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°COOPER POINT
OURNAL
Issue 18
Volume 35
March 1, 2007
State legislation
may ease college
tuition burden
By Tori Needer
She also spoke at length of her struggles to try and lay to rest the image that
was created of her by public manipulation. The individualization of figures such
as herself into recognized symbol undermines the thrust of any movement as a
whole, and Davis believes that she herself
was the beneficiary of "the larger movements." As for her greatest contribution
to the Civil Rights movement, in her own
words, "I sat up in jail."
Davis draws a broad trajectory through
various activist movements, stating
that in her analysis everything is connected, whether it is race, gender or class.
Understanding those connections is what
makes interdisciplinary studies so pivotal
in Davis' work. Angela Davis plans to continue her work for all social justice and
a redefinition of diversity in execution.
After a brief question and answer period,
Davis left to catch a flight: she had class
later that day.
This years 6 percent tuition increase for
residents will be the largest increase for the
foreseeable future if Senate Bill 5013 passes.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Mark Schoesler,
would put a 5.5 percent cap on yearly undergraduate tuition hikes in the hopes of saving
students money.
Schoeler commented that he hoped that
the bill will bring stability to students lives.
He compared tuition caps to the anticipated
increases that moderate Social Security
and minimum wage. "The bottom line is
that tuition increases have continued to rise
without any predictability, and it's making it
even tougher for students and families to plan
to pay for college. This bill tries to bring tuition
costs under control by giving students more
predictability ... we should provide students
of working families with the same predictability that we provide seniors and workers
when it comes to Social Security and the minimum wage," said Schoeler.
The bi II was amended and passed by the
Senate's Higher Education Committee on
February 22. Before it was amended the
bill restricted tuition hikes from exceeding
the national rate of inflation or from students
paying more than 50 percent of the cost of
instruction per student. The bill in its original format not only limited undergraduate
cost but also capped graduate student tuition.
The substitute bill that passed leaves graduate
student tuition at the discretion of the
institution.
After being passed by the Higher Education
Committee the bill will be introduced in the
Senate's Ways and Means committee. Ways
and Means will determine the fmancial ramifications that the bill would have on the
state. If the Ways and Means committee
does not reject the bill it will be read in
open legislature and then move on to the
Rules committee.
The Rules committee will decide if and
when a second reading of the bill will take
place. At the second reading the bill is open to
debate and amendment. Finally ifthe bill makes
it to a third open reading in the Senate and is
passed, then it must begin the same process
fn the House of Representatives.
To put things in perspective between 2003
and 2005 tuition for Washington state residents attending TESC rose 6.5 percent per
year. During 2005 and 2007 tuition rose 6
percent per year. The bill does not affect the
tuition rates of non-residential student who's
tuition rose 15.5 percent during the 2003-04
school year. 45 percent of incoming freshmen
and 56 percent of all undergraduates attending
TESC are receiving some kind of need-based
financial aid.
Joshua Katz is a junior enrolled in
Power in American Society.
Tori Needer is a junior enrolled in Health
and Human Development.
Wednesday's wacky weather confused the campus as the sides rapidly shifted from sun to snow and back. Page 9
Angela Davis speaks at Tacoma Community College
By Joshua Katz
At a community-wide event hosted
by the Artists and Lectures series at TCC,
iconoclast and activist Angela Davis spoke
at length to the assemblage of community
leaders, residents and students, including
a group from the Brick City Project who
were being honored that day.
Davis emerged as a potent voice from
the Civil Rights movement and through
her controversial status as an accessory
to murder during her tenure as a member
of the Black Panther Party. She was later
cleared of all charges and helped found
the Committees of Correspondence for
· Democracy and Socialism, as well as advocating the abolishment of prisons.
In addition to her activism, Davis is a
professor of Feminist Studies and History
of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz.
Davis initiated the lecture with a pointed
deconstruction of the modern ideal of
diversity; particularly, " ... in so many
meanings, diversity only ends with surface appearance ... " and by challenging
the audience to "put our heads together,
and think a bit." As Davis said, "If we fail
to align diversity with equality, democracy and social justice, all we are left with
is difference" and that" ... difference does
not make a difference." At the heart of
social justice is "emotional connection,
feeling ... " and Davis encouraged the listeners that community was "something that
could be created." One of the keys to this
creation was "understand[ing] historical
memory" which Davis defines as a broad
understanding of history that goes beyond
an individual's personal experience.
She cites as an example her knowledge
of the history of Wounded Knee. DavTs
then brought back the keynote topic of
diversity, denouncing the effect she perceives this diversity to have on fostering
divisions between people instead of unifying them. Davis summarily set forward her hopes on community building,
stating her belief that her freedom came
for the large, cross-cultural community
that emerged in defense of Davis during
her incarceration.
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leadership. The BOT directs Evergreen into
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Board. The BOT meetings are open to the
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member is a student chosen by the governor from a group of nominees selected by
campus peers." Starting March 19,2007 applications will be available in CAB 320 as
well in the Library Lobby. The deadline of
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CAB 320 to Tom Mercado. Instructions on
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applicants first will be interviewed by the
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five final applicants to the Washington State
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and an appointment will be made within a
couple of weeks. The next trustee could be
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Blood drive
Puget Sound Blood Center will be on
campus for a blood drive Tuesday, March
6 from 12 to 2:30 p.m. and 3: 15 to 6 p.m.
in LIB 2000. If you have questions and/or
would like to sign up for an appointment
that day, please contact Beth Hesketh at
Ext. 6804.
Get your creative juices flowing
"The Ovarian" is currently accepting
submissions. This publication is a zine
comprised of work from woman-identified Evergreen students and is produced
by the Women's Resource Center. We are
looking for your poetry, short stories, essays,
photography, drawings and any other work
that can transfer well into black and white.
You can drop off your work in the WRC,
CAB 320 or email submissions to wrc@riseup.net.
Women's Resource Center seeks intern
Looking for an internship for spring
quarter? The WRC is in need of someone
whose duties would include: organizing and
advertising for events, returning phone/email
messages and an interest project of your
choice. Your efforts would benefit the women 's community at Evergreen and you will
get academic credit. Those interested should
contact Sarah, the coordinator, at wrc@riseup.net or come to the weekly meetings,
Wednesdays at I :30 p.m. in CAB 313.
Student email and new Gateway login
Beginning this March, email will be
used as a primary, official method of communication between the college and students. All students are requested to activate and use their evergreen.edu email address for this purpose. You may choose to
automatically forwa~d all email to an address of your choice, and you may update
your forwarding settings at any time. To activate, or to change settings in your evergreen.edu account, go to my.evergreen.edu.
As part of this change, on March 6 you will
login to the Gateway differently. Instead of
using your ID (A00123456) and six-digit
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login name and password. It is very important to activate your my.evergreen.edu account now for this reason. It is also recommended that you login to the Gateway before your registration time (and after March
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still having trouble after reading the help information, please call the Computer Center
Help Desk at (360) 867-6231, or Registration
and Records at (360) 867-6180.
Steve Almond to visit Evergreen
Come to a funny, sad, bawdy and generally unorthodox evening with award-winning author and essayist, Steve Almond.
He ' ll be reading from his new work and
will be discussing, among other things: sex,
rock and roll, Judaism and the importance of
reading. This event is March 10, 7 p.m. in
LIB Lobby. Admission is free. Almond has
won the prestigious 0. Henry Prize for his
short fiction and is the author of several
acclaimed books, including "The Evil B.B.
Chow," "Candyfreak," and "My Life With
Heavy Metal." He taught literature and creative writing at Boston College until this past
year when he resigned over BC's decision to
give an honorary degree to Condoleeza Rice
at this year's commencement ceremony.
Space is limited, RSVP to dwuaw@yahoo.
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American Chemical Society's annual conference in Chicago. A maximum of 5,000
tickets will be sold. The raffle drawing will
be held in CAB 320 at 12 noon on March 5.
