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STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE
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FACULTY
INT-=RVIEW
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FOOD
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Cascade Collegiate Con·ference names leading
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Wet weather
Flaming
Eggplant off
schedule
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rain
"You can't blame us,"
says Cafe coordinamr
by DAVID RAILEANU
Washington Governor Christina
Gregoire and Olympia Mayor Mark
Foutch both declared a state of
emergency Monday in response to
heavy winds and rainstorms across
the region. Flooding, landslides, and
potential damage to infrastructures
such as power and transit systems
led to multiple road closures in
Olympia and other local towns.
The Emergency Operations Center
for the City of Olympia opened at
I 0:30 monday morning to keep a
close eye on developing situations
and to provide up-to-the-minute
information to local officials.
Many Evergreen students and
staff were unable to reach campus
due to precipitation and melting
weekend snow. Popular routes
such as Interstate 5, U.S. Highway 101, Black Lake Boulevard,
and Cooper Point Road were shut
down due to flooding. Many local
Intercity Transit routes to popular
destinations such as downtown
Olympia ana Westfield Shoppingtown were under detour or closed
due to standing water. Route 48,
one of the two buses serving Evergreen, was closed at I 0:15 a.m. on
monday between Harrison Avenue
and Evergreen Park Drive.
"My road was closed, but thankfully, I didn't have anywhere to
go," said sophomore Brandon
Custy, who lives off Delphi Road.
Many smaller, rural roads were
closed due to flooding.
One facilities manager noted that
several years ago, an earthquake
shook up parts of the CAB and
other buildings on campus. As a
result, he said, leaks have sprung
up throughout the buildings. This
created a hazardous situation on
the linoleum floors and red brick
walkways. Facilities Management
was quick to respond with buckets
and yellow signs alerting CAB
denizens to the slippery patches .•
With aid from the National guard,
many roads and byways had been
cleared by Tuesday morning, reestablishing normal traffic patterns.
Local schools resumed normal
class schedules over Tuesday and
Wednesday after flooding caused
some area schools to close. Many
Olympia residents now deal with
caked mud and water damage.
David Raileanu is a senior enrolled
in Molecule to Organism.
by MAX BAUVAL
Last spring, a student group told students
they would provide affordable, locally
grown meals to students if they agreed
to pay an extra $2 per credit during fall.
Students voted to support the idea.
At the beginning of fall, when a cafe
failed to materialize, the Flaming Eggplant
student group said that, for a number of
reasons, they wouldn't be able to provide
food before winter quarter, but that the fee
students were now paying would be used
to open a student food service by the beginning ofwinter.
Then, in the middle of fall quarter, the
group admitted it would be spring quarter before they would be able to serve
students.
Even this estimate may, too, be optimistic. The people in charge of ordering
what's needed for a cafe -chiefly, a trailer
to serve as the cafe Itself - say that the
process would more likely take anywhere
from four to six months. And that's after
the paperwork has been submitted, which
as of today, it has not.
"From start to finish you are probably
see EGGPLANT, page 4
BELINDA MAN
School of Rock rolls Longhouse
Portland's School of Rock and Derrick Jensen showed the Evergreen campus a good time
last Friday night. Pictures and and more can be found in Arts & Entertainment, page 7.
Housing
appuls board
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by JASON SLOTKIN
SlrA begins allocation process
by AMBER CARVER
The Evergreen Services and Activities Fee
Allocation Board, better known as the S&A
Board, has been busy as usual, juggling
controversy over the Geoduck Union and
allocating funds for a well-rounded array of
activities.
Each fall, nine students are hired to sit on
the S&A Board, and they are responsible for
distributing roughly $2.5 million to Evergreen
student groups over the course of an academic
year. This quarter, about 20 groups approached
the S&A Board with proposals, and around
$55,000 were allotted to them.
The greatest point of contention was the
Geoduck Union'srequest for member stipends.
While it has been known since the GU's
inception last year that the elected members
would be receiving stipends, the procurement
of those funds posed a dilemma.
The issue at hand is a bylaw that stipulates
that as long as there is a union on campus, it
is responsible for appointing the S&A Board's
members. The election process is intended to
occur a year in advance. This system reduces
the chance that the GU will exert undue influence on the S&A Board, because Union representatives only serve one-year terms.
The GU, however, did not exist until last
year, so S&A Board members were selected
by GU representatives that were just beginning their terms, not by representatives on
their way out of office. In other words, GU
representatives were forced to ask for stipends
from the people they had just appointed.
see ALLOCATION, page 3
Students with housing payment disputes
have been waiting for the appeals board
to assemble and render a decision. As fall
quarter comes to a close, the board has yet
to meet.
The housing appeals board was scheduled
to meet by the fourth week of the quarter. By the fifth week, they were to have
rendered a decision. Without a decision,
these students face holds on their accounts
and possibly collections.
The board settles payment disputes
between students and Residential and
Dining Services. The Housing Appeals
board, which is being renamed to Building Arbitration, won't meet until winter
quarter. Until then, students waiting to hear
from the board will have to receive waivers
from student accounts to register.
see APPEALS, page 3
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showed my residents
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"Meeting all of you
fabulous people."
Ad proofer
Alex Morley
Ad representative
MaxBauval
Circulation manager
Gavin Dahl
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Brandon Custy
"Working in the admissions office as a student
ambassador and when I
got my 12th row tickets to
see the Spice Girls reunion
concert in Los Angeles."
Calendar coordinator
"Meeting Larry
Milton."
Copy tell tor
David Railcanu
Copy edt tor
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Sports coordinator
David Raileanu
Student Voice coordinator
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Interim Story coordinator
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"The pumpkin coleslaw in the Greenery
is the most memorable
thing I ever ate."
''I'll never forget
the way the police
abused their power."
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Amber Carver
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Jason Slotkin
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December 6, 2007
UNION NEWS
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Eggplant, 5aA on GU cloclad:
THE EVERa7iiiistATECofJii;E
ALLOCATION,Jrom cover
While there was never any question of
honesty, it was a difficult situation for the
S&A Board to be in. In the end, the board
allotted $4,800 in stipends to the GU. It is
unclear how this issue will be handled in
the future, but it should resolve itself to
a certain extent when the end of the year
rolls around and current Union representatives get the opportun ity to elect future
S&A Board members the proper way.
The stipends may have been controversial, but the Union was by no means
the student group that requested the
most funds . SESAME has that distinction, with a whole suite of activities
planned for the coming quarter, including a costly film festival. Other groups
requested funding to host guest lecturers,
attend conferences, and purchase books.
The Phrontisterion wi ll be putting on its
annual play, and th e Chemistry C lub wi ll
be receiving two awards at· the American
Chemical Society spring meeting in New
Orleans.
One student group that was notably
absent this year was Synergy. In the
past, Synergy was one of the mo re
prominent student groups, and for six
years in a row, it held a spring Sustainable Living Conference. At the end of
the last academic year, however, no one
stepped up to fi II the shoes of the outgoing coordinator, so the student group
has disbanded.
Another change that came about this
quarter was an increased interest in
collaboration . Student groups are coming
together to host joint events, and they
are requ esting funding to carry it off.
One such event is the Border Dialogue
Conference, which will bring guest
speakers together in mid-May to discuss
the proposed wall between the United
States and Mexico.
All of these activ ities afford Evergreen
students opportunities to learn in new
ways, pursue their specific interests, and
get involved in the larger community.
These are opportunities that the students
have paid for, through the annual S&A
fee . The S&A Board's job is to make sure
that those funds get allocated appropriately. And it looks like so far this year,
Evergreen students are getting their
money's worth.
Amber Carver is a junior enrolled in
Temperate Rainforests.
APPEALS,Jrom cover
by BRITTANY NEWHOUSE
This week's Geoduck Union meeting got
off to a start with the introductions of the
seven members in attendance. The Union
did not meet quorum, mostly due to other
governance commitments.
First to speak was a student expressing
concern over the current state of the Flaming Eggplant Cafe and its projected opening date. Many students are concerned as
to where their student fee is going and
when the cafe is going to be opening.
The student also expressed a question
about Accountability and Union Reps,
especially when it came to representatives
receiving stipends and how each rep could
show how they earned said stipend. The
GU is making their bi-weekly work reports,
which chronic le all the actions taken and
work done by representatives, made more
avai lable to students, especially once the
website has been updated.
Next to speak was the Cascade Climate
Network, asking for support and giving
general information about the work they're
doing on campus. The CCN is an evergrowing network of students and citizens
who are committed to sustainability and
climate change. With their main document, called the five principles, they asked
the Union to sign a long list of signatures
to help stand in solidarity with the work
they' re doing. The Union was supportive,
agreed to investigate further, and to follow
up with a vote to sign the document Week.
1 of Winter Quarter, when the Union next
meets quorum . If you would like to get
involved with CCN, you can check out
their website at cascadeclimate.org.
Following was Art Costantino, with a
general update on a few campus issues.
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First off, he requested the Union's involvement with two Union representatives on the
biannual budget that is about to start being
written this year. He also informed the
Union about the new piece of legislation
that was passed this year, called Initiative
960, which places stricter requirements
and processes on student fee initiatives.
Next was a review of the budget hearing
with the S&A Board, along with a discussion on stipends for reps . Also discussed
was the relationship between the Board and
the GU, and their possible future together.
Wrapping up the meeting was an overview
of plans for Winter Quarter, and strategies
for increasing student involvement.
Speaking of student involvement, dear
reader, we'd like your support! More
importantly your feedback, or comments,
or concerns, or heck, even your compliments! Seriously though, something
bothering you about campus? Does a
reoccurring problem keep heckling you,
and you want someone to see what's up?
Let us know! We're here to help ! You can
come to our meetings, every Wednesday,
in E II 05 from 1:30 to 3 p.m., or you can
email us at geoduckunion@evergreen.edu.
