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The Evergreen State College
98505
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE EVERGREEN STAT;laJ
GEODUCK
UNION
Express your
ideas, concerns and questions at
the next Union Town Hall
Meeting ~ PAGE 4
Student Trustee
communication
breakdown
see BREAKDOWN, page 4
Evergreen participates in the
NAIA Reigon 1 Championships and ends the season
on a good note ~ PAGE 9
Address Service Requested
This week's
comics: traumatized clouds, goombas that
are afraid of the dark and
sassy molecules ~ PAGE 7
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Students demonstrate in CAB
by JASON SLOTKIN
On Monday, a band of students made
its way across campus protesting the Iraq
occupation. This protest was organized by
various students around campus.
These students carried around signs with
names of the dead and lay on the ground to
acknowledge casualties of the war.
One student read off the names of the
deceased from the Iraq War with the aid of
a megaphone. Students would also switch
with the megaphone and announce various
information about the war and their cause.
This recent protest was sparked by the
landing of equipment-bearing military
ships in the Port of Olympia. According to
protesters like Filemen Bohmer-Tania, this
presence had given the students a chance
to affect military action.
"We want them to stop the use of U.S.
courts and any courts against Iraq,"
Bohmer-Tania said wh ile interviewed.
We are also calling for immediate withdrawal from Iraq and reparations for its
citizens."
Members of a group known as Patriots
against the Patriot Act came to the campus
to observe the protest. They are a group
located off campus attempting to gain a
presence.
The protest continued off campus at the
4th Avet
Bridge, where a vigil was to
be held
owed by a protest on Tuesday
in the area surrounding the port.
The group also distributed fliers around
the campus bearing information on the
protest and events that preceded and
followed it.
Jason Slatkin is a junior enrolled in
Literature of the Americas.
That lane isil'tjust for speeding
by JASON SLOTKIN
This week marks the beginning ofthe Greener
Commuting event. This campus-wide event
encourages students to find alternative sources
of transportation and find new ways to reduce
the Evergreen's carbon footprint. According
to the school's website, the event was created
to help raise awareness of global warming and
to reduce the college's carbon emissions, 24%
of which is caused by commuters.
The Commuting event is hosted by the
Greener Commuting Program, which was
once the Commute Trip Reduction, and will
be held every quarter.
From November 5 through the 16th, items
that promote alternative transportation will be
given away. Students can also fill out surveys
for a chance to win prizes that will be given
out through a drawing held at the end of the
two-week period.
This survey gathers information on students'
commuting habits and collects opinions
on ways to cut down on carbon emissions.
The school is also giving away free parking
passes to carpools of three or more people
that will last until the 16th. There will also be
a ride board in Red Square to help students
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by LAUREN TAKORES
Questions surrounding the fulfillment of the role of the Student
Trustee came to a head last week
during a meeting between Geoduck
Union (GU) members and Robert
Segura, the Student Trustee for the
2007-08 school year.
Governance and leadership of
Evergreen is vested in the Board of
Trustees, an eight-member organization responsible for the future of
Evergreen's policies and strategies.
Seven of the Board members are
appointed by the Governor of Washington and are selected from among
community members and alumni.
The eighth member is the Student
Trustee, also selected by the Governor, from a group of no less than
three but no more than five nominees
chosen by the Union. The current
members of the GU select the next
school year's Student Trustee, so the
2007-08 GU inherited Segura from
the 2006-07 GU 's recommendations
and the Governor's final decision.
According to a recommendation letter from the Union to the
Governor, Segura "demonstrated
particular interest in facilitating
communication between students
and the Board of Trustees" and was
the favored choice of the 2006-07
GU out of seven interviewed and
three selected applicants.
This year, Segura attended Board
meetings, as per the position description of the Student Trustee, and even
attended one through a conference
call. However, unlike last year's
Student Trustee and against what
was implied in the letter to the
Governor, Segura did not report
back on decisions made at Board
meetings to the Union. Board meetings are open to the public except
for certain closed sessions, when the
GU relies on the Student Trustee to
convey the agenda and decisions.
Trevor Kinaham, Union liaison
to Board, said that Segura wasn't
communicating with the GU and
at last week's meeting, it became
clear Segura was not acquainted at
all with the Union, and even asked
if Kinaham was the president. GU
decisions are made by consensus.
The Student Trustee is not required
to coordinate with the Union but
precedent was set last year through
the former Student Trustee's
People!
SF I BENEFIT
Review of the
Eagle's Hall
show that
raised money for and
awareness of the San
Francisco 8 ~ PAGE 7
LEiE' ~lngton
put together carpools. Through the various
resources, the Greener Commuting Program
hopes to discourage students and employees
from driving alone to the campus.
The Commuting Program is also trying to
appeal to cyclists. Bike helmets are available
for four dollars and LED armbands are being
distributed while supplies last.
Students interested in the program can find
more information at the program tent or at the
events page on the Evergreen website.
Jason Slatkin is a junior enrolled in Literature of the Americas.
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"I'm kind of pissed
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"I'm unhappy with the
drunk bus and Flaming
Eggplant fee. I haven't
seen a late bus and I
can't use my meal plan
for the Flaming Eggplant
anyway."
Distribution manager
Sarah Alexander
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Brandon Custy
Calendar coordinator
"Not really. I moved
off campus because I
didn't like the food and
housing situation at all."
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"We voted to have a fee
for a late night bus and
we're being charged for
that, but I haven't seen a
change."
Comics coordinator
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Copy editor
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Poetics and Power
Poetic::; and Power
Copy editor
Charles A~ner
Letters & Opinions coordinator
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Photo coordinator
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Sports coordinator
David Raileanu
Student Voice coordinator
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L<urcn Takores
"I'm fine with the bus
pass fee and health care,
but I'm not happy with
the fees for the CAB. I
think they're too high."
"I think that we're not
being informed. I want
to know what's going
on with the late night
shuttle."
Reporter
Amber Carver
Reporter
Jason Slotkin
Page Designer
Joel Morley
Pat Savage
Stcl:mic Gollscbalk
Page Designer
Bryn Harris
Gypsy Road
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Advisor
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November 8, 2007
Day of the Dead
celebration
by AMBER CARVER
Last Thursday was Dia de los Muertos. Common Bread and MeChA joined
hands to recognize the holiday by hosting a free potluck and celebration in the
Longhouse.
