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by JUSTIN PRAZAK
we get justice? .. .l'm not Che
Guevara; if we ain't victorious
Approximately 200 people what are we?"
turned out at the Longhouse to
He further elaborated on the
hear Mutulu Olugabala (better difference between an uprising
known as M-1 of the underground (which is reactionary), and a
hip-hop group Dead Prez) speak rebellion, which he said takes
Thursday, February 19 at 4 p.m. planning. He emphasized the
M1 used it as an opportunity to need to constantly be workcontextualize the events of the ing toward a planned end goal.
riot/uprising which followed the Accountability equals the key to
Dead Prez concert last year.
liberation, he said.
Olugabala spoke on a range of
"If you're thinking with emotion
issues looking at how to move the at all, get away from me and
fight for social justice forward, my army," Olugabala declared.
his own history of community Strategy and focus continued to
organizing and activism, and the be brought up as the only viable
need for planning and discipline means of change.
in order to be successful in creatHe also criticized President
ing change.
Obama as false change, calling
Students found a range of him the savior of imperialism,
messages to take away from the and spoke about his relationships
event. Zach McCuin, senior, with other rappers who have
thought the dialog was good: "I embraced Obama. More critireally liked it; there are a lot of cism was thrown toward police
ways to interpret a lot of what he officers; he recounted having
STUDENTS STAGED A "DIE-IN" DEMONsaid."
unjust encounters with cops in
STRATION ON THE CAB 2ND FLOOR IN
Others described M1 's message his work in other states and for
REACTION TO A PRO-ISRAEL DISPLAY IN
as very anti-cop, focused on the much of his life.
THE BOOKSTORE DISPLAY WINDOW
fact that planning, not emotional
In response to a question about I
reactions, would bring about non-violent revolution, he stated
change; or the difficulty of work- that "there is a possibility [of
ing across groups and bridging non-violence] if our oppressor wants to peacefully resolve
communities.
He started the talk by discuss- our situation," though he joked
ing the show he played last year about it as asking an oppressor
on campus and what little he saw to change and said bargaining
of the "uprising" from a distance power is needed in order to get
repair", often because it is so old
after he found it was taking place. that to happen.
that
no parts are available.
Xander Chateaubriand, sophoHe stated he considered getting
by JASON SLOTKIN
And
so, Weber is asking students
involved but decided against it to more, commented on the drive of
to
pay
no less than $30,000
For
years,
students
have
the speaker: "He's a true believer
avoid arrest.
for
the
new equipment. How
in
the
cause
he's
fighting
for"
complained
about
broken-down
"It was amazing, I just couldn't
much
in
total is not known.
but
also
mentioned
his
concern
and
inadequate
workout
fitness
believe what I saw with my own
What
is
known
is that it'sAthletequipment
in
the
College
Recreeyes" he said, but asked, "Did
see Ml LECTURE page 3
icsandRecreation's "goal to have a
ation Center (CRC).
For years, the college athletics significant fund available through
director made a "professional the [student-fee-funded budget]
judgment" to repair rather to repair, upgrade and replace
than replace dilapidated equip- fitness equipment as needed."
ment, using money the CRC
In other words, Athletics and
raised such things as use fees. Recreation wants students to
payment of
equipThe director-Dave Weber- assume
says his approach was for Ever- ment costs that previously
green Athletics and Recreation to were covered in other ways.
To start, Athletics and Recrespend money only in ways that
were necessary. Repairs were ation intends to ask for a yet-tonecessary; replacement was not.
be specified amount of money for
Now, the equipment is "beyond "immediate needs" from a special
CRC
funding to replace
outdated equipment
equipment fund financed by the
student services and activities fee.
Also, the Athletics and Recreation 2010-11 funding request to
the S&A Board includes $30,000
for fitness equipment. That's for
the 2010-11 athletics and recreation budget. In addition, Weber
informed the S&A Board (which
allocates student funds to student
groups and campus entities), an
unspecified amount is needed now
from a special equipment fund.
The Athletics department made
this two-year budget proposal to
the Services & Activities board
on Wednesday, February 18.
According to the proposal, prior
to this financial period, Athletics
would request Special Initiatives
see CRC page 3
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GSUupdate
Tensions high as Union debates tom-clown posters
by MADELINE BERMAN
SIMONE FOWLER
CRC EQUIPMENT,Jrom cover
"monies" to repair and replace old
equipment.
In an interview, Weber said no requests
have been made to the S&A Board for
repair or replacement equipment money
for years. Athletics and Recreation held
back on repairs and replacements out of
concern that a budget or even special
request for equipment money might be
turned down by the S&A Board if the
need did not appear to be crucial.
I "Under all circumstances, you are
trying to save money," Weber said.
Still, if he had known a special equipment fund existed, Weber said, he would
have asked students to fund maintenance
and replacement earlier.
For at least the past two years, students
1have complained about the state of the
equipment through a yearly survey
Iconducted by the S&A Board. Comments
from students in the 2006-2007 survey
1included "Because this Board does not
Imaintain the CRC, I use the YMCA",
and "Please more cardio machines."
Besides being unaware of the special
equipment fund, Weber also said he was
unaware of the survey.
When told about the survey, Weber
said, "The fact there were complaints
was not, in and of itself, a catastrophe."
Students complain directly to Athletics
and Recreation, Weber acknowledged.
"We will get one zillion complaints."
Weber said the criteria he used over
the years to determine whether seeking
money for equipment was necessary was
his "professional judgment."
"Professional judgment," he said, "is
somebody doing their job."
Jason Slatkin is a senior enrolled in
and independent learning contract.
Ml LECTURE ,from cover
around the topic of violence.
Though Olugabala did also state that
activists should rid themselves of provocateurs when asked about someone
putting a brick through a window he said
that "no matter how good intentioned
they may be [they] may just be dumb."
Mariel Cutler, a coordinator for the
Hip Hop Congress, described the event
as really successful and not focused the
uprising, but instead on Olugabala as a
person and on the idea that peace activists, anarchists, and the poor people's
movement need to unite.
Justin Prazak is a senior enrolled in
Telling the Untold Story.
CORRECTION:
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12, CATHERINE KANA'S ARTICLE, QUEER HIP-HOP, RAW AND
ONEST, READS " QUEER HIP-HOP NIGHT WAS HOSTED BY
HE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE RECREATION CENTER."
HE EVENT WAS HELD AT THE CRC, BUT HOSTED
Y THE EVERGREEN QUEER ALLIANCE.
One hour into the most recent Geoduck
Student Union (GSU) meeting, after
heated disputes over meeting conduct,
censorship, and a proposal, several
reps walked out, which caused the
GSU to lose quorum and its ability
to function as a consensus body.
One of the heated disputes occurred a
presentation from GSU Rep. Tez Stair,
when representative Chris Rotondo
openly admitting to tearing down flyers
on campus. Rotundo brought this up
in response to Stair's interpretation
of the results of an experiment he
conducted about flyers being tom down
and "attempt to statistically show that
there are problems with social control
on campus" (see page 14, Letters &
Opinion, for details on this experiment).
Responses to Stair's experiment
were greatly varied.
"This is not an experiment.
We're not working in a controlled
environment. It doesn't account for
power structure," Rotondo said. "I
have tom down flyers. Like that
pro-Israel shit; I tear that down. I'm
okay with tearing down a flyer."
"I think this is a brilliant experiment,
really," said student Ben Anderson. "It
shows that there is some censorship
going on on campus and I think it is
followed by ignorance and fear."
This was not the only point of
contention at this week's GSU meeting.
Another was a proposal regarding
Evergreen Police Services' rifle
purchase. Written by Victor Sanders,
the proposal asked the school to
have a better safety preparedness
plan before the GSU would take a
stance on the rifles. Not all agreed
to pass this proposal, because of
opposing viewpoints regarding
the GSU's stance on the rifles.
Discussion about this topic began to
run over the allotted time limit, and it
was decided to return to the subject at
the end of the meeting. The continuation
of the discussion on the rifle proposal
never occurred because not enough
representatives returned to the meeting
after a ten-minute break. The break was
called an hour into the meeting when
discussion became heated, bringing
one GSU representative to tears.
This absence of representatives after
the break impeded addressing other
topics on the agenda, including faculty
member Jorge Gilbert's misuse of
student funds, and GSU representative
misconduct; the latter has been
repeatedly tabled for several weeks now.
While portions of the meeting were
not fruitful, there were some productive
moments, and several items on the
agenda were fully addressed. For
example, there was a budget update
from Ben Anderson and Stephanie
Gilbert, the two students on the
budgetary planning committee. They
reported that both 15% and 20% budget
cut scenarios are being considered, and
that students are organizing several
petitions in attempts to keep various
facets of the school from being cut.
Concerns about saving Tacoma campus
were expressed. Art Costantino,
Vice President of Student Affairs,
responded that on the current list of
budget cut percentages that faculty
are revising, Tacoma would receive
the smallest percentage of cuts.
Another topic on which GSU
representatives were able to work
together was signing a letter from
the Clean Energy Committee
concerning the school's carbon
footprint resulting from air-travel.
Another item that was fully addressed
this week was creating a resolution for
the community gardens. The resolution
would put delegating power regarding
garden use in the hands of students. On
the topic of community garden use, the
GSU was able to come to consensus.
Facilitator Stella Martin summed
up the overall mood of the meeting
before going to break: "We're all
students here. We're all working
towards the same overall goals. There
shouldn't be this much tension."
