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Evergreen should be?

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Address Service Requested

Olympia's two decade old chapter of
Bread & Roses, a non-profit organization
that se rves the poor and homeless, has
filled something like 44 beds a night, and
served three to four hundred meals a day
for a few years now. It has provided people
with places to shower, bathrooms, laundry
facilities, and telephones to use. They have
given them new socks, underwear, gloves,
hats, candles... you name it. And, for
12 hours each day, from 7am to 7pm, it
offers people respite from the weather, and
a place to hang out.
However, with Bread & Roses' lease
for their soup kitchen and drop-in center
downtown up in June, and the owner
of the building unwilling to renew, the
orga nizat ion is left searching for a location
to continue on.
Initially, they had hoped that they would
find some support from the city.
A letter of recommendation, in exchange
for food and shelter to hundreds, would
seem like a small favor to ask.
Nonetheless, all but two city counci l
members voted aga inst endorsing Bread
& Roses proposal to apply for a $75 0,000
federal community grant. The city's support, which would have come in th e form
of a letter, "was absolutely necessary for
us to get the grant, " said Phil Owens, a
coordinator for
Students'

Hunger and Homelessness.
In the proposal, Bread & Roses officials
indicated that the money would hav e
allowed the group to move and expand their
operation to a nearby building, located in
downtown . Olympia Mayor Stan Biles,
who showed support for Bread & Roses
earlier this year, withdrew it after learning
the site of the proposed relocation. He,
along with some other city council members, seemed to have expected the organization 'to pack up and move out of downtown
to Devoe Street, a mile and a half away,
where Bread & Roses has been leasing a
2,200 square-ft-church which serves as a
temporary shelter for over 40 people every
night.
Some council members and businesses
are saying that Bread & Roses is bad for the
downtown area. At a recent city counc il
meeting they complained that the homeless
population urinated and defecated in the
alleys, and left garbage strewn all over the
place.
If anywhere, the council members and
business communities want Bread & Roses
to expand their operation to the rest of the
1.7 acre Devoe Street site.
It's the perfect opportunity to spread
homeless services throughout the cit)"
said Biles, according to The
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with the Salvation

downtown, he said.
"If the Salvation Army were meeting all
the needs of homeless we wouldn't need
to be there," respo nded Selena Kilmoyer,
a volunteer administrator for Bread &
Roses.
Bread & Roses officials say that relocating outside of downtown would not be in
their guests' best interests.
"It would be a lot more expensive and
take a lot more time," said Kenny Friedman
a Bread & Roses volunteer,
In addition, the downtown area has the
bus station, public bathrooms, and Labor
Ready (a temp agency), said Owens. "It's
accessible. "
But relocating anywhere, much less to
a site downtown, seems unlikely.
"The way it stands now, we have no idea
where we're going to go," said Friedman.
"We don't know what's going to happen.
But we will find a way to operate no matter
what," said • •~~rt.r;J[i~vr":"'~H

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Help for Homeless
Students
Each year it seems a few students experience temporary emergencies, 'which can
include homelessn.eJis. This may resulr
from estrangement from parents, a major
change in financial circumstances, or other
situations that can leave a student without
the necessary resources for lodging.
This can be a difficult ~ituation for both
the student and those that wish to help
.them. In an effort -co provide as much
assistance as possible to students experiencing a housing crisis, the college designates
a contact person to provide advice and
support. I am the Homeless Student
Support person for the 2002-2003 year.
I am able to provide currently enrolled
students with both on- and off-campus
referrals to resources. In addition, there
is a (very) small sum of money available
for emergency loans to assist students in
. a housing crisis for one or cwo nights. In
some cases, these funds can be used for
low-cost, emergency on-campus housing
on a space-available basis.
Please refer students to me in LIB 140 I,
telephone ext. 6909. If you have any
qu~stions or suggestions on how we can
further assist homeless students, please
contact me or Kitty Parker, Director of
Academic Advising.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sara Rucker Thiessen
. Acatkmic Advi!or

360.867.6909

Join us for a support group for returning
women students in the Women's Resource
Center, CAB 206, on Wednesdays from] :-_
8 p.m . Share your concerns about being a
returning student after being out of school
for awhile. How do you cope? What helps
and what hinders your success? Bring
your ideas, suggestions and anything else
you would like to share about being a .
returning student. We look forward to
meeting you.

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-- Traci McKean andJanet Linch, rerorning srodent interns.

last week's Voices of Color would like to issue this
statement: "When I stated that I did not like being

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From now until December 31, 2002,
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a SHOE DRIVE. The effort is designed
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shoes to work generating funds to help
Goodwill provide job services for people
in our community with special needs.
Co-sponsoring the drive are Pierce County
employees and the Morgan Family Branch
of the YMCA, who are providing collection
sites and supporting the drive in their spirit
of generosity and community service.
Donations of paired, wearable shoes and
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Shoe Drive donations are also accepted
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Tacoma Goodwill Industries provides vocational training programs for people with disabilities and other special needs. These services
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approached for the sale of drugs, in my last article,
this point had nothing to do with my personal

On Monday. November 11, 2002 Venya Kofpachnikov visited The Evergreen State College
to deliver a lecrore to students andfaculty in the program titled "So You WIlnt to be a Teacher. "
Venya is from Yekaterinburg, the second largest town in Sibaia. He is an expert in the srody
ofLev Vegotksy, a famous Russian Psychologist. --Jon McAllister
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November 20
For the past several months, the last
cwo months in particular, the International
Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU)
has been in a tetrific struggle with the
Pacific Maritime Association to negotiate
a new contract. This struggle has seen a
lock-out of workers by the PMA, the Bush
administration's invocation of the Taft-Hartley
Act (a piece of draconian anti-union legislation passed in 1947) [0 force union members
back to work, a threat that Bush would send
troops to run the dOCKS, and (allegedly)
the use of slowdowns and work-to-rule by
union members as a form of resistance. A key
issue dividing the union and management
has. been changes in the use of computer
technology and the question of whether new
jobs connected to these changes would be
union positions . All along the union has
feared that the real objective of management
and the Bush administration is to bust one of
the strongest unions in the United Slates.
On November 20 at 12:30 p.m. in the
library lobby, Evergreen's Labor Center,
in collaboration with the Evergreen Food
Service Workers Union (lLWU LocalS)
and the Washington Federation of State
Employees Local 443 (Evergreen's classified
staff union), will sponsor a presentation about
the longshore struggle and a union rally 'Ied
by Vance Lelli, member of ILWU Local 23 in
Tacoma and President of the Pierce County
Central Labor Council. In addition to being
a union activist, Vance is also known as a
labor troubadour who sings the songs of
the Wobblles, anti-WTO protesters, and
other resisters. The whole campus community is invited to attend and participate.
For more information, call Peter Kardas at
the Labor Cenur (x6526), or email him at

Don't Call it a Comeback;
We've Been Here for Years

by CarriB Deming

Do you find yourself awake around three AM in front of a computer screen, while poring over a notebook with papers scattered
around your feet, a full ashtray, a cup of cold coffee half drunk, and a burning sensation in your chest .urging yo'u to keep writing?
But you can't. You have hit a wall in your creative process. There is no hope, no one will know what you're talking about, they won't
understand the style of your writing or the rhythm. And who cares what you have to say, right?
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I thought this way for some time, until a year ago I discovered the Evergreen Writer's Guild. The group consisted of eight
writers of different genres and experience levels. Our purpose was to form a community of writers, a place where we could give
and accept advice on our writing. For most of us, it took the isolation a'nd the fea~ out of writing, and at the same time, the group
pushed us past our barriers and expanded our individual craft. Evergreen has a vast variety of communities on campus, but the
.writing community has not been recognized until now. In spring of 2001, the group decided it was time we tried to create a writing
community open to anyone and everyone who writes.
We meet Mondays, from three to five, and Thursdays, from four to six, in L 2219. Come bring copies of your work (fiction, prose,
non-fiction, poetry. and prose poetry). You know who you are, so let us know too.

