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STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE.
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STOP BY CAB 316 • lSSlJE 19, VOLUME 36, ]\:lARCH 6 , 2008
Students arrested .in riot case
S&ABoard
receives
notice for riot
Campus officials •not surprtsecr as Thurston
County Sheriffs take five Into custody
damages
by DAVID RAILEANU
by JUSTIN SHEPHARD
On Wednesday afternoon, the
Services & Activities Board
heard from Dean of Student and
Academic Support Services Phyllis Lane about funding restitution
for damages, incurred by police
vehicles during the February 15
riot.
Lane asked S&A members to
consider authorizing $25,842.75
for restitution , which would be
coupled with an equal contribution from College funds on behalf
of the administration. The total
payment of $51 ,685.50 would go
to community law enforcement
organizations for damaged and
missing equipment.
The S&A Board, which is responsible for allocating student fees not
from .tuiti on, for student activities
purposes such as on campus events
and club funding, left Lane with a
list of questions they would like to
have answered. They also voiced
strong concern over whether
th e admini stration has involved
student voice in its decision to pay
restitution .
S&A members plan to formulate
a concise question for the Attorney General's office, regarding
the legality of such an expenditure fro m S& A funds , after they
have the answers to some of
their questions for Lane and the
administration .
Questions arise from legal wording regarding use of the funds.
State law states that use of the
funds are permitted " . .. for the
express purpose of funding student
activities and programs ... " accordin g to RCW 28B.15.041 and the
S&A website.
Aside from legal questions,
members were concerned about
whether the gesture is a public
. relations move on the part of the
administration, versus a community decision which the student
body agrees with , and/or whether
having all students will have to
pay for the damage.
see S&A , page 4
"At this point, you know more than we do,"
said Chuck McKJnney, Assistant Director
for Residential Life, on Wednesday.
Four students, including one living on
campus, along with another individual, were
served felony arrest warrants and taken
into custody around 7 o'clock Wednesday
morning.
The warrants list a number of charges, from
riot with a deadly weapon to first-degree
malicious mischief to second-degree theft.
Rioting is a Class C felony, punishable by
a fine of $10,000 and up to five years in
prison, whereas malicious mischief carries
a sentence of up· to I 0 years and $20,000 in
fines.
McKinney indicated that he found out about
the arrests on his way to work shortly after
they took place. Jason Wettstein, Media and
Communications Manager, had a similar
response.
"I didn't find out until this morning," said
Wettstein. He acknowledged the fact that
while he heard of the arrests at 7:30a.m ., he
is unable to speak for the rest of the college.
"We were aware that arrests were imminent," said Vice President for Student Affairs
Art Costantino, "but were not aware of the
exact day."
Two other warrants have been issued but
have yet to be served, according to the Thurston County Sheriff's Office.
Costantino indicated that further arrests
are not unexpected. "It's quite possible [that
more students could be arrested]," he said.
"I'm conflicted," he continued. "As an
educator, no one likes to see students
arrested. At the same time, I recognize that
students are not exempt from being accountable for their actions."
see ARRESTS, page 4
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INDIVIDUALS
UNDER ARREST
; Jake Silberman, 19
' Charge: suspicion of riot
while armed with a deadly
weapon and first-degree
malicious mischief
Peter Sloan, 18
Charge: suspicion of riot
and first-degree malicious
mischie( Sloan is not listed
as an Evergreen student
Chase Hill, 23
Charge: suspicion of
second-degree theft
Monica Ragan, 18
Charge: suspicion of riot and
first-degree malicious mischief
Nina Hinton, 19
Charge: suspicion of riot and
first-degree malicious mischief
The Maids serves
up some theater
by BRANDON CUSTY
Jean Genet's play, The Maids, is based on
the Papin sisters, a pair of French maids who
murdered their mistress and her daughter. The
play is about the power relation between the
master and the servant, dealing with gender
identity as well as many other themes. Director Blythe Olson began her studies of Genet in
her program, Fashioning the Body.
Throughout fall quarter, she investigated
many of Genet's plays, including The Balcony.
It was this play that instigated a deep investigation of Genet and his work. It is the struggle of
power that intrigued Olson on an intellectual
level.
After reading the introduction to The Maids,
she knew that she had to direct it for her class
project. Intellectual interest aside, Olson has
an added personal interest in the play.
After high school, she went to Paris and
had the opportunity to be a servant in a
French household. "I worked for the real
life Madame," Olson said. In the play Olson
portrays the Madame, a small role that interacts sparsely with the two maids. Claire and
Solange, the maids, are played by Evan Foster
and Zachary Dunlap.
As a first time director, Olson worked
see MAIDS, page 11
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by CHARLES LOOSEN
Winter is coming to a close, and you're
probably wondering what your Geoduck
Union Reps have been doing. Basically
we've been plotting to take over the world.
We spend our days flying from one meeting to the next, keeping projects on track,
responding to emails that are usually very
nice but sometimes quite nasty, making
phone calls to organize support for legislation that makes your education more
affordable, and we drink lots and lots of
coffee to keep going. I drank one of those
new big gulp size cans of Red Bull so that
I could stay up late to write you, fellow
Geoduck.
Despite what a few folks might think,
most Geoduck Student Union Reps aren't
compensated for the work we do. We're
scheming to take over the world, but we
haven't done it yet. I'd like to thank those
of you who recognize we're growing
despite limited funding. We still have to
work collaboratively within the system to
transform it from the inside out. Systematic change takes time and patience. For
those who would like to see the Union go
the way of the dodo, I hope you' II read on
to consider the merit of our work.
The GSU is a non-hierarchical governance group that was founded by popular
vote in the spring of 2006. Every Evergreen student is a member of the Union,
and your representatives act by consensus
to interface between you and the college.
The 2006-2007 Union began to establish
the organization's role by creating elections policies, supporting initiatives like
late night transit, and creating bylaws that
govern the Union's' operation.
There has been a lot of concern that we're
not acting quickly enough to change things
here at Evergreen. In fall quarter we
experienced significant attrition. Several
representatives left due to time constraints
and financial challenges. Unlike student
governments at other schools, we are new
and operate on a shoestring budget.
The Cooper Point Journal has covered
these issues and low student attendance at
our meetings. The paper highlighted the
need for a mechanism to replace vacant
positions. We explored our options, and
found the Union's constitution does not
grant GSU Representatives the authority to appoint replacements. Amending
the constitution during fall quarter was
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discussed, but running a special election
would have cost you a lot of money and
taken up valuable time that we needed to
spend on this year's agenda.
At the request of the Union, Evergreen's
Board of Trustees (BOT) voted to create
a new student liaison to the Board. GSU
Representative Trevor Kinahan took on
that role, and has been reporting to the
BOT at their regularly scheduled meetings. Trevor continues to bring a fresh
perspective to the Trustees, and is helping
them understand what is important to you.
Once each decade, the college undergoes
the process of reaccreditation. This happens
mostly behind the scenes. Reaccreditation
can shape the future our of school for better
or worse. How does Evergreen enhance its
curriculum, or withstand pressure to move
toward letter grades? The answer lies with
Representative Brittany Newhouse's work
with staff and faculty who are demonstrating Evergreen's strengths so that we can
continue to thrive while staying true to our
experimental heritage.
Every two years, the college submits a
budget to Washington's legislature. Evergreen's faculty, staff, academic programs,
and building renovations are funded
by Washington's taxpayers.
With an
economic slowdown looming, the Union
felt representation during this financial
planning process was essential. We're
networking with other students to draft
a budget proposal that includes enhancements to our academic support services,
facilities, and internet connection.
Your union reps continue to work with
the college to arrange community forums
that help you share your feelings about the
unrest that swept our campus on February
15. Representative Sammi Webster and
others spent an exhausting two weeks
interviewing fellow students, answering
your emails and phone calls, calming
angry parents, and reaching out.
It's clear our campus is very divided
about what transpired, and the Union is in
a tough spot because we're trying to represent all of you. I can't promise we'll get
to the bottom of what happened, but we're
doing our best to foster constructive dialog
and solutions that keep our community
safe. The Union has recommended several
students to the committee that will review
concert planning, and we look forward to
their progress over the next few weeks.
Representative Mollie Lesslie arranged
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a meet and greet at Evergreen Tacoma,
where we had an opportunity to speak
with students there, and explain how we
could better serve them. TESC Tacoma
staff and students have been forwarded
recommendations that emerged from our
conversations that day.
At our most recent town hall forum in
the Housing Community Center, residents
had a lot to say about our campus smoking
policy. We heard you and have responded
by publishing recommendations to address
air quality problems, while protecting
individual choice. The smoking report and
opinion is our map for developing support
strategies so both smokers and nonsmok~
ers can thrive at Evergreen. You can read
the whole document at our website.
The GSU has taken on a new role by
representing students who feel they've
been wronged by faculty. We've heard
concerns about excessive smoking restrictions included in program covenants. The
issue was less about smoking, and more
about the legal bounds at a state school.
We were also contacted by another student
who was upset about an instructor's choice
to ignore certain federal rules and protections. Representatives Charlie Bloomfield
and Alex Mavrikis have been in contact
with the Deans to resolve these isolated
issues. If you've been having trouble in
the classroom, we're here to listen, guide
you to resources, or intervene at your
request.
You might have noticed our meetings
aired on TESC TV. Representative Aaron
Shelley arranged a pilot program to test
the feasibility of utilizing TV as a tool to
inform our community. The test run is
complete, and we consider it a success.
In the coming weeks, I'll be uploading
the recordings of these few meetings to
YouTube and posting them on our website.
Our plan is to incorporate this new broadcast system into next year's budget and
make our meetings a regular feature on
TESC TV and the web. You'll be able to
respond to key points and add your own
video commentary. This is all part of our
effort to reach out, maintain transparency,
and remain accessible to students who
can't make it to our meetings.
I mentioned earlier that we've got some
voting changes in the works. Voting
should be easier than ever. The Union
has been working with college computing
staff to implement a new visual ballot. In
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the past, students would enter in codes for
candidates. If all goes well, you'll be able
to view candidate statements and ballot
initiatives right beside a check box where
you will cast your vote. Getting this new
system up and running is a race against
time. Here's why...