Dia de los Muertos - or Day of the
Dead - is a holiday that originated in
Mexico. The two-day festival is a time
to remember deceased loved ones. Death
is not looked upon as a sad thing but as
something to celebrate, and friends and
family share good food and memories
as they join to commemorate those who
have passed on.
MeChA, the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan, organized the potluck,
and Common Bread donated the room.
Common Bread is a campus club that
meets each week to dance, meditate, and
share food. It offered up its weekly meeting place -the Cedar Room of the Longhouse- to MeChA so that the celebration
could be held.
Amber Carver is a senior enrolled in
Temperate Rainforests.
BREAKDOWN,Jrom cover
commitment to relaying information.
According to Segura, expectations of
the relationship between the Union
and the Student Trustee were not clear
in the beginning because the GU was
going through growing pains as it was
still forming during the Student Trustee
interview process.
The high turnover ofUnion officials year
to year also contributed to this lapse,
Segura said.
According to Union member Charles
Loosen, Segura claimed he did not
know GU meeting times but records
show attempted correspondence since
late July. Segura disputes this claim by
Loosen, stating it was not until Kinaham
was chosen as liaison to the Board that
he was successfully contacted by the
Union.
There are·no plans to press for replacement of Segura. In fact, Segura is hoping
afford more time with and to talk a lot
more with the Union over the next
two quarters. He emphasized that the
communication breakdown was "no
one's fault" and his wish to leave his
position and the GU in better shape for
future generations.
Segura's term expires on June 30 of
next year. The Union's weekly public
meetings take place Wednesdays from
1:30 to 3 p.m . in SEM II, E 1105.
Lauren Takores is a junior enrolled in
NEWS BRIEFS
Clean Energy
Committee:
Logo Design
See the Oly RoBers!
On November 11, the Oly Rollers, a
local women's roller derby team will face
off against Spokane's Lilac City Roller
Girls. The skating will start at 6:30 p.m.
at .Skateland in Olympia. Tickets are
available from brownpapertickets.com
-$12.00 advance, $17.00 at the door.
FCC Hearing
A public hearing on Media Ownership
will be held on Friday, November 9 at
Seattle's town hall, 4 p.m. - II p.m. at
1119 8th ave in the Great Hall. This is
the sixth and final public hearing before
the FCC decides if it will allow media
conglomorates to take over even more
in concentrated areas. For more information, espically if you would like to
testify, visit www.reclaimthemedia.org.
Attention art students,freespeech
and land use advocates
There will be guided tours of the "interesting" property at Cedrona Drive and
Kaiser Road on Saturday, November 10
at noon. Please come and photograph art
cars and move before destruction. For
more info, contact oldbusnaudio@aol.
com.
Competition!
The Clean Energy Committee is in need
of a new logo design. The logo should have
clean energy in its design. This includes
wind, solar, geothermal, and gas from various forms of biomass. Be creative and have
fun with it!
Submission deadline is November 16th
What is the Clean Energy Committee
(CEC)? The CEC was formed after a vote
by students to add a fee of a dollar per
credit to pay for 100% offsets of green
energy through Puget Sound Energy's
green tags program. You are paying for
carbon neutral energy coming from wind
power and methane biomass capture from
a local dairy farm. Out of the annual fees
collected, I 0% goes towards student
designed education and research projects
focused on clean energy. There is a simple
. grant proposal for any students looking to
fund a clean energy project. This can range
from an educational solar panel display on
campus to an individual research project.
To check out the proposal process and for
more information on the student initiative,
go to our website at www.evergreen.edu/
cleanenergy.
Submit designs to: cleanenergy@evergreen.edu or Tom Mercado in Student
Activities, CAB 320.
Poetics and Power.
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Novermber 8, 2007
Student Union
split over reps
by SETH VINCENT
Geoduck Student Union representatives are
intending to not fill empty seats that were
vacated earlier in the year. The Union has been
communicating by email about the feasibility
and importance of holding special elections,
or appointing new representatives by other
means, and have not come to an agreement
about the best way to proceed.
"Bottom line is there's not consensus around
the issue," said representative Charles Loosen
during the meeting. "The window of opportunity is pretty much gone," The time and
cost of running special elections was cited by
representatives as main obstructions in filling
the empty seats.
"Special elections, at this point, I think,
would undermine the credibility and the
stability of the student union overall," said
Mollie Leslie, the Tacoma campus representative. "The elections were done last spring
- I think we should concentrate on bringing
students in to participate in the committees,
and to encourage them to participate in the
process by running next spring. .. . We can't
do it if the students aren't aware and aren't
working for you and with you for the goals
that work for everybody. That's true for every
campus."
The Union intends on getting fellow
students involved in committees, which
include the Environmental Committee, Arts
and Humanities Committee, Finance Oversight Committee (which investigates the way
money is spent at Evergreen), and others. To
find out more about what happens on Union
Committees, what the Union can do for you as
a student and other facets of student government, attend the next Town Hall meeting on
Tuesday, November 13 at 7 p.m. in the HCC.
Seth Vincent is a junior enrolled in an independent learning contract. He is also editor in
chiefofthe Cooper Point Journal.
Election Results
Olympia area residents voted Tuesday
on measures and candidates for the state
of Washington, Thurston County, and the
city of Olympia. Selected results are as
follows:
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You are invited to attend The Evergreen State College Annual
Veterans Day Commemoration
* * * * *
Monday, November 12, 2007
Recital Hall, Communications Building, Noon to 2 p.m.
·Guest Speakers
Dr. Mike Colson
Author and two . tour Veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan,
Outreach Coordinator, Seattle Vet Center
Washington State
Tracy Simpson, Ph.D.
