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The Evergreen Staie College
Olympia, Washington 9S&35
•The Chief Is In
Interview with Police Chief Steve Huntsberry ....page4
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• Damn Hippies Block The Damn Streets
Oly Residents Blarhe Evergreen for Mayday Meyhem....page 5
• Sho'nuf
Breakdancers Spin on Body Parts Not Originally Meant for That....page 11
• My Necrophiliac Dog is Still Cooler Than Yours
Comix Are a Boon to All, Everywhere....pages 18 & 19
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Vox POPUU
O V o l u m e 29 • I s s u e 27 • May 24, 2001
O
Urban Arts Festival
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
What do you do
for fun in the sun?
Alex Buechle, junior
"Smoke a cigarette."
Evergreen junior Timothy Longcope (left),and Ghost (right) tag a plywood board as
Urban Arts Festival. Check out the inside tor more Urban Arts photo craziness. , s
}oe Lott, sophomore
"Play frisbee or rugby.'
Housing Needs
Go Past Budget
by Whitney Kvasager
Val Saturn, freshman
"Goto the beach."
Consuelo Maria Marquez (left) and
Lupe Martinez, seniors
"We get naked and hang out
wherever we like.1'
photos and interviews by Adam Louie
TESC
Olympia, WA 98505
Address Service Requested
Housing buildings need work.
A-Dorm's roof leaks, and the plumbing
won't hold out for another 30 years. Carpets
are frayed, and mattresses are ratty.
Housing Director Mike Segawa says
the buildings need about $4 million worth
of work, which would cost $400,000 a year
for the next ten years.
To make ends meet, Segawa cut
Housing's in-house TV movie program,
travel money for staff to go to conferences
and two student staff positions. He also
asked the board of trustees to approve a rent
increase of 7% next year plus another 5% the
following year, which they did on May 10.
Students will now have to pay $20 more each
month, starting in September. In 20022003, they'll pay another $15 more.
But even with the cuts and the rent
increase, there still won't be enough money.
Segawa says he's only got $100,000 a year —
a fourth of the money he needs — to fix up
Housing.
Housing gets money from three
sources: students who live on campus,
people who stay in Housing during
summertime conferences and from donors.
He doesn't want to ask for more rent
money, because that could make Housing so
expensive students couldn't afford to live
on-campus, and he doesn't want to charge
conference-goers so much that they end up
staying at motels. He never relies on donors,
please see HOUSING page 2
of tfiis past weekend's
ELF: Fires and Intrigue
Spokesperson For Group Suspected of Arson Visits Evergreen
Two Days After Fire Destroys UofWHorticulture Building
by Corey Pein
A spokesperson for the Earth Liberation
Front (ELF)—an environmental group known
for property destruction—said yesterday that
he didn't know if the group set two blazes this
week at the University of Washington and an
Oregon tree farm.
Federal investigators suspect that the
ELF is behind the arsons, and Craig
Rosebraugh said that he "wouldn't be
surprised" if he got a message claiming
responsibility from the group soon.
Rosebraugh has been the ELF's public
face since 1997, when he got an anonymous
communique from people taking credit for the
releasing horses and burning a government
corral near Burns, Oregon.
The ELF claims to have burned, spiked
and ruined $40 million worth of property, but
injured no one. The group seeks "to cause as
much economic damage as possible [to those]
profiting off the destruction of life."
Rosenbraugh does not claim
membership with the ELF and says he only
hears from them when they want to be heard.
"I don't know them; I don't know the
color of their shoes," said Rosebraugh.
But he likes their politics.
"The only problem with ELF actions is
that not enough are occurring," said
Rosenbraugh to about 250 Greeners and press
people yesterday. He came to Evergreen
photo by Kevan Moore
Craig Rosebraugh talks to the "corporate
media" about the ELF Some students at
his speech booed the cameras and asked
not to be filmed.
courtesy of the Evergreen Political Information
Center (EPIC).
The UW and Oregon fires were probably
meant to sabotage biological engineering work
going on there. The Seattle Times said
Wednesday that damage in the UW fire was
estimated at up to $3 million.
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Evergreen junior Aaron Cansler takes a picture of himself and junior Lily West at the opening of
Disparate Measures last Friday night at Olympia World News. The photography exhibit showcases
the works of several Evergreen photo department faculty. The show will run until June 9.
Consensus Decision
Making Workshop
Grace Cox from the Olympia Food Coop will host an hour-long workshop on
consensus decision making this Tuesday,
May 29, at 4 p.m. in CAB 315. This event is
sponsored by the S&A Board. For more
information, please call x.6221.
4th EPIC Speaker
Part Four: "Social Movements, Property
Destruction, and the Question of
Violence"
"Economic Sabatoge: How and Why," a
talk presented by Tim Ream, will take place
in the Library Lobby at 12pm, Wednesday
the 30th. Ream is a filmmaker, public speaker
and veteran of numerous environmental
direct action campaigns throughout the
Pacific Northwest. He has just returned from
a 49-city national screening tour with his
feature film Pickaxe. It tells the story of a
year-long blockade of a timber sale at
Oregon's Warner Creek.
Mr. Ream was a prominent
spokesperson during the 1999 anti-WTO
protests in Seattle. Footage from his
production RIP WTO N30 aired nationally
in several venues, including 60 Minutes. He
is an outspoken critic of the global economic
system and its responsibility for
unprecedented environmental destruction.
He is a widely-interviewed advocate for
property destruction as a political tactic and
the role of state repression of political
activists.
Mr. Ream is a former Environmental
Protection Specialist with the EPA.
— Brian Frank
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Provost," referred the President Les Puree
as "the Puree" because of a copy-editing
mistake.
"JK The drawing of th£ trash can on page
10, was by Nicholas Stanislowski.
Cooper Point Jovirnal • 2 • May 24, 2001
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HOUSING
continued from the cover
because "it's not really the most glamorous
thing to ask for somebody to donate to
Housing," Segawa said. "It's more attractive
to ask somebody to endow a faculty chair
than it is to donate to Housing."
This year there's only enough to fix the
A-Dorm roof. Residents will have to live with
tattered, 30-year-old furnishings.
"It's not the standard 1 want to have,"
Segawa'said. "It doesn't look good. I'd like
to do a better job of having faculties that are
updated to 2000 and beyond."
Segawa's worried, because he thinks that
might drive new students to live off-campus.
Having fewer people live on-campus would
bring in less rent money, truncating the
Housing budget even further.
A Week of Sadness, But Also Surprise. Awunv
by Jen Blackford
This week's blotter is dedicated
to Douglas Adams, who I think
would have a p p r e c i a t e d the
strangeness inherent in Evergreen.
You will be missed by sentient
beings across the universe. "And to
everone else out there, the secret is
to bang the rocks together, guys."
(From the incomparable Hitcliliiker's
Guide to the Galaxy.)
With that in mind, we turn to
the following article where, indeed,
we can raise some interesting
questions as to life on this planet.
For example, is the food at
Evergreen actually decent? Are fire
alarms that intrisically hilarious?
Can an elevator possess a demonic
will to stick when people are in it?
While these mysteries may
never be fully explored, we will
nonethless examine some of their
implications this week. Or laugh at
them. You decide which is more
likely.
On with the mayhem...
Monday, May 14
11:27 a.m.
A woman
asks
someone in LAB I for money. The
person becomes uneasy by this
woman and calls the police, who
come put to investigate. The officer
eventually tracks down the woman,
who admits that the chili is good in
the Deli and that she was asking for
money. She then states she will not
ask for money and, instead, catch
the bus.
9:38 p.m.
An assault occurs at
F-Dorm, but unsurprisingly, I don't
get a report on it.
Tuesday, May 15
Saturday. May 19
7:16 p.m.
Someone
drives
without a license and, naturally, gets
into trouble for doing so.
8:24 p.m.
Burnt tortilla shell
that set off A-Dorm alarm
Why do you mock me?
11:10 p.m.
A bike is stolen but is
recovered in A - D o r m . Yes, I'm
surprised, too.
4:34 p.m.
"Entrapment." No ,
I'm not talking about the delightful
movie starring Sean Connery and
Catherine Zeta-Jones's ass (just
watch it, and you'll know what I
mean). Rather, I speak of how the
police report terms children trapped
in an elevator in the COM building
on the 2nd floor. They are rescued
from
the
elevator,
which
m a l f u n c t i o n e d similarly several
days earlier out of its own volition.
Wednesday, May 16
9:40 a.m.
Someone's bike gets
stolen at A-Dorm. Several hours
later, another one is taken from the
Library. But there is good news in
the world of transportation theft.
See Police Brief for more details.
4:38 p.m.
Well, i t ' s another
unnamed, unknown theft today, but
this time, it's marked as being in the
first degree along with trafficking.
Evidently someone's moving up in
the Evergreen underworld.
4:38 p.m.
And of course, a fire
alarm rings out today. However, due
to the aforementioned c r i m i n a l
trafficking, there are no officers to
investigate. Thus, it is up to a fire
engine to determine that it is indeed,
a malicious pull.
Thursday, May 17
A person reports a missing debit
card, and there is a case of domestic
assault. Like the one on Monday, I
have no reports on it.
Friday, May 18
Sunday, May 20
7p.m.
The
beach
is
normally a place of tranquility.
People go there to relax, play with
their dogs or simply listen to the
sound of the water. But it was not
such a happy place today for three
people. The trio was walking along
the beach when they saw an
unshaven man in a blue plaid shirt,
blue pants and blue and white
tennis shoes. They c o n t i n u e d
walking, and when they returned,
the man was still there, but his
clothes were not. Oh, and he was
m a s t u r b a t i n g , as well. They
i m m e d i a t e l y reported it to the
police, buf'due to current tidal
conditions it would be impossible to
walk the beach."
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Next week, more nudity, thefts, and
fire alarms. In other words, it's
s u m m e r time and everything's
going off.
It's a day of theft today. I do not
know what was stolen, but at least
something was taken from the CRC.
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Police Brief
The campus police have
arrested two persons who have
been stealing bikes from
campus for the past three
months.
Using a "stake-out," four
officers including Pam Garland
and Corporal Tony Neely were
positioned at various bike racks
across campus.
They actually observed one
suspect steal two bicycles and
then, moved in to make the
arrest. Officer Tony Perez,
having just arrived for duty,
actually ran the subject down
just as he was about to make a
break into the forest.
Police recovered a number
of bikes at the time of the arrest
but there are many more that
still need to be located. Police
are asking that any students,
staff or faculty that have been
the victims of recent bike thefts
and have not reported to police
to do so as soon as possible.
If you have reported the
theft of your bike it is crucial
that you have identifying
documentation to establish
property ownership. This
could be a golden opportunity
to recover your property. Any
questions please contact
campus police at 867-6140.
—Steve Huntsberry, in an e-mail
The only question I have is this: If
they were stealing bikes, then why
did they flee on foot? Just curious.
—Jen Blackford
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The Chief is In:
An Interview With Steve Huntsberry,
the Chief of Evergreens Police
shining brown eyes and a quick smile,
some of the charm shows through.
The year is 1970. The place is the
Originally from Oklahoma, he
lounge of the Atlas Hotel in San has done much traveling in his life.
Diego, California. The lounge has a He has been to Asia, Amsterdam,
good stock of liquor and a fair
Spain, and all of the western
supply of cigarette smoke.
United States, except Alaska.