In November, Washington voters
approved an initiative that changes the way
state schools handle student fees. Before
this new law was passed, students could
approve a fee, the Board of Trustees would
certify the vote, and the fee would then be
collected. This process resulted in the
success of our late night transit program.
Now it won't be so easy, because the legislature must also approve any fees you pass.
To allow enough time to make legislative
budget proposals on your behalf, we had
to move voting forward by several weeks.
This also means the deadline for student
initiatives is quickly approaching.
If you want to propose the Union publish
your initiative on the ballot, contact us at
geoduckunion@evergreen.edu to schedule
a consultation with representatives. The
deadline is Wednesday, April 2. There
are added benefits to the revised voting
timeline, because new representatives will
be elected long before spring quarter is
over. They're going to have a few weeks
to become familiar with Union responsibilities and learn the ropes before they
take over. Our hope is this training time
will lend some much needed continuity to
the Union, a'nd make next year the most
productive yet.
Before the vote can happen, we need
volunteers to run the polls. This is a good
opportunity to help make democracy work
at Evergreen. Protect the right
your
fellow students to vote in a transparent election: Become · a Poll Worker!
Better yet, consider running for office.
Applications will be released the first day
of Spring quarter. Don't forget to check
the CPJ each week for the latest elections
updates.
We meet every Wednesday in Seminar
II Cll05 from 1 - 3 pm. We're making
change happen. Come join us. Check
out our website to access our smoking report and for details on our revised
elections timeline: www2.evergreen.
edu/studentgovernment.
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Charles Loosen is a student at The Evergreen State College.
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Earlier in the quarter, a letter was sent to
families that live in on-campus housing,
informing them that they would have to
move out this June.
According to Chuck McKinney, Assistant Director for Residential Life, families will now be able to continue living
on campus for as long as they need.
This year four families have been living
in housing, which is near average in the
roughly 10 years that the family housing program has existed. "We've had as
many as 10 families and as few as two,"
said McKinney.
No new applications for families have
been submitted this year.
McKinney expects an increase in freshman enrollment, and freshmen are most
likely to look for on-campus housing.
According to the original letter that
McKinney sent to families in housing,
the family housing program will be
discontinued because of the increase in
freshman enrollment.
Space may be made available for families if there is an increase in demand.
Faculty will not be voting on the proposed
smoking ban. The committee that sets agenda
for faculty meetings decided to leave it off of
the ballot.
Earlier this year, faculty member Robert
Smurr proposed a ban on all smoking on the
Evergreen campus. In response, the Geoduck
Union created a counterproposal, which they
voted to release at a recent meeting.
The smoking ban aimed specifically to ban
the sale of cigarettes and smoking paraphernalia from two campus locations. The bookstore and the Comer Store in the Housing
Community Center are the only two places
on campus that sell tobacco products.
The Geoduck Union's five-page document
calls the proposed smoking ban "poorly
researched" and "counterproductive" and
offers recommendations for enforcing current
policy.
Members of the Union spent weeks
doing research and consulted with health
professionals and other specialists for the
counterproposal.
According to Stephen Beck of the agenda
committee, proposals are considered for
voting. More important issues need to be
voted on by a m~ority of the faculty.
Evergreen President Les Puree expressed
personal opinions on the arrests in an email
that went out to all students, staff, and
faculty Wednesday evening. He named
"anger, disappointment, disbelief, fear and
suspicion" as feelings that continue to be
generated since the events of February 15.
An article posted to TheOlympian.com
reports that Thurston County Sheriff Dan
Kimball said that the arrests were made
based on evidence gathered from video
footage of the event along with "other
investigatory techniques."
Nearly all of the students who were
arrested (Monica Ragan, Nina Hinton,
and Jake Silberman) were involved with
Evergreen athletics.
Athletics Director Dave Weber was
unavailable for comment Wednesday,
but in an interview conducted last week,
indicated that he had passed along information gathered from athletics staff and
participants to Art Costantino.
"I've heard rumors," said Weber. "I don't
want to name anyone individually, but [the
office of] Athletics has been cooperating
in the investigation."
Costantino added that the two members
of the Evergreen women's soccer team had
been immediately suspended.
"This whole thing is shocking," said Evergreen freshman and Track & Field athlete
Zach Licht. "I know two of the people who
were arrested, and if you told me that they
were going to be a part of this, I would
have told you that you're full of crap."
The arrested students are currently being
held in Thurston County Jail and are set to
be arraigned at the Thurston County Superior Courthouse Thursday at 3:30p.m.
David Raileanu is a senior enrolled in
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Police services busted three students for
drinking, during a routine walkthrough
of the dorms. The students were sitting
in a dorm room with four open "forties."
The officer who was conducting the
walkthrough also confiscated a bag of
marijuana and an Airsoft pellet gun. For
soft crimes, you need a soft weapon.
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9. Brownout - Homenage
A "wrong way" sign in F Lot wa~
given the ol' hostile treatment.
The sign post was damaged by an
unknown vandal. The sign and post
were taken home to police services.
10. Maceo Parker -- Roots and
Grooves
11. Omid - Afterwards 3
12. Ghislain Poirier - No Ground
WRONG PLACE,
WRONG BACKPACK
Under
13. Orchestra Baobab - Made in
Ajar of hashish was confiscated by
police. A driver was pulled over when
he left his high beams on. The officer
checked the driver's identification
and found he had a warrant for "failing to appear." The officer arrested
the driver and searched his person,
car, and backpack. The backpack
contained 2.7 grams of Hashish and
two pipes. The driver was taken to
Thurston County Jail for his warrant.
Jason Slatkin is a junior enrolled in an
internship learning contract.
S&A,Jrom cover
Dakar
14.
The
Gutter
Twins
-Saturnalia
15. Kakande - Dununya
16.
Duke
Ellington
Legacy
Members also asked about what kind
of insurance policy the police have that
- Thank You Uncle Edward
may already cover the damages and
17. Gong Linna
Chinese
effectively create a double payment from
the school.
Folksongs
~JASON SLOTKIN
How the cost of damages was being
assessed, what an itemized list of costs :---------------------------------------------; 18. Tommy Guerrero - Return
would look like, and where the administration would be pulling money from
the Bastard
(or what might not get funded because
19. Omar Sosa - Afi·eecanos
of this) were all questions voiced at the
In the two-part article on the subprime
meeting.
The S&A Board as a whole was ! mortgage crisis, the following was origi- i 20. Speaker Speaker - Call It OJ!
adamant that the board must represent i nally published:
21. Think of One - Camping
the interests of the students and is more
"In Dec. 2007, there were 58 million
Shaabi
accountable to the student body than the
Adjustable Rate Mortgage Resets, up
administration.
If after getting some answers from the from 22 million in Jan. 2007. Between 22. Smokin' Joe Kubeck - Blood
administration, the requested use of the January and June of 2008, it is expected
Brothers
funds is determined to be legal, S&A that 521 million Adjustable Rate Mortwould hold community discussions to get gages will be reset. That is an average of 23. Gamelan X - Satu
input about the proposaL The discussions 87 million per month "with a high of 110
would be planned with the intent of avoid- , million in March."
i 24. Dragons - B.FI.
ing some ofthe problems of the post-riot
'
What should have been written is the '25. Webb Wilder - Born to Be
forums held by TESC administration.
In the meantime the S&A Board is following:
Wilder
hoping to hear from students on the
"In December 2007 there were $58
matter. They can be reached by phone at
26. Souad Massi - Acoustic: The
campus extension 6221 or in person at ! billion in Adjustable Rate Mortgage
! Resets, up from $22 billion in January
CAB 320, space 6.
Best Souad Massi
! of2007. Between January 2008 and June
Justin Shephard is a junior enrolled in ! 2008 it is expected that $521 billion i 27. Ladysmith Black Mambazo
! in Adjustable Rate Mortgages will be
Practice of Community.
if
CORRECTIONS
if
That is an average of $87 billion
iiiiijiiiiiiiiiiiii ! reset.
per month with a high of $110 billion in
!
! March."
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On the International Women's Week
calendar, we printed that women's
Capoeria was occuring March 15 and 16.
It is actually occuring March 8 and 9.
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6, 2008
James Vee
Awareness is key to education
speaks at Evergreen
WE ARE LOCATED IN TESC LIBRARY RM 2318
NEAR THE SOUND AND IMAGE LIBRARY (SAIL).
by JUSTIN SHEPHARD
Yee had made complaints about some of
the treatment he was being told about and
Thursday, Feb. 28, James Yee, a former even affected some changes within prison
Army Chaplain spoke to a packed house operations. When he left the camp for a
in Evergreen's Lecture Hall I. Yee was short vacation in 2003 he was arrested by
brought to TESC by the campus chapter the US government for spying, espionage,
of Amnesty International to speak about and aiding terrorists.
his time serving as a Muslim chaplain in
He was subjected to sensory deprivation
Guantanamo Bay Cuba.
techniques, imprisoned for 76 days in a
His duties in the prison camp included military brig, and locked away without
both acting as an advisor to the camp even his wife's being informed what
commander, in matters of Islam, and how happened to him . During the months he
the religion of the inmates could affect the was locked up his home was searched and
operation of the prison , as well as serve he was treated "as an enemy combatant".
as a chaplain to all of
He
had
seen
the Muslims in GuanMUSLIM PRISONERS
this treatment for
tanamo, prisoners and
suspected
terrorAmericans.
WERE BEING FORCED
ists, treated as
Shortly after he began
if they have no
talking to prisoners in
TO "BOW DOWN ... LIKE rights and he said,
the camp he was told
"I feared that all
about what "life was
IN THE FORM OF THE
of my rights were
like for them" in the
being stripped".
prison and how " reli- MUSLIM PRAYER" WHILE Eventually
the
gion was being used
charges were all
BEING SCREAMED AT
dropped; he was
as a weapon" against
released back to
them , Yee said . With ·a
sense of duty to protect
BY INTERROGATORS
active duty, and
religious freedom, Yee
later
resigned
said that he refl ected on the history of the from the military. He received awards for
United States and felt very disturbed by service after his imprisonment and was
the way reli g ion was bein g used.
honorably di scharged in 2005.
