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STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE
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Community Based
Learning Open
House
l!J!MAXBAUVAL
The Center for Community
Based Learning and Action is
having an open house from 3 to 5
p.m. on Monday the 15th in SEM
II E2125. Everyone is welcome
to come check us out and have
coffee, tea, and hot chocolate.
Comics night at
Danger Room
Danger Room Comics presents
Comics Night on Saturday, October 13 from 7 to 10 p.m. This free
event is for anyone interested in
making comics and meeting other
cartoonists in Olympia. Please
bring pens, pencils, and a sense
of humor. No artistic skills are
necessary.
The Phrontisterion I
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FEMME DE FABRIQUE PREFORMED AT ARTS WALK THIS
SEASON. FOR PICTURES TURN TO PAGE 5.
Presents
The Phrontisterion presents David
Halperin, W.H. Auden Professor
of the History and Theory of
Sexuality! Halperin will deliver his
lecture Love :S Irony: Six Remarks
on Platonic Eros on Monday,
October 15, at 7 p.m. in the COM
Building Recital Hall. Got some
free time? A hot date? Come get
stimulated! It's free, it's fun, and
it' II score you points with your
professors ... and the hotties.
The~Center
Carnival
The Writing Center will be
having a carnival to celebrate the
release of Inkwell, the student
guide to writing at Evergreen.
It will be Wednesday, October
17, from noon to 2 p.m. in the
Library Lobby. There will be
games, music, popcorn, face
painting, and a unicycle!
Seth Vincent
see BREIFS, page 3
HERE IT IS! HOUSING'S NEW DECIBEL COUNTER. TO READ
STUDENT'S OPINIONS, TURN TO VOX POP. FOR ARTICLE,
TURN TO PAGE 3.
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"It's becoming a pretty popular thing," says Nicole
Lamb about the gender-neutral housing movement,
which is being increasingly found on college campuses
across the country. Nicole is the coordinator for the
Society for Trans Action and Resources (STAR), the
group that is working to create a gender-neutral housing option on campus. "Lots of major schools have
started including gender-neutral housing and as far
as I know, no one m Washington has gender-neutral
housing."
The main idea behind gender-neutral or gender-blind
housing, as it is known at some colleges, is to provide
housing in which all students will feel comfortable,
regardless of gender or sexual orientation. Programs
like this exist at a number of colleges and universities
across the U.S., including Brown, Hampshire, Harvard
and Sarah Lawrence. "The goal is to make sure there's
safe and appropriate housing for everyone," says
Sharon Goodman, Director of Residential and Dining
Services. Goodman, who worked on a similar initiative while Assistant Dean of Residence Life at Reed
College, added that she wants to make it easier to "help
students self-identity what they need."
Lamb believes that adding gender-neutral housing
can only mean good things for the campus, saying that
"rna ing the campus more gender friendly will bring
more transgender students and just more people who
believe that [this] is something that should be included
- allies, queer people in general, or anybody who
prefers gender-neutral housing for whatever reason
they may have."
The program ideally would operate in the same way
as other themed housing on campus, allowing students
to check "gender-neutral theme" housing on their
housing applications. Unlike at some other schools,
the option would be available to first time and freshmen students, which is often the most difficult time for
new students unsure of where they'd most comfortable
living. While Evergreen allows students of any gender
to live together in the Soup as long as all parties agree,
new students who have not yet made friends on campus
are unable to take advantage of such an option.
"What I don't like about other schools' programs is
that it outs transgender students," says Goodman of
a system she hopes to shy away from at Evergreen.
"They make you go through this whole long extra
process and then say 'well maybe we can fit you in
somewhere."' By making gender-neutral housing a
theme, housing would require no extra paperwork or
potentially uncomfortable interviews.
While Goodman says she is "a strong advocate" for
the program, she admits that she and Lamb "don't
know what roadblocks we're going to hit." Lamb
seems confident, though, that "showing that a good
number of students are in support of this will push the
administration to work hard on it. A lot of times the
administration won't do something unless they feel
like it's relevant in someway - and sometimes it's hard
to show that, even ifthere's a group of people that want
this." You can contact STAR at (360) 867-6794, or by
email at star@evergreen.edu.
Max Bauva/ is a senior enrolled in an independent
learning contract.
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October II, 2007
NE\VS BRIEFS
Future Physicians
ofEvergreen
Do you love the sciences but also want a
career that allows for deep and rewarding
interactions with other people? Consider
a future in medicine. Evergreen's science
community has a small but growing niche
of pre-medical students who've decided to
gain recognition and mutual support in a
new club called the Future Physicians of
Evergreen. Together we can share critical information about the path to medical
school as well as what it really means to
be a medical student and physician. For
those of you still undecided on the subject,
no worries. The Future Physicians of Evergreen welcomes any student at any level of
commitment or preparation, and our offerings will help you decide if becoming a
doctor is the right choice for you. Meetings
are currently on Wednesdays from 12:30
to I :30 pm in Lab II, room 2211. You can
contact Shannon at shannon.says@gmail.
com for more information.
Committee in
SoHdaritywith the
People ofEl Salvador
Where would we be if it weren't for
water? Water is a human right that every
person should protect. Water privatization consists of handing over most of
the assets of a public system to a private
company. Water then turns into a financial commodity. El Salvador is heading
towards this fate . Hundreds of people
organized a peaceful protest in Suchitoto
and were met with armed police. If you
are interested in helping address this
issue, get involved with CISPES, the
Committee in Solidarity with the People
of El Salvador. The Evergreen State
College CISPES student group meets
every Thursday at 6:30 on the third floor
of the CAB.
