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°COOPER POINT jOURNAL

Issue 29
Volume 35
June 7, 2007

It's official: student electio-ns are done
By Tori N eeder
The race for student government
and student money drew to an official
close when the current Geoduck Union
unanimously validated election results
Wednesday. Incoming representatives were
in attendance to witness the validation and
begin their training for next year.
The validation was intended to be an
open forum for students. Technically the
elections official decided the validity of
this year's election, however the floor was
open to anyone who wished to call the election into contest.
Currently, the Union validates the election though a consensus vote but this is
the last year that such procedures will be
observed. Representative Brooke McLaneHigginson notes the pitfall of using consensus decision-making in this situation.
Her bylaws amendment required that a
consensus vote would only be needed to
invalidate an election. The new measure
is intended to prevent disgruntled outgoing representatives from sabotaging
future elections. The amendment passed
unanimously.
"I don't think this is going to happen
but say someone is running for reelection and they don't get reelected, and they
say 'I'm going to invalidate this!"' said
McLane- Higginson.
Election officials spent the weekend
tabulating the votes in time for the tenth
week of the quarter. Both of the proposed student fee achieved the necessary 25 percent student participation rate.
The per-credit fee that would potentially
fund Flaming Eggplant passed with 828
in favor and 177 opposed. The LateN ight

Transporiation fee passed with 969 in favor
and Ill opposed.
A total of 723 students voted in
the representative election. Aaron M.
Shelley, Brittany Jane Newhouse, Charlie
Bloomfield, Tyler Ball, Joshua CollinsBeldin, Regan Harrison, Austin Mansell,
Elizabeth Hill, Courtney Underwood,
Jay Standish, Charles Loosen, Nathaniel
Hagood, Sammi Webster, Trevor Kinahan,
Mallory Epping, Bea Wolfe, Kit Crosland,
Alexandra Mavrikis and Brian Fligner will
make up the 2007-08 Geoduck Union representative body.
Thirteen of the twenty-one new representatives were present at the final Geoduck
Union public meeting on Wednesday, June
6. Molli Lesslie , the Tacoma campus
representative, commuted to the Olympia
campus for her first meeting. Lesslie was
a last minute write-in and was elected by
six votes. She I istened as parts the endof-year report was read aloud by outgoing
Andy Corn
Union members. The report is a compila- Election commissioners Ronald Lang and Chelsea Whitaker stand next to the tabution of observations, suggestions, proce- lated votes for GU candidates. Each unique string of votes submitted on Gateway was
dures and wisdom for the coming year.
read aloud and tallied on other blackboards in a series of five sessions before being
"The Union unofficial motto was We Get
totaled on the pictured blackboard.
Shit Done," read Representative Caroline
Comer. "The Union recommends that
future representatives strive, without reservation, to get shit done." Comer went on
to acknowledge one of the major pitfalls
that the Union succumbs to over the year.
"While the Union created a durable infrastructure and won the concrete victories,
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Vote Results

Transit Fee

Flaming Eggplant

Yes-969

No-111

Tori Needer is a junior enrolled in
Health and Human Development.

No-177

Geoduck Union faces success, f ilure
ByJordan Nailon
The Washington Educators Association,
which is the union for teachers K-12, fought
for and obtained contract language that prevents school districts from drug testing their
employees. Clearly, state educational unions
are capable of real institutional change.
Before this year's group of pioneering students took up the helm of the Geoduck
Union, the Evergreen student body hand not
been represented since the 1989-90 school
year. So, what is it that your newly founded
Geoduck Union is doing for you?
The Union has wrapped up their work for
the 2006-07 year, and now that the election
results are in, it is time to pass the torch to
the next generation of student representatives.
Before the retiring crop of representatives can
ride off into the sunset, however, they have a
few words of reflection to pass along.
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GU accomplishments
"Late-night transit was one of the chief
concerns students had at Evergreen," said
representative Victor Sanders. Working solo
on many occasions in order to get all of the
i's dotted and t's crossed for the ballot initiative, Sanders is excited to see that the measure
passed the voting process. "Now," he said, "it
is going to be a reality next year."
Geoduck Union member Brooke McLaneHigginson was also excited to see the transit
measure pass, and praised the work of
Sanders. "This was his major project with
the Union, and he planned the whole thing
almost single-handedly."
The voting process was one area that
McLane-Higginson targeted as a problem
area from the start of her term as representative. She started the year looking to "prevent voting controversies similar to that of

Reviews galore:
Readings, film and theatre oh
my!
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last spring's CAB redesign by creating elections and voting policies."
The Union was able to accomplish this
task before the recent elections. The new
policies strictly define the percentage of student votes required for a measure to pass
and precisely drew rules limiting campaign
activity and free give-a-ways in order to prevent any repeat instances of voter tampering
or bribery.
Under these newly defined policies, the
Flaming Eggplant funding measure also
passed by a heaping majority.
The fall quarter fee will help to get the student run cafe out of the planning stages and
into the business of preparing and serving
food.
"I'm jazzed about the Flaming Eggplant,"
said Geoduck representative Stephen Engel.
"Although that's not a project I worked
on directly. But it gets us one step closer

Healthcare and Europe:
Have you gotten your shots?
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Arrow hits a wall:
Find out how in this weeks
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to booting corporate food service off this
campus. One step closer to self-operation."
A project that Engel was directly working
on was the CAB redesign project. "rm proud
of the Take Back the CAB! Committee that
I assembled with the help of representative
Carolyn Commer," said Engel. "It's difficult
to find eleven students, and such motivated
ones, to commit to a project like that. But we
did, and found some folks who are really on
the ball, ready to step up and win a victory
for students."
In general, the Union members feel that
they have laid a solid foundation for future
students during their inaugural year of
work. According to Sanders, "The Geoduck
Union is a much more visible group to the
administration."

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Why didn't you vote?:
Former GU Rep on lack of
voter turnout.
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Voting results in
Here are the results from the recent election and votes. Both of the ballot items, the
transit fee increase to fund a late night shuttle
and a fee to support the Flaming Eggplant
Cafe, reached the 25 percent participation mark
and are therefore valid. After a six-hour handcounting session, these results have been certified by the Elections Commissioners and
are expected to be certified by the Geoduck
Union. The transit fee to fund a late night
shuttle resulted in Yes: 969 and No: 111. The
Flaming Eggplant fee resulted in Yes: 828 and
No: 177. Your new GU representatives are:
Aaron M. Shelley, Brittany Jane Newhouse,
Charlie Bloomfield, Tyler Ball, Joshua CollinsBeldin, Regan Harrison, Austin Mansell,
Elizabeth Hill, Courtney Underwood, Jay
Standish, Charles Loosen, Nathaniel Hagood,
Sammi Webster, Trevor Kinahan, Mallory
Epping, Bea Wolfe, Kit Crosland, Alexandra
Mavrikis and Brian Fligner.
Art exhibition and reception in Gallery 4
Evergreen Galleries, Gallery 4 is presenting
Kate Clyde's "Bait and Switch" art exhibition
now through Friday, June 8 and Super Saturday,
June 16. Exhibition hours are Monday through
Friday, I0 a.m. to 6 p.m. Gallery 4 is located in
LIB 4'h floor.
The End of Art starts at the Eagles Hall
On Saturday, June 9 starting at 7 p.m.
Evergreen artists will be exhibiting their work
at the Eagles Hall in downtown Olympia in a
show called The End of Art. Doors open at 7
p.m. Perfonnances 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. The
End ofArt is a showcase of work by students enrolled in two different courses: Art Production in
the 21st Century: From Theory to Practice and
AttAfterThe End of Art. "We didn't just want
to put on another student art exhibition," said
Kate Arvin, playwright and one of the show's
participants. "We feel that it's necessary to continually bridge the gap between the college and
the city. We wanted to reach out to the Olympia
community, go beyond the campus, and try to
make connections." One of the faculty advisors
on the project, Professor ofLiterature Elizabeth
Williamson, explained the show's morbid title.
"There's a real lack of risk-taking in the arts,
not just here, but throughout the country. We
don't think that artworks are pretty things to be
passively appreciated. We wanted to challenge
these assumptions by creating a totally interactive space, one in which artists and audiences
blend, where we rethink our assumptions of
what it means to be involved in the arts generally. So, is our show just another indicator that
art has died in some way, that it's ended? That's
what we want to find out."
Gleaners Coalition updates
The Gleaners Coalition is starting up work
parties and gleaning events now, typically on
Tuesdays and Saturdays. 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.