Yee was bein g told that in the intelli gence
Wh en Yee was asked about hi s thoughts
gathering side of th e ope ration , Mu slim on police interrogation he warned aga inst
pri so ners were being forced to " bow speaking to interrogators and said "know
down .. . like in th e form of the Muslim your rights". Similarly of interest to
prayer" while be in g screamed at by inter- Greeners, when asked about wh at to do
when activists fee l that traditional methrogators, that "Satan is your god now".
In other uses of reli g ion as a weapon, od s within the system are not creating
Yee spoke of being told that interrogators change Yee advised "keep trying" and that
we re ex ploitin g Mus lim culture. Separa- people should not g ive up.
He also encouraged hi s audi ence to vote
tion of men and women is very important
to Muslims and Yee was to ld that female and be fa miliar with th e hum an rights
interrogators wo ul d "inappropriate ly ru b stances of all th e candidates.
their bod ie s" aga in st prisoners and even
Justin Shephard is a junior enrolled in
fully undress and press ure inm ates by
Practi ce of Com mun ity.
forcing them to see naked fe male bodies.
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STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY Af'J'D EVERGREEN
COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME
TO COME SEE WHAT IS NEW IN THE AT LAB
by ROB WORKMAN
Do you or does someone you know
struggle with learning or find that using a
computer statiori is so difficult that using a
computer is avoided at all costs? Assistive
Technologies may be the answer many
have been looking for. Assistive Technology (AT) is a generic term that includes
assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative
devices and the process of selecting,
learning, and using these technologies.
Many Evergreen students identify themselves at the time of registration of having
a disability, and although the information
is available through Access Services,
Evergreen students rarely follow through
on acquiring available accommodations,
specifically assistive technologies.
Many household names have had difficulty with learning, specifically those
with dyslexia like Pablo Picasso, Tom
Cruise, Richard Branson, Leonard Da
Vinci , Thomas Edison, Jay Leno and
Whoopi Goldberg just to nam e a few.
Many dyslex ics have overcome barriers
and have found tool s, which helped them
make great contributions to mankind .
Sometimes individuals with limited abilities in one facet will excel and become
great in others; hidden talents are where
som e of the most innovative ideas come
from.
Located in TESC Library 2318 is the
Ass isti ve Technology Lab where solution s are fo und for students with a vast
array of abilities. We have an outstand ing
software used by dys lexics, Dis lexiWrite
includes a personalized word prediction
tool. While typing, commonly used and
misspelled words are shown which help
users find the intended word wanted . You
can set parameters to automatically correct
your commonly misspelled words . We are
currently upgrading our screen reader
softwares; this tool is a must for anyone
with limited vision or auditory learners.
We have three unique screen readers,
which each allow users to increase their
reading speed and reading comprehension
by using multiple learning styles at once.
Our lab also has ZoomText, which helps
computer users by magnifying parts or the
whole screen. Expanded options on the
screen allow users to locate and follow
the control focus when they tab and arrow
key through menus, dialogs, toolbars, and
other application controls.
In the AT Lab we have other software
that assists specific users needs but the last
one I will share today is Dragon Naturally
Speaking. Dragon is a speech recognition
software that assists students with limited
motor skills complete computer projects
and create and decipher notes in many
styles and forms. This tool assists greatly
with communications and allows better
participation in online discussions.
Come check us out! We are located
in TESC LIB 2318 near the Sound and
Image Li brary (SAIL). Students, staff,
faculty, and Evergreen community
members are always welcome to come see
what is new in the AT Lab. The AT staff
is eager to explain our new additions and
if a station is avai lable we will be happy
to give an introduction . With every new
tool obtained by the AT Lab, the ability
to assist new users exponentially expands.
Look for more information on AT (Assistive Technology) in Spring Quarter CPJ
articles.
For info contact Rob Workman at
worrob I O@evergreen.edu or call the AT
Lab directly at 360) 867 6016 .
Rob Workman is a student at The Evergreen State College and an intern at the
AT Lab.
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PARTICIPANTS ARE ASKED AND ENCOURAGED
TO SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES, WHICH THEN
BECOME THE BASIS OF THE LEARNING.
by ANGUS TIERNEY
RAS POSE BEFORE HEAP OF RECYCLEABLE WASTE FISHED OUT OF
DUMPSTERS
by JESSE MAUPIN
much material was actually being recycled correctly, and how much was being
On March 1, approximately 20 housing tossed into the garbage.
residents-mostly from the apartmentThe findings were shocking, and often
style housing gathered inside the Housing disgusting. An estimated 200 pounds
Community Center and suited up to go of recyclable goods were removed from
outside and knock over some dumpsters. the green dumpsters lining the roadway
That's right, they were going to tip over inside The Soup loop.
Plastic bottles by the dozen, newspagarbage dumpsters, and spread trash all
over the ground.
pers, aluminum cans, plastic bags, cardOk, so there was a tarp on the ground, board boxes and food containers sitting
and everybody was wearing close toed amongst non-recyclable trash, all of it
shoes, elbow length gloves, and safety destined for a landfi II.
Large volumes of food were also pulled
goggles, but it was still a blast.
The goal of the event, sponsored by out of the garbage-much of it still
Residential and Dining services, and led perfectly edible.
It was frustrating and discouraging for
by four RAs, was to educate themselves
and the community about the benefits everybody involved with the event to see
of recycling, and to look into just how so much carelessness and wastefulness
within our own community, espeTHE GOAL OF THE EVENT cially because several compost
bins and recycling dumpsters
WAS TO EDUCATE THEM- were sitting a mere ten feet away.
After sorting through trash for
SELVES AND THE COMMU- over two hours, a small raffle
was held inside the HCC, and
NITY ABOUT THE BENEFITS several recycled art pieces made
by local artists, and purchased
from Whirligig (a recycled art
OF RECYCLING, AND TO
dealership downtown on Capitol
Street) were raffled off to the
LOOK INTO JUST HOW
participants.
MUCH MATERIAL WAS ACTU- Everybody left with a sense of
accomplishment, and awareness
of the importance of recycling
ALLY BEING RECYCLED
properly to reduce our contribution to pollution .
CORRECTLY, AND HOW
MUCH WAS BEING TOSSED
INTO THE GARBAGE.
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Olympia's Largest Independent Boolatore
The Healing and Rebuilding Our
Community (HROC) workshops began
in 2003 when the African Great Lakes
Initiative, the American Friends Service
Committee, and members of Friends
Church in Rwanda and Burundi came
together to develop a program that would
address the consequences of violence.
After years of colonization, civil war,
ethnic hatred, and genocide, the need
for healing on both an individual and
community level in the Great Lakes
Region of Africa was paramount.
The curriculum was created to introduce
participants to the concept of trauma,
build a sense of trust and community
within the workshop, facilitate initial
expressions of grief and mourning, and
establish concrete ways to deal with
anger.
It is a participatory approach, which
utilizes culturally appropriate games,
song, prayer, and discussions to empower
people to find their own meaning within
the teachings.
IN 2003 ADRIEN
NIYONGABO INITIATED THE HEALING
AND REBUILDING OUR
COMMUNITY PROGRAM
IN RWANDA, TRAINING THE FIRST 15
HROC FACILITATORS.
Participants are asked and encouraged
to share their experiences, which then
become the basis of the learning. It is an
environment where there are no wrong
answers; where even if you cannot read
and write your knowledge and opinions
are valid and real.
Designed as the cornerstone in a larger
program to build community capacity,
the hope was that HROC participants
would use what they learned to respond
to the widespread trauma in their villages,
strengthen interconnectedness between
their neighbors, and reduce the isolation,
which keeps many people from seeking
help in the first place.
Many participants move on from the
basic workshop to advanced trainings
to become "Healing Companions" who
are skilled in the art of active listening
and can act:ompany family members and
neighbors through the healing process.
In 2003 Adrien Niyongabo initiated the
Healing and Rebuilding Our Community
program in Rwanda, training the first 15
HROC facilitators.
He then to introduced HROC in Burundi
and expanded the program to include the
training of Healing Companions.
Adrien is an African Quaker, who attends
Burundi Yearly Meeting of Friends. He
has been working with the African Great
Lakes Initiative of the Friends Peace
Teams since October 2000. He has made
three speaking tours in the United States
and one in Britain.
He will speak at Common Bread's Long
House gathering at 7 p.m. on March 14.
There is no charge, but donations are
accepted.
Angus Tierney is a senior enrolled in
Practice of Community.
Jesse Maupin is a junior
enrolled in Foundations of Health
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~larch 6, 2008
A letter to the people
by M. PALMER-CERVANTES
Last week several students were inconvenienced; and, surely, it will happen again.
But not by us. At least, not intentionally.
As part of a study on interventionist art, I
and two other students took on the assignment of intervening in the everyday lives
of the community around us. Naturally, we
chose Evergreen.
The ultimate goal was to create a disruption of routine-and, hopefully, a disruption of cultural hegemony-in order
to generate thought and reflection on a
particular issue. To us, there were several
major issues playing out around the globe,
from nations to towns, all tied together by
certain principal concepts that come out
of an administered society-control over
human movement and interaction, barriers created to keep certain people from
certain others. And, of course, this is a
dangerousthreattolanguage,forlanguage
can only really survive and evolve so long
as it occurs between people. So language
was being killed all over the world, the
way we saw it, and so were the ideas that
it carries. Not to mention the millions of
artists, thinkers, and everyday people who
attempt to break those barriers.
We were thinking about the walls in
Baghdad, in Israel-Palestine, at the U.S.Mexico border, and those between Spain
and Morocco. But also the walls of our
houses, which we are so often told are the
only things keeping us safe; the walls of
city buildings, hiding what we needn't
see and showing only what's appropriate,
guiding us on a well-thought-out tour.