Referendum 67
(Insurance Claims)
Rejected
House Resolution 4204
(School Levies Simple Majority)
Co.-Director, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Puget Sound Women's Trauma and Recovery Center
.Doris Kent ·
Rejected
472938
52%
Gold Star Mother of Fallen Soldier Jonathan J. Santos
Thurston County
Proposition No. 1
(Prevention/Intervention)
Special Presentation
Rejected
Port of Olympia Commissioner,
District 1
The Impact of War Comes Home
4:30p.m. to 5:30p.m. in Seminar 2, A 1105
with Gold Star Mother, Doris Kent
City of Olympia
Mayor of Olympia
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Please join us for the ceremony, and aday of remembrance and gratitude.
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November 8, 2007
Meet your local writing community
f:y NICKY TISO
The flourishing writing community came
together in the lobby of the library on
November I, for a night of student, alum, and
faculty readings. It is the first of the Press:
Play literary series, put on by the Slightly
West literary arts journal and the Evergreen
Writer 's Guild, which hosts periodic readings to expose members of the Evergreen and
Olympia writing scene to unsuspecting ears.
The readers were: David Wolach, morphined
prankster/faculty member; Grant Miller,
black clad delinquent/Evergreen alum;
Holly Melgard, Evergreen senior; and Steve
Hendricks, jet-black seasonal hair/visiting
faculty. Evergreen student Andrew Bergner
also featured a backdrop of photography that
captured a timeless celebration of life, death,
and the absurd.
David read two pieces - the first, entitled
This Singularity, was composed of short
verses separated numerically, and the other
piece was from his novel, I Am Richard
Pryor, which contained avant-garde wordplay and formed a political commentary
delivered through the usage of multiple
physical health references that served to
represent the sociopolitical ailments of an
entire populous. A portion of his text was
read with help from Meghan McNealy, who
created diverse dynamics of personas given
to the piece.
NT: Do you find the self-reforential nature
of a text to be a stylistic choice or a literary
obligation?
DW: I think writers should bear the
responsibility of realizing that they are
part of a schema of mass culture that tries
to pigeonhole them, both in terms of genre
and in terms of voice, and so work that isn 1
self-aware in that way is work to me that's
irresponsible. It doesn 1 mean it isn 1 entertaining, but I personally think all work needs
to wrestle with genres and all other external
factors that writers themselves don 1 import
naturally - stuff that's imported via major
publishers and large advertisingfirms.
Former Evergreen student and writing tutor
Grant Miller read his prose pieces were
next. The first piece, Subtle Revolution, was
intended to be a theatrical work written as an
open letter to a historical literary figure that
I failed to pinpoint. For his next piece, Paleontology ofForgetting, he read with a careful
development to the text's rhythm, at times
using devices such as alliteration, expansive
metaphors, or repetition. With lines like,
"Love must remain blind because the eyes
will never adjust," it read something like a
resurrected memory crafted with experimental romanticism, and it was beautiful.
NT· What makes short stories your medium
of choice?
GM: I like short stories. I always call them
prose pieces, but I like short stories because
you can write them and you can fail, and it's
OK. So I really love the ability to have each
piece be a kind of experiment. A lot of times
when I read stuff I'm reading drafts of stuff
I'm working on, so I think it's a great medium
to try andfail and have it really be OK.
Holly Melgard read some pieces from
last year's Slightly West, including From
a Future Poetics, which is a phonetically
based composition concerned with making
language aware of itself, and how meanings of words change and depend on other
Got Creativity?
meanings in relation to each other. The piece
was read with rapid trade-off from Poetics
and Power student Tod Herres. The text was
full of alterations, surfaced contradictions,
language treated as matter and manipulated,
and so on.
NT- What motivates you to write?
HM: That's my problem; I'm not really
motivated to write. I find myself hav_ing to
write to meet certain criteria. It's more like,
I'll be reading a book or writing an essay
or putting together a literary journal, and
I'll find a gap, either in my education or in
my ability to draw connections, and writing
always comes out of that, to fill those gaps.
For me, writing is much more a byproduct
than it is a vehicle of emoting.
Finishing off the evening was Steve
Hendricks, whose modest talents of writing reminds me of, say, a woman who is
seen wearing an astounding dress, and
when complimented on it says, "Oh, what,
this old thing?" He read from his novel ...
backwards, and yet the first sentence he
read began, "Once upon a time." Such is
the complexity and richness of his text that
attempts to "reverse engineer a better novel"
by both knowing itself and defeating the
simplicity of a linear narrative by traveling
in multiple directions. These characteristics
give it a musical nature, and make him more
of a composer of language than a conventional author.
NT: When creating a piece, you are aware
of the irifinite number of directions that can
be generated to create a story. Does this
make choosing a singular direction difficult?
SH: I suppose, and part of the challenge I
put for myselfin writing is that when a direc-
lion is chosen, I often attempt to demolish the
consequences of that choice in a W0J, and
that I think produces the self-referentiality.
In producing the original draft, in anything
that emerges as a narrative or a kind of
psychological or realistic presentation of
people emerging out a text, I would bash
that apart and move on to something else, so
that's where a lot ofselfreflection and the text
regarding and canceling itself comes from.
So in a way it's a sort ofpersistent avoidance
of direction, but of course something comes
out of that, and something like a direction
has certainly emerged, and something like
an intention ...
N T- Like a direction through negation?
SH: I would hope it's not just that. I don 1
imagine it or experience it as a negative text
or a text about doing nothing, but in a sense
being about knowing something without
narrative, and so that's where this narrator's
relationships to these texts and these relatives
come in. It's about desiring to know something, but not desiring to reduce someone or
these books to a simpler, linear biographical
narrative.
Press: Play was well received by a large
and playful audience and marked a successful start to many more writing community
convergences. Don't miss out on the next
reading series, Decompression, which will
take place at 8 p.m. on Friday, November
9 at the Black Front Gallery downtown and
will feature a variety of student writers and
photography.
Nicky Tiso is enrolled in Poetics and
Power.
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Submit a Design for the Clean Energy Committee
Logo Competition!
The Clean Energy Committee is in need of a new logo design.
Clean energy must be incorporated into the design. This includes
wind, solar, geothermat gas from various forms of biomass. Be
creative and have fun with it!
Submittal deadline is November 16th.
Other Logo Parameters:
*Incorporate Clean Energy Committee text in logo
*Original Design
*If colors are used, should be printable in black and white as well.