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studentmemberofthe
CAB redesign
committee
The CAB Design Committee met in late
January to discuss the progress of the
project and meet with various user groups
to clarify any comments made about the
design documents. One pressing issue
addressed by the committee was the $1.5
million shortfall in the Surge budget.
The Surge funding was originally set at
$400,000 to move all of the occupants
out of the CAB during construction,
but current estimates put actual costs at
approximately $1.9 million. The committee agreed to make up the difference with
money and pending money from the bond
offering. Evergreen is working with the
State Treasurer in order to make the bond
offering this May.
Another topic of concern with the CAB
redesign project is the estimated LEED
certification status. In an email to the
CAB Design Committee, Assistant Director for Planning and Construction Azeem
Hoosein and Vice President for Student
Affairs Art Constantino stated, "Our
current estimation of the LEED status still
shows our project with 39 points possible
in the Base Bid design (Silver range 33-38
points; Gold range39-51 points). Since
it is typical for a project to actually lose
2- 3 points during the construction and
evaluation process we believe the base bid
design is a solid LEED Silver. Our highest priority alternate, the rainwater cistern,
would bring the project total to 44 points,
which is well into LEED Gold. We are
confident in our design and documentation and with the current bidding climate
we believe that the cistern alternate has
an excellent chance of being accepted.
It is still our objective to achieve LEED
Gold for this project. However, we feel
obligated to express the possibility at this
point that the base bid may yield only a
LEED Silver project."
As the design process moves forward,
the committee is looking forward to the
opening of a redesigned CAB building
with improved environmental efficiencies,
improved space design for a more usable
building, and the opening of a permanent home for the Flaming Eggplant, all
completed just in time for the start of the
2010/11 school year.
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Art from Student
Originated Studies
Saucy. Witty. Scandalous. The Cabinet
of Curiosities is the winter showcase of
performance art presented by the Evergreen
State College's Student Originated Studies
Program. All works are original and guaranteed to entertain. Don't miss your chance
to witness some of the Pacific Northwest's
most talented up-and-coming performers.
The Cabinet opens its doors March 5, 6, and
7 at 7 p.m. in the Evergreen State College
Experimental Theater. For more information go to www.evergreen.edu/expressions
or call360-867-6833.
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CHELSEY WORSTER
KAOS pledge drive
KAOS 89.3 FM Olympia Community
Radio's first membership drive of 2009
begins Thursday, February 26. The eightday drive will end Friday, March 6. New
supporters and renewing KAOS members
are invited to contribute to the public radio
station's drive goal of$30,000.
Members are entitled to a KAOS Member
Discount Card, a year's subscription to the
KAOS Program Guide, a CD, and a KAOS
T-shirt or Tote Bag (while supplies last).
Memberships are available at several different donation levels, and all payments are
tax -deductible.
"Given the economy, this year will be
more challenging for KAOS, as it will be
for all non-profits," said John Ford, station
development director. "Thankfully, many
listeners realize that KAOS provides
commercial-free programmmg and community voices that they can't get anywhere
else, and it's a service that requires them to
pay their share. Our hope is to get committed listeners to give at a level that fits their
situation. Every donation at all levels still
adds up to a stronger station for all KAOS
listeners."
All funds raised are used to support the
programming and training activities of
KAOS Olympia Community Radio. Listeners can call in their support to the station's
main studio line at (360) 867-5267 (867KAOS), or they can join online by visiting
the KAOS Web site at www.kaosradio.org.
~MARK
YATES-WHITE
Hone eval-writing
skiDs at The 'Writing
Center
The end of the quarter is on the horizon,
and The Writing Center is offering five
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in Primetime, at the Tacoma Campus, and
in the main Writing Center at Evergreen
will critique the importance of evaluations,
explain the nuances of evaluation writing,
suggest how the Writing Center can assist
you in your process, and provide a space
for general questions. We'll also offer some
thought-starters and useful writing prompts
to get you moving no matter where you are
in your evaluation-writing process. Whether
you are a first timer or a seasoned pro, these
workshops will strengthen your evaluationwriting muscles.
The Writing Center invites you to join us:
In Tacoma on Monday, March 2, 1 p.m.
and 5 p.m. in room 105
In Olympia on Tuesday, March 3, 6:30
p.m. in Primetirne (main floor of A-Dorm)
In Olympia Wednesdays, March 4 and 11,
2 p.m. in Library 231.
The Writing Center welcomes students
unable to attend a Self-Evaluation Workshop or who are eager to explore their
self-evaluation writing processes to make
an appointment with a tutor by calling
(360) 867-6420 or stopping by the Writing
Center in Library 2310.
~
SHAUN JOHNSON
Budgetary planning
committee forum
The Student Budgetary Planning Committee is composed of three students appointed
by the Geoduck Student Union (GSU).
Those students are Neil Twilla, Stephanie
Hurlburt, and Ben Anderson. Our purpose
is to communicate with the GSU, collect
student input, help insure that students are
aware of campus forums on the budget,
share student insights and preferences
with those planning our next budget, and
to advocate student concerns to the administration. Our first forum regarding the
budget will be this Thursday, February 26,
from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in SEM II All05.
We will be mtroducing and explaining the
proposed budget cut scenarios and giving
amply time for students to ask questions of
committee members and the administration
about the budget scenarios.
The 20% budget cut scenario for the $29
million Academic budget has some pretty
drastic cuts. Twenty percent of the $29
million is $5.8 million. The cuts are going
to happen because Evergreen is going to
rece1ve Jess money from the State. The
complete budget is $58 million, roughly
half of which comes from the State and the
other half comes from tuition. How do we
come up with 20%? Even with the normal
tuition increases, the school will be short
12% but enrollment for next year is down
which exacerbates the cut meaning it could
easily be as much as 20%.
The cuts in the 20% model include
cutting all of the graduate programs,
ending the Tacoma and Grays Harbor
Campus,
ending Native American
and Longhouse programs, ending ResBased programs, ending the CCBLA,
ending the WA Center, cutting summer
access to the QUASR and Writing Center,
reducing study abroad programs by 50%,
cutting science support by 25%, and
ending extended education. There are
several other things listed in this scenario
and you should check it out at http://collab.
evergreen.edu/budget/academics it is the
09-11 excel sheet.
Please keep in mind these are only scenarios and no decisions have been made yet.
After early March the budget scenarios will
be more solidified and it will be pertinent
that we, as students, make our concerns
known to those creating the budget. The
day that the final budget will be submitted is April 6 and 7. After that the Board
of Trustees will decide which budget to
adopt.
If you would like to know more about the
committee or the budget, please visit our
Facebook group titled "Student Budgetary
Planning Committeee" and/or www.evergreen.edu/budget.
~
BEN ANDERSON
Campus waste audit
RecycleMania coordinators conducted
a waste audit of upper campus containers
last Thursday. In addition to measuring the
total volume of waste produced on campus,
this week's audit included a special assessment to ascertain what percentage of the
waste found in landfill trash bins could
have been recycled. Participants sorted
through landfill waste from containers in
C-Lot, several locations on Red Square,
the Library building, the CAB, and the
Seminar II building, picking out items that
were either recyclable or compostable.
Items from recycling bins tipped the scale
at 11,387 lbs while landfill trash containers held 11,060 lbs. A closer inspection of
the landfill waste contents determined that
83% of the materials it contained was recyclable, the vast majority being compostable
food scraps.
Especially noteworthy was approximately
12 lbs of recyclable materials found in a
CAB trash can placed only inches from a
food recycling receptacle. A typical campus
trash container is home to about a pound of
misplaced recyclables.
"The audit that took place last May showed
an alarmingly high rate of compostable and
recyclable materials that were thrown into
trash receptacles," according to Sustainability Coordinator for Housing Natalie
Pyrooz.
RecycleMania participants hope that this
February's audit serves as an educational
forum to students and staff at Evergreen,
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REWARD FOR INFORMATION
Crime Stoppers and Evergreen Police Services are seeking your help in
identifying the person or persons responsible for several malicious mischief
and graffiti incidents that have occurred on and off campus. These incidents
have caused several thousands of dollars of damage to our campus and our
surrounding community. Several churches and businesses outside our
campus have been targeted as well and you can help.
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Damage to Evergreen Police Services' Police cars
Damage to the elevator in the CAB
Graffiti throughout the campus
These crimes are very costly to our communities. Help put a stop to all this
damage and Call Crime Stoppers at 493-2222. You will remain
anonymous. If your information leads to an arrest or c harges being filed,
you will receive a reward. This phone number is not tapped or taped and
there is no caller ID. You are simply issued a code number by the call
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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) strives to support
community organizations by connecting
and mobilizing 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. Help us to build stronger community
partnerships while meeting the needs of our
community!
Our community is asking for your help! Be
a part of it!
Action Days
Saturday, March 7, we will spend the day
at the Fertile Ground Guest House doing
permaculture gardening and getting things
ready for the spring season. We'll even get
to make pizza in their cob oven!
Community Events
Camp Quixote's second anniversary!
Join South Puget Sound's own Tent City in
celebrating its second anniversary Sunday,
March 1 from 4 to 8 p.m. at First Christian
Church, 701 Franklin Street in downtown,
Olympia. For more information email
le.~!~_b.r.i!.t~9.JJ.txQ!.!<@aol.com.
Community Requests
Gear Up With Music gives students
the tools to create life-affirming poetry
and songs that examine the personal challenges they face at home, at school, and
with their peers. The program integrates
music into core curricula to increase individual academic achievement and improve
students' opportunities for future success.