Winners need not be present to win. Winners
not present will be notified by phone or
email. All questions and inquires should be
directed toward the Evergreen Chemistry
Club at chemclub@evergreen.edu
Items donated for prizes include but are
not limited to the following: five $10 Gift
certificates from Last Word Books, one $15
Gift certificate from Orca Books, one $50
Gift certificate from Spider Monkey Tattoo,
one $25 Gift certificate from Dumpster
Values, one $25 Gift certificate from Old
School Pizzeria, one $35 Gift certificate from
the Wine Merchant, one Gift certificate for
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Brothers, two Gift certificates for a free night
at Comfort Inn, one Sarong from Compass
Rose, one Mouse pad designed by an independent artist from Hot Toddy.
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another year
Most people feel that everyone should
have enough to eat, simply by the virtue of
being a person. But it's clear that our current
economic system does not respect this human
right. The results are predictable: people in
our community don't get enough to eat and
don'tknow where there next meal is coming
from. The Gleaners Coalition was formed in
2005 to help combat the hunger in our community. By partnering with local organic
farms, the Gleaners have distributed thousands of pounds of fresh, organic fruits and
vegetables into the emergency food distribution network. The Evergleaners formed
last year as Gleaners Coalition partners on
campus, and we've organized numerous volunteer trips to help harvest food. Nothing
beats heading out to the farm, getting dirty
with some veggies, and bringing home a big
haul that will go to folks who need it. And
we need your help!
There isn't much veggie picking going
on in the winter, but spring will be soon and
there's still plenty of work. We need volunteers to help out with TASTE, a recipe demonstration project at the Food Bank. We're
also organizing a food preservation class.
What else are we working on right now?
Well, that's up to you! Should we bring rad
speakers to talk about GM foods, visit other
gleaning organizations, or stencil vegetables
on our t-shirts? All of these things and more
are possible with your energy and ideas. So
come join us, Wednesdays at 1 p.m. in Red
Square, by the hill. If it's raining, we head
inside and meet on the stairs on the 2nd floor
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The Snakebites
Band
Interview
Album Review ·
Eluvium
"Copia"
Temporary Residence Ltd.
2007
By Lauren Takores
Once upon a time, the Freewheelin'
Skky Phoenix and Sensational Starr
Harris built a time machine out of old
amps, guitar pedals and drum skins.
They wanted to travel back to the 1970s
to be country-western lounge singers.
Somewhere along the journey there was a
blip in time and space. The time machine
disintegrated. The duo crash landed in
Seattle circa 1995. From the wreckage
of their 1970s cowboy denim dreams, the
musicians picked up the pieces of their
shattered ship and started to play again.
That result, The Snakebites, falls somewhere between a KRS superstar band Iike
The Frumpies and the good Reverend
Horton Heat.
Starr plays her drums with the enthusiasm of a little kid on the high dive that
has to make sure her mom is watching
her jump. And on guitar, Skky is Axel
Carpenter. Kurt Denver. He embodies
the raw talent of Jack White and David
Cassidy's hair appeal. Tonight, Sunday,
Feb. II, is their first official interview,
in the markered-up band room at Hell's
Kitchen in Tacoma, at their show with
The Fucking Eagles, The Freakouts, and
The Hacks.
"There totally aren't enough female
musicians." Starr realized this when she
started playing gigs and saw she was the
only chick at the club. Originally from
Massachusetts, Starr went to college in
Vermont, moved to New York City, then
back to her parents' house, all the while
wanting to be in Seattle. "It was fated,"
she said. "1 was meant to play music with
this guy."
Skky had been sitting still, looking
very much in his own world, as he often
appears when the spotlight isn't lighting
up his guitar, when something quiet occupies his thoughts. I recited his story;
how he is from Aberdeen, moved to Los
Angeles, hated it and moved back, finally
to Seattle. He nodded, yupped, and said
about L.A., "Too hot. Everyday it's too
hot and sunny."
Starr started drumming at age 25,
but Skky knew sooner than that what
arts & entertainment
March I, 2007
By Lauren Allen
Bubblegum rockabilly for the all-ages rock crowd.
he wanted to be. The babysitter was
watching an MTV video of Guns N'
Roses on a New Years Eve special and
soon after Skky was drawing pictures
of Axel, singing and dressing like him.
"I was like, six ... my mom actually
wanted to send me to a counselor, because
she thought I picked such a terrible role
model."
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Skky writes the music and songs as he
describes "subconsciously, singing and
playing something" often to the point of
actual recording before he goes back and
figures out what the song means.
When it's time to bring Starr to the
song, she said, "usually, up until recently,
he would come over, show me the songs,
and about ten minutes later they'd just
be done .. . I think I get across what
he wants, minimally, and it just kinda
works." New songs will be more creative,
the process more thought out, since everything has been full speed ahead since the
second they met.
"I like anything that has real emotion. Even like Kurt," Skky offered, "he
wrote these super, well-constructed pop
songs ... you don't have to know any of
his lyrics to feel what he's saying, just
by his tone. The music and the melodies speak."
Staying true to the small two-piece
band helps push creativity by playing
songs thought out for 20 people with
just two instruments. Skky composes
full instrumentation in his head, down
to exact drum beats. Starr explains, "he
hears things we don't even play. He
hears organs, and we don't have an organ
player, but I'm sure he's probably got a
cello somewhere in his head going."
To balance out the angst in the songs
with a sweet persona, Skky creates an
intimate vi be along the lines of Captain
and Tenniel, Sonny and Cher, Johnny
and June. "It's a nice little package that
no other band can really do," he said,
going on to say that now that these bands
aren't around anymore, people just don't
realize they like the music because they
haven't heard it and won't listen to it. But
if people heard The Snakebites, a modernized version of something old ...
"Not a lot of people can do it because
they don't love it and appreciate it the
way that I do and I think that's why it
works," said Skky.
Their CD "Love. Hate. Rage &
Sorrow" is available at various stores in
Seattle, and you can see The Snakebites
on March 3 at Mars Bar in Seattle, in a
showcase called "Attack of the Killer
Two-Piece."
Lauren Takores is a sophomore
enrolled in Russia and Eurasia: Empires
The musical brainchild of Portland's
Matthew Cooper, Eluvium is the perfect
combination of piano compositions and
eerie, electronic soundscapes to launch listeners into a dreamlike state of bliss. The
fourth release from Eluvium, ''Copia" combines both organic and space ambient with
just the right amount of a minimalist influence to be able to, as Brian Eno writes, "be
as ignorable as it is interesting."
"Copia" is an album of breaths; bringing
the oxygen induced euphoria that is
Eluvium. Evident in "Indoor Swimming
at the Space Station," as you inhale and
exhale with the lowest of notes, you hear
the wind blowing through the trees with a
simple melody layered over the swaying of
the sounds droning on below. Near the end
of the song, all that is heard are the sounds
of the invisible, mechanical creatures flying
through the fading night sky, transitioning
into the sunrise of the next song, "Seeing
You Off the Edges." Opening with a crescendo of enveloping warmth taking you
to the ends of the earth, the space ambient
side of Eluvium takes over, creating the sensation of flying through the sky, your skin
touched by the sun of the early morning.
The piano compositions are arguably
some of the more noteworthy songs on
the album, especially "Radio Ballet" and
"Reciting the Airships." Combining a minimalist melody with the slow pulse of the
soundscapes scattered through the album,
these two songs are reminiscent of "An
Accidental Memory in the Case of Death,"
the 2004 release from Eluvium.
The last song on the album, "Repose
in Blue," is a fitting ending to a wonderful ambient release. A serene composition building to the soaring music of life
politely interrupted with the muffled sound
of explosions in the sky above, it is a triumphant finale to Eluvium's best release to
date.
"Copia" is available now through
Temporary Residence Limited. Also in
the works for Eluvium is a split with Jesu
(Justin Broadrick of God flesh's newest
project). Opening for Explosions in the Sky,
Eluvium will be playing in Portland at the
Wonder Ballroom on May 4, and in Seattle
at Neumos on May 6.
and Enduring Legacies.
Lauren Allen is a junior enrolled in
Health and Human Development and
Theories of Personality.
