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By Jordan Nailon
By Tori Needer
The fate of the Late Night Transit
Initiative and the Flaming Eggplant is yet
undecided as the final week of the elections comes to a close.
A minimum of 25 percent of all students must log on and vote in order for
either of the new fee initiatives to be
activated.
As of Tuesday morning, the white
board in the Student Activities office
reported a total of 903 votes on the transit
fee and 834 votes on the Flaming Eggplant
fee. According to election officials, 969
votes will represent 25 percent of the student body.
Reaching 25 percent is only the first
hurdle the potential fees must cross. Each
initiative must still garner a majority in
order to be put in place next year.
Students urging others to vote has
become a popular topic on TESCtalk
under the thread title "I'm not going to
be nice about this." The Facebook.com
group "VOTE YES FOR THE NIGHT
SHUTTLE" continues to urge students to
>e~ out and vote.
The Union election continues into its
second week as well. Potential representatives have been campaigning at the
academic fair and tabling in Red Square.
Posters have appeared in the CAB, CRC
and Seminar II buildings.
The outgoing Union Representatives
forced candidates to put a $30 cap on
their campaign budget. As of Tuesday
morning, 679 votes had been registered in
the Geoduck Union Representatives election. Unlike the initiatives on the ballot,
there is no minimum participation level
necessary to confirm the results.
The polls have been open since May
21 and will close Friday, June 1. Election
officials will tabulate and announce the
results during Week 10.
During Week 9, the flow of voting
students appears to have tapered off,
according to election official Andrew
Schwartz.
While manning the polling place in the
CAB, Schwartz was questioned whether
fewer students were voting during the
second week. "People have either already
voted or they're just not going to because
they're douche bags."
Tori Needer is a junior enrolled in
Health and Human Development.
the surrounding community
of Olympia, WA.
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Issue 28
Volume 35
May 31,2007
Uniformly scattered across the green
lawn of Red Square were the rusted out
fenders of a 1920s automobile, mildewed
sleeping bags, moss infested shoes, and
abandoned pots and pans. In the form of
"Gaia," or Mother Earth, a collection of
native potted plants was organized at the
center of the junk heap.
This was Sierra Wagner's public display of what modern day nature looks like.
Rooted in the philosophy of"Deep Ecology,"
Wagner, a senior, has been working on
an independent contract creating eco-art
installations.
The native plants in Wagner's display
were rescued from nearby areas of neglect
and unhealthy surroundings, where the
plants would have most likely died on their
own. The garbage for her creation was collected earlier in the quarter from the forested
lands surrounding the main campus. The
clean up effort was organized by Wagner
and executed by a group of ten students,
staff, and faculty.
Wagner said that the idea for her installation came to her earlier in the year. During
winter quarter, a group of about five people
from the Environmental Resources Center
made their own clean up venture into the
woods. When they reemerged, they simply
placed the stuffed garbage bags in Red
Square with an attached note. Unfortunately,
the winter rains followed and washed tile
informative signage away.
Eager for the impact of the clean up
project to reach the student body, Wagner
concocted her own plan and saw it through
to fruition. On a flier attached to her display,
Wagner wrote, "I am bringing that which
is unseen, unkempt, and unacknowledged
to the fore front of campus life by placing
it in the most visible, manicured space on
campus.
"What the point is," explained Wagner,
"is for people to interact with it. ·To watch,
and learn. To be more aware of this place,
and the places they are in the world."
In a written introduction to her display,
Wagner writes, "Isn't it funny that when students visit the forest to bond with nature they
end up damaging the very environment they
strive to commune with?"
According to Wagner, heavy foot traffic
through the woods is at the heart of the ecological mess. The damage has a far-reaching
domino effect, harming vegetation, causing
soil erosion, and disrupting wildlife.
Animal-human contact may result in
changes in animal behavior. Bicycles
damage trails, and tear up vegetation creating
new trails. Campfires pose the serious threat
of escape, and subsequent wildfire, and all
smoke negatively impacts vegetation.
Body waste from visiting humans and
dogs also has a damaging presence in the
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Art as ecological advocacy
The purpose of Wagner's exhibit is not necessarily to influence new forest use regulations, but rather, to increase awareness, and enforcement of current rules. On a
handout, Wagner references The Evergreen State College Master Plan of 1998. This
Master plan includes Evergreen's Habitation Policy, and Jays out the types of uses that
are permitted, and those that are prohibited in the forest.
In fact, according to Wagner, the 1998 plan contained a recommendation that the
college create a stewardship position for the forest. "Up until this point," said Wagner,
"that recommendation has been ignored."
The campus police force referenced two current Washington Administrative Codes,
which deal specifically with the habitation ofcampus areas. The WAC policies state that
no person shall be permitted to use any part of the Evergreen campus for the purpose of
overnight habitation. This ban, of course, excludes the housing facilities, but a person
caught on any other part of campus may be charged with criminal trespassing.
Police chief, Ed Sorger said, "There is a guy over in Facilities that has mapped out
all of the known campsites in the forest and marked them on GPS. So, we can just
plug that in and go out to find them."
This means that the campus police are the first responders in the instance ofcampus
camping. Although police dispatcher, Sabine Riggins said, "We don't generally go
tromping through the woods looking for people. But, if we get a complaint, we go
out and move them."
Aside from stronger enforcement and more consistent vigilance in the forest, Wagner
would like to see more ofa sustaining effort made by forest visitors themselves. Included
in her exhibition was a handout, with a list ofsteps that individuals and the administration can make to improve the forest habitat. These steps include re-vegetation ofnative
species, educational signs to inform people of their impact, and plastic bags provided
in order for human and dog feces to be collected and removed.
forest and, consequently, in the waters of
Puget Sound. According to Wagner's hand
out, "A days' waste from one human or dog
can contain billions of fecal coliform bacteria, enough to close 15 acres of shellfish
beds."
Two formerly prominent local animals that seem to have been affected by
the changing environment are the northern
flying squirrel and the black bear. According
to Wagner, her research indicates that there
has not been a documented sighting of
Ramon Domingo:
The man behind the Burrito
Cart.
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either of these animals since 1981.
"We have the largest campus for secondary schools in Washington," said Wagner,
speaking of the 1000 sprawling acres that
make up Evergreen's campus. "Only 300 of
those acres have been developed."
