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The Cooper Point Journal Volume 36, Issue 2 (September 27, 2007)

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There will be a town hall meeting- a
time for students to voice concerns,
questions and ideas to the Geoduck
Union twice on Wednesday, Oct. 3.
Tentatively, they will take place at
I p.m. in the Longhouse and 7 p.m.
in the Housing Community Center
(HCC). More student govermnment
information is available on page 3.

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40 DAYS FOR LIFE SUPPORTERS OUTSIDE OLYMPIA'S PLANNED PARENTHOOD.

Inter-Group Solidarity Poduck
The Evergreen Center for
Radical Education presents a
Kickoff Event, the first in the •
Intergroup Solidarity Potluck
Series. It will be held Thursday,
October 4 at 6:00pm at 116
19th Street SE in Olympia.

Recycling made
• on campus
easter
Evergreen has made it easier
for students to recycle and
dispose of their environmentally
hazardous waste. Recycling
receptacles have been placed
at various locations throughout
campus and student housing.
These centers contain containers for
aluminum, glass, mixed paper and
garbage. The campus will also assist
in discarding material such as oil
and fluorescent light bulbs. For more
information regarding this program,
waste receptacle locations, and
hazardous materials please visit the
website at www.evergreen.edu/facilities/Recycle/recyclehome.htm

Cure your writing
woes
The Creative Writing Workships
are taking off every Tuesday, at 4 pm
from the Writing Center. We will be
exploring the depths of our imaginations through various media, literary
experiments, guest artists and giant
wormholes in time (WRITING!).
For more writing workshop times
see page 14.

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faces opposition
f?y LAUREN TAKORES
Children may not be on the minds of young
collegians. However, ask students how they feel
on the issue of abortion, and this topic is very
prominent.
The Evergreen State College Students for
Choice is a new student group interested in maintaining and creating public policies on women's
reproductive rights. The opening meeting will
be held Wednesday, Oct. 3 at I p.m. in the LIB,
second floor. TESCSC has internships with
a statewide non-profit organization, NARAL
Pro-Choice WA. The group aims to educate the
public about the current political climate and
how it affects their reproductive rights. Unlike
other similar student groups and services available on campus, TESCSC won 't be focused on
health issues.
An overlapping event this week is a demonstration of another side of the abortion debate.

Yesterday, September 26 marked the kickoff
of 40 Days for Life, a nationwide anti-abortion
campaign. A ·local group made up of middleaged women and one man gathered at downtown
Olympia's Planned Parenthood office on the first
day. This group is peaceful and do not condone
more violent tactics that anti-abortionists have
used in the past; they use prayer and fasting as
their protest techniques. There were no counter
demonstrators into mid afternoon.
Diana Freeland, who works at a child development center in Ft. Lewis, stated "[Abortion]
kills somebody, and I think somebodys are
important things. What else would a baby be but
a somebody? It's not a toad, it's not a tree, it's a
somebody. And they're killed when you have an
abortion."
Janice Bledsoe from Castlerock, WA pulled out
a plastic representation of a 10-week old fetus.
"That's what you're aborting. Many people

STUDENTS FOR CHOICE, page 4

Update on student-initiated fees
With the 2007-08 school year starting, the
fees voted on by the student body last spring
supporting the Flaming Eggplant and a transit
fee to support late night transportation were
applied to Fall Quarter fees due before the
start of classes. Along with fee increases,
the newest members of the Geoduck Union,
the Evergreen student government, have also
taken their places in student government.
Spring elections, for many, are old news.
However, the impact of the spring elections
results will affect Evergreen students for the
foreseeable future.
The two fees passed during the spring
elections, the fee supporting the creation of
the Flaming Eggplant Cafe and the fee to
support late night tra11sit, were both a result
of planning by the Geoduck Union. While the

Flaming Eggplant Cafe was brought before
the union after failing to pass the S&A Board
which cited lack offunds, the late night transit
fee was put forth by members of the Geoduck
Union's Transportation Committee. The
late night transit fee was put on the ballot to
fund the creation of an Evergreen owned and
operated shuttle to run between downtown
Olympia and the Evergreen campus. For more
information on the Flaming Eggplant Cafe,
see FLAMING EGGPLANT, page 3.
The spring election also impacted representatives in the Geoduck Union. The 21 members
of the 2007-08 Geoduck Union representatives were elected out of a registered field of
31 candidates. For more information on the
2007-08 Geoduck Union, see STUDENT

On college campuses around the
country, Public Interest Research Group
(PIRG) chapters are campaigning for
more affordable textbooks. In April,
Washington
Governor
Christine
Gregoire signed what the PIRGs call
"landmark" legislation intended to
address the concerns of student and
faculty organizations. The bill instructs
publishers of college textbooks to make
readily available to faculty the prices
of books and a history of previous
revisions. As of right now, however,
there is no mechanism in place to
force textbook publishers or faculty to
comply.
House Bill 2300, meant to regulate
textbooks and sponsored by Rep.
Bob Hasegawa (0-Seattle) and
twelve other legislators, was met with
widespread enthusiasm. The bill passed
unanimously in the State Senate and
Gregoire welcomed local PIRG campus
organizers in front of the cameras for the
signing. Bryce McKibben, director of
government relations for the University
of Washington's Associated Students
group told Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
"This is a really great victory for
students. I think democracy worked
here."
Questions remain, however, what
recognizable impact the bill will have
for students at the bookstore checkout
counter. Jenny Metcalf, a sophomore
enrolled in Illuminations, is not aware of
any difference. "I feel like this is more
expensive than in the past. I've never
paid this much for French textbooks."
Why are textbooks so expensive?
PIRG researchers surveyed nearly
300 college and university professors
in Massachusetts last fall and
discovered that more than 75% said
sales representatives "rarely or never''
volunteered the price of their products.
Often, instructors are provided books
free of charge and yet do not know the
cost of the books on their reading lists.
Meanwhile,

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SEPTniBER 27,2007

Dude, where's my soy fix?
The Flaming Eggplant closes in on its Winter
Quarter start date
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MAX BAUVAL

Hopefully you've paid your student fees
by now, and no doubt you noticed a $2
charge per credit for a "student run cafe."
But what exactly does that mean?
If you're new to Evergreen, and even
if you',.e not, you could be forgiven for
not knowing much about the Flaming
Eggplant-the student body's latest attempt
at an independently-run campus food source.
The Flaming Eggplant seeks to source its
organic ingredients from local suppliers and
provide students with an alternative to the
current campus dining choice, Aramark (or
the bookstore ifyou're in the know). They
plan to serve from a trailer on Red Square, a
central location where all students will have
access.
So now you know what it is, you probably
want to know where it is. What happened to
the money you paid at the beginning of the
quarter, and where's your organic falafel?!
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. While
the Eggplant is a certainty, there's obviously

a lot to be done before their anticipated start
date at the beginning of winter quarter.
"What they need now is more students,"
says Andy Corn, the Assistant Director of
Student Activities, who is working with the
Eggplant to put their plan into action.
But that's just the start of what's needed
to get the Eggplant going. Before they're
allowed to serve food, the Flaming Eggplant
has a number of things they need to do,
including turning in their Thurston County
Health Application, and actually purchasing the trailer they're going to serve from.
"We want to start this year with a big group
-find out what needs to be done and do it,"
says T-Claw, "and we're getting closer."
"My concern is that there have been this
type of thing on campus before - and
they've always failed," says Dana Gilbert, a
senior. Numerous students on campus echo
this belief, and not without just cause. The
most prominent of these previous studentrun cafes, known as the Corner, started in
the 1980s and continued serving students
until 2000, when, plagued by large losses,

the Corner was forced to close. The failures
of past student groups' should not color
the way the Eggplant is viewed, asserts TClaw. "The corner was taken over by group
of hardcore vegans who made it a I 00%
vegan menu, and only like 6% of housing
was vegan at that point" he says. Another
factor in the Corner's failure was the fact
that it was located in the Housing Community Center and served only dinner and after
hours snacks. "We're serving lunch- which
is a different battle - getting students to
work during lunch" says T-Ciaw, but adds
that it's during the lunch rush that Aramark
makes most of their profits. "That's when
most people are on campus to eat."
"What we really need is a core group of
committed students to help navigate the
system, as well as a larger group of students
to help with the busy work stuff," reports
T-Claw.

