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THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE olympia, washington
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New pressures
onS&A
decisions
by JASON SLOTKIN
The student-financed Services
and Activities (S&A ) money
serves as a pot that feeds the
budgets of various extracurricular activities and services on
campus.
This weekend, the S&A board,
the students responsible for
allocating that money will have
to determine the size of that pot
for the next two years. They will
also have to decide if an increase
in the fee that every student pays
is necessary to keep this pot full.
The fund is already under
pressure from over $4.5 million
in requests over the next two
years from groups that have
received money from the S&A
pot before.
Now,
botb.
and
Academic Support Services
(SASS) and The Flaming
Eggplant, groups who were
previously financed elsewhere,
are now collectively seeking
nourishment of no less than
$100,000 a year from S&A.
The SASS proposal includes
nearly over $30,000 for student
positions in First People's Advising Services, Academic Advising, and Key Services.
Not only are two new groups
seeking money from this fund,
but student emollment is
expected to drop by close to 300
full time students over the next
two years: fewer students, fewer
people to pay into the pot.
Each of these full-time students
is currently estimated to pay
$499 in S&A fees.
S&A Board member Lucas
Shapiro says that these new
requests, alone, may not require
increases in student fees, but
admits they will have an impact
on the process.
"Funding them may mean
taking away enhancements from
other groups," said Shapiro.
These requests are for money
that comes from the same pot
that also funds student groups at
Evergreen, and campus services
at the Tacoma and reservation
campus.
According to the budget
proposal, SASS only intend to
seek funding temporarily-until it
can secure other funding.
However, according to Tom
Mercado, Director of student
Activities, historically, once a
group receives S&A money, it
continues to receive it. Both
KAOS and the Childcare Center
became S&A-funded groups
after making initial requests.
S&A must also decide if
they should continue funding
programs from previous years in
the same capacity. At least two of
the returning groups Childcare
Center and Athletics and Recreation-are seeking additional
funding for new equipment and
staff positions.
At the most recent S&A Board
meeting, Andy Com, S&A
Board advisor, told the student
board that "salaries and wages"
comprise most of the returning
budgets.
The board must also make sure
they have enough money to fund
all approved requests and Shapiro feels that a raised S&A fee
may be needed to achieve this.
He said they should avoid raising
the fee more than "necessary".
Mercado said that past S&A
boards have often set aside the
amount of money which goes to
fund the operation of all student
groups and programs at the other
campuses before reviewing
budgets. At their planning meeting, the S&A board decided to
continue this practice.
The S&A Board is allowed to
proposed an increase in fees;
however, the percentage of any
increase in fees cannot be greater
than the increase in tuition: If
tuition is raised 7%, the S&A fee
cannot be raised more than 7%.
The S&A Board will come to a
tentative decision this weekend.
After that, all decisions will be
open for appeal before being
presented for the Board of Trustees for approval.
Jason Slotkin is a senior
enrolled in an independent learning contract.
SIMO"iE FOWLER
STUDENTS VOICED THEIR OPINIONS FOR AND AGAINST
THE RIFLE PROPOSAL AT MONDAY'S FORUM.
Rifle fon1m
by opinion
by BRIAN FULLERTON
Coinciding with the start of the
campus-wide survey, the Police
Services Community Review Board
(PSCRB) conducted another open
forum concerning the proposed
funding to give Police Services
access toAR-15 rifles, body armor,
and active shooter training.
Andrea Seabert, campus Grievance Officer and moderator of the
forum, said that the aim of this
forum was to "provide perspective
to the community review board."
This open forum was structured
slightly differently from the previous PSCRB forums earlier this
year.
After short introductions in
support and opposed to the
proposed funding, specifically for
the rifles, the 30 or so people who
attended the forum were asked to
group together in regards to how
they felt about the proposed funding. Those in complete favor of the
proposed funding were asked to
meet on the far side of A1105 and
report back what they discussed on
see FORUM page 3
Vote "yes or no"
I Survey gauges students' reactions to rifles
by MARK YATES-WHITE
The Police Services Community
Review Board (PSCRB) released
a very short survey on February
23 intended to further assess
the opinions of students, staff,
and faculty on the recent rifle
I proposal. The PSCRB, a group
composed of students, faculty,
and staff, sent out the survey in
order to solicit responses from
students who hadn't made it to
the public forums held earlier in
the year.
The survey, which will be available for students to fill out until
Monday, March 9, offers partici-
pants a choice of two responses:
either in support of or in opposition to the purchase of rifles,
safety gear, and ongoing training.