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1\vo nights of 21st century film
A group of 30 multi-media students from
legendary Media Works will be presenting
their projects to the public on the evenings of
Monday, June II and Tuesday, June 12. Anyone
involved in film or any of its counterpartsaudio, animation, writing, computer graphicsthis is something to attend. The screenings
will take place in COMM Recital Hall. The
lights dim and start to flic-k-ick-er at 6:30p.m.
Content is new each night.
Cartoonists converge at Comics Festival
The Olympia Comics Festival, a tribute to alternative comics, takes place on Saturday, June
9. This year's guests are Ivan Brunetti and Ellen
Forney. Brunetti is known for his biting sardonic
humor and raunchy little one-liners. His most recent book, "Mysery Loves Comedy," is a compilation ofhis comic, "Schizo," as well as many
of his shorter strips. Forney, most recognized for
her illustration work, is frequently published in
"The Stranger." Her latest book, "I Love Led
Zeppelin," collects her short comics and collaborations. The cartoonist expo runs from noon to
5:30p.m. at the Olympia Center, 222 Columbia
St. and is free and open to the public. It features
several panels with the guests as well as many
other local cartoonists. There will be book signings at Danger Room Comics, 20 I 4th Ave.
throughout the afternoon and a stage show at the
Capitol Theater, 206 5th Ave. from 7 to 9 p.m.
The stage show costs $5 at the door and consists of several skits, contests and a showing of ;
some of the "Worst Comics of All Time." For :
any questions or concerns, please visit the website at olympiacomicsfestival.org or email us at
olympiacomicsfestival@gmail.com
Coming up soon: Oly Exp Music Fest
Graduating student Domenica Clark is proud
to announce the upcoming 13th Annual Olympia
Experimental Music Festival on Thursday, June
21 through Sunday, June 24 at the Eagles Hall
and Le Voyeur, sponsored by KAOS. Tickets
are available at Rainy Day Records and
www.buyolympia.com. Full passes are $25,
Individual day passes are $7. ea urea acts include: Wendy Atkinson (Vancouver, B.C),Acre
(Pottland, OR), Hans Grusels Krankenkabinet
(San Francisco, CA), Alps ofNew South Wales
(Australia), L.A Lungs (Tacoma, WA), Eric
Ostrowski (Seattle, WA), Dead Air Fresheners
(Seattle/PDX/OLY), White Rainbow (Portland,
OR), Noisettes/Walrus Machine (Seattle, WA),
Wood Paneling (Mason County, WA), and more
info available online at: http://www.duckhugger.
com/olyexpfest/13th.htm.
Calvin Johnson tours with Julie Doiron
Calvin Johnson's influence on the DIY
music scene throughout the past two decades
is undeniable. For this tour he will share some
of those songs and stories that changed the independent music scene as we know it. Calvin
Johnson with Julie Doiron will play Art House
Designs, 420 Franklin St. SE #B, on Monday,
June 18'h at 8 p.m. Johnson's music career spans
the better part of three decades. He pioneered
DIY music when he formed his first bands Beat
Happening and The Go Team (with Tobi Vail
and appearances from Kurt Cobain) and simultaneously began his record label K Records. K is
still a major player in the indie music scene, and
has released records by such artist as Modest
Mouse, The Blow, Kimya Dawson, Mirah, The
Microphones, The Make-Up, Built to Spill, and
Beck. This tour is in support of Calvin's latest
full-length, Calvin Johnson & the Sons of the
Soil - an album in which he gathered other
K artists (Kyle Field of Little Wings, Adam
Forkner or Yume Bitsu, and Jason Anderson) to
form a band and completely redo select songs
from his past work.

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Representative Engel can also see the
progress made this year, but believes that
there is much more work to be done. He
explained that his main goal "was to make
sure the Union didn't flounder in its first year.
My main concern was laying a solid foundation to ensure the longevity of the Union,
so that it can eventually become a hub for
activism on campus, a tool to consolidate
student power."

GUfailures
"Some projects work out," said representative Engel, "but a lot of them fail." During
their fledgling year of representation, the
Geoduck Union had its share of successes,
but also frequently found itself in a static
state offlailing.
Bureaucratic behavior was a constant
irritant to members of this year's Union. As
many would expect at a state funded, liberal institution, red tape is a major part of
the decor.
"This year, we created far too many committees and projects," admitted Sanders.
Eventually, those projects and the people
involved in them "seemed to drop off."
Another tinge of bureaucracy that bothered representative Sanders had to do with
language. "Just because we are a consensusbased group doesn't mean you can blUJt out
whatever, whenever. Don't block something
or make it complicated by word-smithing
shit. Just approve it and deal with it later.
Honestly, we spent so much time on words
and language."
Stephen Engel had another point of contention. "The most persistent and annoying
roadblocks this year were products of selfishness." As a result of this selfishness, the
majority of elected representatives did not
end up finishing the year. "I've gained a great
amount of respect for a handful of them who
have stuck it through."
This problem of responsibility was one
that representative McLane-Higginson witnessed first hand as well. "Don't let personal conflicts interfere with Union business·
things sometimes get tense, but you need to

separate personal feeling from conflicts that
actually involve the Union."
Aside from the sometimes high-tempered communication among each other,
the Union made an effort to reach out to students. Although, it was decidedly agreed
upon that this effort fell short of its optimum
potential.
When McLane-Higginson was asked what
project she wished to have more time for,
she emphatically replied, "Communicating
with students!"
"I wish we had more success in communication with the student body," said Sanders.
"But hey we are new, and we were busy
laying the groundwork and creating a foundation that next year's reps will appreciate."
The seemingly tireless Engel had a more
expansive view of the tasks the Union failed
to cover. "I wish I had gotten more involved
in the legislative process. But really, the list
is endless."

GU sage advice
"Don't take anything personally," offered
Sanders. "Our mission statement used to end
with 'Get Shit Done,' and I cannot emphasize
how important that statement is when you are
frustrated or angry or just plain fed up with
the Union. The union is not about you or me.
It is about improving students' quality oflife
at Evergreen. Don't waste the Union's time
with personal conflict."
Engel added, "To do this job well, you
need to think about others more than yourself. And withhold judgment until you really

understand a situation. Many times I felt one
way, but felt very different after listening to
what my colleagues were saying."
Mclane-Higginson agreed that open
communication within the Union is crucial.
"Reaching consensus with twenty-one people
is not nearly as hard as it sounds and will only
get easier throughout the year."
"Also," commented Sanders, "you don't
have to be on the defensive with the administration all the time. Approach everything
you think is wrong and bad at TESC with
creative criticism and don't be an asshole
to anyone."
On a different note, Sanders added, "Not
showing up to meetings is unacceptable. If
we don 't meet quorum, we are useless. Do
your part. The Union isn't a track meet, it's
a marathon. Two hours a week doesn't cut
it."