Max Bauval is a senior enrolled in an
independent learning contract.

Celebrate the Autumn harvest
The Organic Farm will be the site of the annual harvest festival, complete with chickens
by CARLIN BRINER
The 27th Annual Harvest Festival will be
Saturday, September 29, from noon to 6
p.m. at the Evergreen Organic Farm. This
longstanding Evergreen tradition is a celebration of the arduous but fruitful work our
community gardeners and organic farmers
have put into their plots and the farm all
season. It is also a time to begin preparing
for next season, with activities such as a
seed exchange. This festival is a wonderful
opportunity to get information about all of
the farm's programs.
Are you curious about squash breeding,
medicinal herbs, or home canning? Students
in the Practice of Sustainable Agriculture

program and community members wili give
presentations from 12-4 p.m. in the farm
house as others explore the farm outside!
There will be an opportunity to adopt-ahen (a 2-3 year old layer) from the Organic
Farm as well as a guided bug walk through
the fields. Curious about compost, biodiesel,
the Organic Farm, or Community Gardens?
Go on a tour!
The musical headliner at this year's
Harvest Fest are The Tune Stranglers,
performing at 4:00p.m .. There will be food
presentations and fresh apple cider pressing
throughout the afternoon as well as arts and
crafts and pumpkin carving for the whole
family! Grilled veggies will be available for

purchase.
The Harvest Fest is sponsored by the student
group Community Gardens. Community
Gardens provides students, faculty, and
community members with 12xl2 ft. garden
plots at the Evergreen farm. The Community Gardens helps gardeners to prepare the
beds and provides tools and seeds as well
as some gardening support throughout the
season. There are some communal herb and
vegetable beds and raspberries! Contact
867- 6145 or EvergreenGardens@riseup.
net for more information about the community gardens or the Harvest Festival.

Offenses of Mary Jane
On 9/19, Officers were dispatched to C
Dorm in response to the wafting sweet
smell of marijuana. Upon contact, Suspect I
indicated he "may" have eaten the substance
or flushed it down the toilet. Asked where
they purchased it, they said it was from a
dealer at the Bon Fire who was tall, thin,
and "kind of dirty."
Freshman: 0.
"KindofDirty": 1.

Did someone yell fire?
On 9/20 Fire and Police responded to a
fire alarm in S Dorm caused by the dust of
extinguisher spray. Suspect stated he was
"goofing around and didn't think it would
go off."
Freshman: 0.
Remove pin and press handle: 1

A day in the life
In F Lot on 9/16, officers responded to a
group of loud persons. Officers located a
drunk man and asked that he come with them
to the CAB so he could use a pay phone to
call for a ride. The drunkard responded by
calling them "pieces of shit" and ac~using
them of violating his first amendment rights.
Drunk man gets handcuffed. Drunk man
vomits. Drunk man apologizes profusely.

Drunken civil rights
While on patrol on 9/20 an officer made
contact with a woman who clearly tried to
hide a beer from the officer's view. During
contact, she indicated she didn't have
student ID or drivers license (stating it was
"being sent from NY"). After being placed
under arrest for MIP, the officer searched
her purse, which she alleged was illegal.
Inside the secret black purse was her NY
ID and her Evergreen ID. And some Mike's
Hard.
Freshman: 0
Secret Black Purses': 5% alcohol by
volume.

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Continuedfrom cover

VINCENT

The new representatives of the Geoduck
Student Union met for the first time this
quarter to discuss their their goals for the
year. Current projects are based on work that
carries over from last year and on the personal
interests of the current representatives.
Some of the proposed projects include:
late-night transit, getting an update from the
CAB redesign committee, hearing from the
financial oversight committee, plans to move
forward with the Flaming Eggplant, working with Access Services and the Counseling Center to assist students with psychological disabilities, refining policies to recognize
the Geoduck Student Union as the appointing authority for the Services and Activities Board, revising the campus recycling
program, raising the number of registered
voters on campus and much more.
The Union will also be facilitating the reaffirmation vote for the Evergreen chapter of
WashPIRG. The contract with WashPIRG
requires 25% of the student population to
vote in favor of continuing the student organization in order for Evergreen's chapter to
be renewed.
Representatives are currently working
to recruit a reservation-based Evergreen
student to fill the Union as the 21st member.
The Union will also be appointing one of its
representatives to act as a liaison between
student government and Evergreen's Board
of Trustees.
The first meeting was spent compiling
their goals for the quarter and are now focusing on getting feedback from fellow students.
There will be a town hall meeting - a time
for students to voice concerns, questions and
ideas to the Geoduck Union twice on Wednesday, Oct. 3. Tentatively, they will take place
at I p.m. in the Longhouse and 7 p.m. in the
Housing Community Center (HCC).
This year's representatives are:
Aaron M. Shelley, Brittany Jane
Newhouse, Charlie Bloomfield, Tyler Ball,
Joshua Collins-Beldin, 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.

Seth Vincent is a junior enrolled in an independent learning contract.

have abortions up until that [10 weeks] too."
"Who would not say that was a person,
right? It looks like a person to me," added
Freeland.
Bledsoe then said, "Without my religion,
I'd still think I would feel that way."
Karen Rotter, a resident of Rochester, WA,

Continuedfrom cover
the average cost of textbooks and supplies is
between $500 and $1000 according to a variety of studies by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), publishing industry
experts and the PIRGs.
A GAO report completed in 2005 claimed
that textbook prices rose at twice the rate of
inflation over twenty years. PIRG research
claims prices rose at nearly four times the
rate of inflation over just the last ten years. In
many instances, as the prices go up, the product stays the same. Of course, new editions
limit the relevance of used books already
in circulation. The other common practice
criticized by the campaigns is bundling,
because one-time use materials can also
limit buyback potential. Washington legislators have also passed unbundling bills the
last two sessions.
So, blame is being laid on publishers and
faculty, but what about bookstores? Sarah
Keliher, class of '97, has been in the book
business for nearly 20 years. In Olympia,
she worked for Orca Books and is now a
buyer for Magus Books in Seattle. She says,
"TESC Book store sucks ass. There is no
point in selling books to someone who isn't
going to pay you a fair price. Their mark up
on used books is unethical."
Used textbooks generally sell for about
75% of the new price. Patrick Miller,
manager of the Evergreen Bookstore, says
buyback isn't easy here. "If Evergreen taught
in a traditional way we could pay 50% of new
(price)." Evergreen ships books to an out-ofstate company and then re-orders as soon as
faculty tum in their lists. When asked ifthere
is flexibility when filling orders, for example
avoiding bundles, Miller said no. "A lot of
publishers have refused to sell just the book
in some cases. But," he countered, "in a lot
of cases bundling saves when the materials
are all new."
Jose Gutierrez, Jr. was pleased to find
a used copy of Natures Economy for his

said that past anti-abortion demonstrators at
Evergreen felt that it went very well, in that
there was a lot of respect shown. "Education is important, and I don't think a lot of
people realize that abortion is legal in Washington State into the ninth month for any
reason, and so I think most people would
agree that a woman having an abortion in her
ninth month is pretty horrible. Then if you
ask which month is okay, that opens up a lot
of dialogue."
"They've been that it's not a baby, that
it's okay decision, that it's really not a baby."
Rotter went on to state her opinion that

women aren't given options very carefully
in their choice and that many come to regret
their decision. "They aren't really making
that choice. They're being deceived, you
know, very deceived."
40 Days for Life will be holding a 24-houra-day vigil outside Planned Parenthood at
402 Legion Way until November 4. Counter
protests are being planned for Fridays during
this time. Contact hr.vol@ppww.org to sign
up for a shift with the visibility team.