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~ International Women's Week ~ ·
International Women's Week is an annual event that strives to celebrate women and raise awareness around
women's issues worldwide. Our goal is not to homogenize women's experiences but rather to engage in
Inultiple dialogues that question the dominant mode of thought surrounding women's experience. This year
the planning committee wanted to put focus on queer issues as well and we began to think about what being a
woman even means. We are pleased to have produced a schedule of events with many talented people.
Description of Events:
M onday
CARA - C ommunities Against Rape & Abuse- C ARA are a Seattle ba..c.;ed organization nm by women of color. T his w orkshop willcvelop skills in combatting the prison industrial complex in communities by building accountability surrounding sexual and domestic violence
situations. SEM II AI107
E mi Koyama - E mi is a queer feminist activist. Her lecture will be on the the Feminism and Q ueer Theory. CAB 110
'J'uesday
Emi Koyama \Vorkshop- condensed anti-oppression workshop (4 hours) CAB 110
L.oretta Ross- Ross is the founder of Sistersong and an author of book<; about women of color and sexual violence. She will be
speaking on \\1omen of Color and Reproductive J usticc. Lecture Hall3
Wednesday
Birth Attendants: Prison Doula Workshop. The Birth attendant<; are a local organization of dou]a..<; who perform doula services at a
local prison tor women. SEM II B1107
Babcland- \Vorkshop on Female Ejaculation. I lands on! A-Dorm The Edge
Stacey Anne Chin- Chin is a powerful queer Jamaican slam poet. She pc1formcd on Dcf Poetry Jam. Recital Hall
Thursday
Dolores I Iucrta- I Iucrta is a longtime chicana organizer surrounding a wide range of issues including is.•mes of empowerment
amongst immigrants and unionization. Library 4300
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piece of music, poetry, art or just yoursclt1 CAB 110
l..ocal to Global: Community Organizing, Reproductive Justice and Sex Education 4:30pm CAB 110
C oncert: T ricotic, H eil Seizures, Robin Cutler Housing Community Center (HCC)
Friday
Mohja Kahf and Winona l.JaDuke - Readings and discussion on spirituality.
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Local to Global Program
SESAME~ Housing~
the diversity fund and the Feminisms
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Cooper Point Journal
arts &entertainment
March I, 2007
Olympia Free School benefit show:
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, Pink Razors, Defiance Ohio, Coming Up Roses, Shorebirds
By Lauren Allen
Arriving early for the Olympia Free
School Benefit Show on Monday, I entered
the Eagl e's Hall Ballroom only to be
greeted by the soothing sounds ofOutKast's
"Stankonia. " So much for punk. Sitting
around th e edges of the Christmas light
lit room , much like the dreaded middle
school dances of years past, I watched the
people slowly wander in from the streets
of Olympia and gather together, waiting
in eager anticipation for the show that was
to follow.
The Olympia Free School is exactly what
it sounds like, a school for the community
that is taught by members of the community.
The school is run entirely on local community support and donations, thus the importance of the benefit last Monday.
The Free School believes not only in
community-based learning but that education is a lifelong occurance to be enjoyed.
Want to learn how to play the banjo? Or
how to use Linux? Or how to cook using
raw foods? Well, the Olympia Free School
offers those classes, as well as others. Check
out the Free School calendar and enroll
in a class. If you've got a skill or knowledge you'd like to share with others, get
in contact with the Free School and set up
a class.
Starting out the benefit were the
Shorebirds and Coming Up Roses, two
bands who shared the same drummer and a
similar sound. Though the crowd was small
(about 40 or so at the time), the energy in
the ballroom was already beginning to grow.
Dancing, singing and smiling combined
with the punk music set the positive prece.
dent for the rest of the night.
Next up was Defiance Ohio, from
Indiana. A group armed with a violin, cello,
banjo and the other requisite instruments,
they started off their set joking about performing a Pink Floyd laser show with the
blue flashing rings they had on their fingers
and bows. The size of the crowd increased
as even more people drifted in from the
cold streets outside. Defiance Ohio was also
featured on Tuesday at 1 p.m. on KAOS
Radio.
My favorite part of the night was the next
band, Pink Razors. After a few brief microphone malfunctions and a snare stand collapse during their first song, the Richmond
quartet was ready to go, complete with a
black cap from an audience member draped
over the head of the microphone at the start
of "Waiting to Wash Up ." Playing most of
the songs from their newest EP of the same
name, Pink Razors had the crowd singing,
dancing and pumping their fists in the air
along with the lyrics of their positive, doit-yourself inspired mvsic.
In fact, the Pink Razors were playing
with so much intensity that the bass drum
kept inching its way forward across the performance space. Completing their set with
"Sew it Seems," almost everyone watching
the band was either singing along with or
dancing to the music, whether they had
heard the band before or not.
Finishing up the night was This Bike
Is A Pipe· Bomb, the folk-punk band with
the infamous stickers that cause bikes to
be destroyed by bomb squads throughout
the country. It's amazing how an ignorant
police officer can believe that a bike, with
a sticker that says "This Bike Is A Pipe
Bomb" can actually think that the bike is a
pipe bomb. I'd like to think the 'terrorists'
our nation's leaders warn us about would be
a bit more subtle about their attacks, otherwise, why the hell are we supposed to be
afraid ofthem?
Opening with "Jack Johnson" and
"Roscoe Arbuckle," the trio purposefully
set up their equipment a few feet forward
of the typical performance space so that
the crowd could enjoy the show in a circle
around them.
Songs such as "Body Count," which
addresses the constant and ongoing wars
throughout history show the political side
of This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb's music. This
song also displayed their carefree, positive
attitude for the night, as during the first
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb at the Olympia Free School Benefit on February 26.
attempt at the song, something went wrong,
with the female vocalist asking, "How many
songs can we play at the same time?'' and
the drummer responding simply, "Three."
The second attempt at "Body Count" was
a success, the crowd singing along through
the entirety.
After the announcement of their last
song, "This Is What I Want" the crowd
roared with excitement. The song covering several social issue was obviously a
crowd favorite. Acknowledging the power
of music, the band reminded the crowd
that "music can change the world" and that
"four punks in a dark room are more than
that, they're making a change." I must say, I
can't think of any band that was more fitting to end the Free School Benefit.
As the music came to a close and the
smiling crowd began to filter out and I
stepped into the cold, humming along to the
last song, the reminder of a need for community action and community support was
lingering in the air, heavy and in the forefront of all of our minds.
"This is what I want, I want all the
punks to take to the streets
Playing their guitars ...
This is what I want, black kids and
white kids sharing all the songs that
their grandmother taught 'em
This is what I want, This is what I
want.. .
And we 'II never sing a song we heard
on your radio
Or a song someone else was paid to
write and sing
And we '/I never sing ofsex - thefakest
kind of love
Those songs will not be played on our
guitars "
/.yric.\'from: "1'hi.\· Jx What/ Want"
The Olympia Free School is located at
610 Columbia Street. To volunteer your time,
enroll in a class, or for more information
visit http://www.oly-wa.us/FreeSchool.
Lauren Allen is a junior enrolled in
Health and Human Development and
Theories of Personality.
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March I, 2007
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The Language Symposium
Sticks and stones
By Victoria Larkin
I read a mediocre book about storytelling recently
in which the author goes into hyperbole about "words
alone" as how to communicate/connect. .. I mean, I'm
all about the words, use 'em all the time, can only pick
out about 3 or 4 per phrase I'm in, know they weave
about me as I weave them about, and I have no clue
how many of them go through my mind or my mouth
in a day ...
But this idea of 'words alone' really bothers me.
Words can do a lot: can incite riot, romance, justice,
enlightenment, joy, sadness . . . but much can be, and
is communicated without words at all .. .
I was thinking about all the ways you can say I hate
you without using words: you can smash somebody 's
face up against a wall ; you can ignore them as they
lie there bleeding; you can let them starve while you
feed yourself in front of them ; you can dump nuclear
waste in their backyard; you can torch their homes ;
you can drop bombs on them - really, I think the list
is quite long. Sticks and stones can break somebody's
bones, and should you be, say, a woman who has just
been caught with a man who is not her husband, and
you ' re in the wrong place for that kind of thing, I think
the sticks and stones will speak quite loudly .. . maybe
the words passed to the stick and stone holders previous to the incident led to the incident, but I bet prewords, sticks and stones were in high demand: Get off
my meat pile, or else.