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Oppose War, _Don't Get Info_From TY_

by Erica Nelson
Evergreen raised tuition 14 percent
just stopping the slide."
the lack of state money by raising tuition.
"The cost of p~blic high~r education it
this year. If the state legislature doesn't
. Back in 1987, the Board had high The HECB board sets a cap on tuition being transferred from the state to students
authorize a significant increase in higher
hopes. In the Master Plan of that year, they increases for all the public colleges each year. and their famili~."
education funding, tuition is likely to get
proposed that Washington State "achieve The individual colleges can determine how
Edie Harding is an employee of the
even more expensive.
a system of higher educa.tion that is one of much they want to raise their tuition within college who works with the state legislature.
It gets worse. Nearly all the public
the five best in the nation." Now they're that limit. Because of the $2.5 billion state She thinks the state changed the way it
higher education institutions are
funded state institutions to
over-enrolled. That means they
give them more "flexibility and
may start turning away qualified
accountability." She also added
students due to' lack of space.
that they did it to " ... not take
State funding for institutions has
heat for tuition increases."
steadily declined since the m idHigher education, which
1990s, and our state funding is
includes community colleges,
significantly .lower than what
Cumulative percentage change
takes up 12.3% of the state
occurs at co_mparable institutions
budget. Harding said higher
in other states.
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education is considered an easy
Recently, the Washington
part of the budget to cu t in
State
l1igher
Education
times of trouble, as the schools
Coordinating Board (HECB)
100%
can turn to tuition for the
made a recommendation to the
money they need.
state government to increase
Luckily, state need-grants
funding for the state's colleges
80~,
. have grown with the rising cost
and universities by $1.1 billion in
of tuition. The share of th e
Tuitlon and fees for a resident undergraduate at a
the next two years. The HECB is
public research university
higher education budget going
.. ten-me.mbe~ board of citizens,
60%
to financial aid increased from
54%
appointed by the governor, to
four percent in 1991 to ten
represenr the broad public interest
percent in 2001-2003.
in the development of higher edu40%
ashlli~OIi per capita - The HECB presented its
cation policy. The Board adminpersonal income
recommendations to Governor
isters state-funded student finan25°,
Locke last week. His office will
cial aid, monitors performance,
m ake changes, and then the
provides budget and enrollment
fina l recomm endations will be
recommendations; and helps the
proposed to the legislature.
development of policy.
Craves doesn't believe that
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At the beginning of a recent
the legislature will approve ihis
HECB meeting, chairman Bob
October 2002
Higber Education Coordinating Board
increase in funding. The state
Craves spoke about the recomSoun:es: HECB and Office or the Forecast Council
fi scal forecast looks as grim as
mendati.ons of the board and
it did last year.
his concerns about higher edu'ca"My first step is to COI1non.
fighting to get state and local government deficit last year, the state )lad less money
vince them to step up to the plate and be
"The first part of this meeting here
funding per student up to the national for higher education . Facing a five percent
leaders," he said. In the end he believes it
is to define how to be average. I never
average of $6,254 a year. Currently, cut in state funding, colleges opted to raise
will be up to the people.
thought I'd be saying that, but there it is ...
the state spends $5,350 per student at tuition to the limit.
"We will hav e to go to the voters
This just gets us back to where we were.
Evergreen.
The HEC B Master plan for 2004 states sometime soon ."
We're not making progress here. We're
Now colleges are asked to make up the trend simply:

by Rica Nelson

Increases in tuition ("sticker price") have outpaced per capita
income and inflation since 1991-92

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by Erica Nelson

"booms

Evergreen has reached record enrollment this year, with a [Otal of 4,318 st udents
en'rolled and 1,654 new students entering th e coll ege. We've also retained more students
than expected from las t year. The end result is that we have enro lled more stud ents
rhan the sta te gives us m o ney for.
. Lack of funds makes it harder to provide the quality ed ucat ion that Evergreen is
known for. As James Faulstich , a mem ber of the state board thar is rrying [0 increase
higher educarion funding sa id, "There co mes a point where you ca n't sto p thinning and
still have so up ."
Money is dolled o ut by th e state based o n Full Time Eq uivalency st udents o r
FTE. An FTE is eq ual to one perso n taking 15 college credits. The FTE could be
one student taking 15 credits o r a combination of parr-time, full-time or even one
st udent taki ng 20 credi ts.
C urrently Everg reen has 3,837 budgeted FTE's this year. Yet, by the end of the
yea r we're projecred to have abo ut 4,12 1. We will not get any stare money for those
ove r-e nrolled students. Wirh the big budget c uts fro m last year, th e coll ege loses
even more money.
Enrollment in high er education across Washington is growing fast. Nearly all
the public higher ed ucat ion in st itution s are in Evergreen's boat: over-enrolled.
Washington schools will see their high es t graduating class ever in 2008. The size of
prime college going population, 17 to 29 yea r olds, is expected ro increase 15 percent
during next eight years.
With that population growth, Washington needs 29, 000 additional state funded
college enrollments just to keep up.
Bob Craves, the chair of the Washington State Higher Education Coordinating
Board (HECB), has a tough job ahe ad of him. "It's going to cost us a littl e more money
every year... You can't make cuts and increase access."
Parr of the HECB budget recommendation this year is to make $204 million
avai lable over the next two years to create over 15 ,000 new st udent FTE's at Washihgton
colleges.
Art Costantino, Vice President of Student Affairs here at Evergreen , is concerned.
"We can't co ntinue to provide quality and nbt receive funding, " he sa id .

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I interviewed Congressman Jim McDermott on
Halloween.
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That was odd enough. Yet, four days before elections,
he had time for two Greeners (one former, one current)
to talk about the general state of American politics .
There wasn't a single shred of security precautions that
I could see.
I suppose the man had nothing to fear. He won on
Election Day with 69 percent of the vote from his Seattle
District.
The U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott was widely criticized
for his controversial trip [0 Iraq in early October. While
there, he said that Bush would mislead the American
people and expressed his opposition to the war in Iraq.
One of the better-recorded naysayers, Republican Trent
Lott, told him to shut up and come home.
McDermott is home now, and stands as one of the few
anti-war voices in mainstream politics. And he's continued
voicing some extreme statements for a congressman .
McDermott has even accused George W. Bush of hatching
a plot [0 crown himself emperor of America.
"This president is trying to bring to himself all the
power [0 become an emperor- [0 create Empire America,"
he said at a meeting in Seattle in mid-October.
The State Republican Party Chairman Chris Vdnce
said of his comments "were the most irresponsible thing
I've ever heard an American politician say."
Fighting co nflict in a paranoid nation is a lonely job.
'Now his good friend Paul Wellstone is gone. They
wo rked [Ogether on health care issues and he had breakfas t
with Wellstone and his wife on a weekly basis.

Despite all the tragedy and adversity, McDermott
appears jovial. Letters and pictures of suppon litter his
office in downtown Seattle. But most prominent are the
editorial cartoons. They're cut out on the walls, on tables,
laminated, written on. The door to his personal office has a
picture of George . W. Bush from a recent Nation magazine
cover, holding a bomb in a quarterback uniform. Nearby is
a crayoned card drawn by schoolchildren.
The recent visit to Iraq was not his first. He went to
Iraq with a human rights organization in 1991 after the
Gulf War. "We saw the country when it was still smoking,"
he said . He believes that the US "systematically destroyed
the ability to have a civilized city."
Afterwards, many people tried to get him to go back,
but he didn't feel it was necessary. But that was before
the war drums began (0 beat again . He decided to go
again.
When he arrived he saw "what was going on as a
result of 10 years of sanctions." The lethal fallout of the
sanctions has been documented by various human rights
organizations. Sanctions changed the Iraq i people's diets
and affected babies' birth weights.
Depleted uranium is all ove r parts oflraq. McDermott ,
a former physic ia n, went to ta lk [0 th e on ly person
researching cases of uranium poiso ning, an Iraq i wom an
doctor. He wore a full body plastic suit as he sur veyed the
contam inated countryside.
H e also met with rhe Iraq i parliament and va rious
agenc ies. "lll1ust have given the speech 15 times that they
should give unfettered access [0 weapons inspec[Ors, " he
said. He deliberately avo ided meeting Saddam Hussei n.
Although he visited th e county [0 send a message [0
th e American people, he also tri ed to send a message to

the Iraqis. "We wanted to make it clear that we're no t
all like George W."
Of course, McDermott voted no on the passage of
H .J. Res. 114, the bill authorizing use of United States
Armed Forces against Iraq. McDermott was one of the
133 members of congress who opposed the package.
Under the terms of the resolution, the US may attack Iraq
solely on the basis of the President's view that diplomacy
has failed.
"The political system we have puts the biggest
megaphone in the hands of the president," he said. "And
once they get the message they're going to preach the
message whether it makes sense or not."
No one has presented him with a viable legal way to
challenge th e War Powers Act consti(LJtionally. If they
did, McDermott said he would attempt to collect support
In the House of Representatives n ecessary (0 start an
impeachment process.
But, McDermott does not believe that Co ngress is
going to stop it,
In his view, the only thing that is going to stop this war
is the people. So wh at's his advice [0 anti-war G ree ners?
True to Seattl e style, his first sugges tion was "make
a web-site."
"There's enough bright kids down th ere to se t up a
web-sire in an evening." Also, he says, "Public app ea rances
are important. A pic ture is worth a thousand words."
Las tl y, he noted that we sho uldn't ger our informati on
from relevision.
He had to cut th e interv iew short- he had a dentist's
appointment. O n his way out someo ne joked "I hope yo ur
dentist isn'r a republi can."
McDermott laughed.

