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Two students shoot rubber pellets
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by Renata Rollins
Se veral st ude nt s were hit w ith BBsized rubber pellcts shot from a n 81h floor
window of A Dorm last Wedn esday. The
gro up had gathered by the bus loop outs ide
th e building to su rpri se a friend on he r
bi rthday with a song, when the fi rst shots
were fired .
Crystal Mitchell, a Housing residential
ass istant (RA) in the gro up, wasn' t s ure
what was happeni ng initially, until she was
hit within a half inch of her ri ght eye.
" It reall y hurt. I thought it broke skin,"
she said.
It was th en that the group started to
rea Iize the yellow and orange pellets were
coming from above, and Bob Robinson,
another RA who was hit, shouted up that
he would call Police Services if they didn 't
stop shooting.
At about the same time, three of the
male students from the group went up to
the 81h floor with a third RA, Amber Pine,
to find out what was going on.
SI.:I.: "Assault'" Page
More Inside
. Some students
want college to
probe race angle.
page 4
What's the one thing
most people don't
know abo~t you?
by Adina Lepp and Sean Paull
"I
really
trains! "
Nancy Deardorff
Timeline of events .
page 4
Senior
Telling the Truth
Photo courtesy 0/ Police Services
The AirSoft pellet gun shot fr om A Dorm last week was made of see-through plastiC.
modeled after the Sig Sauer S226. In an il1lerview Tu esday night Ihe male who shot
at the group regretted it, but was also frus trated thai people are upset over a "toy
gun.
"ft was 11.1' being pranksters. liS being bastards. bill not really. We weren't trying 10
hurl anyone." he said.
Students walk out
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"I
obsessively
watch CMT while
I'm alone and know
al most all the words
to th a t ' Redneck
Woman' so ng."
Annie Thomas
Se ni or
Co n tr ac t Classics
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"1 was the c reator of
the sequel to Vanilla
Ice's movie Cool as
Fallujah invasion
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Michael Nail
by Joe Jatcko
On the morning of Tuesday, Novem ber 16. a walkout was he ld in Red Sq uare
to protest the U.S. mil it ary's invas ion of
Fallujah, Iraq .
A few o rga ni zers s poke thr o ug h
mega phones before offe ring them up to
members of th e crowd who wanted to
by Joe Jalkco
s peak .
Students gather in Red Square 10 protest the invasion of Fallujah, and to make plans
Many of those who s poke proposed for future demonstralions.
ways for th ose of the Olympia community who oppose th e U.S.'s current weapons.
gets out of the shipment's arrival, a larger
occupation in I raq to take action locally.
This opportunity was used to create
protes t will be organized . It was brought to the crowd 's attention that interest in vigils that are going to be held
The event was widely attended and
Olympia's port is currently being used by around the Port of Olympia until the next
ma ny chose to go up in front of the group
the military to ship supplies and possibly military shipment co mes in . When word
a nd s peak .
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by N~cvVCUtJV\.IClM"YtU'\l
Backpacking in th e Halloween spirit on the Women in the Wilderness Outdoor Program (TOP) trip_
TESC
Olympia. WA 98505
Dawn Curran is a senior enrolled in Political Ecology of Land She is studying environmental studies and outdoor recreation.
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Evergreen Iri sh Resurgence Element is having a ceili?
That's right, we're having a ceili on Friday, December 3 (at the end of
Week 9) in the Longhouse! It 's free. Show up at 6 p.m. for free food ...
harrumph ... a potluck_
"'What the hell's a ceili?" Simply put, it's an Iri sh dance with a live band.
Everyone brings food. It rocks. It's fun. Trust me. If you don't like it ... hey,
you didn ' t pay to get in, did you? Plus you can score some free grub. The
raw energy will be ~nough to keep you there once you show up. No dancing experience necessary. We'll have a dance caller teaching you the steps
as the ceili progresses. In short, potluck at six, music and dancing at seven,
homeward or onward-at ten! First ten people receive a FREE t-shirt!
- tJrief provided by Zane Haxton
Voices of Color
How to eat on campus during
Thanksgiving break
Irish dance and free food in the
Longhouse, December 3
Voices of Color is a column designed to prom~te cultural diversity as well as understanding within the immediate Evergreen community.
Here, students of color may address any concerns or joys. It is a place for students to share their unique cultural experiences with the rest of
the Evergreen community. It is a place of learning. It is a place of teaching. It is a place of understanding.
Stuck here during the break? You may feel the urge to stock up on
Pop Tarts and Nak.ed Juice. Don 't worry if your fridge is small (or nonexistent). Aramark will be there for you at the following times:
Monpay, November 22: The Market, 7 :30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Tuesday, November 23: The Market, 7:30 a.m . - 4 p.m.
. Wednesday, November 24: The Market, 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Thursday, November 25 (Thanksgiving Day): EVERYTHING
CLOSED
Friday, November 26: EVERYTHING CLOSED
Saturday, November 27: Corner Store, regular hours.
Sunday, November 28 : Corner Store, regular hours; the Greenery,
normal dinner service.
Thankstaking: You're not welcome.
A Call to Action:
Respond to pellet gun attack on campus
by Jonny Baker
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Vote on clean energy at
Evergreen
Cattle rancher turns vegan
You may have already been informed by WashPI RG, SEED, DEA P
or some other environmentally friendly student group that you may
now log on to Gateway to vote for or against clean energy. Simply
go to the same website that you register on to cast your vote.
Evergreen Animal Rights Network (EARN) is presenting Howard
F. Lyman speaking about his transformation from cattle rancher to
vegan. Find out what influenced this radical change on Thursday,
December 2 at Lecture Hall 3. He will begin telling his story at 7
p.m.
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Display your art at the New Year Art Show
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The New Year Show group is seeking submissions for the New Year
Show, featured at The Evergreen State College gallery from December 15 to Fe~ruary 13. This
show is intended to celebrate the solar and lunar new years by exhibitirt new work by
children, students, master artists and the Evergreen community. Work in all mediums
is welcome. If you are interested in SUbmitting a piece, please send a message of your
intent and a description of your work to amswaims@lycos.com. Please include a .jpg
image of your work if possible. The New Year Show group needs to hear from you by
Tuesday, November 30, 2004.
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Rec en tl y,
an
ass a ul t .
occ urred on
campus
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which a student on the
eighth tloor of
A Dorm shot
B8 pe lI ets out
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at a group or stude llt s congregating outside
or A Dorm for a surpri se birthday party.
Severa ll11el11bers o f the group, along with
the Res ident Assistant or Ihe noor, went
up to talk to the assai lant. who proceeded
with hosli le verbal manners toward both
the students and the R!\. Acc ording to the
student s who had gone to seck reso lution,
th~ assai lant had a pair of sc issors in hi s
hand and was brandishing them aggressive ly. One of the student s, fearing for hi s
safety, defcnded him self by attempting
to subdue Ihe assailant through phy sica l
mean s. The ca m pu s pol ice were summoned and the assail an t was take n into
custody. In reading Ihi s. note th at th e
group of stud.: ill S was largely comprised
of students of color and that the assai lant
was a white male.
Later, a con ference was cJ lled .betwcen
the students of co lor who were wi tnesses
and .loe Tougas, the ca mpus Grievance
Officer. The meL:ting was largely unproductive , as Tou gas did not respond to
student concerns that the matter could
potentially have been racially motivated.
In addition, he sta led that the campus
does not have a uefinable ad mini strative
procedure co nc ernin g rac ial grie va nce
complaint s. Furth er, when the st ud ents
requested to hold a meeting wi th the assailant, Tougas menti oned that he would have
to prepare them for the met:ting, allowing
him to understand the point of view of the
victimized students he would be meeting
with. When the students complained that
thi s action would effectively quell any
truthful discourse between the assailant
and the injured parties, Tougas did not
respond.
It seems sham eful that such irresponsible, juvenile behavior occurs on a college campus that seeks to foster harmony
between students and create a mature
learning environment, yet there are those
in this college who do not seek to learn
or better themselves. These individuals
instead see this campus as a means to
alleviate their aggressive tendencies. In
addition, the fact that an assault was committed on students of color by a white male
is especially hideous.
While it would seem that the campus
fosters cultural and racial harmony with
the recent seminars given on campus, the
insidious reality is that the college fosters
a segregated , racially imbalanced and
uninformed campus. This is one of many
incidents on campus for the past few years.
There was a case where a student of col or's
dorm room was broken into and the word
"nigger-' was written on a pi ece o f paper
and le ft in his room. In addition, the word
-'nigger"' was written on the wall of Ihe A
Dorm stairwell. There was a case in whi ch
a st ud ent of color was in sem inar and disagreed with a white female student. Th is
pt: rson proceeded to claim that he sex ually assaulted her in front of the rest o f
the class . When he and the entire class
deni ed her accusal ion, she soughl revenge
by hav ing a white lIlal e friend taunt the
student of color in Red Square. Duri ng the
.Columbus Day protest, several Evergree n
students taunted the deillonstrato rs - who
were students of color - as th ey passed
by in pL:aceful protes!.
Off the top of my head, these are a select
few of the grievances that have gone unnoticed hy th e administration oflhi s ca mpus.