Student Housing POLICE
says no to noise B:~~~R
by JASON SLOTKIN
The housing office has enacted a new
noise policy this quarter that prohibits loud
music and noise during designated quiet
hours. These hours range from II p.m.
until 9 a.m., Sunday through Thursday,
and midnight to 9 a.m., Friday through
Saturday.
During the weekend hours, the noise levels
cannot go above 70 decibels. On weekdays,
noise cannot go above 60 decibels, which,
according to dangerousdecibels.com, is the
equivalent of a normal human conversation and 25 decibels below the level where
hearing damage occurs.
If a complaint is made, a decibel reading
will be made from outside the building.
According to the housing website, readings
will be taken from the nearest building or
50 feet away from the sound source. This
should ensure that such activities such as
laughter and vacuuming would not get a
student in trouble.
Policy violations will mainly be handled
through a system of student complaints.
The website also encourages students to
work out noise issues diplomatically before
going to a Resident Assistant. The policy
is specifically engineered toward student
enforcement.
"It seems that around nine o'clock, a cop
or RA might walk by and tell you to keep
it down," said student Campbell Rhea,
when asked about the new policy. "It's well
respected," student Suryea Bhata added.
"It only gets bad on the weekends."
Another student who was questioned was
really supportive of this new policy. "I'm
for it," said Karen Cox. "You can hear
everything your neighbors are doing."
This policy and other similar ones may
make it difficult for musicians living in
the residence halls. Current housing policies already ban drum kits, and amplified
instruments are strongly discouraged by
the housing office.
On I 0/7 at 3:30a.m.; a vehicle was observed
going north in the southbound lane of Evergreen Parkway. For reference, the parkway
is a divided street, and each intersection is
marked with 200 wrong way signs. After
stopping the vehicle, the officer asked the
driver if he would volunteer a Breathalyzer
test; after all, the driver admitted to drinking
only "two beers" because he was the "designated driver at a party." The Breathalyzer
result: .119%. LIES!!!
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While patrolling of A Dorm, officers and
RAs observed a chair fall from the dorm
balcony, smashing into several pieces in front
of their faces. Officers located the individuals responsible on the fifth floor of A Dorm,
arresting one of the intoxicated subjects
because of a prior MIP offense. When asked
what he'd had to drink, he responded, "Jack
Daniel's ... a gallon." LIES!!!
Jason Slatkin is a student at The Evergreen State College.
CORRECTIONS:
Cerise Palmanteer's profile of faculty member Erica Lord and Nicky Tiso's article,
"Language is Not a Toy," both of which ran in our October 4 issue, had sections
cut off due to a production error. We at the CP J apologize for this mistake.
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CAIY[AlN IN
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Officers contacted an individual in the dorm
courtyard who seemed to be very intoxicated.
Inside the person's cm1t pocket were Captain
Morgan Rum and a two-liter bottle of lemon
lime soda. WORST MIXER EVER!!!
CR1\P-FFl'rl
Estimates range just under $2000 dollars for
random, misspelled, scraggly, crappy, ugly,
unintelligible graffiti throughout campus last
week. It's just one of the ways these selftitled anarchists are doing their part to raise
your tuition. Who's cleaning this up? Minimum wage workers, of course! Way to go,
anarchists, who are supposedly against class
oppression!
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O ctober I I, 2007
The Phrontisterion:
D
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A Place for Love
&Hopscotch
by MARIE LANDAU
Femme de
For those of you who have yet to discover the Phrontisterion, now's your chance. The Phrontisterion is Evergreen's
Classical studies club, a magnet for academics, thespians, and
athletes alike. Over the past two years, the Phron has hosted
guest lecturers, screened free movies, put on two plays,
and coordinated a myriad of successful on-campus events.
We kicked off the new school year with new and returnmg
Greeners, talking about Greek gods, broody playwrights, and
our toga party plans for this year. To top it all off, we played
a hearty game of hopscotch in Red Square, in which reining champ Kylen Clayton had his crown of laurels usurped
by yours truly. What's next? The Phrontisterion is bringing
Classicist and Gender Studies maven David Halperin to speak
at Evergreen. David Halperin holds the W. H. Auden Collegiate Professorship of the History and Theory of Sexuality
at the University of Michigan. He'll shake things up here on
campus with his talk Loves Irony: Six Remarks on Platonic
Eros, entertaining your queries about sex, love, tragedy, and
rock 'n' roll. Well, maybe not that last one, but if you want
to know why love sometimes stinks, he's your man. Hell, he
might even make you feel better.
So, if you're in the mood for a hardcore brain massage, join
us in the COM Building Recital Hall on Monday, October 15
at 7 p.m. Admission is free- catharsis guaranteed.
And for all you Greco-Roman enthusiasts out there, the
Phrontisterion meets every Wednesday at 1 p.m. in Seminar II
A2105. We seminar on everything from Plato and Euripides
to Leonard Bernstein and the Spice G iris. To hear about future
Phron events or to join our mailing list, write us at thephrontisterion@gmail.com. Want to talk about it? So do we!
Fabrique is an
Olympia based
experimental
theatre company
that combines
highftying circus
arts with theatre
and puppetry. They
preformed for Arts
Walk on October 5
at Olympia Salvage.
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Marie Landau is a senior enrolled in Literature of the
Americas: Brazil and the United States.
Students Educating Students About the Middle East is proud to 11resent
Jerusalem ~isp~ssesse~
a~h~t~graphg exhibit
~~~nin~ R~c~~u~n
Daniel J. Evans Libraru at Evergreen
Wednesday, October 17th
7:00pm
With Special Guests
Muna Hamzeh, Acl:laimed Aullun· GJuunmlisl
Cindu SCraig Corrie, Parents of Hachel r:m·,·ie
Co-sponsored by The Rachel Corrie foundation lor Peace and Justice
Exhibit continues through November ISth at the Evergreen Libraru
for more information contact sesame®evergreen.edu, l3GOJ8G7-G724, www.evergreen.edu/sesame
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October II, 2007
Hangin' out & havin' fun
with the Chemistry Club
by AMBER CARVER
The Chemistry Club kicked off another year of hard
work and serious fun Wednesday, September 26 with a
general meet and greet in Lecture Hall 1. One meeting
later, planning is well under way, and there are many
great ideas in the works.