According to the billboard out
Ending up in Arizona, he met
front, Steve Hunt, a lounge
the manager of the Atlas
singer,
will
be . the
Hotel's lounge in Phoenix
entertainment for the
and, shortly afterward, he
evening. He strolls up on
married her. After singing for
stage and croons away.
a while, Huntsberry went
"My first job after the
looking for more excitement
Steve
Navy was selling life
in his life. His new wife told
Huntsberry
insurance.
Boring."
him about a private
Huntsberry adds the "boring"
investigator friend of hers
in a singsong voice for emphasis. "I who was in need of some help. The
had to use a different name because private investigator was a "big, rawmy contract-with the insurance boned, Irish, traditional, typical cop."
company wouldn't allow me to have Huntsberry recalls. '"If you were ever
another job, so I was actually to script one for a movie, like an Irish,
clandestinely singing. I [worked both Boston cop kinda guy, that was him."
jobs] for about a month, then I just Huntsberry started helping him out
quit the insurance job."
serving papers and repossessing cars,
Looking at Steve Huntsberry and in the process, got his own
now, there are hints of that lounge private investigator's license.
singer in his penchant to smile. A tall
Even though Huntsberry has
and fit man, with a heavy brow, been a police officer for over 20 years
by
'Turtle
and served two tours of duty in
Vietnam, he says: "The closest I ever
came to being killed was doing car
repossession. There's something
about people and their cars that they
just don't want that car to go away."
In this, he found the excitement he
was searching for.
While still employed as a private
investigator, Huntsberry realized that
the G.I. Bill benefits that he received
for serving in the Navy were about
to run out. He wanted to take
advantage of them as soon as he
could, so he enrolled at Glendale
Community College and, because of
his employment, he felt that to pursue
a second degree in criminal justice
would serve him better than the first
degree he got in history.
At Glendale, one of his
instructors was an ex-L.A.P.D. police
officer. "He was really a good teacher;
he had a lot of energy. He taught
[class] more like a mini police
academy as opposed to a university
classroom," Huntsberry said. "WSU,
for instance, teaches more of the
theory and the social ramifications of
law enforcement in their criminal
justice program...[the instructor at
Glendale] made it more interesting."
This instructor provided Huntsberry
with a better picture of what it would
be like to put this knowledge into
practice on the street as a police
officer. This piqued Huntsberry's
interest even more. After graduation
in 1978, and with assistance from a
sister-in-law who was a professor at
Washington State University in
Pullman, he heard about a few job
openings at WSU and the
surrounding area.
Huntsberry was first exposed to
Washington when he was 11. He
pitched for a championship little
league game in Port Orchard, WA,
and, as a result of that exposure, he
gained an affinity for the Puget Sound
area. Because of this fond memory,
he wanted to apply for a job in
Washington with the idea that he
would make it out to the coast in a
short while.
Huntsberry recalls the interview
at WSU: "Can you imagine...hiring
somebody that you had seen for, I
would say that the interview lasted
forty minutes... they had no clue who
I was from Adam. I think the
chief...was one of those kinda guys
who, well, if he liked you, he hired
you; if he didn't like you, you didn't
get hired." Obviously, the chief liked
Huntsberry, because he was offered
and accepted the job with WSU and
started in 1980.
At WSU, he gained a lot of
experience.
He became cocoordinator of the S.W.A.T team
see CHIEF on page 16
May Day Unrest Blamed on Greeners Unfairly
Some View Protests as a Student Planned Event Despite Community Involvement
By
Erica
Nelson
"It's the Greeners."
"Greeners, who else?"
"My guess is most of them are
from The Evergreen State College."
This is what people said to the
question, "Who do you think is taking
part in the May Day street party?"
But most of the community, both
of Evergreen and Olympia, were not
at the May Day event on May 1, 2001.
Evergreen has more than 4,000
students, and only 200-300 people
were at the May Day party. The crowd
that blocked the streets included high
school students, Olympia residents,
and small children. Even if only
Evergreen students attended, that's
still less that 10 percent of Evergreen's
population.
Although the organizers of the
event remain anonymous, nearly all
of the business owners, bystanders
and workers watching the day unfold
assumed that Evergreen students
were responsible. Why?
"It's a Greener thing," said
Marcy Slater, an employee of West
Marine, an o.utdoor store next to
Value Village where the May Day
crowd first assembled.
"Anything odd like this gets
blamed on the Greeners," she said.
A man making a purchase threw
up his hands and said, "Well, if it
looks like a duck."
Slater laughed. "I think they're
stuck in the 60s, but they look like
they're having a good time."
As the May Day crowd
assembled, TV cameras focused on
the eccentric band of cheerleaders
j u m p i n g a r o u n d shouting a n t i corporate epithets. They weren't on
'Bill Jenkins, a retired man in khakis
who claimed, "I am corporate
America."
Jenkins watched last year's May
Day event and said he had too much
fun to miss this one.
"The kids ... they'd all be naked
if it wasn't for corporate America," he
said. "But I get a kick out of it."
Jenkins followed the marching
crowd through their route, smiling at
the young hooded man spraypainting the asphalt of the Capital
Mall.
Nearby, drivers stopped by the
march, rolled down their windows
and looked angry.
"I've had a bellyfull," one
militant driver said. "I pay for the
damn streets. I am the majority."
He then rolled up his window,
revved his engine and shot off.
Three high school boys playing
hooky stood around in sweatshirts,
smoking and cussing. They said they
were at the May Day celebration
because there was "nothing else to do
in this town." They didn't know who
organized it, but they all figured it
was "a bunch of hippies." Their
parents weren't happy about them
coming.
"My step-dad told me that I was
being used for some fuckin'—I don't
know; I wasn't listening," one said.
As the march stopped on Black
Lake and the party began, police car
battalions flanked the mass of people.
Techno music blasted out of the back
of a car, and the crowd began to
dance. Off to the side of the chaos,
where people planted flowers in.a
privately owned vacant Tot, an older
man stood in glasses and a gray
sweater. He stared, frowning and still,
at the jumping, drumming youth in
the street. His name is Herb.
Herb was a child of the 60s. He
claimed he was hit with a tear gas
canister in a Vietnam War protest on
Capitol Hill in Seattle. But he doesn't
like Evergreen, and he didn't like the
street-blocking extravaganza going
on a few blocks from his house.
"I don't think [this protest] is
serious. The 60s were serious," Herb
said. "But when you're 15, you do
what 15-year-olds do. When you're
17,1 guess you do what 17-year-olds
do. And when you're 59, you stand
around and grump."
Herb figured that everyone in the
street party was from Evergreen. He
took a class at Evergreen once, in
finance, and said it went fine. But he
thinks that Evergreen should be shut
down.
Herb would rather see the
money that funds Evergreen go to K12 education. Students living in his
neighborhood make him mad.
"They've kind of trashed the
West Side," he said.
By now, a man with a
megaphone had started shouting at
the revelers. Across the street, Chris
Fry, another resident of the West Side,
stood and watched with his family.
"They're great kids," he said.
"They bring a little diversity to the
community." Fry said he enjoys
living around all the Evergr,een
students on the West Side.
Juliana Chaumette is one of the
Cooper Point Journal • 4 • May 24, 2001
Greeners who wasn't at the May Day
party. Last year, she was one of the
drivers detained by the protest in the
intersection of Cooper Point and
Black Lake. She had a large
assignment due the next day, and she
was stuck in traffic for four hours
trying to get to her apartment.
She has never been to a protest,
and she doesn't think they are
effective. Still, she finds herself
pushed
toward
people's
stereotypical view of Evergreen.
"I told someone I went to
Evergreen," she said, "and the
response was, 'Oh the troublemaking school.'"
Chaumette does say that
Evergreen-related persecution is
only found in comments, never
actions.
Last year, some people talked
big about making Evergreen pay for
the May Day event. Residents and
businesses threatened to block
parking lots on Super Saturday in
retaliation for the loss of business and
inconvenience caused by the street
party. Though only a h a n d f u l
actually showed up, local media was
all over the issue.
A week after the event, there
were no reported threats of
retaliation against Evergreen.
President Les Puree said, "People are
becoming more and more aware that
i activist events are broader
community events."
But not Herb. He still blamed the
students of Evergreen for the
spectacle on the streets. At the edge
of the vacant lot, Herb just shook his
head, turned, and walked back home.
(NEWS)
e /ens.lycos.com)
Environmental
• Gorillas,
orangutans and
chimpanzees are
in serious danger.
The habitats of the
great apes are mainly
in 23 countries in
Africa and Southeast
Asia. These habitats are
being destroyed by
loggers, farmers and miners,
who also kill the apes for food. The
UN estimates that the apes have 5-10
By Brian
Frank,
Graham
years before extinction. Botanists
Ham by,
Stephen
Karmol,
believe that up to a third of the
and
Vanessa
Lemire
flowering plants on the planet could
be at risk, and zoologists predict that
perhaps a quarter to half of all animal
species could vanish in the next
century, (see www.guardian.co.uk)
•Bush Declares National
•At least half of the country's
152 oil refineries are believed to be
Biotechnology Week
violating air-pollution laws, federal
•US Opposes International officials say, but with the refineries
Biological Weapon Treaty
stretched tp near capacity, the Bush
•Monkey Habitat Loss . administration is debating how hard
to crack down. The'oil corporations
Threatens Survival
and Vice President Cheney have said
• UW Horticulture Center Set that refineries must be expanded or
allowed to function outside of the
Ablaze
letter of the law in order to combat
the recent surge in gasoline prices,
National (see www.nytimes.com)
•The Wildlife Protection
•President George W. Bush
declared May 13 through May 19, Agency of Australia is demanding
2001 to be National Biotechnology that the US marines stop military
Week. Bush called for "appropriate" exercises on its Shoalwater Bay after
programs, ceremonies and activities an emu was shot dead during target
to recognize the importance of practice. As well as being a nuisance
biotechnology. Generally absent from to the local community, the 27,000
Bush's comments were the views Australian and US military personnel
expressed by millions of Americans have also killed and skinned
regarding genetically modified kangaroos to take home for trophy
organisms. Health, moral and ethical purposes. The Marines deny these
(see
/
issues have been at the forefront of the accusations.
battle against genetically modified sg.news.yahoo.com)
•The once "fertile crescent"
organisms, (see /ens.lycos.com)
created by the Tigris and Euphrates
Foreign Policy rivers, often called the cradle of
•The US is opposing a plan to civilization, provides important
enforce an international treaty that habitat for people, birds, fish, and
would ban biological weapons. US wildlife. It is rapidly drying up.
biotech companies are opposing Drainage and damming have
inspection protocols because they destroyed close to 90 percent of these
marshlands,
have spent billions of dollars on "bio- Mesopotamian
defense," including vaccines and according to thousands of previously
protective garments. Critics of the unpublished satellite images. The
US's opposition state that the news highlights the mounting
message being sent to the rest of the pressure facing freshwater areas
world is dangerous, as countries such across the globe. The cause of the
as Pakistan, China and Iraq will decline is mainly as a result of
follow the US's rejection of weapon damming upstream as well as
inspections.
