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THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE PRESENTS
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T~AWLS FO~ T~ANSFErzS
TOP
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Jordan Lyons and Connor Moran
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7 :30 PM at the
Evergreen State College
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Thursday, May 13th
TESC Students wilD $8 adv. $10 at door
Mike Witte
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Chemistry
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Student Tickets Available at TESC Bookstore Only!
General Admission $15 adv. $20 at door
General Admission, Tickets Available at:
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Olympia (360) 357-4755
MATURE CONTENT
Sponsored by S & A Productions
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Ben Martchek, o/Evergreen 's The Outdoor Program (TOP), at Wednesday's Student Activity Fair.
&
by Nadine Kulberg
Personally. it hasn ' t.
Exce pt the gas .prices,
I guess.
TESC
Olympia, WA 98505
Address Service Requested
Are you planning to be at this year's
Polynesian Luau? Come have fun a nd
learn about some aspects of Polynesian
culture.
Nowadays, what can you get for seven
or eight dollars? A supersized McDonalds
extra value meal, a tattered used book, or. ..
a lei and an authentic Polynesian dinner
followed by an exhibit ion of Polynesian
dancing . That's right, if you're a n
Eve rgreen student, staff, or faculty, seven
or eight dollars is all it'll cost for a ticket to
the Polynesian Luau Saturday, May 15,
Guests will be welcomed to Library
4300 and seated at tables adorned with
fresh ti leaves and other greenery, The
smell of roasted pork and other Polynesian
dishes will waft through the air begging
to be sampled, A live band that includes
Assistant Director of Admissions Eddie
Maiava, Jr., will play sweet fsland music
as attendees partake 0 f the feast.
Once your belly is full, you wi ll be
ab le to sit back and observe Evergreen
students as well as the Polynesian Youth
Group perform dances from Fiji , Tonga,
Ao tearoa (New Zealand), Samoa, and
Tahiti , Some audience members will
become part of the act when the members
of then Polynesian Youth Group pull them
up and show them ho~ to shake their hips
like the Tahitians do,
The goa l o f thi s event is to educate
the Evergreen community about the
Polyne sia n culture and allow them to
experience the spirit of Aloha. Hui '0
Hawaii (the Hawaii Club), First Peoples'
Advising Services, Housing, and the S&A
Board helped make this event possible, A
special thanks goes out to all the volunteers who will help prepare and serve
food, set up tables, and decorate. Thanks
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Olyfnpie. WlIIIIhlngton 98506
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to the Evergreen students for being open to
learning the dances and performing them
like professionals , To the Polynesian Youth
Group, Fa'afetai Tele Lava! Raquel , Holly
and especially my fellow peer support stafT,
for the countless hours Mahlo Nui Loa.
We hope to see you at th e
2004 Polynesian Luau!
Saturday, May 15 at 5 p.m. in Library
·BOO.
Dinner will be served from 5:30-6: 15.
Tickets are available at the bookstore:
$5 for children under 10; $7 for students in
Housing; $8 for students, staff, and faculty;
$10 for the community.
For more information, contact Nadine
at 867.6284.
PRSRT STD
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Paid
Olympia WA
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Eric King, I would like to invite you
and anyone else to go to a conference
this weekend, May 14 and 15: Chaos to
Community: Strategies for Social and
Economic Justice. It takes place at the
First United Methodist Church, 423 MLK
Jr. Way, Tacoma. For more information,
contact The Evergreen State College
Labor and Education Research Center at
867.6526. Let's communicate, if you'd like.
I want to learn more. Mary@riseup.net.
- Mary DiMatteo
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The program Foundations of Per. forming Arts presents "An Evening of
Ten-Minute Plays: Easier than Ibsen,
Shorter Than O'Neill," tonight through
Saturday, May 15 at the Experimental
Theater. Admission is free, and shows
start at 7 p.m. sharp.
For more information, contact Sandie
Nisbet at 867.6089, Rose Jang at 867.670S
or the box office at 867.6833, or email:
boxoffice@evergreen.edu.
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Tomorrow, the Willi Unsoeld Seminar
presents Jerry Franklin and his lecture
"Effects of Globalization of the Wood
Products Industry on Forests and Forestry in North America: The Scarcely
Glimpsed 600 lb. Gorilla."
A reception will be held an hour prior
to the 7 p.m. presentation. Both events will
take place in the Longhouse.
Dr. Franklin is a professor at the University of Washington's College of Forest
Resources. He played a major role in the
development of the Northwest Forest Plan as
a member of the congressionally chartered
Gang of Four and the Forest Ecosystem
Management Assessment Team.
For more information about the presentation or the Unsoeld Seminar, contact
Jeannie Chandler at 867.6402 or email
chandlej@evergreen.edu.
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Nominations are now being accepted
for Fall 2004 Geoduck Guides. Students
must be returning students who are in
good academic standing, personable,
enthusiastic, and interested in helping
new students learn about the college.
In addition , the students must be able
to attend Guide orientation June 7 and
training September 17 and be willing to
work during orientation week. Guides
will receive $7.S0 per hour.
To nominate a student, please submit
the following to Tom Mercado by June
2: the student's name, mailing address,
email, phone number, class standing,
response to "What characteristics
about this person would make her
or him a good Geoduck guide?" and
your name.
For more information, contact Mercado at mercadot@evergreen.edu.
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Food Service
Information Session
There will be an all-campus meeting
Thursday, May 13 in Seminar II , Room
AllOS, to provide information about
the current status of food services at
Evergreen and give community members
an opportunity to make comments
and ask questions. The status of the
Food Services Request for Proposals
and the current work of the Food
Services Development Committee will
be discussed.
In addition , Students Organizing
for Food Autonomy will present ideas
on how to create a long-range sustainable
food service operation at the college.
- Greg Fiennes
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Sustainability
Lecture Series
Tuesday evenings, 7-8:30 p.m.
Sem II B110S
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Greg's Finds
Spring Fling '04 will be held tomorrow
at the University of Washington. Performing
acts will include De la Soul, Ozomatli, and
Home Grown. Also appearing wi ll be the
Massive Monkeys ' break-dancing crew.
Vitamin D, and DV One. Word sayer from
Source of Labor is hosting the event, and
there will be a special performance by the
winner of the UW band showdown. The
show starts at 6 p.m. at Hec Ed Pavillion
(first time a concert's been held there since
the Scorpions in 1979!). Tickets cost $12
for UW students and $16 for the general
pUblic.
The Washington Center for the Performing Arts presents the musical RENT,
on its national tour and appearing fot th'e
first time in Olympia. Shows are at 7:
30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, May 20
and 21, and seats are still available in the
balcony. The Center recommends parental guidance and does not recommend
the modern-day La Boheme for children
under age 13.
For tickets or more information, contact the Center box office at 7S3.8S86 or
email info@washingtoncenter.org.
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The Writers' Guild is hosting a free
" How To Get Published" wor.kshop. It
takes place Friday, May 14, at 3:30-S p.m.
in Seminar II , Room AliOS. Presenting
are Writing Center Director Sand y
Yannone and faculty member Bill
Ransom. Both have many items published- ranging from short stories to
poetry, book reviews, and novels-and
have the expertise to share how to get
your writing of any kind published. A
handout of resources will be available
at the workshop. Everyone is welcome;
bring your friends!
For more information, contact the
Writers' Guild at 867.6098.
The Sustain ability Lecture Series
continues next week on May 18 with
Tim Nuse's "Corporate Sustainability."
Nuse is the Coordinator of the Corporate
Social Responsibility team for the Starbucks Corporation. His programs include
meas uring and redu cin g Starbucks'
environmental footprint , greenhoLise ga s
emission s inventory and the implementation of the preferred suppl ier progra 111 .
Activist training by
Seattle Word
Collective
Sunday, May 23 from 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. To register, contact the Evergreen
Political Information Center at 867.6144.
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Rumsfeld Must Be Held Accountable for Iraqi Torture
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by Claire Harlock
Recent abuses ofIraqi prisoners under
U.S . supervision are acts of terrorism.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
apologized for failing to inform Congress
or President Bush prior to CBS's disclosure
of explicit photographs of Iraqi torture last
week. Although the Defense Department
admitted it was conducting investigations
into prisoner abuses in January 2004, the
impact of photographs of Iraqi prisoners
posing in stimulated sexual positions and
under electric torture has prompted calls
for Rumsfeld's resignation.
According to various media sources,
the Abu Ghraib prison (where most of the
documented abuse took place) was under
the supervision of Military Intelligence,
who encouraged soldiers to soften up
prisoners for interrogation. National Public
Radio reported relatives of accused soldiers claiming that loved ones were "just
following orders," a sentiment echoing
the Nazi war crimes. These facts would
imply an authoritative, systemic interrogation process involving torture to extract
information.
In Congressional hearings last week
Rumsfeld warned of new evidence of
photographic and videotaped torture and
accepted "full responsibility" for the mistreatment. Despite this, he dismissed the
idea of resignation and enjoys George II's
support to remain in the Bush cabinet.
The Bush Administration and its
incompetent wartime machine-includ-
ing cuts for military salaries, massive
communication failures, and the use of
(legally unaccountable) private contractors
for interrogation purposes-deserves to be
held accountable for these acts. Attempts
by the military to conceal evidence from
the press, after requesting CBS to delay
the release by two weeks, display further government secrecy and cowardice
in discussing the abuse. Rumsfeld, as a
m~or architect of the most recent Iraq
War,lS responsible for systemic war
crimes and should be held accountable.
If he will not resign and acknowledge
his lack of "effective[ness]," he should
be impeached.
The following information is taken
from a recently declassified U.S. military
report that was leaked to the New Yorker
last week. Behold the routine and taxpayerfunded horror.