Masters of Environmental Science class.
Rushing out of the bookstore, he said, "Used
always makes a difference." With used
books, Miller says the sooner instructors
submit their book lists, the better. Unfortunately he is still getting orders now. Asked if,
given his preference for buying used, Gutierrez was aware the difference made by teachers' advance planning, he said no.
Required reading lists get expensive across
the academic spectrum . Molecule to Organism books total around $500 new this fall.
Marxist Theory will set you back over $200.
So when will the textbook law start to make
a difference here on campus?
Miller does not feel encouraged, saying,
"Disclosure from publishers to the public or
bookstores has not improved. I don't think
they accomplished what they wanted to
accomplish," Miller said, looking exhausted
on a Week One afternoon. "Bottom line is:
it is the academic freedom of the faculty to
decide and our job to order it."
Still, Evergreen students have it better
than hundreds of thousands of other college
students across the United States. Evergreen
campus WashPIRG organizer Emily Saxton
moved here from Massachusetts and already
feels like the textbook issue is a lower priority around campus than many other issues.
"In California, where the movement started,
CaiPIRG student board members made this a
top priority. PIRG works on conflict resolution. This is about the public interest versus
private profits."
Which campus has seen the most controversy surrounding private booksellers so far
this fall? Harvard, where the Coop bookstore, contractually partnered with Barnes
and Noble, has already been the subject of
six articles in the college newspaper. Coop
President Jerry Murphy told the Harvard
Crimson that ISBN, or international standard
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to stop writing down ISBN numbers for
comparison-shopping online. Campus police
got involved.
Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard
Law School's Berkman Center for Internet

& Society told the Crimson, "It's hard to see
as intellectual property." Harvard students
founded a website, www.crimson;eading.
com, to list ISBN and price comparisons
from around the Internet. Student-to-student
swap eliminates the middleman, an exchange
Murphy characterizes as bad for business. As
far as Evergreen goes, beyond the Library on
campus, students have the regional Summit
resources available. As Zittrain quips, "It
sort oftakes the 'co' out of Coop."
If new federal legislation introduced in
the House Committee on Education and
Labor on September I 0 by Indiana Democrat Representative Julia Carson passes, the
bill would require any university receiving
federal assistance to include unique ISBN for
all textbooks on students' schedules, guaranteeing that books bought online are correct
editions. H.R. 3512, endorsed by the American Association of University Professors,
would also require publishers to give a full
history of all revisions made to textbooks.
The movement for fundamental changes
to the structure of industry profits from our
education has gained traction around the
country. California State Senate Bill 832
would require publishers to notify faculty
of the amount of time a book will remain in
print. At Evergreen, the research and advocacy efforts of WashPIRG are funded by
waivable fees, which appear on students'
tuition bills.
Industries criticized by PIRGs have been
known to strike back. Saxton winced when
she heard the name of a website run by the
Association of American Publishers. Textbookfacts.org refutes much of the data
produced by the Make Textbooks Affordable campaign, and is quoted in news stories
around the country. "When referring to a site
like this, you've got to say facts and dot org,"
she pointed out. "In a way, it's cool that the
industry created a site like this, because you
don't get a rebuttal unless you're making a
good argument."

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by ALEX BUSACK

It's been a little over two years since Hurricane Katrina took aim at the Crescent City.
In two years, you'd expect things to be back
to normal. I had a happy, non-complicated
existence in Olympia, going to Evergreen
and working with kids, enjoying the beauty
of the Northwest. I had no idea the area
still needs so much help, as it seems the
media has all but abandoned the problem
except for on the recent, ill-named "Anniversary." Now, here I am in New Orleans
as an AmeriCorps*NCCC Team Leader and
since I've been here I've witnessed a lot of
devastation. I've been in the Lower Ninth
Ward, a place so ravaged by the floodwaters
that barely any houses are still standing. I've
been in the Upper Ninth Ward where the
houses still stand but hardly any are called
homes anymore. I've seen debris piles on
the streets where houses are just now being
gutted. It's devastating to see; some days
the sight of it feels like someone is kicking
you in the sternum. Yes, some days it feels
hopeless.
Nevertheless, devastation is not the only
thing left here. During a random conversation on the street, an elderly woman said
something that has really stuck with me.
She said, "We've learned that we can't
depend on the American government. But
we can depend on the American people."
It's the truth. I've lived at Camp Hope in
St. Bernard Parish for a good two months
and met countless volunteers from all over
the country - people who come down for a
week or two at a time to work in the parish
in the rebuilding efforts. It's an interesting kind of community; everyone has the
same common goal of helping people, and
everyone is willing to take time out of their
lives to do it. Many times, I would sit down
at a table with complete strangers to hear

their stories - their voices laced with that
wonderful mix of excitement, exhaustion,
and pride. Sometimes I remember how
lucky I am to be here right now to witness
this mass movement of altruism. I don't
know of many times in this country's history
where ordinary citizens concentrated their
efforts so thoroughly on one cause and put
their life on hold to help others. Yes, people
have donated money to Habitat for Humanity and other organizations, but donating
your time is something else. No one leaves
this place unaffected by what they've seen,
the people they've met, or the experience
that the rebuilding process has to offer.
Now is an exciting time in New Orleans,
with people coming back and volunteers
coming to help. You can't walk down the
street without hearing music, and the people
really are as amazing as they're made out to
be, as they stop you in the street to chat you
up. Some argue that the city is sinking and
is doomed for another disaster, but to them
I say this city is worth saving. The residents
here are fiercely protective and passionate
about their beloved home and so grateful
for the help that they treat volunteers like
rock stars. I would hope that everyone could
experience what is going on down here right
now, and so I invite you to join the ranks of
volunteers who have come to help.
How to get involved:
www.teachnola.org
www.habitat-nola.org/volunteer/cam p_
hope.php (504-872-0676)
www.handsonneworleans.org/
www.americorps.org
www.cityyear.org
Alex Busack is an Evergreen graduate. She
is in New Orleans with AmeriCorps*NCCC
helping out in the rebuilding effort.

by LAUREN TAKORES

The new academic year brings fresh
enthusiasm to student clubs and activities.
Student groups will be raising money for
their various actions and events. One of the
most common fundraising techniques is the
elementary school staple: a bake sale.
There are some rules about bake sale items,
which can be obtained from the front desk of
Student Activities. It is important to remember that only food like cookies, brownies,
muffins, cake, bread, and candy, may be
sold in a bake sale. Potentially hazardous
items include: cream filled deserts, home
Mom's Banana Bread
Makes one loaf. Preheat oven to 325°
3 overripe, crushed bananas
1 egg (or use applesauce)
%cup sugar
2 cups wheat flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
Pinch of salt
1 tsp. vanilla extract
3 tbsp. oil
Yz cup nuts (optional)
Combine bananas, egg, and sugar. Add
flour, baking soda, baking power, and
salt. Mix well and then add vanilla extract,
oil, and nuts.
Bake in oiled pan for one hour.
Pressure Chief Carrot Cake
Makes 20 pieces in a 9x13 pan.
Preheat over to 350°
(Icing recipe to follow cake recipe.)
2 cups brown sugar
2 cups wheat flour
2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. cornstarch
Y. tub of margarine
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Jar of applesauce
Grated carrots
Optional: raisins, walnuts, pineapple
Combine sugar, flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, and cornstarch. Add marga-

canned foods, cheese cakes, pumpkin pie,
and whipped cream. The other big rule to
remember is that hand-to-food contact is a
sure way to spread bacteria and other forms
of contamination. Whenever possible, baked
goods should be individually wrapped in
food grade plastic wrap or foil. After baking,
transfer the food from the pan with tongs or
spatulas, or use disposable plastic gloves, and
cover any exposed food . All of the following
recipes are vegan. They are also pretty elastic. Applesauce is a great replacement for
eggs and milk in many baked recipes. If the
batter is coming out too dry, add more wet
ingredients. Experimenting yields delicious.
rine, vanilla extract, and applesauce.
Keep adding applesauce until batter is
consistent. Mix well and then add carrots,
raisins, walnuts, and pineapple.
Spoon into cake pan, bake for 25 to 30
minutes.
Easy icing: mix soft margarine, confectioner's sugar, and 2 tsp. vanilla extract
until consistency of icing is achieved .
Wait until cake is cooled to spread icing,
The Famous Brownies!
Makes 20 brownies in 9x13 pan.
Preheat oven to 350°
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cups white sugar
1 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 cup water
1 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp. vanilla extract
In large bowl, mix flour, sugar, cocoa
powder, baking powder, and salt. In
another bowl, mix water, oil, and vanilla
extract. The brownie batter is especially
prone to initially coming out too dry. Mix
in more water and oil, alternating, until
well blended.
Spread evenly in 9x13 pan, bake for 2530 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes.