Cafe, were dragged into the street, turned over, and had
their contents lit on fire.
I talked to a .couple of passer-by at this point. One
commented ':If those hippies burn my car I'll kick their
ass." Another was impressed by the ability of so few
people to have a. "riot." He believed that riots Aormally
required vast numbers.
As the flames grew, police cars began arriving. They
parked on all sides of the intersection, but did not attempt
to interfere with the proceedings. About five minutes after
the dumpsters were ignited the crowd began to disperse.
As far as I could see, nobody was arrested.

Afterwards I spoke with a few Greeners about the
experIence.
Mark Jaffe said "What happened at the end could
have been done differently, especially the burning of the
Traditions dumpster. But I like the idea of a party in the
street at one in the morning. Spontaneous actions are
frowned upon by society, .and it is good to address this."
Morgan Thornberry, who lives near Traditions, was
"disappointed that people would cause destruction in her
neighborhood with no apparent benefit."
And finally, someone known as Opal said that the
event was "glorious."

by Harald Funer-Bennett

Watching
the Watchers
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On th e morning of November eighth carry guns. The guns were to be carried
a gro up of stud ents and faculty ga thered only ar certain tim es of the day and only
in th e HCC for what was one of th e fits( und er specific ci rcumstances. During this
co mmunity review boards. The meeting was year rhere were complaints of excess ive force
ca ll ed by rhe Po lice Services Com muniry and sex ual harassment by police se rvices.
Revi ew Board (PSCRB) and a new 5t-udenr By 2000-01 , campus police co uld be seen
group. The gro up has dubbed themselves a rmed almost round the clock.
It is. understa ndable that havi ng police on
Students and Police for Acco untability and
campus
has its benefits . Before that police
Responsibility or SPAR.
T he mee ring opened with staff member had to be ca ll e~ from town whenever
Lind;! Hohman and chair of th e PSCRB a problem ar09""urthe rmore, th ere has
;!cting as facilit;!tor asking students [0 voice been word of an ex-student making threats
not o nly concerns, but also suggestions as to toward faculty. Howeve r this is no reason
how ro solve the problems . O ne of the fi rst for police [0 act violenrly or disrespectfully
concern s to be brought up was alienat ion toward stude nts. The police s hou ld be
working with students [0 find solutions to
between police and students.
This theme ca rri ed on rhrough Ollt the problems. During the meeting some people
mee ting, giving the atmosphere mo re of a suggested there be events with students and
'where did things go wrong' vibe as opposed police. This would give everyone a chance
to an anti-police vibe. Some students said to communicate and build community. It
was also suggested that a social contrac t
that th ey no longer trusted th e police.
This is not the first tim e students' be developed.
There was a lot of focus on how the
relationship with ca mpus police has beenschool
handles drug issues. It is no secret
jeopardized. During the 1995-96 school
that
Evergreen
is trying to clean up irs
year Thurston co unty Undersheriff Neil
McClan ahan proposed that TESC should reputation as a "pot smoking hippie school.·'
start arming campus sec urity. This was met but many felt arresting drug users and
by fierce opposition by the community. carrying out raids wasn't the best policy. It
Bur, despite petition signed by 1200 people was proposed that the use of peer counseling
a nd ma ss si t ins , in 1996 -97 campus a nd getting RA's involved should be the
safety officers became police officers. They primary way of dealing with campus drug
acquired SWAT style uniforms, the abi li ty use.
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show by TchKung! at the Capitol Theatre Friday night.
Revelers [Ook over the intersection of5'" Avenue and Water
Street, where they danced and burned two dumpsters and
several street signs.
The evening began at the Capitol with three speakers.
A woman addressed the crowd about the recent death of
a shoplifter at the hands of the Olympia Police. A man
spoke about the Earth Liberation Front, an d about the
justification for using property dest ruction and "politically
motivated violence" as tools for ac hievi ng social change.
TchKung! 's lead si nger, Rick Tahoma Wilson, informed
the crowd abo ut Free, a man from Oregon who is currently
se rving a twenty-three year sentence for burning three
sport utility vehicles.
Following the speakers, the Government Iss ue
Orchestra played some good-time square dancing tunes,
and the crowd forgot their rroubles and got down. After
the Government Issue Orchestra, Tchkung! took the stage
with their percussive pseudo Oriental/Celtic punk ttk.
The show was interrupted by a boxing match in front of
the stage between a man in a George Bush costume and a
man dressed as Saddam Hussein.
As Tchkung! played their last notes , the Infernal Noise
Brigade entered the theater from the back, playing lively
marching-band style music with horns and drums. They
performed inside for about ten minutes, and then led the
.crowd out onto the street. About two hundred people
marched and danced down 5'h Avenue.
Rick, T chKung!'s singer, led the crowd with a snare
drum and a loud voice. I heard someone cheer for "our
fearless leade ~ only to be scolded by his companion,
presumably for uttering such an un-anarchist display
of sentiment ..
Some people knocked over newspaper boxes and pasted
flyers on walls. Many of these people had bandannas
covering their faces. When the group got to the intersection
of 5'h and Water St. , across from Traditions Cafe!, they
stopped. A fire was kindled in the intersection using pieces
of street signs. Two dumpsters, one belonging to Traditions

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One Woman's Perspective on Veterans" Day
*OPINION* .
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CORRECTIONS
- Last week (11/7), on the cover article titled
«((Belligerent' Student Maced" the terms mace and
pepper spray were used interchangeably. In fact,
they- are two differencchemic:als.- EV~fgf~-R-P()1-iee
Services uses OC Pepper Spray.
-Also last week, the CP]spelled Robert Macks
Sherman "Max R. Sherman" on his comic on the
Seepage.
The CP] regrets the errors.

by Annjeanette DaUbed
I am here in the longhouse at 1 :30 p.m.
bl
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waiting. Sitting on the pullout grand stand respeAct.. . D
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Veterans Day 2002 brought Evergreen
on under delicate bouquets of red rose and SipS t ~oug .t e crac 0 I. era p~ ltlcs · an auspicious lecture for the "Learning
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optimism). Admiral Carroll graduated out
bouquets but ironically I
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the rail end of the Oil
toryj£my grandfather and ~h~ p07r and responsl - need for policies geared toward cooperati ve
Crisis of the 70s and into
I Ity 0 naming
my ather tgures vartous
creation is given to and peaceful membership in a global comthe likely unrepeatable
levels of silence.. sadness,
humanity, the power to munity" (q uote from the program .) If one
d
tech revolution and disan remoteness.
patronize and empower stayed to hear out the key note speaker
parate decadence and lack
are in the name. It is one would understand that t his man does
of the 80s and 90s. My
not believe special imerests and globalizatherefore a discursive
understanding of war, of
tion
best serve anyone but the special
power to militarize a day
freedom and how the two
of memori al. I would interest, and likely multi-national, CEO's
once were and could become again mutually
themselves. If one wem to the lecture one
exclusive by the draft is limited to the oral think. Would people attend these services if would have heard wise words that support
they knew the meaning better? If the name
history of my grandfather and my father
the peace movement in this country coming
figures' various levels of silence, sadness, conveyed the wish for peace and the end to from the mouth of "the other side."
all war like Armistice Day once attempted
and remoteness.
According to Admiral Carroll, "forWard
would
the children of the Flower Child
Symphonic traditional pieces are piped
presence" is just a dumbing down of
imo the longhouse. The gold trimmed US appreciate this? Would they come to the
"aggressive posture," and "The Patriot
standard is first through this cedar house longhouse and listen to a retired Rear Act is terribly misnamed. " He is strong on
Admiral of the US Navy speak out against
as the color guard practices. The eagle
his point that if we invade Iraq, and force
tipped federal and spear tipped state colors the US president?
a war and win, we will still lose. Why?
What does it take? Another war?
have trouble passing below the thresholds
Because according to Carroll we could
I am at a loss.
between apportioned rooms bue the black
Prisoner's of War and Missing in Action flag
slips by as if the cedar house has granted it
alone a welcome.
Right now with the talking head Walter
. Cronkite prophesying that an invasion of
Iraq will bring on the third world war,
forty years or so after his last veto of a
military action, I am wondering where the
impassioned "young people" are? [ shouldn't
wonder long as I see that they are in this
room with me. They are holding flags,
placing flowers, setting props, and going
ove r their music appropriated from the
dogma and rhetoric of "patriotism" and
"national ism ." They are the ones readying
this hallow for the sage perspective of one
rerired short timer. In another life these
folks were at odds.
Reincarnated here they work together
on what was once Armistice Day doing Rafael Lozano addressed a partially filled room in the Longhouse for a Veteran's Day'
what they do best: Struggling towards what presentation Monday. The featured speaker was Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll, Jr., US
is ideal, what is right, peace and mutual Navy (retired) .

