The Cooper Point Journal Volume 31, Issue 25 (May 1, 2003)

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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 31, Issue 25 (May 1, 2003)

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j .R . R. Blevins has proposed the Peace G rove to honor Rachel Corrie's life. For more information, contact Blevins at extension 6228 .

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volume 31 • issue 25

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pg4
How Intercity
Trans it is cleanin[l up its act

pg5
Sexual Assault
Awareness Month

pg7
The Deadly Force
Review
Board
(DFRB) releases
case summaries

pg16
Erica
Nelson
comments on the
Media

The Rachel Corrie Peace GrOVeisimaginedasaquiet,sacredplace,to
be used for solitary meditation or to gather in community for storytelling and reflection.
A grove oftrees and low vegetation will mark the two entrances to Rachel's wood. The trees will
border two semi-circular pathways that spiral inward and converge on a low circular mound
sixty feet across, covered with moss and native plants and grasses. Twenty-three large natural
stones, one for each year ofRachel's life, will be randomly placed on the mound and will be sand
blasted with words, symbols or images.
j.R.R. BLEVINS

pglS
Nate HO[len's Hip
Hop Analyses

ation of student work

Day
The 1" of May is upon us, but it is often
th e case th at many people don't k now what
th e May Day ce lebra ti on comme m orates.
Blocking traffic and/or p rotes t ing n aked
are so me of the events of rece nt May Day
extravaganzas, but yo u don't have ro limit
yourself ro tho se examp les . I f, ind eed,
yo u feel like celebrating and wou ld like ro
understand just what May Day is all abo ut ,
he re is a brief hi sro ry.
M ay Day ce lebrat ions stretc h back ro
pagan Europe, when peasa nts wo uld th row
a festival in ho no r of th e spring planting.
The Saxons would co mm e nce the fe stivity
on the eve of May 1 officia ll y welcoming th e
end of winter and th e coming o f the sun .
T he Celts and Saxo ns ca lled this h o li day
Beltane, o r th e Day of Fire. Eve ntuall y,
th e c hurch o ud awed May cele bra ti o ns,
but p easa nts co ntinued ro co mm e morate
sprin g well into th e 18'" centu ry in many
various forms.
M ay Day is remembered now for its
tics ro th e 1880s Jnd th e stru ggle that the
worki ng class had ro endure tor what we
now cons ide r basic worke rs' rights. Du ri ng
that tim e, a movement in spired by both
lab or organizat ions a nd n o n - u ni o n ized
wor kers sp read across the CO Ulltry d e manding an ei ght-hour workd ay. In 1884, the
Federatio n o f Orga nized Trade a nd Labor
Un ions adop ted ;1 reso lu tion that stated,
beg inn ing May I, 1886, "e ight hours shall
co nst itLI te a legal day's work ." Worke rs we re
ins tructed tu strike a t the compan ies that
did no t co ncede. Hund reds uf tho usa nds
of wo rke rs across the Un ited Sta tts were
comm itted ro th e May 1" strike. So m e
employe rs respond ed qu ickly, and granted
an eigh t-hou r shi ft. Most, however, refused
to lower worki ng hours from 1 1- or 12-ho ur

days. May 1" came and th e strike occ urred.
C hi cago had o ne o f the largest ca mpaig ns,
and each day th e numb er of strike rs g rew.
Rallies a nd strikes continued on M ay 3,J,
and the police, fea rin g viol ence, were ca ll ed
in. There were hec kl ers in th e crowd, and
the police mi stook thi s for strikers c reatin g
c h aos, and they fi red into the ma sses of
workers. At least two men were killed, a nd
many more we re injured. Angered by the
poli ce violen cc, Albert Spies, who had been
one of many rally speakers, demanded that
t he re b e reve nge and ca lled for a n ot he r
day of acti o n.
Howeve r, th e following d ay b eg;l n as
a peace ful protest. T h e police were in
heavy n umbers , believing that so m e so rt
of subterfuge wo uld su rel y occ ur. As the
last spea ker was about ro leave the podium
so m eone threw a bomb in th e direc ti o n
of th e police. Officers we re killed, ma ny
were in ju red , a nd th e po lice opened fire
at the c rowd. Il ysteri a swept th e city and
hundreds were arrested. Eight m en were
arres ted spec ifi call y in co nnection to the
bombin g. All were charged with conspiracy
ro murd er, alth o ugh onl y 3 of th e me n had
bee n prese nt at th e ral ly. The tria l co uld
not find any evidcllce that these m en had
any th ing to do wit h th e I 1aY lll uket Square
bombi ng. The me n were all known fo r
thei r leade rsh ip w it h in labor and anarchi st
o rgan iza ti o ns, a nd all were sentenced to
de a th. Sta te Anomey j . Grin n ell sta ted
in hi s clos ing argume n ts: " Law is o n trial.
/\n archy is on trial. Th ese men have bee n
se lected , pi cked o ut by the grand jury a nd
indi c ted because th ey were le3ders. Th ey
are n o more g uilty than the tho usands who
follow them. Gentlemc n of th e jury: convict

th ese m en, make examples of th em , han g
th e m a nd you save our institutions, ou r
soc iety.
Fo ur o f the m e n w e re hung. On e
co mmitted sui ci d e in pr iso n . In 1893,
under a new admi n istra tion, the remain ing
th ree we re g iven p a rd ons. Foll owing the
trial, protests were seen aro un d the w o rld,
and in 1890 the first internatio nal May
Day protest occ urred . Frederick Engels,
who was in Lo ndon at th e tim e, reported:
"As I write these lines, the prol e tariat of
Europe and America is holdin g a rev iew of
its forces; it is mobilized for the first tim e
as one army, under o ne fl ag, and fight in g
for o ne immediate a im : a n e ight- h ou r
work day."
M ay Day (International Worker s'
Day) has been celebrated arou nd the globe
eve ry yea r following 1890. C u rren tl y,
Ca nad a, South Africa, an d th e Uni ted
States are the on ly countries to not officiall y recogn ize May 1" as a labor holiday.
In th e U.S. , Labor Day is celebrated in
Se ptembe r,' sp ec ifi cal ly placed th ere to
fil l th e gap between the 4'h o f july and
T h a nk sgiving h o lida ys. It is also LH
en o u gh away fro m May to poss ibly lose
its s ign ific3 n cc a nd 'subve rsive' hi story.
Amidst t he gro wing a nt i-Co llllllllni st
hys t e ri a in th e mi d - 20d' ce nt u ry, May
1" was offic iall y re nam ed " Loya lty Day"
w h ic h was c reated as a too l aga inst leftist
labor te nd enc ies. Loyalty Day enco urages
Am e ri cans to reaffi rm th eir loyalty to the
State. Loyalty Day's signifi can ce has la rge ly
bee n forgotten, but sad ly, the histo ry a nd
.~ trugg le for worke rs' rights that occ urred
in the Uni ted States on May 1" has also
la rge ly been lost.

photo by Meta Hogan

Olympia
Women in
Black:
See page 10

corrections
Last issue 's " Lette r from the 5.&A
Board" was written by Lia Frederikse n
on behalf of the S&A Board.

TESC
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A Walk in
the Woods
Everywhere we look, we see trees ... but how do you tell them apart?
Which one is our official state (fee?
What animals make their homes
in these trees? These questions and
more will be answered at Stream
Team's newest field class: "A Walk
in the Woods: Meet the Trees
of Washington," to be held on
Saturday, M ay 3 from 9:00 a.m .
to 2:00 p.m . at the USFS Building
in West Olympia. Ca ll Susie
Vanderburg at 357-249 1 fo r more
info rmation.

Interested
in Dance?
Interested in dance? FaFa Dance
Workshop & Performance could be
the place for you. Fawnia Chauvaux
is holding a dance workshop from
May 2 to June 7. The cost is $50 for
classes, rehearsals, and performance.
If you are inspired or interested
in African and Modern dance and
music, call (206) 632-1096 for
more information.

What is
MES?
Interested in what the graduate
program in environmental studies
(MES) is all about? One of the
best ways to find out is to attend a
thesis presentation. Pam Sanguinetti
will present "The Response of
Black Brant (Branta Bernicula) and
Harbor Seal (Phoca Vitutina) to the
C hanges in Public Use Management
on Dungeness National Wildlife
Refuge" on Thursday, May I , 4-6
p.m. in Lecture Hall 2.
Victor Stanculescu will present
"Marine Salmon in Pre-Dam Lack
C ushman" on Tuesday, May 6 , 4-6
p.m. in Lecture H all 2.

Get your
Plot!

TESC Community Gardens
plot regi stration has officially
begun . IOxl0 and IOxl4 plots
are available. Cost is 10 cents per
square foot and a commitment
through the summer. Contact
Taryn (community gardens coordinator) at x6145 for more informatIOn.

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Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, will be coming to Olympia to
promote his new book, Reefir Madness, and Other Tales from the American
Underground. Olympia is one of only 15 cities on his nationwide book tour. He
will be here in Olympia on Sunday, May l ~ from 3-5 p.m . The event will be
held at the Capitol Theater. For more information, please call Cori C hristiansen
at Orca Books at 352-0123.

Forum on
Tuition
and Fee
Increases
An all campus forum on tuition
and fee increases and operating budget
reduction planning wi ll be held on
Wednesday May 7, 2003 from 3-5
p.m. in Lecture H all 1. Come learn
what is going on with the state budget,
how the budget changes may affect
you, ·and how you can provide valuable feedback to the College Budget
Council on its current thinking about
budget-balancing strategies for the next
rwo-year budget. For more information, visit the college web site at

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a community forum on alternatives
to war, includes an open di scuss io n
with community leaders and groups
to reflect, strategize, a nd identi fy
actions, projects, and other local
alternatives to the context of war
and the effects of current economic
policies on our communities. M ay
10, 2003 at TESC Library Building
4300, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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could miss out on all this food.
Kalua Pig: Roasted pork that is seasoned with Hawaiian sea salt and cooked
till it literally fall off the bones. Traditionally cooked in an underground pit
called an imu.
Shoyu Chicken: Chicken that is marinated in soy sauce, ginger, brown sugar and
onions. Then baked in oven. This is not traditional but it has become a,. fixture in
island style cooking that reflects the mixing of culinary tastes in Hawafi.
Lomi Lomi Tomato: Diced tomatoes, onion, and Hawaiian salt. "Lomi Lomi"
means to rub or massage so this is continually-being-Iomi to ensure proper
salting and mixing.
Garden Salad: Green tossed salad with Ranch dressing.
Pineapple:
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Coconut cake: White frosted cake with shredded, toasted coconut.
Haupia: Coconut milk, cornstarch and sugar that's simmered then allowed
to set like JelIo.
Tickets are available at the bookstore. Prices are: $7 housing students, $8 other
TESC students, $10 faculty and staff, $11 community.
For more information please call 867-6462.

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We will do the best we can to preserve our important services. To help
make this happen, we are exploring ways to save money and to raise more.

For more information on tuition, budgets, revenue-raising ideas and other topics,
go. to www.evergreen.edu/connections.

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How about services on campus?
The budget proposals we've seen-from the governor and the Senatecall for some reductions in the college's total budget. We are hopeful
that any reductions called for can be managed withSlut laying off faculty
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Intercity Transit Goes Green-b~YEi;;=-rlkaI&~,.iftm=ann--The 70 buses and 65 vanpools owned by Intercity Transit have recently swi tched
from regular diesel to biodiesel. " Intercity Transit is the only transit district in the state
currently using biodiesel, but Spokane Transit is now testing the fuel on a few vehicles in
its fl eet," acco rding to Meg Kester, Marketing manager for Intercity Transit.
"Biodiesel is becoming more cost-competitive compared to regular petroleumbased fuels. Supply a nd demand should make biodiesel more eco nomical as more
and more people begin using it." Biodiesel is avail able along the 1-5 co rridor, in
Seattle, Tacoma, Vancouver, and Olympia. In Olympia, it can be purchased from
West Bay Marina.
Beginning in December, the fl eet sta rted using the oxygenated fuel. The version
they are using, B20, has bee n shown by the Environm ental Protection Agency (E PA)
to reduce particulate m atte r by 31 % , carbo n monoxid e (CO) by 21 %, a nd total
hydrocarbon emiss ions by over 47%. Biodiese l is mad e of pl ants such as soybeans and
o ilseed crops li ke mustard seed , and also from recycled vegetable oi l and restaurant
grease. Another be nefit is that it can be produced domesticaLly and with renewable
resources. It is also clea n-burning, biodegradable, and ca n be used in all di ese l engines
w ith little or no modifi ca tion , and essenti ally free of sulfur and aromat ics .
B20 is a mixture of 20% biodiesel and 80% regular diesel. The cos t is roug hl y 10 to
3 0 cents more than regular diesel , d epending on the vo lum e purchased , so right now,
arou nd $2.20 per gallon. Other Washington Sta te agencies are using it as well :
- T h e Washington State Ferries Co mmi ss io n h as been testing B5 a nd B lOin
its ferries.
- The Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle has been uyi ng bio di ese l in th e ir
maintenance equipment.