Lauren Takores is a junior enrolled in Poetics
and Power.

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Welcome, New Faculty, to Evergreen
by LAUREN TAKORES
Yes. there is more to Siberia than foreboding tundra and prison camps.
There is rock and roll, mountain hiking,
colleges and universities - in fact, Elena
Sonina. new adjunct faculty for Evening
and Weekend Studies, likens her native
country of Altai to Washington. Altai lies
in central Russia on a border with China,
Mongolia and Kazakhstan. She spoke of
the resemblance between Altai and Washington; Altai's landscape includes pine
forests, mountains, lakes and rivers but not
the ocean. Altai is actually the belly button
of Eurasia. furthest from the ocean on all
sides.
Sonina will be teaching a brand new
class at Evergreen: Intermediate Russian
Language. Beginners will also be accepted.
Sonina is coming to Evergreen from Pinon,
Arizona, where she spent a year teaching
high school language arts and drama classes
on a Navajo reservation. Her teaching
techniques include motivating her students
from a stance of equal terms as a leader not
a boss in the classroom. One major accomplishment in her drama classes came from
the field trips she helped organize outside
the isolated reservation. The closest city
was at least a two-hour drive away, so trips
to see Irish step dancing and the Russian
ballet brought out expressive and engaging
sides of her Navajo students.
Sonina is also interested in forming a
Russian language speaking club at Evergreen to give students the opportunity to not
only speak Russian, but also to discuss the
culture in the native tongue.
"Learning language is learning culture,"

Sonina said, comprising history, art and
film as well as the language.
In Altai, it is typical for graduating high
school students to be fluent in one or more
languages beyond their mother tongue.
Sonina began learning English in middle
school, around age ten, but did not attend an
English-speaking school in Altai, because
of the conflicts with the US and USSR at
the time. Sonina earned her bachelor's and
master's degrees at state teacher training
school, with a foreign language focus.
Sonina then worked for 13 years as a senior
lecturer.
Sonina's passion for Native American
culture brought her to the US as a teacher
at the understaffed reservation schools but
only after waiting three years for her visa.
On hiking trips through the Altai Mountains, Sonina served as a guide and interpreter, where she met Evergreen professor
Rob Smurr. Hikes were coordinated with
students from Evergreen as well as St.
Petersburg, Russia.
Sonina kept in touch with Smurr. When
she visited the campus, she fell in love with
Evergreen immediately.
"I am a very lucky person," Sonina said,
then rapped three times on the wooden
cafeteria table, and laughed.
Son ina was looking for other opportunities
after her year in Arizona when she received
a call about a job opportunity to teach intermediate Russian. She readily accepted.
"That's what I love life for," Sonina said.
"Surprise and opportunity."

by GAVIN DAHL
Check out the vibrant independent
media activities in your community.
Student organizations like the newspaper and KAOS radio ought to be
your first stops on campus. Here is a
partial list of organizations working
with media for a more informed
populace.
http://btpolympia.org/
The volunteers who run Books to
Prisoners are dedicated to offsetting
the dehumanization ofincarceration.
Their space is open Sundays and
Mondays on the Westside.
http://lastwordblog.blogspot.com/
Last Word Books, in downtown
Olympia, hosts a huge library of
zines. If the store is open, chances
are you can spend some time with
the zines.
http://www.mediaisland.org/
Media Island is a resource center
for media activism, located across
the street from the downtown public
library.
http://olyblog.net
OlyBlog is a hyperlocal community
news portal on the Internet.

Lauren Takores is a junior enrolled in
Poetics and Power

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Works in Progress is a local
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South Sound Green Pages is a
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available around town.
Sitting Duck is a local newspaper
published twice a month. They
don't believe in websites.
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LANGUAGE EQUALS THE FACT THAT YOU ALL SUCK
I am told that the only specific about the Language
Symposium column is that it be about language. Because
this is my first article, I will set down some scenarios you
probably will not see from me in my articles:
Language's meaning is subjected because of the theoretical discussions and metaphorical (un)zipping which
happen in non queer-identified space and is not deconstructed along the shaft a Ia Butler. We need to (re)claim
and (re)zip the alphabet [qtd, uncited passage in French]
as is demonstrated in this passage from Gender Trouble:
Unusually long quote which doesn't make sense to the
general public and even to many people who would benefit
from it, despite the importance of the text.

I walked to the store
And listened to the flitter
Flatter of WOrDs on the
Wind of my Soul.
I walked home from the store
And Mused About How That
Dog is Really God is Really
A Large Semicolon. I like
Semicolons and they connect me
To the FLOWING DESIRE
Ofcommun
!cation. Oh, Nostradamus, you put the
Des in desire. Please be my sire.
The problem with language is God. [sentence in French].
Name drop re: Sarte, Genet, Chekhov, Camus. Praises
to existentialism and anarchy because they really mean
nothing at all, right? Language's innate virtue died with
God, so language has to take on a new identity. The identity of this new language is purple flower and should be
engrained in our consciousnesses even if we have never
read the "anarchist" text mentioning this label.
Language equals the fact that you all suck and have
failed terribly at life itself. Go now ye Deadhead, drop
out, commune with the Peruvian Flute and become lncan,
be the Language of the Universe. If you can't suck less
in that department, at least read The Way of the Peaceful
Warrior and never buy anything again. I am sending you a
text message to remind you of this.
I could write these until I'm blue in the face, but I guess
I should tell you what will happen in my articles. One of
the traits the above examples have in common is language
as an entity entirely unconnected to the body. Perhaps,

AND HAVE FAILED TERRIBLY AT LIFE ITSELF.
instead of writing about how language can be used to
convey, I will convey. Sounds kind of pretentious, but I
am goal setting, so nyaah. Goal setting is highly valued
at TESC.
The name for this article comes from the best thing I read
during the summer of 2006. It was not a bestseller, but
a collection of letters by a woman named Mildred Catherine Odorizzi. I first found these letters going through
the Matthew Shepard collection at the American Heritage
Center in Laramie, Wyoming. Mildred was born in 1937
in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Mildred's packet of material is
addressed in this fashion: University of Wyoming, All Staff
and Students, Laramie, WY. Attached is her foundation
and bylaws for a better United States of America. Written on April 13, 1998 is her "Constitution of State." She
highlights these factors:

'' ... Each pet and each person in each nation is to
be put on a bank grant from the mint and insured by
the God-Queen Government of Mildred Catherine
Odorizzi, Precious President of the United States.
Medicaid and Medicare is to get a budget of 8,974
zillion dollars per day and print their own legal
currency. Everyone is to get free public aidfrom the
bank, and a Medicaid and Medicare green card that
pays all rent direct from the bank ofpublic aid offices
and pays all C. T.A . and R. T.A . bus and subway and
train rides to and from anywhere on Earth. And
pays to rent a limousine or taxi rides and ambulances and all Hospital bills and pays all meals for
purchase in any restaurant or cafe or store or any
eating public place on Earth. This green card pays
from the bank of the Public Aid Department for all
purchases ofclothes and medicine and any items in
a retail store on Earth and pays all Hotel and Motel
bills and pays all photoderm varicose vein surgery
in any hospital or beauty salon and pays 100% all
plastic surgery and all dental teeth implant costs
and all dentist bills and all doctor bills and all electric bills and all telephone bills and all tuition and
board and room for all schools and all colleges,
academy and universities on Earth. And pays all
funeral costs and insurance bills and pays four
billion dollars upon death to the family or nearest

guardian for funeral and pays to purchase any new
home or new car each year.
" ... Each teacher and each coal miner and each
landlord and each factory employee and each
retired person and each ranch owner and each
homeless shelter employee and each homeless
person and everyone on welfare and each public
aid welfare employee and each prison guard and
all prisoners and each police and each farm owner
and each movie star and each director and each
publisher and each editor and each store employee
on Earth and each electric company employee
and each telephone company employee and each
stadium employee and each nursing home employee
and each secret service agent and each C.I.A. agent
and each court employee and each Halfway House
can now print their own legal currency up to 89
zillion dollars each day. "
In her cover letter to the University, Mildred writes, "I feel
so bad about the young man who was gay and murdered
at the University of Wyoming in 1998. His ghosts talk to
me. I am resurrecting dead loved ones and him .... Please
keep all this mail permanently and copy it all to each staff
member and each new and old student at the University
of Wyoming as I want to be proud of you and Wyoming's
hospitality." She writes that her cousin is a lesbian.
"Maybe your research at the Heritage Center was leading
you to Mildred," the friend I was staying with in Laramie
suggested. "Maybe it's your job to show the world this
woman." It is in the spirit of Mildred and her writing that I
work on this column about language. Her writing was full
of life, and, beyond all academic standards, she is a writer.
It is high time the spunk of Mildred infused itself into our
own ideas about writing. Mildred seems like someone who
is tapped into the universe and unafraid to tell us. I hope
that if people read this, they also find inspiration, fire, and
the desire to reach out to near-strangers. Mildred's is a
spirit of spunk, passion, and resurrection, a true emptying
of the heart. Too bad you're stuck with just my voice from
now on.

Theodora Ranelli is enrolled in Fashioning the Body.
Contact Theodora at ranthe21 @evergrcen.edu

A Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center Puzzler

The Weekly Quantitative Reasoning Challenge
The Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center (QuaSR) invites you to challenge your quanti.tati.ve 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.

Suppose you are in a room with three light switches. In the room
next door are three incandescent (not fluorescent) light bulbs
powered by these three switches.- You may walk into the room
containing the light bulbs and examine them only once.
You canturn the switches on .and offas many times as
you want in any order and any combination. How can
you determine which switches belong to which bulbs?
(Hint: how many ways can you examine a light bulb?)

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A Day ofAbsence: A Satirical Fantasy
by HALEY CARPENTER
Set the stage: a small southern town, not
so long ago. Two old men on their rockingchairs, chatting like they do everyday.
Saying hello to the passersby like they do
every day. It's the beginning of a hot day,
business is the same as it was yesterday.
Gradually, it dawns on them. Something is
riot quite right. Something is not the way
it is supposed to be. Skip over to the home
of a newlywed, newly blessed couple. The
baby's screaming. Neither of them know
what to do to stop the baby's crying. All
they can wonder is, where's her mammy?
Skip back to the two old men in their rocking chairs. They've realized what is missing. Every person of color is gone from the
town. As the day passes, panic settles in.
The Women of Color Coalition, along
with other sponsors, is producing A Day
of Absence: A Satirical Fantasy. This play,
written by Douglas Turner Ward:was the
basisfor Evergreen's Day of Absence,
the annual event that occurs every winter

quarter. Many years ago, the first Day of
Absence began simply as a potluck for African American faculty. The event has grown
into what we know it to be now: a campus-

A REVERSE
MINSTREL SHOW,
THE PLAY OFFERS
SOCIAL COMMENTARY AS WELL
AS HUMOR.
wide event in which all people of color
who chose to participate-faculty, students
and staff attend an off campus retreat to
build community, attend workshops, and
eat good food.
The play, written by an African American
man for an African American audience,
was originally performed by an all-African

American cast in white face. A reverse
minstrel show, the play offers social
commentary as well as humor. Our cast
is a conglomeration of students and staff
members, of people of color and of white
folks. However, in keeping some set:tse
of the history of the play, everyone will
be in white face in our performance. Be
warned: there are definite chances for you
to be offended. But come, and be a part of
this ground-breaking event. There will be
discussions after each performance so that
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book is a series of texts that explores the
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SEPTE:\IBER 27, 2007

Front NYC to Olympia: FoJkfrontBedrooms to Cafes
The following is a review of a recent concert
in Olympia written by both C. V. Rotondo and
Victoria Larkin. Victorias voice is presented
in italics.
" It's bigger than my bedroom ."
Robin Cutler, low-slung guitar across her
waist, announces in a lilting voice. She stands
under a small white spotlight, hemmed in by
monitors in front, an amplifier behind, the
microphone stand drawing a black plumb line
from her chin to the floor. She faces the door
and a crowd of forty to fifty young Olympian
denizens, some bent over computers or notebooks, the casual ambience complete with
their affected indifference.
Strange set up in here: Opposing walls lined
with benches on one side, couches on the other,
chairs interspersed between. Reminiscent of
high school dances, everyone avoiding lookDAVID STRACKANY AND RAKY SASTRI
ing straight ahead, but that too is Olympian.
High ceiling with overhead lights beaming and conversation. As the audience submits,
down, not much intimacy Also, homemade- quiets, and descends into chairs, couches, to
style sandwiches at $7.00 per is a bit steep the floor, he breaks off: "Just checking."
Yeah, we're all here now.
for us artisans. Some of us brought our own.
Back in NYC, David had heard Raky Sastri
We're just here for the mu~ic.
Slouched in tall stark chairs, low benches and play and sent him an email asking him [{he'd
sunken couches, the crowd hums in conversa- like to go on tour for a month. As David put
tion as the music provides a translucent back- it: "The rest, as they say ... " They played the
ground. Cutler's staccato guitar rhythms and night before at another venue for the first time
a1· a group. I watched them communicate
intimate voice roll through seven tunes.
The audience offers subdued, appreciative across airwaves, and come down for the final
applause at the closing of each tune, still beat together; I watched smiles ripple across
encased in their coffee shop aloofness, the David:\· face a1· Raky improvised on tunes
music subduing the already subdued. The last he'd probably barely heard before. They were
tune is announced to be a sing-a-long. We are dancing together.
instructed: Do-op Do-ah, Do-op Do-ah.
He launches into his first tune as his drumCounting on your audience to be able to keep mer saunters behind the drum kit silent and
time: always a gamble. I roll my eyes. "It:~ still. Guitar twang soft and rhythmic, while
Kumbaya!" Christopher says: "It :1· a sing Strackany's voice finds resonant ground flucalong, come on. " "It:~ a campfire sing along. " tuating between gravel and sweetness. As he
Robin sings: "Drop me off .. " I drop qff.'
sings, coming across his guitar like a free form
The song opens with little enthusiasm composition, words catch the ear.
from the enlisted back up singers, though
We both write down "the world turned on
Cutler plunges on. The melody is sweet and you like a page ... " The music dips, crests
understated in the vein of her other songs. and crru·hes waves ofsound. The drums have
Eventually the audience is shaken by its more water in them, are gentle and then strong.
engaged members and a murmur of a sing-a- David plays with long be-ringed.fingers, his
voice not quite round, more oval. My eyes
long accompanies Cutler to the end.
"Drop me off," she sings. Some of the more travel out fi-om my pen and paper and I see
reticent members of the audience pick up her feet tapping in boots, sneakers ...
The rest of the set accompanied by feet small
words and join in. The tinkling guitar ceases,
into the microphone a conversational "Thank dance beating, heads swaying on loose necks
you," and the audience stretches piped jean and focused eyes. Both Paleo and his drummer are expressive in their playing, Sastri's
legs, mingles, and rises to refill empty mugs.
Into the din, he begins, just cuts through: face contorted by the timbre of the drums and
Strackany's eyes closed, mouth open. Both
reedy, ttght voice:
Under the dim spotlight Paleo, David Strack- musicians embody an innocent abandon to the
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us.
The set includes the tunes, "Forever is a
Very Long Time," "In the Morning Linda
Dies," and "Dead Wings Beat." Each song is
accompanied by a birth date and place, part of
a year of songwriting dubbed the Song Diary,
begun on April 15, 2006 and ending one year
later, producing 365 tunes. The set includes
drumless ballads and crashing blues inspired
sounds. Between the pair is an organic sense
of music, the songs flowing in their structure
yet rhythmically tight. In "Animals, Animals,
Animals" Paleo sings penetrating images such
as " ... hearts are pumping money; all are born
to die." "Half Empty I Know the World is Half
Full," offers a more uplifting tone in lines like,
" ... But I am fixing to stick until God drags me
out like the ribbon of the bow of the last of his
presents and stashes me in a shoe box in an
attic called heaven."
"Dead Wings Beat" begins plaintively,
Strackany singing alone. The drummer
doesn ~ come in on drums until the word
"beat" begins to repeat. After being inside
the songfor a while, Raky drags his drumstick
point across the grooves of the large cymbal
-it sound~ like a screeching}ail cell you can~
and want to get out of I want to eat it. The
ending to this song is very different fi-om !rut
night :1· version. There David repeated "beat,
beat, beat" over and over again til one {rut
bit at the end. Tonight the ending comes much
sooner. Both versions are equally satisfYing
and ~ffective.
Paleo stretches the limits of his vocals into
growling registers but somehow keeps the
sweet melodies going.
The night before they played "Forever is a