The program focuses on topics such as gang
life, alcohol and drugs, cultural awareness
and creating the peaceable school. Gear Up
With Music is now searching for interns and
volunteers. For more information, contact
Todd Denny at infg_@!Q.Q_qdeJm.YIDYQ,.~_oJI1·
G.I. Voice is looking for interns or volunteers to work at its recently-opened Internet
cafe, Coffee Strong, located in Lakewood
within blocks of Fort Lewis. Coffee Strong
is a G.l. coffeehouse owned and operated by
recent vets; it is the second G.l. Coffeehouse
to open since the Vietnam War. In addition to
coffee, computers, and free Wi-Fi, they hold
concerts, movie nights, and other events.
There are also resources for active-duty
soldiers, their families and veterans facing
service-related issues such as deployment,
PTSD, sexual assault, and command grievances. Coffee Strong serves as a safe space
to discuss issues such as the war, deployment, PTSD, and the hardships of life in
the military. They are seeking interns and
volunteers to help with outreach, promotion,
fundraising, and to work as baristas. If you
are interested, please contact Seth Manzel at
(253) 228-8912 or sethmanz@hotmail.com.
The faculty contact for contracts is Zoltan
Grossman (360) 867-6153 or grossmaz@
evergreen.edq. More information online at
www.givoice.org.
Stonewall Youth is committed to working
within a social justice framework and seeing
themselves as part of a larger movement of
social change. They are currently searching
for interns and volunteers to support with a
variety of their annual projects, such as the
drag show and their winter retreat. Regular
volunteer positions include group facilitator,
drop-in hours support person, appreciations
volunteer, winter retreat chaperones and
Stonewall Activism Summer School host
home. Volunteer positions are flexible and
can be adjusted and negotiated to fit your
needs. There is also possibility to create your
own volunteer positions if you have other
interests, ideas, or special skills you would
like to bring to the Stonewall community.
For more information on how to participate
contact Katrina Stem at eventsCiilstonewallvouth.org.
The Thurston Conservation District is
accepting applications for winter and spring
quarter internships. Interns will be working
with Conservation District staff to educate
Thurston County residents about a variety of topics concerning natural resource
management. Positions include community
education/outreach intern, natural resource
technician intern and South Sound GREEN
intern. To apply, please email a short cover
letter and resume attachment to Kandi
Bauman at kbauman(dlthurstoncd.com. For
more information, feel free to email Kandi
or call (360) 754-3588 ext 136.
The Family Support Center is looking for
volunteers to help with the winter shelters
and case management. Contact Phil Owen
at owen.phil@gmail.com._
Parents Organizing for Welfare and
Economic Rights (POWER) is a grassroots
coalition that monitors welfare legislation
and its implementation in the Olympia area.
POWER holds weekly volunteer meetings
Wednesdays at 1 p.m. at the First Christian
Church, downtown Olympia at Seventh and
Franklin. All are welcome!
Gateways for Incarcerated Youth is
seeking men and women to become Challenge Partners to tutor youth at Green Hill
and Maple Lane Detention Centers in
Lewis County as well as Brentwood, young
women's group home in Lacey.
Students in Service is an ArneriCorps
program and a way that students can be
rewarded for their time spent within the
community. Email sis(mevergreen.edu for
more information.
While striving to better address these needs,
we would also like input from you, the
student body. If you have ideas for Action
Days or interests in particular organizations
and would like to see them represented here
in this column, please contact Hilary Hacker
at hackerhCW.evergreen.edu or call (360)
867-6137.
Hilary Hacker is an AmeriCorps VISTA
and an Evergreen alumna.
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A new student-to-student counseling project
the pronoun to whom they relate the most.
That way they will have other options
A community is built on the strength besides the counseling center in which
and connection between its people. Yet so to discover the tools to help themselves,
much of what has been going on at Ever- and to discover a greater community on
this campus. I want
green is separation.
the RA's and any
YOU DON'T HELP
Differing ideologies
students who are
spar as fights go on.
PEOPLE BY TELLING interested to be a
In the politics and
part of this.
fighting, we miss
So-commuTHEM HOW THEY
out on the students
nity, anyone who
who have been left
behind, and in some SHOULD ACT OR BE, interested-please
contact
me
at
cases, because of it,
YOU HELP PEOPLE BY proj ectempathy@
ended up dead.
gmail.com for your
Did you know that
students have been HELPING THEM REAL- thoughts on this idea
if you want to be a
turned away from
counseling services IZE WHAT THEY NEED part of it, or if you
think it's needed, or
because their insurFOR THEMSELVES ... not needed, or how it
ance didn't cover the
can be made better.
money
counseling
charged? Did you know that prescripCameron Morris is a sophomore enrolled
tive counseling has been used (which in
my mind doesn't fit with the Evergreen in Language Matters and Law and the
model)? You don't help people by telling Legislative Process.
them how they should act or be, you help
people by helping them realize what they
need for themselves, by active listening
and helping the person reach their own
solutions.
This is why I came up with the idea of
"Project Empathy." Any student who is
interested in being student mentors for
those in need, please contact me. The idea
is that each student will have a male-andfemale-pronoun related individual with
whom they may talk. Or they can talk to
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Cello exudes
spirituality
by CATHERINE KANA
Last week, Common Bread-an interfaith community and spirituality group at
Evergreen-presented Quaker professional
musician Christine Gunn. Gunn's solo
cellist performance. "Music as Healing"
had many dimensions.
Dunn spoke of her own spirituality and
THE CENTRAL
PIECE OF MUSIC
WAS GUNN'S
REPRESENTATION OF
DIFFERENT CHAKRAS.
SHE ASKED HER
Do you feel like you've been holding your
breath for one hundred years? Well, them
hundred years is over! Print for Breathing
has got your back now. It will help you
breathe. That's why it's called Print for
Breathing.
Print for Breathing is a quarterly literary
journal made by the Writers' Guild. It is
filled to the brim with goodness in the form
PRINT FOR
BREATHING IS A
QUARTERLY LITERARY
JOURNAL MADE
BY THE WRITER'S
GUILD. IT IS FILLED
TO THE BRIM WITH
GOODNESS IN THE
FORM OF STORIES,
POEMS, AND WHALES
of stories, poems, and whales.
It's like your best friend's other best
friend who is cooler than you, and just
moved back from wherever. So when Print
for Breathing starts showing up in your
hangouts, you start to worry that your best
friend will start spending all of his or her
time with Print for Breathing instead of
with you. But that's not what happens at all.
As it turns out, Print for Breathing makes
a really great other friend, so you and your
best friend and Print for Breathing become
inseparable, like the Three Musketeers.
We're proud to announce that the most
recent issue has just landed, and will be
released this friday at Last Word Books,
starting at 7 p.m. The festivities will include
a selection of readings from the journal, a
coloring book mini-party, snacks, and a
musical performances by Cataldo and Eli
Moore (LAKE).
So rub that sleep from your eyes, tired
person! Get out of bed, get out of sadness!
Print for Breathing will solve all of your
problems. It's the best thing that's ever
happen to anyone. So come celebrate with
us.
~JOEL
MORLEY
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LISTENERS TO TRY
AND FEEL IN- TUNE TO
PHYSICAL PLACES OF
THE BODY AS THE
MUSIC FLOWED INTO
NEW MOVEMENTS
how it related to music, incorporating ideas
of meditation, charkas, and personal reflection. The small group surrounded her in a
semi-circle of chairs and spread causally
in different positions throughout the room,
captivated.
The central piece of music was Gunn's
representation of different charkas. She
asked her listeners to try to feel in-tune to
physical places of the body as the music
flowed into new movements. The meditative audience sat transfixed as the musical
representation flowed from the root chakra
to the crown chakra.
The cello's music was rich, sweet, and
passionate. Dunn used a looper to create
layers of notes and rhythms and the sound
emanating from a single person was intermittently as powerful as an entire orchestra.
The rhythms were at times slow and deep
and at others faster and more energized.
After the cello bowed the final notes
within and around and through the final
crown chakra, the participants shared
their personal experiences of spiritual and
physical sensations. This performance
highlighted a correspondence of physical
sensation of the body (namely hearing and
physically feeling musical notes in specific
spots on the body) to spiritually. Overall,
the room became filled with a divine
kind of energy of music, spirituality, and
community.
Catherine Kana is a sophomore enrolled in
(R.e)imagining the Middle East.
STRINGS AND THINGS
rrFUNKY PROGRESSIVE BLUEGRASS"
by CATHERINE KANA
THIS BAND HAS
MORE CONVICTION
Strings and Things, an Olympia band,
played this Saturday night at the China
Clipper Cafe downtown. The Strings and
Things Myspace describes this quintet of
two guitars, a bass, a mandolin, and a drum
set as "funky progressive bluegrass."
Their influences include Bob Dylan,
Crosby Stills and Nash, and Willie Nelson.
Their sound could be described as a casual,
raw, and charming cacophony. Thick layers
of strumming guitars dominated over the
Dylan-esque lyrics. The bass guitarist
stomped his feet in. tiru.; to beats that were
sometimes slowpr and sometimes faster
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CREATES AN ELEMENT
OF BOLDNESS
but consistent in their lighthearted spiritedness. This band has more conviction
than traditional bluegrass in part because
of their mix of electric and acoustic instruments that creates an element of boldness.
The small audience was jovially entertained by a string of unrefined jokes that
the band members told to break up their
set. Strings and Things are a great band to
sit back, and relax, and feel carefree.
