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It's a. different .kind ,o f .crime .••
by Che/sey Adams & Katie Thurman

Wha t i s the

best

Hallo~een costume?

you ve ever seen.

"A naked person
covered all in
green
paint.
The person was
supposed to be
a fairy."
-Allison Baggett
Sophomore.
Transcendent
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" Drunken rebel!
white trash with
a confederate fla g
and a wife-beater
shirt,"
-Huey West
Fres hman,
Sovereignty
" My sister got: ...
a red devil sweak .
shirt. The sleeves ·
come down into a ··,
point with crazy
contacts. from
Costco." :
-Dave Kam
SeniO/; . ,
Reinterpreting
Liberation
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"I went as
Janet Reno
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Freshmfln,
Transcendent
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by Nicholas Stanislawski
The middle- aged, grey-haired man
in sunglasses confronted her just as she
was going to leave the Evergreen beach.
He was naked.
According to the police report, at
about 3:30 p.m., on September 24, the
female Evergreen student was heading
back to the trail because she was uncomfortable with having seen at least three
naked men at the beach. The man , who
she didn't know said, " Being naked really
makes me horny. Can I jack off in front
of you?"

in the forest

Steve Huntsberry, the director of police
services at Evergreen, suggested that this
is because there is less population density
in the woods than elsewhere on campus.
This makes sense because according to
News Analysis
the 2002 crime statistics available through
police services, Liquor violations, theft, by Stephanie Brooks
and drug violations made up about 90% of
Last week in the Business section
the cases numbered, According to Huntof The Olympian there appeared a small
sberry, there are cri mes that are specific article shown directly under "Microsoft
to the woods. These include indecent pushes Office 2003." It read: "Ethics group
exposure, people taking plants from the protests Office Depot policies," by Chris
woods, and habitation violations (sleeping Clough. What followed was a generous
in the woods).
"No."
account of the happenings last Tuesday
Sabine Riggins, the records manager when eight Evergreen students gathered
She wanted to get away, said Officer
Pamela Garland, who wrote the report, but at police services, explained that indecent at the Office Depot on Cooper Point to
he became aggressive, angrily saying: "I exposure, which is labeled as a non-forc- demonstrate the lack of commitment to
know I'm not supposed to be naked but I ible sex offense, occurs about three or four environmentally sound policies on the
' part of Office Depot's corporate leaders.
times a year in the woods. Officer Garland
get so horny."
Carrying a sign that read: "Office Depot
On a whole, there is less crime in views people who want to be naked for the
destroys endangered forests ," these
the forest than in the rest of campus. sake of expression di fferently from people students, in cooperation with the ERC
and WashP) RG (two Evergreen student
see Story page 8
groups) participated in a nationwide
movement to confront corporations about
ethical business by way of the media.
The facts are that Office Depot's
competitors such as Staples and K inko's
have already adopted environmentally
sound business practices by canceling
contracts with logging companies who
log end angered old growt h fore sts and
using 30% post-consumer recycled paper
products, Office Depot has set a goa l of
3'0% post-consumer recycled products, but
has not yet met the goa l or made adeq uate
progress in di sassoc iating with unethical
logg ing corporations.
The overall theme of thi s kind of
activism is that anyone wi th 45 minutes
of spare time ca n ma ke a phone call to
their local press, and ma ke thei r voice
heard . As our Greener Power co nference so delicately suggested, we have a
re sponsibility as active citizens to use the
tools available to better the world around
Photo by Step hanie Brooks,
us, This action was made possi ble by
Evergreen Students protest at the Office Dep ot off of Cooper Point R oad.
the Evergreen Media Loan depar tment
generously s haring thei r digital camera
and a handful of students with the initia,
tive to stand up for what they believe in.
In a time of political and environmental
devastation, the roll back of civil rights
in the name of National Security, and the
global capitalistic homogenization, there
is a need for individuals to assert their
power and remind our " Leaders" that the
system works because "The People" make
it happen, and that our interests are the
business of America.

Are We Really

Powerless?

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Do you have trouble forcing yourself to do sun salutations?
Have you never done yoga but would like to try? (fyou have even
the slightest interest in somatics or embodiment, then the Evergreen
Yoga Club is the place for you.
The Evergreen Yoga Club presents itself as a place to foster
holistic health, community, and fun through the practice and discussion of yoga and the related ilk. Whether it is chanting, dance, asana,
or discussion that trips your trigger, the Yoga Club has something for
everyone. We are in the process of creating both introductory and
advanced practice sessions as well as chant and sutra study groups.
Also, if you have something you have been interested in, come share,
we are always open for other events. ,
. If you are interested in being updated on the Yoga Club's
activities, email kbaer@hipplanet.com or keep an eye out for practice sessions TBA.
-Karl Baer

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The beauty lines of India.Arie

We have formed a new group called The Dancer's Bloc. This
group is intended for those beginning or experienced to teach,
learn, and express their skills without the burden of class costs.
Forms of dance and the possibility of performance wi1\ coincide
with member interests.

As a woman of color, I see a trend in the people our children are choosing to idolize. Most celebrities are consumed
wit!) physical appearance, material possessions or anything else associated with the world of floss and bling bling. It
worries me,' beca~se I ~as too at on~ ~oint caught up in this world .

We meet on Thesdays in room 116 of the College Recreation
Center at 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. If interested, you can come to
meetings or email TheDancersBloc@comcast.net.

When I first heard "Video" by India.Arie I was dealing with my own issues around body image and self-love. I looked
at my self and saw a slightly over-weight, nappy-headed, multiracial female living in white suburbia. I had no one to
relate to. I just knew I was different. Few artists today touch people in a way they find truly meaningful and life affirming. Arie's musical career is a labor of love, and you can feel it in her music.

Annual Holiday Showcase of Crafts
Lacey's Community Enrichment Program presents its annual
Holiday Showcase of Crafts on Saturday, Nov. 8 at North Thurston High School.

Arie is sexy because she defies the conventional notion of the word. Her hit song "Video" was an unassuming anthem
that called for a shift in our notion of what makes a woman attractive. The great thing "about the song though, was that it
was personal. I feel like she sings for herself. I love this song because it reminds me that all of the things that I consider
to make me different really are good things. Those things are what make me special. "When I look in the mirror and
the only one there is me. Every freckle on my face is where it's supposed to be. And I know my creator didn't make no
mistakes on me. My feet, my thighs, my lips, my eyes, I'm loving what I see." This song became my anthf1in.

Thirty craft vendors are scheduled to participate, providing a
variety of gift-giving ideas along with craft specialties ranging from quilts, toys, candles, watercolors, Christmas decor, as
well as a snack bar.

For more information, contact program directors Jacque Moore
or Joyce Lunstroth at 360.491.5674.

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Attention those of you interested in exploring expression through
a dance medium:

Admission is free. It will take place from 9 :30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
North Thurston High School is located at 600 Sleater-Kinney
RoadNW.

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Also, "Brown Skin" made me realize that my permanent tan was something to be proud of. "Beautiful mahog!lIly, you
make me feel like a queen." India's songs remind me that I am curvaceous and hot, and no one could ever tell me this
any louder and prouder than me.
Those lines serve not just as inspiration to black women but to everyone who has ever felt inadequate with their physical appearance. Women of color need more positive role models. Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, and Beyonce
Knowles, are beautiful and successful in their own rights. But do they really inspire us to change our lives, to love ourselves, or to just be "dirty"?

teady? Set. Carve!
Okay, one last chance folks. The judging for the Squash 'n' Gourds contest will commence at about noon ish on October 31! There will be
speechifying and a general hoo-hah around the Admissions area. Whe\her you can't carve or can doesn't matter:l..pring something to look at,
and while you are coming bring some food for the Student Food Bank.
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Because of India's music, I have made a change in myself. I believe that self-love is the key to change. If you can't love
yourself, and value yourself as a person, then how can you be expected to reach out and help the rest of the world? Love
is the key to families, building friendships, community, and coming together to create change. Since I've realized this,
my life has become Jess complicated.

There has been a lot of food donated already. But we can use 19ts more. Be generous. Bring art (or not-art) come have fun.
My than ks to all of you here.
-John Ellis Crosby
Old Geezer, roustabout and member in good standing of the proletariat

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The. Services and Activities Board is in place to serve the students of The Evergreen
State College with fees collected in conjunction with TESC student tuition. TheS&A Board
allocates this student money to student groups and organizations created to benefit the entire
student body. Composed of nine student board memberS; one student facilitator, one student
office manager, and two professional advisors, the board is in charge of advising students,
instructing students, and providing students with the necessary knowledge to apply for
student-generated funds. The money allocated by students to students is used to run
lectures, workshops, childcare, dances, and concerts for students. Students serving as
Board members this year will allocate over $llO,OOOto'be spent on fellow students.
So here they are, Evergreen .. .. the 2003-2004 Services and Activities Board. These
are the eightcurrently selected students that wmbe voting members in deciding how
student money is spent, and the two students helping to coordinate their efforts.
Board meetings are held on the Third Floor of the CAB in conference room
315. A "Meet the Board" reception will be happening on Nov. 3, on the Second
Floor of the CAB, from 3 - 5 p.m. This will be a key opportunity to meet the '
board members, and let them knew what's important. to the students. Keep
an eye out for more information.

Board Members:
photos & bios courtesy of the S&A Board
Name:

Jake Lamere

Program: Sovereignty
Academic Interests: Native American
Studies, and law.
Adjectives of Describe You: Fun, active, a
joker, and a lover.
I'd like Evergreen to know: I am a really
coo l cat!

Name:

Rachel Freer

Program: Arts, Environment, and the Child
Extracurricular Interests: Snowboarding and road
trips in my sweet Vw.
I'd like Evergreen to know: I can be bribed with
triple grande nonfat extra sweet white mochas.

