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Moratorium?
Confusion
surrounds the
scheduling of on
campus events but who's making
the decisions?
see MORATORIUM, page 3
Arts & Entertainment
ARE YOU READY FOR ROLLINS?
Henry Rollins
in Olympia?
BELINDA MAN
Truth and
Reconciliation
Group moves quickly
toward healing on campus
by JUSTIN SHEPHARD
The Evergreeners for Truth and Reconciliation held their first meeting on Monday,
March 3. They have moved quickly to organize around the idea of helping the campus
and community move beyond the February
15 riot.
Though the group is not a registered student
organization, they held approximately 14
meetings in their first week.
They' began establishing relationships
with other campus groups, faculty, and
administration.
Shortly after the group introduced itself
to the Geoduck Student Union, they were
mentioned in a small blurb in the Seattle
Times. Since then, the GSU has been
contacted by a reporter from the Olympian
with questions.
While the mission statement of the
group asserts the importance of moving
past "blame and punishment," addressing tensions is a top priority. They hope to
engage many different people within the
campus community and beyond in a dialog.
Motivating some of the members is the
idea that healing needs to take place on our
campus and avoiding open dialog is not
something that will enable anyone to address
fears and concerns in the community.
The group is planning to show a movie
next quarter called Long Nights Journey Into
Day, which chronicles the path to reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa, but they
are also working on getting a cross-section
of the community together with administrators and faculty, before spring break.
One of the biggest obstacles before them
in dealing with vastly different organizations
will be finding common ground across the
community since they intend on working
with everyone.
Justin Shephard is a junior enrolled in
Practice of Community.
You must be joking
by JASON SLOTKIN
Henry Rollins was n Pakistan when
Bhutto was killed. "That night you could
look at your window and see fires. Military
vehicles drove by the hotel." His experience in Pakistan will be one of the subjects
he will discuss at his show at the Capital
Theater on March 22.
What do you plan to do with the money
Bush is sending for the economic stimulus plan?
How much is that, 200 bucks? 600 bucks?
see ROLLINS, page 5
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"I haven't noticed
anything."
"I don't go to events
anyway, so I'm
not affected."
Ad representative
Joshua Katz
Circulation manager
Gavin Dahl
Distribution manager
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Managing editor
David Raileanu
Arts & Entertainment coordinator
Brandon Gusty
"Until they review the
concerns and the students
understand the social
contracts, no events.
They really need better
security because one
person trying to control
a crowd of three hundred
people doesn't work."
"I agree ; what other
steps are there to take?
The incident was in the
community of evergreen and
therefore the community
should be responsible for
themselves. There needs
to be accountability.
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Amber Rose
Comics coordinator
Tabitha Brown
Copy editor
Marie Landau
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"The students need to
reflect upon the events
that unfolded that night
that may have been
caused by misguided
information in general
from the administration,
faculty and dead prez"
"I think it will resolve
the problem if handled
properly, but having
less events means less
money for the school."
Reporter
Justin Shcphard
Reporter
Jason Slotkin
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March 13,2008
Moratorium
Concert ban causes consternation
by SETH VINCENT
No concerts will be allowed until some
time in spring quarter, according to college
administrators.
A moratorium on concerts was established
immediately following the Dead Prez show
and the subsequent riot.
ONE RENDITION OF EVERGREEN'S FUTURE CAB
Phyllis Lane, the dean of Student Academic
and Support Services, who made the decision
to cancel the SDS event.
SDS has been put up for review as a student
group, and are still awaiting an answer from
administrators about whether they will remain
a registered student organization.
Events review committee
CAB design enters next phase
by CHARLES LOOSEN
If you've looked at your student account
statement lately, you may have noticed a
"CAB Renovation Fee" on the list.
In case you were wondering just what
that fee was for, allow us to shed some
light. In spring of 2006, students voted
to fund a much-needed makeover for our
College Activities Building.
If you're a full time student, you're
probably contributing around $270 to the
project this year, in addition to a variety
of other charges.
The primary goals of this renovation
include: updating existing mechanical systems, creating a space for the
student-run Flaming Eggplant cafe1, and
achieving a LEED Gold certification for
green building.
The
CAB
Redesign
committee
- comprised of seven staff and nine
student representatives - has been working with the DLR Group Architects since
spring of last year.
At this point, we've gone through the
preliminary design process, and are
currently awaiting completion of the
schematic design.
Alternative
spring break and
student action
The Center for Community Based Learning and Action is looking for students who
are interested in spending some time in our
community during Spring Break.
Help move Camp Quixote
Thursday, March 27 We will be working
with Camp Quixote as they make another big
move. Camp Quixote is an independent tent
city in Olympia, formed by the Poor People's
Union in February of 2007. The PPU believes
that all people are entitled to their basic human
rights and if these rights are not provided, they
believe that it is essential to take the necessary actions for survival. Regardless of how
This is your money and your CAB.
If you want to get involved, we could
really use your help. Many of the current
committee members are seniors, so we
need more students with an interest in
architecture, sustainability and design to
carry on the project next year.
Contact us at studentcab@evergreen.
edu with any questions or concerns - get
involved!
Charles Loosen is a Geoduck Union
Representative enrolled in an individual
learning contract, and is a member of
the CAB redesign committee.
SDS event canceled
An event that included a panel discussion,
movie, and concert scheduled for March 7
was canceled due to the moratorium.
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS),
the student group that organized the event,
decided to go ahead with the event though it
was canceled by administration.
Organizers of the event have expressed
confusion as to why the SDS concert was
canceled when other similar events have been
allowed.
The Kimya Dawson show, which was a part
of International Women's Week, drew about
300 people. SDS members feel that their event
was targeted because of its political nature.
"It was being advertised as a concert," said
The committee met for the first time on
March 7, and will be reviewing policies and
procedures for holding events through evaluation week and the first two weeks of spring
quarter.
Lane, the chair of the committee that is
reviewing the way events are handled on
campus, is also making decisions about which
events will be held.
Lane doesn't foresee any other events being
affected by the moratorium.
"We identified four or five [concerts] that
are coming up," said Lane, "and we intend on
having our work done by then."
Seth Vincent is ajunior enrolled in an internship learning contract.
Police Blotter
Dang! Sucks to be a sign.
The sign marking the intersection at Overhulse and Driftwood is missing. The pole
is still there. Woooooo! Pre-Spring Break
mischievious deeds! Woooo!
Two students were arrested and one was sent
to grievances for possessing alcohol while
under 21. An RA noticed loud music coming
from a dorm room.
The room had a strong smell of alcohol
coming from it when the police officer came
BREAKDOWN OF QUARTERLY
STUDENT FEES
independent we choose to be in this world, we
will always need the help of our community
members. So please, let's get together and
show our support!
We will be meeting at 10 a.m. at the First
Christian Church in downtown Olympia; 701
Franklin St. SE at Seventh St. Camp Quixote
will be heading back to the Westside; hosted
by the Unitarian Church they will be setting
up camp in the Out of the Woods lot on Division; 2409 Division StNW.
We will be spending the day split between
the two sites. Lunch will be served between
12:30 and 1p.m.