The club is run by a dedicated cadre of science devotees.
Seven officers and a handful of other members carry on
the task of educating themselves and others in the sciences
and having as much fun as possible in the process.
Due to hard work at the activities fair and a well-earned
reputation, there was an impressive turnout of new
members at the first meeting. Over Bohr model sugar
cookies, new and old members exchanged introductions
and talk turned to past and future activities.
Last year's activities included hosting guest speakers,
taking trips to universities and research facilities,
participating in Synergy, running the Science Carnival,
and attending the American Chemical Society (ACS)
spring meeting in Chicago.
Talks from guest speakers covered topics such as
the chemistry of flavor and the role of soil chemistry
in growing chocolate. Field trips were taken to the
University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, the
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in
Richland, and many places in between.
Synergy is an annual conference promoting education
on sustainable living. It is held in late winter or early
spring and a variety of guest lecturers attend. The other
annual event- the Science Carnival- is held each year in
late spring and is an opportunity for students to show off
research they've been doing, fun chemical reactions, or
things they've built or concocted. Both events are open to
the community and encourage all-ages involvement.
The ACS spring meeting is a vast gathering of scientists
from every imaginable branch of chemistry. The five-day
event incorporates a mind-boggling array of talks and
poster presentations, events geared at undergraduates,
socials, and an awards ceremony for student chapters.
The Evergreen State College Chemistry Club received
two awards last year and has been honored with another
two this year for its activeness and its promotion of green
chemistry.
This year, the Chemistry Club hopes to keep the
momentum up through activities similar to those of
previous years. This Thursday, October II, it will be cohosting the first guest lecturer: Bill Carroll, past president
of the ACS, will be giving a talk on plastics recycling at
5 p.m. In addition, planning is underway for a field trip
to the mothballed Satsop Nuclear Plant in Elma, and
information will be passed out at the next meeting on
the requirements for attending the ACS spring meeting,
which will take place in New Orleans this year.
Carrying out these activities requires a great deal of
fundraising. The club started early with a lab goggle sale,
and on Tuesday it resumed its famous weekly bake sales.
There is a rumor that the club will be selling chocolate
bars again this year, and many more ideas have been
tossed around.
With so many activities on the horizon, the Chemistry
Club looks forward to a lot. To get involved, just show
up at one of the weekly meetings Wednesdays at I p.m.
on the second floor of Lab II. If you can't make it then,
you can still get involved by emailing the club secretary,
Amber Carver, at caramb22@evergreen.edu.
Amber Carver is a senior enrolled in Temperate
Rainforests.
Jerusalem Dispossessed:
Giving Apartheid
a Face
by C. V. ROTONDO
Neon signs, hovels, children grinning beside machine guns,
and charming gardens within granite enclosures: these scenes
make up "Jerusalem Dispossessed," a photographic exhibition
from East Jerusalem produced by Active Stills, an Israeli arts
collective. Accompanied by the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish
and Muna Hamzeh, this exhibit questions the historic role of
the U.S. in Israel's apartheid against Palestinians. The following are brief interviews with Erin Genia, organizer of the
exhibition, who is exploring links between Native American
and Palestinian experiences; Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, an
advocacy officer for the Israeli Committee Against House
Demolition {ICHAD); and Muna Hamzeh,journalist and poet
who has lived in the Palestinian refugee camp at Dheisheh, all
of whose work will be featured at the event.
C. V. Rotondo - How do you feel that facilitating Jerusalem
Dispossessed at Evergreen contributes to the movement for
Palestinian self-determination and what do. you hope that
students will take away from it?
Erin Genia - The photographs plainly show the injustice
of the realities that Palestinians in East Jerusalem face. The
viewer will come face to face with home demolitions, checkpoints, settlements and an apartheid wall. Even though our
tax dollars help to fund these shameful realities, most people
in America never see them. This exhibit will give viewers a
window into them, as well as an opportunity to confront their
own ideas about what life is like for Palestinians.
Angela Godfrey-Goldstein - The exhibit Jerusalem Dispossessed which I subtitle "Living in Fantasy/Living in Denial"
is intended, hopefully, to inform people - especially students
who will be tomorrow's leaders and taxpayers of what Israeli
policy really is, as established in cement and stone. Thus, as
see Jerusalem Photos, page# 6
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Free and open
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Little Big Band is an exciting blend of funk, dance, soul, jazz, rock and blues combined
with theatrical performance, poetry and spoken word, featuring Tlingit Glass Artist
Preston Singletary (Tlingit), Gene Tagaban (Tiingit), Keith Montgomery (Cherokee),
James Rasmussen (Duwamish), Maurice Caldwell, Star Nayea, Terry Maloney and James
Luna (Lusieno)
Star Nayea, a Grammy Award-winning vocalist, brings a powerful pop style to the band,
while Gene Tagaban performs with traditional Tlingit masks and clothing, plays flute and
recites poetic verse and chants. James Luna is an accomplished visual and performance
artist who was featured at the Venice Biennale by the Smithsonian. James' work challenges the viewer's perception of Native people while declaring , "they say that Indian
music hasn't gone far enough ............ HEY LISTEN UPI"
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from SESAME, page 5
established in cement and stone. Thus, as the U.N. Office
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs recently
informed Tony Blair, the Quartet Peace Envoy, in a PowerPoint presentation bullet point: There is a gross discrepancy
between the rhetoric and the facts on the ground. I hope
that when people see the facts on the ground - preferably
in person, but if not in photographic exhibitions such as
this - that they will understand the real intentions of Israeli
governments and how those facts on the ground are contrary
to good faith peace negotiations. Because the facts on the
ground are deliberately aimed to undermine the viability of
a Palestinian state, especially where the sharing of Jerusalem is concerned.