Name: Jordan Elaine
Class Standing: Freshman
Adjectivesto Describe You: Assertive ,
compassionate, ambitious, and organized ,
Words to Live By: "The moral progress of
a nation can be judged by the w~y its animals
are treated ." - Mahatma Ghandi

Office Manager

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Name: Dyami Allen
Program: Re-Interpreting Liberation
Words to Live By: "Be who you are and
say what you "feel," because those who mind
don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

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Michelle An 2 ell

Class Standing: Senior
Extracurricular Interests: Coalition Against
Sexual Violence, applying to graduate school, and
taking the GRE.
I'd like Evergreen to know: I like meat, and
I like tea.

-Unknown
I'd like Evergreen to know: I'm a Virgo and I
enjoy long walks on the beach and a little of this
and a little of that. I'm real, so whenever you see
me say, "Yo; Dyami, hi."

Name:

Board Coordinator

Eli Jacobsen

Program: Fishes, Frogs, and Forests
Extracurricular Interests: Music (playing, listening, studying), computers, and the outdoors.
Adjectives to Describe You: Resourceful, independent, friendly, serious, and concise.
Name:

Name: Lia Frederikson
Program: Philosophy, Society, and Globalization

SixAdjectives That Describe ' Me:
Smart, fantastic, focused, outspoken, determined,
and organized.
Name: Kandi M. Bauman
Program: Political Economy and Social
Movements
Words to Live By: "Who controls the past
controls the future: who controls the present
controls the past." -George Orwell, 1984
Name:

Puck Franta

Program: Performing Gender
Extracurricular Interests: Queer/
·trans activism, intemet-HTML web
design, spoken word, theatre, and
. books, books, books!
Words to Live By: "Care."

Christopher Hickman

Class Standing:: Junior
Adjectives to Describe You: Persistent, motivated, sel f aware, and helpful.
Academic Interests: A fier Evergreen r hope
to pursue my masters at either Brown University
or New York University in International
Relations.

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Trees want your hugs, help
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"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs
over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and
some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. " -l'Ionnan Maclean, A River Runs Through It

\ new week, a new blotter for the kids to enjoy, and well, everyone else on campus to enjoy while they're at
t. Not that there's a lot that happened last week. Everyone must have been saving up their mischief for this
Neekend. Halloween rocks ...

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;0 with that, on to the antics, y'all.

)ctober ,22. 1:25 p.t\t.

Someone really likes the Q-tips, for on the side of the (OM building in large 12 nch tall, purple
etters was the word: "SWAB." It's like James Bond: "Swab; cotton swab .. ." Good for cleaning out your ears and taking
)ff nail polish. Shaken, not stirred. Yeah, and that's all that I've got. I'm sorry, it's bad, but it's there and I'm not taking it
)ack.

Jctober 2~.

Some cars got booted ... some batteries got jumped .

Jctober 24. Again with the booted cars and jumped batteries.
~ctober

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For Pete's sake ...

7:46 p.t\t;

Fire alarm in some dorm, possibly caused by a candle. Interestingly, those sprinklers in the dorm.s ... they
)ump out sixty gallons of water a minute, so don't mess with them. Because it takes the fire department, like, four
l1inutes to respond, which means soggy computers.
11:4~ p.t\t. Another fire alarm . The hall was full of smoke, and smelling strongly of burnt candle. Apparently the
resident put a candle-holder on the stove to melt off burnt wax and promptly forgot about it ... well maybe not
promptly, but they did forget about it.
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attending full-time for the 2003-04 academic
year who intend to obtain a Bachelor of Science
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need. The award is renewable. and is
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_The American Grill invites your patronage for breakfast, lunch
and dinner. Cooked from scratch, and prepared to optimize
consumer health, our menu items feature fresh ingredients,
supplied locally, primarily by family farmers
and small businesses.
Fresh. We provide the freshest food possible.
Local. We seek local products first. We aim to strengthen the
community food chain by linking family farmers with neighbor
consumers.

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avoiding foods with artificial additives, preservatives, stimulants,
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Nov. 19th by 4:00 p.m.
You can pick up application
information in
Enrollment Services, Library 1221
or call to have information mailed
to you at (360) 867-6310.

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Howdy y'all!
This quarter ERC has been off to a good start (despite only a handful offolks who actually attend our meetings - ahem
- Thursdays at 2:30 p.m. in CAB 320 cubicle #3). Last weekend several carloads of us trekked down to the Gifford Pinchot
forest, and despite map troubles we rambled through some beautifu~ groves, apd talked with Hud.son podd from the Northwest
EcosystemAllilince. Sorne of us camped6ut, and the night was a see-saw of blessings and rather disturbing omens ... delicious
wild mushroom soup on the upside, and an unknowing
salamander trying to wann herself too close to the fire
on the downside. Both of these things and more inspired
us to return to the Acci Timber Sale next weekend, and
this is a call out to anyone interested in getting to know
personally what will probably become the most controversial timber sale in Western Washington as early as
next spring/summer. If cut, the mushrooms and plants
will be devoured under saw and bulldozer, the habitat of
salamanders and their feathered and footed friends will
be burned with the slash. The Ecosystem Alliance and
Northwest Old Growth Campaign is gearing up to make
sure the virgin forest in ACC] DOES NOT GET CUT,
and one of the best ways to do that is to get ourselves
down there and check it out before the snow comes. We
will be throwing a letter writing party later in the quarter
to let the Forest Service know what we' re up to.
So .... get your tired post-Halloween heads out of bed
on Saturday, November I, get on the nearest form of
transportation, and bring your camping gear and some
food to the library loop. We're delaying our departure
until II :00 a.m. so we can all sleep in a bit. We plan
to drive to the forest via the Columbia Gorge, and set
up camp in a sale unit. Give us a call at 867.6784 with
questions. Tell your friends, and we've got gas covered
so this is your chance to get out to the woods and take a
road-trip free of charge. Anyone who can drive will be
reimbursed for gas money. Bring instruments, cameras,
etc. The CRC rents camping gear cheap if you need
it. Here's a link to the Gifford Pinchot Task Force's
website with watchdog info. About the sale: http://
www.gptaskforce.org/timber_stats.php?id= 16
In other news, the Forest Ethics presentation last
Monday had a fairly good turnout, and eight Greeners
took to the strip malls of West Diy to protest Office
Depot and their failure to embrace consumer demand
for recycled and non-virgin forest paper. They got an
article in the Olympian the next day (in the business
section!), and our friend Stephanie most eloquently got
in an awesome summary of why they were there taking
a stand. You people rock! On the topic of paper, several
members have expressed interest in educating ourselves
about Evergreen's purchasing arrangements and policies
concerning recycled paper on campus. We'll be learning
photo by Deane Rimerman
together in the next few weeks, so come to a meeting or drop us a line if you're interested. Our ideas include taking a thrift
store shopping spree for reusable coffee/tea mugs and tabling outside ofthe deli to encourage people not to use paper cups.
Also, if we do find that the administration needs a little "push" to purchase recycled paper, it's up to us to stage an action
right here on campus that brings the issue into the proverbial spotlight.
Enougb rambling for this week. Just remember, we're lurking in your nearest CPl, on KAOS, banners, fliers, we're ev"
erywhere! And we're talking to you - BOO! Keep the Greener tradition alive and get involved, the earth needs all the help
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Much love to all.
Ellen
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Four megaphones scream soul, twenty thousand times over. Palestinian coalitions, A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now. to Stop War &
End Racism), and United for Peace & Justice led the anti-war rally last Saturday, October 25 through the morning haze of San
Francisco. An estimated 20,000 demonstrators participated while 100,000 continued in Washington, D;C..
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The morning brigade consisted of white angels on stilts, masked Arnolds holding "Will Grope For P~ece" signs, three nudists baring a "the only bush I trust is my bush" sign; countless digitally altered Bush phot?s, the Women In Black, and. the most
articulate faces to go with any socialist sandwich board. What stood out more than anything was the energy felt standing aUhe
front of the march with fellow fighting activists.
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I journeyed down with five men from the Seattle A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition~ an .international nonprofit orgaOlzlltlOn that Inltlat~d
the Saturday act, demanding the return of U.S. troops and th~ end of occupatIOn In .Ira~; I .~arched through blocks ofl~~gaphonlc
madness, striding in alliance with dozens of A.N.S.w.E.R. signs ~nd banne~s reading. ~nn~ the Troops Home Now.
Inspiration reeled from my new-found family, five men feeding the dTl~e of socia! JustlC~ m?ve~ents fo~ the past 30 years.
Twenty thousand of us were in solidarity, chanting in sequence our collective urgencies for Justice In Palestme/Israel. Energy
screened my eyes as the rhythm of buckets and footwork led my footsteps before me.
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There was a constant energy of emotions coming from these friends: so true ~o themselves and .the passl?n that surrounded
their words. And there I was, my third time around the world of organized pubhc protests, my vOIce carrying the ~epths of a
megaphone. The days of action will never end, and we must continue to listen for the steps that led us years before, In order to
walk on into solidarity and performance.
Thank you, gentlemen.

