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initiative passes
Greeners, we did it. We passed the
Clean Energy initiative-one major step
towaq:l making the campus more sustai nab le and our air a little cleaner-in the
campus-wide election, which officially
ended last Friday, January 7. Of the 28%
of the campus who voted, 91 % voted yes to
raise student fees by one dollar per credit
for clean energy.
Most ofthe money wi II be used to purchase green tags, which we will buy from
a vendor who will invest it in Northwest
clean energy. We will be helping su pport
eastern Washington wind farmers while
reducing our need for energy from coal
and other non-renewab le fossi l fuels
and environmental ly destructive energy
sources.
Before we can create the new fee,
it must first be approved by Evergreen's
Board of Trustees. I, as the co-coordinator of Greener Futures, will be drafting an
implementation proposal to be presented
to the Board of Trustees board by the
end of the quarter. I am working closely
with Collin Orr, the Interim Director of
Facilities Services, and Steve Trotter,
Executive Director for Operational Planning and Budget. Together we will look
at all of the nuts and bolts of how the fee
and the allocation will happen. We need
to decide what kind of board or group will
ex ist to spend the 10% of the fee, which
will stay on campus for renewable energy
projects. We will most likely be establishing a group to allocate the funds for oncampus clean energy installations. Based
on the time-line of the Board of Trustees,
the fee will start to apply to students in
Fall 2005.
This is not the end of the campaign,
though it is a big step. This movement will
live on through the student g roup Greener
Futures, who will continue working to
make Evergreen more sustainable. If we
Candidates for the Director of Fac ilities
will be on campus and avai lable for interviews by members of the Evergreen
community. The Director of Facilities
oversees the bui lding and maintenance of
the faci Iities that Greeners use everyday.
Open sessions will take place from noon
to I p.m. on Friday, January 14 in Seminar
II E31 09; Wednesday, January 19 in CAB
110; and Friday, January 21 in Seminar
II E3109. Each session will feature one
candidate.
keep looking, we will find more ways to
use energy more efficiently. Even through
things like growing more food on campus,
we will use less fossil fuels as less trucks
will be needed to drive. Evergreen is an
ecological system, and the more we think
of it that way, the healthier our community will be. Come learn more about
clean energy implementation and Greener
Futures next Wednesday at 2:30 p.m . in
CAB 320; it will be a short 30-minute
meeting following the ERC/CENSE
meeting and proceeding the SEED/DEAP
meeting.
Also, WashPIRG is working on the
Clean Cars Campaign to pass clean cars
legislation by the end of this legislative
session to bring more clean cars to Washington. The best way to get involved with
Clean Cars is at Wash PI RG 's General
Interest Meeti ng tonight, Thursday, January 13 at 7 p.m. in Lecture Hall 4. Their
regular meetings are Wednesdays at 5 p.m.
on the third floor of the CAB, in the Pit.
Keep your eyes and your mind open
so we can find creative solutions that will
improve our quality of life and lower our
impact on the env ironment. The Synergy
conference is coming up in four weeks,
which will provide a platform for us to
Acto rs wa nted
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move forward aware and inspired ways to
work together as a community for environmental and socia l change. If you want to
help put this event together, please email
me or call the Greener Futures office.
Thanks, Evergreen, for taking a stand
on global warming. Thanks for all of the
volunteers who helped get the word out
and thanks to everyone who voted. Thanks
to the following student groups for your
time and support: WashPIRG , Students at
Evergreen For Ecological Design (SEED);
Environmental Resource Center (ERC);
Dev e loping Ecologica l Agricultural
Practices (DEAP); and Greener Futures.
Thanks also to the outside organizations
EnviroCitizen and Climate Solutions'
Energy Outreach Center.
Please direct any comments or concerns about Clean Energy implementation
to my email.geoducks@gmail.com. or
call the Greener Futures office at 867-6555
or the WashPIRG office at 867-6058.
Two Evergreen students are in search of
actors and crew members for a zany, genrecrossing television show set in our very
own college. We are looking for acto rs of
all ages, genders, colors and shapes. We
want to make humor, romance, action ,
horror, noir, science fiction, pseudo-news,
TV commercials and more. This show is
student-run, student-written and studentproduced, with no faculty oversight. No
experience is necessary; amateurs and
first-timers are welcome as well as those
who have acting or behind-the-scenes
experience.
.
To get involved, please email
QUACKtv@yahoo.com or call Conor
and Rob at (360) 867-0551.
-Robert Hopt
Brad Bishop is a junior at Evergreen
and is studying community organizing
and democracy. He is currently working
on a learning contract called Greener
Democracy and is involved with Student
Union, Greener Futures, WashPIRG and
the Synergy conference.
There's no school this Monday, January
17. If you would like to do something to
honor the day, you can register for a service
project coordinated by AmeriCorps Youthin-Service. Project sites include Habitat
for Humanity, Left Foot Organics, South
Sound Reading Foundation's Book Barn,
Providence St. Francis Garden, Boys and
Girls Club of Thurston County, Decatur
Wood s Park s, Thurston County Food
Bank, Olympia F ilm Society and the
Hands-on Children's Museum.
To get involved, contact Marcie Sample
at 360-943-0780 or msample@comm unit
yyouthservices.org
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delay in opening
Seminar II cafe
Opening set for Jan. 18
By Angie Jones
KK Pandya is a senior researching polymer chemistry.
A couple of minor setbacks have
pushed the Seminar II cafe opening date
back indefinitely from its previously
. scheduled January 3 opening.
A space that is two inches too narrow
for the main display case and the late
arrival of tv.:o refrigerators have thrown
the project off schedule once again,
according to TESC interim Director of
Facilities Collin Orr, who is overseeing
the project.
Orr is not at all surprised by what
he describes as the "delay sequence"
experienced with this project. "But this is
construction, things happen," he said.
TESC Director of Housing and Food
Service John Lauer believes everyone
involved is doing their best, but he worries
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about student perception. He likened the
frustrating situation to inviting everyone
to a birthday party, then throwing it four
months late. Lauer hopes students understand the delays are "not taken lightly" by
college staff.
Orr expects the refrigerators to be
delivered on either January 14 or January
18, and he hopes to have the wall moved
and the display case installed by the end
ofthis week. If all runs smoothly, the only
completion-date variable would depend on
the possibility that the cafe won't meet
county health department requirements.
The cafe is set to open Tuesday,
January 18 according to Craig Ward from
Aramark, who is in charge of getting the
cafe in working order. But this date is by
no means guaranteed. Both Orr and Lauer
are gun-shy when it comes to providing
a solid date of completion. According to
Lauer, "Every time we're close, something
else happens."
Angie Jones is a senior studyingjournalism
through an independent contract. She is
interning as a news writer with the CPJ
Renata Rollins also contributed to this
report.
Volunteer on Martin Luther
King Day
Volunteers needed for
Synergy
This year's Synergy, The Sustainable
Living Conference, will be held at
Evergreen February 9-12. It will be
action-packed with keynote speakers such
as Paul Stamets, Tom Bender, Brian Tokar,
Michael Palmer, Graciela Monteagudo and
more. Synergy is a student-run conference
that cross-pollinates the movements of
ecology, design, health, culture and social
justice.
Volunteers are needed to make this event
happen! If you want to get involved please
contact seed@evergreen.edu, 867-6493 or
visit the SEED office in CAB 320.
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JANUARY 13, 2005
Meet the CP J Staff!
Nevvs in Brief
IntroducinJJ the Evergreen
Pre-Law students Society
For many students, the Law School
Admission Test, commonly known as the
LSAT, is an intimidating prospect. For
other students, law-school itselfis an ominous presence lurking just over the horizon of our education. For students of The
Evergreen State College, neither of these
conditions has to be true. L am pleased to
announce a new club forming on campus,
the Evergreen Pre-Law Students Society
(EPLSS). For the present, we are meeting
in The Pit on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. If you
are interested in attending and participating but a Tuesday night meeting conflicts
with other obligations, please contact me.
We are still working to find the best possible time to meet, so we appreciate any
feedback.
As a club, we intend to provide social
and academic support for students preparing for law school or other law-related
career fields. Because there is no such
thing as a true "pre-law" major, we welcome students from all discipl ines and concentrations and from all levels of knowledge and experience. All that is required
is an interest in the legal profession. We
will offer a diverse range of activities
and opportunities for the benefit of all
involved, and we will gather and share
information and resources related to the
transition from undergraduate education
to law school and beyond.
For more information, contact Michael Bahrt, bahmic04@evergreen.edu
(Coordinator).
-Brief provided by Michael Bahrt
Social Justice Mass
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Winter quarter brings new section to the CPJ, the Features section.
To kick things off, we thought we'd introduce the whole staff.
On January 20 George Bush will be inaugurated under the false auspice of
a "popul~r mandate" from the people of this country. Bush says that he has
"political capital" and that he "intend[s] to spend it." In so many words, he has
promised to continue his unjust war on the people of the world.
On that day, students, youth and ordinary people across the nation will take
a stand to oppose this agenda. It is our responsibility as citizens of the world to
denounce the injustices committed by our government in our name. Will you
stand silently while our government bombs civilians, terrorizes immigrant communities here at home and initiates brutal police state restrictions?