Walls and divisions are all around us that
we don't realize; barriers that immigrants
face, not at the border, but once they've
already arrived, obstacles that seem a
hundred times taller than any fence. We
were thinking about a lot.
And so, we decided to build a wall.
And put up some barriers. And hopefully
transfer all of the thought and reflection
we were doing into the students engaged
in their day-to-day routine. Whatever they
normally thought about on their walk from
point A to point B, we wanted to change
it, we wanted it to be about these issues,
which we saw as so pressing.
But did it work? Surely people noticed
the large grotesque apparatus standing
in Red Square for three days; and the.y
definitely noticed the caution tape with
"Closed to the Public" signs blocking their
normal route, or the flyers reminding them
that proper identification and documentation are required at all times. They noticed,
but did they think? Did they reflect? Or
did they get right back behind their walls?
They certainly tore ours down.
Which is great-! saw the broken caution
tape, the ravaged poorly-built wall, the
ripped signs, and that is exactly what needs
to be done; the walls need to be torn down,
everywhere. Ideas have to spread, our
collective thinking and imagination has
to evolve and expand-it's the only way
this world will have any hope of repairing
the many wrongs that occur every day. But
still, I didn't hear the talking; I didn't hear
the dialogue and discourse. Sure, I heard
the rants, the understandable rage at potentially being made late for class, and I heard
the casual words of approval at seeing
some banal protest of three international
issues and one domestic.
But the connections, I felt the connections
were lacking, and perhaps that speaks to
our ability to work our art, but perhaps
there's more going on-in all the anger
at the police state, the corporations, the
governments that build these horrendous
walls and manipulate these societies, in all
the rage against them, the walls and barriers that we build around ourselves, that
we hide ourselves in, were forgotten. The
walls that you and I put between each other
of our own accord, walls which, if we were
to realize them, we could easily tear down,
as easily as the one the three of us built
out of old pallets and cardboard; those
walls still stand and we seem to either not
notice or not care. But we should, because
they're keeping some great ideas from
spreading around, some real connections
from happening, some new language and
new thinking from developing.
But the project is done. As I said before,
we won't try to inconvenience you
anymore, so if you notice caution tape
up, it's not ours, so maybe proceed from
that point with, well, caution. We tore our
wall down, we brought down the barriers, trashed the signs. But what we took
down is only a fraction of what's still up,
and if the thought wasn't generated then,
then hopefully it will be now. It's time
to think, to talk, to write. Not to me, not
to the CPJ, not to your congressman, not
to some office that's not going to read or
care-but to each other, to the billions
of people in this world you've never met
but with whom you're part of a collective
consciousness. Write and talk to them.
Together we'll come up with something
novel.
Michael Palmer-Cervantes is a student
enrolled in Poetics and Power.
STUDENTS VIEW THE STRUCTURE ON RED SQUARE
A MASSIVE STRUCTURE STANDS AS A REMINDER FOR WALLS EVERYWHERE
CAUTION TAPE BLOCKS THE WAY FROM HOUSING TO THE CAB
A DOWNED LAMPPOST NEAR HOUSING BEARS THE SIGNS OF A TORN WALL
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March 6, 2008
Resisting the war abroad,
resisting the war at home
A nipt of resistance and in'IJI'FDCY- Matdl7
by BRENDAN DUNN
In 1975 three members
of the Black Panther
Party were charged
for the killing of a San
Francisco police officer
a few years earlier. It
was soon discovered
in the courts that confessions by two of the
Panthers were taken only after seven days of
torture that police agents in New Orleans,
New York, San Francisco and federal agents
were responsible for. Some of the torture
included the use of electric shock, cattle
prods, beatings, sensory deprivation, plastic
bags and hot, wet blankets for asphyxiation.
The charges were soon thrown out because
confessions extracted under torture, as we
against them was extracted by torture, it was
brought up again to charge all eight men,
known as the San Francisco 8 (SF 8), with
the same crime they did not and could not
have commited.
Many of the same police officers and
agents that were involved with the case in the
'70s are once again working to imprison the
Panthers. This case is significant because it's
not just an attack on the individual Panthers,
but on the legacy and memory of the entire
Black Panther Party and struggle for Black
Liberation. It's also significant because it
is part of a process of the normalization of
torture of Americans in the psyche of the
American public. The repercussions of this
case are far and wide in scope.
On Friday, March 7 at 6 p.m. in Lecture
Hall I Students for a Democratic Society
Rovics will perform along with Danny
Kelly and Mark Eckert from the psychedelic
acoustic folk group Heliotroupe. The three
musicians are raising awareness about Carlos
Arredondo who made national news after
hearing that his twenty-year-old son Marine
Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo was
killed in Iraq.
Carlos was lit on fire in a van the Marines
brought when they informed him ofhis son's
death. He has since recovered and become an
antiwar activist, travelling across the country
to tell the story of his son, even making a
stop at Camp Quixote in Olympia last year.
A table will be present with more information on Carlos, the Black Panther Party, SF
8, George Jackson Brigade and SDS.
The entire event is being headlined as
"Resisting the War Abroad, Resisting the War
at Home" to show the connections between
the root causes and effects of wars waged
abroad and the war constantly being waged
at home, especially on poor people, people
of color and immigrants. The effects can be
seen, in this case, in the death of Alexander
Arredondo and the wounds inflicted on his
father Carlos, and in the systematic attempt
by the US government and police in this
THE ROOT CAUSES FOR WARS WAGED BY THIS GOVERNMENT ABROAD AND AT
HOME CAN BE FOUND IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND ENFORCEMENT OF COLONIAllSM DOMESTICALLY, IMPERIALISM GLOBALLY, AND THE CONSTANT DRIVE
FOR THE ACCUMUlATION OF PROFIT, RESOURCES, AND SUSTAINED HEGEMONY
have seen in cases of detainees at Guanta- will host a panel discussion about the SF 8,
namo for example, are neither legal nor cred- the Black Panther Party, COINTELPRO,
ible. The frame-up ofthe Panthers was part of and many other issues. Panelists will include
a broader strategy undertaken by the Justice · SF 8 defendant Hank Jones who was imprisDepartment and FBI called COINTELPRO oned for his principled refusal to cooperate
-a program that was created to eliminate.and with the grand jury, and charged with the
neutralize leftist and revolutionary political killing of the SF police officer in 1971.
The panel will also include Maisha Quint
opposition in the late 1960s-70s.
The Black Panther Party was one ofCOIN- of the Committee to Free the Eight and
TELPRO's main targets and the Party's veteran of the Black Panther Party and
leaders soon found themselves in prison, in Seattle George Jackson Brigade Mark Cook.
Claude Marks who directed the film about
court, in exile, tortured or assassinated.
In 2007 the three Panthers originally the SF 8 "Legacy ofTorture" will also speak
charged in the 1970s with killing the police on the panel and screen his 28-minute film.
At 8 p.m. directly following the panel
officer were rounded up and thrown in jail
yet again, this time along with five other discussion and film screening, there will be a
Panthers and supporters of the Panthers. show at the same location, dubbed "Night of
Although the "evidence" initially used Musical Insurgency." Folk musician David
Power of bicycle wheels
made frivolous
by GAR RUSSO
locomotion, destination, muscles of movement and the truth of function.
Over weeks in the hallway, the rock of the
wheels' meaning has disappeared into the
swamp of frivolity and ideology where all
ideas are equal and meaningless. The joining of every two wheels on pieces of twoby-fours began the degradation. The art's
The tribe of strength
made an appearance
in the bicycle wheels
in the hall of art that
forms the entrance to
the Library and the
Computer Center, but
frivolity trumped any attempt at meaning. ART THAT GOES BEYOND
The bicycle wheels mounted on the wall
FRIVOLITY AND THE
formed a foundation of strength, beauty,
functio·n, symmetry and expansion into
the universe when they were first hung · IDEOLOGY OF ALL IDEAS
weeks ago. But frivolity and ideology have
BEING EQUAL IN THEIR
intervened and have squashed any meaning
beyond habitual thought.
MEANINGLESSNESS CAN
The great wheels of the bicycle on the wall
meant strength through the functioning of
BE TROUBLESOME
animal power and people growing strong
in the adversity of riding through the shifting weather of west Olympia. The oum:ard relevance was further deluded by articles
radiating spokes spoke to the expansion of hung on the spokes. Jingle bells, fairy
the spinning of the bicycle wheel like the shoes, feathers, plastic flowers, vegetable
Milky Way into infinity. The inward point- ties, silver disks, lengths of felt.
What's next? Used latex? One. group of
ing spokes suggested the strength in unity
and organization. The hanging wheels were wheels was joined with plastic grocery
circles of power and were pregnant with bags and made to tum together with a chain
country to eliminate groups like the Black
Panther Party.
The root causes for wars waged by this
govemment abroad and at home can be
found in the development and enforcement
of colonialism domestically, imperialism
globally, and the constant drive for the accumulation of profit, resources, and sustained
hegemony that will remain intact regardless
of what politician comes to power as president next year, however liberal they may
be.
For our
servicemen &
•
servicewomen
And every demonized
group on this campus
by CAMERON MORRIS
After
reading
the
response to the Army
ad, I can't help but be
ashamed of this school.
Did anyone actually
read the ad? Did anyone
consider that there are L....<l-...""-_:.:_--'
former servicemen and women serving here
at Evergreen? Did anyone think about the
fact that current servicemen and women are
serving here at Evergreen?
The fund in the paper was to help provide
money for those returning home. It was to
help those who are serving now, as well as
the vets. This ad was hardly a promotional
piece (unless one chooses to see it that way)
and even if it was, I think many Greeners
forget exactly who makes their education at
this school possible.
Evergreen State College is a state-funded
school. It's easy to simplify things. As Jonathan Atwood stated, "What disturbs me is the
attitude behind broad-brushed statements ..
.it changes the world into black and white,
into 'we' and 'they'. They become sort of
INSTEAD OF FIXING THE
PROBLEMS THAT PEOPLE
SEE WITH THE SYSTEM,
THEY TURN THE SYSTEM
INTO A DARK FORCE
connected to a lever. The artists must want
us to recycle plastic bags.