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SO l/rees: US Environm ental Protection Adminisll'mion. US Dt'parlll1l'111 of Energy.
Climale Solutions Special Report'

Spring has
Thes e p as t tWO weeks at Eve rgreen 's
O rga ni c Farm h ave been bus y for ' th e
inter ns. In a ddition t o th e dail y slu g
hunts (every morning at 8 a.m.) and other
g ree nh ouse tasks. we have begun ou r work
ill the fields and taken field trips as wel l.
Working o ur way 'outdoo rs has bee n a
s low process du e to the wet cond ition s
o f th is spring. I[ is necessary for th e soil
to dr y o ut b efo re rillin g to preve nt rh e
so il from clumping. A h andful o f st ud en ts
tri ed [h eir lu ck with the Kabot a Tra ctor
p racticin g their driving techniques. We hav('
mechanically seeded carrots, beets, and peas.
There have also been. rransplants m oved
from the gre enh o use into their summe r
beds' such as lettuces and onions.
O n Wednesday, April 23, the interns had
th e oppo rtunity to vi sit one of Eve rgree n's
first fa rm m anagers , Susan Moser. She I! ved
in th e Farm House and rended to the dail y
duties of th e farm from 1983 until 1988 .
Following her stay at Everg reen, Susan
moved to her,current hom e (which she had
already purchased about 15 years prior)
having decided that she wanted to spend
time raising her child. She invested $2500
in a 72' x 30' greenhouse, c reating a jo b
for herselfgrowjng and selling salad greens.
Now, fourteen years later, Susan has the
pracrice down to a "T" . Her method is
co mpl ete ly sus[:rinable, too! It uses no
electricity or motors, she has used the same
soi l (that she gathered from one of th e
ponds on her land) since 1989. Her water
so urce for the greenhouse as well as her
h ome is collected from tbe fas t-flowing
c ree k rhat run s through .and down the
mountainside'. She' evert m akes her own
compost teas for her soil by collecting the
cunings and foreign plants growing in the
beds. She takes this green matter and purs
it in a bucket of water uncil it decomposes,
then pours it back on. The only purchases

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- The City of Tacoma uses 820 in their 85 garbage truck fleer.
- Spokane Transit Authority has just received a grant from the Department of
Ecology to install caralytic converters and begin using biodieseL They wish to CUt
emissions in half by 2010.
Washington State users consume approximately 560 million gallons of diesel, not
including off-road uses , every year! Making biodiesel mandarory in diesel engines,
at least B20, wou ld cut the need for regular diesel (and the pollution resulting from
it) by 28 million gallons!
B 100 is 100% biodiescl, a nd is of course, more expensive. Howeve r, if it was spilled ,
for example, at rhe m a rina , it would have no toxic effects on ocea n or la ke species,
including fish and birds . Biodiesel is a cost-effective and environmentally friend ly
way to prolong th e use of diesel engines while not adding addirional carcinogeni c
pollutants to th e environment.
For 1110re info rmation , contact: c1imatesolutions.o rg
Andy Coc hran a nd Tiffany Suitts also kindly co ntributed to this arri ck .

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she need s to mak e for her business is th e
seed, the ferti li ze r (crab and sh rimp nll::1 1
and li m e). and the cell ophane bags ( 100%
biodegradab le, made o f the cdlul me of
planrs), whi ch are th e most expl'nsi ve part
of th e product at 1 I cents a pop' Shl' ,ell s
her sabd gree n s a t bo th O lymp ia Fooel
Co-ops. th e O lympi a Farm er's Market. ane!
to Lin coln Elcmen tcu y gross in g a n average
of $400 a week.
I~ o ll owin g our visit to Su sa n's, Wl' ven tured down th e road to hear an EVl'I'green
g raduate success story. We stoppc.:d into
Burn t Rid ge Nurse ry, run by Micl13 e1 Dolan
(grad u ating class of 1978). Th ey have a
twenry-a c re farm s pec iali z in g in edible
fruit and nut rrees. He worked fo r Susan
Mose r years before he ca me to di scover h is
own farm . Once he purc h ased th e land .
he bega n experim entin g with g rafting and
o th e r forms of vegetative propagation on
ches tnut trees. H e h ad li ttle mo ne y and
spe nt long cold winters in his trailer, cutt ing
vine maples to keep warm. H e spen t man)'
years c uttin g and collecting varieties o f
native plants, a nd o thers from aro und
th e world known to d o well in climates
si milar to our own . He now carries over
300 varietie!; of rrees, shrubs, groundcovers,
vines and ornamenrals that he ships aro und
the country. His business is family-owned
and operated, and in th e months that rh e
Farmer's Market is open, the work lasts 7
days a week.
"Farming is a lifestyle," Susa n Moser told
us . It is not about m aking a lo t of money
from a lirrle work. The work on rh e far m is
never comple te. There is always a/ence to
build, a tree- to. plant, a piece of land thar
needs clearing. It does, however come with
many benefits as well. One appeal is thar
you are your own boss. You decide when [0
work for th e most part. You can do it from
your home and raise your family instead of

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se ndin g your children to d aycare. You can
rest ass ured that th e food you are eating
was cultivated with gentle hands and o nly
co ntains what yo u have added to it. Farming
can be hard work, but just like li fe , it is as
good as you m ake it.
,You C:In vis it either Susa n or Mike at the
Olympia Fanner's Market every weekend
fro lll 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (t ho ug h Susan
usuall y onl y stays until about noon). They
are a wea lth of knowled ge co n ce rning
their specialties as we ll as [his area and the
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SUMMARY OF THE REPORT
The following is a report that I am issuing
as a dissenting member of the Deadly Force
Revi ew Board.
I hold that while The Evergree n State
Coll ege D epart ment of Police Services
Standard Operating Proce dures (SO P) are
ambiguous in some areas, we are srill able to
id enti fY the intent or spirit of the SOP and
make ' decisions based on this (if not th ose
unambiguous and exp li cit areas of SOP).
From my review of th e cases and College
policy, I determined that the drawing of
firea rm s by office rs was no t justifi ed and
necessa ry und er th e circumstances , a nd
furthermore was not in compli ance with
College po licy. While the quest ion of whether
drawing offirearms was justified and necessary
appea ls largel y to standards of reaso n and
goo d judgement, I h ave also cit ed sect io n
10.04.00 of the SO P in my dec ision. In my
answe r to th e questio n of whether the draw in g
01 firear ms was in com pliance with College
policy, I draw from secti on 10.04 .00 again.
Reporting by involved officers (Adkin s, Perez,
and Neely) was not in com pliance with the
SOP. The SO P docs not state th at C hief
Huntsbcrry had a resp on s~ility to report
such a use of force [0 his supervisor (though
Ihis res ponsibility ca n be inferred from the
ve ry ex istence of the DFRB).

There are a few things about what happened in these cases and in the aftermath that
are troubling. First, that Chief Huntsberry
authorized the use of an undercover officer in
order to arrest small-time sellers of marijuan a.
I und erstand that police officers cannot turn
their cheek to unl awful actio ns, bur in this
case Police Services so ught out the d ea lers
with an undercover officers. I would arg ue
th at this is not in line with the principle of
commuoity po licing, to whi ch Police Se rvice
is subordinate. The question of whether we
want undercover officers needs to be posed to
the com mun ity as a whole .
Second. C hi ef Huntsberry, aware th at
felo ny search warrants were to be served in
the dorms , and aware that academy training
teaches officers to draw firearms in serving
felony search warrants, did not discuss with
involved officers before th e search whether
they wou ld draw firea rm s, no r under what
circu mstances th ey sho uld draw firearms.
Furthermore, afte r ;hc se rvice of the war rants
and after he read repo rts that did not menti on
a drawin g of weapons, C hi ef Huntsberry did
not look inro whether weapons were drawn.
He said in an interview with the DFRB th at
whi le reading the reports, the question did not
occur to him. (It was not until after a st udent
informed him that firearms were drawn that
C hiefHuntsberry laun ched an investigatio n.)

What is the
Deadly Force
Review Board?

This is not acceptab le. Especiall y as we
approach the 24/7 arming of officers, our
community needs our Chief of Police to be
attune to our concern with firearm s being used
safely and responsibly by poli ce officers.
Lastly, during the investigation by C hief
Huntsberry, Officer Adkins who was supervising the warrant se rvice, sa id th at a discussion
on whether to draw firearms did not take place
beca use it was "understo od" that firea rm s
arc drawn in making a fdony drug warrant
service - li ke "putti ng on socks" (see Direcror's
Investigati on for Deadly Force Review Board).
Give n co mmunit y co nce rn about th e safe
and responsible use of firearms by poli ce, and
give n th e principle of com mun ity poli ci ng
under which Police Services operates , thi s
kind o f thinking should not ex ist among our
offi ce rs. D raw in g guns in the dorms-or
anyw here o n campus-is not like putting o n
soc ks. I believe that the co mmuni ty wa nts
office rs ro pUI serious tho ught into drawing
firearm s before they do so.

The Deadly Force Review Board is
charged with th e task of examining all
incidents where a firearm is drawn,
di scharged , or displayed in a threatening
manner, o r when any othcr typc of deadly
force is displayed o r used by a Poli ce
Se rvices officer. It is the responsib ili ty
of the Board to determine if such threat
or use of deadly force is (l ) acc iden tal
or intentional. (2) justified and necessary
under the circum stances, (3) in comp liance with college policy, and (4) indi cat ive
of a need for a chan ge in the Co llege's
policy rega rding training and/or Standard
Ope rating Procedu re (SO P).
T he D FR B is to be made up of eight
members: two fac ult y, two staff, o ne
Police Services Officer, one ou tside law
enforceme nt represe nt at ive, and tw o
students (tho ugh in deliberations on these
cases there was o nl y one participating
student).
DFRB members particip ati ng in deliberalions on these cases were:
FACULTY
Lucia Harrison
Gerardo C hin-Leo
STAFF
Elizabet h McHugh
Alexander Mar
POLICE SERVICES OFF ICER
Kirk Talmadge
OUTSIDE LAW ENFORCEMENT
REPRESENTATIVE
Undersheriff Neil McClanahan
ST UDENT
Morgan Thornberry (C hair of th e
Board)
The DFRB welcomes its new stud ent
member, C rista! Java, who will parti cipate
in futu re deliberations.

Signed ,
Morgan T hornberry
To read this report in its entirety, please see
the DFRB webpage: http://www.evergreen.ed,t!
committeelde(ldlyjorcel/Jome./Jtm.

DFRB REPORT OF THE MATORITY ON
CASE NUMBERS 02-2636 AND 02-2694
C ASE BACKGROUND
This report is a review of case numbers
02-2636 and 02-269 4, which occurred
on 10/ 23 /0 2 a nd 10/27 /02 respectively.
Both of these incidents are the result of
unde rcover police activity in the Residence
Halls that prompted campus police to
obtain a felony drug search warrant. While
execu ting the warrant and entering and
securing the involved dorm rooms, the
police had their weapons drawn.
FlNDINGS OF THE BOARD
The Board had the needed quorum
of five members present for the meeting
to be official and to agree on any recomm endation by the Boar.d . In these cases the
Board finds that the display of deadly force
(firearm) by the campus Police Officers

was intentional. The drawing o f firearm s
was justified and necessary acc ording to
The Evergreen State Co ll ege SOP (SOP
10.04.00) and according to sta ndard Police
Academy training when executing a felony
drug search warrant. The display o ffirearm s
in these incidents was generally in compliance with college policy, which is vague and
som~times contradictory. The fai lure of
the police officers to report the drawing of
firearms (SOP 10.07.00) is not compliant
with T he Evergreen State College SOP
in that display of firearm s co uld have
potentially caused injury and should have
been reported to the Superviso r and been
included in th e incident report. The Board
is in agreement that these incidents have
indicated a need for a cha nge in co lle ge

po licy rega rding rraining and SOP. The
Boa rd reco mm e nds that The Evergreen
State College SOP and training more clearly
articulate expectations around the display
vers us th e use of d ead ly for ce and the
reportin g require ments when deadly force
is displayed or used .
C hief Huntsberry has bee n proactive
in hi s response to th e incidents and has
noted in the report of his investigation
some actions that he has already initiated.
Namely, the add iti on of a box to th e
Incident a nd Supp lemental Reports to
indicate if/when an officer draws his firearm,
baton, or uses pepper spray with a description of th e incident to be included in the
report. Among other adjustments in his
department, Chief Huntsberry also called

DFRB ~IRI}J~ER 02::3~~~~::~;~:~;_~S~~W_n~;:
CASE BACKGROUND
On 3 March 2002 Police Servi ces Co rporal
Neely and Office r Ga rland confronted four
men who were h arvest in g salal on Co ll ege
property. One susp ec t ran a nd Cor poral
Neely chased him through the woods. When
th e suspect exited the woods, he encountered
O fficer Garland. The m an did not acknowl edge Officer Ga rl and's commands for him
to get o n the ground, probably because of a
language barrier. The man reached inside his
front pocket. At this po int , Officer Garland
drew her firea rm and yelled for him to get
down. He did not remove his hand from
hi s pocket , nor did he get down on th e
gro und . When Corporal Neely ap peared,
O ffi ce r Garland ho lstered her weapon and
Corpo ral Neely applied w ri st rest raints to
the suspect.
Officer Garland no ted that she drew her
"weapon" in her rep0rl reviewed by her
supervisor, Director of Police Services Steve
Huntsbc rry. C hiefHuntsberry did not report
Officer-6a:riand's-drawing-of-:dircarm- to hissuperviso r, Vice President of Student Affairs
Art Costantino, until November 2002.
FINDINGS OF THE BOARD
Th e Board has se parated the incident
into two parts; first , the question of whether
Officer Garland was in compliance with SOP

in using deadly force and second , whether the
reporting of dead ly fo rce was in compliance
with SOP and College policy.
In responding to its charge, the Deadly
Force Review Boa rd has made the following
conclusions:
Deadly force in this in ci d ent, in which
Officer Garland drew her firearm in a threatening manner in an encounter with a suspec t,
was intentional.
Deadly force in this incident was justifi ed
pcr Th e Evergreen State Co ll ege Department
of Poli ce Services Sta nd ard Operat ing
Procedure (section 10.04.00) beca use Office r
Garland was protec ting herself againsr an
imminent threat of death or serious bodily
injury. Such a threat was present beca use
the suspect fl ed from an officer and did not
respond to an officer's command s, but most
significantly beca us e the suspect reac hed
inside his pocket. .
Deadly force used in this incident was in
c091pliance with the SOP because Officer
GaTland-drcw-hcr fi rearm in ordCffo protect
herself from what can reasonably be believed
to have been an imminent threat of death or
serious bodily injury.
Given the above findings, the Board does
not believe that the incident is indicative of
a need for a chan ge in the Coll ege's poli.:y

particularly the Housing community.
Respectfully submitted,
Elizabeth McHugh
Alexander Mar
Lucia Harriso n
Kirk Talmadge
Gerardo Chin-Leo