We know our website isn't up to snuff,
but we' re working on it, we promise ! You
can also call us directly at 867-6555 and
leave a message. Or, drop by our cubicle!
We' re up in CAB 320, right inside from
the second door!
So, to wrap up, on behalf of all the representatives here in the GU, have a wonderful break!
Brittany Newhouse is student at The Evergreen State College and is a representative
to the Geoduck Student Union.
SBRIEFS
Looking for an internship, job, or a way
to become more involved in the community? Then come to the Internship, Job &
Community Opportunities Fair on January
23 . The fair will take place from noon to 3
p.m. and is hosted by Evergreen's Academic
Advising and Center for Community Based
Learning and Action. The event wiii take
place in the Campus Recreation Center and
will be free of charge. Students wanting to
register can do so through the CODa. For
more information, call360-867-6392.
THNX41U CARE PCKGB
Found package outside of E-Dorm,
contents include: 2 clear plastic
baggies, five packages of flavored
"blunt wrap," one package of"zig
zag" rolling paper, one booklet titled
"grow your own marijuana," one pack
of cigarettes, one black iPod, one
case for said iPod, and I .2 grams of
marijuana. You can come by to claim
your box of goods at Police Services.
OOPS, DRUGS
On I 0/3 1, a person reported being groped
at the HCC holiday party. Officers later
made contact with the individual, who,
dazed and confused, told the responding
officer that she was, " ... Like, not even in
my reality righ.t now." Later, the suspect
admitted to dropping acid and told officers
he was too high to know what was going
on. He was written a grievance and
released to his roommate.
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ON RECENT CRIMES ON
CAMPUS, CALL CRIMESTOPPERS AND REMAIN ANONY-
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Jason Slatkin is a junior enrolled in
Literature of the Americas.
New York Style Hand Tossed Pizza
Huge Selection of Fresh Toppings !
GRAS Spotlight:
Chibi Chibi Con draws 400 to 500
people, not 4500.
Mondana Madjidi is a coordinator
of GRAS, not just a member.
VOX POP
Molly Paine-Donovan is a junior,
not a freshman.
Police Services was notified of graffiti
on the HCC, which contained the words
"NUKE THE WHALES" with some kind
of bird next to it. Later, more graffiti was
documented near Overhulse and Driftwood that said "NO MORE SEXISM, NO
MORE RAPE."
This Sunday, December I 0 at noon, the
Officers responded to a Hummer inC Lot
Campus Activities Building wiii be hosting
that
had been covered in white Elmer's
a Write-a-thon, a support session for letter
glue.
The driver also failed to pay-to-park,
writing campaigns. There wiii be pre-writso
she
got a ticket. You know she's pissed.
ten letters as well as information on current
events such as Guantanamo Bay, woman's
rights, and the environment.
IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION
Through the cooperation of Student
Accounts, students waiting to hear the decision of the appeals board will not have to
face collections, unlike normal outstanding
payments, which are generally sent after
90 days. Six of the students waiting for
appeals are over the regular time period.
"We are getting students trained to hear
cases," said Chucky McKinney, Assistant
Director for Resident Life. According to
him, the selection and training process for
the board has caused much of the delay.
He added that they were trying to avoid
using students working in housing, as
to avoid conflicts of interest. McKinney
summed up the efforts by saying, "We're
getting on it."
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An interview with
Jose G6tnez
by LINDSAY ADAMS
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In 2003 the United States invaded that when protestors disobey the law
Iraq, four years later a strong national that they have to be prepared to face
movement against the war has yet to the consequences if they get arrested .
materialize. Locally, there have been Somehow the police have gotten the
substantial actions taken against the idea that it's okay to break up a protest
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in the First Amendment, described the that you cannot choose when to apply
recent activities at the Port as being in certain rights to certain people and
the "spirit of the best kind of dissent not to others. "That is where the First
tha:t the founders [of our country] Amendment is vulnerable, if we start
had in mind. People protesting war, · saying that we are not going to protect
in this case not just any kind of war certain speech because it is offensive
but a very unjust war. A war that came or even that we find it abhorrent."
The ACLU is a prime example _of
about through the lies of this adminprotecting all speech regardless of the
is~ration. This is the kind of thing
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talking at least four months and maybe as
long as six months," says Paul Smith, the
director of facilities services.
T-Claw, one of the group's three coordinators, however, is confident that the
group can have a trailer on campus in as
little as two months from the date they
submit the required paperwork, yet he
admits it could be longer before the trailer
is ready for operation. Smith, says TClaw, is "thinking of how long it'll take us
to get electricity, and all the factors that his
department is working with, which could
take a while."
Smith later agreed that a shorter time
frame for delivery of a trailer was possible,
but maintained that once his staff "knows
what is coming and have an indication of
what is necessary in order to hook up the
trailer, it will take some time to schedule
the work."
That means that even if the group submitted the paperwork required to get the
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trailer today, the earliest the cafe could
begin serving food would be anywhere
from April to June. "If it was ready in the
summer" says T-Claw, "We'd just wait
until fall to open."
When asked if that was a real possibility,
T-Claw responded "there's always a risk
that we won't open until2010, you know?
If things don't get done, they don't get
done."
T-Claw admits he misjudged the time and
work involved in opening the cafe, saying,
"We were planning on opening Synergy
(in April 2007)." Later adding, "I thought
we'd get the money, and then we'd just
start spending it."
So why has it taken so much longer than
expected for the .cafe to begin operation?
T-Claw blames the college. "That's the
bureaucracy. No, we have no clue what
we're doing. None of us have ever opened
a business, none of us have ever had
$120,000 and none of us have ever navigated a state institution to try something
new. It's not just that we don't know what
message. In 1977 they defended the
rights of Nazis to march in a predominately Jewish community located in
Skokie, Illinois.
While many people reacted negatively to the decision of the ACLU
to defend Nazis, Gorriez asserts that
in doing so they
~re
protecting
everyone's rights
to free speech.
He asks, "Why
are we protecting
that speech that is
ugly or abhorrent?
This is the kind of
speech the First
Amendment
was
intended to protect ~
... Nice speech ~
doesn't need to be i
protected, no one
is going to try and
stop nice speech. It
is needed to protect
speech that people
disagree
with,
that is the speech
that needs to be
protected".
Even though many people still
cannot grasp why an organization
known as liberal would defend the
Nazi party, which is known for its
hateful and offensive speech it is
important to keep things in perspective. G6mez reiterates this necessity
by stating, "You cannot rnake choices
on the content of the message ... that
is the first step towards tyranny ...
tomorrow it could be our speech that
people don't like."
However, we as a community have
a responsibility to keep one another
accountable. Gomez suggests that
instead of using the law to condemn
what one may view as abhorrent
speech, persuade
the
individual
who
is
abusing that right to
acknowledge that
just because they
have the right to
free speech, they
are still accountable to it. G6mez
states that he
would be "the
first person there
to defend that
"' person's right to
'-; say that but would
also be the first
person there to try
and dissuade them
from saying this.
That means that if
we have a robust
First Amendment ... we have an obligation to not turn our backs to hate
speech."
Most importantly, Gomez states that,
"There has to be a way to allow the
speech but also protect equality in our
society ... [but] censoring is not the
answer."
Lindsay ~dams is a senior enrolled
in American Indian Sovereignty.
we're doing, it's that they don't know
what we're doing and they slow us down
every step of the way." But he also admits
the group has been slow to act. "It's been
on our end for a long time. We've been
holding back the process because we don't
know wlmt we're doing for the last six
months we've been working on this health
code application, and not calling it done."
In acknowledging that students may be
concerned that the group doesn't know
what they're doing, T-Claw says he's "not
very receptive to that because like, oh shit;
we don't know what we're doing. Sucks
for you, you gave us the money, why'd
you think we knew wbat'We were doing?"
SWl, T-Chtw is reJuctarrt to accept responsibility for the delay. "It's the bureaucracy
we're working in. We've had a minimum
of five people working five days a week
on this, since way before Synergy, so~yol:l
can't blame us at all."
When asked about concerns from
students regarding the length of time the
cafe is taking, T-Claw responds by saying
that those who are curious should help the
group in their planning. "I don't really
have sympathy for people who don't
understand why it takes too long because
they haven't done it, and they're not doing
it, and they're not helping. So if people
are disappointed that it's taking too long
and it's their fee, I don't care, frankly."
Adding later, "The other thing about the
fee is there were no stipulations whatsoever. It didn't say we had to do anything
with the money. We never signed a
contract or anything saying what was
going to happen."
T-~law offers two suggestions for
students who aren't happy about the status
ofthe.Cafe: "Come get involved and help
speed up the process if you think we don't
know what we're doing or go to the fucking .finance office and get your money
back."
Max Bauval is a senior enrolled in an
independent learning contract.
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White woman of color?
Allyship does not equal co-optation
"Women of Color Reproductive Justice
Conference" by its title would seem to
have a focus on the experience of Women
of Color.
Unfortunately, this critical and much
needed space was co-opted by two
seemingly well intended white women ,
one representing the TESC Women's
Resource Center, and the other Vox.
The co-optation occurred when a unilateral decision, excluding women of color
from the application planning/ process,
was made.
Consequently, the S&A board funded
two white women to attend the Loretta
Ross, Sister Song: Lets Talk About Sex,
women of color reproductive justice
conference in Chicago, this past spring,
2007.
More importantly, two white women
were funded by TESC and were sent
as representatives to a women of color
conference, and both women who
attended this conference agreed to host
a teach-back the following fall 2007, a
commitment that both women neglected
to fulfill. By excluding women of color
from the planning and application process
and by going as representatives ofTESC,
these women helped to further contribute
to the unsafe, marginalized status that
women of color feel while being a part
of a predominantly white community.
Essentially, the lack of representation at
a conference for women of color denied
women of color a critical opportunity for
advancement.