Very Long Time, " to a much slower tempo.
Tonight the litany of lyrics runs so fast I can
barely catch hold, like a waterslide ride. But
I remembered them, all the way up to "think I
will take up quitting drinking take the bottles
out the fridge I out of the cupboard and the
chimney strange and stranger places hid I I
will collect them into bags. Collect the bags
into a can I that 1 will place beside the house
where the garbage meets the garbage man. "
The rhythms continue to shiji gears and we 're
on a smooth ride up and do\Vn hills on the
long highways by the ocean.
Paleo and his drummer close the set with
a gentle, compelling tune and then offer the
audience the Song Diary, a DVD of mp3s
containing seventeen hours of music. They
leave the stage as unassuming as they came.
The audience succumbs to conversational
and mechanical distractions once more. An
announcement is needed to draw our diverted
attention to the pair with guitars seated in the
center of the room, devoid of microphones
or amplifiers, clutching acoustic guitars. We
are told that the Winning Lasses are about to
begin. •
The female in the group strums light, simple
rhythms while her male counterpart plays
melodic ostinatoes over her. She sings, barely
audible over the strumming and plucking of
the guitars, more of a high register notion than
comprehensible words. Jt makes it hard to
care when you can~ even hear ... The drowsiness of the distilled crowd enhanced by the
dragging low sounds of the music. However,
the audience complies politely with the lack
of volume or technical enhancement. leaning
closer and focusing in on the duo in short
chairs before them.
ft.~ m· i{we 'resitting on a beach by the dying
embers ()[the night :~fire. Someone next to me
is.falling asleep.
The set is short. tour songs to round out the
night. The audience engages halfueartedly in
yet another sing-a-long, nearly energizing the
scenario, but hesitating on the edge of true
volume, pulling back into the barely audible
realm of the pair with guitars in the lead.
After the feeble attempt by both performers
and audience to rouse the sleep ti·om their
eyes. head, and mouths, the night closes with
more mingling and procrastinating against the
return to the chill night air beyond the cafe's
tall doors.
Victoria Larkin is a an Evergreen alumna
and works at the Writing Cente1:
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by NICKY TISO

Bright Eyes filled both floors of the Capitol
Theater on Sunday, Sept 16 to a welcoming audience of Olympians, ranging from
teenage girls to punks to a few middleaged couples. While the younger set was
undoubtedly drawn by lead singer Conor
Oberst's inexplicable sex appeal, the older
crowd was perhaps hooked by his latest,
more traditional folk rock album Cassadega. What unites them all are Oberst's
poetic expose of heartbroken, drug-ridden
nights sung with wavering, emotionally
engaging allure. making it seem like the
words of lost loves still sting him.
The Capitol Theater, built in 1924, retains
the modernist, grandiose architecture of
the era, with ceilings as high as cathedrals
that shape a dramatic yet intimate atmosphere. It was an ideal spot for Bright Eyes,
who loves to exploit the delicate balance
between the extravagant and the cherished.
When he's not exploding into booming
melodious tantrums that demand attention, he's recouping into a self-conscious
introvert belting confessions. Conor is all
about dynamics, often transitioning from
his delicate acoustic strumming until a
cymbal crash leads into a heavier, country
rock chorus. The crescendos and whispers
functioned beautifully in the large space,
sounds echoing up the crimson drapes and
receding back into Conor's melancholic
center like ocean tides rising and falling.
Kimya Dawson (whom I unfortunately
arrived too late to see) and Nik Freitas
opened. A local Olympian and Evergreen
alumna, Kimya Dawson is one of The Moldy
Peaches. but with that group of rotting fruit
on hiatus, she has released a streak of lo-fi
solo albums consisting of sweet acoustic
ballads and has been touring extensively.
Freitas is a Visalia, CA native, and former
Thrasher skate photographer, whose bluesy
guitar playing set an adequate tone for the
night, singing catchy pop-rock recounts
of women and the subsequent pathetic
loneliness they create. Nik writes cute lin es
pitched in a nasal tone reminiscent of Bob
Dylan . Nick is a talented, shy musician who
seemed much more confident performing
than he did talking between songs, though
his nervous dem eanor made him approachable and opened a cas ual di alogue with th e
audience. I always like the closeness of this
venue, where I feel no separation between
the audience and the artist, when the
performer is not on some God-like pedestal,
but is in fact within arms reach . It was a treat
to see Nik's classic songwriting capabilities.

I'm sure it will really take off in the near
future. For his final number, Nik had some
surprise instrumental backup from Bright
Eyes members (Conor included) that added
layers of depth to his sound and made me
wish they had collaborated for every song
he did.
One downside to seeing Bright Eyes live
is waiting a good half hour while the roadie
tunes the myriad of orchestral instruments
strewn about the stage. Once the sound
checks were up to par, Conor and his fluctuating posse graced the stage to amorous
applause. Besides Conor, Mike Mogis and
Nate Walcott are the only official members
of the Omaha-based group. Mogis looks like
an indie computer programmer, who could
just as easily be working for NASA, with
a striped sweater clinging to his scrawny
body, occasionally casting a smirk towards
Conor. They revealed an evident lifelong
friendship dating back to boyhood recordings in their parents' basements. He operates the pedal steel guitar with an articulate
demeanor, sliding up and down the frets to