Respondents are also encouraged
to write a short explanation of
see SURVEY page 3
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GSUupdate
Allegations of GSU reps' misconduct
by MADELINE BERMAN
At this week's GSU meeting, there were
allegations of misconduct among Geoduck
Student Union (GSU) representatives.
However, being that attendance is the only
misconduct directly addressed in the GSU
bylaws and governance documents, there is
no defined recourse for this behavior.
According to representative Charles Loosen,
there are currently no bylaws in place to deal
with this behavior because previous GSU
representatives "did not want to paint themselves into a comer by being too specific."
"Bylaws are drafted as issues arise," says
Loosen, "there is no way to predict what will
happen."
Accusations of misconduct include those
made at Tez Stair and Shyam Khanna about
SURVEY,jrom cover
their position. Nonplussed by the nebulous diversity of opinion available on
the issue, the PSCRB chose this simple
dichotomous approach in order ease its
burden of distilling the wide range of
responses into a more discrete representation of the community at large.
PSCRB member Andrea Seabert
expressed that the decision for a campuswide survey was the result of a desire to
reach more students than had been present at the rifle forums.
In particular, Seabert noted that "a small,
very well organized group of students"
had "done a good job of getting their
position out there, and consistently."
This led her to ponder whether the vehemence of such groups might be overshadowing other voices in the discussion.
In light of this, Seabert stressed the
importance of giving every student a
chance to weigh in on the issue.
"I think that any time a community is
divided, it raises the potential for greater
conflict," Seabert said, adding that she
hoped "there can be enough dialogue
so that at least if people can't reach an
agreement, they can at least understand
their conduct during the Police Services
Community Review Board (PSCRB)
appointment process, Loosen's oppressive behavior towards women, and Chris
Rotondo tearing down student group flyers
on campus.
If representatives are thought to be engaging in misconduct, other reps are allowed
to bring them up for review. But as_ide from
discussing the problem, the most they can do
is vote out the rep in question by consensus.
Also, according to Article 8 of the GSU's
bylaws, if internal conflict is preventing
GSU from fulfilling mission statement, and
a solution cannot be found within the GSU, a
third party can be brought in to mediate and
help resolve the issue. So far this year, this
option has yet to be enacted.
At this week's meeting, many of the issues
brought up tied directly into the issues regarding member misconduct. For example, the
majority of the student voices portion of the
meeting was focused on discourse between
SIIA Shalom and SESAME supporters
about limitations of free speech in regards to
Rotondo admittedly tearing down flyers. The
Women's Resource center also spoke during
student voices about Loosen's (alleged)
negative behavior towards women. Both they
and representative Patrick Walsh proposed
Loosen take anti-oppression training.
When it came time to address the misconduct
of Khanna and Stair, representatives spoke
of broken trust between members because
of their behavior. Some felt that the actions
of both Stair and Khanna were comprable to
each another, while others felt that they were
vastly different. There were some requests of
America is at war; our military and contactors are still occupying Iraq. We must not let
this ongoing tragedy be overshadowed by
other world issues. We may have the luxury
of separating ourselves from this conflict,
but the people of Iraq can't.
The Iraq Memorial to Life, consisting of
thousands of simple grave markers, will
create a tangible reminder of the untold
loss of life in Iraq. It represents a desire
for peace and reconciliation, while offering
silence and a place to reflect, and is a solemn
remembrance of lives lost-not a political
statement.
Markers will be collected from across the
country and assembled in Olympia at Heritage Park, 5th Ave and Water St, for display
on Friday, March 20, and Saturday, March
21.
Mark Yates- White is a student enrolled in
an independent learning contract.
CORRECTIONS:
A MARCil 7 MEETING BETWEEN jORGE GILBERT AND EVERGREEN'S PROVOST DON BANTZ
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To get involved or to make your own
marker, go to www.iraqmemorialtolife.org.
If you have questions, comments, or want
to learn more, please email towardpeace@
iraqmemorialtolife.org. Iraqi civilians need
our voices!