What hope can students of color have that
thi s college is a safe environment for them?
I have informall y investi ga ted inlo the
personal accounts of students, stafr, and
facult y of co lor and have found similar
horror stories. What do yo u say when a
student says they are afraid to wa lk out of
Iheir dorm because white boys are throwing rocks off the top floors of A Dorm and
urinating out of windows? What do yo u
say wht:n a studt:nt says that a white boy
was passi ng out Aryan Nation stickers at
a publi c event during Halloween? What
do yo u say when white students hold a
vitriolic attitude toward the Israeli and
Jewi sh peoples on this campus, when they
them se lves know nothing about the dissonance between the Israe li and Palestinian
peo pl es? What do you say when yo u hear
that staff and faculty of co lor feel al ienated
rrom the majority of white faculty? What
do yo u say when white fa cuity threaten
credit loss to students wishing to participate in Day of Absence/Day of Presence?
What do you do when you are forced to
say derogatory racial terms in class when
you are the only student of color?
It is clear to me that an impassive
student, staff, and facuity body will not
resolve the problems that occur on campus.
And so I am requesting that students, staff,
and faculty of color meet to discuss tactics for creating a safer environment on
Wednesday, December I in the Academic
Advising office. I hope we can begin a
positive movement toward change.
"Look, the people you are after are
the people you depend on. We cook your
meals, we drive your ambulances. We connect your calls, we guard you while you
sleep. Do not... fuck with us ..." - from
the movie Fight Cluh
Jonny Baker is a sophomore enrolled in
Teaching Through Performance: American
Radical History.
cooper point journal
by Jesse Powder River Flores-Johnson
As we return to our familie s to feast on turkey, potatoes
and cranberry sauce, most of us might not reflect on the significance of the holiday we casually celebrate. I'm not going
to bother to provide a hi story lesson to anyone who may read
thi s. It grows tiring for the peoples of thi s land to teach the
people who occupy our land s of the genocide that grants the
pri\(ilege to li ve here and eat Native American food , as ifit
we re part of your heritage and culture. We don't want to be
yo ur hi stori an, telling you of how sp iritual and balanceu we were before yo ur savage
desce ndant s came 10 our lands 10 live a lie. Yet here we are, another season, another
lesson, how the white man hrought upon the Red Nati on civili zation .
Consider the ce lebratio n and all yo u were taught that it meant. Think about when yo u
wer.: a child , cutting and pa sting your brown g rocery bags to make head bands with
sacred feathers pointing out from your ignorant brain . What have those lessons taught
you? T hat we welcome you') That we have van ished? Let this Thank sgivi ng be one were
you educate yo ursel f and you r ram ily of whose land s you occupy. As yo u stand arou nd
you r N::Itive Amer ican food, lo r once, g ive thank s to those wh\all ow you to live on
the land s your family has ta ke n fo r granted . For once, thank the Nation s th at provided
you r people wi th corn , beans, potatoes, lurkey and all the olher food s we know to be
ours. Thank Tunkashila lo r Iht: privileged and educated bra in YOLi have to recogn ize a
holid ay that celebrates genoc ide and a heart to resist it all. Mitakuye Oyasin .
.ksse Powder Ri ver Flores -Johnson is enrolled il1 A mcricall Indians and the Con-
stit ut ion .
Cultural ap·p ropriation hurts
by Korrinna Jordan
Last ni ght I read an arli cle in the Vo ices of Co lor
page about cu ltural appropri ation. At the time I just kind
o f chuck led, because although I understand where the
articl e was coming fro m I just didn ' t think that the white
dread lock ed students at Eve rgree n were reall y hurting
anyo ne.
Late last ni ght, or I guess earl y this morning, I was scanning through the channels on my TV and I came across
a program about the Blac k Native American Experience.
Basically it was about A fric an American people who
beli eved they were some percent Native American trying to get back to their roots.
They straightened their hair, wore turquoi se and spoke of meeting their grandfathers in
vi sion quests. I was rea lly surpri sed to see a culture that is constantly being ex ploited
by MTV and the mcdi a clinging to another culture tli at \V hitt: cu lture has worked hard
to kill.
I'm hal f Indian and I grew up on th e Colv ill e Indi an Reservation in Eastern
Was hington. I know that Native life isn't what non-natives think it is. When a person
finds out that I am half Native American, I can pretty much guarantee that one of two
things is go ing to happen: The person will claim their Native bl ood, say ing, "Oh, I' m
Indian too. My great great grandfather was 113 2 Cherokee" or rant about how cool that
is. For one, having someone way back in your lineage who was part native doesn 't
make you an Indian. My great grandmother was 1/8 Scottish. That doesn't mean I' m
running around in a kilt playing bag pipes. And secondly, me being Native American is
about as cool as someone else being white or bl ac k or Hi spanic. It 's just my ethnicity.
It really doesn't make me any cooler.
I see a lot of people, not just at Evergreen, wearing turquoi se, or toting feathers and
bone jewelry. We are used as romantic symbols of the past; we are used as mascots
because non-natives think of us as mighty braves. They don 't realize that we live lives
just like them and have day to day problems to solve, just like them. And no, we don·t
solve them with a bow and arrow or a tomahawk .
I guess my point is that although I initially didn't teel one way or the other about
dreadlocks on white kids, I can really understand the point of all the articles I' ve read
about cultural appropriation now. All my life I have seen culturally lost people clinging
to what they perceive as the Native way of life. So, you wamto be an Indi"an? Here is
my step-by-step gtlide to Nativeness. Take away the tee-pees, take away the peace pipes
and the war paint, subtract the vision quests and pretty much everything y~u ever saw
in Dances With Wolves. Now, add broken-down HUD housing, commodity Tood, shiny
schools and alcoholism . Still sound as romantic?
Seventy years ago, my grandfather went to a mission school where he wasn't allowed
to speak his language or practice his rei igion. Now, what gives any non-Native the right
to take what we weren 't allowed to have and rape it in the ass'!
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Korrinna Jordan is afreshman enrolled in Forensics and Mystery Writing. ShL' plans
to study film at Evergreen.
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"Assault"
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Pine and the three other students
knocked on the apartment door and asked
the student who answered ifhe was the one
who had been shooting.
The student, whose name is being withheld since the case is still under investigation, initi ally denied any involvement. He
later adm itted to poli ce that he was one of
two students who fired the pellet gun. The
other, a female, could not be reached for
comment, but both students were charged
with fourth degree assault.
At thi s pbint the stories diverge, but
the male shooter and two witnesses all
mention an altercation between the male
shooter and one of the three other males,
whose name is also being withheld. At one
point the shooter grabbed a pair of small ,
. red, round-edged sc issors, and the other
student left. No assau lt charges were filed
aga inst the second male involved in the
Til11eline of events
Shortly after 9 p.rn: the Gathering
-A group of about 25 students gath ers outside A-dorm on the bus loop
side .
Around 9:30 p .rn: the Shooting
-Two students shoot at the group of
students from the 8 th floor of A-dorm ,
using a pellet gun .
-An RA is hit a half an inch from her
eye.
-Another RA in the group sees a
shadow in an 8 th floor window duck
down below the window frame .
-Three male students leave the
scene to go upstairs to find out
what's going on .
- A third RA escorts them up.
-The four students ask the suspect if
he was shooting from the window.
-The student says no but later admits
that he was one of two who shot.
Around 9:45 p.rn: the Fighting
NOTE: What follows are three
different accounts as told by the
male shooter, RA Amber Pin e, and
one of the three male students,
Dorian Waller.
tipped scissors.
- He ra ises the scissors as a selfdefense gesture, but quickly changes
his mind because he doesn't want
the other student to grab the scissors. He tosses them behind him .
-At the same time the female student
he fell on tries to keep the two apart
to avoid a physical fight .
-RA Pine and the two other males
from the original group of three see
what's going on but do not intervene.
-The shover "ru ns off" and the
shooter yells , "Somebody follow that
fooL "
-The RA does nothing to stop the
shover from leaving .
-Police arrive and begin questioning
students.
RA Amber Pine's version
- Pine leaves the doorway and goes
down the hall to try to get cell phone
reception.
-She suddenly becomes aware that
one of the males from the group
and the shooter "were both hitting
each other. It was like push-shove
between them ."
-She calls Police Services.
-Police arrive and begin questioning
students.
altercation .
The other st udent left and Pine called
Police Services. According to Crysta l
Mitchell, when the shooter was asked what
happened, he said, " Dude, I don't know,
that crazy Indian attacked me."
The shooter denied making the remark
and sa id he had no idea what people who
reported that were referri ng to.
" I thought he was wh ite," the shooter
sa id .
Within minut es Officers Brewster,
Cripe, and Talm adge arr ived .
Police interviewed w itnesses of the
physical fight and the shooti ng. Both students who shot the pellet gun have been
temporari Iy suspe nded from campu s and
are not living in housing right now.
Rega rdless, many of the student s from
murrmg tile Jines
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A COml11entary piece on thi s in cident
appears on page 3 of thi s issue.