However, this is not the first time that
women of color have felt compelled to
call on the Women's Resource Center as
well as the entire Evergreen community
to engage in a critical dialogue regarding racism and allyship. For the problem
as we see it is NOT that white women
are interested in learning about women
of color history and experience, but that
the exclusion of women of color from
an invaluable learning opportunity is in
itself racist.
And what is particularly demoralizing
to us, is that the willful co-optation of
women of color resources and education
was enacted by our peers. This was not
an act inflicted upon us by THE MAN.
No, for the very same people that we
have been working in solidarity with
are the very same people who chose to
individually benefit from actions that
disenfranchised an entire population. As
a result, Audre Lorde's words serve as a
haunting echo from a past that can still
be heard today, "To survive in the mouth
of this dragon called America, we have
had to learn this first & most vital lesson
- that we were never meant to survive."
Still, we refuse to settle. We refuse to
avoid dealing with such a devastating
blow for fear of being labeled militant
or angry women of color, we refuse to
accept that racism will always be a part
of our time here at Evergreen. But most
of all we refuse to deny the sisterhood
that we share as women, be they white
or of color.
To quote an open letter written to the
Women's Resource Center from the
Women of Color Coalition (published
in the CPJ, February 27, 2003) entitled
White Women :S Week??? (Where is
the "International" in International
Womens Week?): "This is not meant to
be an attack on the Women's Resource
Center.
In fact, this Jetter comes out of dialogues
that the Women of Color Coalition has
been having with the Women's Resource
Center. Our point is that that white people
have gotten so used to speaking for us
- Women of Color - that is keeping us
invisible, We are NOT invisible."
Next quarter, WOCC and WRC hope to
continue this important dialogue and to
examine the ways in which privilege and
racism manifest in our community. For
allyship is not about co-optation, it is an
ongoing process of earnest examination
and honest communication.
Respectfully,
Alejandra Abreu
Stephanie Gottschalk Estella Villarreal
Mao Reich
Marissa Luck
Samantha Sermeno
Rainboe Sims-Jones
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us, face to face, beyond objectification
and beyond guilt." - Audre Lorde
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The Sandwich of my life
by CATHY RICHARDSON
Of the big city essentials that I miss,
good bakeries hover near the top of the
list between nightlife and house-made
desserts. Of good bakeries, I should
mention that in Olympia we have
Wagner's European Bakery & Cafe near
the state buildings, San Francisco Street
Bakery, and Blue Heron Bakery. I don't
feel satisfied with any of the three; I find
Wagner's too frenetic and packed not
to mention too far up Capitol Way, San
Francisco inaccessible, and Blue Heron
entirely too granola.
My first visit to The Bread Peddler, an
artisan bakeshop and cafe on the corner of
State and Capitol raised my hopes for the
bakery situation in Olympia. I said to the
man at the counter, "My friend told me I
had to come here when I complained that
there are no good bakeries in this town."
"Did she say what to have?" he asked.
"No."
"Have that." He tapped on the glass
case, indicating the roast beef sandwich
that lay below.
I shouldn't call it a roast beef sandwich.
I should call it "The" Roast Beef Sandwich, as it is now in the running for TheSandwich-of-My-Life. Made with fresh,
crosshatched levain bread, undeniably
made that morning. Levain is a leavening agent, or bread starter, French or
Egyptian in origin depending on whether
you ask the French or the Egyptians, and
the cause of delicious sourdough worldwide since the 1600s in France or 6000
years ago in Egypt. The bread keeps well
and has distinctive large and small holes
inside.
But let's get back to my sandwich. There
were only a couple of slices of thin roast
beef, not an all-you-can-eat festival (I
could go into portion differences between
Europe and the United States here, but I
won't), on top of which lay translucent
red onion slices. A few greens. Aioli
sauce. Lovely white cheese. It was the
best thing I'd had in six months.
My chai was weak and disappointing.
The cup was dirty and needed scrubbing
prior to being put through the dishwasher.
I wanted to blame the girl that made it, but
found it the same on my second visit.
I went back to the counter and ordered
a chocolate cork: a tight little bundle of
exquisite cake from the brownie family. I
wonder if I should include some personal
history on home and food here. It's so
connected to me, to everyone, what we
eat and what we enjoy eating most. My
mom's cooking figures in, my part of the
country, what I ate growing up, or didn't
eat. I grew up in a home that insisted on
good food. A girlfriend said to me once,
"Why would anyone make whipped
cream when you can buy it in a can?" I
paused as I whipped the straight cream
with vanilla and sugar, studied her face,
sensing a limited future. The best insult
she ever gave me, during an argument in
which we critiqued each other's families,
was a shouted, "YOUR FAMILY eats
dessert before the meal!"
There was music one would hear in a
movie about a cafe in Paris playing over-
"HAVE THAT." HE
TAPPED ON THE GLASS
CASE, INDICATING THE
ROAST BEEF SANDWICH
BELOW ... IT WAS THE
BEST THING I'D HAD
IN SIX MONTHS.
head, and what sounded like old show
music. Dramatic. I sat a while and felt
like I should quit hogging a table. It was
warm and sunny and I wondered how
The Bread Peddler could improve things
for me. More kick to the chai lattes and
a house copy of The New· York Times
would be a start. It wasn't clear whether
one wa-s to bus one's own table, and if
so, to where? The tables could be spaced
out a bit more and the chairs are uncomfortable. The eating area feels chilly and
uninviting and I would rather be eating
back in the kitchen, which absolutely
crackles with floury energy. I like the
counter guy. He's funny, and not burnt
out. Friendly. And seems to know about
the food he's selling. Some people have
a real knack for hiring. I wish you could
bottle that. There are those places you go
into and wonder how someone manages
to ' hire all assholes. Just as I began to
follow this line of thought, one of the
servers greeted a lady by name, and then
dashed out from behind the counter to
open the door for a guy in a wheelchair.
Back the next day I order a Gougere
(translation: cheese puff) described by
the server as "Eggy. Cheesy. And puffy."
I Googled it and found it to be a close
pastry cousin to the profiterole and the
eclair. The puff comes when the high
moisture content turns to steam while
cooking, puffing the pastry dough . I add
in two individual quiches, one chevre
with red pepper, the oth er onion and
emmental. I bit into it back at my table.
The gougere. Let me count the ways I
loved that beautifully formed cheese puff.
A man sat directly in front of me, and in
the closely situated tables, I studied the
back of his head and read the newspaper
over his right shoulder. I know he heard
but didn't turn as I moaned, "Oh my
God," as I tasted the gougere. He already
knows, I think. He's probably a regular.
The privileged few of us sitting here
eating like this at ten o'clock mid-week.
I wanted to trumpet about gougeres from
the rooftops.
I have to watch it with chevre. It overwhelms me and I love it in this yucky
way. A little less, I thought as I bit the
quiche, its sharp ranginess covered the
egg and red pepper tones. The crust was
buttery, high-calorie, flaky and fantastically heavy tasting. The other quiche was
near perfect. Just what I want in one: tiny
undercooked center with delicious egg
lightness and everlasting finish.
I like what they do with food at the Bread
Peddler. Each visit I feel around for the
pulse of the kitchen as if I am somehow
personally invested in their future. There
are some changes. I don't dance around
in drunken circles when I eat there now,
as I did during the honeymoon period of
having a new, good bakery in town. I read
on their webpage that they plan to expand
both hours and menu. The staff has turned
over and I find them less happy. Less
enthused. My teacup had ring-aroundthe-collar again last week and I almost
chipped a tooth on the baguette, but still
I drank my raspberry tea and ate all of it,
teartng it off in chunks.
Cathy Richardson is a graduate of The
Evergreen State College.
'Ihe Bread Peddler Artisan Bakeshop and Cafe
www.breadpeddler.com
DIRECTIONS
RECOMMENDED EXTRA POINTS
Corner ofState
and Capitol.
Gougeres; chocolate
corks; onion and
emmental quiche.
Some organic
ingredients and
local produce.
WISH LIST
Better drink menu;
stronger chai;
more comfortable
eating area
Hvaif-Hei1n
by ALEX MORLEY
Sigur R6s came out with their ninth
album this past month , a dual disk titled
Hvarf-Heim. The band consists of Jonsi
Birgisson, Kjarri Sveinsson, Irri Pall Dyrason and Georg Holm. Sigur R6s, meaning
victory rose in Icelandic, performs eleven
songs on their double CD. Jonsi Birgisson
and Georg Holm as well as the original
drummer created the band back in 1994.
Sigur R6s is considered an Icelandic postrock band with a mixture of experimental
elements.
Hvarf-Heim's songs are rerecorded and
Heim is a live recording of the bands'
songs. On Hvarf, Sigur R6s starts with
"Salka," a great piano part as well as an
amazing vocal serenity scene. Sigur R6s is
a band that will make you think and relax.
"Salka" paints a picture into your mind.
Once you close your eyes you are gone .. .
gone for a ride of such a great voice and
musical journey.
"Hijomalind," their second song is one
that will paint a picture of epic battles. The
great drums, the great singing, the great
band. I envision all battles in this song. Its
harmonious sound sends you on a trip that
you will not want to leave.
"I Gaer" starts with a section of bells and
what seemed to be like something off of
a Tim Burton film. All that changes when
the song hits 55 seconds. At that particular moment - it's EPIC until the last 31
seconds, and then it goes back to a Tim
Burton style. Sigur R6s has two different
versions of "Von" on this album - a live
recording and a new released version of
the song that lasts nine minutes and 16
seconds.
The lead singer, Jonsi Birgisson, sends
all listeners on a wild, exhilarating, inspiring, triumphant ride every time he uses
his voice. Kjarri Sveinsson makes our
musical experience complete with his stellar "KeyBilities!" Pall Dryason generates
a historical event into the minds of the
listener every time he attacks his drum set
like a wildebeest attacking a hyena. Georg
Holm's earth-shattering beats on the bass
signify a saltic adventure under the sea.