And then, there's love: how many ways can you
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say I love you without using words? You can caress
some body's cheek; you can lift them up when they've
fallen; you can hold them when they are sick; you can
feed them when they are hungry; you can mend their
broken bones; you can risk your life for them ...
So much can be said without words. And words
can actually muddle up a situation: someone beats
their children, or anyone close to them, while telling
them they love them, that this beating is for their own
"if you just look at what the sticks
and stones are doing, I'd say: if
they're beating you, it's probably
not love:'
good. What do you do?. Go by the words? Yes, I want
to believe that you love me, so I will hold on to your
words, and ignore the fact that you have broken my
bones. Without the words, I think the actions would
be scream in g.
Those pesky words: the United States destroys Iraq
while saying it's all for Freedom and Democracy; the
United States torched Vietnam while saying it was all
for Freedom and Democracy; the United States tried
to obliterate an entire population of people living on
this land, and said it was in the name of Freedom and
Democracy; many of the people screwed over by the
United States actually believe that the United States
stands for Freedom and Democracy. It is hard to judge
by actions alone. Words can really play on deeper
hopes. Humans have to be clever to read between
·the words. But if you just look at what the sticks and
stones are doing, I'd say: if they're beating you, it's
probably not love.
Beyond Sticks and Stones, the next line is Names
can Never Hurt Me. Well well ... I'd say: calling
someone a heretic led to torture; calling someone a
subversive led to jail'; calling someone a Jew meant
deportation; calling someone a fag led to murder.
Names can topple presidential campaigns, can ruin
futures, can strip entire groups of peoples of their humanity, and make them open targets, giving others license to kill: Savages; Terrorists; Witches; Bitches;
Queers; Aliens; and so on, depending on the flavor of
hatred of the day.
It's all so confusing. Words have the power to communicate, to start, and to finish wars; actions have the
power to communicate, to start, and to finish wars.
Sticks and Stones can Break My Bones, and Words
Can Fuck Me Up, Too.
However, words alone cannot feed me, cannot mend
my body, cannot birth a child ...
Word of the Day: Rectification: Making right.
Victoria Larkin is a senior, a writing tutor, and
enrolled in an independent contract: Dance as
Signifier.
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A Quantit9-tive and Symbolic Re9-soning Center Puzzler
We at the Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center wish to apologize for the following errors. 1)
The week 6 challenge had a layout error which made the answer to the puzzle ambiguous. The solution we
published was incorrect. 2) The week 7 challenge had several errors, for which there is no excuse. We will
make every effort in the future to carefully prepare and proofread our weekly challenges, and to communicate
more effectively with the CPJ regarding layout. The two corrected solutions are included below.
Week6:
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Cooper Point Journal
features
March 1, 2007
Day of Absence/Presence
Students, staff and faculty build
community on and off campus
By Jesse Gonzalez
This article is for my friends who
decided not to come to the Day of Absence
off-campus retreat. To those of you who felt
you could not come due to your faculty not
excusing your absence and being afraid of
the repercussions if you did attend.
To those of you who I've talked to who
said you've given up on communities of
color because it's always about talking and
not about follow up actions.
Most of all though, it's for my friends
who decided not to go, who have never
attended a Day of Absence event, and disregard it as day of waste.
I was able to attend Day of Absence this
year and have been asked what I thought
about it. Day of Absence was awesome for
so many reasons. I can't speak for everyone
who attended but for me it provided a safe
space that I normally don't receive from
the wider Evergreen community.
It was a place where I was able to
create, share, and reflect freely my experience as a student of color at Evergreen.
At school there are friends and resources
were I can share and reflect these experiences, the space is limiting and often interrupted by prying eyes which creates an
unsafe feeling.
Day of Absence allows for all self identified students of color to come together
and create that space that we so often talk
about yet never get.
Along with creating a safe space, Day
of Absence for me allowed the sharing of
my past, my heritage, my commonalities
and differences with other people of color.
Hearing others share their lives gave me
a sense of our community weaving itself
together in our shared experiences as
people of color on campus.
Time was provided not only to share
our past but to reflect on our present and
our future. We were able to both validate our existence and focus on what to
do next. Day of Absence, at least for this
year valued action as much as sharing in
an attempt to continue to provide a sustainable community of color that is receptive
to all its members.
I am grateful to my old friends who were
able to contribute to this amazing day. I am
also grateful to all the new friends I was
able to make during Day of Absence and
to all the faculty and staff that supported
us, got involved and took the time to hear
what we had to say. To all of our community members on campus who were not fortunate enough to take part of these awesome and empowering events I invite you
to get involved in our community.
Looking out over Waipio Valley in Hilo,
Hawaii is mind blowing. The green cliff
sides glow with vibrancy, and are bejeweled with slender, flowing waterfalls. The
Valley's floor is lush with tall grasses and
various kinds of trees. There are several
weaving rivers which flow into the ocean at
the mouth ofthe valley. The ocean sparkles
in the sunlight and the bright blue sky makes
the waters color exceptionally vivid. The
clouds are arranged in a way so that beams
of light illuminate patches of the valley and
shade other parts, giving depth to the scene.
The land of Waipio Valley is sacred to the
Hawaiians. When my feet are planted in its
soil the feeling I get is magical.
I stayed in the Valley for a month and a
half with a Hawaiian family, working on
their organic farm. The family I stayed with .
knew a lot about Hawaiian history and I
became completely immersed in the culture. While I was learning about the culture I was also learning about the methods
of organic farming. The two complimented
each other perfectly because Hawaiian culture is very earth based and respectful to
The Day of Absence was an awesome event that allowed me to feel at home with other
people just like me; I knew that I wouldn't be judged, ridiculed or questioned for the way I
look. Happy faces greeting one another as if we've known each other for years.
I didn't feel as though I would have to explain myself; I am accepted, celebrated, and nurtured. I shared a little about my heritage during this event which was embraced with deep
emotion and cradled with affection and care.
I knew this was the one place I could go to and have that feeling of complete belonging,
no fa~ades, or unauthentic gestures. This is one of those occasions that nourish my spirit.
Puanani Jeffery is a senior enrolled in Building Organizational Capacity to Thrive and
Academic Research.
Jesse Gonzalez is a senior enrolled in
Nuisance to Negligence.
Students partake in organic
far.rn.ing on campus and abroad
By EtnilyJohnson
By PuananiJeffery
nature. This experience was made possible
through an organization called WWOOF.
WWOOF stands for Willing Workers On
Organic Farms (www.wwoofhawaii.org).
The family and I had a work trade agreement; they gave me room and board and I
worked 5 hours a day, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.,
because there are tons of small, local places
to buy. I personally feel great when I eat
something I grew locally. I was raised on
organic food so I can tell when I eat out and
the food isn't quality and organic, I don't
feel as good. Organic farming is important
because of health issues for humans, health
issues are related to diet, which is related to
organic."
Steven Bode, a student at Evergreen
shares his experience with eating organic: "I
had to change my diet dramatically last year,
I learned I was diabetic. I'm observing different ways to change my eating habits and
organic farming really interests me. When I
If cutting unnatural chemicals out of my diet made
me feel so great, why aren't more people aware of
what they unnecessarily put into their bodies?
Monday - Friday. The rest of the time was
mine to explore paradise.
All of the food I ate for a month and a
half was organic, the way it made my body
feel was amazing. Working on the farm really
opened my eyes. If cutting unnatural chemicals out of my diet made me feel so great,
why aren't more people aware of what they
unnecessarily put into their bodies?
.
I recently spoke to Sarah and Teva, who
regularly work at Evergreens organic farm.
"Its easier to eat organically in Olympia
eat an apple that's organic it tastes different
from an un-organic apple, the organic apple
is much better. I'm learning to be more aware
of food."
