The Cooper Point Journal Volume 32, Issue 12 (January 15, 2004)

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includes such coverage as $100,000 per
person flight accidental coverage as well as
emergency medical and dental expenses,
just to name a few. Cost is $48 per person
and was not factored into the funding
request. In fact, throughout both presentations the presenters reiterated that they and
other delegates were willing to front the
money needed themselves; likewise, now
that funding has been awarded, delegates
will match the Board's contribution with
monies gathered by fundraising.
Again, issues of housing and the event's
context were raised during the addendum
presentation. The presenters explained
that securinK their housing reservations
was "contingent on if they get money," as
making early reservations takes spots away
from other groups attending the event. The
context issue resided in the fact that the
event will involve not only the march but
speeches, workshops and volunteer work
as well as documenting the day's activities
for a future campus presentation; several
Board members had expressed hesitation
with funding a group to attend a march that
is merely a protest rally or demonstration,
unrelated to the college and provided no
learning experience prior to the presenters'
clarification.
During deliberations, the discussions
centered mainly around what types of
groups and/or events the Board should
fund and their attempts to classify WRC's
event. One Board.member felt this could be

"a can of worms," and if they (the ~oard)
funds pro-choice (groups), then they would
be expected to fund the opposite. Another
Board member countered with, "There
are two sides to every argument, and that
shouldn't be a relevant issue"; otherwise,
(the Board) would be saying, "I don't want
to fund the people who might come up."
The issue of protests was raised,
comparing the event to demonstrations
or rallies. The countering opinion was
that it 's about women 's rights and their
decisions to do what they want and (the
event) shouldn't be compared to that kind
of protest (such as WTO). This, of course,
came on the hee'Is of the argument: fund
this, and we'll have to fund all protests.
Emphasis was stressed - by the aforementioned countering opinion - on understanding the parameters of why they're going,
that they're representing this institution
and funding the purpose of that.
Designating this both a political event
and issue, one Board member felt funding
should not be awarded, based on past decisions. However, another member countered that "(the Board) should not make
decisions based upon past decisions. It (the
presentation) should be judged based on its
merit, what's in front of you."
The remainder of deliberations was
spenl distinguishing the event between
demonstrations and marches versus educational situations.

Bush is in Baghdad and We're Right There With Him:

It's good to be informing
young people about alternative education, that doesn ' t
happen enough .... J remember (Sevenleen) being like a
. teenage version of Cosmo ...
you've got young girls reading Sevenleen, and then
being exposed to something
completely different.
-Sarah WileyJunior
Transcendenl Practices
It 's good for people who
read.Seventeen to know that
there are other options, but
the magazine is part of a
greater media system that
makes women think they are
fat and ugly, and buy a bunch
of shit they don ' t need ..Cassie BardenSenior

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I was sort of surprised . Maybe they
were looking for a different school. But they
have to make a living
too, I guess. They still
suck .
-Sam Goldsmith
Sophomore
Communily
Development

On Monday, Dec. 8, the Women's
Resource Center presented an addendum
to its original proposal that requested
funds from the S&A to send delegates to
the "March for Freedom of Choice" and
related activities in Washington, D.C. next
spring.
The group's efforts paid off, as the
Board granted the full $3,000 amount
requested.
"We excited and proud to represent The
Evergreen State College (during) the two
days of educational events to save women's lives," Krystal Wolf and Kira Canny
said jointly, following the presentation.
However, the road to full funding was a
rather rocky one that involved much planning and research, plus presenting WRC's
plan to the Board, after which presenters
had to endure a question-and-answer session before the Board went into deliberations. It was then that issues were raised,
debated and eventually decided upon.
The addendum, for example, was a
result of the Board's uncertainty ofawarding funds without the security of travel
insurance, upon WRC's initial presentation. The group then had to - by a specific
date - research insurance companies, make
a decision, write the addendum and have it
submitted by the end of that week, though
it wouldn't be presented till the following
Monday.
WRC's travel insurance is secured
through World Travel Insurance and

TESC
Olympia, WA 98505
Address Service Requested

Bon Appetit's Ties to the Military- and Prison-Industrial Complexes
By Kara Hauck News Commentary
In March 2002 the largest food service
corporation in the world, British-based
Compass Group, bought Bon Appetit.
From that point onward Bon Appetit is
implicated in all of Compass Group's business-from contracts with the Pentagon
and oil corporations to contracts with
Corrections Corporation of America,
which profits off the incarceration of
people. Compass Group's profits come
as much from the private prison industry
as from Bon Appetit. Regardless of Bon
Appetit's original corporate intentions, the
reality now is that Bon Appetit is Compass
Group.
Before going deeper into a criticism
and analysis of Compass Group, I want to

say this first: everyone needs to work in States's service sector-based economy
foodservice in their lifetime. The years I (with generally lower wages and less union
have worked in foodservice were some of representation than the industrial sector) is
the most stressful, unforgiving and unrec- as much a product of globalization as the
ognized work I, personally, have ever maquiladores of Mexico; neo-liberal glodone. Customers treat you as a servant, balization hurts workers everywhere. So,
and can have an air of entitlement so strong to everyone who works to feed this school,
it turns my stomach. But I have come to your time, energy and labor are valued and
take pride in that work. It's hard work, significant; and to everyone reading this
and it's necessary in so many people's who does not work at Bon Appetit, think
lives. It's honorable work because it is about where your prepared food comes
so under-appreciated. I'm beginning this from, and think about the people (not just
hard criticism of Bon Appetit and its parent the hands) that nourish you.
corporation Compass Group in this way
because I want.to truly appreciate the hard
work and importance of people that work
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We're Having aPart~J and
You're Invited!

The

Men's Center
The Men's Center is back in business. Come
join us Wednesdays at I :00 PM for out life-shaking meetings . We have some excell~nt plans
for the coming quarter and want you Involved.
Everyone is welcome, and the first fifty people
get free pencils!

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This quarter is going to be a huge party at the Women's Resource Center,
and everyone should come! The WRC, as well as many other campus
groups, is working hard to get as many students as possible to attend and
participate in the March for Women's Lives in Washington, D.C. This march
is a demonstration made by many national and international groups, mainly
in reaction to the Bush administration's recent ban on late-tenn abortions.
During the march, there will be educational workshops on organization,
motivation and women'5 rights. However, the event represents all women
as well as their choices and will fight to protect all the rights women hold.
Though it is mainly for women's lives, I urge everyon~ to show their support because legislations on these issues deeply affect us all.
• We are holding bake sales every week to raise money to attend the
march this April in Washington, D.C. If you would like to volunteer or
need volunteer hours, we would much appreciate your support.
• WRC and the Men's Center are planning to hold a weekly bowling
night. If you want such an event, please contact Lloyd Young in CAB 313
or James at Work Station #2 in Student Activities.
• WRC is here to provide any support, guidance, and privacy to anyone
that wants to use it. We are also a student group devoted to holding activities that the students would like to have on campus. Please visit CAB 313
to talk to coordinators and interns about any ideas or questions you may
have .

Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream for equality and hannony between all people. He worked hard to make his dream
come true. Because of his dream, he was tragically killed at the age of39. Umoja has been working to keep the dream of
Dr. King alive. Here are some of our own dreams:

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lamia McRae

NW.
The show will run through February 7, with
8:00PM performances except for 2:00PM
Sunday matinees. There is no reserved seating
at the Theater. Handicapped seating is available,
though advance notification is appreciated.
For more information, contact the Theater,
located at 1925 Miller Ave. NE, at 786.9484 or
visit www.olympialittletheater.org. For .ticket
information or reservations, contact Yenney Music
Company at 943. 7500.

For more information, contact
director Virgene Bigelow at 754-

~6 tV JretlhUthat the opportunities that were not available to my parents, and their parents, will be taken
advantage of by me.
Dolly England

- Lloyd Young

Mrs. California, a comedy by Doris Baiziey,
opens 8:00 tomorrow evening at the Olympia
Little Theater, and is the story of a homemaking!
beauty pageant, set in pre-women's lib L.A., in
which the winner will be awarded the coveted
title of "Mrs. California" and represent the
"Ideal Woman of 1955," meaning a happy.
wholesome and beautiful homemaker.
Tickets cost $8 and are available at Yenney
Music Company, located at 1404 Harrison Ave.

Auditions for Years Ago, a comedy
by Ruth Gordon, will be held 7:30
PM next Monday and Tuesday evenings at the Olympia Little Theater.
The play centers around Ruth
Gordon Jones and her desire to be a
stage star, despite her parents' objections. Eventually, her father uses the
family's limited resources to fund her
first big break.
Roles are available for four men
and five women. Anyone interested
in assisting with any aspect. of pr<?duction, regardless of expenence, IS
encouraged to attend.
The play will run from March 5 to
March 27.

~6 tV Jre.tlhUto be the first in my family to graduate from college and defeat the stereotype.
Daniella Byrd

I ~6 tV JretlhU that one day, everyon~ will understand that we have differences, and will

respect those
differences instead of expecting everyone to conform. I have a dream that one day, people will understand that
we ARE treated differently, and try to actively work against that instead of blindly thinking that we live in a colorblind world.
Nadine Kulberg

Mrs. California

Auditions

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~6 tV JretlhUthat movements for social and economic equal ity wi II exist withoutthe need forfigureheads,

leaders symbols, OJ visions of the few. , have a dream that movements wil\ not only be for the people but of the
people; a unified vision of the progressive changes that will serve as a vehicle for future peace: I have a dream, that
social justice and responsibility will cease to exist as merely a shared dream, and take form of known truth.
Kandi Bauman
We have a dream that EVERYONE will come to our Black History Month Events.
Look for future advertisements.

UM'O JA

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by Brian Flewell

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ELECTION

HAS LANDED!

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by Connor Moran

The Spirit has landed! The first successful Mars mission in five years, and the first NASA publicity since the Columbia tragedy. Spirit had to land perfectly or NASA would be ruined. It seemed that Mars, named after the Roman god of war, has struck down each mission of the past five years as if personifying the god in reality. Japan's Nozumi, the United States' Mars Climate Orbiter, Mars Polar Lander, the Odyssey, and the European Beagle 2 all have been
lost on arrival. Spirit made it to the surface and began transmitting data on January 3, 2004, much to the relief of NASA scientists.

Spirit is designed to look for telltale signs of ancient life on Mars. It is believed that in Mars' earlier years (known to astronomers and scientists as the
Noachian Era), about 4.6 billion years ago during the formation of the Solar System, Mars was covered in water. Primitive life such as microbes could have
evolved in the waters of Mars. Spirit (and its sister-ship Opportunity, scheduled to land on January 25, 2004) will look for fossilized microbes, signs of .
ancient water, and the possibility of recent or current underground ice and water capable of supporting life today, however the possibility of current life is
extremely unlikely.
------ After these missions, it will be a science-fiction writer's worst nightmare: there is no life on Mars. Perhaps it will spawn a new era of understanding of
Mars. Either that or another War o/the Worlds radio dra~a will be presented.

