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COOPER POINT JOURNAL
ISSUE 2, VOLUME 381 OCTOBER 2, 2008
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by MADELINE BERMAN
Over the swnmer, the board of I
trustees decided that the Washington Public Interest Research
Group (WashPIRG) will remain
on the Evergreen campus. Some
controversy surrounded this decision because oflast year's Geoduck
Student Union (GSU) election.
Originally, WashPIRG had signed
a two-year contract with TESC in
order to be recognized as a student
group and rent office space on the
3rd floor of the CAB. The contract
was up for renewal during this
past student election and 25% of
the student body needed to vote in
favor of the renewal in order for it
to pass.
While the majority ofstudents who
voted were in favor of the renewal,
not enough people total turned out
to vote. Controversy started when it
came time to decide whether or not
GSU's election results trumped the
preexisting contract between Wash- REMNANTS OF THE HEATED GREENHOUSE AFTER A RECENT
PIRG and the campus. WashPIRG
made several appeals to the Board
of Trustees, but the academic year
ended without reaching a final
and a greenhouse.
by JASON SLOTKIN
decision.
"It did slow us down dramatiWbile it has been officially
The Evergreen Organic Farm cally," said Gabriel Mcsekew, a
decided that WashPIRG will return
to TESC, they do not currently have serves as the home for academic student enrolled in The Practice
a campus representative to send farming programs, the harvest of Sustainable Agriculture. The
from their headquarters. Until then, festival, and as a source of fresh program is taught at the organic
the contract remains unsigned and I produce through a bi-weekly farm, and uses much of the
produce stand in Red Square. equipment that was destroyed in
the budget has yet to be finalized.
The September 14 fire, however, the fire.
According to farm caretaker
Madeline Berman is a sophomore destroyed much of the farm's
enrolled in Health and Human j equipment, all of its potato, Alex Morrow, the farm has raised
Development.
apple, and several other crops, money through the produce
SIMONE FOWLER
FIRE
Organic Fann endures setbacks after fire
stand, and donations have come
in through both individuals and
through Habitat for Humanity's
Re-store. In the aftermath of the
disaster, individuals have helped
the students at the farm salvage
and recycle tools that were
damaged in the fire. The farm also
shares space with the community
garden, which has been sharing
its equipment with students and
volunteers at the farm.
Finally, the farm is planning on
having a fundraiser at the annual
Harvest Fair on October II.
According to Jake Mixon, cocoordinator of the Community
Gardens, a fundraiser is planned,
but the specifics still need to be
worked out.
Jason · Slotkin is a senior
enrolled in an individual learning contract.
Sit=in resolved over summer
by MADELINE BERMAN
A number of turbulent events took
place on campus last year, among
them a sit-in during spring quarter
in response to the .,.suspension of
Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS) as a student organization.
Following a lengthy series of
negotiations and the completion
of an official resolution, SDS was
reinstated.
The three-week-long sit-in outside
of Art Costantino's office in Sem
1 was the result of poor communication between SDS and the
adininistration. SDS had planned
a panel discussion with members
of the Black Panthers of San
Francisco. Other activities were
advertised to follow the discussion,
which had not been approved by
the adininistration. This led to the
cancellation of the panel discussion
itself SDS felt that they were being
politically targeted as a group and
they proceeded with their event as
planned. Because they used school
facilities without clearance from
TESC, they were suspended as a
group for a year. In reaction to this
decision, SDS appealed numerous
times to be reinstated. Though their
suspension was shortened, on May
21 a sit-in began outside of the
office of Art Costantino, the vice
president of student affairs.
During their time there, SDS held
their own alternative workshops
and gained the support of contemporary musician Kimya Dawson,
who played at Sem 1 in early June.
The student body reacted with a
mixture of encouragement and
criticism at the actions of both SDS
and the adininistration.
With the end of the year fast
approaching, there was a push from
both sides to reach a compromise.
Closed-door negotiations began on
June 2. Over 30 hours in the CAB
solarium resulted in a final resolution the night before graduation.
According to the official resolution, "both parties involved accept
some responsibility for the events
leading up to March 7, 2008
[when the school facilities were
used]." Furthermore, "The college
recognizes the primacy of students
in development and revision of a
student-initiated and developed
process to create a new disciplinary
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October 2, 2008
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Have you read the Social Contract?
lf so_, what does it mean to you? lf not_, why not?
CPJ
by RAINBOE
SIMS-JONES
Business
Business manager
Bryn Harris
Assistant business manager
Kristina Williams
"I did last year. I thought
it was a bit wordy and
slightly obvious."
Ad representative
Cerise Palmanteer
"No, didn't know
it was required."
Circulation manager
available
Distribution manager
Nick Helling
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Anna Kirmuv
Sophomore
Ben Sticncr
Inro to Natural Science
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News
Editor-in-chief
Jason Slotkin
Freshman
Managing editor
Julie Terlemezian
Legacy of the Arncrican Drearn
Arts & Entertainment coordinator
available
Calendar coordinator
available
Interim Comics coordinator
Brian Fullerton
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Copy editor
Samantha Sermeiio
"Briefly. Honestly, now
that you've got me on
record, I pretty much just
scanned over the thing;
I didnt' really read it."
"Nope. I haven't even had ,
contact with it in awhile."
Interim Copy editor
Maia Powloski
Letters & Opinions coordinator
available
Interim Photographer
Simone Fowler
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available
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Outdoor & Recreation coordinator
available
Student Voice coordinator
Rainboe Sims:Jones
Interim Reporter
Madeline Berman
"I skimmed it and read
the parts I thought needed
attention more thoroughly. I thought it was
well-written, and similar
to ones I read at other
universities I went to."
Reporter
available
"I think so, maybe at
some point. I think it
was a pretty good idea."
Interim Page designer
Maresha Gomez
Page designer
available
Interim Page Proofer
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Web developer
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Have a Vox Pop question you'd like to ask? Email cpj@evergreen.edu.
Student Group Meeting
5 p.m. Monday
Find out what it means to
be a member of the student
group CPJ.
Advisor
Dianne Conrad
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Biscussion on issues
related to journalism.
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Post Mortem & Issue
Planning
5 p.m. Thursday
Critique the last issue of the
CPJ and help plan for the
next one.
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Joel Morley
Anna Pederson
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Octob~r
A love note from the
Geoduck Student
Union
.
by JAKE MIXON
Hi, we're the GSU, and you're the GSU,
too. In fact, every student at Evergreen is a
member by virtue of their enrollment. We
are the official representation of the students
at TESC, and our purpose is to improve
the quality of student life by facilitating
communication among the student body,
ensuring a fair balance of power among
faculty, staff, students, and administration,
as well as advocating for students' rights.
The union is committed to unifying the
students on Evergreen's campuses, pushing
to participate in positive social and political change through collective action.
The GSU-meaning me, meaning
you-elects up to 21 students every year to
represent it. These 21 students hold weekly
public meetings to debate, vote on, and
respond to student concerns. The GSU's
representatives work by consensus, meaning that any decision that they make must
be approved by all the representatives who
are present at the meeting. It is easy to find
your GSU representatives. Just go up to the
Student Activities Office and ask to speak
to one of them. In addition, you can call
them at (360) 867-6555 or email them at
geoduckstudentunion@evergreen.edu with
questions, .comments, issues, suggestions,
or well-wishes.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
comrade.
CPGay Is intended to be a forum for LGBTQ students to write about their feelings and concerns at
Evergreen. It is a space reserved for examining issues of sexual orientation and gender, particularfly experiences relating to attitudes and biases that result in injustice and perception of discrimination. The CPGay is not intended to exclude anyone, but often in a community minority voices are
not understood. It is imperative that we do not let this happen.
Use your voice. Write something. Then send it to us at cpj@evergreen.edu. Or nag someone else
into writing something. That works sometimes. It worked for me once. Use your whiney voice,
plead with your eyes, offer massages and remind the person you're nagging about the fame and
notoriety they will recieve. Do it. Then tell them to send whatever you nagged out of them to cpj@
evergreen.edu. Do it. Work collaboratively with someone. That's always a good idea. Create community and unity through your joint writing project. Then send it to us. Do it.
cpj@evergreen.edu
I dare you.
Jake Mixon is a student enrolled in The
Evergreen State College and an electedrepresentative of the Geoduck Student
Union..
oices of Color: An Empty Space
T H IS SPACE SHOULDN'T BE EMPTY. USE YOUR VOICE!
I
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Voices of Color is intended to be a forum for students of color to write about their feelings and concerns at Evergreen. It is
space reserved for examining issues of race and ethnicity, particularly experiences relating to attitudes and biases that result in injusticl
and the perpetuation of discrimination. Voices of Color is not intended to exclude '!nyone. Often, in a community of so few people
of color, our voices get neglected. It is imperative that we do not let that happen. Votces of Color cannot and will not exist withou
our contribution! It can be whatever you want! Poetry! Experiences! Biographies! Historical briefs! Essays! Opinion pieces! Quotes! .
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Evergreen
Re-Accreditation
Evergreen's ten-year re-accreditation visit
occurs October 6-8. Colleges and universities wishing to maintain accredited status
are required to undergo periodic reviews
conducted by representatives from other
colleges and universities.
Part of this review includes interviews with students. Evergreen's visiting
re-accreditation team would like to hear
from Evergreen students during an open
meeting on Monday, October 6 from 4-5
p.m. in CAB 320. If you are interested in
speaking with this group, please plan on
attending this meeting designed to collect
students' feedback on their experiences at
Evergreen.