Retired Admiral- Criticizes-Trends-i-n- - ~ ­
US Foreign Policy
squash Iraq and enslave them with debt and
take on a Big Brother role over the country

Conlll7Ued from Walch page 4

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trend, we as a nation risk
the natural half-life of
Empire and the wrath of
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Taking a "Cop Watch" approach, one student had attempted to do "ride
alongs. " He said he had been able to with one of the police "teams," but not
the other. Many people agreed it was a good idea for students to try and do
"ride alongs" in order to keep an eye on police conduct and also to understand
how campus security operates.
There are many ways to get involved and learn more about the role police
play in our lives on campus. One is to read the SOP Document. It's pretty dry,
but it's a good way to understand what your rights are and what you should
expect police to do. Ignorance can only be used against you. Another way to
learn your rights is to come to a monthly 'know your rights training.' They
usually last about an hour and a half and are very helpful. Look for fliers around
campus or call (360)252- 3281 to find out dates and times or if you have legal
questions. If you are notable to make it to a training, head up to the PAC
cubicle located on the top floor of the CAB. There is a lot of information on
file about your basic rights, how to play the 'legal game', and how our rights
have changed since the signing of the patriot act.
If you have questions about stuff that's been happening on campus or have a
. complaint attend SPAR's forum at 9 pm on the second floor of the CAB. There
will be more forums in the coming weeks. At the conclusion of the meeting they
were sc heduled to be on Wednesday afternoons. Keep your eyes open for fliers.
Also, on December third there will be a showing of the movie Urban Warrior
fo llowed by a discussion. This event, sponsored by EPIC and Cop Watch, is
a good way to learn abo ut and explore the "militarization" of America. The
discussion will focus on both the movie and recent events on campus.

If we continue to

but all that' would get us is the hatred and
just cause against us to take out the US .
What does that mean? Well, "We cannot
wave a magic wand to make long standing
problems disappear" nor can we assure,
"the future of safety for Americans" by
subjugating the rest of the world. What we
can do is work with the world community
to find solutions using the American code
of mutual respect.
With brave candor Admiral Carroll
stated, "if broccoli were the major product
of Iraq we wouldn't bother!" And he poses
th e question "What's beyond Iraq ?"
If we co ntinue (0 stay th e o ne.
Superpower and follow an imperialistic
trend, we as a nation risk the natural half-life
of Empire and the wrath of the subjugated.
The Admiral went on to exp ress how the
breaking down of hum an rights abroad
weakens our own. "If we're not going to
mai ntai n democratic institutions .. . What's
the fight about if we don't protect our
institutions?" Admiral Carroll ex pressed his
shock at how "hostile combatants" captured
in this war on terrorism do not fall into the
category of POW and have no righ ts assured
them by any past Geneva human rights
treaties or world community contracts.

Continued from Admiral page 6
have no right to food and water; clean
holding
cdls and beds or toilets. "They can be
kept in a cage! " Carroll says coldl y.
Carroll's solu tio n to the real threat to
ho meland securiry and terrorism ? C lean
;dtcrnative e nergy sources so we arc not
de pendent on o il, a co ntinued fight, or
jihad, for the principles orou r constitutionno t ~ p ecia l inte res ts, and cooperation in
the wo rld co mmunity is tantam o unr as
.. Mili tary con fro ntation lea ds only ro war. ·'
I Ie says W e must press for "the Rul e of Law,
nor th e Ru le of Force" as ci ri ze ns and th ar
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by Mark laRue
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Incarceration vs. Social Programs: What
should be done?
Over the last two years we've seen
deep financial cuts made in every social
service here in Washington state. The only
exception (0 this has been the Department
of Correctional Operations, which got by
without having anything slashed and have
managed to do so for many years now.
When you've read the facts presented
herein, you may question whether this is
justifiable. If so, we urge you to join with us
in pushing for correctional reforms which
would resulr in a cheaper better way of
dealing with crime and produce a savings
of millions that could be used for social
programs.

Facts
There's a toeal of 17 prisons in
Washington State. Fourteen of those were
added since 1980 and we have 15, 000
prisoners presently incarcerated. Along
with that, we've seen a corresponding rise
in the priso n budget, close to 1 billion
dollars.
No purpose has been served by this
because our approach to crime and punishment has failed over 20 years to produce
permanent decreases in the crime rate. A
temporary drop here or there is the best
we can point to in any given category.
Evidence of this so rt makes it necessary
to consider new methods which would
address th ese problems without being a
waste of money.

Solution
To this end we need to shift the
approach we've taken from long term
incarceration to crime victim compensation.·
Reliance on the former has justified big
budgets for corrections without producing
any real solution. Our plan requires a stay
in jailor prison until a debt is paid by
the offender. Only non-violent drug or
property related offenses would qualify
under the program, but this covers half the
inmate population.
This of course makes it possible for
you and others to recover your loses any
time someone is convicted of those kinds
of crimes. Once paid, the offender would
be free to go becaus.e they were punished to
the fullest under our laws.
Under our plan, prisoners don't simply
sit in prison watching TV when they're
locked up, they pay for their crime in
a real way. It would help both victims
and taxpayers alike by restoring a victims
property and emptying cells once their
debt's paid off. No one benefits by having
them in prisons using up money needed for
programs ha~d hit by cuts in our budget.
We seek to pa~s legislation making
this a law.

To contact Mark La Rue write to
629174 E-2061MU
Po. Box 900
Shelton, WtJ 98584

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uphold and use our institu rions and make
them right" answers them . I just need to go
to the US Constituti on to find his answers:
We have a right ro due process and we have
the obligation to fi ght enemies foreign and
dom es ti c.
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As The Evergreen World Turns

The Tao of Nonsense:
Breathing Death

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In 1997 Evergreen was a very different place than it is now. The majority
of
were
in their
and
- -students
--- - mid-twenties
----transfers from other colleges. Life in dorms
was absent of any deaths between 1997 and
June 2000. I can remember nary a "drug
bust,", only an occasionat search-and-seizure
of things left open in plain sight. Outside
of that, we rarely even noticed the police
presence in our lives.
Once I saw a young man who stood
naked by the HCC in a rare moment of early
spring sun. The campus police drove by and
asked him to put his clothes on . He said
nothing. They asked him quietly two more
times, and then told him that he was going
to be arrested. As one of the officers touched
him on the arm, he passed out and hit the
ground head first. He was taken away by
ambulance a few minutes later. There were
40 witnesses.
Another time, an acquaintance had
a domestic violence problem in the Glen and
atrempted to commit suicide. An Evergreen
police officer came to my dorm at 4:00 a.m.
and asked me if I would come and check
her into the hospital. The officer waited for
me, drove me to Capitol Medical Center,
and then drove my acquaintance and I back
to school.
The only time I ever heard of a gun
being drawn at Evergreen was when an officer
drew his gun as a joke, showing it to another
staff member. He was fired relatively quickly.
So I ask, What is the deal? Since when did
Evergreen's Police force escalate to one that
plans "drug busts?" Has there ever been a
day at Evergreen where you could not walk
into a dorm, catch a naughty drug-selling
student and arrest him or her?
I cite the following problems with
this simation:
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1. Kids" are dumb. Have you ever heard of
being discreet and exercising moderation
since you are doing something illegal? Is it
wrong to expect a real police officer to ignore
the laws that he has sworn to uphold?
2. Shouldn't all hou sing be legally at least
drug-free? Maybe people over the age of 21
should be in different housing where legal age
could determined (though it might violate
age discrimination laws .) Besides, as most
people have discovered, ADF housing is a
joke. Kids don't follow the rules. If students '
want to live a Dionysian life, let them
rent houses and apartments (which are far
cheaper than housing) like the fraternities