Article 15-6, Investigation of the
800th Military Police Brigade, downloadable from http://www.npr.org/iraq/,''Iraq
Abuse Report," found: "[T]he intentional
abuse of detainees by military police
personnel included the following acts:
punching, slapping, and kicking detainees;
jumping on their naked feet; videotaping
and photographing naked male and female
detainees; forcibly arranging detainees in
various sexually explicit positions for photographing; forcing detainees to remove'
their clothing and keeping them naked
for several days at a time; forcing naked
male detainees to wear women's underwear; forcing groups of male detainees to
masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped; arranging naked
male detainees in a pile and then jumping
on them; positioning a naked detainee on
a MRE Box, with a sandbag on his head,
and attaching wires to his fingers, toes,
and penis to simulate electric torture;
writing 'I am a Rapest' (sic) on the leg of
a detainee alleged to have forcibly raped
a 15-year old fellow detainee, and then
photographing him naked; placing a dog
chain or strap around a naked detainee's
neck and having a female soldier pose
with him for a picture; a male MP guard
having sex with a female detainee; using
military working dogs (without muzzles)
to intimidate and frighten detainees, and
in at least one case biting and severely
injuring a detainee; taking photographs of
dead Iraqi detainees ... breaking chemical
lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid
on detainees; threatening detainees with
a loaded 9 mm pistol; pouring cold water
on naked detainees; beating detainees with
a broom handle and a chair; threatening
male detainees with rape; allowing a
military police guard to stitch the wound
of a detainee who was injured after being
slammed against the wall in his cell; sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light
and perhaps a broom stick .. ."
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Last Thursday I had the good fortune to
catch Amy Goodman, host of Democracy
Noll'.' , and her brother, acclaimed journalist
David Goodman, on their book tour stop
at the University of Washington.
The event commenced with a screening
of scenes from The llldymedia War and
Peace Trilogy D VD. part one of which is
Independel1l Media in a Time of War, a
video-documentary "composed of a speech
delivered by Amy Goodman, illustrated by
clips of mainstream mediajuxtaposed with
rare footage from independent reporters in
Iraq" (Hudson Mohawk, 2004), Following
the film trailer, David Goodman read from
The Excepliun 10 Ihe Ruler:>, Exposing Oily
Poli/icial1S, War Pro{i/eers, and Ihe Media
ThaI Love Them, David shared lighter parts
of the book, like excerpts from a chapter
call ed " In Bed With the Military," which
intimated, as its tit le suggests, that relationships between the military and embedded
journalists in Iraq have been a littl e too
close for comfort. Quoting Gordon Dillow
of Thl! Or/ando COlln/ry Register, David
read , in a voice that bordered on comical,
.. ... 1, found myself doing what journalists
arc warned from J- school not to do: I found
myself falling in love with my subject. I
fe ll in love with ' my' marines." After reading a few more funn y sections- funny in
tilat dark-humor sense of the word- David
introduced "m y sistel·. one of Illy heroes.
and ho st of D e lll o c ru Cl ' N ow', Am y
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Am y Goodman approach ed the mi crophone ~ Illicl s t a standing ovation, Wearing
a has h ful yet reve rent express ion , A Illy
moti oned to the elat ed audience to sit
down. As the buzz subsided, she began on "'The Sally Jesse Raphael Show." Need
to exp lain in her calm , stern tone , the inspiration? .Start with the concluding
seriousness of our times- not just for chapter: ""Free the Media." Don't think
independent media- for all people. Amy you have time in your schedule to read
then addressed "the silence in the main- the book? Consider this :
stream media around the issues- a nd
I caught up with Amy following her
the people- that matter most ," insisting talk and asked if she would answer a few
that the issues ignored by the mainstream questions for a CP J review. She smi led
media are "the most important issues of graciously and repl ied, "Of course- wait ,
the millennium: war and peace, life and here, I' ll be right back ." She returned,
death. '"
nibbling on a lump of cake she cupped in
To illustrate just how unbalanced cover- her hand- she 'd been so busy answering
age has become, Amy cited a study con- questions she'd skipped lunch. Following
ducted by the media watch group Fairness her into the foyer, I scanned the questions
and Accuracy in Reporting (FA IR). The I'd scribbled down. I told her I'd try to ask
study exam ined the pro/anti-war stance a question she hadn't already answered in
of "the 'experts' who appeared .. . on the another interview. She nodded enthusiastimajor network news shows during the cally and kept eat ing her cake. I decided
critical week before and after Secretary to ask her how she would characteri ze
of State Collin Powell made hi s case to the relation sh ip between publ ic inst ituthe UN Security Council for invading tions of higher learning and Independent
Iraq. Only 3 of 393 experts- fewer than media today, hoping she might shed li ght
I percent- were affiliated with ant iwar on what TESC students or administrators
activism." Pointing out that at that time might do to support media reform,
"61 percent of Americans supported more
When Amy reacted with a blank stare, I
time for diplomacy and inspections," Amy realized I should ' ve prefaced the question
wondered aloud what kind of media are with the fact that "the single most imporshaping'''they way the whole world views tant opponent to commercial broadcastus and we view each other."
ing in the 1930s came from the rank s of
Using a mix of humor and hard-core education." (Note: "It was between 1929
investigative reporting, the Goodman s and 1935 that th e basic institutions and
answer this and other important questions regul atory and business practices were
in Th e E.,ccptiUl110 Ihe Rulers . Wondering establi shed, not onl y for radio, but al so
what about record-brea king conce ntra- for tele vis ion when it would be developed
tion and th e "sa'niti zcd" news coverage in th e 1940s and 1950s" [McChes ney,
it beget s is laughable? Start with Chapter 1999]). In any event. Amy did a fabul ous
15: ""Things Get Messy With Sally Jesse." job answerin g my fabul ously vague quesAmy had the UW howling with laughter tion. She res ponded, " We have to prese rve
as she recalled her ex perience as a guest all of the publi c spaces. They can be places
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where people learn to critically think at
their best ... and they could be privatized .
.. . Independent thinking leads to independent media. The reverse is also true:
independent media leads to independent
thinking."
As you may well know, the fifth of
the six "Expectations of an Evergreen
Graduate" is that he or she "demonstrate[ s]
integrated, independent, critical thinking."
Whether or not we meet this expectation
by the time we graduate is another question, deserving of its own article. However,
the thought I want to leave you with is
that when it comes to developing critical,
independent faculties, more than your
individual success may be at stake. As
mem bers of the "intellectual class" of the
"greatest superpower on Earth," our ability
to read between the Iines and make sense
of what we find there means life or death
for people whose li ves are directly and
indirectly governed by U.S. policy. We
owe it to everyone on the planet to make
the most of our time here in Academia.
After all, as the Goodmans note, "the
true power of this country does not Iie in
its military, government, or corporations.
It lies with individual people struggling
every day to better their communities,"
For more information on independ ent
medi a. check out http ://wwwDemocracy
Now. org/; li sten to Democracy No w' on
Eve rgreen's radio stati on KAOS (at 89,3
FM) weekdays at 9 a.m.; or pick up a copy
of The Excep tion { o the Rulers at any independ ent Iy owned bookstore near yo u!
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Advice, the Future, Etc.
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Disclaimer: In the case that it is not overwhelmingly obvious, I indeed know very little more about astrology than the
names of the signs, and I even had to look up most of those.
ARIES:
You will be cast as host of new dating show entitled One Blonde, One Brunette, Both Stutty.
Who would have thought that you and Matt Damon would have such an ugly baby?
TAURUS:
GEMINI:
You're not going to let Mr. big, fancy Ph.D tell you that you need triple-bypass surgery, are you?
CANCER:
Near-death experience gives you new perspective on life, reason to review food-processor operating instruc-
tions.
LEO:
I agree, adultery is such a nasty word for it.
The search for love is a lot like shopping at Target: You know nine times out often that what you get isn't going
to last, but you buy it anyway. Then it's just a matter of riding it out until the battery compartment falls off.
VIRGO:
Your death will be much like your life, in that a large part of it will have to do with your hobby of dismantling
World War II -era land mines.
LIBRA:
SCORPIO:
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Told you that Howard Dean
. was no George McGovern.
Tough break for your fantasy basketball squad this year, but don't worry, next season your faithful Milwaukee Sudd-Chuggers will go all the way!
SAGITTARIUS:
CAPRICORN:
Don't beat yourself up over your high-carb intake this week; those girl scouts are really convincing little
salespeople.
Apparently, the Yankees have somehow worked out a deal to trade your wife and chi ldren to the Chicago
Cubs in return for Sammy Sosa and a player to be named later.
AQUARIUS:
PISCES:
Ironically, your online boyfriend will end your relationship via fax machine.
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may 1.3, , ' 2004
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to Life
A WIN ~ AND SaM E BONES: Concert Reviews Continued
(Kool Keith, April 8 at NEUMO'S)
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by Rev. Christopher Altenburg
My friend Sean met up with Leslie and I caught it. Some girl turns to me secand me at my mom 's house in Kent and onds later and says, "Youjust socked me in
we headed up to Capitol Hill for the Kool the face ." I offer her the shirt and she tell s
Keith show at Neumo's. I got to a park me that she doesn't want it. She repeats
that I usually park at and some asshole in that I hit h~r, and I apo logize agai n. After
a Lincoln pulled some really shady shit I apologi ze about three or four times to a
to jack my spot. Sean wanted to fuck hi s broken record , I blow it off. I'm glad that
car up but opted to spit on the window. I she was so bitchy about it, because I sinimmediately realized where we were and cerely felt bad at first and then I suddenly
thought that it would be a good idea to get just didn't have to.
Keith came out talking shit about
some gay pride stickers for this reckless
"tough guy" and his new Lincoln. Here's every rapper except him, calling them all
where my obsession with buying record s amateurs. He was even talking shit about
was my downfall. I got so caught up in a the openers. There was a white man in a
record store that I never tagged the car. suit like the one Dan the Automator has on
Fuck it, I got the first Prince album for the Loveage album cover. He just kicked
it on stage, rolling and smoking spli ffs.
fi fty cents.