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C la_n
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regarding training and/or SO P.
The Board has made the foll owing con clusions on the reporting in this incident:
While Chief Huntsberry lailed to rcport
th e drawing of a firearm to his supe rvisor or
to the large r co mmunity, he is technicall y
in comp li ance with th e SO P b ecause of
loopholes in the SO P. The Board holds that
whi le he was techni ca lly in compliance, by
not reporting the incident (0 his supervisor
in a timely manner, C hief Huntsberry did
violate the spirit of the SO P and the Public
Safety DTF's 1996 approval of a "permanent
co mmunity revi ew board that will rev iew
[ ... J every instance in which a Public Safety
officer draws or uses a firear m" (Final Report
o f the Public Safety DTF, 24 may 1996),
which wou ld clea rly require that the Vice
Presid ent in charge of Police Services, whose '
responsibi li ty it is to convent the Deadly Force
Review Board , be notified of the incident.
Chief Huntsberry was technicall y in
compliance with the SOP because section
1O.07.00- Reporting -Usc. of Force only cal~
upon involved office rs to report to th ei r
5uperviso r (Director of Police Services), but
does not state that the Director must report
ro his supervisor, the Vice President in charge
of Police Services.
It is the recommendation of the Board that

sectIOn 10.07.00 01 th e SO P be amended to
explicitly stale the responsibili ty of in volved
officers to report to the Director of Poli ce
Se rvices all incidents in which a fire arm is
drawn o n a person, not just those incidents
that resu lt in a death or injury. As well , the
SOP should be amended (0 state that it is then
the responsibility of the Direc tor to rep ort all
such incidents to the Vice President in charge
of Police Se rvices in order that the Deadly
Force Review Board may be convened.
The Board supports the Director's change
to departmental case report forms so that the
use offorce and weapons are immediately an d
explicitly clear (see Director's Investigation for
Deadly Force Review Board, 20 November
2002). The Board recommends that thi s
change be permanent.
The Bo;: rd is in ag reem ent with Vi ce
President Art Costantino's decisio n to include
a copy of hi s final report on th e incident
in C hief Huntsberry's perso nnel file for a
p ~ri od of six months (see Mc:morandum to
Steve Humsberry froni Art Constantino, 6
December 2002).
Signed,
Gerardo Chin-Leo, Lucia H arr ison,
Alexander Mar, Nei l McClanahan, Elizabe th
McHugh,
Kirk
Talmadge.
Mo rga n
Thornberry

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As ofApril 27, 2003 , there have been
2,050 civilian deaths in Iraq (henceforth
referred to as cdi for efficiency, but
not capitalized to limit detachedness)
that have occurred as a direct result
of military actions by the US and its
allies in 2003 . The body count, as
reported by the Iraq Body Count Project
(www.iraqbodycounr.net) has grown by
approximately 200 since the "end" of the
war, and continues to increase.
Even to those of us who are conscious
of these numbers, and thus aware that the
war is in fact not 'over' for Iraqi civilians,
it's difficult not to have a number like
2,050 be just a number. As a way of
moving towards creating a n accurate
(and emotion al) und erstanding of the
significance of the loss of 2,050 people,
th e Red Dot Project was begun . In
part sponsored by Art in the Streets,
an Olympia-based public art resource
organization, the Red Dot Project is, in
its simplest form, attempting to raise
awareness of the affects of war on civilian
populations using the landscape as a
medium. Most people think of a town's
landsca pe as trees, buildings, billboards,
forests, bodies of water- that kind of
thing. However, our daily landscape is
made up of smaller details: the colors
of cars, the ads we pass by on OUf way
to lunch , people in stores, restaurants,
corners, sidewalks and benches, our work
spaces- all the things we notice but don't
think much about, or simply ignore
because we are so used to their presence.
Thus, changing the landscape could be
as simple as adding or subtracting a small
element.
Enter phase one: the red dot stickers.
We began by placing one red sticker for
every cdi on walls, telephone booths,
newspaper boxes, light poles, and mailboxes in downtown Olympia. Everyweek,
new red dots were put up, until approximately 1,600 were placed throughout a
total of 12 blocks downtown. On each
of these blocks up to 5 'keys' were taped
up, explaining the significance of each
red sticker. The stickers were clearly not
meant to state actual numbers since there
was nothing typed on them (though we
were as precise as possible about how
many were put up). Rather, the stickers '
were an attempt to change the downtown
landscape joust enough that pedestrian
traffic got a visual understanding of how
high the death count was. Even if they
did not know just how many stickers
were up (we assumed no one would try
and count each red sticker) it would be
apparent that there were a LOT up, that
they were everywhere, that there were
too many. Sadly, into the third week of
the project a huge percentage of these
red dots and "keys" were taken down
within a day, possibly by some kind of
city graffiti cleanup crew. Perhaps we will
put more up, but as it stands now, we
have moved on to phase two.
In conjunction with the red stickers,
the distribution of thousands of red
buttoris has begun, so that by wearing
a button, participants are physically
representing one life that has been lost. At
_ a glance-the-!>uttons-a-re easy to identifY:
-one inch , round metal with a red sticker
on the lace. Each button, however, is als~
incredibly unique, as it has a number on
it so that each participant knows which
life they are representing. While we have

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One civilian
death that
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occurs In
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Iraq as a direct
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We Shall Not Be Moved
When the permit expired, Camp Rachel relocated.
But organizers continue to focus on establishing
a permanent presence in Olympia.
by MBta Hogan
What happened to th e mass ive photo by Meta Hogan
c ivil rights action pr o mi sed at
C amp Rachel last Thursday )
Acco rding to peace camp orga nize r
Ian Kirou ac, about fift y peo pl e
showed up to protest th e state's
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camp, which would have all owed
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C amp Rachel to remain on state
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property either at the Heritage Park
site or in front of the Capitol.
During a discussion of civil
di sobedience and the location
of the camp, these fifty-odd people- who had come to struggle, to
protest, to demonstrate against the
perceived unfairness of the state's
permit-issue process-changed
their minds.
They re-evaluated the planned
action, and decided th at the need
for a permit does not infringe upon
constitutional right of assembly.
They balanced the energy required
in a long-term struggle for the site
against the practicality
of the site, and decided
it wasn't worth it. They
looked at each other,
at the Olympia peace
movement, at their long-range goals and their short-term plans, and they decided
against what Kirouac calls "taking a stand just to take a stand."
They chose to move to Percival Landing, at the busy intersection of 4· h and
Colu~bia, for the high-traffic weekend of Artswalk. It's a better site anyway, more
~cceSSlble and definitely more visible. Visibility is an important consideration
111 the peace movement now, with numbers falling off slightly as the conflict in
Iraq comes to an official close.
One of the stated goals of the peace movement is to avoid unnecessary conflict
and to use diplomacy wherever possible. Thus, .Kirouac points out, it was in
the best interest of the peace camp to "lower the temperatures at the state" by
relocating without a fuss.
Also at issue were practical-logistical concerns.
"People need a break," says Kirouac, from organizing and maintaining the camp.
!'10st ~~ those wh.o are active at the camp have jobs, school or family obligations
III addition to their work at the camp, and everyone has been trying to balance the
extra commitments in the last few months.
You have to choose your battles, and the people who came to Camp Rachel on
Thursday morning understood this. After all the flyers had been distributed, when
everyone was expecting "massive" action, when the gauntlet had been thrown, they
backed down . Why? Because it would have been a heated conflict over an issue that
is only tangentially related to the peace movement. Because it would have taken
energy, attention and resources from the real issue. Because gauntlets and peace are
mutually exclusive. It takes courage to reverse a declaration as widely publicized and
contentious as last Thursday's call to action. Bur the peace camp's mission has always
been to provide physical space for various groups within the peace movement, and
not to challenge state bureaucracy on small issues.
It's certainly not the end for the peace camp, though. One of the priorities of
Camp Rachel organizers is the establishment of a permanent presence in Olympia.
The peace movement's numbers ebb and flow relative to the threat of war, but a
sizeable contingent of Olympia's peace activists plan to be part of an ongoing effort
to educate the public about nonviolent alternatives.
Peace can be a priority even during times of peace. Indeed, as Kirouac suggests,
people need to be looking at nonviolent alternatives before it's too late, to avoid
having a reactionary, eleventh-hour peace movement.

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As of 04ji£:/u.l the body
count is at a minimum of 1,160.
If you would like to wear a button to
represent a person wOO has lost their life,
em ail us at reddot@artinthestreets.org
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no names for all 2,050 deaths, it still adds
quite a bit of significance if one knows
they are personally representing death
number 832.
As far as art projects go, the red
buttons attempt to accomplish much
more than the stickers. To begin with,
participants in this project are not just
audience members (walking around and
seeing others wearing the buttons), they
also are the creators by wearing the buttons
and deciding how and when to share the
significance of their button with others.
They are creators also by the fact that
by wearing their button they are taking
part in a collective effort to change the
landscape. How different is your day if
one our of every 5 people you run into,
friend or stranger, is visibly 'tagged' as a
death? As negative a reality this is, it is
a step towards an awareness of what life
is truly like in Iraq, and thus should be
worthy of paying attention to, since in
more ways than one we are connected to
our government's actions.
Above all, the red buttons are a way
to make these numbers personal, to help
each other deal with the complicated
issues of war and invasions. What do all
those news stories really amount to, who
are these people who we otherwise have
little contact with, what affinities can we
find with them? My own experience is
that every day I step outside I see almost
every person I am acquainted with (and
many I am not) wearing them. It has,
for me, made the numbers cease to be
abstract. It is overwhelmingly sad, bur also
i·nspiring, because it's further proof that
people do not need to detach themselves
from reality, that sometimes 'community'
means sharing difficult responsibilities,
like sad truths.
Have you seen the red stickers downtown? The red buttons? Do you wear one?
We have distributed over 1,300 buttons.
It would be great to hear all those peoples'
thoughts on wearing them, to taJk to
people about them fa learn how it is for
each of us, in a tiny way taking the place
of someone who have lefi:. this earth. How
do you feel?

- Paloma, Art in the Streets
Writeto reddot@futinthestrffii. org, Or
PO Box 1022, .olympia, W'lt 98507. We
will post the comments on our website. For
more information about the red dots, Art
in the Streets, o.r how to get a button, visit
www.artinthestreets.orglnowar.

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The peace camf_ i~ currently home~ess, hav~ng closed flown fhe Percival Landing site
on Saturday eventng at tne end ofArtswalk. They are looking for pamanent office or
residential space in which to set up camp (forgive the pun). For more information,
contact Ian Kirouac at 870-3645.

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Women in Black is a network of-women who stand in silent vigil
for peace, protesting violence in many of its devastating forms.
Women in Black is not an organization. It is
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an international grassroots ·movement in the
truest sense of the word. All of the different
groups, throughout the world, are completely
autonomous. Most hold the common theme
of gathering once a week at the same time and
locatio n, in silent vigil. dressed in black to
acknowledge victims of violence against girls
and women, ethnic cleansing and religious
fundamentalism.
The first Women in Black gathered in Israel
in 1988, ro demand an end to Israeli occupation
of Palestinian territories. A small group of Israeli
women, dressed in black, silently stood at a busy
intersection holding a black sign in the shape of
a hand with the words , "stop the occupation,"
and committed themselves to doing this once
a week. The vigil spread quickly throughout
Israel, and soon solidarity vigils began in other
countries. Since 1990, Women in Black took
on a life of its own and began forming in many
countries, protesting many forms of violence.
Women in Black Against War in Belgrade
have been meeting since 1991, protesting ethnic

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The Evergreen Queer.Alliance
by Erin Cawley-Morse and Elizabeth Hodge
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals have chosen to put their lives at risk
as sol.diers protecl a country that refuses to protect them. The United States government
i·dentifies itself as the guardian of freedom, hum an rights, and equal opportunity. But
the " Don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue, don't harass" po licy in the U.S. military openly
discriminates against sexual minorities; any individual found to be queer is dishonorably
discharged with no ·pension or med ical care.
This puts undue duress on LBGT individuals who are forced to go to great lengths to hid e
their identities. Letters, phone calls, and emai ls must be thoroughly disguised. Even discussions
with military psychologists or psychiatrists arc not confidential and the counselor can choose
lO "out" a person withollt their consent. They are also burdened with the knowledge that
their partners and family arc neglected the monetary benefits and communiry support that
hetero wives and husbands receive.
Once again, the heterosexual monopoly on governmentally sanctioned marriage, which
already prevents homo partners from receiving marriage-associated tax breaks and the right to
exec ute their dying partners' wishes, has left queer partners empty-handed. While hetero life
partners are drowning their sorrows in tea and cookies at the support-yo ur-honey discussion
groups at the McChord Air Force Base , homo partners arc being left out in the co ld, often
feeling ali enated by the military support comm uni ty. Partners and LGBTs in the military
are left fighting a war on two fronts.
E A can be reached at x6544, CAB 314.

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cleansing and are actively demonstrating interethnic cooperation. Women in Black in Italy
protest the Israeli occupation and the violence
of the Mafia and organized crime. In India,
Women in Black hold vigils to call for an end
to misogyny by religious fundamentalists.
Women in Black New York have been holding
vigils in solidarity with women throughout
the world since 1993 , to protest war, rape as
a tool of war, ethnic clea nsing and hum311
rights abuses all over the world. Sin ce 9-1 I,
Women in Black have bee n protesting all acts
of terrorism all over the US. Since Ocrober
2002, there have been Women in Black here
in Olympia , ho lding a sil ent, candlelit vigi l
for victims of vio le nce and protesting o ur
government's obsession with waging war.
Individual Women in Black movements
have won differen t peace awards . In 200 I ,
the UN Development Fund hon ored th e
international movement of Women in Black
with the Millennium Peace Prize for Women.
Some groups are the subjects of FBI investigations.

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The Women in Black movement is an amazing
example of women from many different cultures,
denominations, and nationalities coming together in
solidarity for peace and against violence. Amazing,
yet not very surprising. Throughout history, women
have been doing this. The Greek play Lysistrata (the
name means "disbander of armies"), from 500 AD,
is about a woman by the same name who engineers
a successful sex strike to end the war between Athens
and Troy. It is just one example of how, generally
speaking, women make love, not vyar.