HE PACES THE STAGE IN HIS TIGHT STRAIGHT
LEG DENIMS AND THAT WHOLE "JACKET WITH
A HOODIE UNDERNEATH" LOOK. IT MAKES
HIM LOOK LIKE THE ULTIMATE HIPSTER.
produce that characteristic chord bending
sound essential for any romantic.
Taking their places without introduction,
they start off with "An Attempt to Tip the
Scales," a tribute to Conor's more vulnerable Fevers and Mirrors era. Oberst has
grown up with a four track attached to his
hip, allowing us to chronicle his development and watch him grow from a lo-ti,
whiny adolescent to a socially conscious
storyteller, who is still sometimes whiny.
They quickly jumped to a later date in
their discography and lead into " I'm Wide
Awake, It's Morning," an angsty track made
with the solid arrangement and traveling
style, again attributabl e to Bob Dylan. This
song displays hi s growth as a songwriter,
now able to root himself in safe, cleanly
developed melodies as opposed to spewing
furti ve lines from an unstable harmony.
Cassadega stands as a greater evolution in
the direction paved by I 'm Wide Awake, It~·
Morning. It's a classically composed album
that manages to stand out due to Oberst's
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generation. His recent abandonment of
self-absorbed topics is an inevitable result
of his growing up and becoming worldlier
(touring will do that to you), but I do miss
the depressing, obsessed thoughts of his
narcissistic youth. Attempting to politicize
oneself after gaining a following through
more personal songs can be a difficult transition to make and can be the artist's siren
song, but Conor hasn't lost his ability to
keep audiences hooked just yet. You could
hear a pin drop in the crowd as he played
"Poison Oak," the emotive, regretful tale of
boyhood love with nostalgic, hesitant guitar
strums that paint the same picture. The song
ends dramatically with cries of, "When I hit
the keys I It all gets reversed I The sound of
loneliness I Makes me happier."
"Four Winds" is a great song because of the
beautiful, daunting violin strokes that start
it out. I was bummed when I didn't see a
violin on stage, but leave it to Mogis to step
up to the plate and offer an electric guitar
adaptation of the violin part, still not up to
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Staying in country chic, the band romped
through "If the Brakeman Turns My Way"
and "Another Traveling Song," whose rolling drumbeat could be a soundtrack to train
hoppers nationwide.
Bright Eyes then played some hits off their
electronic Digital Ash in a Digital Urn,
performing quality instrumental adaptations of the digitized sounds that gave it a
theatrical life not achieved on the CD. "Arc
of Time" began with its tropical tom-drum
beat, backed by a swarm of happy guitar
pluckings and tambourine shakes, climaxing to three synchronized notes where Con or
screams "[You will] Die! Die! Die!" Only
in this in stance does he manage to make
death sound more upbeat than frightening .
Throughout the show, Conor is spewing spit
into the front row; the spray of saliva can
be cl early seen flying past the microphone
as he yell s, which he later jokingly attributed to his "overactive saliva gland." He
took moments between songs to exchange
greetings and laughs with the audience, at
one point getting asked, "How do you like
Olympia?" To which he responded, "I think

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it's cool, man," right before heading into his
next song.
It wasn't long before Bright Eyes finished
their set and walked off stage that the crowd
grew hungry for an encore. Soon they came
back, revived their instruments like zombies,
and busted out a fantastic new song I didn't
know. It was one of their hardest rocking
tracks, at times displaying a punkier influence and at times breaking down into alternative folk riffs, with every musician going
wild. The song ended, or so I thought, with
the heaviness dying down and the last note
holding on for dear life, until the surprise
energy came crashing back. It led into what
sounded like a jam song in its raw intensity,
almost improvised but too structured to be
so, until finally ending on a good note, both
metaphorically and musically.
I'm usually at shows I can mosh or dance
to, so whenever I see acoustically toned
acts such as Bright Eyes, I get sick of
standing real fast. While he played lots of
great songs, old and new, there were still a
few songs in the set that had me yawning.
I get pissed at Conor sometimes as well.
He stands there in his pointy leather shoes
with shoulder-length hair parted down
the middle. He paces the stage in his tight
straight leg denims and that whole "jacket
with a hoodie underneath" look. It makes
him the ultimate hipster, able to sing about
how constantly sad he is and how he has
to cope with his hard troubles of living
or losing his girlfriend, often by blowing
cocaine. If he didn't somehow imbue this
act with talent, I'd say he sounds like a
fashionable, privileged, whiny, co-dependent liberal bitch. Maybe my inner whiny,
co-dependent cokehead side attaches to
him . I find Bright Eyes to be a guilty pleasure that I still only listen to from time to
time because I grew up loving it. But now
all my friends listen to punk or hip hop, and
while I still suffer from depression, I no
longer find the cure in listening to mopey
tunes that only bring me down further. Sure,
there's "Bowl of Oranges," but that's like
one happy song for how many sad ones?
Point being, I've grown past rel ating to
Bright Eyes since it became a given there
will be giggly, indie rock girls at every
show who Iis ten to Co heed And Cambria
and scream "I love you Conor!" like he was
Nick Carter back in '99.

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UF Tasing: State of Shock
by LINDSAY ADAMS
You may or may not
have heard about an
incident at the University
of Florida on September
17 involving campus
police, John Kerry and
a UF student named Andrew Meyer. You
can go to any search engine and type in any
combination of Kerry, U F, Meyer, Taser and
find several different videos of the incident
from different angles showing everything
that happened .
You should watch the videos, really,
because even though this was one incident,
it is a sign of the times, and we need to
wake up. Meyer was not allowing Kerry
time to answer the questions - that is true
- it is also true that Kerry wanted to answer
Meyer's questions. You can hear him saying
this in the video. Meyer was asking three
questions:
I)
If you really wanted to be the
president, why did you concede the election
to Bush in 2004?
2)
Why don't you move to impeach
Bush before he invades Iran?
3)
Were you in the secret society
"Skull and Bones" with Bush?
What is also true is that Meyer was dragged
away from the microphone and, after
screaming for help, resisting the police who
were trying to arrest him, asking if anyone
was listening, he was finally Tased into
submission. While all of this was going on,
the students and community members did
nothing! Meyer was screaming for help and
111 his fellow students did was watch until
campus police Tased him, then you can hear
a few women screaming at the police.
Maybe they were all in shock, but I cannot
,.athom how anyone can sit by and let a
fe llow classmate and community member
be brutalized by the police. Before we all

U.S. News's Best
Colleges aren't
the best for me

WHY ARE WE SO AFRAID TO QUESTION

by SYDNEY PAGE-HAYES

OUR PUBLIC OFFICIALS, AND WHY ARE WE

A recently released list,
compiled by U.S. News
and World Report of the
best colleges and universities in America asserts
that such things as graduation rate, selectivity rank, and the number
of freshman in the top I 0% of their class
are among the best ways to "judge" the
greatness of a college. Average incoming
freshman ACT and SAT scores are another
indicator of the superiority of a school, so
does the annual alumni giving total as well
as the percent of faculty that are full-time
at the school.
In fact, colleges and universities are
given a higher rating by U.S. News if they
reject more students than admit. Is this the
correct way to determine the excellence of
a college?
My years leading up to high school
graduation were fi lied with researching

AFRAID TO STAND UP TO UNJUST ACTIONS
TAKEN BY THE STATE, SUCH AS TASING
MEYER? WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED
IF THE CROWD HAD STOPPED THIS FROM
HAPPENING BY SIMPLY STANDING UP?
get angry with the Tasing though, why was
he arrested In the first place?
Because he dared to ask the questions we
would all love to ask our public officials?
Perhaps it is what Ashley Hansen suggested,
"His point was what happens when you go
up and you say things like that.
What happens when you act like a real
person who is pissed off? This is what
happens." Obviously Meyer's first amendment rights were denied. Kerry repeatedly
asked to answer Meyer's questions, stating
that they were "important questions" but
the UF campus police had other plans.
Meyer did go over his allotted one-minute
time slot for asking Kerry a question, but did
Meyer deserve 50,000 volts of electricity
for asking Senator Kerry three questions?
NO! Why are we so afraid to question our
public officials, and why are we afraid to
stand up to unjust actions taken by the state,
such as lasing Meyer? what would have
happened if the crowd had stopped this
from happening by simply standing up?
Many Greeners, when asked if what would
happen ifthis happened at Evergreen, stated
that they would be outraged if the students
here did nothing.
Hopefully this would never happen on

this campus. I talked to Evergreen Chief of
Police Ed Sorger to find out what the policy
is for Evergreen cops using their Tasers.
Sorger explained that Tasers are reserved
for the last resort and, in the year and a half
he has been at Evergreen, they have not had
to use a Taser on anyone. But there was one
occasion on June II, 2006 when Officer
Justin Cripe responded to Evergreen housing and was met with a combative resident
during a questioning about drugs.
Cripe wrestled with the resident for about
II minutes before placing him in handcuffs
and reading him his Miranda warning.
When Sorger told me about this incident
he said, "In my opinion it would have been
appropriate to Tase him".
In our interview Sorger spoke very highly
regarding the conduct of his officers and
invited the student body to bring any
concerns to him regarding the conduct of
his otTicers. It is important to remember that
everyone has the first amendment right to
freedom of speech and no one else has the
right to silence us.