PHOTO CAPTION : This photo is a panoramic photo around the landing site of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. The bright white in the upper left
is an overexposed sun. In the upcoming months, many new photos will be sent out to the public, reigniting their passion for this distant world. JPLlNASA
photo.

Official Spirit/Opportunity website: http://wwwjpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/

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In the news today, we see all
kinds of terms bandied about
regarding the races for presidential nOinination. We hear about
caucuses, primaries, conventions,
and a host of other terms that can
easily confuse even those with a
reasonably good grasp on pol itical
science. Because the Constitution
is silent on how nominees for presidential office are chosen, the states
and parties set the rules, creating
a very complicated system. So
here is my humble effort to clear
up some of the confusion:

voted for a given candidate. There
are a number of variations on the
primary, however. A "closed
primary" allows only registered
members of a party to vote in
that party's primary. However,
some states with closed primaries
allow independents to vote in the
primary elections. Making things
even more complicated, in some
states independents can vote in one
party 's primary but not the other,
based on the party's choice. An
"open primary" allows people
to vote for one candidate in one
party, regardless of prior party
First, primaries . . A primary affiliation.
election is just that, an election. In
Now, caucuses. A caucus is
states that have presidential primaries, the parties hold elections with a general term for a subgroup of
secret ballots where people choose people meeting to make decisions.
which candidate they prefer. The In relation to presidential nominadelegates are then usually assigned tions, caucuses refer to meetings
based on the percentage of people of party members in a given

area who chose delegates for the
national nominating convention.
In Washington, most delegates are
chosen via this caucus system. All
registered voters who are willing
to sign a document that says that
they are willing to be publicly
known as a member of the party
are able to vote. All of the people
who fit that description in a given
area or precinct and who can be
bothered to attend get together and
have a meeting called a precinct
caucus. These precinct caucuses
chose a proportional number of
delegates based on the number
of voters who support each candidate, i.e. if Howard Dean gets
twenty-five votes at a Democratic
precinct caucus and the precinct
has four delegates to send to the
next level, one delegate who supports Dean will be sent on to the
next level of the caucus. These

delegates chosen on the precinct
level meet to choose delegates
on the legislative district levels,
who in turn chose delegates at
the state nominating convention .
These delegates go to the national
party convention and vote for the
presidential nominee.
In short, if you are a Washington registered voter and are
willing to associate yourself with
one of the parties, the way to get
your voice heard is to go to your
party 's friendly precinct meeting and cast your vote. More
information is available on the
party web pages: http://www.wademocrats.org! for Democrats, and
http://www.wsrp.org/ for Republi cans.

S&A Board Fall Quarter Activitv Report
by Lia Frederickson

The Services & Allocation
Board began hearing Special Initi ative requests on Wednesday,
November 12 with a Special Initiative Fund totaling $110,000.00. The
Gaming Guild presented the first
proposal, for an operational budget
and equipment request totaling
$3,909.28. Rachel Freer proposed
full fundingfor the request; Dyami
Allen seconded; consensus was
reached.

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The following Monday, November 17, VOX requested additional
funding for the Dorothy Roberts
lecture event that was funded
as a part of the group' s operational budget in the spring. Total
request was for $317 to reimburse
the speaker for travel expenses.
Michelle Angell proposed full
funding; Eli Jacobson seconded;
consensus was reached.
On Wednesdav, November 19,
VOX proposed a transfer of funds
from coordinator salaries to the
Goods and Services portion of
their operational budget totaling
$180. That day, the Board also
heard a proposal from the CRC and
The Wilderness Center for ,various equipment, travel, and student
salary needs, totaling $5,978.89.
The Board allocated funding in the
amount of$2,542.45.

On Monday, December 1, the
Masters in Teaching Graduate
Students' Association proposed
an operational budget including
two coordinator stipends and
$700.00 in goods and services.
Rachel Freer proposed a total allocation 0/$1,000.00. Jordan Elaine
seconded. Consensus was reached.
Also on December 1, the Masters
in Environmental Science GSA
proposed an operational budget
including two coordinator stipends
and standard allocations for a total
of$I,OOO.OO. Puck Franta proposed
full funding. Maggie Cain seconded. Consensus was reached.
On Wednesday, December 3,
the Women's Resource Center
presented a proposal for travel
sponsorship to Washington, D.C.
for a women's rights volunteer trip '
for 8-10 student group coordinators.
Total request was $3,000.00. The
board asked that the WRC return
the following week with travel
insurance information and costs
for the safety of their delegation.
Also on December 3, SEED along
with cosponsors DEAP, EPIC, the
Bike Shop, EARN, the ERC, the
NSA, SESAME, the PAC, and
MEChA proposed funding for the
Sustainable Living Conference in
the amount of $24,447.00. Deliberations were suspended until the

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following Monday, December 8.
On December 8, EPIC presented an operational budget
request totaling $4,402.24 in
goods and services. Rachel Freer
proposed full funding . Chris
Hickman seconded. Consensus
was reached. EDU-ACTION also
proposed an operational budget
totaling $1,035.00 in goods and
services. Dyami Allen proposed
funding in the amount of$306.00.
Jake LaMere seconded. Consensus
was reached. The WRC returned
with travel insurance information as per the Board's request.
Chris Hickman proposed funding
a travel sponsorship of$3,000.00.
Eli Jacobson seconded. Michelle
Angell stood aside. Consensus was
reached. The Sustainable Living
Conference deliberations were
resumed that day. Jake LaMere
proposed funding $24,447.00.
Jordan Elaine seconded. Consensus was reached.
As of Monday, December 8, the
Special Initiative fund totaled
$69,165.72. The Board will
resume SI proposal hearings on
Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 3:
00 PM in CAB 320.

Detailed minutes of each meeting
are posted on the S&A bulletin
board outside the KAOS office on
the third floor of the CAB. The
S&A Board meets Mondays and
Wednesdays from 3:00 to 5:00 PM
in CAB 320. Meetings are open
to all members of the Evergreen
community. Thefirst 15 minutes of
every meeting are open community
forum times, during which the Board
invites the input of those who are
so inclined, following by scheduled
Special Initiative hearings that all
are welcome to observe.

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* The 10 [?est Films of 2003: 10-6 *
By Lee Kepraios

by Katie Thurman
On Thursday, January 8, approximately
250 Evergreen students ventured to the
Experimental Theater. The reason? They all
hoped to be cast in the Seventeen Magazine
photo shoot, featuring Evergreen.
Most students showed up dressed
in their best duds, hoping to dazzle the
Se venteen representatives with their
fashion sense. I too joined the throngs of
hopeful students, but, being myself, lacked
any fashion pizzazz more interesting than
my glasses.
Like any event at this college, the try-

outs had some opponents. Several student
groups showed up and posted signs accusing Seventeen Magazine of perpetuating
negative body images in teen girls and of
promoting only one kind of acceptable
beauty.
When I walked into the theater, however, I noticed students of every body
type and fashion creed. There were students decked out in dredlocks and students
sporting vintage clothing from the 1980s
and, of course, more.
Interested students were asked to fi II

out an application, which asked questions
like, "Why did you choose to come to
Evergreen?" and "What is your favorite
thing about the college?" and "Do you
consider yourself an activi st?" Students
then had their pictures taken, and were sent
home to wait. The pool of students was
narrowed down from 250 students to 50
students, selected by the Seventeen representatives. The 50 selected students, som e
of whom will be pictured in a feature called
"School Zone," were asked to participate
in photo shoots on Friday and Saturday.

The results should be hitting newsstands
around the country in April of2004.
How did I fare at the tryouts? Well ,
I filled out the form, just like everyone
else, and had my picture taken. Since I'd
been up since five in the morning and had
sat through six hours of class, I looked
like a royal goober. Needless to say, the
Seventeen ladies were very kind to me .
However, I was not selected . C 'est fa
vie.

Right about this time of year, many film critics start making their top ten films of the year lists in preparation for the Oscar nominations. I haven't been writing reviews for
the CPJ for some time now, be.cause I've been too busy doing The Curmudgeon. But that doesn't mean I haven't been going to the movies and seeing everything out there, like
last year, when my ten' best list for 2002 looked much different from those of most critics and very few of my choices were even nominated.
But any film lover knows that's always the case with the Academy Awards. They're bullshit. The real gems are here, in my list, and chances are, you won't see show times
for any of them in the local paper here in stupid Olympia. But do your best to find them. They're worth it. Here are the first five. The top five will appear next issue.

The Man Without a Past. from Finland, was one of the best foreign films of the year as well as a unique and strangely moving look at a man for
whom amnesia was the best thing that could have happened to him. Markku Peltola is a lumbering bear of an actor who looks like he's has a dreadful secret all his life. He
plays a man who arrives into town on a train and is beaten by thugs so savagely that he loses his memory. He shacks up with a broken family in a crumbling shantytown
and falls for a Salvation Army worker named Irma (Kati Outinen) who befriends him as he wanders the film in a series of episodes, some adventures and some misadventures that are strange, sad, funny or all of the above. The quirky tragicomedy from director Aki Kaurismaki, a rarely seen talent in America, gets its strength from humor
that is perfectly deadpan, pathos that is subtle and understated and events in the plot that don't unfold so much as just plain happen.

10.

9. Northfork

is the third film from directors Mike and Mark Polish whose previous efforts included the bold but awful Twin Falls Idaho and the forgivable
Jackpot. It's apparent that they have that rarest quality of directors, a distinctive style, and now finally, they've succeeded. In a film with more Bible parallels than
Magnolia. Northfork follows a group of government agents circa 1955 who have days to evacuate the residents of a vast, desolate Montana community before it
floods, and not all the residents are ready to leave. James Woods and Mark Polish play two of the agents, who have their work cut out for them as they deal with a
man who has fashioned his house into a replica of Noah's Ark, complete with two wives for a start. Meanwhile, the local priest, played by an unbelievably hairy
Nick Nolte, presides over a boy on his deathbed whose scars on his shoulder blades reveal that he might be an angel left behind on Earth. A group of semi-existent
angels led by Daryl Hannah believe that he is their lost fifth member and must go with them to Heaven when the time comes. It sounds pretentious, and in a way it
is, but I admire any film that shows me something I haven't seen before. I also like how the Polish brothers film with a drab gray and black color palette to accentuate the barren rolling hills of the landscape. Call it pretentious; just don't forget to call it one of the most original films of the year.