One thousand trees
Saturday, March 29 we will be planting
1000 trees throughout the city of Olympia
with NeighborWoods, a volunteer program
focused on planting trees in residential
neighborhoods. If you're on campus a
group will be getting together at the Library
Loop and hopping on the 9 a.m. bus, the
larger group will be meeting at the Calvary
Chapel parking lot; 919 Division St NW
at 9:30 a.m. if you'd like to meet us there!
Be a part of an event that will unite our
community!
Students in Service, an Americorps
to check it out. The room was completely dark
with six people inside. Three of the occupants
did not smell of alcohol and were released.
The other students were searched after
finding a empty can of Miller High Life in
the room. Police found a bag with what was
believed to be marijuana crumbs. The student
who had the marijuana was given a verbal
warning. One student was required to sign
a grievance slip while the other two were
booked.
-JASON SLOTKIN
program for students, is a great way to be
rewarded for your time spent throughout
the community. By doing participatory
research, volunteer work, or even a work
study job you will be rewarded with a
money towards your tuition. These hours
spent at these events can be counted towards
a tuition award if you sign up now!
If you have any questions or would like to
RSVP for either of these events feel free to
stop by the Center for Community Based
Learning and Action in Seminar II E2125,
give us a call at 360 867 6137 or e mail
hackerh@evergreen.edu.
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The Maids strikes a comic chord
fy MARIE LANDAU
The lights go up on two men in drag, a sight
that inspires murmured laughter from the
audience. 'However, as The Maids director
Blythe Olson exclaimed after opening night,
"It's not a comedy; I was so surprised to hear
people laughing!" She's right, of course - the
storyline is no laughing matter.
Still, there's something automatically funny
about men in dresses. Part of the comic appeal
is purely aesthetic - dresses are typically
made for female bodies, and unless a man is
trained in the ways of dress-up, he ends up
looking delightfully awkward. Also, it's not
just a physical awkwardness. Men are not
socialized to wear dresses, and we (the audience, in this case) are not socialized to see
them in dresses. So we laugh, not only at the
novelty, but to ease our discomfort.
Discomfort aside, we laugh hardest at the
performance aspect. Because the leading men
are decked out in such incongruous garb, we
remember right away that they are acting,
putting on a show - they are not themselves.
As the story develops, we realize just how
many layers of performance are piled onto
these actors. Evan Foster (Claire) and Zach
Dunlap (Solange) are not just boys playing
maids, but boys playing maids playing their
mistress, boys playing sisters playing each
other.
Claire and Solange; independent of the
actors who portray them, are performance
artists who transform through their art. Their
task is a serious one, their situation dire. They
are two working class women under the care
and oppression of their Madame - how else
can they realize their desires except through
acting?
Three shows left:
THE MAIDS
Friday & Saturday
- Lecture Hall I
7 p.m.
Sunday (Pay what you can)
Recital Hall
7 p.m.
Ah, here, this is where the laughter eases a
bit, when we feel their pathos, the tragedy of
their options.
Because their options are so scarce, they
must exploit every resource to its fullest
- in this case, their ability to possess their
coveted mistress (and each other) through
performance.
But so much rests on their performance that
it becomes almost hyperbolic, a feat which
the actors pull off flawlessly - and hilariously.
As Claire orates a series of insults in the voice
of Madame, Solange writhes across the floor,
crying, "I'm getting there, I'm getting there,"
whimpering after the final blow, "I've gotten
there." And you know what the audience did?
We laughed... hard.
The Maids is such an impressive play
because it allows the comic elements of
obsession to peek through at all the right
moments. And this production is impressive
for the same reason.
Under Olson's insightful direction, Claire
and Solange are not just needy servant girls,
but nuanced performers drifting in and out
of the play's three female characters to elicit
both laughter and apprehension.
At one moment, Claire is a sullen little -girl
resisting the pull of her sister's make-believe;
at the next, she is a gown-clad diva pontificating atop her throne. Similarly, Solange
abandons her essential timidity to commit
gestures so sexually aggressive they leave
the audience breathless.
Why do we so enjoy performed desperation? The credit goes largely to the actors
and their director, of course, who convey the
absurdity of our desire to be accepted.
But we must also thank Jean Genet, who
framed the situation for us in the first place.
Power dynamics and sex go hand in hand,
this scene suggests. It also suggests that both
power mongering and sexual desire are as
ridiculous as they are serious.
Nevertheless, they are two of humankind's
defining impulses, and we can only laugh to
absolve ourselves of their intensity.
Marie Landau is a senior enrolled in individual learning contract, Investigating the
Absurd.
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Big laughs for Shot to the Face
67 JUSTIN SHEPHARD
Saturday, March 8, the short film festival
Shot to the Face showcased 23 short films.
A crowd of over 250 attended at Capitol
Theater.
The event was a collaboration between
TESC student group Mindscreen and the
OlympiaFilm Society. Mindscreen organized
the event with Zach K and Cooper Sloan.
Filmmakers were given a prompt and 72
hours to make a four-minute short. The
prompt included the theme of a quest, a clock
as an object, and point of view as a shot.
Bog Monster, the first film, opened the night
with humor. What started out as a slow roll of
chuckles from the crowd exploded into bursts
of laughs as the main character molested a
tree.
The eventual winner of the People's Choice
Award as well as the winning entry chosen
by judges, was early in the lineup: Stand for
a mockumentary about a freelance pizza
delivery driver, all received fair amounts
of chuckles. Somnolent Soliloquy garnered
subtler giggles for its odd images combined
with narration in tonal shifts.
While comedy seemed to rule the night, a
couple of suspense and horror films were
shown as well. Chet's Last Beer Bong, a
zombie flick and runner up for People's
Choice, left some audience members ewwing
their disgust while others laughed.
Absence Teunbles teased out some strong
sounds of shock and discomfort from the
crowd, for a scene in which the main character licked a pile of live, squirming worms.
P Style, which showcased a woman urinating publicly all over recognizable places in
Olympia, garnered mixed reactions also.
Some other entries included Aggressive
Negotiations, a Lego action film, Joltikron
9000, about a man who builds an electric
device because his radio tells him to, and
A first for five freshmen
TEAM USA (LEFT TO RIGHT):
JAYSON BALL (hero, composer, writer),
RYAN SARGEANT (villain, writer, lyricist), OTIS SHERMAN (director, cinematographer, editor, writer, composer,
writer), TIM STUTZMAN (actor, writer),
NICK LEE (actor, writer)
Freedom. Team USA, the film's makers, got
the audience rolling, with a special agent
spoof filmed on campus.
Comedic action sequences involved characters using their hands as guns, and acting
in an over-the-top parody of spy film heroes,
villains, and underlings.
The film received big responses from the
audience for segments like a short chase
scene, in which the hero mysteriously bursts
through a door that he had just been chasing
a thug toward. During the final confrontation,
the villain, who continually threw down a
reappearing eye patch iri a gesture of defiance
also drew big laughs. The film ended with a
fiery explosion onscreen.