Catherine Kana is a sophomore enrolled in
(R.e)imagining the Middle East.
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of 2/24/08:
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SarahVowell
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in Olympia
Reading, signing, and Q&A
fun yet anticlimactic
by BRIAN FULLERTON
11. Donna Ulisse - Walk This Mountain Down
2. VIA- Dark Was the Night
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3. Shemekia Copeland - Never Going Back
4. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
5. Laura Gibson - Beasts of Season
:6. Fol Chen - Part 1: John Shade
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7. Ruthie Foster- The Truth
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H. Yes Please- For Now, For Then, For Them
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M. Ward - Hold Time
10. Rachel Garlin - Bound To Be Mountains
11. Hello Seahorse - Hoy A Las Ocho
12. Angus and Julia Stone -A Book Like This
13. Ceann - Making Friends
14. June Madrona - Battlegrounds
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15. Mirah - (A)Spera
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16. Eleni Mandell -Artificial Fire
17. Amy Obenski - From the Deep
18. A.C. Newman - Get Guilty
19. Robyn Hitchcock and the
Venus 3 - Goodnight Oslo
20. Psapp- The Camel's Back
21. Isaac Scott- Posthumous Blues
22. VIA- Habitat
23. Soundtrack of Our Lives - Communion
24. Courtney Chambers - Bigger and Brighter
25. Bobby Jones - Comin' Back Hard
26. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
27. Terry Holder - Ticket To the Moment
28. Willie Nelson and Asleep At the
Wheel - Willie and the Wheel
b9. Damon Fowler- Sugar Shack
30. Ergs - Hindsight Is 20/20 My Friend, Vol. 1
I- -NICKI THOMPSON andJESSE CALLAHAN
After seeing Sarah Vowell at the
Washington Center for Performing Arts
February 13, it made sense that she was
cast as the voice of the dark-haired,
dorky, uncomfortable daughter in The
Incredibles. It wasn't just her voice, but
watching her stand behind a podium
reading excerpts from her books-she is
someone's dark-haired, dorky, uncomfortable daughter.
She introduced each new excerpt subject
with sarcastic excitement. Topics from
the readings ranged from cartographers
to Massachusetts Bay Colony charters.
Vowell kicked her leg around while reading, and whenever she looked at audience
it was towards the fourth-floor balcony
that at the time didn't know was there.
If it wasn't for the fact that she was so
damned funny and smart it, it would have
been like watching a high school kid give
a class presentation.
Vowell is a writer, not a performer, so
there was no expectation for her to beef
up the performance aspect of reading
WITH SUCH AN ARGUABLY ICONIC VOICE,
IT WOULD BE LIKE
TALKING TO BARRY
WHITE ON THE
ably iconic voice, it would be like talking
to Barry White on the phone. Except if
Barry White was a small elfish woman
a big, round, glorious head who was on
the Daily Show periodically.) The audience turnout, probably, would not have
been all that different if she was reading
Hamlet.
A question-and-answer portion of the
night might have justified it all, but all
of the questions seemed like they were
a nervous excuse for some audience
members to just talk to Sarah Vowell
(one question was just about the similarities between Charles Darwin and
Abraham Lincoln, for example). Even
the book signing, which promises some
one-on-one time with Vowell, was
anti-climactic.
The blindingly obvious answer to all
this is cult-of-personality fetishes and
the opportunity to be in the same room
with and possibly even talk to someone
you adore. While there is a performance
element involved, the expectations of that
begin and end with the writer reading.
Because reading is such a solitary
activity (Chuck Palianhuk draws parallels between reading and masturbation),
maybe these readings are a reassurance
that the person whom you think you
know, only through their work, exists. If
that isn't true, then I don't know why I
enjoyed that night so much.
Brian Fullerton is a senior enrolled in
Mediaworks.
PHONE. EXCEPT IF
BARRY WHITE WAS A
SMALL ELFISH WOMAN
A BIG, ROUND, GLORIOUS HEAD WHO WAS
ON THE DAILY SHOW
·PERIODICALLY
book excerpts to a large group of people.
Acknowledging this, there is still an I
amount of non-elitist weight in asking
why anyone was there-or, what's the
point of these readings, in general?
As an aesthetic, book readings (and
maybe books on tape as read by the
author) are the closest thing possible to
a "faithful" adaptation. Other than not
reading certain parts of a book, nothing at
all is changed. Just a small step is taken
in changing how the source material is
presented. So small, it's worth pointing
out, that the verb "read" stays the same
from how it was intended to how it is
presented.
Vowell's nasal voice is endearing,
though. (Which is the biggest explanation about the lack of drive to get an
interview with her. With such an argu-
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;NATIONAL
Thursday, March 5
Luncheon
Michele Vendiola Lecture
A luncheon will be held
for all students who are
interested in community
building and environmental justice from Thursday
March 5 froml2-1:30_p.m.
in the Women Of Color
Coalition office in CAB
206. Bring lunch, come eat,
and ask questions.
From 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, March 5, there will be a lecture in A1105, with a
DVD shown about Michele (Shelly) Vendiola's work with the community and how
you can help too!
Shelly's work surrounds grassroots environmental justice, working with native
communities impacted by industrial development and contamination. Her efforts
protect Indigenous culture, language, traditions and circle of life. Shelly also
has a focus on support, advocacy, and technical assistance for community-based
economic development, social and environmental justice, human rights, leadership, and health of native women. She provides leadership training and community
organizing skills to native youth, and provides conflict resolution and peacemaking training for tribal organizations and communities using popular education
methodology.
Join us in discussing community building, as well as environmental, economic,
and social justice.
WOCC Office CAB 206
Noon-1:30 p.m.
MICHELE (SHELLY) VENDIOLA
(SWINOMISH/L UMMI/FILIPINA)
Seminar II All OS
5-7 p.m.
Friday, March 6
"Hijas De Su Madre: Las Mamalogues"
"Hijas
De
Su
Madre:
Las
Mamalogues" is an intergenerational exploration of matrilineal
history, claiming and reclaiming
our mother's lived experience,
unveiling an identity rooted in
the past while grounded in the
preset. Join us for an evening
of story and community healing
on Friday, March 6 at 7 p.m. m
Lecture Hall 1.
Lecture hall 1
7 p.m.
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Saturday, March 7
Writer and director Hima B. lecture
From 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, March 5, there will be a lecture in AliOS.
Hima B. is a queer South Asian and an independent writer, director, and producer whose works
explore the intersections of race, gender, sexual orientation, labor, and economics, especially as
they impact LGBT people, women, and girls. This lecture on Saturday, March 7 will include two
short films and a media training workshop. Sem II D 1105 from 1-3 p.m.
The films shown will include And I Do Survive and Sistahs Survive & Thrive.
And I do Survive is a cinema verite documentary chronicles Michelle Lopez, a Trinidadian
lesbian who pursues the American dream and a green card in a country that denies her citizenship because she is an HIV-positive immigrant. While juggling life as a single mom and
devoted religious follower, she organizes to reverse this discriminatory law and other practices
that infringe on the quality of life for HIV-positive people. As gay marriage becomes debated
nationally, Michelle's partner requests a commitment and their relationship mirrors the divide
within LGBT, AIDS, and immigrant communities.
Sistahs Survive & Thrive is ten short videos portraits of Black and Latina women bring us into
their worlds and reveal how they live with HIV/AIDS. The collection of videos are the launch
of an interactive web-based project-a living AIDS quilt comprised of auto-biographical and
biographical vignettes that reflects the feminized impact ofHIV/AIDS and will include a range
of women and girls from diverse ethnicities, ages, socio-economic class.
The media training provided at this event will teach you how to use your own digital camera
(and other devices) to create a documentary-style short film yourselfl Bring your digital still
camera, videocam or cell phone so you can contribute your story or AIDS tips to the Quilt!
Sem II DllOS 1-3 p.m.
Monday,
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Tuesday,-March 10
Resistas: Claiming our Experience in Resistance
WOMEN IN
HIP-HOP
ON MONDAY, MARCH 9 THERE
WILL BE A SCREENING OF THE
FILM B-GIRL BE, ABOUT WOMEN
IN HIP-HOP, SPONSORED BY HIP
HOP CONGRESS-IT'S FREE!
LECTURE
HALL 2 6
P.M.
Resistas: Claiming our Experience in Resistance--join us for a night of spoken word
performance and commumty dialogue. Learn about the various struggles that we face as
a community and how expressing our experience strengthens our ability to create change.
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Reflections on
last year's
Valentine's Day,
Part2
learned through their actions that they
could, in fact, confront the powers of the
In the aftermath of the
State's apparatus of repression and win.
The police, on the other hand, learned
post-concert events (of
which even the descripthat they could be defeated." To this I ask:
tion is contentious and
what has been gained? How are we better
debatable, some calling
as students, a campus community, and
it a riot while others
ultimately, as people? I can easily say that
an uprising), many
in each of these aspects we are no better
disappointing things took place within the than we were on Feb. 14, 2008.
campus, some continuing to this day.
Any moral high ground that could have
First, the campus became extremely been gained that night from non-violent
divided, both within the student popula- resistance to the police arresting the wrong
tion as well as between students and the guy and subsequently over-reacting with
administration, including the police.
pepper spray and other forms of violence
Second, for a campus that beats the word was completely lost as soon as that cop car
"solidarity" to death, I found student soli- was flipped. For this I am deeply sorry. We
darity significantly lacking.
must now admit our mistakes and become
I am still asked on a fairly consistent wiser, using this as a lesson for future
basis, "what happened with your case?" action. We should not blind ourselves in a
The eight of us who were tried for this inci- desperate attempt to claim victory.