For more information, contact Provost
Don Bantz or Steve Hunter.
~
STEVE HUNTER
Camp Darfur
CAMP DARFUR - TENTS SET UP TO INFORM STUDENTS ABOUT GENOCIDE
Armenia. Cambodia. Rwanda. The Holocaust. These were all genocides. Darfur is a
current genocide.
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Several figures could elaborate on the mass
civilian tortures, murders, rapes, displacements, and dwindling amount of humanitar-
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the International Criminal Court that state
president al-Bashir is guilty of genocide
and various crimes against humanity. These
figures would, unfortunately, take up a lot of
room.
There are five learning centers about these
genocides on Red Square this Wednesday
and Thursday. Today! TODAY!
Evergreen's Amnesty International hosts
Camp Darfur, an interactive educational and
awareness-raising event of Darfur's current
crisis. Along with the End Genocide Now
movement, Amnesty International looks
forward to people actively learning and helping to bring about vital change to Darfur's
genocide.
Red Square. Wednesday. Thursday. End
Genocide. See you there.
~
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October 2, 2008
Contract Cafe
Harlequin Productions:
Local theater company
performs '~tony and
Cleopatra"
On October 2, Harlequin Productions
opens "Antony and Cleopatra," considered to be one of Shakespeare's three
great tragedies along with "Hamlet"
and "Julius Caesar". It was also his last
tragedy.
This classic play runs October 2nd
through the 25th at The State Theater,
202 4th Ave E, with a "Pay What You
Can" performance Octob€r 11 at 3 p.m.
Rush tickets are available a half hour
before showtime.
This production features John Bogar
as Mark Antony and Mari Nelson as
Cleopatra.
The production is directed by Scott
Whitney, set designed by Linda Whitney,
costume designed by Evergreen's own
Costume Shop Supervisor, Monique
Anderson, original score and sound
designed by Bruce Whitney, and lighting
designed by Jill Carter.
Box office: (360) 786-0151; www.
harlequinproductions.org
-LAUREN TAKORES
Academic Advising is pleased to
announce a new quarterly event starting
Fall 2008: the Contract Cafe. The first
one will be October 22 from 4 to 6 p.m.
in the Longhouse. From now on, we plan
to host a Contract Cafe around the fifth
week of each quarter, aimed at helping
students learn about individual internships (INTs) and Individual Learning
Contracts (ILCs) and plan for the following quarter or beyond.
The Contract Cafe will be a collaboration between Academic Advising, The
Writing Center, Career Development,
The Center for Community-Based Learning and Action (CCBLA), the Academic
Deans' Office, and our faculty. It will
provide information, creative brainstorming, and proactive planning for students
who are considering undertaking an INT
or ILC in a future quarter. We'll also
feature students who have suc<;essfully
completed ILCs and INTs, who will
showcase their work and share their
accomplishments with the Evergreen
community.
At the Contract Cafe, students can get
answers to their questions, such as: What
is individual learning? How do I write
a contract? How do I make my ideas
become realities? How do I tum theory
into practice? How do I design my own
syllabus?
Students can learn from academic
advisors at the Contract Cafe about
the process for constructing a contract
through using online tools that have been
developed by the college.
The Writing Center staff will be on hand
to provide help with writing clear and
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concise learning objectives. The Career
Development Center and CCBLA staff
can help to generate ideas about potential
internship sites.
Faculty will discuss students' ideas and
add their own suggestions. This will
be an opportunity for students to learn
The student group listing in the orientation
more about potential faculty sponsors
who have expertise in students' areas of week issue used the 2007 mission statement
for the group Students Educating Students
study.
We are excited about the potential for About the Middle East. (SESAME). The
the Contract Cafe to support students 2008 mission statement for the group is:
as they plan for high quality individual
Students Educating Students About the
study. We hope that many students, staff, Middle East (SESAME) raises awareness
about human rights, immigration, and
and faculty will attend.
US foreign policy in the Middle East,
surrounding regions and the Diaspora.
- DALYA PEREZ
By challenging stereotypes and misrepresentation of regional conflicts and
training organizers, SESAME works as
The Writers' Guild:
an advocate and ally. SESAME serves
Printfor Breathing
as an active educational resource, a tool
for solidarity building, and a means for
now accepting
anti-racist organizing on campus and in
submissions
our community.
S.E.S.A.M.E.
The Writers' Guild is now accepting
submissions for the aubtumn issue of
Print for Breathing, which is a quarterly
literary journal at the Evergreen State
College. Print for Breathing emphasizes
the bookmaking process. The submission
deadline for this issue is October 24. Any I
form of writing and art is welcome. If
you would like to help with the editorial, 1
design, or publication process, come to 1
the Writers' Guild meetings (Wednesday
at 4 p.m. in the Writing Center).
-JOEL MORLEY
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Flaming Eggplant
Opening Soon!
by DAN BOLDUC
Sourcing your food
Opening, and Party!
We worked hard this summer to source
food options that are ecologically, energetically, and nutritionally sound. While
the majority of our food comes from
organic distributors, at least for this first
year, we also offer selections from local
producers.
Locally-sourced products include
baked goods and sandwich rolls from
8 Arms Community Bakery and Blue
At long last, the Flaming Eggplant Cafe
is nearly ready to open its doors to students,
staff, and faculty. The Flaming Eggplant is a
student project that began in January 2006.
A dedicated group has been working ever
since to tum the idea into reality. Over the
years, the project had its fair share of setbacks and trials (not to mention bad press),
but the hard work is about to pay off with a
spiffy new operation in Red Square.
We'd like to invite everyone to come to
our opening celebration Friday, October
lOth in Red Square at 6 p.m. We will serve
falafels and other goodies for $5 and host
speakers from Evergreen and from the
Cafe.
Afterward, there will be a square dance
with music from the Grizzle Grazzle Trash
Can Band and a fire-spinning performance
by The Fire Within Performance Collective.
We'll see you there to give everyone a
proper Welcome to Yumtown.
After opening, the Eggplant will serve
food from 7:30 a.m . to 2 p.m. Monday
through Friday, breakfast pastries and coffee
from 8 to 11 a.m., and lunch from 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m. The menu features a variety of
options, including both meat and vegan
selections.
Agriculture shares that you can buy for
your home, we can work directly with
farmers to receive our produce and cut out
the global distribution network that provides so much of our food.
These relationships are valuable to both
farmers and consumers, since it is possible to provide food for a much lower
price when it is purchased as a share of
the farm or a physical section of the farm
rather than per item.
WE'D LIKE TO INVITE EVERYONE TO COME
TO OUR OPENING CELEBRATION FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 1OTH IN RED SQUARE AT 6 P.M.
Heron Bakery, sauerkraut and tempeh
from OlyKraut, locally pastured sausage
from Western Meats, kombucha from
Magic Kombucha out of QB, and coffee
from Olympia Coffee Roasters, the hottest coffee company ever.
Over the course of the coming year, we
intend to create growing contracts with
farms in Thurston County to provide as
much of our food as possible.
Using these models, similar in some
respects to Community Supported
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Questions? Concerns?
VVanttovolunteerorapp~?
We invite everyone to the public
Eggplant meetings Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in
the solarium on the 3rd floor of the CAB
near Student Activities. Come ask questions, talk about nutritional yeast and food
co-ops, or inquire about volunteer opportunities. Although we're no longer hiring
for the immedi~te future, you're welcome
to submit applications, as well. You can
find· applications and other information
on our website: http://academic.evergreen.
edu/ groups!flamingeggplant/
Please feel free to contact us for any
reason at any time at: contact@theflamingeggplant.org
Submit complaints to:
whining@theflamingeggplant.org.
Fa~ade
You may have noticed a construction project encompassing the Flaming
Eggplant trailer in Red Square. That's
the far,;ade, designed by members of the
cafe and built by campus facilities. On the
front, we will place the Eggplant menu and
logo. On the back, we are accepting mural
designs from students, too.
We would love for interested artists
and painters to submit design proposals to
contact@theflamingeggplant.org. We will
accept proposals until October 24th, when
we will convene and decide which design
to use. Let us know if you want to be on
the mural committee.
Thank you!
This couldn't have happened without
the overwhelming support of the student
body and we thank all of you who helped
make this happen, as well as the faculty and
staff at Evergreen who have supported us
over the years. The success of this project
shows that all students here have the
power to change Evergreen to better suit
our needs. After all, we're the reason the
campus is here.
Dan Bolduc is the student coordinator
of the Flaming Eggplant Cafe.
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Be a Part of It,
Evergreen!
Olympia Community Connections
by HILARY HACKER
The Center for Community Based Learning and Action (CCBLA) will be coming
at you weekly with ways that you can be
a part of the greater Olympia community. This column was created to pass
on the requests of our partners to you,
the student body, as a way to strengthen
relationships between the campus and
the community. Help us to build stronger
community partnerships while meeting
the needs of our community!
The CCBLA is a public service center
that sustains collaborations between
Evergreen and community organizations. We strive to support community
organizations that connect and mobilize
students and faculty on campus and
visa versa. We seek to address social
issues, while strengthening and enhancing student experience by supporting
our community's ability to meet critical
needs.
While endeavoring to better address
these needs, we would also like input
from you, the student body. If you have
ideas about Action Days or interests in
particular organizations and would like
to see them represented here in this
column, please feel free to add your
thoughts by contacting Hilary Hacker
at hackerh@evergreen.edu or by calling
(360) 867- 6137.