Headache, fever, and sleepiness: symptoms all co ll ege students are fam ili ar with
and oft n attribute to the flu. However,
these are a 0 symptoms assoc iated with
the rare yet fat I disease, M eningitis. Here
are some of the basic facts and preventative measures you shou ld know in order to
remain healthy and decrease your risk of
contracting thi s disease.
by Renata Rollins
Because white students shot at a group
of stud ents of color, some in the targeted
group wonder if rac e played a role in the
shoot ing.
As of today three meetings have been
held in response to the shooting.
The first meeting wa s for all the students who were in the targeted group to
talk about their conce rn s and how th ey
were feel i ng, accord i ng to so phomore
Jonny Baker.
Staff members present at the meeting
were Racquel Salinas from Fi rst People's
Advising Services, Andy Seabert ofHousing, and Joe Tougas, the campus grievance
officer.
When 5t udent s asked staff i fthe shooting would be looked at as a possible hate
investigati on.
Baker says he told st aff that "if
[Tougas) wants our report s he needs to
look at pol ice report s and should 've taken
note s on Friday."
Crysta l M it chell, who was hit by a
pellet ncar hcr cye, also attended th e
seco nd meeting. " It was ugly. I think
the ad mini stration knows th at we're very
se rious ."
The third meeting took place Wednesday November 17. No information was
ava il able at the time of writing this article,
except that it wa s initi ated by students and
public ized on th e college's online discussion board te sctal k. The post was signed
"St udents of Colou 1'."
Be sides the meetin gs, a notice was
posted around campus as well as on tes cta lk. The notice, posted by two stude nts
w ho were in the group that was shot at
la st week , contains some inaccuracie s
and only one of many di sputed versions
of th e incident.
But it sums up we ll what some members of the attacked gro up are feeling. It
rea ds, "We, along with many of our peers,
are in agreement that ou r rights as students
are not bcing observed properly. We also
hold the op ini on th at our minority status
as stud ent s of co lor ha s on ly se r ved to our
detriment in thi s ca se and other cases."
At thi s point. ove r a week after the
initial incident. senior Tenzin Tingkhye
is "not very pi ssed off at the student s who
were shooting. I think they were being
very, ve ry stupid . But I' m pissed off about
race on this campus."' In speaking w ith
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Students want attack's
motivations explored
The male shooter's version
Dorian Waller's version
crime, staff '·tap-danced around the iss ue,"
- He shuts the door.
-the shooter leaves the door open
Baker said, but overall "we stud ents came
-Almost immediately he hears
and as the RA and three males
to th e concl usion that staff ju st overrode
another knock. Anticipating the
leave, the suspect mutters something us fbr no reason."
police , he opens the door.
inaudible. He thinks whatever was
T i err a Johnson , a fre shm an who
- One of the three males from the
said was aimed specifically at one of attended, sa id " Iots of things came out
group is at the door (his name is
them . The one who it seems to have
at th e mceting." She hadn't considered a
also withheld since he could not be
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reached directly) . The other two are
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letters and opinions
letters and opinions
The Curmudgeon:
A panegyric to Tough Crowd
Arafat is dead;
Palestine still lives
by Lee Kepraios
by Jacob Stanley
Now th at
Vasir Arafa t
is dead, a lot
of the world
see ms to be
lookin g at
P a l es tin e
lik e it will be
even mor e
dom inated by
Israel for years to come, As if all the hard
work towa rd the Pa lestillia n state wo uld
just vanish once thei r leader disappearcd.
Israe l ha s heen co ntinu ous ly atta cking
the Pa lest i nian peo ple for yea rs and has
destroyed arou nd 60,000 houses, not to
ment ion building a 400-mile- long wall
ac ross Palest inc , divid ing the co untry in
two. The U.S. has all owed Israe l to continue build ing the wa ll , cutting offa large
number of Palestin ians from hospi tals and
schools, which will on ly serves to indi rec tl y kill more people in tim e.
Not to say that Israel isn' t already killing a lot of peopl e d ireetl), as it is. They kill
7
thousands of unarmed Palestinians every measures that might ensure cooperat ion
year without regard. Many of the casualties by both sides, but Israeli Prime Mini ster
are women and children, and more often Arie l Sharon never stopped doin g what
than not they are merely out on the street he wanted: continuing to take over more
after the military curfew, whi ch is enforced land .
Rea ll y though , who ca n bl ame Sharon?
by Israeli tanks.
.
The U.S . suppli es
Th e Israelis "
Israel with more
cont inue
to
weapons and aid
impose restricIsrael has been continuously
th an any othe r
tion s becau se
co untr y. They' re
they believe it is
attacking the Palestinian people
running
over
th eir land . The
for years and has destroyed
hOllses with U.S .
poverty level in
around 60,000 houses, not to
tank s and bombing
Gaza ove r th e
mention building a 400-mile
peop le every day
last three yea rs
with U.S. mi ss iles
ha s increase d
long wall across Palestine ,
to 60 percen t,
and SUp pOI1. Th ey
dividing the country it in two.
sit back and le t
as esti mated by
Israe l do whate ver
th e World Bank .
they want because
Half a milli on
Israe l is thc on ly cou ntry in the Midd le
people are depe nd en t on UN food aid.
Arafat 's negoti ations in the past aimed East that will always side with the U.S.
for a Palestinian state nea r Israel , not for Ir any thing, th e UN should he allowed to
any ext reme mcasllres to be enacted or a protect the Palestini an peopl e frolll the barlot of Israeli s tu have their homes taken rage ofl sraeli troops and bombs everyday,
away from them. Arafat worked toward but the U.S. isn't one to suggest that tacti c,
,111 idea of peace in the region with ce l1ain see ing as they want Israel in powe r. Ir the
"
UN gets involved, the U.S. will end up
look ing like the bad guy who supports an
invading country. Since Arafat 's death, the
Israeli s have continued their attacks and
the construction of their Berlin-like wall
ac ross the region.
The Palestine Liberation Organization
is workin g to install a new leade r of
Palestin e. The Palestinian Authority
conti nues to take care of their people the
best they can with what little support they
have and will continue to ri se up against
Israel and work toward their own secure
nati on. The death ofArafat will not stop the
Palestinian re, istance as long as the Israeli
gove rnment oppresses the people. Since
Israe I has no interest in peaceful change,
violence in the reg ion will onl y co ntinue
until the creation of a Palestini an state .
Jacoh Stanley is a fres hman enrolled in
AII/ erica in 'he 20,h Cel1/llry He is a regular con/ri hll/ or / 0 rhe CPJ.
Dreadlocks:
It is with
a
heavy
heart that I
e leg ize the
can ce ll ation
of Co medy
Cen tral 's
Tough Crowd
with Co lin
Quinn. The
show ended the week before last, bringing a great void to my day-to-day life. It
was, quite simply, the funniest, most irreverent, honest, and truly fair and balanced
program on cable TV.
The program consisted of Quinn and a
panel of comedians playing the dozens on
each other under the guise of discussing the
day's events. The brilliance of the show is
that Colin and his band of regulars may be
conservative or liberal , but every paneli st
on this show is a comedian . Essentially,
they ' re so cynical that it doesn 't matter.
This is a show about a bunch of blue-collar
city wiseasses, exactly the people who
shouldn't be on TV discussing the day's
events, doi ng exactly that. 0 f course the
combined social and political IQ of any
given Tough Crowd panel never matched
that of Bill Maher or George Carlin, but
that didn 't matter.
The show ran for two years in a golden
time slot after The Daily Show and somehow managed to stay completely under the
radar. The network was almost ashamed of
it, and it showed in the lack of advertising
the show received . Media outlets resented
the show because they couldn't categorize
it. Many vi ewers hated the panelists and space from the CPJ to di scuss the cancellafelt alienated by the discussions. The gang tion of the writer 's favorite TV show. Hold
of regulars knew eac h other and talked as on, there's a point in here somewhere ...
I have two passions: movies and standif the cameras and the audience weren ' t
up
comedy. I think the booting of Tough
there. Female comics were always welis a tremendous blow against free
Crowd
come, but female viewers were ultimate ly
speec
h
that nobody is acknowledging.
turned off to the show with its unapologetiWhy ? Becau se,
ca ll y masculine "
as
I know from
nature.
experience,
if
That
was
the
majority
of
The left in this country is
th e
exactly
the
audience
reaso n I liked
responsible for the worst thing
does not agree
it. No one I' ve
in our society today: political
with your point
met a ny tim e·
correctness.
The
glossing
over
of
view, they
anywhere likes
wi
II
have a hard
of the bad stuff like racism,
thi s show but
time findin g you
me. Even as the
poverty, materialism and social
funny.
show reached its
injustice with dishonest, guilty
The left in
final stretch and
language
based
on
meaningthi
s country is
the big-name
respon
s ible for
less, disingenuous standards.
greats in standthe
worst
thing
up
stopped
in our society
appearing (Dave
today:
political
Chappelle, Pat Cooper, Robert Klein,
correctness.
The
glossing
over
of the
Lewis Black, Chris Rock and Carlin), the
bad
stuff
like
racism,
poverty,
materialshow focused on the regulars and their
relationships as comedians. I liked how ism and soc ial injustice with dishonest,
noticeable it was that these people knew guilty language based on meaningless,
each other and strayed from the topic so disingenuous standards. I've been known
easily to bask in cutting insults and bit- to attack the left hard and consistently in
tersweet self-aggrandizement. You saw my writing. It isn 't that I disagree with
Quinn & Company as they really were their policies (quite the opposite) as much
on Tough Crowd: sometimes very funny ; as I find their fluctu ating standards under
other times embarrassingly unfunny; the umbrella of freedom of speech awful
sometimes hypocritically self-righteous and hypocritical.