(see drainage schemes since the 1970s. The
Tigris and the Euphrates are among
www.guardian.co.uk)
•UN Secretary General Kofi the most intensively dammed rivers
Annan singled out the United States in the world, (see /ens.lycos.com)
•According to a new report
in a speech last week as the largest
contributor to greenhouse gas from the Olympia nonprofit group
emissions and expressed concern Climate Solutions, developing an
over the recent U.S. decision to reject advanced technology ethanol
the Kyoto Protocol on global industry would enable farmers to
warming. Annan cited "the very real turn today's problems into a valuable
danger" that the hard-won global new biofuels crop. This would
gains in combating climate change improve rural economies and provide
would experience "a grievous a domestic alternative to expensive
setback" for both developing as well imported oil. Today's ethanol
as industrial nations. Annan also took industry is based on corn and
recent assertions by the Bush centered in the Midwest, although
administration to task, including the Climate Solutions thought that a new
view enunciated by Vice President ethanol industry built on waste
Dick Cheney, the chair of the matter such as grass crops and farm
President's energy task force, who residues could emerge in many U.S.
said in public appearances earlier this regions over the next decade. Climate
month that conservation is more of a Solution's report argues that
"personal virtue" than public policy. cellulose-based ethanol production
Top Stories:
has a much larger and cheaper
potential supply of raw materials
than the corn-based industry, (see /
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Local
•New forestry rules for
privately
held
timberlands
protecting owners from the
Endangered Species and Clean
Water
acts were approved last week
International
for
Washington
State. In addition to
•Israel pounded Palestinians in
allowing
landowners
to bypass
the Gaza Strip Monday with air
certain
aspects
of
these
strikes and a brief raid into
environmental
laws,
the
plan
Palestinian-run land amid urgent
includes
the
US's
first
program
to
pay
international appeals for an end to the
landowners
to
follow
laws
requiring
deadly violence in the region. Two
more Palestinians were killed by them to leave trees standing along
Israeli troops.
Thousands of rivers and streams. A number of
Palestinians poured into the streets of environmental groups have slammed
the Gaza Strip the next day to the decision, filing lawsuits
commemorate the day over 50 years challenging the plan. The new rules
ago that established a Jewish state and are the most significant change in
left thousands homeless. Amid the forestry regulations since 1974. (see
waving of black, green and red flags www.theolympian.com)
•An arson attack struck the
and chants of hopeful freedom, 10
University
of Washington's Center
Palestinians were injured, (see /
for
Urban
Horticulture
last week.
sg.news.yahoo.com)
The
Center
was
growing
genetically
•The UN released statistics this
modified
poplar
trees.
No
one has
week showed that the estimated
claimed
responsibility
for
the
arson,
number of displaced people and
and
it
is
unknown
if
the
attack
was
refugees was approximately 21
politically
motivated,
although
the
million for the year 2000, or one out of
FBI
has
entered
the
investigation,
(see
every 284 persons worldwide. Pakistan
saw the largest increase in refugee www.theolympian.com)
population due to the influx of an
Protests
additional 800,000 Afghans. Civilians
•Greenpeace
activists
dumped
from Burundi, 567,000 of whom are
five
tons
of
coal
and
five
faux
oil and
living in Tanzania, make up the second
nuclear
waste
drums
outside
the
largest group, while Iraqis, of whom
Vice
President
Dick
Cheney's
497,400 are living in Iran, make up the
residence at the Naval Observatory in
third, (see www.europaworld.org)
Washington
today. It was to protest
•Right-wing leader Silvio
the
Bush
administration's
National
Berlusconi took Italy's presidency last
Energy
Policy
unveiled
this
week.
week. Many are worried that Italy will
The
drums
were
labeled
with
the
clamp down on immigration,
logos
of
Exxon/Mobil,
Chevron,
deporting hundreds of thovisands of
BP,
and
Enron.
immigrants. Others fear growing Texaco,
Environmental
groups
contend
that
isolationism-Italy is ranked second to
the
main
thrust
of
the
Bush
plan
is
oil
last among industrialized nations for
production,
coal
technology
and
the
the portion of its domestic product
earmarked for humanitarian aid (the expansion of nuclear power. Analysis
US is ranked last). Still others fear by the Center for Responsive Politics
corporate consolidation with snowed oil, gas, utilities, and mining
government; Berlusconi, Italy's interests contributed $44 million to
wealthiest person, currently owns three Republicans in the last election cycle,
national television networks and a $2.8 million of which went to the
newspaper, the Milan football club, a Bush/Cheney campaign, (see /
supermarket chain, one of Italy's largest ens.lycos.com)
•Thousands of Ecuadorians
publishing houses, and several finance
protested
a controversial new
companies that control advertising and
Ecuadorian
oil pipeline last week.
telecommunications firms, as well as
Over
one
hundred
activists also
banks, (see www.ips.org)
occupied
the
offices
of Ecuador's
•Moderates
won crucial
Minister
of
Energy
and Mines.
elections in Spain's Basque Country
Environmentalists
and
indigenous
on Sunday, weakening the power of
people
are
worried
that
increased
oil
the left-wing separatist movement in
production
and
exploration,
Spain's government. A recent increase
in bombings and assassinations by the necessary to fill the pipeline, will lead
underground "ETA" appear to have to irreversible devastation to some of
weakened
support
for
the the world's highest biological and
aboveground political wing of the cultural diversity. The largest pipeline
separatist movement. Dissidents in currently active in Ecuador has
Spain's Basque Country have been suffered 14 major spills during the last
years.
(see
demanding independence for more three
www.amazonwatch.org)
than 40 years, (see www.rnw.nl)
(LETTER^
• The night Bush was "elected," anarchy ensued,
N chairs were thrown off the balcony, plans of moving
to Canada were made, along with signs and t-shirts
that denounced and mocked President-elect Bush.
A-DO
AVENGER
Memories of A-Dorm
With less than a month of school left, I can't
help being even sappier than usual. D u r i n g the
course of the year I spent in A - D o r m , I have
witnessed acts that I would never imagine being a
party to, I have lowered my standards for s a n i t y
and what I used to consider "normal" behavior, I
have met some amazing people, I have had a great
time, and I have had many memorable experiences.
Some are near and dear to me, like being licked
awake by my roommate in the m o r n i n g and having
80's arena rock nights in my room, scavenging the
kitchen at four in the morning to make peanut
butter and chocolate chip sandwiches and watching
someone repeatedly ride their bike into the floor's
refrigerator. Some of my fond memories can be
shared with all A Dorm inhabitants. Here are a
few:
• The bucket tied to a s t r i n g t h a t served as a
medium for communication and gift-giving
between the floors. Trades were made this way, and
even though I t h i n k it was a rare occasion that
anyone ever got the cigarette they were looking for,
every once in a while, you could find a dime or a
tack in the treasure-bearing bucket.
• Water innundation was a rather troublesome issue
throughout this year; floors were flooded due to
testy toilets and two girls were made homeless by
a malfunctioning sprinkler in their room.
• The r i v a l r y between A- and B - D o r m , which
resulted in everything from p a i n t b a i l fights, stolen
accordions and high powered flashlights being
shined i n t o the windows of dorm rooms in Abuilding.
• Graffiti has been ever present this year. Whether
it is the r a t h e r u n i n t e l l i g i b l e s c r i b b l i n g in the
elevators or walls full of quotes in the stairwell,
our artistic tendencies and creative impulses have
kept the R.D's, police and maintenance crew busy
all year long.
• I often t h i n k fondly of the days when we could
smoke on the balcony, even t h o u g h we still do it
now. However, in the good old days, we didn't have
to worry about adopting that "hide your smoke
behind your back and look innocent" reaction that
has now become second n a t u r e . Smoking on the
balcony is more than a smoke break; it is a time to
converse with your floormates, to relax after a long
day (or n i g h t ) , and, most importantly, it provides
the challenge of f l i c k i n g your cigarette b u t t into
the trashcan that stands on the ground below our
balconies.
• 1 t h i n k one of the most poignant t h i n g s I will
take with me as I leave A-Dorm is the ballad that
has become our a n t h e m : "The D r i n k i n g Song."
The history of this song is a s i m p l e one: in a
surge of creativity, Nate James and Adam Oelsner
put their accordion-loving minds together to create
the climax of any party, all contained in seven
verses and one amazingly Irish-sounding chorus.
The song is a t e s t a m e n t to the a m b i t i o n s and
aspirations of all those who take part in screaming
the lyrics "I came to Evergreen to learn how to
d r i n k / my parents are footing the bill," and at more
sentimental times, the song touches on the kinship
of all A-Dorm inhabitants, saying, "Well, drink up,
me mates, 'til the last drop is gone/ You can sleep
wherever you choose/ I'll wake up your ass at a
q u a r t e r to eight/ We'll d r i n k 'cause we're born to
lose." The fusion of both insightful lyrics and some
rocking guitar and accordion arrangements make
it impossible for a bystander to refrain from j o i n i n g
in when the chorus roles around. Before you know
it, you're singing, "Ay Ay Ay Ay, D r i n k u n t i l the
day we die, Ay Ay Ay Ay, Drink u n t i l we die."
A Theoretical Perspective on the Daily Life of a 9-5er
Put Yourself in t'lie Shoes of a Scared Sodexho Employee for Just One, ion
The p o i n t of t h i s article is s i m p l y
to balance the overwhelmingly
negative s e n t i m e n t directed at the
S o d e x h o - M a r r i o t t Corp. p u b l i s h e d
h e r e i n t h e CPJ. T h i s i s n o t a ,
reflection of o p i n i o n or bias for or
against; rather, it is a suggestive piece
to pose the serious q u e s t i o n a b o u t
how a vassal of a large c o r p o r a t i o n
may or may not feel when faced w i t h
harassment.
I m a g i n e t h a t you work tor a
c o m p a n y , o n e t h a t sends y o u w i t h
objectives or goals or an agenda. You
are given i n s t r u c t i o n s on w h a t ro say,
w h a t a b o u t the c o m p a n y t h a t is in its
interest (and therefore yours) to
emphasize. Questions about the
company, you m i g h t be told, m u s t be
directed back to your supervisors, or
maybe it is in your d i s c r e t i o n to
answer. P r o m i s e s a n d c o m p r o m i s e s
are not w i t h i n your power to
deliberate; you are an emissary,
someone with whom interested
mergers or buyers would receive
i n f o r m a t i o n about the company and
in t u r n give y o u i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t
t h e i r s . Not so complicated, really, so
l o n g as you a b i d e by the rules and
c o n s t r a i n t s of y o u r e m p l o y m e n t and
j o b and recognize t h a t you are not the
one in charge. You are e s s e n t i a l l y on
a p o l i t e "need to know" basis.
As a person, you may speculate
on i n f o r m a t i o n you have received on
your company. You can q u e s t i o n your
morals a n d i n t e g r i t y , j u d g e yourself
and the c o m p a n y ; however, you are
not p a i d ' f o r this. In fact, by
sympathizing with speculations and
r u m o r s , y o u jeopardize t h e c o m p a n y
by d e a l i n g loosely w i t h s l a n d e r and
p o s s i b l e l i b e l . This is not y o u r job
d e s c r i p t i o n ; it is the opposite. You are
not p a i d to b a d m o u t h the company.
You are indeed p a i d , possibly well,
w i t h good o r great b e n e f i t s . A f t e r a l l ,
why would a c o m p a n y send someone
who was outwardly dissatisfied with
t h e m ? Are you s a t i s f i e d ? M a y b e you
have a f a m i l y and realize t h a t it can
be n e a r l y i m p o s s i b l e to l i v e well if you
or the m o t h e r / f a t h e r of y o u r c h i l d r e n
c a n n o t w o r k at a job w i t h b e n e f i t s
and good pay. Maybe t h i s is not y o u r
boat, but you have a c o m p l i c a t e d
disease or disorder t h a t r e q u i r e s you
to have a job t h a t takes care of y o u .
Or maybe you are n o r m a l and w a n t
to e a t . On a side n o t e , t h i s is the
U n i t e d S t a t e s of A m e r i c a , and good
h e a l t h care a n d q u a l i t y l i v i n g c a n b e
v e r y h a r d to c o m e by if you c o m e
from lower class u p b r i n g i n g . One way
to get it is to h a v e a job w i t h a
s u c c e s s f u l c o m p a n y . Is t h i s a
successful c o m p a n y ? Yes.