She went on to say, "There's nobody in
charge of stewarding the land. I'd like to see
a stewardship position created."
Jordan Nailon is a junior enrolled in an
independant learning contract.
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Art exhibition and reception in Gallery 4
Evergreen Galleries, Gallery 4 will present
Kate Clyde 's " Bait and Switch" art exhibition
from Friday, June I through Friday, June 8 and
Super Saturday, June 16. The opening reception will be held Thursday, May 31 from 5 to
7 p.m . Exhibition hours are Monday through
Friday, I 0 a.m. to 6 p.m. Gallery 4 is located
in LIB 4' 11 floor.
Voting ends Friday afternoon
Polls close on Friday afternoon for voting
on issues that will directly impact students,
including late night transit, student-run food
service The Flaming Eggplant Cafe, and on
electing twenty-one new student government
representatives. Log-on to my.evergreen.
edu and click on the Student Government
Elections & Voting link.
Biodiesel, medicinal plants, and forensic
sleuthing, oh my!
Evergreen's Fourth Annual Science
Carnival combines fun and learning for
all ages . Whether you're a science buff or
not, you ' ll find something fun and interesting on Friday, June I and Saturday, June 2
from I 0 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. The event,
Washington's largest science fair of its kind,
offers more than 200 presentations from
Evergreen science students with an emphasis
on demonstration, hands-on participation and
fun. Participants can choose from as many as
a dozen presentations at any given time. Each
presentation lasts 30 to 60 minutes and many
popular topics will be repeated over the two
days. For a full schedule of presentations, visit
the information desk in LAB I, on the left as
you enter Red Square, the main campus plaza.
Preview it online at http ://academic.evergreen.
ed u/ grou psi ch em c lu b/carn ival/index . h tm I.
The Science Carnival is free and open to the
public. This event is designed for middle and
high school students, including home school
students, and anyone in the community that
has an interest in science. Demonstrations
will cover chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy, criminal science, marine science,
optics , health science, food science, computer science and much more. In the spirit of
interdisciplinary education, a hallmark of the
Evergreen learning experience, the event will
include more than a dozen science-related art
demonstrations in a wide range of media.
Run with fire for world harmony
The World Harmony Run is a global torch
relay promoting harmony and understanding
among peoples and nations. The Harmony
Torch, symbolizing humanity's aspiration
for oneness, has passed through more than
80 countries and has been held by such world
leaders as Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa,
and Mikhail Gorbachev. Come meet an international team of runners at a ceremony in the
Longhouse on Saturday, June 2 at noon. This
is an opportunity to hold the torch, hear inspiring stories from the runners, and offer personal thoughts, prayers, or wishes for world
harmony. There will also be a relay from the
fountain downtown by the waterfront to the
Longhouse starting at I 0:30 a.m. the same
day. Participants can run as little as one mile
or as long as the whole distance. To participate in the relay call Wendy at 360-789-2396
for proper support. To find out more about
the World Harmony Run go to www.worldharmonyrun.org.
Chicana slam poet to perform on campus
The Women of Color Coalition and
MEChA are collaborating and will host slam
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poet and performing artist Amalia Ortiz in
their fi nal event of the year June 7 at 6 p.m . in
the Longhouse. Ortiz is an accomplished poet,
actor, director and activist. She was the first
Latina to compete in the National Poetry Slam
and was the Puro Slam Grand Slam Champion
in 2000, 200 I and 2002. She is featured in
three seasons of Def Poetty Jam. She is also
a part of the Reset Collective, a multi-media
activist group.
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Report Typ e. . . . . . . . . VEHICLE IMPOUND
Case Number. .... . .. 07-1210
Report Date . ..... .. . 05/30/07
Date of Incident . . . ... 05129107
The End of Art starts at the Eagles Hall
On Saturday, June 9 starting at 7 p.m.
Evergreen artists will exhibit their work at
the Eagles Hall in downtown Olympia in a
show called " The End of Art." Doors open at 7
p.m. Performances will begin at 7:30, with visual installations available to view throughout
the evening. "The End of Art" will also include music, poetry, literature, and a number
of mixed-media productions. Admission is
free , refreshments provided, and the atmosphere will be fun and casual. The Eagles Hall
is located at 805 4th Ave. at the corner of 4th
and Plum St.
Officer responded to the Evergreen beach boat ramp after dispatch received a phone call from an emergency phone located at Geoduck House.
Caller reported a vehicle with a boat trailer left at the end of the boat ramp
with water rising above vehicle doors. Responding officer and Parking
Enforcer #4 arrived on scene to find vehicle approximately one-third
submerged.
Noting that the Evergreen beach is an ecological preserve, and with the
potential for contaminates getting into the water, responding officer requested a tow from Summit Towing. Vehicle and trailer were placed in impound yard .
Report Type ..... . .. MALICIOUS MISCHIEF 3RD
Case Number . ... ... 07-1186
Report Date . ..... . . 05/26/2007
Date of Incident . .... 05/2512007
Reporting Officer . ... EV-Il
Gleaners Coalition updates
The Gleaners Coalition is starting up work
parties and gleaning events now, typically
on Tuesdays and Saturdays. On Thursday
morning, May 31 , the group will be gleaning
lettuce and spinach from Kirsop Farm, located south of Tumwater. A carpool is currently being set up. Then on Saturday, June
2 Gleaners will attend Kirsop's work party
in the morning. In the afternoon, they will
head to Circle Hawk Farm, where they will
finish up construction on a hoop house already started and hopefully spend some time
in the garden as well. To attend these events,
contact Vicki Faust, volunteer coordinator,
at 705-0193 or vicki@gleanerscoalition.org
Next week, Gleaners will have a work party
at the Kiwanis food bank garden on Tuesday,
June 5 and then will hopefully be gleaning on
Saturday, June 9.
While conducting a vehicle patrol on 05/25/07 at II :20 p.m., officer
observed graffiti on a Evergreen sign located on the corner of Driftwood
Road and Evergreen Parkway NW.
The graffiti, written in black magic warker, profoundly declared,
"FUCK THE STATE". The "A" in State was replaced with an anarchist
symbol.
A check of the area was unable to locate any suspects or additional graffiti. A photograph of graffiti was taken, and Facilities was contacted for
clean up. Damages estimated at $100.00.