C. V.R. - What is the imperative of groups like Students
Educating Students about the Middle East (SESAME) now,
in light of the present circumstances within the occupied
territories and the continuing recalcitrance of U.S. political
leaders?
E. G. - SESAME's work is more important than ever in
combating media misinformation campaigns. By presenting the Evergreen community with resources to facilitate
understanding of the conflicts in the Middle East, SESAME
is helping to raise awareness about the ongoing human
rights abuses there. SESAME is also dedicated to supporting student appreciation of the many cultures which reside
there.
C. V.R. - In your experienced view, how can students, as
members of civil society, albeit greatly undereducated and
isolated ones, best contribute to the movement for global
peace?
A. G. G.- I think students can best work for global peace
by thinking deeply about what sort of world they wish to
inherit, how they will live in it, what their priorities and
responsibilities must be and how they will achieve real
security and what real security implies. Global warming,
poverty, militarism, receding resources such as water, and
health are all issues that will continue to escalate as crises
in the future. Do we each of us bear responsibility and if
so, how do we articulate that? Can we 'individually have
an impact? How do we work together? What is the price
of globalization? What do we have in common with other
cultures? What motivates us? Is consumerism sustainable? Is the Arms Race sustainable? Do nuclear weapons
ultimately deter? Who are the mad men into whose hands
WMD must not fall? And indeed, what did Eisenhower
mean when he warned that democracy could be overthrown
by the military-industrial complex? Is the War on Terror
counterproductive? Is it a disguise for imperialist motives?
Is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict creating conditions for
terror which threaten your society? Etcetera, etcetera.
C. V. R. - As someone who has directly experienced the
situation in Palestinian refugee camps, how well do you feel
that the photo exhibit Jerusalem Dispossessed grants insight
for students at The Evergreen State College, so privileged
and distant from the atrocities perpetrated there?
Muna Hamzeh- The photos give insight into ... Palestinian
THINK GLOBALLY
SHOP LOCALLY
life under occupation: a life controlled by a separation wall
and military checkpoints that restrict freedom of movement,
as well as house demolitions and settlement expansion that
devour Palestinian land. The photos reveal how much worse
the situation has become since I left nearly seven years ago.
What I found most revealing about the photos is the look of
utter desolation and hopelessness you see in the faces of the
Palestinian women, children and men. They have absolutely
no hope that there will ever be peace.
Most Americans, including Evergreen State College
students, don't know that their tax money enables the occupation to continue. I find that very disturbing. As a journalist
in the occupied Palestinian territories for 12 years, I used
to have young kids run up to me with the remnants of tank
shells or tear gas canisters and yell, "Made in America.
Take photo." Our tax money should pay for the education
and health care of these kids and not the bombs that maim
and kill them or destroy their homes. I hope the students
leave the exhibit wanting to learn more about the conflict
and that some will decide to visit the occupied Palestinian
territories, perhaps as volunteers with the International Solidarity Movement or the Israeli Committee against House
Demolitions.
C. V.R. -What do you hope to see Evergreen students take
away from this exhibit and what actions would you like to
see follow up this experience?
M H - I hope the students go away thinking about the
great responsibility that comes along with being the world's
superpower. Wars and occupation are not the solution to
the world's problems. I hope, as the future leaders of our
country, the students will hold the belief that non-conflict
resolution is the only way to resolve disagreements. War
and occupation are never the answer. I would like them to
remember that for every Hitler there is a Mandela.
Jerusalem Dispossessed opens in the Evergreen State
College library on Wednesday, October 17 at 7 p.m. and
will run until November I 0. These interviews are excerpts
from a larger piece, which will be available at the SESAME
website: http://academic.evergreen.edu/groups/sesame/.
C. V. Rotondo is dstudent ofpolitical economy at Evergreen
currently enrolled in Five Hundred Years of Globalization.
He can be reached at CRotondo@gmail.com.
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Diversity
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This past Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
a small but diverse group of students
performed a reading of Douglas Turner
Ward's A Day of Absence: A Satirical
Fantasy. The event was sponsored by the
Women of Color Coalition and involved
staff, faculty and student's performers; the
audience was just as diverse.
The purpose of the performance, organizer
Haley Carpenter told the audience was to
tell the real story of the Day of Absence
and educate students and community about
why the event is important and the meaning
behind it. In the performance, all people of
color from the community leave for one
day with no notice and then return the next
day as if nothing happened. The audience
thoroughly enjoyed watching the white
people left alone for one day to try and
function alone while squirming and stressing, trying to figure out who was going to
take care of their homes, their children and
everything else they relied upon the people
of color to do.
From the question and answer session after
the performance, it was clear that because
of the reading, the audience was inspired
to educate themselves further about the
issues involved with racism and become
involved in the activities at Evergreen. The
performance was not only educational and
inspirational but also impressive, especially
during the Q & A session where performers
handled sensitive questions with the utmost
maturity. The entire Evergreen community
should be excited for the upcoming Day of
Absence I Day of Presence activities.
Lindsay Adams is a senior enrolled in
American Indian Sovreignty.