Now, you are s e n t to a p o t e n t i a l
buyer. As expected, you are given a
packet w i t h i n f o r m a t i o n o n h o w y o u
are to proceed. D e p e n d i n g on how
l o n g talks are to t a k e , you are set up
w i t h a place to s t a y and an i t i n e r a r y
that might include executive
l u n c h e o n s , t r i p s t o sites, m e e t i n g s ,
and free time. There is an e x p e c t a t i o n
t h a t you are a guest, and as such, you
will be treated with respect and
dignity. This
expectation
is
s o m e t i m e s w r i t t e n i n t o code of
conduct contracts you may sign, or
it may j u s t be an u n w r i t t e n r u l e ; in
a n y c i r c u m s t a n c e , if i t i s b r e a c h e d ,
l a w s u i t s are t h e n e x p e c t e d . You most
c e r t a i n l y will be f i r e d if you are the
cause for the breach. You are t h e r e f o r e
to conduct yourself with diplomacy,
p a t i e n c e and s h r e w d n e s s , and s h o u l d
a n y t h i n g go awry, you are to f o l l o w
the orders you receive f r o m y o u r
s u p e r v i s o r s . If you are t01d to give no
c o m m e n t on a mess, you will give no
c o m m e n t . Do you l i k e y o u r h o u s e /
a p a r t m e n t ? Do you e n j o y being fed?
Would you face adversity if you stood
up on the side of s p e c u l a t i o n and
rumors? Or founded belief and
opinion?
Things are going s a t i s f a c t o r i l y at
t h i s p o t e n t i a l client's site. There are
m a n y q u e s t i o n s directed to you; some
are antagonistic questions and
demands from students and site
employees. You are a l i t t l e a n x i o u s to
be h o m e and safe. S a f e t y is assured
by your host. You believe you are safe;
w h y s h o u l d y o u n o t ? T h i s is j u s t
a b o u t m o n e y and c o n t r a c t s ; t h e r e is
no reason a n y o n e s h o u l d h u r t you or
t h r e a t e n to you. A f t e r a l l , t h e r e are
expectations and ways that grievances
are handled respectfully. You are
assured t h a t d i p l o m a c y a n d tact w i l l
reign over r e a c t i o n a r i e s and r u m o r mills.
You a t t e n d one more m e e t i n g . It
has been a l o n g session and t h i n g s
seem d i s s o l u t e s t i l l . C o m p r o m i s e s
a n d d i s c u s s i o n s a b o u t services t h a t
could be p r o v i d e d have left you t i r e d
a n d f r u s t r a t e d w i t h t h e w h o l e scene.
Your host is a c t i n g r e s p e c t f u l l y , but
you still see signs that the a c t u a l
buyers of your services are
dissatisfied, rousing flyers and
p r o v o c a t i v e t a l k y o u know exist a l l
a r o u n d y o u . P r i v a t e l y y o u have y o u r
feelings and thoughts about the
circumstance you find yourself ,in.
You keep t h e m to y o u r s e l f and put on
the c o m p a n y face in hopes t h a t it w i l f
all be over soon. The d i s c u s s i o n is
d r y ; conversation is f r i e n d l y , but you
w a n t to be home. As it drags or flies
by, it ii i n t e r r u p t e d .
S^uijjdenly, you are faced w i t h the
anxieties and demons you tho'ught
Cooper Point Journal • 6 • May 24, 2001
you would not have to c o n f r o n t .
U n i n v i t e d people a r e b r e a k i n g i n t o
the conversation; they are masked and
say l i t t l e , but w h a t they do say is
scary, because they are not f o l l o w i n g
the rules and are b u r n i n g with
righteousness. Their zealous and
faceless presence may hit you in the
gut, i n t u i t i v e l y c a l l i n g up other
faceless terrors: Ku K l u x K l a n
members, religious Inquisitors,
d a r k e n e d faces of rogue g o v e r n m e n t
o f f i c i a l s . They do not respect y o u r
place as a guest; they do not see you
as j u s t a m o u t h p i e c e w i t h no real
a u t h o r i t y . You are an advocate, and
any p h y s i c a l d i s c o m f o r t or fear of it
t h a t y o u f e e l i s n o t g o i n g t o rock
anyone's b o a t b u r yours. Moreover,
your boat is a d i n g h y in waters full
of f e r r i e s . They do not seem to care,
and as they f i n i s h with t h e i r piece and
leave, you feel all of the e m o t i o n s of
any v i c t i m of an act of t e r r o r i s m . You
are shocked, bewildered, angered,
afraid, hurt.
When you are reporting the
i n c i d e n t to y o u r s u p e r v i s o r s , you are
given i n s t r u c t i o n s as to how you w i l l
respond as an e m p l o y e e ; you will give
no c o m m e n t a n d a c t as t h o u g h
n o t h i n g has o c c u r r e d . So you do. It
you s p e a k o u t , you face serious
liability. Honestly, do you feel you
can go on m e e t i n g w i t h o u t a d d r e s s i n g
t h i s ? D o y o u feel l i k e y o u c a n t r u s t
a n y f u t u r e host's a s s u r a n c e o f s a f e t y ?
Or is it j u s t t h a t you feel t h a t
Evergreen students are privileged,
i g n o r a n t , disrespectful children? Do
t h e i r a c t i o n s make vou t h i n k they
ignore the complex driving economic
forces behind the Social Order of
America and prisons themselves?
- Annjeanette Daubert
{LETTERS}
! ' ii\mgue:
No Lights in Our Attic
In these t e r r i b l y t r o u b l e d times
of e c o n o m i c a n d e c o l o g i c a l d i s a s t e r ,
dwindling
natural
resources,
overpopulation, scummy politicians,
and money-grubbing corporations,
it's n o w o n d e r we're h a v i n g t r o u b l e
making the right decisions. So many
t h i n g s a r e g o i n g w r o n g t h a t it's h a r d
e n o u g h to keep up w i t h one, much
less d o z e n s of c r i s e s w o r l d w i d e .
R a t h e r t h a n a t t e m p t to solve a l l t h e
w o r l d ' s p r o b l e m s in a s h o r t a r t i c l e , I
p r e f e r to f o c u s on one i m m e d i a t e and
p r e s s i n g i s s u e : o u r i d i o t i c a n d selfd e s t r u c t i v e o v e r - c o n s u m p t i o n of El e c t r i c i t y . T h a t ' s r i g h t , POWER. M y
q u e s t i o n is, do we r e a l l y need all
those l i g h t s on at n i g h t ? Do we r e a l l y
need d o o r s t h a t o p e n b y t h e m s e l v e s ?
Do we r e a l l y need s t a i r s t h a t move?
N e x t y e a r , w i l l you be a b l e to a f f o r d
to leave y o u r stereo and c o m p u t e r on
all day?
The o b v i o u s a n s w e r to my
q u e s t i o n : no, we don't need the f a n c y
gadgets; we can't a f f o r d it in the l o n g
r u n . . . b u t we've also k n o w n t h i s f o r
q u i t e s o m e t i m e now, c o r r e c t ? So if
we've k n o w n t h i s for as l o n g as all us
g u i l t y b a s t a r d s s h u f f l i n g o u r feet o r
chewing our nails while reading this
have, why haven't we done a n y t h i n g
a b o u t i t ? A r e w e w a i t i n g for t h e
e n e r g y c r i s i s to r e a l l y m o v e in on our ,
t u r f i n s t e a d o f j u s t l a p a t t h e edges?
A r e w e w a i t i n g u n t i l i t ' s even m o r e
blatantly obvious that California is
fucked before we take a c t i o n ? For
years now, we have whored o u r
energy out to C a l i f o r n i a , k i l l i n g our
salmon and r u i n i n g our rivers,
c r e a t i n g th.e i l l u s i o n t h a t C a l i f o r n i a
w a s d o i n g j u s t f i n e u n t i l , blow! A l l .
the l i g h t s go o u t . I b e l i e v e it is o n l y
a m a t t e r o f t i m e now u n t i l t h a t c r i s i s
snowballs and runs r a m p a n t through
o t h e r m a j o r cities. How can we do
something to stop this?
My p r o p o s i t i o n is relatively
simple, r e q u i r i n g only manpower and
t h e c o n f i d e n t s k i l l s of c o n v e r s a t i o n
and p e r s u a s i o n . If p o s s i b l e , c o u l d we
get a grou-p of s t u d e n t s t o g e t h e r who
are w i l l i n g to go d o o r - t o - d o o r to all
the c i t y businesses? Could we get
t h a t g r o u p of s t u d e n t s to w r i t e a
petition begging store owners to t u r n
off t h e i r l i g h t s at n i g h t ? I realize
s e c u r i t y is a big issue t h a t n e e d s to
be p r o v i d e d t o r , but s u r e l y t h o s e 300
fluorescent lights around the
d i s g u s t i n g l y ugly auto m a l l don't all
h a v e to be on at the s a m e t i m e ! And
t h e p a r k i n g l o t l i g h t s t h a t a r e left o n
all d a y ; w h a t the h e l l is t h a t ? And 1
m e a n , r e a l l y , who cares if K-Mart's
sign glows b i g a n d r e d i n t h e n i g h t
sky? Couldn't everybody t u r n off a
few lights? If we all agreed, it could
make quite a noticeable difference.
M a y b e if we m a d e a d i f f e r e n c e , we
would inspire others to follow in our
f o o t s t e p s , and m o r e ideas w o u l d be
born.
If a n y o n e o u t t h e r e i s l i s t e n i n g
and is w i l l i n g to help, please c o n t a c t
me at s k y c @ i n n w . n e t . I w o u l d love
to s h a r e ideas and get the b a l l r o l l i n g .
Someone's got to do it, and do it
s o o n . T h i s is a s e r i o u s plea folded Seated, concerned community
m e m b e r s . P l e a s e do n o r t a k e i t
lightly; we w i l l all pay down the
road.
?^k|lf
by E. Rose Nelson
Next Stop,
Conjunction Junction
Every once in a w h i l e , I wonder
how people get i n t o college in the
f i r s t place. For e x a m p l e , last year,
v a n d a l s from A-Dorm swarmed over
C, w h e r e I was l i v i n g , e a r l y one
S u n d a y m o r n i n g . They w r o t e o n
our walls and left signs taped
e v e r y w h e r e . One of these, w h i c h
was adhered to my f r o n t door,
c l a i m e d , "We have proof t h a t C
Dorm vote R e p u b l i c a n . " My
roommates and I left the sign on
our door, but changed "vote" to
"votes." This was when I f i r s t began
to wonder.
There are a few basic rules of
g r a m m a r of w h i c h people seem to
be sadly i g n o r a n t . I have begun to
believe t h a t I had the best second
grade teacher in the world, because
I keep seeing errors that I learned
how to correct in second g r a d e .
( T h a n k you, Mrs. Bates!) Last year,
one of my professors stood in f r o n t
of the room and said t h a t if he got
one more p a p e r t u r n e d in w i t h die
wrong "its," it was coming back in
a b a g g i e . I-T-S, no a p o s t r o p h e , is
b e l o n g i n g t o i t . I-1-apostrophe-S,
it is. It's very s i m p l e , really, and yet
it's one of the most f r e q u e n t errors.
Perhaps -it is its very s i m p l i c i t y t h a t
throws people off.