Together they are Sigur R6s . . . Victory
Rose. In my mind they are victorious.
"I have an eargasm every time without
fail!" Kaite Mark says when I asked her
what Sigur R6s does to her.
I suggest that this band should be listened
to, not just this album, but all other albums,
a total of nine albums. They will take you
on an exhilarating musical ride. It's worth
every penny.
Alex Morley is a freshman enrolled in
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School rocked by
school of similar .
name
by BRANDON CUSTY
Last Friday, the curriculum of The
Evergreen State College diversified
its portfolio of educational opportunities by welcoming musical youth
from the Rose City. The Portland
Chapter of the Paul Green School
of Rock Music was in session in the
Longhouse. The school is a performance based rock music program
for students ages 7-18. The program
combines private lessons with
group band practice to prepare the
students for performances. Friday's
performance showed the prowess of
many musicians and, quite frankly,
rocked.
The bands played songs by AC/DC,
Rush, Rage Against the Machine,
The Scorpions and others. The crowd
was reluctant at first, sitting down
and watching as the kids rocked
around on stage. The lazy crowd
was finally driven crazy when they
played "Bulls on Parade" and the
musicians invited the crowd to the
front. The singer made the uniquely
technical and obscure noises of
Tom Morello with his mouth as the
crowd's cheers erupted.
After that, the room was on fire
with the energy of the kids and the
crowd bouncing off one another
amidst the amplified riffs, pounding
drums, and wailing lyrics.
For more information about the
School of Rock visit www.schoolofrock.com
Brandon Custy is a sophomore
enrolled in Performing Arts
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GOP agree to disagree at YouTube debate
bj CASEY JAYWORK
Since the primary
function of elected
American officials is
to make hard decisions
on impossible issues
so that we can blame
them for whichever
choice they make, it
makes sense that the Youtube.com reaction to last Wednesday's CNN/Youtube.
com Republican Debate runs along the
lines of"What a joke," "WTF?" etc.
The debate began on immigration. Former
governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney
(easily the frontrunner for Hottest Voice
and tied with democrat Barack Obama for
Cutest Candidate) chastised former mayor
of New York Rudy Guliani for running a
"sanctuary city" that was too soft on illegal
immigrants by providing emergency care,
education to their children, and allowing
them to report crimes without fear of
reprisal.
A series of one-ups followed, each candidate trying to prove he was more infuriated
about illegal immigration than the last. As
one Youtube video response said, "The
Republicans don't know how to debate an
issue - other than immigration ... When I
realized that so many rich people suffered
at the hands of the poor and immigrant ...
it really opened my eyes to what a horrible
black and Latino and gay world we live
in."
The ultimate winner of this anti-immigration pissing contest was Colorado
congressman Tom Tancredo. Ifyou check
out his web page at youtube.com/user/
TeamTancredo you' II find a video explaining his position:
"There are consequences to open borders
beyond the twenty million aliens who've
come to take our jobs. Islamic terrorists
now freely roam U.S. soil. Jihadists who
froth with hate, here to do as they have
in London, Spain, Russia. The price we
pay for spineless politicians who refuse
to defend our borders against those who
come to kill..." There's sound of an explosion, then the printed words "Tancredo ...
before it's too late."
Oh, Tommy.
Next on the list of issues was a curve
ball: a Youtuber asked Texas congressman
Ron Paul (whom this writer shamelessly
supp01ts) if he buys into the North American Union conspiracy theory. According
to Wikipedia, the U.S. Council on Foreign
Relations, in conjunction with Canadian
and Mexican groups, has created the Independent Task Force on North America as a
think tank and advocacy group to advance
greater economic interdependence (e.g.
NAFTA) among the three countries. Paul
responded that he didn't believe in "a secretive conspiracy," but did object to the very
real move towards increased globalization
and decreased national sovereignty.
This moved the debate into economic
questions, and once again it was one
candidate after another, this time hammering away at fiscal responsibility. Arizona
Senator John McCain (a Vietnam POW
who should have been the republican
candidate in 2000) said, "We've presided
over a·great expansion of government, the
latest being the SCHIP"- (State Children's
Health Insurance Program) -"which will
be paid for - supposedly - in a dollar-apack increase in the tax on a pack of cigarettes .... (If I become president), we'll
never have another pork-barrel project as
long as I'm capable of wielding this veto
pen."
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The only real point of economic contention was on the proposed Fair Tax, an
initiative championed by many conservatives, which would eliminate income tax
and replace it with a national sales tax. The
idea is that income tax is complicated as
hell, for both taxpayers and the looming,
mafia-like bureaucracy of the IRS. It also
essentially punishes people for making
more money. It doesn't sound too bad, but
keep in mind that people work to provide
goods and services that other people want,
so if people profit less from their own
labor then we all become poorer, because
fewer goods and services we all want are
being produced.
Breaking from the pack, McCain opposed
the fair tax, saying, "Obviously we need a
simpler, fairer tax code, everyone knows
that," but citing that the Wall Street Journal
speculated the Fair Tax "would increase an
individual's tax rate up into the thirties."
A question about farm subsidies
provoked an interesting departure from
the fiscal responsibility conservatives so
loudly champion. Both Rudy Guliani and
Mitt Romney stated that they would not
cut subsidies to farmers, arguing for the
importance of having a "secure source of
food." "We don't want to find ourselves
in regard to our food supply in the same
kind of situation we are in regards to our
energy supply," said Romney, in a voice
that could melt icebergs.
Following economics was gun control.
Former "Law and Order'~ ,star and Tennessee senator Fred Thompson went after
Guliani for supporting written exams to
hold a gun permit, arguing that strict adherence to the Second Amendment's right
to bear arms precludes such government
tampering. Guliani- who has stressed the
drop in New York's crime rate during his
tenure as mayor, though critics point out
that a nationwide drop in crime occurred at
about the same time - said that "Govern-
ment can impose reasonable regulations
The discussion then returned to Iraq, and
... around criminal background, (or) a McCain again went after Ron Paul for
background of mental instability."
advocating an immediate withdraw. "Let
When asked what the punishment for me remind you, Congressman, we never
abortion should be in the event that lost a battle in Vietnam. Jt was American
it became illegal, Ron Paul spoke out public opinion that forced us to lose that
against "a federal abortion police" and conflict ... After we left Vietnam, they
argued for state discretion. Personally, he didn't want to follow us home. They
expressed opposition to penalizing women wanted to build their own worker's parawho receive illegal abortions, but was dise ... lf you read bin Laden ... they want
amenable to charges against doctors who to follow us home. They want Iraq to be a
perform them late term. Guliani followed base for al-Qaeda to launch attacks against
suit, saying that "the problem with Roe the US ... This is a transcendent challenge
against Wade is that it took the decision of our time."
away from the states."
Paul argued that the continued US miliRomney refused to discuss whether he tary presence in the Middle East itself
would use waterboarding in fighting terror- causes Islamic terrorism, recalling a meetism, saying that "I would not be in favor ing which occurred shortly after the end
of torture in any way, shape, or form," of Vietnam. "The American colonel said,
but "J do not believe ... it is wise for us 'You know, we never lost one battle.' And
to describe precisely what techniques we (the Vietnamese colonel) said, 'Yes, but
will use in interrogating people." Jn other that's irrelevant.' And it is irrelevant."
And that's pretty much it. Paul reported
words, he's against torture, but refuses to
define it. He added that he opposed grant- that he would not run as an independent if/
ing habeas corpus (the right to a proper when he fails to get the republican nomitrial) to suspected terrorists, such as those nation (which is assumed to be a lock,
interned at Guantanamo Bay. McCain, though according online MSNBC polls he
a former torture victim, responded, won the first debate in May, and recently
"[Waterboarding] is in violation of the had the single largest day of fundraising
Geneva Conventions . . . If we're going in history using decentralized volunteer
to get the high ground in this world ... efforts). And Romney attacked Guliani for
we're not going to do what Pol Pot did. being a Yankees fan (I'm not kidding).
We're not going to do what is being done
Casey Jaywork is a sophomore enrolled at
to Burmese monks as we speak ... Life is
not 24 and Jack Bauer. Life is interroga- The Evergreen State College.
tion techniques which are humane and yet
effective."
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he "Good" Americ .......
I!)! TILLMAN CLARK
"Naturally the common
people don't want war;
neither in Russia, nor in
England, nor in America, nor in Germany.
That is understood. But
after all, it is the lead- '-- ·-'-----ers of the country who
determine policy, and it is always a simple
matter to drag the people along, whether it
is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or
a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
... Voice or no voice, the people can always be
brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is
easy. All you have to do is to tell them they
are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger. It works the same in any
country." -Hermann Goring (From Interview
at Nuremberg trials)
In light of the recent turmoil surrounding
the Olympia Port Militarization Resistance
movement, and the controversy about the
legality, effectiveness, or patriotism of its
actions as an attempt to show resistance
to the Iraq War, it is important to highlight
some of the important aspects of such an
event and compare it with history and what
the future has to hold. An attempt to vilifY
the "pacifists," who are showing a "lack of
patriotism" by not supporting the troops or
causing unnecessary taxes, is allowing the
current of this country to move towards that
of ignorance and complicity that follows
the path that we have seen before in different points in history; the "Good" citizens of
previous fascist governments.
Nowhere in this article will it be implied that
American citizens who are not opposed to the
war are Nazis. Equating anyone to the Nazis,
or nco-Nazis and Klansmen for that matter,
that does not involve direct and personal
genocidal or racial superiority ideology and
activity, is a most insensitive, offensive and
disgusting comparison that does not even
begin to take into account what it means to
those affected by the history of racism. What
I am saying is that the complicity of citizens
towards the Iraq War are on the cusp of being
compared to the way German citizens, and
citizens of other fascist countries, were held
responsible for allowing actions of their
governments to occur undeterred.