Apart from the fact that unnatural pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers grown into
the food we eat are unfit for the nourishment
of our bodies, using harsh chemicals is also
extremely bad for the earth and its ecosystems. The earth is sacred, beautiful, and needs
to be respected. Being in Waipio Valley and
being connected to that magical earth energy,
further awakened me to earth's divinity and
what a great need there is to protect our environment (yes, I realize that farming with
chemicals is only one environment hazard
on a scale of many, but this is the one I'm
choosing to bring awareness too).
There are so many effects that using
chemicals to farm has on ecosystems. Even
though I was staying with a very green family
in Hawaii, there were other farmers in Waipio
Valley who used chemicals. One of the huge
crops in Hawaii is called taro, which is a root
vegetable and is a traditional food staple to
the Hawaiian people. Taro can only be grown
in running water. The rivers in Waipio Valley
are used to circulate water through the taro
crops. This creates a problem ·because rivers
flow in and out of different farmer's taro
patches and some farmers use chemicals
which contaminate the taro other farmers are
trying to grow organically. The other problem
is that the rivers flow through the valley
ending up in the ocean, which is yet another
ecosystem chemical usage affects.
Using chemicals makes it easier to mass
produce food, if people supported their local
farmers more, there would be less of a need
for one company to mass produce a product.
The demand for organic food is growing
and organic farms are also becoming corporate. Sara and Tava stress the importance of
buying locally grown organic food : "Organic
farming is becoming really big industry and
big business. More people are aware and
ORGANIC PAGE 9
features
Cooper Point Journal
Dolores Huerta to
speak at Evergreen
By Holly Carter
Dolores Huerta, feminist, legendary
labor organizer (co-founded the United
Farm Workers' Union with Cesar Chavez),
played a key role in organizing grape boycotts that lasted five years and resulted
in important victories for farm workers,
mother of eleven, human rights activist, and
environmentalist, is coming to Evergreen!
Over 50 years of Dolores Huerta's life
has been spent helping farm laborers organize and fight for reform. In the mid-1950s,
she began to work for the Community
Service Organization (CSO), a Mexican
American self-help association founded
in Los Angeles. She registered people to
vote, organized citizenship classes for immigrants, and pressed local governments
for necessary improvements in the barrios
surrounding L.A. She was also instrumental
in gaining reforms such as the right to vote
in Spanish, and the right of immigrants to
take Drivers License tests in their native language. Through her work as a community
organizer, Dolores recognized the pressing
needs of farm workers and their families.
In a time when few women, especially
women of color, dared to lobby in State and
National Capitals, she became a bold lobbyist in Sacramento. Her efforts paid off in
1961 when she succeeded in obtaining the
removal of citizenship requirements from
pension and public assistance programs
for legal residents of the United States and
California State disability insurance for
farm workers. She also played a key role
in securing Aid for Dependent Families and
Children (ADFC) to help the under and unemployed who are the reserve army oflabor
for capital. This was merely the beginning
of Dolores' life-long commitment to improving the lives and working conditions
of migrant farm workers.
While working with the CSO, Dolores
met Cesar Chavez. They both saw the suffering of farm laborers around them and
came to the conclusion that it was time to
act, to organize. ln 1962, after the CSO
denied the request to turn its attention to
the struggle of the farm workers, Cesar
and Dolores left the CSO. The organizing
skills that they both had learned with the
CSO proved to be very useful for the fight
ahead.
In 1965, three years into organizing the
National Farm Workers Association, the
mostly Filipino American members of the
AFL-CIO affiliated Agricultural Workers
Organizing Committee (AWOC), approached Cesar and Dolores. The AWOC
was organizing a walk out strike against
Delano-area grape growers on September
8. The AWOC wanted the support of the
NFWA. Eight days later the 1200 member
families of the NFWA voted to join the
strikes. This began the five-year Delano
Grape Strike.
During the strike, five thousand workers
walked off the job, demanding higher wages
and benefits. In 1966, Dolores negotiated
the first NFWA contract with the Schenley
Wine Company. This was the first time in
the history of the United States that a negotiating committee comprised of farm
workers and a young Latina single mother
of seven negotiated a collective bargaining
agreement with an agricultural corporation.
The grape strike continued and the two organizations (AWA and NFWA) merged in
1967 to form the United Farm Workers
Organizing Committee (UFWOC). As the
main UFWOC negotiator, Dolores successfully negotiated more contracts for farm
workers, she also set up hiring halls, the
farm workers ranch committees, administrated the contracts and conducted over one
hundred grievance and arbitration procedures on behalf of the workers.
These contracts established the first
medical and pension benefits for farm
workers and safety plans in the history
of agticulture. Dolores spoke out early
against toxic pesticides that threaten farm
workers, consumers, and the environment.
The early UFWOC agreements required
growers to stop using such dangerous pesticides as DDT and Parathyon. Dolores organized field strikes, directed the grape,
lettuce and Gallo Wine boycotts, and led
the farm workers in campaigns for political candidates. As a legislative advocate,
Dolores became one of the UFW's most visible spokespersons.
Dolores directed the UFW's national
grape boycott that resulted in the entire
California table grape industry signing a
three-year collective bargaining agreement
with the United Farm Workers.
In 1973 the grape contracts expired and
the grape growers signed sweetheart contracts with the Teamsters Union. Dolores organized picket lines and continued to lobby.
The UFW continued to organize not only the
grape workers but the workers in the vegetable industry as well, until violence erupted
and farm workers were killed. Once again
the UFW turned to the consumer boycott.
Dolores directed the east coast boycott of
grapes, lettuce and Gallo wines. The boycott
resulted in the enactment of the California
Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975,
the first law of its kind•that grants farm
workers the right to collectively organize
and bargain for better wages and working
conditions.
In 1974 she was instrumental in securing
unemployment benefits for farm workers. In
1985 Dolores lobbied against federal guest
worker programs and spearheaded legislation granting amnesty for farm workers
that had lived, worked, and paid taxes in
the United States for many years but were
unable to enjoy the privileges of citizenship. This resulted in the Immigration Act
of 1985 in which 1,400,000 farm workers
received amnesty.
Dolores worked with Cesar for over thirty
years until his death in 1993. Together they
founded the Robert Kennedy Medical Plan,
the Juan De La Cruz Farm Workers Pension
Fund, The Farm Workers Credit Union, the
first medical and pension plans and credit
union in history for farm workers. They also
formed the National Farm Workers Service
Center (visit www.NSWSC.org), which
today provides affordable housing with
over 3,700 rental and 600 single-family
dwelling units and educational radio with
over nine Spanish Speaking Radio Stations
throughout California, Washington and
Arizona. Known as Radio Campesina,
these radio stations provide a space for networking organizing, and spreading news
about working conditions for migrant farm
workers today.
At age seventy-five, Dolores Huerta
still works long hours serving as president
of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, leading
the development of the organization and the
organizing institute as well as the community organizing.
It is not unusual to find her traveling regularly to cities across North America educating the public on public policy issues
affecting immigrants, women and youth.
She speaks at colleges and organizations
throughout the country in support of "La
Causa."
Dolores is a board member for the
Feminist Majority Foundation (visit www.
feminist.org) that advocates for gender balance. She is also teaching a class on community organizing at the University of
Southern California.
Dolores C. Huerta is also SecretaryTreasurer Emeritus of the United Farm
Workers ofAmerica, AFL-CIO (UFW). She is
the mother of eleven children, twenty grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
The Evergreen community has the opportunity to hear this amazing and unique
woman speak - it is an honor that she has
chosen to visit Evergreen on International
Women's Day!
Holly Carter is a student and a member
ofCISPES.
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March 1, 2007
ORGANIC FROM PAGE 8
eating organically but the organic farms
are getting so big that their starting to
ship product across the country. When
they start mass producing and shipping
things across the country the transportation uses oil and causes pollution. So
even though its organic and the farming
is good for the earth, the distribution
causes another environmental problem.
Supporting local, small farms is so important. Working at Evergreens organic
farm is rewarding. To plant a seed and see
it through from start to finish, is a very
rewarding process."
Andrew Bresnik speaks about
Evergreens organic farm: "What makes
agriculture in western Washington so
cool is that there are so many small farms.