The Olympia chapter of Not In Our Name invites you to join your fellow
Evergreen students as well as thousands of youth from across the state in opposing
Bush's agenda of war and repression. Walk out of class at t t a. m. Converge
at Red Square. We will have a short rally and carpooling information session
to get as many people as possible to Seattle.
We will gather with students from Seattle Central Community College, the
University of Washington, Shoreline Community College, South Puget Sound
Community College, Seattle University, and other colleges and high schools at
Seattle Central Community College's campus on the corner of Broadway and
Pine. We will march downtown and join the main Not In Our Name Rally to
deliver a NO to war on the world, NO to pol ice state restrictions, NO to roundups
and detentions of immigrants and NO to the whole Bush Agenda!
Winter Bike Maintenance Classes are here!
Come to the TESC Bike Shop Wednesday evenings from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.,
January 12 through February 16 for free weekly classes on bike repair and
adjustment. You'll get great tips from experienced cyclists on how to keep your
bike in safe and smooth operating condition. Did I mention that all this is free?
Space is limited, so please show up on time to reserve workspace. Participants
are strongly encouraged to bring their own bike to the classes, but you don't
need to own a bicycle to attend. Be prepared to get greasy!
For further information on the class series, check out the schedule posed
outside the TESC Bike Shop (in the basement of the CAB) or contact Ben Tabor
at Tabben03@evergreen.edu.
You can reach The Evergreen Bike Shop at (360) 867-6399.
Angie Arcuri is a junior enrolled in
Foundations of Performing Arts. She is
the coordinator of Radical Catholics for
Justice and Peace.
WashPirg opportunities
Name: Adrian Persaud
Position at CPJ: Business Manager
Year at Evergreen: Senior
Contract: Becoming a
Customs Broker
Hobbies: eating brown rice, chewing
brown rice, tasty brown rice. yum.
Monday nights in the Bike Shop is Ladies' Night. Starting Monday, January
17, Angie and Nikki will be hosting a six-week workshop series exploring the
bicycle, headset to tail-fenders. Please come on all or any of these nights.
Cooper Point Journal
work in print
Meetings
Business manager. .................. .. ....... "......... Adrian Persaud
Ass!, business manager ................ .... ...... .................. unfilled
Ad proofer and archivist.. ..................".". Adrian Wittenberg
Circulation manager/Paper archivist ... ........ ".Jacob Stanley
Distribution manager"""" .. """ "." .... ... ".,, .. David Hornbeck
Ad sales representative"........ "" .................. Andrew James
News
Editor-in-chief ................................................ Renala Rollins
Managing editor. ...................................... .... .....Corey Young
Arts &Entertainment coordinalor. ..... Christiopher Alexander
Briefs coordinator.................... ......... "............ Kate DeGraaff
Calendar coordinator ....... ...... .. ...................... Kalie Thurman
Comics coordinalor ........... "........."." ........... .. Chelsea Baker
Copy editor................ ....... "....... "...... Milchell Hahn-Branson
Copy edilor.......................... ................................. Sean Paull
Letters & Opinions coordinator "............... "..Sam Goldsmilh
News coordinator""... ".. "........ "................ "... ..... Joe Jatcko
Photo coordinator... ............. .................................. Eva Wong
Seepage coordinator. .................................. lkuko Takayama
Sports coordinator "....... ".................. "... "..... Meredith Lane
Voices of Color coordinalor ...... ".. "" .. .Ana Lucia Rodriguez
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Our meetings are open to the Evergreen
community. Please come and discuss with us!
is published 28 Thursdays each
Organizational Meeting
by students enrolled at
The Evergreen State College, who are solely responsible for its
production and content.
academic year, when class is in
session: the 1st through the 10th Thursday of Fall Quarter and the
2nd through the 10th Thursday of Winter and Spring Quarters.
is distributed free at various sites on The Evergreen State College
campus. Free distribution is limited to one copy per edition per person.
Persons in need of more than one copy should contact the CPJ business
manager in CAB 316 or at 867-6054 to arrange for multiple copies. The
business manager may r~rge 75 cents for each copy after the first.
sells display and classified advertising space.
Information
about advertising rates, terms and conditiohs are available in CAB
316, or by request at (360) 867-6054 .
How to Contribute
Contributions from any TESC student are welcome. Copies of submission and
publication criteria for non-advertising content are available in CAB 316,
or by request at 867-6213. Contributions are accepted at CAB 316, or by
e-·mail at cpj@evergreen.edu. The CPJ's editor-in-chief has final say on
the acceptance or rejection of all non-advertising content.
How to Contact the CPJ
Cooper Point Journal
CAB 316
News: (360) 867 - 6213
Email: cpj@evergreen.edu
Advisor "....... "............................................ Dianne Conrad
Assistant to the advisor ................ "............. "..... M.A. Selby Business: (360) 867 - 6054
Email: cpjbiz@evergreen.edu
Design ............. "... "...... .................... .. ...... Kristen Lindstrom
Brad Meyers
TIm Yates
5 p.m. Monday
Find out what it means to be a member of the
student group CPJ . Practice consensus-based
decision making.
Content Meeting
5:30 p.m. Monday
Help discuss future content, such as story
ideas, Vox Populi questions and possible long
term reporting projects, as well as other things
needed to help the week along.
Paper Critique
4 p.m. Thursday
Comment on that day's paper. Air comments,
concerns, questions, etc. If something in the
CPJbothers you, this is the meeting for you!
Friday Forum
3 p.m. Friday
Put your values to the test! Discuss ethics,
journalism law and confl ict resolution.
All meetings are in CAB 316.
Name: Joe Jatcko
Position at CPJ: News Coordinator
Year at Evergreen: Junior
Program: Seeing the Light
Hobbies: speaking my opinion when it's
not asked for
f
Vox Populi
Do you think a
revote is in order
for the current
govenor's seat?
By David Hornbeck
and Arland Hurd
.
" Yes . Because
my ballot was pre--:~iI.~~' punched for the
".
Republican party."
Name: Eva Wong
Position at CPJ: Photo Coordinator
Year at Evergreen: Junior
Program: Mediaworks
Hobbies: I watch some movies, some TV, I
take pictures of people sleeping (look out),
I pick off my friend s' snacks, I like dance
parties and secret messages and I read
travel books and fashion magazines.
Name: Katie Thurman
Position at CPJ: Calendar Coordinator
Year at Evergreen: Junior
Program: Introduction to Natural
Sciences
Hobbies: guitar, doodling, crocheting and
photography
Name: Renata Rollins
Position at CPJ: Editor-in-Chief
Year at Evergreen: Senior
Contract: Race and the News
Hobbies: eating, sleeping, listening to
music, mixing drinks and singing
Your
Business
Name: Kate DeGraatf
Position at CPJ: Briefs Coordinator
Year at Evergreen: Junior
Program: Democracy and Religious
Freedom
Hobbies: sleeping, eating
,
Calling All Ladies
Here is yet another opportunity to get involved with the operations of
WashPIRG, which are funded by your tuition dollars. They are holding a general meeting on Thursday, January 13 at 7 p.m. Show up to Lecture Hall 4 to
talk about vehicle emissions standards, clean energy, hunger and homelessness.
If you can't make it tothis quarterly meeting, you can always contact WashPirg
on campus at 867-6058.
staff
JANUARY 13, 2005
Counter-Inauguration
Walkout, January 20
Welcome back, everyone! I hope the
school year has treated you all well thus
far. 1 would just like to spread the word
that the Radical Catholics for ·Justice
and Peace student group will be hosting
another mass this month. It will be on
Wednesday, January 19 at 5:30 p.m. The
location will be in the Seminar II Building,
Room C31 07. We are proud to have Father
Bill Bichsel to preside over the event for
us.
Radical Catholics for Justice and Peace
concerns itself with matters of social justice in the community, in the United States,
and in the world. We honor our faith and
commit ourselves to serving others through
the guidance of Catholic social teaching.
One issue in particular that is of our concern is that of the atrocities committed by
what we still like to call the School of the
Americas. This quarter and next, one of the
goals of the Radical Catholics will be to
raise awareness about the SOA and School
ofthe Americas Watch (SOA W). Also, we
intend to raise funds and organize a group
of willing Evergreen students to attend the
annual rally against the SOA in Georgia
next November.
Anyone who is interested in the rally
and learning more about the School
of the Americas, or who is interested
in ' al 1 other social justice and peace
issues, or who is interested in joining
the group may contact Angie Arcuri at
aarcuri2000@yahoo.com.
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Name: Corey Young
Position at CPJ: Managing Editor
Year at Evergreen: Junior
Program: Forensics and Mystery
Writing
Hobbies: writing, reading books, scrib.bling vague shapes, listening to music and
deciding the fate of fledgling writers
Name: Jacob Stanley
Position at CPJ: Circulation
Manager
Year at Evergreen: Freshman
Program: America in the 20 th Century
Hobbies: writing
Name: David Hornbeck
Position at CPJ: Distribution Manager
Year at Evergreen: Freshman
Program: Con temporary Social Issues
Hobbies: stuff
Anna Paulson
Sophomore
Health
and Human
Development
"A state-wide lottery would be a ' reasonable ' resolution to
thi s crisis."