Be a Part oflt! Our community is asking
for your help!
Action Days
Saturday, October 4 will be our first
Action Day of the school year. We will
be heading down to Chehalis to work
with the Lewis County Long Term Flood
Recovery Organization.
Saturday, October 11 we are partnering with Upward Bound to organize an
Action Day in Tacoma with the youth
who spent the summer here on campus.
Community
Requests
Vegan and Diabetic Food Drive: Bring
non-perishable items to the bins at Red
Square or the CCBLA, SEM II E2125.
Donations will be sent to the Thurston
County Food Bank.
Kiwanis Food Bank Garden is harvesting this year's crops to be donated to the
Thurston County Food Bank.
Camp Quixote, our local tent city, is
requesting prepared meals to be brought
to the camp.
Parents Organizing for Welfare and
Economic Rights (POWER) holds
weekly volunteer meetings on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. at the First Christian
Church, which is in downtown Olympia
· at Seventh and Franklin.
De Colores Books is a volunteer-run
bookstore downtown searching for
interns and volunteers.
Spanish-speaking childcare needed
Sunday October 5 for a Know Your Rights
Workshop for immigrants in Shelton.
For more information on how you can
meet these requests, please contact Hilary
by phone or email.
Looking for other
ways to get involved?
Come to the CCBLA in SEM II E2125.
Plan your academic program projects at
the center or join our monthly Action
Days and learn how your time and
talents can make a difference in our local
community. If you're looking to support
connecting with organizations, feel free
to contact Hilary to schedule a time to
talk.
We offer work-study positions in
community organizations and schools,
from tutoring in local schools to community action coordination at nonprofits.
Other programs include:
The CCBLA in conjunction with
Learn and Serve and the HEC Board is
offering the Millennia! Math and Science
Teacher Explorer classroom support
program aimed at middle and high school
students. Mentors will spend ten hours a
week tutoring students in area schools
and are required to attend monthly trainings at the CCBLA. Students interested
in this program must have a work-study
award. For more information contact
Jacob Berkey at berkeyj@evergreen.edu
or call (360) 867-6866.
The Evergreen/Olympia Collaborative Tutor Project connects Evergreen
students with volunteer positions providing academic support to at-risk elementary students in high-poverty schools in
the Olympia area. A range of support is
needed including assisting students in
special education; in English Language
Learners (ELL); tutoring in reading,
math, and science; and supporting in the
classroom and after-school programs.
For more information or to apply, contact
Adriana Puszkiewicz at puszkiea@evergreen.edu or call (360) 867-6137.
Another great resource that the
CCBLA has to offer is a way that
students can be rewarded for their time
spent within the community. Students
in Service is an AmeriCorps program
for students. By signing up and doing
participatory research, volunteer work,
or even a work-study job you will be
given a voucher (money) towards your
tuition.
Hilary Hacker is an AmeriCorps VISTA
volunteer.
Talkin' Trash:
Food Plus Recycling is Now Available at Evergreen!
by NATALIE PYROOZ
Do you hate the feeling of tossing your
apple·core or banana peel in the trashcan
knowing that it will be immortalized in an
ever-growing landfill? In an effort to create a
more sustainable campus, Evergreen adopted
a goal within the 2008 Campus Master Plan
to become Zero Waste by 2020. In order to
achieve this goal, all members of the Evergreen community must take action to reduce
landfill waste.
Dining Services at Evergreen is working
with Thurston County Solid Waste's Food
Plus Recycling program. Estimates indicate
that our campus's landfill waste can be
reduced by half through participation in this
program. Food Plus Recycling collects all
compostable items, including food scraps,
paper, cardboard, and various other materials
composed of natural materials. Additionally,
Dining Services has moved towards purchasing compostable plates, cups, napkins,
and tableware, so almost everything you
purchase there can be collected in the green
Food Plus Recycling bins in the CAB building. As a general rule, plastic and metal can
never be composted. A list of acceptable and
non-acceptable items is included at the end
of the article.
The organic waste is taken to Silver Spring
Organics, a locally-owned and operated
cattle ranch that has recently expanded into
a commercial compost facility. Using an
aerated system, the composting process is
accelerated and the facility is able to handle a
wider variety of materials than home systems
or the Organic Farm at Evergreen.
Currently, Food Plus Recycling will only
be available in the CAB building. Collection Bins are located inside the Greenery
and in the Market recycling area. Pending
its success, the program will be expanded to
other parts of campus.
Resources
Silver Springs Organics: www.silverspringsorganics.com
Thurston County Solid Waste: www.
co.thurston.wa.us/wwm
Acceptable Items
All Food: Fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry,
seafood, shellfish, bones, rice, beans, pasta,
bakery items, cheese, eggshells, deli, and
salad bar food
Food-Soiled Papers: Waxed Cardboard,
pizzaboxes,frozenfoodcartons,napkins,paper
towels, paper plates, paper milk/juice cartons,
paper cups, tea bags, and coffee grounds/filters
Plants: Floral trimmings, tree trimmings,
leaves, grass, brush, weeds, and wooden
crates
Non-Acceptable Items
Liquids, grease, oils, plastic or styrofoam,
glass, metal, treated/painted wood, coffee
cup lids, fruit stickers, straws, foil/plastic
juice pouches, cellophane, or foil
Natalie Pyrooz is a graduate student enrolled
in the environmental studies program, and
will be serving as the sustainability coordinator and graduate student intern for Residential and Dining services 2008-2009.
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493-2222
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College Pollee Services are seeking your assistance in an arson
investigaHon. In the early morning hours of Sept 14 betw een
0200 and 0400 two fires were set on the Evergreen State College
property causing over $30,000 in damage. The first fire involved
5 dumpsters in the residential housing area on Overhulse and
Driftwood Roads. The second fire occurred at the Organic Farm
on Lewis Road. The fire was deemed arson by invesHgators from
the Mclane-Black Lake Fire District.
Anyone with information about this incident should contact The
Evergreen State College Police Services at 360-867-6832 or you
can remain anonymous and call Crime Stoppers at 360-4932222.
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How to throw the biggest party of the year
Press: A cross""culturalliterary conference
by TYLER BENNETT
My introduction to PRESS came when a collaborator friend emailed me asking if I wanted to participate in a "totally wild anarchic uprising of a literary
conference" in late August of 2007. My enthusiasm
about participating in such an event at the time was
negligible (I didn't already know that conference also
implied a big rager downtown), but I was interested
in working with faculty coordinators David Wolach
and Elizabeth Williamson, so I began attending their
meetings in the old writing center in the bottom floor
of the CAB.
By spring quarter we had a large cadre of volunteers,
plus cash contributions totaling more than $11,000
from groups all over Evergreen and the broader
Olympia community, including the S&A Board, the
Community Sustaining Fund, the Diversity Fund,
Bill Ransom, Ken Tabbutt, the Labor Center, the
Writing Center, and the academic program aptly
titled War. Professors Steven Hendricks and David
Wolach incorporated participation in the conference
into the class Monstrous Possibility, and several other
professors on campus encouraged their students to
participate, as well. Writers and artists from abroad
had committed to attending and sharing their work.
The website was looking .snappy (thanks Steven
and Chris!), Shaun Johnson's unique photography
made for some blingin' advertisements, and the Sem
II space was reserved. Still, none of us were totally
sure of the outcome. There were loose ends even
up until the last week, including the location for
our downtown poetry readings and performances.
People stepped up and small miracles took place.
A small sampling of our literary events: The first
panel I attended was called Olympia Activism:
Immigration Rights, Unionism, and the Anti-War
Movement after the Port Protests. It consisted
I BELIEVE THAT PRESS
HAS CREATED THE EMBRYO
OF A NEW MOVEMENT
ON CAMPUS. WHETHER
OR NOT IT KEEPS GOING
DEPENDS NOT ON FACULTY
ORGANIZERS BUT ON
THE STUDENT BODY
ONE CHARACTERISTIC OF A REALLY GOOD PARTY
IS THAT IT HAS TO BE EARNED. ALTHOUGH THE
CONFERENCE WAS 'NOT OFFICIALLY OVER, OUR
BIG BASH ON SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE WARD
BUILDING DOWNTOWN WAS SUCH A PARTY
mainly of a discussion about tactics and methods
for organizing future installments of the Port Militarization Resistance, a group of dedicated Olympia
residents who have refused to stand idly by while
Stryker brigades are shipped out of our port to be
deployed in Iraq.
One characteristic of a really good party is that it
has to be earned. Although the conference was not
officially over, our big bash on Saturday night at the
Ward building downtown was such a party.
The readings that night included pieces by Leonard
Schwartz, Jules Boykoff, Kaia Sand, and a performance by Rodrigo Toscano's Collapsible Poetics
Theater - these were, to my mind, some of the
conference's most exciting performances. Collapsible Theater (http://cpt.blip.tv/#1247211) consists
of short poetic narratives, constructed according
to a set of local constraints: What props are' readily
available, the size of space, and of course the actors
themselves, who in this case included Evergreen
students and well-known poets .. These constraints
added a raw quality to the work that mesmerized the
audience that night. After CPT, I fled to the roof, and
the dance floor exploded to the beats of DJ Salvia
Brown.
Students, teachers, and artists scattered throughout
the building to imbibe, frolic, and generally get
dispatched. I said to myself, this is what I never
dreamed college would be like.