Art that goes beyond frivolity and the
ideology of all ideas being equal in their
meaninglessness can be troublesome
because meaning means commitment
and commitment means disagreement
and disagreement means controversy and
controversy means somebody is not smiling and is not ready to buy. And that's not
good, is it?
The hallway art made an attempt at meaning, but had to stay within the boundaries
of banality. The Asiatic pictographs that no
one understood suggested profound ideas
that cam e to us from the far reaches of Tibet
or elsewhere over there. Never mind that
nobody understood the pictographs. They
were from Asia and were very trendy and
the accepted view is that their mystery must
have made them very profound.
One group of two wheels was surrounded
by Chinese trigrams and hexagrams.
Another group was surrounded by white
cards containing the best smiley-faced
wisdom that academia could offer. Some
slogans amounted to ring tones: "all you
need is love" and "imagine all the world".
The raw bicycle wheels in the hallway were
the symbols of expansion and power but
were made meaningless by frivolity and the
ideology that all ideas are created equal.
a different thing, something Other, even
monstrous."
It's what the state has become here at Evergreen. Instead of fixing the problems that
people see with the system, they tum the
system into a Dark Force that needs to be
overthrown. It becomes an Evil Empire with
Darth Sidious at the helm.
We can demonize the state, we can turn
those we disagree with into "Sheeple" or
"Fascist Pigs," and you know the same
thing will happen in tum with "pot smoking
hippies." We need those who are willing to
listen, those who communicate and see the
bigger picture like Jonathan Atwood and
Casey Jaywork. People who are accountable
for their actions, and don't paint things in
black and white.
Human nature is not Utopia, but neither is
it original sin. We have the capacity for both
in all of us, and are a mixture of the two. No
group is perfect, but if we can communicate
and truly think about others ' points of view
and listen, we could actually get something
done in this country. Actually pass laws that
help us ALL.
I' m calling for an understanding of the
bigger picture, to realize its complexities,
and to understand and appreciate the people
who get left out on this campus. People like
our soldiers, who are part of the only group
I know of here in the United States, who,
as individuals, truly put themselves at risk,
life and everything, for a cause and an idea.
I join in the call for communication among
factions, to end demonization. I honor those
serving today, and any individual with integrity who is willing listen.
Gar Russo is afourth year student enrolled
in Beginning to Paint.
Cameron Morris is a student enrolled in
Finance: Personal to Global.
Brendan Dunn is a student at The Evergreen
State College and member of SDS. You can
reach SDS by em ailing olympiasds@riseup.
net. More information on the SF 8 can be
found at www.freetheSF8. org.
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The intention
of
Day of Absence
by HALEY CARPENTER
I feel like I have been
explaining
Day
of
Absence since I first
heard of it my first year
here, three years ago. My
patience has been wearing thinner and thinner.
I've noticed an interesting trend in my explanations. People of color, or the majority of
them, get it. In overwhelming numbers, it is
to white students that I find myself justifying
Day of Absence again and again. So many
white students express their opinions on Day
of Absence loudly. I find that in seminar, as
we explain and justify Day of Absence, it is
always the white students who protest. It is
always the white students who feel uncomfortable with Day of Absence. It is always
white students we are placating. Students of
color just get it, often silently. Where does
this disconnection come from?
Could it be that white students are uncomfortable with the idea that there is something,
one day, that is not for them? Something that
they are not encouraged to attend, to participate in, to excel at, or to appropriate? After a
long history of being turned away from the
front door, people of color have claimed six
hours for themselves to build community.
How is it that Day of Absence has become
a day to explain white privilege to white
people? Where did that come from? You are
supposed to notice our absence. That is why
we are absent. Notice the role we play in your
world. How is seminar different because we
are gone? What element is missing from
your discussions? Whose faces are not there
listening to your lecture? Who is not there
lecturing? Did you notice? Did you miss us?
To me, the real travesty of Day of Absence
is not that this is a day of "separation." The
real travesty is the fact that so few people
participate. So few students are absent from
their classes. Could this be connected to
the fact that many science programs refuse
to consider it an excused absence? So few
Haley Carpenter is a senior enrolled in The
Practice of Community.
put on notice
We've
~y
faculty attend- is this connected to the college
refusing to walk its talk? In the three years
J!ve been to Day of Absence, I have never
seen Les Puree attend. Aqd what about the
staff- who set up the chairs for those lectures
on white privilege? Was it staff of color?
Why don't white people take this day as
an opportunity to reflect on the true intent of
Day of Absence: community. Reflect on the
role people of color play in your community.
Reflect on what their absence means. What
does it mean? Reflect on the roles you play
in your community, and those you do not.
Do you know the name of the woman who
empties the trash? Did you notice that she
was gone today?
If Day of Absence were truly carried out
the way it was intended to, that trash would
still be there. You would have to notice she is
gone, because you would see her absence in
the overflowing trashcan.
But this is not what happens on Day of
Absence. Instead, rather than attempting to
carry on with the day as usual, so that our
absence may be felt, white people have taken
this day to talk about - white people. Big
surprise.
It's sad that the college seems to have
completely missed the intention behind this
day. I hope eventually we will have a Day of
Absence like the playwright, Douglas Turner
Ward, intended. It would be a surprise. We
would all leave - faculty, students, staff,
administrators- even those you didn't know
were people of color. There would be no one
to take out the garbage. There would be no
one teaching the Native American Studies
program; the white students would be left
with books. There would be no students of
color in seminar to explain that yes, racism
still exists. We would be gone. And you
would have no choice but to notice. What
would you do? What would you think?
Would you learn something about yourself
and your community?
ANDY SERNATINGER
&
C.V. ROTONDO
If you haven't noticed
already,
clusters
of
"anti-anarchist" flyers
have popped up around
campus, claiming that
they have put anarchists
and rioters "on notice." 1
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Though this neo-Red
Scare bullshit is just one
extreme example, recent '·
debate has severely
polarized the campus
community.
Op-ed
pieces in the Cooper Point Journal continually refer to "us versus them" mentalities,
dehumanization and how a vocal minority
negatively affects Evergreen's image.
Our intent here isn't to analyze specific
signage, but to revisit the role of radical politics here at Evergreen. Though we acknowledge the accomplishments of radical projects
and the gains made, something seems
seriously wrong. Considering our access to
resources, a conducive local climate, and our
The importance of
progressive colleges
by TILLMAN CLARK
Just recently, Antioch
College, a historically
progressive college in
Ohio whose curriculum
was strongly influenced
by Evergreen, suspended
its operations, fired its '--...;AJ;-'---""----'
entire faculty and is being taken over by a
corporation called Antioch University that
will most certainly feature a more traditional system when the college reopens. The
college is closing for a variety of reasons, the
most significant being a lack of funding and
enrollment.
What is primarily important about Antioch
is not why it is closing, but that it is closing.
Colleges like Antioch and Evergreen are not
the only schools promoting radical thought,
but there is certainly no discernible proliferation of progressive colleges that focus on
social justice and student governance more
than money and prerequisites. Watching one
of the few remaining colleges that offers a
radically progressive curriculum succumb to
corporate takeover illuminates this reality.
There's a reason why colleges like Evergreen and Antioch are rare, and that is that
capitalism does not want higher education to
be progressive. To give one example of why
this is so, let's take a look at grading.
Capitalism is inherently divisive, a trait most
notably manifested in the class war. Grading
people based on predetermined benchmarks
is just another way to divide different people
with different backgrounds. Grades typecast
and stereotype students into certain roles that
stay with them for their entire lives based
on how one teacher, and a rigid curriculum,
judged their abilities. It is not hard to see how
historically oppressed people, who have not
had a say in how the system works or been
given the same opportunities to integrate into
it, are negatively affected by this system.
It is also easy to say that one can work hard
outside of grading, but when a higher grade,
instead of the learning itself, represents
as synonymous with insurrection and have
scoffed at reform work that can begin to meet
people's immediate needs; the eight-hour day
was a significant victory won by anarchists
(with jobs!) and allows us more space to
conduct more revolutionary work. Our lack
of coherent vision has made it difficult for
AN UNWILLINGNESS
reactionary, continuously on the defensive.
An
unwillingness
TO DIALO GUE WITH
to
dialogue
with
COMMUNIT Y MEMBERS community members
with different views
maintains a division
in the community that
stalls a movement for
progressive change.
Unrealistic goals with
no intention to meet
"wake-up" approach
to politics, which STALLS A MOVEMENT FOR people where they're
at leave us isolated.
suggests that if only
Radical, but isolated.
PROGRESSIVE CHANGE
people are exposed
If as we say the waketo
"revolutionary"
behavior they will wake up and join the up theory is flawed and the process of gaining
revolution. However, as the vocal response to a radical consciousness is not instantaneous,
such events as the "anarchist tagger" and the we must articulate a vision that encompasses
well-intentioned anti-cop rally have demon- our analyses, facilitate popular education,
strated, the1'esponse is largely the opposite of organize around legitimate community
what wake-up theory might have us believe. concerns (and apply our radical analysis
Further, we've narrowly defined radicalism there) and construct tangible alternatives
a level of adherence to a certain agerida,
students will work for a higher grade instead
of a higher level of knowledge. Some will
succeed at this more than others.
It is understandable that capitalism wants a
homogenized population that is prepared to
conform to its needs. Education is formally
based around the idea that it indoctrinates
people for implementation as productive
members of the economy, not questioning
revolutionaries. The traditional education,
backed with the conformity and divisiveness of grading, is certainly more likely to
produce such people. A progressive education, perhaps with the absence of a restraining grading system, is not.
This is why popular traditional colleges
receive more financial and enrollment support
than rarer progressive colleges. Popular opinion dictates that Evergreen does not prepare
you for the real world. Colleges like Evergreen are known to not adequately offer the
prerequisites, connections, or resources for
the aforementioned indoctrination.