Evergreens small organic farm is unique
because we grow seed crops, conduct research projects, and compost in an efficient way. What makes our composting
efficient is that we use food wastes com-
bined with farm wastes and wood chips
for air space; we've installed forced air
reactors in the compost bins which are
fans that force air into the pile, which
makes it so we don't have to hand turn
the piles as much."
If you are interested in learning more
about organic farming and possibly
working on an organic farm, WWOOF
is an organization with hosts around the
whole world, http://www.wwoofhawaii.
org is the website for Hawaii wwoofbut
has links to different countries involved
with the organization. This organization
is a wonderful and cheap way to travel
the world and be involved with organic
farming. Evergreens organic farm is also
great to be involved with to learn more
about organics.
Emily Johnson is afreshman enrolled
in Writing from Life and Afto-Brazilian
Dance.
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Cooper Point Journal
Michah Cote balances cigar boxes on his
nose.
features
March I, 2007
Top: Students of the Evergreen Circus Resurgence practice juggling at the third floor
of the library building. Bottom: Students Gena Spurrier and Charlie Behnke work on
Claire Cassidy takes a break to spin a
pin.
their partner juggling skills.
The Evergreen Circus .Resurgence
By Brandon Custy
As the winter quarter comes to a close, I
often find myself with too much work and not
enough time to do it in. I know many other
students have and will feel similar pressures
as the evaluation week approaches. I sure
wish I could learn to juggle all of my responsibilities better. It was with this in mind that
I wandered to the third floor of the Library
building last Wednesday. Ifl can'tjuggle my
responsibilities, I can at least avoid them by
juggling balls and pins for a few hours.
Procrastination is not an ingredient for
collegiate success, but juggling does have
some benefits. There is also a lot to be said
for taking a break to relax from all the work.
I usually relax by drinking.
The great thing about juggling is that it
improves hand eye coordination, there is
no hangover, and it is free. Juggling is also
fun and even more fun when there are many
people juggling together. The Circus Club
is a wonderful group that enables people
to juggle together; they even have unicycles there. I can only juggle balls and only
three, but I am going back in a few minutes
to practice.
The official name of the club is The
Evergreen Circus Resurgence, but it is more
commonly known as the Juggling Club. The
coordinator of the club, Claire Cassidy, said
that juggling is not the only activity done at
the meetings. Students attending the club
meetings can amuse themselves with card
throwing, unicycling, acrobatics, Diablos,
cigar boxes and contact juggling. "You don't
even have to know how to juggle to come,"
said Claire.
· Juggling is a skill I acquired in high
school. I taught myself the basic pattern for
three balls in one day.
That skill satisfied me and I was content
in my basic ability. Last week when I went
to the club for the first time I was inspired
to learn more. With this ambition I walked
up the stairs to the clubs meeting place a few
hours ago. A plethora of people were juggling, throwing cards and unicycling.
The environment is very relaxed and
everyone is willing to teach new skills. I
learned to partner juggle three balls to a
four and six count. It took quite a while for
me to get the hang of it, but the guy who
was teaching me was very patient. This is
an example of the great learning environment that is a part of The Evergreen Circus
Resurgence. Claire said she would teach
anyone the basics of juggling in a half an
hour, period. Now that is good teaching
ability.
At around 8: 15 everyone gathered around
to get a good view of the stairs. Jack,
mounting his unicycle, prepared to ride down
the stairs. It was incredible, the fat tired unicycle carried him down the stairs in a blur.
He also juggled five pins at a time and six
balls at once during the night. There was one
point when he juggled three balls for a while,
unicycling at the same time.
People filtered in and out throughout the
meeting. There is entertainment all around,
you can just pick up some pins and start juggling or even try out one of the unicycles.
Sarah, the one who took the photos for this
article, tried to unicycle, but gave up and
started to juggle Koosh balls. The point is
that anyone can come to the meetings and
learn to juggle or whatever they want to learn
and in a few weeks they could be a pro, or at
least pretty decent.
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Festival in the spring. They also anticipate
that they will have events at Super Saturday
on campus this spring.
So if you have nothing to do on a
Wednesday night you should learn to juggle.
They are ready to teach on the third floor
of the Library building, Wednesdays from
6 to 9 p.m.
Brandon Custy is a freshman enrolled in
American Experiences.
letters & OJ!inions
Cooper PointJournal
Experience beyond the senses
By Nicholas Klacsanzky
First Series
When Tuan made
the bold statement that
experience is governed
by sense, I immediately had my doubts.
What are we doing if ._______
we cannot go beyond our senses? I say
there is an experience beyond the senses.
Go blind, go deaf, do not taste, do not
touch, do not smell ... what do you have?
You have pure consciousness.
Beyond our senses, to me, is the collective consciousness - as the Hindus
call it: Vi rata. It is the totality of reality.
What can be greater than the totality of
reality?
What is the underlying power behind
the systematic breakdown of things?
Collective consciousness.
What of thoughts? I say the mind
would still entirely through the loss of
sense. Our thoughts are usually correlated
to our sense of things. And if not correlated to our sense, then what? Enlightened
thought, enlightened by the collective
consciousness Sense is seen or is individual. It is particular to the individual.
All thoughts/notions of body, emotions, mindfulness, is created originally
from sense. If born without any sensorial functions, then what? Where are the
thoughts?
I have experienced lack of sense before. Actualization of self-realization. It
is the lack of space, the lack of sense,
the lack of place - complete indifference. Where is the home in such a consciousness? We have no notions- home
is an illusion .
Third ~ries
Some days the cosmos come through
us and other days, we are poked pigs.
What would the blast be without the
fizzle? I do wish for burning eternal now
and then, but reflect on its extremity, or
its coy deception into oneness as provincial. I give and take the same duality as
this pen and note the building set in history as a fall. This grace can only last
so long: indifference will give its due
soon after the shovel and the pick. We
all crumble to no care - the indifference
swipes our eyes clean of suffering and we
finally notice that our hands are greater
than finger-works. I am pleased to say
that we die an insufferable death, lost in
our own blind's vision. If so, desecrate
the sanctuary or infirmity, whichever you
call the diladance.
Give me sanctity with no wrongs and
you have a pocket dipped in oblivion.
Carry nothing; your breath reaches for
itself. The guide has passed its lover and
my friend has given his heart.
We are both together for giving entirely to ourselves - this is the call we
plowed for arrival of death in the time of
no gain, no future, no dust, no - and it is
given to the seekers that will die for their
breath, it is no longer given for purpose,
but for singular indifference, empathetic
in death, - the grace of a fallen breath.
Fourth Series
Liberate from the present and particular. Stand as to jump up on bricks and
howl the word of dormants, and squabble
loosely still about death in carriage, to
break your fists into lavender and cast
your bones aside for a lay-tight-look. We
need nothing, if we give nothing, or look
up down the sidewalk evenly, the shape
never loosens.
We put foot in front of other feet, and
take hands in a terminal which like a sea
in winter, is dry for no sake, if you give
nothing. Nothing to give is nothing to
take and so we lay here for dragonfly
moments, the weeds pulling back on the
wings, seeds lost in another seed of another weed, downstream. The moon has
lost its glow, and to burst with no grace,
like pebbles taken by a storm, crabs
pinching the garble conversation, and my
eyes locked inside a furnace.
My step is lost if I do not look at my
feet - it is not where I am being taken,
by the move ... ment crossing thoughtlessness in taken breaths. Here is the globe:
the atmosphere is our limit, and the blank
darkness our wear; I am not speaking of
mystery. Here is the glass-look when we
are taken in throughout the night of jazz
nights, extending multiplicity, moments
in moment, and second to time out: the
ghastly broken stigments, the lingering
fellows of bourbon street, my hearse
scratched again, dust to the trees, Flemish
guesswork, pulling out the truth against
drum-scythes.
Second Series
The face, when soaked to death, turns
shapeless and unrecognizable to leaves.
If we, all burnt in our vision to be faceless, would reach out to our features, what
would we feel?