The nezc.t day I was only able to attend the afternoon panels because of the intensity of the previous
evening's proceedings. Luckily, a single eventLiminal Poetics, featuring David Wolach along
with alumni Jason Conger and Holly Melgard, and
visiting artist Tom Orange-was more than enough
stimulus for one day. The discussion ended in a
collaborative reading session that yielded remarkable results. Student readings and performances
dominated our final event, another bash at Ward's.
Our collective zeal for partying had worn off a bit.
But one of the most interesting performances of the
entire weekend was about to begin: Combinatorics
Theater, an experimental piece that originated as a
tribute to the great Antonin Artaud.
The collaboratively-written piece. featured haunt-
ing originally-produced music, some excellent digital projection work by student Allison Rinard, and
truly impressive performances by writer/producer
Meghan McNealy, as well as Jenny Paris, Brennan
Pederson, Anna Wolfe-Pauly, Victoria Larkin, Ben
Farr, and Kenneth Fairfield.
The order of their monologues was left up to a
unique divinatory process, and the text of the play
possessed what seemed like lingering undertones
of reference to personal dynamics between the
members of the group underneath the intangible
literary overtone reminiscent of the results of much
constrained writing. The best part about it was that,
despite the ambiguity or nebulous nature of the text,
the performers all projected onto the text an intensity of feeling that is uncommon even to the best
traditional drama. Speaking of which, the conference also had its own musical, a subversive attack
on ideology by notorious alum and writer/producer
Jais Brohinsky entitled The Once American Dream:
An Anti Anti-War Musical.
So many great artists sacrificed their weekends
for the cause and so many alums returned from
far-off lands to help out, all in the common interest
of cultivating a healthy literary activist and artistic
community on campus; to create a safe place for free
and sometimes dissident expression, and to encourage the continued hard work of their peers in a time
when free expression is very much imperiled.
I believe that PRESS has created the embryo of a
new movement on campus. Whether or not it keeps
going depends not on faculty organizers but on the
student body. You can help ensure that events like
this continue to take place by joining the Writers'
Guild, the Phrontisterion, the Port Militarization
Resistance, SDS, by going to the Writing Center and
the QuasR, and by showing up to class. 1\.eep your
ears open for word of developments within the (dare
I say it?) PRESS 2009 organizing committee. And
remember as you're beginning your first week of
school, if you want to really party, you're going to
have to work for it.
Tyler Bennett is a senior enrolled an independent
learning contract.
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For at least a year, downtown Olympia
Currently given the working title Olymhas been lacking a consistent all-ages p{i} All Ages Project, Luz and crew are
venue. Mariella Luz of K Records is looking for a space to use, a real name for
about to fix that.
the venue, and, eventually, volunteers.
"Back in April I was at a Mount Eerie
"Painting the walls, hanging art shows,
and Why? show at the VERA project. I working the door, doing sound. The
was chatting with Phil (from Mt. Eerie) venue will be completely volunteer run
and Kevin Erikson from the Department for at least the first couple of years," said
of Safety in Anacortes - and we were Luz. "The most exciting thing for me is
talking about how Olympia didn't have to see how so many others in our town
an all ages venue,"
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said Luz in an email
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now being replaced by a shoe store; the
A number of benefit shows are being
Manium had an increasingly-inconsistent held before the venue opens:
presence up until about a year ago; and
Oct 4 - LAKE, Desolation Wilderness
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number of years.
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that is because Olympia has historically House
Nov 5- Guy Blackman, Opaon- possibeen such a musical town and we don't
get many touring bands to come through bly in the new venue, but if not, The Art
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anymore.
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Luz. "The next day I decided that would
Internship Learning Contract.
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is directing "Equus" this fall, a story of
a psychiatrist's therapy sessions with a
young man who has a pathological sexual
and religious fascination with horses. So
if you like psychotherapy, come audition
for "Equus".
"Ubu Roi" also known as "King Ubu"
is an obscene and ridiculous French play
that caused a riot when it was first staged
in Paris in 1896. The absurdist play
chronicles Father Ubu's rise to power
and his subsequent fall. Ubu is a greedy,
gluttonous pig, relentless in his politics
and brutal in his personal life. The play
is a riotous story of a tyrannical dictator who always gets his way, and will be
directed by Brandon Custy. So if you like
to get your way, you should audition for
"King Ubu" also known as "Ubu Roi."
"Punch and Judy" is a traditional
English puppet show. It consists of a
series of short scenes usually between
Punch and another character. The play
traces its roots to the 16th century Italian Commedia dell'arte. The story varies
each time it's told, but it usually involves
the main character, Punch, struggling
with another character and achieving
victory in the end, oftentimes fooling
the devil himself: "Huzzah, huzzah, I've
killed the devil."
Rod Campbell will be directing the
play. So if you have ever wanted to kill
the devil, you should audition.
The three plays are being produced as
a part of Student Originated Studies:
Performing Arts. So come audition if you
like horses, getting your way, or Punch.
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Join the S&A Board.
The S&A Board (Services and Activities Fee Allocation Board) is a committee of eleven studentsnine voting members and two non-voting members-chosen by students who dedicate themselves to overseeing the fate of our student
funds. This year's S&A Board is responsible for
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Do you like money? Finance? People? Learning? Governance bodies? Discover all this and
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Is Critical Mass making critical mistakes?
An examination of the monthly demonstration
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unusual action. These individuals yelled
at people inside cars that they were
wrong, that this is our road, and that they
should get out of their cars immediately
- much to the shock of those being
attacked. These remarks were also to the
disapproval of many bikers riding alongside.
As adults, as students, and as community members, these actions need to be
discourage those in cars who are being
attacked to become associated with -the
I've participated in Critical Mass a few
throng of college biker hooligans, creattimes throughout the past two years. It's
ing conflict that very often ends in an
an amazing experience to overtake the
arrest or dangerous maneuvers by fed-up
main roads of Olympia with dozens of
drivers.
friends on the ultimate group bike ride.
There is nothing wrong with a peaceThe ride demonstrates to our community
ful ride from the Evergreen Campus to
how effective sustainable transportadowntown Olympia. There doesn't need
tion is and what it has the potential to
to be chants yelled in unison or obnoxbe. However, the
ious comments yelled at
actions of some
BY ATTACKING THOSE WHO VIEW THE
cars. To assign the roads
are making the
to specific demographic
event increasingly
EVENT FROM THEIR CAR, PARTICIPANTS
and exclude those who
difficult for peers
aren't as "enlightened"
to take seriously
ARE CREATING UNACCEPTABLE RELATIONmisses the entire point of
and members of
building community and
the community to
SHIPS WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITY
creating awareness. By
respect.
attacking those who view
This Friday was reported to be the larg- analyzed and recognized for their true the event from their car, participants
est Olympia Critical Mass ever, with 90 impact. In order to encourage others to are creating unacceptable relationships
bikers strong by the end of Division. take to their bikes and leave their cars within their community, going against
The weather was nice and the group was behind, Critical Mass needs to be an their own beliefs of anti-oppression by
mellow, and overall we were facing little example of what sustainable transporta- judging those who are not like them.
harassment while we rode down Ever- tion is.
Critical Mass is in support of taking
green Parkway and Division from any
Although the goal of the event was to away dependence upon oil and encourcars driving by.
take over the roads, bikers must be aware aging people to question their everyday
The environment was supportive, of their individual and group safety, as decisions. As a community, we should
friendly, peaceful, and effective with well as represent a form of transporta- be sharing our knowledge and passions
those driving or walking past honking tion that is neither elitist nor violent. By in a way that can be respected instead of
with encouragement or smiling bewilder- yelling crude remarks at passersby who ridiculed, and although it may provide
ingly at the mass of bicycles.
are surprised by the disturbance in their for a less dramatic ride, the impact will
By the end of Division, some partici- commute, participants are simply alienat- be much more visible in future events.
pants felt the need to ride their bikes ing those individuals through hateful and
directly into oncoming traffic, attempt- violent language. This is counterproducElizabeth Hill is a junior enrolled in
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What'S in a movement? History, organizing, andpower
by C. V. ROTONDO
by JARED R. TEER
In future CPJ pieces, can
we please hear from more
evening and weekend
students and more mature
students in general? You
know, the students who
work for a living, the
students who think hard work and discipline are
what contribute to the acquiring of knowledge,
not smoking a joint.
I've only attended TESC since winter quarter
of 2008, but in that relatively short time, I have
come to think that the CPJ alienates many Evergreen students. It seems to me that in an attempt
to provide a forum for diverse views or for the
disenfranchised, most of which could be considered leftist, the CPJ has inadvertently alienated
and disenfranchised a number of students who
hold what could be considered traditional or
conservative views. It's not about left vs. right
really, but between those who have little reverence for authority and self-accountability and
those who don't.
I'll give a few examples of articles from last
school year that don't reflect the views of many
at TESC, but appear to represent the student
body due to the frequency of such articles. In the
May 22 CPJ, Recent Tasing ofStudents Causes
Concern argued that two students--one naked
and on LSD, the other drunk; both disorderly in
public-were the ''victims" ofpolice tasers. The
article questioned the necessity of the tasing and
the judgment of the officers involved. Nowhere
in the article was any responsibility placed on
the so-called ''victims." How about questioning the judgment of those who get under the
influence of some substance and run amuck on
campus?