Evergreen Political Information Center:
Though this war comes as no surprise· we are saddened , ashamed, and angered by the
shortsighted arroga nce and utter disregard of the international community by the Bush
admi nistration and the corporate cro ny constituency. We feel this war demonstrates the abyss
that exists between the wishes of the people and the decisions made by those in power. We
are afraid the assault on Iraq will be the beginning of a long and bloody occupation, will
be a trial run for invasions of other sovereign nations, and will set a dangerous precedent
to be replicated by other nations. We are gl ad that the main fighting is apparently over and
hope for immediate humanitarian aid to be given to the Iraqis and for the safe retu rn of US
so ldiers. We believe the US shou ld cease its hostility at once and hand over the rebuilding
of Iraq to the international communiry.
EP IC believes the war o n and occupa ti on of Iraq are not isolated probl ems, but rather
st ructural problems that exis t throughout the global power str ucture. T his war is an examp le
of how democracy will fai l when th e public is lied to by its govern ment and misinformed by
the corporate media. Some of the reasons for this war are abo ut restructuring global power by
controlling the world's energy th ro ugh the usc of overwhelmi ng military might and economic
coercion . These reasons stem from a system structure that perpetuates fear, militarism , racism,
sex ism , homophobia, exp loitation, poverry, environmental degradation, inequality, violence,
isolation , and repress ion. This is why we think all social activist groups have a vested interest
in opposing the wa r on, and the occupation of Iraq.
EP IC hopes the wa r and the energy of the anti-war (or better yet, peace) movement will
nor fizzle out as the media portrays the war as over. We believe this war has given an important
push lO a growi ng international movement for peace and social justice, which has been called
"the worl d 's seco nd supe r-power." EPIC's energy this quarter will be focused on encouraging
student activist groups to work together on issues. As a sup port center for srudem activists
and organ ize rs at Evergreen , we wi ll work closely with other groups on campus to publicize .
their events and make their voices heard. One way we will do this is by releasing an activist
newsletter, which will provide information on th e Iraq war, TESC student groups, and
O lymp ia-area activism. EPIC meets on Wednesdays at 4 PM in the EPIC office - cubicle
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The highly touted 'road map' to peace in
the Middle East may be formally presented to
Israel i and Palestinian officials within weeks,
possibly days, following the appointment of
Mahmoud Abbas to the post of Palestinian
Prime Minister and the approval of his cabinet
by parliament.
Abbas , also known as Abu Mazen. and
P~leS[inian president Yasser Arafat struggled
to reach a last minute agreement on cabinet
mcmber.~ by an April 23 deadline. A new Prime
Minister would have been appointed had the
two not come to an agreement. This would
have further delayed the US publication of the
'road map' due to the White. House promise to
hold out on presenting the details until Abbas'
cabi net had been approved.
T he Bush regime has delayed the publication twice before for Israel i elections and
the buildup to and eventual outcome of th e
invasion of Jraq.
What is the road map?
Although it has not been published yet, the
belicfis th at the road map is a three-phase plan
that would implement a two-state solution to
the Israeli-Palesti ni an co nflict agreed upon by
the quartet (US, EU, UN and Russia). The end
result will be an independent, democratic and
viabl e Palestinian state living side by side in

peace and securiry with Israel by 2005.
Sounds easy enough.
Progress will be based on the good faith
efforts of the parties involved and their compliance with the obligations outlined in the road
map as monitored by the Quartet. Therefore,
if one parry fails to meet its obligation progress
will be impeded, but what are the chances of
that happening?
Bumps in the road
One bump in the road was the US desire to
sideline Arafat and his struggle to cling to power
and influence the peace process. The result was
the appointment of Abbas as Prime MInister
and the eleventh-hour agreement between the
rwo men over cabinet appointments. The major
dispute between them was the appointment
of Mohammed Dahlan co replace security
minister and Arafat ally Hani ai-Hassan.
Dahlan's appointment could lead to another
bump that may turn into a major detour. The
first step for Abbas and his new government,
according CO the predicted road map, will
be to rein in all armed Palestinian groups
and end all violence against the Israeli s. If
Dahlan attempts to disarm groups like Hamas
and AI-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade many predict
Palestinian civil war.
Members of Abbas' government have sa id
that halting violence aga inst the Israe lis is
imp oss ibl e so long as th ey co ntinue their

military offensives and maintain restrictions
on Palestinian life.
The Israeli government refuses to halt its
current military actions until all terrorist
attacks against Israel are halted .
Israel 's first steps in the road map, besides
halting attacks on civilians and demolishing
homes and properties, would be to dismantle
sc:,ttlement outposts erected since March 200 I
and freeze all settlement activity. Although
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has
remarked that his country may have to make
"painful concessions", he wants to hold onto
Jewish settlements and permit a Palestinian
state in less than half the West Bank.
Potholes
Instead of just drawing his proposed border
on a map, Sharon is erecting an eighteen-foot
high wall topped with barbed wire and lined
with guard towers around the Palesrinian
West Bank. 1his 'separation fence' will be 225
miles long cutting into the West Bank and
leaving 290,000 Palestinians o n the Israeli side
of the fence. Over 100 buildings have been
demolished , farmland destroyed and towns
separated from their surrounding farms.
Palestinian leaders have viewed the construction of the fence as an Israeli rejeclion of a
Palestinian state.
After the approval of Abbas' government
on Tuesday, the new Prime Minister reiterated

his demand for a separate Palestinian state
with its capital in Jerusalem and called for
compensation for the refugees of the 1948
Arab-Israeli war or their ·right co ~eturn to
their homes.
Sharon rejects any Palestinian claim to
Jerusalem and calls for a relinquishment of any
Palestinian right of return before Israel allows
a Palestinian provisional state.
Wrong Turns
On Tuesday, just before the Palestinian
Parliament met to approve the new government
of the first Palestinian Prime Minister, Israeli
forces killed four Palestinians in separate strikes
in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Three
were described as wanted men.
Hours after the approval of the new government a suicide bomber killed himself and two
others outside a downtown Tel Aviv pub not
far from the American Embassy. More than
30 people were wounded. Palestinian militant
groups have vowed to keep up attacks on Israel
in defiance of Abbas and his call to disarm.
Where does this road map lead ?
It's too early to tell, but it's going to be a
bumpy ride no matter what. There may be
hope for peace, but it depends upon the people
reading the map more than the map itself.
People like Abbas ... Arafat. .. Sharon ...
Bush ...

Debate at Evergreen: There is Another Side

bY Mcbo18s SfaDlslOwski

For debate to occur at Evergreen, more
than one side is need ed. Evergreen students
arc assumed to be ant i-war, but what of th e
ot her side?
It can be difficult to flnd Evergreen students
who arae pro-war, though they do exist.
SESAME (Students Educating Students About
the Middle East) put ad s in the Cooper
Point Journal specifically look ing for pro-war
students to join a pro-war/anti-war debate.
Three students we re found but on ly one, H al
Stei nberg, was able to make it tq the debate.
Daniel Heck, one or 1He stude-nts · w·h o was

every day". He even formed a group, Evergreen
Students for Ideological Diversiry (ESID) to
help bring about debate th at included multiple
political views. Respons e to the group has
been positive, and Daniel has received good
feedback from all sides. When Daniel was
initially forming ESID, he posted fli ers he
describes as "altern ative propaganda." Daniel
d oes not feel there has been a hars h backlash
for his beliefs, but the fliers he posted received
criti cal emails, were ripped down, and people
wrote on them . H e afterward decided the
postings_were counter-productive. _
Meredith Lane doesn't like to be identified
as specifically "pro-war," though she does
support the American troops in Iraq. Meredith,
a tall volleyball player who aspires to become
a diplomat, describes herself as "probably one
of the most conservative people I know on
campus." Comi ng to Evergreen after being at

a naval academy, she says that the extremes of
viewpoint between Evergreen and the academy
will benefit her as a future diplomat. Unlike
Daniel, who avoids political clashes, Meredith
seeks them out, loving politics and believing
she gains from open di scuss ion where people
are free to change their mind .
Meredith, like Daniel, is forming a group,
the Evergreen Avant-Garde (EAG), though hers
is geared toward more conservative studen ts.
After talking co about 20 different faculty
members, Meredith found a sponsor for her
group and she knows several students who
cXflressed interes t. Some studems; however, are
wary about being associated with a group that
"cars have been keyed over," said Meredith.
There have been a few negative responses. The
club has been called "anti-Evergreen".
Debate on international issues can get
heated. "People get vcry passionate with their
politics, " sa id Meredith. She expressed the

need to take a step back and look at things
from both sides sometimes when arguing with
so meone. Daniel is concerned that people
are only reading literat ure that supports their
viewpoints, even saying that if someone has n't
read from multiple sides, he is "not going to
waste time debating with you."
While encountering inpersonal opposition
to their ideas, such as Daniel's fliers being
ripped down, or Meredith's conservative group
being called names, there also were positive
res ponses t.o the efforts of these two people.
Though students and faculry often didn't agree
with the· id ~as, ma·ny have apprec iated the
need to have a differing viewpoint prese nt
at Evergreen.
ESID (Evergreen Students for Ideological
Diversity)
can
be
contacted
at
esid03@yahoo.com .
EAG
(Evergreen
Avant-Gardes)
can
be
contacted
at
lanmer08@evergreen.edu.

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What do you invest your energy in?

"Sittillg on my couch
because it sucks me in. "

"I invest most of my time at Evergreen
going over my stock portfolio and creating
more futures for myselfand monetary realms,
focusing on creating
a fortune basically"

Carli Epstein

Sean Presley

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organizing, doing the
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Wbat's )/ollr question?
"Homework and
pirating music. "

"Dmgs and the WOmens Center. "

Hannah l<Vtzgitron" Fonnan

Alex Hughes· Sophomore

Independent Contract • Junior

"The WOmen's Resource
Center, b(cause I have to
for my inte.mship, and
also because I care. "

Post Coloninl Literature

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my time plotting the
death ofenemies
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Kira "Nipitron" Canny

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Independent COl/tract
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First off, work sucks. I hate
wo rk- at least, most work, like 99%
o f th e work I see done everywhere.
As Americans and as the people of
plan e t EHth , we work now more
than t:ve r, more than peopl e did
in med ieval times . Same old, same
o ld , ove r-worked , underpaid , and
unfulfilled. Needless to say, this
is an abomination , a mo ckery of
humanity, self-deprecating, and as
an yon e can see, self-destructive. So why talk skyscrapers, computers, guns, and weapons
abo ut it any more > Because it's May Day of mass de struction. We make all this
and it's either this or vent about my sexual stuff and half of it is only semi-useful and
frustration and repression. Note to politi- none of it makes anyone truly happy aside
ca ll y correct fundamentali sts a nd to self: from music , gardening, building, drinking,
eating, sex, sleep, spirituality, and selRess
re press io n is not the same as oppression.
I know the labor movement as the service (etc.). People just want to experience
constant uphill battle of poor vs. rich, but life and survive as long as they can without
it always seems to be moving in the wrong going through too many hardship s, but
di rection. I don't have a lot of experience in we've created a multimedia environment
the work force because I've been anti-work that totally separates us from where we
for so me time and believe that instead of came from, nature, earth , universe . So
fi ghting for more jobs, higher pay, equal any progress we make will actually be a
wages, more benefits, etc. why not fight reversion to a more primitive or advanced
not to work? Don't strike until you feel safe state depending on how you look at it.
at your job, strike until you don't have to There are too many factors to be discussed
xn to your job. Work needs to be Ripped . . here, but the fact is that we work more than
on its head because the work we're doing we take vacation and that's just fucking
right now only succeeds in passing around nuts. We seem to create only to destroy,
currency and goods that are insufficient and are born to die, learn to control, etc. True
suffer from mal-distribution . Go into any altruism and utopia have always been pipe
mall or Costco and it doesn't take genius to dream ideals that people as a whole seem to
figure out that the inventory of each could eventually lose faith in, but why?
probably sustain the lives of thousands
Through most of my adolescent and
of people, but such a utopian reality is adult life I have always felt that something
far off in the distance and has been for is wrong, that this isn't the way things arc
supposed to be, that life now is unnatural,
sometime.
It's obvious that we can't just all stop foreign, that the metropolis is not the
going to work or school for that matter and epicenter of civilization, that history is
dart off into the wild blue yonder surviving repeating itself, that any 'new' idea or invenon bugs and berries in the Evergreen forest tion is just a regurgitation of something else
with nothing but a hunting knife and our thought of thousands of years ago. To use
wits about us. Although I wouldn't put a recent cliche, 'the matrix has me;' it has
this past everyone. Self-employment, that's us. We're at a point where technology runs
what it comes down to, that's what we our lives and ifit all disappeared tomotrow
want. We don't want lots of responsibilities, there wouldn't be peaceful anarchy, there
bosses, chores, to-do lists, income, offices, would be hell on earth without a doubt.
paperwork, wait lines, secretaries, business Darwin's theory of natural selection and
cards, schedules, deadlines, etc. What the survival of the fittest would immediately
hell is a deadline anyway? The only deadline be implemented and the population would
[ should have is my freaking funeral, which drop dramatically. There is no avoiding the
I don't even want to be at and if! am, then inevitable: death. Unfortunately, as this time
stands, you can't avoid work either.
I want to be on fire.
Nobody wants to work, period. We all
A messenger recently told me that 'time
want to be free-Roating entities with the is art,' not money. I don't know how anyone
power and the will to do anything. That's could possibly disagree and if you do, then
the kirid of work worth doing. Let's put plan on working even harder for a brighter
all our energy into transcending the mate- future.
rial plain. It's not a bad idea and would
QuestiollS and comments:
probably be a hell of lot easier and more natehogen@excite.com
fun than assembling SUVs, TVs, Barbies,

ffiey. CJhat'g uUeVltaQ!
by Dan
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Hal 1 u c ina t ion s: are
the y rea lor what?