Student Governance Forum Meets on Wednesda~
by Jim Jordan
The date is January 12, and I' ve been
sitting in a meeting with about thirty-five
or forty Evergreen students who gathered
together upon invitation, or being the
invitees, to discuss the idea of "student
governance" as a concept.
Many ideas were shared, and many
more will come. For the day of this publication, Thursday, January 15, there is
another open invitation to hear input from
students at noon in the Library Building,
room L2100. On Wednesday January 21,
another meeting will take place in the
CAB, Room 108.
Of the prominent ideas that were shared,
some seemed to be heard repeatedly, like
"What kind of control over policy creation
will we have?" and " How do we choose
who will be part of the voting councils?"
These questions were with many others,
and there are those who are processing
Evergreen Brand Seminar Newsprint to
the effect that there will be a transcription
from those first notes created at this first
of four probing meetings.
People were able to voice that it is possible we need unique language to define
the parameters of our councils and representatives. People had ideas for projects
that would be helpful for the building of an
alternative to a normal sty Ie of governance.
People considered what it meant to have a

form of sel f-sustaining governance. There general population, so I went about some
research as to what it is that I'm talking
were a lot of peopl e.
On e who stuck out wa s Anthony about. One thing that I' ve noticed is that
Sermonti , who by the good graces of our trustees in general are a remarkable
his own personal organi zational prowess group. They seem to have been eclectihas been recognized by the Governor of cally chosen for their own personal unique
Washington as suitable for representing abilities and work ex perience. These are
Evergreen State College students in the not people who seem to be dark-clad and
generally mischievous; they even include
position of Student Trustee.
His position is as an equal voting grads. They are unusual people who bring
member of the main council that decides their own creative oddities to the table. A
major general decisions, including the ins table that has a member ofthe student body
and outs of how things get done, like the represented. Though I could be wrong,
85 million dollar improvements that bring my research was brief, but with public
us new buildings to work in and how to openness in their meetings, there is room
pay for it (though there were special funds for oversight.
granted for this purpose). The point is that
On the table today and also at the two
he is our lone voice in the actual machinery follow up meetings is the question of
of what people call "governance."
how we want the power structures to be
I've read a number of articles that he "designed . Is the present system changehas written, and he seems like a decent able for the betterment of including the
enough person. My assessment is that he vast voice of our school?
is working with our school in mind while
What is the system that can be forgetting himself some very important prac- mulated as if we were the constitutional
tice with the tools of government. He 's convention of Evergreen? Issues at hand
a hybrid human who is on a path toward involve the current streamlined fluidity;
active participation in legislative work via can it be retained? The main void currently
his educational studies here at Evergreen. being addressed, from what I drew from
our meeting, is the missing democratic
He is part of this process.
I was asked to write this article by influence that a student could feel from
someone that is inspired to see something having a vote per se in the activities of
of a self-governance come out of our policy creation; there were concerns as to

the sharing of information, di ssemin ati on
as it's termed .
And there w ere ma ny ' an s we rs.
Someone mentioned the use of networking as a way to keep concerned ind ividuals alert to policy matters, and moti ons.
Someone mentioned loo kin g to other
school s like our own to see what kind or
government work s for them .
Someone pointed Ollt that our
Washington St ate Legi s lature se at is
empty on the state level because of our
not having an elette.d body. This is an
anomaly, but so are we. Can we design a
great hybrid of governance for and from
our student body?
. We have an swers that are projects
and questions that need to be designed.
We have a need for input from as many
students as possi ble. I f you care about
this then try and make it to 'any of the
remaining meetings that have been set up
for this purpose. Ears and pens will be at
that meeting today and the ones ne xt week.
Ears and pens are what change minds and
make theories whole . So please brin g
yours if you want to help thi s happen.
Please, bring yours.

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is an outstanding film with a knockout performance from Phillip Seymour Hoffman that is nothing short of Oscar-worthy. He plays
the eponymous investment banker who gambles with his client's money on weekends in Atlantic City. The film is as much about gambling as it is about gamblers.
Note the soft cinematography on Hoffman in the bank scenes in contrast to the sharp, loud tones in the casino scenes. Note 'how the casino manager, played by
John Hurt, engages Hoffman with the comforting grace ofa lifelong friend. This really is a precisely orchestrated piece of work. And Hoffman for years has been
a consistently strong screen presence. He turns up with solid performances in one film after another and this may be his best work. His Mahoney is a man who
only wants to win to have the money to keep playing. I've never seen a portrait of an addictive personality as strong as this.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is the kind of epic that could have been realized by David Lean. But
its timing was unfortunate. Most people thought, "Well, if I'm going to sit through one three-hour movie this year, I want it to be The Return of the King." Thus, this exciting, superbly crafted and beautifully shot new film from Peter Weir (Witness. The Truman Show) based in the great novels by Patrick O'Brien, didn't do well at the box
office. But it's a fantastic achievement, so free of the constraints most epics feel they have to box themselves into. This film is just plain exhilarating. If you strip away
the sweeping storm scenes, the battle scenes, which are sort of fearsome in their intimacy, and the glorious production design that makes you feel like you know your way
around the ship, what you have, quite simply, is a look at the unnatural life of men at sea. The battle scenes remember a time before digital effects ruined action sequences.
And Weir not once throughout the whole movie loses sight of the human element of the film . The relationship between the Captain (Russell Crowe, a terrifically nonaction hero performance) and ship's surgeon (Paul Bettany) is the center of this story. It's exhilarating.

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and crew operated on a shoestring budget and they were making a film about teenagers. The fact that they made such a
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Gumby were conjured upon my first
glance at the new installation at the
TESC gallery. Seattle artist Sewa Singh
Khalsa's collection of miniature porcelain
sculptures, paintings, prints and drawings,
in the shapes of animals, insects, robots,
and other forms that transcend description
struck me as whimsical, highly animated
and somewhat futuristic. While Khalsa's
art is described as "organic in form and
spirit" on the gallery website, I can't help
but view them as manipulated blocks of
tofu retrieved from a galaxy far, far away.
Other overheard reactions to this exhibit
are, "They look like key chains from
Target," "Definitely sculpy," and "I just
like funny little things like that."
Khalsa is originally from Ohio , and
conducted his graduate work at the
University of Washington. He has held
exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of
Art and the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle.
In speaking with Khalsa, I was surprised
to discover that inspiration for his art
is derived from his love of the natural
world, as well as clay, of which he states,
"tells you what to do ... certain things just
happen." He views his work as " simplified life, not mechanical ," and further
described it as "sort of a nature worship
thing, but more playful." He backs up this
claim in emphasizing the "real" qualities
present in each form. "Even the robots
have human characteristics." He pointed
out that most of the sculptures began in a
sphere formation, which is symbolic of an
egg, where life begins.
Khalsa's involvement with the Sikh religion is also an element of interest. Sikhisrn
is characterized by universal love. Its followers strive to establish brotherhood of

the whole global community irrespective
of color, cast, creed, race and nationality,
purely on the basis and foundation of
love and equality. Although Khalsa does
not feel a direct correlation between his
spiritual life. and his art, he recognizes that
his lifestyle affects the nature of his art,
as if reflects the way he looks at life, his
respect for the natural world, his practices
(such as meditation and yoga), and even
the method used in creating the sculptures.
He likens the rolling of clay between his
fingers to self-acupressure, bringing stimulation to the brain. He feels that through
this exercise, "creative pressure is exerted
- everything alive is built on that."
The majority of his previous work took
on the specific function of serving his religious community, and possessed what he
considers to be a "bigger social purpose."
[t was never for sale. A good example of
this is the mandala on display in the rear
of the gallery, which Khalsa created for his
family. This piece seems out of place next
to his more recent sculptures, but serves as
a good comparison of his artistic evolvement. He regards this exhibition as a
reentry into the realm of public art.
Though it is possible to seep into an
endless intellectual stupor and engage in
a sort of internal "seminar" in an effort
to uncover the deeper social and pol itical
ramifications of these innocent forms ,
Khalsa continually reminded me that this
art was created for pure enjoyment, of the
artIst ana vi'ewer alike.
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THE ALLIES OF WWII
By Gorey Young
COMPLETED AGAIN
Last sunuiler, the Sunday before Labor Day, there was a massive free concert at the
Bumbershoot music festival at Seattle Center. The concert was the band Cold opening
By Charles Hollis
for the ban~ Evanesce!lce. Now, I had my doubts. Plenty of bands just don't sound
very good live, and I didn't know much about the bands beyond I liked some of Cold's
I am an American: I am peaceful
songs, and that I liked Evanescence's song "Bring Me To Life."
The
Americans
_Despite my doubts, a friend talked me into going, and we spent the SUltry day waiting
for the sun to go down, and the concert to start. I was blown away. The band sounded Radiation Radiation no we're waging
excellen.t and was .quite br~athtaking as they segued through song after song. During war
a pause 10 the mUSIC, lead singer Amy Lee spoke to the audience. She told us how one No, I'm telling you
of Seattle's alternative music stations, 107.7 The End, was one of the first stations to I'd rather starve than eat this shit
~ven play their band's songs. In fact, the The End started to play "Bring Me To Life" No I'm an ally
you need ...
In November, when the rest of the country began playing it in December. At the end
of Ms. Le~ thanking the crowd, she screamed into the mic, "Seattle, you OWN us!" Very Good Chas
More crazmess ensued.
Turn the Radiation off now
I w~ impressed. In fact, just hearing them in concert made me want to buy their CD I'm not are you? -axis
to see. If that was even half as good as hearing them in an open stadium. It took me a No you're a Nazi
long time to accomplish this. Actually, it took a little over three months. The cover of No you're going to put on a jacket
their CD Fallen was staring at me from a Target shelf, priced down considerably. So, right now?
I bought ~t as an. after Christmas present. I got home, shredded the cellophane, peeled You are cold 11 :32 PM 1/4/2004<an rei
the ~ecunty deVice, and then popped my shiny new CD into my crappy CD Player. Yet the coldness
again, I was su~ked int? ~e music and lyrics. The music of Evanescence is mostly like You just called her a Nazi you bitch
an.unholy m~tlDg.ofLlDkm Park and Sarah McLachlan with a little something I can't
qUite place OllXed 1D somewhere. The lyrics are mostly dark, dealing with death, suicide, ESP is created in my brain through
betrayal, and all the other wonderful topics many alternative bands take on. The music memory/memories of image-Chas
sounds correspond.ingly dark,. with a few tracks, like "Haunted," purposely creepy.
Personal~y, I enJoy such things for long bus rides, car rides, and homework assign- CM24m icrostabi I izerS R2 7-Charles
m~nts. It gives me the space I need in which to think. With Fallen, I get the same Hollis my ESP power chip
e.nJoyment as bo.th of~inki~ Park's ~Ib~, Hybrid Theory and Meteora. I can actually SR31-Burdell Hollis my Dad'sESP
listen to the entire thmg Without cnngmg over a song and having to change it. I can power chip
respect a ban~ that produces an honestly good CD that I feel good about spending my
m?neyon. I hl~hly recommend this CD to people who enjoy strong female vocals miJ5ed I'm a Democratic Republican
I am an American: I am peaceful
With heavy gUitar and drum rhythms. Definitely a CD to have the bass turned up on.
I always knew you were smart - the
United
States of America
On a scale from 1 to 5, this CD gets a 4.5; only due to the fact that I've heard "Bring
I
want
a
new president. Bush is smallMe To Life" so much I'm not sure how much more I can take.
sized and looks unclean. Down with
I.nteresting fact: Evanescence comes from the word evanesce, which means to dissipate the Bush Administration - (ESP: THE
PENTAGON) ...
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The Evergreen Sustainable Home is a single family home designed by Evergreen
students and underwritten .by the South Puget Sound Affiliate of Habitat for Humanity
(SPSAHFH). The project IS funded by a grant from the Russell Family Foundation.
The VISion of these students to design and build an affordable home with sustainable "green" mater!als is c0':ling to Iig~t. ~fter two years in the design and planning
stage, the construction phase IS now begmnIng. The construction site is locatedjust one
block east of Jordan Emily Cafe and the Westside Co-Op, at 1104 Brawne Street on
Olympia's west side. Project Lead Luke Howard is encouraging "all to come on out ~nd
~end a hand. "T.his project is providi.n g a~ excellent opportunity for us citizens to step
m and have a direct Impact on the directIOn our community is heading. The skills and
~xperience we can .all gain from a project like this will only create a stronger and more
m~oTJ?led communIty that can and will effect the appropriate changes we need to make
tillS City a better place to live, not just for those living in substandard housing."
. On Thursday, January 8, The Evergreen Sustainable Home project, in conjunction
With SPSAHFH, hosted the first in a series of lectures and workshops on sustainable
and environmentally friendly building materials and practices. .
Tom St. Lewis~ of the Green ~epot, a local store for sustainable building materials,
gave an mfonnatJve and entertamlng talk about a range of the sustainable products
available on the market today. From roofing made from recycled rubber to carpet made
from old pop bottles, it was truly amazing to see the creative and innovative uses for
materials with would have ended up in the landfill.
Tom's interest in alternative building materials developed while he was working for
the Peace Co~~, teaching students in Jamaic.a construction techniques. " I got pretty good
at scroungmg, said Tom, m relatIOn to trymg to find materials to build in Jamaica.
There are going to be fourteen more workshops/lectures in this series, each occurring
approximately once a week. People interested in attending are encouraged to register
early. If last Thur~day is any i~dication of the level of local interest in these topics the
workshops are gomg 10 be filling up fast. The pnce of the series? Free.
Each workshop/lecture will cover a different aspect of energy and resource efficient
planni~g, de~ign, malerials, and construction techniques. This series will cover many
tOpICS mcludlng semmars on home health and moisture control , thennal perfonnance
and passive ~olar design, and effective landscaping and storm-water drainage. The
workshops .wIlI be hands-on application seminars covering such materials and techniques
as Rastra, msulat~~ concret: form w~1I construction and the stamping and dyeing of
concrete.floors. VISit the project webslle at http ://wwwA-earth.comifor a complete list
and de tams concernmg all lectures and workshops.
Seminar attendees will, in addition to the workShop and lecture series, will have the
opportunity to participate in building The Evergreen Sustainable Home and learn directly
from hands on application the benefits and viability of effective energy and resource
efficient home design. The site is open Wednesday and Saturdays to volunteers.

