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SETH VINCENT
Each perspective of what happened
before and during the riot on February 14 has its own set of values and
limitations, according to Evergreen
police officer April Meyers.
And only by piecing together as
many different perspectives as possible, said Meyers, can the.community
develop a 360 degree view of what
happened.
Meyers' own view from inside her
police car that night was severely
limited as the size of the crowd
around her car increased.
All she could see was the upper
bodies of those closest to the car,
with only occasional glimpses of the
action beyond, said Meyers.
1lcr view "was further occluded ,"
said Meyers, "Because my windows
(were) covered with spit."
THE YOUTUBE VIDEO
POSTED BY THE GSU
Wh ilc most computer screens are not
covered w ith spit, the view offered by
the video footage posted to Youtube.
com by the Geoduck Student Uni on
(GSU) is also limited.
The anonymous fi 1m makers edited
the rootage and blurred the faces of
those in the crowd. As Evergreen
chief of police Ed Sorger noted in an
interview, there's plenty that could
be happening outside the frame of
the video.
"What you can see in the video isn't
the same as what was happening in
those officers' minds," said Sorger,
"The video doesn't show that."
The footage that the GSU released
doesn't show in explicit detail the
student who was hit repeatedly by
an Olympia police officer. The video
doesn't show that student being taken
to the hospital for his injuries.
"1 was standing off to the side
of the crowd," said the student
at Wednesday's forum, "Without
giving any warnings, without any
provoking actions from within the
crowd, without any pretext that could
conceivably justify use of force, the
officers from various police departments came in swinging batons."
The Olympia Police Department is
see VIEWPOINTS, page 4
STUDENTS AND COMMUNUY MEMBERS MARCH THROUGH CAMPUS TO PROTEST POLICE PRESENCE
BELINDA MAN
Protesters rally on Red Square
by JUSTIN SHEPHARD
VERY FEW PEOPLE VISIBLY SUPPORTED THE
Wednesday, February 27, a group of
approximately 10 people, students and nonstudents, stood in red square in an attempt
to rally students aga inst police. Between
100-140 onlookers observed at' a distance
with little participation or vocal support for
the rally.
The demonstration was purportedly organi zed in reaction to the riot on campus
February 15 and cla ims of police misconduct
in dealing with the crowd. Older incidents
involving Olympia police were also cited.
A list of demands was read by Peter
Cooper, a TESC senior which included an
end to the concert moratorium on campus,
RALLY BY PICKING UP SIGNS OR STANDING
WITH THE SMALL GROUP IN THE CENTER.
an end to administration cooperation with
the police, a disbanding of campus police,
and an apology from the administration for
what the group claims was misinformation.
Also taking the microphone were several
members of an anarchist/anti-authoritarian
organization from Minneapolis-St. Paul,
Minnesota. Ryan, one of the members who
chose not to be identified with a last name,
read a statement declaring solidarity with
Greeners and thanking them for the "beauti-
ful Valentine's Day gift on February 14."
Very few people visibly supported the
rally by picking up signs or standing with
the small group in the center. Many antipolice signs laid on red square with phrases
like "PIGS GO HOME," "All COPS ARE
MURDERERS," and "LIARS, LIARS,
COPS ON FIRE!"
The group gained approximately 20-25
see RALLY, page 3
Geoducks dig Eagles
by ZACH LICHT
If Wednesday night was the last game to
be played in the Greenhouse this season,
then the Evergreen faithful got their
money's worth in what became a high
flying showcase in the second half, as the
men of E-State defeated the Northwest
Eagles in stylish fashion, 93-78 to move
on to the CCC Semifinals.
Evergreen started the game like a bunch
of sugar high three-year-olds, jumping
to a 9-0 lead in the three minutes, which
included three steals. Northwest came
back and countered with an 8-0 run of
their own to pull the game to one.
Nathan Menefee decided then to turn
the jet engines on, as he hit three straight
bombs from beyond the arc to pull the
lead to 18-10. Menefee himself scored, 14
of the team's first 18 points.
Evergreen would maintain roughly
an eight-point lead until there was ftve
minutes left in the first half. The 'Ducks
then would seize control of the game by
pushing the lead to 14, capped by Nick
Moore posterizing an Eagle defender with
a monster dunk off a steal.
The Geoducks took a 46-32 lead into
intermission. The guys shot 53% from the
field, including seven 3-pointers.
Now coming out of the break, the offense
did sputter a little bit; but great defense
kept the lead right around 15 for the first
five minutes. Then behind another Menefee outburst, Evergreen took a 19-point
see GEODUCK MEN, page 13
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Business
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"I'm here because I
think this is a venue of
dialogue with people of
different opinions and
a way to show visible
opposition to the police."
Assistant business manager
Carrie Ramsdell
Ad proo!Cr
Alex l\lorl~y
"Just wanted to see
what's going on. I don't
do anything stupid, so I
don't worry about it."
Ad rcprescntatil'e
Joshua Katz
Circulation manager
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Distribution manager
Sarah Alexander
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"The cops were just doing
their jobs. People who are
actually brutalized for their
rights were more focused
on what they were fighting
for rather than how the
police were treating them."
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"I agree with some
points but polarization
is not the way to change
what's going on. For any
sense of resolution, it's
necessary to reach out to
the opposing groups."
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"I'm here to support the
; officers, one: because they're
' human and two: they were
just following orders from
the higher ups. If they didn't
they would get blacklisted
and thrown off the force,
just like a student who
fails their class will have
a harder time later on."
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the dorms. I want to
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prove anything to
the school to change
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BELINDA
MADELINE BERMAN
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RALLY, fi·om cover
is a need to work for resolution instead
of polarization," which provided a stark
followers as it walked to Police Services contrast to comments by Cooper, one of
and Annex F on campus, but more than a the organizers. When asked if he thought
hundred people moved on, or discussed the event would create more division
their view of the event without joining between police and students, Cooper
the rally. The anti-police signs stayed said, "I think I would hope so."
mostly on the ground.
Though
oddly
enough,
Cooper
A group of students also marched confir~ed ~ha~ he does not view the rally
around campus carryino signs with ·, as antt-poltce m nature and used the term
peace symbols and ph~ses such as "alternative to police."
.. Non-violence ."
Several individuals thanked the police
Many of the onlookers mentioned their for their presence on campus after the
disapproval of the polarizing statements ra.lly .left the headq~arters. Ch~is Moz.eri
and signs of the small anti-police group. aJUnf.or at TESC, pomt~d to a s~gn;, wh~ch
Adam Fleischmann a freshman and read FIRE ALL COPS and satd, I thmk
member of Amnes~y International at that's c~ap." He indicated his approval of
TESC stated "Hate is not ooing to brino the poltce presence and suggested the
change to the campus."
"'
"' ang~r toward police was "discrimjnating
Jason Housden, a junior, said, " ... there agamst a huge group for the actiOns of
a few" and that, for the most part, many
officers provide a valuable and necessary
service to our community.
After the rally completely dissipated
Jenna Wes, a student, mentioned the
opportunity she felt did not get enough
attention during the anger·driven demonstration, "wouldn't it be amazing if we
could take this passion and energy to
create peaceful, positive change?"
Justin Shephard is enrolled in Practice
of Community .
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PETER COOPER
(one ()/'the organizers and reader of
de mamil)
"We're not wanting to take sides"
"Polarizing is not attractive"
JENNA WES
·•J think [the event] turned out alright"
.. I don't think the administration should
be cooperating with police, selling out
their students"
"I don't think the division could get
much further"
"I would hope that it would catalyze
discussions between students with issues
that concern all of our safety and not just
some of our safety"
.ADAM FLEISCHMANN
(student and Amnesty Int. member but
speaking as an individual)
(Student and amnesty Int. member)
"Wouldn't it be amazing if we could
take this passion and energy to create
peaceful, positive, change?"
JASON HOUSDEN
(TESC Junior)
"To create change, the hardest step is to
reach toward the other people to find the
common ground ... No one has stepped
up to do that" on what is needed and
what he didn't see at the rally"
Annex F had been broken into last
weekend. The break and enterers
may have gotten in through an unse-,
cured window. A Sony DSC camera
is believed to have been stolen in the
break-in.
Car, proweled
Police responded to a "vehicle prowl"
call in F lot. A student claimed her driver's side window had been cut opened
and her car battery charger stolen.
The car stereo and GPS unit were left
behind. According to another report,
this wasn't the only vehicle "prowled"
in F lot this week .