Oh to say nothing is better, but what
to teach to fools? If others forget about
themselves, then others must or will bring
them back. I am tired of me, sometimes,
but never to be dead in the leaves, wallowing "oh give me something!" It is
enough to be a member of others and well,
myself. Basho, Thoreau talks of isolation
as a best friend, and I believe this to be
so. Rather than destitute, I live in myself
as a behavior, a blessing to be alive.
To have no face would end soon after
seeing our hands- and we don't have to
see with our eyes, but know, only. But
what of the dead hand, you say? Then we
rest on our ribs, heart, whatever turns and
comes in full-width, pressing upon our
senses and non-senses.
I assert that we feel without feeling and
love without love- concepts are burdens
and figurines. I lay in nothing to know,
and more for nothing. It is no problem
to lie here all days and watch. Watch no
Nicholas David Klacsanzky is a sophoeyes, watch no gliding surroundings or
cause to have judgement- we watch for more enrolled in an Independent Learning
no reason at all. I say the eyes need not Contract. Nicholas actively writes poetry
open to see and the heart not pumping its and you can visit his blog poemadayprolife to live. Oh to be simple in blood, then ject. blogspot. com to read his work. He
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March 1, 2007
What we should have learned
from Black History Month
By Alexandra Tobolsky
This article is dedicated to Evergreen
community member
Jimee (James) Lowe
in recognition of his
struggle with racism
and life-long fight to ........a....._.
end it. He has produced films and given
lectures at Evergreen to increase awareness on our campus.
This February marked the 80th anniversary of Black History Month.
Though the presence of Africans in the
U.S. dates all the way back to Colonial
times, it took until the mid-to-late 1900s
for the majority of history books to contain any acknowledgement of this fact.
Perhaps the event most responsible is
that in 1926, when Woodrow Wilson
chose the second week in February to
be "Negro History Week"- an initiative
to acknowledge the contributions of
Africans and African-Americans in U.S.
History. Wilson chose this particular
week because it coincided with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick
Douglass, at the time thought to be two
of the most prominent figures in black
history. Since then, the scope of people
with historical significance has broadened immensely, as well as the days set
aside to study them.
During every year of my public education, enough effort was made to remind me on an almost daily basis during
Black History Month that I had the opportunity, privilege and obligation to
think about how my history has affected
others' and vice versa. Many (in fact,
most people in the world) do not have the
luxury of being reminded only when they
pass a flyer in the hallway or see a pamphlet on the bus. Many still carry scars
generations old, have lost family and
friends, live in terror of where the next
bomb will explode and wonder if their
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kids will come home from school.
Black History Month is now officially
over. In it, we, as people, students, the
oppressed and the oppressors were asked
and encouraged to examine our lives and
our histories. The objective was to teach
us to not only examine them during each
of the 28 days in the month, but in every
single day of every single month in every
single year for the rest of our lives.
Though each month has one or all of
its days dedicated to raising awareness
of a specific issue, none but February
gets eye rolls. Only one day in February
is dedicated to love. Yet, it overpowers a
whole month of Black History. They polarize each other when they should compliment each other in a partnership to
promote equality and well being among
all humankind. Martin Luther King is
quoted as saying, "Man must evolve for
all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method
is love."
As a world, a school, a community
and a family, we all have to work together to realize our impact on the world
and how to change it. None of us escapes the obligation to keep trying just
because February is over. Once we look
at every month as a chance to appreciate some one else's history, as well as
our own, we can convince our friends to
do the same. And their friends will convince their friends. And th6irs will convince theirs. Eventually we'll realize
that through a connection of person to
person across country to country, we're
all meant to be friends.
Alexandra Tobolsky is a secondyear transfer enrolled in Russia and
Eurasia, Thucydides and Democracy,
Understanding the Legislative Process
and Evergreen Singers. She welcomes
submissions, questions and comments
at TobAle24@evergreen.edu.
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I am a member of the Commute Trip
Reduction (CTR) committee on campus
and would like to remind the TESC bike
commuters that it is illegal to lock bicycles to the railings directly in front of the
library. With a grant from Thurston County
Regional Planning Council, CTR has purchased and installed new bike racks just to the left of the library
entrance. These new racks provide a convenient and covered
location for cyclists to lock up near the library. It is important
that cyclists not lock up on the railings anymore so that the railings can be regularly cleaned and so that the aesthetic integrity of this area is maintained. Thank you for making this transition. Also, if you do not have a bike lock or forget to bring
yours to school, there are locks available for check out at the
library. Happy riding!
Sincerely,
Shawna McGarry
Commute Trip Reduction Committee
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Cooper Point Journal
sports
March l, 2007
Men's basketball season.comes to a close
Evergreen wins first game in
playoffs, defeats #1 seed
By Arland Hurd
Evergreen men's basketball made it to the
finals where they hustled number one seed
Oregon Tech. for a win of89-83. The scoreboard
for Evergreen was lead by Adam Moore, Devon
Conner-Green and David Howard, who had a
combined total of72 points between them. This
impressive win was attained in Klamath Falls,
Oregon on the Hustlin' Owls. Coming into the
game the men were ranked eighth in the conference with 9 wins 20 losses.
The Geoduck men were down by 17 points at
the half, but the Geoduck defense was able to stop
Oregon Tech's offensive leaders Joshua Garret
and Ryan Fiergi who, in the second half failed
to score in the first seven minutes of the second
half. Evergreen men shot only shot 45.43 percent
while OT shot 55.8 percent, but the momentum
of the Geoducks lifted their points pass those of
the Hustlin' Owls with nearly 5 percent more shot
attempts. The second half of play Adam Moore
made the board numbers climb by opening his
skills for shooting, by making shot after successful shot.
Arland Hurd is a senior enrolled in Mind and
the World.
Geoduck men lose to #2
seed, Warner Pacific
By Arland Hurd
The Evergreen men's basketball
finals came to a close February 27, in
Portland losing to number two Warner
Pacific. Evergreen shot 67 percent in
the first half and had a six point lead
at the half, but they couldn't hold on to
the lead and closed the game 97-89.
The Evergreen men closed the
season I 0-21 and were able to beat
some teams that by the numbers they
shouldn't have beaten, but facing
Warner Pacific, who hosts Scott
O'Gallagher, Cascade Conference
Player of the Year, the Geoducks
ended up being troubled by fouls and
turnovers.
The game closed with team members giving up eight steals for a total
of 29 points.
Coach Tom Kintnia led the men
to the second round of the playoffs,
a feat that is impressive in of itself.
Freshman Rahiti Marere who scored
19 points and a host of other non-senior
player who will be returning next
year's line up ought to prove another
interesting season for the Evergreen
Geoduck men's basketball.
For any further questions about the
Cascade Conference play go to www.
cascadeconference.org.
Arland Hurd is a senior enrolled in
Mind and the World.
Men's basketball
The Evergreen State College vs. Warner Pacific College
Attendance: Not given
Date: 2/27/07
Score by period:
lst
2nd
Total
The Evergreen State College
46
43
89
Warner Pacific College
40
57
97
The Evergreen State College vs. Oregon Tech.
Attendance: 994
Date 2/21 /07
Score by period:
l st
2nd
The Evergreen State College
32
57
39
Oregon Tech.
44
Total
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calendar
March I, 2007
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3 p.m. EF Student Cultural Representation:
Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand. LH 1.
5 p.m., 5:30 to 7 p.m. Multimedia Lab
workshop: After Effects, beginning. LIB
1404.
5 p.m. potluck dinner, 6 p.m. interactive meditation-process. "Finding Your
Passion" with guest teacher Nelson Pizarro.
Hosted by Common Bread.
7 to 9 p.m . SESAME Film Festival: "Where
is Iraq?," "Sari's Mother." Discussion to
follow. LH 5.
7:30 to 9 p.m. Spoken word performance,
Q&A session with Christa Bell. LH 1.
Hosted by WRC.
Friday, 2
7 to I 0 p.m. Women in Capoeira Angola
Conference. Longhouse. Free to students,
$20 general admission.
7:30 to 9 p.m. Interactive improve theater.
LH I. Hosted by Evergreen Spontaneity
Club.