To keep informed of up coming workshops and lectures or to volunteer. please call
SPSHFH at 360.956.3456 or email atevergreen@4-earth.com

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The Curmudgeon: Fi ve Hundred Channels and

"Jesus never claimed to be God"

There's Nothing On

Such was the claim made in class by a certain Evergreen professor fall quarter. A significant claim, ( think, in a number of ways.
First of all, the statement recognizes that regardless of who his followers believe him to be, if Jesus himself never claimed to be God, then the opinions of others amount to
nothing.
Second, the statement takes us back to the source, to the man himself, which I think, is a good place to go. Who is Jesus? What, if anything, do we actually know about
him?
Finally, the statement seems to suggest that the speaker has a thorough knowledge of both history and the ancient documents that refer to Jesus, biblical and otherwise, and
havi ng taken all of this into careful consideration, has come to the objective realization that the history and documents are unreliable and inaccurate. Certainly a professor, as
a responsible scholar, would not make such far-reaching and dogmatic claims ifhe were, in fact, without solid evidence to back them up.
Really .. .? Wouldn 't he .. . ? I wonder.
Could it be that as a result of this man's ideological assumptions that without even examining the actual evidence, he has dismissed the possibility of any other conclusion
from the start? Could it be that because of his "faith" he is unable or even unwilling to consider possibilities outside of his own belief system?
But isn't that the accusation generally leveled against the religious? That because of their ideological concerns they are unable or unwilling to consider any conclusions other
than the ones they have prior commitment to? Of course, the fact is that we all , religious or otherwise, approach the world, and any question that we face, with our own set of
presuppositions and ideologies. This, in and of itself, does not necessarily render any of us unable to fruitfully grapple with and come to terms with the world around us.
There are, however,

by Lee Kepraios
The holiday season is when many of us, peanuts used for packing. Let's look at only classic films . I gotta say: It makes a
movie nut weep. But then there are those
I'm sure, spend much of our time getting what's being served up.
There's a station that plays nothing stations that play only one thing that you
better acquainted with a fair-weather friend
called television. (took the time to learn but infomercials. Really. At any time didn ~ want to see again. You can watch
the finer points of the rapidly-catching- of the day, you can tune in to see which the All-Game Show station in case you
on digital cable. Now ( know TV mostly piece of crap Ron Popiel is hocking this wanted to watch old episodes of Match
sucks but there's something interesting month . Ron Popiel of course gave us the Game. You can watch the All-Classic TV
about the digital cable package, which Poke Your Pocket Fisherman, the Do It channel that plays restored colorized versaves the buyer the hassle of the satell ite Yourself Spaghetti Maker and the handy sions of old shows so that you can view
dish and offers more channels than any dandy Set-It-And-Forget-It Cruelty-Free, those later episodes of "Gilligan's Island"
human being could ever need in the course 3-in-1 Dildo. Hopefully, some of you and finally, with the quality picture, realize
might have been lucky enough to catch that most of the cast members seem to be
of a lifetime.
Many people still don 't have basic Ron 's latest ad for a fat-draining oven that suffering from a combination of sunburn
and jaundice.
cable. They see it as just another expense. cuts cooking time in half.
With the Premium Channels (the movie
While
Ron's
loading
the
oven
with
Kind of silly to have to pay for television .
each station appears twice under
channels),
But I won't lie . I kind of need to have it. another turkey, I' m looking at his face.
Not just because TV helps me as a come- You have to get a look at thi s guy. He 's East and West. This is a g reat feature
dian, but also because I grew up with it and had plastic surgery so many times, he looks having to do with time zones . If I miss
I have yet to be weaned off such a superflu- like he fell asleep on a Derm-Abrasion The Sopranos on HBO East, I'll have
ous thing as basic cable. And although I've w heel. Personally, I'm not going to buy another opportunity to catch it in a few
long since reached a point where half of anything fro m a man whose face I can 't hours on HBO West. But the problem is
everything I see on TV I think is a lie and tell apart fro m the charred shank of ham he there's also HBO 2, HBO Famil y, HBO
the other half annoys the I iving piss out of pull s out of his oven. But is kind offun to Action, HBO Signature, HBO Comedy
me, I find that digital cable somehow ups watch the studio audiences of infomercial s and even HBO Latino which is j ust HBO
like these and look for the single audience in Spanish. Finding the station I want just
these feelings exponentially.
With digital cable, it becomes apparent member with a look of confusion on hi s becomes too much trabajo. There are also'
after hours of clicking the remote button face as he figure s out that 7 easy payments eleven sports channels included with the
movie stations. Eleven. There's always
that what you've wound up with is just of $29.95 comes to over $200.00.
Other channels seem to exist in what a game on. And yo u can see their point,
more of the same. Digital cable is TV
cubed. A number of things worth watch- I call "The Nostalgia Block." One chan- because twelve channels would have been
ing, one or two real treasures, and the rest nel plays nothing but westerns. Another pushing it.
The problem with digital cable is there
of it is complete and utter shit. Like foam shows only mysteries. Still another shows

certain preconditions of successful community living in (this) world. Greater epistemological se lf-awareness on all sides is certainly one; for awareness of one's own presuppositions and predispositions is
the first step toward meaningful dialogue with others. The willingness more se lf-conscious ly to confess one's presuppositions is another; for then it will be clearer how far any disagreement involves theory
and method, and how far it concerns only the interpretation of data. And the willingness, finally to debate both presuppositions and interpretations, rather than simply to anathematize one's opponent, is
clearly another necessity.
(Ideologies, Literary and Critical, lain W. Provan, p.35)

So we come back again to the question, "Who is Jesus?" But if we are going to enter into an honest exploration and discussion we must go back even further and ask ourselves, "What pres uppositions and predispositions of my own will influence me as ( wrestle with this question?"
Has a bad experience with the church or Christians pre-determined my conclusions as to who Jesus is or could be?
Have I accepted, without due question, certain ideologies that render me unable to reach an informed conclusion as to the identity of Jesus (i.e. have I never bothered to
seriously research the question because my presuppositions have convinced me that I already "know" the answer)?
Have I honestly considered the influence of my emotions with regards to my willingness to look at Jesus with an open mind (i.e. do I have emotionally vested interest in
holding to the position that Jesus did not claim to be God to such an extent that I am not able to even consider the possibility)?
"Only ideologists are always right; scholars know that everything they say is potentially wrong." (History, Knauf, p.30-31.)
Certainly the inner questions we must face are numerous and significant before we can even begin to seriously wrestle with the question, "Who is Jesus?" But one thing is
for certain - ifhe did in fact claim to be God, and ifthere is substantial evidence that he is in fact the God he claimed to be, then there never has been and never will be a more
important question for any human being to answer than, "Who is Jesus?"
To begin your own exploration, go to http ://www.greeners4christ.org/.

are too many choices. It's just not healthy.
Don't get me wrong: I like it but I kind of
envy people who don't have cable. They're
not subjected to Suze Orman telling them
how to live their lives . They don't have to
watch the Mother Angelica Prayer Hour.
They'll never know the pain of trying to
decide whether to watch the soft-core porn
on Cinemax 3 or the slightly less soft-core
porn on Cinemax 5. Lucky devils .
Lee's New Rule of the Week: Roy
Horne getting mauled by his white tiger
during his show is not a tragedy ; it's goddamn hilarious. It 's also glorious, glorious
payback. Chalk up another one for nature.
And it is funny, for those of you who find
it tragic. We know it's funny. But certain
grinches are trying to stea l th at hum o r
from us and people who want to make
the rest of us feel g uilty for laugh ing at
something funny are nothing more than
rotten grin ches who want to steal enjoyment from others because they don 't have
senses of humor. Surely I don ' t wish Mr.
Horne any serious physical harm but if you
don't think an effeminate Austrian mag ician getting some long overduc payback
in the form of a maiming by a ti ger for
capturin g it and making it wear a pink
tutu is at the very least fucking hysterical,
check you rse lf for a pulse.