Sweet Adeline, a mockumentary about love
between a woman and a blender, PWND the
Teabag Chronicles, a film about a disgruntled
college video gamer beating up a 13 year old
for mocking him online, and Unexpected
Delivery: The Story of Todd Champion,
The five members of Team USA garnered two
trophies for their first project. They earned the
People's Choice Award and a trophy awarded by
judges.
Only Otis Sherman had experience in film
competitions. He and Nick Lee both have an interest in film work.
All five members of the team met each other in A
Dorm and wrote the screenplay collaboratively.
The team had doubts about how its work would
fair in the competition and even questioned
whether or not it would be shown.
"1 didn't think anybody would get it" Lee said,
"I didn't think [the audience] would think it was
funny".
The team plans to release the film on Youtube.
com.
Dirty Water, about a bad trip from drinking
water from the Sound.
During the second half of the lineup, the
crowd took on a pretty somber tone with
plotless films like 4 Minute Journey About
Clocks, A Trip 2 tha Farm,, and Little Lesbians. The first two were repetitive images set
to noise and the third was a video diary.
Those three films straddled /'// See You
Then, My Love, a well-done and unique love
story that was pretty mellow as well.
Comedy seemed to be the calling of the
event as a whole, but there was also a pretty
good range of material. This is something
Greeners should make sure to catch in 2009.
Audrey Henley -of OFS would love to see
it happen again next year, says Gavin Dahl,
coordinator of Mindscreen. "We have $62 in
donations for next year."
Jason Shephard is ajunior enrolled in Practive of Community.
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The Bacchae
by BRANDON GUSTY
actors are little more than an arm's length from
the front row. The dances are incredible.
Tonight, the drama of Greece play will visit
The music, except for a few parts, was
the COM Buillding for the second time in as composed by Ty Hendrickson with the help
many months.
of other classmates. The live music, espeThe students of Me and My Shadow present vcially the drums, intertwined with the enerThe Bacchae. The class doesn't just act, they getic dance conveys a feeling that no speaker
are also intimately involved in the technical system could conjure. There is even a harp!
aspects of the play's production.
Paul Purvine plays Dionysus, a greek god
The experience of this tragedy has an imme- starved for worship and angered by his
diate impact upon entering the ET. The colos- mortal family. The House of Cadmus denies
sal set was designed primarily by students the god his place of honor.
Joey Casalini and Morgan Fuhrmester, with
Agave, played by Gail Schwendeman, is
the help of the scene shop directors. The set tricked by Dionysus, leading to tragedy near
portrays the wild mountains and the order the end of the play.
of Thebes, which meet in the center of the
Augustus Marshall plays Tiresias, the
stage.
prophet. He staggers about the stage blindly,
During the numerous dance sequences, the clinging to his cane and wearing a beard that
ROLLINS, from cover
Blinded by the dykes:
Lost at Queerfest
To be fair, it wasn't the best timing for me.
Queerfest, an event that had swirled around
the periphery of my calendar like cotton
candy to a diabetic - fluffy yet deadly - came
down in the middle of an avalanche of job,
school, other job, and a million and one other
deadlines no longer stretching across the horizon but now slapping me daily about the face
with their impending expiration.
So, the most logical thing to do was to
commit myself to covering four nights of
queer music and festivities at Jake's. It seemed
an obvious decision; while I was drowning in
a sea of papers, my status as the token queer
was evoked at the CPJ and a reporters pad
was forced into my over caffeinated hands.
I was pleasantly surprised when I entered
Jake's to find what appeared to be an actual
music extravaganza.
One of the organizers, Alex Awesome,
was literally flying around the bar trying to
prepare everything for the opening act, but
still managed to hover long enough to give
me the festival line-up and share some opening remarks about that night's acts. I grabbed
a beer - because I'm so professional - and
sat down to scrawl my unspeakably amateur
review.
The musicians were amazing, and amazingly diverse. As a honorary lesbian, I was
half expecting a cavalcade of acoustic singersongwriters, Ani DiFranco allusions in tow,
and I was totally going to be into it.
Imagine my surprise when on the first night,
the acts went from an electric heart-shaped
What do you think of the relation
between the music industry and DIY
culture?
I think its real healthy for the industry...
with the industry it's all about the tie-in.
Buy the DVD. Buy the CD. I think these
[DIY] labels are teaching the big labels.
You can't be charging 22 bucks for a
JULIE TERl.EMEZIAN
guitar soloist serenading an imagined lover
to a five piece rock band fronted by a man
unafraid to incorporate splits into his singing style. It became a game: I would try to
musically assign the genre of the band about
to perform by their name, and I would lose
pretty much every time. The performers ran
the gamut from Southern garage rock to
post-punk twee to sultry microhouse-soul
fusion to a stunning and slightly disconcerting
burlesque act that's climax involved several
jars of honey and strategically placed tarps.
I managed to fumble my way through
a number of interviews, and every single
performer I spoke to seemed genuinely
thrilled to be performing at such an event. In
the paraphrase of all of these interviews, they
all said the same thing:
The reason that events like Queerfest and
innovative, bold music matters is because
now, perhaps more than ever, it's absolutely
imperative to assert an individual identity and
remain true to that. My sincere respect and
accolades to Jake's for throwing the first kickass Queerfest. Hopefully, it won't be the last.
Joshua Katz is a junior enrolled in Human
Rights Literature and Theory
GREEN COVE DAOIST ASSOCIATION
Brandon Custy is a sophomore enrolled in
Performing Arts Laboratory.
ONE LINERS
What's that buy you these days two
ipods and a latte? I don't know probably
give it to Planned Parenthood.
^JOSHUA KATZ
looks like it started growing centuries ago.
Bill Aper plays Pentheus's grandfather and
adds major comic relief to the play along with
Marshall. Keep an eye out for the extendable
staff.
Wine plays a large role in tricking the
intense and grave Pentheus into letting down
his guard. His fervor to destroy Dionysus
is reminiscent of Bush's fervor to destroy
terror.
The entire program, including professors, is
involved in the show, whether it be cast, crew,
or musician. It took a great deal of organization to bring the production to opening night.
It makes for one epic production.
CD.
You've done both touring for spoken
word and music. What are the differences in that?
The talking shows are different. You're
not pouring a gallon of sweat... It's a lot
harder. There's no script. With a music
perfromance you can miss a lyric and the
snare drum will cover it. [For spoken
word] when you're out there, words
matter. It demands a lot.
How do you feel about the hope put in
the next election?
Hope is not really a word I like to use.
On my more pessimitic days-1 think it's
going to be McCain. I don't think Hilary's
electable ... I'm hoping those new voters
are going to vote democratic ... I really
want a democrat in the White house, and
I wish Hilary and Obama would stop
biting at each other.
Henry Rollins spits out memorable
one liners like old cowboys spit
out chewing tanbacco. This may be
due to either years of spoken words
tour or a natural God-given talent.
During the interview he said several
things that slammed into my mind
and moved in without a deposit.
"When the going gets tough, the
average get conservative."
"Lenny Bruce died so you and I could
say "fuck you to the man."
" I needed a cattle prod to get me into
a school chair."
go somewhere and see poverty more than
here's what McCain said on healthcare.