~JASON
SLOTKIN
ELECTIONS COMMISIONER
AND STUDENT TRUSTEE
Spring is springing, birds will be
chirping, hormones will be raging, and
the Geoduck Student Union is looking
for two Elections Commissioners, one
Student Trustee, and a partridge in a
pear tree. Why would you venture to
do such daring deeds, you ask? The
Commissioner pays big bucks and the
trustee appointment lands you a hot
lunch date with Governor Gregoire.
Election Commissioners will receive
a $400 "stipend at the end of the spring
quarter for such duties as: providing
info to the campus about elections and
ballot measures, recruiting & hiring poll
workers, supervising polling stations,
meeting with the lovely GSU to develop
elections procedures, · ~d certifying
elections results. Sounds hard? Don't be
ridiculous, you can do it!
If being an elections commissioner
doesn't tickle your pickle, we are also
hunting for a Student Trustee to serve
on the Board of Trustees for the 20082009 academic year. Our Trustee will be
required to attend monthly meetings of
the BOT and keep them updated on GSU
happenings as well as informing them of
our needs, wants, and burning desires as
a student body. The trustee is a voting
member of the BOT .whom the governor
appoints from a list of the chosen ones.
Sound enticing? Positively thrilling?
Hurry and storm the castle (CAB 320) to
pick up an application! Applications for
Elections Commissioners are accepted
until March 3rd (TENTATIVLEY) and
Student Trustees end 5:00 p.m. April
17th.
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FORUMS: AVENUE
FOR.DIVERSE
PERSPECTIVES
GEODUCK STUDENT UNION
REPRESENTATIVE SAMMI WEBSTER
PRESIDENT LES PURCE
VIEWPOINTS,Jrom cover
shown in the GSU footage breaking up
the crowd around the car. And the video,
as expressed on TESCtalk and at community forums about the riot, seems to show
that Olympia police officers acted with
undue force.
The GSU footage also doesn't show
whether or not members of the crowd
were provoking the Thurston County
deputies that were around Meyer's car.
The footage, because of the angle and
image quality, ~oesn 't show anyone grabbing at the guns on the hips of Thurston
County officers, as police reports attest.
The footage doesn't show crowd
members trying to open the doors of
Meyers' car.
"Did they want to get in?" Said Meyers,
"Somebody did, because my car handles
were tried multiple times."
THE POIJCE PERSPECTIVE
"It mushroomed, it snowballed, but it
wasn't peaceful starting from back in the
building," said Meyers.
Crowd members initially were ques-
ON LEFT: EVERGREEN POLICE CHIEF ED SORGER
MIDDLE: OFFICER APRIL MEYERS
tioning Meyers about the legitimacy of
.the arrest, based on allegations of it being
a racially motivated arrest.
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The mood gradually became more
aggressive, said Meyers, including shouts
like "Fuck the pigs."
Meyers reported that once she was in
her car, it was being kicked and rocked,
and that bottles were falling on her windshield before Olympia police arrived.
"It became physically violent in that
way long before people (Olympia police)
arrived," said Meyers.
Thurston County deputies arrived at
Meyers' request to take statements from
the crowd.
One student who was present when
Thurston deputies arrived noticed that the
officers attempted to take statements, but
the crowd largely ignored them, and to
a degree, responded negatively. A Thurston County police report made available
on TESCcrier made similar claim s.
Thurston County put out an emergency
call for backup, and fellow concert-goers
called 911 out of concern about the
actions of the crowd.
Olympia, Tumwater and Lacey officers
responded.
At the two community forums held
to discuss the riot, many students have
spoken about the abrupt, aggressive use
of force that was used without warning
by responding officers.
Pepper spray and blunt objects such as
batons and flashlights were used to dispel
the crowd.
"An abrupt approach was necessary,"
said Evergreen police chief Ed Sorger.
"It would be nice to have the luxury
of a 1000 watt amplifier megaphone in
your hand," said Sorger about trying to
warn the crowd. "But I don't know if a
1000 watt amplifier would have done
any good."
"We don't have to like it, we don't have
to agree," said Sorger about the abrupt
action that Olympia police took to clear
the area, "but it worked."
Seth Vincent is a junior enrolled in
an internship learning contract and
is editor-in-chief of the Cooper Point
Journal.
"When I saw this video it really broke my heart,"
said a groundskeeper for the college at the community
forum on Wednesday, February 27, "I really love this
joint."
"Let's learn from this and move forward," he said.
The community forum, which was held to address
concerns about the riot, became heated with some
members of the audience shouting from their chairs,'
interrupting as others spoke.
Many who spoke at Wednesday's and last week's
forum expressed their concern about police presence
on campus. Others spoke to their discomfort and
disgust toward the way students acted after the suspect
was released and Olympia police cleared the crowd so
that Meyers' car could be removed.
" What do we think this riot accomplished for any
of the issues that this has brought up?" asked student
Jonathan Atwood of the attendees of Wednesday's
forum.
Near the end of Wednesday's forum a woman in the
crowd passed out due to a medical condition. Audience
members checked the condition of the woman and
carried her from the room.
"Right there. what just happened is a true display
of what community is all about," said student Aaron
Mallory as audience members carried the woman out
of the lecture hall. "We talk about these notions of
community and the healing process, but when it comes
down to it, that's what community is about. Taking a
moment out of your own personal life for somebody
else. And I can guarantee, that those events right before
the throwing of bottles, the cops going after kids to
entice them to throw bottles, that was an act of people
coming together to support something, like people
came together to support that person right there."
"I hear that everyone has their perspective of what
happened and what ignited this," said school president
Les Puree, "and I hear some people say all you have to
do is look at this video and you can see what happened.
Well, I'd argue that everybody sees something different there."
"We talk about our ideals. We talk about what we
aspire to,'' said Puree. "We talk about racism, we talk
about sexism, and all the things in our hearts that we
hope that we can be. I know that that's why I' m here
as president and why I came back to Evergreen. l do
know that we have something running deep here that
we need to address. And I do know that as adults, and
members ofthis community, we do have to be accountable. We are accountable and responsible for the events
that happened in our place."
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Project PIE, or Plug in Evergreen, is a
commuter service program aimed at providing a permanent electrical vehicle charging
station on campus.
The station, according to project coordinators Murdoc Trammell and Forrest
Youngers, would serve the dozen or so electric commuters already on campus.
"Olympia has been part of the electrical
vehicle movement for a while now," says
Youngers. "If Evergreen campus is going to
stick to this 'Go Green, Stay Green' motto,
"OLYMPIA HAS BEEN PART OF THE ELEC-
one of the best ways of reinforcing that is
providing one of these [stations]."'
Youngers and Trammell started the project
in the middle of fall quarter with the mission
of providing support for commuters that
choose electrical power. There are no electrical vehicle charging stations on campus
as of yet.
"We're trying to help those students who
are helping our society fight our addiction to
petroleum-based fuels," says Trammell.
"Originally, we had planned to get funding
from the Clean Energy Grant," Trammell
explains.
TRICAL VEHICLE MOVEMENT FOR A
WHILE NOW. IF EVERGREEN CAMPUS IS
GOING TO STICK TO THIS 'GO GREEN,
STAY GREEN' MOTTO, ONE OF THE BEST
WAYS OF REINFORCING THAT IS PROVIDING ONE OF THESE [STATIONS]."
After the winter 2005 vote to establish the vehicle at around $18,000, ·and admits that
$1.00 per quarter clean energy fee, the Clean the project is not entirely aimed at students.
Energy Committee established a fund, made "It's a community based action," he said.
up of I 0% of the money collected through Currently, very few companies offer a roadthe fee, to provide support for on campus ready version of the electric vehicle, but
renewable energy projects, according to the many commuters have chosen to modifY
committee's website.
internal combustion engines to accommoBut Facilities and the Campus Land Use date petroleum-less driving.
Committee (CLUC) might help offset the
In order to get a better idea of how best
cost a bit as well. Paul Smith, Director of to serve the electrical vehicle community,
Facilities, indicated his interest in the proj- Project PIE will be releasing a survey to
ect. "It sounds reasonable," Smith says. "It gain more understanding of the campus
definitely sounds like something we'd be commuting population.
interested in doing."
PIE's next steps include coordinating with
The Energy Policy Act of 1992 provides Parking Services, CLUC and Facilites to
a tax deduction of up to $100,000 to a determine the project's feasability.
property containing a qualifYing electrical
vehicle charging station.
David Raileanu is a senior enrolled in
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in general .
The n'Cnt~ of the recent past have proven that thi s student body has some kind of general angst. It is the purpose of this survey to
define the level of priorities that students have in terms of their angst, and to design a course of action that represents the .student body
as a whole in resolving the issues that students have.