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Int of the student. She said that people
10 start out with indecent exposure
:en will move on to other forms of
mal offenses.
Garland posted a message on Resnet
lrning students that they could be
arged with. a sex offense if they are
light naked. She was concerned that a
Ident who might not think anything of
ving indecent exposure on their record
ght be prevented form getting a job in
~ future. They might try to get a job
)rking with kids, but be rejected because
!y have a sex offense on their record.
le was also worried about children who
ight visit the beach.
Garland, Riggins, and Huntsberry
To find out more information and to express your vote you may go to the VoteNo War. org website, or visit A.N.S. WE.R.'s website,
I said that the main people who get
ported for indecent exposure at the at: http://internationalanswer.org/
,ach are middle-aged men who are
.t involved with Evergreen. "For some
ilSon everyone thinks we have a nude
,ach," Garland said. She later explained
IW Ahoi Mench, from facilities, had put
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lowed.
One problem with indecent exposure
ses, said Garland, was that they were
;ually reported much later after the
cident. The student in the September
port went to the police the next day after
:ing urged to do so by other women in
lUsing.
Habitation cases occur about two to
ree times a month, R-iggins said, though
is usually people sleeping in cars. The
)lice do a sweep of the woods once or
vice a year, she said. Huntsberry said
at people found living in the woods are
mally not students.
The people found taking .plants are
most never students; sometimes they
Photo by Stephanie Brooks
'e illegal aliens, Riggins said. There
Students from the Round-table discussion panel. Students represent the S&A
lve been about five incidents, with three
Board, Athletics dept., KAOs'l CPland Student Board of Trustees.
'rests this ear. People are found taking
llal, a plant native to Evergreen's woods,
~cause it is valuable in flower arrangelents.
Other crimes that Officer Garland
lticed in the woods were people smokBy ElIzabeth Velasquez
Ig pot, building houses, cutting trees to
After nineteen years of service to the national electric company in San Salvador, Sara Quintanilla was fired because of
ilild houses, setting fires, dumping garher militant union activities. In her position· as Secretary General of her local electrical workers union STSEL, she worked to
Jge, minors drinking alcohol, and people
stop privatization ofEI Salvador's publicly owned electric utility system. Now, SaraQuintani~la is on a. national to~r .to t~lk
lking a dog through the main trails and
about the effects of the proposed Central American Free Trade Agreement, CAFTA, now bemg negotiated. In anticipation
t>t cleaning uP. after it.
of the passage of CAFTA, the right wing EI Salvador government seeks to sell off healthcare, electricity, education, and all
To keep safe in the woods, Huntsberry
public services that are currently stllte-run.
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Jggested acting the same in the woods as
Quintanilla
believes
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privately
owned,
profit-based
services
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Salvadorans
to. basic s~r~ices.
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Political
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this
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over
100~000
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their
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the privatization of health care on the streets of San Salvador. Opposition to privatization was a key issue in March ,regional
JTroundings. Garland said that women
specially should not walk alone. She
and legislative elections in which .theleft wing FMLN party received more votes than any other party. .
.
Jggested knowing basic self-defense. A
The Presidential elections will be held in March 2004. Quintanilla and the rest of the STSEL umon are working hard
erson CQuld carry a pin, a safety pin or
to support the FMLN in the upcoming presidential elections. Last year,fMLN legislators worked to pass legislation that
atpin, and use it to stab someone if they
Quintanilla helped draft and which would have ensured that electricity remains publicly owned. The single mother of two
eeded to buy some time to get away.
boys, Quintanilla often feels like she works three jobs: her administrative position, her union work, and all the housework
:arrying a whistle could help, she said,
and demands of mothering. '
.
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She
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first
woman
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elected
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General
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,rong generally don't want too much
by CISPES, the Committee in Support of.the People ofEI Salvador. She will speak at MEChA conference in The Evergreen
ttention.
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It is so hard to get a film like Mystic River, Clint Eastwood's twenty-fourth outing as a director, so right in all the right places. It's the ultimate challenge for
directors to balance two heavy genres and give them the right amount of depth and breadth. Eastwood gets it just right and the result is one of the most moving,
most superbly acted films of the year.
In the opening scenes three boys are writing their names in the cement on the streets of the working class suburban Boston community in which they are firmly
grounded. Before he can finish scrawling in his own name, one of the boys is abducted by a man who claims to be a cop and is taken to a remote shack where he's
tortured and molested for four days before escaping.
Flash forward decades later and the kids are all grown up and living in the same neighborhood with families of their own. Sean Penn plays Jimmy, who runs a
comer pantry and has a shady past. When his daughter is found murdered one morning, he has a nervous breakdown and vows to catch her killer with or without the
help of the police. The daughter's boyfriend, Brendan (effective newcomer Tom Guiry), a troubled kid from a broken home, is a prime suspect. The abducted boy
Dave, played as a quiet, inhibited adult by Tim Robbins, is also suspected after coming home late one night marked with blood, claiming he was mugged. Detectives
Sean (Kevin Bacon) and Whitey (Lawrence Fishburne) are assigned to the case. Sean was the other boyhood friend of Dave and Jimmy and is impaired in hisjudgment, investigating a case that may implicate his childhood friend. Marcia Gay Harden is Dave's wife. Laura Linney plays Jimmy's. As the events of the police
procedural unfold, all of them have to deal with the pain that has enveloped the three men for decades and comes into plain view.
Inevitably, there are elements of the standard police procedural at work here but they never overshadow the real subject ofthe film, which is about the three boys
whose childhood was taken from them forever with one tragic incident and have since grown up to be emotionally wounded adults, whose pain and sadness float to
the surface as they share another great tragedy.
Like his performances, Eastwood keeps his direction simple, his camera giving the actors the space they need to carry enough emotional weight to last a lifetime.
All the performances here are fantastic from actors who've proved they can handle material like this. It is in these performances that make a movie like this suspenseful. In a movie like this, the investigation and the pathos will battle each other for screen time and what you don't have is a final showdown or anything like that.
Eastwood keeps focus where it belongs. Each actor is working at the top of their form.
Note the urgency and desperation in Sean Penn as he conducts his own investigation with his thugly Irish buddies who act as vigilantes and are, we sense, really
running the neighborhood . Look at the years of tension and turmoil in Robbins' face. He seems mystified whenever he speaks. He's never gotten over the incident
and looks like he 's been concealing secrets his whole life. Marcia Gay Harden knows there's something wrong with her husband but she's so absorbed into his
despair, she can't say anything. Bacon has demons of his own and sees only what he chooses to see. There is also something to be said for Lawrence Fishburne
who's troubled because he knows that sooner or later, he has to confront his partner, who may be withholding informati on that implicates his friend.
The other major character in the film is the city itself. The Boston suburb is such a real, tangible place and the characters are so very much a part of that place.
Eastwood went against the studio grain and shot the film in the actual Boston neighborhoods and you can tell it adds such a dimension of authenticity and character
to this story and to these characters, who are all believable as its residents. There are no characters that feel tacked on to serve the story. These are real people with
real backgrounds in a very real place in Middle America, the worn streets and decaying houses underlining the characters battered souls .
What's so clever abo ut the story in the tightrope it walks with the murder investigation and the character's inner struggles is the way they compliment each other
so wonderfully. This is not two movies in one but one great, intertwined story with many characters that are all a part of the greater whole. The movie also knows
how to spin off the right kind of false leads to keep the procedural intriguing and suspenseful but never too labyrinthine. Never too cinematic. And Mystic River
keeps coming back to the deeper subject about the pathology of wounded childhoods and emotional trauma that has not yet healed.
The fall season is when you will see movies like this lining up for box office space. With the big-budget super-productions of the summer gone and momentarily
forgotten, the stuff that's actually worth the price of admission finally gets released. Don't subject yourself to a cheap thrill with something like Texas Chainsaw
Massacre. See this instead.

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VEGAN

Fair
Barter
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Mac&Cheese
Cook macaroni noodles.
While cooking noodles. melt
margarine and beal flour
into butter until smooth and
bubbly (medium heat). Then
whip in boiling water; salt.
, soy sauce, garlic pOWder;
mustard. and turmeric. Beat
until dissolved. cook until
thick and bubbly, whip in oil
and nutritional yeast flakes.
Drain noodles and put in
casserole dish. Pour sauce
over noodles and put in oven
covered/or 15 minutes at 350
degrees.
For added zest sprinkle
cayenne pepper over dish
and serve hot.

The World Music festival kick,ed .
Jff a high-energy event in the Library
obby last Saturday night. With three ...
Jands that ranged from regional
iounds to international music by our
{ery own Daniel Landin, performng as Notes from dI.,and, the Drum
Jrothers, from Montana, Guarneri
Underground from Seattle, and
Jelly dancing by Emme, as well as
1 fire dancing show. It was a well
jone production where everyone
lad a role. The show was amazing
md the whole event was brought
:ogether by The Musician 's Club in
1 conscious effort to bring people
logether through the universal conlection of world music. People of
ill ages showed; families bringing
little ones who danced and shouted
;illy words at the quietest moments
in effort to harmonize with the high~nergy flow throughout the night.
The Library lobby was beautifully ·
decorated by Olympia 's Procession
Df the Species with batiked wind
;;ockets, forming a "V" from the' .
balcony of the third floor, creating a solid vortex of good dancing energy. (To find out more
about the procession, go to http:
'/WWW. procession.orgl)
Notes from dLand started off the
evening with his 12-string guitar and
brought in a few musicians that spun
a beautiful tapestry of sound that
opened our ears to an interactive
evening. A well-balanced ensemble
with Jamie on percussion timing in
the appropriate sounds. A jam of Israeli flavor with a cellist providing a
lead into the groove of The Drum Brothers.
From the first beats ofthese musicians from Montana there were people
moving with the West African rhythms the Drum Brothers provided. People
breaking out into African dance moving their bodies in all sorts of directions as the energy kept on rising. The Drum Brothers kept it moving with
their interactive call and response to the crowd with a solid base of drum
beats underlying the force. It was amazing to see how all the different
elements would interact throughout the night. Fire dancers lit up the night
sky, twirled and jiggled and juggled the fire in the air delighting the crowd
before they moved into the next groove.
As Guarneri Underground evoked a Middle Eastern desert oasis with
the snake-like charms of belly dancer Emme, from Evergreen. Writhing
and flowing hips and arms moved in synch with the provocative rhythm
of the violin and voice of Beth Quist that travels four octaves. The playoff
of each other brought together an orgasmic experience, including giving
the best rendition of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmiere." ·This truly was a quality showcase of the multicultural talents that emerged from students of
Evergreen.
So many memorable moments arrised as the night progressed. I remember a moment when many of the prOduction creW came together to bear
the fruit of the labor doing the Can Can to Guarneri's cover of Maharlie's
"Three Little Birds; Don"'t Worry About a Thing."
Truly a celebration oflife, an amazing event where everyone was feeling
energy moving from soul to soul and an experience not to be forgotten.
To find more about the events the Musician's Club provides, or to be
involved in the process, call #6879 or email onebeat@musician.org. The
Musician's Club meets on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. on the third floor ofthe CAB
"in the pit." "Music Matters."