So where was I? Oh yeah , something three minutes. Sounds fun , doesn't it?
Generally, for un -drugged folks , the
about brick cheese tastin g like actual brick.
But there's no time for that right now. What experience- processing part of their brain
I reall y wanted to talk ab out is all the tricks known as the limbic region ca n over-process
your btain can play on you. Oh no , not stuff This is like boiling your linguini into a
those little ones, but the big ones. ' Big' you paste-like consistency. Sometimes the brain
say' Well, let me digress because I am vety, can re-route information to the wrong part
of the brain. This is like getting the mail
very good at it.
I have worked with lo ts of folks that from your fridge or turning the radio dial via
regularly experience hallucinations. Most of your shower knob. Auditory hallucinations
them we ren't taking magic mushrooms (to work by routing an internal half thought and
my kn owledge) . Instead, their brain s had a . sending it .directly tQ the.auditory cortex where
wirin g problem. Kind of like turning on it is experienced as an external 'voice.'
the living room light switch and the vacuum
Auditory hallucinations are the most
in the closet comes qn. Happens all the common hallucination. Visual ones are the
time, right> Or if you were to turn on the next most common. The junior scientist
bathroom faucet and the lawn sprinkler comes brainiacs at your local corporate pharmaceution instead. Or if you put some food in the cal laboratory would recommend one of their
mi crowave and instead th e dryer runs for fine medications. That's all. Even the mighty

CDeafl CPflegident CPuflce
and the gtudent cgody,
Olympia's first naturopathic doctor, Robin
Moore, N.D., has been practicing medicine
locally for twenty years. She graduated as a
part of th e first class from Bastyr Universit y
and is remembered by many as a "favoritc
alum. " Robin is one of those ageless people.
You know the ones I mean: she could be
25 just as easily as she could be 50. The
education and experience apparent in her
voice defi es the fresh-feathered look of her
hairstylc and youthful mannerisms. Although
she says she isn 't feeling well. tonight, she
oozes health.
Robin and her colleague, Dorothy Linzee,
LMT, spoke with Dr. Betty Kutter's Approaches
to Healing class last Wednesday at TES C.
Dorothy Linzee, also an healer in Olympia for
over twenty years, uses applied kinesiology to
treat a variety of ailments including learning
disabilities in children. These women offered
a lively health discussion, hoth scientific and
entertaining.
SOAP Physicians from different traditions
all use SOAP (subjective, objective, assessment, plan). SOAP is a systematic tool for
approaching diagnosis and treatment.
Subjective Subjective in terms of medical
analysis includes everything a patient tells
you: their history, current symptoms, what
they are doing about the symptoms, and what
they feel the cause may be. This portion of
analysis often helps the patient; it teaches him
or her to listen to their body. Patient history
(Hx) remains essential to Robin Moore,
who listens patiently and carefully to her
patient's story for clues. Symptoms may
arise as compensation to the initial source
of an ailment. By documenting subjective
information in detail, a physician can better
determine what is going on.
Objective By definition, objective distinguishes between what the patient says and
what the doctor sees. Objective information
documents physical exam observations and
test results. The physical exam may reveal
an enlarged thyroid gland in the throat or
edema in the legs. Bloodwork indicates the
state of red and white blood cells indicative
of certain illnesses.
Dorothy and Dr. Moore both use applied
kinesiology as part of their testing regimen .
Sometimes called muscle testing, applied
kinesiology is based on the intelligence of
the energetic body. "We go beyond our
skin," states Dorothy Linzee. When using
applied kinesiology, a practitioner tests muscle
strength and stability, before, during, and
after the vestige of a substance is placed in
the client's hand. They commonly use the
arm to test, however, indicator points exist
all over the body. Applied kinesiology may
appear a little 'airy-fairy,' but both lecturers
experience consistently positive results with
their patients . Dr. Moore would like to
document double-blind tests to collect data
and present her treatment results based on a
scientific research method.
Assessment Assessment is diagnosis .
Preliminary work to diagnose involves analysis
of subjective and objective inform ation . A

ph ys ician must draw from all their resources
when making a determination.
During a demonstration of applied kinesiology, Dorothy obse rved weakness in th e
throat and in a bacterial indicator point
of her voluntee r patient. The assessment
she made was a sore throat due to bacterial
infection. Other medical tests exist to verify
these findings.
"A lot of medicine is textbook ," claims Dr.
Robin Moore. Other times tht: complexity
alludes even teams of docto rs. Robin shared
a story of one of her most difficult diagnoses .
The patient's body was creating and circulating blood clots. Initi al testing indica ted a
heart problem. After a long process of many
different doctors, hospital tests, ;1 stroke ,
much research, and even morc analysis, it
was determined that the blood cl ots were due
to an elevated estrogen level, not because of
the woman's heart. Sometimes it requires
much time and energy for the whole picturt:
to come into focus.
During her career, Robin has notict:d
changes in the accepted "norms" for certain
tests. For comparison, most test results include
a normal range along with the individual
patient's numbers. These "norms" do not
always indicate healthy functioning . They
represent statistical data . Robin notes a
decrease in the acceptable range of iron levels
for women. Now it is considered normal for
women to be slightly anemic. She has also
noticed changes in BI2 norms and errors in
the acceptable range for thyroid stimulating
hormone (TSH). All tests contain a degree of
inaccuracy. Our modern world necessitates
qualified health practitioners capable of sound
judgment and accurate diagnosis.
Plan Plan refers to. treatment, or plan
of action. Naturopaths utilize a variety of
treatment modalities, for example herbs,
prescription drugs, homeopathy, massage,
or acupuncture.
Whereas applied kinesiology is a testing
regimen, acupuncture clearing is the treatment
for weaknesses revealed by applied kinesiology.
Acupuncture clearing involves stimulating
specific points on the body in a fashion
that desensitizes the person to a particular
substance. The desensitization results in the
patient no longer presenting a physiological
intolerance to that substance. Robin and
Dorothy both use acupuncture clearing along
with applied kinesiology, as do many of their
colleagues in Olympia. Collectively they claim
an 85% rate of effectiveness.
Medicine is art. Physicians demunstrate
their creativity in the way th ey utilize the
SOAP process. Variatiori exists everywhere.
We are lucky in the Pacific Northwest to have
access to a diversity of healing traditions.
both in diagnosis and treatments. Robin and
Dorothy are on the cutting edge of healin g
progress and loving their work.

minds that work in university and government
labs aren't quite sure what's happening. The
majority of prescription monographs under
the" Mechanism of Action" heading are
"unimown." Ob syre, they. theoriz.e 'til the
cows come home, but you'll be given a pill,
regardless . I'm not against medication but
I have issues with some. The medications
given for hallucinations are anti-psychotics.
Side effects include incredible weight gain, a
permanent involuntary movement disorder
called Tardive Dyskinesia or eventual heart

failure. These medications arc usually prescribed whether they work or not.
So when is a hall ucination real or not ?
Wasn't that the original question? Someone
might hear comments regan;iing their fashion
s~nse from disembodi~d voice, indisting'uish:
able from the person sitting next to them.
This would be frightening and confusing.
Most fPlks are.
Most of us have five senses in good working

For more information, contact:
Robin Moore, N.D. 459-9082
Dorothy Linzee, LMT; NAET 5 70- 1905

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I respect President Purce's decision not to speak out for TESC against
the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, even though I strongly oppose
the Bush administration and all oftheir policies towards Iraq. I agree with
Purce that minority opinions must be respected, however unpopular
they may be. If Purce were to declare TESC against the war, it would'
make TESC into a political institution that imposes its views on its
members. This elitist majority rule is exactly the problem with our
political structure that has allowed Bush to invade Iraq, while alienating
a significant portion of the U.S . population and the majority of the
world 's population.
While widely cited opinion polls, which I personally don't trust, say
that 70% of Americans support the war in Iraq, I believe that at least 70%
of Greeners feel the opposite. It is important that the popular opinion at
TESC is able to be an in verse of popular opinion throughout mainstream
society, but not in a fashion that silences mainstream or even extremist
views, because that just replicates contemporary America by marginaliz.ing
a different group of people.
The function of an institution is not to tell its members what to think,
but to allow them to think for th emselves. I have three suggestions
for both the administration and the student body. First is that we can
speak out through the institution if we form organizations within the
institution . There are already over 50 student groups and students that
realize the need for a student union. There are already students working
on forming this union. It could lead to producing a statement against the
war and other Bush administration policies, that could be signed by the
student groups and members of the student body as an official Evergreen
Student Union stance. This statement would of course have t6 reRect the
minority views and would have to give them a chance to form a similar
organization through which to speak. We must expect encouragement
and unbridled support from the administration.
Secondly, we must ask Les Purce to reveal all information concerning
TESC investments and create a policy by which the students, faculty
and other relevant parries can make decisions about these investments.
1 also think Purce should write a letter to Governor Locke, the Federal
government. the media, and the Department of Education asking them
to research and reveal any information on how the war is effe~ting the
srate budget crisis, and therefore education at Evergreen. This would
allow Purce to remain neutral. while still looking out for the best interests
ofTESC and its members.
The final suggestion I have is more ca mpus and community dialogue,
similar to the forum on Monday the 21 ", but in a more organized and
inclusive manner. The administration should set up a wee kly forum where
stud ents, faculty, community members, and administrators can ex press
th eir views and openl y ask each other qu es tion s. Stud ents and fac ulty
must do th e s am ~ and continue to hold regular teach -ins and di sc ussio ns.
W hil e th e campus d ialogues should have th e purpose of gainin g better
und erstandin g of th e co mpl ex ity a nd diversity of opinions at Evergree n,
th e di scll ssio ns should attempt to produ ce ag reement o n co ndu ctin g
group actIon .
With Peace and Respect,
Erich Albrecht

Like many individuals who've gravitated Student Originated Studies (SOS).
With my hyper-common sense
towards Evergreen, I came in search
of alternative methods to education. approach to life, I see education as nothing
Disenchanted with formal education more than the pursuit of knowledge. As
altogether, yet heavily interested in occupa- a conscious individual seeking intuitively
tions requiring degrees, I just knew that directed expansion, I see nothing more
Evergreen was the school for me. Much obstructive than the determined curricutravel between the ages of 16 and 20 left me lum of another, and nothing more lucrative
desiring spiritual, conscious, and physical than the freedom to learn whatever my
growth to occur in one environment, and soul desires. Throug~ freedom, individua liberal arCs school would be the perfect ally directed learning allows one to absorb
forum for necessary self-discipline. I came experience true to oneself. 1, don't want
.. n9t fully knowing ~hat teachi'ng ,styles obvious. apnotations «;)11 subjective ~eauty,
were available, but was prepared for slight . or to be sitting amongst discord as the
friction in this anomalouS bubble ·which is same voices dominate, or to absorb emoafter all, still an institution. Now swiftly tions turning counter-productive within
approaching my senior year, 1 have truly the formality of structure. I need space
realized the learning style that best suits to think, an intimate community of intelmy perspective and interests in education: lectuals, and professors who will support

PART II:
by Amv
, Loskdta

"Blessed are the
peacemakers: for they
shall be called the
children of God. "
The Bible, Matthew 5:9

The following may not make sense to
anyone who has never studied the Bible
with a sense of faith. I first must address
why I can write on this topic . From
the time I was five, I was 'saved' in the
Christian sense, and often afterwards
in various barren altar calls. (Why do
I feel like I am 'coming our?') Due to
my parent's nomadic ways, I have been
a Baptist, a Methodist, a Lutheran, non denominational, and finally a Pentecostal
Christian for 28 years. These last eight
years took m e into a world I had always
condemned, feared, and blindly hated. I
was always a 'good' Christian . I prayed
constantly and lived a very stressful young
life fearing the consequ ences of sin. It
made me very tense, neve r bein g abl e
to share the bad things, always afraid I
would be ostracized for what I truly was
(as I have witnessed many ostracized over
the years.)
When I was 19, I came to an educational setting for theological training and
guidance. There I had a catalytic moment
and without any warning, I was ostracized.
My personal belongings were taken from
my house by my Christian mentors and
thrown in a dumpster. I was never once
disciplined or guided by my elders to
leave the path I was on, as was promised .
Enraged, I turned my back on everything
1 had learned, but deep in my heart I still
believed in rhe good that Jesus spoke of.
From this experience 1 was slowly led [0
a rough path to gain und e rstandin g, to
finally just rela x, and let love ta ke me
where [ am need ed.
If yo u ha ve never ha d th e ex peri ence of
truly believing in a ny faith , put asid e all
yo ur ideas abo u t co nsp iracy th eo ri es wh e n
appli ed 10 a ny orga nizat io n, nor to menti o n C hrist. As I eve ntuall y It:a rn c:d , the re
are C h ri sti a ns w ho mod el rh e forg ivi ng
ethics o f Jes us C hrist a nd se rve others as a
consiste nt life missio n o f grace, peace , and
forgi veness. JLIst as th e federal gove rnm ent
does no t refl ec t th e values of all peo ple of
this country, these reRect th e attitudes a nd
teachin gs of Jesus C hrist , a nd of the Bible,
in their actions. lr is an unhappy delusio n
to think that war, d eath , a nd destruction
are the banners of any followe r of C hrist.
Thus why I find it hard to call myself a
Christian, when the name is so covered
in the dirt of hypocrisy. I am a disciple of
Christ but there are things about me that
contradict the unwritten requirements for
a post-modern morally upright Christian.
The Bible itself is not magical. Neither
is a flag . Yet the Bible can stop bullets,
but a flag cannot, it just blows whatever
direction the strongest wind blows. This

strange commercial twist of ~eligious Ragwaving and the unquestioned indoctrination of politically conservative values as
'Christian' values is why 1 still am leery
of churches. They represent to me an
artifice that is meant to weekly contain
something that should live in every step
of your life.
The first meetings of Jesus we re usuall y
outside, and if not, they were held in th e
homes of those who offered hospitali ty.
There is something hones t and open about
sharing something you already have. A
community offaith can exist without a box
to house it, land to call its own, or a place
where it can shut out all th e blackness o f
the real world (plus I have a problem with
sitting still for longer than an hour :) ).
Finally, the Jewish oral tradition of c riti cally analyzing the scriptures, questioning,
and lisrening ro elders who are humble in
their knowledge is not a common practice
these days, especially for women and
yourh, because the political values have
inaccurately become synonymous with
biblical values.
With that in mind, here are some
interesting thoughts on the role Christians
play in peacemaking. I want to encourage
you to learn about the late Father Philip
Berrigan, the first American Catholic priest
jailed for political dissidence. A veteran of
World War II, he spent I 1 years of his life
in jail protesting for peace. This is a quote
from his children's tribute in Sojourner
Maga zine (Mar-April 2003, p. 32):
" [Berrigan) is here every tim e a
member of the church co mmuni ca tes th e
ce ntral message of th e gospel (th ou shalr
not kill ) and acts to o ppose killin g, rath e r
th an p rov iding th e church seal o f approval
on war ... H e is he re when we bel ieve ill
eve ry perso n's po tenti al fo r good, regardless
o f backgro und or labels . .. H e is he re wh en
we unlea rn th e violence and g reed we are
inoculated with as Am e ri can s and practi ct:
peace m akin g and reconc iliation . .. .. . H e
is he re when we engage in se rious stud y
of rhe G ospels, minin g th eir wisdo m fo r
tools to di smantl e injusti ce . H e is here
when we live in community, live simpl y,
and share."
The next article o n page 34 is a picture
from Basra , Iraq . A youn g Iraqi nun lead s
a large group of Iraqi c~ildren in a first
communion class from the St. Theresa
church there. There are 5,000 Christians
in their town . There are over 720,000
Christians practicing in Iraq. Or at least
there were.
"Too long have I lived among those
who hate peace."
The BibLe, Psalm 120:6

my endeavors.
I love Olympia, I love Evergreen,
and I love my class. The south sound's
grey weeping blanket makes facing truth
unavoidable, the concentration of unique
intellectuals that Evergreen draws makes
life here a most rich learning experience,
and the genius that has manifested through
my clas~ has been amazing. As I grow and
operate at a frequency true to myself, I
feel the utmost gratitude for my class. I'm
grateful to Evergreen, and especially to
my professors Raul Nakasone and David
Rutledge for hosting Student Originated

Studies. I hope foolish misconceptIons
never allow this program to perish. It
would be unfortunate if future Greeners
couldn't experience this extreme learning
philosophy because of the lack of understanding of others.
I write all this in hopes to eliminate
certain opinions about SOS. I'm happy for
anyone who loves Evergreen ... those who
love the expertise of their faculty, or those
interning or contracting. For me, I love
freedom, and it's in Evergreen's most free
program where I find passion to expand
my conscIOusness.