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shows how important that topic when compared to your other topics with # 1 being the most imp01tant and that you want S?mething
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done about now before anything else . Circle as many as apply.
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Black Water
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Walmart
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Friends
Activism
Community__
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Grievance Process
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Jobs
Bush Admin.
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Family__
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Anarchism
Democracy _ _
Elected Officials
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Student Involvement
Transparent Gov. __
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February 28, 2008
Mlndscrean shoots your face
In a student film competition at the Capitol Theater
by GAVIN DAHL
The Evergreen State College cinema-loving
student organization Mind Screen is teaming
up with Olympia Film Society (OFS) to bring
a new outlet for moviemakers in the South
Sound. The first annual Shot to the Face 72hour film competition screening takes place
Saturday March 8 at the historic Capitol
Theater in downtown Olympia.
The first annual Shot to the Face competition kicks off February 29, when shooting
begins. Participants can register in advance
at: shottotheface@gmail.com or show up at
the Housing Community Center on campus
at 7 p.m. Friday. Groups will receive a bag of
Ravensbrew Coffee to help get them through
the intense production schedule.
Local filmmakers have a mere 72 hours to
write, shoot, edit and submit a short movie.
Full guidelines are available at www.shottotheface.org and a specific prompt will be
released this Friday. Submissions must be
delivered in either DV or DVD format by
Monday night at 7 p.m. to Old School Pizzeria(108 Franklin StNE, Olympia).
Then on Saturday, March 8, we present the
best two hours of material at a free screening at the Capitol Theater (206 Fifth Ave
SE, Olympia). Doors open at 7 p.m. with DJ
Ponder Monkey, co-host of Monkey Haus on
KAOS Radio (Thursday nights at 11 p.m.),
spinning records. Emcee Pat Costaldo of
BuyOlympia.com will begin the presentation
at 8 p.m.
Competitors get up to 4 minutes of new
work screened and critiqued by our judges,
including filmmakers and local celebrities
from TESC, OFS, KAOS Radio, Rainy Day,
K Records and Cooper Point Journal. After
the screening, while the audience votes and
judges deliberate, a surprise musical guest
will entertain on the Capitol main stage.
Pat will give awards at 11 pm and students
in attendance can catch the last bus at 11 :30
p.m. To find out more, or register your team,
visit www.shottotheface.org.
Mind Screen serves Evergreen students by
screening free weekly movies on campus,
providing entertainment and diverse viewpoints as expressed through cinema arts.
Because students choose all movies screened
with student fees, the organization has
remained popular after more than 15 years on
campus. Mind Screen also strives to catalyze
student fi 1m making by bringing exposure
to foreign, independent, cla.Ssic and cuttingedge films, as well as offering students the
opportunity to screen our own work.
Gavin Dahl is a senior. He is the coordinator of Mindscreen.
WHO: Evergreen State College studentgroup Mind Screen and Olympia Film Society • Wl:lAT· Shot to
the Face 72-hourfilm competition • WHERE: Capitol Theater in downtown Olympia • WHEN: Saturday
Marr:h 8 7p.m. FREE • CONTACT· Gavin Dahl, coordinator at mindscreen@evergreen.eduor x6412
KAOS 89.3 Thp 20
VIA- Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists
Cover Neil Young/or Charity
2. Grupo Fantasma- Comes Alive
3. Shabaka- The Black Loyalist
4. Gamelan X - Satu
5. Cat Power- Jukebox
6. Omar Sosa - Afreecanos
7. Salvador Santana Band- SSB
8. V/A - Putumayo Presents: Latin
Reggae
9. Eddie Clearwater - West Side Strut
10. Sahra Indio- Change
11. Albert Collins - Live at Montreux
1992
1.
12. Tumbatu Cumba- SIT
13. Wynton · Marsalas - Standards and
Ballads
14. Anthony Gomes- Live
15. VIA - Droppin' Science
16. The Better Beatles - Mercy Beat
17. Sebastien Tellier- Sexuality
18. Thao with the Get Down Stay Down
-We Brave Bee Stings and All
19. Lee "Scratch" Perr - Chicken
Scratch
20. 20. Karl Blau -Am
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I've had itMth these
111other f'l'*king jumpers!
by ERIN RASHBAUM
At first glance, Jumper has a lot going for
it: co-stars include Jamie Bell, fantastic actor
of Billy Elliott fame and the ultimate badass
motherfucker himself, Samuel L. Jackson.
And although I saw this movie only because I
was late for the one I'd wanted, I figured a film
with characters teleporting around the world
would be fun. No such luck. Pretty boy of the
post-worth-a-damn Star Wars series, Hayden
Christensen, takes the lead as David Rice, an
outcast who discovers that he can teleport
('jump") and does so to his heart's content.
Then one day - uh oh - a snow-white-haired
Samuel L. Jackson shows up. David comes to
learn from a fellow jumper, played by Bell,
that there are people throughout the world
who possess this power and even more who
are trying to kill them (for the lamest reason
imaginable). Cue generic battle between good
and evil.
But wait, what about a damsel in distress?
You betyourcliche-lovin' ass! Rachel Bilson,
of The O.C., is Millie, David's childhood
crush who just happens to dream of traveling around the world. Handy, is it not? She
gets mixed up in the drama, but .adds little
more than a pretty face. If anyone happens to
run into Miss Bilson, please tell her to eat a
frickin ' cookie.
Overall, I give the movie a "C-." The writing is just pitiful. The casting could have been
worse, but the premise for the drama could
not. Can't give away details, but remember
how the end of every Scooby Doo episode
involved the removal of a scary mask, revealing Old Man Something-or-other? It's nothing
like that, but just as flimsy. Far less entertaining, however. Sure, people are teleporting all
over the world, there are some cool special
effects and the actors are cute, but there's no
sex or nudity, so what's the point?
Erin Rashbaum is enrolled in Me and My
Shadow.
lhe Birds flies high
by JASON SLOTKIN
"Our economy is not a recession," said the
Barbarian God Dubya during the final act of
the Phrontisterion production of The Birds.
The group chose Aristophanes comedy for
their third production.
The Birds is a comedy of unpunished manipulation and selfish power plays done for for
personal and political gain. This stronger
theme is balanced with the irreverent scenes
and dialogue.
The club chose David Barrett's english
translation of the play, with the third act pulled
from another translation.
Comical anachronisms such as a tough talking Hercules, a trench coat- clad Prometheus
and the aforementioned God Dubya dotted
the play.
One of the most memorable scenes of the
play is the grand speech the protagonist gives
to lure the birds into forming a city that would
interfere with humans and the gods they
worship.
During this scene it's easy to draw parallels
between this character and other real and
fictional demagogues. Pisthetairos is a real
Adenoid Hynkel.
The humor of the play was diverse and
consisted of transitions between grandiose
physical movements, phallic jokes, Evergreen
references, political humor, and word play.
Like many comedies the play ends without
the character learning any lessons or suffering any questions. And there's also a dance
number.
The character gets everything he wanted to
achieve through manipulation and from what
one of the members of the Phrontisterion
informs me is called "political hubris."
Jason Slatkin is a junior enrolled in a .Journalism Internship with the CPJ.
WHO WILL BE THE NEXT
EDITOR IN _/~~
CHIEF?
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The Cooper Point Journal is recruiting
for the 2008-09 editor in chief from .
now until 5 p.m., Friday, April4.
Prior experience with the Cooper Point
Journal is preferred, but not required.
For more information stop into the
office, CAB 316, call 360.867..6213,
or email cpj@evergreen.edu.
All are encouraged to apply.
applications onl i
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INTERNATIONAL
Thursday February 28, 2008
Tuesday M~rch 4, 2008
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FEST SING-OFF
Jewish American Physician, Activist and author of Broken Promises,
Broken Dreams will be giving a lecture on Jewish and Palestinian.
Trauma and Resilience.
Semll C1107.
12p.m.
ALICE ROTHCHILD
Kimya Dawson
Lecture Hall 1.
8p.m.
Monday March 3, 2008
NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL
Join us for an evening of Immigration and Customs Enforcemt'nt Raid
Resistance. Guest presenters Rosalinda Guillen Olga Solano from
Community to Community with special guests Las Margaritas
Longhouse Cedar Room.
6p.m.
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Community to Community- Comunidad a Comunidad
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Empowering
people
and
respecting the land that sustains
them. We come together with
reverence and respect to build
social justice movements. We
are grounded in the belief that
'1\nother world is not only
possible, she is on her way. On
a quiet day, we can hear her
breathing." -Arundhati
Roy
Community
to
Community
Development is a womenled, place based, grassroots
organization working for a just
society and healthy communities.