As far as several arguments that oppose the
actions of PMR, there is a strong correlation
to fascist complicity:
PMR is not supporting the troops. The
United Nations, and the Articles 39 and 51
of the UN Charter, explicitly state the action
of unilateral aggressive intervention without
the support of the UN Security Council to be
illegal. The United State's Iraq War, founded
on illegitimate claims of weapons of mass
destruction and connection to al-Qaeda, is
totally illegal and the troops are fighting,
and dying, for an unjust cause and should be
supported by being brought home immediately. Would Italians who didn't support their
army invading Albania, France and Ethiopia,
and demanded that their soldiers be brought
home, be considered unpatriotic by today's
standards? The blockading of the port is
unnecessarily costing local taxpayers money.
The Iraq War is estimated to cost $20,000
per U.S. Household (a total of $1.5 trillion),
according to a Congressional report, and
only rising. The war is estimated by some
to cost upwards of $3 trillion of American
tax dollars, and that's if we withdraw soon.
Part of the protest at the port is for the reason
that the Iraq War is unnecessarily costing
local taxpayers money that could be used for
education, health care or building our crumbling infrastructure. How much devastation
and debt could have been avoided if the
German people spoke out against the actions
of the Nazi government earlier?
"The troops are going to be sent either way.
Something as big as this, you cant slowly
chip away at the bottom with localized direct
action; you've got to cut off the head That s
what Congress is for. " Congress is only a
representation of the people. The troops do
not have to be sent either way, and if the
people do not want them to be sent, then they
do need to express that through the people
they elect, but most importantly need to be
heard with "localized direct action." How
can Senators and Representatives see, hear,
read and translate what the American people
want if everyone just sits inside and waits
for election day to come around every two,
four and six years and doesn't do anything
locally? I can picture a German citizen
opposed to Hitler taking power saying something along the lines of: "Well, it's okay. No
need for localized action- the Reichstag will
take care of this." Only to subsequently see
the Reichstag dissolved and civil rights and
democratic elections completely taken away.
"If you want to belong to society ... you
surrender certain freedoms, like the right to
close a port or dictate the transportation of
troop carriers, just because you think things
should be done differently. " It isn't just PMR
that thinks things shoufd be done differently.
Seventy percent of the country wants things
done differently. The majority of the world
wants things done differently. The UN wants
things done differently. And I'm sure that the
people of Iraq want things done differently.
Should people who thought Soviet Russia
should have been "done differently" not have
spoken out against surrender of certain freedoms that "let" them belong to a totalitarian
society before they were sent to the Gulag?
This country's people have been lied to, and
anything less than civil disobedience and
protest against the Iraq War might place the
United States citizens on the same tier as the
other citizens that sat by and watched their
fascist governments engage in gross human
rights violations, genocide and unchecked
Imperial militarism.
If this complicity with illegal, imperialist
actions continues, how much longer until
we find ourselves in the same position as the
"Good" fascists? How many more illegal
wars and civil rights suspensions will it take
before we realize what is happening and do
something? Are we prepared to witness the
people that we elected to high positions be
subject to war crimes for their actions? It is a
realistic possibility and it does not seem that
far away if things continue the way they are
going and movements like PMR continue to
be vilified.
Tillman Clark is a student enrolled at The
Evergreen State College.
www.evergreen.edu/ cpj
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December 6, 2007
Letter from the editor
The excessive
Union should address organizatio~al issues
language of
by C.V. ROTONDO
In a recent opinion
piece entitled Excessive Force, sexist and
racist language and
analogy, self-righteous
condemnations
and
specious
embellishments were used to demean the collective
action of a group of community members,
specifically an inspiring contingent
of women. The demonizing language
included the comparison of protestors to
"hidden cowards like Klansmen," as well
as "neo-Nazis." This language is not only
flagrantly self-serving and vicious, but has
much deeper implications of misogyny
and racism . Not only are the community
members involved dehumanized by these
comparisons, but so to are people of color
in general , the primary target of the Ku
Klux Klan during its barbarous heyday, as
well as people of Jewish decent, reminded
of the far-flung genocide perpetrated by
the Nazi Party and the continued hatred
of modern Nazi sympathizers. The author
of this piece has taken the most gruesome, fear-mongering events and utilized
them to his own vainglorious ends. Like
a hydrogen bomb, the piece not only
strikes its target, but similarly slaughters
uncounted bystanders. Like the police
officers and counter-protestors to whom
he offers defense, the author espouses
violent intimidation on a grand scale. His
use of boldly racist, sexist and generally
hateful language makes the already tenuous argument he is posing seem utterly
spurious.
By emphasizing the reckless actions of a
few individuals (whom the author does not
know and cannot claim to be associated
with Students for a Democratic Soc iety or
any other organization), he intentionally
diminishes the coll ective achievements of
the protestors, specifically the empowering achievement of the women's group on
Tuesday, 13 November. If the author was
truly interested in bol stering and protecting the Olympia community, he may have
cited the rally of Saturday, 17 November,
in which three hundred members of the
Olympia community marched through
the streets in support of the protestors,
declaiming the brutality of the police. The
solidarity expressed from various corners
of Washington, across the United States
and even internationally for the continued
and shared struggle against militarization also refute the ins.idious claims that
the author makes about detriments to
commun ity posed by the protestors. The
kind of selective offerings provided and
twisted by hyperbole as well as outright
lies (such as the claim that an Olympian
photographer was "cornered and threatened by protestors") sounds more like the
proselytizing of authoritarian government
offic ials rather than a critical thinking
commun ity member.
The author also offe rs the suggestion
that if "you want to be a revolutionary"
you should "start by th inking for yourself
instead of imitating Che Gueverra." Even
without the racist and sexist implications
of the piece, this alone would be enough to
conclude that the author is not interested
in the community he ostens ibly wrote the
piece to defend, but is rather engaged in
baiting and declaim ing those with whom
he disagrees. Many of the epithets offered
to describe the protestors are aimed at
them personally, draped in the transpar-
f?y SETH VINCENT
ent cloak of identity politics. The author
dismisses the women's action of Tuesday
night as simply "a line of all-women
sitting at the front of the blockade, ostensibly to undermine sexist assumptions
about who may protest ... " I will leave to
a member of the women's effort to offer
the true intent of the action, considering I
was not a part, nor am I a woman (much
like the author of the piece). Suffice it
to say that the author's argument is only
scathing in its banal sexism, rather than
any thoughtful critique. The enti~;e piece
is based in these fundamentally intimidating and crass personal attacks rather than
a genuine critique of the protest, which I
am not averse to and which has occurred
within the groups involved.
I am deeply suspicious and incensed
by an article proclaiming to defend the
integrity of a community assaulted by
self-serving protestors, which utilizes
the most hateful and divisive comparisons and language poss ible. The virulent
personal assaults launched in the piece
in absence of a sincere argument are also
very questionable methods of promoting community of any kind. One line in
particular would understandably enrage
someone who participated determinedly in
the actions. "I watched as my peers cease
to be individuals and instead become a
mob, sacrificing individual responsibility for group solidarity ... " It appears
that the author's individual responsibility
is to intimidate his fellow students and
community members into relinquishing
responsibility over the ending of a brutal
occupation conducted in their name to the
powers that be. His manipulation of the
term solidanty, as some cult of personality, clearly exposes his lack of experience
with both community and solidarity, both
of which were prevalent in the movement
in which I was involved over those two
weeks and in which I fe lt the most sincere
human connection that I have experienced
in my li fe in the face of massive violence
and oppression; the poli ce violence that
the author apparently feels was never
"excessive or inappropriate force."
For those whom I genuinely love, and
have recently watched experience malicious assault and psychological manipulation in the form of the police, I feel it
is absolutely necessary to inveigh again st
that same intimidation in the form of a
self- righteous harangue such as this. I
would also encourage the author to understand, as much as I disagree with personal
assaults upon police as unproductive, they
require no defense from the author, they
are effectively defended by a barricade
of law, body armor, pepper spray, truncheons, rubber bullets, and concussion
grenades, as the author himself claims
to have felt and witnessed. To those with
whom I stood, unswervingly side by side
in front of lines of riot police and trucks
carrying military machines, declaimed
in this piece as "thugs masquerading as
revolutionaries," I offer this genuine act
of solidarity. I stand firm in my defense
of the community I was a part of during
the protests and that will continue to resist
militarization and oppression in all forms ,
in opposition to the intimidation and
bigotry disguised as community offered
by the author of Excessive Force.
Throughout this quarter,
the Letters & Opinions
section of the Cooper
Point Journal has seen
some distinguished writing. It has seen truths
and triumphs, pedantic
bellows and snappy sass.
And that's great. This newspaper, and this
section specifically, is designed to act as a
large-scale letter to the editor - which means
that we expect diverse writing styles and
many different levels of writing.
There is one issue, though, that I've just
been waiting to see on these pages.
No luck. So here it is:
Geoduck Union: They've now lost another
representative - making three resignations
and two reps that were removed due to lack
of inactivity. That makes 16 from the 21 that
began the quarter. Also, those seats will not
be filled. Also, the current reps are feeling
like they have way too much to do, without
any involvement from students outside the
Union. Maybe they could use another rep or
two. Get some things done.
Thing is, they don't have a written process
for filling the five empty seats. And since
the current reps are trying their darndest to
focus on addressing issues that affect fellow
students, they are putting off writing the
bylaw that will enable the Union to get back
to a full21 reps.
Why not put two or three reps on the job
of revising the constitution and bylaws of the
Union over the next year, to ensure that next
year's reps won't face the same problems?
Why wait?
Email 'em (geoduckunion@evergreen.edu)
and speak your mind about this or any other
issue.
Seth Vincent is a junior enrolled in an independent learning contract and is editor in
chiefofthe CPJ.