Submitted by Stephanie Brooks

Nestled high in a mountain valley where wild sage and cactus grow, lay a growing encampment of
travelers. Long arching flags reached their colorful fingers into the air and welcomed everyone to the
2003 Okanogan Family Fair, a.k.a. the Barter Fair. We arrived late Thursday night and were lovingly
received by the all-night volunteers who showed us where to park and collected our money. Normally
$20 per person (a daunting price to any poor Greener) we cut a deal to pay half and volunteer three
hours for the rest. Smiling we rolled into the cold blacknighL. the bartering had begun.
The night sky was strewn with thousands of bright sparkling stars, away from the intrusive city
lights they shone, dazzling the gazer in wonderment and awe. On the ground dozens oflittlefires were
raging. People laughed and shouted but always underneath the skeleton of activity droned the constant
rhythmic pounding of drumbeat. Up north where the air is thin and clear, the nights are unbearably
cold so fire hopping became a necessary nightly activity and around every fire there were drummers .
Shadows shifting over our faces, we gathered in a circle surrounding the fire, every other person a
drummer rapidly pounding out ancient sound. Their timeless faces were blank with concentration and
distorted by firelight. Their hands moved mechanically over the smooth drumhead keeping constant
time, connecting with the circle, wrapping us in webs of rhythm . The drumbeat evokes something
primal and sacred in us and I could feel my body like a drum, inciting sound and vibration to reverberate in the cavernous space. The pounding was strong and constant, like an earthquake tha~\lses the
water in a glass to jump, so did our blood writhe. Soon the entire circle was cast in a rhytri~ell ,
conversations dissolve and energy pours forth from everyone into the center, stoking the fire. Women
in long flowing skirts with bells in their hands began to dance around the fire smiling and chanting.
The chants seem to rise from deep within . Apart from the person they swell and break alone, ancient
voices that were given breath.
We stayed awake all night hearing drum echoes until the warm sun began to rise painting the sky
pink and light blue. The day was full of wandering throughout the arteries of trade, appreciating the
many objects that people had lovingly created. There was everything from homemade soap, to handknit hats and scarves, to deer-hide teepees, huckleberry wine, home-farmed organic produce, dozens
of hand-carved drums and didgeridoos ... the list is endless. Some were just travelers with amazing
artistic talent who loaded their busses with art and friends and came to share a good time. Some were
established businesses with meticulous stands of numerous goods who only accepted money. No matter
where they came from, everyone was friendly and ready to have fun .
Friday night brought many more people and a bonfire was quickly constructed to facilitate the
growing number of dancers and drummers. They raged all night, the drumbeat soothing and constant
underneath the myriad stars cape.
Saturday was the peak of the fair when there were hundreds of tents, teepees, domes, busses and
campers squeezed together in the valley. The diversity of people increased and the good vibes remained.
The night climaxed in a river of sound pouring frortl the main stage. Tbr~bands played with all oftheir
soul ending in. a spectacular performance by Ancestor Radio who g~d a blizzard of world beats
that caused some ninety adoring f3Ds into a frenzied ~ce: This m . climax was a perfect end to
a wonderful weekend. A word of advice to every EytfWleen student! ' .' , ,car full of friends and head
out to Barter Fair next year; it will be a, weekend.(O\!W~ ever fo ," ..
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• 1 cup com syrup
• 1 cup unrefined sugar
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 6 cups crisp rice cereal
• 2 cups chocolate chips
(Buy 'em in bulk at the co-op)

Bring corn syrup and sugar to a boil (start on medium heat, take
your time). Boil for 30 seconds and remove from heat. Add peanut
butter and stir thoroughly. Add your non-Kellogg s brand crisp rice
cereal of choice and again, stir. Spread out evenly in a large casserole dish. Melt chocolate chips on the stove, or to save time, in the
radiation machine. Spread chocolate with a spatula over ·the top.
Eat up and get a tummy ache.

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october 30, 2003

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The

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World Music Festival

was in

one word~'Amazin~"

VEGAN

Barter Fair
.

bv CbelSev Adams

Mac&Cheese
Cook macaroni noodles.
While cooking noodles, melt
margarine and beat flour
into butter until smooth and
.,',., bubbly (medium heat). Then
whip in bOiling water, salt,
soy sauce, garlic p owder,
mustard, and turmeric. Beat
. until dissolved, cook unlil
thick and bubbly, whip in oil
and nutritional yeast flakes.
Drain noodles and put in
casserole dish. Pour sauce
over noodles and put in oven
covered/or 15 minutes at 350
.." degrees.
For added zest !'prinkle
cayenne pepper over dish
and serve hot.

The Wo.rld Music festival kicked
.ffa high-energy event in the Library
obby last Saturday night. With three
•ands that ranged fro.m regio.nal
ounds to internatio.nal music by o.ur
'ery o.wn Daniel Landin, perfo.rmng as Notes from dLand, the Drum
•rothers, from Mo.ntana, Guarneri
J nderground from Seattle, and
)elly dancing by Emme, as well as
l fire dancing show. It was a well
lone production where everyone
lad a role. The show was amazing
md the whol e event was brought
ogether by The Musician 's Club in
l conscious effort to ' bring peo.pl e
o.gether through the universal conlection of world music. People of
III ages sho.wed; families bringing
ittle ones who danced and shouted
:illy words at the quietest moments
n effort to h~o.nize with the high:nergy flo.w throughout the night.
rhe Library lobby was beautifully
ieco.rated by Olympia's Processio.n
)f the Species with batiked wind
:o.ckets, fo.rming a " Y" from the'
)alco.ny o.f the third floo.r, creatng a so.lid vortex of goo.d dancng energy . (To. find out rno.re
lbo.ut the procession, go to http:
/www.procession.org/)
Notes from dLand started off the
:vening with his 12-string guitar and
)rought in a few musicians that spun
I beautiful tapestry of sound that
>pened our ears to. an interactive
:vening. A well-balanced ensemble
Nith Jamie on percussio.n timing in
.h e appro.priate so.unds. A jam o.f Israeli flavor with a cellist providing a
ead into the groove o.fThe Drum Brothers.
From the first beats ofthese musicians from Montana there were peo.ple
no.ving with the West African rhythms the Drum Brothers pro.vided. People
)reaking out into African dance moving their bodies in all so.rts of direc.ions as the energy kept on rising. The Drum Brothers kept it moving with
heir interactive call and response to. the crowd with a solid base of drum
>eats underlying the force. It was amazing to see how all the different
:lements wo.uld interact throughout the night. Fire dancers lit up the night
;ky, twirled and jiggled and juggled the fire in the air delighting the crowd
Jefore they moved into the next groove.
As Guarneri Underground evoked a Middle Eastern desert o.asis with
:he snake-like charms of belly dancer Emme, from Evergreen. Writhing
md flowing hips and arms mo.ved in synch with the pro.vo.cative rhythm
Jfthe violin and voice of Beth Quist that travels fo.ur octaves. The playoff
)f each other brought together an o.rgasmic experience, including giving
:he best rendition of Led Zeppelin 's "Kashmiere.,, 'This truly was a quality showcase of the multicultural talents that emerged from students of
Evergreen.
So many memorable moments arrised as the night progressed. I rememiJer a moment when many of the prOduction crew came together to bear
the fruit of the labor doing the Can Can to. Guarneri's co.ver o.f Maharlie 's
'Three Little Birds; Do.n"'t Wo.rry Abo.ut a Thing."
Truly a celebration o.flife, an amazing event where everyo.ne was feeling
~ nergy moving from soul to. so.ul and an experience no.t to be fo.rgotten.

To. find more about the events tile Musician's Ci"ub provides, or to be
involved in the process, call #6879 or email onebeat@musician.o.rg. The
Musician's Club meets on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. o.n the third floor of the CAB
"in the pit." "Music Matters."

Submitted by Stephanie Brooks

",.,j~

Nestled high in a mountain valley where wild sage and cactus grow, lay a growing enc~pment of
travelers. Long arching flags reached their co.lorful fingers into the air and welcomed everyone to the
2003 Okanogan Family Fair, a.k.a. the Barter Fair. We arrived late Thursday night and were lovingly
received by the all-night volunteers who. showed us where to park and collected o.ur money; Normally
$20 per person (a daunting price to any poor Greener) we cut a deal to pay half and volunteer three
ho.urs for the rest. Smiling we ro.lled into the cold black night .. . the bartering had begun .
The night sky was strewn with thousands of bright sparkling stars, away from the intrusive city
lights th ey shone, dazzling the gazer in wonderment and awe. On the ground dozens of little fires were
raging. People laughed and sho.uted but always underneath the skeleton of activity droned the constant
rhythmi c pounding of drumbeat. Up north where the air is thin and clear, the nights are unbearabl y
cold so fire hopping became a necessary nightly activity and around every fire there were drummers .
Shadows shifting over o.ur faces, we gathered in a circle surrounding the fire , every other person a
drummer rapidly pounding out ancient sound . T heir timeless face s were blank with concentration and
distorted by fireligh t. Their hands moved mechanically over the smooth drumhead keeping constant
tim e, connecting with the circle, wrapping us in webs of rhythm. The drumbeat evo.kes something
primal and sacred in us and I could feel my body like a drum, inciting sound and vibration to. reverberate in the cavernous space. The pounding was strong and constant, like an earthquake that causes the
water in a glass to jump, so did our blood writhe. Soon the entire circle was cast in a rhythmi c s pell ,
conversation s dissolve and e nergy pours forth from everyone into the center, stoking the fire . Wome n
in long flowing skirts with bells in their hands began to dance around the fire smiling and chanting.
The chants seem to rise from deep within. Apart from the person they swell and break alo.ne, ancient
voices that were given breath.
We stayed awake all night hearing drum echoes until the warm sun began to. rise painting the sky
pink and light blue. The day was full of wandering throughout the arteries of trade, appreciating the
many objects that people had lovingly created. There was everything from homemade soa p, to handknit hats and scarves, to. deer-hide teepees, huckleberry wine, home-farmed organic produce, dozens
of hand-carved drums and didgeridoos . .. the list is endless. Some were just travelers with amazing
artistic talent who loaded their busses with art and friends and came to share a good tim e. Some were
established businesses with meticulous stands of numerous goods who only accepted money. No matter
where they came from , everyone was friendly and ready to have fun .
Friday night brought many more people and a bonfire was quickly constructed to facilitate the
growing number of dancers and drummers. They raged all night, the drumbeat so.othing and constant
underneath the myriad stars cape.
Saturday was the peak of the fair when there were hundreds of tents, teepees, domes, busses and
campers squeezed together in the valley. The diversity of people increased and the goo.d vibes remained .
The night CI imaxed in a river of sound pouring from the main stage. Three bands played with all oftheir
soul ending in a spectacular performance by Ancestor Radio who
a blizzard of world beats
that caused some ninety adoring fans into a frenzied .d ance. This m
climax was a perfect end to
a wonderful week.end. A word ofadvice to every EVeJZieen
full of friends and head
o.ut to Barter Fair next year; it willl>e a weekend y~~'t ever

No killinll and it 's still fillinll!