Debbie Bayes, Pastor to Greeners for Christ

172 people contributed to the CPJ this tall cO)! Thank ~ou!

Bon Appetit and the Mi Iitary?
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This Thanksgiving, our tax dollars
flew George W. Bush to Tikrit, Iraq to eat
a Turkey dinner with the troops stationed
there. The meal was prepared and served
by Eurest Support Services, a subsidiary
of Compass Group. Interestingly, Eurest
Support Services (ESS) won the contract
from a subsidiary of Halliburton. These
corporations, including Compass Group,
are profiting off of the illegal occupation
of Iraq.
Compass Group 's ESS has co ntracts
to serve over 270,000 navy personnel in
the US and internationally; they provide
much ofthe cafeteria service to Pentagon
employees. They also have multi-million
dollar contracts with Boeing, Conoco/
Phillips, ExxonMobil , Chevron-Texaco
and Schlumberger (an oil-extraction and
seismic testing corporation). Boeing manufactures both c.ommercial and military airplanes; ExxonMobil has huge operations
in Venezuela and is (most likely) linked
to the US coup attempt of the progressive
Chavez government; Chevron-Texaco has
a terrible human rights record in Nigeria ;
and, former CIA director John Deutch sits
on the board ofSchlumberger, who is now
one of a handful of corporations bidding
for rebuilding and oil contracts in post-war
Iraq. Compass Group and its subsidiaries profit from the unjust and oppressive
practices of these corporations.
Compass Group owns a number of
Burger King, Sbarro, Chick-a-Fil, Pizza
Hut, TGI Friday's , and Krispy Kreme
franchises, and in some cases, operates
these franchises on military bases and
university campuses. These fast -food
corporations are notoriously anti-union,

rely on exploitable labor and buy their
food-products from corporations who
care little for the environment, workers or
public health. (See Eric Schlosser's Fast
Food Nation.)
In late 2002 Compass Group landed
a $300 million contract to provide food
and vending se rvic es to Correction
Corporation of America ' s 60 prisons and
jails which house over 52,000 inmates.
Compass Group is profiting from the
privatization of prisons- the sickening
and overt manifestation of the prisonindustrial complex.
Compass Group 's underlying strategy
is to break in to new markets, to acquire
smaller corporations, to blindly increase
profits, expand, grow, and secure a hold
on markets. Eurest Support Service's
(Compass Group's) contract to serve the
troops stationed in Iraq can be seen as a
strategy to break into and sec ure a new
market for other Compass Group contracts
(maybe even a Compass-owned Burger
King! There is already a Kuwaiti-owned
Burger King franchise on a British army
base that the army is required to protect
because of its location).
Compass Group and its subsidiaries
regularly seek out and win contracts with
multi-national corporations that violently
repress any resistance to neo-liberal globalization- in the cases of Exxon-Mobi l
and Chevron-Texaco in Nigeria and .
Venezuela. As we see in Iraq (and much of
the oil-producing Middle East and Central
Asia), the U.S. military is used in order to
ensure the US-corporate (and European)
control of oil--corporate capital ism rei ies
on a national armed force to protect and
maintain its interests. Mirroring this
imperialism, Compass Group relies both
on the oil corporations and the armed
forces to sustain their profits. Compass
Group profits from corporate globalization

and a military that defends their interests.
Domestically we see the incarceration of
over 2 million people as a way to repress,
control, and now profit from an economically and politically disfranchised-and
therefore, possibly "volati le"-population . In many ways, this out-of-control
incarceration rate is similar to the violent
repression of people internationally who
oppose and resist neo-liberal capitalist expansion and domination: it shows
how the current brand of capitalism is
sustained only through severe repression
and oppression.
But this overwhelming and hegemonic
system face s opposition and resistance
daily- on every continent and in every
community people are rising up, demanding justice and dignity. The way to make
positive and lasting change is to start in
our own community, challenging these
corporations and econom ic systems. Do
we want to contract wi th a corporation that
profits from the war-business, occupation
and incarceration? Is that where we want
our money to be going?
Bon Appetit's contract with Evergreen
comes up for renewal/negotiation at the
end of this academic year. There are other
possibilities. A powerful way to challenge
neo-liberal globalization is to participate in
alternative economic systems. By supporting local businesses, workers and farmers
we build and strengthen our community,
while acting in solidarity with communities around the world that are targeted
for explo itat ion, oppression and profit.
Our vision is to build a strong coalition
between students, workers, staff and faculty to Create a food service alternative that
benefits everyone.
We want secure jobs with good pay,
quality (organic and local) food, and a
provider that supports justice and our collective human needs over the interests of

the military, corporations and the criminal (in)justice system. Making this kind
of positive change in our community is
possible- all over the world peop le are
organizing, unionizing, protesting, resi sting rionviolently, creating alternatives and
taking part in armed struggle, demanding
human needs and justice over corporate
greed and state-sponsored terrorism.
Our campaign must have a vision for
justice both in outcome and in process.
Therefore, a general boycott of Bon
Appetit is not wise: by reducing patronage, the management at Bon Appetit
would most definitely cut workers' hours,
and quite possibly lay-off workers. That
strategy would just give Bon Appetit/
Compass Group even more power over
people 's lives. A rolling boycott, which
is "unplanned" and spontaneous and lasts
for just a day, would protect and respect
workers' jobs, while the corporation suffers the loss.
The only way to bring about this kind
of change is to organize - there is power
in numbers. As a community, as a collective, we have a much stronger voice with
the admini stration and with corporations
than we do as individuals. It 's time we
reclaim ed our power and our right to
determine who benefits from our labor
and consumption. We say Enough! to
Compass Group and their dirty money; we
say Enough! by committing ourselves to
this global movement demanding justice,
dignity and self-determination .. . do you
say Enough! ... ?
To work on th is issue, or to find
out more, come to an EPIC meeting:
Wednesdays at 3:00 PM, Third Floor of the
CAB, S & A offices. Or to a Bon Appetit
Workgroup meeting, Wednesdays at 4:30
PM, Third Floor of the CAB in the Pit.
Or, email Kara Hauck (for sources, etc.)
at haukar2(@evergreen.edu.

Chelsey Adam s .
Rev. Christopher Altenburg
Michelle Angell
Ellyn Armstrong
Carmel Aronson
AlIisonArth
Angela Ayon
Karl Baer
Chelsea Baker
Kandi Bauman
Kyni Berkovich
Greg Bickel
Melissa Bokoff
Jenny Booher
Tricia Bozeman
Tony Brave
Kenari Breshem
Bret Britzenhofe
Stephanie Brooks
Pennie Bumrungsiri
Chelsea Bunn
James Burke
Kim Canny
John Cary
Jon Clark
Andy Cochran
Sky Cosby
Eli Fintz Crawford
John Ellis Crosby
Kacy Cullen
AndyCyders
Lily Daniels
Dana Dart-McLean
Annjeanette Daubert
Jeffrey'Denison
Dan Dial·
Evan Driscoll
Dawn Dunbar
Sara Duncan
Chris Eller
Dolly England
Jake Erwin
Vincent Felice

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Greg Fiennes
Cory Fischer-Hoffman
Daniel Fleck
Brian Flewell
Bryan Fordney
Thorn Foster
Colleen Frakes
Lia Frederiksen
Oliver Freeman
Rachel Freer
Mike Frydrychowski
Lauren Fujii
Nora Furst
Rickie German
Mark Germano
Zack Gore
Jamie Granato
Julene Graves
Aliya Greenspan
Heather Guyton
Nathan Hadden
Mitchell Hahn-Branson
Adam Haines
Isaiah Halpin
Claire Harlock
Philipe Lonestar Michelle Harrington
Dane Herrin
Nathaniel Hitchcock
Max Hollander
D.M. Holloway
Robert Hopt
Jon Huey
Kayla Humiston
Mia Ibarra
Andrew James
Ed Janicki
Dean Johnny
Jesse Johnson
Shawnell Johnson
Jim Jordan
Shamai Kates-Goldman
Jon Kempe
Mike Kendall

Lee Kepraios
Meg Kester
Seung Kim
Eric King
Bo Kinney
Chandra Kring
Brietta Krome
Dustin Kruger
Katherine Kurriger
Shaw Lathrop
Nolan D. Lattyak
Genevieve LeBaron
Chandra Lindeman
Kristen Lindstrom
Sophal Long
Jordan Lyons
Sara Machajewska
Kashmir Mann
Johanna Marshall
Robert Martindale
Dylan May
Amanda Meck
Allen Michaels
Kate Monroe
Connor Moran
Troy Morris
Apryl Nelson
Brian Nicholson
Yuh-Line Niou
DonNoe
Andrea Seabert Olsen
Gregory Page
Kitty Parker
Adrian Persaud
David Price
Perrin Randlette
Sean P. Riley
Deane Rimerman
Renata Rollins
Emma Rose
Jacob Rosenblum
Ellen Ross
Greg Saunders

Darin Schulcr
Patrick See gar
Tim Simons
Robin Solash
Ryan Smith
Isaac Seidman
Greg Saunders
Sara Spink
Nicholas Stanislowski
Katy Staton
Daniel Steiner
Isaac Seidman
Greg Saunders
Carla Stevens
Marc Stirfler
Hal Steinberg
Vanessa Schweizer
Bob Schwenkler
Dave Stiles
Jeremy Stutes
Robbie Sundquist
Kaori Suzuki
Nichole Vernita Thein
Katie Thurman
John Tierney
James Tippen
Mike Treadwell
Ellen Trescott
Aaron Varadi
Elizabeth Velasquez
Mike Villella
Melissa Welter
Caroline White
Dave Wides
Lloyd Wilson
Talia Wilson
Melvin Wipe
Cassie Wood
Tim Yates
Corey Young
Lloyd Young
Katrina Zalvaney
Jenny Zaret