Neumo's is on 10th and Pike, and it's a Keith even busted on him. He called
good thing that I bothered to find that out him the George Steinbrenner of rap and
because there was no sign on the place. mentioned that he makes a lot of money,
There was also no re-entry so we decided specifically off of him . After talking so
to hit up another record store called Zion's much noise, however. his first freestyle or
Gate. Everything was taxed but I was able two was pretty horrible. I've seen better
to find a copy of Weasels Ripped My Flesh shit at the Rang Dong. Finally he came to
by the Mothers of Invention for $5. The his senses and kicked into "Blue Flowers"
opening groups were nothing to write off Dr. Octogonacologist. The show really
home about unless you're writing to warn took off from that point on. He did oldpeople not to waste their scrill. The bar school shit from the Ultramagnetic MCs
was pretty shitty too, and the no re-entry days as well as tracks off Dr. Doom and
Sex Styles. He was funny and talked a lot
thing was fucked up.
Keith was scheduled for 10:45 and pf shit throughout the set. He complained
was an hour late. Jacky Jasper flaked all about sound systems at clubs across
together. Keith's OJ worked to chill the the country, naming a few specifically.
anxious crowd out and was fronting like Then talked shit about Neumo's itself.
his name was Dennis Martinez. "I'm a He offered to throw his sneakers out for
black man that speaks Spanish," he said, a minute and then said that he knew that
but later I heard Keith call him Derrick or someone wou Id just go se ll them on Ebay.
something. He threw a shirt into the crowd "A pair of Kool Keith sneaks," he said.
" You cou ld probably get like five Gs." A
bunch of gi rls were brought up on stage to
dance. Some got freakier than others and
some kept thei r parts in better than others.
The g uy in the suit left with one of the
girls and returned a little while later with
a platter full of Zip lock baggies. Each one
had a piece of fried chicken in it and they
passed them around to the crowd.
At one point, I looked up front to see
where Sean was standing. He was waving
my Zappa record towards the stage. Keith
came-over and asked to see it. He pointed
out that the man on the jacket looked deadon like his manager in the suit and then
held it up to his face. Then he said, " I'm
gonna play this." The OJ threw it on to a
loungy Mother's song instead of one of the
cracked-out noisier tra.cks. "This is kinda
hot," Keith said. "This is what Bob Hope
listens too when he golfs." Sean kept telling him to do shit. "This guy wants me to
rap over it." Keith laughed . He started to
rap, but it fell apart fast. "This is all you.
If you make this make it work , I' ll follow
you." Sean wanted the mie, and Keith was
contemplating giving it to him, but instead
he chose to rap about Sean's mom while
pointing at him .
Kool Keith told everybody that he
would be sign ing shit and encouraged
them to buy mercha nd ise. Some of us
waited, and he ending up never coming.
Fuck him. I got my record back, a free
shirt, and I even got to punch some girl.
It was a solid night.
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The famous ponderance, "To be or
not to be," brought a tangible hush to an
already rapt audience. When I attended this
play on Friday evening, May 9, Andrew
Heffernan, starring as Hamlet, spoke the
famous lines sitting on the edge of the
stage, gazing into and through the audience
with a passionate intensity. It was interesting to hear how many phrases from Hamlet
have been incorporated into our modern
language. sllch as "Sweets for my sweet,"
"Method to my madness," and of course
the ever popular and infamous "There's
something wrong in the state of Denmark"
and "Get thee to a nunnery! "
Speaking of the "Get thee to a nunnery!" scene. there was a heart-stopping
light between Hamlet and Ophelia. It is
clear why there was a fight director. There
was also a climactic sword and dagger
tight between Hamlet and Laertes. It was
very well choreographed. but as a viewer I
co uld sense the slight but deliberate pauses
whe n one waited for the other to make his
[l\:.\ t move.
The stage was modernly stark. with no
sce nery except for two stain:ases ri sinlr to
a pillarcd platform. The lightin g desig~er.
Brian Rink , is a master at creating mood
hy use and place ment or co lored Iight. He
transformed a bare sta ge into a mid ni !!ht
cast I\: batt lemcllt. a des~late ocean bea~ h .
an intimate bcd room and a throne room
with lighting and so und effects. So und
cnects like crickets chirping and cannons
thundering tit in naturally with the modern,
almost techno-sounding music.
The costumes throug hout the performance were ver y eclectic. The famous
comic rcliefcharacters of Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern were dressed in Shakespeare
period clothing; Gertrude (the queen) and
Ophelia were dressed in modern. fancy
evening dress: Claudius and Polonius
were dressed in modern military uniforms
complete with medals, ribbons and sleek
black boots. Trench cOats were a common
item for the men to wear.
The use of makeup to illustrate
Hamlet's descent into madness was superb.
Once he donned the makeup during the
play-within-a-play scene, he kept the
makeup on throughout the rest of the
play. Makeup and costume were used in
similar way with Ophelia. Co-starring with
Andrew Heffernan is Janet Haley in the
beautifully acted role of Ophelia. Her true
magnificence appeared in the second half
of the play, in her portrayal of Ophelia 's
soul-wrenching loss and heartbreak. resulting in her suicide by drowning.
The entire scene with the gravedigger.
played by David Wright. was chi llingly
portrayed. The lighting, comb ined with the
music and haunting singi ng, illuminated a
gothic and corporeal grief.
All the players were highly successful
in bring ing Shakespeare's poetry to life.
Reading the play or watch ing the movie
abso lutely pales in comparison to see ing
it in live theatre, where humanit v in it s fu ll
expression thri ves.
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T he play Ha m ie t . by William
Shakespeare, is performed by- Harlequin
Productions and is runnin g at the State
Theatre at 202 4th Ave. East in downtown O lympia from May 6 to May 29.
The phone number for the theat re is
360.786.005 I. Tickets range in price from
$19 to $28.
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Part 11': The Sonies
by Talia M Wilson
The Wailers . The Galaxies. The
Franties. The Ventures. The Bards.
The who? you might ask. (Sorry, wrong
continent.)
OK, how about The Sonics? No, not
the basketball team, but the music group.
Nope? Nothing? Well , The Sonics and
the rest of the groups listed above were
all Washington groups during the early
to mid-1960s, back when region defined
musical styles and before The Seatles'
arrival had changed everything.
The Sonics were rooted in Tacoma
and quickly developed a following from
the Canadian border to Eugene and over
to Spokane. thanks to their heavy guitar
sound, somewhat unusual back then but
commonplace now.
In fI uenced by The Wa il ers, The
(jalaxies and The Ventures' Walk , Don i
Run album. The Sonics released their
first s ingle "The Witch ," backed with
" Psycho." w'hich would be later released
as an A-side. Those cuts were tollowed by
thei r second hit, "The Hustler." Thei r debut
album Here Are The Sonies was released
in 1965 on The Wailers' label Etiquerte.
and that Chri stmas. their cynical "Don' t
Believe in Chri stmas " was featured on
Etiquette 's :'v/erry Christmas.
The Sonics' sophomore release Boom
featured more original, heavy-guitar tracks
and likely their most-popUlar single " Don 't
Be Afraid of the Dark" as well as covers
of songs they admired, including "Louie
Louie," which was first recorded by The
Wailers prior to The Kingsmen's hit single
re lease.
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Bass player Andy Parypa made no bones
about his preference : "Of course, The
Wailers' ' Louie Louie' was the ultimate."
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Parypa may feel The Wailers' version is
superior, but with its heavy riffs and ability to actually enunciate the lyrics (The
Wailers was mainly an instrumental group,
and we all know The K ingsmen can 't sing),
The Sonics' version is THE ONE.
And if wasn't for the fans, The Sonics
likely would have remained just another
garage band trying to make the big time .
Fan support got the attention of Seattle
disc jockey Pat O'Day (ofKJR fame), who
also had a hand in promoting many of the
dances around the Pacific Northwest. The
Sonics soon found themselves opening for
the likes of Jan & Dean, The Righteous
Brothers, The Kinks. Johnny Rivers. The
Lovin' Spoonful, and The Beach Bovs as
well as performing at a number of d~nces
along with their mentors The Wailers.
In addition, the group changed labels.
from Etiquette to Jerden and its subsidiarv
Picadilly, which also showcased Mose's
Lake 's own The Bards. Their third album,
Introducing (he Sunics. was released in late
1966 and featured the single "You ' ve Got
Yo ur Head on Backwards." About a vear
later, the gro up released a cover of F~a nk
Zappa 's "Anyway the Wind Blows." But
the fun was starting to wear off.
Jerden attempted to create a "showband" out of The Sonics by having them
back girl-group The Shangri-Las, which,
the band would later reneet, was a mistake.
as the two groups' varying musical styles
didn 't mesh well. Alas, lead singer Bob
Bennet quit, followed by songwriter and
"wurlie/vox wrangler" Gerry Roslie, and
the band broke up.
But The Sonics ' legacy lives on and
will continue to endure. While not man y
outside the Northwest and/or the Baby
Boomer generation may remember them,
they were ahead of their tim e, and their
contributions to the Northwest music scene
and music history in general will not be
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Coffee Shops I Have Known ...
by Mary DiMatteo Benintendi
Yes, our premises of death and disasScott Joerger (2001)
and place it in an article entitled "White ary 21, 2004, rightfully declared, "Crime
sociation are difficult to tackle. I would not
Ann Mantley (?)
Disassociation," you overlook the inherent statistics about race do little more than
expect consultation of historical archives to
differences of both of their deaths. I fail to confirm racial stereotypes without providfind names of those who have died within
I would like to express my gratitude to believe that the natures of their commemora- ing the necessary context to understand the
the past years.
John Carmichael in the Office of the Presi- tions were based on the color of their skin. problem."