Because of this mode of thinking, the
system of higher learning has become a
form of elitism and compliance rather than
a force for real education. It is transparent in
the drive for prestige and to be a "mover and
shaker." Just the assumption that you need to
attend an elite university and submit to their
prerequisites is evidence that only those with
connections and money are considered to
even have a chance to make a difference in
the world. What does that say to a majority
of the population that never goes to college
or doesn't attend an elite university? It says:
"You cannot be anybody of significance
unless you attend the universities where
connections can be made and where the
resources are." This is where the importance
of Evergreen and progressive colleges comes
in. Yes, Evergreen has trouble fulfilling the
prerequisites that most graduate schools and
certain employers want to see. And chances
are that the
see PROGRESSIVE, page 10
to the structures that we oppose. Generally,
the burden is on the radical community to
do these things. This means being explicit
in our analysis and utilizing existing space
even if it's not "radical"-if you want radical space, then create it. Be transparent about
your process and avoid informal hierarchies.
Actively engage criticism (though there are
some illegitimate critics). Rather than only
saying "tear it down," build it up and demonstrate our ability for self-administration
through projects that aim to replace oppressive institutions.
This isn 't to say we don 't believe that
immense (revolutionary) changes are necessary now, but it is to say that the best way
to achieve this is to reconceptualize social
change as at least in some respects gradual.
Social structures and relationships today were
not introduced overnight, but socialized over
a long period and similarly we must begin
to create social relationships that reflect our
vision. We don't mean to say ignore the state
or ignore capitalism. These things exist and
we must continually dismantle them, but w,'
need to start doing things that build capacity
now. Despite our criticisms, we believe that
trenchant radical politics has revolutionary
potential.
Andy Serna/inger and C. V. Rotondo are
students at The Evergreen State College.
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lllarch 6, 2008
ARnST STATEME
Death after collage
by JENNY PARIS
Earlier this quarter, the
U.S. Navy sent me a
recruitment brochure in
the mail. Meant for high
schoolers, it began "Life
after high school: Not the
rush of excitement you'd
expected, right?" I was astounded by the
forceful and manipulative language, a blend
of militarism and advertising that promised
me more money than I've ever counted on
making in my life, travel, adventure, and a
respectable career. It was powerful, and I
found myself wanting to believe it. Recognizing my privilege to have already gone to
college and developed my own critique of
this message, I began researching the claims.
What I found out is that it's a big old lie.
Recruitment propaganda and recruiters
don't have to tell the truth about the military
experience. They do this for many reasons:
1) Less than one-half of one percent of the
American population is in the armed forces.
Fighting an unpopular war with a volunteer
army demands the kind of tactics that make
joining up seem like a fun game and a
responsible career decision; 2) There are no
con~equences for lying. There are, however,
consequences for recruiters who fail to meet
quotas (being returned to combat zones); 3)
Advertisemert techniques are ·being used to
sell the image of the soldier. Ad language is
not about telling it like it is, but about making
it look so good you want to identifY with it.
But this isn't just the selling of another product- this is falsely representing a choice that
can involve long-term debilitating trauma,
maiming, and death.
This piece is rooted in a desire to recognize
the traumatic experiences of individuals
returning from war who are coping with
horrific experiences, who signed up to be
part of "the most technologically advanced
defense team in the world" and 'Because
'top secret' always looks good on your
resume," but instead wound up wearing
insufficient armor, without proper training,
often without the skill sets or ability to access
the education they were promised, and
upon returning found themselves without
the mental and physical care they needed to
heal. Like all victims of abuse, violence, and
trauma, soldiers need the understanding and
sustenance of their communities.
I wanted to highlight and sabotage the
methods used to deceive young people, and
recognize the experience of those soldiers
who have been targeted, lied to, and victimized by the military, who are targeted especially along class and economic lines. Who
give up their constitutional rights and bind
PROGRESSIVEfrom 9
major universities do have better resources
and connections than Evergreen. But why?
The prerequisites and guidelines that our
modern society has put into place to give
anyone a chance to "succeed" seem to be
collectively accepted. Never mind who is
in control of the decisions that fund and
support higher education. The impulse to
flock to universities to fulfill prerequisites
and get connections comes less from a
concern for getting an education and changing the world than it does from adhering to
it and "moving up the ladder."
It is not true that · all successful people
need to come from the traditional university
system, it just makes it easier. Similarly,
the system for attaining myriad necessities
for a respectable standard of living are not
themselves to this authoritarian institution
that instills obedience and trains methods
of torture and killing that even then doesn't
look after its own wounded and traumatized
members.
My method, inspired by culture jamming
and other forms of detournement, was to
invert the language and expose the advertisement techniques that shroud the reality of
war. I translated each word and concept into
its antonym (of course since opposites don't
exist, this is the ambiguous and fun part), and
then entered parts of the text into a "catchy
advertisement slogan generator" I found
online.
Iraq Veterans Against the War list on their
website that U.S. war veterans are twice as
likely to kill themselves as ordinary civilians. Five point six percent of people who
enter the Gl Montgomery Bill use all the
money available to them. Almost half of GI
bill participants never receive any funding.
Twenty-eight percent of women report being
raped while in the service. Veterans aged
20-24 are unemployed at almost twice the
rate of their peers who didn't enlist. Vets are
three to five times more likely to be homeless than non-veteran peers. Regardless of
one's personal political stance or critique
of militarism, these facts reveal the recruitment process to be a breach of a supposedly
fundamental ethical concept of the principle
of informed consent of a citizen in relation to
their government, to employment, or dangerous conditions.
Some more resources:
www.beforeyouen Iist.org
www.notyoursoldier.org
~ww. warresisters.org
www.ivaw.org
Some useful services for veteran and nonveteran students at Evergreen:
Office of Veterans Affairs (OVA)
Academic Advising
Access Services for Students with Disabilities
Career Development Center
First Peoples' Advising
GEAR UP Program (Gaining Early
Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate
Programs)
Health and Counseling Center, SEM I 2110
Office of Sexual Assault Prevention,
SEM 14130
KEY (Keep Enhancing Yourself) Student Services .
Jenny Paris is a student at The Evergreen
State College.
set up for people coming out of the lower
class, or for minorities, females, disabled
people, etc. But that does not make it O.K.
Progressive colleges like Evergreen beg a
fundamental question: Is it more important
to fulfill the prerequisites for success in this
world or to question who determines those
prerequisites and why they are needed?
If more people do not keep asking these
questions, and support the progressive
institutions that counter popular notions of
success and conformity, the financial and
enrollment support for them may fade away
in the .face of more traditional, corporate
schools. If more people do not realize the
importance of progressive colleges, then
Evergreen and more schools like it, will
increasingly face the same fate as Antioch.
Tillman Clark is a student enrolled in The
End of Prosperity.
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Discussion
was
extensive in evaluating the art piece on
the back page (the
See Page) M this
issue. The staff met
to deliberate on Jenny
Paris' culture-jam piece, which addresses
advertising techniques and their use in
military recruitment. We weighed potential harms that could come from printing
the piece.
As a member of the CPJ who has an
interest in similar forms of expression,
I feel it would be doing the student
body a disservice by not printing this
submission.
As a co-coordinator of the CPJ, I had
to step back and think exhaustively about
the purpose of the submission and the
effects it could have on CPJ readers and
the CPJ itself.
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As the editor in chief, I make final decisions on all matters of non-advertising
content and I am ultimately accountable
for those decisions.
After talking with members of the
CPJ, and the on-campus Veteran Affairs
office and a small handful of veterans,
after discussing the submission with the
artist and addressing the concerns of CP J
members and myself, I decided that we
should print the submission.
Please email any questions, concerns
or comments to cpj@evergreen.edu, call
(360) 867-6213 or come to our next open
forum paper critique (Thursdays at 5 p.m.
in CAB 316). We welcome your input on
this and any other CP J matter, or other
issues on campus.
Seth Vincent is a junior enrolled in an
internship learning contract and is editorin-chief of the Cooper Point Journal.
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Climate change,
not coal!
l~y
SCHUYLER TIMMONS
be used to harness the abundant sun and
wind energy in that region. In the face of
Coal is one of the largglobal warming, we cannot afford to be
est contributors of C0 2
building new coal infrastructure. Yes, this
emissions in the world,
plant claims it will sequester the carbon
thus responsible for a
underground limiting emissions, but that
substantial proportion
is not the point. The mining and processof our climate change
ing of coal releases immense amounts
crisis. Many of us are
of C0 2, and is hugely detrimental to
familiar with China and India's amazing the environment and those who mine it.
expansion and use of coal, and this is a Our plan is to halt this coal plant from
huge concern to have. Here, in the US, ever being imagined. It will all begin
we rely heavily on coal as well, with half on Fossil Fools day (April 1), which is
of our electricity coming from this dirty a nationwide day of action focused on
fuel.
exposing and demonstrating against our
We have several hundred coal plants addiction to coal, oil, and natural gas.
scheduled to be built in the near future, Here at Evergreen we will be initializing
and one of those is
a campaign to remove
here in Washington .
THE FACE OF
Bank
of America
Most of us don't
from this campus . in
associate Washington GLOBAL WARMING, WE resistance to their
with coal, for good
large funding of coal
reason because we CANNOT AFFORD TO BE development.
Two
are a hydro state.
days later, on April 3,
Shockingly,
there
BUilDING NEW COAL we are organizing a
is a large coal fired
rally downtown at the
Walla Walla coal plant
power
plant
30
INFRASTRUCTURE
minutes away down
planning office. It is
in Centralia.
guaranteed to be a fun event with puppet
The Centralia power plant currently masks, signs, noisemakers etc.
emits 80% of the C0 2 in this state that
We plan to have a meeting with them to
comes from electricity generation. propose our alternatives and to find out
Centralia has this power plant because it how they are trying to justify this horrenis the only place in the state with recover- dous project. It will be a fun, legal way to
able coal. Ironically, a few years ago it voice our disagreements with our fossil
became cheaper to import the coal from fueled economy.
other states then mine it here. In Olympia,
If you would like to be involved with
most of us receive our electricity from planning this event, and other fun activiPuget Sound Energy (PSE), who would ties on this campus and in the Olympia
care not to admit that 34% of their power community, come to our meetings on
comes from this coal fired power plant. Tuesdays at 8 p.m . upstairs in the CAB,
Creating renewable energy sources to and also on Fridays at 4 p.m. in the same
offset the need for this power plant should place.
be a priority for us all to advocate .