Schedule for Iraq Memorial to Life:
Friday, March 20
8 a.m. Meditation and set-up
1 p.m. Opening ceremony, readings, and
walk
4 p.m. Closing ceremony
8 p.m. Gathering (location TBA)
Saturday, March 21
8 a.m. Meditation
4 p.m. Closing ceremony
5 p.m. Begin take-down
~ JARAE
KELLE
TE SC President speaks at latest budget forum
proposed funding drew the bigger response
from the group; each of the presentations
a poster-sized piece of paper and those in of those opposed to the proposed funding
complete opposition were asked to meet <)rew applause from a portion of the forum
next door on the far side of Al107 and do attendees. At one point, a forum attendee
interrupted another attendee's anti-proposal
the same.
Those who were not as adamant about the presentation to say that it was "soundissue as the groups on the far side or had ing really angry and it's making [him]
questions were to discuss what they thought uncomfortable."
between the two sides, being closer to the · The survey itself, which is to help the
sides that they more agreed with. Of the 30- PSCRB in its official recommendation
ish people who attended the forum, everyone to Vice President of Student Affairs Art
who attended was on the far sides ofA1107 Costantino, started on March 2 is located
on all students' my.evergreen.edu accounts.
andA1105; none were in the middle.
After about 25 minutes, all of the groups The survey concludes Monday, March 9:
reported back what they discussed on the
Brian Fullerton is a senior enrolled in
poster-sized pieces of paper. Of the people
Mediaworks.
who presented, those opposed to the
19, 2009
Madeline Berman is a sophomore enrolled
in Image and Sequence.
Iraq memorial to life
why someone feels the way they do."
As of this writing, over 600 people
have responded to the survey, making it,
by numbers alone, the most significant
indicator of public opinion on the rifle
proposal available thus far.
However, Seabert and fellow PSCRB
member Tim Markus have expressed that
the survey is "but one piece of the puzzle"
and that other important factors will
weigh into the group's recommendation.
According to Markus and Seabert, the
range of responses has been very wide,
and fervent at both extremes.
The PSCRB hopes to have a final
recommend<ttion ready by the end
of March. Vice President of Student
Affairs Art Constantino will wait to hear
the PSCRB 's recommendation before
making a final decision on the proposal.
FORUM ,from cover
RETAINED STUDENT MONEY" IN TJIE FEB.
resignation of these members, which went
un-fufilled.
Sky Cohen may or may not have been
elected as the third student representative to
the PSCRB. Because of !;>locking concerns,
the GSU went from concensus to two-thirds
majority vote. Eleven representatives were
present, creating an odd number. Meeting
protocol requires the GSU to round up to the
next number, being 12. Two reps voted no,
two stood aside and seven voted yes. Though
only four votes were against Cohen, the GSU
would still need eight members to vote in
favor of Cohen for him to be elected, because
only 11 members were actually present.
As some of you know, I am one of three
students on the Student Budgetary Planning
Committee. Last Thursday we held a forum
to inform you about the up-and-coming
budget. The school will be receiving less
money from the state and this will cause a
budget cut.
How big you say? No one knows just yet.
President Les Puree spoke at the forum and
informed students that this could get worse,
and that some ofObama's stimulus package
could offset the deficit, but it would only be a
temporary solution to a permanent problem.
He said the budget will be formed "in such
a way [so as] to be able to teach you and
continue programs."
Puree believes that students "must have
better financial aid" and that the stimulus
money will provide more opportunities for
Pell Grants. But he is unsure about the money
to fund the Washington State Need Grant.
He assured students that "nothing has been
decided" about tuition increases because "no
one knows what the legislature's cap will
be." (As a fun fact, did you know 74% of all
Evergreen students have some sort of financial aid?) Finally, Puree concluded that ''we
are working on this and it's really important
that we get your input-that's our job!"
The forum included a brief introduction
of committee members followed by a short
IS ACTUALLY AN
presentation. The president gave his talk
and answered a few pressing questions from
the students. The remainder of the time was
devoted to students asking questions and
making sure the administration knew about
their most important concerns.
The people on the panel are involved
with the budget process. Those members
were Wendy Endress, Steve Trotter, Walter
Niemiec, Art Constantino, Don Bantz, and
Holly Joseph.
We will be holding more forums as we
receive new information about the budget.
The administration is concerned about. hearing from students and it is this committee's
duty to make sure your input is heard.
For more information about the budget,
check out the school's website at www.evergrcen.edu/budgct or our Facebook group,
"Evergreen Student Budgetary Planning
Committee".
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Forum focuses on flood victims' recovery
...and other Olympia community connections
Forum. Experience this once-in-a-lifetime
forum and learn how you can be ready to
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina respond to your communities' needs in the
ravaged the Gulf Coast. St. Bernard face of a natural disaster through these
Parish, Louisiana was inundated with extraordinary examples. Find us in Lecture
floodwaters averaging 6-20 feet in depth Hall 3 from 1:00-3:30 p.m. on Friday,
for two weeks. One-hundred percent of March6!