The Evergreen Community has a dent, who is the Adminstrative Assistant They are both remembered for making conI am requesting recognition of those who
specific pattern of commemorating the to the President. The list of deceased is nections within communities of those who
did not die by the vicious hand of oppressors,
dead . The "Evergreen" community refers incomplete due to partial record keeping as are oppressed, for bringing dark realities
those who died, in this Evergreen commuto currently enrolled students and current well as respect to those who mourned, as into light. With their memory, both of the
nity, in our time, people like Simeon and
faculty and staff, for lack of time on my some families requested private memorial struggles they represented continue.
Jon, who are not given the recognition they
behalf to include surround Thurston servIces.
Also, by comparison of those two deserve. I am not calling for denouncement
County. The admini stration receives word
This meager li st is to show just how deaths, well commemorated compared to of any death! People should not forget ,
of the loss and a black flag is displayed on man y deaths occur within our sma ll the other death s in this community, you are
nor should I! Not the ongoi ng struggles of
the flagp ole in th e library loop, accompanied Evergreen community without our tota l ig nor ing the pain and gr ief of family and
African Americans, of Ind igenous Peoples ,
by a co llege-issued notice stating for whom.. attenti on, considerati on and consideration
fri e nd s who have lost th eir loved ones and of Palestinian s, of Columbi ans, of EI Salthe flag fl ies.
ex ist ing for a variety of reasons.
' who do not feel that their children wcre well vadorians ' Who is free from the hand of
I have compi led an incomplete list of
Thi s lac k of rec og nition exceeds well remembered- independent of thei r race and European-A merican fuck- ups?!
community death s within the past four years beyond the scope of just thi s co mmunity, social orientation . By makin g that stateHow can we work and learn, bring da rk
here at Eve rgreen :
That is perhaps in part why th e death of ment you are removingyourselffrom those realities into light as well as make at tempt s
Rachel Corrie received such recognition . people. Without even having noticed , you to denounce these injustices of which you
Ms . Corrie's death was a transformative have ignored all the others who have died in speak, with respect to our dead, with respect
Iris Lopez (2004)
event, bringing all death and injustice in this community without large support. I am to the past and with a pro-active stance on
Jacinta McKoy (2004)
Gaza into the community spotlight at a sure you feel this way everyday, Mr. King, in what is happening today? How can we do
Kenneth Kash Coldknight (2004)
pivotal time of a controversial war.
consideration ofthe injustices and silencing this in more wide spread arenas? Eric, here
Simeon Daniel Terry (2003)
In contrast, consider Jonathan Corey. of the African American struggle, which I we are in White America. Despite the fact
Mike Simmons (2003)
Jonathan drowned on the Eld Inlet. I will will never completely understand . But I DO that you associate and stereotype me with
Roberta Walker (2003)
not comment on the efforts made on behalf NOT want you to make an umbrella state- the actions of my olive farming ancestors, I
Victoria Chiudina (2003)
of his death by his friends , by the police, ment under the context of White Disassocia- want to make progress for our time.
Rachel Corrie (2003)
/ by the administration, by the surrounding tion and INSULT THE MEMORY OF MY
(See the bulletin for information about
Carol Davidson (2003)
community. I will angrily say only this : FRIEND!
Chaos to Community: Strategies for Social
Rory Luke Kauffman (2002)
The body of Jonathan H. Corey has yet to
When you throw percentages of incar- and Economic Justice, on May 14-15. For
Jonathan H. Corey (2002)
be found .
cerated youth, I do feel bad as to my overall more information, contact Labor Education
Muhamad Romadhan (2001)
When you speak comparatively of disassociation , as I search for the root of the and Research Center at 867.6526.)
Craig Carlson (2001)
Rachel Corrie and Simeon Terry, when you problems. Mr. Eugene Kane, a reporter for
Chris Doszkocks (2001)
make a statement about two unrelated deaths the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, on Janu-
Prescription for a Headache
by Lee Kepraios
may 13, 2004
I'm at Otto's downtown looking across
at a big Orca whale swimming through the
trees. I heard that the mural artist was going
to paint a lot more than the three lone Orcas
suspended in blue, but someone graffitied
his half-done project, and he was too disappointed to continue.
When I leave Oly this June I will
remember its cafes (and the things I' ve
sta red at through cafe windows) with their
cups and tables and people and stories. In
a predictably introverted fas hion , I mark
the towns I've Iived in by the character of
thei r coffee shops. I'm like some pathetic
pilgrim who visits coffee shops rather than
holy sites . I could have stayed home and
written (pilgrims could have stayed home
and prayed) but- didn 't.
I won't dwell on Oly. I f you are a cafe
frequenter, then you know all of the possible
places. The Rib Eye and the Reef are open
twenty-four hours and way late, respectively; the best breakfasts, as far as I know,
are to be had at Darby's, New Moon, or The
American GrilL Cafe Vita has superiority of
location , so even if it doesn't last (which it
probably will) there will always be a coffee
shop on that corner; Batdorf & Bronson is
classy and crowded; Blue Heron has the best
coffee but no indoor tables ; the pizza places
have an obvious benefit-pizza . Otto's has
booths; Traditions has Lemon-Tahini salad
with rice, plus sweet folks. All of these
places will let you sit indefinitely and write,
excluding the breakfast spots during a rush.
'Nuff said. Now for the foreign places.
The one I'm most embarrassed about
is Starbucks. I was in London, spun out
on the magnitude of the Egyptian exhibit
at the British Museu m. I wandered around
looking in shop windows, sea rchin g for th e
wooden tables of a well-worn coffee shop.
Eve ry place looked tiny. like I'd have to bu y
a sandwich and leave, wherea s I wanted to
si t and recover and write. The pubs had TVs
on - no good . In the end , to my chag ri n,
I circled back to the entrance of the British Museum , where stands, just across the
street, that old familiar Starbucks with its
amoebic cinnamon decor a nd green apron s.
Head bowed, I snuck in, thankful for the
wooden tables and Tom Waits music. I felt
almost as if] were going into a McDonald's:
me, the stupid American who in a foreign
country craves the familiar corporate comfort of home.
That was London. Later I found a good
pub without televisions that was friendly and
quiet. They served my coffee on a saucer
with a miniature silver spoon.
In Montreal I also found a pub that was
deserted in the daytime. I would go there
to write, happy that I was eighteen and
allowed into bars. My real haunt, though,
was a little cafe that operated as the only
source of Fair Trade coffee in Montreal at
the time. The dim shop with its old woode n
floor had tables in the front and burlap bags
in the back; it smelled wonderful.
Montreal is gray in autumn: gray stone
buildings. gray naked trees with th e last
yellow leaves cl i ng i ng like pi eces of light.
gray sky. The su bway (w ith it s gray cement)
echoes "'Ave Mari a" - it 's the on ly song th at
th e street mu sicians play there. Somethin g
about g ray pl aces lures me toward eofke
shops. They send o ut a warm g low from
their windows, lik e hea rth s. Communit y
hearth s.
They have all been gray cities- - I li ved
in Vancouver D.C for high school. Here are
my recommended resting places:
The Naam is a twenty-four hour vegetarian cafe that serves sesame fri es (other
things, too .. .).
Bean Around the World in West Van
has a little wedge of a nook with windows
on two sides that is an ideal harbour for the
traveling writer.
Therc is a gelato shop on Upper Lonsda le in North Van . They will serve their
gelato with two shots of espresso poured
over the top. The name of the shop esca pes
Clearing the Air
The Curmudgeon:
Medicine is a shame-based industry.
I'm su re as we all know by now : Th e
most profitable organizat ion in America
is pre sc ripti on drug industry. No o th er
en terprise in America comes close. It 's a
staggering giant of an indu stry. And li ke
every other e nt er pri se in America , it 's a
di shone st, corr upt , financially crippling,
unworkable, illogical mess that will probab ly never be fixed .
Here's how 1 know it's th at big a mess:
Because we're already well beyond the point
where anyone is goi ng to get to the root of
the probl em. The solution on the minds of
consumers is, "How can we make prescription drugs cheaper?" That's the nature
of the discussion now. The drugs are too
expensIve.
What no one is asking is why, amid
debates on how many trillions we should
spend on prescription drugs, does no one in
Congress stand up and say, " Why are we so
sick? Is that natural, to need this amount of
drugs?" No one is getting to the root of the
problem. No one is asking the more fundamental question, which is why need so many
drugs? Is it natural to be this sick?
I don 't know if you've noticed it, but
Americans are hitting their chemistry sets
at Rush Limbaugh levels. Even old people
shouldn't need as many drugs as were giving
out. We're in such a frenzy, Elvis is going,
"Whoa dude, slow down with that shit!"
by Ellen Peterson
A me ricans have to go up to Canada to
score th e ir shit. Can you believe that? You
know, is n't it really just drug dealing at this
poi nt? II' you have to leave th e country to fi II
a prescription yo u can actually afford. aren't
the drug companies just your dealer')
I also believe that a great reason for
this spate of pill-poppers everywhere has
to be in the cleverness of the advertising.
The people in those ads make takin g pills
look like you 're going to be on drugs or
something. Some old woman runs through
the hilly pas ture, milkweed floating around
in the spring breeze as the daffodils sway to
and fro or the middle-aged couple are taking
baths in matching bathtubs on the edge of a
cliff while watching a sunset.
Advertising is the prescription drug
industry's cheaply dressed, two-dollar
blowjob.
What I find so fascinating about the TV
ads are the parts that say to ask your doctor
if the medicine is right for you . You know:
"Ask your doctor if Zoloft is right for you."
"Consult your doctor before taking Prilosec"
and so on. All of these ads seem to endorse
the availability of the doctor for advice on
what seems to be a fairly trivial matter.
Watching enough of these ads, I start to
think that I can just reach my doctor anytime
I want to see if! can take Allegra.
This is no in and out deal either. When
you call your doctor, all you get are his
voice-automated, push-button dead end s
and hi s jerkoffassistants. A nd it's s upposed
to be a s urpri se .