Recipe o'the Week
Crispy Rice Treats

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• 1 cup com syrup
• 1 cup unrefined sugar
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 6 cups crisp rice cereal
• 2 cups chocolate chips
(Buy 'em in bulk at the co-op)
Bring corn syrup and sugar to a boil (start on medium heat, take
your time). Boil for 30 seconds and remove from heat. Add peanut
butter and stir thoroughly. Add your non-Kellogg brand crisp rice
cerea~ of choice and again, stir. Spread out evenly in a large casserole dish. Melt chocolate chips on the stove, or to save time, in the
radiation machine. Spread chocolate with a spatula over the top.
Eat up and get a tummy ache.

s

art by Don Noe

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october 30, 2003

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Sarah Jewett is SPREADING
,Peacemaker' THE DISEA·S E
by Mike lreadweO

Dear Editor,
Sarah Jewett brings new hope for our :
community. Olympia has for too long
been divided as ifthere are two classes of
citizens, those with, those without. Those
with, finance, own, control, while those
without suffer a sense of voicelessness, of
not counting in the very community they
call home. People feel cheated. Robbed of
their money, robbed of their voice. Indeed
for good reason. False claims of an urgent
deadline repeated by Foutch and the developer sought to pressure the community to
accept a Conference Center we didn't want,
one that would benefit only those with, the
investors. Sarah says no. We have already
our beloved Arts Center at Old Madison,
and come Procession time, Sarah will be
there with her community. Our downtown
decays, dirty, rundown, businesses suffer,
blame is cast. Do we want to be a catering
service for the wealthy? Is this our wish for
our home? Or do we want to build together
a community, to bring back jobs and life to
our dying downtown? Sarah wants jobs.
Sarah is at heart a peacemaker, a woman
with a gift for bringing together adversaries into cooperation. Sarah's youth and
open-minded ways of reaching out to all,
bringing community together will serve us
well. Yes, she has much to learn but will
bring around herself our wealth of experience through teamwork and collaboration.
With our patience, she will grow into her
new role, Mayor Sarah, the new voice,
hope and proud new face of Olympia.

Jeffrey Denison
Evergreen Alumni '01
Dear Editor,
Right now, mayoral campaigns are
coming to a close, as the mayoral election
is November 4, 2003 . [am writing to urge
anyone registered to vote to vote for Sarah
Jewett for Mayor.

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the
expense of everybody else." - Frederic Basiat, Essays on Political Economy, 1872
We have a new religion in America, and its name is politics. Whether it is Anne Coulter
or Michael Moore the religion best be followed. All those who dare oppose should die
an awful death , or at the very least, be banned from the plateau of reason. You might not
realize it, but when yo u di sagree with or denounce someone's politics, you are disagreeing with their religion. You. are saying that their god is wrong or, in the very slightest
sense, not the right god . AII of the dominant political persuasions today fall under the
term Statist. So, to me it isn't of any signi ficance about who does what.
The victim-hood strategy of politics is an interesting one and often di sturbing. This
new reli gion uses the victim-hood as its martyrs. Whether it is economics, ethnic, racial ,
religious, war, lifestyle, nothing is off limits. Democracy, 'Jeirg a couple steps up from
a lynch mob, has had interesting results. You have to wonder about the madness of
crowds or those who use the word "revolution" with any high frequency. A Iso, you
have to wonder how many people were sacrificed or died because someone uttered the
word "revolution ." In a revolution, you have at least two kinds of results . You have the
option of a war-then-peaceful-existence revolution, like the U.S.A., or the other option
you have is the perpetual revolution, like so many South American countries or like the
French Revolution. " Unknown to folks, yet useful to the crowd , I drift along my way,
now sun, now cloud and always I'm above this crowd." (The Wise Man Speaks, Friedrich
Nietzsche, Gay Science)
Does all this prove the old aphorism , "Thing and Thing, no difference?" Is man
Photo courtesy of Diana Olegre
a "political animal " as Aristotle thought? Thomas Jefferson had it right in 180 I,
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can
There are several reasons I believe she he, then, be trusted with the government of others?"
is the best candidate. Sarah is a single
Politics now, is what the Vatican was in the middle centuries. Check around the school
mother, she is an ally for women and chil- you attend. You will find some zealousness that, at times, sounds like witch hunts in
dren in Olympia. She is an ally against Salem during the seventeenth century. Every social justice struggle needs an enemy.
sexual violence and against debilitating
The victim-hood strategy is just another justification technique. There is always
welfare policies. She is an ally for all another side to the story though. Everybody is a victim, no one is innocent, and everyfamilies.
one is guilty and has something to hide. Psychologist Carl Jung can back me up on this
It is her pledge to listen to the people. one, he claimed that everyone has the propensity for good or for evil. You can either be
She will promote public participation in a Mother Teresa, a Hitler, or somewhere in between.
Olympia, and she will listen to us.
Perhaps, we can refine Aristotle's earlier statement about man's political habits. Politics
Also, Sarah wants to make Olympia a is an animal. Its master bred and cultivated this animal and now it has overthrown its
model green city. The environment and master and the true beast has been unleashed. The funny thing is that the vicious beast
human health are very important to her. still gets some support from those it punishes. Coultersim ... is it Projection?
She believes in promoting a healthy city
Now, listen up close! I'm going to tell you what to do. Since politics is the new
for ALL the residents of Olympia.
religion in this age, I suggest you build a church of some sort. You will then have tax
[fyou want to have a mayor who will exemption statues. Yeah! The ministers could even be the favorites! Imagine this: "All
seriously listen to your ideas, who wants rise in prayer sermon with FatherNoam Chomsky." This is gonna be fun. We could have
to create a sustainable city, economically. the bishops, Howard Zinn, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, Bill Moyers, Jim Hightower ...
and environmentally, and who cares about the collection plates could go to fund the Green Par.y and various other groups .. . Rage
families and health, vote for Sarah Jewett Against the Machine could replace that god-awful organ.
on November 4, 2003.
Dude, this will be awesome. It will give church a more youthful, virulent flavor.
-- Now it will be hip to say, "Honey, I'm going to church." March ot! Behind the Crooked
Chelsea Bunn
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The Curmudgeon: The Superevil Genius 01 the Bonled Water Industrv
bY Lee Keoralos
I can do without bottled water. I don' t
mean to get off on a di atribe here, but I can
do without this putting water in bottles and
selling it alongside Mr. Pibb kind of crap. I
think it's just one more thing being bought
by well-ta-do people to make me feel like
an asshole. Did anyone ever reveal who
the geniuses were that invented this concept?
Probably not, if they were smart. They
went up to North Cen tra l Wi sconsi ll .
pumped some of th e stuff into som e
bottles and sat back and wa tched yuppi es
see the vending machines and reali ze j ust
110W thirsty they were and needed to be
\oting around a bottl e of water around at all
: imes. And they don't want you to know
who it was that cam e up with it. Hinckl ey
and Schmitt would have you believe it was
some giant corporati on. Wrong. It was a
couple of guys. It's like Oz: " Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"
Why is water being pl aced on a pedestal when at the grocery store like there 's

suddenly going to be a shortage? It costs
more than beer in the store too. Can you
believe that? Water now costs more than
beer. Which is why I think beer should
be installed in a ho useho ld tap instead of
water. Ifit's cheaper than what 70% of
our planet and bodies is made up of, let's
just get practica l and upgrade to tap beer
faucets in househo ld s.
Nowadays people wo uld rather drink
from the toi let tha n from the tap. Sure,
I may not mind having to contract dysentery by drinki ng from the loca l supply
of Calcutta but hey, how do you experience the local fl avor of foreign cultures
by sticking to 1hc good old American
appurtenances? At least with a bottle, I
know I'm getti ng what I wanted . Plus,
the taglines on ome of the labe ls are
hilarious. My fa vorite: "Cause everything else is just water."
Sure our bodies have more water in
them than a Hardee 's Coke after the ice
cubes have melted down, but the fact is

that bottled water has become the whiskey
flask of the boomer generation. And while
I may be in part, a practitioner of this selfinduced, self-important, anti-tap water paranoia, this belief that without a plastic bottle
of that sparkling, mineral mountain stream
menage-a-trois of Hydrogen and Oxygen
known as aqua, you're nothing in everybody else's eyes, I start wishing I was one
of those water hating drunks. w.e. Fields
was asked why he only drank alcohol and
not water. He replied, " Because I would
never want to be caught drinking something
that fish piss in ."
As Freud said , "Sometimes a cigar is
just a cigar. .. but eight ounces of Evian is
my way of showing you that I' m well off
enough to put down a buck twenty-five for
each cool, clear, refreshing swig of put-outthe-fire water I swallow."
Are these bottle people telling me they
can't just stop by the water cooler before
leaving work? I don 't know. I can ' t get into
the people who buy the stuff. I don't want

to start another argument without fini shing
this one. If! did, I'd probably be brea king
some obscure metaphysical law and wind
up dissolving into myself like Ron Silver
did near the end of Tim rcop .