What is the Clean Energy Committee (CEC)? The CEC was formed
after a vote by students to add a fee of a dollar per credit to pay for
100% offsets of green energy through Puget Sound Energy's green
tags program. You are paying for clean energy coming from wind
power and methane biomass capture from a local dairy farm. Out
of t he an nual fees collected 10% goes toward s student designed
educat ional and research projects focused on clean energy. There
is a simple grant proposa l for any students looking to fund a clean
energy project. This can range from an educational solar panel
display on campus to an individual research project. To check out
the proposal process and for more information on the student
initiative, go to our website at www.evergreen.edu/cleanenergy.
Submit designs to: cleanenergy@evergreen.edu or Tom Mercado in
Student Activities, CAB 320.
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Novermber 8, 2007
Beyond Occupation: Dahr Jamail and Suheir Hammad
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As a part of the 24th Annual Olympia Film
festival and as a benefit for the Rachel Corrie
Foundation, investigative citizen-reporter
Dahr Jamail and renowned Palestinian
poet I spoken word artist Suheir Hammad
expressed their differing perspectives on
the validity of the written word as a tangible
form of resistance against occupation, , in a
collaboration appropriately entitled "Beyond
Occupation." This presentation was sponsored by BRICK, SESAME and the Rachel
Corrie Foundation.
Dahr Jamail, a ·concerned citizen turned
investigative reporter, read excerpts from
his new book entitled Beyond the Green
Zone, Dispatches from an unembedded
journalist, which chronicles his experiences
in Iraq. Rather than engaging in the process
of investigative journalism, "Journalists,"
Jamail clamed, "find themselves reporting
from the comforts of the 'Green Zones' in
Iraq." Jamail conveyed to the audience his
personally held belief in which he considers
information gathered by these journalists,
sponsored by corporate media outlets, to be
fallacies that are presented to the American
public under the guise of objective information. These reports that materialize from the
safety of the Green Zone are "trumpeted by
the current administration."
Jamail first traveled to Iraq on November
23, 2003 as nothing more than a disgruntled
civilian journalist. Reading an excerpt from
his book, Jamail detailed an experience that
he had ill Iraq in which he visited a street
corner whose walls were scorched and freshly
adorned with bullet holes left by unprovoked,
irate American troops.
He then continued to fortify his powerful
statements through the exclamation of statistics, stating that from the unjust invasion of
Iraq in 2003 until October of 2006, 2.5% of
Iraq's population has been murdered, which
roughly translates to 1,100,000 Iraqi deaths.
The war has been the root cause of a major
Iraqi Diaspora, which has led to the displacement of at least 6 million Iraqi citizens and
has left 4 million more in dire need of medical attention.
Jamail ended his presentation by reading
another excerpt from his book, which detailed
the conversation that was had between a doctor
from Fallujah General Hospital and himself.
Recalling a horrific scene in which, due to
the power outages caused by the American
occupation, doctors in Fallujah were forced
to operate without anesthetics by candle and
flash light. The only working ambulance in
Fallujah had not only been riddled with bullet
holes, but its driver had refused to make any
more runs through the city to pick up the dead
and dying for fear of losing his own life to
stray American bullets. The Iraqi doctor told
Jamail that he didn't know whom to contact
about the horrific conditions under which the
doctors were being forced to work because
"no one is listening." The doctor went on to
say that life under American rule was worse
than that under Saddam.
Jamail feels that, "The American war with
Iraq is now over; the war is now the war of
the Iraqi people against the American occupation." After the presentation I had the privilege to talk to former New Republic editor
and current senior correspondent for the
American Prospect and a national security
correspondent for the Washington Monthly,
Spencer Ackerman about how he felt about
Dahr Jamail's accusations that no objective
information could come from an "embedded"
reporter. Spencer responded by saying that,
"Embedding is a means to an end - sometimes appropriate and sometimes not. . . . If
the story is about the Iraqi people, embedding is a huge mistake. Far more important
is a basic ability to assess the motivations of
anyone talking to you in a war zone - Iraqi,
American, soldier, civilian, whatever - and
subject everything to a reasonable amount
of scrutiny, crossed against what you can
confirm independently."
After Dahr Jamail's presentation, Evergreen faculty member Therese Saliba introduced Suheir Hammad to a packed Capitol
Theatre, describing Suheir's ability to wield
language effectively as a tool against oppression. Therese described the byproducts of
this creative process as "lifelines in a time
of crisis." Suheir Hammad's inspirational
words have been published in two books and
in more than fifteen separate anthologies; she
has received a Tony award for her collaborative appearance on Russell Simmons Presents
DefPoetry Jam on Broadway.
Suheir proceeded to ask a question of the
members of the predominantly white Olympia audience. "How many people here have
family or friends currently in prison?" Scattered around the room, hands apprehensively
raised, and the members of the audience
looked around with a sense of unease. She
then stated, "I asked this question at a performance at Howard University and not a single
hand was not raised." These references to the
institutionalization of racism places responsi-
bility on the individual not only to acknowledge its existence but also to become the
means through which it is stopped. Although
this may seem like an ideological goal, once
again Suheir's words work to inspire, "We
are the resistance to the imperialistic agenda
of our government."
Through a grouping of poems with "break"
in all of their individual titles, whose first
lines were written to coincide with the
Israeli bombing campaign of Lebanon,
Suheir intended to expand the collective
Arabic vocabulary of the American public
beyond that of merely "Jihad," "Taliban" and
"AI Qaeda." By incorporating Arabic into
her presentation, she was able to not only
traverse beyond the limitations presented to
her by the English language, but also, by not
performing her poetry simply in the language
used by the culture her parents were forced
to assimilate into, she refuses to subscribe
to the widely accepted belief that English is
a universal language. The seamless, poetic
incorporations of Arabic phrases helped
in the process of dismantling the negative
connotations that are so readily associated
with the Arabic language by members of
European and other Western societies. Words
that were incorporated into her presentation
that were, but not limited to: hob- love, hawa
-wind and Habibi- beloved.
Suheir Hammad ended her presentation with
a reading of one of her more impactful poems
entitled Beyond Words. During a stanza of
Beyond Words, Suhier was booed by Evergreen sophomore Noah Theeman-Lindberg.