What advice would have for young
students and activists who feel disillusioned or frustrated with the system?
Your disillusion is clearly you not
buying into the system...hopefully you
will use it for progress. They looked into
the great American coma and said 'no,
not me ...Never relent. Never be initmidated... though the line I draw is when
people get hurt.
On John McCain.
Do you find a preference for the' I hope that Bush's endorsement will be
political material in your spoken word more damaging than good.
performances?
As far as the political goes I usualy find
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6 > LETTERS & OPINIONS
Cooper Point Journal
March 13,2008
Stand up, know your rights, don't talk to police!
by TRAVIS GREEK
The police are not
victims; they are oppressors. We, as people, are
victims of their violence,
which is more than
personal, it is institutional
that is why it is frequent,
unavoidable, widespread and constant. In
every encounter, there is a threat of extreme
violence, the possibility of death, more than
800 people die every year gf direct police
brutality in the United States.'
The class, culture, race, gender, etc. in which
we find ourselves within this hierarchal social
order, generated by capitalism, is extremely
important to our development as humans;
vital to the amount of violence/oppression
we will be subject to on behalf of the nation
state bureaucracy system. Different experiences lead to different conceptions of your
surroundings; the brutal hand of the state
comes down much harder on some than on
others.
The question quickly becomes will you side
with complacency, conformity, and indifference to other people's/your own victimization
on behalf of a white supremacy exploitative
system, or will you act in solidarity, stand up,
define your enemy, and take pride in subver-
sion to the culture of death in which we find
ourselves today.
For a white middle class male, who has not
claimed an identity that is in outright violation of the dominant values, police have
probably not played a significantly harsh
role in his existence. He definitely has not
experienced half of what colored people or
many other oppressed people in this racist
society have gone through, especially when
conducting organized resistance against capitalist exploitation of their community. (Black
Panther Party, M.O.V.E, BLA, Young Lords,
Latin Kings)
Many of these mentioned organizations
were maintained by people like George Jackson who came to understand the true role of
police/court systems as enforcers of a white
protestant moral systems, and protectors of
upper class wealth.
Most people have come to that point in
understanding through first hand experience,
and acquisition of cultural knowledge by
relating one's own experience to prevalent
societal trends and subsequently understanding white supremacy to be systemic: an
inexorable aspect of capitalism.
When you grow up witnessing police shoot
and brutalize your family members, block off
your neighborhood, raid your home and arrest
your brothers and sisters, your conception of
cops will obviously be much different than
Student response
Event canceled, SDS status as
official student group under review
by MICHAEL CRAGAN
The Evergreen State
College administration
has specifically targeted
Olympia Students for
a Democratic Society
(SDS)
for
political
repression by canceling
events and threatening to suspend its student
group status. This is an attack on student
activism and free speech generally and on
SDS' political statements and affiliations
specifically. After the events of February 14,
SDS discovered that the administration had
encouraged the police to investigate the organization as well as prominent activists from
the Port of Olympia demonstrations. SDS was
the first group to come out publicly against
the administration's cooperation with law
enforcement and police racism, sexism, and
violence. The fact that SDS has been singled
out for scrutiny highlights the administration's
focus on repressing dissent.
This scrutiny culminated in the cancellation
of two events that SDS planned for Friday,
March 7. The events were planned months
ahead of time and all the paperwork was
finished weeks in advance. One of the events,
a panel discussion and film screening, centered
on the San Francisco 8 (SF8), a group of
former Black Panthers and community activists brought up on thirty-five-year-old charges
obtained through torture. Following this event
was an acoustic performance headlined by
David Rovics. This event was a benefit for an
anti-war activist, Carlos Arredondo.
Given that the concert moratorium did not
pertain to some other events, such as The
Tim and Travis Grievance Show, The Wet
Spots (a musical comedy), Contra Dancing,
and Kimya Dawson (drawing three hundred
people), the folk performance was singled
out and canceled for purely political reasons.
Also, since the concert moratorium had absolutely n6 bearing on non-musical events, such
as Christa Bell's She-ism, Diversity Race and
Power in Academe, Resisting Immigration
and Customs Enforcement Detention Centers,
the Palestine Education Project, and Jo Kadi
on Feminism and Militarism, the SF8 panel
discussion should not have been canceled.
These events were publicized as separately
occurring one after the other, not as a single
concert. Given the punitive reason for the
cancellations, SDS consulted with the various
performers and speakers about their wishes for
the events and decided to hold them anyway.
This decision was not made lightly, as organizers had spent over one hundred hours planning, promoting, and executing both events.
Roughly one hundred people packed Lecture
Hall One on Friday for the SF8 presentation,
and nearly fifty people stayed for the acoustic
benefit afterward.
On Monday morning, SDS was informed
by the administration that it faced potential
suspension as a student group for its actions,
which would include a ban on the use of preapproved funds, holding events, and access to
school facilities and meeting spaces.
This is not in keeping with the Student
Activities Handbook, as the first course of
action for the administration is not suspension
but a warning.
Furthermore, disciplinary action is usually
reserved for violating official written policy.
The concert moratorium was a publicity stunt
announced to pacify the public, not official
school policy. If the administration continues
its unprecedented use of executive decrees as
school policy, then SDS will challenge them
with legal and community action.
In one of his recent emails to all members
of the campus community, college president
Les Puree stated that "open discourse is a core
element of our learning process" at Evergreen.
His administration is in direct violation of this
statement, as he is trying to prevent a large
segment of the community from exercising
its right to free speech.
Michael Cragan is a freshman enrolled
in Perception, Mind and Reality, Michael
is a member of Students for a Democratic
Society.
if you grew up taking D.A.R.E. classes with
Officer John in a gentrified private school.
The racism that police, prisons, and this entire
system of domination represent and maintain
is sickening. African Americans represent
12.7% of the US population, 48.2% of those
incarcerated in State or Federal prison, and
42.5% of prisoners on death row.
As the Prison Activist Resource Center out
of Berkeley explains, "Our criminal injustice
system creates a situation in which AfricanAmerican men have greater than a .one in
four chance of going to prison (compared to
one in 23 for a white man) and in which the
violence and horror of lynching have been
transformed and institutionalized into a new
form: the racist death penalty."
The police, the FBI, the ATF, the CIA, every
violent enforcer of injustice, every dehumanizing flunky who abandons consciousness in
the face of an obvious system of patriarchy,
racism and domination, for bigotry and ignorance, is not an ally, but an enemy.
Those who do not identify police as the
absolute enemy, have not experienced the
unconscious brute force, racism and dehumanization, which the institution is to most
oppressed people.
As Eugene Puryear reveals in "Capitalism,
racism devastate Black communities in U.S.",
"Prison business went from $392 million in
1984 to $1.3 billion dollars in 1994. Prisoners
are paid no more than $2 an hour in public
prisons; in many private prisons, they are
making as little as 17 cents an hour." Chattel
slavery may have been abolished, but like
most reformist efforts, the oppression has
simply changed form and taken on a new
path. The 13th Amendment allows for slave
labor in prisons; it says "neither slavery nor
indentured servitude except as a punishment
for a crime ... shall exist within the United
States."