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Talk to Her:
A Feminist Review

Is Your Media Cheating on You?

bv Kara Hiwck
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baby? Do I sreal children's bikes?
M edia is SlI ch a sill I. I heard she was
The answer to the first qu es tion is,
Jcrew ing George W . .. I/O , rea!!y l Sh{,s I suppose , s ubj ective. To the othe rs,
pregnant in foct. M edia is having Dubya's tho ugh, I can truthfully a nswer no. Does
baby. Th f)' think its going to be a boy. .. m y lack o f politi ca l proc rea tion a nd
nil' name? They're dl'ciding between childish robbery take th e big black label
Nfl/ionalism and Patriolism. Who'd J hear of media off me' Or am I still just like
tI,is/rom ? L,Py find Righl)' o/course, thf)' them, whoever th ey may be)
fil'e aaoss fi'Oll1 Ihe vir/I'o rel/ lal pial'!' 0 12
Referrin g to eve ryt hin g yo u don 't
Siereolype 5lreet. nl('Y s/J(Jllid knOll'...
like abo ut th e Iraqi war cove rage
}jill knOll', C!illl!' til
as th e fau lt
thi"k 0/ ii, il IUtl J
of 'the med ia'
So
do not believe that
Il/fdia I/lilo slOle iii)'
'media' is real, much like I IS per pe ru a t kids bike . Yr'ah, J i;i
in g a da n ge rdon't believe in the Tooth
Hi re it was hl'l; J SIllU
OliS stereoty pe.
Fairy.
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By using th e
a /ew days ago with
word 'media' to
tllat da rn hairdo and
di smi ss a parmicrophone. What? O/collrse [ Jhooed IJl'r ricular sto ry, portrayal, or injusti ce gives
off. [don! want that sort o/p erson h71ngin' thaI' wo rd power. It makes it huge. It
arollnd my neighborbood.
makes it a hulking unco ntrollable mass
Gossip is easy, but it's ch ea p and oftc n of info rmarion and ba bble that rul es the
wro ng . So are stereo types.
TV sets, newspapers and radios of the
Guess what? I'm Media .
nation . That is not a pretty concept. It
I, an Evergreen Stare College student is also not correct.
o fliberalleanings, I, who voted for Ralph
So I do not bel ie ve that 'm edia' is
Nader and buy free-range eggs. I, who real, mu ch like I don't believe in rhe
have worked my butt off to inform the Tooth Fairy. I believe in a certain creature
ca mpus this year. I am M edia.
called the journalist, and I al so be lieve
Am I a slut? Am I having George W. 's in creatures called camera-perso ns, copy
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made up of individuals, we can change
a nchors, broadcast news directors, radio it-on an individual level. If you read
producers, publishers, corporate CEOs, an article where th e cove rage leaves
photographers , graph ic a rtists, page something to be desired, write down
designers and interns . These creatures the n a m e of the reporter, a nd more
are all peopl e. Th ey are all individuals, importa ntl y, the editor of th e section. •
a nd it is a group of individua ls, not som e Ca ll the publication. Co mplain . Best
horribl e collective, th a t brings th e news of a ll , write a letter. Beli eve it or no r,
to you.
th ere are many journalists our there tryin g
Now, ask yo urself thi s ques ti o n .. . who to pu r o ut qu a lit y, fair stor ies rh a t
is th e m edia ' Is it
a re somehow cenPeter Jennin gs and
so red by ed iror"
Tom Brokaw? Is it
Am I a slut? Am I having publishers and corRu sh Limbaugh ?
George W.'s baby? Do I steal po rate
pol itics.
Amy Goodman ?
children's bikes?
Give rhose reportM a uree n Dowd?
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..... e rs so me ammo for
Woodward and
their arguments.
Bern stein? Rupert
A letter from a
Murdoch) Geraldo Rivera?
dissatisfied reader (;once rning coverage is
Media is all these peo pl e. Media is powerful. Twenty letters, of course, have
m e. If you have ever wrote a n articl e for even more power. Newspapers want to
the CPj, or your high school newspaper, make money, and to do this th ey need
written a letter ro the ediror, put out a to satisfy their read ers. Same with TV
'zine, played the OJ on th e air, appea red networks. Let them know you are no r
on public televisio n , or whatever, you satisfied. Next tim e you're pissed abo ut
could be media too. It's true.
something you read or heard, don't blame
But what? You don't want to be media? the ' media .' Blame Bill O ' Reilly. H e
You d on't want such an icky label? Well , is s uch a jerk . I heard he stea ls kid s'
hall eluj ah, neither do L So here's what bikes.
we do : since the giant hulk of 'media' is

Tough Guises Katz is a Wannabe

Jackson Katz wishes he was a WWF
star and overcompensates by diminishing
the manhood of other men while playing
into the hands of vengeful women . In

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order. There is taste, smell, sight, sound
and touch. My own personal rule is
when an experience is in doubt, such as
this blue hand coming out of the wall
right now, is to check and see if it agrees
with the other senses . For instance,
can I smell the blue hand? Perhaps if I
licked one of the fingers? Maybe I could
tty shaking the blue hand as a friendly
gesture? And what is the sound of one
blue hand clapping?
Okay, so the blue hand is, in fact, real.
After licking its finger, it put it in my ear.. .
I believe this is kn own as a Wet-Willy.
I can now hear the blue hand. I shall
contemplate the implications of this after
I run shri eking from th e room in utrer
hysterics.
But before that , I must say that many
hallucinations seem real because it is our
own brains that arc telling us so. Some
hallucinations are consistent with whatever
else is go ing on so we respond to them
as such, while those around us give us
strange and frightened looks. When a
person understands that their own brain
is producing a fac;:ade, then the reaction
is either am usement or annoyance. When
th e reality that we're trying to navigate is
cant radicrory, then fear is a factor, for us
or for those around us.
So my advice is this: If you think that
onc of your senses is fooling you, use the
others to verifY it. Majority rules. If you
see so meone talking to an unseen object
or person, don't give him or her crap. Be
n ice. It could be you .

the process I'm sure he found himself majority, like over 90%. DO NOT
a beautiful wife as well as more praise GET THIS CONFUSED WITH THE
from women than one could ever want. FOLLOWING: 'people who have been
His egomania is like so many of ours abused become abusers.' These are NOT
(including mysel f) in that you project the same statement.
your situation and motivations onco
This was something that Katz NEVER
everybody else. His father abused him, so spoke of. He blamed the media. This is
now we are all responsible. Taking respon- just more projection. You know that the
sibility for your emotions doesn't mean media gives you what you want, don't
that you take responsibility for the you? It is a reflection of YOU! Sure media
abuse. He claimed
affects one's self---.--.-.----- - ------ image, but when
to be the voice of -(
reason, of arare breed
There is a big difference
hasntrhere been
of ,evolved' men who
between a macho "front" and
some standard
are. 'in ~ouc~ with
a violent person.
of beauty? It
their feelings , but he _.___ ._. ________._ ___. _____._ _._____._.
may magnify,
was really trying to
reinforce , and
implicate all men, as
almost instituhe said so many times. He tossed out the tionalize this standard, but it does not
equation that 'silence is complicity,' or invent it and it does not dictate it. Katz
something like that, as if it were natural was trying to say that violent movies,
law, which is much like 'either you're with WWF, and such macho fronting is the
us or aga inst us.' This is just moralizing cause of violence. There is a big difference
ad hominem coercion to con form to some between a macho "front" and a violent
co ntainab le paradigm . There is so m e person. TV and movies may support a
truth to it like there is in all such ideas tough image, but actuall y being a subject
that stick aro und, but as a decree it is just of ab use creates a violent person .
perpetrating th e same thing it claims to
More LoveLine: children learn their
be liberating.
'conscience' in the home - this is where
Back to the issue of a buse, I listen they learn to 'check themselves,' where
to Loveline with Adam Corolla and Dr. they acqu ire their emotional regulatory
Drew nearly every night. I f you don't mechanisms or whatever. Look at every
know, Loveline is a call-in radio show si ngle one of the murderers and abusers
dealing with sex and relationships, drugs, that make the papers, and it is probably
a nd such. Every night they take calls and safe to say that ALL of them suffered
are often ab le to, .like a science, predict abuse as a child. J::.. little more scientific
the situations in which these peo ple were reasoning, and a littl e less projection
raised (though of course there are excep- of yo ur own regrets and inadequacies
tion s when it comes to psychology). is in order.
Eve ry single night there is amp le eviHere is some more Loveline wisdom :
dence that 'ab users were often ab used women who tend to be attracted to
themselves.' By "often" I mean a large abusive men were very commonly abused

by their father figure. For all intents and
purposes we can say ALL of them are.
AGAIN, this does not mean that women
who were abused by their fathers will then
go on to find men who will abuse them.
I did NOT say women are to blame.
Katz preached against depersonalizing
the enemy by calling him a "monster"
(or some other concept through which
to gain control of your emotions), yet he
would have you believe that male violence
is not a well-defined face but that it could
be any face . Is this not just creating a
monster? This is wrong as I've said, we
CAN identify the face. Again, this is
moralizing ad hominem coercion: creating
fear, like Michael Moore so excellently
pointed out in "Bowling for Columbine."
It is a natural reaction to not want to
take responsibility for painful feelings,
but to thus project your pain externally
is delusion.
So why can't we recognize that there
is a simple pattern here? Adam Corolla
will often rant that we don't need more
jails, what we need to do is to treat these
kids who come out of abusive hom es .
This is called treating th e cause in stead
of treating the symptoms. The other night
Dr. Drew mentioned a broad study of
people from ab usive homes th at did
not perpetrate the same abuse, and the
overwhelming common factor was a
sustained relationship with an adult
outside of the honie. There is your cure
to domestic violence, so quit masking
your vengeance. Again Katz never spoke
of ANY of this.
Here's my so lution to everything:
inspiration. Quit trying to tell everyone
what they should be doing. Inspiratio n
inspires insp iration . Lead by example.

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Apparently Lee Kepraios and I saw a completely different film; his review of Talk to Her
focused entirely on the male characters (who did in fact play the major role in formulating
the film 'and narrating the story), and missed director Pedro Almodovar's underlying message.
Although I experienced the film as existing within a patriarchal framework, I offer a different
perspective, a more radical reading of Almodovar's work.
Coma is the extreme physical manifestation of silence. Alicia and Lydia-the two central
female characters who spend the better part of the film in this state-represent the masses
of women who are silenced from expressing or acting upon their needs, wants and desires.
Conversely, Benigno and Marco (Alicia's admirer and Lydia's lover, respectively) symbolize the
partners, lovers, boyfriends and husbands who have been trained within a patriarchal society
to preserve and continue the silencing of women within these 'healthy & happy' relationships.
Further, this ' relationship' of female subjugation is normalized by the fact that Benigno and,
later, Lydia's ex-lover, deeply believe they are in real, serious relationships with silenced women.
Almodovar makes a powerful statement about such heterosexual relationships: women who
are capable of communicating in some way (i.e., not comatose) are not outside domination
and subjugation endemic of patriarchy. In addition, those who are socialized as 'men' are not
capable of loving outside a system that silences and oppresses women.
Kepraios not only misses the satirical point of socialized-male oblivious~ess,. b.ut neglects
to examine the rape of (comatose) Alicia- the climax of the film. The Impltclt fact that
Alicia is unable to consent to sex, is silenced, makes it rape. In many ways Almodovar is
ambiguous in dealing with this rape.
Almodovar does send a clear message: even if the violated is not screaming NO!, even if
the rape is not "violent," it is stiLl rape-against hir will, out of hir control. But, in dealing with
Benigno after the rape, Almodovar fails to write agency into Alicia's character-instead he gives
Alicia's fate and dignity to those who will be responsible for 'punishing' Benigno. .
.
When Benigno is imprisoned, Alicia comes out of her coma. Only when thiS phYSical
manifestation of a silencing force--no matter how attentive, doting or 'Ioving' -has been exiled,
can the silenced find their voice. Still, it is iJllportant to question, w~ether the imprisonment of
Benigno (forced exile of oppressor) fund~fne~ta!ly chal!enges or rel~forces th.e sta~ quo. The
'cri minal justice' system pronounces rape a crlmmal actIon, and pUnishment IS Imprisonment.
The same system that declared a 'war on drugs, ' that pronounced prostitution illegal, that
legalized the disenfranchisement of ex-felons, constitutionally protects the enslavement of
prisoners. Benigno has committed a crime-a serious violation of a woman's body, dignity
and safery. But ' justice' for that crime has come from a 'criminal justice' system based on
oppression-white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy. Imprisonment does not challenge or
change a culture and society founded on and sustained by subjugation. Thus, Almodovar does
not truly challenge, or even critically examine patriarchy and misogyny.
As a feminist/w~manist movement, we must struggle for justice that radically opposes
and challenges all forms of domination and oppression-including (mass) imprison ment in
degrading, inhumane and subjugating conditions. Without working ag~in s t th.e domi~ ation of
prisoners (primarily working class and people of color), we are not working agamst the Ideology
of domination that justifies and encourages violence, rape, inequality and sexism.
Although the main speak ing characters are male, Talk to Her should be viewed and
interrogated through th e female characters' experiences. From this radical standpoint we can
examine the ways in which the film both challenges and maintains patriarchy. Exercising a
consciousness attuned to cultural criti cism , we are able to formulate radical analyses upon which
to combat racism, sexism and class oppression . To change our culture, we cannot be passive
consumers of film, television or print, but must always be active participants in critiqu ing and
transforming this culrure of domination and inequaliry.