Report Type ...... .. MALICIOUS GRAFF/TTl
Case Number . ... . .. . N/A
Report Date . . ... . . . . 05129/07
Date of Incident. . . . . 05/24/07
Reporting Officer . ... .N/A
Reporting officer received a call from Art Costantino, Vice President
of student affairs, advising of religiously based fliers that had been defaced and reposted in the CAB. The defacing was wording which blasted
Christianity.
Officer arranged to meet with S&A director, Tom Mercado, and Mary
Craven an advisor for religious based groups on May 25 in order to discuss the incident. During the meeting the officer was informed of the following: Sometime on Wednesday May 23, a couple of students observed
and recovered a flier that had been hung from the 3 floor railing near the
TV lounge. The original fliers advertised for meetings regarding the "positiveness" of Jesus Christ to be held on specific days in SEM II.
On the doctored fliers were strands of masking tape laid across in several locations with statements.
Mary Craven indicated that S&A organizations will be closing down
during week nine and student groups will cease posting fliers.
There are no suspects at this time.
Two nights of21 century film
A group of 30 multimedia students from
Media Works will be presenting their projects
to the public on the evenings of Monday, June
II and Tuesday, June 12. People involved in
film or any of its counterparts- audio, animation, writing, computer graphics- will
want to attend. The screenings will take place
in the COM Recital Hall. The lights dim and
start to flicker at 6:30 p.m. Content is new
each night.
Community challenges self, hunger
Tuesday is Hunger Awareness Day!
Throughout the day, the Gleaners Coalition
will be tabling downtown and inviting the
community to actively participate in raising
awareness of the challenge people in low-income families, on emergency food programs,
WIC and food stamps face everyday.
Some of our government representatives,
congressional members, advocate groups
and members of our local communities are
taking part in the Congressional Food Stamp
Challenge. The challenge asks people to maintain a food stamp budgeted diet for a week.
If you are already participating in this challenge, the Gleaners Coalition will be serving
food that is available to the hungry in our community, and if you are not, you can still take a
look at what's being provided and for a small
donation (proceeds are going towards gas for
further Gleaning work benefiting the hungry),
have a taste.
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Written LivesJavier Marias
By Brandon Custy
Last weekend was the time for concerts. The Evergreen
campus was desolate as students emptied the school en route to
the Sasquatch and Folk Life music festivals. If these two events
weren't enough, there was also an intimate but well-attended concert inN building in the soup.
I had heard about the show from several people in person
and on Facebook. It was to be the debut concert for a few of my
friends' b~ ',.It turned out that it was even more than that. Not
only were tll~.:re more bands than expected, but the crowd exceeded
everyone's expectations. People sat on the floor, the couch, and
each other. The music was worth the congestion.
Michael Weber, who lives in the apartment, opened with four
solo songs followed by his band Zakooski, which is Russian for
vodka chasers. Super Famicom followed them. This one man with
a mini guitar band brought a conversational tone to the room as he
talked to the people between songs. Redbear was next, bringing
energy and lots of swishing red hair to the show. He sang about
his home in Cook County, Illinois, which was "like a prison,"
and that he will be attending Evergreen next fall. A guy called
Tinyfolk played after that. He sang about owls and the cat that
was roaming through the room at the time. Spoonboy was the last
touring performer. He sat at the opposite side of the room on the
back of the couch, playing his guitar in the midst of the crowd.
He played catchy tunes with lyrics that tried to make you think.
Eleanor Murray settled in after the intermission. The crowd was
a little noisy until she started playing. The music cast a spell on
the audience. No one moved. During the four songs she played,
nobody went outside to smoke; they just listened. The chorus of
one song was especially captivating: "Nicholas, sing out, sing
out, sing out." The crowd even sang along when they could, almost as ifthey had to.
Then it was time for the final band. Through the hustling crowd,
the bustling crowd, the equipment was set up. The Nifty Cats finally approached the spot as they were apparently feeling the jan
It was time for The Balls Out Booze Band to make the music.
Gus Marshall tuned his guitar, Luke Nelson sat behind his drum
and cymbal, Matt D. plugged in his keyboard. and Joey Ctssaltnt
stood his bass upright. Then the smoke alarm went otf.
Unphased by such a trivial distraction, they went on to play, to
the crowd's satisfaction. The band played for a while. The crowd
got really into it when they sang "It :1·the call of'the brother when
you see a fin e mothe1:" After what seemed like only a few m inutes, quiet hours approached and the RA had her say. Sh~.: was coo\
though. And that was the end of Acoustic-ish music at N-1 08.
By Grant Miller
The only thing more interesting about a famous author's work is the famous author's
life, in most cases anyway. Granted, one need
only read Stephen King's "On Writing" to realize that not every author's life is fascinating,
or even interesting. But there are a great many
characters out there who have contributed to the
literary canon whose lives are just as interesting
or absurd, if not more so, than their writing.
For example, who knew that Yukio Mishima
started his own mmy? Did you know Emily
Bronte used to beat her dog until its "face
and eyes ... swelled right up?" Or what about
Rimbaud, slicing up Paul Verlaine's hands in
a bar, and then later dodging two bullets from
Verlaine's gun while the third went through
his wrist?
It is these and other tales of famous writers
that Javier Marias weaves together in his book
"Written Lives" published by New Directions
Books. It is a series of short, mini-biographies
that capture the debauchery, the narcissism, and
the delusional behavior of writers from William
Faulkner to Isak Denisen to Conan Doyle.
Each mini-biography is no more than seven
pages long, and each covers the highlights of
the wacky lives of some of our favorite authors.
It's difficult to tell what Marias's criteria is for"'
what he puts in and leaves out of each author's
life, but it seems that he has a considerable interest in the authors' more obsessive qualities,
especially those dealing with debauchery, infidelity, dnmkenness, violence, and other aspects of what is considered "immoral." This
isn't much of a critique. It's much more of an
Jbservation. After all, our culture loves a good
moral reprobate, and that is why we find the
lives of authors so fascinating.
The book is a great read, too. Marias's brief
and poignant prose does a seemingly profound
justice to the otherwise complex life of each au,hor, and one can easily consume a single mintJio during the commercial breaks of"Walker,
Texas Ranger'' reruns.
All in all, Marias has given us a wonderful
Denny's appetizer sampler-size collection of
1uthor biographies. He has sifted through the
Joring stuff that weighty bios give us and has
jelivered a series of concentrated tales that read
like short stories.