On a personal level, besides having to
dent were put up on the cross for actions
in which many students participated in, pay an exorbitant amount of money for
and the burden, specifically the financial the next couple of years, I have also been
burden, has fallen on
accused on a number
our shoulders alone,
IT IS NOT THE
of occasions of being
with no help from the
a snitch. Snitching is
INTENTION OF THESE strictly against my
studentpopulation.
To give the specific
personal politics. I do
numbers,
every ARTICLES TO GARNER notbelieveinretribumonth, for two years,
tion, and would not
I owe $372.48 to pay
SYMPATHY FROM
wish anyone to go
for "my" share of the
through what I have
cop car, diversion
THE EVERGREEN
gone through. To my
program fees, and
knowledge, none of
County Clerk fees.
COMMUNITY, ONLY the eight accused,
This doesn't include
including
myself,
the $4,500 I had to TO POINT OUT THAT have
g1ven
any
pay to hire a lawyer.
names, to which I can
As I enter into the IF WE NEED AN EVENT say I am extremely
post-college world,
proud,
especially
this is a financial
LIKE THIS TO SPUR because we have
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be easily navigated.
US INTO TEMPORARY glVlng up names,
Numerous
indias it would directly
viduals have told LIMITED ACTION, WE reduce our monthly
me that a real and
payments.
beneficial dialogue ARE IN DEEP TROUBLE In perhaps what
was
established
might point to a
after thl· incident, to which I continue to fallacy in humans, in which we can see a
reply that I have seen no such evidence. bad decision yet still stand by it, I really
Th~ climate of fear that was present after
don't regret my choice that night. Getting
the incident did not allow all opinions to blitzed with my friends and seeing one of
be safely expressed, and the eight of us my favorite musical acts from backstage,
who were charged had no place in this only to follow it up by taking part in a
supposed dialogue. There were no discus- night of college debauchery beating a lifesion on many critical issues, including less hunk of metal into a dented lifeless
why students acted in the manner they did hunk of metal was a blast.
(specifically towards the police), and what
It is not the intention of these articles
the police's role was in how the situation to garner sympathy from the Evergreen
was handled (especially the lack of non- community, only to point out that if we
violent tactics).
need an event like this to spur us into
Recently, the Disorientation Manual temporary limited action, we are in deep
came out with an article included about the trouble. True lasting change must come
Dead Prez show. I fear the article's presen- from increasing the collective conscious
tation of the events make it something it rather than by reducing brain cells and
wasn't, namely a political victory for those clear thought. This is not calling for a stepattempting to create a freer and more just down from action-simply a step back to
society. I quote the opening paragraph of reassess, learn, and finally grow as people
the article as an example of this thinking: trying to realize greater freedom.
"February 14'\ 2008, Olympia: a date
that the pigs and the people collectively
Jake Silberman is a senior enrolled in
will not forget for some considerable End of Prosperity.
time. Hundreds of people that night, and
considerably more the following morning,
An open letter to
PETA
by KATRINA HANSON
I used to be a strong
supporter of the
People for the Ethical
1
Treatment of Animals ~
(PETA) organization
until I noticed that
you blatantly oppress
women in your attempts to remove
animals from oppression. I searched your
website for the word "bikini" and found
40 entries. Many of the search results
involved naked women or women in
bikinis, and these women were almost all
white with long blond hair, skinny, and
typify very mainstream ideals of beauty.
I understand that many people in our
society respond most strongly to these
blatant images of mainstream heteronormative sex exploitation ofwomen, and
that it is an easy way to attract attention
to your campaign. I simply find it ridiculous that an organization that so strongly
supports rights for one oppressed group
(animals) while purposefully oppressing
another group (female-bodied people) to
gain attention. Exploiting one group to
benefit another creates a neutral result
overall.
I found this quote on your website
from the President of PETA, Ingrid E.
Newkirk: "Forgive us our bikinis and
our shock tactics, but our message that
all beings, both human and nonhuman
deserve compassion and respect is one
that we must work hard to make heard."
It seems to me that you counteract
this statement by treating the women in
your campaigns with disrespect. As you
said, all beings deserve compassion and
respect. I suggest you show that compassion and respect to your female activists,
as well as the animals that you are fighting for.
Katrina Hanson is a junior enrolled in
Spanish and Gender, Race, Class, and
Bodies.
Villians
by ERIN GRAY
man invisible, and he goes crazy and starts
killing people. This freaked me out; the idea
of an invisible psychotic killer is terrifying.
There is a scene when he hides in someone's
shower, so for a long time after I watched that
movies whenever I went into the bathroom
I would hit the curtain so if he or any other
psychotic killer was hiding there I would
know.
Animals often freak me out, like the veloceraptors from Jurassic Park. They are the
ultimate predator: smart, fast, quick-learning,
and are well-equipped to tear me apart. I had a
dream that the human race was being hunted
by a pack of yellow veloceraptors after I saw
Jurassic Park.
The movie that gives me the creeps just
thinking about it is Arachnophobia. I remember watching it in my third-grade Halloween
party. At the end, the mother spider launches
herself at the face of the guy-that scared the
crap out of me. I cannot kill a spider that is
above my head because I am afraid it will
launch its self at my face and I could not
handle that.
I can't have a discussion about villains
without solidifying my complete nerdy-ness
and talking about Darth Vader. Darth Vader
is a beautifully crafted villain; he has such a
sinister presence with his iconic breathing, the
power of the dark side, and the fact the audience does not get to see his face. Although
Vader is a great villain, he never scared me; it
was always Jabba the Hutt who I found to be
unnerving. He is comical in many ways, but
his cruelty and callousness are the things that
make him so unpleasant. He is so powerful
that he is feared when he cannot even come
after his victims himself. That's impressive.
Things that are unknown or that I cannot
understand scare me most. The ring wraiths
with their unending hunger for the ring,
psychotic individuals driven to extremes;
vicious man-killing spiders without human
rules or laws-these are the kind of thing that
scare me. But not the Queen of Hearts.
When I was little, I
loved the movie Alice
in Wonderland, but my
mother refused to buy it
for me. I couldn't understand why; I loved the
movie, and it's not like I
was asking for a solid-gold copy. Finally, I
got a copy from Santa for Christmas and my
mother told me why she wouldn't get it for
me. My mother thought the Queen of Hearts
was too scary and thought I would be afraid
of her. This first flaw in my mother's logic
was that I had already seen the movie and did
not think the Queen of Hearts was scary, and,
second, the Queen of Hearts is far too comical to be scary.
Not many Disney villians are particularly
scary to begin with, although l did get a
little freaked out by Cruella de Vil. She was
so driven by her absolute madness it was
unnerving. And I only saw Piqocchio once
but I distinctly remember being really scared
when all the children turned into donkeys.
So what is it that makes a good villain, the
kind of villain who haunts your dreams and
lurks in the dark comers of your room?
I know for me what lurks in my dreams is
from the Lord of the Rings (I know, major
nerd points). The ring wraiths, these shadows
of men who are always hunting and always
out there. One of the scenes I remember most
clearly from the last time I read the books
was in the beginning, when Frodo and his
hobbit crew are leaving Hobbiton on the
road at night, and they hear hoof-beats. They
decide to hide off the side of the road and the
dark rider comes along the road and stops
and smells the ground right where they had
been. I held my breath when I read that part
fearing the wraith would find them. They are
the ultimate character to haunt my dreams;
there is no way to escape them.
One villain who scared me so much that
it seeped into my waking life was the main
character of the movie Hollow Man, a movie
Erin Gray is a senior enrolled in an indeabout a group of scientists who make this pendent learning contract.
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10 COOPER POINTJOURNAL 2009
February 26, 2009
Hypo-hypo-hypothetical
IMAN, ff'S 'THE BADGE1~ GENERA710N
by MIKEY J. BADGER
While you are taking
a train from New York
to Seattle, the conductor
deems it necessary to
stop the train exactly at
the halfway point. The
conductor is a studious
man and somewhat of a distorter of space,
time, and reality-supernatural powers as it
were. He comes over on the intercom with
some, well, interesting news that will put
your train-traveling undies into some tight
little bundies, per se.
The conductor states fairly nonchalantly
that he knows there is a chasm a mile beyond
this point, and over this chasm the bridge
has fallen into an condition less than complimentary to the continuance of a human's life,
and will-with a 100% certainty-break if
so much as one more ounce is added upon
its abnormally shaky rails. Seeing as the
train is well over a few tons (battling most
blue whales in size and weight), the bridge
will surely lose its ability to hold any object
let alone this train you happen to be on.
This conductor-who happens to be showing up Mr. Einstein in the realm of space
and time and offering Descartes a lesson
in reality and reason-offers the passengers
two choices: either a) continue on with the
journey and surely fall to your death with the
knowledge that you will only live for one
more mile, but also the knowledge that you
have lived a life (hopefully) worth living-this
will be akin to bludgeoning Death with the
blunt end of his scythe, suitably surprising
but not unwarranted; or b) the conductor can
fix this bridge (from where he stands a mile
away, due in part to telekinetic powers and
the whole reality changing thing). But the
catch is that you will continuously be on this
train bv travelin!! halfwav to Seattle from
where you currently are and then stopping
again; then from that point stopping halfway
between there and Seattle, and so on to infinite. Basically you will be going from point
A, (where you are) to a point halfway from
there (A), and constantly moving towards
point B (Seattle). Mathematically and logically, by moving halfway between each
halfway point, you will literally never reach
Seattle. You might be within the city limits
and within distance to walk anywhere, but
you will never be able to leave this specific
passenger car. All supplies are guaranteed
for survival (such as food and water; and
cigarettes for those of us smokers) and you
will not be able to contact anyone that is not
in the passenger car with you.