As I watched the final episode, I found
and preachy; other times just plain mean.
myself
becoming surprisingly depressed.
But they never tried to hide their flaws just
I had never felt this way abo ut a TV show
to make you like them .
It was so much more real and true
before.
I know you ' re wondering why you ' re
than
Th
e Daily Show. I loved th e fact
reading a column that's taken valuable
"
that jokes were left in even when they
bombed, because iI's honest. Comedy is
not always nawless and perfectly timed,
and it certa inly doesn 't always elicit the
hoped-for response. Sometimes comedy is
sloppy and poorly delivered and falls face
first in the toilet.
And so, in honor of Tough Crowd, thi s
column has bombed and ranks as the least
funny piece I've ever submitted.
Lee's New Rule of the Week: Punish
the man-girl scena rio more than the
woman-boy! Let's stop pretending the
sc hoolt eac her in Las Vegas having a
sexual affair with one of her students a few
months back is the most heinous crime ever
comm itted in the history of. .. Las Vegas!
Here we are back at political correctness
breeding illogical, arbitrary standards. In a
nutshell, I believe that those treating a 30year-old woman with a 13-year-o)d boy as
anything like a 30-year-old-man with a 13year-old girl are guilty of one of the main
planks of political correctness: pretending
the genders are the same - confusing
equality with sameness. Should schools
and parents stop any teacher from dating
any student? Of course. But in long jail
terms, when she 's had two kids with him,
and when it obviously was something
more than an experiment or one-night
stand? Ridiculous, draconian and stupid,
because, as I say, a teenage boy banging
his English teacher in Vegas is more ego
strokin'g than psychologically damaging.
Lee Keprai os is a senior enrolled in
Forensics and Myst ery Writing. He is
studyingfilm.
not cultural appropriation
and po werfu l energy rece pt or a nd is
dreaded in an attempt to control energy
by Amy MacKenzie
Photo
not
available
In
re spo nse to
"Is it c ultural app ropriati on?'" by
Ana Lucia
Rodrig uez
In
the
Nov ember
11 ed ition of
The Cooper Point Journal:
No, it is not cultural appropriation.
Although it is hard to trace the true roots
of dreadlocks, they are found in many
ancient cultures, including Hinduism and
Christianity, not just Rastafarian, Jama ican
and African.
In tact, it is known that many pharaohs
had locked hair, including Tutankhamen,
whose dreadlock s are still intact. In many
eastern religions, hair is a very important
munali sm and so lidarity.
Many " new-generati on" Ras tas "see
th e ir dread s as a
nows.
"
Dreadl ocks
passport to smoking ganj a and
in dee d
did
It is unfair to accuse white
li stening to reggae
beco me most
music
, not und erfa mous in the
Greeners of appropriating
Unit ed St ates
standing th e rea l
dreads from the Jamaican tra(a nd thu s the
Ra stafari an cu ldition because dreads are not
tLII'e and va lu es."
American
unique to Jamaican culture.
white culture)
How ca n we
hold sta nd ard s of
whe n regga e
music became
understanding and
popular, but
respec t to white
"
those of the Rastafarian communities cer- dread-heads, but not to those in the black
tainly cannot claim to be the first culture community who do the same?
to sport locks and ' certainly won't be the
I understand Ms. Rodriguez and her
view that dreadlocks are a "sy mbol of
last.
According to Bouneith Inejnema Naba, resistance - African people's strugg le
who wrote a short history of dreadlocks, against raci sm, colonialism, imperial"old-generation" Rastafarians held great ism and unity," but for others, they hold
pride in their natural hair as a spiritual spiritual meaning spanning many different
statement and symbol of their struggle cultures, and for others it is simply easier
for nonviolence, nonconformity, com- than combing their hair every day. There
november 18, 2004
are many reasons why people of all races
choose to wear dreadlocks th ese days,
whether in honor of African Diaspora culture, as a fa shion statement, or to channel
spiritual energy.
It is unfair to accuse white Greeners of
appropriating dreads from the Jamaican
tradit ion because dreads are not unique
to Jamaican culture. No culture can claim
exc lusive rights to something with roots
beyond their own. As Ms. Rodriguez suggests, "if we all want to see social change
and justice, let's create an environment"
where everyone~' cultures are shared
openly as a way to build acceptance and
cultural exchange.
Amy MacKenzie is a sophomore enrolled
in Teaching Through Pelformance. She is
soaking up as much knowledge as possible
at Evergreen rather than concentrating on
one subject.
cooper point journal
The lesson
by James Avalon
..
So, smartypant s, you
think that you
know everything about
things flying
out A Dorm ?
Coming from
the
balconies and the
windows, objects of all sorts have been
plummeting to the ground. Take it from a
person who knows firsthand about finding hilarity in throwing things out a ninth
floor window ... wait, not just something,
try fireworks.
During a rousing night at the beginning of fall quarter, three suspects, who
will remain unnamed in this article, found
it amusing to no end to throw lit fireworks
- "The Cock," "The Merry Christmas"
and other sparkl ing treats - upon the
learned
be used only under close ad ult supervi sion
walkway below their window.
.
because they are
They were
They
hazardous.
reprimand ed
"
are
also
i
\legal
by the Resident
As the lit firework plunged to
here in the state
Director after
of Washington,
one of the susthe ground, a person coming
so really, people
pects mistakenly
down the walkway below may
shouldn't use
shouted the room
have ' been wearing excessive
them,
ever!
number to fellow
hairspray;
the
reaction
with
the
They could have
nOOf-mates who
blown
their
wanted to join in
firework and the hair could have
fingers off, or
on the debauchbeen devastating.
maybe
even
ery.
worse. As the lit
At the time,
firework plunged
these three had
"
to the ground, a
no idea what
terrible things could have happened. person coming down the walkway below
But sitting down in the common room , it may have been wearing excessive hairbegan to dawn on them that the previous spray; the reaction with the firework and
few minutes could have ended in a hor- the hair could have been devastating.
Or maybe a tree placed below the
rible tragedy.
Fireworks are flaminabl e. They should window: Having the tree catch fire could
cooper point journal
have created a chain reaction , and the
evergreen trees surrounding the buildings
could have caught fire,causing a massive
forest fire. A poor raccoon, because we
have many lurking around some nights,
could have been hit. And let us not forget,
a dormant firework is still not safe: A
person walking could step on it and fall
to their death, or maybe just end up with
a broken hip.
So what have we learned from all this?
Fireworks are not our friends; they are
dangerous, flammable, scary creatures,
and we should admire them only if we ever
go to Disneyworld and see them blow up
over Cinderella's Castle, or celebrate the
Fourth of July.
This is Jam es Avalon s first submission
to /he CPJ. He is a freshman enrolled in
Was te and Want.
november 18, 2004
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arts & entertainment
On the Screen: The Grudge, Vera Drake
by Lee Kepraios
The Grudge
Takeshi Shimi zu's remake of hi s origi nal
apanese film Ju-On, lik e hi s original Ringu
,eing remade into The Ring, is a moot effort
eeing as how the original wasn't very much
,fa movie to begin with . And like The Ring,
;himi zu's remak e of
'/I-On manages to be
ven worse .
The Grudge cmbodes everyt hing I hate
bout horror movi es
nd every reaso n
vhy I believe horror
s a shitty, overrated
,enre: We don 't rea ll y
orne to care about or
dentify wit h any of
he major characters;
10 time or effort is
xpended to establish a
,atent atmosphere, nor
loes the fi 1m bo ther
C) create and sus tain
~ nsion and trul y grip
n audience (save for
Ine effective sequence
waIving a haunting in
hi g h-ri ~e dwelling
mid a cold, clinically
)ned set).
This film is more or less a series of the
veakest kind of scares - the short shock.
t1uch of The Grudge consists of people
oing into rooms and looking around, turnI1g or peering around blind corners and into
ark spaces to investigate the eerie noises
nd seeing a ghost, as the orchestrated
rescendo on the soundtrack reminds the
udiences to feel scared about this .
The film does a disservice to its Japanese
elting by not bothering to embrace or
xam ine the landscape its mostly American
characters seem to inhabit. Wc ' re told at thc
beginning of the movic that an all-conslIIn ing curse is formed when a person dies in
the gripofa powerful rage . Of course, that 's
about as deep an explanati on as wc' re going
to get, beca use when we fin ally see the rage
being born in a grainy fl as hback at the end
of the movie, it clears up next to nothing
about any of the things we see taking place
before that.
And then we have
those phony, fabricated, s uperficial
shocks throughout the
movi e . People don ' t
seem to mind seeing
th e m over and over
again. A ft er a bout a
half hour, I became
inured to th e m. But
audiences love movies
like thi s because they
require no thought and
go out of the way not
to challenge viewer
intellect or prejudices .