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Corporate CO,ntrol of
our National Forests
By Katherine Hebert
On December 3, at 6:00 PM, when most of us were spending time with our family
and friends, the Forest Service opened the Tongass National Forest in Alaska to logging. By announcing the roll pack of protections for the Tongass on the night before
Christmas Eve, the Forest Service 's plan snuck past public scrutiny. As a result, 9.6
million acres of road less forests in the Tongass are no longer protected from logging,
mining, and road building.
This is just one example of how the Forest Service is actually a servant to the logging and mining industry. The officials in charge of protecting our environment are
those same industry friends . Prior to being named the Secretary of the Interior, Gale
Norton worked as a lawyer at the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a law firm associated with the Wise Use movement that works to block enforcement of the Endangered
Species Act and other environmental laws. Her Deputy Secretary of the Interior, J.
Steven Griles, spent his career as a lobbyist for the National Mining Association, Arch
Coal , Devon Energy Corporation, and Yates Petroleum Corporation. Mark Rey, who
oversees our National Forest system as the Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural
Resources and the Environment, spent his career working to undermine protections for
our national fore sts as a top timber industry lobbyi st. These officials are leading the
administration 's charge to sell our environment to the highest bidder.
The White House and the Forest Service know that the public doesn't support their
environmental rollbacks, particularly when it comes to opening the last of America 's
wilderness to destruction for corporate pro fit. So they keep their plans under the public
radar by carrying them out on holidays, Friday afternoons, or any time the media can 't
cover the story.
In the instances when rollbacks have made the public 's radar, the administration has
still sometimes succeeded by misleading the public and decision makers . For example,
their Healthy Forests plan passed because the White House convinced enough people
that this bill would help prevent forest fires. When environmentalists (Sierra Club,
Greenpeace, state PIRGs) challenged them to implement a bill that would really fight
ti res by focusing on fore sts within a half-mil e of homes, they showed their true colors
by refusing to remove the giveaways in the bill to timber companies. But because the
Wh ite House convinced enough legislators that their bill would help with fires, and
because Congress was under pressure to address the California wildfires, the Healthy
Forests plan went through .
The Forest Service is currently launching the largest attack on our forests . Half ofthe
nations forests have already been despoiled by logging, roadbuilding, and development.
Only 5 percent of old growth trees in America remain standing. In order to protect the
remaining unspoiled wilderness, the Forest passed the Roadless Area Conservati<)fl rule
in January 200 I, protecting 58 millions acres offorest.
Now, the Forest Service has proposed significant changes to the rule that would create
huge loopholes and allow widespread logging. Unfortunately for the Forest Service,
they must hold a public comment period where we, the people, can express our opinion
on the issue. If there is enough public outcry, the Forest Service will be forced to scrap
its plan. The Forest Service is expected to hold the public comment period to change
the Roadless Area Rule in February.
Take action and write the Forest Service to protect America 's last wilderness. Future
generations will thank you.

The Definite Article:

A Man of Letters, or,
The Lost Art of LetterWriting
by Bo Kinney

ear Justin," I wrote.
And stopped. What to write next? It had been a long
time since I had actually written any letters, and the last
one I had written, as best as I could recall, read something
like, "Dear
, Hi. How are you? I am fine. Your
friend, Bo. P.S. Write back." Although this bittersweet
reminiscence made me regret the loss of what had promised to be a rewarding epistolary career, it wasn't much
help in my current situation.
Now, in a time when handwritten notes have the quaintness of the Pony Express,
and email is sent with two clicks of a mouse's button, I am forced to write letters again.
Several months ago, my friend Justin moved to Swaziland, where he can only be reached
by letter- the real kind. When I found this out, I thought that because I had been such
an apt letter-writer in my day, and since I was no stranger to sending email , writing on
paper would be a piece of cake. But when I actually sat down to write a letter, it proved
to be tougher than expected. After laboring over the opening line (which sounded stilted
compared with countless emails starting with " Hey--" if any salutation at all), I hadn 't
the vaguest idea how to continue- with an update about goings-on, or a reflective,
philosophical essay? If the latter, should I pen a couple drafts to get the words just right,
or leave it as stream-of-consciousness? Should I pontificate or ramble or philosophize
or muse? How should I sign it: Regards? Your friend? Many Happy Returns? Not until
much later did I even consider whether he'd be able to read my penmanship.
Writing a letter is intimidating. And, as it turns out, it is quite different from shooting off an email.
Letters, unlike emails, are tactile. They can be held and felt and touched. To write
a letter is to move the tip of a pen over the surface of paper; even the amount of pressure is a form of expression. To send a letter is to fold , lick, press, and seal, and then
to walk to the mailbox and put it in. To read a letter is to handle a fat envelope, tear it
open, and unfold and flip through the pages. A letter engages your sense of touch as
an email never can.
But all these tactile steps take a long time. The lightness and speed of email have rendered this plodding bulkiness ofletters insufferable. Email is effectively instantaneous.
vou hardly have to hesitate before beaming your most mundane, fleeting platitudes to
all who mayor may not care. In fact, sending an email is even quicker than talking.
Truly, if you have something of any length to say,it's easier just to type and click, and,
if you must say anything at all, let it be, "Did you get my email?"
Not only do letters take longer to write than emails; since they actually exist, they
tend to stick around longer. The tragic twelfth-century romance of Abelard and Heloise
is remembered solely because of the lovers' florid letters. Eighteenth-century fop Horace
Walpole wrote to friends two or three times a week to record the trivial events of his life,
and is said to have requested that his letters be returned so he might keep them safely
for posterity. (They were later published in a weighty eighteen-volume anthologY.l
But this does not mean that letters are easily kept. They are, in fact, much harder to
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of treasured emails do you have collecting dust in your attic? Emails are worthless
to sentimentalists because such comparatively little thought goes into writing them.
To gel more involved with stopping the Bush Administration from destroying our They ' re too easy. Letters, conversely, are difficult to write. They ' re time-consuming.
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They' re fragile. They ' re hard work. This is why they bear more meaning than emails
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With all this in mind, I sweated through Justin's letter. I found I had plenty to say, and
I managed to refrain from signing, "P.S. Write back." And I found that the letter meant
something-more than an email would have. So from now on, when I have something
important to say to someone, I won't just send an email. I'll take some time, and put
some thought into it. I'll write a letter. And I will try to work on that penmanship.

Whyyou should be involved
in the Men's Center

Brought to you by the Writing Center; L3407, 867.6420.

By Katherine Hebert

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Men , what are these creatures?
You ' ve seen them wandering around
campus, or have you? What is a man,
I might ask. Is it only the testicles
between his legs that make him a man,
or is there something more? Just as a
woman was once a girl , all men wer~
once boys.
At some point in our life, something separates the men from the
boys, though it would be better to say
the adults from the children. Because
a man, or a woman, is absolutely an
adult.
I' ve just restarted the Men 's Center

this quarter and I have been asking
myself what it is to be a man. Because
I' ve had the opportunity to attend
Evergreen , the search has become
expanded to include everyone else on
campus, man, woman, or other. I want
to know what you think it means to be
a man. That's why I'm putting out the
call for works in any medium under the
title, " What It Means to be a Man."
I hope to have these works presented
together in mid-February so that we
can all decide what we think being a
man means. Not only is this tf chance
for interesting discussion of the quali-

ties of manhood, it is also a great forum
to present your artistic and intellectual
prowess. Tell us what value a man has
in the twenty-first century, what qualities men are expected to possess, what
failings you see in them. If you are
a man who wants to participate, tell
us how you know you ' re a man, what
that means to you, and what it means
to the world.
This is a show hinged on the idea
that being a man, being a woman , or
being an adult is not guaranteed to any
of us. That achieving adulthood is a
thing to be proud of, and not something

to be assumed. I hope that you all will
have something to present, but most of
all I hope that we can all have a little
fun and a few revelations.
The men 's center will be accepting submissions until the end of
January. Our office hours are Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Friday from II :00 to
2:00, and we meet on Wednesdays at
I :00 in the S&A office. I hope to see
a wide range of people there, because
we have some tremendous plans. If
you'd like any information on the
Men 's Center or the show, come see
us anytime: we'd be gilid to see you.

Point:

Counterpoint:

Seventeen Magazine

Don't Hate Me Because
I'm Beautiful

O~ectities and Degrades
the Wom~n at Evergreen

by Lia Frederiksen and Genevieve LeBaron
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appal'i~g:;.;,!~~a~~ ~t,o ;tpi~ S9~ool becau"s~:I !h0~ght tlillt ~ere. I might b~ JU~~ed,, '
not by how well J fit ~to sO~Iety's uw:t?al!stlc sti/l4ards offemale b.eauty, but by
"the contept o f mY'character," >as Dr. Iq ng once ~aid. Instead., jtl:l.ppears that this
learning commu~ity cho,oses to value "hotness" and "being sexy" over promoting
a healthy body image in young womyn. -,
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I attended this"" cattle call" audition, and let me.tel1 you, it was a hotbed of
patriardhalism! The ,womyn of evergreen were ..primping and prancing around
like PlaybQy®bunnies - ~II for the cpance tc) hl;lve their airbrushed likeness
splashe'd across the pages of a Hearst magazine! And while some will receive
that gratification of being deemed " good enough" for mass. media, i~evitably
many others wi.J1 yet again be subjectto the shame and.embarrassment ofrejec.,.,.". ,
tion based on looks!
Womyn of Evergreen, don't let a teen magazine dictate how you feel about
yourselves! Don't buy il"!-to patriarchal conceptions' beauty! Be free and natural
- don 't shower aU winter! Live in the woods! . Don't shave until your parents
visit for graduation!
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The time has come for us to send the media and our learning community a
message: we don't need your approval Of permission! What we need is for
Hearst magaL;ines to 'g et off our carripus arid fo~ ~ur cOpt~?es in learnin~ to accept
womyn's bodies as beautiful and unique, regardless of SIze or packagmg. .
Needless to say, you won't see me on the pages of Seventeen Magazi,ne!

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No it-isn't.
You're.wrong. You shouldn't be so threatened by a girly magazine on campus.
It's not like they were there to stop the feminist revolution.
Don't be so offended. Plenty of ugly chicks went to the "cattle call" as you
so 'poignantly refer to it. Do you really think those girls would have gone if
they had a skewed body image? I mean, why would an ugly girl want the whole
world to know she was ugly? Why not concentrate on something else? Go play
your hippie drums.
"Be free and natural - don' t shower all winter! Live in the woods!" Don ' t
do that. Boys won't like you.
"The time has come for us to send the media and our learning community a
message." No, I assure you it hasn't. Nobody wants to hear what you have to
say.
"What we need is for Hearst magazine to get off our campus ... " No, we really
need to give the feminists something better to do with their time. How about a
b~e sale? Want to do something constructive with your time? Go procreate !
"Needless to say, you won 't see me on the pages of Seventeen magazine! "
Needless to say, you wouldn't be so angry if you weren' t so ugly.