We are committed to systemic
change and to creating strategic
alliances that strengthen local and
global movements towards social,
economic and t'nvironmental
L!=::~===::;.ii.'-'IJ justice.
Las
Margaritas
In response to the impacts
of harsh enforcement
of immigration law on
their families, a group of
women came together in
September of 2006 to find
ways to provide for the
needs of their children.
They
looked
within
themselves to bring out the
best in each of them and
offered each other their
favorite dishes as comfort.
They quickly decided
that one of the best ways
to earn money to pay for
their children's health
care, immigration court
legal fees, and rent was by
cooking their hearts out.
EMI KOYAMA "INTERSEX CRTIQUES"
Emi Koyama is a multi-issue social justice slut
synthesizing feminist, Asian, survivor, dyke, queer,
sex worker, intersex, genderqueer, and crip politics,
as these factors, while not a complete descriptor of
who she is, all impacted her life. Emi is currently the
director of Intersex Initiative. Emi lives in Portland,
Oregon and is putting the emi back in feminism
since 1975. Email Emi at emi@eminism.org.
SEM II C1107. 6 p.m.
Wednesday March 5,
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WRITING WORKSHOP
2:30-4:30 p.m. To register, please contact Women of
Color Coalition at wocc.tesc@gmail.com
Evening Lecture on militarism andfeminismThe Histone Parallels of Rape and Combat Trauma.
((My identity hG! everythi'}g to do with my writing and my identi!J has
nothing to do With m) wntmg. Both these are absolute!:)! true. It can
be hard to charactenze something as Jtrab-American literature," because
there is a wide spectrum of beliefs, values and attitudes that comes through
in the cultural work we dO. I like to talk about positive, larger trends in our
communiry as a whole. "
-Joanna Kadi ·
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WOMEN'S WEEK
Thursday March 6, 2008
Monday March 10,2008
TIBETAN UPRISING DAY
Join us Monday, March l 0, in the 49th commemoration of Tibetan
Uprising Day, observed by Tibetans around the world in honor of the
March I 0, 1959, the first clay of a two-week long protest and standoff by
300,000 Tibetans against the Communist Chinese occupation.
/
''SHE ISM''
Christa Bell is an award-winning feminist folk poet, performance artist,
and cultural activist from. Her work is an act of resistance towards the
international corporately-sanctioned attack on women
in mainstream hip-hop and mass media. As a spoken-word artist, poet
and monologist Bell has created a body of
work that is both a cultural insurgency and spintual-political
revival in celebration of the gospel accordmg to women.
Longhouse.
6-9p.m.
We will be screening From Bhod To Bharat ("From Tibet To India"), a
25 minute film made in 2006 by Tenzin Mingyur Palclron, an Evergreen
student, about the journey through India's Tibetan settlements. This
short will be followed by Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion, a I 05 minute
documentary covering Tibetan history and the significance of the
colonization of Tibet on the rest of the world.
Lecture Hall 2
6p.m.
Sat and Sun, March 15 & 16
Saturday March 8, 2008
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!!!!
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT IN CAPOEIRA ANGOLA
Come support famili es who have been affected by ICE raids-help provide
food and comfort for those member of our community whose families
have been torn apart due to inhumane immigration policies.
Carpool leaving from Harrison and Division at l 0:00 a.m.
Capoeira Angola is a Afro-Brazilian art form- a fluid rhythmic martial art,
a ritual, a dance of deceptive vu lnerability, wit and grace. The intricate
movements of CapoeiraAngola weave African tradition, history, spirituality,
and philosophy, into a uniquely beautiful "game." Come check it out!
Capoeira Angola Demonstration
Red Square
1-1:30 p.m.
SPONSORED BY:
WOMEN OF COLOR COALITION (WOCC), Women'·s Resource Center (WRC)
Students Educating Students About the Middle East (SESAME), Movimiento Estudiant1i
Chicano de Aztlan MECh~ Committee in Solidari!y for the Peo_12le of El Salvador
(CISPES), coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV),
Capoe1ra Angola, Colonialism and Decolinization
10 ~ l ETTERS & OPINIONS
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February 2R, 2008
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A personal reflection
I have just done the unspeakable: I
have submitted an article to the CPJ
anonymously. To take that even further
I will play the sympathy card and let the
reader know that I am the woman who
was sexually assaulted in U Building in
October.
The real reason, of course, is not to
tell you this for sympathy but rather to
explain to you better why I feel the way I
do about police presence on campus.
Most importantly, I think, is that we
need to remember that our campus police
officers are not Olympia or Thurston
County officers and, again I believe,
they would never agree with the events
that took place at the Port of Olympia
protests.
Furthermore police presence on
campus is regulated by state laws. There
has been much talk about removing the
police presence from campus which is
all fair and right if that is your belief but
that is a matter for legislator and should
not be taken to the administration here at
Evergreen. Also, the result of removing
campus police from Evergreen would be
having deputies and sheriffs of Thurston
County responding to calls on campus
and partaking in walk throughs.
Not only does that present the issue of
stricter officers and harsher punishments
but there is a longer response time in
cases of, let's say, sexual assault.
By stricter officers I mean exactly that.
Most students who have lived on campus
have violated their contracts in some
way or another and the large percentages
of that were violations through Police
Services and never received more than
On March 30, 2006,
Briana Waters, a resident of Oakland, California, was indicted
for the alleged participation in an arson
to the University of
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Washington Center for Urban Horticulture in 200 I.
The FBI have accused five people of
the March 21 arson. Waters' trial is
largely based on the testimony of two of
the five, Jen Kolar and Lacy Phillabaum,
who decided to testify against Briana
Waters in order to drastically reduce
their sentences. Briana's alleged role in
the arson was the lookout. The prosecution also accuses her of renting a car to
transport the group of five from 0 lym pia
to Seattle and back.
The combined statements and testimony of Kolar and Phillabaum have
created a foggy scene. For one, in an
FBI interview conducted on December
16, 2005, Kolar identified four others
besides herself: "Crazy Dan," "Capital Hill Girl," Capital Hill Girl's Punk
Boyfriend, and William Rodgers. A few
weeks of interrogation would pass before
she remembered another, Briana Waters.
Also during her interrogation, Jen Kolar
never mentioned Briana Waters and Lacy
Phillabaum together. In fact, Jen Kolar
never mentioned Phillabaum in any
accounts of the arson.
Now the prosecution's story is that the
arson was committed by Briana Waters,
Lacy Phillabaum, William Rodgers, Jen
a slap on the hand . I had a friend who
was caught with enough marijuana to
produce a felony in the state of Washington. This friend, although kicked out
of housing, was not even put through the
court systems. Can you appreciate the
magnitude of this? Our campus officers
are lenient, to say the least.
Of course most Evergreen students
do recognize and appreciate this. Their
issues are more with an individual officer
and have come from specific experiences.
I recognize this but I think it's important
to re-examine our pol ice force before
condemning them.
The officer who performed the arrest on
February 14, known to me for my time
WE AS "GREENERS"
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NEED TO TEACH
OURSELVES THESE
IDEALS WE DEMAND THE
POLICE FORCE HAVE
here as simply April, is one of the most
proactive, liberal, understanding police
officers and- in my opinion- one of
the least Iikely to ever commit an act of
racism.
Officer Pamela Garland, a sexual
assault spec ia Iist, is another exam pie of
a kind, genuine woman who is an excellent resource for all person s on campus
dealing with a sexual assault related
issue. Even officer Tony Perez, whose
name is publicly slandered from A Dorm
Waters around the time of the arson. The
FBI's stories are not concurrent. Stanislaus Meyerhoff, himself an admitted
central figure in the Earth Liberation
Front who met with William Rodgers
about the arson, was shown a photo of
Waters in an FBI interview in March
2006 and claimed she looked familiar but
was not involved. Robert Bloom, Waters'
BRIANA WATERS IS
A KEY TARGET IN
WHAT ACTIVISTS HAVE
LABELED THE GREEN
SCARE, A NEO-MCCARTHYIST SCENARIO IN
WHICH THE GOVERNMENT HAS TAKEN
AGGRESSIVE MEASURES
TO COMBAT RADICAL
ENVIRONMENTALISM
defense attorney, has discredited both
Kolar and Phillabaum. "Each of these
people was facing mandatory minimum
of35 years. They have a very high incentive that they please." He said.
At the time of the arson, Briana Waters
was near the end of her studies at the
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EXPLANATION for
ANONYMITY
The CPJ rarely prints anonymous submissions.
This article is an exception.
There are two tests that we at the CPJ apply
to whether or not an article can be printed
anonymously:
a compelling reason for wanting to remain
anonymous.