None of this "death of the author" stuff
here. In these little tales, the authors live on
and on and on.
Grant Miller is a senior enrolled in an independent learning contract and is a tutor at
the Writing Center.
From top to bottom the musicians playing are Redbear, Eleanor
Murray and The Balls Out Booze Band.
To submit articles to be published in
the Arts & Entertainment section, send
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at cpj@evergreen.edu.
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Critics. You're like maggots. Seriously.
You're like those wiggling little worms surviving on the flesh of others, except, in this case,
the flesh you eat is that of mt-that which you
berate as useless though it sustains you. I'm sick
of it too. I'm sick of hypocrites taking time to
lambast a supposedly time-wasting endeavor.
I' m sick of attempts to depoliticize the necessarily consequential when the attempts themselv~s validate the pol.tical nature they try to
disprove. I'm sick oT critiques that breed apathy-be it Daily Show cynicism or more direct attempts to disarm· individuals of agency.
I'm sick of economic deadweights as well, es:
pecially ones whose only contribution tci society
is to point out its flaws from a computer. And
most of all, I'm sick of would-be academics
regurgitating an introductory set of lectures in
clever, albeit ignorant ways.
You say you don't have time for Duchamp's
"Trebuchet," yet you appropriate a self-reflexive question it introduces (What does art
do?), which leads you to an oversimplification
of Book X of Plato's "The Republic." You critique art as hovering on some ephemeral plane
of existence twice removed from reality, an
imitation of an imitation. Yet you engage it on
exactly the same plane, analyzing a supposedly ignorant mimicking though you yourself
have just as little practical knowledge. What
does that make your criticism-thrice removed
from reality?
Art can't exist in itself-what can? Every
material form as we know it has been broken
down into molecules, elements, electrons, and
quarks. Every concept or idea has been broken
down into other concepts or ideas, all of which
rely upon words and language, themselves incumbent upon concepts and ideas for definition. Everything is a relation-between electromagnetic fields or energy or language. Att
works the same way.
An audience experiences a work of art and
then gives back in the form of reaction. This
reciprocity through language, gesture, applause, or conversation creates a collective experience to which each spectator contributes.
And a5 each collective reaction is a summation
of individual reactions, all collective reactions
combine to create the power of a work of art.
Art telates. It relates visual or aural or textural
sensation; it relates subjective perception; it relates social perception. Art communicates ideas
through experience by putting manifestations of
mind on the line.
When I hear about "The End ofArt" exhibition on Saturday, June 9, I get excited too. I get
excited to participate in the relations that form
an artwork's meaning. I get excited to witness
the process of putting one's self on the line, be
it language, paint, or body. I get excited because, at the very least, there'll be a hall full of
people who've manifested their own expression-a hall full of people with the courage to
create, convey, and converse, not just react with
biting sarcasm.
Jais Brohinskky is a senior, writing center
tutor, enrolled in Art Production in the 21st
Century and is helping to coordinate its exhibition, The End ofArt, which will take place on
June 9 at 7:00p.m. at Eagle's Hall in down-
communiques :&om LIB 2304
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May 31, 2007
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A pretentious and flawed investigation
into language and the writer
By Jais Brohinsky
Language is not innate, though the capacity for it
is. As we interact with the world, we interact with
physical properties (hardness, shininess, coldness,
etc.). Through socialization, we develop a vocabulary to classify different objects and their characteristics in order to communicate these things to one another. We perceive and translate sensory awareness
into language describing and attempting to convey
our experience.
The articulation of things inculcates an understanding of self, namely that which is not other.
This distinction rouses self-recognition, exacts selfexpression. Expression starts with cries and grunts
before maturing into the conversational confines of
words and syntax. By naming things, language provides the means to consistently communicate our
perceptions of the world. Words are used to represent ideas, objects, actions, feelings, and they are organized into patterns using grammar. The words I
use are translated by a listener and decoded into that
individual's lived experience, which serves as a comparison and vehicle for her or his comprehension of
my reality. Language thus allows for the communication of two separate, subjective worldviews.
To write, personal perceptions are translated into
language, then transcribed onto a page and subjected
to visual representation, the understanding of which
requires conversion back into language and then to
personal perception . Like speaking a net listening,
reading and writing introduce a couplet of translations as one must take symbols from a page and organize them into language and then into thought, or
vice versa. The written word endows thoughts and
language with a longevity and voice removed from
a writer's physical body, allowing mass production
and dissemination. However, there are sacrifices.
By forsaking language to the inert page, understanding is limited by the immobility of the textthe written word as absolute and unchangeable has
a permanent order or structure imposed, restricting
interpretation to static symbols on a page. While the
permutations of understanding seem, and may be,
vast, the representational character of written language assigns them finitude.
If writing stagnates in its material form, the
writing process breathes. The writing process consists of the internal translation of thought to language
and is completed by the external act of transcription.
A piece of writing is only the tangible result, and it
ripples with life when it connects with the writing
process- with the thoughts behind symbols turned
glimpses into new and fantastic realms. Everyone
has a writing process, whether or not it comes to fruition. But which makes a writer- the product or the
To write, personal perceptions are
translated into language, then transcribed onto a page and subjected
to visual representation, the understanding of which requires conversion back into language and then to
personal perception.
process? John Milton was completely blind for the
last twenty years of his life, in which time he recited
his works, including the whole of"Paradise Lost,"
to others who transcribed his words. Milton is credited as the author despite never physically writing
a single verse. If the criterion for being a writer is
the idea-the writing process-and through translating thought into language everyone is engaged in
such a process, then we are all writers.
Though Milton didn't physically write "Paradise
Lost," he composed the structure and style of the
language, and they are his recorded words that we
read today, regardless of who recorded them. Does
the act of reading ~.omeone's writing process manifest define a writer? The experience of theatre, or
even a poetry reading would seem to discredit such
a claim. In this case, the writer shares her or his language through spoken words, through gesture, and
sometimes with the aid of props, lights, or music.
The work of these writers might never be read, but
it is nonetheless experienced. And though the addition of gesture, light, or sound will indubitably alter
the encounter, does their added meaning preclude
the title of writer? Or is the relating of language,
be it written or verbal, enough to establish a writer
as such despite further stimuli?