and sororities do at the great University of
Washington.
3. Limit freshman enrollment to state locals
and the total ;mount that 'N dorm "Can house.
Let the freshman experience be a true freshman experience, a small insular community
which has to be intimately involved with the
Evergreen social contract and who is carefully
observed and guided .by a responsible faculty
of adult-learners. The Evergreen experience
can only be effectively used by a certain kind
of freshman student who has demonstrated
prior evidence of self-determination. Send
the rest to junior college!
4. Additionally, as I discovered in the first
"Ask Les" column a few weeks back, they
are planning on upping TESC enrollment
by 1000 students. Admission Standards,
people! For Pete's sake, you can't just let any
crum-bum into Evergreen because they are
being paid a free ride by their trust
fund. My idea is to re-rank the admissions
sys tem to where the prime slots go to transfer
students with backgrounds in public service.
I think public service prior to Evergreen
admission should be the prime requirement
for admiuance.
5. Allow the community to involve themselves
with the hiring of Police Service officers. I
am not sure if! know the officers involved in
the "gun-drawing incident" or the "student
macing" incident, but I don't want to think
that any of the police officers I met since I
came to Evergreen were responsible. They
seemed to care about the student's safety
and the safety of our cars, book bags, and
pets even. Hurting, scaring, and punishing
students was something I thought they were
not capable of It makes me feel very sad, like
something I trusted has changed in a dark
and frightening way.
• Kids: I use this term to describe any young
adult who takes an egocentric approach to
this college.
Note : One correction from last week 's article.
It is possible to get a full meal at the Cafeteria
downstai rs in the CAB for under 5,000
bucks. Such meals include juice, fried fish
or chicken and fries. The upstairs of the
Greenery is a little different. Another note:
I respect the job that all the classified staff
do at Evergreen and do not think that staff
are working here to line their pockets with
student money in general. Tip: Buy your
soda from the vending machines as they are
cheaper than the food service beverages.

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The first draft of this morbid column
was- 'lo-s-t --in- a fiery technical dispute tile iMac
had with my disk. Oh the irony, an article
about death and the second it is born, it
dies.
Anyway, this past weekend, some
friends and I sat in a circle at a parry in a ',blissful' state reading Charles Bukowski's Love is a
Dog From Hell, and I wondered, is this death?
Pain gone, tranquil, calm, laughing, having wonderful thoughts
about the darker
side of life, parading around L.A .
drunk and lonely,
watching fallen
angels
singing
about H ollywood,
broken wings, and
misery.
That night I felt Iike a gooey piece
of blac k t a r, licking himself to realize his
own juxtapose of sweet bitterness and empty
fulfillment. A twisted paradox swirling in
smoke rings showing me the way to the Grim
Reaper. Suddenly I was reminded of my own
imminent death brought on by current events
of suicide and the approaching war. Despite
what my ego would have me believe, I am
not invincible; I do feel pain, I bleed, and
I am mortal after all. The only thing that
makes me immortal is the theory that we are
eternal souls endlessly reincarnating up and
down a ladder, a karmic wheel, a circle. We
do this until we reach a climax answering all
our biggest questions. Then it starts all over
again, or does it?
My state of incapacitation led to
lessons from suicide. The fear of life turning
to the death that most fear. Is it courageous
or cowa rdly? Both, yet the selfish aspect to
alleviate suffering and explore the other side
falls short of popular and joyous fascination.
A trail of grief, mou rning, and depression is
left in the minds and hearts of those close
to the individual ; there is no escape. Still,
this choice has an external, societal stimulant
that pushed them over the edge leaving them
with nothing left to do, nowhere to go, and
no one to turn to for help. Maybe they got
lost in the maze of repetition and robotic
mundane -mechanical-mayhem stemming
from separation from our wild nature. It must
exist to show us our failure to communicate

and the malfunctions within our cultural
With program names varying from So, You Want to be a Teacher, to Hype and Hucksters,
in Burien, WA, was drawn to Evergreen
structure.
it's easy to wonder, "What the hell is that about?" Now that I have my own column to write
because of the dynamic environment.
- - --We thei1\)ury, burn, and- oreathe- in-;-l>ve-dedrle<i to-elabQrate-on-a-differenr-pro.gram-every-other:veek-or-so;-'Fhis~week-the~---""Fm-rea.lly-happy·with-everyrhing," says
them into memory through epitaphs, eulolucky raffle winner was The Weird and Wondrous, taught
Tyler Montague. "The studio art projects
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time, but othetwise it's an interesting class."
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Then it was changed to a freshman "core" program when
250 pages and writes two papers a week. In
10 common: sharing the ~nhale-and-exhale it became apparent that another core program was needed.
addition to these two things, Tyler works
cycle. The al,r, the space Will always be there
Jean Mandeberg describes her class as "exploring those
on a final project which is due at the end of fall quarter and on a weekly studio art project.
like the dead, living longer than any organthings that are both weird and wondrous and their relation
He has spent about 70 dollars so far on "mostly watercolors and acrylic paint." Tyler, who
ism with a pulse,
to questions about how we interpret the world around wants to be a writer, is from Salt Lake City, Utah.
along with the unius." Jean thinks her class is going very well and that it is,
Thomas "Brad" Meyers enjoys the Weird and Wondrous both because it involves watching
verse that pumps
"stimulating, challenging, and thought provoking." To
creative and weird science fiction movies and because they get to work in three-dimensional
elements through
date, Weird and Wondrous has had one field trip to the art. "We have two seminars every week, and I think it's great because it's good to.be discussing
th 0 m
Tacoma Museum of Glass and the Seattle Art Museum. At
books with other students who like what they're reading and doing. I can handle the pace
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everythmg else. We
six original works of Joseph
fiction and poetry based on the
wake from nightCornell in the Conservation
art work of Joseph Cornell. Brad,
mares only to sleepStudio.
whose other interests include graphic
walk through our
Erica Nomura thinks arts and graphic design , is from
d aze,
forgetting
our
of her profess ors as wellKirkland, WA and attended Juanita
dreams, and releasing them from the posinformed. She enjoys the
High School.
sibility of ever being applicable allegories
integrated aspect of the proWhen I was conducting interthat could answer the my s teries of the
gram . "I enjoy the opporviews for this article, faculty member
tunity to synthesize both Thad Curtz was unavailable for
subconscious. We must use death as a tool
art and writing," says Erica,
an interview. Also, special thanks
to live our lives within lucid dreams, leaving
"because when I was in high goes out to Penny Hinojosa for her
it all behind, and scattering remnants of
school they were separate,
contribution to this column's story
ourselves all over the planet in an anempt to
and it was difficult to see how ideas.
remain ingrained in infinity forever.
the two were related." Erica,
Death is the art of life, and life is the
Faculty Jean Mandeberg and Thad Curtz
who is from Highline High
The author can be reached at
an of death. Death will push us funher than
Jbobbafett@aol.com
anything because of our survival instincts. It is
the only thing that will ever make us live each
day to its fullest. And so it goes. The eternal
quest continues to consciously cultivate '
compassion, with all minds concentrating
-bv Keith Houser
simultaneously on one thought to transcend
and ascend. Our spirits can spin and leap, as
And domestic enforcement is 14 rimes less
largely by granting the rebels control over Prevention, June 22, 2000).
In January of 2001, Senator Carl
we skip on stars. Individuals can pronounce
Perhaps most notoriously, billions - efficient-; yet receives 73% of all U.S. tax
Levin's Minority Report from the ' Senate the h'e roin trade. Isla mic terrorist Gulbuddin
themselves princes of their own planets
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Hekmatyar was a prime recipient of U .S. of dollars in U.S. military aid has been senr dollars devoted to combating this social
and play with all the powerful images the on Correspondent Banking' stated, "Esti- aid while simultaneously trafficking tons to help Colombia crush a leftist insurgency problem ("Controlling Cocaine: Supply
imagination ever invented.
mates .are that $500 billion to $1 trillion of of opium and heroin from Afghanistan led by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Versus Demand Programs," C. Peter Rydell
May these flocks of fools fly south
international crimin'al proceeds are annually into Europe. The CIA-linked Bank of Com- Colombia (FARC) . Colombia is the Western and Susan S. Everingham, RAND Corporainto the mouth of post-mortem prosperity,
moved internationally and deposited into merce and Credit International (BCC!) was Hemisphere's top human rights abuser as tion, 1994).
concluding with a moment of clarity finally
So are "drugs" really the target in
bank accounts. It is estimated that half of that instrumental in this entire scheme of arms well as the hemisphere's top recipient of
figuring out the immortality of our fatality.
money comes to the United States." What trafficking and drug-money laundering, not U.S. military aid, and also produces the this global war we've been engaged in? Or is

Beyond the B~bble •• The Drug Lords in D.C.
.