Unfortunately, you cannot attempt an act of
violence upon this conductor to ensure your
chance of survival off the train, for reasons
unknown (I mean come on, this is a hypothetical situation anyway).
What's more is that the conductor (as stated)
is proving that he is more in tune with reality
than any logician, philosopher, or supposed
deity, and much more apt at bending this
reality than any acid trip you've ever experienced-he is allowing every individual
to choose his own fate. So if you choose to
die, no one else will die who doesn't choose
to; and vice versa, if you should choose to
perpetually be on this train for the rest of
your natural-born life, no other passenger
will have to follow suit.
To clarify this over-worded question: would
it be better to die with a life lived but only a
mile left to live, considering and speculating
on your life thus far ... or to live perpetually
moving towards a destination that you mathematically and logically can never reach?
Mikey Badger is a sophomore enrolled in
Self and Culture.
The word
by DOUGLAS MOORE
Now
before
you
make the homophobic
judgment, let me, a
heterosexual individual,
make the statement that
in order to accomplish
anything, I believe that
people in nature are "bi".
Yes "bi" in the sense that people need to
work all alleys of the spectrum in order to get
the wax flowing and the ball rolling.
Talking about "sex" as in the act of sex,
whether it be "making love" or simply "fucking," I prefer the nature of someone who is
physically and behaviorally the opposite of
me: a woman. In other terms, a vagina and
boobs.
Now I am in full support for the union of
a man and man or woman and woman, if
they as lovers find balance within each other
as a sustainable couple in this democratic
country. I'll claim the conservative stance
by saying "Hey I don't give a shit what you
do in the privacy of your own home". But I
am concerned about your sustainability as a
couple because even though I may not agree
with your sexual stance, you are a member
in this society and effect the sustainability of
our shared environment.
Maybe homosexuality is simple evolution
for our species to slow down the birth rate
before we destroy ourselves with over population, starvation, wars, and global warming.
Because judgments are real and we are all
prone to human emotions like jealousy, you
might see me on the bus and still make the
judgement that I am homophobic. Because
your entitled to your opinion, I simply don't
care. I do admit that sometimes I feel uncomfortable in public situations dodging hits
from a gay male ...
Wait "gay male"... ? thats what pisses me
off. Can't we be scientific and just call them
HOMO (same) SEXUAL? No seriously, you
don't even know how many times I'll feel
cheerful and exuberant and be asked "how
do you feel"? And instead of using the boring
same old "good" or "happy" I want to say
"You know what? Today's a damn fucking
good day, I feel quite gay". But no, instantly
when someone hears the word "gay", despite
the context, they associates their state of
being with homosexual.
The Webster dictionary defines the word
gay as
"1 a: happily excited : merry <in a gay
mood> b: keenly alive and exuberant : having
or inducing high spirits <a bird's gay spring
song>
2 a: bright , lively <gay sunny meadows> b:
brilliant in color
3. Given to social pleasure"
and finally at number "4. of, relating, or
used by homosexuals."
Well fuck definition 4! Who says only
homosexuals use the word gay?
The point I'm trying to make in this blurb
of an article is that heterosexuals should not
use the word gay in a derogatory association.
Instead they should reclaim the word as a
expression of a mood that is positive.
Douglas Moore is a sophomore at The
Evergreen State College.
Introducing Evergreen's
own little "Israel lobby"
by PHAN NGUYEN
A window display
in the CAB this week
purports
to
show
why
we
reasons
should support Israel.
"Support democracy.
Support Israel," says
one of the displayed signs, which were
created by a pro-Israel PR firm called
BlueStarPR. The display is part of a
campaign organized by a handful of
students, attempting to whitewash Israel's
continued illegal occupation of Palestine
and oppression of Palestinians. These
same students have also been tabling in the
CAB and distributing literature produced
by another, more racist pro-Israel group,
StandWithUs.
Both BlueStarPR and StandWithUs are
part of a wider pro-Israel propaganda
industry aimed at dominating discourse of
the Palestiniian-lsraeli conflict on college
campuses. They work closely with the
Israeli government and are heavily funded
by pro-Israel foundations. StandWithUs
has a staff of 40 and a budget of close to
$4 million.
StandWithUs gives up to $100 to
reproduce and distribute their literature
on campuses and provides stipends of
$1000 per year to college students to push
Israel's message. Last year, StandWithUs
gave $1000 to Evergreen students to
promote Israel. This year, Evergreen's
little pro-Israel lobby has received similar
funding, if not more.
StandWithUs also offers grants to bring
pro-Israel speakers such as Walid Shoebat, a born-again evangelical Christian
who claims to be a former Palestinian
Muslim terrorist, even though Shoebat
has already been exposed as a phony by
the Israeli newspaper the Jerusalem Post.
StandWithUs and BlueStarPR belong to
a network known as the Israel on Campus
Coalition (ICC), whose members have
campaigned to fire college professors
critical of Israel and to threaten the funding of colleges and universities that allow
the Palestinian side to be heard. Last year,
members of the ICC initially convinced
the University of St. Thomas to disinvite
Desmond Tutu from speaking, based on
supposed anti-Semitic statements, which
he never made.
ICC member organizations, in conjunction with the Israeli government, even
provide "Hasbara [propaganda] Fellowships" to fly students to Israel to teach
them how to best advocate for Israel on
college campuses.
The pro-Israel group on campus so far
has not displayed much sophistication.
However, the claims they disseminate
are worth addressing (space prohibits me
from addressing them all):
A free press?
One of the BlueStarPR posters in the
CAB window display proclaims that Israel
is the only country in the Middle East with
a free press. Aside from the fact that this
does not excuse Israeli atrocities-just
as a free press in the US doesn't justify
US atrocities-it simplifies the Israeli
government's treatment of the press.
All journalists working in Israel must
clear their reports with the Israeli military
censor. The censor has prohibited printing the names and photographs of Israeli
officers involved in the recent Gaza invasion, in order to obstruct potential war
crimes prosecution. Additionally, Israel
barred journalists from entering the Gaza
Strip. Israeli journalist Amira Hass was
arrested for reporting from the Gaza Strip
in December, and last month two other
journalists were arrested for reporting on
events two hours before they were cleared
by the censor. In recent years, Israel has
refused to renew press credentials for
Palestinian journalists.
Apartheid comparisons
Meanwhile, one of the StandWithUs
flyers distributed on campus claims
that "Divesting from Israel is dishonest, hypocritical and anti-Semitic," and
that comparing Israel to apartheid South
Africa "insults millions of Black South
Africans who suffered under a true Apartheid regime."
However, apartheid comparisons have
already been made by many black South
Africans. Desmond Tutu stated that visiting Israel and Palestine reminded him "so
much of what used to happen to us blacks
in apartheid South Africa." Some of the
actions of the IDF against the Palestinians
were "so uncannily reminiscent ... of the
vicious apartheid regime."
Elsewhere, Tutu wrote, "Yesterday's
South African township dwellers can tell
you about today's life in the Occupied
Territories .... Many South Africans are
beginning to recognize the parallels to
what we went through."
Last year, a delegation of prominent
South Africans visited Palestine. This is
what they said:
Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, ANC
parliamentarian: "What I see here is worse
than what we experienced."
Fatima Hassan, South African human
rights lawyer: "I think [this] is worse than
what we experienced during apartheid."
Mondli Makhanya, editor-in-chief of
the South African Sunday Times: "The
level of the apartheid, the racism and the
brutality are worse than the worst period
of apartheid [in South Africa) .... What
we went through was terrible, terrible,
terrible-and yet there is no comparison.
Here it is more terrible."
A few weeks ago, South African dock
workers refused to unload a ship carrying
Israeli goods. Their slogan was "Isolate
Apartheid Israel!" and they said they
were following "a proud history of worker
resistance against apartheid."
Recently, Desmond Tutu referred to
divesting from Israel as "a monumental
and historic step in the struggle for Palestinian equality, self-determination and
peace in the Holy Land by non-violent
means," and compared it to the "struggle
against apartheid in South Africa."
Thus, the StandWithUs flyer on one
hand claims to be protecting the legacy
of South African apartheid for the sake
of black South Africans, while on the
other hand darning that people like Tutu
and the South African dock workers are
"dishonest, hypocritical and anti-Semitic"
for supporting boycott and divestment.
But if you want more apartheid analogies, look no further than the window
display in the CAB. The BlueStarPR
posters encourage support for Israel as a
civilized western nation and imply that
Arabs are better off under Israeli control
than anywhere else in the Middle East.
These were the same types of assertions
used by white South Africans to justify
apartheid.
Phan Nguyen is a senior at The Evergreen State College.
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© COOPER POINTJOURNAL 2009
It's an issue of
social control
February 26, 2009
......................goutside
the budget cut
by TEZ STAIR
28% of the Anti-Proposal flyers were
removed, and a staggering 96% of the
The issue of silencPro-Proposal flyers were removed.
ing voices has been
In addition, I counted at least 35
at the forefront of
flyers using the same layout and
many recent issues,
image as the Pro-Proposal flyer were
not the least of
posted in response to the original. This
which is the Police
new "Parody" flyer had the wording
Services
"Rifle
changed to express an Anti-Proposal
Proposal", in which the concept of a position and began with the phrase
silent majority is often invoked.