Bathroom Faci Iities:
It' 5 Everyone' 5

Problem
by Conor Moran
r ' d like to apologize in advance .
This week, the title of thi s column, It~·
Everyone:S Problem, is even less accurate than usual , because this week I deal
with the issue of bathrooms on campus.
As a male, I have not yet had occasion to
make use of the women's facilities here.
For alii know, they may be paradi ses of
hygiene,which are scattered generously
around campus and provide all who use
th e m with unparalleled comfort and
privacy. So this week, I guess a more
accurate title would be It 's Everyman 's
Problem, but that sounds bad. At any
rate, today I' m going to tackle some
notable deficiencies I' ve found in the
men 's restroom infrastructure at TESC.
First, the Library building. Finding a
men 's bathroom in that labyrinth is like
trying to find Waldo on that one page
where everyone looks like Waldo. And
while I like a game of"Where 's Waldo"
a'S much as the next guy, it is not a game
you want to be playing when the integrity
of your underwear is on the line. Trust
me on this one. Now, I realize that it is
a little bit too late at this point to add
bathrooms without major construction,
but I would just ask that somebody in
that building who actually knows where
the restrooms are would take it in their
heart to put up some signs directing us
to the bathrooms. That is, assuming that
these bathrooms actuall y exist. For all I

I Resolve
Nothing
By Tatia M Wilson
When the ball drops, several definitiv e
promises and rituals are always waiting to
characterize and categorize the New Year,
such as the promise of a better economy,
BCS football , and making New Year 's
resolutions.
The latter seems to be a fad run amok.
It peppers everything, from the newspaper
to the nightly news magazines, informing
the public who resolved to do what, from
the Pres ident to Hollywood celebrities to
Farmer John way down in yonder valley.
The subj ect occupies daily conversation, in and out of the workpl ace, home,
school , and out on th e street. It looms like
an obsession in the minds of those intent
on making these resolutions. Sure, these
resolutions may be all fine and dandy, if
they ' re kept.
So why are resolutions made in the first
place? Obviously, during the previously
year, the resolution maker felt that he or
she didn 't do something that he or she
should have done, or there is an area in

hi s or her life that he or she co uld greatl y
improve.
Okay, not that stri ving for se lf-improvement is a bad thing, but since these resoluti ons are made yearl y, one would thin k
that these areas mi ght eventually improve.
And may be they wo uld if those makin g
them would keep the ir reso lutions. It 's the
same thing as makin g a promi se you don't
intend to keep; or may be you intended to
keep it when yo u made it, but yo u j ust. . .
got. .. di strac ted ...
Well , till makin g New Year's reso luti ons becomes a more sanctitied practi ce,
you can count me out. My des ire for se lCimprovements res ides within mysel f and
is no one 's bus in ess but my own . Better
yet, I can choose improveme nt at Ill y own
pace by my own internal guidelines, not
by some crazy li st I invented on January
I while recovering from a hangover. So,
while I may resolve to do nothing, my possibilities and choices are limitless.

know, the building may have been constructed by some madman with difficulty
urinating who wanted to make us feel his
pain. But assuming that's not the case,
some signage would be nice.
A slightly more difficult nut to crack
is the top floor men's bathroom in the
CAB . This bathroom is lacking a n
essential feature of ci vi I ized defecation: a stall door. Though the room is
clearly intended to service more than one
person at a time, the designers seem to
have decided that there really isn't any
need to segregate the toilet from the rest
of room by anything more than a short
partition. I suppose that it's possible
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inspection of the area suggests that it
was simply designed this way. Worse,
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put in a stall door, this is a matter that in the middle of Red Square?
could do is crap on them in private.
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the whole internal plumbing thing. HBO, and the ability to do our business morcon03@evergreen.edu.
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our National Forests

A Man of Letters, or,
The Lost Art of LetterWriting

By Katherine Hebert
On December 3, at 6:00 PM, when most of us were spending time with our family
and friends, the Forest Service opened the Tongass National Forest in Alaska to logging. By announcing the rollback of protections for the Tongass on the night before
Christmas Eve, the Forest Service's plan snuck past public scrutiny. As a result, 9.6
million acres of road less forests in the Tongass are no longer protected from logging,
mining, and road building.
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This is just one example of how the Forest Service is actually a servant to the logging and mining industry. The officials in charge of protecting our environment are
those same industry friends. Prior to being named the Secretary of the Interior, Gale
Norton worked as a lawyer at the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a law firm associated with the Wise Use movement that works to block enforcement ofthe Endangered
Species Act and other environmental laws. Her Deputy Secretary of the Interior, J.
Steven Griles, spent his career as a lobbyist for the National Mining Association, Arch
Coal, Devon Energy Corporation, and Yates Petroleum Corporation. Mark Rey, who
oversees our National Forest system as the Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural
Resources and the Environment, spent his career working to undermine protections for
our national forests as a top timber industry lobbyist. These officials are leading the
ad ministration 's charge to sell our environment to the highest bidder.
The White House and the Forest Service know that the public doesn't support their
environmental rollbacks, particularly when it comes to opening the last of America's
wilderness to destruction for corporate profit. So they keep their plans under the public
radar by carrying them out on holidays, Friday afternoons, or any time the media can't
cover the story.
In the instances when rollbacks have made the public 's radar, the administration has
still sometimes succeeded by misleading the public and decision makers. For example,
their Healthy Forests plan passed because the White House convinced enough people
that this bill would help prevent forest fires. When environmentalists (Sierra Club,
Greenpeace, state PIRGs) challenged them to implement a bill that would really fight
fires by focusing on forests within a half-mile of homes, they showed their true colors
by refusing to remove the giveaways in the bill to timber companies. But because the
White House convinced enough legislators that their bill would help with fires, and
because Congress was under pressure to address the California wildfires, the Healthy
Forests plan went through.
The Forest Service is currently launching the largest attack on our forests. Halfofthe
nations forests have already been despoiled by logging, roadbuilding, and development.
Only 5 percent of old growth trees in America remain standing. In order to protect the
remaining unspoiled wilderness, the Forest passed the Roadless Area Conservation rule
in January 200 I, protecting 58 millions acres of forest.
Now, the Forest Service has proposed significant changes to the rule that would create
huge loopholes and allow widespread logging. Unfortunately for the Forest Service,
they must hold a public comment period where we, the people, can express our opinion
on the issue. Ifthere is enough public outcry, the Forest Service will be forced to scrap
its plan. The Forest Service is expected to hold the public comment period to change
the Roadless Area Rule in February.
Take action and write the Forest Service to protect America's last wilderness. Future
generations will thank you.

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Brought to you by the Writing Center. L3407, 867. 6420.

By Katherine Hebert
Men , what are these creatures?
You've seen them wandering around
campus, or have you? What is a man,
I might ask. Is it only the testicles
between his legs that make him a man,
or is there something more? Just as a
woman was once a girl, all men were
once boys.
At some point in our life, something separates the men from the
boys, though it would be better to say
the adults from the children. Because
a man, or a woman, is absolutely an
ad ult.
I've just restarted the Men 's Center

Seventeen Magazine

O~ectifies and Degrades
the WOfn-yn of Lvergreen

by Bo Kinney

ear Justin," I wrote.
And stopped. What to write next? It had been a long
time since I had actually written any letters, and the last
one I had written, as best as I could recall, read something
like, "Dear
, Hi. How are you? I am fine. Your
friend , Bo. P.S. Write back." Although this bittersweet
reminiscence made me regret the loss of what had prom;; ised to be a rewarding epistolary career, it wasn't much
help in my current situation.
Now, in a time when handwritten notes have the quaintness of the Pony Express,
and email is sent with two clicks of a mouse's button, I am forced to write letters again .
Several months ago, my friend Justin moved to Swaziland, where he can only be reached
by letter-the real kind . When I found this out, I thought that because I had been such
an apt letter-writer in my day, and since I was no stranger to sending emai I, writing on
paper would be a piece of cake. But when I actually sat down to write a letter, it proved
to be tougher than expected. After laboring over the opening Iine (which sounded stilted
compared with countless emails starting with "Hey--" ifany salutation at all), I hadn 't
the vaguest idea how to continue-with an update about goings-on, or a reflective,
philosophical essay? If the latter, should I pen a couple drafts to get the words just right,
or leave it as stream-of-consciousness? Should I pontificate or ramble or philosophize
or muse? How should I sign it: Regards? Your friend ? Many Happy Returns? Not until
much later did I even consider whether he'd be able to read my penmanship.
Writing a letter is intimidating. And, as it turns out, it is quite different from shooting off an email.
Letters, unlike em ails, are tactile. They can be held and felt and touched . To write
a letter is to move the tip of a pen over the surface of paper; even the amount of pressure is a form of expression. To send a letter is to fold, lick, press, and seal, and then
to walk to the mailbox and put it in. To read a letter is to handle a fat envelope, tear it
open, and unfold and flip through the pages. A letter engages your sense of touch as
an email never can.
But all these tactile steps take a long time. The lightness and speed of email have rendered this plodding bulkiness ofletters insufferable. Email is effectively instantaneous.
You hardly have to hesitate before beaming your inost mundane, fleeting platitudes to
all who mayor may not care. In fact, sending an email is even quicker than talking.
Truly, if you have something of any length to say, it's easier just to type and click,and,
if you must say anything at all, let it be, "Did you get my email?"
Not only do letters take longer to write than emails; since they actually exist, they
tend to stick around longer. The tragic twelfth-century romance of Abelard and Heloise
i's remembered solely because of the lovers' florid letters. Eighteenth-century fop Horace
Walpole wrote to friends two or three times a week to record the trivial events of his life,
and is said to have requested that his letters be returned so he might keep them safely
for posterity. (They were later published in a weighty eighteen-volume anthology.)
But this does not mean that letters are easily kept. They are, in fact, much harder to
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save than emails. Because they are real, they are fragile. They can be torn, crumpled,
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misplaced; even with the most prudent care, they disintegrate over time. Emails are
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nition, not real. They take up no space and do not deteriorate. But how many bundles
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of treasured emails do you have collecting dust in your attic? Emails are worthless
to sentimentalists because such comparatively little thought goes into writing them.
To get more involved with stopping the Bush Administration from destroying our
They're too easy. Letters, conversely, are difficult to write. They're time-consuming.
environment, contact WashPIRG at http://www,washpirgorg/ or 867.6058.
They ' re fragile. They ' re hard work. This is why they bear more meaning than emails
ever can.
With all this in mind, I sweated through Justin's letter. I found I had plenty to say, and
I managed to refrain from signing, "P.S. Write, back." And I found that the letter meant
something-more than an email would have. So from now on, when I have something
important to say to someone, I won't just send an email. I' ll take some time, and put
some thought into it. I'll write a letter. And I will try to work on that penmanship.

Whyyou should be involved
in the Men's Center

Point:

this quarter and 1 have been asking ties of manhood, it is also a great forum
myselfwhat it is to be a man. Because . to present your artistic and intellectual
I' ve had the opportunity to attend prowess. Tell us what value a man has
Evergreen, the search has become in the twenty-first century, what qualiexpanded to include everyone else on ties men are expected to possess, what
campus, man, woman, or other. I want failings you see in them. If you are
to know what you think it means to be a man who wants to participate, tell
a man. That's why I'm putting out the us how you know you ' re a man, what
call for works in any medium under the that means to you, and what it means
title, "What It Means to be a Man."
to the world.
I hope to have these works presented
This is a show hinged on the idea
together in mid-February so that we that being a man, being a woman, or
can all decide what we think being a being an adult is not guaranteed to any
man means. Not only is this If chance of us. That achieving adulthood is a
for interesting discussion of the quali- thing to be proud of, and not something

to be assumed . I hope that you all will
have something to present, but most of
all I hope that we can all have a little
fun and a few revelations.
The men's c.e nter will be accepting submissions until the end of
January. Our office hours are Tuesd~y,
Wednesday, and Friday from 11 :00 to
2:00, and we meet on Wednesdays at
1 :00 in the S&A office. I hope to See
a wide range of people there, because
we have some tremendous plans. If
you'd like any information on the
Men' s Center or the show, come See
us anytime : we'd be gla'd to See you.