2. The information in the article must provide
pertinent information and/or provide a
substantial contribution to the issue being
discussed.
This article meets both of those criteria.
Please direct any questions to cpj@evergreen.
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to the Mods, is one of the most genuine,
understanding and adamant individuals I
have ever met.
The night I was sexually assaulted
officer Perez was the first to respond.
Believe me, that situation was almost
unbearable for me. To have to describe
an incident that just took place which
had so much emotion in it and which had
me still shaking with fear and ... well, the
point is that Officer Perez handled that
situation with amazing care. Not only
was he attentive to my individual needs,
respectful and comforting, but he also
made sure to note very important things
that, if I was without now, I might not
have any hope in catching anyone ever.
Now, almost five months later, although
all these officers are working on other
things and continuing their very busy
lives, they continue to check up on me,
escort me to work and struggle to help
me catch the bastard who assau Ited me.
Despite what people may say about
Police Services they are not a group
of racist, sexist, gang-mentality individuals . They are a group of people
who specifically chose Evergreen for
its helpful, cooperative ideals and its
very community based way of life. The
majority of them are liberal, negotiable
and understanding. You only need have a
conversation with them to realize this.
Instead of dramatizing events and blowing things out of proportion I feel that the
student body needs to discuss its issues
with campus police and help them to
understand where we are coming from.
We, as "Greeners" need to teach
ourselves these ideals we demand the
police force have. Lets be realistic,
police enforce laws, and if you don't
follow them no officer is going to let you
get away with it. Yet I feel it is more than
that.
In order to create peace in a community where a delicate balance of necessary change and upholding the law is in
constant confrontation we must remember what so many have grown to learn
in the past. Violence begets violence,
intolerance begets intolerance and fear
and hate. well, they just plain fuck everything up.
does not know exactly where she was
on March 21, but that she was probably
asleep in her home.
Recently, on February II, 2008, her
trial began. However, for the past few
years, the case has garnered its share
of neutral to negative publicity and
flamboyant stories in the media. In fact,
shortly after Briana was indicted former
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
proclaimed her guilty. One initial action
by the prosecution was the moving of
the trial. Proceedings were moved by a
superseding decision from the location of
the incident in Seattle, Washington to the
more conservative Tacoma, Washington,
in the courtroom of Judge Burgess.
In late December, the defense filed
a motion that the FBI concealed and
tampered information and falsified at
least one report from their original FBI
"302" reports, therefore submitting a
doctored presentation. Waters' attorneys
used Jen Kolar's shaky statement as
part of their argument, claiming that the
FBI both submitted a different and more
specific report and that they withheld
information from the defense. On January 7, Judge Burgess denied the motion.
Burgess has also ruled that the defense
may not present an expert testifying that
the device used in the arson was not a
bomb. This severely hurts Briana's
defense against the 30-year destructive
device enhancement.
Briana Waters' proposed sentence
length is extremely harsh. It is evident
that not only is she being punished for
not consenting to a plea deal, but that she
in Olympia and at large .
Briana Waters is a key target in what
activists have labeled the Green Scare,
a neo-McCarthyist scenario in which
the government has taken aggressive
measures to combat radical environmentalism. Briana Waters is one of 18
people that have been indicted in the
Pacific Northwest alone between 1996
and 2001 for property crimes against
threats to animals or the environment.
She is the only one to continue to profess
her innocence, and the only one to be
brought to trial for the UW arson. Many
of the accused have received terrorism
enhancements. Accordingly, on May I 0,
2006, Washington issued a superseding
indictment adding a destructive device
charge (18 USC § 924(c)) to Waters'
indictment, which carries a 30-year
minimum sentence. Besides that, she is
being charged with arson and conspiracy
to commit arson.
The events of the Briana Waters case
are very significant. Fundamentally,
Waters' attorney Robert Bloom does not
believe the prosecution's case establishes
guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt".
Briana's trial is ongoing and is scheduled to be over in early March. Proceedings are being held at the Federal Court
House in Tacoma, Washington. There
will also be a benefit held for Briana
Waters on Friday, February 29 at 7:00
pm in the Eagle's Ballroom (805 4th ave)
with several bands and a silent auction.
Cory Ratajczak is a student enrolled in
Looking Backward.
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campus without seeing _ __,.. DL1
something that I feel
compelled
to
write
about. This time around,
I was just walking into
work when I saw a flier
someone had posted
about how you should never talk to the police,
because they're only going to use what you
tell them to ruin sonteone's life. Now, the flier
itself only iiTitated me; in my mind that sort
of claim is so ridiculously untrue it's almost
not wo11h mentioning.
Any student of logic will tell you that a
universal statement like "all cops ruin lives'"
becomes false as soon as you meet even one
cop who doesn 't ruin lives. It's just a bad
argument. But like I said, that's not what
really bothers me.
What disturbs me is the attitude behind
broad-brush statements like that. I'm well
aware that there's a seductive quality to that
kind of claim. It changes the world into black
and white, into "we" and "they." It makes
things simple and unambiguous. It makes it so
that we don't have to consider the people we
disagree with one of"us." They become not
HISTORY SHOWS
1..JS THAT WHEN WE
START TREATING
ANY FACTION OR
GROUP OF PEOPLE AS
LESS THAN HUMAN,
DISASTERS TEND
TO ENSUE
a group of people, but almost a sort of thing,
something Other, even something monstrous.
Police stop being people, and start being
"fascist pigs." Liberals stop being holders
of legitimate political viewpoints, and start
being "unpatriotic crackpots". (Of course, the
same can be said of conservatives, substituting "imperialistic" for "unpatriotic.")
It's this kind of tactic that has been used for
millenia to justify all manner of atrocities
against groups of people. I'm not saying that
the posters of that flier were advocating some
I '/·
sort of violent campaign against the police,
but it's certainly a slippery slope to start
down. Racism, ethnic violence, homophobia and political radicalism have all used
this so11 of dehumanization to justify any
number of unjustifiable actions against other
human beings, just to name a few examples.
History shows us that when we start treating
any faction or group of people as less than
human, disasters tend to ensue.
Conflict, violence and hate can all have their
roots in this kind of attitude towards those we
don't like or don 't agree with.
What really frightens me is that I see the
beginnings of a lot of that kind of thought
here at Evergreen. I see it in the graffiti on
our walls and in the constant conflicts with
authority we keep having.
I see it in the riot the other week, and in how
many people jump to conclusions about all
manner of things without seeming to take the
time to fonnulate anything but a knee-jerk
reaction. Its destroying the very environment
we're trying to create here at Evergreen: one
of open thought and constructive action, a
place where we can learn how to change the
world for the better.
We have to keep mind that in a few years or
decades we are the ones who are going to be
called on to lead our world, and we are going
to be the ones that decide what we want our
world to look like. To me, it feels like for all
that we say we want to change, we're taking
the same road as those who came before us,
one of division and conflict.
Once more, the sins of the father are being
passed down to the sons. Personally, I'm not
sure our world can survive another generation of that sort of destruction.
We here at Evergreen need to be better than
this. I believe we can be better than this! It's
not easy, I know. I fall into the same traps all
the time, especially when things like the riot
or these fliers come up. It's so natural to just
think that it's just ·'dumb kids" or ''idiot revolutionaries." But it's only by avoiding that
sort of mental trap, by making the effort to
see through the eyes of the other side, that we
can end the conflicts between us. It's only by
admitting that those we disagree with might
have a valid point or two, that we can begin
to heal the rifts between our various groups.
We have a responsibility to make this change,
not just for ourselves, but for our sons and
daughters in the future .
Anything else feels like madness.
Jonathan Atwood is a student at The Evergreen State College.
by CASEY JAYWORK
Oops
I suppose it's fitting
that, covering an event
as rife with regrets and
poor judgment as the
V-Day riot, I should
share some of my own.
My op-ed last week unfairly portrayed
authorities as conspiring to "mislead" the
public about the riot; there are questions
about the information provided to the
public, but it's far from clear that we were
subjected to purposeful " fraud."
I also repeated a mistake from the port
protest last year, in which I lumped nonviolent protestors and rioters together, by failing to differentiate between specific police
agencies. There is no evidence I'm aware
of to suggest that Evergreen police seriously mishandled the riot, except perhaps
by a lack of inter-agency organization.
OPD Response
Like many students, I' m skeptical about
the overall handling of the riot- videos
released over the past week imply that the
Mythology
There are two stories being told here. In
what we might call the Loyalist version,
the police are agents of a valid democratic
government, who professionally responded
as best they could to the unlawful blockading of a lone officer by self-righteous
trustafarians . In the Rebel version, a
corrupt gang working for an oppressive
state unnecessarily attacked peaceful civildisobedients, who responded with direct
action. In Travis Greer's words: "The
cops retreated completely, the area was
completely liberated, the prisoner freed."