Anyone cou ld have
done what Shimizu has
done here . He's done
the bare minimum in
horror content, hired
a stock scream queen
to be his star (Sarah
Michelle Gellar), and
packaged a stream of minor sensory shocks
and surprises as terror. Bill Pullman even has
a powerful, gripping first scene, made all the
more tragic by the movie that succeeds it. I
hated watching this movie. I suggest you do
something better with your time, like rear. range your sock drawer.
Rating :
~~~~
Vera Drake
British director Mike Leigh has proved
him se lf to be a master of capturing the
drama and tension that arises from family
crises. Hi s All or NOIhing was one of the
best film s of last year, and here he returns
with the eq uall y outstanding period piece
Vera Drake.
The lilm takes a har rowing and unflinching look at a middl e-c lass, ear l - fiftie s
British fa mil y and the
damage that ens ues
when o ne fam ily
member is prosecuted
and penali zed. We're
mad e to view every
s in g le procedure of
he r appre he ns io n,
prosecution, trial and ~
.',
conviction in pa inful
detail. It is painful to
watch in the final hour
as we see th e tra umatizing process the
sweet, well-wishing,
e te rnall y happy old
woman or the title is
put through.
The woman is
played by th e plumfaced Imelda Sta unton
in a beautifully understated performance. As
Vera Drake, she's an
affable and simple being who wants nothing
more than to be of use. She works as a maid
for rich families, always singing and humming and thinking all the misery in the world
could be alleviated with a cup of tea; she is
given the names of troubled young girls by
her friend Li Iy (Ruth Sheen) and goes to their
houses and performs abortions for no cost.
Of course, she calls thi s " helping young girls
out" as she uses the age-oJd method of rubber
tubes, pumps and lye soap.
A wo man nearly dying in a hospital as the
result of Vera 's ac ti ons leads an investigation
back to the Drake fa mil y right as they are ce lebrating their daughter's (A lex Kelly) wedding
announcement to longtime family friend Reg
(Eddie Marson). Vera 's devoted husband Stan
(Phil Davi s) is shocked by the arrest and insists
on following hi s wife through her ordeal every
step of the way. Their son Sid (Daniel Mays) is
angry and resentful of hi s mother. I also liked
how the police inspector (Peter Wight) who
makes the arrest is a caring, sympathetic man
with a job to do, and he
tries to be as grac iolls
to thi s poor woman as
possible.
The two thin gs that
make thi s film so effective are Leigh 's atte ntion
to detai I and hi s naturalistic way of directing
actors. Ce rtain scenes
feel tilm ed on location.
Interiors and sets in the
movie are arranged and
characterized right down
to the stocki ngs drying
by the fireplace in the
corner of the room . And
the performances in this
film are so good they
don't even fee I like
i acting . In thi s sense,
I Leigh makes us feel like
one of the family. When
the Drakes are sitting at
the dinner table waiting
for the police to finish questioning Vera in the
other room, I felt Iike I was right there with
them.
This film is not about abortion, nor does it
take a stance (although Leigh is clearly sympathetic to Vera's plight). It's simply a shattering
story of a woman who helps others in a way
she feels is right and how her tight, close-knit
little fami Iy falls apart as the result of it. A
masterpiece.
Rating:
Th is is the darkest hour of th e Dark
.ge. An epoch di sintegrates. The remain19 sparks of shattered ho lin'ess retreat to a
iercing remnant of thinness. We live in the
eart that circulates poi son to the whole of
umanity. Here in the Western Lands, there is
ghostly absence, a chunk of mind missing
-om wholeness. We have been folded on
urselves - we now look like pods in the
yes of the eternal. It is extremely difficult
) see ourselves, both because the image is
J hidden and because it is so ugly. This is
thy artists like Rachel David are such a rare
anarea to our twi sted and broken souls .
.achel David has a rare possess ion of the
ubtlelY necessary to embody an undifferenated massof image, to import form s from a
meless geography. They look like pods.
The Guard-in Gauntlet is a rare event - it
; like the fre shl y smoking living corpse of a
ling that has been struck by li ghtning three
mes. And the arti st invites you to touch this
orpse, poke it with a big sti ck, or hold it in
Satire
Bad English Good for Country, White House Says
by Mitchell Hahn-Branson
" ... 1 became plagued by a ni ghtmare in
which Congress finally proposed ... legislation that eliminated the letters a, e, i. and
II from the alphabet.. .. Their argument was
that Inonoculture was the wave of the future ,
that a language with one vowel would be
easier to learn as Engli sh became the lingo
of global corporate coilquest, and that the
letter 0 was the shape of the globe."
- David Jam es Duncan, "The War for
Norman's River"
June 25, 20_
From : U.S. Secretary of State
To: U.S. Attorney General
Re: Language Reduction
Dearest,
I have read the outline of your proposed
legislation to simplify the language spoken
and written in the U.S. and found it to be
an excellent start. If I may, I would like to
suggest a few modifications.
To begin with, I find many of your suggestions a bit ham-handed. When you tell
me about several of your brilliant ideas and
then say that you plan to pass them into law,
you run the risk of becoming ludicrous, considering they could be accomplished much
more simply. Officially banning semicolons
from all publications, for example, is hardly
feasible. Even in the event that you somehow passed such a law through all three
branches of government - and we are
still technically supposed to do that, you
know -- how would yo u enforce it'7 WO'uld
you be willing to raid the businesses and
homes of every publisher in the U.S., public
and private? Do yo u begin to rea li ze how
impracti ca l thi s sounds?
Rather than an ove rt ban, I would suggest phasing out the semicolon. First take
it out of White I-louse literature, then train
edi tors in the mainstream media to avoid
it. Eventually, when citizens are less used
to see ing it in their books, newspapers and
magazines, ease it out of the curri cula of
public-school Engli sh c lasses. From there.
just let it fade away. Thi s is not a stupid
coun try, but it is a forgetful one. Don't
waste effort trying to outlaw a pathetic littl e
shred of punctuat ion. Just let it go the way
of all quaint, arc haic usage. As you can see
for yo urself, sem icolons appear nowhere
in this illemo. That absence may take the
variety out of my se ntence structure and
make my writing sound a littl e flat , but it
doesn ' t by any means make me unintelligible. And that's the point, isn't it? I must
confess I ha ve n't yet learn ed to qllit using
the full colon, but that will come to us all
with practice.
Now, on to the next order of business:
relaxing the grammatical rules regarding
subject-verb agreement. Previous administrations have embarrassed themselves with
such phrases as " Is our children learning?"
I agree with yvu that the best way to avoid
such inc idents is to make them a nonissue . Some time in the next few months,
we should introduce the slogan "The U.S.
are a great country." It sounds jarring at first,
I know, but roll it aro und on yo ur tongue
a few times. I thin k you' ll lind that aller a
whil e it no longer so unds terribly unnatural.
I believe that after a few weeks of hearing
that sentence com ing fro m the mouth of
their comillander- in-ch ief'. most people will
say to them selves, "Well, that's just how the
pi'esid ent talk ."
It gets better: so man y people eq uate
·'U.S." and "Ameri ca" that after "The U.S.
are a great count ry" sticks, we can eve ntuall y get away wi th "Ameri ca al'e a great
country. " A nd once yo u'vc taken gramm ar
downlhal far, there's no going back. No one
in the White Hou se - .- and ultimately, afte r
a generation or two, no one in the country
- wi ll ever again have to give a thought
to subj ect-ve rb ag reement. (I hope we can
start saying " Is the Middle Eastern countries
a threat ?" before too long: it 's much easie r
to be able to refer to them as one massive,
:nenacing entity). No matter how badly our
president speaks, our successors will never
again be forced to wince at hi s verbal constructions, because in the end, not even they
will notice.
Now, the last piece of yo ur proposal: the
removal of certain letters from our national
alphabet. I fully support thi s action, but as
I'm sure you ' re aware, thi s will req uire the
greatest amount of direct action on our part.
Restricting and convoluting the English language is our greatest duty, but doing so on
this scale will take enormous etfort. Unlike
semicolons, letters of our current alphabet
cannot merely be phased out of common
use. We must convince the population that
it 's simply unreasonable, unpat riotic - in
fact, cruel - to make each you ng man and
woman learn the use of26let1ers in this fastpaced age. Surely, just for a start, we cou ld
take it down to 25. I suggest that you and
yo ur assoc iates immedi ately begin drafting
bills to outlaw the letter Z.
You may notice that I have barely used
the letter Z in Ihi s memo. It should be the
first letter to go, being one orthe least used
as well as the last. Words that contain Z can
be repl aced by sy nonyms wi thout too much
troubl e: "nap" for "s nooze," "stare" for
··gaze." and "area" fo r " zo ne," for eX<l mpl e.
Ifa suitable sy nonym cannot be found, we ' ll
simpl y replace Z wi th S, as in "magasin e.'I realize this sound s far- fetchcd. but it
shouldn ' t be too hard to make the removal
of Z a mattcr of national scc urity.
T he only serious problcms will come
from people with Zs in their names. I' m
afraid some will s imply be unwilling to
acccpt the offer ofa free legal name change.
No matter. Ifthe Sacks and Soes of this country can't acce pt thi s patriotic alteration, they
will quickly and quietl y be invited to retire
from public life.