In a June 5 CPJ article titled Where Has All the
Justice Gone?, a student claiming to have just
returned from the beaches of Chile was shocked
and appalled to hear of the ''unjust" actions of
the police and the arrest of the "Evergreen 5"
after the Dead Prez concert. The author goes on
to say that the decision to fine the students was
immoral, and that anyone who was as outraged
as the author was should contribute money to
the cause. Needless to say, I wasn't, and I didn't,
but that's not the point. Rioting and assalJ].ting
police is not only immoral and outrageous, but
also stupid. I've got a suggestion for the author.
How about, instead of asking students to pay for
this insanity, you use your own money instead of
using it for trips to TilE BEACH IN CHILE!
It's not just the disregard for personal accountability for debased reasons that troubles others
and myself. Some of the things published in the
CPJ last year are downright indecent, such as
the May 1 article entitled F**k Relationships
(yes, the real word was used). Surely, the author
was looking to display his literary sophistication
with that title, but I doubt that a parent on new
student orientation day would have appreciated
that display of grammatical prowess.
Finally, who can forget the heart-warming
article from the June 5 CPJ about a man and
his dog entitled Why Cant I Blow My Dog? In
it the author discusses having to come to grips
with legislation making bestiality a felony in
Washington, railing about the unfairness of it
all. Even naked students on LSD found that
article disturbing.
These are just a few examples. There are many
more. There needs to be balance in the CPJ to
fairly represent our diverse student body. Look,
I'm not for restricting the voices of anyone who
wants to contribute to the CPJ: it's just that
I've met many students with a more traditional
outlook on things, and I just hope that their
voices are given equal space in the CPJ this
year.
Jared R. Teer is a senior enrolled in Writing
In the name of just representation, Casey
Jaywork has ignored
power dynamics in
his interview with
Evergreen's chief of
police Ed Sorger for
the orientation edition
of the CPJ. I appreciate
Jaywork's subtlety in placing another, in this
case Sorger, between himself and the views
presented, though Jaywork is, after all, the
one asking the questions. The author thrives
upon reactionary arguments. I will grant him
as little satisfaction as possible. Using the
interview and specifically its representation
oflast year's sit-in (in which I participated),
as a catalyst, I seek to inspire renewed and
reconsidered approaches to student organizing, especially ways of building and representing a movement.
Two persistent obstacles that our movements face are representation and memory.
Representation because social movements,
without the resources for their own national
media, often, must work through biased
channels of corporate media; memory
because often those same antagonistic
actors, as well as others, seek to misconstrue
or erase entirely a movement's history. This
interview serves as a means of framing last
year's events as the ''unreasonable" work
of an alienated few. Sorger's dismissal
attempts to diminish all of the unrelenting
work of organizers present and make the sitin inviting to the rest of the community at
Evergreen. His assertion that "it should have
been dealt with immediately," also hints at
a new crackdown on student dissent, albeit,
thanks to Jaywork, a humanized one.
New students will read Jaywork's piece in
earnest and unless we as organizers, partici-
pants, and strategists offer our own history,
the arduous work of building potential last
year will be lost. I suggest that participants
come together to create a collective history
of the sit-in and potentially the whole tumultuous year, to be dispersed to newcomers to
our campus. New students can either direct
their energies into politically regressive
currents on campus or they can be invited
to participate in a movement to maintain
and expand Evergreen's radical nature. We
as students, faculty, and staff must preserve
our own history while building our present
and future.
At Evergreen, we experience a localized
version of the "media blackout" visited
upon national movements such as the
Poor People's Economic Human Rights
Campaign, with whom I worked this
summer. In making poverty an issue of
national consciousness, Campaign organizers fight no representation or at best
misrepresentation by large, corporate media
outlets. Our situation is similar yet more
hopeful with easier access to independent
media sources and a smaller audience.
Sorger's comments (and Jaywork's own
regressive politics disguised in the piece)
are part of a concerted effort by like-minded
students, administrators, and staff to shape
the history of events at Evergreen and, thus,
the possibilities for the present and future.
Last year, this effort culminated in an
editorial painted as journalism on the front
page of the final college newspaper in
which a student "reporter'' utilized none of
the extensive interviews and experiences
gathered from the sit-in to write a poorly
disguised condemnation of Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS) and its allies.
This, coupled with the administration's
(including Art Costantino's) collusion with
law enforcement following the events of
February 14, creates the foundation for
further isolating and disempowering not
only radical, but any dissident student,
staff, and faculty voices. As far as faculty
are concerned, Sorger repeats the mantra of
Evergreen's reactionary critics. "But they're
also vulnerable [students] when it comes to
people in power- not cops but, like, faculty
members that sway them this way and that
way, and they get in trouble sometimes."
(Emphasis added).
The recurring accusation of Sorger,
Jaywork, Costantino, and other antagonistic
voices is that student, faculty, and staff radicals and organizers do not have the support
of the student body or the ever-ambiguous
"community." In this line of argument
these pundits exaggerate, but they are not
entirely wrong. We as radicals, organizers, and participants, must seek not only to
preserve and present our own history, but
also deconstruct our own very real alienation and ask ourselves why we remain an
isolated, even internally fractured, minority. If we are to realize direct democratic,
radical goals at Evergreen this year and
confront the rhetorical and material assault
of the opposition, then we must unite around
common injustices and open our organizing
to people outside established radical circles.
We must escape our comfort zones as I was
forced to do this summer with the Poor
People's Campaign in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
I can think of nothing more radical than
effectively organizing despite differences in
political alignment or experience and actually attaining material social change.
C. V. Rotondo is a senior enrolled in
Gateways: Popular Education and Political
Economy and a GSU Representative.
Evergreen Social Contrad
by ABBY RICE
with controbutions from
COREY MOUNTS
& CALEB COBERLY
We are a group of
graduated
seniors
(2008)
concerned
about the Evergreen
community's leYel of
engagement with the
Social Contract. A year
of negative instances at Evergreen, including
the Valentine's Day Riot and the suspension
of the student group Students for a Democratic Society, has renewed debate about the
effectiveness of the Social Contract as a set
of guiding principles. The debate extended
into our Senior Seminar classroom with the
encouragement and facilitation of our teacher
Gillies Malnarich. Through readings of early
statements about the intent of the contract,
current and past manifestations, and discussions with Randy Stilson (TESC archivist),
Joe Tougas (faculty) and Art Constantino
(vice president of student affairs), our class
considered the historical context, evolving
nature, and purpose of the contract.
We discovered that though staff, faculty
and students are given a copy of the Social
Contract, it is barely addressed in orientation, if at all. Further, it is rarely discussed
in classes and programs. This undermines
the efficacy of the contract. Inattention to
the contract privileges other predominant,
unspoken contracts that quickly establish
themselves in a group setting. If we are not
conscientious we will perpetuate preexisting
systems and powers of aggression inhibiting
positive change. Therefore, a small group
formed to address the lack ofknowledge and
the Evergreen community. Our goal is to help
create discussion, reflection, and action.
To achieve this goal we have composed
some questions for the greater Evergreen
community. These questions touch on some
of the defining issues of the debate. We hope
incoming and returning Evergreen students,
staff, and faculty will take time to reflect
on these questions, and form questions of
their own, both inside and outside of the
classroom.
Also, we hope that faculty consider the
importance of setting aside classroom time
to read the Social Contract and discuss
with students how it applies to the learning
environment envisioned for the course or
program.
The Social Contract is a "living documenf'-that is, it changes as we engage with
it. It must be modified to better reflect the
values of the Evergreen community if it is
found to be insufficient. However, it makes
no sense to label its content as inadequate
if that content is largely unknown to the
community it represents.
It is up to you to decide whether or not
the contract needs amendments, adequately
defines the community's values, or positively
informs our ability to live and learn well
together. We can make the Social Contract
meaningful. We can make it meaningless.
Let's be intentional about the community we
establish.
Evergreen's Social Contract can be found
online at http://www.evergreen.edu/about/
social.htrn.
These are some of the questions which
we would like the Evergreen community to
consider:
What .does it mean to be in "community"?
What does it mean to be responsible to the
Which values in the Social Contract represent the learning and working environment
you seek and experience at Evergreen? What
else would you like to see included?
How does the Social Contract connect the
Evergreen community to the larger community? How does it present Evergreen as an
educational institution with an emphasis on
social change?
Does your experience in the Evergreen
community reflect what the Social Contract
represents? Do the values in the Evergreen
Social Contract inform your actions and
interactions?
How do you plan to reconcile disparities?
Selected excerpts from
the Social Contract:
"When you make the decision to come to
Evergreen, you are also making the decision to become closely associated with its
values."
"Evergreen's Social Contract [is] a document that has defined and guided the college's
values since its very beginning."
''The Social Contract is an agreement;
a guide for civility and tolerance toward
others; a reminder that respecting others
and remaining open t6 others and their ideas
provides a powerful framework for teaching
and learning."
"As an institution, Evergreen has the obligation to provide open forums for the members
of its community to present and to debate
public issues, to consider the problems of
the college, and to serve as a mechanism of
widespread involvement in the life of the
larger community."
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by ERIC MAPES
After reading Casey
Jaywork's
contributions to the September
19th CPJ, I couldn't
help wondering about
his
motives.
His
opinion piece "Hey,
Everyone Likes Ice Cream" purports to
be a plea for civility and mutual respect
in political discourse, yet prominently
features a superficial and historically-inaccurate ramble comparing Adolf Hitler with
Martin Luther King Junior! Exactly how
polite of a reaction was Jaywork hoping to
evoke with that?