After the show, I asked Noah why he felt
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San Francisco Eight Benefit Concert
by BRANDON CUSTY
The San Francisco 8 benefit concert on
Sunday November 2, was a dynamic event.
It provided a chance for students to combine
music and politics. A lengthy list of bands
were scheduled to play along with speakers
centering their speech around politics. The
concert also featured Aaron Dixon, former
captain of the Seattle Black Panther party
and Green party candidate for the Senate.
The room at the Eagle's Hall was rather
chaotic.
People were carrying in different musical
equipment throughout the show. It was
also conspicuously empty. All throughout
the first half there people arriving and the
concentration of people sitting on the floor
grew. The political songs of Mark Gunnery
and the political slam poetry presented
by Josh Rizeberg set the tone for Aaron
Dixon's "set."
Gunnery's anti-war and anti-government song, filled 'with lines like, "This
of the public while educating them and
preparing them for a revolution. They also
distributed a publication that achieved a
worldwide circulation of 350,000 at one
time.
While the Black Panthers helped their
respective communities, the FBI and other
government organizations began 'infiltrating the group. Dixon began to talk about the
assassinations and was particularly moved
when he recounted how Fred Hampton, the
leader of the Chicago chapter, was killed.
An informant drugged Hampton and the
FBI shot him in his sleep after breaking into
the headquarters. Each time Dixon recalled
the details of the many assassinations, he
seemed to be grieving a little.
The pride showed as he recounted the
accomplishments stood in sharp contrast
to the recounting of the deaths of his
former comrades, except thablh01plli:demras
a constant. He told of the $25,000 dollar
contract on his head and the two attempts
on his life in '68 and '70.
"HE TOLD OF THE $25,000 DOLLAR
CONTRACT ON HIS HEAD AND THE TWO
ATTEMPTS ON HIS LIFE IN '68 AND '70."
After a long standing ovation, the crowd
conversation's intellectual masturbation,"
sung while bouncing up and down with his in the room stayed on their feet during the
guitar, excited the crowd.
question and answer session. People asked
Rizeburg enhanced the crowd's excite- how they could help and what strategies
ment, slamming lines like, "Politrickin' they could use to create change. Dixon
politicians are sideways talkin' outta both answered, "We have to think strategically
from OCCUPATION, page 6
sides of their mouth," and "They're about and not emotionally. We have to look for
compelled to heckle Suhier. He responded, This type of behavior
to start chargin' your lungs for clean air."
small victories, create some victories." He
"I felt that [Suhier's] idea's were extremely Sanctioned violence in the name of a god
Aaron Dixon, the senatorial candidate for also stressed the building of community
good and inclusive and that I thought she Who does not have enough love for us all
the Green Party, walked to the front of the as a cornerstone for change and a coping
was incredibly respectful. It was just that I A god who chooses sides
room to an energetic applause. Thanks to mechanism for oppression in today's
felt that the comment that she made about A god who has favorites and chosen ones
the constant trickling of people through world, saying, "We gotta build community,
religion was an over-simplification of the A god who cuts deals and shuffles souls
the door, the room was now filled with a because when disasters happen, it's that
issues and below her ability as a slam poet." The type of god who does not answer
sea of faces, and the number seemed to community that's going to survive .... We
Although members of the audience reacted prayers
double because of the large mirror at the have to educate people, build community,
with disdain towards Noah's booing, what Who understands only one language
front of the room. Dixon started by thank- and spread community." After all the
many forget is that Slam Poetry is an A god who does not worry his beautiful
ing those in attendance for their support inspiring words of Aaron Dixon, the music
extremely audience-driven form of expres- mind with
of the San Francisco 8, then went into a began again.
sion and with positive affirmation comes Such ugliness
background of the Black Panther Party. He
its reciprocal. Here is a replication of the I am told this is America's god
Brandon Custy is a sophomore currently
highlighted that the purpose of the group
stanza in which Noah felt was presented in
was to create social change by focusing on enrolled in Performing Arts Laboratory.
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the community.
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For 56 years Israel has legitimized
The Panthers worked hard to establish
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Novermber 8, 2007
Anarchism and
Vandalism
by BEN MICHAELIS
Anarchism
and
vandalism are old ideas
and our social systems
are trained to absorb
them. In the previous issue of the CPJ,
Nicky Tiso pointed
out that upon seeing
the anarchist graffiti "one gets trapped
in immediately attaching it to Hot Topic,
to something stupid, childish, foolish,
etc." I completely agree with this assessment. The graffiti is not something that
makes us think or question. It is merely
an annoyance that makes a mockery of
social change. Students are not the only
people who react this way to the graffiti.
Our businesses and social structures
know exactly how to handle vandalism.
When you spray paint walls, the system
sends out a minimum wage worker to
scrub the walls clean. When you do it
again, you achieve the same results.
The people at the bottom of the system
continue to take the hit, and life moves
on.
Everything is left just the same as before
you started because you did not call on
anything to change. The top leaders in
our world are not going to relinquish
power because somebody who makes
eight dollars an hour has to spend extra
time scrubbing graffiti off walls.
The people at bottom will continue
to stay there until something requires
a change. Vandalism is clearly not
the tool to acquire this change.
The idea of vandalism is so far from
revolutionary that it is laughable. When
you say things like "fuck cops" you
aren't telling me anything new. Committing crimes in darkness and secrecy is
something that government, business,
and people all over the world have been
doing for a very long time. So when you
cry out for anarchy, don't be surprised
when no one bats an eye. We all know we
can buy your "rebellion" at the nearest
mall, complete with spiked necklaces,
black t-shirt and an anarchy patch.
No part of the anarchist graffiti requires
a change because every aspect of its
creation is already a part of us. The
violence, the crime, repetition of the
old and worn-out, all of these things are
outputs of our social system. Far from
opposing the things wrong with our society, this graffiti amplifies and glorifies the
wrong by repackaging it as "rebellion."
So if you do not want your message
of social change to be hijacked, you need
to create something our society is not
prepared to assimilate. I admit it is difficult to think about and create a new idea
for what social change could be. And
figuring out how to enact your idea is
just as hard as the search for inspiration.