Homer seems a combination of the extremes exemplified by Milton and theatre, which is to simply
point out that Homer never wrote a word of "The
Iliad" or "The Odyssey," and yet is still considered to be the author. Well, that's not exactly right.
Homer is the name given to the supposed author of
these two epic poems, yet it is debated whether or
not a single rhapsodist was actually responsible for
their creation and dissemination.
Regardless, the idea of Homer points to an interesting notion about the author, namely that the author, the writer, is the one who organizes an idea or
poem or story into language. The writer need not
physically write, or even distribute and share her or
his work, but must communicate thought through
words.
A writer is therefore someone who composes
language. By speaking, by translating perception
into words and using these words to attempt communication, we are all writers. We are all authors
narrating the chronology of perceived reality. We
each contribute our language, our verses, our chapters to the immense volume we call world history.
This history is alive and lays the foundation for future generations. Our language helps create the confines of social interpretation that push new writers
to find their own organizations of language, which
will ultimately change the limits imposed upon those
who follow.
Jais Brohinsky is a senior and writing center
tutor enrolled in Art After the End of Art.
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to solve. When you come up with an answer, bring it in to the QuaSR Center in Library 2304. If you are
one of the first three with the correct answer, we have a prize for you.
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features
May 31, 2007
Everybody loves Ramon
What is the
Evergreen
Review?
By Ryan Worswick
The Evergreen Review is a new student group founded during the winter of
2007 by a handful of dedicated students
involved with the department of political economy here at the Evergreen State
College. The principle causative factor
driving us down our current path is an
underlying agreement that there is something frighteningly wrong with the state of
the world with which we, as burgeoning
members of a necessarily global society,
are being presented. Behind us lies a history punctuated by greed, violence, and
oppression. Before us, we have war, poverty, and environmental degradation. It is
a small wonder that cynicism and fatalism
are the names of the game.
We have been lucky enough in our
studies to find what feels like the beginning of a cogent explanation for our precarious position: something beyond sterile
literacy in the woes of the world. We have
found this under the auspices of our studies
in political economy. Thus the Evergreen
Review, as a group, intends to disseminate
our own, as well as other students' or student groups' discoveries as widely and intelligibly as possible.
The north star of the Evergreen Review
is the idea of a rigorously edited, quarterly
publication populated by written student
submissions focused on exploring the ins
and outs of political economy and ecology.
The ideal start date for that is fall quarter
of 2008. Over the next year and a half we
hope to write and publish a series of pamphlets introducing people to the basics of
political economy and ecology, establish
a web presence, and build a constituency
of writers, readers, and generally interested parties capable of supporting a fullfledged academic journal.
The Evergreen Review, as a
group, intends to disseminate our own, as well as other
students' or student groups'
discoveries as widely and
intelligibly as possible.
In order to succeed in such an endeavor
and to do so in such a way that the journal
persists beyond our particular presence
at the Evergreen State College, we need
the participation of the Evergreen community. We need to begin talking. Thus
we will be holding our second general interest meeting this coming Tuesday, June
5, from 3:00p.m. until approximately 4:30
p.m. The meeting will take place in E II 07
of Seminar II. We urge anyone interested
in taking part of this process to attend regardless of prior experience in the field,
as it will be a chance for us to present a
more comprehensive explanation of our
hopes, our dreams, and our specific plans
for the coming year as well as a chance
for us to receive feedback and to begin
collaborating.
For further information, we encourage
readers to visit our nascent website at
www.theevergreenreview.org . For any
submissions, we can be reached at theevergreenreview@gmail.com. Otherwise, we
look forward to meeting interested parties
and beginning what promises to be, at the
very least, an illuminating journey!
Ryan Worswick is a senior enrolled in
an Intermediate Micro/Macroeconomics
contract.
By Victoria Larkin
Have you ever noticed those long lines, between II and 2 every weekday in the CAB?
Well, they ain't for the fish sticks and tater
tots, or the corn dogs or even the lousy pizza.
Those are lines of folks devotedly waiting
to buy the only good food on campus, from
Ramon Domingo, a.k.a. The Burrito Man.
Ramon's cuisine is prepared with good energy. He makes the guac, he makes the salsas,
he makes the rice, the nicely spiced peppers, the chicken, the beef and the beans and
he wraps it all up accmding to your specifications, all this for an incredibly reasonable
price, especially considering what the other options would cost: cold little dry wraps for almost $4.00; flimsy salads for $4-5.00; and the
aforementioned elementary school selections
for any-$-is-too-much-for-that-crap.
How he stays so mellow for all those hours
is beyond my Buddha nature. He starts work at
8 a.m. or so and is ready for all of us, his fans,
by II. Then he serves us for 3 hours straight,
following which, he gets to clean up. What
would we do without him?
Ramon always has a lovely smile and natural conversation for everyone. He is a selfconfessed flirt. And, I don't mean to be sexist,
Ramon is not just a pretty
face. Ramon has got a way
with food, and with company. Maybe The Flaming Eggplant cafe could commission
him to help them out?
but Ramon is a delight to behold. I've even
heard straight dudes talk about how attractive
Ramon is. He's like a hot bartender serving up
nutritious goods.
Ramon is completely responsible for my
conversion to being able to appreciate men in
lipstick. Not that I've ever seen him in lipstick,
but while talking one day about the possibility
ofhim coming to work in asarong(all men look
hot in sarongs), he suggested he add lipstick to
the ensemble. This was all to go with the lovely
hairnet he wears occasionally. He stopped
wearing the haimet because the rules say that
you have to wear a hat: it's better for appearance. A Iso. someone said the haimet made him
look like a "lunch lady." Lunch lady? I don't
think so. As we were talking about hooking
him up to match his hairnet, I was struck by the
image of him wearing lipstick, and I realized
that he'd look even better in lipstick.
Now, you might think this has nothing to
do with food, but we all know that half of the
pleasure of food comes from the company it
keeps, the atmosphere it goes with and how it
is served up. And Iemme tell you. if the food
were lousy, it wouldn't matter what Ramon was
Iike, or was wearing, we would not be standing
in line for hours at a time every day waiting to
get a burrito.
Just today at I :55, one person whose
glowing face was filled with burrito gave the
2:00 heads up to another who made a mad dash
for the cart. When I passed by at 2:05, there
were still four people waiting to be fed.