GU future union work
Next year's Union will be building on the
foundation laid by this year's group, but the
representatives themselves will all be fresh
faces. None of this year's incumbents opted
to run again for next year's Union.
"The vast majority of us graduate this
year," explained McLane-Higginson. "Only
three current representatives will attend
Evergreen next year. Victor Sanders did
not run for reelection because he hopes to
become student coordinator for the LateNight Shuttle."
Her advice for next year's group: "Give
yourselves power. Write up what you're in
charge of and get that document added to
official school policy. Communicate with
students, foster student involvement in the
Union and other governance opportunities.
And make sure the CAB is redesigned to best
suit all students."
Her list did not end there, as she saw situations that had a conflict of interest and an
unbalance of power. "Also, the Union needs
to get funded differently. We should not
have to petition the S & A Board for money
like
~1rps. Access to the aU-student DL (e-mail delivery list) would be nice
too, and we have asked Andy Corn in S & A

to please seek permission for (the Union) to
[use] the DL."
Representative Engel expressed a very
specific goal for next year's Union. Namely,
his vision is to work with the group Focus
the Nation. "This is my number one recommendation, and a great opportunity for the
Union to step [up] and become a real hub for
activism on this campus. Focus the Nation
will launch a national teach-in on January
31, 2008, hooking up students and citizens
with political leaders and decision makers to
talk about solutions to global warming. Les
Puree, Evergreen's president, has agreed to
support this project on campus. Some faculty on Evergreen's Sustainability Task
Force has gotten behind it too, but they're
lacking student support and without student
support, they can hardly do anything. If students don't step up, Focus the Nation will not
happen at Evergreen and that would blow.
Straight up."
He went on to include his detailed plan of
implementation. "I recommend the Union (a)
get as many students on campus involved as
possible, and (b) involve itself as much as
possible. Start by fonning a Focus the Nation
committee, then troll around S &A to find out
which student groups want to get involved.
Table to get others student involved, and set
up strong relations with the faculty and students on the Sustainability Task Force."

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Monday Night Reading Series Review:
Glenn Mott, Shin Yu Pai, Charles Alexander
By Andrew Csank
Glenn Mott, the doubly talented author and
journalist, read first at this week's installment
of the Monday Night Reading Series. He read
from "Analects on the Chinese Screen" (from
Charles Alexander's Chax Press), based primarily on his travels in present day China.
Before beginning his reading, Mott described
an interest in a "social poetry," and warned
that the "I" pronoun he used was not really he,
but reflected instead a more "protean" or "lyrical" sense of the word. I was a bit jarred when
the first poem he began reading had his "I" as
a poet named Glenn at a party in Shanghai.
Clearly, the degree of complexity he sought to
add to the "I" was not simple in substituting
an alternate identity for his actual one. If he
were, as he said, seeking to undermine the
pronoun's conventional usage, it would have
to be at a deeper level - contorting its actual
function, not simply its referent.
The China Mott began to describe was
'lot the traditional one to which we are accuswmed in American poetry, but the New China
- a China of business, American dollars, a
·'presumption to global taste." At the party he
attends, no one gives a damn that he's a poet.
They are the sons and daughters of bankers,
diplomats, and celebrities, and Mott imagines that they only invited him at all because
his wife is attractive. Rather than indignation, this circumstance leads Mott into a rich
;elf-doubt: "I would also die unknown ... I
md what it takes to be forgotten in a day ... I
.vas never going to be more specific to my;elf." It is strange that the disappointment one
;enses here seems tied to its setting. No poet
.vith a shred of common sense would ever be
ilarmed enough by an American apathetic atitude towards poetry at a party to be moved
nto writing about it. Did Mott expect somehing different from China? If not, could that
\Xpectation be more protean - that China
vould be different from America in any sense,
md any similarity could have stood in for the
1roader tragedy?
Mott addressed the more specific side of
he setting verbally by saying, "A lot of these
1ieces are ... urn ... situations. Social situations
. in which you can see the situation clearly for
he first time." He then made it clear that he
.lways sees parties as political situations.
The frrst theme he addressed came up again
n the form of a section of the book called,
~xplicitly, "Pronouns." From what I could
gather, it seemed to have a tight, formal con'rivance of changing the pronoun in each line
from that of the previous line. As such, one
line would be a "we" line, the next "you," then
'they," back to "we," and so forth. It's a fine
structural strategy to get someone thinking
about what it means to say "we," "you," or
'they," to bring the reader into you, to push
he reader out, then unite the reader with an
xclusion of a third principal. Just as political
_s any party, one might suggest.
The third theme of his was travel - the
deas that are in and stem from places. He kept
·eferring to a haunting concept that the travler awaits his arrival in a place he already
:nows himself to be, as though a doppel~anger of a broader world awaits to usurp your
>osition the instant you step off the plane.
I largely appreciated Mott's ability to use
.vhat initially appears to be a quite intelligible
:orm. His capacity to depart from convenional thought did not require departing from
most) linguistic conventions. He summed
his up aptly by saying, "The making of a senence is a way of remaking the mind."
The second poet, Shin Yu Pai, was inter-

ested in collaborative gestures towards other
media. The first series she read was written
from a series of photographs taken of Japanese
love hotels, designed for quick sex or, in this
work especially, prostitution. She explained
how many of the young women utilizing these
hotels are not doing so to pay rent, buy food
or feed families, but rather simply to keep up
with fashion trends. The rooms themselves
are also tied into fashion and consumer culture, such as decor featuring the cartoon Hello
Kitty or Christmas themes (though in Japan
Christmas is not a religious or widely celebrated holiday, but more an aesthetic).
Another poem dealt with the recent installation of "grope free cars" in the Tokyo
subway system: all girl cars to prevent the
girls from being groped by salary-men on
their way to work. She added to this a recent
history of girls' alliances with the Yakuza organized crime family to frame some men for
such an act.
The third series, "Nutritional Feed," played
with the language of food advertising and pop
culture's influence on early child development
(one might wish to add physical development,
in this case, to the explicit connotation of psychological development). These poems were
disorienting in their torrent of slogans, puns,
and overlapping meanings. l was put off by
her tendency towards explaining in plain
speech concepts that were explicit within the
poems themselves, as though she had a certain
lack of faith in the work's ability to speak.
The third poet, Charles Alexander, founder
and director of Chax Press (www.chax.org)
read from his new work, "Certain Slants."
(Perhaps a play on the old Emily Dickinson
axiom, "Tell the truth, but tell it slant.") The
meat of this work, so to speak, is the series
"Pushing Water." The first installment he read
features a small set of words repeated in various arrangements, arriving at many paradoxes and looping contradictions. The next
installment had a similar initial setup, but
moved into different terrain altogether. From
one installment of his series to another, there
was a beautiful, subtle, formal fall. They both
radically swerved from one another and yet
seemed to be in a harmony of motive. This
swerve was connected to what was taking
place within the poems as well.
The most striking installment of this series was posed as a deluge of questions. They
ranged across all modes of inquiry imaginable: metaphysical, existential, circumstantial, material, familial, and so on. Even as
the mode of a question was a broad gesture
out, there were also many acts of self-reference: "Does structure matter? Is matter structured?" He would sometimes employ mysterious poetic gambits, such as referring to the
writer or muse of the poem as a woman gendered "she" and then undermine it by incorporating a question of the very meaning of gendering. When an overtly humorous question
would roll along, it would be followed by a
question of immense sadness, i.e. "where is
your mother?"
I can think of no better way to conclude
than with a few more of his questions:
"How do we determine the speed of a consonant? Who determined the pitch of middle
C? What kind of profit motive would cause
you to question the dream? Is there a language
that cannot be translated unless waiting is required? Does a question go away? Why signify and why not signify? Who is asking the
questions? Why do you want to know?"