I'm kind ofa bother to my doctor asking
about these prescriptions , aren't I? I mean ,
these people are supposed to be curin g
real diseases. Healing th e sick. Fighting
the good fight. Why am I takin g him away
from hi s bu sy sched ule, calling him up to
ask if Luvox is right for me·) Who am I to be
taking up th e valuable time ofa doctor with
such tiny, probing qu eries like, " Is it okay
lor me to go on Taggemit?" I mean , this
guy 's probably treating people with hungry
cancers and here I am wondering if some
new medication is going to help my slight
social anxiety. Hisjob is to cure .things that
can kill people, not serve as traffic light for
my si lly decisions about whether or not to
change aspects of myself I don't like with
drugs.
Did you ever try and call your doctor?
It 's more like trying to get an audience with
the fucking Pope. And while I'm sitting there
on the phone like an idiot, immersed in the
sheer, unadulterated musical heaven that is
a John Tesh concerto through the receiver,
waiting for this genetically defective nurse
to tell me if the Doc can see me before the
tercentennial , my proposed question to
the doctor about whether to switch from
Serevent to Albuterol becomes a bit moot.
And then , I'm the one whose fault it is that
he's such a husy man and I'm supposed to
be surpri sed.
Medicine is a sha me-ba sed indu st ry.
Need any more on that')
Lee's New Rule of the Week : Mother's
Day is offlimits! Gun control advocates used
a Mother's Day rally on Sunday in Washington D.C to beg in a ca mpai gn to lobby for
renewal of a ban on assault weapons , courtesy of the Million Mom March. I'm sorry
but you Whiny. ineffectual little activists can
politicize any holiday you want: Christmas,
Easter, Valentine's Day. Those are bullshit
holidays anyway. Just leave Mother's Day
alone, okay? Let the moms stay home . The
1994 ban expires in September, just in time
to be an election issue. So you people got
the whole summer to have this dumb gun
control debate yet again . Can't you leave our
moms out of it unti I then?
I know it's tempting. You're hoping the
moms will be there to spit into a Kleenex
and wipe the Spaghetti-O stains of injustice from the face of gun-crazed America.
But we need those moms, damn it! Peanut
butter and jelly sandwiches just don't cut
the crusts off themselves! Ford Explorers
just don't drive the kids to soccer and TaeKwon-Do on their own, do they? Leave the
protesting to the protestors . As long as they
remember to look both ways before crossing
the street.
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hv .loti Salldoz, adjullct (o culiI'
We can't allow ourselves any longe r th e
chea p thrill of dealin g with iss ues of hea lth
a nd communit y as though they were made for-the -media sta re down matches.
Thanks to Seminar II. people at Eve rgree n are finally talking about campus
outdoor a nd indoor air quality. But th e
formulat ion o f air qualit y concerns as
iss ues of competing and individual rights,
on Eve rgreen Iistservs and in conversation ,
disturbs me. I can' t breathe or remember
or wal k straight if you choose to smoke, o r
wear perfume, or drive on campus. It 's as
simple as that. So here we stand , to e to toe,
looki ng in each other's eyes. The fir st one to
blink- or struggle to brea th e- loses.
And that would be me. No contest.
One legacy of a chronic illness acquired
long before I came to Evergreen (myalgic
encephalomyelitis, or Chronic Fatigue and
Immune Dysfunction Syndrome) has been
unusual sensitivities to various environmental stressors. My body's responses to certain chemical compounds can result in skin
rashes, mildly impaired balance and hearing, dragging fatigue, short-term memory
slow-down, reduced capacity to spel I and to
recall how to operate classroom equipment,
and- most frightening, and potentially lifethreatening-swelling in air passages that
hinders my ability to breathe.
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I'm not the only one; a number of us
on campus, some diagnosed with asthma
or other breathing-related conditions and
some not, find Evergreen a difficult place
to be. Although everyone's triggers are
different, tobacco smoke, engine exhaust,
wood and candle smoke, and scented personal products such as perfume, hair spray
and the artificial scents in fabric softener
are among the biggest problems. Some of
- - - -_._us have a n immedi atc obs ervabl c reaction - hoarseness. wheezing, strugg le for
breath , even a nap hy lactic s hock. Ot hers'
reaction s are more hidden. For mos t of us
(including people who don 't yet real ize th at
th ey are reacting), repeated ex posures can
have a daily and life- long cumulative effect
as our bodies respond over and over agai n
to what for us are toxins.
So if you're looki ng for the effortl ess
score, a Iitt Ie mindless play for power, it 's
easy to put us at a disadva ntage. Just light up .
Or drive across campus. Or spray on scent
and then si t dow n beside us.
Before go in g on. let 's set as id e th e
matter of i \I ness, and resultin g react ion s and
sy mptoms. We won't talk here about federal
and state laws that focus on accommodation.
At bottom, thi s isn't about "accommodating" the tragic sick people. (Or the neurotic
middle-aged woman, as members of the
Evergreen community have called me when
I've asked them to quit smoking in- yes,
in- classroom buildings.)
Here's the inescapable deal: We share
the air. It isn't yours, it isn't mine ; it doesn 't
belong to smokers or non-smokers, or even
to the Well ness Committee. At bottom , this
isn't about who has the "right" to breathe, or
who is "allowed" to act in ways that expose
other people to trigger substances (many of
which , including tobacco, wood and candle
smoke, are toxic to everybody).
The real issue, it seems to me, is how to
craft community across meaningful physical
difference. Nine years of raising air quality concerns as an Evergreen individual
engaging with other Evergreen individuals
have taught me that incidents forcing the
exclusion of a significant number of us from
classes and events and spaces on campus
can't be reso lved In d ividually - th oug h I'm
ex trcmel y grate ful to th ose who li sten a nd
takc th ese issues scr iou sly.
Un fll rtun atcly. that adds up to relat ively
fcw peo pl e. So I wan t to say thi s right ou t
loud : A ir qual ity is abou t com munit y. If yo u
respond to requ ests fix Icss smoke or sce nt
wi th th c usual Eve rgree n line of"That 's too
bad. We'll mi ss yo u at the meeting/luncheo nl
pot Iuck /c lasslfieltl trip /ret reat. Why don 't
yo u just stay home')" th en you are mak ing
a choice that deni es some of us membership.
And if yo u decide to smoke nea r buildings
and be nches. wear scented products , pa int
or take down cei Iing tile witho ut fi rst noti fying th ose who llse th c room, and so on. then
it 's your actions that are cxclu s ionary. Your
choices. Not a plea for attenti on from somc
lame sick person . Not somc neuroti c fan tasy.
Action s and choiccs .
A ve ry parti al communal "solution,"
the Air Quality policy, was instituted several years ago (http ://www.evergreen.edu/
policies/g -air.htm). It just isn't working.
So I propose that a real resolution be
sought openly with full representation and
participation from the enti re Evergreen
community, in an effort sponsored by
Evergreen's Administration and expected
to make change. (Meetings should be held
in a scent- and smoke-free location .) Here
are three possible initiating questions : Who
can be a fully participating member of our
community, and when , where, and why?
Who cannot be, and when , where and why?
How can we, together, sustain a quality of
inclusion- and, not coincidentally, of indoor
and outdoor air- at every Evergreen event
and location , a qual ity that nurtures living,
teaching and learning?
the cooper point journal
me, but the decor is lime green, it's on the
east side of Lonsdale Street, and just south
of the drug store.
I'll end with my hometown of Park la nd
in south Tacoma. Garfield Street is downtown Parkland . Garfie ld Street is two blocks
long, with PLU at one end and th e bu sy
Pac ific Ave . a t the o th er. Nes tl ed besi(k th e
middlc intersection is th e North ern Pac i fie
Co ffl:(; Co . I used to escap(; to thi s cof"ke
shop as an aw kward tct:n when I needed
d ist an ce from Ill y large. eclectic fam ily.
Here I di scovered that coffl:e makes you
writ e fa ster. Ifere I co uld sta re a nd \\Titl·
and starc and wr itc . Ju st wonderful.
My older punk brother lives at the corlCe
shop. He spent so muc h tim e there th at he
actually rented thc corner apartment direct ly
above it. He a rra nged thi s wireless Int ern et
lo r them, which he shares from the upstairs.
and as a resu lt he gets free co ffe e.
The Orca whale is still swooping dow n
toward s th e s idewalk in it s vacant blu e
wall- mid swoop. I'm g lad /'m frozen like
it in one place. Come June, /'m off to find
new places , meet new people, haunt new
coffee shops ...
Brollght
illg Cellter.
10 Y()lI
hy thc £ \'crgreen W,.il-
.An "It's Everyone's
Problem" UPDATE
Whcn you're in the bu siness of com plaining about stu ff, you have to g ive c redit
where c rt: dit is duc. In this case. that credit
is several weeks o ld . so in o rder to properl y
g ive credit. I'm devoting th is entire column
to congrat ulate S & A fo r improving their
calendar. A few week s ago, I wrote about
the little ac ti vities ca lenda rs set out on the
tables. I pointed out a few ways in wh ich
more in form ation could bc provided and th e
calend ars cou ld better serve their noble goal.
When the next batch of ca le nd a rs went out ,
I was del ighted to fi nd that my suggest ions
had bee n ta ken into account.
Now, I go ing to admit th a t even the
sweeping changes that I sugges ted might
slip beneath the eye of a casual observer.
And by "casual observer" I mean "anyone
who isn't me." Therefore, I thought I'd take
this little time to point them out to you. The
calendar now gives places and times for all
club meetings. Before, to get this information, one had to go to the " Master Calendar,"
which was accessible online at a very forgettable URL that I have .. . forgotten. Which is
fine, because I don't need it any more. The
information is right there on every table in
the CAB. They have also ended the doubl elistingofMindscreen films , which used to be
privileged with both a reg ular space on the
calendar for meetings and a special shaded
box. The calendar is now nicer-lookin g.
more equitable, and hopefull y more successful at getting people to meetings that
will interest them . S&A, I salute you!