I a d m i t freely t h a t I have a
remarkable m i n d for trivia—or, as
my sister puts it, a trivial mind. But
I don't t h i n k basic g r a m m a r is
t r i v i a . It makes me sound t e r r i b l y
p e d a n t i c , b u t people w i l l respect
your w r i t i n g more if you use proper
g r a m m a r . J u s t as newscasters don't
go a r o u n d saying that people "axed"
t h i n g s , t h e educated w r i t e r should
not use the wrong "it's," "there," or
"to." ("There" is a place. "Their"
belongs to them. "They're" is they
are. "Too" is an extreme. "Two" is
a n u m b e r . "To" is p r e t t y m u c h
everything else.)
People use too m a n y quotation
m a r k s . If nobody is saying it, or if
you are not c i t i n g a s p e c i f i c (as
above, w i t h "its"), you don't need
q u o t a t i o n marks. Quotation marks
don't emphasize. You only get one
exclamation p o i n t . You don't use an
a p o s t r o p h e to indicate p l u r a l s , just
possessives and c o n t r a c t i o n s . Every
sentence gets at least a n o u n and a
verb, and if you use more, you need
some way of s p l i t t i n g your sentence
properly. See "Schoolhouse Rock,"
if all else fails. It's a c t u a l l y a very
u s e f u l e d u c a t i o n a l tool.
I could go on from here about
h i s t o r y and geography, and even
some basic science. (I admit, I do
not have a m a t h b r a i n . But I do try,
and I do believe t h a t people need
to know at least a l i t t l e m a t h . ) For
example, sentience, or selfawareness, is w h a t makes it possible
for me to have an identity, or a head
in w h i c h t h i n g s make sense. If you
are in college, you are here for an
e d u c a t i o n . At least, I hope you are.
Try to make it look as if you have
had one.
- Sky Cosby
many good reasons not to support Fine Host, but and capitalism. This is an excellent argument in favor
most of them aren't on this flier. This trend degrades of a boycott or an organized protest. We complain
a b o u t corporate excesses but c o n t i n u e to support
the quality of intellectual interaction on campus.
I would like to discuss the choice of the word c o r p o r a t i o n s we know to behave immorally. My
"loot." My dictionary defines "loot" as "goods or p e r s o n a l a t t i t u d e toward F i n e Host c o u l d b e
plunder taken in war, or from a captured city." You s u m m a r i z e d as: "Fuck y o u . I apologize for any
may disagree with Fine Host, but you are not at war inconvenience this may cause," but I still buy ice
with them. Nor are you suggesting coordinated action cream and orange juice and pesto pizza from them,
to send a message. You propose that people go there and I w r i t h e with guilt in consequence. Still, for the
to eat w i t h o u t paying. That is not l o o t i n g , it is reasons discussed above, stealing from Fine Host
stealing. That doesn't necessarily mean
won't help. If you organized a boycott or
that isn't serious political action, it just
— ^^—
an above-ground protest, you would still
means that it's stealing.
b e s u p p o r t i n g t h e s y s t e m , because
"Like
Then there are the "cons"—that is,
American
college s t u d e n t s
are
the reasons given not to steal. They are
unavoidably enmeshed in it, but you
everyone at
Paying Money, Supporting the System,
w o u l d be m a k i n g a valid s t a t e m e n t
Evergreen,
An interesting flier has appeared on campus Fine Host Just Raised the Prices, and
a g a i n s t it. " L o o t i n g " is not such a
you have
recently. It depicts the deli, populated by despondent Nothing Changes Except Your Money.
statement, because (follow me closely
opinions, but here) no one knows about it.
employees, and asks in large letters, "Why Loot The All of these are indisputably true, and
Deli?" Underneath is a list of the "pros" and "cons" all of them suck. Still, I have issues with
Third: Fine Host Just Raised the
unlike most
of doing so. I would like to address the author(s) of them as a justification for theft.
Prices.
Yes, they did. They didn't raise
of us, you
said flier directly. First, I sincerely thank you. Like
First: Paying Money. It is true that
prices for quite a while, and then, they
were
everyone at Evergreen, you have opinions, but unlike if you pay for something, you have to
raised them a lot. They aren't gouging us
motivated to much more than they were, but we're
most of us, you were motivated to take some kind of pay for it, and that's no fun. However,
action. Your action was mature and appropriate, and t h i s is not Fine Host's fault. This is
much more upset about it anyway. I
take some
you even took the time to produce a flier that is legible because (you may have heard about this
doubt
I can convey this information to
kind of
and visually arresting and display it where it would in Red Square) we live in a capitalist
you when so many more serious articles
action."
be seen. Kudos and accolades to you for all of that. I society, which isn't Fine Host's fault,
in this newspaper have failed. I surrender.
express this praise mostly because such activities either. If you would like to do something
Under protest.
should be .recognized more, but also because I want about it, you can devote yourself to
Fourth: Nothing Changes but Your
you to understand that, although I will be m a k i n g promoting other kinds of economics or
Money. And if you steal, nothing changes
shameless fun of you for the rest of this column, I attacking corporations that do have influence on our except that Fine Host becomes increasingly paranoid
appreciate your effort.
economy. I suggest the pharmaceutical companies, about people eating in line and periodically hauls
It is not that I think there's a n y t h i n g drastically but s u i t yourself. A l t e r n a t e l y , you can go live some innocent person downstairs to badger them
wrong with your flier, it's that it is a good example of someplace w i t h o u t a capitalist system. Most places about theoretically missing pastries. I think we're all
something which upsets me (I should add that I have which are really capitalist-free are not fun, particularly grateful to the members of our community who have
absolutely no idea who produced the flier or why). I if you are an American, but you could probably helped bring about that change.
feel that Greeners tend to have strong opinions but manage.
•'
' I
iWell, it seems that I've run out of space, so we
very weak justification for them, even when there is
Second' Supporting the System, Yes, when you're will have to discuss the "pros" next week, when my
excellent justification available. For example, there are a paying customer of Fine Host,;you support them venona glands have refilled. Until then...
The Obligation
of the Outraged
May 24, 2001 • 7 • Cooper Point Journal
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-—(ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT)
Hip-Hopping Zombies at the Carnival
Invention at 321
Invention!,
the
new
performance series at Studio 321,
continues this week with Disjunkt
and Bill Horist. Disjunkt is an
avant-jazz trio who have been
making a name for themselves all
over the Seattle underground. Not
the Seattle Underground that you
can take a tour of, but rather the
musical underground. They are
joined by guitarist provacateur Bill
Horist for an evening of sonic
mayhem. The show is Friday, May
25, at 8:00 PM. Studio 321 is located
at 321 J e f f e r s o n , downtown
Olympia. Tickets are $8 in advance
or $10 at the door. For further
information, call 923-5924
The Unconvention
When I say Hip-Hop, you
say Ho! When I say Hip-Hop,
you say Ho! You ready? Yeah!
Lima beans! The Unconvention
is in t o w n this w e e k e n d . It
features the self-proclaimed
best in Oly H i p - H o p on one
stage. The best in Oly Hip-Hop
includes, but is not limited to,
The Havenots, Clockwork, and
Ebony and Ivory. There will also
be the HookPhonic DJ Show and
an MC Battle. This all happens
on Friday, May 25, at 9:00 PM
and is FREE. Call .1-800-619-9143
for the location.
Nights of the Living Radio
The A i r w a v e s a c a d e m i c
p r o g r a m will be p r e s e n t i n g
several nights of radio drama. In
this day and age where images
bombard you at every turn, radio
drama is a lost art form. A medium
of pure imagination has no place
in a Media Juggernaut based on
appearances and no substance. On
Thursday, May 24, and Saturday
the 26 th - they will be presenting
Labor Day, by A.R. Gurney.
On Friday, they are presenting
The Jambleweed Jack McCactus
Cowboy Hour, The Leader, and Night
of the Living Dead. All shows start
at 8:00 and are in the Experimental
Theater.
** - « • "• «'••
Carnival
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
suckers of all ages! This weekend, and
this weekend only, your fair city will
be privy—yes, I do say privy—to the
wonder and marvels of the traveling
carnival. Play games of chance and
skill. Ride rides meant only for the
daring or the legally insane. Spend
your hard-earned cash on the petty
trinkets of the midway. Eat the
elephant ears and cotton candy from
the fine confection purveyors all
around you. Tickets will cost you
money, lots of it, but nothing
compares to the memories that will
be made. The carnival is located in
the parking lot of the Capital Mall.
An Interview -with Mark Hosier of Negativland
by Adam Louie
My brother had told me about
this band named Negativland that
does cool stuff with samplers, drum
machines and such. But it wasn't like
any other electronica artist out there.
These guys were on the fringes. He
told me that each of their songs are
full of samples off of radio shows, old
records, advertisements, television
sitcoms, and various noises. He said
I would just have to hear them to get
the idea of what he was talking about.
So he burned me a bunch of
Negativland CDs and I listened.
Before my ears poured a cacophony
of information, much like the
blipverts from the eighties movie Max
Headroom, only my head didn't
explode. Negativland's music can, at
the very least, be described as having
four radio stations on at the same time
but are all talking about the same
thing. Each of their albums deal with
a different topic. One is about the
ABCs of anarchy, and another tackles
the copyright issue. Since 1980,
Negativland has come out with 18
CDs, one video and one book (Fair
Use: The Story of the Letter U and the
Number 2). They did the soundtrack
for the documentary The Ad and The
Ego and had a documentary made
about them called Sonic Outlaws.
Later on, I learned that
Negativland was based out of
Olympia. I also learned that they were
somewhat famous for getting sued by
U2 in 1991for copyright infringement
and had to pay $45,000. So I met with
one of the founding members of
Negativland, Mark Hosier, to discuss
his views of the music and the media.
CPJ: How did your fascination with
sounds manifest itself into what
Negativland is today?
M.H. Apparently, according to my
parents, I was interested in strange
noises even" when I was six months
old. I would crawl around the house
and scrape on heating vents, or I'd
take cans of food and roll them across
the kitchen. My mom said that I was
always into the noises....
Then, when I was older, I got
interested in animated monster
movies, and that got me interested in of splicing tape and splice the loop we'd keep going, but it was fun and
making little films and doing together, and the sound would be a interesting, and we got more attention
animation. I went out to Berkeley crazy bunch of noise of just of than we expected and that fed into
from the suburbs to see foreign films someone talking, repeating over and what we were doing. So we kept
and independent films when I was 14 over in the tape loop. So we were fooling around and experimenting
or 15 years old. That got me interested fooling around like that, trading and we made another record. By the
in movie soundtracks, movie equipment and helping each other third record, a guy named Ian Allen
.soundtracks got me interested in out, and we made tapes, and we were entered the picture, and he really
sounds again, 'cause I was hearing playing them for a friend who owned pushed me in particular. He said,
electronic music in the soundtracks, a record store in Walnut Creek, and "You know, if you're going to make
and that led me into discovering this he said, "You guys should make a another record, you shouldn't just
keep fooling around
whole world of amazing
with sound, or maybe
music that I was completely
you wanna rethink this
thrilled to death about....
and try to really come
There was this one
up with something
store in Berkeley that
that's got more to it,
•carried all kinds of weird
conceptually."