It is difficult and new but clearly necessary because the old techniques aren't
good enough. It is necessary to make a
message of thoughtful rebellion.
The anarchist graffiti presents an old
message that is not so much rebellion
as it is reflection. It is a reflection of
the unthinking and violent. The graffiti is a reflection of those unaware of
what they are doing in the world. It
is a reflection that takes those who are
oppressed and grinds them into the dirt.
Nicky Tiso says, "The anarchy scrawling on campus is an issue of misrepresentation." What I ask is that you don't let
yourself be misrepresented anymore. It is
very hard to come up with something that
the system doesn't know how to absorb
already, but we need your energy, your
commitment, and your rebellion against
all that is terrible and unthinking in our
society.
Don't waste time rebelling in the ways
we know how to handle. The world is in
far too much trouble for people who want
change to be conquered so easily.
Ben Michaelis is a student enrolled at
The Evergreen State College.
Resistance to the European colonial disease
f?y TRAVIS GREER
Olympia and the
Northwest have a
history of resistance to
the European colonial
disease: From the days
when the cold continent
first coughed its cancerous eventual concrete
paving ct:lls upon this continent we live on to
now, today tomorrow and hopefully until we
see justice, people have stood up against the
threat to all human sovereignty. The capitalist wants to exploit every possible market,
take advantage of every person, brutalize all
natural purity for profit, use bureaucracy and
hierarchy to be separate from the obvious
abuse and despair. The capitalist is decadent,
while his object starves; the capitalist sets the
oppressed against each other, and shamelessly
promotes ignorance about his true position.
The inequality and suffering caused by
capitalist value systems and institutions
which are the shadow of detached people
have brought many to work towards halting the gears, jamming them, in hope of
saving a life, saving a person or culture,
or a species, or planet or people that could
have honestly been saved - their death
being at the cost of an increasingly smaller
amount of elites. The reality is becoming
overbearing; it is obtrusive, it's radical,
and on Monday, it docked at the Port of
Olympia. After the entire Port Militarization Resistance's struggle, the puppet port
commissioners sign our public, taxpayers'
funded port over to tyranny.
Now, the war machine is here: a huge
gray empire fueling a corporate leviathan
straight from the Persian Gulf, sitting north
of the Thriftway, directly and extremely
obvious. It intrudes into our lives like our
military presence does so violently into that
of every Iraqi and drudgingly stands in the
minds of all of us. It stands surrounded by
grim men in uniforms, grasping machine
guns, mindlessly protecting a way of life
built on expanding, exploiting and repression. This gives us, as privileged Westerners, a definitive role in opposition: where
we will not die when we so much as show
hints of defiance through acts of often
minimally effective subversion. Considering this situation in comparative analysis,
but saying it simply, we must welsch on
our privilege - not in decadence, but in
defiance - doing the most we possibly can
without getting our heads blown off.
Last March in Tacoma, port militarization
ended up in extreme forms of police brutality. No one died, was severely injured, or
fell victim of brutal dehumanization when
considering history in a comparative
framework; no one ended up in Guantanamo. An injustice to one is an injustice to
all, so we must fight this violation of our
community rights with fierce vigilance
and unity. Our history of resistance is too
powerful in the Northwest, from the 1999
Battle in Seattle, which was a catalyst in
the anti-globalization and revolutionary
anti-capitalist movement, to the last years
of active port resistance in Olympia and
Tacoma, which have received international
attention and furthered a similar campaign
for liberation.
There will be vigils from 4:00 to about
6:30 p.m. every day this week at the 4th
Avenue Bridge and marches in the evening
hours beginning at the artesian well area
around 8:30. In the wake of the blockades
of the previous protests and subsequent
arrests, but high media attention it will be
interesting to see whether direct action will
put a halt to these intense violations, and
more so make powerful statements to the
world that even privileged This ship will
be docked here unloading equipment to
get fixed and sent back to war for about I 0
days, caravans will be moving out of the
port's main gates (about 150 yards northeast of the farmers market) until the about
380 Strykers and other equipment are
unloaded. This is public land being used
by a federal war machine and a capitalist
system that is obviously brutally unequal,
and unforgiving. Any person that disagrees
with this war should connect it to the
greater struggle against the entire socioeconomic system and join the resistance
for now and the future. This is a chance for
the immediate and greater community to
unite. Come to the protests, go to the port,
see the barbed wire fences, the cameras,
the machine gunners, the coast guard, see
for yourself, organize, take action!
Travis Greer is a sophomore enrolled in
an independent learning contract.
Thinking a fart smells good=bad
f?JJONCLARK
One day I opened the
door to my apartment
and stepped inside. I was
overcome by the robust,
meaty smell of a warm
bowl of chili. "Mmmm!"
I thought, "Where is that
good smell coming from?"
I assumed my roommate had cooked lunch,
but the kitchen was empty and he wasn't
home. "Bizarre!" I thought, and walked
determinedly to his room. No leftovers or
anything. When I turned around, I had a
view of the whole apartment. Tracked with
mud!
Immediately, I blamed my roommate. But
shortly thereafter, the robust smell hit my
nostrils differently, and suddenly the scene
that lay before me was crystal clear. I had
stepped in dog mess. The smell I thought
was chili was actually dog feces and I was
to blame.
I shamefully rubbed the carpets with soapy
water, hurling my shoes out the door. I
almost wept. How could I have done this
to my own home? To an outsider, it simply
wouldn't add up: Man arrives at own doorstep with foot covered in feces. Man trudges
around house tracking shit up and down his
halls.
The faux pas I committed that day happened
when the smell of feces failed to set off any
red flags in my brain and I mistook shit for
ground beef. Suddenly, up was down, stop
meant go, black was white, because the
smell that for so long I had categorized as
"foe" was now appearing on my radar screen
as "friend." The moment at which I decided
not only that this smell was pleasant, but also
that I would seek out and consume whatever
was emitting it, was the moment I turned
from man to beast.
That was the moment I sunk to the level
of a freewheeling dog who's escaped from
his pen: darting and dashing through the
neighborhood streets, pausing momentarily
to gorge himself on the droppings of his
brethren with a crazed look in his eye.