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Murphys is a rowdy pint of punk rock
draught. Released on September 18, The
Meanest of Times opef!S with a clash of
drums and wailing lyrics. The first track
captures listeners: "Famous for Nothing"
tells tales of growing up in Boston. The
song is a perfect example of what attracts
unruly punk rock youths to the music. The
lead vocalists share the lyrics, shouting
t~e lines while the backup shouts from
the other members increase the energetic
melody. The rest of the songs follow a
similar rhythm.
The Dropkick Murphys use a variety of
musical instruments - an indispensable
aspect of their sound. They have the usual
guitar, drums and bass, as well as a mandolin, banjo, tin whistle, and accordion. Of
course, the instrument that really sets them
apart from other bands is the bagpipes.
They can be heard prominently in the last
track, "Never Forget." The album is great;
I just wish there were more pipes.
The band is in the middle of their fall
tour and more information can be found
at www.dropkickmurphys.com. To answer
the query from the front page, no, the Dropkick Murphys do not suck. On the contrary,
they are quite good.
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STUDENTS GET AN EDUCATION IN RHYME FROM RAHZEL
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On Friday night, Evergreen's hip-hop heads
got a chance to flex their solidarity muscle,
gathering in the CRC for a visit from Rahzel,
the undisputed champion of hip-hop's fifth
element: beat boxing. Those students who
were able to part with the $10 were given a
show they're not soon likely to forget.
Opening up the show was the "hater-proof'
Blunt Music, an ostensibly close-knit group
of five emcees who know each other's lyrics
as well as they know their own. You may
have heard them before, most likely blaring from the Safeway parking lot. The crew
was aptly titled - not because of forthright
lyrics, but rather for their 360 area code and
corresponding addictions. In fact, one duo
within the group slyly named itself "Joint
Custody."
Well rehearsed and energetic, their sound
was representative of northwest hip-hop's
eclectic genealogy, fusing elements of Tech
N9ne, Kurupt, and Brother Ali . "Hip-hop
ain't dead - it's just lost its focus," they
claimed, contradicting their Van-Halen-esque
lyrics, driven by fun-for-the-sake-of-fun and
loud-for-the-sake-of-loud.
Striving for a spirit of unity more akin to
Wu Tang Clan than G-Unit, they displayed
occasional signs of unrest and frustration.
"I'll tell you one thing- next time, it will be
Dancing!
Karaoke!
Bingo!
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my set- not ours- mine," one of the emcees
was overheard saying after the show.
Next came Gabriel Teodros from Ethiopia
via Seattle. With Teodros was OJ WD4D,
whose old school scratches were as melodic
as any vocals or beat of the night. Teodros
is a well-traveled emcee, and he seemed
comfortable on stage, though he was
upstaged on several occasions by the other
half of Abyssinian Creole, emcee Khingz
Makoma, who closed their set by kicking
the hottest freestyle of the night to a sampled
Tim baland beat.
"Every Gabriel Teodros show is a Abyssinian Creole show," said Teodros, whose claim
was backed up by the palpable on-stage
chemistry between the two.
The group was well received by the Greeners with their back-pack-ish style and socially
conscious lyrics, which covered racism,
sexism, and genocide.
They left with a battle cry for hip-hop,
screaming "If y'all want us to come back
- make some noise!" which got the crowd
riled up for the man they came to see.
He was introduced by OJ JS I with a charismatic, jaw dropping display, getting straight
up naughty with the vinyl. From then on, JS I
took on the role of Teller to Rahzel's Pen,
who took the stage appropriately decked out
in green Pelle Pelle leather, NY fitted, and
quite possibly the hottest kicks ever to be
rocked at The Evergreen State College, not
to mention an iced-out watch the size of a
moderately obese rodent.
Not long after that, he had everyone in
earshot in the palm of his hand, using nothing but a microphone to recreate the beats
to "Jesus Walks," "Drop It Like It's Hot,"
"Touch It," and "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin
To Fuck Wit," among others. Additionally,
he stressed the importance of hip-hop as a
tool for good times, not violence, going so
far as diffusing a fight in the crowd.
The second half of his set tUrned into a
dialogue with the audience, dropping science
on the history of the game and throwing out
trivia. Through it all, he never relinquished
his kung-fu grip on the crowd.
"The Godfather of Noise," Rahzel has
become a fixture in hip-hop, not only for
his unique skills, but also for his magnetic
personality that comes through ii his work
and ten-fold in his performance, fueled by
authentic and passionate love for hip-hop.
· There will always be great rappers, but
Rahzel, with his unique blend of charisma,
stage presence, invincible beat boxing, is a
legend of hip-hop. Greeners will recall for
years the night he spent what turned out to
be his birthday with us. Friday night was not
only a special night in the history of Evergreen, but also a bonding experience, reinforcing the solidarity of Greener rap junkies.
One cannot fully understand and appreciate
the Evergreen culture until a hip-hop show
comes along and reveals that latent scene
bumping just under the surface. Peter Coyote
once said that Woodstock was "a kind of
verification that there were a substantial
number of people interested in new ways of
living and a new culture ... and sometimes
getting them all in a big group where they
can see each other is the best way to support
them." I've always felt that Evergreen, too,
embodies many ofthese elements. Nowhere
is this more evident than in our music, where
the hubris of our zeitgeist finds a poignant
voice, and commodities like 50 Cent and
Mike Jones - figures (or, more accurately,
archetypes) difficult to escape elsewhere in
society- rarely see the light of day.
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October II, 2007
Opacity For You and Mel
by VERONICA OH HAPPY
by JOSHUA KATZ
Dear Greeners,
I'm writing this in
response to both Andrew
William Meyer's public
arrest September 17 and
the opinions I've heard
around campus and read
in the CPJ and on the Internet. I'm not going
to go into the story; if you don't know, find it
online. It seems to me that the general sentiment is that the police were wrong and Meyer
was the victim. I know that not everyone feels
this way; this is just the majority of what I've
heard from the students who speak up about
this sort of thing.