I
stuff, imported stuff from all
thought he was right,
over the world; it was very
and three and a half
exotic.... After listening to all
years later we made
that stuff there was
the record called "A
something I wanted to hear
Big 10-8 Place." And
and didn't exist. And then,
that's the first record
I ended up befriending a
we did-that's really
couple of guys who were
conceptual, and that
also interested in recording
was in '83, and every
and making sounds and
single record we've
who actually knew more
ever done since then
about it than I did; that's
has
had a concept
David Wills and Richard
This is Mark Hosier. He is in Negativland. He is holding a
where
all the sounds
.Lyons.
picture over his m o u t h . Is he smiling? We will never know.
and
flow
of the pieces
I'm not sure what the
and
packaging
is all
final thing was that clicked
integrated
into
something.
record
out
of
this."...Somehow,
we
got
in my head, but I remember taking all
of this money I had saved up from my really excited about it, and we
paper route, and when I was sixteen, decided to make one. But we had no CPJ: Your music is based off a lot of
over Christmas vacation, I borrowed understanding of how to print, like "found sound" that you get from
from my high school an electric piano, how to get a cover printed. So we American media, and I was
synthesizer, drum set, saxophone, figured we could get blank white wondering what sort of problems
cello, electric guitar, bass guitar—put record sleeves and attach black paper you've had using those sounds.
it all in my tiny bedroom and was so to the front and glue on photographs
crowded that I couldn't get out of bed. from old fifties home improvement M.H. The one we became known for
And I just spent the whole two weeks magazines, and on the back we would was for infringing on everyone's
locked in my room, hardly eating or use wallpaper samples.... And favorite Irish super group, U2. Other
sleeping (which made my parents inadvertently, we made this record than that, we've had a few funny
nervous), and I just recorded and that got everyone's attention because threats, but nothing else has ever
happened. That was the big one, and
played around with stuff. I didn't all the covers were different.
We got it into a few stores in the [it was] almost ten years ago.
know a lot about the history of
electronic music, so a lot of it felt like Bay Area, thinking maybe we could Basically, in 1991, we had been
I was discovering fire or inventing the sell these five hundred records over making records for 11 years, we had
wheel.... It doesn't seem like a big deal the next three or four years. But it had been taking things that didn't belong
now, but back then, I was totally been in the store for a week, and this to us and mixing them into our music,
distributor called us on the phone and mixing them in with our own sounds,
thrilled.
Like how to make a tape loop. said, "I'want to buy a hvindred of and finally, we got nailed for doing
David showed me how to .cut a piece them." ... A week later, he said, it. What it did was force us as a group
of tape out (this is back in the analog "They'rlp gone; I just sold them to to look at why we worked the way
world, for those of you who don't Germany and Japan and Italy and we did, or why we want to keep
know about these kinds of things), England." You can't imagine how_ working this way...
Negativland continued on page 13
but then, you could then take a piece exciting that was. I never thought
Cooper Point Journal • 8 • May 24, 2001
(ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTS
Brad! Janet! Dr. Scott! Rocky! BuIIwinfele!
by Michael Tanner
The Rocky Horror Sliow is a
whafn b a m t h a n k y a ' m a n
musical. Everyone reading this is,
I'm sure, aware t h a t there is a
movie of Rocky Horror as well.
But in an age where The Lion King
and Footloose are p o p u l a r stage
shows, how many are aware t h a t
this stage show came f i r s t ? The
Rocky Horror Show d e b u t e d in
London in 1973. It became an
instant success, r u n n i n g n e a r l y
c o n t i n u o u s l y since t h e n . T h e
show then "crossed the pond," as
they say, and became a roaring
success in our little country. And
as the g l o b a l i z a t i o n m a r k e t i n g
machine is want to do, they made
a m o v i e of it. The t o t a l t i m e
between its stage debut and the
motion picture's release was
a p p r o x i m a t e l y 18 months. The
movie ended up being a bomb,
but then an amazing thing
happened. Slowly people began
not only going to the movie but
also i n t e r a c t i n g w i t h it. These
f a n a t i c s in the making shouted
lines and danced in the aisles,
and eventually troupes of people
started performing the movie live
in front of the movie.
The C a p i t a l P l a y h o u s e has
wisely c h o s e n t o g e a r t h e i r
production of the stage musical to
follow the movie more closely.
Nearly all the festive trappings of
the film experience are there to be
h a d . Feel free to shout all the
(in)appropriate lines at the actors.
One of my personal favorites has
always been: "This is my fiancee
f n n e t Weiss." "Slut!" "Not yet;
give her time." "And a Hershey
Bar." One of the most interesting
things for me was h e a r i n g the
l i n e s t h a t I d i d n ' t k n o w be
shouted, and me shouting lines
that obviously were u n f a m i l i a r to
the
other
R o c k y - i t e s in
attendance. And there is
something very liberating about
s c r e a m i n g o b s c e n i t i e s in a
crowded t h e a t e r and h a v i n g it
endorsed by the management.
The show is so m u c h f u n .
Sure there a r e f l a w s , b u t j u s t
i g n o r e t h e m . Honestly, it was
very hard for me to accept these
new c h a r a c t e r i z a t i o n s of my
familiar creatures of the night. I
could sit around and tear a p a r t
some of the choices t h a t were
made, but I'd much rather do the
Time Warp and wait for Frank to
say, "/ see you shiver with ant id-,"
(PAUSE) "Consta!" "-potion."
The Rocky
Horror
Show's
remaining dates include
May 24, 25*, 26*, 30, and 31 at
7:30.
June 1*, 2*, 6, 7, 8*, and 9* at 7:30.
Tickets are $25.
* T h a t n i g h t also f e a t u r e s an
11:30 show
Throwing Big
Sticks and Rocks
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY GAMES
by E. Rose Nelson
This Saturday, the Evergreen
Medieval Society, in conjunction
with EIRE and the P a r e n t s '
Resource Network, will be putting
on their annual Highland Games
behind the Library building. These
games come f r o m t r a d i t i o n a l
Scottish activities, and many use
what would have been common
household items in Scotland a few
hundred years ago. There's the
caber toss, which is b a s i c a l l y
tossing a telephone pole for
accuracy. (Flip it end over end,
trying to get it to land in as close to
a straight line as possible.) There
will be various weight-throwing
events. There will be a race and
wrestling.
Why should you attend? Do
you have no interest in throwing
large, heavy things around? No
f e a r ! There will be bands, and
performers are invited to come and
compete from four to five in the
afternoon. There will be games for
kids, too, including a PVC minicaber. There will be merchants.
Basically, there will be a whole lot
of stuff going on.
Sign-up for all events closes
half an hour before the event is
scheduled to start. This includes
the
bardic
(performing)
competition. Events start at eleven.
M u s i c s t a r t s at one w i t h the
Olympia Highlanders, who will be
p e r f o r m i n g on the field. Darby
O'Gill will be on the stage at three,
and Casey Neill will be on the stage
at five.
Prizes will be given in every
competition. The competitions will
be divided into men's and women's
categories, and prizes will be
awarded to the winners overall in
both men's and women's. A prize
w i l l be a w a r d e d to the b a r d i c
winner.
Not Scottish? Doesn't matter.
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We kind of had an intuitive
sense, but we never sat around
and had conversations as a group
a b o u t the political meaning of
taking something
from a
multinational corporation and
reusing it in your art; we just did
it. So it was good t h a t we got
sued, b e c a u s e it f o r c e d us to
articulate to ourselves whatnve
are doing, b e c a u s e we always
knew; it was just never something
we w o u l d d i s c u s s . We j u s t
understood.... Taking things that
don't belong to you and reusing
them, you know; you're kinda not
supposed to, and that's why it
was interesting— Ironically
enough,
you could
make
something t h a t sounded t r u l y
new by using things that already
existed; recombining them and
ripping them out of their context
and collaging with them. There's
a big history of it in the visual
arts, but in the audio arts, it's a
b i t newer. T h r o u g h o u t t h e
eighties, it was off the radar; no
one cared, and it seems the more
we did it, the more we thought
about the media we were taking
from, who made it and why, and
our work became increasingly
critical of it.... We became more
aware, more conscious of things
in a more sociopolitical economic
way.
We also worked with a record
label named SST Records, and we
were a little more aware of the
business we were enmeshed in,
which was disgusting, and the
music industry is just horrible;
totally vile and awful.... So when
we got sued for that record, it just
politicized us even more. And we
ended up writing editorials and
essays and press releases and got
involved in a huge battle to fight
for our'survival; it took four years
of our lives, and we ended up
publishing a book over it and a
d o c u m e n t a r y m o v i e (Sonic
O u t l a w s ) — One reason we
wanted to articulate our point of
view is t h a t we realized these
issues are really i m p o r t a n t in a
bigger sense, much bigger t h a n
our own little soap opera. In a
w o r l d where y o u i n c r e a s i n g l y
property being represented
d i g i t a l l y , t h e n the n o t i o n s of
ownership, of who owns an idea,
are just turned on their head; the
whole n o t i o n of t h e f t doesn't
even make sense anymore. If I
take your shoes, then you don't
have any shoes anymore. But if 1
have a digital shoe copier and I
make a copy of your shoes, you
still have your shoes, and I have
a copy of your shoes. So what's
the problem? The problem is that
these giant companies have built
these business models on scarcity
and controlling the flow of this
stuff
and
having limited
additions of these things, these
i n t e l l e c t u a l p r o p e r t i e s , these
ideas, and they don't want you to
do whatever you want with them
or copy them....
I've always likened ourselves
to Earthfirst-ers of the intellectual
property law; you know, we're
way out on the fringes, espousing
a fairly radical idea that all this
stuff out there. ..we should reuse
it and make things out of it, and
it's our environment. And anyone
who is creative in any way at all
responds to their environment.
We're never advocating pirating
and bootlegging entire things, or
stealing whole works from other
people. But if you want, you can
paint a picture of a flower or you
can put a f l o w e r on a Xerox
machine and make a copy of it.
Besides
flowers,
there's
billboards, advertisements and
all this other media information
an'd
t h a t is p a r t of our
e n v i r o n m e n t____Anyone who's
being creative, there will be a
percentage of those people who
are going to respond to the world
that's really around them, which
is going to be a media world, and
you're going to do stuff with it.
So wha-t's .the big deal? The
problem is the companies that
produce that stuff are multimillion billion dollar companies,
and they built their business on
very tight, godlike, oppressive
control. It's a one-way flow of
information: we produce it; you
consume it; end of story....
Basically, the copyright law is
meant to encourage creativity by
allowing people who make things
to control what they make, but
it's a limited right. You can't give
them t o t a l c o n t r o l , because in
theory, it also realizes that ideas,
art, science, and culture evolve
because we keep t a k i n g ideas
from each other. The right has to
have limits on it, but of course,
corporations don't think that
way. They think of it as a property
right, whereas it's a limited right.
If you read the law, it's very clear,
but of course they have $400-anhour lawyers and we don't.
CPJ: How w o u l d you feel if
someone was getting your music
from Napster?
putting out CDs, because it's very
easy to do...people are releasing
their work digitally and,through
N a p s t e r , and an i n c r e d i b l e
amount of stuff is coming out,
and not just with music but also
film and video.... The technology
now allows people to make their
own culture instead of consuming
it f r o m the top down, uberculture, that spits it out at us.
More and more p e o p l e are
making it, more and more people
are r e a l i z i n g t h a t you can do
this.... I think that's wonderful.
It's become u p s i d e down.
Culture's all about what we make
and do with our community and
with our friends, and not about
buying what comes out of L.A.,
New York or London. The
d o w n s i d e of it is, if you've
devoting a lot of time and energy
to making s t u f f , you're just
always barely hanging in there
financially.... The more stuff that
comes out, the more difficult it is
to get people to notice w h a t
you're doing.... Most people who
make art and music rarely make
any money from it and that's just
the way it is. As tough as I have
it, and as meager as my income
is, I have plenty of friends who
would give their right arm to be
in the position I'm in, even just
to scrape by, because at least I'm
still doing what I want.