I'd feel bad enough if my blunder was an
isolated incident, but it happened again. I
work at a pizzeria. My colleague, Brandon,
eats a bowl of granola in yogurt for lunch
every day. As I passed his work area, I noticed
it smelled like vanilla yogurt. "Yum!" I said,
"Enjoying your snack?" "What?" he asked
as I scanned the counter for his half eaten
bowl of granola-the same bowl I wash in
the dish pit each afternoon. It was not there.
I sensed something was not right. Confused,
I stammered, "It smells like yogurt in here."
"Well," he said, "I guess you think my farts
smell like yogurt!" He laughed, and I wanted
to slap myself. Brandon could tell I was in
distress. He is a smart guy, a writer. He's
no stranger to close self-examination and
uncommon insight. "Thinking a fart smells
good is the ultimate betrayal of your self," he
said. With that one sentence he summed up
how I felt. He put a label on all my confusing feelings. I had betrayed myself, again.
The bottom line is that shit does not smell
good. Believing it does puts you at odds with
the rest of humanity and affords you nothing but scorn. This is why there are games
and procedures designed to keep these bad
smells at bay and make those who emit them
self-conscious. It starts on the playground.
Someone farts and he who is last to raise a
thumb to his forehead shouting the name of
any ice cream flavor but chocolate is "safe"
from peers' ridicule. These kinds of rules
have stood the test of time and conditioned
us to transfer our shame into the adult world.
I personally have put in exasperating effort
suppressing farts on dates and in public.
This is why I feel justified in passing judgment on others, wondering, "Who farted?"
on the bus as I gaze at my compatriots with
contempt.
This is why my desire, albeit brief, to
essentially eat excrement was wrong and I
shall never forget it. Not only did I betray
myself, I betrayed all of humanity. I unconsciously put myself at odds with the so<;iety I
so desperately seek acceptance from.
So as we struggle this quarter with issues of
sex, gender, morality, friendship, free trade,
fair trade, perrnaculture, horticulture, neocolonialism, Marxism, patriarchy, and anarchy,
we should remember to have a sense of
humor about ourselves because somewhere,
deep down, there is a fool inside us all who
just wants to be loved.
Jon Clark is a senior enrolled in an independent learning contract.
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November 8, 2007
Cross country
goes by in a flash
by DAVID RAILEANU
possible. Girls jostled their way to the end, battling a slight
wind and a crowded field to reach the finish line just in front
of of the soccer field bleachers.
Hundreds
As the ladies came in, there was a struggle to keep them
runners, coaches,
parents,
and in line, as tired as they were, to make sure the results were
supporters were reported accurately. It's an administrative nightmare. Spiton hand to watch ting, coughing, literally collapsing from the strain of leaving
the close of the every ounce of stamina and determination on the course, the
cross-country girls did the very best they could to comply with the orgaseason this past nizer's impassioned pleas. Many of the exhausted runners
weekend as the relied on a proxy to turn in their respective time tickets.
Cascade Collegiate All in all, the results were tabulated and the winners were
Conference Region congratulated. Kristen Kolstad of Simon Fraser University
I
Championships came in first with a time of 17:46. Emily Uhlig was the first
were held in Olympia. Greener to cross the finish line, turning in a time of 19:42.
Seventeen teams from In all, Evergreen had an average time of 21 :25 and totaled
three states and two a score of 345 points, good enough for twelfth place out of
countries participated 17.
It wasn't long before the men were warming up, taking their
in the event, including members of the places on the starting line. Coaches and competitors, anxious
CCC and the Frontier to begin the race, started to cheer with all of the enthusiasm
Conference as well of a hungry football team. Familiar chants accompanied the
as independents from warm-ups and each runner mentally prepared himself for
British Columbia. The cham- his impending test. "I don't want to see anyone throwing
pionships represent a culmi- any elbows in the first 100 meters," said one of the confernation of the cross-country ence officials into a bullhorn. After the race, Coach Craig
season as well as a chance Dickson admitted that things can get a little dicey on the
for teams and individuals to course. "It's not a violent sport. [The runners] will try to
qualify for the NAJA national get a little space for themselves, but most fights that I've
seen happen after the race." A rainbow-colored wave left the
championships.
The ladies' race kicked off at 10 a.m. with as much orange tape immediately after the starter fires his gun. It is
fanfare and excitement as homecoming at Husky Stadium. followed close behind by another wave, slightly larger and
Cowbells, whistles, banners, and voices rang out into the just as energetic, as all of the spectators do their best to keep
clear, crisp morning air as the field of over 125 runners took step with their teams.
A familiar scene unfolds: cowbells ringing, parents yellto the course. They followed a 5k track that took them from
the Housing fields, through the woods, around the Pavilion, ing, cameras flashing behind all of the runners. This all was
onto the track, over and down the hills, and back again. Each a little too much for sleepy students in Housing hoping to
step of the way, proud parents and fervent supporters did catch up after a busy week. "They hecka woke me up,"
the best they could to keep up with the runners with shouts opined junior Bryn Harris. This time the course ran for eight
of encouragement and chances to snap as many pictures as kilometers, keeping the boys busy for nearly a half-hour.
Once again, Simon Fraser took the day, tallying a scant 46
points and representing three of the top
five runners. Evergreen took 14th this
time, sending sophomore Brian
Rakestraw to the line first. After
the race, Rakestraw expressed
disappointment with his performance. "I got All-Conference
last week [at the Cascade
College Championships]
so I was hoping to
qualify for Nationals."
After cutting his 40
seconds this season,
Rakestraw, who qualified for Nationals this
past spring in track
and field, says that
he will "most likely"
return next year.
Coach
Dickson
expressed a strong sentiment to keep the team
motivated through the
off-season. After missing an
opportunity for exposure and
recruiting in New York this year,
Dickson has been challenged
to build a strong program. "It's
a small group, but they work
hard." All Evergreen runners
have years of eligibility left,
so the potential for a tradition
of success to begin. With high
expectations, the Evergreen
athletic community supports
and cheers on the cross-country
team and congratulates them on
PHOTOS: BELINDA MAN
such a fine season.
David Rai/eanu is a senior enrolled in Molecule to
Organism.