What s YOUR problem ? E- mail me at
m()rcon ()3@evergreen.edll .
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The Secret World of
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Evergreen Grad Students
hv Amv Loskota
I tried to write an article about how
hard the Master in Teaching program is,
but the CPJ would not print it because it
was too long and I had no time to come in
and help them edit it. You can read it at http:
,academ ic.evergreen.edu/i/ losamy 11 1m it/.
I think it is fu.nny how the graduate
students are like ghosts on this campus.
We don't say hi to people as much as we
should , and on most occasions we find t.he
undergraduate campus and its services give
us little regard, thus why we are often at a
loss of patience. In a way, it is kind of like
being Harry Potter. A fter a lengthy application
process, we receive a letter and are magically
wh isked away to a whole other level of
ex istence at Evergreen. Suddenly there is no
time or funding for playful visits to the wide
va riety of fun things that happen on campus
for thc average grad student.
The most wonderful surprise of this secret
life has been the absence of slack. Since I was
wh isked awav. I havc ncver once had to worry
abo ut g ro up members not pulling their own
we ight In a prole.: t. r\ nothcr surpri se was
that many people in o u r program I'll werc
ve ry conservative to vc ry liberal. Ileck, there
were people who were so liberal that they were
co nservat ive . Despitc our initial dis so nan ces,
some of which prompted people to leave, we
we re able to g.: t (wer our political di sagreements. T hi s is based on one simple shared
!le lief: We all wanlto work to .:reale Ihe mos t
rek'va nt and valuab le lea rnin g exper lcllL'':s
ro r our stlldent s whose well;lrl: Wl: care abo llt
J eeply. T hc Ii nal magical momcnl has bl:cn
\\ IIhinlhe lasl two 111 0l1lh 5, Ihe l11aniICslal1 0n
<)1' nu l' 100ai le arning in our curren l Icacl1lnL!
i
by Brad Bishop
This followed my deep realization: Even
i fL am to be an vehicle of change in my role
as an educator, by working in a public school,
I am choosing to be a representative of the
United States government. Even for teachers,
the public school is a place of conformity,
even in its most Iiberal incarnations locally.
I have seen creative individuals who work
underground in their schools to }:reate opportunities for critical thinking and relevant
learning. However, they stand apart from
their colleagues. In the future I hope teachers
will be able to teach their students without
fear permeating their lives, through the end
of standardized testing. This would mean
that we would need to train out generations
of dependence on IQ tests and panacea tests
that only reflect an expectation of European
cultural homogenization and expectations
for a baseline socio-econom ic knowledgc in
all students.
What defines us as M rT' grads is that when
we look at our curriculum, we ask whv. When
something fails, we reflect on why it happened.
As I have see n in the public sc hoo ls , teachers
march on blindly with their mandated CUrriCUlum, never asking, "Why?" When some level
of learning fails , they often blame the kids. the
weather, or the moon . Ifanything, the M IT ha s
give nllle a whole new background 10 interpn:t
the langua g.: of children and answer~d many
whys about mysc l I' as w.:11 as Illy stucknt s.
As my long cssay men ti ons, this process has
b,:c ll a g ut-wrenchi ng ride, fra ugh l with pcril s,
deadlines. and stress .
Wa s it worth il'-' I wi ll gl:1 had. 10 \uU in
fi ve years.
I wish to thank the Choose Life activists
for coming to our campus. It is not often that
you see older people demonstrating. Usually,
for a group of old people to protest, it takes
the government threatening to take away their
driver's license. But this demonstration was for
us; maybe they were making up for graduating before university protests were cool. Either
way, it was nice of them to stop by,
Others weren 't so grateful. These activists were met with anger and a bit of Greener
activist ego that. won't let them steal the show.
So to prove we are the better activists, why
not try destruction and graffiti , or how about
spitting or screaming? Yep, this is moral high
ground, nice job spreading peace and harmony
to our community elders. It may be righteous
to take a stand for someth ing you believe and
use aggressive force in the face of oppression,
but is that what this was?
The Choose Liters were playing their part
hy bringing awareness to one part of the truth
around abortion, show ing pictures that may be
hard 10 look at. but the death that they represent is deeply emotional and doesn't disappear
when the old folk s go home and the airplane
run s OUI of fu el.
So what about politics? Morality and
politics work together. The debate is heating
up; both sides are getting more funding and
better organization, Which side will reign
righteous?
As abortion is overshadowing many other
important issues in the presidential election,
churches, doctors and citizens are choosing
sides. For fear of backlash from contributors,
pro-choice organizations are unable to speak
out against partial birth abortion performed
with no health risk to the mother, while pro-life
organizations are unable to recommend birth
control pills of RU-486 ,
Law should reflect the morals of the
masses. Often it does not. And with two opposing sides focusing attention on the black and
white, we will unlikely create law that captures
the true feelings of the citizens.
What 10 do? Not all Greeners respo nd
aggressively. Some took this unique opportunity to take to those whose views slray from
the well-trotted liberal path circling It S way
around Eve rgreen. Instead orone-upping thl:!l11
in tilctics, trv vo ur skill s ilt li stenin g. In th e
true fa shio n 01 co mll1unity, lInd erSia nJing is
essential.
Making Contact
ass ig nments.
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Heir to Herbert Spencer?
h I' .Hike li'emhl'dl
In last week's C'PJ there was an unu sual
article entitkd . "The .·\nti gre cn Challenge ."
I What pr.: cedcd the titl e was gibberish
Ihat so und s like some thin g co min g fr om a
~ ir c u s.) The article was intereSled in and laid
OUI g round wor k fo r wh) I,uman beings are
co mpetiti ve. The answer wa s that they had to
be compl:titl w to li ve. rhe author antiCipates
nlllch criticis m lo r hi s work. hut what I hope
to provitk is <., () met hlll,!! mort: substantial tilan
" You sud, ."
111 the third para!,!raph Ihe auth or invokes
thc overused la nd n1 isu nderstood I name uf
C h ~l rle s Darwi n. Darw in 's theory of cvolulI< ln - ve ry br i.:fl v sUlllmed up - was that
,1111111als that exe rt ed the better trail s s ur vlwd
" hllc the nnes thaI didn 't exhibil those trailS
J led orr. (A n exa mpl e would be of a g iraffe
lhal had a ned, long enough to reach Ihe leaves
" n a tree versus one whose neck wa s not long
eno ugh. The longer n.:cked ones lived while
' he others died off) Darwin is interes ling. but
ihc-rc are el r morc approp ri ate nam e(s) to be
111cntioned here. The ti rst name is Jea n- Baptis te Lamarck ( 1 744-1~29) .
Lama rck was a forerunner to the whole
"evol uti on" debate th at would occupy 1110s t
t' thc laller part of Ihe nine teent h ce nlur v.
\ It houg h he was large ly unread in hi s IJtel ime, thinkers came In the mid-n inetc(,l1l h
ce ntury tn adopt his Iheo ry of evolving (like
I ried rich Niel zsche I. Lamarck th oug ht Ihal
Ih rough a bei ng 's will thev cou Id adapt 10
Ihe envir onment in which they lived . (For
cxample, the giraffe needs 10 get to the leaves
onlhe tree so he stretche s his neck as far a~ he
ca n and over time hi s neck becomes longer so
lie ca n reach the leaves,) I'm not sure whe lher
Lama rck stressed this concept but i.amarckI£Ins stressed it to refute Darwin .
This brings us to the second thinker I
have to mention : Herbert Spencer. Today
",pe ncer (a La marck ian) is mostly unread
(even among academics), and this is probably
because academics as well as soc ialists of the
twen tieth century dismissed him as a "conservative apologist for capitalism." (Spencer
may 13, . 2004
wasn't a conservat ive, he wa s an anarch is!. but
th at doesn't stop peoplc fr om rcadin g olhcrs
inco rrectly. Obviousl y th ey read Social Slalics
while being ig norant o f .\Iol/ I'er.l'lls Ihe SI£lI<' .)
The author of "The !\ ntigree n Challcn ge" also
invoke s Ih e phrasc "survival of the lillest ,"
which Spc nee r co ined . Spence r also coi ned
Ihe lerm "cvolution." Spencer didn't passj udgment on Ihe "su rVival of the fillest" concept,
he .Ius lthou ght that that is what human beings
dll - Ihey do anylhing to survive.
The author of the article makes a good
pnint in Ihat co mpetition is neither had nor
good - itlliSI is. \\ hat th e auth or fails to mCI1li on is th e pri nciple (whether accepted ot nOli
of "a ri s i ll ~ Iide II fts all boals." So me people
may be \\msc ol'l'lha n others I fo r exa mple, if I
were di seased wl1l1c others were n01 I. bUllhal
doesll 't ncc.:ssarilv mean t hat they ca n t use
th.:i r oth er lale nt s to aeh ieve succe ss (however
<I nc mighl qualify success) .
The art Icle to uched on eeonol11 ic co ncepts
\\. ilhoul all V co nsequences. T he part about
pro pertv ,\Ild "limited" resources mig ht end
lip killing llie <I l1l llPr's argument ifsl he is going
whe re I Ih ln~ , hc is going with it. " Limited
resources" dlln'tne<:essarily stay "limited" and
ca n be used 10 r a P1l1ltitude of thing s. oftell
salisfy in g tiemano . I If ::--ou're tal king ilbout
wa ler, then Ihat 11lIght be somethin g d ifferent. The ~ rgulllenl about "limited" things is
a lmost as hilarious as the neoclass ical face t of
" per fe cI competi lio n" or "equil ibriulll .") The
cco nomic perspeclive the article g ives is of
sociali st nature bt:cause il assumes that th ere
is going to be one house that two people fight
ove r in a hy pothetical situation. The rhetoric
and the substan ce of that particular argumen t
don't match well.