Furthermore, a new coal fired power
Schulyer Timmons is a senior enrolled in
plant is in the planning process over in an independent learning contract about
Walla Walla. It would be a $2.1 billion climate change, and how we need to solve
project, which is a lot of money that could it.
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March 6, 2008
Dawson's Triumphant Return
Local artist draws a crowd for first official return to Evergreen
by DAVID RAILEANU
Kimya Dawson, Olympia resident, former
Evergreen student, and critically acclaimed
recording artist, returned to the TESC
campus Thursday night to put on her first
official show since leaving at the end of
spring quarter, 1993.
Women 's Resource Center's Kathleen
Kelley and Women of Color Coalition's
Alejandra Abreu opened the event just
after the doors closed at 8:20 p.m. with a
quick thank-you to Student Activities , who
allowed the show to go on despite the recent
moratorium put in place by Art Costantino,
Vice Pres ident of Student Affairs. She also
expressed support for Hip-Hop Congress,
the group whose recent concert was
linked to the events that gave rise to the
moratorium .
Paul Shin, Evergreen student and stand-up
comedian, opened tqe night with a peculiar
blend of awkward, self-deprecating comedy
and insight into the Olympia dating scene.
He touched on such topics as drug addiction, homosexuality, parenting, and racial
identity, eliciting occasional snickers from
the crowd. He drew some support when he
advocated the use of prophylactics, but his
most significant moment on stage happened
just before he exited, when he warned,
"Just because a person of color takes the
stage doesn't mean you have to flip over a
cop car."
.fiom MAIDS,
IT GOES BEYOND
GENDER, THE BRILLIANCE OF .THE PlAY IS
THE MULTI-lAYERS OF
THE PERFORMANCE,
THE WHOLE ISSUE IS
THE PERFORl\1ATIVITY IN GENERAL. NOT
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Next up was the beguiling Dawson , who
opened with a sweet, melodic ballad about
lost friends . The simple folding chair and
PA arrangement only served to reinforce
her paradoxically diminutive sound . The
crowd felt instantly at ease after Shin 's
off-putting confess iona l humor, especially
when Dawson chimed, " It feels good to say
cock a lot at school."
During the spring of 1993, Dawson was
involved in a public protest against the
way Evergreen's administration handled a
sexual assault on campus. After numerous
attempts to affect change, Dawson, along
with Deana Brown, was caught spraypainting graffiti in the CAB. Originally
believed to face criminal charges for the
offense (a fine of up to $20,000 or I 0 years
in prison), Thurston County decided to
drop all charges on the recommendation
of TESC administration. After what the
reporting issue of the CPJ referred to as
cov~;r
with her production assistant Maria McCallis7
ter-Hrab to bring this vety dense literary rich
text to life. She filmed some of the rehearsals.
This tactic, much frowned upon in traditional
theater, brought new life to the rehearsals. "It
helped us all remember that we have bodies
we have bodies that are seen by others ...
to seen our own physicality fi·01n an outside
perspective," Olson said. It allowed them
to see what needed to be changed and what
needed to stay the same.
The men in drag component is a major presence in the show. It is a Brechtian device and
a part of epic theater. "The audience is not
allowed to buy into the illusion."
This kind of theater allows for more of a
statement for social change. Genet differed
from Brechtian ideals. He was more interested in "sustaining a contradiction between
the audience and actors as long as he could to
frustrate people into action."
Olson explained her choices further saying,
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"internal judication," Dawson was asked
not to return to Evergreen for the 1994-95
school year.
Dawson spoke of her time on campus and
read from a poem she wrote just after the
incident, originally published in the May
27, 1993 edition of the Cooper Point Journal. Her other school memories included
Sondra Simon's Stand Up Comedy, Sit
Down Humor, which inspired Dawson to
give the comedy game a try, and Home:
A Mutually Shared Responsibility, a core
program taught by the late Craig Carlson,
for whom Dawson had written a song.
Dawson was accompanied on several of
her songs, including some audience participation for the a cappella "I Like Bears,"
the young and shy Stella for a track from
the upcoming Alphabutt, a collection of
children's tunes set to be released on K
Records in August, and a rousing version of
"Loose Lips," featured on the soundtrack
for the motion picture Juno.
The event, hosted by a number of student
groups including WRC, WOCC, Sesame,
CASV, CISPES, and MeCHA, drew a
crowd of300 to Lecture Hall I for the kickoff of International Women's Week. Overall, the performance delighted and subdued
the reveling crowd into a reverent silence,
owing in large part to the personal and
declarational nature of the lyrics. Dawson
herself made note of the seating arrangement, which did not allow the more restless
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"STELLA" JOINS DAWSON IN SONG
members of the audience leave to desert
their seats mid-performance. The applause
at the end, however, betrayed the sleepy
eyes and stressful looks among the faces
of the finals-minded crowd, marking the
first official return ofKimya Dawson to the
Evergreen campus a resounding success.
David Raileanu is a senior enrolled in
Molecule to Organism.
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SHOW TIMES
March 7
in Recital Hall
7 p.m.
March8
Lecture Hall I
7 p.m.
March 14
Lecture Hall I
7 jJ.m.
March 15
Lecture Hall I
7p.m.
BLYTHE OLSON DIRECTS EVAN FOSTER AND ZACHARY DUNLAP
"It's men in drag, it generates more productive discussion than just erotic feelings, I
wanted to make this play provocative for
2008. Not only is it men in dresses, it's
men wearing dresses in a homosexual
incestuous relationship."
Concerning the audience Olson also
stated , " I think that Evergreen is an intelligent enough place to have thoughtful
discussion about it afterwards. Evergreen's
a smart place."
Speaking more specifically about the play
she went on, "The play is about identity and
identity as nothing but a seri es of reiterative
gestures, to be put on and cast off at will.
Gender itse lf is nothing but a performance
anyway ... we construct our own gender.
The character~ in this pl.1y are so multi
layered, there'<> so muc..h to thern. The truth
of them i~ never exposed, becau' ~ tt·e)' .1rc
stuck m tr;.:-ir id-:nt1:" a~ 11J.ds fht whole
rldy ,, .tbout t:1.:m de~peratel)' try.nc to
break free of their identity as maids. It
will make a visual statement of the identity struggle if it is actually men wearing
dresses ." McCallister-Hrab added, "It goes
beyond gender, the brilliance of the play
is the multi-layers of the performance, the
whole issue is the performativity [sic] in
general. Not just men in drag."
The Maids opens tomorrow, March 7 at 7
p.m. in the Recital Hall. The show moves
to Lecture Hall I on March 8, 14, and 15 .
All shows start at 7 p.m . and the cost is four
dollars, any profit in excess of production
costs goes back to the College.
Olson stated how terrified and excited
she is to perfo rm Genet's play. As opening night approaches she closes saying,
''The curtain will rise and something will
happen"
Brandan C usty H a ,·ophomf)re enrolled
in Pt rform mg Art.' L.Jboratory
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Geoduck men lose in to teammate's arrest
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DAVID RAILEANU
by ZACH LICHT
Having advanced to the Cascade Con ference Championship game with a 93-76
victory this past Saturday at Oregon
Tech, the Geoduck men's team fell just
short of the championship, as Warner
Pacific University defeated them, 87-69,
Tuesday evening in the Greenhouse.
The game started at a standstill, as both
teams had trouble finding their mark in
the early going. Thirteen minutes in,
the game was tied at 13. But WPU then
scored eight unanswered to take a 2113 lead. With both teams battling back
and forth for points, both teams went
back to the drawing board at halftime
with Warner Pacific leading 38-30. Both
er-green" roar over and over.
The shot's finally began to fall, but there
was no stopping Warner. Nate Menefee
scored 14 of his team-high 24 in the last
five minutes, but each was countered with
trips to the free throw line for WPU. As
the final buzzer sounded, the game, the
championship, and the right to advance
to the national tournament had fallen
away, 87-69.
After the game, Coach Drinkwine had
a few things to say. When asked about
the last two minutes of the game, he said,
"We were just talking about finishing
with class. There's no easy way to lose
a game, whether it was by one or forty."
Coach made special note of the fan
support the team received. "It's no fun
WITH POSSIBLY 20 MINUTES LEFT TO
THE SEASON, THE GUYS CAME OUT AND
LAID EVERYTHING ON THE TABLE. BUT IT
WAS NOT MEANT TO BE THIS NIGHT.
teams were about even from the field , but
WPU held a dec isive edge in free throws ,
having made seven to TESC's one.
With possibly 20 minutes left in the
season , the guys came out and laid everything on t" e •able. But it was not meant
to be thi s ni ght.
Every tim e th e Green Machin e pu shed
the game closer, Warner Pacific would
methodi cally pull the game farth e r away.
Warner was up by II wi th 12:24 le ft in
th e game.
Evergreen's las t great pu sh wo uld ta ke
the lead a ll the way dow n to 53-48 defic it, but the Everg reen Eng in e sta ll ed, as
the Kni ghts th en res pond ed by goin g o n
a 17-4 run over a near seven m inu te s pan
that wo uld p ut the Geodu cks in a deep
hole, 52-70 with 4: II left to p lay. Coach
Drinkwine called a timeout.
As the teams came out of the timeout,
the crowd tried to give the team one last
shot of adrenaline with a deafening "Ev-
to play in a qui et gym. [Th e fans] get us
pumped up, the coaches and playe rs."
Nate Menefee led all scorers with 24
points. Julio Feliciano and Michael Ward
each added II points , wh ile Nick Moore
gave 9. Th e res t of th e team combin ed
fo r 24 po ints, o n 5- for- 16 shooti ng. T hey
were a lso out-rebounded by I 0.
Despite this loss, the Everg reen basketba ll prog ram has made a huge str ide in
th e ri ght direction .
With a good core th at sho uld be co ming
back for next season a nd a so lid coach
and ass ista nts at the he lm , get used to
see in g the Geoduc ks in conte nt io n for
th e Cascade and the N A JA Cham pi onships for yea rs to com e.