Ramon is not just a pretty face. Ramon has
got a way with food, and with company. Maybe
The Flaming Eggplant cafe could commission
him to help them out?
Whatever, this is just to say: Dear Ramon:
without you I would've starved this year. or
worse: gotten really bad skin. Thank you for
the time and care and beauty you put into the
food you've made for me and served to me.
May your children be blessed.
Victoria Larkin is a senior, a writing tutor,
a co-coordinator of the Writers Guild and
thoroughly rapt in the fabulous class: Writing
Beyond Language.
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May 31, 2007
Raccoon Collective Arts Walk: Flo-w-ering Success
By T-Claw
On Saturday May 26 if one were to
have taken a stroll through Olympia's
Northwest neighborhood, they might
have been surprised to find it bustling
with something special. It was more than
the sunshine and the yard sales on every
corner that brought people out of their
houses this past weekend. The Raccoon
Collective hosted their fourth West Side
community art event. There were 17 locations participating with events ranging
from bake sales to barbershop quartets.
Also included this month was Olympia's
first ever zine fair.
As a narrative of some of the things
that happened, we start our journey at
the westernmost part of the neighbor-
hood. Beginning at noon, the Northwest
Neighborhood Association could be found
collaborating with the Raccoon Collective
to commence the building of a new community garden and walkway. The lot, formerly owned by the city, was a dilapidated grassy lot that people often tried to
cut through with their motor vehicles. The
team of volunteers was spreading gravel
and large hunks of waste cement to make
a beautiful stonework entranceway soon
to hold a community kiosk, planters, and
a stone bench. The rest of the path has
been mulched and runs past potato plants,
a raspberry patch, and a couple of fruit
trees.
Just down the street on Milroy at Chez
Cascadia, Olympia's only hostel, an eight
act acoustic show was starting to stir. A
barbershop quartet by the name of The
Butter Boys sang songs of smooth sweetness for the takers of a beautifully crafted
artisan bake sale. Half a block further was
a massage parlor to benefit youth traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border for relief
efforts. In the back were a pottery wheel
workshop and an art exhibit of painted ceramic faces.
Films were shown in several locations, one of the locations advertising a
bike-in movie, reminiscent of old driveins. The Evergreen Infoshoppe participated in the zine fair. Secret Cafes boasted
their culinary arts skills. Sketch comedy,
poetry, a kids art workshop, fire-spinning toy-making workshop and a Lucha
Libre art installation were all occurring
simultaneously.
Towards the end of the night, a mobile
dance party skipped and danced their way
around the neighborhood. With so much
going on, it was as if the Northwest neighborhood had its own festival.
With events occurring every month,
their momentum is growing steadily. The
Raccoon Arts Collective is seeking to open
a community art and music space downtown in the coming months. Many hands
are needed as the renovation takes place.
To get involved, contact raccooncollective@gmail.com call 250-2308 or visit
their website at raccooncollective.org.
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hibernate.
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Cooper Point Journal
letters & opinions
May 31, 2007
A letter .&om a concerned
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Christian
Don't print people's seminar papers
By Kaleb Coberly
By Brian Nicholson
Dear editor,
Please stop running people's seminar papers in the student
newspaper as if they were opinion pieces. It would be one thing
if these students were in political science classes, and were in
some way addressing the issues of the day. However, if an essay
is about a subject as broad as "art," or "language," and is written
by someone enrolled in a program with a name like "Art After
the End of Art," or "Writing Beyond Language," I think some
editorial discretion would be wise: These were pieces typed with one hand before
going to sleep to give to a professor the next day.
It's clear when reading these articles that they're not actually opinion pieces,
they're theory. The theory espoused doesn't even originate with in them, it's gleaned
from their professors' syllabi. They're filled with maundering about how either language or art is meaningless in and of itself, and it's all in what is ascribed to it andSeriously, I can't even follow the argument put forth enough to summarize. It basically boils down to "everything everyone says is just solipsism, but it's okay when
I do it, because I'm aware of it, and that makes my solipsism superior to other peoples, due to my superiority."
I regret the fact that I'm even writing this, because it forces me to engage with
people who think that what I'm saying is meaningless. But I swear to God that I actually mean it.
The specific catalyst for this letter would be the "art is for the birds" article, which
I will now respond to. The thing about art criticism written by philosopher types- (an
Arthur Dan to, say, who wrote a book called The End OfArt, that I assume the author
is familiar with) is that it's prone to broad and sweeping statements that try to summarize things into a whole field, because that's what philosophy docs. Art criticism
written by other artists tends to be better, in that it's infonned by specifics that provoke reaction- There's a better understanding of how art works, rather than just the
tacit assumption by the author that they know how the world works, and thus they
can understand art since it's a part of the world.
I'm not going to be so bold as to call myself an artist, but I will state unequivocally that I am no philosopher. And so I'll cite a specific example of a recent art
movement that I do like- The work done by the Fort Thunder group of artists. The
most important thing to know about the Fort Thunder group that I'm talking about
is that Fort Thunder was an actual place- A physical space that these people redesigned to suit their needs and lived in. They would also make their own clothing,
and furniture, and grow their own food. These weren't symbols of buildings, imaginary worlds being conjured, although they were that too. That's what's great about
it. They brought the fantastic into their actual lives and chose to live in it. They made
art practical for the way they lived. It's the opposite of what you seem to think art
is about- milling about and writing transgressive things. It requires an actual work
ethic. Fuck Plato, actually build a chair, and you'll have somewhere to sit that'll give
you back support. Birds don'tjust fly around all day, they build nests and find food
for their young. Like everything else in the world.
Brian Nicholson is a senior who hm· :,pent the quarter working on a contract
for a video and performance piece called The Reason Why Our World Is Coming
To An End.
cause there's another man
pulling it down.
These explanations bear
a striking resemblance to
the Athenian explanation for gravity and its
apparent exceptions floating, for example.
The Greeks believed that things were constituted by a fundamental essence of the thing,
and that essence dictated where they (to anthropomorphize) wanted to go. Fire rises because it wants to go up; that's its place, where
it's supposed to be.
Of course, there were the more colorful
theories, too : "The sun is actually a giant
chariot wheel pulled across the sky by a god."