In response to
"Excessive Force"
by SHIZUNO MARGOT
WYNKOOP
might decide against violence as with the
women's action. We took control knowing we could remove ourselves so men
could not be violent against peaceful
women. Signs, a mega-phone, and chants
of, "We are non-violent! No violence on
our bodies!" demande_d respect, even
though our allies and supporters were
attacked. We thank you for supporting us
and I'm sorry you were not protected.
"Ifnot, why?" If people were less important then military machines and money, I
would ask the city and police why?
"What else could they have done?"
They could have used non-violent tactics
against non-violent protesters and practiced self-control and restraint instead
of instigating chaos. Since 2004, the
city could have listened to letter-writers, speakers and protesters who oppose
military use of our port. The city knew
what to expect which is why they met us
with force. Elected officials have failed,
so we citizens are taking matters into our
own hands.
A woman taking a stand put herself
up for ridicule and her children before
potential violence, not because of her
actions but because the city protects
profits and property over people. Her
children wanted to be involved and the
group created strategy to protect them at
the first sign of violence. This is the face
of the resistance, allies working together
to stand against oppression as strangers
unified for a greater good.
Back to the first guestion, many people
were harmed, including Casey Jaywork.
The greatest scar is emotional and
psychological as so many experienced.
Justifying authority figures is a common
result of abuse but victims should not
feel ashamed. We will break the cycles
of violence by not submitting to their
abuse of authority. I thank Casey for his
questions, they've helped reaffirm why I
resist.
Casey
Jaywork ~
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asked some ques- "' " "
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tions, and I am going
to answer him.
"Who was actually harmed by the
protest?" I would
like to wait and respond to this till the
end.
"By the riots?" First I will say wasting
city money puts life before profit. Next,
"riots" started after police used force, not
before. Protesters remained physically
non-violent as officers used batons and
chemical weapons against them, shooting
protesters illegally with pepper bullets. A
better question to ask is why were police
handling peaceful crowds like riots?
"What did either accomplish, for either
anti-war protest?" Other cities began
resisting after hearing about Olympians'
actions, including Houston and Berkeley.
In Osaka, Japan, the local paper covered
police brutality against peaceful Olympia anti-war protesters. Not all media
coverage was lame. The whole world is
watching.
" What about demilitarizing the port?"
This is up to the city. They can continue
with military use of the port and expect
more protests, or refuse to be a part of
the displacement and death of Iraqis and
soldiers.
"What are my moral responsibilities to
other human beings?" My moral responsibility is to human rights, and not just
for those in my immediate presence. As
a tax-paying citizen I feel obligated to
ensure 1) my hard paid money doesn't
fund the death and destruction of an
innocent country and 2) people in this
country have access to federal funds
before bombs or private corporations.
"Are cops human beings?" YES, and
therefore they have moral obligations
to protect humans before machines.
Shizuno Margot ij}!nkoop is a junior
As protesters, our greatest tactic is to enrolled in Japanese Language and
humanize ourselves to the police so they Culture.
C. V. Rotondo is a sophomore at The
Evergreen State College and is a tutor at
the Writing Center.
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December 6, 2007
Is this guy
forreai7Le
the children'
saywhynot
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by ERIC MAPES
dissidents and resistance fighters?
it meant violating some laws. The
He's "infuriated" that "a self-righ- authorities aren't likely to refuse miliCasey Jaywork's
teously aggressive minority" of "self- tary shipments until the political and
November
29
appointed representatives" feel that economic costs outweigh whatever the
editorial,
Excesthey are "above the laws of the people army pays.
:sive Force, was a
of Olympia." Well, I'm infuriated too.
Mr. Jaywork insists I ask myself how
Colbert-esque satire
I'm infuriated that a self-appointed being there helped accomplish my
of critics of Port
junta of election fraudsters feel above goals. It's obvious. If we make trouble
Militarization Resisthe laws of nations and can attack any for them, those who collaborate with
tance. He skillfully skewers them for oil-rich country they want. Let's keep the military are more likely to stop.
their political masochism, pompous- some perspective here - the Nilrnberg If we are successful, we may inspire
ness, and ignorance. When I read in judges called unprovoked aggression like-minded folks to redouble their
the fourth paragraph that Jaywork's the highest international crime, and efforts. It seems that the demonstrators'
satirical right-wing columnist had sentenced its perpetrators to death! success causing such trouble is exactly
been "shoved by batons, hauled by The "mass of angry children" Mr. what irritates him the most. Although
riot cops, sMt with rubber bullets to Jaywork mocks were only blocking the shipment got to Ft. Lewis, the
the thigh and chest and chin (sic), and traffic, a misdemeanor punishable by demonstrations clearly succeeded in
hosed down with pepper spray" but a small fine!
momentum building, fundraising, and
If a majority of the electorate were outreach.
still "did not once see a police officer
Yet more questions for "children:"
act with excessive or inappropriate really opposed, he naively asserts, they
- "Are cops human?" Apparently
force," I almost ruptured my spleen. could have the city council close the
port to military use. A majority of the he feels their humanity outweighs
Talk about internalizing oppression!
Wait ... I think he's serious.
electorate has supported single-payer their willingness to be agents of state
Are we so near to fascism that a national health care since about 1950, violence. (Gee officer, I'm sorry you
college journalist covering a protest and we haven't made much progress have to beat me for double pay. Let me
he disapproves of can be shot in the there. A large majority opposes the obediently stop obstructing the death
face with a rubber bullet and feel he Iraq war, but that continues. Port machine you're protecting.) How
deserved it?! Please, officer, may I authorities, city councils, and state and about this question: Why are so many
federal governments routinely flout young people angry with the police?
have another?
For people so overcome by hysteri- their electorates' wishes. The primary Might the kids' jingoisms spring from
cal sympathy for suffering Iraqis as to author of our constitution described the real grievances?
- "Does the U.S. Bank have the right
take direct action against the machine purpose of government as "to protect
killing and torturing them, coolheaded the minority of the opulent from the to smash my front window?" (Did
Casey suggests more appropriate majority," and our first Supreme Court it have the right to hide Pinochet's
recipients: "Police and port workers chief justice said bluntly "the people stolen wealth from British courts?)
yanked around on overtime to accom- who own the country ought to govern The Port Militarization Resistance
modate the mass of angry children it." Segregation, the disenfranchise- Code. approved February 18 commits
blocking the port." When discussing ment of women, or child labor didn't ·members to "refrain from .. . maliSoviet crimes, would Mr. Jaywork end here just because a majority of the 'cious sabotage." Does Mr. Jaywork
insist that we focus on the Commis- electorate opposed them. People put , blame the anti-militarization folks
sars' suffering rather than that of the their beliefs into action, even though because disillusioned youths took the
opportunity to make mischief against
a criminal corporation?
IF WE ARE SUCCESSFUL, WE MAY
- If asked about my "right to forcefully (or even violently) impose my
INSPIRE LIKE-MINDED FOLKS TO
will on my community," would I "pull
the Stalin argument that you have to
REDOUBLE THEIR EFFORTS. IT SEEMS
break eggs to make an omelet, end
a war?" The attempt to associate
THAT THE DEMONSTRATORS' SUCCESS
considerations of what ends justify
what means with Stalin is intellectuCAUSING SUCH TROUBLE IS EXACTLY
ally dishonest. Mr. Jaywork is just
trying to falsely lump an infamous
WHAT IRRITATES HIM THE MOST.
villain in with his opponents. Whether
a minor infraction under the Olympia
municipal code is justified in resisting
the Geneva Convention's worst crime
should only take a few nanoseconds
thought.
- "You want to be a revolutionary?" Mr. Jaywork presumes we do,
and advises us wannabes to think for
ourselves instead of "imitating Che
Gueverra (sic)." (Did Che Guevara not
think for himself?) What if I just don't
want atrocities (torture, mass murder,
poisoning fetuses with uranium, etc.)
carried out in my name, with my
taxes?
-"What else could [the police] have
done? .. . abandon the law and allow
us to control port transit?" I can
imagine numerous ways they could
get war material to Ft. Lewis without
giving protesters time to converge.
As the sole perpetrators of legitimate
violence, the cops' burden of justification should be heavy. Shooting rubber
bullets at people's faces for not moving
is "excessive force." What about their
obligation under international law
not to collaborate with blatant war
criminals?
- "What are my responsibilities
and what are my rights?" We who
"(sacrifice] our comfort and safety to
engage in civil disobedience'' against
the massacre, torture, and mutation of
innocent people, feel it is not only our
right, but actually our responsibility as
citizens. We hope to soon have the clout
to stop illegal wars of aggression.
If Casey Jaywork and mainstream
intellectuals generally would fulfill
their "responsibilities" to draw public
attention to unconttoversial facts about
what our government is doing (e.g. the
Iraq war is illegal, about oil, and killing hundreds of thousands) instead of
apologizing for state violence, we'll
have it that much sooner.
Eric Mapes graduated from Evergreen in 1998. He currently lives
in Olympia and teaches English to
foreign students.
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Therefore, we need to persist
by NICKY TISO
I am responding to .------=---..,
Casey Jaywork's recent
commentary on the
Port of Olympia protest,
specifically his article
"Excessive Force" in last
week's CPJ, the article r ' •
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in which Casey so eloquently sympathizes
with the police, because they are people too!
Deep down, behind that face plate, bullet
proof vest, (non) lethal TASER gun, baton,
pepper spray, bean bag shotgun, shin guards,
helmet, gloves, boots, and overwhelmingly
white male skin, lies a little teddy bear waiting to be hugged!
Before getting into a deconstruction of said
article, there are some premises I want to lay
out early on and which I hope are "commonsense" enough to not need much justification (or perhaps they will seem outrageous,
depending on which myth you follow):
Premise 1:
The majority of Americans do not support
the war in Iraq.
Premise 2:
The majority of Americans are not willing
to do anything to stop the war in Iraq aside
from talking idly.