(This statement is of dubious accuracy.)
THERE IS NO
From the Anti-Police Rally
EVIDENCE I'M AWARE
OF TO SUGGEST
THAT EVERGREEN
POLICE SERIOUSLY
MISHANDLED THE
RIOT, EXCEPT
PERHAPS BY A LACK
OF INTER-AGENCY
ORGANIZATION
OPD's use of force exacerbated the situation rather than de-escalating it, essentially
lighting a powder-keg.
Yet considering that a fellow officer was
trapped inside a potentially dangerous
crowd, their actions appear less brutish.
"Were (OPD) a little forceful? I think
rightfully so," p~lice director Ed Sorger
told me. "They didn't have much choice."
Really, we should be asking ourselves,
"Why was the powder-keg in the first
place?''
Theories of Action
An underlying venue of contention in
this argument of police vs. rioter culpability involves conflicting groundworkassumptions about society and authority.
According to Oly SDS, "The police are an
occupying force that brings violence and
I'llleave you with the comments of some
protestors from Wednesday's anti-police
rally, shouted at the entrance of police
services (which ignored them), since they
seem a lot more confident in their own
views than I am.
"Racism doesn't mean intent. Racism is
an action."
"All community forums on this thus far
have been publicity stunts."
"Get off your high-horse, you fucking
white, privileged piece of shit." -To me,
responding to a question about racism &
intent.
"The reason it's racism, is one black
person out of ten people was arrested, is
because it's ingrained racism in someone's
mind . They say, 'Who was among the
fight? Oh, some people and that black guy.
Oh, let's arrest him."'
"We have members of our community
who are posing as our friends with a gun
on their belt. That's ridiculous."
"Have you ever had the shit kicked out
of you by a cop? ... Then shut the fuck up."
- To me.
"Do you know the history of police
on this campus? Do you know that they
ignored that women get raped on this
campus, and that racism happens, and that
nobody does anything about it? Do you
know? Really!? ... This police service has
a history that goes beyond racism, sexi sm,
okay? And, like, homophobia."
Casey Jaywork is a student at The Evergreen State College. Fee/free to email him
at hurch9030_yahoo.com.
applications online:,
WHO WILL BE THE NEXT
EDITOR IN
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enforces racism in our community." This
is a provocative articulation of a somewhat larger concern: validly or not, lots of
Greeners view the police as more or less
Orwellian.
On the other hand-fascist that I am-my
origin~! article for last week proclaimed,
" Hatred masquerading as justice is a
powerful unifying agent. Seeing a white
cop arrest a black man Thursday night,
faux-revolutionaries used it to alleviate their self-conscious whiteness and
wealth ."
evergreen.edu/cpj
see page 7
for more detail
12 ~ LETTERS & OPINIONS
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Cooper Point
journal
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Februarr 28, 2008
Dead Prez
Coverage
DearCPJ,
. While I am quite familiar
with the operating standards of your organization, I was stunned by the
near-total absence of solid
news reporting about the
Dead Prez riot. Where are your journalistic
standards? Where are the interviews with the
Geoduck Union and members of the Hip-Hop
Congress? Where are the statements from
witnesses to the riot, participants in the riot, and
police involved in the ensuing aftermath? Most
importantly, where are the interviews with
members of the campus administration? Where
is the one on one interview with President Les
Puree discussing the repercussions of the riot
on campus security? When the school newspaper is handed the biggest story of the entire
year and the best that is put forward is one full
length article and a handful of other semi-full
length articles, the Cooper Point Journal has
failed its obligations as a news organization to
provide accurate and responsible coverage to
the students of the campus. While entertaining,
two pages of op-ed pieces do not make up for a
near-complete lack of factual information.
I know that these sentiments may be unpopular, to say the least. I also understand that by
submitting this letter I am placing myself
in a position to come under public scrutiny.
However, I feel that above everything else, we
here at Evergreen deserve better journalistic
coverage than the two front page articles that
were published. Not only did the attention
of the local press fall upon us, but that of the
Associated Press, a renowned, international
news provider. When dealing with an event of
this magnitude, the Cooper Point Journal has a
responsibility to provide complete and balanced
coverage for both the student body and the rest
of the general public in Olympia, not to mention
the rest of the state of Washington.
The Dead Prez riot has shown the worst
possible face of Evergreen to the rest of the
state, and the Cooper Point Journal's coverage
has failed to show our best face in response.
It is this newspaper's responsibility to give
total coverage to the event, instead of giving
us journalistic lip service and following up
with two pages of Op-Ed pieces. Op-Ed, while
an important part of any news organization,
is not nearly as important as complete news
coverage of an event, especially one of such
far-reaching implications. When facing a situation as unclear and multi-sided as the riot,
opinion matters little compared to solid fact. I
want to be able to pick up the newspaper and
know that I am going to get the fullest possible
understanding of the events that affect me on
campus, not merely a basic overview of what's
been going on. For example, in this author's
opinion, a story on bio-diesel production seems
rather insignificant compared to a full scale riot
on campus.
Newspapers are a place to gain a solid understanding of the events and happenings that
impact the readership, and nothing so impacted
the readership than the riot. There are places
to voice opinions and then there are places to
voice the facts. The CPJ is the place to voice
the facts first and foremost. Voicing opinions
should always come second.
When a news organization fails at its obligations so completely as the CPJ has in covering
the most important story of the past year, it
is the responsibility of the public to launch a
policy of reform within said news organization,
or to dissolve the organization and create a new
one that will fulfill its obligations to the general
public. If the Cooper Point Journal remains
incapable of fulfilling its journalistic duties,
then we here at Evergreen will find a replacement that can.
-or...:____:::~-
The
CPJ
~PAUL
GOODFELLOW
Paul Goodfellow is a student at The Evergreen
State College.
Army Ad
Revisited
As I understand it, the US
Army, a government institution, wished to pay the
newspaper of The Evergreen State College, an
aspect of another govern- L.........- ......c,,_
ment institution, for advertising.
Instead of using this opportunity to take
funding from an institution that's engaged in
an action a vast majority of the student body
disapproves of(the Iraq war, in case it's slipped
your mind in the wake of the vastly more
important overturning of a police car) and put
it into one we approve of, (The Evergreen State
College, in case it's slipped your mind, again irf
the wake of the vastly more important. .. etc.)
we told the military not to fund us.
So now, instead of advertising to a demographic that's supermajority anti-war radicalized white-privilege-laden middle class and
largely unreceptive to their message, the
military can take that same money and spend
it in publications more widely read by undereducated minority youths in economically
depressed areas. There is an old maxim that
should have been applied here: never interrupt
your enemy when he is making a mistake.
The CPJ's misguided attempt at assuming a
moral stance, (encouraged by some unthinking
students) has only helped the military optimize
its recruitment spending.
As long as they don't mind running advertisements alongside an endless stream of smart and
sophisticated anti-war articles, I would have
the military subsidize the CPJ as heavily as
possible. In the future, if the military wants to
buy an ad for next week's paper, don't turn up
your nose and clinch your sphincter; instead,
ask them if they'd consider buying two.
I am of the opinion that the only possible
reason not to run military ads after giving the
whole issue some sustained analysis would
be if you believe the cultural and educational
background Evergreen provides us with is so
weak and ineffectual that the student body is
dangerously open to subversion from the apparently overwhelming propaganda power of the
occasional full page ad. And if that's the case,
we need to seriously rethink a lot more than the
advertising policy of our student newspaper.
~
DAVID DUNCAN
David Duncan is a student at The Evergreen
State College.
For the people. By the people.
We always welcome submissions of any kind, from opinion
pieces to in-depth news coverage of recent campus events.
Come to CAB 316 or email it to cpj@evergreen.edu
H-Day
f?y ERIC MAPES
itly acknowledged that no audible order
to disperse was given before clubs and
It's clear from the
capsicum were used, a fact confirmed by
events of February
the video. That's not just unprofessional,
15 that Geoducks are
it's illegal and the media and administranot so different from
tion have a responsibility to say so.
Huskies or Cougars.
I fully agree with Mr. Jaywork that
Large groups of
the footage "casts serious doubt upon
angry young people
the reliability of police and administracan quickly turn destructive regardless of tion statements regarding the incident."
their animal mascots.