That's all the feedback I can give you at
this point in time. Later we' ll di scuss plan s
for eliminating K, X and Y from the alphabet.
Keep up the good work.
Allmy love,
Snugglebunny
Milchell Hahn-Brat/son IS a senior
enmlled in Poetics and Power He is st/ldyinK writing alld editillg.
~~~~
by Adina Lepp
by Eric Green
9
Bitch (of Bitch and Animal) plays the Clipper Sunday, November 21
Installation in Seminar II: Guard-in Gauntlet,
Sculptures by Rachel David
yo ur hands. She says to her audience, "P lease
touch it." There will be an extreme amount
of human intensity concentrated in the sma ll
area of Seminar II E4115 fro m Wednesday,
Novemb~r 17 through Monday, December
6. It looks like pod s.
The Guard-in Gauntlet is a show of things
that have fallen through a crack between the
world of thi s and the world of the other. In
order to produce this epic mess of metal ,
Rachel David has become that crack of red
molten mass and constant churning in the
crust of our world. Rachel David has been
striking forcefully together the blackened
remna1ll chunks of those deathly spheres
that birthed our culture, and these are the
sparks, for you, in your very own Seminar II
E4115. Rachel David has given us the generative products of the confounding sanity
that floats in the lim inal mist and called it
Guard-in Gauntlet. Someday soon, when the
cramped limbs of Art unfurl and crawl from
the ashes of this empire carrying the seed
of life, that seed will be in a pod made by
Rache l David.
arts & entertainment
Bitch and Animal, a folksy queer duo
known for songs about rock ing strap-on cocks
and gender as pliable as Bitch's wild mane,
will be visiting our qui et college tow n. What
III ight
seem at II rst to be a. band name i's
also the names of the band 's two mcmbers.
Half of the duo wi II be in Olympia. Bitch
is going solo, as the duo broke up last year
after ten years of artistic collaborations.
She'll be performing with Portl and 's T-
bad." Bi tch is the one wi th unrul y locks.
makeup and the tal ent to playa mean violin .
In thei I' own words, they arc two city gel:k s
lett ing it all hang out. Sour .II/ice and Rhyme,
their third alb um , which was rel l:ascd with
much fanfare , is the finale . Both arc working
on solo projects. Their ballads arc d isjoi nted .
hootenanny creation s set to a backdrop of
an electric violin , a keyboa rd and Bit ch's
feral voice. The material lea ns toward the
tlamboya ntl y sex ual , with odes to vaginas
a nd sex 10ys in stock.
T-rexxxa, il syr upy sweet pop tri o ba sed
Ollt of Portland , Oregon, \V iII woo you. That
mllch is known. They are known 10 sport
': ombat boot s with tutus and peel off facial
hair wit h ribbons. In some ways, they arc
so com plex. Like how ca n they be so ser ious and look so soft ? Zero se renades wi th a
trumpel; Cort with the druill s. T hey dress
in themes and si ng of unrequited crushes
and of summer camps for lost queer kids. Trexxxa wants you to fall in love with them.
Bonfire Madigan, out of San Francisco,
is led by front woman Madigan Shive as
an avant-garde chamber rock experiment.
She shares a stage with rotating musicians
whi Ie bri ngi ng a theatrical qual ity to music.
Bonfire Madigan (B.Mad) is on its own
turf. Deliberate rawness is poetic as B.M ad
constructs gorgeous yet haunting ballads
illustrating the beauty of a master.
Catch all three bands at the Clipper in
Olympia on Sunday, November 21 at 8 p.m.
The cost is six.dollars. Th is is a 21-and-over
show.
Madigan Shive, leadwomanfor Bonfire
Madigan. comes 10 th e Clipper on Novem ber 21.
Adina Lepp is afreshman enrolled in E"o//./lion of the Book.
Bitch (left), of the duo Bitch and Animal.
plays with Bonfire Madigan and Trexxxa al the Clipper Nove mber 21.
T-rexxxa, a saccharine-infused queer pop trio. plays with Bonfire Madigan and Bitch al
the Clipper November 2l.
rexxxa and San Francisco's Bonfire Madigan at the Clipper on Sunday, November 21
to a 21-and-over crowd (!t 8 p.m.
Bitch and Animal, of New York
City, most recently released So ur Juice
and Rhy me. their second album on Ani
DiFranco's R'ighteous Babe Records. The
first record, Eternally Hard. gave them
notoriety with shocking statements like
"Child labor, breeding and logging are
One of Rachel David's many, many pods.
november 18, 2004
cooper point journal
cooper point journal
november 18, 2004
arts & entertainment
10
My soundtrack for the
Apocalypse
by Christopher Alexander
T he nex t four yea rs are bound to be
long, so yo u may as we ll have so me good
tunes. These songs will fi t on a sevent yfo ur minute CD:
I. "S t ic k th e
Fucldn g Fla g up
Yo ur G o ddamn
Ass, You S kinhead
C re e p" - ')ropa g'IIHlhi. " Yo u ca n
topple the ideo logy
,-=,,-=-==-,=:!.""-L.l.'.!J:=.J but no t th e a rm ie s
they enli st." - fm m 1994's esse nti al !-low
10 C/I!on Evaylh ing. Winn ipeg's Propagandhi remain s one of tile most intellige nt
punk bands since Bad Reli g ion, repl ac ing
that hand's swe ll i ng acade m ic lex icon with
snott y wisec racks: "Wa it a minut e, dad:
Did yo u ac tu a ll y say 'Freedom') ' Well , if
yo u're dumb enough to vote, you're fu cking dumb enough to be li eve 'e m."
2, ""m Afraid
American s"
Da v id Bowie.
Ho pefull y, thi s is
se lf-exp la natmy.
BO\v ie's ly r ic s arc
pit ch-pe rfec t snapshots of a lust I'ul ug ly
America n: "Johnny's in Ameri ca, Johnny
wants to suck on a Coke. Johnny wa nt s
a wo ma n [ ... j ,~ll hnn y co mbs hi s hair,
Johnny want s pussy in ca rs. Johnny's an
America n." Avo id the hi strioni c Nine Inch
Na il s remix and go for the unadul te rated
ve rsion on 1997 's Eal'tMill,!!. in stead.
of
6. " Here' s to
the St a te of Richa ni Nixon" - Phil
.. --"
.
Ochs. " Here 's to the
...
State of Mi ssissippi"
~
,
is the scathing gold
standa rd by which all
polem ica l 1'01k songs
are measu red. In thi s ou t-of-pr int li ve
per for mance, he changed the word "M ississ ipp i" to "Ri chard Nixo n." Feel free to
int ern ally cha nge "Nixo n" to "Cheney."
" Mi ss iss ippi" is still in print on th e retros pecti ve The re hl/tli)}' For lllne.
•
.
:
7. "Masters of War" - Th e Scott
Amendola Band w. Carla Bozulich. I
had grow n sick of thi s song before doing
research on New Weird A meriean Carl a
Boz uli c h (w ho o pe ned for Wil co thi s
month in Seattle). Bozulich's range is stunning, beg inning the song in a low g rowl
be fore de li ve ring the penultimate ve rses
in a full -throated wa il. It's untrained,
it's jarring, it's thrilling. It helps th at
drummer A mendola's ba nd is rig ht there
with her, propelling the song from te nse
military march toa Viking funeral, with a
saxo phone solo Ornelte Coleman would be
proud of. Thi s breathtaking nine-minute
perfor mance is ava il able as a dow nl oad
from hlt p:llwww.ca rl aboz ulich .com or on
A mcndo la's 2003 Cry.
8. "A Hard
Rain's A-Gonna
Fall" - Bob Dylan.
" Mas ters of War" is
th e mo st tru c ul ent ; ~PiJ
" l3l owi n' in th e IIiW
Win d" is th e mo st L -_ _ ~-=----'-"=
_ "".
3. " G ct off the f~l m o u s; but thi s is the
Intern e t!" - Le most bea utiful of Dylan's protest songs. In
Ti g re. Get off th e the line r notes to 1963's Frl!ell'hei!lin ' Bob
co mputer a nd ge t Dylan, he writ es that he condensed twent y
dow n' T he we b is the so ngs int o one. No k idd i ng: "I 've been out
new Nint e nd o, and in front of a doze n dead ocea ns [ .. .] I sa"v
Ka thl ee n Ha nn a h a hi ghway of diamonds with nobody on it,
is n' t foo led by a ll saw a blac k bra nch with bl ood that kept
yo u bl ogge rs: "Get ofT the inte rnet! I' ll dr ippin '." Dylan's im age ry avoids easy
meet yo u in the street! Destroy the rig ht metaphors, in stead deftl y usin g apocu wing'" For all of us who maintain that Iyptic absurdit y to evoke mood. The fin al
da nce parties a re revolutiona ry, F/'{) /Ilt he verse is hi s most hope ful: " I'm going bac k
out befo re the rain start s a- falling"; defiDl!sk 0/,A11' Lad\, was released in 2001.
a nt: "A nd I' ll sing it , a nd speak it , and
4. "Aww Yeah " - KR S- ONE. think it, a nd breathe it "; and triumphant :
Someone rea Il y need s to launch a study "Then \' II stand on the ocea n u nt iI I start
on how T he Teacher could drop bombs sinkin', but I' ll know my song well before
like thi s ten yea rs aft er Cri/llinal Minded. I start singin'." Hardl y th e se ntim ent that
My hy pothes is is OJ Pre mi e re, who pro- se ll s lin g eri e, but for tunatel y, so me
vides the menac ing, paranoid beat he re. record s ca n never be burned.