The police are sending people to, and funding
a for-profit prison industrial complex, which
is perpetuating neo-slavery in a neo-colonialist world. There is a very apparent, festering
system of corruption, false legitimacy and
violence surrounding most humans at all
times. The decadent, privileged pockets of
the world, the suburbians, the gated "communities," the wealthy are becoming increasingly more concentrated and the reality of the
dispossessed will soon be unavoidable.
We can only hide from the problems in this
society for so long. Don't talk to the flunkies,
it's your right. Check out the National Lawyers
Guild Page, organize against the cops, let's
go on strike if they brutalize another one of
us, let's disarm the campus police, lobby the
administration, and defend ourselves!
Travis Greer is a sophomore enrolled in an
individual learning contract.
Obamidans for Healthcare
by MATTHEW TSIPRAS
I am not a socialist.
I am a Reagan-Goldwater
conservative
and proud of it. I
also understand that
"socialized medicine"
is a straw man used by
those who have an ideological reason to
thwait universal healthcare or who are
profiting from the current system.
For the survival of American capitalism, universal healthcare is an absolute necessity. With rising premiums,
American labor has become increasingly
expensive, sending our jobs overseas.
Ease the burden of providing coverage,
and American business will compete in
the global economy.
If we could abolish HMOs and start
over, we'd have single-payer care. This
would shrink the bureaucracy in which
desk jockeys determine the best interest
of patients, rather than doctors themselves, saving millions in overhead costs
alone.
No longer paying the high price of
malpractice insurance, doctors could
afford to practice medicine. Before
single-payer care is achieved, we need a
good first step.
I support Barack Obama's plan, which
gives every American access to the
same care that members of Congress
take for granted. Those who prefer their
current plan will not be forced to accept
Obama's.
Hillarycare just plain scares me, as it
would garnish the wages or fine those
who can't pay into the system.
Barring the American people's trust,
a trust Mrs. Clinton has failed to earn,
anything she attempts will be stopped
by the Republicans in Congress. Expect
1994 all over again. Are you ready for
Contract with America Part II?
Mr. Obama is a capitalist who believes in
the free* market. He also understands that
basic'seVvices, like the national highway
systeAi and our national defense, need to
be nationalized. Our founding fathers, if
alive today, would believe the same.
To quote Barry Goldwater, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice
and moderation in the pursuit of justice
is no virtue." How is medical care not
an essential liberty? How is 47 million
uninsured not an injustice?
Universal healthcare is what most
Western nations take for granted. Why
do countries with universal care pay less
per person while receiving higher quality treatment? Why doesn't Matthew 25
apply to our national health policy?
Under the Constitution, every citizen
has the right to an attorney. Why don't we
have the right to a doctor? Is it the Jeffersonian ideal for members of Congress to
receive the best care in the world, at the
taxpayer's expense, refusing the taxpayer
a slice of that pie?
As president, Ronald Reagan cut taxes
while leaving Medicare intact. President
Obama will cut taxes for the middle
class, while making healthcare affordable to all Americans. Obamicans of the
world, unite!
Matthew Tsipras is a senior enrolled in
Justice at Work.
THIS IS NOT A CONCERT
LETTERS & OPINIONS 47
www.evergreen.edu/cpj
March 13,2008
Dispelling the myths:
Why we don't need the police
by YONATAN ALDORT
people react when a squad car drives by. It
is not protection the police are providing,
It has been nearly a
it is oppression.
month now since the
Concerning the humanity of the police,
events of February
I have no doubt that it exists. However,
15, and I have been
the 'just doing their job' argument is
increasingly frustrated
nothing more than a cop-out from responwith
the
campus
sibility. The police have a long history
response. Students and administration in this country of intimidation, racism,
alike seem to be siding with the police. and violence against the people they are
I don't know why this is, but'judging by supposed to serve. Were the police 'just
recent editorials I have read in the CPJ, I doing their jobs' in the early decades of
blame misinformation. So, let me dispel the 20th century when they allied with the
one myth immediately: state law does not KKK to carry out countless brutal murders
require us to have an actual police force. of innocent African Americans? Were they
RCW 28B. 10.550 merely states that state 'just doing their jobs' in the 60s and 70s
institutions may establish police forces if when they assassinated numerous leaders
they wish.
of grassroots movements and brutalized
The propriety of campus police's countless other protesters across the counresponse on that fateful night has been try? And finally, are they 'just doing their
hotly debated in the past weeks, but I see jobs' when they come onto our campus,
no question in the matter. The outcome of attack our people, and then arrest those
Officer Meyers' actions was that several who respond in righteous anger? Campus
students were injured, and $50,000 worth police cannot be separated from the local
of damage was done. This could have been police forces because they work hand-inaverted at several junctions but Officer hand. Why do you think Officer Meyers
Meyers made poor judgment calls which called for backup from them? The answer
ended disastrously.
is simple: it's the same institution.
We could view this as merely an isolated
As to the debate on the snitching issue,
incident of campus police actions not it is completely ludicrous to suggest that
being synonymous with the needs of the talking to police about the incident will not
students, but evidence suggests otherwise. ruin lives. People are being charged with
In 2006, drug and alcohol violations made felonies. Do you know what a felony will
up 35% of crimes reported on campus, do to a person's life? To any of you who
with that number representing all arrests think it's okay to talk to the police, why
and adjudications. Larceny/theft make don't you try doing ten years in prison,
up most of the remaining 65%, but one paying $20,000 in fines, being prohibited
individual I spoke with at police services from voting, and having a permanent black
asserted that some of these theft charges mark on your personal record that weighs
are as petty as shoplifting, and many are you down like a ball and chain every
never-solved.
time you try to get a job or receive social
Still, if we are generous and assume that services, because that's what the people
all other cases are solved, 35% represents you're snitching on could be facing. Is
over one third of all crimes reported. that ruining someone's life? Well, depends
Conversely, the statewide percentage of how you define ruining, but I'd say so.
adults arrested for drug and alcohol ViolaWe cannot continue to have a branch of
tions was only 16% in 2006, less than half the most repressive organization in this
of the campus figure.
country on our campus. We must take
The arguments I most commonly hear in steps to implement a citizen security force
favor of the police are that they need to be on campus. The media has demonized our
here to protect us, are just doing their jobs, school and Les Puree is desperately trying
and go easy on Evergreen students when to save face, but it is the wrong response.
it comes to drug and alcohol crimes. But Now is the time to stand tall and say that
consider this: drug and alcohol violations we are proud of every one of our students
on campus are primarily victimless crimes, and are glad to take a stand against mass
and yet have a hugely disproportionate opinion by rejecting the police state at our
representation in our crime statistics. Also school. As Dead Prez said "The system
consider that when an actual serious crime ain't gon' change unless we make it
was committed, with the rape incident change."
in fall quarter, police not only failed to
prevent it, but never caught the perpetraYonatan Aldort is a sophomore enrolled
tor. Protecting us? Walk around campus in International Policy & Business: Latin
housing after dark sometimes and see how American Reality.