"It's about Social Control" in contrast
I conducted an experiment to test with the original "It's about Campus
our campus's tolerance of opposing Preparedness". These Parody flyers
opinions by posting opinionated and appeared in many more places than I
non-opinionated flyers concerning originally posted flyers, including the
the Police Services Proposal around entirety of B Building.
campus. My two hypotheses were that
Discussion:
(1) The Pro-Rifle Proposal and AntiThe fact that more Anti-Proposal
Rifle Proposal flyers I posted would flyers and overwhelmingly more Probe removed at a higher frequency than Proposal flyers were removed than
the Control, and (2) The Pro-Proposal the control indicates that both of my
flyer would be removed at a higher hypotheses were in fact true. This
frequency than the Anti-Proposal flyer. indicates our campus' intolerance of
Methods:
opposing
viewI first constructed
points and willtwo different flyers
ingness to actively
THIS INDICATES
that
expressed
attempt to silence
differing stances
OUR CAMPUS'
opposing voices.
on the Police
I would have liked
Services Proposal,
INTOLERANCE OF
to conduct this
taking care not to
experiment over a
attack any group
OPPOSING VIEWlonger timescale
or
organization
and over a larger
and remain as
POINTS AND
area
(including
non-offensive as
the LAB buildpossible while still
WILLINGNESS TO
ings, the Lecture
presenting a likely
Halls, SEM I &
argument. The two
ACTIVELY ATTEMPT II, and the Library
flyers I produced
Building), but I
I refer to as "Prowas limited by
TO SILENCE OPPOSand
Proposal"
time constraints
" Anti- Proposal "
and the necessary
lNG VOICES
respectively. I also
discretion I needed
arranged to post a third flyer having to observe while posting the flyers.
nothing to do with the proposal, in order
I believe I have identified a problem,
to serve as a control for the experiment. although I fear I lack a suitable soluI received approval from the Evergreen tion to it. I would like to think that
Anime Club to post flyers advertising there is a great diversity of opinions
their recent event, Chibi Chibi Con, in this community and that .we would
although the EAC was not informed all be permitted to express our own
about the experiment.
views freely and openly without fear
I proceeded to post a total of 25 flyers of political censorship, retaliation, or
of each variety on 25 different bulletin discrimination, although at this time I
boards together in sets of three across must say it is not the case. There is a
campus, totaling 75 flyers in all. I perpetual sense of bullying that exists
posted all of the flyers between 10 p.m. within our community, expressed on
and 1 a.m. in order to avoid being seen the walls of our new library building,
posting all of them at the same time, on the signs along our roads, on the
to preserve the integrity of the experi- bulletin boards outside our classrooms,
ment. I posted two sets in the HCC, and for some of us outside of our places
two sets in modular housing, eight sets of residence.
in the soup, five sets in A Building, two
Advised action:
sets on upper-campus outdoor bulletin
I urge anyone troubled by this to come
boards, and six sets in the CAB. I took forward and denounce the silencing
care to arrange the flyers such that they of voices, especially if those voices
would appear randomly distributed, disagree with your own.
and I also was careful not to post over
Whether you agree with me or not,
any other flyers already posted (which if you feel strongly about this issue,
was often difficult).
please attend the weekly Geoduck
Between 44 and 48 hours after post- Student Union (GSU) meeting in SEM
ing the flyers, I returned and counted II E-ll 05 Wednesdays from 1-3 p.m.
how many flyers of which types were Student voices are always the first
still intact and on the boards where I thing on the agenda. Alternatively, you
left them.
could send an email to geoduckunion@
Results:
gmail.com.
After taking a count of the remaining
The flyers can be downloaded online
flyers, I found that 42 of the original at http://w3t.org/rifles.
75 were still posted. Of those, 23 were
Control, 18 were Anti-Proposal, and
Tez Stair is a student at The Evergreen
1 was Pro-Proposal. This means that State College and a member of the
8% of the control flyers were removed, GSU.
by C. V. ROTONDO
decisions.
Since the early 1970s, these social
relations have called for massive cuts in
social spending, which on campus means
things like the Center for Community
Based Learning and Action (slated to
be eliminated), the QuaSR and Writing
Centers (looking at major cuts), and
the Longhouse (slated for elimination).
These social relations demand that
resources, even things like the campus
health center, must be profitable, in the
sense that they make more money than is
put into them.
This framework is coupled with racist,
gendered, and class-based ideology that
views services for historically marginalized peoples-the reservation-based
program, the Tacoma campus, and First
Peoples- as expendable. The rhetoric,
exemplified by Art Costantino at a recent
GSU meeting, that administrators' are
trying to preserve Evergreen's educational programs and its unique vision, fail
to mention for whom these privileges are
being preserved as well as who defines
that vision.
Given the context of cutting social
services and making all aspects of the
campus profitable (as defined above),
what can we do about it?
Part of the reason that these capitalist social relations dominate discussions about how to allocate money and
resources is a lack of coherent alternative visions. I am just as guilty as any
political dissident of spending more time
denouncing capitalism than proposing
and building alternatives. The circumscribed, yet substantial amount of power
to be wielded by students, faculty and
staff (ideally working together) regarding budget cuts would be best used by
coming up with alternatives, clearly
articulating them, and winning the
support of the largest possible range of
community members.
The context for the ideologies seeming
to dominate the discourse is important
to this task, because to transcend that
discourse and the social relations in
which it is rooted, we must be able to
think outside of them (while unfortunately still living under them).
Could we not develop our own definition of productive capital? What if
"productive" meant that the most goods
and services were available to the widest
population on campus, with emphasis
upon those populations systemically
denied access-people of color, women,
the non able-bodied, transgender people,
and the economically deprived? Would
enormous administrative salaries and
benefits, increased tuition, and dismantled social services be productive in this
sense?
I encourage those who want to exercise collective power over budget cuts
and produce alternatives to the current
proposals to come to meetings of the
student union, voice dissent and visions,
as well as look for the coming first meeting of the alternative budget working
group.
Given the anxieties ~
that surround pending
budget cuts on campus,
current proposals that
eliminate jobs (especially student jobs),
services,
and,
by
extension, values, I think it's important
to put college finance into context. Cuts
to the college's budget are not dictated
by some "free" preponderant capitalist
market. They are the result of decisions
made by state officials, college administrators, citizens, faculty, and students.
Though we may not feel we have a voice
in campus finances as students, staff, or
faculty, we wield potential influence,
albeit circumscribed by the decisions of
others and already established social relations. Let's make our way from the most
familiar and tangible level of decisionmaking to the most distant and abstract,
in order to make informed decisions
about how to apply our own potentially
substantial power.
We might consider those on the budget
planning committee, that group of administrators, faculty, and student representatives, as the nearest decision-makers;
indeed, we are directed to them with our
concerns. These people act in an advisory
position, however, drawing up proposals,
doing research, and drafting language,
to be approved by the Vice President of
Student Affairs, Art Costantino, then the
president, Les Puree, and above that, the
Board of Trustees.
Each individual in this process asserts
influence comparable to their politicaleconomic position-the student representatives have the least amount of sway,
on up the line (largely by pay grade
and institutional position) to that shady
consortium of Trustees (to which the
Geoduck Student Union (GSU) has a
much-overworked and underappreciated
representative).
If students, staff, and faculty wish to
exert influence within this bureaucracy,
we are forced to make recommendations
to the advisory committee, which would
then make recommendations to the next
representative, on up the chain. This may
seem disheartening, but consider that
even members of the Board of Trustees,
with seemingly far-reaching power, are
beholden to the mandates of Washington
State, thus ostensibly to the taxpaying
public, and even more remotely, to the
dictates of capitalist markets and the
U.S. government.
Now, when we reach this level of
consideration- we are seeking for the
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Geoduck basketball
season revisited
TEN SENIOR MEMBERS TO GRADUATE
by NICK-PACE
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Geoducks win their last
home game .
game, particularly wi.th intense layouts
and three-pointers which drew many
Evergreeners to cheer ecstatically.
In particular, in the men's game vs.
Cascade, a significant amount of points
were scored in the beginning of the first
half, with Evergreen's score being almost
triple to Cascade's with only about eight
minutes passed. From that point on, the
pace of the game began to build up to
be more of a challenge to the Geoducks,
but, nevertheless, the team was able
defend their home game and outscore
Cascade by a significant margin of 90 to
76, showing a similar difference to the
The last home games for the men's and
women's basketball team at Evergreen
have come to pass last Friday and Saturday, and Wednesday for the Men's team
and significant changes are sure to result
in the aftermath. Ten athletes total for
both teams will be graduating, leaving
several players to take up the graduates'
mantles, not to mention the anticipation
of whatever new recruits will appear in
the future.
To top off the last couple of games, one
of the men even made a successful public
marriage proposal during the graduation
ceremony that was held for the six men
IN THE MEN'S
before the game against Cascade last
Saturday.
GAME VS.
The women's team has had two loses on
their last games, 49 to 59 against Warner
CASCADE, A
Pacific and 64 to 85 against Cascade
the day after. Nevertheless, the women
SIGNIFICANT
did open with a bang with five consecutive wins, particularly their first game
AMOUNT OF
this season against Cal Sate University
Maritime with 73 to 59. There were also
POINTS WERE
a number of wins during the middle and
end of the season during the away games,
SCORED IN THE
such as against Cascade College back in
early January and Northwest Christian in
early February.