Further eyewitness testimony casts even
UW and WSU have their fraternity more doubt. Police forces always call
riots, and now we have something simi- their use of force justified, no matter how
lar. Sure, the cause was a perceived racial egregious. By now, more skepticism
injustice rather than drunken rage, the is clearly warranted. Yet Evergreen's
only lasting injuries were some bruised administration took the cops' story at
ribs and a hyper extended elbow, and face value, and even opened the public
many onlookers actually tried to stop the forum regarding these events by thankrampage. Still, do not construe anything ing the police for their actions!
below as condoning
They then added
the vandals' pointTHE STUDENTS
insult to injury.
less destruction.
When the cops
With
that INVOLVED ARE CLEARLY decided to release
the
misdemeanor
disclaimer out of the
way, the students NOT THE ONLY ONES suspect
(couldn't
they have done that
involved are clearly
not the only ones WHO NEED TO DO SOME before resorting to
who need to do
force?) and leave,
some learning. If we LEARNING. IF WE HOLD one of their cruishold them, barely of
ers was stuck in the
age, to a higher stan- THEM, BARELY OF AGE, mud and another
dard, then to what
wouldn't start. The
standard
should
TO A HIGHER STAN- capsicum-enraged
we hold the police,
crowd pelted them
the media, and the DARD, THEN TO WHAT with debris while
administration?
they extricated the
They are supposSTANDARD SHOULD one, and they were
edly the mature,
forced to abandon
trained
profes- WE HOLD THE POUCE, the
(improperly
sionals
responmaintained) other.
sible for keeping THE MEDIA, AND THE Despite
recently
the community safe
pleading
poverty
and well-informed.
ADMINISTRATION?
when they denied
How about the
three
displaced
event security personnel? They were Iraqi students assistance, the administramost directly responsible for keeping the tion immediately promised to foot the
peace at the concert, and had the clearest Keystone Kops' bill. Are police cars not
understanding of the audience.
insured against vandalism?
My partner and I attended the concert,
Though not a college employee, I
accompanying two teenaged friends. happen to work in the same building as
The girls witnessed the original scuffle the oft-misnamed Evergreen vice presifirsthand . It was a minor incident, last- dent who arrives with the S.W.A.T. team ,
ing about a minute. Competent security long after the crowd dispersed, in the
people would not have escalated it student union video.
further. Were they really so myopic as to
One morning last week I attempted
be blind to the potential consequences of to politely discuss these issues in my
police involvement? They certainly did co-worker's office. Without listening to
no favor to their hip-hop community.
what I was saying, he immediately began
Sure enough, when officer Meyevs shouting at me and pounding his fist on
arrested one of the few people of color the desk. During the tirade, one of the
in attendance, some members of the V.P. 's staffers came in, not to participate
audience reacted angrily. Being familiar or ask my irate co-worker to calm down,
with police crowd control techniques, but to thank him for his 0' Reilly-style
we decided to take our young neighbors outburst! Perhaps because her husband
home, and did not witness the ensuing works in law enforcement, she seems
events.
determined to willfully ignore critical
From the first, I considered the police opinions.
account in the Olympian implausible.
I hope her attitude is not representaBut with a video camera in every cell tive of her colleagues. In the interests
phone these days, you wouldn't expect of public safety (remember when Police
them to lie about it.
Services was so called?) we need to
After carefully watching the video honestly examine the actions of all those
released by the student union, however, I involved with a spirit of reconciliation.
have to agree for once with the Journal's Threatening youths with ten-year prison
preeminent right winger, Casey Jaywork, sentences, urging their classmates to
that the police "aggressively initiat[ed] rat them out, and then condoning the
non-lethal violence against an agitated wrongdoing of the powerful will only
but nonviolent crowd," contrary to widen the divide between students and
assurances that they exercised utmost the authorities.
restraint. Their ill-conceived attack was
so indiscriminate that, by her own admisEric Mapes graduated from The Eversion, the Evergreen police officer whom green State College in 1998. He currently
the deputies were allegedly assisting was lives in Olympia and teaches English to
herself pepper sprayed! She also implic- foreign students.
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SPORTS~
www.evergreen.edu/cpj
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February 28, 2008
Geoduck
men soar
over Eagles
to advance
to semis
from cover
lead. But the Eagles made one final push,
whitt ling the lead to I 0 with seven minutes
left to play.
The 'Ducks stopped the run ice cold,
pushing the lead back to 15. The lead again
fell, this time to 13 with a minute and half
left to play. It was here that the David
Howard Slam Dunk contest commenced,
with Howard first breaking away for a
two-handed jam off a turnover.
Less than 15 seconds later, Howard was
on the receiving end of an alley-oop that
brought the entire gym off their feet.
Within another 20-second span, Howard
took off from the middle of the key to
deliver his third dunk of the night, and
bringing "nah-nah-nah-nah," and "semifinal" chants from the crowd.
As the final buzzer sounded, the mighty
Green Machine had the game wrapped up,
93-78.
Star guard Nate Menefee put together an
MVP-type
game, scoring a season high
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assists and four steals.
David Howard finished with 18 points,
Nick Moore delivered 13 points and two
huge blocks, and Michael Ward adding
12.
Now that the fellas have advanced to
the next round, here is what the future
holds: on Saturday, the team will travel to
Oregon Tech to play the #2 seeded Owls.
If the 'Ducks win that game, they will
either travel to #I seed Eastern Oregon,
or host the #4 seed, Warner Pacific here at
the Greenhouse, depending the winner of
that match-up on Saturday.
Should the 'Ducks beat the winner of the
EOU/WP game they would not only be the
conference champs, but they would also
go on to represent the Cascade conference
in the NAJA Division II National Championship Tournament.
Interesting and exciting times nowadays
in Evergreen's basketball world. Here's to
the Green Machine.
Zach Licht is a .fi"eshman enrolled in
Looking Backward.
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ZACH LICHT
though C of I scored seven unanswered to
end the half, the 'Ducks were still firmly in
control.
But as the second half started, the women
came out ice cold from the field, shooting
only 34%. They were still sharp defensively
however, holding C of I to 33% shooting
while only allowing two total 3-pointers.
Showing their resolve and experience, the
Yotes pulled into a tie at 52 with nearly 14
minutes left to play. The game would never
exceed a lead of three on either side, as the
two teams would battle it out till the very
end
With that minute left, the women reclaimed
In what has been roller coaster of a season
for the Evergreen Geoducks, the ride came
to a close last Tuesday in Idaho, as the girls
fell to the College of Idaho by three, 75-78
in the first round of the playoffs.
The last time these two teams met, Evergreen pulled a shocker at home, winning 7971 in a close game. With this game coming
into view as the regular season ended, both
teams were battle-tested and ready to go.
Despite a two game losing streak, the girls
came out of the gates with all engines blazing. taking a quick I0-6 lead, with Rosalind
Lee scoring the first eight.
Jn Jact. through the first half. the women •
in green would never trail, leading by as
·
many as 13 points. What was amazing was
the shooting, as the girls shot a season high
60% Ji·ol)lthe field in the first half. And even
~a
to end season
the lead on a Kristi Auckland field goal, 7574. However, with both teams struggling
from the field and the game on the line, free
throw shooting became critical down the
stretch. And it was here where Evergreen
would lose the game.
During the last minute of the game, Idaho
made four free throws while Evergreen
made none, taking a 78-75 lead.
With three seconds left, Jennifer Solberg
launched a desperation three that would've
sent the game into overtime, but missed,
ending both the game and the season.
Every statistic in the game favored the
Geoducks except for the free throws, where
C of I would attempt 12 more and make
8, and fouls, where the girls committed II
more.
Jennifer Solberg would score a team high
of 19 points, and grab II rebounds in what
would be her final game in an Evergreen
uniform. Rosalind Lee added 15 and Kristi
Auckland would chip in 14.
Thank you girls for an awesome season.
You have been a great example ofhard work
and dedication. Thank you from the entire
CPJ staff and students.
Zach Licht is a freshman enrolled in
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f ebruary 28, 2008
events
for the week of
February 28 to March 6
February 28, Thursday
James Yee lecture James Yee was a
Muslim chaplain and captain for the
United States Army, stationed at the
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Hear Mr.
Yee speak about his book For God and
Country: Faith and Patriotism Under
Fire and his unique experiences dealing
with the "War on Terror" and Guantanamo Bay. 6 p.m. Lecture Hall I.
Kimya Dawson will positively play
guitar, come sing along. 8 p.m . Lecture
Hall I.
February 29, Friday
Your Life Online 2.0 workshop.
What's out there and how to use it. 2 to
3 p.m. Mac Lounge, Computer Center.
Black History Month movie night
Come watch an important film on black
history month and enjoy some free
dessert and discussion. Open to the
public. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. HCC.