Green House hosts last volleyball match of season
by DAVID RAILEANU
The Green House was on fire Saturday
night as the volleyball team took the
court for the last time. The paltry crowd
more than earned their own assist credit
for the Geoducks, cheering on every
single member of the understaffed squad.
Playing as it was their last, the ladies hit
harder, jumped higher, and yelled louder
than they have all season.
"The attitude and intensity - It starts
right here and right now" -Coach Gerry
Cassell
The faithful six, Kandice Gleaves,
Sabrina Tan, Katie Huston, Erin Heffernan, Alysse Eaton, and Lea Kronenberg,
took the court with a passion and intensity unmatched by any opponent this
season. If points were awarded for focus,
determination, and effort, the Geoducks
would be undefeated.
Eaton, still plagued by a knee injury,
hobbled around the court, effectively
limiting the Geoducks to five active
players. Those undeniable Geoducks,
however, refuse to bow out in the face of a
nationally ranked opponent and a winless
season.
The College ofldaho (formerly Albertson
College), 19-7 overall and ranked seventh
in the national poll, visited Olympia to
round out their near-perfect CCC record.
But Evergreen would not let the Yotes get
away that easily.
Evergreen, down early in the first game,
mounted an impressive comeback to bring
the game within reach. Led by kills from
Gleaves and Tan and even some impressive contributions from the injured Eaton,
who earned a 1.000 kill percentage in her
one attempt, the Geoducks knew that they
could play with the intimidating opponent.
Struggles on defense allowed to the Yotes
to run away with it, 20-30.
After a run of three consecutive points
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to start the second game, the Geoducks
lost some focus and concentration and fell
behind by a wide margin. The early string
of points was the longest in the match,
falling to Idaho, 17-30.
Excitement rose to a boiling point
when Evergreen dug their way out of a
hole to come within two late in the third
game. Taking a quick timeout, College
of Idaho came back hard, eventually
taking the game, 20-30. Gleaves and Tan
led the team in kill percentage and total
kills, respectively, and Katie Huston had
another double-digit night, tallying 14 set
assists and earning her position as the #10
setter in the conference.
Evergreen has no more home games this
year, but will play against Warner Pacific
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This week's events on & around campus
Thursday, 8
Noon. "We are Not Terrorists! Organizing is
Democracy" with Josafina Lazo Molina. LH 5.
Hosted by CISPES.
5 p.m. Potluck dinner, 6 p.m. talk and contemplative celebration. Celtic Spirituality with Rev.
George-Anne Boyle. Longhouse. Hosted by
Common Bread.
7:30p.m. Race, Gender and Politics of Hip-Hop
with Bakari Kitwane. Lecture and music. LH 3.
Hosted by Umoja.
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4 to II p.m. Federal Communications Commission's sixth and final public hearing on media
ownership issues. Town Hall Seattle, Great Hall,
1119 Eighth Avenue at Seneca Street.
Friday 9, continued
nity Center. Hosted by Olympia Movement for
Justice and Peace.
Monday, 12
4 to 5 p.m. Study abroad workshop: Jackson
School at UW. SEM II, C 1107.
Wednesday, 14
I to 3 p.m. Academic planning workshop. SEM
II, B II 07. Call x6312 to sign up.
8 p.m. Decompression: a group of eight writers
reading from their works. Black Front Gallery.
Hosted by Slightly West and the Writer's Guild.
4 to 5:30 p.m. HCC Advising Festival. Plan
ahead with faculty from across the curriculum
and academic advisors. Prime Time, A Dorm.
Free ice cream.
2 to 5 p.m. Study abroad workshop showcase.
SEM II, C 1107.
7 p.m. Susan Schultz/finfish poetry journal
reading. SEM II, EII05. Hosted by the program
Poetics and Power.
7 to 9 p.m. Spoken word open mike. HCC. Sponsored by the WoCC, MEChA, and the Office for
Diversity Affairs.
Tuesday 13,
I :30 to 3 p.m. Geoduck Town Hall Forum.
HCC.
7:30 p.m. Earth Return: Noise and the Nature
of Electromagnetism with Douglas Kahn, one of
Evergreen's earliest graduates. COMM Recital
Hall. Hosted by Mediaworks, Poetics and Power,
and Fashioning the Body, and Academic Dean
Ken Tabbutt.
8:30 p.m. Guerrilla Wordfare Olmeca, Creole,
Revolution Hip-Hop show. CRC. Hosted by
MEChA.
5 p.m. Erin Ryan & Even Greer musical performance and lecture on prison support. HCC.
Hosted by Environmental Resource.
Saturday, 10
7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Comics Night at Danger
Room. Free.
7 p.m. Veterans Panel on the Perils of Militarism: From Iraq to Lakefair. Olympia Commu-
Greener Conunuting Events
3:45p.m. Art Lecture Center with Laura Alpert.
LH I. Sponsored by Evergreen Gallery and
Visual and Environmental Arts. Free and open
to all.
7 p.m. Inga Muscio. LH I. Hosted by WRC.
10 p.m. Le Voyeur Trivia Night.
Upcoming Events
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Carpools of 3 or more can stop by the
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Red Square Rideboard
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Free Reflective Ankle/Arm Band
The first few dozen bicyclists or walkers
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Show your support of sharing the road by
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Thursday, Nov. 15,
3:30p.m. "Iraq in Crisis: Refugees & Responsibility." Sem II Cll05 Hosted by SESAME.
5:30p.m. Homo for the Holidays Thanksgiving potluck. Bring a dish to share with your
family of choice. CAB 320. Hosted by EQA.
Friday, Nov. 16
Noon. Earth Return: Noise and the Nature of
Electromagnetism with Douglas Kahn, one of
Evergreen's earliest graduates. COMM Recital
Hall.
Sunday, Nov. 18
10 a.m. Natural Family Planning Advanced
Training. Location TBA. Hosted by VOX.
Tuesday, Nov. 27 and Wednesday, Dec. 5
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Self-evaluation workshop.
Prime Time, A Dorm. Presented by the Writing
Center.
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Day of the Dead
by Belinda Man
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Belinda Man is a freshman
enrolled in Individual and
Society: American and
Japanese Society, Literature and Cinema.
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