Having never received a response to the
criticism I have made of his work in the
past, it is probably futile to point out that
Hitler was never elected. Had Jaywork
bothered to check any standard history
of the era, he would have learned that at
the peak of his popularity, Hitler's party
polled around 37% in national elections.
Hitler was appointed chancellor by President von Hindenburg under a backroom
deal brokered by the previous chancellor
at the end of January 193 3. His agents then
secretly set fire to the German parliament
building, an incident which he blamed on
the communist opposition and used as a
pretext to jail all of their elected officials.
Only then was he able to seize power
from the cowed and deluded parliament.
Rather than using "arcane Nazi powers to
hypnotize people so it wasn't really their
choice," Hitler used an old-fashioned falseflag terrorist attack and a gullible media
system to tum a parliamentary plurality
(not a majority) into dictatorial rule.
After that, it is difficult to say how much
public support he enjoyed, since dissent-
and bigoted as 1930's Germany." By
comparing people with whom he doesn't
agree to, Nazis really demonstrate the
heartwarming sincerity of his desire for
civility. Is that "Fair and Balanced," or
what?
So when I read his softball interview with
Chief of Police Ed Sorger (Sorger Speaks),
surprisingly located in the Journal's news
section, I thought about sending a copy to
Rupert Murdoch. He just might want to
I THOUGHT ABOUT SENDING A COPY TO
RUPERT MURDOCH. HE JUST MIGHT WANT
TO RECRUIT THIS COLLEGE JOURNALIST
ers were being interned in camps and the
media system was taken over by Joseph
Goebbels. Internal polls showed about
10% support for Hitler's racial policies
even within the Nazi party, however,
giving good reason to be skeptical of the
dictator's "godlike" popularity.
Jaywork-after asserting that the "leadership styles" of the paranoid, ranting
autocrat and Dr. King were "curiously
similar"-repeats this tired old myth in
order to insinuate that "self-righteous
young liberals" are "as foolish and blind
recruit this college journalist. Consider the
following exchange:
Casey Jaywork: Is there such a
thing as legitimate civil disobedience?
Ed Sorger: I think civil disobedience is healthy ... (like) legal protesting.
Not blocking streets, not throwing rocks
through windows, not causing disturbances or whatever; but legal civil disobedience (sic) or protesting, I think, is a very
healthy thing.
Shockingly, the chief of Evergreen's
police force doesn't seem to know the
meaning of the phrase "civil disobedience"
(the refUsal to obey certain governmental
laws or demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or policy, according to
Webster's).-Talk about being out of touch
with the student body! Yet Jaywork apparently has no desire to draw attention to that
fact (or is similarly ignorant). After letting
the oxymoron "legal civil disobedience"
slip by unchallenged, he asks the Chief
whether April Meyers could defeat Chuck
Norris in a cage match. This is exactly
the kind of interview I'd expect from Fox
News.
Perhaps the reason why Chief Sorger
has no clue why some people "claim that
police are inherently racist and oppressive" is that he is informed about history
and current events by exactly the kind of
deceitful propaganda that mainstream U.S.
journalists earn their paychecks spewing
out. And, just maybe, if more police chiefs
understood the difference between civil
disobedience and rioting, their officers
would have more respect for the people
whose rights they are supposedly paid
to protect. But we clearly can't count on
journalists like Casey Jaywork to inform
them.
Eric Mapes is an alumnus of The Evergreen State College and a staff member.
Election projection:
How Obama can pull it o1f
by SAM LEBOW
Given that I have
become a political
junkie and an obsessive
election tracker over the
past few years, I have
been spending way too
much time analyzing the current presidential election. Nonetheless, while I admit the
dorkiness of this, I thought you might find
some of the numbers I've been crunching at
least somewhat interesting.
I know a lot of people are skeptical
about whether Barack Obama can really
pull this election off. Therefore, I have been
trying to figure out how well he needs to do
among various demographics in order to win
the national popular vote. Democlflts almost
never win an outright majority of the popular
vote, with Jimmy Carter in '76 and Lyndon
Johnson in '64 being the only ones to do it in
the last 60 years.
While the following projections have no
impact on the Electoral College, given that
the size and participation of various demographics vary from state to state, they should
give an accurate assessment of what needs to
happen nationally.
The post-2004 election census survey
concluded that the voting population was
made up of about 75% Whites, 12% African
Americans, 10% Hispanics, and 3% Asians.
Let's assume that Barack Obama will earn
95% of the black vote. This seems likely
given that John Kerry got about 90% as an
old white guy from New England. As far as
Hispanics, most recent polls are showing
Obama leading among this demographic by
a 2:1 margin, so let's assume he wins 65%
of the Hispanic vote. Finally, we'll assume
he wins 60% of the Asian vote. What does
this mean? It means that to win a majority of
the popular vote, Obama must carry approximately 41% of the white vote.
Now we ask: How feasible is this? Can a
black Democrat count on winning such a
large chunk of the white vote? The answer is
CAN A BLACK DEMOCRAT COUNT
ON WINNING SUCH A LARGE
CHUNK OF THE WHITE VOTE?
OBAMA IS IN A GOOD POSITION TO WIN THE
POPULAR VOTE THIS YEAR. WHETHER HE
WINS THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE OF NOT
IS A SUBJECT FOR ANOTHER ARTICLE
yes, and the reason is because of women.
Women make up a larger percentage of
the population than men, hence, a greater
percentage of voters. While the disparity in
reality is likely even higher, we will estimate
conservatively that the breakdown of white
voters is 51% women and 49% men. Women
overwhelmingly vote Democrat. Therefore,
we will assume that Obama wins 53% of
white women. We will counter that by saying
that John McCain wins 67% of white men.
Obama would still win 43% of the overall
white vote, 2% more than he needs.
While winning a majority of white women
is still a difficult feat for any Democrat,
it's entirely likely that Obama will win an
even larger chunk of the minority vote than
I have projected, so the numbers would
balance out.
While racial demographics are telling,
experts are now saying that nothing is more
indicative of how an individual will vote
than what type of community they live in, be
it urban or rural.
About 32% of the country lives in urban
communities and 17% in rural areas. Since
urban areas vote overwhelmingly Democratic
while Republicans dominate rural areas, the
rapidly-growing suburbs, which now make
up about 51% of the population, have become
the key swing demographic. If Obama wins
80% of urban votes and McCain wins 80%
of rural votes, than Obama will need 42% of
suburbia, a feat that seems perfectly reasonable given the current political climate.
Given the fact that African American tumout could increase by as much as 25% this
year, and that conservative white men are
still not in love with McCain, it seems likely
enough that barring a major gaffe, Obama is
in a good position to win the popular vote this
year. Whether he wins the electoral college
of not is a subject for another article.
Sam Lebow is an alumnus of the Evergreen
State College.
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I am excited to be
here at The Evergreen
State College, but I am
concerned,
because
according
to
the
recent census there are
6,468,424 people who
reside in the state of Washington and
1,195,850 are not registered to vote in the
upcoming election. There are 43 days left
until one of the most important elections
in our history. The federal government
just asked Congress for $700 billion to fix
our economy. Our economy's problems
unfortunately aren't the result of one or
two things wrong; they are the combined
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We the people
by DIXON THEODORE
McREYNOLDS III
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this government is managed for our good,
and is regulated; as long as it secures our
rights, property, and freedom of speech,
it will be worth defending. We face hard
truths: there are 37 million poor Americans, nearly 47 million Americans have
no health care, 58.5% of Americans will
spend one year below the poverty level,
and 13 million American children live in
poverty.
Families are losing their homes at a
record rate that is destroying neighborhoods. The automakers have slashed
250,000 jobs. The unemployment rate
in the United States is at 6.1 %; we have
failed energy and immigration policies.
Global warming is an issue we cannot
forget: the average temperature of the
earth has risen between 0.4 and 0.8
THE RIGHT TO VOTE IS AN IMPORTANT
INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY; IT IS ALSO THE
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by GERALD BLANCHARD
Last week or so I went
on a date with a guy. .
He was handsome, tall,
attractive, the right
age, and everything I
that I wanted in a man. ~
The date went fine; he
bought me dinner and was a real gentleman about everything. We got along
great; we discussed movies, our friends,
and any other little topic you could think.
We flirted, all the normal first-date stuff.
He took me back home and he gave me a
nice kiss (that might've turned into more)
before I said I had to go. He called me
the next day for a second date. I haven't
called him back.
for more, they drive your natural need
for surprises and adventure. And I'm
entirely sure that at least EVERYONE
has experienced this type of guy. They
appear out of this world.
But they do their damage. They hurt
(unintentionally, maybe) and they make
you wish you never EVER met them.
The hardest thing about them is that they
are, in truth, unattainable, but we as the
casual optimists refuse to believe it. So it
got me to thinking: Can anything come
out of chasing after these unattainable
bulls?
I looked for answers from my friend,
who said the reason I'm single is because
I put Mr. Bull up there with any new guy.
And if new guys don't match or exceed
him, then I shut them down without any
CORNERSTONE OF A FREE GOVERNMENT
WHEN YOU HAVE AN UNATTAINABLE
result oflack of regulation, greed, foreign
oil dependency, a costly war, and politicians who ignore problems, but pander
for their own good.