Alice in Dragland The dance kicks
off at 7! Drag show at 8! Larry Milton
gets his funny on! More dancing to the
sweat sounds of OJ Goonie! Only $3 at
the door. Sales from refreshments will
benefit the Evergreen Crew Team. 7
p.m. to I I :55 p.m. Scm II C 1107.
Shabbatluck What will happen? No
one will know for 3 years (it's a leap
year). Vegetarian-style potluck. 6:59.
K207.
Hip Hop Congress debrief 3 p.m.
Lecture Hall I.
March 1, Saturday
South Sound Saturday at East Bay
Event hosted by People for Puget
Sound. Mulch and plant native shrubs
in an urban waterfront. in Olympia. Over
time, the plan is to create a fringing salt
marsh that will provide habitat for a
diversity of species. I 0 a.m to 3 p.m.
Sign up beforehand by contacting Dan
at (360)-754-9 I 77 or (206)-313-5903 or
e-mail dgrosboll@ pugetsound.org.
Fertility Awareness workshop Are
you fertile? Are you aware? Attend this
workshop with the Healing Arts Collective and learn more. 1:30 p.m. Organic
Farm.
ChibiChibiCon 2008 Evergreen's
annual Anime Convention. Free event
sponsored by the G iant Robot Appreciation Society. Doors at I0 a. m. Lecture
!Jails 1-5 & Sem II.
Film: Earthlings Using hidden
cameras and never-before-seen footage, Earthlings chronicles the day-today practices of the largest industries in
the world, all of whi ch rely entirely on
anim als for profit. Narrated by Joaquin
Phoenix. 6:30p.m . Sem II, C I I 05 .
Quee r fes t Olym pia at J ake's on 4th
Featu ri ng queer bands and so lo artists
from across the country for fou r nights
of queer mus ic! March 2 through 5. 7
p. m. Jake's on 4th , 3 11 4th Ave.
The Pasties concert & potluck With
Terrordactyls, Yes 0 Yes and Redbear. $5.
8 p.m. 1502 Legion Way SE.
All ages show With June Madrona, Sara
Lankutis, Agent Ribbons, The Nextdoor
Neighbors. $5. 7 p.m . ABC !louse, 105
Sherman St.
March 2, Sunday
Queerfest Olympia at Jake's on 4th
Featuring queer bands and solo artists
from across the country for four nights of
queer music! March 2 through 5. 7 p.m.
Jake's on 4th, 311 4th Ave.
Olympia Port Militarization meeting
To encourage participation of all activists committed to diverse styles of direct
non-violent civil resistance and to join in
regional planning strategies. PM R expects
to see movement of the Fifth Combat
Stryker Brigade this spring from Fort
Lewis to Iraq through a port in the greater
Puget Sound area. 4:30 p.m. Olympia
Free School, 610 Columbia St.
March 5, Wednesday
Gateways for Incarcerated Youth
doughnut fund raiser Gateways invites
Evergreen staff and faculty to support
their work by purchasing Krispy Kreme
Doughnuts at $8 a dozen. All proceeds
will go towards tuition and books for
incarcerated youth at Maple Lane and
Green Hill. Last year Gateways spent
over $10,000 on books and tuition.
Please submit your orders to Haley
Lowe, Gateways program manager, at
loweh@evergreen .edu or at the Gateways office in Scm II, E2129.
Writing workshop with Jo Kadi
Themes: queer and working class
identity & Arab feminisms . 3 p.m. The
Writing Center.
Working with pedals and bottom
brackets Does your bike make crunching, creaking, or squeaking noises when
you pedal? Thi s could possibly be due to
issues with your bottom bracket. Come
learn about what a bottom bracket even
is and how to fix one when it's impaired.
3 p.m . Cab Rm 0 II , Bike shop.
March 3, Monday
Palestine education project A series
of participatory workshops for students
interested in Palestine solidarity work
including planning educational events,
supporting those traveling to the region
and learning how to talk about the conft ict.
5:30p.m. Scm II, E2107.
Resisting immigration & customs
enforcement detention centers workshop Longhouse community gathering and immigration teach-in. 6 p.m .
Longhouse.
Open gym basketball Every Monday. 8
p.m. to 10 p.m. CRC Gymnasium .
Queerfest Olympia at Jake's on 4th
Featuring queer bands and solo artists
from across the country for four nights of
queer music! March 2 through 5. 7 p.m.
Jake's on 4th, 3 I I 4th Ave.
March 4, Tuesday
Broken Promises, Broken Dreams
Jewish-American activist, physician and
writer speaks on Palestinian & Jewish
trauma & resilience. 12 p.m. Scm II,
Cll07.
Wet Wednesday at Mud Bay:
Randall Point Join People For Puget
Sound and the Capitol Land Trust at
the Randall restoration site on Mud Bay
on Eld Inlet. Plant a few plants, spread
some mulch, pick up some trash and
knock back the invasives. 10 a.m. to 3
p.m . Call or e-mail Dan Grosboll (360)754-9177, dgrosboll@pugetsound.org.
Cop watch meeting Watch cops. 6:30
p.m . Sem II,AI107.
The Land & the Spirit: Why We All
Care About Israel. A six part course
with Rabbi Cheski Hosted by Evergreen
Hillel. 6:30p.m. Scm II, A2107.
group
meetings:
MONDAYS
C a poeira COM 209, 4:3 0 to 9 p.m.
Cooper Po int Journal
CA B 316,5 p.m.
EQA Everg reen Queer Allia nce SEM II A21 09, 3:3 0p.m.
Geoduck Union CAB 3rd
Floor Pit, 4 to 6 p.m.
Flaming Eggplant CA B
108, 4 to 6 p.m.
Student Video Garners Alliance
CAB TV Lounge 3rd floor, 6 to 9 p.m .
Women of Color Coalition
CAB 206, 4 to 5 p.m .
WEDNESDAYS
Amnesty International
CAB 320, 12:30 p.Jn .
ATF Appearing Task Force on
Anti-Oppression CAB 320, I p.m.
Bike Shop 2 p.m.
Chemistry Club LAB II 2207, I p.m.
EARN Evergreen Animal
Right Network Vegan Potluck
CAB 320, 5:30p.m.
Evergreen Hillel CAB 320, 3 p.m .
Evergreen Pre-Health Society
SEM II A3107 , 12:30 to 2 p.m.
Evergreen Wilderness Adventure
GroupS EM IIA3105, I p.m.
Gaming Guild CAB 320, 5:30p.m .
Geoduck Union SEM II
CII07, I to3p.m.
GRAS Giant Robot Appreciation
Society Anime Screening CAB
3rd Floor TV lounge, 5 p.m .
Hip Hop Congress Library
Proper Room 3303, 4 to 5 p.m .
MEChA CAB 320, 4:30 p.m.
Musicians Club CAB 320, I :30 p.m.
SESAME Students Educating
Students about the Middle
East, SEM II E2107, I p.m .
SESAME Iraqi Student
Committee, SEM II E2107 3: 15p.m.
SDS Students for a Democratic Society
CAB 320, Solarium, 6 to 8 p.m.
Umoja CAB 320 3rd
Floor Pit, 2 to 3 p.m.
Women's Resource Center
CAB 320, I :30 p.m.
Writers' Guild LIB 2130
Writing Center, 4 p.m.
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THURSDAYS
Common Bread
Longhouse I 002, 5 to 8 p.m.
Sabot lnfosquat Library
Proper Room 3303, 4 p.m.
Generation Friends SEM
II CII05 6 to 8 p.m.
VOX CAB 320, Solarium, 5 to 6 p.m.
SATURDAYS
Capoeira COM 209,
12:30 to 3:30p.m.
Jo Kadi on feminism and militarism
Jo Kadi speaks on the historic parallels
between rape & combat traum a. 7 p.m.
Longhouse.
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Queerfest Olympia at Jake's on 4th
Featuring queer bands and solo artists
from across the country for four nights
of queer music! March 2 through 5. 7
p.m. Jake's on 4th , 3 I I 4th Ave.
Diversity, Race & Power in
Academe lecture and Q&A. 6 p.m.
Lecture Hall I
Christa Bell: She-ism Workshop
on feminist philosophy. 6 p.m.
Longhouse.
All ages show With The Sundance
Kids, Google Maps, The Future of the
Ghost. Free. 8 p.m. Artisans Cafe.
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Seattle Men's Chorus with travel
guru Rick Steves narrates a musical tour of Europe, performed by the
100-voice Seattle Men's Chorus. Hear
favorite songs as well as new arrangements and comedy sketches. St. John's
Episcopal Church. Doors at 2:30p.m.
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