Name: Chelsea Baker
Position at CPJ: Comics Coordinator
Year at Evergreen: Sophomore
Program: Turning Eastward
Hobbies: comics, art, sleep and food
Name: Mitch Hahn-Branson
Position at CPJ: Copy Editor
Year at Evergreen: Senior
Program: Poetics and Power, Evergreen
Singers
Hobbies: writing, cooking, baking, singing, walking and breathing
Name: Ikuko Takayama
Position at CPJ: Seepage Coordinator
Year at Evergreen: Senior
Program: The Science of Fat
Hobbies: books, films, music and food
AI Green
Junior
Political Ecology
of Land
" The
Republicans stole
the pre s idential
election, so the
Democrats should
steal the governor
election."
Name: Kristen Lindstrom
Position at CPJ: Design
Year at Evergreen: Sophomore
Program: Vi sual Design for the Web
Hobbies: Ben Stein, rainbows, kittens,
HAM, magic carpet rides, bunnies, unicorns, cuddles and LOVE
Nolan Lattyak
Senior
Political
Ecology
or Land
"If a Republican , ,..,.........- - " . - = - . . "......
yes. But since it's a
Democrat I would
do anything to stop
a revote."
Name: Sean Paull
Position at CPJ: Copy Editor
Year at Evergreen: Sophomore
Program: Telling the Truth
Hobbies: Dance Dance Revolution, card
games, reading sci-fi and walking
Name: Brad Meyers
Position at CPJ: Design
Year at Evergreen: Junior
Program: Foundations ofVi~ual Art
Hobbies: patiently doing nothing with
Ham, raising an army of zombie dinosaurs
and preserving the history of cool
Kindred Sparks
Senior
Sustainable
Design
"No, that is what
impeachment
is
for."
Erin Karches
Freshman
Imagining the
Past
Name: Sam Goldsmith
Position at CPJ: Letters & Opinions
Coordinator
.
Year at Evergreen: Junior
Program: America in the 20lh Century
Hobbies: rockin' and rollin' , records,
being vegan and ballet
Name: Christopher Alexander
Position at CPJ: Arts and Entertainment ·
Coordinator
Year at Evergreen: Senior
Program: Patience
Hobbies: reading, music, making mixtapes and never sending them to intended
Name: Meredith Lane
recipients
Position at CPJ: Sports Coordinator
Year at Evergreen: Senior
Name: Tim Yates
Position at CPJ: Design
Year at Evergreen: Junior
Program: Foundations ofYisual Art
Hobbies: ham, falling over things and
cursing a god that mayor may not exist
Name: Andrew James
Position at CPJ: Ad Representative
Year at Evergreen: Senior
"No, not after
what we have
been through to
put somebody
there in the first
place."
David
Chrisman
Freshman
Imagining the
Past
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JANUARY 13, 2005
JANUARY
Inauguration Day 'Sign
Holding Action
Livin' la PETA loca: TheChristmasSurprise
Greener intern ~ons
That Wasn't
chicken costume
By Brian Flewell
By Sam Goldsmith
It's our third time passing through
Chicago in two days. We haven 't broken
1500 miles yet, but we will this evening
when we reach Gree n Bay. By the time I
fly home, we will have driven 3500 miles
in ten days, hitting 15 cities in Iliinois,
Michigan, Iowa and Wi sconsin. My older
brother Ben does all the driving for a few
different reasons, but mainly because it's
PETA company policy that only employees, not interns, can drive. But Ben never
fails to mention his favorite reason for my
inability to drive our rented Ford Taurus:
the revocation of my license last summer.
It was also last summer when Ben took a
job as a Campaign Coordinator at People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in
Norfolk, Virginia.
When I agreed to accompany my
brother, he hadn't fully explained what
my role as an intern entailed, but wearing
a bandaged and bloody chicken costume
while holding a crutch in one hand and a
"Boycott KFC" poster in the other was
not what I pictured. (This is the Crippled
Chicken campaign, after all). I learned
the ropes quickly. It was always the same
routine: Pose for the TV cameras, wave
to the cars, avoid confrontation. Ben did
interviews while I strutted down the sidewalk playfully but sternly, staying lighthearted, but with a purpose. Ben joined
me after the interviews with signs reading "Beaks Cut Off' and "Scalded Alive."
From my vantage point inside the chick
suit I couldn't tell ifthe reporters took us
seriously, but I did notice some cameramen in Des Moines go inside for a snack
before heading back to the station.
Public response was mixed, but recognizable patterns soon emerged. There
was the classic white-man disdainful stare
and head shake. Teenage hecklers laugheq
and proclaimed their love of chicken-the
meat, not the animal-sometimes circling '
the block for a second helping of tomfoolery. Pickup truck drivers were compulsive
bird flippers (no pun intended) . Suit-clad
middle managers instinctively yelled,
"Get a job!" while women in minivans
physically shielded their eyes, refus ing to
ack nowledge o ur ex istence . Supporters
were almost exclusively white and c1eancut and drove Vol vos or other hig h-end
cars. Then there 's Ben's favorite: th e
" loose cannon." The self righteous adul t
whose natural response is anger.
I had plenty of time to think things
over in the car. I wondered, what about
our presence and descent warranted such
outrage? We're not even advocating vegetarianism; the goal is simply to improve
the living conditions ofthe nearly 800 million chickens KFC processes every year
through an old-fashioned boycott. PETA
has a four-step plan that, if implemented
by KFC, would significantly cut down on
the unnecessary suffering of living, feeling animals. (Check out http://www.kent
uckyfriedcruelty.com for more).
The fact is, dissent has become unpatriotic in modern A merica. It suggests that
our way oflife is flawed, and frankly, that
lack of patriotism will not be tolerated.
Talk about a values shift. I wonder how
the public perceived the bus boycotts and
sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement.
In my mind, these events represent American democracy at its best. It's our duty,
not just our right, to protest injustice, but
unfortunately for the chickens, America's
love of the Colonel's original recipe gives
us more direction than our moral compass.
I left the tour with a stronger ethic to fight
for animal rights. There will be a demo
at KFC in Lacey (4521 Lacey Blvd) this
. Saturday from noon to I p.m.
Sam Goldsmith is a junior at TESC and
coordinates the Letters and Opinions
page at the CPJ He can be reached at
golsam21 @evergreen. edu.
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a quarter-mile wide asteroid that crosses
Earth orbit twice in its own orbit around
the sun. Space is a big place, so the odds
that this asteroid and the Earth would
even be in the same neighborhood
usually hovers around one-in-a-million
chance. Early observations could not pin
down the exact trek of MN4, so a "cloud
of probability" of where the asteroid would
be in the years to come was calculated to
predict the orbit of the asteroid. A cloud
of-probability calculates every possible
location of an asteroid based on limited
observations. As more observations are
made of an asteroid, the cloud shrinks to
encompass the new data.
Much to the chagrin of the astronomers, they discovered that the cloud of
probability kept crossing Earth on the
same date : April 13, 2029. Because no
single organization wants to announce to
the public that a killer asteroid was poss ibly en route to Earth, even with an impact
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event as improbable as l-in-37, the news
remained firmly in the realm of amateur
and professional astronomers. News organizations have a tendency to exaggerate
news like this with flashy headlines and
predictions of deaths. Astronomers continued to watch MN4 carefully through
the holidays and by December 29 had
This is Meteor Crater in Arizona. 2004 MN4 would create a crater even larger
than this one, measuring 4150feet across and 570 feet deep. The ejectafrom this
crater would devastated the entire region when it crashed in to Earth between
20,000 and 50,000 years ago. Photo from the National Park Service website.
determined that MN4 would glide safely
past Earth, doomsday avoided.
So what sort of damage would a
quarter-mile wide asteroid do if it struck
Earth? First, it would be more likely that
it would strike water, possibly the Pacific
Ocean, and based on the asteroid's orbit,
it would hit the Northern Hemisphere.
The explosion from MN4 would be the
equivalent of a 2,040-megaton bomb, or
over 100 times the size of the Hiroshima
nuke. An impact ofthis magnitude would
send tsunamis dwarfing the tsunami that
recently devastated the Indian Subcontinent. An impact on land, of course, would
be equally damaging, but much more local.
IfMN4 were to hit the dead center ofthe
Evergreen campus, the crater would be as
large as the campus and its surrounding
woodlands. Dust and debris would destroy
the local area, covering Washington, Idaho
and Oregon in a shroud of dust, killing
much of the plant life and animals.
But there's no need to worry about
2004 MN4. The risk of impact has been
downgraded to an improbable l-in-18,000
or a .006% chance of hitting Earth. Nor
is there the risk of a collision any time in
the next 100 years. But we should still be
wary: We may have dodged this bullet,
but there are still thousands of unknown
asteroids out there. Only one need be
aimed at Earth.
Brian Flewelf is a senior currently d oing
an internship with Peace Lutheran School
in Brem erton, WA,filming a promotional
video. He is studying cinematography and
videography.