I would like to see someone be blunt
with us and have the guts to lead our
country on a new and realistic path. The
economy is complicated, but it isn't
solely based on the President. It would
be hard to convince us that either candidate can tackle the economy; neither
has unique expectations that change can
happen immediately. It would be nice if
both candidates would admit that much
of it is beyond their control, and then say,
"I approve this message."
The next President must show great
judgment and leadership; we need a new
vision for our government. As long as
degrees Celsius over the past 100 years.
And education has become more and more
out of the view of most Americans.
The right to vote is an important individual liberty; it is also the cornerstone
of a free government. A lot of Americans
often take the right to vote for granted.
The 2000 election serves as a reminder
that every vote counts. If we do not vote,
we risk the real peril of inaction. So, I
voice my hope and belief that everyone
will go out and vote at such a time as
this. Be informed and go and vote on
November 4 like your life depends on it!
MAN, QUESTIONS GO THROUGH YOUR
MIND. DOES HE WANT YOU? DOES HE
THINK OF YOU? WHY IS HE LIKE THIS?
I don't know what it is, but there is
always something blocking me from
actually pursuing anyone new. The sparks
were there with this guy, but afterwards
they were gone, like always. I wasn't
really excited to see him again, and I
won't. For some reason, I think I have
some weird, abnormal fear of even trying
Dixon Theodore McReynolds III is I with anyone else. I haven't been in any
a sophomore enrolled in Looking sort of relationship that lasted more than
one date for three months, and TRUST
Backward.
ME, I've been on a few dates.
Partially, I think it's because of this
man-we'll call him Mr. Bull. He's
always, constantly on my mind. I literally have to shake him out. He's been
there in the back of my head for the last
two years and I sort of hate it, but love it
Meeting in the middle for all the Evergreen community at the same time. To describe him, he's
the best cheese enchilada with rice and
beans you've ever tasted; he's addicting
and you crave more afterwards, but the
IDEALLY, ANARCHY IS
by CAMERON MORRIS
restaurant happens to be closed almost
EXPRESSED AND EVEN all of the time. He gives me the chills,
Anarchists and cops:
the sparks, and the feeling that you can
is this really how we
PRACTICED AS RESPECT only imagine in dreams.
want to see the world?
When you have an unattainable man,
Each label has so much
questions go through your mind. Does he
FOR EVERY HUMAN
history attached to it and
want you? Does he think of you? Why is
has been made heroic
he like this? These men are the worst and
BEING AND THING.
or vilified by different
best things because they keep you asking
areas of society that have both missed out
THE POLICE FORCE
on where the other side is coming from. The
humans within the organizations have been
PERHAPS UNATTAINSERVES, PROTECTS,
forgotten, as have the ideals and philosophies practiced today by the idealists from
ABLE MEN KEEP US
AND MAKES SURE NO
both worlds.
Anarchy is the freedom to be and do what
FROM FINDING ANY
ONE COMES TO HARM
one wants, as long as one does not hurt
others. Ideally, anarchy is expressed and
So please, don't be afraid to meet someone
SORT OF STABILeven practiced as respect for every human
new. Don't be afraid to get past your fears
being and thing.
ITY, FROM FINDING
The police force serves, protects, and and talk to another person, be they anarchist
makes sure no one comes to harm and no or police officer. For whatever reason, we
SOMEONE WHO
Evergreen property gets burned, violated, or all chose to make this place our community.
covered in the hate of one system that goes From the teachers, cops, administrators,
WOULD TREAT US
students, and all the people who are a part of
against a different system.
Abuse of both systems of thought does this place, these people and institutions are
WELL, CALL US BACK,
occur, but that doesn't mean you should part of the community that make up Everdemonize a faction. People are who they green, and what make Evergreen great. You
AND SEND FLOWERS
are because of their story and experiences, are part of that now. Know we will always
but they are so much more then their job be here to support you. All you have to do
ON OUR BIRTHDAY
or philosophy. They are human beings and is ask.
deserve the respect and tolerance that EverCameron Morris is a sophomore enrolled in
green preaches towards everyone regardless
Cops & anarchists:
Tho A...t nf'rnnuPN~tion
further questions. No one has yet to
exceed, although there are guys that have
come close. My friend went on to say that
I'm picky. OK, so it's hard to impress me,
but shouldn't I be impressed? She told
me that the guy she dated awhile ago,
who she loves now, was the complete
opposite of what she wanted in a partner. It's all about trying new things, she
said; trying a new selection of food and
not having cheese enchiladas with rice
and beans every single night. Maybe she
was right, maybe I should try something
new. She ultimately told me the harsh
truth: that Mr. Bull is not worth it. He's
unrealistic.
Most of my friends agree that I shouldn't
give him the time of day. I respect their
opinions and I know it's something to
consider. Because really, what can come
out of this guy? Shouldn't relationships
be equal? Every person I know who fell
in love was in a relationship where no
questions were asked, all the answers
were known and there was no unreturned
phone calls or forgotten information.
Perhaps unattainable men keep us from
finding any sort of stability, from finding
someone who would treat us well, call us
back, and send flowers on our birthday.
Perhaps it's a sense of denial we have,
that maybe if we keep going after unattainable guys that things will change. But
do we really want them to change? After
all, if the quest was conquered and the
unknown questions answered, the onceunattainable guy would be just like every
other guy, and no longer unattainable.
Perhaps these guys are just there to
titillate your fantasies. To be the tragic
romance story that everyone is forced to
go through at least once, maybe more.
I'm not losing faith that these bulls can't
be tamed, but I am considering that it's
not worth it to put yourself through the
agony. You're stronger than this and you
shouldn't let any guy have you waiting.
However, I understand if you like the
feeling of waiting, because after a period
of waiting for this guy it will feel so good
to have him as yours.
Gerald Blanchard is a sophomore enrolled
in Acting and Directing: Queer Theory.
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Armor aaainst chemical weapons
by TORI NEEDER
I don't know why I
flew to the Democratic
National Convention.
I had approximately
$200 to my name, a
black backpack, and a
hope that I would meet
up with 13 people in a short bus running
on bio-deisel that would take me home in
two weeks. I also had a raging-red case of
poison ivy encompassing my right thigh,
back, buttocks, and right forearm, the result
of drunken poor decision-making at my
going-out-of-town shindig. The gem in
my collection-of-stupid-things-1-did-thatFriday-night takes the form of a deep cut
beneath the big toe of my right foot. My
friends and I were shot-gunning Natty-Bohs
in a gazebo when I stumbled on to a large
piece of glass and then proceeded to bleed
all over the place for the next two hours.
But I digress. I was trying to illustrate that
a foot wrapped in a mile of athletic tape and
gauze leaves me less than ambulatory and
that this trip may be just another brazen leap
in a long line of thick-headed stumbles.
There was no deep security probing at
the airport. I thought flying young, slightly
freakish, and with no checked baggage into
Denver that weekend would surely throw
up neon-glowing flags at security. As far as
I can tell, Homeland Security has my name
on file somewhere.
Buying the ticket required date and name
changes as well as several phone calls with
customer service representatives. After
how hard it was to even get this ticket, I
thought I would make it to security only to
be strip-searched and then taken out back
and shot. But my journey through the security checkpoint was speedy and completely
uneventful.
There was a single black backpack sitting
next to me containing everything I would
need for the next two weeks: a fob of goodluck charms hanging inside the front pouch,
a key chain from a past summer at the
beach, the key to my first scooter, and an
orange Honda metropolitan that was named
McQueen.
Before I left, I found a dog tag that had
belonged to Specialist Sam (names have
been changed) and clipped it on. I don't
know why I did this; it never brought him
much luck. When the specialist crashed at
our house he was a few months out oflraq.
We had to use a broom handle to wake him
up and yell his rank, lest risk being lunged
at with one of the kitchen knives he insisted
on squirreling around the house. My roommates and I moved out of that house seven
months later and we were still finding
those damn steak knives wedged under the
couch.
I sat in the front seat of the bus. Usually
I'm a strict back-of-the-bus-er, in order to
conceal my nefarious activities, but I had
taken the wrong route from the airport.
the face and leave different. I knew that
someone would look around and think,
"gee, this is what the inside of a tear gas
cloud looks like."
"I don't know; that's what I'm here to find
out."
"I think it will be peaceful. Lots of people
should have an opportunity to get their
message out, but there's always the xfactor," he said.
"The x-factor?" I said.
"If the anarchists show up," he said forebodingly. Now, this is not the first time this
type of situation has struck me. Previously,
an officer appealed to a group of at least
three self-identified anarchists who I know
personally, and claimed he'd be satisfied
that things would be peaceful, "as long as
the anarchists don't show up". I can only
imagine the diagram of The Anarchist that
1 KNEW THAT SOMEONE WOULD LOOK AROUND
AND THINK, "GEE, THIS IS WHAT THE INSIDE
OF A TEAR GAS CLOUD LOOKS LIKE. "
I consulted the bus driver about my best
course of action and we struck up a conversation about the upcoming convention.
"Are you a volunteer?" the bus driver
asked. His voice had the upbeat quality of
someone nervously optimistic. Not to be
confused with cautiously hopeful (or even
audaciously hopeful). It rang more with the
fear that the best had to happen, because
what else is there?
"No, I'm a writer," I said, and asked him
about the city's prep for the Con.
"They won't release the security measures
they've taken. The ACLU sued and finally
said that they converted a warehouse into
a detention center across the bridge. But
honestly, I think things will be peaceful."
He glanced over. "How do you think things
will tum out?"