M.H. We h a v e our s t u f f on
Napster; you can get it there...1
w a s t a l k i n g w i t h m y record
distributor, because we run our
own record label; we do it all
ourselves: we record it, mix. We
do the a r t w o r k , put out the
records ourselves. One reason is CPJ: How long does it take to
because we know how we want it, make a song?
and that the music industry is M.H. A n y w h e r e between one
gross and vile. Another reason is m o n t h and six years. I know
our music is such a potential legal when we're mixing our records it
liability that even if we wanted to takes us about two hours to mix
work with record labels, no one thirty seconds of music, because
w o u l d w a n t to w o r k w i t h us it's so c o m p l i c a t e d . We've
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(SPORTS)
TEAM EVERGREEN KUNG FU WINS BIG
by Shasta S m i t h
AT THE 5Th ANNUAL NORTHWEST OPEN
May 19, Bak Shaolin Eagle Claw Harter came up against were all from the
Team Evergreen Kung Fu competed in the Dacascos School. He knocked out two of
his three opponents,
5th
Annual
one with a solid
Northwest Open.
punch to the jaw
The* team did
and the other with a
excellently,
lightning fast rear
winning 16 top
leg roundhouse that
three medals, five
his opponent never
fourth
place
saw. Harter was
finishes, and one
disqualified in his
g r a n d
last match and
championship,
finished fourth in
with only six
the division.
competitors. The
Captain Jesse Harter in the grand
In the beginner
tournament was
championship r u n off.
rings,
Morgan
an International
Martial Arts Council (IMAC)-sanctioned Thomberry and Patrick Kenny had
event and had a large spectrum of martial outstanding performances in their firstart styles. There were Olympic tae kwon ever tournament. Thomberry won gold,
and Kenny followed
do
sparring
with bronze in a large
divisions, point
traditional forms
and continuous
field. In their second
sparring divisions,
forms division they
and even an Amis
placed third and
stick-fighting ring.
fourth respectively.
Team Evergreen
Thomberry finished
Kung Fu was
the day with a fourth
comprised of two
place
finish in
members from the
women's
point
w o r l d
fighting.
championship
Kevin Barrett
team, captain Jesse
Harter controls the ring.
and Ben Green,
Harter and cocaptain Shasta Smith, and four up and competing in the intermediate rings, pitted
coming junior team members, Kevin their less than one year's experience
Barrett, Ben Green, Morgan Thomberry, against competitors with one to three years
of training. Green won silver in the
and Patrick Kenny.
intermediate open
One of the
forms. In beginner
first divisions of the
point
sparring,
day
was
Green won his first
continuous
two fights but had
sparring. Shasta
one win revoked
Smith,
Kevin
due to the judges
Barrett, and Ben
overlooking
a
Green competed in
fighter. The brackets
the lightweight
were reworked, and
division. The three
Green ended in
teammates set the
fourth. In the
tone for the day,
intermediate point
winning their first
Kevin Barrett and Ben Green ready for rings,
Barrett
round matches.
their intermediate forms ring.
brought it all to the
Barrett won his
table. He fought
after his opponent
second round fight
was disqualified. Green bowed out to through a division of nearly twenty
Smith in the second round and ended the fighters, and after four tough fights in a
division in fourth place. Barrett then row, won silver.
Captain Jesse
bowed out to Smith in
Harter started off
the final round, taking
strongly
in
the
silver and giving
blackbelt
forms
Smith the gold. After
divisions.
The
the division had
competition was left
ended, Smith had an
behind
in
the
exhibition
match
traditional
forms
against the #4 National
division as Harter took
Blackbelt
league
gold
with
his
fighter in the world.
i n c r e d i b l e
After two rounds, the
performance of tai min
score was tied at one
jun.
In the open forms
round apiece. In the
division, Harter and
third round, Smith
Shasta Smith jump-kicking his
Smith combined to
turned it on with a
opponent.
take silver and bronze;
barrage of kicks and
punches; he knocked out his opponent Harter was one tenth of a point off the
leader. Harter was a force
and won the match
to be reckoned with in
two points to one.
the forms arena as he
Smith went on to win
followed his gold and
the
grand
silver performances with
championship for the
a gold in open weapons.
light
and
Harter qualified for both
middleweight
the weapons and open
divisions.
hand
grand
In
the
championships with his
heavyweight ring,
first place finishes. He
Jesse Harter followed
did extremely well in
the
lightweights
both
grand
performance with
championships,
three crowd-shocking
finishing runner-up in
matches.
Harter
each o f , the grand
controlled the ring in
championship finals.
each of the fights with
Harter knocking out his third
In the blackbelt point
his power and skill.
opponent with ; a devastating kick. sparring, rings, Smith
The three fighters
The team after a long day of competition.
Overall Team Evergreen Kung Fu won 16 top three medals, five f o u r t h place finishes,
and one grand championship.
came in fired up and rocked the
lightweight ring. He dominated his first
match with his elusive fighting. In the
second round, Smith had a low-scoring
fight, just beating the other fighter. In the
finals, Smith came up against a Dacascos
fighter and took silver after nearly
knocking out his opponent.
In team sparring, Team Evergreen
Kung Fu came up against Dacascos's
team. After fighting each other all day, the
teams' matches were fast and furious.
Team Evergreen got their hits in and
rounded out the day's victories with a
bronze in team sparring.
Congratulations to Team Evergreen
Kung Fu for their most recent victory. The
team thanks all the club members and
spectators that came to cheer and give their
support to the team. The team also thanks
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Cooper Point Journal • 14 • May 24, 2001
PREDICTIONS
by Shasta S m i t h
I was recently going over all my
articles from the year, and all of
Shasta's Evergreen Sports Shows, and
I realized that I have yet to make any
predictions a b o u t the f u t u r e of
Evergreen sports. So, here we go:
-Men's soccer: After falling to the
bottom o¥ the barrel, the only way left
for the men to go is up. With a sixfoot freshman keeper coming in, the
men h a v e a base to b u i l d f r o m .
Behind captains Kennan Murray and
Jimmy Neagle and core players like
Ronan Johnson, I predict at least a
.500 record.
-Women's Soccer: They went to the
p l a y o f f s , and only one player is
moving on. With Arlene McMahon
already having signed a host of new
recruits in January, I predict the
women will return to the playoffs and
win their first-round match.
-Swimming: The team is losing their
captain, Bonnie Martin. Behind new
coach Charlie Bendock, the rookie
phenom Misty Westphal and men's
star competitor Ryan Miyake will
carry the team to the nationals again.
I predict a first place finish in next
year's nationals.
-Men's basketball: It is time for a new
star to rise. Trelton Spencer is moving
on, but Andre Stewart has arrived.
With nearly all the players returning,
and Coach John Barbee recruiting
specific types of players, I predict a
first-round playoff victory for the
men in the 2001-2002 season.
-Women's Basketball: New coach,
new look, new records. With a fresh
(SPORTS)THE
V.
face leading the women, I predict new
records will be set, and the women
will have a playoff berth in the 20012002 season.
-Crew: They dropped their boat and
ended their season prematurely, but I
think next year, with Aaron Starks at
the helm, we will see a first-place
finish for the team in one of the big
tournaments of the year.
-Team Evergreen Kung Fu: I predict
captain Owen O'Keefe will rock more
National
Blackbelt
League
champions, and the up and coming
squad of talented competitors like
Ben Green, Gin Harbold, Kevin
Barrett, Morgan Thornberry, Ian
Armstrong, and Devon Reed will win
more medals and championships for
the most-winning team on campus.
-Volleyball: New program, new coach,
new students...from what I've seen of
Bill Lash, I predict a season winning
percentage of over .500.
-Cross Country: The new coach, Craig
Dickson, was a two-time national
team member. I predict an excellent
start to the new program, possibly
even a big meet win. '
-Men's Tennis: New coach coming in.
I predict an even better record next
year with the talent the team has.
-Women's Tennis: With a new coach
and proper recruiting, anything is
possible.
Good luck to all the teams for the
upcoming 2001-2002 season.
(Remember, you still have a week
to vote on the Shasta's Evergreen
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INTERVIEWS:
Trelton Spencer and Will McGill
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by Shasta Smith
CPJ: So, Trelton, could you talk a little
about what happens here in
basketball? How the season went,
how the games felt—and it's your last
year; would you just talk a little about
that.
Trelton: Okay; the games went pretty
good. I d o n ' t know about crowd
participation as far as marketing;
maybe we can bring out the students
a l i t t l e more. As an athlete, it's
comfortable. I think ... the Evergreen
community is starting to get used to
athletes being here.
CPJ: How has that changed from
when you were first here at Evergreen
to...now that you're in your fourth
year.
Trelton: It has become the norm for
it; you know, basketball players being
here or whatever. So it's not as... I
mean, it's not being pushed on us. JB
always wants his athletes to do well
in class, but when we first came, he
wanted us to really, you know, make
sure that we got our school work done
and don't give any excuses. I mean,
and still as an athlete today, I still do
those things. I think as far as the
holding us to that, I think it's moved
away, because it's become the norm.
CPJ: So, Will, how does the program
here differ from what you did in your
previous junior college?
W i l l : I think it was more of a
discipline type setting [there],
because my other coach, my junior
college coach, was a little bit older,
you know; he didn't play at all, and
we mainly stressed defense more than
offense. So that's mainly the
difference.
CPJ: How has it been for you playing
with the team here? How did the team
come together this year?
Will: It took a while for us to come
together, because we're so different.
A lot of us come from different places
and different backgrounds, so it took
a while for us to gel, to kind of get to
know each other, but it began to work
slowly. It became more effective
towards the end.
CPJ: Is that something you have come
across normally, Trelton, having to
rebuild the team chemistry each year?
Trelton: This year was the hardest
year, because we lost a lot of people
this year. Other times, we were just
adding like three athletes, so this year
there were a lot of different recruits,
so we kind of had to start from scratch
and spend more time at the beginning
of the season teaching offense than
the past. So as far as ... the 0-6 start.
. . we had to come together. Towards
the end, we were really starting to
figure out relationships, were starting
to build, and we started playing more
together.
CPJ: Could you talk a little bit about
bringing up the "rookies" t h a t
showed up: Will, Andre, Craig, we
had
a whole
set
of
new
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whose jurisdiction covered Pullman,
WA, WSU and Latah County in
Idaho. This was also where he
encountered a book thief named
Stephen Blumberg. Blumberg stole
rare books from universities in
California, Oregon, Washington, and
points in the Midwest. After
discovering that Blumberg had
visited WSU, Huntsberry was on the
case.
Huntsberry spent 17 months on
the investigation. This investigation
provided Huntsberry with many
opportunities to learn good methods
of investigation, to learn how to
collaborate with other agencies across
the United States in pursuit of
Blumberg, and even to produce a
quarterly magazine called Focus on
Security: The Magazine of Library,
Archive and Museum Security.
After working for 16 years with
WSU, an opening appeared for the
position of chief of police here at
Evergreen. With his extensive
experience, Huntsberry was ready to
move on.
Remembering his
childhood exposure to the Sound and
his desire to get back to it, he chose to
pursue this position.
He arrived here in 1996 and is
Do
quite happy with this position. "I
would not have been happy working
the bars on Pike St. or some rough and
tumble ghetto kind of place; tha!
would not have been fun for me."
And he adds, "If you can't have fun
with what you're doing, then it's not
worth doing."
Despite all of his experiences and
his many different careers, he is
happiest being a police officer.