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the story and skipping the review.
Adapted from the book written by Rhonda Byrne, "The Secret" tells the story
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According to James Ray (philosopher, President/CEO of James Ray
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energy, and so your thoughts are energy. Your body, your cash, your car- everything you think is solid, if you put it under a high-powered microscope, it's just a
field of energy and a rate of vibration." Emphasis The idea behind the law of attraction is that the mental energy we put into the world manifests itself physically.
While this can be an incredible phenomenon, we tend to think bad thoughts in
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It's sim ple . With the power of attraction, with the power to actualize by believing what we want to be reality, "We can have whatever it is that we choose
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you want to have more success? What do you really want?" The secret brings it
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The most touching personal story about the Jaw of attraction comes from an
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As I sat on the sofa watching this masterpiece, I began to imagine, to visualize
my desires: something to eat, a new car, a prettier wife-probably younger and
... well younger, a new house with an Olympic-sized swimming pool. I sat there
watching and thinking about my new car in the new garage of my new house
and suddenly I realized my wife was gone and so was my wallet. I assumed she
was getting dinner and went back to watching. Needless to say, when she pulled
up in the Benz with a bucket of KFC, I knew the power of attraction was real.
It worked for her as well. I was so happy with her irrationally impulsive splurge
of my money that I bought her the Botox treatment she'd been asking for since
last spring.
As Dr. Joe Vitale (metaphysician) explains, "[The power of attraction] is you
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Cigarettes and Intellects:
Evergreen's Production of

"Franny and Zooey"
By Brandon Custy
When I got back from Portland at around 2:30 in the afternoon last
Sunday, I crossed the campus immediately seeking rest and relaxation.
Fortunately, as I was walking through the CAB, I spotted a sign for a play
that I had been waiting to see. The play was "Franny and Zooey." I swiveled and headed for the Longhouse. I walked swiftly, checking the time as
I went. As I entered, the usher handed me a program and told me to sit anywhere I liked. He added, "As you can see there is plenty of room." I was
the first audience member to arrive, promising an intimate setting. People
drizzled in over the next few minutes and the room was adequately filled
by the time the show began.
The subtitle printed on play advertisements promised "a love story, pure
and complicated." The play was most assuredly complicated. It is the story
of Franny and Zooey Glass, adapted from the stories by J.D. Salinger.
The space of the Longhouse was utilized efficiently with sets that got
the job done. The bathroom scene was equipped with a shower, toilet, and
sink. The actors used each space effectively. The scene between Zooey and
Bessy Glass, played by Patrick Bartels and Blythe Olsen respectively, is an
example of the creative utilization of place. Especially the part where Zooey
is shaving, with real shaving cream and no mirror; that was great.
The dialogue was the most astonishing part of the play. Each character,
excluding the restaurant staff, had an enormous amount of lines. These
lines had to be negotiated among many stage cigarettes, lighters, and even
matches. Gianna D'Emilio didn't have to master shaving without a mirror,
but she displayed Franny's fainting spells and considerable sobs skillfully.
The interaction between Franny and Zooey was bolstered by Bartels's skills
at criticizing all the other characters, especially Gianna's.
"'Franny and Zooey' is a story college students should know," the director Larry DeMers said. It is a true statement, when one considers the
ideas set f01th in the play, especially Franny's disillusionment with intellectual society and art. In the end after many critical words from Zooey,
she feels at peace for the first time in the whole play. In the end, Zooey
tells Franny, "The only religious thing you can do is act." This line and
Gianna's sigh at the end of Act III presumably leads to a relatively peaceable solution.
The play was produced in eight weeks. A two-hour play would sec:m to
require more time to memorize lines, make the set, and master block_mg. I
asked Emily Ritchie, the Artistic Director and Set and Costume Designer,
how she was able to do all that work. She joked, "I didn't sleep." The dedication of all involved and the quality of the end result seems to deserve
more than just two shows in the Longhouse.

Brandon Custy is a sophomore happily enrolled in Illustrative Narrative
and Matters of Life and Death, and appreciates all submissions for the A
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Monday Night Reading Series Review:
Rachel Zolf and Kaia Sand
By Andrew Csank
The first poet of this week's Monday Night
Reading Series was Rachel Zolf of Toronto, ON,
reading from her new book "Human Resources"
(Coach House Press). Rachel dove into her
reading at a superhumanly rapid pace, something I haven't seen braved to quite that degree by
anyone other than Rodrigo Toscano. One's ability
to follow her precise direction cognitively got
buried instantly under the landslide of words following any string of syntax before you can even
finish stringing the last one together. The result,
though, isn't quite that you get pushed out but that
you're forced to find other ways of keeping up.
In addition, there's a way in which the harder it
is to hear what's being said, the more important
it seems to hear it.
One abandons the ability to understand the actual meaning of the work in favor of a more topographical or intuitive understanding. What kinds
of words were being used? There was a thread of
the sacred (for lack of a better word) traditions of
Paul Celan and Edmond Jabes, Kabbalistic references, the supplementation of strings of numbers
where words should be, periodically corporate
language, Freud's psychosexual dramas (particularly the fecal) and something of the vulgar banalities of the collective North American mentality:
America, Jesus, fuck, cat, etc. The effect was marvelous: swept up in a whirlwind of language, it
becomes impossible to segregate the components
of your experience by what you take to be their
relative cultural or spiritual worth.
Rachel wasn't shy about revealing the motivations behind her poetics. Working in a corporate environment where she had to write copy for
various brochures and pamphlets, her thoughts
turned to the notion of wasted language. Her
talk kept coming back to a definitive quote from
Celan: "What is lost when words are wasted?"
Moreover, as most poetically inclined individuals
would feel in the situation of writing copy, she
was wasting a tremendous amount of language.
ow ever, she at o poke of the notion that language can be cleansed or salvaged. Rachel made
clear that the better part of her thematic concerns
is born of and can be teased from association.
Waste and cleansing lead to the fecal -what is
sloughed off the human body and how is that like
what is sloughed off of language? This leads to
Freud's anal erotic figure who is also, according
to Freud, a collector and a capitalist, which leads
back into the corporate world and wasted language. Celan and Jabes lead to Judaism, which
leads to the anti-Semitic cultural association with
money, which leads to capitalism again. Judaism
also leads to Kabbal ism, which leads her to search
engine poetics: the aforementioned cultural banalities, and the strings of numbers I also mentioned. Her engine of choice provided her with

ran kings of most commonly searched words on
the Internet (like "Jesus", "Fuck" and "Cat")
(most commonly wasted words?) and those rankings provided them with numerical values, which
could then be investigated as the numerical value
of Hebrew words, which can be investigated in
Kabbalah. With the right kind of mentality, the
apparent looseness of association can lead to incredibly tight and consistent poetic results. This
was certainly the case here.
The second poet, Kaia Sand, of Portland, had
a similar and highly dissimilar mode of rooting
her poetics in an outward investigation. To be
blunt, it is something more explicitly in the tradition of"lnvestigative Poetics" (as exemplified
by, say, Kristin Prevallet). The idea here, as Kaia
put it, is that we are often told, "Write what you
know," but a reasonable response is, "We can always know more." The poet then finds an area
he or she wishes to explore and learns about it
through the process of writing about it. In the case
of this reading, Kaia explores eugenics, cases in
American law in which forced sterilization was
permitted, the Scopes monkey trial, lotteries and
the like. Her work on eugenics was created in
the form of a work of book art: a large "family
album." The visual effect of her sitting down (as
opposed to at the podium) and reading from this
large handmade tome and periodically lifting it
to display the images while we sat around called
to mind, strangely, not so much a family album
but elementary school story time. This association I found to be at least as disturbing in association with eugenics and forced sterilization as a
family album would be. Perhaps a story time for
children not permitted to be born.
On the notion of"you can always know more,"
an interesting asymmetry occurred with some of
Rachel's comments during the Q & A. She was
asked about being one of those poets who makes
her living outside the world of academia (bear in
mind, no poet makes his or her living from poetry). The person asking the question (as I recall,
inexactly) also made the implied question of how
an you now ha much a out p ry · you
'
formally study or teach it? Her response was that
you read one thing, and it begs you to read another
thing and gradually your understanding blossoms
out from there. She also suggested, however, that
a formal academic knowledge of anything is not
necessary and in fact only creates the illusion of
complete knowledge. No one will ever be able
to read all that needs to be read. And yet, rather
than saying, "We can always know more," Rachel
suggested, rather, "You don't need to know everything." After all, in a world comprised of associative strings of meaning, you can know everything just by knowing one thing.