NateHogan @excite.com
Ps- Before I d ie, when I'm just a vegetable
incapable of any enjoyable interaction with
the outside world, I want to slowly ingest and
inject every drug under the sun over about a
weeks time and be thrown out of a plane into
a volcano. I thank you in advance, all of those
who will fulfill my dying wishes.

bv Mike Treadwell
Brewster. I rode with both of them during
the course of the night. I also went on a walkthrough of the dorms with one of the officers
and the housing staff, and it seemed to me that
both officers were very nice people (Thanks
to Darwin Eddy for making this all happen .)
Even though I have only done
the ride-along once it doesn 't seem like
the complaints from students must be
coming from Team A. Darwin, Lana, and
Kirk have all worked at the school for
along time and it seems like they have a
pretty good relationship with the students.
But Team A is only half the story,
guys. Every four days a new team comes in to
work. Team B consists ofdifferent people than
Team A. Team B is also a lot newer. Last but
not least, Team B has the most talked about
police officer on campus, Anthony Perez.

I tried -to establish a ride along with
Team B and each time they came up with
a different reason why I couldn't ride with
them. Luckily forthe students, I'm persistent.
I will keep trying to establish a ride along
but there is new information that I received
about Team B since I tried to go with them.
The second thing that happened
this past week was the police review board
meeting. I woke up and ran down to the
H .C.C. to attend it on Friday at 10 a.m. I
was shocked by how many people were there
(It's hard to get people at an optional meeting
unless they really want to be there). The
attendance was strong and the message was
loud and clear. Something has to change. The
air around campus is tense at the moment.
Things can only stay this way for so long
before
matters
escalate.

~n~o~v~e~m~b~er~1~4~,~2~0~0~2~~~~~~th~ecooper

ver~reen

by Jon McAllister

by Nate Hagen

A Tense Air Sweeps the Campus
The last Cooper Point Journal
(1117102) was what I called, "The Police
Issue ." The reason I call it that is
beca use t here were at least fou r a rtides
on the subject (One of those articles was
written by myself). Since that article went
to print, some things have happened.
The two things that happened were:
One, that I went on a ride along with Team
A of Evergreen's Police Services, and two,
there was a community review meeting
about the police on Friday the 8th at 10 a.m .
The ride-along I went on was about
three and a half hours long (Unlike some
people who just complain about the cops,
I DO something about it). It was a rather
uneventful and very slow night. However, it
was very nice to meet the officers of Team A
that were on duty, Kirk Talmadge and Lana

Eye on

One issue that came up I had to
laugh at: 24 hour ride-alongs? I don't think
many people are that dedicated. Before this
became an issue, I was willing to do a ride
along every week to watch the police in
action as a service to my fellow Evergreen
students. I am still willing to do this.
In conclusion, I think that the level
of unhappiness with the police force, mainly
Team B, can't stay this way and the problems
are not easily solved. Steve Huntsberry
has decided to change things up by making
Darwin Eddy supervise Team B and Tony
Neely supervise Team A. It's great to
see that someone is trying to fix the
problem, but I think the problem is
more deep-rooted than that. Therefore,
I decided to end this with a quote by
Rodney King: "Can't we all just get along?"

point journal

is the world 's champion of drug prohibition
doing awash in funds that are undoubtedly
tied to narcotics trafficking> Indeed, there is
an undeniably consistent historical pattern of
our government facilitating the movement of
illicit drugs around 'the globe.
It is known that the Uniq:d States
government rebuilt the French Mafia for use
in undermining labor unions and the leftist
political movement in post-war France. The
price of employing these lowliest of winesipping delinquents was the reconstruction of
the Marseilles-based heroin trade (Deterring
Democracy, Noam Chomsky, 1991).
After the victory of Mao Zedong's
Communist forces in China in the late 1940s,
Chiang Kai-shek and his U.S.-supported
Chinese Nationalist troops fled to Indochina
and became intricately linked to the opium
trade in the "Golden Triangle" of Laos,
Thailand; and Burma. By the time of the
Vietnam War, the Central Intelligence
Agency- was actively assisting the regional
drug economy to help pay for the transforrnation of recruited Meo tribesmen in Laos into
a counter-insurgency mercenary force (Peter
Dale Scott, The War Conspiracy, 1972).
Throughout the Soviet invasion
of Afghanistan in the 1980s, the CIA '1nd
its Pakistani counterpart, the lSI, armed,
trained, and financed the Afghan resistance

to mention bribing politicians in 73 different
countries ("The BeC I Affair," A Report to
the Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator John Kerry and Senator Hank Brown,
December 1992).
Years later, in 2001, after the brutal
Taliban took power, it instituted a total ban
on the cultivation of opium poppies within
its terrirory. In 20.01, only 185 metric tons
of opium was grown in Afghanistan, down
from 3,276 the previous year. Now that the
Northern Alliance has taken over, opium
production is set to skyrocket to over 3,500
tons in 2002 (Illicit Drugs Situation in the
Regions Neighboring Afghanistan and the
Response of the ODCCP, United Nations,
October 2002).
After the NATO bombing ofYugoslavia, the ethn ic Albanian Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA) Mafia was able to consolidate
its control over the heroin entering Europe.
According to Michel Chossudovsky of the
University of Ottawa, 7 5% of the heroin
enrering Western Europe coines from Turkey,
largely via the Balkans with Albania as the
most crucial link in the network. Since
the NATO air strikes, drug trafficking has
dramatically increased in the region, as
has the presence of organized crime (Pino
Arlacchi, Executive Director of the United
Nations Office of Drug Control and Crime

va st majority of all cocaine consumed by
the United States. About 80% of the human
rights violations in Colombia come from
the paramilitary death squads, which act as
private mercenary armies for drug cartels
and large landowners. Commonly referred
to as the "Sixth Division" of the Colombian
military, they have been known ro engage in
"social cleansing," which includes the murder
of "prostitutes, homosexuals, crim ina Is,
drug addicts, street children and informal
garbage collectors, among others." While
the FARC taxes the cultivation of coca, (the
plant that is the basis for the drug cocaine,)
the paramilitaries are deeply involved in
all aspects of the drug trade. The main
paramilitary leader, Carlos Castano Gil, even
admits that some 70% of his group's funding
comes from drug trafficking (UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights Report
2000, February 8, 2000).
To top it off, not only has the CIA
admitted to dealing drugs in the United
State s (Volume II of Inspector General
Frederick Hitz's report on the CIA, October
8, 1998), but treatment of drug addiction is
literally 49 times more effective in reducing
the social costs of drug abuse in the U .S.
than source-country control (i.e . aerial
fumigation). Drug interdiction at our borders
is 23 times less cost effective than treatment.

the cooper point journal

this a cover for much more cynical designs?
I think you know the answer.

november 14, 2002

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the ~ecciving en~ oft:he Jabs he Ihrows m .the rtng~:T0 finish, IDo/ get to~:etller
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catch it locally at the Lacey Cinemas; but. it's not worth the matmee. If you want a
movie: hold out a couple of weeks for Di~ Anoth~r Day.
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Still Enchanted:
Pretend You Were Cool The First Time Around

time to rejuvenate your
as this quarter begins to kick
(asthe kids are saying). So gO'out
~Jvm•• , 4lJ-P'aclt. of Pop Tarts at Costco. _
·biJrtb,rl/ly with" hunk-,,-hunk-a
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vo~~forI?f;~14 R~agan (gum the rifmnce
and. win'.,a:'cookief). Baldwin brother alert!
You share II ' birth-day with Danieliliong with
pn/J"ps the g,vamet living actrus, Juli Ashton
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Become one with nature this week. Admire
tht trees. Listen to the gentle mrf Dance naked
in the woods whIle crankin' Winger on your
ghuto blaster. You share a birthdAy with the
uber-classy Demi Moore (11 Nov) all~endary
pornographer Calvin Kkin (19 Nov).

sagittarius
Don't lase the ability to keep your cool and
be fru from bitterness, especially this week,
as you will·be assartlted by a small man irt a
yellow leotard carrying a s~ork.· Yo" .share a
birthday fJJith the mosl annoYlllg Calladllw ever,
Paul Schaffir (28 Nov) a"d singing sensation
Donny Osmo~ (9 Dec).

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Just whip it. Whip it good. You share a
birt/){illy wit" people-frimdly Val Kilmer (31
Dec) and Patrick Dempsey himself (13 jarl).

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You re getting frustrated WIth homscopes
becawe you can't figw'e out what the whole
thing means. Well, listen up, crybaby; I just pllt
down what I get from the stars and planets.
It's your job to figure this crap out. So, get busy
and stop complaining. You share a birthday
with Molly RingwaU from the "where are they
now?" caugory (18 Feb) as well as Americas
fov071e ion, Gary Co)fzn:" (8 Feb).