I knew that my friends and others would
be clubbed, gassed, pepper sprayed, and
arrested. I knew that innocent kids would
come to this city and get boot-stomped in
is presented on the overhead at briefing:
''Note the Anarchist drowsy eye and
slack jaw," the sergeant expounds. "He has
been draining cheap liquor bottles all day
to fill with gasoline or feces. In a drunken
rage he will rape your daughters and then
hurl Molotov cocktails at you, only to be
followed with bottles of AIDS-infested
bodily fluids."
Appealing to the driver's care for my
safety, I investigated further. "What do
these anarchists look like?"
"Oh, you know," he said, switching his
gaze from the rear view to the road as he
talks, "people who just like to make trouble, people who like to cause chaos. Mob
mentality takes over."
"Thanks for the heads-up," I said, staring
out the windshield at the night skyline of
the mountains. "I'll be careful."
The Iraq Veterans Against the War made
it through the convention center's gate
to Obama's people. As the crowd moved
forward, the field on the other side of the
Con formed two paths, arrest-able and non
arrest-able.
On the other side of Speers Street, people
converged on a plot of grass. Three detachments of fully locked-and-loaded riot storm
troopers formed the beginning of a perimeter. Some sort of armored urban assault
vehicle rolled up carrying 15 or 20 more
riot cops.
The street medics congregated on the
curb. The other side of the street filled with
curious onlookers, volunteers, and T-shirt
vendors. We were sitting on the front porch
of the Democratic Nation Convention and
people wanted to know what was up.
After a few tense minutes, non-protester
types of people wandered into the field,
having not been present for the stand-hereif-you-want-to-be-arrested-speech given
by organizers earlier. A family of three
pastel-polo-shirts walked neck-deep into
the crush.
"I'm gonna go warn those people," I said
as I jogged over. I made eye contact with
the father.
"Hey guys, just so you know, this is kind
of considered an area where people can get
arrested, so be kind of wary as you walk
around," I said, smiling my least panicinducing grin.
The father's mouth dropped open and a
grunt-sigh emitted. He rolled his eyes and
led his family in another direction, deeper
into the swell. His face had a look of disgust
on it as though I should be held in contempt
for not knowing that Ralph Lauren had
built- in armor against chemical weapons.
I wanted to grab him by the collar and
shake him screaming, "I washed pepper
spray out of the eyes of a reporter yesterday who thought his press credential had
the same goddarnn magical aura! Get the
fuck out of here! When you stand by us, the
police don't care about protecting you!"
But instead, all I mumbled was "Don't say
I didn't warn you."
Tori Needer is a "senior enrolled in The
Evergreen State College.
Contrad Student Fulfills Expectations
by DEREK RYAN HAIN
This summer, my
brother agreed to teach
me piano. He lives in
Madison,
Wisconsin. /
When I first requested
his
instruction,
he
replied (via email),
"Why do you want to learn piano? Why
not viola? Why not C++?" I had no good
response. Instead, I asked him to tell me the
proper way to hold my wrists and fingers
while playing.
Again, he answered me indirectly: "Well,
Derek, what type of pianist do you imagine
yourself? I suggest you search for Glenn
Gould on YouTube. He might help you
decide. But also rent one of the early Marx
Brothers films, and watch Chico very carefully. He might help, too." I did both of
those things. But before even returning to
another piano bench, I'd changed my mind.
I could no longer imagine myself as a pianist
like Glenn Gould or Chico Marx. I'd begun
instead to imagine.myself as a harpist.
My so-called educational career has been
full of such indecision and changes in
direction. In 2001, while living in Lincoln,
Nebraska, I gave up a full-tuition scholarship
at the University to do temp work, browse
I LEARNED TO BATHE, TO ROLL CIGARETTES, AND NOT TO PSYCHOANALYZE MYSELF; I RECEIVED 16 CREDITS FOR MY WORK
the Internet, and masturbate for three years.
As dismal a time as it was for me, it beat
the curricular education offered at UNL.
Five years later, I enrolled at Evergreen.
My first program was the pedagogically
and academically ambiguous Awareness. I
stayed in Awareness for four quarters, and
then, last winter, studied "independently"
under Sara Huntington, a faculty member
from that program. With Sara as my sponsor, I learned to bathe, to roll cigarettes, and
not to psychoanalyze myself; I received 16
credits for my work.
This quarter, my independent contract is
basically bogus. It's called Fulfilling Expectations, and it takes as its "learning objectives" the first four Expectations of an Evergreen Graduate. As if that weren't bogus
enough, the remainder of the contractexcepting some syntactical and contextual
rearrangement-is plagiarized from official
college sources. Some examples:
I will learn to apply {my] ideas and
theories and skills in the "real world, "
much as the TESC website (at http://
www.evergreen.edu/about/expecta-
tions.htrn) states that students learn
to apply their ideas and theories and
skills in the "real world. "
I will also presume that as a group my
proverbial hypothetical audience will
typify diversity in every conceivable
(or inconceivable) way, much as Eddy
D. Bro-wn (in his 2007 Inkwell article)
encourages writers to presume that their
proverbial hypothetical audience ... will
typify diversity in every conceivable (or
inconceivable) way.
Finally, the student will do work to
help him ... succeed as an individual. (I
used the creepy, depersonalized third
person voice as suggested by the online
examples. I lifted the rest of the phrase
from Brown's Inkwell article.)
I learned the usefulness of plagiarism in
Awareness. Our teachers encouraged us to
pick a writer we admired and copy his or
her work until we felt its rhythms and structures, until the words were our own. Sadly, I
do not admire institutional jargon.
I do not want to make its words my own.
But the administrative controls at Ever-
green had rejected my previous contract-a
contract written in my own words, which
two of my Awareness teachers supported
(one of whom was the contract's sponsor).
Had this first contract not been rejected,
I'd never have imagined writing a contract
(to give you another example) designed
to foster collaborative learning among
{myself) and {my] peers. I admit: I have
no idea how to design a contract to foster
collaborative learning. In fact, I'm skeptical
that "collaborative learning" even exists.
Consequently, I've been rejected as someone who spoke for himself and accepted as
a fraud. But my rejected contract was not
merely a contract to learn piano; it was a
contract designed to let me learn from
Glenn Gould or Chico Marx or Harpo Marx
as I might choose. I wanted the freedom to
learn wherever learning could be found.
The story of that contract will appear in the
next CPJ.
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a individual learning contract, Fulfilling
Expectations.
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EVENTS ON CAMPUS!!!
From October 2 to 8
EVENTS OFF CAMPUS!!!
From October 2 to 8
Thursday, 2
Monday, 6
Thursday, 2
Sunday, 5
Noon - 5 p.m.
In Red Square there will
be tents set up depicting
and giving detailed facts
about some of the genocides in recent history.
If you want to join the S&A
Board, get your application and
all required material to the
CAB.320 Front Desk by 5.
6:30 p.m.
The Olympia Film Society
(OFS) will be showing· The Fall
and later Edge qf Heaven at 9
p.m. at the Capitol Theater
on 5th Ave. downtown.
2:00pm
Damiin: The Seven Creations, a
seven-movement opera will
be at the SPSCC Center for
the Arts. The opera is about
the balance between good
and evil and the creation of
the universe, which sounds
pretty fantastic. Students
get in for $10 and nonstudents get in for $20.
5-9 p.m.
At the Recital Hall auditions
for Ubu Roi will be held.
Who's directing it? Brandon Custy is directing it!
Friday, 3
Today's the last day to register
for independent contracts and
internships! It's also the last day
to register to vote in Red Square.
3-6 p.m.
Last day for rehearsals for Brandon
Custy's play Ubu Roi.
Saturday, 4
Today is the last day to register
to vote to get in on the presidential race. Make sure you get
informed, too. Otherwise it's
just as had as not voting.
Sunday, 5
8-10 p.m.
The HCC will be hosting
substance-free movie night!
Noon- 4p.m.
Tired of creepy backrubs?
There will be a massage therapist in the third floor lounge
of the Communications building. The prices range from
$8 for a five-minute massage
to $32 for a half hour. You
can also buy five fifteen
minute sessions for $80.
Tuesday, 7
3-4 p.m.
The first lecture in this year's
PLATO Royalty Lecture Series
will be in Lecture Hall3.
Shawn Bowers, who works
at the U.C. Davis Genome
Center will be lecturing
about the limitations of
observational data in science
and how it makes it easier
to discover and interpret.
Wednesday, 8
2-3 p.m.
Students Educating Students
about the Middle East
will be in the CAB Room
320 to educate students
about the Middle East.
Friday, 3
Artswalk! It's downtown.
7 p.m.
Journalist Greg Palast will
be doing a talk at the SPSCC
Center for Performing Arts.
A reason you should go to
this is that he's the only
journalist in British history
to be verbally attacked by
a Prime Minister (Tony
Blair) in parliament. This
guy is pretty fantastic.
Wednesday, 8
The World's Best Karoake
at Jake's on 4th Ave. If xou
see anyone from the CPJ
there, tell them to go back
to work on the newspaper.
Ufccoming Events
- 0/22 4-6p.m.
At the Longhouse, students
will be answering questions about independent
learning contracts.
Saturday, 4
Last day to register to
vote to participate in this
presidential election.
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race/ scavenger hunt thing
going on around Olympia. To pick up the list,
go to 323 Milroy St. and
talk to Chez Cascadia.
-10/14 3-4 p.m.
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-10/18 7:30p.m.
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