I'm wondering, though, what sort of reaction
a police officer should have in a situation where
a student is obviously disturbing the peace- if
only fairly slightly - and the officer has been
instructed to keep the situation calm. I feel
that Meyer's questions were meant to provoke
Kerry a bit- what good question doesn't? I'm
not sure what he was trying to prove, as we
didn't get to see the end, obviously. I do feel
that the officer who continued to tell Meyer,
"Ask your question!" was out of line. From
what I've heard, the students each got a full
minute to ask a question.
I regard a few things as fact, though. One: that
police officers are trained to expect the worst
and react accordingly. When escorting Meyer
out of the building, he resisted, changing "out
of the building" to "into a police cruiser with
cuffs on." Two: when a police officer decides
that a situation warrants arrest, he or she can't
just back down because it escalates and he
or she is unwilling to use necessary force to
complete the arrest. The officer can indeed
warn the person before using this force- which
happened - and proceed if the person doesn't
comply. Saying "Don't Tase me, bro! Don't
Tase me!" while continuing to struggle isn't
exactly compliance. Your average cop doesn't
want to spend twenty minutes wrestling some
guy when he could have just escorted him out
of the building. The one in that situation who
has the power to decide how far to take things
is the person who is being a!"rested.
On another note, I went to a protest at the Port
of Olympia once, back in 2004, and have since
spoken to many people who frequent those
and other protests. Friends, banging rocks on
things is certainly the way to be noticed, but
is definitely not the way to change the world
(unless you're a caveman who is about to
discover fire). Making police officers angry
and/or getting yourself arrested isn't going to
do anything. They don't control the things
they defend one bit, other than the fact that
they are tax paying, voting citizens just like
you or me.
The only way for a small group of people
to change anything in this society is to work
with the system, not against it. Yeah, it takes
time, and it sure as hell takes more effort than
going to a protest every other month. If you
care enough about this country and the world
to frequent protests, why not take a couple
minutes to write to a senator. Hell, become a
senator! Just do something that counts in more
places than police records.
Ifl ever get that kind of"passionate" and even
half as sarcastic around someone who travels
with security guards, don't help me escape
from the cops. It's kind oflike joking about the
"bomb in your backpack" when going through
airport security- you just don't do it. Let's get
a bit smarter iri our little rebellions and actually
make changes, shall we?
Veronica Oh Happy is a senior not currently
enrolled in classes but will return winter quarter.
First of all, my intention is not to raise
the dead or the start any fires. The point
of this piece is simply to inform you,
the lackadaisical Greener, of things I'm
convinced you should know but won't
put in the minimal effort to discover.
So I'll give you a freebie: there exists
a concept known as "transparency," which is essentially
shorthand for the gradient of information and disclosure
that exists between the student body and the administration
of Evergreen. The administrative body at Evergreen prides
itself on the public availability and accessibility of decisive
interactivity, and to be fair Evergreen is very progressive in
it's glorious transparency. However, this isn't always the
case, which is where the Geoduck Union's Financial Oversight Committee comes in.
One of the many glowing nuggets of wisdom gleaned from
years as an undergraduate is that history not only repeats
itself, history is ever ubiquitous. We are history and as such
are fallible to the pratfalls of becoming the compost heap
for the next generation's Garden of Repeat in'. I mention this
for one reason: The Administration has made mistakes, and
so have the students. You are making them now, and these
aren't the kind of mistakes with cookies, warm milk, and a
heartwarming parable that leaves you wiser but still tender.
You are submitting to apathy and inertia, and you are lucky
that you attend a college where someone will watch your
investments for you. In case you haven't noticed, you pay
an inordinate amount of money for what optimistically may
be considered your own future, but you don't care about
where that money goes. Prison labor? A new espresso bar in
CAB 320? How many of you even could guess to what I'm
referring?
The FOC can, because without blindly endorsing the
Committee I can tell you that they understand these things.
They told me about them, after all. Let me enlighten you, so
you can get back to hanging out.
I'm not going to drag any member of the administration
through the mud for the sake of proving a point. I could
dredge the channel with spook stories of undercover police
officers and voter fraud, but the people who have earned
their skepticism and outrage already know. People have to
remember this is a public school, and public schools perhaps
more than any other public institution are vulnerable to the
specter of raising capital. If we get a new CAB, color me
tickled. It will bring those new students with their parents'
fat pockets a-running. The administration's job is to maintain
the status quo within any system, particularly one as prone to
chaos as Evergreen. Besides, as I've trumpeted several times
already, it is your own fault for not concerning yourself with
the execution of your tuition funds. If you don't like that
A ram ark is the sole food provider on campus- you're all but
required to help pay for Aramark's trial costs in unfair labor
lawsuits if you want to eat on campus - then get involved,
don't just bitch to your friends. You are privileged enough
to go to college; it is nothing short of shameful for you to
squander the time you get to spend in responsibility limbo
letting other people fight your battles for you. Case in point:
Evergreen is required to use prison labor on all construction
projects. Did you know that? The FOC is trying to address
this within the ability of their jurisdiction. What are you
doing?
The FOC meets every Wednesday at 3: 15 in CAB 320, and
the Geoduck Union- your student government body- meets
every Wednesday in SEM II El 105 at I p.m. Support transparency and give the FOC your love. It's your damn money
... stop jerking off with it.
Joshua Katz is senior a enrolled in Molecule to Organism.