Lee's New Rule of the Week: If you 're
wandering around the housing arcas late
at night and in the mood to scream for
twenty or thirty min utes about what's on
your mind, don't do it outside my window !
You're interruptin g hours of carefull y
selected porn. I know how much N dorm
sucks. I can see that yo u're "so fllck in '
wasted." You make a good point. But the
sucky-ness of how m Llch N do rm suck s
in suckitude should always be in ve rse ly
proportional to how loud you should vo ice
such an opinion, whi ch shou ld always be
done in the privacy of your own 3x5 apartment. Side note: Should I see my way to a
subsequent column, I wi ll titl e it " Wh y N
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Bad Scheduling: It's Everyone's
Problem
Hello all, and welcome to " It's Everyone's Problem." This is a new weekly column
I'm starting here at the CP J. In it, I hope to call attention to some ofthe annoyan~es here
on campus that, if they get noticed, should be fairly easy to solve. The name IS facetious. but the problems are real ; this is a holy war against irritation: Nonetheless, I also
hope to be somewhat entertaining. I'm going for one part observattonal humor, one ~art
responsible public affairs journal ism. Think Dave Barry me~ts Bob Woo?ward. Think
Jerry Seinfeld meets Jim Lehrer. Think Carrot-Top meets hiS fiery demise. Mmmm.
If you have a gripe that may fit this description but are too lazy to write up an .opinion for the paper yourself, just drop me a line at morcon03@evergreen.edu. Without
further ado, on to the first irritating experience.
I am an appreciator of film . I like to go and watch movies. I really enjoy it when
one or another student group on campus screens a movie in one of the lecture halls on
campus. Therefore, I was somewhat pleased to discover that in one pa~icular week
there were three events scheduled that would involve some sort of film m the lecture
halls. I was less pleased to discover that, as if part of some massive conspir~cy to scr~w
me, all three were scheduled to be playing on Tuesday at 7:00. Now, I !tke to thmk
that I'm a pretty accomplished multitasker, but even I am not capable of comfortably
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watching three different movies in three different rooms at one. tll:ne.
In the time since this three-movie week, I've found that thiS IS hardly an Isolated
problem. Taking a look at the bulletin boards and event schedu.les, it seems like roughly
half of all events on campus take place on Tuesday at 7:00. I Just have o~e re.quest ~or
those scheduling these events. STOP DOING THAT! I realize that making !tfe easier
for me may not be the highest scheduling concern, but unless the goal of these groups
is to avoid people attending, they are hurting themselves more than anyone else. But
that doesn't stop it from being hugely annoying for the rest of us.
Connor Moran
Morcnn03(ijJevergreen. edu

WH EN H 1PP1 ES AllACK
I know we can't get into a back and forth thing in the paper but 1 have to resp?n.d to
the response " Love This Hippie Shit" (Caroline White, CPJ, Oct. 23) to my oplOl~ns
piece of two weeks ago "Fuck This ~ippie Shit" (N?lan Lattyak, CPJ , Oct. 16). First
of all, yes, I have experienced war. First hand. Back III Desert Storm ~art One I would
have never dreamed a red-blooded American would have disagreed With me. We went
into Kuwait and secured oil field after oil field in the glaring heat of the desert. At the
time ,we weren't thinking about what the oil was for, we just drank it '.cause it was all
we had and it was delicious. Actually in all seriousness: The whole article was sarcastic and meant to generate critical thought. I've had family and friends go to war - ~y
now deceased grandpa was the only person to survive in h~s company af~er a battle In
the Pacific. my other grandfather was a medic. My best fflend fo.ught v:tth people he
wasn't allowed to look at in Panama (that's another story). War IS hOrrible. So yeah,
"duh" indeed. "The Highway of Death" in Desert Storm is an e>.<ample of the ludicrous
nature of a gun and napalm-happy military at war. Some people will say "W,e have the
weapons so we're superior" in all seriousness, but not me - a~t~ough I do Itke a good
natural selection joke from time to time because they are so fldlculous.
OK, Carlyle: I don't actually own any Carlyle stocks. A quick.lnternet.s.e~rch
would reveal that Carlyle is indeed actually owned by ma~~ promlllent poltt~ctans
_ it is not a minor stock. That was precisely my point: The mllttary cabal are g~lIl~ to
war for among other things, their stocks, Carlyle being one of thel~ . Ca~lyle IS ~Ich
in arms manufacturers and has benefited greatly since 9-11. Carlyle. s SeOlor, Advl~or
is George Bush Sr., the Senior Counselor is James Baker, Osama bill Laden s far~lIly
members were investors ($2 million dollars), Colin Powell once served as an adVisor
to Carlyle. I stated that my Carlyle stocks have done well since we, "Went in to secure
the heroin trades in Vietnam and Afghanistan" knowing that Carlyle wasn't aroun?
during Vietnam, but hoping someone would look into the. idea of war not on~y for ~II
but for drugs too. Opium production went way~p aft~r we tnstalled ~ puppet dtctato~ III
Afghanistan and the US was floodedwit~ heroin dUring and after Vietnam. (Try typing
Pepsi+Vietnam+heroin into a search engtne.)
As for the elevator signs; no comment. IF YOU GET MY DRIFT..A~d the whole
hippie thing and to quote a friend from that generation: There were hlpp~es for.a few
years - from 'about 1967 to '72. It was a reactio~ to a terrible time i~ our.nat.lOn's hlsto~.
Since then and especially now what we have IS a good deal ?f dlvers~ty In d~ess With
mostly common goals. Call it what you want to but it seems Itke there s a ~olllllg wave
of revolution - a general understanding crossing generations that many t~lIlgs nee~ to
change. As for what I call myself: My ideals 70uld ~ost accurately be descr.lbed as bel~g
anarchosyndicalistic. Every time someone tries to pigeonhole me an envlronmentaltst
or as anything else - I immediately make it known I can't be put tn a ~ox ..I'm h~man,
I care about certain things. When someone can label you as somethtng In particular
you've lost some power in the assumptions people are going to make about you ~nd
they might relate you to actions taken by those who have gotten the same label. Like
being a Greener for instance.

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refined; one would expect thal' individuals woJiI<;l b¢1'h!l'viri:g;a; stJ'Qn:g~~
presence, 'or a wres~l,ing fe~ ~r so~ething to le.•ferld'J;l*i.r.)'Je1.vs"
time, I have ,spoken.to a beautlful;young rom,ill.n·v.r. ith' a:fl~~!tl~rti~
spoke.eloquently. ab~ut.how, ~pe'slouri.4:a gr,~t niclj¢~lij~~t9
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more positive future . I mean,'here we: areperc~ed
for god's sake, Ollr time will be st1,ldieq as to wbat we:'iW,~re:~tlojng
it, and so many here realize it. It ,leads to a lot ofpi1:~llm amclngst tll~iip~t~~iipants.
it's nice to see. Daunting, but manageable.
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Corrie two indiViduals who in their own way stand above :mostmo~L-b;e!llg~. ,Matt
with his poignant comedy arid Rachel with her beilUtifuLc~~vj"ct~on;t~t b¢ll.W:riice,
and~ being h~lpful can go handin hand. God kn2w~ sh~A~~Jhlnkmg :a:~p,';1~ht of
pity for tlie' driver oO~e machine·that killed her; s~e)t;I\lSt~~ve ~oug~t~I~,~Ji,~!e. t,he
treads of that obscene machine took her life. Her steadfaslness IS secon~ .to none,
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Just this week, the United Nations General Co~ncil voted 144-4 w,ith·. twelve
abstentions against the progress of the building of the wall that she stood m front
of the building of. The only nations that stood with us ~nd Sharon's lsro:el were the
Martial Islands, and Micronesia! .Two US protectorates In South East ASia that were
conquered by the American ,Empire in the time of the Second World War for defensive reasons against the Empire of Japan; ~ho atthe time was fiercelr dange~ous to
us, but so now these are the only two voting members of the world ~ c.ouncil who
support the Wall alongside Israel arid .our government's support? . This IS about the
place where Rachel died. The world remembers her.
Friends of hers who knew her' well are still here on t11is campus, iUld their grief is
not lost. The love thai is felt, the compassi~n that grows from being here is touchin~
and still inspiring. ·There is so much passIOn here. Th!lt'swby.l came.Oh, don t
expect me to make,a name for myself while I'm ht:<~; l'y.~ already~fig~~ .that oU!,
that's why there's no student gl)vernrnent, because .1I:!'9un.~ ;Ae~e~ ;pl~termg one s
own name is a true ~ some sortofSaci'ilege -as Solon:Qf'th~cm.clent Greeks ~ho sat
underneath the .firstMountOiynt'piawould say:"1Jie:~t~st are onlykil~Wn to be
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by Mike FiYdcychoWSki
Okay, who is doing, has done, or is
thinking about doing, drugs? Crack?
Painkillers? Pot? Heroin? Alcohol?
Acid? DXM? DMT? Millions of people
in the world use drugs everyday. In almost
every circumstance, the drug is taken for
the particular effect it would have on the
mind/body of the user. Whether these
effects might provide a psychedelic trip,
relief from a headache, pain relief from
a recent surgery, or an uninhibited night
of relaxation, there is one commonalitY:
linking every drug user: all are knowingly putting into themselves a foreign
substance which will directly affect their
mindslbodies. Simple enough, right? Take
this pill, I'll feel better. Take this tab; I'll
see some interesting shit. Shoot up this
fluid; my body will melt into the earth in
an unrestrained moment of ecstasy.
Timothy Leary believed that drugs can
be used as microscopes for the mind; a way
to explore the depths of human consciousness. Many people followed Leary on his
quest, some even right up to the moment
of his death, which was televised on the
web.
Modem technological advancements in
medicine have provided people with synthesized chemicals and raw natural extracts
to alleviate everything from muscle pains
to diagnosed psychological disorders.
Conte~porary scientists are getting further
ahead everyday in their knowledge of the
mind and how electrons are moving inside
of it, how it is structured, and how certain
drugs affect its chemical makeup.
But whether you want to take a spiritual approach or a scientific one, you must

always count into the equation the
factor of individual human experience.
How and why you might take drugs is
a very personal decision; a decision
that must be made about you and your
personal world. Taking drugs enables
your body/mind to experience things
that it wouldn't have if the drug had
not been taken. And yes, this can add
a depth to the human experience that
might not have been realized beforehand. Drugs can help you reach the
heights of emotional capability. They
have also been known to assist in
attaining an enlightening intellectual
bliss; a period oftime when our whole
world comes together in an orgasmic
celebration oflife. For every possibility of pleasure though, there is an equal
opportunity for adverse effects. "Bad
trips," emotional turmoil and confusion,
"hours of catatonic despair," near suicidal
states of mind when one realizes the futility of it all , sadness, aggravation, paranoid
feelings of inadequacy, and paranoia.
Your world's boundaries can be significantly expanded through the use of
drugs. You can walk down the street
without any pain in your leg. You can
stare knowingly into a sunset. You can
get a temporary relief from whatever ails
you. But the expansion of your world's
boundaries creates a new set of rules,
sensations, comparison, and refer(!nces.
Some advocate doing the best with what
you have, without the use of drugs . Just
be aware of the complexity and confusion that has the possibility of developing.
Don't lose yourself.