Andrew Csank is a senior enrolled in Art After
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VVhat's available and
affordable in Olympia?

So, you're going to Europe?
Tips and Tricks for Traveling Abroad

By Ariel Brantley-Dalglish
The Student Health Center will close over
summer break and will reopen the first week
of the fall quarter, September 24, 2007.lfyou
are staying here in Olympia over the summer,
here are some tips to help navigate medical
care within the Olympia community.
No insurance? The Neighborhood Free
Medical Clinic (459-7200) is your best bet.
They are a great resource and it is totally free
to go. Doctors and nurses will see you for
emergencies as well as basic medical care.
The clinic is only open Tuesday evenings
5:30-8:30 p.m. and patients are seen on a first
come, first served basis. They are looking to
expand their services and need volunteers, so
pass on the word. The clinic is located along
bus route 68, at 3045A Carpenter Road SE
in Lacey.
Next best would be the Sea Mar
Community Health Center (491-1399) located at 3030 Limited Lane NW in Olympia.
Appointments are required. Same day appointments are often available for established
patients, but they fill quickly. Call by 8:00
a.m. to maximize your chance ofbeing seen.
Though they charge a $20 co-pay at time of
service, they offer a sliding-scale fee and payment arrangements for the rest of the balance.
Proof of low income is required in the form
of a pay stub or financial aid receipt. Proof
of current address is also required. They are
open Monday to Friday 8:00a.m. 5:00p.m.,
with extended evening hours on Thursday
until 9:00p.m.
There are two urgent care clinics in
Olympia. Pacific Walk-In Clinic (455-1350)
is located at 3928 Pacific Ave. SE in Lacey
and West Care Clinic (357-9392) is located at 3000 Limited Lane NW in Olympia.
Neither one offers sliding scale, though West
Care accepts DSHS (with the exception of
the Community Health Plan division). Most
insurance plans are accepted at both clinics.
Pacific requires a $75 payment at the time of
service and they will bill for any amount over
that. They usually will work out payment
plans for students. It is $95 for your first visit
to West Care. Once you are established, it is
$78. They'll give you a 15 percent discount if
you use check or cash to pay. Pacific Walk-In
is open Monday-Friday 9:00a.m.- 7:00p.m.
West Care is open Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m.
- 8:00 p.m. Both clinics are open Saturday
and Sunday 9:00am-5:00p.m.
For sexual health concerns, Evergreen
students should know about Planned
Parenthood's Teen Clinic. Teen Clinic is a
walk-in time at Planned Parenthood where
patients are seen on a first-come, first-served
basis. There are educators in the lobby to assist with paperwork and answet: questions.
The clinic facilitators also play fun games
and hand out prizes. They just raised the age
of people eligible to come to teen clinics from
19 to 21. Ifyou are low income, make sure
to ask about the Take Charge program. You
may be eligible to receive free sexual health
exams and family planning counseling. If
you aren't eligible, they offer a sliding-scale
fee as well. Walk-in hours are Wednesdays
from 2:00p.m.- 5:00p.m. at the downtown
Olympia clinic located at 402 Legion Way,
Suite 201. You can also call for an appointment other times of the week at 754-5522.
The Thurston County Family Planning
Office (786-5583) is another option for
sexual health concerns. They also offer a
sliding scale for their services based on income. They are located at 412 Lilly Road
NE in Olympia.
That's a selection of what is available in
Olympia, but if you have more specific questions or concerns, the Health Center has a
comprehensive list of referrals available for
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counselors, etc. Feel free to drop by and get
the info you need!

Ariel Brantley-Dalglish is a senior
Student Medical Assistant and a Planned
Parrenthood Public Affairs intern.

By Lindsay Ada.Jlls
For the past three months, I spent my
time traveling around Northern Europe,
partially on my own and partially with the
Ireland program in Gleann Cholm Cille,
Ireland. Although my trip was amazing and
I would still go knowing what I know now,
I have a few suggestions for anyone who either studies abroad or travels on their own
witheut a program.
I) A good backpacking rule of thumb is
half the stuff and twice the money. I found
this to be so true. In the preparation to leave
the country, it is really easy to get so excited and stressed out that all common sense
falls away. Ask yourself: Am I going to have
enough money? Do I really want to carry this
40-pound pack around for that long? Should
I have a feasible system for not going broke
when I get home?
This is especially true when traveling to
countries that use different monetary units,
for example, it can be very confusing when
traveling from the United Kingdom, which
uses the pound, to a country such as Norway,
which uses the kroner. Although Norway
and the United Kingdom are not that far
away, prices are very different. A $3 bottle
of water is about 1.50 pounds in the UK to
about 18 kroner in Norway. Something I did
to help stop the confusion is to write down
how much items like food, transportation

and lodging are in different currencies and
how much that is in dollars. This way, when I
found out a train ticket was 50 kroner, I knew
right away how much that was in dollars.
2) Don't act like an American. There
are many negative aspects of every culture
and Americans have just as many as every
other. It is not as noticeable until you leave
the country but can be detrimental to your
experience if not recognized. Americans are
notorious for complaining, being loud, rude,
highly opinionated and overly excited about
America. My favorite thing to do abroad
while I am in a line or waiting for some form
of transportation is to pick out the Americans
in the crowd. At one point, I had to stay in
a bed and breakfast because all of the hostels were full in Cork City, Ireland. An upper
middle class American couple was checking
in while I was leaving. It was in the evening
and when the host offered the couple tea and
biscuits, the husband rudely snapped at the
host saying, "Isn't it late for tea! It's like 7
p.m.!" Just remember, have a bit of cultural
sensitivity; it goes a long way and helps you
make friends.
3) Travel alone! I traveled alone for 3
weeks of my trip and it was one of my favorite parts of my trip. You don't have to
wait around for other people and you are
more easily approachable by locals and other
travelers.
4) Be a traveler, not a tourist. Stay in hos-

tels, not hotels. It is cheaper and you meet
other people from around the world. Many
times, it is boring to stay alone in a hotel,
but in a hostel, you are always around new
people with whom you can go out!
5) Don't get scared because of a language
barrier! Just learn as you go. When I got to
Norway, I saw everything was in Norwegian
and since I didn't know any Norwegian, I just
played along. Instead of being really nervous
about not knowing what the signs in the train.
stations and streets said, I found it was fun
to learn as I needed to and I picked up some
Norwegian as I went along.
6) When travel mishaps occur and you
panic, just remember: you're in Europe!
When I nearly missed my train to Bergen
in Norway or couldn't find a place to stay
in Cork, I didn't freak out because I just
looked at a map and smiled. Really, where
would you rather be? In class? No, I didn't
think so!
Overall, the main thing to do when contemplating your travels is JUST GO! It is
way too amazing not to go because you are
afraid of traveling alone or not knowing
enough about where you are going. Just go
for it. No one knows everything and you
will know less if you don't go experience
the world.