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Nirvana's box' set is the 'alpha and omega'
Outpost Tac9ma and the Prime Time Army:
A Tale of Two Writing Centers
By Robert Spi/sbury
Nirvana
With the Lights Out
Interscope, 2004
Once upon a time, the Writing Center (now known as the Evergreen Tutoring Center due to its unification with the
Quantitative & Symbolic Reasoning Center) wanted to spread its wings across the perpetually emerald forests of the
Puget Sound region. One wing landed upon A Dorm while the other grazed against the Tacoma campus. As a result, two
smaller Writing Centers were born. This is their story.. .
.
Tacoma Writing Room
By Cameron Anderson
The Tacoma Writing Room - formerly the Tacoma Writing Center- was
founded in 2002 when a new budget
allowed for around 40 hours per week for
tutors to come up and help the 250, give or
take, students enrolled in the Tacoma program with their writing needs. The Room
is just that: a room no larger than a standard office, nestled away in the Commons
section of the Tacoma campus. Inside are
a table and a chair, as well as a computer
desk and its own chair; other than that, not
much else is inside.
I took over The Room in the fall quarter ofthis school year after hearing about a
need for a new tutor, and a friend of mine
put in a call tothe head of the main writing
center. A II worked out because of one fact:
I live in Tacoma; however, I go to school
here in Olympia due to the numerous program s avai lable, and thus, I com mute via
mass transit to the main campus every day
I have class or meetings.
Who can visit my s mall outpost ,
you ask? Not only those who atte nd the
Tacoma program can use my-services, but
also anyone from Seattle to Olympia can
drop by for a session . I plan to be around
for rest of this sc hool year before handing
the reins over to a new tutor- I graduate in
June 2005 alongside the friend who made
that fateful call-so stop in, say hello, and
I will do my best to help sharpen your
writing skills.
Prime Time
Academic Support Center
By Paul Whitney
Prime Time is a resource in Housing,
located on the second floor of A Dorm,
where students can get help with their
writing and speak with an academic advisor on the student's own turf. The location
is a low-lit and comfortable space, and is
open during convenient hours of the evening. I had a lways believed in writing centers as a resource for students. In fact , thi s
is the second writing center I've worked
for (I started tutoring at SPSCC), but in
working at Prime Time I've grown to
appreciate the balance between CAB 108 's
large, energetic space, and the cozy, quiet
atmosphere that Prime Time offers.
My first shift as an Evergreen writ-
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immediately sold on its concept. I believed
in it so much that I asked to work three
nights a week there. I have the perfect
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develop my own writing skills, soak up the
pure energy in CAB 108 and settle down
in Prime Time.
Prime Time's location in A Dorm
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As Neil Straus says in' the liner notes
to With the Lights Out: "It is all here. The
alpha and the omega. The blueprint of the
band that became the last gasp of rock and
roll ofthe 20th Century." Nirvana were the
last gasp of great music in the 20th century,
and this release makes clear the original
direction they were headed. They weren't
the corporate sell-outs that many of their
hardcore fans accused them of becoming
once they received worldwide popularity.
The truth is Kurt Cobain never wanted to
be a famous rock star or a rock icon that
would be looked up to by the masses.
These weren't pretentious rock stars, just
a bunch of angry teens from Aberdeen,
Washington. But Cobain had an undeniable talent for creating great punk rock
music, and Nirvana transformed popular
music.
Disc I ofthe box set is the most hardcore/
raunchy music on the whole set. It starts
with Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" taken
from their first show ever in a local house
party in Raymond 1987. The best moment
is " If You Must," recorded in 1988 with
producer Jack Endino. The song features
the hard-hitting drummer, Dale Crover
from The Melvins, who makes the song
heavy. Cobain's lyrics are simple, almost
throwaway : "I smoke weed, breathe some
fun. Is it me on my knees?" But it's not the
lyrics, it's the classic verse-chorus-verse
build-up that make this song so great,
the blueprint for songs like "Smells Like
Teen Spirit," "Heart Shaped Box," and " In
Bloom" that would dominate radio stations
for the entire nineties. The other g reat
songs on Disc I include the unreleased
instrumental "Grey Goose" and "Even
in His Youth," an additional track on the
Smells Like Teen Spirit single.
Disc 2 tones it down a notch. It begins
with the acoustic "Opinion," recorded here
at Evergreen's KAOS radio. Unfortunately,
none ofthese songs comes anywhere close
to topping Nirvana's Unplugged in New
York album. Acoustic tracks such as
"Lithium" sound scratchy, with Cobain 's
voice coming out much louder than the
guitar. This is probably because he lacks
the support of the rest of Nirvana. This
proves Cobain is not a one-man band,
and that Dave Grohl on drums and Krist
Novoselic on bass bring great chemistry.
It shows on " Breed," recorded in 1991
and appearing on their smash album
Nevermind. The band carries much of
. the song, as Cobain's guitar crashes in to
ignite their magical chemistry. The cover
of Velvet Underground's " Here She Comes
Now" is a strong a cover song as their version orLeadbelly's "Where Did You Sleep
Last Night." Unfortunately, the set omits
covers such as "Do You Love Me," where
the band improved on Kiss 's original.
Disc 3 opens with Kurt playing an
acoustic "Rape Me," which is good but
not nearly as haunting as the second version, which opens with Cobain's daughter
crying in the background. Then the song
starts with the familiar chords, and his
raspy vocal sings the painful , apathetic
lines: "Rape Me, rape me, my friend, rape
me, rape me again. I' m not the only one."
An alternate version of "Moist Vagina"
also appears and is different than version that appeared as a B-Side on the All
Apologies single, which Thurston Moore
describes as, "the greatest thing they ever
did, a crazed meeting of atonal psychosis
and crunge rock pummel. It ruled ." It
did rule, but the real hidden treasure is
" Marigold ," a haunting song featuring
NIR\~'\Ni\
Dave Grohl on guitar and vocals, with Kurt
on the drums. "Sappy" is another great cut
that somehow never found its way onto
a Nirvana album. The lyrics seem to be
about relationships: "If you save yourself
you will make him happy. He'll keep you
in a jar then you'll think you're happy.
He'll give you breather holes then you'll
think you're happy .. .. You wallow in your
shit and you'll think you're happy." These
are typical of Cobain's lyrics: confusing
and hard to figure out. As he once put it,
his lyrics are just random pieces of poetry
taken out of his journal and put in a certain artful format. They sometimes have
no real meaning to them, but people are
convinced they stand to represent the heart
of Generation X.
Disc 4 is the DVD. It kicks off slowly,
beginning with an early practice recorded
at Krist Novoselic's parents' house in
1987. The second half of the DVD is
amazing. After "School ," they trash their
equipment, and Cobain takes a dive into
the drum kit. A Iso included is the firstever performance of "Smells Like Teen
Spirit," at the OK Hotel in Seattle. The
lyrics to "Jesus Doesn 't Want Me for a Sun
Beam," though written by the Vaselines,
eerily rese mble Cobain 's fate: " Don ' t
expect me to cry for all the reasons I' m
about to die."
The last two songs on the DVD should
especially interest cult-Nirvana fans. "Talk
to Me" (performed at a surprise Nirvana
gig at The Crocodile Cafe in Seattle) is an
unreleased song that many Nirvana fans
have yet to hear. The last song, "Seasons
In The Sun," is another unreleased gem
featuring Cobain on drums and Novoselic
on guitar. Cobain, appearing here with
short brown hair unlike his usual bleachblonde self, draws an inner feeling of life
and experience to the song. "Goodbye, my
friend, it hurts to die [ ... ] All our Iives we
had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the
sun." You begin to realize his time in the
sun was almost up. I shed a tear as the cold
reality of his life hit me. You can almost
feel his love, pain, and empathy with every
lyric he writes. This box set is a treasure,
one that allows us to view one of the greatest bands in rock 'n' roll history.
Robert Spilsbury is a sophomore enrolled
in Cultural Landscapes : Peoples, Places,
and Power. He is currently studying the
Iraq war and reading books such as The
Colonial Present by Derek Gregory, and
Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh.
The River Why: David James Duncan's
rambling novel still flows after 21 years
By Mitchell Hahn-Branson
This article has been carried over ji-om
the Dec.ember 9 issue of the CPJ
"As wrongheaded and deadly as humans
can be, we haven 't eradicated love or water
yet." - David James Duncan
Last year, Sierra Club Books put out a
20"h anniversary edition of The River Why,
the first fiction the Sierra Club had ever
published. This was a bit premature of
them. Considering the unusual nature of
the book-and given that the number 21
is somewhat important in a coming-of-age
novel like this one- the Sierra Club should
have been unconventional and commemorated the 2 J" anniversary of David James
Duncan's first novel. Fine, then. I'll do it
for them.
The River Why is the story of Augustine
(Gus) Orviston, the elder child ofa fishing
family. His father is a fly fisher and his
mother is a bait fisher, and since fishing
is the family religion, this difference of
method takes on the significance of the
Protestant/Catholic divide. Dear old Dad,
Gus tells us in the opening pages, has spent
so much time fishing that he's undergone
a sort of "cranial enema" that causes "his
brains [to be] voided of everything unrelated to fish and fishing." It gets better:
since the poor man 's full name is Henning
Hale-Orviston, his wife calls him Hen; his
son, mercilessly, calls him H20. Much of
the book contains this level of subtlety.