But it 's the Blastmas ter who still reigns
9. "Home of the Brave" - Mr. Lif.
supreme: " Re member the whip, rememT
he
cover of Emergency Rations. released
be r the chains, remember the rope, eh?
You black people are still worr ying about in 2002, says it all : Food is dropped on a
voting? Every Pres ident we ever had lied. c it y already in ruins after the same pl anes
Ya know? I'm kinda gl ad Ni xo n died ." have dropped bombs. Lifraps like Chuck
D with a very bad head cold, but it's hard
- from hi s se lf-titled album , 1995.
to not be won over by rhymes like "They
5. "First We Take Manhattan" knew we wouldn't support their attacks, so
- Leonard Cohen. "They sentenced me they needed something to distract. Hmm?
to twenty years of boredom for tr ying to Anthrax !" The beat is good, too.
change the system from within ." Ignore
10. "Faraway"
the comi ca ll y dated sy nth es ize rs, a nd
Sleater-Kinney.
foc us on Cohen's lines fa lling like crumbs
Thi s and "Co mb at
fro m his lips. Bush's first term was marked
Rock " we re two outw ith w ides pread prot est; let's hope we
med it ati ons
standing
get anothe r chance to ta ke the Big Apple.
on
t
he
li
be ral co nWhose streets? Yo u ca n fi nd thi s on Di sc
sc
ience
in
the wake
:2 of Th e ESS I? I7i i(J/ Leon ard Cuhen.
of September II (and in the ha nds of a
maniacal ad mi nistration). "Fa raway" wi ns
by a nose due to the no-ho lds- barred aird rum breakdow n in the bridge, and Corrin
Tucker 's ex treme ly persona l minute-bym inute retelling ("Nurse the baby on the
co uch, then the phone ri ngs. Turn on the
TV [... ] do n't leave the ho use"). Se ptembe r II was n't so fa r away from thi s Jersey
boy, but I' ll take 2002 's One Beat ove r The
Ris ing any day.
II.
" Rebel
Without a Pa u se"
- Public Enem y.
T he world can trul y
be broken dow n into
two categori es: those
who don't ow n 1988 's
II Tak es a Na t ion oj'
Million.\' to Hold Us Back , a nd people who
like music. A title as well as an instruction,
Chuck 0 and the Bomb Squad aimed to
revo luti oni ze the world ; they would have
to settle for hip -hop.
12."09-1 5- 00"
- God s peed You
Bl a ck E mp e ror!
Beca use you wa nt
to move to Ca nada,
right? T hi s song was
o r ig i na ll y na me d
afte r th e d ate g uitarist Efrim Manuck's dog died, before
chang ing it to "Ariel Sha ron visiting the
Templ e Mo unt and provoking inti/a dd.'
Thoug h it ma kes much more sense as an
elegy for a loved one, th is twe nty- minute
c resce ndo doubles as a pl ea for sanit y
fro m the A na rcho- Jewi sh- French- Canad ian nonet to the rest of the world. Thi s
is on the sprawl ing Yanq ui UXo. release
of2002.
ChrislUpher A lexander Ihinh way too
m uch abo ut mllsic. He is a se nior enrolled
in Patience. He is study ing wriling.
of queers to cha nge the face and style of
the straight man while not including much
content about the strange coincidence that
these men are gay and on televi sion . We
are in what soc ial sc ientists label as the
post-queer era .
If we are so over it , then where are
all of the out base ball stars? Tak e M e
O ut chronicles fr ay ing edges of Darren
Le mmin g, of hi s impromptu pre ss
Theater Review by Adina Lepp
conference, whe re he sa id , " I don't have
a secret - I am a secret." Lemming came
Base ball is Ame ri can. It's culturall y out to the awaiting press, sting ing and
as important as pi zza a nd striped fl ags . splinterin g hi s tea m. A repetitive scene
In 1927, when Albert Vo n Til ze r set Jack is the locker room. Everybody is naked.
No rwor th's 1908 song "Take Me Out to The showe r roo m becomes an allusion
the Ballga me" to mu sic, he created a to the garden of Ede n as, suddenl y, the
musical assoc iati on with a game that had c humm y g ro up of g uys cus s ing like
yet to ex ist in Am erica . Thi s was before sa il ors are silent. Th e sound of silence
football. Be fore qu arterback s lunged in is echoing, as the nudit y, which has been
cagey helm ets. Befor e hockey bra wl s apparent from the start, is shown as an '
became in fa mous. Thi s was even before inhibit or. Kip, th e resident intellectual ,
N asca I'. Befor e fla t screen televi s io n chimes in with something no one but the
and Lazy- boys w ith beve rage holders, audie nce understa nd s about the nature of
there was base ball. It bega n as a simpl e the moment. About the homoerotic nature
vari ation of the ~ ng li s h game rounders and of loc ke r rooms and how fear has stifled
evolved into something Ame ri ca ns could friend ships. T hrough Kip and Darren's
di sting ui sh around 1845 in Hoboken, New flam in g hot s hot ac co untant , we see
base ball through the eyes of the outsider.
Jersey wi th the fir st "real" gam e.
In Take Me OUl, Richard Greenberg's " Baseball is a metaphor for democracy," he
Tony Award -winning play, baseba ll is says , while falling madly in love with the
prese nted as a kind of soci al commentary. sport of base ball through hi s infatuation
To ma ny, the game of base ball is more with Flemmings.
then a pop-and-fly routine of "run a round
Tak e Me O UI is a provo c ative ,
th e bases." It 's a n Ame ri can pas time multil aye red comedy that starts out with
interconnected with Cracker Jac ks a nd the an idea. Base ball. Stardom. Queer. And it's
modern heroic idea l. Darren Lemming, when the idea is so intricately translated
an iconi c bi-rac ial pl ayer for a New York into a question that consequences of the
baseba ll team, beli eves in base ball. As the . question become clear. In Take Me OUl,
star pl aye r, he does hi s job of ca rrying the re lati o nship s c ha nge d and the g am e
team. A nd yet , the charac te r of Da rren suffered . In A me rica, land of baseball.
see ms to be fr ay ing . He 's li ving large, the question is shied away from because
env ied by eve ryo ne, a nd as tough and it 's a threat. Wh at Take Me OUI succeeds
sel f- absorbed as possibl e. But that 's just in is mak i ng base ball relevant to every
the surface.
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audience member. I was skeptical at first,
In the beg innin g, a nd up through being as it was a comedy about baseball
1947, baseball was an exclu sive s port. - two s ubjec ts which aren ' t usually
Only white mal es were allowed . Kind of integ rated with any success into theatre.
like a mic rocosm for American society Thi s was a tremendous exception. Beyond
a century earli er. And progress is still raising the curtain on some hot-button
slow. Tak e Me OUI questions why, out of' issues, it was entertaining. Seven jock s
all of the baseball players on major and were on the stage in front of me - naked .
minor leagues, there has yet to be an out And I laughed.
baseball pl ayer. Ifbaseball is a microcosm,
Tak e Me Out is a 2-hour, 30-minute
and media is any indication, we should be play written by Richard Greenberg and
see ing our first gay athletes any day now. di rected by Joe Mantello through Saturday,
. The ass imilation of gay characters both December 4 in the Seattle Repertory 's
in sitcoms, such as Will and Grace, and Bagley Wright Theatre. It won the 2003
their ow n cable shows, such as Q ueer as Tony Awa rd . For more information, go to
Folk und Th e L Word, is part of shift in http ://www.seattlerep.org.
cultural ass imil ation and acce ptance of
Adi n a Lepp is Ih e A rls &
gays. J li st as a book with a gay charac ter
in it does n't need to be about their inhe rent El1fertail1m enl Coord ina lOr fo r th e CPJ
gay ness, a fa shion show ca n enlist a troupe She is a fres hman enro lled in Evolution
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anager
position at the CPJ is now OPEN!
(That"s a $70 weekly learning allotment!)
Here's what the position entails:
The Assistant Business Manager is the CPJ leadership position responsible for processing all
money received from advertisers and subscribers. S/he also handles all ad client billings,
and is responsible for maintaining contract files as well as other business paperwork. In
addition, s/he assists the 'Business Manager in such ways as processing personnel paperwork
for ~ositions of responsibility, selling ads to TESC Bookstore and other on-campus groups,
and helping to appoint and supervise other business stafL S/he is intended to be the Business
Manager's successor.
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What's happening at Evergreen •.•
Hitting the court:
Basketball at Evergreen
by Meredith Lane
Than ksg ivin g break begi ns in two
days, all the mounta ins are ope ning their
gates and turn ing on the li fts, the Iines to
checko ut at the ma ll are at their annual
hi ghs, winter haliday candy and dccorations are on sa le, and yo u've just reali zed
that in less than two mo nths, yo u' re go ing
to have to wear th at itchy, bu lky sweater
Aunt Bertha gave you las t C hri stm as.