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The Pianist
All throughout Roman Polanski's Holocaust melodrama, The Pianist,
a true story of a Polish piano player, you keep thinking that even though
what you are seeing on the screen is powerful stuff, eventually Polanski will
rise above it and show you something more innovative. You hope to see
something that you haven't seen in a Holocaust film- a different angle or
entirely different device. And yes, eventually you do, to a small degree. But
it comes a bit too late into the story and in too little a quantity. As we follow
W1adyslaw Szpilman (Adrian Brody) on an odyssey of desperate survival,
from the beginning of the ghetto life in Warsaw to the very end of the
war, we realize that there is very little to distinguish this film from a dozen
others set during this nightmarish era. It's sadder still for Polanski, who's
regarded as one of the most dynamically sryled and provocative of directors;
an otherwise master of the use of abstract visual sryles, points-of-view and
unconventional narratives. Here, his style and imagination have been tamed
by the most delicate offilm subject matter. Still, it's a provocative, enthralling
story where Szpilman beats the odds with the help of the kindness of
strangers and some profoundly dumb luck. Brody is subtle and riveting in
the title role and makes a passive, quiet hero who wants only to get through
it all and watch from the safe sidelines. The film's third act is its strongest
and most unique, as Szpilman takes refuge in a crumbled mansion and is
befriended and saved by a kind Nazi officer. Roman Polanski was himself a
lucky survivor of the Holocaust and perhaps he felt a more artful approach
would have been disrespectful in telling a true story. But nevertheless, his
film, which is admittedly powerful and engaging, disappointingly suffers the
dire consequences of a lack of directorial imagination.

Rating: *** stars

The Quiet American
Further proof that a new era of Hollywood blacklisting is emerging can
be seen by observing the much-delayed release of Phillip Noyce's adaptatio n
of the Graham Greene novel, The Quiet American. The film of the same
title takes place in the early years of the Vietnam co nflict/ when the U .S .
government was secretly begi nning to take interest in th e increasi ng tension
between th e Com munists and the French colonists. As the story unfolds,
the film seems to be a criticism of the foolish involvement and intelligence
tactics that constitute American foreign policy. Noyce fought the distributor
(Miramax) to get hi s film released, against those who were worried his
work mighr be deemed "anti-American." He had to wait for the national
pandering to die down before the studio decided it co uld let audiences see
anything offering a different perspective. A tremendous improvement on
the awful 1958 version of the movie with the same name starring Audie
Murphy, this version includes the conflict in the story, but backseats it to
the romantic triangle between three leads. In one of his best performances
ever, Michael C aine plays Thomas Fowkr, the traditional type of Graham
G reene anti hero so intriguing in the other film adaptations of his novels
(The End ofthe Affoir, The Third Man) . Fowler is a cyn ical, opi um -smoki ng,
British journalist working out of tlpscale Saigon, barely covering the conflicts
beca use he is too busy spending time with his nati ve love Phuong (Do
H ai Yen ) who m he says he resc ued from a dance hall and made civilized.
She's two-thirds his age and only loves him because of what he ca n offer
her externally : money, sec urity, class and status. In a way, it's just a grander
version of a prostitute romance, where th e woman feels obliga ted to love th e
man beca use he pays her. Fowler meets the optim istic Alden Pyle, an 'a id
worker' who comes to Vietnam only to help and ends up f..'l ll ing fo r Ph uo ng.
Like th e political eve nts and climate in the sto ry, th e fri endly rival ry betwee n
Fowler and Pyle is kept sub tl e. The focus is on the tension between the two
men , the former struggling to remain neutral and feig ning objectiviry, and
the latter appearing harm less but having more serious intentions. The casting
of Brendan Fraser as Pyle is a master stroke . Like the actor pl ay in g him, Pyle
has more depth than meets the eye. Fraser, who shouldn't be discouraged
after appearing in several silly kids movies and action extravaganzas (in
addition to his fine work in Gods and Monsters), uses his hunky, leading- man
appearance as a fayade for deeper intentions. Caine does wonders playing a
character of great complexiry with a performance that is simple, understated
and no-frills, but very profound. When the full extent of Pyle's involvement
is revealed, it's clear the film relates to current situations by th e implication
of American execution of terrorist acts to justifY military intervention. Shot
on location and very matter-of-factly in sryle- using rich colors and simplistic
performances (Yen is also excellent), this film remembers a time when
challenging subjects were treated maturely and honestly.

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Coming From a Place

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Unknowing

by Nate HOgen

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E-pryme (E) , Comradict ion (C), and D-scribe (D) are the MCs that make
up The Sa ims of Everyday Failures, a local hip-hop group who've been on the
"scene" here in Ol ympia for just over year now, playing shows at The Voyeur
:lnd OI her local wnues. Last week I sat down in an interview with these three
li ne fellows and rhis is whar came ouI.
Q: W hen did yo u guys meet?
E: We all mer in Holy Oly. Co m rad iction's from Denver, D-scribe is fro m
C leveland, O hi o, and E- Pryme is from Phoenix, AZ. We're all poet nerds and
hermirs who met at literary festival s and poetry readings. We're all infected
with the word virus in rhe later stages of annihil ati on and disintegration and
regeneration . We'vc all been wo rking together for fou r years. We've been rhyming
together for about 2 1/2 years. We've written a bunch of books of poetry and
had them illustrated. Burn Books is ou r publishing compa ny.
Q: Influences'
D: Publi c Enemy.
e: John Coltrane .
Q: Did you guys start writing poetry to ge t women '
E: Act uall y, I staned writing poetry as a dircct result of deep imcraction
with a woman who taught me about poetry and a lot of thin gs about lifc. She
got me a journJI for my scve ntec nth binhday and it said, "maybe this will
help you accompl ish your dreams." I didn't evcn know what that meant and
I just ' taned writing. My life changed co mplctel y the night I first wrote and
embarked on th e journey of sdf- transform ation, explo rati on, and writing has
bee n my main vehicle for doin g that so that's why I write and why I started
writi ng. When it sro ps doing that for me then I'll sto p.
D: I think the first poem I wrote was when I was convinced I was go ing 10
die from ca ncer. I was like, I'm go ing ro get cance r and die one day and that's
how it goes, it's a genetic permutation in this holographic universe. So I took
it to th e page and infiltrated this substructure of the metaphysi ca l and decidcd to take my life
into my own hands and create it with each stroke of the pen.
e: I sta rted writing poetry inexplicably, not even co nsciously doing it. I didn't even think
of it as poetry. I called it "treatises" actually and (was) just describin g things I saw around and
trying ro make sense of them through the word, trying 10 communica te a message that I have
always fclt in my hean ro other peop le, 'ca use we ca n all use education.
E: Just for the record, I probably started free styling four yea rs befo re I start ed writing
poetry. I started when I was about twelve or thirreen . Hip -hop is what acrually brought me ro
th e word and what opened up the word to me and all its possibilities.
Q: The mission and the message?
D: Do whatever th e voice in your head says, ignore the other one.
E: Jah willi
C: We all begi n at zero and end at nothing, thus spoke the lamb in the aftermath.
Q: Tell me a little about the recordings you're doin g and what you're writing about
right now.
e: We've been trying to perfect the reco rding as pect of making musi c and we have tons
of so ngs, but the new sruff we've been working on obviously is th e best ro date and it's very
so mber, message oriented, and hypnotic. We're actually hypnostics.
D: For the last year or so , we've been trying to do eve rything ourselves from bottom to ..
lOp and do everything ind ependent as fuck l Our first album's called After tbe Fal!, seco nd
album's ca lled Post-Apoe-Olympia.
E: A lot of the stuff that I've bee n writing lately has rurned a little more internal for
me. A lot of my earlier raps were about looking at the world around me and translating my
observation s in my own language. I've go ne through so me intense emotional experiences
over the past four months that have brought me back into myself and forced me to be
painfully and brutally honest with myself as a person and all my shortcomings within my
own self, within my interaction with myself and with other people. I've been trying 10 address
those issues through my rhymes and through the self-re.flective process of creating and then
reflec ting upon what has bee n created.
Q: What is the purpose of the word and hi p-hop?
E: The purpose of the word is for the word to be a vehicle for the spirit to manifest into the
materi al plain, for the subtler vibrations of experience to bridge between subtle non-tangible
experiences and it's like a black hole or a vortex where they come in and they condense and
they come out the other side manifested in a completely diffe~e nt dimension than their source
ca me from. Spirit to flesh , energy to matter, shadow ro bone.
e: I think of it as a ·prayer and not even in these coded symbols that we use to create
meaning that so meone else who understands our symbols c.1n vibe with, but also a prayer
of invo ca tion and no matter what you're doing , no mailer what you're saying, if you
approach the word with a spiritual intent and devotion to rhe art that you're perpetrating ...
(pause) you move forward.
D: That question reminds me of The Book of John , "In the beginning was the word ."
Q: Where does your name come from?
D: Saints of Everyday Failures is a line from a poem I wrote and it's actually in two different
poems. That means failure is possible. We fail everyday, everyone fails , little failures , big
failures. It's the small things in life that keep us moving forward. "Failure is the sweet return
to the source of all-knowing," said Shri Shabob Mataharres. Right now we're in a transitional
state. We're moving from the Saints of Everyday Failures into coming up at Big Show City
we're doing a show called Bna; Nroi 'i m which is Hebrew for "children of the vision-bringers"
and essentially what we're saying is that the vision-bringers have brought forth the word. The
word is in print, is in our heart. The word is what your heart tells you, the voice inside of you.
It's not language-oriented. The word has nothing to do with language in a sense that everyone
speaks the same language. Our verbal language is the word virus that spreads and the ideas
that spread and the actions that are baSed on these words in the world that is based on these
actions which manifests itself beginning with the words that are spoken. That's the virus
that spreads, the sickness that's spreading through our world right now. The song of the
hea rt that comes through is the word that we're bringing. The DNA is spiraling, the
Kundalini is spiraling, well what is the essence that it's spiraling around? What is that
shaft of light and where does it lead? That's what we're following and that's where the
interac tion with an audience comes in. Where all of us make a telepathic decision to go
there and we go there together.

Leo Kottke Plays Longview?
by Rev CbriSfQpberAltenbllrg
It was ratnlllg a nd gloomy when I left the

Sensory Suspension
and Hip-Hop
bY Nate Hogen
Entering the sensory suspension!
deprivation ta nk I had way to.o many
expectations about mind travel, meditation,
enlightenment, blah, blah, blah. I laid
down in about two feet of salt water and
stared into darkness and silence, waiting
to lose a1.1 track of time, space, and self.
All of this occurred, but it took time. I
didn't feel much else besides weightlessness
and frustration with the fact that I wasn't
tripping out in a lucid dream state. I felt
like I was on the rim of a black hole- being
slowly sucked into another world and that
this was just the beginning. Eventually, I
dosed off and began snoring. What seemed
like twenty minutes to a half-hour was
actually and hour and fifteen minutes .
According to Dante, that was the longest
first float he had witnessed.
D a nte a.k .a. Simon Phoenix a.k.a.
Tragic Magic a.k.a . Entity is a six-year
veteran hip-hopper, a student and mind
traveler at Evergreen . Thi s quarter he's
participating in a group contract exploring
and re sea rching the effects of sensory
suspension meditation. He also works on his
music and writing full time in a desperate
attem pt to be understood through the art
form of hip-hop. He says, "I spend a lot
of time being misunderstood because I
have always been the oddball and I use my
art as a portal to channel myself into the
lives of other people so that they can better
understand me."
He grew up in a monastery in Palmdale,
California called Saint Andrews Abbey. He
grew up with monks for uncles who pointed
him in the right direction, let him run
around in a huge library, and encouraged
him to make art and reach out into the
other realm. He was told to fight' vigilantly
against what was going to be instilled inside
of him when he ran up against traditional
education. At Harvard Westlake (supposedly the number one high school in
the country) he did just that. There he

started making music a nd wrttlng, and
started an underground newspaper that
directly undermined the larger newspaper
on campus. "I acted out a lot. I did all the
senior pranks. I lit a school bus on fire . I
blatantly wanted people to understand that
I was conscious enough to fight the powers
that I felt were constricting youth in their
education, but I was ~till able to play their
game of jumping through hoops to get th e
grades I needed to get my stamp on my way
along the modern educational process ."
College brought him here to "mine the
cave of (his) mind. " He wa nted to get away
from the madness of Los Angeles, and then
return to LA every summer to tour and
teach. Although, he doesn't make music
with the intention of teaching people, if
you do learn anything from his music, it
makes him happy.
fu an MC he has taken on many different personalities and characters. Simon
Phoenix is an angry aggressive battle person a
that reaches out and touches other M Cs
in the worst way possible. Tragic M ag ic
is simply a way Dante to turns tragedy
into magic and beauty. Those raps are
"heavily intellectualized off of mythological
references" he learned at the monastery and
from his father who is a utopian scholar.
Entity was the name he gave himself when
he came to the Pacific Northwest. He chose
that name because he felt th at it was "the
true embodiment of what it is I do with
hip-hop, getting in touch with my personal
hip-hop entity, which basically vocalizes all
the things that flow inside of myself. !t's a
combination of the aggressiveness of Simon
Phoenix with the intellectualism and the
spirituality of Tragic Magic." He attributed
it lot of his multiple personaftties to one
of his main influences, Kool Keith, who
has done .albums under the names Dr.
Octagon, Dr. Doom, Jacky Jaspar, and
Black Elvis.