Gus takes after H20 in his devotion ge ntle humor that that love brings out.
Despite the nonsense of the whole 20" h
to fly fishing- so much so that at 19, he
writes up an ideal schedule that includes anniversary business, go out and buy or
14.5 hours of fishing per day, and a year borrow the new edition of The River Why,
later, mightily tired of the ideological fly/ which contains an afterword by an older,
bait debates between H20 and Gus ' loving wiser, and still lovingly funny Duncan.
but crass Ma, he moves into a riverside Follow this book where it leads . Even in
cabin and sets the schedule in motion. its muddled moments, it's touching, amusUnfortunately, nothing in his upbring- ing, and insightful.
ing has taught him soc ial skills or given
him any notion of how to deal with life Mitchell Hahn-Bran son is a senior
outside fishing. When loneliness and first- enrolled in Poetics and Power and
hand knowledge of death inevitably creep Evergreen Singers. He is studying writing
up on him, he has to look to the wisdom and editing.
of his younger brother Bill Bob to find a
reason to keep going. (That 'S the boy 's r - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - legal name, by the way : "[not] William
Robert, nor Willis Robin , nor Wilberforce
Robersly," but just Bill Bob Orviston.)
The rest of the book revolves around
Gus' efforts to become more well-rounded.
He hikes a nearby mountain, gets to know
his neighbors , and- in two truly hilarious
chapters- falls in love with a girl named
Eddy. Eddy happens to be a word meaning
"small whirlpool." I warned you about the
subtlety.
If all this sounds like a bit of a mess,
it is. David James Duncan is one of the
best writers working today, but this was
his first book, and it tends to meander,
especially in the final chapters. He sort of
ties it all together in the end, but thi s novel
is not a classic by way of narrative clarity.
It's worth reading and rereading because
it's filled with a fascinated love for life,
especially the riv~rine kind, and with the
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Support Our Terrorists
By Jacob Stanley
When ever you d rive
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or hap pen into
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sti ckers o n th e
ba cks of car s
s tatin g, " S upport Our Troops." These are atop the vehicles of both liberal and conservative folk s
that drive them. This is an opinion we 're
all s upposed to share. They're just regular
people like us, doing their jobs and followin g
orders. We can support that, right? I'd say,
"NO," but of course , I have my reasons.
We're led to believe that terrori sts
a round the g lobe are a greate r threat to
c iv ilians than they actua ll y a re. Wom e n
and ch ildren are murdered in cold bl ood for
their fanatical agendas, but what we aren't
told is that these terrori sts are killing a very
small portion of the overall popu lation . On
9/11 a lone, about 3.000 American citi ze ns
we re kill ed. However tragic the attack was, it
was still a mere drop in th e pond of tragedy
when compared to what the United States
can accomplish in one campaign with its
military forces.
For instance, in the early 1980s the CI A
was fighting the very first " war on terror" in
Nicaragua. By 1984, the people of Nicaragua
took the U.S. to the World Court and the U.S .
was ordered to terminate its "unlawful use
of force." That unlawful use of force was
the United States special forces entering
Central America, but the U.S. is exempt
from most international laws, except a few,
which were simply vetoed when they went
through the United Nations, and the U.S.
returned to the war. Unfortunately, the end
result was combat waged against the civilian
population. The death count was estimated
to be in the tens of thousands; proportionally, this is a death toll significantly higher
than the number of U.S. persons killed in the
U.S. Civil War and all the wars of the 20th
Jacob Stanley is a freshman enrolled in
America in the 20th Century. He is studying
American history.
There's
been a lot of
talk
about
community
policing
at
Evergreen
over the years.
Now
Police
Services has the
opportunity to
walk the walk instead ofjust talking the talk.
I'm not talking about the serious, long-term
changes needed to make-Evergreen's police
services more friendly to the community,
I' m talking about a single, simple choice,
made with the stroke of Director of Police
Serv ices Steve Huntsberry's pen: Pol ice
Serv ices should hire Kenneth (Ken) Rice,
one of six final ap plicants for two full-time
police openings at Evergree'1.
I was the only student (and sometimes
the only person) who attended most of the
first round of community review meetings of
police services applicants during eval week
of last quarter. I asked each applicant the
same six questions, ranging from when they
>¥ould or would not issue Minor in Possession of Alcohol citations to what experience
\
they've had with transexual /t ransgendered
individuals. Out of the eight applicants I
spoke to, Ken Rice was unquestionably the
most competent, most experienced, and
most appropriate for working within the
Evergreen Community.
I was prepared to dislike Ken Rice when
I first saw him. With his casual slacks, dark
tan (including on his shiny, bald head), and
sunglasses, he looked like he'd just stepped
offofa golf course. But his answers revealed
deep and considered thinking, personal
integrity, and a plain friendliness that was
refreshing.
Ken discussed community policing
unprompted. A fterquitting work as a police
officer in Glendale, Arizona, he worked as a
code enforcement officer in the small town
of Youngblood , Arizona. In the three years
he worked as a code officer, he said he had
the opportunity to issue over 3,000 citations.
Instead, he issued only three, and in two of
those cases, he told the person receiving the
citation that ifthey fixed the problem by the
tiwe-their court date came around he would
appear in court and ask the judge to remove
the citation. Furthermore, he realized that
the majority <;>f code violators were poor
families that simply didn't have the money
to bring their house or yard up to code. He
JANUARY
13, 2005
.------ LETTERS AND OPINIONS
Letter to the Editor:
"Cancel the Cancellation"
By Ethan Schaffer
By the time yo u read this, my partne r, Sarita Role, and I will a lready be in
Buen'o s Aires. For the next five months
we will travel through Argentina,
U ruguay, Brazil and Peru for our non
profit organization, Organic Volunteers.
Our website, http ://GrowFood.org,
lists more than 750 internships, jobs,
workshops and volunteer opportunities
in organic farming and sustainability in
the USA . This winter we will collaborate with Latin American organizations
to create an intercontinental network .
In the age of eBay, our little website
doesn't so und like much. However,
w e 're talking abou t more than online
sa l es. We mak e real connections
between real people. We use a decentralized n etwork rather than a hierarc hical organi z ation to r e volutionize
education .
Over 9,000 members use Organic
Volunteers to get their hands dirty
experiencing sustainability, instead of
Photo cOllrtesy of Ethan Schaffer
paying large sums of money to read
about it at a university. The farmer is the Ethan Schaffer (left) and Sarita Role are c urrently in Buenos Aires.
professor, the farm the classroom. We
enroll as many students as Evergreen.
• Enero Autonomo, an international short-term profits. (http://www.forum
During our trip we will report on meeting of autonomous organizations socialmundial .org. br)
current events and our adventures in and human rights activists, to be held
·Permaculture in Patagonia, a
the CPJ and on our blog, http: //poly in an occupied factory in La Tablada, twelve-week practicum where parculture.blogspoLcom, using a Linux Gran Buenos Aires, Argentina. (http: ticipants learn to design sustainable
based laptop supplied by FreeGeek / /www.a utonomista.org)
human settlements that regenerate ,
Olympia! Our itinerary is ever evolv·The World Social Forum , one of rather than destroy, the Earth. (http:
ing but here are some exciting events the largest meetings of international / / www.kleiwerks.coml)
we will cover:
civic groups to set an alternative world
agenda that puts peace, social justice Ethan Schaffer is a senior enrolled)n
and environmental sustainability before Patience. He is studying social revolu-
tion.
worked with local corrections agencies to
create a program in which inmates or people
needing community service hours worked to
bring these families' homes up to code.
It 's this kind of community-oriented
policing that Evergreen both espouses and
needs. And it 's the opportunity to actually
do community policing work that Ken said
drew him to Evergreen. Ken said he quit the
Glendale police force because he was "only
responding to calls" instead of being able to
do the proactive policing he believed would
actually make a difference. Ken researched
Evergreen's history, population characteristics and crime statistics before deciding
to apply for the police services position. In
fact, Ken stated that Evergreen was the only
law enforcement position he is applying for
because " it seems like community oriented
pol ic ing is actually practiced here."
Ken was the only candidate that actually used the words "civil rights" in any of
his answers. He frequently repeated that he
didn't like " badge-heavy" officers and that
he wants to work to break down the "division
between cop and citizen." But police services
shouldn't just hire Ken Rice because of his
stellar background in the fuzzy communityoriented side of policing- he's also the only
candidate with full-time, permanent police
background. While working with Glendale's
police force from 1997 to 2001, he worked
primarily with the area's "gang community"
(as he put it) and was involved in two shootings (one in which he was shot and one in
which he shot somebody else). He clearly has
the ability, as the official "position description" requires, to "expertly perform all ofthe
tasks required to deal with the worst-case
scenario," and he certainly has more experience than any of the other applicants. And if
you're wondering about the person he shot, he
said that he's now one of his closest friends .
In fact, the man had just been over to Ken's
home to have dinner with his family the week
before his Evergreen interview.