Yeah, the one under the welcome mat at
yo ur bachelor(ctte ) pad. All of thi s ca n
on ly mean one thing: l3 as ketball season
has started.
Both the mcn 's and women 's teams
at Evergreen are on their way to a great
season. Both participated in pre-season
tournament s ove r thc wcekcnd, giving
them th e chancc to grow and dev elop
together befor e conferenc e play starts
latcr this yea r.
The womcn 's team spl it the weekcnd,
taking a win on Fr iday vers us S im pson
Co ll ege. Though they've improved as a
whole since play in g St. Martin 's, the girl s
couldn ' t pull out ano ther win the following night aga inst Westm ont Co llege. That
didn't stop thcm from getting accolades lor
a few of the girls. Ka illrica i\ry-Turner. a
freshm an and fonner hi gh-sc hoo l standout
at Decatur (Federa l Way, WA ), made the
all -to urnam cnt tea m. I kr performa nce,
along wit h strength o n th e co urt from
.
Ashl ey Mill er (sophomore , Aberdeen,
WA) and Lesli e Jacobsen, a trans fer student fro m SPSCC Guni or, Olympi a, WA ),
is lead ing the girl s towards developing a
strong offe nse. They pl ay thi s weekend
here in the CRC on Sunday versus Wall a
Wal la Co ll ege.
The men's team split the weekend as
wc ll , ope nin g in New Or lea ns against
Loyo la University and tak ing the match
57 -45. Jul ius Marshall (senior, Issaq uah,
Photo court e~y of Evergreen Athletics
WA) led the team with 12 points and seven
rebounds, helping the team get their 100,h
Evergreen Soccer gathers logelhel; celebrating Iheir viciOlY al Regionals.
wi n in the history ofthe college. Mom entum
was riding high but didn 't carry through on
Saturd ay, when the men played the tou rn aGeoduck men's ' soccer goes national
ment host, NA IA Divi sion I 24'h-ranked
Xavier Uni versity. Xavier took the match
The first Evergreen men's soccer team ever to compete at a national level is
58-48, but Evergreen's Josh Peterso n led
in
Kansas
representing Geoduck pride this week. They pl ayed in the first round
the game, scor ing IJ points and taking
of the NAIA National To urnament last night at 7:45 p.m. By the time the game
eight rebounds.
was over, the CP J had already gone to print. Stay tuned for an update when we
This weekend they take on Lew is-Clark
get back for classes afte r Thanksgiving break!
State, th e 10'h -ranked NA IA Division I
program in the country. T he game starts
- Sports brief provi ded by Meredith Lane
at 7:30 p.m. Head coach John Barbee is
conlident the team will be ready to put on
a stell ar pcrform ance : " I' m really pro ud
of their defensive development over the
past few week s."
so yo u can celebrate more than j list what Mer.edilh is a senior enrolled in Pooled
That hard work wi II carry both tea ms yo u' re thankfu l for. If nothing else, it will SovereignlY and Corporale Managemenl.
through Tha nksgiving break, where they give yo u more tim e to think of an excllse Instead a/filling up on stuffing. cranberry
will be lucky to get the practice off on for A lint Bertha .
sauce, overcooked lurkey and homemade
Friday. So if yo u have time, postpone
Until next week , Go Green!
pie. she s going 10 be carving powder at
hcading home until latcr this wcckcnd,
Wh istler. Happy Holidays!
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Thursday, November 18
5 p.m. The Native Student Alli ance presents Salish Weaving
and Carving Exhibit Opening,
featuring Susan Pavel and
Bruce Miller and poetry reading
featuring Liz Woody and Sherman Bitsui in Library Gallery IV. .
Friday, November 19
6 p.m. The Native Voices Film
Festival will begin at the Ethnic
Cultural Theater. For more information, call (206)-616-3202 .
8 p.m. The Native Student Alliance presents Black Fire, a
Dine' (Navajo) group combining
traditional music with punk. First
floor Library Lobby.
8 p.m. Ocho Pies plays at Traditions Cafe.
Their repertoire includes AfroCaribbean music .
Saturday, November 20
7 p.m. J. Andrew Rodriguez
will read from his book Robins
Facing South : Poems at Orca
Books .
Wednesday, December 1
World AIDS Day, featuring HIV
testing and workshops all day at
The Evergreen State College.
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in the Longhouse. Includes a
potluck and free T-shirts for the
first ten attendees.
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There are loads of them to
choose from .
Monday
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu
meets in the Longhouse.
5 p.m. The Cooper Point Journal meets in CAB 316 . Come
participate in the organization
and the planning of the newspaper.
Tuesday
4 p_m. Prison Action Committee
meets in CAB 320 , Workstation
10.
4 p.m. STAR, Seminar II B2109.
4 p.m. Racquetball in the CRC.
5 p,m. Yoga Club, CRC 117.
5 p.m. Gaming Guild, CAB 320 .
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu
meets in the Longhouse.
7 p.m. Associated Students of
TESC (ASTESC), Seminar II
A3105 .
7 p.m. Students for Christ,
Seminar II A2100 .
Wednesday
7:30 a.m. Yoga Club, CRC 116.
1 p,m. Evergreen Queer Alliance, Seminar II C2107.
1 :30 p.m. Environmental
Resource Center, Sem II E3105 .
1 :30 p_m_ Native Student Alli ance meets in CAB 320, Workstation 13.
2 p.m. Evergreen Capitalists
Organization, Library 1308.
2 p.m. VOX - Communities for
Choice, CAB 320, Cubicle 17.
Office hours : Wednesday, 1-2
p.m. , CAB 320, Cubicle 17.
3 p.m. Jewish Cultural Center,
Seminar II E2105.
3 p.m. SEED , Seminar II
E3109.
3 p.m. Women of Color Coalition , CAB 206.
3 p.m. Writer's Guild , Seminar II
A1107.
4 p.m. EPIC, Seminar II A2105 .
4 p.m. CPJ production night.
Come participate in putting
together your student newspa per.
4:30 p_m_ Radical Catholics
meet in CAB 320.
5 p.m. Evergreen Irish Resurgence Element meets in CAB
320, Workstation 4.
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu
meets in the Longhouse.
Thursday
7:30 a.m. Yoga Club, CRC 116.
7 p.m. Improvisational Theater,
Seminar II C1105.
3 p.m. Student Union Campaign
Group meets in CAB 320.
4 p.m_ Carnival, Seminar II
01107.
4 p.m. Women's Resource
Center, CAB 315 .
4 p.m. Racguetball in the CRC.
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4 p.m. CPJ paper critique .
Come voice concerns about the
week 's paper.
5 p.m . Yoga Club, CRC 117.
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu
meets in the Longhouse.
6 p.m. GeoDance Club, CRC
316 .
6 p.m. EARN meets to discuss
animal rights in CAB 320 .
6 p.m. Men's Center meets in
CAB 320 in Workstation 2.
7 p.m. Percussion Club, basement of the Library Building .
All are welcome and drums are
provided!
7 p_m_ Juggling Club , Seminar
II B1107.
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p.m.
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Location : Library Building , room
1407
Phone: (360) 867-6464
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Hours :
Monday- Friday : 8 a.m . to 5 p.m .
Special appointments can be
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Friday
Library Hours
3 p.m. CPJ Friday Forum.
Come put your ethics to the
test, learn about journalism , and
discuss issues in journalism and
group dynamics.
5 p_m. Electronic Music Collective , Seminar II C2107.
7 p.m. Giant Robot Appreciation Society, Seminar II A1105 .
5 p_m. Evergreen Kung Fu
meets in·the Longhouse.
Sunday
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3 p.m. Kickball on the field next
to the HCC.
5:30 p.m. Yoga Club, Lecture
Hall 3.
6:30 p.m . Common Bread,
Longhouse Cedar Room .
Location : Evergreen Tutoring
Center, CAB 108, next to the
Greenery.
Phone: (360) 867-5630
Hours:
Monday-Thursday: 10 a.m.-8
p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m .
Sunday: 12 p.m .- 6 p.m .
Writing Center
Location: Evergreen Tutoring
Center, CAB 108, next to the
Greenery.
Hours:
Monday-Thursday: 10 a.m .-8
p.m.
Friday: 11 a.m.-4 p.m .
Sunday: 12 p.m .-6 p.m.
Bookstore. Hours
Monday : 8 a.m.-6 p.m .
Tuesday 8 a.m .-6 p.m.
Wednesday 8 a.m.-6 p.m. '
Thursday 8 a.m.-6 p.m .
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Saturday CLOSED
Sunday CLOSED
CRC Hours of Operation
Facility Hours On Campus
Quantitative & Symbolic
Reasoning Center
Monday-Thursday: 8:30 a.m.10:45 p.m .
Friday: 8 :30 a.m.-6:45 p.rn.
Saturday : 10:30 a.m.-6:15 p.m .
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Sunday: 12 pm .-4 p.m.
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Location : Library Building ,
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Phone: (360) 867-6312
Email : Advising
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Drop-ins:
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Location: Library Building,
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Phone: (360) 867-6193
Email : Career Development
Office Hours:
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