ON CONTRACTS, FIELD
TRIPS AND MARIJUANA
Evergreen from out of state because of its reputation as a
green school and, let's face it, hippies like green. The hippie
movement and the environmental movement are insepaI recently heard of an "investigation"
rable. And I am not sorry to say that hippies and mar\juana
involving some students smoking pot on
smoking are also basically inseparable. Is punishing students
a class field trip. The incident reminded
for a petty crime such as smoking marijuana, which almost
me of my first quarter at Evergreen,
everyone knows should be decriminalized anyway, worth
when the naivete of thinking I had
risking students' safety? What if something had happened to
escaped the institutional human factory
one of them?
that is college came to a discerning halt.
We did all sign a contract before leaving on the field trip
My class was on a field trip to the Columbia River Gorge,
which was spent pondering the desperate question, "What saying that if we were caught doing illicit drugs, we would
is nature?" and viewing unlikely candidates like dams. Back not be allowed on the rest of the field trip and would have
at our cabins for the night, the overwhelming majority of to find our own ride home. Many students, as well as the
. students smoked pot in the safety of their cabins while one faculty, claimed that because the students involved signed
the contract and broke their oath, they
group of students walked into the
UNDERSTAND THAT should take responsibility. In my opinion,
woods to smoke their bowl. By a
the contract is void, because you had to sign
twist of bad luck, these students
would later find out they had almost EVERGREEN WISHES the contract in order to attend the field trip,
and you had to attend the field trip in order
tripped over a faculty member who
to receive full credit for the class. It was a
TO RID ITSELF OF
was sleeping outdoors.
of forced contract. Contract or not, it
sort
The next day, the faculty member,
is
ultimately
up to the individual to do what
[OUR] REPUTAclaiming their identities were
is
right.
Historically,
we have seen time and
known, threatened the students
again
people
blindly
following orders only
TION, BUT ISN'T
with total loss of credit unless they
to
have
the
act
later
deemed completely
turned themselves in. The students
The
students
were not endangerimmoral.
THAT
CULTURAL
fearfully incriminated themselves.
ing
anyone
and
there
is
rio reason why the
Mter a couple hours of wasted time
issue
couldn't
have
been
dealt with after
DISCRIMINATION?
and guilt trips, the faculty left the
returning
home.
students at a gas station, which was
I feel that Evergreen should embrace the culture of all its
pretty much the only thing for miles, to hitchhike back to
Olympia. The students dug some cardboard out of a dump- constituents, unless it threatens the safety and wellbeing
ster, someone kicked down a sharpie to them and, without of others. Marijuana has never threatened anyone's safety.
any kind of resistance from the other students, we ditched It is becoming ever more accepted and Evergreen, being
a progressive school, should stop incriminating students
our comrades on the roadside.
I heard arguments for the incident claiming that enough for marijuana use. I know that will never happen until it
people already think Evergreen is a "hippie school" and so is decriminalized, but I hope at least that any faculty that
we don't need people reinforcing that. I understand that reads this understands that it is their choice whether or not to
Evergreen wishes to rid itself of that reputation, but isn't participate in the unwarranted drug war.
that cultural discrimination? I find it absurd for the school
Raina Willette is a sophomore enrolled in Ecological Agrito continue to "green" itself and then deny the culture that
comes along with it. People are paying top dollar to come to culture and Spanish.
by RAINA WILLETTE
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The Evergreen men's soccer team
traveled to British Columbia this past
Monday to play Simon Fraser University
(SFU), an independent in the National
Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
(NAJA). This is the second time the team
has played the Clan this season, the first
time losing 4-0 during the Arno Zaske
Classic. Simon Fraser is currently the
top team in NAJA Region I and ranked
#9 overall.
Coach John Purtteman described
some of the difficulties the team faced.
"It's a lway s hard to drop a game," he
said, adding that many of the players
were battling colds and injuries. The
Geoducks have struggled this season to
a 4-7-1 record.
"We've come miles [since the Zoske
Classic]," Purtteman said. Evergreen
''frustrated'' Simon Fraser, playing
better since the beginning of the season.
Keeper Matt Stalnik played the full 90
minutes, allowing only three of the nine
shots on goal. SFU took 24 shots overall, splitting their attack evenly over
the two periods. Lucas Barrett scored
two of SFU's three after missing last
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week due to a mild concussion. After a
spectacular save by Stalnik during the
70th minute, Barrett was able to score
on the rebound. Simon Fraser improves
to II-I-I on the season.
Evergreen rounds out its season with
six more games, three of which will be
played at home. The next game will be
Thursday, October 18 at 4 p.m. against
division rival Warner Pacific University. Be sure to come out and support
the Geoducks!
Dave Raileanu is a senior enrolled in
Geoduck baseball is underway again this
year. Key starters coming back at third
base, first base, and the outfield promise to
yield success on the diamond . Kip Arney
returns for his second year as head coach
and looks to improve on the program's one
win in five years. Practices meet Wednesdays from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Pavillion.
Tennis
Do you like to play tennis? Did you play
in high school? Would you like to play
in college? Brandon Custy is looking to
create a fun, athletic environment for tennis
players to meet and compete. If you would
like to join the club, contact Brandon at
cusbra 11 @evergreen.edu.
Molecule to Organism.
Evergreen Crew:
Back in action
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For those of you new to Evergreen, you
may not be familiar with the women's
rowing team at Eve rgreen. Crew
involves a narrow, long boat full of eight
rowers sitting backwards and one small
but mighty loud coxswain who steers
and tells the rowers what to do. Crew at
Evergreen has been very successful in
the past few years; last spring the varsity
crew placed second in the Western Intercollegiate Rowing Championships in a
4+ boat, meaning four rowers and one
coxswain. Getting to the championship
took hard work: rowers practice from
6 to 8 a.m. and for much of the winter
time they practice inside the CRC. The
crew women run stairs, row on stationary rowing machines called Ergs, and lift
weights most people would be afraid of
attempting. So why is all this work worth
it? Saskia Washington, a junior at Evergree n and a first year rower expla ined that
being out on the water for the sunrise, and
spotting seals in the water makes it worth
the tough wake up time and even tougher
work out. It is nearly impossible to find
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October II, 2007
This week's events on & around campus
Thursday, 11
Friday Continued.