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off-ramp and saw a sign reading " Welcom e to
Kel so!Longview" last Saturday. The fir st person
thar I saw was a man walking his dog at rhe local
junior high . I figured that it was a small town and
anybody that I asked would know how to get to the
Columbia Theatre. The man was missing a tooth
and his skin loo ked worn. I think that he was spun
on meth and the way he moved reminded me of
Cold Miser from the animatronic X-mas special
A Year Without a Sallta Claus. I didn't tell him
why I was going to the Coumbia Theatre but, when
he was through directing us, he smiled, and while
giving the thumbs up said, "Leo Kottke, huh? Have
a good time. He's great."
For the last month or so, people have been
asking me why guitar legend Leo Kottke would
play Longview, WA. He isn't playing Seattle on
this rigorous west coast tour. I have a friend who
is from Longview and he told me that he knew
of only 3 concerts ever in his hometown . Two of
them were Sir-Mix-a-Lot and a Too Short show
that never happened because the town protested it
before it could go down. After meeting the tweeker
and entering the theatre, packed with a crowd of
middle-aged and elderly folks, it was clea r that
there was a huge fan base in ihis small town. I
haven't seen that many old people at a show si nce
I was high on acid at th e N eil Diamond Key Arena
concert in 1999.
The show had already started by the time I
arrived so I wound up sitting in the back of th e
balcony. This didn't bother me because every seat
in the house was great , plus I was given free tickets.
The Columbia is rhe type ofYictorian style theatre
that's fully eq uipped with an orchestra pit. It looks as
if it hosts a. lot of plays. The ushers were old women
who didn't open my bag or sift through my shit.
I could have sn uck in anything from dynamite to
Jimmy Walker himself and gotten away with it.
I walked in as Kottke was telling a sto ry about
a pee ping tom who Chet Atkins knew. The peeping
tom was so thorough that he would even carry a
drill around with him. Leo said that it seemed like
3 lot of work just to get a thrill. H e spoke quite
a lot throughout his performance. This was great
for me because, although I was un able to have the
interview that I had planned on, I was still able to
listen to him basica lly interview himself. He gave
credit to C harl es Mingus as one of his influcnces,
but explained that one will sometimes try to imitate

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D ante didn't srumble into the se nso ry
suspension tank until last year when he
met Marty Lockheim, anorher student at
Evergreen, who lived down the street from
him. They felt like it was a prophecy
being fulfilled . They went on to be best
friends and had intense ex periences within
the tank. Their experiences range from
deep relaxation to states of enlightenment
(Marty) to orgasmic states oflucid dreaming
(Dante) . Dante would like to incorporate
the tank into film work to "teach people
more about transcendental realities and
leaving the world of the physical behind
and delving deep into yourself, which I
have always believed strongly is the core
root of all art regardless of what craft it'
is. The tank is a tool, the ultimate tool,
I believe personally, with which to find
those things."
.
Dante and Marty's next mission is to
record a hip-hop album from the inside of
the tank. It's going to be called Inner-Naut,
playing off the concept of astronauts. The
album will be based on the inner plain of
space. "We're going to have a live bass ist
hooked up to the tank and a microphone

others but fail miserably and, in turn, "that failure
becomes your sound." He told one really interesting
story about a couple he met after a show that also
had the n ame Kottke. They handed him a playbill
from a German female pianist, also named Kottke.,
who had performed one of her last shows and died
around 1910 . Leo said that it was more or less a
picture of himself with his hair up and wearing a
bussel. The couple told th em that they weren't family
but said, "We think you're related ." The guitarist
said that the best that he could figure WaS th at Leo
"wanted to play something more portable than a
piano but had to die to do it."
Kottke would tell these stories between so ngs
and would even play litrle riffs betwee n words and
sentences while he was speaking. His guitar work
was amazing and incredibly intricate. The set-up was
simply the musician sitting in a chair front-center
with either his 6 or 12-string guitar lying next to
him, while he plucked the other one. The lighting
was beautiful and had a chameleonic shift on the
hardwood floor, which reminded me of either "the
horse of a different color" from The Wizard of OZ or
one of those fancy paint jobs that rich gangsters get.
Blue Note recently re-released much of his music
and Leo said he has been hearing songs that he hasn't
heard since he recorded them. At times, the whole
audience was smiling, and it reminded me of the
feeling that you get listening to Django Rheinhardt
as he tears through various tracks from his more than
30-year career. "Once I realized how many records I'd
made it was too late to stop," Leo explained .
After the show I hung around for a minute
before leaving. I got Leo to sign my book Th e 100
Deadliesl Karate Moves, which he said reminded
him of his d ad who taught hand-to -hand combat
in WWII. H e also explained th at he wouldn't be
pl aying th e Telluride Bluegrass Festival thi s year
because of conflicts. I then walked 0\1 tside and saw
Krist Novaselic from Nirvana outside with his lad y.
A fr iend of mine asked him if he cou ld believe that
Richard Lee, the guy who's had th e " Kurt Cobain
was murdered" show on Seattle public access for
a decade, was still on the air. "Oh, my god," he
replied, "I've go t a res training order against that
guy!" We talked about hi s old house in Olympia and
how great the show was while he wrote "God bless
ewe!!" in my Book of Mormon. After checking his
signature to make sure that he was Krist and not
jusr an ext remel y tall balding and resurrected Andy
Kaufman, we went to Mu chas Grac ias for 24-ho ur
auth enti c Mexica n cuisin e. Yum, Yum, Yumm y!

by Erika Wittmann

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[ow Down on
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·Please note::
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vUay 1

• Rebecca 'Pearcy, songstress, Ellen Hinchcliffe,
spoken word artist, and Liar Bird, acoustic band, at
105 N. Sherman St., (at corner of 4'h and Sherman,)
$4 suggested donation, 8 p.m . All proceeds go to Art
Across Borders, a program linking artists of Iraq and the
Palestinian territories to citizens of the U.S.

CJhiday. vUay 2
• Devill Brewer with Joe Walsh on mandolin,
Tugboat Annie's, 2100 West Bay Dr. NW, free.

CJhidat~.

vUay 9

• Afro-Cuban traaitions with rhythm and blues in
Obrador, at the Go Club, 9:30 p.m. For more info,
call 704-7278.

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and a freestyle competition in the CRe, .students $3 ,
others $5, 8:30 p.m., all ages.
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5,10 and Water St. , $ I 0, 8 p.m., all ages. For advanced
ri ckets, call 705-28 19.

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Sun, nexr 10 Mini
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Tavern, 4th Ave .• $2 Pim Night at the Eastside, on
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inside th e tank. I will be fl oa ring and rapTh e final question in the intervi ew was,
ping freestyle into the micro phone. We're "What do hip-hop, the psychedelic experiboth seriously attracted to this because it is ence, sensory deprivation, meditation and
something that no one has ever done, and prayer have in common?" Dame responded ,
most likely will never do aga in because it is "I believe that in all of those things what
so out there." Aside from this revolutionary it is you are getting in touch with is th at
act, they hope to show that "meditation one soul-entity, that thing in side of you
and the deep explorations of the conscious that is completely inexplicable, but doesn't
a re things that are valid and should not have a name because you can't put a human
be scientifically overlooked in the larger perimeter on what it is. I've done a lot of
field of science and logistical thinking and psychedelics and the one thing they teach
hypotheses. "
you is to be here now and be in the moment
These men are following the footsteps and how beautiful the moment is from
of John C. Lilly, who started sensory moment to moment, timelessly. Hip-hop is
deprivation studies back in the 1950s. Half timeless, meditation is timeless, time does
of science thinks he's a madman and the not exist. Time is man's concoction, man's
other thinks he's a completely revolutionary safety net to make him feel better about
genius. Dante and his compat(iots think the the overwhelming complexity of existence.
latter. The government originally declared I think that when I grab a microphone
his research communistic and that the and freestyle there are times when I am
rest of the world wouldn't even give it a not there. The consciousness of Dante is
thought. "I hope these experiments will not there, there is something else coming
break thought patterns like these and open . through from another place and that place
people up to a better understanding of what I have to trust in and accept. That place
it is to be in a sensory isolation tank and to is the dwelling of the one soul and that is
d eal with the one sense of the soul."
what you are trying to·come in touch with

when you take psychedelics, when you step
into the se nsory-isolation tank, when you
grab a microphone and release your soul
into the atmosphere of a club, when you
meditate deeply. All of these things have in
co mmon th e individual's ability and desire
to tap into that which is nothing but "pure
essence." That essence in itself is what it
is that we are made of individually and
collectively, which is why it is so powerful.
It is all a part of faith . Faith ultimately is
believing in the unbelievable. Putting trust
in that which can not necessarily be trusted
by the logical linear mind frame. All art is
an act offaith."

You can catch Dante with his crew Rrsidmt
The Saints of Everyday Failures,
and Stone Crop this Saturday. May 3'" at the
Black Lake Grange. The show is all ages + bar
wilD and starts at 7 p .m. $5

Antih~ro,

··, may 1, 2003

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Team Evergreen Dominates AAU Championship
by Mark Germano
To be a champion you have to beat the
best. Over the past four years Evergreen's
Bak Shaolin Eagle Claw Kung Fu team has
made a habit of producing champions.
At the Amateaur Athletic Union
(AA U) Pacific Northwest Martial Arts
Championships (a qualifying tournament
for the nationals which can lead to Olympic
team tryouts) they proved, once more,
that their commitment to winning remains
fierce.
The event, sponsored by Master Ric
Gordon in association with the Northwest
Tae Kwon Do Association, brought together
some of the best Tae Kwon Do fighters
from around the Pac West.
As in past International Martial Arts
Council (IMAC) and National Black
Belt League (NBL) competitions, Team
Evergreen showed the top fighters in the
AAU what a real championship team is
all about.
With the surprise appearance of No am
Reininger(former captain of the University

of Wis~onsin Team and nationally ranked
fighter), the Men's Black Belt point fighting
division was stacked with some of the
hardest hitting Eagle Claw fighters from
the National team .
In the first match-up of the day, local
instructor Owen O'Keefe squared off
against a young, fast Black Belt fighter. In
a few short rounds O'Keefe proved himself
the victor.
Next up, Seattle instructor Sam Haskin
fought a tough fight against an older
opponent, Mr. Williams, who's experience
gave him enough tricks to edge by Haskin
to the next round.
Then Reininger had his turn . With
swift hook kicks and rapid fire fists
Reininger gave Williams a run for his
money, but barely lost on points towards
the end ohhe match. Reininger would take
third in a furious battle against Haskin.
In the fight for first place, O'Keefe
delivered a series of kicks that left his
older opponent, Williams, shin bruised and
winded. Although the beginning of the

match was fairly even, O 'Keefe dominated
the final minute and took home the gold.
The advanced students then took to
the ring. In the first fight Mark Germano
left his opponent beaten and in pain. Then
Devon Waldron edged past the rough and
heavy Evergreen team captain Kevin Barrett.
In the championship round Waldron had
a surprising come from behind victory
against Germano, giving him the first place
finish with Germano in second.
In the beginner ring Andy Cyders took
his first gold medal over rwo local Tae Kwon
Do fighters.
As per usual, Team Evergreen dominated forms competitions. In this event the
team all competed one division higher than
normal, and still there were no equals.
In Black Belt open forms Germano
and Barrett ~ade an impressive showing
taking first and third, respectively. In
intermediate competition Waldron and
Cyders nearly tied, taking first and second,
respectively.
A t the close of the day, Sifu Dana

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Free Poetry Day it's day 48 of the Olympia free poetry movement. Write for free
poetry art S.S.O . Press P.O. Box 2645 Olympia WA 98507.
Universal Cancer free preview in the COM Experimental Theatre at 8 p.m .
Women of Color Coalition Film Festival showing at 8:30 p.m . in the lecture
halls.

G. Daniels along with Isshin Ryu Sensei
Richard put together a continuous fighting
division for the Eagle Claw fighters to test
their mettle.
The Black Belt crew shocked and
amazed the crowd in several bruising battles
that demonstrated the power and tenacity
of the Black Belt team. The final placing
was Haskin in first, O'Keefe in second, and
Reininger in third.
In other mentionable matches Barrett
and Germano squared off in a tough fight
that left both competitors with battle
scars to wear proudly. Cyders also beat
another Tae Kwon Do fighter to take first
in beginner continuous.
Team Evergreen would like to thank
Grandmaster Fu Leung and Sifu Dana
G. Daniels for their countless hours
of instruction and support. For more .
information on Evergreen Kung Fu contact Kevin Barrett at 357-9137 or email
him at barkev28@evergreen.edu. Check
out team Evergreen on the web at
www.bakshaolineagleclaw.com.

Zoot Suit showing at 7 p.m. in Lecture Hall I. Prese nted by MEChA. For more
information call 867- 6583 .
Universal Cancer 8 p.m . in the Experimental Theatre. Admission is $5 at
the door.
. Women of Color Coalition Film Festival showing at 8:30 p.m . in the lectll re
halls.

Women of Color Coalition Film
Festival showing at 8:30 p.m. in
the lecture hall s.

Tres de Mayo (rwo days before C inco de Mayo) to celebrate
the French ex pul sion from Puebla, Mexico . Featuring a
d isc ussion on Cinco de Mayo and music by Miguel Cardenas.
From 3-6 p.m. in the Library lobby. For more information
contact MEC hA at 867- 658.3.
Universal Cancer 8 p.m. in the Experim en ta l Theatre.
Admission is $5 at th e door
Women of Color Coalition Film Festival showin g at 8:30
p.m. in th e lec ture hctlls.

Urban Arts Fest with Mr. Lif & OJ Fakts,
among others in th e Longhou'se. Doors open
at 7:45 p.m. and the show starts at 8:30 p.m.
Admission is $3 for students, $5 general. For
more information call 867-641 2.
Campus forum on the Budget from 3 to
5 p.m. in Lecture Hall I.
14 annual Rachel C arso n Forum presents A
Night with Mr. Trout and Mr. Bass at 7
p.m. on the first flo or of the library.
Women of Color Coalition Film Festival
showing at 8:30 p.m. in the lecture halls.

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p,m . in the lectllre halls.

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Rpril 17
7:00 p.m. A manhole cover comes dislodged and screws up the undercarriage of a car. I remember when I used to try to get down to see the alligators in the sewers and it never
worked . . .. What did that car do to work the cover up? Inquiring minds want to know.

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Rpril 18
5:03 p.m. Be aware of surveys requesting credit card information. I know that your mom told you this, and I know that you don't want to hear it, but if you give out the
information you might end up buying a PORN subscription hat you didn't want. At least, that's what happened today.
5:32 p.m. A car stereo was reported stolcn from ... you guessed it, a car. Stereos are expensive, and I know that you either have one in your car or the wires don't work. Dirty thief
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room, as I didn't get the letter, someone decided to heat water, maybe for good old cup of tea, and didn't notice that there was a plug on the burner. They noticed really quick after
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