On the woman's team, four players are team's previous game against Warner
to graduate including: Joy White (10), Pacific College: 99 to 88. If there is one
Kristi Auckland (21), Jeanette Owens thing the men's team have significantly
(22), and Rosalind Lee (25). White and done in their games, it's defending
Lee have both made their marks on this their home territory, with only losing
year including Lee's Cascade Conference one home game to College of Idaho by
Player of The Week (11124/08), MVP at a close game of 69 to 71. This ability
Cal-State Maritime Tournament honors, . proved to be successful in the Men's last
and White's All-Tournament Team at Cal home game vs. College of Idaho which
State Maritime Tournament honor this despite losing to them on the 11th of last
season, not to mention having the high- January 69 to 71, they proved to give an
est number of assists during the games excellent 70 to 57 Wednesday, February
this season. Auckland has also made her 25. Only one minor setback occured
strong contribution on the team with her when half the stadium couldn't see the
record of points, rebounds, and blocks scoreboard, due to a reserve scoreboard
this season. Freshman Alex Saab (32) being used, due to technical problems
has also made an impression this year by with the two usual ones.
On the men's team six are to graduate
providing the most steals this season.
As the final games come to a close on including: Michael Ward (0), John Levi
the men's side, the team proved its skill III (2), Aaron Schlund (23), Marcus
especially during the first halves of each ~glifr(fi~); Qill49hcM6oMdmkl(1ili);h anti
All-Cascade Conference Team Honorable Mention honor and the Cascade
Conference Newcomer of the Year honor
from last season, and will be a significant
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The team should still have a significant
peace sign
Gu::1temala,
roster for next season, particularly junior
Olympia, Tamie
MundoRe<JI
Nathan Menefee (5) who has already
Sterling silver
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earrings
Bolivia,
Zuni artisans
number of honors including NAIA Div. II
Andes Gifts
All-American Third Team, All-Cascade
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Nepal
II Player ofThe Week (Feb. 13) 2007-08,
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Cascade Conference Player of The Week
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12), Cascade Conference Player of
Alpaca gloves
Cotton skirt
The
Week
(Dec. 11) in 2007-2008.
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Concerts of international and local performers.
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CALENDAR OF EVENT·S
Thursday. February 26
Friday. February 27
All day Meet Mary Magdelene!!!
Images of the divine feminine in scripttJre
and Gnostic gospel explored by Lectio
Divina. Part 1 of2. Longhouse.
Black History Month Film Festival
Part 2
Lean on Me by John Avildson
5:45-8:45 p.m. Lecture Hall 5.
Loss of Beauty and Our Cultural
Crisis
A talk by Dr. John Mark Reynolds. 3:30
p.m. CAB 3'd Floor, The Pit.
Yet Another Improv Show!
Presented by Generation Friends. It's free
but you should probably donate anyways.
7 p.m. Lecture Hall 1.
The Icarus Project meeting
The Icarus Project is a radical support
group for those who have what some people
call mental illnesses. 4 p.m. COM 307.
HCC Movie night.
This night it is Over The Edge, a story
about teenage rebellion! 7 p.m. HCC.
Saturday. February 28
League of Women Voters for Thurston
County
A general meeting concerning the costs of
future health care from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at
1063 Capitol WayS. Suite 212.
Black History Month Film Festival
Poetic Justice by John Singleton followed
by Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee.
5:45-10:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall5.
Game night in the Greenery
"Don't have a meal plan? That's okaythere will be free cookies!" Hosted by the
Greener Organization and Gender Neutral
Housing. Greenery overflow room 6-8
p.m.
Mandible Arts Collective Fiction Writing Workshop
Featuring guest authors, publishers,
lunch, Indie Press book fair, readings, and
art show. It's $7 and you need to register
in advance at golmol06@evergreen.edu.
10 a.m.-4 p.m. at 1009 State Avenue NE.
Used book sale
Benefits Out of the Woods, an emergency
shelter for homeless families.lO a.m.- 3
p.m. at 2200 East End St. NW.
Yet Another Improv Show!
The last day ofYetAnother Improv Show!
Again, it's free, but you should donate
money anyways. 7 p.m. in Lecture Hall5.
STUDENT GROUP MEETING TIME
Mondays
S&A Board CAB 320, 3-5 p.m.
Women of Color Coalition CAB 216, 3
p.m.
Hillel meeting CAB 320, 3:30p.m.
Greeners for Truth and Reconciliation
Sem II B 3109,4 p.m.
Cooper Point Journal CAB 316, 5 p.m.
Thesdays
Folk Dance CAB 320 cubicle 4, 10 a.m.
Black Student Union CAB 3rd floor (TV
Lounge), 3 p.m.
HABOO LIB 2147,4 p.m.
Capoeira CRC 316,5:30 p.m.
Student Video Garners Association
CAB 3rd floor (TV lounge), 6-9 p.m.
Greeners 4 Christ SEMII D 1107, 7-8:30
p.m.
Wednesdays
Students at Evergreen for Ecological
Design (SEED) CAB 320 cube 17, 12:30
p.m.
Amnesty International CAB 320 Solarium, 1 p.m.
Barrier Breakers club LIB 2318, 1-3
p.m.
CENSE Nature Walks Front of clock
tower, 1 p.m.
Chemistry Club Lab II room 2211, 1-2
p.m.
Folk Dance Alliance CAB 320 (cube 4), 1
p.m.
Geoduck Student Union Sem II E1105,
1-4p.m.
Synergy CAB 320, cube 17, 1:30 p.m.
Women's Resource Center CAB 320,
1:30-3 p.m.
Black Student Union CAB 3rd floor (TV
Lounge), 2 p.m.
Center 4 Sustainable Entrepreneurship
SEMIIA2109, 2 p.m.
Students Educating Students About the
Middle East (SESAME) CAB 320, 2 p.m.
Clean Energy Lab II 1250 (February 18),
3p.m.
Pre-Health Society Lab I room 3033, 34:30p.m.
Freedom of Consciousness Club CAB
3rd floor (the pit), 3:30p.m
Committee in Solidarity with the People
of El Salvador (CISPES) CAB 3rd floor, ·4
p.m.
Evergreen Queer Alliance SEMII A21 09,
4p.m.
Hip Hop Congress Lecture Hall Rotunda,
4-5:30p.m.
SIIA Shalom CAB 3rd floor, 4 p.m.
Writer's Guild LIB (Writing Center), 4
p.m.
Greener Organization HCC, 5:30p.m.
Anime Club CAB 3rd floor, 6-9 p.m.
Socialist Alternative SEMI! C31 09, 6
p.m.
Thursdays
Global Medical Brigade SEMI! E21 09,
4p.m.
Sabot lnfoshoppe CAB Solarium, 4 p.m.
Cooper Point Journal CAB 316, 5 p.m.
Gun Club Sem II C1107, 5 p.m.
.Hip Hop Congress Board meetings in the
Lecture Rotunda, 5 p.m.
Common Bread Longhouse 1002 (Cedar
Room), 5:30-8 p.m.
Gaming Guild CAB 320, 5:30-9 p.m.
Juggling Club Red Square, 6 p.m.
Fridays
Carnival club CAB 320,4-5:30 p.m.
Evergreen Student Productions/MEl 3rd
floor of the CAB (TV Lounge), 5:15p.m.
Saturdays
Anime Club HCC, 2-4 p.m.
Synergy Benefit
Presenting: Sundaggers, Balls Out Booze
Band, Jungleboss, and a special guest DJ.
9 p.m. at 106 Division NW.
Sunday. March 1
Camp Quixote second anniversary
There's gonna be dinner, music, a movie
screening, and a raffie! Located at the First
Christian Church of Olympia. $8 a person
or $30 for a family. 4-8 p.m. at 701 Franklin Street.
Monday. March 2
Week 9 starts! Eye on the prize! You
can do it!
RA Information Sessions
If you're interested in becoming an RA
next year, you can go to this and ask the
current RA's what the down-low is. Also,
you can pick up an application. 9-10 p.m.
in A-205 in the fishbowl lounge.
Tuesday. March 3
Queer
Sexual/Domestic
Violence
Awareness-Raiser.
Meet in the pit on the 3rd floor of the CAB
at 11:50 a.m. Come ready for a parade and
be FIERCE! Hosted by OSAP (Office of
Sexual Assault Prevention).
Writing
Center
Self-Evaluation
Workshop
"Writing prompts, ample discussion, and
a space for questions will help to bring your
quarter into focus. Whether a first-timer or
a seasoned pro at self-evaluations, these
workshops will strengthen your evaluation-writing muscles." Contact the Writing
Center at 360.867.6420 for more information. 6:30p.m. in Primetime, located on the
main floor of A-Dorm in Housing.
Wednesday. March 4
Writing
Center
Self-Evaluation
Workshop
"Writing prompts, ample discussion, and
a space for questions will help to bring
your quarter into focus. Whether a firsttimer or a seasoned pro at self-evaluations,
these workshops will strengthen your
evaluation-writing muscles." Contact the
Writing Center at 360.867.6420 for more
information. 2 p.m. in LIB 2310.
Auditions for The Tempest
William Shakespeare's The Tempest. If
you want to audition, show up in COM 210
or make an appointment with the director,
Paul Purvine, at purpau 16C£V.evergreen.edu.
If you want to, you can bring a monologue
and a resume. 5 p.m. COM 210.
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