"There's still the expectation that
[something bad] could happen," he
says, "and if it does happen, I am
expected to do something about it,
because I am a card-carrying police
guy. That still intrigues me and keeps
my juices flowing, because I could
have retired four or five years ago."
Huntsberry is working to create
a forum to answer questions that the
community might have for him, and
he encourages people to approach
him with questions at any time.
Recently, he hosted a community
forum on campus, but only three
people attended. He believes that this
is because "unless there's an issue
that's hot, we just don't get any
response at all." He hopes that this
will change, and the community will
become involved with its police force.
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players this year.
Trelton: We didn't take people under
wings. As far as Will, I tell him what
Evergreen's like, tell him what to
expect, if you need anything I'm here
for you. But as far as on the court, you
just try to be a positive example and
say, "This is the way it should be
done." Try to stay away from the
negative stuff.
CPJ: So do you think you set the right
example, breaking pretty much every
record Evergreen has?
Trelton: I don't know; it just came. I
just played normal, and all the hype
just came with it; it was unexpected.
I enjoyed the pressure, though,
because it added extra pressure to
perform, to try to reach that
excellence.
CPJ: So, Will, are you looking forward
to next year, having so many returners
and having made it to the playoffs?
Could you talk a little about that?
Will: I think it's going to be
interesting to see what next year has
to offer us. Coach is doing some
recruiting right now to get some guys
in here to fill some of the voids that
are going to be left open. There's
nobody that can replace Trelton, but
[we] just gotta find someone that can
come up and try to just take over, be
our floor general; you know, keep our
offense in the flow, but I'm looking
forward to next year.
CPJ: So what are your plans for the
future, now that you're going to be
graduating from Evergreen and
moving on?
Trelton: Playing in a lot of camps. I've
been to a camp in Utah in April. On
June 2, I think I'm gonna go to
Chicago for a camp out there, then
there's another camp I was just
invited to in Utah [on] July 20.
CPJ: And you're teaching kids how to
play?
Trelton: I haven't worked any camps
yet. I usually do Upward Bound in the
summer, but I'm thinking about going
home; it'll probably be more healthy
for me to spend some time with my
family.
CPJ: Back down to California?
Trelton: California, then over to
Louisiana.
CPJ: Excellent, and what are your
plans for the future here at Evergreen
Will?
Will: Hopefully, to finish the year on
a positive note next year and
graduate, and from there, who
knows? Maybe I'd get a chance to go
overseas or something. I would love
to do that, but there's a lot of things I
gotta do, a lot of hard work I have to
put in here. Whatever happens,
happens.
CPJ: Do you think there's a chance
somewhere in the future where some
of the team gets back together and
plays some more?
Trelton: That would be ridiculous.
Like with Wiz? Aaron? I don't think
I've seen Aaron at a game this year,
but it would be nice to see those guys
come back. To think about, especially
being a part of the first team . . . to
maybe one time to spend some time
with those guys at least one more time
on the court would be good
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CALENDAR
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k n o w s
Fri,MayZ5
"Fresh Local Produce"
Lots of Oly Hip h o p — o n e stage. It's called The
Unconvention. Featuring Hookphonic and DJ Show, also
the HaVenots, Clockwork, Ebony and Ivory, and an MC
Battle. It's FREE Friday, May 25, from 9 p.m. to late. Call
1-800-619-9143 for the super secret spy location.
AUWeekend
"I tried to turn it off, but damn that radio song,
yeah, hey hey hey."
The radios are alive! "Night of the Living Radio"
is a radio/drama production performed by The
Airwaves Programs. Two static-free nights of
whimsy include the pieces, "Labor Day," "The
Leader," an adaptation of "Night of The Living
Dead," and an original creation, "The
Jumbleweed Jack McCactus Cowboy Hour."
H a p p e n i n g May 23-26 at 8 p . m . in the
experimental theatre. Admission is FREE. The
performance will also be broadcast over KAOS.
Sun,Junes
Sat, Junes
"This is the Lemon song that
never ends"
Lovely, luscious, lickable,
lucky, loqoacious, lumpy,
locally grown lemons. There
will be many lemons at the
Family Fun Day on Saturday,
June 2, at Sylvester Park. Free
lemonade! B u b b l e gum
blowing contest! Lemon
Eating Races! Lemon Toss!
Lemon Head Decorating!
Bouncy Castles! Oh god, the
fun is almost too much for me
to bear! GO GO GO!
"Walk like a Man"
Sign up to walk in the Thurston County Aids
Walk. It's all going down Sunday, June 3, at
Sylvester Park. Benefits go to UCAN, United
Communities Aids Network. Registeration
is at 12 p.m. and the walk is at 1 p.m. Pledge
goals are $150 for each walker. If you can't
do the walk, you can donate your time or
your money at 360-352-2375.
"Happy Trails to you."
All faculty and staff are
i n v i t e d to a p o t l u c k for
Barbara Leigh Smith as she
leaves her office as provost.
The party will get jumpin' at
the Black Lake Grange at 5:30
p.m. on Saturday, June 2. It's
suggested that you saddle up
and get in some b u c k a r o o
duds as well as bring your
favorite dish. There will be
live music and beer. I guess
that's why they're not inviting
students.
Ongoing*.
"The fool on the hill sees the sun going
down."
Ever see Whose Line Is It Anyway? Did
you laugh 'til your face fell off? (I did.)
Then you should go to Fools Play
Improv, which happens every Saturday
at 9 p . m . at Studio 321. Every
p e r f o r m a n c e is unique, j u s t like a
snowflake. Fools play is $6 general, $5
students.
"Rocky Mountain High"
So these guys are climbing Mount
Rainier June 16-19 for Safeplace, a
personal advocacy service for survivors
of domestic violence and sexual assault.
They have guts. They'll also have an
auction after they're done—that is, on
June 21 at 7 p.m. If you want to donate
to their climb-a-thon, call (360) 786-8754.
And if you want to call, Safeplace can
be reached at 1-800-364-1776.
Student Group Directory*
AFISH
(Advocates for Improving
Sahnon Habitat)
: 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
j p.m. in CAB 310. More info: x6724
ASIA
(Asian Students in Alliance)
Meeting time: Wednesday 1 p.m. in CAB
320. More info: Emiko Atherton, Miral
i Ghimire at x6033
Bike Shop
! Volunteer-operated bike shop. Meeting
! times: Call or stop by; schedule is on
; door. More info: Ari or Jayro at x6399
Capoeira Angola
! Meeting time: Thursday 6:30 p.m. in Lib
i 4300. More info: CJ. Hanekamp at 8664811 or hanekamc@evergreen.ed u
Common Bread
• Working for justice and peace. Meeting
:, time: Monday 5 p.m. in CAB 110. More
! info: Julie Boleyn at 943-9144
*
CPT
(Cooper Point Journal)
: We are the group that produces a weekly
J paper about Evergreen. Story meeting:
! Monday 5 p.m.; Paper critique:
', Thursday 4 p.m.; Forum on ethics:
Friday 3 p.m.; These meetings are in
CAB 316. More info: x6213
;
DEAF
(Developing Ecological
Agriculture Projects)
, Resource center for organizing farm
, projects. Meeting time: get on our e-mail
i list, send to deapgreen@hotmail.com.
• More info: x6493
EARN
(Evergreen Animal Rights Network)
Promoting the ethical treatement of
animals. Meeting time: first and third
Wednesday of each month 5:30 p.m.. in CAB
320. More info: Laurel and Tom at x6555
Evergreen Dance Team
Meeting time: Wednesday 2 - 4 p.m. in CRC
316 and Thursday 3:30 - 5 p.m. in CRC 116
Evergreen Investment Club
Meeting time: Thursday 2:30 p.m. in CAB
315. More info: Andrew Bucher, Adam
Smith-Kipnis, 786-9161
EOA
(Evergreen Queer Alliance)
General interest meeting: Tuesday 5 p.m.
in CAB 314; Film Fest planning 5 p.m.
Wednesday in CAB 314. More info: x6544.
evergreen queer alliance@hotmail.com
Evergreen Students for Christ
To understand, to grow, to serve. Meeting
time: Tuesday 7p.m. in LIB 2101. More info:
ES4C@aol.com
The Evergreen Swing Club
Beginners welcome, singles okay. Meeting
time: 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
time: Friday 1 p.m. More info: Whitney
Bindreiff at 888-2166 or x6636
GRAS
(Giant Robot Appreciation Society)
Evergreen's Anime club! Screenings Friday,
8 p.m. at the Edge. More info: Megan
Connolly at conmeg21@evergreen.edu •
ICC
(Jewish Cultural Center)
The JCC celebrates Jewish culture and is
devoted to combating all forms of hate,
including Anti-Semitism. Meeting time:
Wednesday 3 - 4 p.m. in CAB 315. More info:
Steve or Carmel at x6092
MEChA
The Chicano student movement of Aztlan.
Meeting time: Wednesday 2 p.m. More info:
x6143
Medieval Society
Recreating medieval martial arts, crafts, and
performances. Meeting time: Thursday 5:30
p.m. in CAB 320. More info: x6036
Men's Resource Center
To provide resources for people to grow in
mind, body, and spirit. Everyone welcome.
Meeting time: Wednesday 3 - 4 p.m. in Lib
2221. More info: x6092
The Middle East Resource Center
Meeting time: Wednesday 4 p.m. in CAB 320
in office 15. More info: x6033
Mindscreen
Free movies on campus! Meeting time:
Wednesday 3:30 p.m. in CAB 320. Free
movies: Wednesday 5:30 p.m. in Lecture hall
1. More info: x6412
Percussion Club
We play traditional West African music.
Beginners Welcome! Meeting time:
Wednesday at 8 p.m. in CAB 110. More info:
Lesa Cassidy or Jamie Stillman, x6781
SEED
(Students at Evergreen for Ecological Design)
We are a resource and networking center for
students interested in discussing the
different aspects of ecological design and the
connections between them. Meeting time:
Wednesday 4:30 p.m. in LAB II2242. More
info: Jamie or Troy at x6493 or
greenseeds@hotmail.com
I
Slightly West Literary Magazine
We publish TESC's literary magazine.
Meeting time: Monday 2 p.m. and
Thursday 9 p.m. More info: Patricia
Kinney, Jen Levinson at x6879
Umoja
An activities and support group for all
students of African descent. Meeting
time: 1-3 p.m. on May 16 and 30. More
info: x6781; Cossetta Stroud at (360) 4550470; Loretta Bradley-Allen at (360) 3529906
Uprooting Racism
White students work on ending racism.
Meeting time: Wednesday 12:30 - 1:30
p.m. in LIB 2221.
WashPIRG
We run environmental, social, and
consumer campaigns. Meeting time:
Wednesday 4 p.m. in Lecture Hall
rotunda. More info: Rebecca x6058 or
evergreen washpirg@hotmail.com
The Wilderness Center
We run trips outside (rafting, rock
climbing, hiking, snowshoeing) as well
as skill.
Women of Color Coalition
Equality, diversity, justice and freedom
for Evergreen's women of color. Meeting
time: Friday 3 p.m. at CAB 313. More
info: Melissa Wise, Jessica Lee at x6006
Women's Resource Center
A resource center that provides
meetings, a library, events, and a dropin center. General meeting: Monday 3
p.m.; 'Zine meeting: Monday 5 p.m.;
Evergreen Cliteracy Foundation:
Wednesday 3 p.m. More info: x6162
*This list is not comprehensive. If you •want your student group listed, drop oil your information at the CPJ (CAB 316).
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