Premise 3:
Neutrality sides with the oppressor. "We are
so used to outsourcing our production that we
are now outsourcing our civic responsibility.
If we support the war, we want someone
else to fight it for us. If we oppose the war,
we want someone else to protest it for us."
- Zoltan Grossman.
Premise 4:
The war in Iraq is an occupation to extend
corporate and state domination over finite
natural resources (oil, duh) because our
unsustainable way of life depends on the
massive control, importation and extraction
of crude petroleum. Sorry, switching to a
Prius won't help, and no, we' re not importing "freedom" and "democracy." Instead, we
are exporting the idea of democracy into the
hands of fascism (cough USA PATRIOT Act
cough Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act cough).
Premise 5:
The occupation of Iraq serves to destabilize the Middle East and further the ability
for imperialist advancement. The location
provides a militarized launching pad into
neighboring country Iran, which is maybe
possibly making nukes in the near future,
which is a threat to our stockpile of 10,000
nuclear warheads.
Premise 6:
War is a necessity of capitalism because,
again, our way of industrial capitalist life
depends on the vast importation of finite
resources, and the control of these resources
cannot be wholly achieved without the use
of violence or coercion.
(In event of disbelief see: sweatshops,
slavery, COINTELPRO, the School of the
Americas, WTO, Operation Ranch Hand,
I'm choosing at random here but the list
goes on, and as you can see the list includes
military operations along with economic
agreements, for one is but the enforcement
ofthe other)
From the way Casey paints it in his article,
the protestors are the immoralists - vandalizing property, yelling hate speech, moving
dumpsters, and causing chaos! This all
assumes of course, that the laws are moral
and worthy of following in our best interests,
but it is the law which creates the role of the
police, and it is the police that prevent us
(the people) from taking over the port, and
it is the port that is being used to further the
military industrial complex, a concept that is
worth defining.
The phrase military industrial complex
gives itself away, for it shows the relation
of the ·"military" to "industry." Industry
has historically maintained a close relationship to war, with corporations such as
Monsanto or Lockheed Martin benefiting
greatly from wartime chemical and weapons
manufacturing.
Much like capitalism outsources labor to
China and India, so too does it follow this
economic trend by outsourcing the war,
with something like 20,000 private military
contractors fighting in Iraq, or about one
PMC for every 10 military personnel. The
materials for war and their production are
agreed upon via government bid contracts
given to private industries, which fight for
the lucrative deal. The contract itself, I'm
guessing, is signed by two white men in
fancy suits, uptight, with expensive pens on
a polished desk. The point here is that war
engulfs capitalism, and this war is not an
exception so much as it is a technologically
advanced and ideologically couched repeat
of neo-colonialization.
In regards to the military industrial complex,
the banking industry also plays a key role in
facilitating transactions, giving loans, and
insuring contracts to satisfy war profiteering
corporations. Again, with capitalism comes
systematized war, and so every major sector
of industry depends on and participates
Premise 6 highlights the problem of Casey's
perspective; it assumes the police exist on an
equal-moral level as the activists do, and to
go even further, he says that to denounce a
cop is as bad as to denounce a homosexual!
To compare hate speech against a cop on par
with hate speech against a homosexual is to
say one's sexual orientation is as important
as one's career choice, and such a thinly
stretched comparison is a degradation that
Casey should be ashamed of. "Nigger" and
"faggot" are by far more hurtful words than
"pig," because "niggers" and "faggots"
suffered far more pain than a police officer
ever has. A kop doesn't have to fight for his
identity. Ironically, this pain and discrimination was largely suffered at the hands of pigs
who called them such horrible things, who
sprayed them with hoses and unleashed the
dogs on them and made sure they moved to
the back of the bus. The compliance of police
in terms of upholding racial discrimination
and tolerating the extreme racial violence of
the KKK during its heyday is clear evidence
of the role police have in facilitating institutionalized forms of violence. (For more
current examples of institutionalized forms
of racism, check out the case of the Jena 6,
the San Francisco 8, or Mumia Abu-Jamal.)
With this in mind, Casey's constant reference
of the radical protestors' behavior or appearance to militant groups like the KKK and
neo-Nazis is comedic when simultaneously
WE ARE CLEARLY PAST THE POINT OF
TALKING, PAST THE POINT OF COMPROMISE AND TWIDDLING WITH THE IDEA
OF MEAGER REFORMS -A BAND-AID
FOR A BULLET WOUND, AND MOST OF
ALL - AS I'M SURE THE PEPPER SPRAYED
CIVIL DISOBEDIENTS CAN TELL YOU - WE
ARE PAST THE POINT OF PACIFISM.
with the war machine. This is why Bank of
America's windows were smashed. Oh and
did I forget to mention they also finance
billions of dollars' worth of coal plants along
with companies that practice mountaintop
removal- a violent tactic of surface mining
that is responsible for the destruction of over
one million acres of Appalachian forests?
Much like the feelings of a kop are not
comparable to a protestor, the windows of a
multinational bank are not the same as the
windows of an individual's home. Chances
are that individual is not facilitating the transfer of billions of digital dollars that keeps the
economy of war in check, and chances are
that individual is not monetarily backing
hegemonic agreements such as NAFTA, and
so that individual's windows do not need to
be broken. B of A, on the other hand ...
Casey's main problem is that he does not
take into account the myriad of unequal
political power structures in place, which is
a necessary element in terms of understanding how social relations between classes and
police function. A Walter Rodney quote fits
wonderfully here, so wonderfully in fact, I
will make it premise #6:
Premise 6:
"By what standard of morality can the
violence used by a slave to break his chains
be considered the same as the violence of a
slave master? Violence aimed at the recovery
of human dignity and that equality cannot
be judged by same yardstick as violence
aimed at maintenance of discrimination and
oppression." - Walter Rodney.
noting his sympathy for the police, who
much more fit that bill, and I'm wondering
if he's being utterly backwards on purpose,
perhaps playing the devil's advocate?
Here we have a demonic war machine
ejaculating terror, protected by the police,
and those who actually take a form of action
beyond candlelight vigils and petitions and
cries that fall on deaf ears, and those who
take back history and demand a stop to this
injustice are deemed the immoralists because
they don't follow the laws! No, if it could be
done legally it would have been done, but
the legal system does not wish to stop this,
the legal system legalizes this.
This is a clear example of the nature of
violence as it stands today: violence that
comes from the top of the social hierarchy
down to the lower classes is unarticulated,
justified violence (the necessity of the kops to
be heavily armed in relation to the unarmed
protestors and the necessity of tanks to be
shipped is never questioned), but what stands
out as horrific is a dumpster being moved
or rocks being thrown. You, Casey, may
say this is somehow unjustifiable behavior,
but I say, they're goddamn lucky that's all
we're doing. We are clearly past the point
of talking, past the point of compromise and
twiddling with the idea of meager reforms
- a band-aid for a bullet wound, and most
of all - as I'm sure the pepper sprayed civil
disobedients can tell you - we are past the
point of pacifism.
Police brutality is not an isolated incident,
it is a continued pattern of behavior that is
deeply entrenched in how they respond ~o
the unarmed. I would just go on Youtube.
com and type in "port of Olympia protest"
and see the brutality for yourself. Any force
used by the police is excessive force, and if
you're trying to take it from a kop's perspective and find the sense in their use of force,
then you should just become a kop. Let me
tell you about kops - they are repeating
protocol from strict ideological conditioning
and aggressive training. They feel no guilt
over their actions, no more than an abusive
husband feels guilt for hitting his wife,
because they are abusers of the public, and
most of them derive, at most, a feeling of
a pleasure from the power they wallow in.
Shall we allow ourselves to be abused, and
then come crawling back as poor victims
still concerned with THEIR feelings, despite
how horribly they treat us again and again?
They sleep fine at night, they eat fine in
the morning, they beat people, and they do
not consider our feelings, nor act with any
regard to our well being, and so wh)' would
we bother to take the time out of our struggle
to question what the kop is going through,
because that is not going to help him move
out of my way, nor is it going to help me get
pasthim.
·
Any perceived violence on the side of the
protestors was in the name of self-defense
against the tyranny of the birthed warmonger that thought it was okay to drive tanks
through our city streets. The weeks of protest
were resilient, audacious, and passionate.
While the end goal was not achieved, do
not be fooled into thinking this nullifies the
success of the protest. The bold public defiance sends a serious message, not to mention
cost, to the City of Olympia that they need to
think twice before militarizing our port, as
well as sending a message to people nationwide that a commurtity mobilization and
sustained struggle is possible. The protest
became increasingly coordinated as the days
went on and people had time to test the efficiency of various tactics, which, at their peak,
had multiple streets shut down and military
shipments blocked for upwards often hours.
We must remember the historical influence
of protests such as those against the Vietnam
War in '68, which had a profound impact on
the social attitude and political policy of the
time.
Take the port protest as a training experience for future movements and organizational tactics, take it as a time when one
could unleash the distress against an atrocity
of such repressed magnitude, take it as a
time when diverse resistance groups synthesized into one determined body, take it as a
reminder that we are not beaten into passive
submission. We require city buses to haul us
away, and kops on overtime and helicopter
searchlights pouring down, and undercover
cars down each avenue, and this length at
which they go to contain us, this funding and
high-tech equipment they spend on riot gear,
it tells us one important thing: they are very,
very afraid, which leads us the grand finale,
premise #7:
Premise 7:
"An act of repression by the state is a recognition of the potential of social movements
and therefore we need to persist, through
the repression, in order to bring about social
change. We can learn to expect the repression, and not to be intimidated." - Howard
Zinn.
Nicky Tiso is enrolled in the program Poetics and Power and is a tutor at the Writing
Center.
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Solberg takes "One Warm Coat" a success
CCC honors
SPORTS
SHORTS
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by DAVID RAILEANU
The
Cascade
Collegiate Conference league office
announced Tuesday
that
Evergreen's
senior guard Jennifer Solberg is the
conference
Player
of the Week for
women's basketball.