Lindwy Adams is a senior enrolled in
American Indian Sovreignty

Evergreen students respond to the use of
Tasers at University of Florida

EVAN ROHAR, SENIOR,
AMERICANS ABROAD

JAMEELEY PINEDA,
GRAD STUDENT, MPA

ASHLEY HANSEN, JUNIOR,
POETICS rL\D POWER

"I am angry that it happened at
the University of Florida campus.
If it happened here, I would push
for a student council to hold
the officers accountable."

"I think there is a lot of fear of
free speech in this country."
"[The audience] should have
physically obstructed the police."

"What happens when you act
like a real person who is pissed
off? This is what happens."
"I think it resembles the typical
treatment [of] police in general."

COLLEGE ISN'T ABOUT
GETTING HARVARD'S
NAME ON YOUR
BACHELOR'S DEGREE
and compiling a list of the "best" (in other
words. the most selective) schools f could
get into. When my first semester of college
ended with me, someone who had done
pretty well throughout high school, dropping out and taking a year off, something
clicked in my mind.
Finding the right college for you isn't
about a subjective list of super-selective,
uber-rejecting, ultra-expensive private
schools. It's about choosing one where you
can find the resources and freedom you
need to excel at the things you enjoy.
College isn't about getting Harvard's
name on your bachelor's degree, it's about
learning what you want to learn to be
better at what it is you want to do (which
is something that Harvard can't do for
everyone).
For me, it's pursuing something in the
environmental studies field, possibly
public policy. I haven't decided yet, and
because I go to Evergreen, I have the freedom to decide what it is I want to study
when I'm ready to study it.
In truth, rejection-rate, cost, and alumni
donation rates aren't what make a college
great. What makes a college great is if it's
great for you.

Sydney Page-Hayes is a sophomore
enrolled in Environmental and Community
Jounralism.

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MICHAEL PALMER, SOPHOMORE, POETICS A.ND POWER

"[The Youtube.com recordings]
are really difficult videos to look
at, especially to listen to."
"I feel like it was excessive force."
"I can't think of anything that
would justify what the cops did."

SENIOR, 500 YEARS

"They could have just
told him to leave."
"It is a violation of personal
space ... using a Taser
is excessive force."

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HANNAH RIZZO, SOPHOMORE,
l.NTRO TO ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

"I think it just happened to scare
people and keep their mouths shut."
"If someone is endangering someone
else's life, then I think necessary
action should be taken. But in
those circumstances, it definitely
dido 't_need to be taken tha f.ar"

n.1••u> ..:.n ~..,,,.,.run.tu~, JUNIOR,
EVENING AND WEEKEND STUDIES

"[I feel] absolutely terrified.
That was really scary."
"I think it is unjustified."

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SEPTDIBER 27,2007

This week's events on b around campus
Thursday, 27
4:30 to 6 p.m. Foundation Activity Grant
workshop. SEM II BII07. Contact
mclainj@evergreen.edu

Friday, 28
II a.m. to 2 p.m. Support Planned
Parenthood Positive Presence. Bring or
make signs, all welcome.

I to 3 p.m. Women's soccer: Geoducks
v. Oregon Tech. Field four, students
admitted free.
9 p.m. Avenue Rose, The Greatest Hits.
McCoy's Tavern. 21 +

building. Contact sabasu_chan@hotmail.
com

I 0 a.m. to I p.m., 6 to 9 p.m. Tacoma
Campus Lyceum Speaker Series: Sharon
Katz speaking on Transactional Analysis.
3:45 p.m. Evergreen Gallery Artist
Lecture Series: Joseph Park. Ll-1 I.

I p.m . "Female Faces of War" and "The
Iraqi Refugee Situation" with Zahra
Sultan, Iraqi Social Worker and Refugee.
SEM II, EII05.

4 to 6 p.m. Men's soccer: Geoducks v.
Northwest University. Field four, students
admitted free.

I to 3 p.m. Prairie Roof Garden Work
Party. On top of LIB. Refreshments will
be provided.

7 to 9 p.m. Climate Change-Olympia's
Call to Action. Washington Center.
Sponsored by Olympia Climate Action
Group. Contact junzk@comcast.net

6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Workshop on strategies
for finding work on campus or in the
Olympia area. A dorm building, Room
220. Contact advising@evergreen.edu

Wednesday, 3

8 to 9 p.m. First Greener Organization
meeting for all students interested in
making a difference in housing. The
Fishbowl, A205. Contact turmel25@
evergreen .ed u

Sunday, 30

Saturday, 29

2 to 4 p.m., doors at I :40 p.m. Entertainment Explosion presents: Hats Off!
Fall Variety Show/Benefit Concert to
benefit the Dispute Resolution Center of
Thurston County. Olympia High School
Performing Arts Center. $8 in advance
and at the door.

I 0 a.m. to 5 p.m., setup at 9 a.m. First
Annual Olympia Family Barter Circle.
Burfoot Park. Free admittance; trading
and skill sharing event. Contact (360)
866-1489

6 p.m. Mindscreen free movie: "If.... "
by Lindsay Anderson, starring Malcolm
McDowell. Free popcorn.

3 to 5 p.m. Women's soccer: Geoducks v.
Southern Oregon University. Field four,
students admitted free.

Tuesday, 2

Monday, 1

10 p.m. Le Voyeur free movie night.

I p.m. TESC Students for Choice first
meeting. LIB 2"d floor. Walk in the LIB
front doors, go up the big stairs on the
left in the lobby, meeting towards back of

Program Events

Common Calendar
Abbreviations
College Activities Building: CAB
College Recreation Center: CRC
Communications Building: COMM
Housing Community Center: I-ICC
Lab Buildings: LAB I or LAB II
Lecture Hall: LH
Library: LIB
Seminar I Building: SEM I
Seminar II Building: SEM II

Monday night poetry readings

Artist Lecture Series

Hosted by the program Poetics and Power.
All readings at 7 pm in SEM II E II 05.
Oct. I: Maged Zaher, Jeff Derksen
Oct. 8: Kaia Sand, Jules Boykoff
Oct. 15: Bill Ransom, Ghida Sinno
Oct. 22: Rikki Ducornet
Oct. 29: James Thomas Stephens, Zhang
Er
Nov. 5, C.S. Giscombe
Nov. 12: Susan Schultz/Tinfish poetry
journal reading

Free and open to all artists. Lecture series
on some Tuesdays at 3:45 p.m. in LH
I, sponsored by Evergreen Gallery and
Visual and Environmental Arts.
Oct. 2: Joseph Park
Oct. 16: Beverly Naidus
Oct. 30: Sara Bates
Nov. 13: Laura Alpert

Writing
workshops
Nouns got you down? Verbals need
herbals? Sentence remember don't how
make to? Get spruced in the Grammar
Garden. One hour a week will nip your
fears in the bud. Come on by Wednesdays
from I to 2 p.m.
"Academia is mind control." But it
doesn't have to be. Come and hash out
the many different ways an essay can be
written. Learn to sharpen your sword.
Essay writing workships are Wednesdays
1 from 2 to 3 p.m .

VVant people to corr1e to your
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rnag1cJI rooftop dance party? Food Events
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Flaming Eggplant
4 p.m. Flaming Fall KickoffFestival. CAB
315. Hosted by the Flaming Eggplant.
Contact x6092. Friday, Sep. 28.

Evergreen phone numbers: (360) 8670000, abbreviated as xOOOO.

Upcoming
Events
Wednesday, October 2,
II a.m. to 4 p.m. Graduate School Fair.
CRC.

• Music (New & Used)
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Get answers to your questions such as: do
you have to take the GRE? What about
transcripts? What programs/courses do
I need to take to be prepared? How do I
know if I need a graduate degree to do
what I want? Save the date for this free
event that invites students to visit with
representatives from many different
graduate programs.

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