A call to withdraw
from Bank of America
by ELISA OTTER
People on this campus
are familiar with the
threats of
climate
change. I think the
message is_ through
that we are rapidly
approaching a tipping
point of climate disaster created by us. Yet,
what can we do with our personal choices
and control to stop contributing to the
problem? There are so many angles you
can take this. One of the most powerful,
as we are currently a consumer-based soci-
ety, is whom you support with your dollar.
This includes where you keep your dollar.
I know that many students have accounts
with Bank of America, and there is an
ATM congenitally on campus. What many
people don't know is that Bank of America
is the leading investor in the coal industry,
providing $2 billion for over 100 purposed
coal fired power to be built in this country. Coal is the' number one contributor
to global warming through its CO2 emissions. Impacted communities around the
coal industry are suffering from enormously high rates of cancer,' and asthma.
The coal is also often extracted through
The politics of shit-kicking
by CASEYJAYWORK
The other day I found
myself arguing with a
friend who advocates
proactively
seeking
out Nazis for purposes
of shit-kicking. She
argued, "Their ideology commits violence against me, just by
being advocated. It's even dangerous if
someone just believes it, because it normalizes violence - an armchair Hitler inspires a
practicing street soldier.
"A public advocate of oppressive violence
inspires others to actually commit it; therefore, it is morally permissible to beat some
sense (or at least silence) into the original
advocate in order to stop the actual violence
before it starts," she told me. Interestingly,
this is more or less the legal rationale for
limiting speech which is "likely to incite or
produce (immanent lawless action)," e.g.
inciting a riot.
The biggest problem with this argument is
that it's self-contradictory: if our criterion
for saying, "I advocate the use of violence
against X" is based on the fact that X
advocates (and will therefore likely cause)
violence, then by our own reasoning, we are
equally deserving of violence since we also
advocated violence. If we actually commit
violence against X, we've become worse
than X, since we've caused violence not
only by proxy but directly.
"But they're fuckin' Nazis!!" as an anarchist friend once told me. He meant that
by virtue of being a Nazi, X has removed
himself from our moral concern. In other
words, Nazis aren't people.
Maybe this rationale works for some of
my peers, but for me it sounds way too
much like "But they're faggots/heretics/
pigs/anarchists/communists/Other!" When
it's politically expedient or" emotionally
cathartic to harm the "Others," we humans
have a sickening genius for finding ways to
dehumanize them first.
A hyperbolic example of this phenomenon
is the treatment of Jews by the SS during
WWII; less extreme and more contemporary is the re-categorization of Iraqi civilians
as "collateral damage" or "potential insurgents." Even closer to home, we have people
calling cops "pigs" or prisoners "animals" as
a way of making them sub-human and therefore morally irrelevant.
The bottom line is that anyone can say "We
may attack the Others because Others are
wrong," so if we (as a society) accept this
rational for proactive violence, we've set
the stage for competing ideologies to win
acceptance by blows instead of arguments;
in effect, we've accepted that might makes
right. Is this really how we want to live?
On the other hand, complete pacifism is
the ridiculous practice of mountain top
removal, literally blowing the tops off of
mountains. In short, every sector of the
coal industry is seriously messed up and is
the most threatening practices ever known
to our human world.
So, if you use Bank of America, you may
want to think twice about this choice. I
want to encourage anyone invested in
Bank of America to close your account
and tell them why. You can also tell them
to look towards renewable energies as an
alternative support.
There is not a perfect bank, but there
is a spectrum. Using Washington State
Employees Credit Union (WSECU) or
Washington Mutual keeps your dollars
within th^ state. They are both much better
choices; ttyan Bank of America Corporation. The college uses Bank of America
for all its payroll and check distribution.
equally unacceptable, since it simply creates
victims for any aggressor who might happen
by. But there is a middle road here: One may
commit physical violence against another
insofar as it is the last resort available to
prevent them from proactively committing physical violence against others. This
common-sense rule resolves the previous
contradiction without sliding into helpless
pacifism, by creating a self-correcting loop
in which physical violence cancels itself
out.
Notice that this rule does not allow us to
attack armchair Nazis, because they have not
initiated "physical violence." The old "ticks
and stones" rule is essential to maintaining
a free society. As Supreme Court Justice
Oliver Holmes said, "...When men have
realized that time has upset many fighting
faiths, they may come to believe...that the
ultimate good desired is better reached by
free trade in ideas...."
Holmes has a point: unless we want a
dogmatic society in which the toughest gang
proscribes its beliefs to the rest of us, we
have to tolerate and protect the expression
of all opinions, especially the unpopular
ones. We can still censor speech as an action
- falsely shouting "Fire!" in a crowded
theater is censored not for its content, but
for its direct effect as an action (i.e. causing
a stampede) - but we can't go hunting for
people who just publicly advocate stampedes. It's odd that proponents of anarchism,
which also come under threat of censorship
for being an "inherently dangerous" ideology, would so blandly advocate censorship
by unpopularity.
Intellectual progress thrives on critical argument, which is the antithesis of the Appeal to
Force (i.e. shit-kicking). Ideological activism through violence - that is, "terrorism,"
in its literal, pre-War-on-Terror sense - not
only negates free criticism of competing
ideas but also actually undermines its own
ideology by removing it from fair criticism.
In other words, forcing people to deny the
validity of Nazism removes the possibility of persuading them to deny it, because
honest, rational dialogue has been replaced
with submission to brute force.
My own denial of the principles of Nazism
(racism, militarism, political violence, etc.) is
not motivated by unquestioning faith, but by
my own critical analysis of Nazi principles.
People can think for themselves—when
there isn't a club poised over their head.
Should we defend against Nazis who initiate
physical violence? Absolutely—but only as
much as is necessary to stop their violence.
Anything beyond that, and we will have
become the oppressors.
Casey Jaywork is a sophomore enrolled
in Knowing Nature. Feel free to email him
at burch9030@yahoo.com
Because it is state funded, it will be tricky
to switch banks. But, with our mission to
sustainability and justice, there is a way
we can currently defend this choice in
banking. We will be taking this issue on,
but it can start with the individual student.
Fossil Fools Day will be seen on our
campus in Red Square April 1. It is a huge
nationwide day of direct action against the
fossil fuel industries and promoting for
renewable sources. Find out more at www.
fossilfools08.org.
Get more information about what you can
do to combat climate change and join in on
the action. If you're interested in planning,
come to the Cascade Climate Network/
Campus Climate Challenge meetings on
Tuesdays at 8 p.m. third floor of CAB.
Elisa Otter is a student at The Evergreen
State College.
WHO WILL BE THE NEXT
EDITOR IN
CHIEF?
The Cooper Point Journal is recruiting
for the 2008-09 editor in chief from
now until 5 p.m., Friday, April 4.
For more information stop into the
office, CAB 316, call 360.867.6213,
or email cpj@evergreen.edu.
Prior experience with the Cooper Point
Journal is preferred, but not required.
All are encouraged to apply.
applications online:
evergreen.edu/cpj
SPOiTS
www.evergreen.edu/cpj
March 13,2008
EVERGREEN BASEBALL
winter sports leave us with some great memories
Diamond time: opening day at home
by DAVID RAILEANU
The Evergreen baseball team is ready to
open their 2008 season at home this weekend against the University of Oregon.