Solberg,
leading
SOLBERG, #33 the Lady Geoducks
in scoring, rebounding, and free throw
percentage, earns her first Player of the
Week honors.
In the two most recent home games,
Solberg has averaged a double-double,
pulling down an outstanding 22 rebounds
against Corban College.
Solberg is no stranger to recognition,
however. She, along with Joy White, was
named -to the 2006 Staples Classic AllTournament team and earned Honorable
Mention from the Cascade Conference.
She led the team in scoring and free
throw percentage for the 2006-07 season
with 13.6 points per game.
Originally from Tacoma, Solberg graduated from Franklin Pierce High School and
attended Minot State University before
joining Evergreen's team. She lists her
focus as a career in journalism.
David Raileanu is a senior enrolled in
Molecule to Organism.
TRACK AND FIELD
Junior Emily Uhlig raced to a heat
victory and sixth overall placement in
the mile at the University of Washington
Winter Preview Meet last Saturday with
a time of 5:37.19. Her finish sets a new
school for the event and her second overall indoor track record. Other Evergreen
athletes competing in the race include
assistant track and field coach jason
McConnell, who competed unattached
and finished 25th in the 5000 meters.
BASKETBALL
MEN'S BASKETBALL HELPS THE NEEDY STAY WARM THIS WINTER.
by CRAIG DICKSON
The Evergreen State College collected coats
in their inaugural "One Warm Coat" drive last
week. Students, faculty, staff and members of
the community donated the coats during the
week-long drive organized by Evergreen's
Athletic Department.
At last weeks men's basketball home games,
donors were able to exchange their coats for
free admission.
Following this drive 168 coats were
collected. These coats were given to the
Olympia Union Gospel Mission, an organization dedicated to helping the poor and needy.
Head Men's Basketball Coach Jeff Drinkwine led the coat drive. "It's that time of the
year when many do not have the necessities
to stay warm during the winter months,"
notes Drinkwine.
Evergreen sports programs are happy to
extend their commitment to the community
in the coming year. Geoduck athletes will
continue to be in public schools reading to
children, working with incarcerated youth
and collecting food for local food banks.
Craig Dickson is the sports information director for the College Recreation
Center.
Both Evergreen basketball teams blew
second half leads last Saturday night
against Concordia University. The men
suffer their first defeat at home, losing
83-77 after the Cavaliers outscored the
Geoducks by 12 in the second half. The
women also end a two-game winning
streak coming off an impressive overtime
win at home against Corban the night
before. The ladies are now 2-5 on the
season and 1-1 in Cascade Conference
play. The men, taking off for a long road
trip, leave with a 4-l overall record and
a fifth place ranking in the conference.
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Arts
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Longhouse N·ative
Friday, December 7
Campus Activities Building (CAB)
2nd and 3rd Floors
11:00 AM-4:00PM
Saturday, December 8
I
aphy,
sual wear,
pieces,
tings and more!
Long house
12:00 PM 5:00 PM
Kuteeyaa Dancers
will perform at 1:30 PM
CALENDAR~
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December 6, 2007
Upcotning
events on and
offcampus
Thursday, 6
8 p.m. Voices of Chernobyl, monologues
from the survivors. Recital Hall.
Friday, 7
11 a.m. Longhouse native art fair. Basketry,
bags and jewelry, salish textiles, photography, headwork, casual wear, prints, glass
pieces, pottery, shawls, paintings and more.
CAB Building.
1 p.m. Letter writing teach-in. Brought to
you by the TESC chapter of Amnesty International. CAB 320.
Friday, 7 cont.
Saturday, 8 cont.
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Monday, 10 cont.
5 p.m. Are you a terrorist? Workshop on
Violent Radicalization Homegrown Terrorism Act. SEM II EI105.
I 0 a.m. LAN Party. Bring your own PC and
consoles. Brought to you by the SVGA. Sem
II E-1105.
Amnesty
international,
WASHpirg,
Women's Resource Center and Women of
Color Coalition. CAB 320.
7 p.m. Bad news for Paris. A S.O.S. visual
arts experience. Buyolympia.com 3I2 ~
Columbia St. behind Cooper Moon.
Sunday, 9
11 a.m. It's DUCK the MALLS at the Capitol Theatre This 5th Annual Crafts and Art
Sale is an event to benefit the Olympia Film
Society and support local artists. Hipsters,
youngsters, and oldsters will be offering a
wide variety oflocal, handmade artful objects
at this "only in Oly" indie/hippie/punk craft
and arts sale. Capitol Theatre
Thesday, 11
7 p.m. Sign petitions, write letters in celebration of international human rights day. Join
Amnesty international, WASHpirg, Women's
Resource Center and Women of Color Coalition. HCC during open mic night.
8 p.m. Voices of Chernobyl, Monologues
from the survivors. Recital Hall
10 p.m. The Shondes, Sarah d. and the sq's,
Jenny Jenkins and political spoken word. Le
Voyer.
Saturday, 8
6 p.m. Peter Young, formerly imprisoned
for releasing and conspiring to release thousands of mink from farms in the Midwest
will speak. SEM II El107.
8 p.m. Concert: The Pasties, Occidol,
Nervosa, Ancient Head, Greyskill 2000,
P.K.I.A. This Time Tomorrow. HCC.
5 p.m. "No Talking Heads" heard on KAOS,
89.3 FM, Olympia, WA every Sunday night.
John Dodge, environment and energy reporter
for the Olympian, will be on to discuss storm
water in wake of the recent flooding.
Monday, 10
Noon. Sign petitions, write letters in celebration of international human rights day. Join
Saturday, 28
5
p.m.
"Impeachment Party"
to
Connect People and Energize Movement to Impeach Bush & Cheney.
More than a year of local outreach by the
Olympia-based Citizens Movement to
Impeach Bush/Cheney has found powerful
grassroots determination to impeach Bush
and Cheney, so the locl!l movement is throwing an Impeachment Party at the Woman's
Club, 1002 Washington SE, Olympia.
Get hel~ with
Common
Calendar
Abbreviations
~ur self evalua-
tions!
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: SEMI
Seminar II Building: SEM II
Evergreen phone numbers:
(360) 867-0000, abbreviated as xOOOO
Flaming Eggplant
Mondal:, 3 g.m.
CA 32
Chemistry Club
Wednesdays, l to 2 p.m.
LAB 11,2207
Ev~een Queer Alliance
The Phrontisterion
Wednesdatls, 1 to 2 p.m.
SEM I,A2105
ondays, 3:30p.m.
CAB 315
The Writing Center is open evaluation
week to help you with your evals! The
hours are Monday-Wednesday 9-5,
Thursday 9-4 and Friday 9-12 . Writing
Center is located in LIB 2304.
Have something you'd like to contribute
to the calendar? Are you having an awesome event you want everyone to know
about? Send it to us at cpj@evergreen.
edu.
Women of Color Coalition
Mon~s, 4 to 5 p.m.
AB206
Geoduck Union
Wednesdals, 1 to 3 p.m.
SEM I, Ell05
Center for Radical
Education
Bi-weekly Mondays,
4:30 to 6 ~.m.
SEMII, E 107
Students EducatinJi Students
about the Mid e East
Wednesdal:, I :30 p.m.
CA 320
Winter break: December 17- January 6
Registration: Open December 3 - January 2. Check
Gateway for your specific registration date and time.
Tuition: Due January 2 at 3:45 p.ni.
Campus Closures: December 24, 25 and January 1
Gaming Guild
Wedne~, 5:30p.m.
c
Monda~, 6 p.m.
Giant Robot
.WI esdays, 5:30p.m.
CAB 3rd floor TV lounge
Generation Friends
lmJarov Club
6 to 8 p.m.
Wednes
SEM I, Ell05
r·
Sabot Infosquat
Thursdays 4 p.m.
Lffi3 03
1
3
Evergreen Hillel
Wednesday, 3 f.m.
Workspace 5
Percussion Vibe
Tuesdad]s, 6 to 9 p.m.
C MM209
Slightly West
ThurSday~ 4 p.m.
Umo~
Wednesdays, to 3 p.m.
CAB 3rd floor TV lounge
Greeners 4 Christ
Tuesdays, 7 p.m.
SEM II, 2I07
Writing enter
Common Bread
Th~s, 5 to ~.m.
Lon ouse l 2
Environmental
Resource Center
Wednesdays, 3 p.m.
CAB320
Amnes~
International
Wednes ays, 12:30 p.m.
CAB320
Appearing Task Force
on anti-oppression
Wednesdays, I p.m.
CAB 320
320
A~reciation Society
Musician's Club
Wednesdal:, I :30 p.m.
CA 320
Mind Screen
lnlportant acadelllic dates .
Hip Hop Congress
Wedri~~ 4 to 5 p.m..
L
303
Women's Resource Center
Wednesdal:, 1:30 p.m.
CA 313
Capoeria
Mond~s, 5 to 9 p.m.
C MM209
L
Society for Trans
Action and Resource
Wednesdabs, 4 to 5,.m.
SEM ,D210
Writers Guild
Wednesd~s, 4 p.m.
LIB 2I3 , next to
Writing Center
Circus Resurgence
Thursdaib, 6 to 9 p.m.
L lobby
Ca~ria
Saturdac;s, 2 to 2:30 p.m.
OMM209
Lov~CM4uJ4
Annual check-ups, birth control,
emergency contraception, early abortion,
HPV vaccine, testing for pregnancy and STis,
education and treatment.
fP-J Planned Parenthood"
of Western Washington
www.ppww.org I1.800.230.PLAN
VISA.
Ask if you qualify for FREE Services.
We'll bill most major insurance companies.
Planned Parenthood• is a 501(c)(J) not·for-proHt organization.
()2o07 Planned Parenthood• of Western Washington.
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