There is nothin g new that the article
points out and I wonder if the author did this
just to pi ss off that ever-present "Eve rgree n
community." The article could have exploited
many avenues oflhoughtthat it didn 't. My biggest disappointment was not what the arti cle
said, but what il cnllid have said
T hi s year mark s the fiftieth anniversary
of Ihe famous /1 ,.UI1 ·/1 \'. Buard oj' "'d l/COli oll
dec ision of th e Sup reme Cou rt, which determined that racial segregation in public schoo ls
is unc onstitutional. It is an understatcmentto
say that this dec ision, and the civil right s
movement which followed closely, ha s met
with mixed results. I would Iike to offer here, if
I may. some thoughts and suggestion s regarding contemporary race relations, particularly
as they affect the Eve rgreen community, and
I'd be pleased if yo u would give them your
co nsiderat ion.
We at Evergrecn have a special obligati on to fos ler soc ial justice and eq uality. The
sc hool 's "Expec tati ons of an Evergreen Graduate" and "Five Foci of Learning" statements
arc a testament to that. The First People's office
of the school. as well as numerou s student
orga ni zati ons, has been established to help
alta in these goa ls. Onc of the progra ms we
have at Eve rgreen that hi ghlights thi s agenda
is the annual Day of Prese nce , which puts
fo rward minority iss ues in a campus-wide
co nte xt- and that brings me, more or less,
to my poi nt.
In Fe bruary, I attended the Fis hbowl
Seminar that was held as a part of the Day of
Presence program. This forum was a public
discussion by minority members of the
ca mpu s community regardin g topics of racia l
matters. It was fasci nating and informative. I
was especially touched by one particular point
th aI was made .
One :\ I'l' l<:;) n- .'\ meri can fell o \\' I I' m a
middl e-aged whit e g uy, bl th e \la}) said
~o mething that has ,iust stuc k w ith me cver
since I heard him speak. He pointed out that.
as he would wa l k across campu s. white people
wo uld not make eye COlllact with him . I wondered why this would be . We are, after all,
here al TESC where one should not expecl a
coml11ent such as that.
T his bot hered me so much that I made
so me observation s and paid attention to how :
I myself act when pass ing people by. What
I came to find was that pretty much nobody
looks at anybody else (at least at people they
don't know and don 't have a dog or something)
when they cross paths. In fact there is a sort of
social ritual of mutually looking away. There is
a point where two people get so close in passing th at there must be an ack nowledge ment
or an avoi dance and there appears to me to
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be a gencml understand in g thatlhcrc will be
an avoidance . That just sec med wrong to nK
So I sta rted , as a ge neral rll le, tll greet th e
people I pass. Just belore the moment whenthl:
usual eye aversion occurs, I make eve contact
and offe r a greeting- usually a nod and a
sm ile, sometimes a " Hi" or "Good morning."
I almost always gel a response in conversations
with a nUl11ber of peo ple with \\'hol11 I would
not have otherwise- because lovercamc that
fi rsl barrier 10 soc ial interaction . A lew people
have passed by without re spons e <1 t all. but I
suspect they were al ready past me before th ey
rea li zed I had g reeled them . "in one has ever
g iven Ill e a bad re s ponse Ihat I can tell .
I was very pleased 10 find Iha t thi s idea
carried well across rac e and gender and ag~
lines. At tirstl felt a lillie clum sy aCli ng again st
the gaze-aversion ritual: I was wo rried people
would Ih1l1k I was Ju st stra nge . Il turn oUlthal
a sincere and pleasant "hello" is accep ted lo r
what it is. This is Irue- I am a happier pl:rso n
for havin g taken lip thi s habit.
l owe thi s lillie touch of bli ss 10 thaI Dav
of Presence SC IllIIHIr. I Ivould like to , hare It
a nd perhaps I ca n. At the ri sk oI'revealing mv
1970s cultural Identificali on. I would like to
sugges t that Evergree n estab li sh a day during
which everybody is encouraged tn gret:t on l:
another. I originally thoug ht of this as <I " I)ay
of Pleasants." bU I that Illay so und too 1r1volous and co uld be conside red dis respec lfu l,
so I suggest calling it a "[Jay ufCon ta ct." Thl!
, Io!:,<l n cou ld bt:. " Eye Contact ;\·Iakes 'I' Co nta ct." '1hc eve 111 could be held ollee a } ea r or
nla\ bcnearf hehegi llningofeac hquaner.
Inl eg ration mean s more thall the physi cal proxi l11it y of people of different race s.
Integ rall on requ Ires interactio n, not ,iu st in
Ihe <:Iassroo m. but a lso as pa rt of the co llege
cOlllmunity. Making eye conlact is a lways
Ihe fir st step in interacting: We should all
prac tice it.
I want to thank that yo ung man fr0111 the
Fishbowl Seminar. I would be well pleased to
make his acquaintance and even more please d
if he thought I had a good idea here. In fact, I
am presenting this article to the First People's
office and distributing it to a number ofstudent
groups . If anyone reading this would like to
join me in this project, I would love to here
from yp u. My email iskrepka@ msn.com.
Well. I'm glad I said thi s. Today I am a
Greener!
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Athletes Qn trial for felony offenses should be
barred from Olympics
Through May 18
-------Thl"re need s to be a w ritt e n law that
C\dlllks athl ete s involved in cri minal or civil
trials to bc barred from participating in the
01\ mpi c Ga me s fi:H a minimum of two Oly mpic season s (t\\O summers/two winters ).
i\ I) opi ni on on thi s ste ms from a re ce nt
article in whi<.;.h Kobe Bryant. o f the LA
L. akers. was quoted as saying. "I don't kn ow
(about playing on th e Olympic team). We'll
have to see how it flows. If I can play. I' ll play.
I I' I ca n't, I won·t."
For th ose of you unaware, Bryant wa s
for mall y charged wit h felony sex ual assault
on 18 .Iuly 2003. He faces four years to life
in prison or 20 yea rs to life on probation if
co nvicted .
My pro blem with thi s, as id e from the
rape charge filed hy hi s g irlfri end , is th at thi s
shouldn't be his deci sion to make. It needs to
he spell ed out in hlad a nd white that people
under cri min a l or c ivil investigat ion are not
O lymp ic material. Yes. there is the possibility
the charges may he clea red, but when th ere 's
an ac ti ve investigation, I believe the perso n in
que stion should forfeit the pri vilege orco mpetin g lor your cou ntry.
A n er being so an noyed with Bryant 's
statement. with its implied sense or arroga nce
th at he would be all owed (mu ch less in vi ted) to
play in the 200-1 Ga mes being hcld in At hens,
Greece in Augu st. I obta ined a copy or th e
Int crnati onal O lympic Co mmitte e's U/ l'lIIpic'
I've read th e 108-page document ,
and was so rr y (yet un surpri sed) to find no
such restrictions are put upon at hl etes. (This
CharIer is the mos t recent and up to datc ve rsio n, as of 4 Ju Iy 2003 .)
In the beginning pages, under thc Fundamenta l Princ iples, the second paragraph spe lls
out the intentions of the Olympics: "Olympism
is a philosophy o f life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body,
will and mind. Blending sport with culture anti
ed ucati on, Olympism seeks to create a way of
life based on the joy found in effort , the educational value of a good example, and re spec t
for universa l fundamental ethical principles ."
This leads me to believe that the ca ndidate s
for the Games are chosen not on ly for their
athletic ability, but also for their respect for
all different kind s of people.
Belonging to the Olympic Movement
forbid s the discrimination on a person or a
country o n the g round s o f "race, re ligi on,
pol it ics. sex , or otherwise" (pg. 13 , Cllarll'r).
So docs thi s me an th at I am discriminating
agains t Bryant because of hi s alleged sex ual
m isad vent u re')
It a lso says that th e el ig ible " perso ns
mu st notab ly: re spect thc spir it o f fair play
and nonv iole ll ce, and behave accord illg ly on
the sport slield ; and re spect and comp ly in all
aspect s with the World Ant i-Dop ing Code"
( pg. 71, Chart"r ). Ap parc ntly, any thill g th at
('!J 111'1" r.
happens off thc field of play is fair game,
acco rding to the la C's governing doc ument.
A II you have to do is look back to th e
beginning o f 19 94 and remember a littl e
in eidcnt involving two figure skaters and one
crowbar. The Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan
in c ident to ok place just before the Nat ional
'C hampionships in early January (thi s competition preludes the Olympics by roughly six
weeks), and I-larding was soon placed under an
in vesti gation th at continued for mont hs after
the Games. It was then found that Harding's
ex-husband was the one who hired 'the hit man
to attack Kerrigan. Amazingcoincidence, isn't
it? An Olympian was being questioned about
her possible connections to assault, ye t she
was still in accordance. with Rul e 45 of th e
()Iy mpic' Charter.
But my a rgum ent is th at sportsma n Iike
conduct should not be restricted to th e playing
field . I believe it extends to all parts of life. So
how is Bryant eligible for competition when,
by the mere fact he's part of cr imin al proceedings for sex ual mi sco nduct, he 's certainly not
behaving acco rdin gly off the spo rt slield')
Playing by the rule s on the court is good ,
but it needs to be taken into acco unt how they
conduct them selves off the court as well. I'm
not say ill g that if so -and- so doe sn' t brush
th cir tccth twi ce a day. thcn they call' t be an
Olympian. I'm say illg that criminals, and those
under suspicio n, are not my ideal or Olympic
Baseball Superstars:
A look back at the sexy season that wasn't
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nlH easy (and. ;It linK , . Ilnl;lirl \\hen those
Iea lll, conl inuall\' , tOIIl P out any chance or
\\i nnill g . . \nd it'll be even harder havin g \(l
sa\ good bye.