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It's your tum to shine, my friend. You alone
possess the skills, courage and knflwled?,e t~
make BufJ Ravioli even beefier! Amenca IS
behind you; we believe in you!! You sh~,,: a
birthday with the jokes that keeps on gt~tng,
FreI"'i~ PrinU, Jr, (8 Mar) and· E,rilr Estrada
(J6¥ar). . ',
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My friends aod' I 'weilt to see.
I SpY in hopes 'of a good laugh. ·

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Ten years after the 1990s came into their .ow~ mUSICally, I~S tha.t time again .
Yep, it's time for the record labels to start cashing m on nostalgia. Reissues, almost
as a rule, tend to be dodgy affairs. The album you loved so much IS now avazlable
/0 buy allover again, with an added bonllS disc ofJohn Doe and Exene Cervmka
cooing to each other between takes in the stt/dio! Includes 50-page booklet of Mr.
Major Label Executive recalLing what bodily fluids he discharged tnto hiS pants upon
first hearing the album!
.
.
The eve r-shortening time betwee n nostalgia cycles can mean only one thmg: break
out the flann el and move to Seattle, it's time {o relive the early 90s! lr comes as no
surprise then that Matador Records has re-released the album tha.t defined alternative
rock in the I 990s: Nirv- ahem- Pavement's Slanted & Enchanted.
While Ni rvana's N evermind blew the.doo r open for alternative rock's rush to the
main's tream , ir merely summarized the accomplishments of many of the 1980s finest
alt-rock bands like Husker Du , th e Pixies and Mudhoney. The ensuing commerCial
success of grun ge mad e "Alternative Rock" an inherent paradox and c rea~ed a void in
the independent scene as sco res of gr unge bands turn ed rhelr reb ell ion Into money.
Represe ntin g a ISO-degree turn from th e brutal but uni ve rsal emotio nal honesty
of N irvana and its peers, Pa ve ment re placed pam With Iron y and smugn ess. Rath er
than (su p posedl y) acc identall y writing anthems fo r a ge nerati o n , t he y wrote
three- minute insid e jokes . Unt il the recen t wave o f "neo -garage, " ra ge was left
to th e likes o f Fred Durst and Em inem . Me;lnwhil e. rhe indi e sce ne re ve led in
crypti c lyrics. hiJd t' l1 melodi es and postmodc rn emotio nal detachment- all a
li vi ng legacy of Paveme nt.
. . .
. .
The album itself is :dm ost an aft<.:rth o ught In th iS pacbge. \X' hrl e the di gital
remaste rin g makes iT sound berter than evcr, it also emph as izes. just how lo-fi they
were. The \Y,'fllcry, DOII/estic [P. while not impossible to find In th e used bll1s, IS
co nve ni en tl y add ed here TO docum ent the transiti o n Pavement made to\;:a rd s t he pop
so ngcraf't of Crooked Rflin , Crooked RfliJi. D esp ite th e nOI sy acsth enc of Texas Never
W hi spers" , rhe move was alread y app arent. making Its inclUSion a vital docum ent
of Pave ment 's move towards th e main stream (or as marnstr('a lll as th ey wo ul d ge t).
Far fro m be ing rough skerches of so ngs, th e omtakes a ~'e all fin is hed ve r~, i o n s of
previously un released material. At long last , a studi O recordIng o flrv e fav?nre Baptist
Black ti ck" is widely avai labl e. Breakin g from thelT dispaSSiona te slacker Im a~,e" s l~ ge r
Stephen Malkm us recounts a Bible talc of so rts built ;\[o ~,nd th e refrain I m J~ s t
waiting fo r th e baptist, that sad sucker left me In Damascus bef~re co ncludll1g with
th e kind of unintelligible scream ing and overdnven guitars tha t s fashI o nable agalll
th ese da ys. Of equal interes t to fans is "Nothin g Eve r Happens", a fu ll y devel oped
ve rsion of the 17 -seco nd coda to 'Trigger C ut". Addition all y, Slan ted & Enchanted:
Luxe & Reduxe proves o nce and fo r all Pa ve ment's ramp ant .A nglophilia . From
rhe rw o John Peel session s (a virtua l rite o f passage for Englr sh bands) to therr
li ve show in London to th eir obv ious trea tm ent of sin gles and [Ps as albums
unto th emselves, th e band's long-r umored obsession with t he English co m es o ut
in full fo rce here.
Slanled & Enchanted: Lllxe & Reduxe is less a reissue than a co mprehensive box
se t of Pavement's ea rl y yea rs . Although hints o f the pop brilliance to follow are
evident, the album remai ns as crypti c and challenging (or eve n elitist) as ever. While
Crooked Rain, Croaked Rain remains the best introduction to Pavement out all of
their incarnations, this massive reissue is the best document yet of the band at their
most important. As The Nirvana Estate bickers with itself over the. rights to the
Cobain moneypile, Pavement and M atador Records have set a splendid example of
how to handle the legacy of 90s alt-rock.

If you thought P.T. "Magnolia"
Anderson's Punch [)runk Love was
a grandiose, tour-de-force piece of
filmmaking bravado, think again.
Adam Sandler plays Barry Egan,
the film's awkward, painfully shy,
and tortured man who is full of
rage. This film is Adam Sandler's
first serious dramatic role and it
must be acknowledged that Sandler's
performance shows that he is not a onedimensional actor who is only capable of
portraying ludicrous dimwits.
Without giving away too much of the
film's plot, Punch Drunk Love is a love story
about the awesome power of love to defeat
even the most debilitating inner demons
that people possess. This premise manifests
itself schizophrenically through Barry's
serendipitous, head-over-heels journey with
Lena, played by the absolutely adorable
Emily Watson.
The problem with this film is not the
actors, but the director.
P. T. Anderson won and melted the
hearts of many filmgoers and critics with
his cryptic yet ultimately accessible epic,
Magnolia . Anderson showed he was a
capable auteur by weaving together intricate
and richly detailed sub-stories about people
with fucked-up problems, conveying powerful commentaries on life, love, and redemption. I don't blame Anderson for trying to
do the same with Punch Drunk Love, but
this time Anderson has lost his directori al
dexteriry.
.
.
Punch Drunk Lope is morc th an just a
love sto ry. However, the film doesn't allow
the audience to figure that o ut--- the film
is too enigmatic for its own good. Punch
Drunk Love is like a bad run-on sentence;
it's replete with good ideas, but th e form
in which these ideas reside prevents th em
from blossoming into mag ical , cinematic
moments.
For exa mpl e , th e film begins with a
seq uence featuring a bi za rre car-wre ck.
Initi all y, th e car wreck seems li ke a non
seq uit ur. By the end of the tilm, cold reality
has p roven that indeed it was indeed a
random car w reck. Egan also comes into
possess ion of a h:df-broken han nonium.
T his painfully tries to stan d as a sy mbo l,
but th e sy mboli s m ultimat ely remai ns
elusive.
Another plo t-l;lO le tha t see ms egregious,
unl ess peo ple we re to ignore it, is Lena's love
for Ega n. Exactlv why Lena has so mu ch
love for Egan that she igno res his t roublin g
p ersonality and hi s social in ep titude is
un clear. T he audience is ex pec ted [ 0 believe
th at her love is ge nuin e.
Las tl y, another great thin g about this
movie, not surprisingly, is Philip Seymour
Hoffman. H e plays the owner of a pho nesex blackm a il operation thar Egan gets
trapped into , and th eir confrontation later
in the film is a rea l pleasure.
Punch Drunk Love wo n Best Picture at
this year's Can nes Fi lm Fest ival. Perhaps
the Fre nch enjo y weird movies. The best
thing I can say abou t this film is that it's
definitely a wei rd trip and neve r boring;
the film will hook you in . You'll be in for
a wild ride with truly funny moments and
heartwarming, emotional sce nes. I just Wish
the film were less of a letdown, beca use
it ultimately leaves its viewers with a bad
aftertaste.