The te<jm, active for five years, is hoping to
add to the program's one win, which came
in the last contest of the 2006 season.
Kip Arney, the only winning pitcher in
Geoduck baseball history, is coaching the
team for his second year.
"All I want to do is to coach guy's baseball," said Arney, in a recent interview.
High player turnover, a characteristic of
recent teams, does not seem to be a factor
for the 2008 season. While on two players
on the current team played in 2006, many
began their careers last year.
"We've got a lot of new faces," said secondyear pitcher and starting outfielder Ty Ellison. "They've got a lot of character."
The team has decided not to dwell on
'recent struggles. Winless a year ago, the
players have expressed a strong desire
to impress some formidable opponents.
As Ellison puts it, "We're not scared of
anybody."
Promotion has been a struggle for baseball. Pitcher Gavin Dahl, a senior enrolled
in a media studies contract, has made a
significant effort in getting the word out
about the team.
Along with flyers and signs in the CAB,
a successful letter writing campaign has
provided the team with much-needed
funding.
Catch the Geoducks as they face off against
Oregon's Ducks this Saturday, 10 a.m., at
Black Hills High School in Olympia.
David Raileanu is a senior enrolled in
Molecule to Organism.
Soccer, track teams
lose key athletes
by DAVID RAILEANU
Evergreen athletes Nina Hinton and
Monica Ragan were among the four
students charged with felonies last week in
connection with the incident of February
15.
Hinton, a second-year sophomore on the
soccer team out of Mt. Vernon, WA, was
charged with Ragan on a charge of firstdegree malicious mischief for allegedly
kicking the overturned police cruiser.
Ragan is a two-sport athlete. She came
to Evergreen this year out of Boise High
School, where she was her school's highest
scorer in soccer. She also runs for the track
team, focusing in sprinting and hurdles.
Art Costantino, Vice President of Student
Affairs, recently that both would be immediately suspended from their respective
athletic activities.
At the arraignment last Thursday, the
prosecuting attorney stipulated that the
students not have any contact with the
Evergreen campus outside of academic and
athletic activities.
John Purtteman, who finished his first year
as coach of Evergreen Men's and Women's
Soccer, declined to speak on the loss of two
'of his young players. His associate coaches
similarly avoided comment.
When approached, Track & Field Coach
Craig Dickson said that he'd rather not talk
about the arrests, but that it was "rather
embarrassing" that athletes were involved.
The track & field team has already kicked
off its 2008 season. They are scheduled
to appear at the Spring Break Open in
Edmonds on March 22.
David Raileanu is a senior enrolled in
Molecule to Organism.
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March 13 - March 19
ARTS & CULTURE
Thursday, March 13
International Women's Week
Screening on Frida Kahlo. Come
enjoy food, a movie, and conversation
about the amazing life of artist
Frida Kahlo. Open to the Evergreen
community. (7 to 10 p.m., HCC)
Women artists lecture series. Women's
History Consortium and the Washington
State Historical Society present David F.
Martin speaking on Northwest Women
Artists, 1890-1950: Reviving Reputations.
(7 to 9 p.m., 211 21st Ave SW)
The Bacchae - A Communion
Rite. Evergreen presents the
Greek tragedy by Euripides from a
translation by Wole Syinka. (7:30 to
10 p.m., Experimental Theater)
The Great Ocean Adventure feat.
Jean-Michel Cousteau. Educator,
environmentalist, film producer and
the son of ocean explorer Jacque
Cousteau. He worked alongside his
father, exploring and filming underwater,
producing documentaries, and speaking
out for the protection of oceans, marine
life, and aquatic environments. Free
event. (7 to 8:30 p.m.; Washington
Center, 512 Washington St SE)
Sunday, March 16
Women's Empowerment workshop,
day two. The Capoeira Angola Club
hosts an all-day event with internationally
acclaimed guests, Capoeira, West
African dance, Samba workshops,
a panel discussion, and a roda each
day. $5. (10 a.m., Longhouse)
"How Do We Live Together? From the
Middle East to Africa: Dynamics of
Destruction and Rebuilding. A forum
to commemorate the fifth anniversary
Friday, March 14
of Rachel Gome's death. Featuring
The Maids. Genet's absurdist comedy
three speakers: Adrien Niyongabo who
will be presented by the Performing and
works on truth-telling, healing, and
Media Arts program, Fashioning the Body.
reconciliation. Jen Marlowe, author of
Tickets $4 at door or call (360)-867Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival,
6822. (7 to 8:30 p.m., Lecture Hall 1)
and Dr. Steve Niva, who teaches
International Politics and Middle East
The Bacchae - A Communion Rite.
Studies at TESC. (3 to 6 p.m.; Olympia
Evergreen presents the Greek tragedy
Ballroom, 116 Legion Way SE)
by Euripides from a translation
by Wole Syinka. (7:30 p.m. to 10
The Bacchae - A Communion
p.m., Experimental Theater)
Rite. Evergreen presents the
Greek tragedy by Euripides from a
Oly Free School benefit show. Music by
translation by Wole Syinka. (7:30 to
Tin Tree Factory, The Winning Lasses,
10 p.m., Experimental Theater)
Redbear. $3 to $5 suggested donation.
(9 to 11:30 p.m., 610 Columbia St)
Wednesday, March 19
Z-camp concert. Come jam to some
An Evening of Literary & Bodily
jammin'jam band juke. Everyone
Movements. An evening of literary
welcome. (7 to 11 p.m., HCC)
mayhem, music, and dancing! Area
poets and writers Meghan McNealy,
LOCAL & GLOBAL
Theodora Ranelli, Nicky Tiso, Victoria
Larkin, Otis Pig, and Andrew Olmsted
will give a 1 hour reading, followed by
Friday, March 14
a simmering live performance from
Remembering Rachel Corrie.
THE GOOD TIME CHARLIES. Dance
Reading & reflection on Rachel
music also provided by DJ LOST E.
Corrie's
work. (Noon, Rotunda)
Donations of up to $1 million will be
accepted at the door. (7 p.m.; The
Healing & Rebuilding Community
Black Front Gallery, 4th Ave.)
Adrien Niyongabo, child of the Rwanda
genocide, shares his prophetic work as
Saturday, March 15
founder of'Healing & Rebuilding Our
Women's Empowerment workshop,
Community'
group. (7 p.m., Longhouse)
day one. The Capoeira Angola Club
hosts an all-day event with internationally
The Maids. Genet's absurdist comedy
acclaimed guests, Capoeira, West
will be presented by the Performing and
African dance, Samba workshops,
Media Arts program, Fashioning the Body.
a panel discussion, and a roda each
Tickets $4 at door or call (360)-867day. $5. (10 a.m., Sem II C 1107)
6822. (7 to 8:30 p.m., Lecture Hall 1)
Talented Avant-Garde artists go
wild! Join Femme de Fabrique and
The Evergreen State College's own
experimental puppeteers as they delve into
the depths of imagination and the human
psyche through original performances!