8 p.m. Masters of Irish Music. COMM
Experimental Theater. Free for students.
I to 4:15 p.m. Anti-oppression training.
SEM II, CII07. Hosted by MIT.
Saturday, 3
IO a.m. to IO p.m. Women in Capoeira
Angola Conference. See Friday's item.
3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Communities Against
Rape and Abuse workshop. SEM II,A II07.
Hosted by WOCC.
7 to II p.m. Bridging Communities Gala.
Thee Emergency, The Hail Seizures, Ryan
Harvey, Brenna Sahatjian, lip sync contest. LIB first floor. Hosted by Residential
and Dining Services, The Center for
Community Based Learning Action.
7 to 8 p.m. Lecture on anti-oppression and
queer issues by Emi Koyama. CAB II 0.
Hosted by Women of Color Coalition.
7:30 p.m. The Total Experience Gospel
Choir. COMM Recital Hall. General
admission $IO, students/seniors $5.
Sunday, 4
IO a.m. to 6 p.m. Women in Capoeira
Angola Conference. See Friday's item.
IO a.m to 6 p.m. PMR civil disobedience/
nonviolence training. SEM II E, 3rd Floor.
Monday, 5
I to 2:30 p.m. Birth attendants workshop
concerning Prison Doulas. CAB II 0.
Hosted by WOCC.
7 to 8:30p.m. Speaker on alternative home
power in the PNW region, Ian Woofenden.
LH I. Hosted by SEED.
Tuesday, 6
II a.m. to I p.m. Safety exhibit, bicycle
helmet fitting and reduced cost bicycle helmets. Hosted by McLane Fire Department
and Police Services. Red Square.
3 to 4:30 p.m. Workshop on anti-oppression by Emi Uoyama. CAB IIO. Hosted
byWOCC.
7 to 8:30p.m. Speaker on women of color
reproductive rights Loretta Ross. LH 3.
Hosted by WOCC.
Wednesday, 7
2 to 4 p.m. Reproductive rights organizing
workshop by Loretta Ross. SEM II, A II 07.
Hosted by WOCC.
3 p.m. Bike Shop bicycle maintenance
workshop: "Solving Shifting Problems."
Bike Shop, CAB 001.
4 to 5:30p.m. Babeland workshop on sex
education. SEM II, E1107. Hosted by the
wocc.
4 to 6 p.m. Academic fair for Olympia
campus spring classes. CRC.
6 p.m. "Source to Sea: The Columbia River
Swim" film screening. LH I. Hosted by
Mindscreen.
7:30 to 9 p.m. Blank Slate improv theater. CAB 110. Hosted by Evergreen
Spontaneity Club.
9 to 11:30 p.m. Stacey Anne Chin performance and open ll,lic. Longhouse. Hosted
by Women of Color Coalition.
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Tuesdays, 7 p.m. to 9
p.m., CAB TV lounge
TESC Democrats
Mondays, 3:30p.m.
CAB 3rd floor
tescdemocrats@gmail.
com
Meditation workshop
Wednesdays,
7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Longhouse, Cedar
Room
Gyspie Dance Nation
Mondays, 5 to I 0 p.m.
SEM II, E1I07
Prolegomena to a
Future Poetics evening
literary reading series
Mondays, 7 p.m. SEM
II, A1105
Narcotics Anonymous
Tuesdays, 8 p.m., LAB
I, 1047 and SEM II,
3I07A
Sundays, 6:30p.m.
CAB top floor lounge
The Outdoor Adventure
Club
Wednesdays, 4 p.m.
rock climbing gym
Geoduck Union
Wednesdays, I to 3
p.m. SEM II, B 1105
geoduckun ior@evergreen.edu
Healing Arts Collective
Tuesdays 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Info Shoppe, 3rd floor
Library
Evergreen Spontaneity
Club
Tuesdays, 6 to 8 p.m.
SEM II, DII05
All experience levels
welcome
Alcoholics Anonymous
Wednesdays, 4 p.m.
LAB I, I047
Fridays, noon and 7
p.m. LAB I, I047
Open M ic Poetry
Reading
Wednesdays, 8 p.m.
Infoshoppe and Zine
Library
Thursdays, 4 p.m. LIB
3303
Students In Action
workshops
Wednesdays, I to 3 p.m.
SEM II, E2I25
SEED
Wednesdays, I p.m.
CAB 3rd floor pit
Students for a
Democratic Society
Wednesdays, 2 p.m.,
SEM II, E3I 05
Society for Trans
Action Resources
Wednesdays, 3 p.m.
SEM II, 03107
Writer's Guild
Wednesdays, 3 to 4
p.m. SEM II, C building
lobby chairs
Thursday, 1
6 to 9 p.m. Opening of"Full
Family Sanction: Faces and
Voices From the Welfare
Zone"
Bryce's Barbershop, II8 4th
Ave.
Exhibit will be available for
the month of March during
barbershop hours.
Friday, 2
6:45 p.m. doors, 7 p.m.
movie. "Left to Die"
Olympia Unitarian
Universalist Congregation
Bldg., 2200 East End St.
Benefit for student trip to
New Orleans, through UU
Social Justice Committee.
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Monday, 5
9 p.m. Monday Movie Night
Le Voyeur, 404 4th Ave. E.
21+, free
Saturday, 3
6 to 7:30 p.m. Energetic
Healing Circle
Olympia Free School, 6IO
Columbia St.
Bring a blanket, towel or
yoga mat.
Tuesday, 6
9 p.m. Jeanlizabeth
Tugboat Annie's, 2I 00
Westbay Drive NW.
Free, open mic night
feature.
Sunday,4
8 p.m. Paleo, Hornet Leg,
June Madrona, Robin Cutler
ABC House, 105 Sherman St.
NW, $3 to 5.
()pcorning Evc:nts
Evergreen Animal
Rights Network
Thursdays, 4:30 p.m.
CAB 3rd Floor
March 9, 7 to 9 p.m. Discussion and readings with Winona La Duke. LH l. Hosted
byWOCC.
TESC Chess Club
Thursdays 4 to 6 p.m.
SEM II, Cll05
All skill levels welcome
March I7, I2 p.m. to I2 a.m. and March I8,
9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Chibi Chibi Con : Anime
showings and dance. LH I ,2,3,4,5 and 30.
Hosted by GRAS.
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Begins Febuary 26th
8:30 p.m. Saturday Looks
Good to Me, Chris Bathgate,
Calvin Johnson, Cave Siflgers
Capitol Theatre Backstage
Ends March 4th
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Wednesday, 7
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Skateland
Dollar Night
2725 12th Ave. NE
$1 w/ skates, $2 without
skates.
Spec:ial i\nnouncenJcnts
Remember to check out the 4th Annual
TESC Science Carnival on Friday,
June I and Saturday, June 2 from I 0
a.m. to 4 p.m. It's free, fun, hands on
and welcome to everyone. There will
be student demonstrators about all
aspects of science at all levels.
Participating is easy- just fill out a Commuter
Log one week each quarter, and you vvill be
entered to into a drawing for great prizes like
rnassages, and gif't certif'icates to local shops
and restaurants!
Stay with the program for both winter and
spring quarters, and be entered into our grand
prize drawing.
To help make your commute a little easier,
you can also get access to your very own
ventilated clothing locker- use i"t to store your
· gear overnight: and 1:0 dry your clothes during
"the day•
To ge"t a locker, come by at any time to Parking
Services, and fill out: an application.
Anyone can participate, just f'lll
o u t a C o m m u t e r Log
t h e w e e k of' D e c e m b e r 4 t h l
Pick one up at: Parking Services,. t:he Evergreen
Bike Shop, or online ...:t"t:
www.e'Verg reen .ed u/ce».,., u t e
*Roughly speaking, one gallon of gas releases 20 lbs. of co 2 into the atmosphere. Assuming an average vehicle gets 20 mpg, every mile that is commuted alternatively prevents 1 pound of C02
from release into the atmosphere. 33 tons is based on 250 participants choosing to commute alternativly one day per week for three quarters- won't you be one of them?
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Cultural Evolution
Photos by
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martial arts and poetry put
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