Thank yo u g uys for an awesome season.
You have been a great example and inspiration of where hard work and dedication
can take us once we apply ourselves as
you have. Thank you ji·om the C PJ sports
staff' and all o.lthe students who came to
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support you.
In sports, players come together to
form a team . A greater body that acts on
what appears to be an almost psychic
communication.
This is especially true in baseball. A
game where the most exciting moments
involves double plays that come from
a choreography based on a team that
constantly plays together.
Jake Silberman is a utilty infielder,
a player who could play any position,
for Evergreen's club baseball team. He
was one of the five students arrested in
connection with the Valentine's Day riot.
"He was just a kid who showed up and
was willing to do anything. He was just
a kid who liked to play baseball," said
Coach Kip Arney about Jake Silberman.
Jake was in attendance at the Dead
Prez concert as a member of the College
Recreation Center facilities staff.
The day after the concert, CRC Facilities
Manager Mike Anchors held an informal
meeting with Jake, along with other CRC
student staff.
Silberman 's employment was tenninated on February 15 , thou gh it is not
cl ea r wheth e r or not he was fired in direct
connection to the incident of the previou s evening. In conjunction with getting
fired, he was su s pended from th e base ba ll
team
As rece nt ly as Monday, Anc hors had a
meeting with Arney in whi ch he as ked if
there were any objections to Jake's reinstate ment as a member o f th e base ba ll
team .
" [J ake] came to me aft er he was removed
from th e team. He was n't c lea r about
~ h at he di d," sa id Arney. He a lso said he
did n' t fee l the need to probe him abo ut it
and did not as k for any s pec ifi cs.
"I felt like it wasn't my place to hold a
team meeting . I don't like getting into all
that politics stuff," said the coach. "That's
not what baseball's all about."
The response from Silberman's teammates has been supportive. "To us, as
players, he's still a member of the team,"
said pitcher Gavin Dahl.
"We're going to support Jake," said
outfielder James Zubowicz, another
terammate. He also said that the team is
operating on an "innocent before proven
guilty" basis
Some
of Silberman's
teammates
expressed frustration at the player's
arrest. "Right now sports is Evergreen's
only positive image," Natan Antolin .
Two other members of the team were
detained but later released.
Baseball is not the only sport to be
affected by arrests. Two members of the
varsity women's socceer team were also
arrested.
Art Costantino, Vice President of
Student Affairs, stated that both of the
members of the soccer team were immediately suspended in accordance with
school policy, but was unclear on how
club sports would handle the situ ation .
Baseball is not, as yet, part of th e varsity
athl etic prog ram at Evergreen , but Athl etics Director Dave Webe r has indicated
plan s to el evate base ba ll to th e vars ity
level in the near future .
Th e hom e opene r for th e base ba ll tea m
is set to beg in at noon on Sat urday, March
15. As to wheth er the arrest will impact
the season at all , Arn ey proposed that
pl aye rs wh o knew S ilberm an best were
most like ly to be affected by the arrest.
Jason Slatkin is a junior enrolled in
an internship learning contract. David
Raileanu is a senior enrolled in Mo lecul e
to Organi sm .
I Icy Evergreen, what's up? I know that there arc a lot of
sports out there that arc not gelling any publicity or street creel.
If you arc in a sport or want to see a sport in the pa\w1; either
wntc an article about it or an event, or send me t 1e info at
cpj@cvcrgrcen .cclu.
Thank You,
It's time for fun, and
we're your ride!
Intercity Transit is your ticket off
campus! Your Evergreen student ID
is your bus pass on all local routes
to plenty of fun destinations. Grab
a pizza or take in some music, go
biking, shopping, whatever! Give
us a call or go online for more
information.
lntercitytransit.com
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Thursday, March 6
International Women's
Events Continue
Week
Sexual Well ness Fair With a theme
of "Happy, Healthy Sexuality for
Everyone," the fair, which is free
and open to the public, promotes
healthy sexuality by offering an
assortment of free items, including
condoms and lubricants, and by
providing free , confidential testing
for HIV, gonorrhea and chlamydia.
I 0 a.m . to 4 p.m. South Puget Sound
Community College Student Union,
Bldg. 27.
Shopping Till We Drop: Land
Use, Environmental and Economic
Implications for Communities
P1·esentation by Jennifer Gerend,
applicant for faculty position in
Land Use Planning and Community
Development. Noon to I p.m. LIB
3301 .
Hearing for arrests in connection with Feb. 14 events 3:30p.m .
Thurston County Courthouse, Bldg.
2, Room 129.
Christa Bell: She-ism Workshop
on feminist philosophy. Sponsored
by MEChA, 6 p.m. Longhouse.
Mini Art Venue All Evergreen
residents invited to come make art
and display it for each other. Discussion and social time to follow. 5:30
p.m . HCC.
Olympia Free School Community volunteer meeting Enjoy
free vegan and vegetarian pizza
while you learn how to help your
community. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. 610
Columbia Street.
David F. Martin, who will speak on
this topic. 7 to 9 p.m. State Capital
Museum. 211 21st Ave. SW.
Sustainability and Justice Coalition Potluck This is a cross-campus
event intended to unite students,
faculty, and staff who are interested
in sustainability and justice. Bring
a dish or beverage to share. 5 to 7
p.m. Organic Farmhouse.
STAR Ice Cream Potluck Social
Ice cream is like gender: It comes
in many flavors and they all taste
great. Sponsored by Society for
Trans Action & Resources. 7 p.m.
CAB 320.
Sci-Fi Trilogy Night Come get
your sci-fi on with some spacy
movies. 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. HCC.
Jean Genet's The Maids Is based
on true events, including the only
recorded case in modern criminal
history in which the victim's eyes
were torn from the skull with nothing but the murderer's bare hands .
After the crime, the two perpetrating sisters were found upstairs,
naked in bed together. Presented by
the Fashioning The Body program .
Tickets $4 available at the door. 7
to 8:30p.m. COM Recital Hall.
Acoustic Political Folk Gathering An evening of acoustic insurgency with David Rovics, Danny
Kelly, and Mark Eckert. Benefit
for Carlos Arredondo . $10 sliding
scale. 8 p.m. Longhouse.
Saturday, March 8
The Hidden Assault on Our Human
Rights, a groundbreaking critique of
current civil rights Jaw and a vision
for a new direction. A specialist in
constitutional Jaw, anti-discrimination law, and Jaw and literature,
he has published work in many
reputable publications and a wide
variety of academic journals. 7 to 9
p.m. Temple Beth Hatfiloh, 201 8th
Ave. SE.
Jean Genet's The Maids This
absurdist comedy will be presented
by the Evergreen State College
Media Arts program, Fashioning
the Body. Tickets are $4 and available at the door or by calling 8676833 . 7 to 8:30p.m. March 8, 14 &
15. LH 1.
Northwest Women Artists 18901950 In honor of Women's History
Month, the Women's History
Consortium and the Washington
State Historical Society presents
Monday, March 10
Tibetan Uprising Day Screening
"From Bhod To Bharat" ("From
Tibet To India"), a 25 minute film
made in 2006 by an Evergreen
student about a 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. 6 p.m. LH 2.
Spring 2008 Registration Begins
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 conflict. 5:30
p.m. SEM II E 2107.
Chronological Maps of Washington, 1808- Present The presentation will include maps found in
the collections of The Evergreen
State College, Washington State
Library, St. Martin's University,
and the Washington State Archives.
Includes map viewing, presentation,
and Q & A . 7 to 9 p.m. Lib 330 I.
Tuesday, March 11
The Savage Streets Filmed in
Olympia, feature film directed by
Bryan Connolly, starring Bridget
Irish and other locals. Followed
by Q & A with fi 1m maker. Capitol
Theater, 206 E 5th Ave. 9 p.m.
Self Evaluation Workshop in
Primetime If you missed last
week's workshop, this one is for
you. 6:30 to 7:30p.m. Fishbowl.
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MONDAYS
Capoeira COM 209, 4:30 to 9 p.m.
Cooper Point Journal
CAB 316, 5 p.m.
EQA Evergreen Queer Alliance SEM II A2109, 3:30p.m.
Geoduck Union CAB 3rd
Floor Pit, 4 to 6 p.m.
Flaming Eggplant CAB
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.m.
ATF Appearing Task Force on
Anti-Oppression CAB 320, I p.m.
Bike Shop 2 p.m.
Chemistry Club LAB 112207, 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 A31 07, 12:30 to 2 p.m.
Evergreen Wilderness Adventure
Group SEM II A31 05, I p.m.
Gaming Guild CAB 320, 5:30p.m.
Geoduck Union SEM II
CII07, I to 3 p.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, 4:30p.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.
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.
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events
Wednesday, March 12
Mindscreen
International
Women's Celebration screening
Italian For Beginners at 7 p.m.,
Mohawk Girls at 9 p.m. LH 1.
Sunday, March 9
MIKROFEST VII The seventh
installment of Brown Interiour
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meetings:
Friday, March 7
Shot to The Face contestant
screenings. Watch the entries
for the first annual 72-hour short
film competition. 8 p.m. Capitol
Theater.
Kenji Yoshino guest speaker
Kenji Yoshino is the author of the
award-winning book, Covering:
Music's slightly legendary local
music festival. Bring a pillow and
a friend, as this event is 11 hours
long. 20+ bands. $3 to $5. 2:00p.m.
to 1:00 a.m.
group
Friday, March 14
· The Bacchae - A Communion
Rite Evergreen Performing Arts
will present the Greek tragedy, The
Bacchae- A Communion Rite, by
Euripides from a translation by
Wole Syinka on Thurs, Fri. and
Sat, March 13, 14 & 15 at 7:30
p.m. Experimental Theatre.
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for the 2008-09 editor in chief from
now until 5 p.m., Friday, April4.
Prior experience with the Cooper Point
Journat is preferred, but not required.
For more information stop into the
office, CAB 316, call 360.867.6213,
or email cpj@evergreen .edu.
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