Kenneth Rice has the experience to deal
with any serious emergencies on campus and
the maturity of both years and philosophy to
serve Evergreen's community in day-to-day
operations. Please join me in asking Steve
Huntsberry (x6832) to choose Kenneth Rice
for one of Evergreen's two police service
openings.
Jayne Kaszynski is a fifth-year Evergreen
student in her first year of the Masters in
Public Administration program Doing Public
Administration.
In response to Ethan Schaller [Lett er to th e Editor, Dc:cember <.J . 200<-1 I. I \\ ish to express my
thanks. Upon readin g Mr. Schaffe r's denunci ation of Lee Kcpraios' col umn. The Curmudgeo n, I
took it upon myself to read the olle nding author in qu estion . To my surpri se. I was charmed; an
ex perience I might otherwise ha ve nlissed but for Mr. Sc hafICr 's letter. Th e standard of prose in
the CPJ is not, shall we say. spectacul ar-I alm ost never read pas t th e hea dlin es, if I bother to
pick the filthy rag up in the fi rst place-but Mr. Kepraios had me laughing out lo ud . In short,
I pledge my support to The Curmud geon and I formall y protest an y talk of its cancellat ion .
And since you have my attention , I would fUI1h er add that while Mr. Schane r clearl y possesses a greater
command of the language than Mr. Kepraios, he might wish to tone hi s indi gnation down a notch , lest he
appear self-righteous. Ajournalist who makes li ght ofa group of activi sts is not the same thing as an individua l who advocates th e slaughter of Iraqis, and an ac tivi st who shouts down opposin g viewpoints is not
the same thing as a sllccessful campaign for peace . In other words. ' pick your battles: and 'judge not, lest
ye be judged.' Mr. Schaner's sugges tion that Kcprai os be "ass igned to Iraq" so that he might " ... have more
respect for anti -war protesters" was considerably mon: onl:nsive than unyth ing I rend in The Curmudgeon .
Jam('s
Wallin g is
a/ lliliot' ('lIm//ud ill
(J
('fllI/rud l 'u/ft'd
(jertnan l.it er,t1urt' and the Fau stian Bargain .
.Have your
views known!
To submit a letter to the CPJ, the Evergreen com munity, or writings th at express you r thoughts,
take the followin g steps:
I. Write it down in no more than 800 words.
2. Attach it to an email and send it to cpj@evergreen .edu_by Friday a l 5 p .m . Be sure to include
your name, year at Evergreen , program or field of study and contact information.
3. Cheek your email and voice mail over the weekend, as an editor m ay contact
you.
The Curmudgeon:
Good news in the New Year
Police Services hiring: Ken Rice's eligibility
By Jayne Kaszynski
COOPER POINT JOURNAL
9
Greeners to report
from South America
CCll tll r ~
rohlbined.
Today we have Falluj ah, Iraq. a pl,ll'c
all i\ 1l1cricans shou ld k now abo ut , II'h l'rc
thousand s we re ma ssacred and the tlg hting
has yet to stop. Under intern ati o na l laws
dictated by the Ge neva Convention, U.S.
tr oops in Fallujah a re in direc t violation
and are war criminal s by defInition. These
events a re not hidden underneath our noses.
It 's shown on the news every ni g ht as a vic: tory a/military power.
The Lancet report , a s urvcy use d to
determine Iraqi mortality rates during the
war, report s that the U.S. military ma naged
to kill at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians since
2003. The U.S. has failed to bring peace in
Iraq, yet Bush st ill claims that the country
is a better place tod ay than under the rule
of Saddam. Yeah, right. So somehow the
insurgents defending the country of Iraq are
a dange r to the world wh i Ie the United States
kill s a hundred thousand civilians in less
than two yea rs and is perfectly justifi ed.
Still th e ant i-war moveme nt is told
to support the troops because they're just
foll owing orders and the men in c harge are
to be blamed . The leaders are ca lling the
shots and telling the troops where to attack,
yes, but that doesn't prevent the troops from
say ing no if they want to. They might ri sk
jai I or death by doing so, but I'd say it is more
important to take the moral high ground . I
can't support a group of people willingl y
killing others that try to justi fy their murder
as "just following orders." Those in service
that aren't harming people's lives are still
equipping the soldiers with gasoline and
guns to continue marching across the
countries of the world, so I cannot support
them either.
1 suggest examining the reasons why
you support troops abroad because, in my
opinion, they are war criminals. U.S. troops
are committing the worst terror possible:
state-sanctioned patriotic war.
8
By Lee Kepraios
I f there's
one holiday that
I love, I mean
totally
and
unconditionally
love, it has to
be New Year's
Eve. I've written
about Valentine's
Day and Christmas being depressing and loathsome times
ofthe year. I no longer go out on Halloween,
nor do I get all choked up about the stars and
stripes on July 4 unless high explosives are
involved . But New Year's still holds a great
deal of excitement for me. After Christmas
is over with, IneedNew Year's. I need it like
coke fiends need tissues.
There's something physiologically satisfying, almost beautiful , about a holiday that
asks so little of humanity, a time of year
with such a simple prerogative. New Year's
does not embrace materialism, will not keep
you home with your family, and best of all,
has no religious connotations. Instead , it's a
celebration of science, with all of humanity
praising the wonder and content feeling they
get knowing they can count on something in
the universe like the annual rotation of the
Earth around the sun. This is something
that brings a quiet satisfaction about the
consistency of the cycles of nature to each
person, whether they choose to acknowledge it or not. There's also the optimism of
a bright and fresh start to a new year when
I can set new, challenging goals for myself
and fail to achieve them .
I was talking to a woman about the
winter break, which seems to be getting
shorter each year, and asked what she did
on her vacation. She cheerfully replied , "I
spent most ofthe break going door to door
to tell people about Jesus." Now normally
under these circumstances, I hear something like that and go, "Check please! " and
that's the end of that.
But this time I had to stop and think
before responding. You see, this recent
New Year celebration changed the way I
look at this kind of thing. Instead of getting up and leaving, I found myselfwanting
to calmly Ilsk, "Excuse me, but what the
hell do you mean by that?" I found myself
deep in thought instead of going off on a
well-practiced diatribe I have about how
I think religion is the greatest scam that's
ever been pulled on mankind. The year is
2005, ladies and gentlemen, and believe
it or not, there are some people who've
still never heard of Jesus_ What a bunch
of goofs, huh?
How the fuck could you not know? How
could anyone not know? Are you telling me
that on the greatest holiday there is, there's
a multi-national party going on and all the
countries celebrating the New Year erl:Jpt
in a euphoric, ritualistic celebration of progression and freshness, that you spent that
time worrying about whether or not enough
people have heard of Jesus? In this overzealous country? Are you shitting me?
In this day and age we even still have
missionaries (about whom I know very little
except that they usually wind up as some
sort of soup according to cartoons I've read
in The New Yorker) who go to third world
counties to spread the word. The good news
about Jesus isn't really a big secret anymore.
In fact, it did $32 million at the box office
in one weekend a nd killed Starsky and
Hutch .
I bet even Jesus partied on New Year's.
He was a dirty hippy who hung out with
hookers! Don't tell me 11e didn't change
water into booze for the occasion and party
like it was 49 A.D.!
I wasn't bothered by how the woman
spent her vacation. I just pitied her. And I
pitied the other Americans who wasted their
time and energy doing the same. She is so
not invited to my 2006 party.
Lee's New Rule of the Week: Once
is enough to buy a movie. A new DVD
collector's edition for the Matrix movies is
available in the form of a IO-disc box set
complete with a figurine of Keanu Reeves'
head that I still don 't know what you' re
supposed to do with. The only thing I like
about this is that by the time a pasty-faced
Incubus fan on a Kit-Kat and Mountain Dew
bu zz finishes watching all the supplements
and commentary tracks and making-of
.docume ntaries, he finally snaps and tries to
enter The Matrix by hooking up his nuts to
hi s hard drive . 10 discs, people? Some of us
actually have time to watch all this shit, as if
something about The Matrix would necessitate that many discs. If that's not enough,
you' ll be seeing a Lord of the Rings box set
soon, now that the individual movies have
sold all they can in stores. There'll no doubt
be a double pack issue of both of the Kill
Bill movies followed by a release that edits
the two together into one all-encompassing
epic. Personally, I can't wait till 2009 for the
25-disc, 76-hour Matrix tenth anniversary
re-i ssue, which is set to include just a big,
fuck-all gun.
Lee Kepraios is a senior enrolled in Forensics
and Mystery Writing. He is studyingfilm.
_ _ ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
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JANUARY 13, 2005
Out on the Weekend
By Christopher Alexander
Need a break from studying? Need
something to do on a Friday night? Too
young to drink? Well, here are a few ways
to bide your time. Your seminar paper can
wait. Trust me.
Thursday, January 13
The Great Redneck Hope, Animal
Hospital, The Assailant, Red Light
Murder
The Midnight Sun , Downtown ,
Columbus and State, 7:30 p.m., $5
TGRH performed at my house this
summer, and they mayor may not have
played my drunken Neil Young requests.
They did play fifteen songs in about ten
minutes, however. This is the best ticket
for fans of clever screamo/grindcore. Local
upstarts MDK support.
Friday, Jan 14
Other Ghost, The Kid Crash
Housing Community Center, TESC,
8 p.m., Free!