Watch as these performers make their
way from starving students to starving
artists! (1:30 p.m., Capitol Theater)
Author visit by Silja J.A.Talvi. Author
will discuss her book Women Behind Bars:
The Crisis of Women in U.S. Prisons.
Born in Finland, Talvi is currently an
investigative journalist, essayist, and
senior editor for "In These Times"
magazine. A book signing will follow the
talk. Orca Books will sell copies at the
event. (2 to 3:30 p.m., 313 8th Ave. SE)
The Evergreen Supreme Court
2008 Winter Term docket. The
Court will hear oral arguments in
cases involving controversies about
the rights of American Indians.
10 a.m.: United States Forest Service
v. Navajo Nation, on a writ of certiorari
to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Issue: Whether the proposed use of treated
sewage effluent on the San Francisco
Peaks in the Coconino National Forest
to create snow for a commercial ski
area would impose a substantial burden
on the exercise of religion of multiple
Indian tribes in violation of the Religious
Freedom Restoration Act and the Free
Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.
11:18 a.m.: Evans, Secretary, y.S.
Dept. of Commerce at al. (including
the Makah Tjibe) v. Anderson et
al., on a writ of certiorari to the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Issue: Whether the Marine Mammal
Protection Act applies to the Makah
Tribe's whale hunt and whether
v the U.S. government violated the
National Environmental Policy Act by
failing to prepare an environmental
impact statement prior to approving
a whaling quota for the Makah. (10
a.m. to 1 p.m., Sem II, E 1105)
WEEKLY
MEETINGS
Saturday, March 15
Women and Girls HIV/AIDS
Awareness Conference. Women and
girls over 13 years old are invited to
a day of free workshops provided by
local organizations. Includes free lunch,
door prizes, childcare, and HIV testing
will be provided! Contact UCAN to
pre-register for the conference or for
childcare. On-site registration will be
available from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m,
day of event. Call (360)-352-2375, e-mail
kathy@ucan-wa.org, or visit www.ucanwa.org. (10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.;The
United Churches, 110 11th Ave SE)
Sunday, March 16
Potluck for Choice. Support reproductive
freedom, create a positive presence
and encourage community bonding.
(1:30 to 3 p.m., Gravel Lot across
from Planned Parenthood)
Thursday, March 20
"China: New Economic Super Power."
Free lecture by John Hough, Professor
of Business Law, Pudong University,
Shanghai. For information, (360)-8670919. (7:30 p.m., The Olympia Center)
Sunday, March 23
Radical eco- feminist west coast
spring tour 2008. Free workshop given
by two activists from Portland Animal
Defense League, Rising Tide North
America and Stumptown Earth First!
on eco-feminism and environmental
ethics. (6 - 8 p.m., SEM II El 107)
STUDENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Thursday, April 1
Career and Internship Fair.
On Tuesday, April I, 2008, Evergreen's
Career Development Center and St
Martins University Career Services are
cosponsoring a Career and Internship Fair
at St Martin's Pavilion from 11:00 am
to 3 pm. There will be a shuttle leaving
from Evergreen every half hour starting
at 10:30 a.m. and arriving at St Martin's.
For further information please call the
Career Development Center at 867-6193.
ACADEMIA
Saturday, March 15
Self-Evaluation Workshop. Evaluation
season is here. Come learn the art
of crafting your experiences into
Evaluations. This Workshop will speak
to the process of creating and submitting
Self Evaluations and Faculty Evaluations.
Bring your questions! (3 p.m., Writing
Center Overflow Space, Lib. 2310)
Monday, March 17
(Evaluation Week)
Self-Evaluation Workshop. Last Call
for Evaluations! Have final projects or
research papers kept you from giving your
Evaluations the attention they deserve?
Fear not! This Workshop will speak to the
process of creating and submitting Self
Evaluations and Faculty Evaluations - for
the time'cnallenged. (1 p.m., Writing
Center Overflow Space, Lib. 2310) |
MONDAYS
Capoeira COM 209, 4:30 to 9 p.m.
Cooper Point Journal
CAB 316, 5p.m.
EQA Evergreen Queer Alliance SEM IIA2109, 3:30 p.m.
Geoduck Union CAB 3rd
Floor Pit, 4 to 6 p.m.
Flaming Eggplant CAB
108, 4 to 6 p.m.
Student Video Gamers 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, 1 p.m.
Bike Shop 2 p.m.
Chemistry Club LAB II 2207, 1 p.m.
EARN Evergreen Animal
Right Network Vegan Potluck
CAB 320, 5:30 p.m.
Evergreen Hillel CAB 320, 3 p.m.
Evergreen Pre-Health Society
SEM II A3107, 12:30 to 2 p.m.
Evergreen Wilderness Adventure
Group SEM II A3105, 1 p.m.
Gaming Guild CAB 320, 5:30 p.m.
Geoduck Union SEM II
C1107, 1 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, 4:30 p.m.
Musicians Club CAB 320, 1:30 p.m.
SESAME Students Educating
Students about the Middle
East, SEM II E2107, 1 p.m.
SESAME Iraqi Student
Committee, SEM II E2107 3:15 p.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, 1:30 p.m.
Writers'Guild LIB 2130
Writing Center, 4 p.m.
THURSDAYS
Common Bread
Longhouse 1002, 5 to 8 p.m.
Sabot Infosquat Library
Proper Room 3303, 4 p.m.
Generation Friends SEM
II Cl 105 6 to 8 p.m.
VOX CAB 320, Solarium, 5 to 6 p.m.
SATURDAYS
Capoeira COM 209,
12:30 to 3:30 p.m.
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graaphic artists in your local area. How do you feel about that? On
top of improvising new stuff, you can circulate your own work
and gain notoriety through this laid-back thing. So come, chat, draw,
and add speech bubbles to My Little Pony coloring books.
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March 13,2008
DOUBLE ACROSTIC
by
Charles Asner
This is a double acrostic. Lewis Carol wrote
quite a few of these. It is a poetic puzzle. Each
verse is a clue to a specific word. The first
two words go down. The rest go across and
connect the initial two. Here's an example of
a completed double acrostic.
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In this case, there are six words. The first two
words are HOPE and DARE and all the rest
connect them. Now you try. It's not too hard.
Have fun!
IT HAS TWO HANDS ON ITS ROUNDED FACE
AND WHEN IT WORKS IT RUNS IN ONE PLACE
A MARK ON A POSTCARD WITH WHAT HAS BEEN SAID
ALLOWS DISTANT MESSAGES TO BE READ
A KING SAYS TO HIS KNIGHT ONE DAY
"WHY MUST YOU MOVE SO CROOKED, I SAY?"
MY SYMPATHY GOES OUT THESE DAYS
TO THE RATS WHO CANNOT GET OUT OF THEIR MAZE
AN IMPRESSIVE BASS, I MUST SAY
HEARD FROM OVER TEN OR TWENTY FEET AWAY
WHETHER IN A SUBWAY OR A SARDINE TIN
I WOULD RATHER NOT BE PUSHED IN
A FOREST OF IMPRESSIVE SIZE THERE MUST BE
NOT OF, THIS WORLD BUT DEEP DOWN IN THE SEA
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