Lindsay Adams is a junior currently suj:
feringfromjetlag and enrolled in Ireland

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The Language of Degrees
By Victoria Larkin
I am about to graduate. I write this approximately
one week from the ceremony in which I will be awarded
an empty folder, which will eventually house the degree
I receive from this Evergreen State College. Receiving
a degree is an aside to what has gone on over these last
few years of my life in Academia. But it is also a stamp
on my time spent in structured/critical readings and writings, explorations and exposures. To what degree will
this degree I am about to receive affect my life?
1 did not come to school to get a degree. I came to
school to interact with ideas, to be fed and stimulated, to
exchange philosophies, to test my own, to be in an environment ostensibly dedicated to knowledge: Higher
Education. For all of my engagement and assistance with
my studies and explorations, I am about to be given/have
gone into debt for a Bachelor's Degree. The name alone
presents problems: Bachelor, hmmm ... Bachelorette's?
Spinster's? Unmarried Woman's?
"Bachelor," courtesy of dictionary.com:
Meaning evolved 14c. from "knight in training"
to "junior member of a guild or university" to
"unmarried man" (1386). Fem . form bachelorette, with Fr. ending, is from 1935, replacing earlier bachelor-girl ( 1895).
There are degrees of degrees. A few years ago, I
earned the merest child of a degree, an A.S., from my
community college. I am now about to receive the degree that pushes me out of adolescence, confirms my
completion of junior status in the university, and makes
me a ... bachelor? Okay, maiden. Maiden of Arts degree? That would get confusing when proceeding to the
higher deg~ees of degrees, such as the Master's Degree:
a sort of adulthood degree. One is no longer a bachelor,
a swinging single, out there, in the breeze. One now has
domain, calls the shots, gets RESPECT. Yeah. I'm the
Master. The Madam. Or Madame. Of Arts.
If continuing on, one proceeds to the less happy
sounging "terminal" degrees: Madam of Fine Arts degrees
and Ph.D.s. Presumably one has now reached the pinnacle of degrees, and has expertise in Academia. Which
might be terminal.
But really, what does a degree tell anyone about any
of what I've "learned?" Given the degrees of quality of

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higher education in this country, it might say absolutely
nothing, other than I could give 'em what they wanted,
which might have been very little. Okay, I passed college algebra and made it through my physics classes, but
does that mean I KNOW anything?
I know some people will pay me more just on account of having this degree. I know some people wouldn't
even interview me without it. I also know some people
will judge me differently based entirely on the fact that I
have this degree, and will further judge me by the degree
to which they respect, or do not, the schools from which
my degrees come.
But these degrees speak nothing to whether or not I
can handle life.

.•• pounds of wasted paper; a renewed addiction to coffee; 5 years
of escape from the "real" world;
about 3 breakdowns; bowls of
green; tens of thousands of dollars
(out-of-state fees}; black clothing;
converse sneakers; weeks of evenings at the CPJ; a move out west;
and at least 50 seminar papers.
There are degrees of knowledge not recognized by
these degrees. Knowing about: being a parent, espresso
beans, wine, street-fighting, joy, weaving (you can get a
degree in weaving at some schools, however this is usually scoffed at by other higher education degree holders),
farming, people, selling snake oil, etc.
Degrees Fahrenheit; degrees Celsius; degrees of hot
and cold;
Degrees of love: pizza; cake; sunshine; rain; lover;
children; dog; money ...
Degrees of discourse: from Hallmark greeting cards to
6 page letters; from I 0-page research papers to 25-page
thesis papers to really really really long dissertations ...
Degrees of nudity;
Degrees of murder and larceny (courtesy of the boys
I hang out with);
Tangents Tangents Tangents ...
What exactly does my Bachelor of Arts degree repre-

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sent? Familiarity with basic computer functions (something I did not have before); pounds of wasted paper; a
renewed addiction to coffee; 5 years of escape from the
"real" world; about 3 breakdowns; bowls of green; tens
of thousands of dollars (out-of-state fees); black clothing;
converse sneakers; weeks of evenings at the CPJ; a move
out west; and at least 50 seminar papers.
And speaking of seminar papers: Seminar papers are
one of the best things about an Evergreen education. A
good seminar paper takes a certain personal flair. A student has this well designed opportunity to combine all
of their own thoughts about what they are studying and
learning and give their creative minds and writing skills
free reign.
Seminar papers ideally should take material from class,
examine it, question it, fold it into one's own experience
and speak from the self. Seminar papers are breeding
grounds for originality. They can relieve a student from
the drudgery of Academic Research Papers.
This is research in color, with flavor. Seminars, and
seminar papers, are cornerstones of an Evergreen education. Yay.
So, back to graduation. Next week. I keep on mistakenly referring to my graduation as my wedding. Maybe
it's the big-ceremony-plus-new-gown combination. I'm
not sure. A friend of mine who loves his school likened
graduation to divorce. Then he said maybe this slip of the
tongue says more about what I think about marriage than
graduation. Yes, I can see how graduation feels like a divorce, and how marriage can seem like a divorce, from
life as one knew it, full of friends and adventures, follies
and freedom.
My Bachelor of Arts degree will probably mean more
to my future than I can see from here. Right now it just
means no more days in and out with all these people.
Some days that is marvelous, and others, endlessly dull
and sad ...
There are degrees of community, and I have been in
close company with a caliber of people I am not likely
to run into in my average experience 'out there.' To the
degree that I can, I will view this degree as a reminder of
all of the inspiration I have received from my fellow students and professors throughout my undergrad life.

Victoria is a senior having a terrifYing final quarter
being a tutor, co-coordinator ofthe Writers Guild, and a
jlt student in Writing Bey.ond Language.

A Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center Puzzler

The Weekly 0 uantitative Reasoning Challenge
The Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center (QuaSR) invites you to challenge your quanti,
tative reasoning skills by solving our puzzle of the week. Each week we will present a new puzzle for you
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.
An arrow is shot at a target. To reach the target, it must cover l/2 of .

the distance between shooter and target. Then it must cover 112 of the
remaining distance, then 1/2 of the remainder and so on, to infinity.

Solution to last week's challenge:

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possibly reach the target?
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From the 5-gallon·bucket, fill the 3-gallon bucket. You
now have a full 3-gal bucket and a 5-gal bucket with 2
gallons in it.
Empty the 3-gallon bucket.
Pour the 2 gallons in the 5-gal bucket into the 3-gal
bucket. You now have an empty 5-gal bucket and a 3-gal
bucket with 2 gallons in it.
Fill the 5-gal bucket from the faucet. You now have a full
5-gal bucket and a 3-gal bucket with 2 gallons in it.
Top off the 3-gal bucket from the 5-gal bucket. This re·
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letters & opinions