I have no idea about any of these people,
but it 's free and on campus l
Kane Hodder, Schoolyard Heroes,
Akimbo, Aiden
Capitol Theatre Backstage, Downtown,
206 E. 5th Ave., 8 p.m., $8
Federal Way punk trio Kane Hodder
cu ll their name from the actor portraying
Michael Myers in the Halloween movies.
That 's pretty cool. They've been written
up in The Stranger. That 's al so pretty
coo l. Sc hoo ly ard Heroes performed at
last year's ill-fated Moral Crux show in
Northwest Winter
the Longh6use. The coolest.
Saturday, Jan 15
.
Ladyfest Planning Meeting
802 Jefferson St., Downtown, 8th and
Jefferson, 6 p.m.
Ladyfest, for those who don't know,
is an annual national showcase run by,
for and featuring women. Past performers include Le Tigre and Sleater-Kinney,
so this year's performance in Olympia is
. cause for celebration. Festivals are often
a logistical nightmare, so please lend your
time and make it happen!
Sunday, Jan 16
Tricrotic, Liarbird
Manium Warehouse, Downtown, 4th
and Jefferson, 8 p.m ., $7 or $5 when
donating a book
Liatbird are the first band I ever saw
in Olympia, but I love them for more than
sentimental reasons . They write lovely,
spare and autumnal music, reminiscent
of a more folksy Low. This show benefits
Books to Prisoners, who, oddly enough,
donate books to prisoners. Tricrotic is
from Chicago .
Christoph er Alexander is th e A&E
Coordinator jar the CPJ, and ifyuu have
som ething going un yo u want co vered,
he really wants to know. E-mail him at
edu . He is also
alechr I {j(a)evercrreen.
"
a senior enrolled in Patience, stlldy ing
writing
:/
A snow day is the best surprise
a Thursday weary person can wake up to,
better than waffles
or even good morning sex.
Schools and businesses close
without hesitation,
and all but the desperate
forget how to drive.
Children creep outside
marveling at the crunch and texture
of every step.
Adults sip their coffee
and watch the local news
report on trees that have
fallen across roads
and on people 's houses.
It is like this
that we get drunk off of snow 's
Amaretto flavored relaxation,
and the next day we have slushy hangovers
gone by mid-afternoon.
Julian Gerhart is a /res hllwn enrolled in Old and New World s.
JANUARY
11
13, 2005
Evergreen's streak drops to six
By Julian Gerhart
We always dream of snow.
It drives atheists to prayer
and Christians to voodoo,
anything to shake down
a few inches of the serene
angel made cocaine
for our inner children to snort.
COOPER POINT JOURNAL
SPORTS
The night before, Evergreen welConcordia's Michael Lay, who ran the
length of the court for a lay up and a lead comed in the number one team in the
A groan overtook the crowd at the that Evergreen just couldn't overcome.
nation. The Western Baptist Warriors
CRe this past Saturday night as the play
Before the game even started, the ' out of Salem, Oregon owned a perfect
unfolded . With possession of the ball, Evergreen players huddled up, giving 17-0 record. Evergreen gave them their
Evergreen was down by three against themselves one last pep talk . They 18th victory with a 91-74 Warrior win.
Concordia with 50 seconds remaining in broke the huddle by the shout of the word The numbers the Warriors had been putthe game. The crowd was into the game, " defense." The word should've been ting up entering this game were simply
hoping to see some magic take place. . offense, because both teams displayed an jaw-dropping. Ranked Number I in the
Unfortunately, Giovonne Woods, a 6'3" exciting brand of fast - paced basketball conference for r~J:JOunds, assists and threefreshman from Lacey, WA, telegraphed resulting in' an 86-82 nail-biter with the point field goal s made, and number two in
a pass leading to one of four steals by Concordia Cavaliers coming out on top.
steals , their most impressive stat was an
average 100 points per contest, more than
25 points greater than anyone else in the
conference.
This team , with their high potent
offense, is led by two-time all-conference
junior Eric Figei, who leads the conference
with an average of 28 points a game and
rank s number two in rebounding withjust
over nine per outing. The Geoducks did
an out standingjob conta ining the big man
inside and forced him into limited minutes
and a line of 16 points and fo ur board s
becau se of foul trouble. But when you
do the math yo u know that if one person
averages practically 30 points of a 100point tea m, there's still scoring coming
from ot her places. Enter sharp shooter Jeff
Dunn (ranks number two in the conference
in scoring, averaging 20), who connected
on 9-15 from the field including 4-7 from
piloto by Kip Arney beyond th e arc for a game high 27.
On paper this game looked like it was
Despite the best attempts of Dylan Shanahan and Barson Collins, numbers 44 and
43 respectively, the Geoducks couldn ~ pull a win.
By Kip Arney
going to be a blowout. lt started out that
way. Evergreen found itself in a deficit
from the start, as Western Baptist was
able to jump out to a 9-0 lead, holding
Evergreen scoreless until Walt Tucker
(Sr. Jackson, Mississippi) hit a 15-foot
jumper at the 15:55 mark. The defense
by Western Baptist wasn't the factor to
their fast start. Just unfortunate luck , as
on multiple occasions Evergreen had great
looks at the basket, some from as close as
five feet, but they just couldn't get the ball
to go down . After Tucker's basket broke
the hex, the two teams played even ly,
allowing Evergreen to hover around that
nine-to-II-point deficit for the majorit y
of the ga me thanks to the ir hustl e a nd
rebounding as they outboarded the Warriors (number one rebounding team in the
conference) 35-30, led by senior captain
Josh Pet erson's e ig ht.
Tucker led the Geoducks in the scoring with 22 as Woods and Wes New ton
were the on ly others to join him in double
di gits with 16 and II. res pectively.
T he two losses dropped the tea m's
record to 6- 13 overall and 1-5 in confere nce play. T he losses a lso stret ch the ir
season high losing streak to six games.
Kip A m ey is a jUliior enrolled in
Foren sics and Mystery Writing. He is
sludying creative writing.
• • • • • • • • • •
January 25 - Feb
AT THE EVERGREEN
Lady Geoducks dominate
over conference rival Concordia
and captain Heather Hyde, a 5'9" senior
from Olympia, led the team in scoring
Everyone has thei r off days. Somewith 23 and 17 points respectively.
After the loss against Western Baptimes it turns into an inescapable
tist on Friday, Coach Monica Heuer was
rut. Others, its just the nudge needed
confident her team's stats were strong
towards realizing there are better things
to do. Like kick some serious Concordia
enough to carry them through the end of
a .. . You know where I'm going wi'th
the weekend. She was right. But every
TESC athlete knows that when it comes
this.
to Concordia, previous stats aren't even
The 64-71 loss to Western Bapan issue. The score at the end of the
tist, cl!rrently one of the top three stats
Wom en's game against Western Baptist
teams in the conference, was the sw ift
didn't affect the outcome of their next
kick the Evergreen Women's Basketball
competition. The girls knew that heart,
team needed to realize they had to turn
over any other att ributes, would lead
arou nd fast. A back-and-forth game
them to victory on Sat urday. Concoruntil the last few seconds, the Lady
dia may not be across town, o r even in
Geoducks played together with a fluid
the state, but if you su pport athletics
chemi stry the next night, upsetting the
at Evergreen in any way, you know the
conference and knocking Concordia
dynamic rivalry ex isting between Efrom second to fourth in the Cascade
State and CU always results in an amazConference standings. Kamrica Arying game, regard less of the sport.
Turner, a 5' 10" freshman from Federal
I'd just like to publi cly congratu late
Way, WA , knocked overtime out of the
the girls for being the fir st women's
pi cture with a shot from inside the key
tea m to kick Concordi a's ass thi s yea r.
in the las t minute of the game. Kamrica
Yeah, I said it , get mad, I dare yo u. Con.....- - - - - - - - - - - - - - . , cordia couldn't take a game from them
last year, hopefull y the tradition will
continue. Going into a two-weekend
road- trip with s uch a strong win under
Both the Men's and Wom e n ' s their belt will definitel y contribute to the
Basketball teams com peted on Tues- momentum the girls wi ll need to emerge
, day night, right before publicat ion of victorious at their next home game at
this week's CPJ. The women took 5:30 p.m. in the CRC on January 28
their second win in a row, starting a vs. Southern Oregon University. The
streak with another edge - of-your-seat women are currently seventh in the con2-point-victory against Portland's ference with a record of7-9.
Warner Pacific. Following that game,
the men suffered their third loss of the
Meredith Lane is currently
week against the same college. Both interning in th e Washington State
teams will be competing at Northwest Legislature with Senator Joseph Zarelli
in Kirkland this w~ekend . It's less than (R, J8'h district). Form er White House
an hour away, so grab a few friends and Intern Monica Lewinski is not someone
head up north to cheer on your favorite she considers 10 be a role model.
Geoduck!
By Meredith Lane
This iust in!'
In yonder wild
By Cedar Charnley
TOP (The Outdoor Program) 2005
is kicking off a blu stery New Year. The
mountains are painted white, both west
and east, providing a new canvas for us
to ex plore. Rivers swell and hot springs
bubble, echoing the
call to come explore.