" These arc the mos t ama zing and in spiring g roup o r g u) s I have been lucky cnough
to befriend . pia: with and coac h." head coach /
pitcher Scan Pres!.:y said. (Sni rfl)
~e edles s to say, Evergrecn's club baseball
tcam had its li pS and down s thi s seaso'n--Ill ore
down s than ups, if one j ud ges by final scores
and confe ren ce sta ndin gs (0-18; Pacific
i\ lou nt ain Conference, Nat ional Club Baseball
i\ ssoc iati on). But shou ld it really be about rank
and final scores" For the Geod ucks. the ends
cenai nl y didn't ju sti fy the me ans.
When it really co mes down to it. it takes
s Ollle talent to finish the season 0-18. T he
teal11's first few ga illes- again st the Univers ity orO regon Duek s and the Ce ntral O regon
C ommunit y Co ll ege Bobcats - may have
fore shadowed their ultim ate fini sh . While th e
The Outdoor Program
is hiring!
We're outside ...
--------(ic odllck s wcre ju st starli ng to get a feel for
pla\ in g toge th er all1 id sl their sexiness, th eir
ne\Vli) lInd unit ), wa sn'l enough to prevent the
Ducks and tlte l30bcat s fronl walkin g away
\\ ith tlnn: win s each. sco ri ng a c ombin cd
to lal ..., rS6 run s .
OK . now we kno\\ they didn 't ju st sle ep
through those ganles. In ract , durillg their first
gall1e with the iJobcats , th e Ge oducks' defense
remained sol id , and the team held the 130bcab
to on ly eight runs , dc spite being ob li v iated
during the ncxt day's doubleheader.
Two weeks later, tlHi Geod uck s ca me
closc r. While hosting a night ga me with the
We stern Washin g ton Univers ity Vikings, th e
tea lll led by 8-1 until the third inning, whc n
the Vikings too k ove r, sea ling their 12-8 win
with a three-run homcr. Their next close one
occ urred the next day, when th e tcam faced
no n- league rival the Univers ity of Idaho
Vandals. The Geodueks manage d five runs
by the fourth inning, but the Va nd als would
hold them to j ust that, winning 9-5.
Another moment worth mentioning is the
team's last meeting with th e Vikings in Bellingham. Though the Geoducks still lost the
douhleheader and forfeited the Sunday ga me
due to lack of players, it was the first time the
team had not been shut out ina series of games,
losi ng 12-2 and 5-2. Oh , and the highlight of
that series was definitely ( I know I already
wrote about it , but it's worth mentioning again)
that sweet triple play, where infielders Evan
Kearley, Jeramy Villianos and Tucker Waugh
threw out the hitter and two base runners. Yes,
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"The Search For Equality" Film
Series:
May 13, 7:30 p.m. Fundi in Lecture Hall I.
May 14, 7:30 p.m. Intolerable
Burden in Sem II EIIOS,
May 15, 5 p.m. Brother Outsider
in Lecture Hall 1.
May 15,7:30 p.m. WE.B. DuBois
in Lecture Hall 1.
May 18, 7:30 p.m. Nothing But a
Man in Lecture Hall I.
material. I'm say ing that such peop le ne ed to
be taken int o consideration and held accountable for their actions.
Assuming all Olympic and profess iona l
athletes dream of reaching thi s peak in th eir
careers, and years and yea rs or training go
towa rd s fulfilling thi s dream. the denial of .
that dream would be a severe puni shm e nt
designed to make them reali ze that their athletic status does not render them immu ne to
fel ony prosecution.
Maybe thi s is a hard-nosed stand. Maybe
I' m going overboard, but the mora l decay in
A merican sports is di shearten ing and often
makes me physically ill, and I love sports. I
can not imagine the way people who do not
ca re for spo rt s lo ok upon the players in que stion , and the fans that co ntinu c to fo ll ow thelll
afte r suc h an in ci dent. The whole thin g nl akes
me sad , and I'm not sure w hat to do. Ca n I do
anything as a fan ') As a spor tswrikr0 O r du
I need to be on th c inside of a n orga n izati on
like the Inle rnati ona l Oly mpic COllllllittee tu
get anything done abo ut this?
A II I k now is I don't like Kobe Bryan\.
and th.e Lakers ca n go down ina ball of flames
during the N BA fi nal s fur a ll I care.
And Tonya Harding is now a pro fe ss ional
boxer.
Through May 15
8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2
p.m. Sundays. Olympia Little Theater
presents One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest, April 23 through May lS. "A harrowing and hilarious story, featuring a
classic showdown between underdogs
and a bully." Tickets $8, Olympia
Little Theater, 1925 Miller Ave N .E"
Olympia. For more information, call
360.786.9484 or visit http://www.olym
pial ittletheater.org/,
Grab Other
People's Bodies!
.,--;---;------_._- - - - - -bv Jo e LOll
T he sweat st ings lI1y eyes as Ilry and concentrate. My already sore and achi ng nlll sc k s
cOl1linue to push 6 n ward ~ , but for how lung, I
don't. know .. I watch 'my opponent, hi s hall ds.
his arms, hi s legs, look ing for an .opening. We
grapple. ·1 grabhis elbow with my left hand ,
he grabs illY wrist. Two seconds later, I lift Illy
arm and shoot in .with one knee , sliding forward on the mat and grappling his legs. Pulling
· them together and pushing up, I unbalan ce my
opponent .and down to the inat he goes as I
scran.1ble on top pfhim to move in for the pin .
· A 'sudl;len shiff. ip weight and a pull, and I am
suddenly eatIng tbe inat.Myopponent has me
in ap arm bar. [struggle, 'lam tirei:l: iny lun gs
· ache''fo('air; my It{us.c1es ,warit JO give·llp. but
'" .~".
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I won't let them
. . ·mto my. opponent
· with lri)i back; I
my.
and
fight his __._"_'._':_
th e tea 111 st ill lost, but , man , did thcy give th ose
Vikin gs a run for their Illoneyl
And wh i Ie th e tea m was n't the gre ate st
score-w ise. they did rack up some impr essive sta ti sLi cs. Presley had th e highest te am
balling average : .378 with 17 hits, 45 at bats.
four doubles, e ight RBis. six run s. and eig ht
stolen bascs; in turn , Presley managed seve n
hit s in his las t II at bats. Infielder Will "Days
of Thunder" Tubman ac hi eve d the seco ndhi ghest average: .235 with an on-base percentage of .297; he had five hits in the last 13
at bats. Waugh had the third-highest average:
.225 with an on-base percentage of .304; he
ma naged five hit s in the last nin e at bats.
Kea rl ey ac hieved t,he team's hi ghest ER A:
3.89 with 7.39 strikeouts per seven innings,
pitchin g a total of 18 innings. Presley had the
second- highest ER A: 5.79 with 4.53 strikeouts
pcr seven innings, pitching a total of 38.66
innin gs. In addition. outfielder Jeremy Harri son- Smith had two double s and the team 's
only triple.
In the end, after the scores and the stats
a re cast aside, what remains is this amazing
gro up of guys who like baseball about as
much as they need air. If their love of the t:~'V¢ I(~\~;Ij¢~¢i:
ga me could ' ve been channeled into a winning streak, their opponents would've been
pummeled- that is, when they weren't being
bl inded by the tightness of the players' pants.
So, anyone can say they didn't try hard enough,
that they 'suck, their opponents were too good,
their playing was overshadowed by their socalled sexiness (so-called? Hmm ... ), that it just
wasn't their year, or whatever, but regardless,
10 one can deny that these guys gave 100 perent of themselves in each ga me. A score is
nly a number, though its permanent record
ay arguably withstand the test of time. But
earn s, players, unity, and overall effort are
hat stay ill our hearts and make us smile for
ears to come.
Forever "Dang Hot! "
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Thursday, May 13
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5-7 p.m. Samuel Birchman at
Gallery 4, fourth floor of the Library
Building.
7 p.m. Palestine Reportback at
Traditions Fair Trade Cafe.
7 p.m. "Writing Group: Writer's
Roundtable" at Barnes & Noble Booksellers.
7:30 p.m. An Eve ning With Marga ret Cho at the CRe. TESC students
with I D: $8 in advance, $10 at the door;
ge neral admission: $15 in advance,
$20 at doo r.
Friday, May 14
6 p.m. Jerry Franklin in the Longhouse.
8 p.m. Jason Webley at Waves
Studio, $6,
Every Thursday
5 p.m. Coed Evergreen Wrestling
Club meets in CRC 117.
Every Friday
Saturday, May 15
11 a.m. "Story time: First Book" at
Barnes & Noble Booksellers.
5 p.m. Coed Evergreen Wrestling
Club meets in CRC 117.
7 p.m. G.R.A.S . meets in Lecture
Hall I for Anime Night!
Monday, May 17
7 p.m. "Book Group: Fiction" at
Barnes & Noble Booksellers,
\!,
Every Sunday
7 p.m. G.R .A.S . Anime Night at
in The Edge in A Dorm ,
p-;(:
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"
Wednesday, May 19
2-3 p.m. "Grammar Rodeo : The
Compound-Complex Sentence" in
Library 2221.
4:30-6 p.m. Peer Revi ew tn
Library 2221.
7 p.m. " Writing Group: Olympia
Writer's Workshop" at Barnes & Noble
Booksellers.
7 p.m. "Story time: Good Night
Pillow Fight " at Barnes & Noble
Booksellers .
Sp.m. Free Improvised Theater
Show: Found Objects in Sem II
CIIOS.
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BUILDING A SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY FOR ALL GAY,
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Every Wednesday
3-4 p.m. Jewish Cultural Center
meets in Lib 2129.
147 Rogers St. NW
Olympia , WA 98502
5 p.m. Coed Everg ree n Wrestling
Club meets in C RC 117.
6 p.m. The Improv C lub mects
Wednesdays in Library 1600. For
info: impr ov @ evergreen .cdu or
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