June 7, 2007

A god I get to touch
By Casey Jaywork
Once upon a time, I
was a young boy, and a
Christian.
This may sound absurd. Or obvious. The
way everyone dislikes
rapists, but only victims hate them, it makes
psychoanalytic sense that only a religious
upbringing could produce such a spiteful
atheist as I.
I was raised in a moderate church full of
old white people. Pre-pubescence was consumed by Sunday mornings at the vital post
of door holder; unlike many houses of worship, our members were geriatric enough to
need such assistance, and by providing it I
found purpose in my small world .
I vaguely recall confirmation - maybe
fifth, sixth grade? Basement bible classes,
a vow I would soon reject.
But the God my father spoke of when
he kissed me goodnight was a benevolent
and mysterious deity. "A person trying to
understand God is like an ant trying to
understand a supercomputer." He didn't
know; he had faith. Years later he confirmed this humble uncertainty, conceding
to me that had he been raised Buddhist or
Muslim, he likely would have followed in
that path. Growing up, I learned that it's
not the means but the end that counts in
religion. Disputes between Muhammad's
Sharks and Jesus's Jets are analogous to insects warring over PC vs. Macintosh.
Lots of dramatic shit happened after
that. With the teenage advent of depression and sexuality and domestic fights and
a suicide note at fifteen, my world became
much larger. My memories of adolescence
are carved neural graffiti, a dark streak a
mile wide somewhere around my cerebral
cortex. At eight or however old I was at
confirmation, you'd think that pledging allegiance to an a priori hypothesis would be
subject to future revisions. At age Small,
there is far more certainty in philosophy,
and far less grey.
Today, I am a faggot. I have written
about this before, and need not repeat the
sentiments of an angry queer-nationalist,
except to mention that I have met a young
man whom I very well may love (in the age
of soap opera, it is difficult to be certain
about these things). Nor is there much to

be gained from spilling ink over the thousand-and-one ways he makes me happy;
suffice it to say that he does.
There is a problem, however. He, being
mortal, is but one person in a sea of potential sex or cuddle partners. Further, the
hallmark of being in anything one may
seriously term a "relationship" is that the
honeymoon is, as they say, over. Being
alone is hard, but being with someone is
complicated. I am not the first to wallow
in temptation; this does not make it a less
vexing position.
There was a time- a long time - when
I tried to worship and serve the Lord. I'm
not age Small anymore. I no longer have
high definition morality; my world has
grown much larger.
Whatever people may pervert it to be,
religion does not survive as a hobby: knitting circles and bowling allies can just
as well serve the social needs which are
often met by religious institutions. There
is something deeper - an emotional necessity for love, worth, and (above all, I
think) purpose. If one can accept that I)
God exists, 2) God is the prime good, and
3) we know what God wants, then life becomes much simpler. From an evolutionary
standpoint, it makes sense that morality
is hard-wired into human beings (psychopaths hold little survival value in the long
run) , so main-lining the moral imperative
to know - now and forever, without ever
needing revisions- the essence of goodness is akin to enlightenment.
How utterly seductive. How glorious.
How easy.
Off the top of my head, the word
"pious" makes me think of Puritans the witch hunters we have to thank for the
drug, sex, and thought taboos, which persist even today. "Enlightenment" calls to
mind Buddhism - which, though thoroughly romanticized by pop Orientalism,
is largely a project of removing the essence
of humanity (i.e. diverse emotion) from
human beings. Both support their behavioral precepts with unsubstantiated stories
of the unicorn/pixie-dust variety - and
in both, the wages of non-cooperation are
pain and torment (what child psychologists
might call "negative reinforcement").
Hell is a rather hellish idea. The same
goes for "life is suffering." It seems incoherent to profess belief in a God (or
Eastern equivalent) who is supposedly

good yet sadistic enough to allow such
anguish.
Yet, to be honest, I could get over that
stretch. Recall that God is ex hypothesi
beyond human understanding: while this
makes for a frustratingly repetitive argument ("He works in mysterious ways"), it
would make sense that such an advanced
being's decisions wouldn't always make
sense. My issue, on the other hand, and
my rejection of God as such, does not stem
from the numerous metaphysical inconsistencies found in all religions.
Sam Harris characterized religious faith
as an "epistemological [pyramid] scheme."
This fits well with a common defense of religion: that I can't disprove God, because
nobody really knows anything for sure,
so positive statements about God are beyond criticism.
The God I learned of as a child, however, while mysterious, was hardly so postmodern. As Carl Sagan noted, the more
wishy-washy theology becomes, the less
"emotionally satisfying" it is. Further, divine mystery does not equate to bullshit
with carte blanche.
The reason I rejected my Christian upbringing was part personal identity-cumrebellion and part intelligent rebuttal of an
absurd argument. But the reason I remain
outside the fold - not even participating
in the new age-y "God is love" crowd is that the God I learned of then, and need
now, isn't here.
Being an intelligent religious person
requires an Orwellian amount of "doublethink"- a sure sign that something in
one's belief system is amiss. In the meantime, the invisible friend isn ' t paying
any bills or stopping any wars. I guess I
don't have the epistemological flexibility
to receive the emotional benefits of God
without noticing His evidentiary and argumentative fallacies.
It's ironic that Christians, while pushing
the concept of Satan the Deceiver, never
question whether their God (Jehovah ,
Jesus, etc.) is in fact genuine. Is it not
just as likely that the Deceiver (or more
likely, our willingness to deceive ourselves) is Jehovah, and the true deity has
yet to show itself'?
There is a cute truism in philosophy:
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of
absence." First, this is bullshit: I do not
accept the (relatively likely) scenario of

my parents having died in a car crash this
morning, because I have an absence of evidence to suggest this. In the same way, I
do not accept the (relatively unlikely) scenario that an omnipotent being has TiVo'd
my life.
Still- what if? I don't know that God
doesn ' t exist. Moreover, for all of my materialist, atheist hostility towards religion, I
too feel the same emotional compulsion to
believe that everything will be all right, to
write my life story with a deus ex machina
ending, to believe in God- a divine father who will kiss me goodnight.
So let me rephrase: "Absence of evidence is not certainty of absence." For me,
this makes it all the more essential to wait
for the real McCoy because I think there
could be a God, but I know that there is a
compulsion to accept divine fictions, as
long as they're pretty enough.
Now I am Big - all grown up. I am
unwilling to worship a cardboard deity,
no matter how nice it makes me feel. I do
not have time to wait for miracles which
I know will not happen, nor the luxury of
conforming to artificial codes of morality
born from men who knew nothing of God
and cared nothing for humanity.
There is a young man in my bed as I
write this, and the soft hush of his breath
hits my ears like a thousand and one questions repeated: Do I love him? What is
love? What is right, how can I know it, and
how can I do it? Is monogamy a perversion
or a virtue? How much will we hurt each
other, and wi II it be worth it?
The world has become a much more
complicated place in the last dozen years of
my life. An absent holy father is no longer
enough; as a former lover put it, I want "a
God that I can see, a God I get to touch. "
Accepting less is not just spiritual cowardice; it's metaphysical self-mutilation.
When I was trapped in high school, I
carved prayers into my forearms begging
for deliverance and strength. I received
both, but not until after I stopped looking
for help from on high. There's a religious
saying that "God helps those who help
themselves." I have to wonder, how does
He feel about those who think for themselves as well?

Casey Jaywork is a sophomore enrolled
in Life and Consciousness. He can be
reached at burch_9030@yahoo. com.