Counterpoint:
Don't Hate Me Because
I'm Beautitul

by Lia Frederiksen and Genevieve LeBaron
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learning commu!)ity cho.oses to vl!-Iue "~otness" ~d "being sexy;'.' oyer promoting
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I attel)dedJhfs '''cattle call" audition,. arid let. m~, tell you, itwas a hotbed of
patr'iaral~lism! The 'womyn of evergreen were pr,iniping and prancing around
like Playboy@ bunnies .: all for .the challce :to hav~the'irairbrushe~· likeness
splashed across the pages ' ~f a Helmifmagaiin~!'4nd w~ile som~ will receive
that gratification of being d~emed "good enough", fo~ .mass medi~" i~evit~bly
many others wi,1l .yet again be subjectto . t~e sham~~nd embarrassment of reJection based on looks!
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yourselves! Don"t buy into patriarchal conlieptions 9~beauty!Be free and 'n atural
- don ' t shower all winter! Live.in the woods! 'Don't shave until your parents
visit for gradmiti61i! .
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message: we dQn' t need your ;;.ppr6valor p~rrnissioh! What .we need i~ for
Hearst m·ag~ines. to get off our campus arid foro\ll' comrades in learJling to accept
womyn 's bodies ~s beautiful and unique, reg~r~less of size orlJackagit:1~ . .
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You're wrong. You shouidn't be so threatened by a girly mag~ine on campus.
It's not
like they were there
to stop the' feminist revolution. "
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Don't be so offended. Plenty of ugly chicks went to the "cattle call" as you
so 'poignantly refer to it: Do you really think those girls would have gone if
they had a skewed body image? I mean, why would an ugly girl want the whole
world to know she was ugly? Why not concentrate on something else? Go play
your hippie drums.
"Be free and natural- don't shower all winter! Live in the woods!" Don 't
do that. Boys won't like you.
"The time has come for us to send the media and our learning community a
message." No, I assure you it hasn't. Nobody wants to hear what you have to
say.
"What we need is for Hearst magazine to get off our campus . .. "No, we really
need to give the feminists something better to do with their time. How about a
bake sale? Want to do something constructive with your time? Go procreate!
"Needless to say, you won't see me on the pages of Seventeen magazine! "
Needless to say, you wouldn't be so angry if you weren't so ugly.

Bathroom Faci Iities:

It's
by Conor Moran

Everyone's
Problem

I Resolve

Nothing
By Talia M Wilson
When the ball drops, several definitive
promises and rituals are always waiting to
characterize and categorize the New Year,
such as the promise of a better economy,
BCS football, and making New Year 's
resolutions.
The latter see ms to be a fad run amok.
It peppers everything, from the newspaper
to the nightly news magazines, informing
the public who resolved to do what, from
the President to Hollywood celebrities to
Farmer John way down in yonder valley.
The subject occupies daily conversation, in and out of the workplace, home,
school, and out on the street. It loom s like
an obsession in the minds of those intent
on making these resolutions. Sure, these
resolutions may be all fine and dandy, if
they ' re kept.
So why are resolutions made in the first
place? Obviously, during the previously
year, the resolution maker felt that he or
she didn't do something that he or she
should have done, or there is an area in

hi s or her lite that he or she could greatly
improve.
Okay, not that striving for self-improvement is a bad thing, but since these resolutions are made yearly, one would think
that these areas might eventually improve.
And maybe they would if those making
them would kee p their reso lutions. It 's the
same thing as making a promi se you don ' t
intend to keep; or maybe yo u intended to
keep it when you made it. but you just ...
got. .. di stracted ...
Well, till makin g New Year's reso lu tions becomes a more sancti fied pract ice,
you can count me out. My desire for se lf'improvements resides within myse lf and
is no one 's bus iness but my own. l3etter
yet, I can choose improvement at my own
pace by my own internal guidelines, not
by some crazy list I invented on January
I while recovering from a hangover. So,
while I may resolve to do nothing, my possibilities and choices are limitless.

I'd like to apologize in advance. know, the building may have been conThis week, the title of this column, IH structed by some madman with difficulty
Everyone:S Problem, is even less accu- urinating who wanted to make us feel his
rate than usual, because this week [ deal pain. But assuming that's not the case,
with the issue of bathrooms on campus. some signage would be nice.
As a male, I have not yet had occasion to
A slightly more difficult nut to crack
make use of the women's facilities here. is the top floor men's bathroom in the
For alii know, they may be par~dises of CAB . This bathroom is lacking an
hygiene,which are scattered generously essential feature of civi Iized defecaaround campus and provide all who use tion : a stall door. Though the room is
them with unparallele.d.£OJJlf.9rt l!..rW .~.I.earlyi!1tended to service more than one
privacy. So this week, I guess a more person at a time, the designers seem to
accurate title would be It's Everyman ' s have decided that there really isn't any
Problem, but that sounds bad. At any need to segregate the toilet from the rest
rate , today I'm going to tackle some of room by anything more than a short
notable deficiencies I' ve found in the partition. I suppose that it's possible
men 's restroom infrastructure at TESC. that there once was a full stall door, but
First, the Library building. Finding a inspection of the area suggests that it
men 's bathroom in that labyrinth is like was simply designed this way. Worse,
trying to find Waldo on that one page the way the room is laid out, a person
where everyone looks like Waldo. And walking into it will have a clear vision of L _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
while I like a game of"Where's Waldo" the unfortunate who happened to come
as much as the next guy, it is not a game before them. I realize that money is tight, venient, society offers us privacy. IfI'm on the generations of humans who sacriyou want to be playing when the integrity but this is much more important than the not going to be ensured that privacy, why ficed to give us these fundamental buildof your underwear is on the line . Trust forty bucks or whatever it would take to shouldn 't I just drop my pants and crap ing blocks of civilization. The least we
me on this one. Now, I realize that it is put in a stall door, this is a matter that in the middle of Red Square?
could do is crap on them in private.
a little bit too late at this point to add shakes civilization to its very foundaThis is more than just a comfort issue,
it is a matter of civilization itself. There Special thanks to the number of you
bathrooms without major construction, tions.
I don't know about you, but if I can't are a few things that separate us from the who menlioned the missing stall door.
but I would just ask that somebody in
that building who actually knows where take a dump. in privacy, I'd rather forget animals : agriculture, opposable thumbs, What:S YOUR problem? E-mail il to
the restrooms are would take it in their the whole internal plumbing thing. HBO, and the ability to do our business morcon03@evergreen.edu.
heart to put up some signs directing us Privacy is part of the deal we make. In without some other creature stumbling
to the bathrooms. That is, assuming that exchange for taking away our right to along and bothering us. To throwaway
these bathroom s actually exist. For aliI defecate wherever happens to be con- that right to save a few dollars is to crap

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· basketball r~sults:

As an Evergreen student in a study-abroad program in Ecuador, I have been lucky
that I was able to do many exciting things this fall quarter. However, I must say that the
most exhilarating was the Peru vs. Ecuador World Cup qualifying match. I had wanted
to go to an international soccer game, ever since 1994, when the World Cup was in the
states, and this 'promised to be a beaut, as Peru and Ecuador are huge rival s (owing to
the fact that they're neighbors and have had ski rmi shes otT and on for 50 or 60 years
over border disputes).
A II nine of my classmates and myself were able to finagle tickets. So on the morning of the match, we all bought Ecuadoria n national jerseys and head to the Estadio
Olympico in downtow n Quitu. Walking into the stadium was walking into a sea of
yellow and blue. We made it there two hours earl y and it was al ready halr-rull. By
the time that the game started, there wasn 't even standing room available. Trying to
go to the bathroom was like trying to crabwalk down Bourbon Street on Fat Tuesday
(w hich, because we we re seated conveniently two rows behind the beer chica, I had to
do quite regu larly ).
When we came in the crowd was already at a low murmur, which grew to a dull
rumble, and finally, by the time the game started, a crazed roar. As the game started, I
real ized that I had neve r been to a sporting event quite like this. There was a genuine
hatred for the Peruvian players that was infectious: I sat next to a guy and his fiveyear old son, who taught me all the local , regional, and hemispheric obscenities that
I d idn 't know al l ready. For each situation, the crowd had a song ready. I even got to
learn some of them , though my ravorite still went like this: (clap) (clap) (clap) (clap)
(clap) EQUATOR' (clap) (clap) (clap) (clap) (clap) EQUATOR! (repeat) I mastered
that one fairly qui ck ly, and was ab le to chant with confidence (though I had to put my
beer down to do it).
Football in South America is more than just a sport: their entire national identity
hangs on every dribbl e, pass and shot. If you think that it's silly for a country to be so
hung up on a sport, at leas t their national identity doesn't hinge on war.
Though the game ended in a 0-0 tie, it was still the most exciting sporting event
that I've ever been to. I can't imagi ne what it'd be like if someone actually scored.
Luckily, there's another match in March against Argentina, so hopefully, I' ll have a
chance to find out.

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Over the past winter break, TESC wrestling completed at the Portland State Open
in Portland, Oregon . The tournament was held January 3, and reatured teams from
throughout the region, including Southern Oregon University, Pacific University, Simon
Fraser University, Clackamas Community College, Portland State and several unattached
individuals from other schools. TESC wrestling 's lone competitor was senor Eric King,
at 157 Ibs. King compiled a 3-2 record to place fourth in the tournament. Competing
jet lagged and sick, King performed admirably and showed vast improvement from
his last perrormance.
TESC wrestling club practices in the evenings at the CRC and will next be competing in the Clackamas Community College Open on January 17. If you are interested in
joining the club, just come to practice and enjoy the best workout around. The club is
co-ed, so ladies are welcome to come and participate.
Given thi s opportunity, I have to comment on the state of our wrestling club at TESC.
Over the past two years we have been working on getting this club started and things
have progressed, although not as quickly as we would have liked. We now have a fullsize, brand new wrestling mat, scheduled practice times at the CRC - although I' m not
sure of next quarters ' schedule - and a small group of great people working to build
something worthwhile. This college needs small sports like wrestling that are capable
of competing at the national level year after year. At the tournament in this article, Eric
King beat people who will likely qualify for the national tournament, although King
will be unable to go because Evergreen chooses to adopt expensive, "popular" sports.
Four reasons for Evergreen to adopt wrestling as a varsity sport:
I. Wrestling is one of the least expensive sports (headgear, singlet, and travel for a
varsity team of ten).
2. Washington is an untapped pool of wrestling talent; only two universities in the
state otTer it as a sport.
3. Evergreen could compete and win at the national level in the NAIA immediately.
4. Wrestling can be co-ed, avoiding Title IX regulations.
After two and a half years of grad school here , I could think our community and
college would embrace a small, individualistic (although team oriented), innovative,
hard working, genuine, traditional, unmarketed sport like wrestling.

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