Olympia area artists are
holding their 12th Annual
Wimer Fine Art and Craft
Show and Sale at St. John's
Episcopal Church (Capitol
Way at 19th, Olympia WA)
on December 6th and 7th.
Collectively known as the
OPEN D00R GALLERY,
this group is composed of
local painters, prinrmakers,
jewelers, photographers,
fiber artists, potters and
makers of a variery of fine
craft. Show hours will be
1 I :00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. on
Friday December 6 and
11 :00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. on
Saturday December 7. The
show is free and open to
"Cat's Cradle" at the 12th'Annual Winter Fine Art and Craft Show and Sale.
all.
There are new participants this year, including
Patricia Gonzalez-Richardson, who works in the traditional Mexican craft of embossed tin and Robin Ewing, who creates stained
glass. Some of Olympia's most established artists will return this year, including Betty-Jo Fitzgerald, a nationally-renowned
watercolor artist and June Kerseg-Hinson, who exhibits her baskets internationally and has won national awards. June has created
unique ornaments for this exhibit.
Other artists participating in the event include Debra Gurtler, Jean Cook, Sharlynn Russell, David Kaynor, Sarah Utter, Cathy
Jensen, Pam Wells, The Meralheads, Carol Hannum and Karen Utter.
For

mnr~

information, contact:

Carol Harl"um 866-2713
Cathy jenstn 866-0528
Karm Utter 943-8650
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If Sleater-Kinney was a living, breathing person, I would cross the street to
avoid them for fear of being bombarded
by bombastic proclamations like " I'm the
queen of rock and roll! " or "Culture is what
we make it." Sleater-Kinney lyrics can be
trite and cliched, with no sense of irony
in lines like "Innocent people die, uh ohl
There are reasons to unite" . Their 91 II song
"Combat Rock" on One Beat feels about as
politically relevant as the Who's "Won't Get
Fooled A~ain" and yet stereor;ypically lefty
lines like "The President hides while working men rush in to save lives" sound more
angry than Rage Against The Machine's
entire catalog. Why? Because, musically,
they are such a powerful force th at the
most worn out of cliches began to sound
like righteous revelations abour love,
injustice, and how great all-girl bands arc (a
subject done to death by everyone from The
Runaways to Heart) . Hell, Sleater-Kinney
even makes pedagogy sound fun. All Hands
on The Bad One's "#1 Must Have", a song
about the corporate co-option of the riot
grrl scene sounds less like the rambling 'zine
rant it is and more like an aching testimonial
about the contradictions capitalism forces
upon the individual. Corin Tucker's voice is
so huge that she can encompass fear, doubt,
loathing, and joy all in one line. When her
vocal cords tremble on the high notes, an
inexpressible ambiguiry thills the listener.
When on "Far Away", she screams "Why
can't I get along with you?" she seems to
be questioning the very existence of peace
anywhere, at any time. Over and over on
One Beat otherwise cliched songs are saved
by the intensity of the arrangements and
the interplay between Brownstein and
Tucker's voice. Like an argument between
the conscious and the unconscious, each
singer alternates submitting to and disturbing the other voice. How else to explain how
a song like "Prisuina", an ode to a college
co-ed finding .. sigh .. . rock and roll, sounds
more like "Pristtina" has found an Sand M
club. But considering "This American Life"
contributor and aurhor Sarah Vowell has
described Sleater-Kinney songs as "supreme
acts of violence", somehow I'm not surprised
"Prisstina" sounds like it does. Just as Patsy
Cline's voice suggests the bottomless pi t
of loneliness in the human heart, Corin
Tucker summons a primeval rage that can
never be satisfied, And the guitars! Corin
Tucker and Carrie Brownstein guitar lines
are like Medusa's hair, snaking around
each other, and like the Greek queen, they
freeze the listener in his or her path . One
Beat's "The Remainder" rocks harder than
anything I've heard in a long time. It puts
every orher rock band to shame. Despite the
fact that live Sleater-Kinney tells hecklers
they "appreciate" their " input", SleaterKinney are the exact inverse of the C las h:
Instead of turning blind rage into thoughtful politics, Sleater-Kinney turns thoughtful
politics into blind rage. Though they always
come across as polite and reaso nable, there
is nothing harmless about Sleater-Kinney.
While bands like Sahara Hotnights and
The Donnas parade out the same rock
and roll cliches, only with th e genders
reversed, Sleater-Kinney transcends feminist
politics, grounding their rage in something
even more frightening than patriarchy:
abjection.

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by Mark Germano
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The Evergreen Goey Ducks have sryle
when it comes to bowling.
Tyler Combs said, "Bowling is sexy.
All of my girlfriends say so."
I asked a few of the groupies who
the sexiest member of the team was. I
received enthusiastic responses about
how srylish Eric's cloths were, but it was
agreed that Tyler generates the most sex
appeal when he picks his wedgies just
before he gets ready to roll.
''I'm the worst on the team, in more
ways than one." Said Tyler.
When I asked Nate about sex appeal
in bowling he let out a confident
chuckle. I then asked him if penis size
increases after a strike. The expression of
his face turned solemn and he replied,
"Exponentially."

These rolling stars are altogether seri- handed it to me. He said, and I quote,
ous when it comes to bowling though. 'Plant this and it willgrow.'"
T hey've also given their balls names,
Everything else is just a byproduct of the
hard work they put into the team. Mark to get a better feel for them . Mark's
said , "Some might say it's about the ball is named Laurel a nd the other
is named Donna.
money, the women,
-,- ,- ,- ..---,- -,- . These tWo balls
the drugs. For me
are shared between
it's a labor of love.
Bowling is sexy. All of my
the team members.
It makes a man
girlfriends
say
so.
Most other teams
feel good when he
knows he's given it
--~ .J. in the league own
from six to ten
his all. "
There is also a certain amount of balls , but these boys like to keep it
superstition involved in this dynamic real.
Whether it be skill, luck or a natural
game. The team mascot is a crystal.
Before a roll, team members hold the ease, these four might possibly be on
crystal in their hand until they feel the their way to the championship. I asked
power reverberate through their body. them if they would take a vow of celibacy
Tyler said, "It defies the understood for the duration of the tournament to
stay focused. Tyler piped up quickly.
laws of science."
When I asked where they got the "Hell no!" he said, "I can't afford to.
sacred object Eric said, "Some hippie What else would I do with my time?"

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cal about World War II is pl aying at 7:30 p.m . at The
ter for the Performing Arts .
Several Perspectives" Olympia F.O.R. TV Program debuts at

Towards the end of their last match,
the third and final game hung by a
wire. I asked Eric how he felt about the
suspense, "A little drunker than I was
before." Was his replYi
As we were leaving I asked coach
Soileau how she felt. "I get depressed."
She said, " I have to wait until next
week for the fun to begin again. The
fun is over. Do you understand? The
fun is over."
"That's the life of a bowler." Said
Nate.
,
As we walked out of Westside Lanes,
the team had won, but a sense of mystery
hung in the air. I asked Combs how h e
felt. He replied, "I 'feel hot and sweary. I
feel like taking my shirt off and smoking
a cigarette."
"Well, lets get drunk." Eric then
sa id, "Someone at th e bowling alley
stole my shoes."

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the Washington Center for the Performing Arts. It will have music. A lot of
music. More than you can handle, in fact.

ay 11/15
, a Sha Higby, a master of costume design performs at Evergreen's Experimental
'T heater at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the box office.
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- ,.;, Post-apocalyptic.hip-hop show at 9 p.m. at Le Voyeur featuring Alias
'~' Fre"quencies , Oddward Endall, OJ Health , The Saints of Everyday Failures.
- "" "The Peace Movement and the Media-What Image?" The Western Washington
FOR Fall Retreat in Lacey will help the peace movement use the media more
effectively by sharing insights , skills, etc. Friday 5: IS p.m . registration,
5 :30 p.m . continuou s potluck dinner, 7-9:45 p. m . program. Sat. 7:30
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Catc~' ESITU, Flasque, and Foulplay pLus special guests live at Capital Theater's
J3ac.¥S:tage. Doors open at 6 p.m., show at 6:30. Cover charge of $5 .
Acc~ps Services for Students with Disabilities presents When Billy Broke His
Head . .. and Other Tal(s (Jf Wonder, a film about the movement for civil
rights for people w ~ h disabilities that "refuses to tell the 'inspirationaL' stories
, w,ehave come to ex:p~Ct" f.tpm films about people with di sabilities." Free
sc,reening is at 12: IS in L-13'0 8.
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C afe (300 5'" Ave) . The video will be The New Rulers of the World by John
Pilger,. a film exposing the oppression of the IMF and the World Bank.
J.R .R. Blevins' exhibit, "This' Explains So Many, Many Things, :~ opens in
Gallery 2 at Evergreen State. Opening night will feature food, ~~i ~ ks, and a
talk from Blevins himself. The exhibit, a blend of childhood toys ~ and dark
humor, will run through December 19.
..Muneca Chueca :and Cooper's Glen will sing and play for you at around 10
p,m. at Le Voyeur. Tickets will onlu set you back $2.

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b ~ nds from ' 11 p.m: to 6 p.m. Takes pl ace right here at Evergreen!
Author-Poet-Filmmaker Sherman Alexie presellts his film .debut, Th~ Business
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Last year's accalaimed basketball
team is back for the first game of
the year. In what may someday be
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Saint Martins h e re in the CRe.
The women will play at G p.m.,
the men will start a t 8 p .m. this
Thursday, November 14 . If you
bring a food donation you will
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student curious if Evergreen 'sports'
are any good (they a re!) , come and
support the team.
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