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A cornerstone of contemporary Leftist
thought is a massive contempt for the general population. Paradoxically, these are
precisely the people they claim to want to
empower. This is true almost across the
board among those politically left of the
Democratic Party. Leftist luminary Ralph
Nader is but one revealing example of this
epidemic. His populist rhetoric is dramatically undermined by a cultural criticism
that is profoundly elitist. The leading intellectual lights of the extreme left, Noam
Chomsky and Howard Zinn, repeatedly
refer to the "spectacular" indoctrination
of the American masses. In fact, a good
deal of Chomsky's voluminous output
is devoted to this conviction - that the
American masses constitute a "bewildered
herd." Horrible Howard merely parrots this
line, being himself incapable of original
thought. My question to them and their
innumerable disciples is, if, from your
perspective, these people are too stupid
to see out of the ,boxes they've been put
in by "the evil system," how could these
same masses whom you claim to adore,
possibly run society and its institutions
democratically by themselves?
A conversation I had with an acquaintance of mine further illustrates this point.

He had told me with a straight face that
he believed capitalism to be the greatest
evil the world has ever known. Later, in
the same conversation, he commented
that he regarded "ninety percent of
everybody to be sheep." I' ll assume that
by "everybody" he meant "Americans."
By my count, ninety percent of 300 million makes about 270 milJion people.
And what does that imply? 270 million
Americans are expendable? 270 million
Americans are animals fit for slaughter?
When people like this get into power,
you'd better watch out. It's no wonder
that nobody killed more peasants than
Stalin and Mao.
Indeed, the anti-American left is not
motivated so much by a great love or compassion for humanity as is often claimed,
but rather by a massive contempt and
loathing for them. Again, keep in mind
that these are the same people they claim to
want to empower. They regard America, its
people and its culture, as a vast wasteland
-- a superficial flurry of malls, multiplexes
and amusement parks and little more. It
is this hatred of American society and
culture that leads to an ambivalence or
outright hostility toward America's role in
the world. In reality, they ' re not so upset

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of Grammar, Anyone?

Aga i nst Civi Iization ?
An Even i ng with
John Trudell

by Allison Adh

by Marc stJmer _______ _

rammar.
(I saw you shudder.)
It's typified in every writer's mind as that
sagacious and stringent pedagogue, wagging a
bony finger at any grammatical misstep, waiting,
watching, ready to swoop down, Gorgon-like,
on any comma out of place, any adverb erroneously used.
But grammar is no bogey-man; it's no cruel
headmaster bent on caning its pupils. Grammar
is nothing short of an entertaining amusement,
an enjoyable game, a pleasurable pursuit-grammar, my friends, is the original Great American
Pastime.

I hav; nQ' a'ca<;lemic plan, nope ...
none ill alL: not eyen the roughest of
ideas on w,hat I.-will delve,into next year
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fo~a:br~~,~ worI~JQ' , . '~}l~I.?~ these knowledge. l'~e been told by many here
ac,MT~~5~~lIs?,,?:~l?~!~aes'I~ij~)Ul~ d. o . that j~ is.;irilportimt to have a plan, and I
~h~t ,lliaye 'a,]}¥a~~ '~O~1? ~~qug~~L1,t '!llY· ' .hlive also been told by just as many more
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I know, I know: these oft-affronted linguistic rules that govern usage sometimes
seem austere and puritanical, and their proponents pedantic. Even the word "grammarian" connotes tweed and ascots. But, contrary to popular belief, grammar isn 't
all pomp and circumstance; it isn't some wacky neo-Platonic endeavor to restore
language ~o its supposedly primordial-pristine condition. In fact, grammar is quite
the OppOSIte, and the rules thereof do not attempt an untenable linguistic perfection;
rather, the rules reflect and respond to language as it changes. As S. A. Leonard so
aptly put it, "language [is] a vastly complicated and often haphazard growth ofhabits
stubbornly rooted"-which basically means "old habits die hard, and some don ' t die
at all, especially if they've been accepted into the English vernacular." And it is the
job of the grammarian to sort through these "habits stubbornly rooted" and apply
rules to them .
. "But why apply rule.s at all?" you ask. Well, sir, let me tell you a little story. A long
tIme ago, when I was Just a tot, I was bored silly because none of us kids had any
games to play. No Scrabble. No kick-the-can, no capture-the-flag. No fancy computer
games like Chessmaster II or The Oregon Trail. Sticks weren't even invented back
then. But then, one summer afternoon, a man named Abner Doubleday walked up to
me and said, "Hey, kid. You wanna playa game?" Of course I did, I told him . So he
t~ught me this game he called "baseball." But I couldn't play with any of the other
kIds because nobody else knew the rules, and, as irony would have it, baseball was a
t~am sport. But then I had a brilliant idea: I explained the rules to all the neighborhood
kIds, and, suddenly, we were on a level playing field-a little baseball humor there,
for you-and we all played baseball 'til dawn.
See, grammar is a lot like baseball; if you don't know the rules, you can't really play
the game very well. That is, in order to communicate effectively in your writing, you
have to understand the set of rules to which all writers adhere. [f you write grammar
off, so to speak, then you'll have trouble communicating with your audience. Think
of it this way: if you happened upon a game of baseball, and you didn't know (or
didn't follow) the rules, and you started running around the field playing Little Bunny
Foo-Foo with the bat, you'd most likely get an error, and then you'd get ousted from
the game-maybe even the league. Similarly, if you wrote a piece riddled with tense
?isagreements and dangling participles and misplaced modifiers-to say nothing of
Incorrect punctuation-you'd most likely get discounted as a hack, simply because
your readers would lose sight of your divinely-inspired, super-brilliant message due
to all those silly-but easily remedied-grammatical errors.
\ Basically, ladies and gents, grammar rules are there to help-not hinder-your
writing. They provide the structure; you provide the genius. The rules of grammar
are communication tools; they ensure that nobody drops the ball, as it were. So, next
time you' re tussling with tenses, contending with conventions, or just grappling with
grammar, remember me and old Abner Doubleday, and keep on swingin-t at that old
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It would be difficult to sum up all of the
critique of civilization here, but I' ll give a
brief outline. One of the major arguments
is that civilization is rooted in violence and
is inherently unsustainable, destructive to
the earth and to our selves. The critique

of civilization usually embodies a critique
or a discussion on agriculture, domestication, symbolic thought, division of labor,
technology, mass production, industrialism and patriarchy. For me, the argument
against civilization has been essential
in understanding native and indigenous
strugg les against the destruction of their
ways of life, the fight against deforestation , the fight to save the salmon , and the
fight against globalization and the continual onrush of the modern technological set up , If anyone wants to talk more
in depth about these ideas, please email
me at scraps3 3@hotlll ai l.colll. Trudell
concluded hi s moving speech by say ing
that we must use our intelligence and be
clear and coherent, and from there we will
be able to make the right choices and decisions about what we must do.
Further reading:
Beyond Geography: th e Western Spirit
against the Wilderness, by Frederick
Turner.
Against Civilization : Readings and
Reflections, edited by. John Zerzan.

On the web:
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Notes from the Side of the Road
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5v Jacob ROsenblUm

I carry anti-Semitism around with
me in my back pocket. The only
time you might notice it is if we're
talking about something, like for
instance how my lunch date stood
me up, and I shiver for a moment. It
looks like a shiver, and it feels almost
like a shiver, but I'm not cold. I do it
because I ' m terrified of people isolating me becal,lse I'm Jewish. It's a
strange disease; I even isolate myself
from non-Jews because I'm so afraid
that they will isolate me. .
I am so afraid of being isolated
that I don't exactly know what fear
feels like. I've got an idea: it kind of
feels like shivering. One day, I was
standing on Division with a friend
of mine who was also trying to get
to Evergreen. I needed to get to
Evergreen, and had just missed the
bus. I tried putting my thumb out; it
was terrifying! But I did it.
Hitchhiking, and picking up hitchhikers, is an amazing contradiction to
,fear. First of all, it goes against everything our culture has taught us about
stranger-danger; hitchhikers are the
strangest strangers in the world, and
not only that, they're poor strangers.
Maybe I can trust a stranger, if she
at least has a car! Almost no one can
think clearly about what it actually
means to pick up a hitchhiker. My
experiences have been so amazingly
positive picking up hitchhikers that
it's hard for me to understand what
conceived the fear in the first place.

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with the political order but with the decisions individuals make of their own free
will. Whatthey really want to do is impose
their preferred way of life on everybody
else -- that is, a return to the Stone Age in
which we'll all live in caves and do yoga
in lush green meadows while eating nuts
and berries.
But seriously, there is something about
the idea of the Fall of America, the Death
of America and the American way of life
that appeals to these depraved minds .
This is what unites left-wing extremists
in the West, many of whom reside within
the Evergreen State College community,
with the forces ofIslamic fascism . Militant
Islam seeks to wage a jihad against the
West, destroy our way of life and anything
else that gets in the way of their imposing
their radical interpretation of Islamic law.