Sunday, 14
Tuesday, 16
Noon. National Coming Out Day.
Hosted by EQA. Red Square.
Noon. Mexican Tiahui dance
performance. Hosted by
MeCha. Red Square.
Noon to 4 p.m. Welcoming Mushroom
into the Garden presentation and
hands-on workshop. Hosted by
ERC. Organic Farmhouse.
6:30 to 8 p.m. Study abroad info
session. Prime Time, A dorm #220.
3 p.m. Safer Sex Workshop.
Hosted by Olympia Men's
Project, EQA. Place TBA.
7:30p.m. National Coming Out Day
Open Mic. Hosted by EQA. HCC.
7 to 9 p.m. Volleyball: Geoducks
v. Oregon Tech. CRC.
I :30 to 3:30p.m. Academic
planning workshop. SEM II, Dll07.
Contact x6392 to sign up.
Monday, 15
3 to 5 p.m. Center for Community
Based Learning and Action open house.
Free hot cocoa, tea, and coffee.
Saturday, 13
9 a.m. to noon. Prairie Rooftop
Garden Planting Party. LIB rooftop.
Friday, 12
II a.m. to 2 p.m. Planned Parenthood
Positive Presence. Bring or
make signs, all welcome.
Wednesday, 17
4 to 6 p.m. Women's soccer: Geoducks
v. Northwest University. Field four.
7 p.m. "Love's Desire: Six Remarks
on Platonic Eros" lecture by
David Halperin. Hosted by The
Phrontisterions. COMM Recital Hall.
7 to 9 p.m. Volleyball: Geoducks v.
Southern Oregon University. CRC.
7 p.m. Jerusalem Dispossessed
Hosted by SESAME. LIB I ' 1 floor.
I 0 p.m. Le Voyeur Trivia Night.
Flaming Eggplant
Mondays, 3 p.m.
CAB 320
Evergreen llillel
Wednesday, 2 p.m.
CAB Solarium
Evergreen Queer Alliance
Mondays, 3:30p.m.
CAB 315
Umoja
Wednesdays, 2 to 3 p.m.
CAB 3'' floor TV lounge
Women of Color Coalition
Mondays, 4 to 5 p.m.
CAB 206
Environmental
Resource Center
Wednesdays, 3 p.m.
CAB 320
Center for Radical Education
Bi-weekly Mondays,
4:30 to 6 p.m.
SEM II, E3107
Capoeria
Mondays, 5 to 9 p.m.
COMM209
Percussion Vibe
Tuesdays, 6 to 9 p.m.
Com 209
Greeners 4 Christ
Tuesdays, 7 p.m.
SEM II, 2107
Amnesty International
Wednesdays, 12:30 p.m.
CAB 320
Appearing Task Force
on anti-oppression
Wednesdays, I p.m.
CAB 320
Chemistry Club
Wednesdays, I to 2 p.m.
LAB II, 2207
The Phrontisterions
Wednesdays, I to 2 p.m.
SEM li,A2105
Geoduck Union
Wednesdays, I to 3 p.m.
SEM II , Ell05
Students Educating Students
About the Middle East
Wednesdays, I :30 p.m.
CAB 320
Women's Resource Center
Wednesdays, I :30 p.m.
CAB 313
Musician's Club
Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m.
CAB 320
Writers Guild
Wednesdays, 4 p.m.
LIB 2130, next to
Writing Center
Society for Trans
Action and Resource
Wednesdays, 4 to 5 p.m.
SEM II, 02107
I lip Hop Congress
Wednesdays, 4 to 5 p.m.
LIB 3303
"Wi:itiDs WOlbhops
Program Events
Monday night poetry readings
Hosted by the program Poetics and Power.
All readings at 7 pm in SEM II E II 05.0ct.
15: Bill Ransom and Ghida Sinno
Oct. 22: Rikki Ducornet
Oct. 29: James Thomas Stephens and
Zhang Er
Nov. 5: C.S. Giscombe
Nov. 12: Susan Schultz/Tinfish poetry
journal reading
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 from 2 to 3 p.m.
Writing Center is located in LIB 2304
Artist Lecture Series
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. 16: Beverly Naidus
Oct. 30: Sara Bates
Nov. 13: LauraAlpert
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Thursdays, 4 p.m.
LIB 3303
The WoCC office is CAB 206: that's the
swanky room next to the Market, the one
with the big windows with the huge calendar
posted. The purpose of this Diversity Calendar is to have a central, very obvious, physical location for adve1tisement for diversity
events on campus and in the community. If
you want your event posted, just slip a flyer
under the door. Questions? Contact us at
x6006 or wocc-tesc@gmail.com
Common Bread
Thursdays, 5 to 8 p.m.
Longhouse I 002
Common Calendar
Gaming Guild
Wednesdays, 5:30p.m.
CAB 320
Giant Robot
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Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.
CAB 3'' floor TV lounge
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Wednesdays, 6 to 8 p.m.
SEM II, Ell05
Abbretiaticms
Circus Resurgence
Thursdays, 6 to 9 p.m.
LIB lobby
College Activities Building: CAB
College Recreation Center: CRC
Communications Building: COMM
Housing Community Center: HCC
Lab Buildings: LAB I or LAB II
Lecture Hall: LH
Library: LIB
Seminar I Building: SEM I
Seminar II Building: SEM II
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