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70 percent of students failed to vote, again
Election team member asks the 2,907 failure-to-vote students to not balk at the results, please
By Victor Sanders
Campus elections are one of
Evergreen 's not-so-glorious times
of the year to boast about student
involvement. As a member of the
election team, a representative
in the Geoduck Union, and the
representative who is bringing l.._~-'--'
you the Late-Night Shuttle program, I want to share some thoughts on elections
at Evergreen.
About 70 percent of students habitually fail to
vote. I won't poinr fingers, but that is a lot of you
out there reading this. I want to let you know that
you had 14 days to vote. At some colleges, you get
one day. At Evergreen, we leave voting open for 14
days because ifwe don't, we won't reach the 25 percent participation requirement to validate the election. For a school that prides itself in community involvement and social change, this is pathetic.
So why is there a huge disconnect between students and voting? The election team posted flyers
across campus, put banners on Red Square and sent
out several e-mails to all students, including a paper
mailing. We also tabled for two weeks, set up polling
stations in the Library and CAB and went door-to-

door at one point.
I don't understand the apathy of2,907 students,
but I do understand the complaining afterwards. Oh
yes, the complaining.
In last year's election, when students heard they
would be paying the most for the CAB redesign, ev-

At Evergreen, we leave voting
open for 14 days because if
we don't, we won't reach the
25°/o participation requirement
to validate the election. For a
school that prides itself in community involvement and social
change, this is pathetic.
eryone turned to Art Constantino, Vice President of
Student Affairs, and called foul play. It was a questionable affair: pizza-for-votes and photos with
Speedy, paid for by the vice president. It was anethical dilemma, and a lot of people were upset.
Students began to overlook the fact that 70% of
students failed to vote in that election as well, the
irony being that many of those angry at the vice

president were probably the 70% that did not vote
on the CAB redesign in the first place. Constantino
would never have had to buy pizza to get votes, but
he did, because the campus wasn't voting. Even so,
the redesign vote barely passed, still leaving the
question of where the 70 percent of students were
during that election.
Oh, Evergreen, how I wish I had more faith in
you to be active in making change happen! A lot of
us talk about the lousy late-night bus service. You
had a chance to change that last week. Most of us
talk about hating Aramark. Last week, you had a
chance to fix that, too.
Each of the initiatives passed, but didn't exceed
the required number of votes by much. Next time,
you might not be so lucky.
This election, there were no pizza-for-votes deals
or dollar-off coupons. It was as fair as it gets: 25 percent of students decided the fate of the rest. Luckily,
both the initiatives are going to be good investments.
Next year, they might not be. When you realize this,
please, don't complain to me. Talk to the other 70
percent. When you do, let me know. I'd really like
to know why they didn't, and won't, vote.

Victor Sanders is a sophomore enrolled in
Rethinking Suburbia.

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Meetings
Fashion Club
Mondays, noon
CAB 2 floor
TESC Democrats
Mondays, 3:30p.m.
CAB 3rd floor
tescdemocrats@gmai l.com
Pro legomena to a Future Poetics
Evening literary reading series
Mondays, 7 p.m .
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On Campus
6 to 8:30p.m. Amelia Ortiz spoken word
performance. Longhouse . Hosted by WOCC
and MEChA.
7:30 to 9 p.m. " Why I Ride from Low
to Show" film showings. LH 5. Hosted by
MEChA.

SEED
Wednesdays, I p.m.
CAB 3rd floor pit
Chemistry Club
Wednesdays, I to 2 p.m.
LAB I, 1037
Geoduck Union
Wednesdays, I to 3 p.m .
SEM II, B II 05
geoduckunion@evergreen.edu

3 p.m . Camp Hillel Sunday movie matinee. Short film "West Bank Story" and feature length " Wet Hot American Summer."
LH 5. Sponsored by Evergreen Hillel and
VOX.

Monday, 11
3 to 5 p.m. Masters in Teaching (MIT) application and endorsement workshop. SEM
II , E 3 123.

Friday, 8
5:3 0 to 7 p.m . A Night of Improvi sed
One-Acts. LH 2. Hosted by the Evergreen
Spontaneity Club.

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Saturday, 9
Noon to 5:30 p.m . Olympia Comics
Festival cartoonist expo at the Olympia
Center. 7 p.m . stage show at the Capitol
Theater. Tickets for stage show, $5 . www.
olympiacomicsfestival.org

Wednesday, 13
6 :30 to 9 p.m . Gypsie Nation frees pirit
dance. SE M II , E I 107.

Evergreen Spontaneity Club
Tuesdays, 6 to 8 p.m.
SEM II, D II 05
All experience levels welcome

Narcotics Anonymous
Tuesdays, 8 p.m .,
LAB I, 1047 and SEM II, 3107A
Sundays, 6:30p.m. CAB lounge

Sunday, 10

Thursday, 7

Healing Arts Co llective
Tuesdays 3:30 to 5 p.m. Info
Shoppe, 3rd fl oor Library

Student Video Garners All iance
Tuesdays, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.,
CAB TV lounge

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7 to 9 p.m . Olympia Movement for Justice
and Peace bi-monthly meeting. The Olympia
Center, 222 Columbia St. NW. http ://www.
omjp.org

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SEM II , E2125
Students for a Democratic
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Wednesdays, 2 p.m.
SEM II , E31 05
Soc iety for Trans Action
Reso urces
Wednesdays, 3 p.m.
SEM II , D3 107
Writer's Guild
Wednesdays , 3 to 4 p.m.
SEM II , C building lobby chairs
Synergy
Wednesdays, 3:45p.m.
CAB 320
Alcoholics Anonymous
Wedn esdays , 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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CAB 320 solarium
lnfoshoppe and Zine Library
Thursdays, 4 p.m . LIB 3303
TESC Chess Club
Thursdays 4 to 6 p.m .
SEM II , C l105
All skill levels welcom e.
Evergreen Anima l Rights
Network
Thu rsdays , 4:30p.m.
CAB 3rd Floor
WashP IRG
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CAB 320, confere nce room

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Thank you to all of our contributors through out the year!

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Graham Golbuff

Laurie! Schuman

Shay St. Pierre

Ben Rosas

Grant Miller

Lindsay Adams

Shaz Austin Davison

Benjamin Whitney

Haley Carpenter

Lindsay Feuer

Sheryl Baird

Birch Cooper

Hannah Chin Pratt

Lisa Hubert

Sierra Wagner

Blair Anundson

Holly Carter

Lucy Daumen

Silas James

Bob Spilsbury

Hunter Bickel

Luis Garcia

Simone Fowler

Brandon Custy

lan Ettinger

Luke Noble

Sky Cohen

Brian Flinger

lan Humphrey

Lynn Oha Carey

Stephen Engel

Brian Nicholson

lan McGuffick

Madison McCauley

Sue Paluh

Bridgid McGrath

Jacob A. Stanley

Maren Olson

Sumiyuki Miyahara

Brooke McLane-Higginson

Jacob Aman

Margaret Philipsborn

Sydney Page-Hayes

Buster Ross

Jacob Berkey

Marta Sanchez

Tabitha Brown

Caleb Hollantz

Jacob Salzer

Matt Krieling

Tara Tabassi

Calen Swift

Jai Lawrence

Matt Tsipras

T-Ciaw

Cara Maldonado

Jais Brohinsky

Matt Vinson

Tenzin Mingyur Paid ron

Carlin Briner

Jake Levin

Maxwell Nafziger

Tim Ernst

Carlos Gemora

Jake Winer

Meghan McNealy

Timia Olsen

Carolyn Commer

James Hale

Melven Gines

Todd Denny

Micah Slawinski-Currier

Tony Miller

Wild au

Carrie Ramsdell

. Jan Tangen

Casey Jaywork

Janis Aaron Moore

Mike Dotson

Tori Needer

Cerise Palmanteer

Jay Carmony

Monear Fatemi

Venu Mattraw

Chandra Lindeman

Jay Felton

Nat Williams

Victor-Antonio Ali

Charlie Daugherty

Jean Eberhardt

Nathaniel Ashlock

Victoria Larkin

Chelsea Whitaker

Jeremish Jones

Nicholas Baker

Wendy McCutchen

Chelsey Adams

Jeremy Austin

Nicholas David Klacsanzky

William Saguil

Chris Canty

Jeremy Harrison-Smith

Nick Baker

Yhsla Jones

Christina Madsen

Jesse Gonzalez

Nicki Sabalu

Yohei Kurahashi

Clay Elliott

Jesse Nkinsi

Nik Molnar

Zack Coles

Item sets

The Evergreen State College Student Newspapers

Media

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