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This past Tuesday in the Evergreen
library lobby, indigenous activist John
Trudell spoke. His words filled the room ,
as he poetically tackled philosophy, history, politics and spirituality. I believe
that JohnJrudell 's words and arguments
place him in what is a growing movement
referred to as primitivism or anti-civilization . More than once through the night,
Trudell spoke of the effects of "techno log ical civilization" on human beings and the
natural world . Trudell pointed out thatthe
civil izing process goes against the actual
desires and happiness of human beings.
We once were happy relating to the earth
as a mother, taking care of her and learning
her natural ways. Trudell made important
connections between what is the ongoing
destruction of nature (i.e. mining, clear
cutting, pollution, urban sprawl) and the
ongoing destruction of ourselves (through
war, conquest, slavery, self-hatred). This
is just a small bit of the ground Trudell
covered.

The Left has a sick and morbid fascination
with this desire. I know this because as a
recovering Leftist myself, writing vapid
screeds for my high school newspaper and
inexplicably seething with hatred towards
my country, I once felt that way myself.
Our culture and society is objectively
superior then that envisioned and practiced
by the Islamic fanatics who seek to destroy
us. Surely, we're not as good as heaven,
but to much of the rest of the world,
America does looks like heaven. Ours is
a free, open, democratic and magnificent
society. We respect the rights of all people,
regardless of race, religion, sex or sexual
orientation. It's time to wake up and realize
this and stand together- in defense of our
great nation against those, both at home
and abroad, who seek to destroy us and
our way of life.

At the same time, there is a culture
of predation that has gone hand-inhand with hitchhiking. Rape culture
is reinforced by sexism , racism,
ageism, and generally fucked-up
power dynamics. Cars have fuckedup power dynamics. The person
behind the steering wheel is almost
completely in control. This leads to
two distinct problems.
The first somewhat common
danger of hitchhiking is that the
driver of the car will use their disproportionate power to make the
passenger do what they want. Many
women (and some men) I have talked
to about their hitchhiking experience
have identified this as their primary
concern; one woman, after reporting that she had been raped to law
enforcement officials, was told that
it was her fault because of the way
she dressed.
The second problem is that the passenger has no way of actually being
able to judge how well-functioning
the person in the driver seat is. The '
worst hitchhiking related story I've
heard was from one of my relatives .
Her cousin was killed in a crash after
catching a ride with a drunk "driver.
Theoretically, the passenger could
somehow take power from the driver.
This could be done with a weapon, or
through manipulation (for example,
stealing the car when filling the gas
tank) . I' ve never heard of this happening to an actual person, although
I believe that some high-profile
crime cases involved this happening

(Jeffrey Dahmer).
If you feel safe hitchhiking, give
it a try. It forces you to break out of
your isolation box. I would recommend that people who feel prone
to victimization by society go with
a friend. Many people I ' ve talked
to have had success traveling with
a friend of the opposite sex; men
are less likely to be victimized and
women are more likely to be picked
up.
The real power for change comes
from drivers. If you are driving
(sober) and feel confident enough,
you can make a difference! Stop for
hitchhikers ; especially folks who
tend to be marginalized or victimized
in our society. Oh yeah, I'm also a
big fan of "no hitchhiking" signs. If
you've got one, I might pay you ten
bucks for it. Safe paths and happy
hitching.
RCW 46.61.255. Pedestrians soliciting rides or business.
(I) No person shall stand in or on a
public roadway or alongside thereof

at any place where a motor vehicle
cannot safely stop off the main traveled portion thereof for the purpose
of soliciting a ride for himsel f or for
another from the occupant of any
vehicle.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any
perso n to solicit a ride for himself or
another from within the right of way
of any limited access facility except
in such areas where permission to do
so is given and posted by the highway

authority of the state, county, city or
town having jurisdiction over the
highway.

(italics mine)
The second paragraph mean s that
you can't hitch on ~he freeway . Last
year, 1 missed the bus, and had a
friend drop m e off on the Exit 101
on-ramp (Airdustrial Way), After
about a half hour, I walked down
the on-ramp, and onto the freeway .
A state trooper stopped me in about
ten minutes. He said someone ca lled
the police hotline and reported me
(that person must feel like a rea l hero ,
keeping terrori sts, I mean hitc h hikers, off the streets where ch ildren
play). He searched me and m y hags
(without my consent), ran my Iic ~ nse
for warrants, put me in the back or
the patrol car, and dropped m L' o lf
at the nearest truck stop (Exit 99) .
conveniently out of hi s juri sdi c tion,
" You ' ll be able to get a ride I'rom
there no problem ." Once there , ,ttL"
nearly an hour o f no succe s ~ t h,
manager of the truck stop cal le" ; h
police because I was botheri l1 ( i , L
customers. Nearing dark , the or! -:L' I
who greeted m e let me know tl. l ~ I
could stand on t he 100- foot st I · "
of on-ramp bet wee n the proper ,
the truck stop an d the freewa y. I
under a sign th a t read " Pede ' '1
Hitchhikers Proh ibited." Witl ll'
minutes, some co llege s tudent s
UW stopped for me .

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Basketball
season
openers
The basketball season is fast approaching,
so be sure to mark your calendars for the
start of the men's and women's seasons.
The women are the first to host teams at
the CRC, beginning November 7, with the
King Oscar Tournament, their first opponent being Notre Dame de Namur. The
tournament continues through Saturday,
with further match-ups to be announced.

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• 4 p.m. The Gaming Guild plays board games 'till late at the HCC. Come
join the fun!
III ·5 p.m. The Trans Group meets in the pit ofthe thirdfloor ofthe CAB

Ohly in its third season, head coach
Bill Lash is leading hi s team 10 an
impressive 8-6 game record, in
conference, with a 12-9 overall record ,
after their most recent win agai nst Wal la
Walla, on the October 26.

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The Evergreen Women's Soccer team
won its two final home games last Friday,
October 24 and Saturday, October 25. With
Saturday's win, the Geoducks increased
their winning streak to five games
and secured their place in the Cascade
Conference playoffs.
Friday's game gave the Ducks a 4-0
lead against Eastern Oregon University

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at the end of the first half. Eastern's Conference Tournament on October 29.
forward Kristen Rice managed to The tournament will be hosted by Western
score an unassisted goal against Carly 'Baptist in Salem, Oregon.
Stewart in the last twenty minutes of
the game, ending Stewart's three-game
shutout streak, but Evergreen's Tiffany
Fenster and Lisa Leadon added a further two points to give the Geoducks
a 6-1 win.
Saturday saw a much narrower
victory against Albertson College of
Idaho. All of the scoring took place in
the first half: Evergreen scored only
twice - both goals courtesy of midfielder.Kaylen Kelley, who has scored
the first point, unassisted, in all of her
last three games - and Stewart again
allowed a single goal. Per usual for any
fillal game prior to the playoff season,
this was a particularly aggressive game: '
the referee was something of an underachiever in terms of the number offouls
he called on both sides.
With an overall record of 6-9-2,
and 5-4-2 in conference, the Geoducks
will be moving on to the Cascade

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Both the men's and women 's teams officially kic~ off their seasons at St. Martin's.
The men begin their battle the November
12, at 7 p.m., while the women hold off for
November 19, at 7:30 p.m.

by Mitchell Hahn-Branson

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• lOa.m.- "p.m. Give Blood! Puget Sound Blood
center is operating a blood drive in the Library lobby 2nd floor
• 7p.m. "Girls' Night" including a special guest. DiSCUSSion, food. and
prizes in the EDGE. Contact: http://www.greener.s4christ.orgl
• 7p.m. "Through the Looking Glass- Mass Media and how it seeks to
manipulate us." Showing at Traditions Cafe on Fifth and W~ter in Olympia.
Contact 786.0277 for more info.
·8p.m. The Musician s Club presents "Open Mic Night" at the HCC.
Bring your instruments!
• 8p.rn. Night ofthe Living Tribute Bands. Capitol Theater. Featuring the
Ramones, the B-52 s, and the Misfits. $5, $4 with costume (cliche costume
contest!)

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one hour, the Geoducks spiked their
authority into the court, edging their
winning total against Walla Walla to six
matches, only having lost one game in
the past 18 over the teams' three year
run.

·6 p.m. The Musician's Club meets in the pit of
the third floor of the CAB to discuss possible ideas
about upcoming events.
• 7- /0 p.m. The Anime Club has showings in LH
3. Featuring the series "Last Exile," "Exile Saga, ..
and "Witch Hunter Robin. "

at Rainy Day Records and Artful Life.
• The East Side .Tavern presents: The Dirty Birds, C Average, and
Rodeo Kill. 21+, $3 with costume and $4 without.
• 8p.rn. The Eighth Annual Costume Ball! @ the Matrix Coffee
House in Centralia, $5.
·434 NW Prindle Sf. Contact 360. 740.0492. Proceeds benefit Lewis
County Stonewall Youth.

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·lla.rn. through Sunday. "Mushrooms and Old-Growth." A trip to
With the fall season drawing to a close,
the women's volleyball team has two
more opportunities to wow the home
court crowd: Friday, October 31 and
Saturday, November I, at 7:30 p.m.

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·8 p.m. The Go Club hosts "Jazz Matinee"featuring the Michael
Powers Group. 21 +, $5.
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the trees with the ERC and the Freaks ofNature. To sign up, contact 867. 6784
or eltrescott@hotmail.com. or attend the ERC meeting on Thursday at 2:30 p.m.
in the Student Activities office.
·8p.rn. The Capitol Theater brings us Charlie Chaplin s "Modern Time!l."
206 E Fifth Ave, Olympia. Contact 754.6670.
• 8p.rn .. Jason Webley at Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave. All ages, $9.
http://wwwjasonwebley.com!
• 9p. rn . The Dub Narcotic Sound System is putting on a "benefit hootenanny"
with special guests at the Midnight Sun, 113 Colombia St NW, Olympia, $5 min.
donation. All ages.

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