Fortunately, we've gotten past such absurd
ideas, as is evidenced by Americans' unwillingness to attribute phenomena to an invisible
man in the sky. (Sigh ... )
But back to the less intellectually lazy hypotheses: when we tl•ink about it this way, such
ideas aren 't too far off from modern physics.
No scientist would argue that a rock wants
to fall down, but we do postulate an invisible, transcendent force-gravity-to explain
why matter behaves the way it does. It's easy
to imagine our great grandchildren shaking
their heads and giggling about our myth of
"gravity"-though I have no idea what their
replacement explanation might look like.
But what does this have to do with my argument's ability to swallow your soul? I'm assuming that regardless of whether or not you
would say that you "believe" in God (the scare
quotes come from my experiences of people
saying that they .believe in God, and then admitting under pressure that they're just unwilling to critically analyze the question of
God in the first place), you will admit that
such belief would not carry much empirical
support. In other words, I'm assuming you're
not a Batshit-Crazy Believer (BCB). If you
believe in God, it's because you have faith,
not evidence.
We now know (or rather, now believe) that
The simplest answer
By Casey Jaywork
You are soul-less.
I'm sorry. I know it
must be a shock to discover that the floating
magic "me" which sustained you through all
those trials and tribulations was, really, just a red herring. But like it
or not, the transcendental pixie dust of"being"
has been snorted to oblivion by the all-consuming "nose of reason." You are soul-less.
Let's back up. Let's say I'm a pre-modern
thinker- wicked smart like Aristotle, but
lacking the generations of accumulated scientific understanding to which modernity is
heir. Let's say my society is just a few hundred years into anything you or I would call
civilization (which would still be marveling at
stuff like the wheel and bread), and I'm trying
to explain things.
Take fire. How does this crazy-ass thing
work!? It doesn't obey any of the nonnallaws
of physics, like falling down. It doesn't fit into
the categories of solid, liquid, or gas. And it's
hot-really hot, like the sun. Hey! Maybe fire
is another kind of thing, another category to
sit next to gas and liquid and solid (or wind,
water, and earth). And it makes sense that the
sun is just a big accumulation of fire-though
we still need some explanation of where it is
(i.e. above Earth? Outside of Earth? Another
part of Earth we've never been?) and why it
moves across the sky like so.
Child psychologists have observed that
very young children will use animalism to explain mysterious phenomena: for example, if
a toy boat is pushed to the bottom of the tub
but floats back up instead of staying put, it's
because there's a man inside who wants it to
go up. When a nail falls to the bottom, it's be-
Dear Bible Jim, et al.
(I cringe at associating the
Bible with you),
For Christ's sake,
please stop coming to our
campus. Or better yet, repent. Let me explain. The
last time you came, I asked one of your associates to stand back and take a critical look at what
actually happens when you come to our campus.
You say things like, "The only way to cure alesbian is for her to have an encounter with a real
man!" and other things that really are part of
the gospel like, "Repent, and put your faith in
Jesus Christ!" I don't take issue with all of your
message but your delivery of it. Your delivery
is your message. The message we hear is of
hate, self-righteousness, fear, guilt, unkindness,
rejection, perversion- all of the things that you
accuse us of and preach against come dripping
off of your tongue without fail, and without the
grace of God enacted in your spirit.
When you come to our campus, people reject the message you preach, and it is to the
Evergreen Community's credit that they do so.
You show us the lie that to be a Christian and
to understand the Bible you must hate and close
your eyes and ears, that to be a Christian you
must embody the sin that you preach against.
The Spirit of God must be working on this
campus despite your efforts, because we can
smell your hypocrisy (but it doesn't take a
prophet to do that). I saw some of the students
walk in the Spirit of Jesus while you mocked
them. Like the young man who hugged you
while you called him a homo. I saw them
bear the "fruit of the Spirit which is: Love,
Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Gentleness,
Faithfulness, Goodness and Self-Control"
(Galatians 5:22). We could rarely, if ever, discern those things in you. You have so perverted
the Gospel that to reject it is to practice it!
You tell me that the Old Testament prophets,
John the Baptist, even Jesus and His disciples
preached fiery sennons of conviction. Yes, to
those within the same religion. They extended
criticism and judgment to themselves and their
own (are you listening?). For their own, they
used a tone like, "You travel the world to win
one proselyte, and you tum him into twice the
solids, liquids, and gases are really all the same
stuff (matter) in different molecular arrangements, and fire is just the same matter in a particularly sty lin' state of transition (rapid oxidation). We know the sun is not even the same
stuff as fire, but yet another form of transition
(fusion, which releases its own radioactivity to
warm us, and photons which are detected by
our eyes as light).
Whether you're a toddler or an Aristotle,
the quest to make sense of the world (an evolutionarily mandated impulse in human beings) requires us to do the best with the evidence available to us. Prior to the data of
modern astronomy, physics, etc., it was reasonable to postulate Aristotelian essence as
an analytic framework for physics-and before that, it was even reasonable to believe in
Apollo (or Jehovah).
In the same way, prior to the data we now
have from modern biology, neurology, psychology, etc. it was totally cool to reason that,
"All these incredible thoughts and sensations
couldn't arise from mere matter; there must be
something else-a soul."
This view is usually called Cartesian
Dualism (or Duel ism, if you like rising at
dawn with pistols), because its most popular
articulation comes from Enlightenment all star
Renee Descartes.(Descartes=Cartesian). It's
an idea that is fundamental to the Abrahamic
religions, and it's fair to say that most people
buy into it. But ...
It's stupid and wrong.
Cartesian Dualism made sense in Descartes'
time because our minds are such awesomely
complex machines; the technology of his day
(windup clocks and gunpowder) couldn't hold
a candle to them. Hell, our technology--everything from Cray supercomputers to that stupid
Honda animatronic dog-looks like the work
of a gibbering idiot next to the evolutionary
masterpiece that is the human computer.
It's understandably difficult for us to
imagine how human consciousness (what
son ofhell that you are!" (Matthew 23: 15). Even
then, Jesus balanced that hard message with
compassion. When the disciples came to the
"Gentiles" and unbelievers, to those of another
community (like Evergreen is to you), to those
with a different culture and worldview, they did
something different: they took the time to understand and build relationships. They stuck
around for years to help others walk out their
faith. They became "all things to all people" and
respectfully quoted the people's own poets.