The
s poradi c
weather gave us
the perfect variable
s now cond ition s
th at were ideal to
make last weekend 's
avalanche trainin g
full of experience.
On bli zza rdy
day s we dug int o
the snow, exam ining
the layers of s now
crystal s from which
stories of avalanches
and th eir potent ia l
bega n to emerge. As
we hudd led in all r
bivy sack s cut into
snow tre nches, ta l k
ensued of the quarter
to come and a ll the
trips planned.
Ne x t up , on
Sa t urday,
Janua ry IS and 16, is
a weekend in the
snow: ski ing, snowshoeing, sleeping in
snow caves, grand
snowball fights,
avalanche safety and
exploration of water in
its fluffy solid form . After cooking ourselves in hot springs on the lush slopes of
the Olympics on January 22 and 23, we
head to the frosted cascades to go snow
shoeing on the 29 and cross-country sk iing
on February 13. Back country adventure
on February 5 and 6 takes us to the rugged
Hurricane Ridge where we wi II learn more
about how to respect the s lopes while
backcountry skiing and s nowboarding.
- - - - , Many more trips into
the wild are planned
as the days get longe r:
whitewater raftin g
February 26, rock
climbin g at Smith
Rock February 1921, and sea kayak ing
on the So uth Sound·
on Ma rch 6.
We ' re learnin g
in the w ild hill s thi s
wint e r, furth eri ng
our outdoor le adershi p skill s, enviro nment a l education
kn owledge, and back
country living :I nd
aware ness . Ched. li S
~~.~;( out in our office, (, Re
11 3, or call 867-69 87
if you want to come
on o ur trips or are
interested in bec<l lllin g .a trip lenJ er.
See yo u in the w il d
yonder.
Th e Outd o or
Program is localed
on the firsl floor of
the CRe next to th e
photo by Joel Reid Front Desk. Th eyare
open daily and can
be reached at 867-8697. Contact Cedar
Charnley or any of the other enthusiastic
staffers for more information.
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Events This Week
Friday, January 14
Noon. The first meeting for people
who want to go to India during the first
session in summer will be in COM
308E.
4:30-5:30 p.m. The Writers' Guild
presents poet/singer/songwriter Rick
Anderson in the public lounge, Seminar II A3116.
Saturday, January 15
12-1:00 p.m . A death tableau will be
performed at the State Capitol.
Tuesday, January 18
10-11:30 a.m., 6-7:30 p.m. Attend
and participate in the Tacoma Campus
lyceum series. Contact Dr. Hardiman
at hardimw@evergreen.edu . This lecture is entitled Studies in Paradigmatic
Shifts-Anecdotal Geography of North
Pacific America. It will be presented by
Matthew Stadler.
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Thursday, January 20
2 p.m. Gather at 4th and Pine in downtown Seattle to protest the inauguration of George W. Bush.
Weekly Group Meetings
Monday
3 p.m. Student Union Campaign
Group meets in CAB 320.
4-6 p.m. The S&A Board meets in
CAB 31S.
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu mcets in
the Longhou se.
5 p ' ll . The Cooper Point Jou rnal
me,', in CAB 316. Come partic ipate
in I . organi za tion a nd the plann in g 0 1"
the .: ws paper.
6- 1 lO p.m. Ra (~4uethall Leag ue in
th,' ,c.
7 r . Imp rovisatio nal Tht'ater,
Se . ,. ar II C1105 .
7:3· a. m. Yoga Club, CRe 116.
9: 3 . I I :30 p.m. Late Night at th e
CR' Come join in late night ac ti vities
lik e In dminton, ping-pong, ba sketball,
vol' " ba ll, and 4 - Sq uare .
Tuesday
4 P m . Prison Action Committee
me,I S in CAB 320, Work station 10.
4 p.m. STAR, Seminar II B2109.
4 p.m. Racquetball in the CRe.
5 p.m. Yoga Club, CRC 117.
5 p.m. Soccer in the Pavilion
7 p.~. Associated Students ofTESC
(ASTESC), Seminar II A31OS .
7 p.m. ~tudents for Christ, Seminar II A2100.
5 p.m. Gaming Guild, CAB 320.
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets in
the Longhouse.
9:30-11:30 p.m. Late Night at the
CRe. Come join in late night activities
like badminton, ping-pong, basketball,
volleyball, and 4-Square.
Wednesday
7:30 a.m. Yoga Club, CRC 116.
1 p.m . Evergreen Queer Alliance,
Seminar II C2\o7.
1:30 p.m. Environmental Resource
Center, Seminar II E3IOS .
1:30 p.m. Native Student Alliance
meets in CAB 320, Workstation 13.
2 p.m. Evergreen Capitalists Organization , Library 1308.
2 p.m. VOX - Communities for
Choi~e, CAB 320, Cubicle 17. Office
hours: Wednesday, 1-2 p.m., CAB 320,
Cub icle 17.
3 p.m. Jewish Cultural Center, Seminar II E210S.
3 p.m. SEED, Seminar II E3109.
3 p.m. Women of Color Coalition ,
CAB 206.
3 p.m_ Writer's Guild, Seminar II
A 1107.
4-6 p.m. The S&A Board meets in
CAB 315.
4 p.m. EPIC, Seminar 11 A2105 .
4 p.m. CPJ production night. Co me
participate in puttin g together yo ur
st udent newspaper.
4:30 p.m. Radical Catholics meet in
CA B 320.
:; p.m. fwq.~ rccn Iri sh H.l'su r ge nce
F.1cml'n( mcct s in CAB 320. Wo rk ~ ta :; p.lII. [H'q!ree n Kung F u mcet s in
the Lllll gIHl ll SC.
6-R:OO p.m. Racquetball Ll'aglle in
Ihc CRC
9:30-11 :30 p.m. Late Nig ht at the
e Re. Co me jo i11 in late night activities
like badmint on, ping-po ng. basketba ll ,
vo lleyba ll , a nd 4 -Square.
Thursday
4 p.m. Carnival , Seminar 11 01107.
4 p.m. Women's ResoUl'ce Ccntel;
CAB 315.
4 p.m. Racquetball in the CRC.
4 p.m. CPJ paper critique. Corne
voice concerns about the week's paper.
5 p.m. Yoga Club, CRC 117.
5 p.m. GeoDance Club, CRC 316.
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets in
the Longhouse.
5 p.m. Dodge ball in the Pavilion.
Come play!
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
BII07.
9:30-11:30 p.m. Late Night at the
CRe. Come join in late night activities
like badminton, ping-pong, basketball,
volleyball , and 4-Square.
Friday
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 C2\o7.
7 p.m. Giant Robot Appreciation
Society, Seminar II AlIOS .
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets in
the Longhouse .
. Sunday
1-3:00 p.m. Ultimllte Frisbee in the
Pavilion .
3 p.m. Kickball on the fi eld next to
the HCe.
5:30 p.m. Yoga Club, Lecture Hall 3.
6:30 p.m. Common Bread , Longho use Cedar Room.
Facility Hours
Quantitative ..~ Symbolic
H.eason in g Center
Location : Eve rg reen Tutor ing Center.
CA B lOR , next to the Gree nery
Phone: (360) 867-S630
Hours:
Monday-T hur sday : 10 a.m.- 8 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m.-S p.m.
Sunday : 12 p.m.-6 p.m.
Wl'iting Center-Olympia
Location : Evergreen Tutoring Center,
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CAB 108, next to the Greenery .
Hours:
Monday-Thursday: 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Friday: II a.m.-4 p.m.
Sunday: 12 p.m.-6 p.m .
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Location: Library ~uiJding, Room
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Phone: (360) 867-6464
Email: KEY Student Services
Hours:
Monday-Friday: 8 a.m .-S p.m.
Special appointments can be arranged
upon request.
Library
Hours:
Monday-Thursday: 8:30 a.m.-IO:4S
p.m.
Friday: 8:30 a.m .-6:4S p.m.
Saturday: 10:30 a.m .-6 :IS p.m.
Sunday: 12:00 p.m.-l0:4S p.m.
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Sunday: Noon-4 p.m.
Academic Advising
Location: Library Building, Room
1401
Phone: (360) 867-6312
Email: Advising
Hours:
Monday- Thursday: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m.-S p.m.
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Writi ng Tutors:
Sund ay-T hursday: 6 p.I11.-9 p.m .
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Monday-T hursday: 6 p.J1l .- 9 p.m .
Career Development Cente r
Location: Library Building. Rool11
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Phone: (360) 867-6193
Email: Ca ree r Deve lo pm ent
Office Hours:
Monday-Friday: 8 a.m.-5 p.m .
Drop In Appointment Hours:
Tuesday & Thursday : 9- 11 a.l11 .
Wednesday: 2 p.m.-4 p.m .
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Celebrate local producers during
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Co-op. Everyone is welcome at
the Olympia Food Co-op.
Westside:
921 N. Rogers Sf., 9 - 8 daily
Eastside:
3111 Pacific Ave .. 9 - 9 daily
"Care to know where
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Support Fair Trade with low-income
artisans and farmers and you will. ..
We are:
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Website: traditionsfairtrade.com .
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