: x6412
Equality, diverSity, justice and freedom
Percussjon Club for Evergreen's women of color. Meeting
We play traditional West African music. time: Friday 3 p .m. at CAB 313. More
Beginners Welcome! Meeting time: info: Melissa Wise, Jessica Lee at x6006
Wednesday at8p.m. inCAB 110. MoreinIo:
Women's Resource Center
Lesa Cassidy or Jamie Stillman, x6781
A resource center that provides
SEED meetings, a library, events, and a drop(Students at Evergreell for Ecological Design) in center. General meeting: Monday 3
We are a resource and networking centerfor p.m.; 'Zine meeting: Monday 5 p.m.;
s tudents interested in discussing the Evergreen Cliteracy Foundation:
different aspects of ecological designand the Wednesday 3 p.m. More info: x6162
connections between them. Meeting time:
Wednesday 4:30 p.m. in LAB II 2242. More
info: Jamie or Troy at x6493 or
greeoseedS@hotJm!il com
ICC
(Jewish Cultural Center)
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