You, however, come guns-a-blazin' for a
day without spending the energy to know your
audience beyond a surface level. You discredit
the name of Jesus and those that love Him, and
without learning a thing, you leave the mess for
others to clean up. I know you aren't leammg
because you aren't changing: you're still nor
speaking as if you know to whom it is you're
speaking. For example, most of the people here
are not students of the Bible. When you say
things like, "Judgment comes 'first for the Jew
and then for the Gentile,"' they don't know what
the hell you're talking about (By the way, the
verse is about blessing not judgment: Romans
2: I0). You just sound vaguely anti-Semitic (and
that's assuming that you do know what you're
talking about and that you're not espousing
racist views). Either that, or you know exactly
whom you're addressing, and you have no desire for them to know the message of Jesus.
Again, ask yourself if what you are doing is
getting you what you want.
I want to tell you that Jesus still loves you,
Jim. He has forgiven you for all things, including for not reaching us. Your guilt is gone
whether you preach at us or not. He is not finished with you, so go and preach the gospel with
the heartoflove and freedom that Christ will inspire in you if you accept His gift. Come back
when you can show us the miracle that God has
worked in your life.
In Christ,
Kaleb Coberly
Dear Greeners,
Forgive them for they know not what they
do (Luke 23:34).
Kaleb Coberly is a junior enrolled in evening and weekend classes.
Descartes called res cogitans, as opposed to
res extensia, or "physical stuff') could arise
out of the "mere matter" of the brain. It 's just
meat, right?
Hang on-notice the operative phrase: "/
can't imagine ... " D'you reckon an ancient
Greek could imagine how the moon missions
worked? Could an educated person from the
twelfth century imagine how cell phonesor even landlines-are possible? How about
our generation: about a decade ago, when I
saw CGI for the first time, I was completely
fooled into thinking it was real, because I
couldn't imagine how such a complex image
could be faked.
Arthur C. Clarke (author of200 1: A Space
Odyssey) famously noted "Any sufficiently
advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic." We've reached such a point of scientific and intellectual development that postulating a magic, transcendent soul is no longer
coherently defensible. We have the technology:
we can make our beliefs stronger, faster,
better-and not embarrassingly incorrect. Is
it possible that magically transcendent souls
exist? Yup. It's also possible that ingrown toenails are caused by invisible foot gnomes.
If we want to be coherent and correct in our
beliefs-which is a good policy to have; if we
care to survive and be happy in the long run,
we are obligated to accept those explanations
which provide a coherent account for all the
relevant data. But there are many such explanations, such as foot gnomes and religion. We
need one thing more, should we care to honestly call ourselves reasonable. We must obey
what is known as Occam's Razor, which states
that the simplest and least convoluted answer •
is correct.
Occam's Razor does not tolerate a magic,
floating soul. Sorry.
Casey Jaywork is a sophomore enrolled in
Life and Consciousness. He can be reached at
burch_9030@yahoo. com
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Thursday, 31
5 p.m. "Laughing Meditation." Rotunda.
Hosted by Common Bread.
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Fashion Club
Mondays, noon
CAB 2 floor
5 to 7 p.m. Kate Clyde "Bait and Switch"
opening reception. Gallery 4, LIB 4 floor.
Friday, June l
6 to 8:30 p.m. Prison industrial complex workshop. SEM II, A II 07. Hosted by
TESC Democrats
Mondays, 3:30p.m.
CAB 3rd floor
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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, Dll05
All experience levels welcome
5 to 6 p.m. "Elements of Alchemy" creative writing workshop. LIB 2304.
Thesday, 5
4 to 5 p.m. "Grammar Rodeo" grammar
ski lls workshop. LIB 2304.
6:30 p.m. Self-evaluation workshop.
Prime Time in "A" Building, Room 220.
Wednesday, 6
2 to 4 p.m. "Mafaida's Vaccine" media
and theatrical performance.
SEM II, B 1105. Hosted by the student
group Latin@s.
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Thursday, June 7, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Amelia Ortiz spoken word performance.
Longhouse. Hosted by WOCC and MEChA.
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dance. SEM II, E1107.
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Monday, June 11, 3 to 5 p.m. Masters in Teaching (MIT) application and endorsement workshop. SEM II, E 3 123.
Monday, June 11 and Tuesday, June 12,6:30 p.m. Media Works student project
screenings. COM Recital Hall. Content is new each night.
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Wednesdays, I p.m .
CAB 3rd floor pit
Chemistry Club
Wednesdays, l to 2 p.m.
LAB I, 1037
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CAB TV lounge
Narcotics Anonymous
Tuesdays, 8 p.m., '
LAB I, 1047 and SEM II, 3107A
Sundays, 6:30p.m. CAB lounge
Monday, 4
3 to 4 p.m. Internship orientation workshop on developing contracts and the registration process. SEM II, C21 09.
Sunday,3
Prolegomena to a Future Poetics
evening literary reading series
Mondays, 7 p.m.
SEM II, A 1105
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SEM II, E2125
Noon to 4 p.m. Contact Dance Workshop:
dance workshop in contact improv for all
skill levels. CRC 216. Hosted by Contact
Improv.
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Students for a Democratic
Society
Wednesdays, 2 p.m.
SEM II, E31 05
Society for Trans Action
Resources
Wednesdays, 3 p.m.
SEM II, D3107
Writer's Guild
Wednesdays, 3 to 4 p.m.
SEM II, C building lobby chairs
Synergy
Wednesdays, 3:45p.m.
CAB 320
Alcoholics Anonymous
Wednesdays, 4 p.m.
LAB I, 1047
Fridays, noon and 7 p.m .
LAB I, 1047
The Outdoor Adventure Club
Wednesdays, 4 p.m .
CRC rock climbing gym
Meditation workshop
Wednesday 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Cedar Room, Longhouse
Open Mic Poetry Reading
Wednesdays, 8 p.m .
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Thursdays, 2:30p.m.
CAB 320 solarium
Infoshoppe and Zine Library
Thursdays, 4 p.m . LIB 3303
TESC Chess Club
Thursdays 4 to 6 p.m.
SEM II, Cll05
All skill levels welcome.
Evergreen Animal Rights
Network
Thursdays, 4:30p.m.
CAB 3rd Floor
WashPJRG
Fridays, 4 p.m.
CAB 320, conference room
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