Be a part of it-our community is asking
the county's 27,000 homes were rendered
officially uninhabitable.
for your help!
In December 2007, after a series of powerAction Days
Saturday, March 7 we will be spend
ful storms, the Chehalis River overflowed
and inundated Lewis County, Washington. the day at the Fertile Ground Guest
More than 1,000 homes were damaged, House doing permaculture gardening and
including more than 100 that since have getting things ready for the spring season.
We'll even get to make pizza in their cob
been destroyed or condemned.
These two drastically different communi- oven! Meet us at the bus loop at 10 a.m. or
ties have both survived devastating floods join us downtown at Fertile Ground, just
and are both, years later, still working hard across the street from the library at 311 91h
to rebuild their communities. It is easy for Avenue SE. Pre-register at the CCBLA,
disasters that happen so far away from call (360) 867-6137 or email hackerh@
home and so long ago to escape our minds, evergreen.edu.
On-Campus Events
but thousands of people continue to live
Friday, March 6 is the Rebuilding
in the realities that have been flooded and
Communities Forum described above, at
shaken by these storms.
On Friday, March 6, we'll revisit the disas- 1 p.m. in lecture hall 3.
ters as we once knew them. We are lucky
Friday, March 6 Las Mamalogues
enough to have guest speakers from the perform at 7:30 p.m. in the lecture hall
St. Bernard Project in St. Bernard Parish, rotunda. "Claiming and reclaiming our
Louisiana; Liz McCartney, CNN Hero of mothers' lived experience. Unveiling an
the Year; as well as Zack Rosenburg and identity rooted in the past while grounded
Sharon Gober from the Lewis County in the present." Join us for an evening of
Long Term Recovery Organization here story and community dialogue featuring
in Washington, plus a few flood victims Fabiola Ortiz Romero, Alejandra Abreu,
who will share their personal triumphs and Norma Alicia Pino, and Maritza Soledad
Sanchez ,with special guest Bleu Lupine.
tribulations.
Two Evergreen student interns with the This performance is guaranteed to tug at
St. Bernard Project and the CCBLA have your heart, make you laugh, and inspire
organized this Rebuilding Communities you to dig deeper into your own personal
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March 11 is CCBLA's Fifth birthday!
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work as an institution because CCBLA
exists and supports work in the classroom
as well as work in community," says Alice
Nelson, Evergreen faculty. Come and
join us in Sem II E2125 from 5-7 p.m. to
celebrate five years connecting students
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Community Reguests
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. It
focuses on topics such as gang life, alcohol
and drugs, cultural awareness, and creating
peaceable schools. Gear Up With Music is
now searching for interns and volunteers.
For more information contact Todd Denny
at info@toddenymvp.com.
Volunteer for the 2009 Green Festival,
March 28-29. The Green Festival is a
two-day event co-produced by Global
Exchange and Green America, committed to the movement towards a just and
sustainable society. It will feature over 300
socially- and environmentally-responsible
enterprises, over 150 leading speakers,
live music, and delicious organic food and
drink. Volunteers are needed for the event,
and will receive free admission, an organic
cotton T-shirt, and free memberships. For
more information please visit www.greenfestivalvolunteers.org/seattle.
The Birth Attendants is a nonprofit
organization working to restore health and
justice into communities in western Washington State. The Prison Doula Project
provides pregnancy, labor, and post-partum
doula services and popular-education-style
childbirth education classes to women
incarcerated in Washington State. Their
community education projects link their
vital work inside prisons to the greater
issues surrounding incarceration and
works toward creating pathways of knowledge for Western Washington communities
about incarceration and its effects. They
are accepting application for internships
for the spring, summer and fall of 2009.
Students in Service is an AmeriCorps
program and a way in which students can
be rewarded for their time spent within the
community. Email sis@evergreen.edu for
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Evergreen ultimate Frisbee
An interview with the captain of the disk
by NICK PACE
Last year, William Weatherford was
chiefly responsible for making his prime
hobby into a club sport, and with it
followed a motley crue of studentsmostly freshmen-who would share his
love of tossing and catching disks.
Weatherford was already playing
ultimate Frisbee with the South Sound
Olympia team, often using the Evergreen
field as a place to play pick-up. But, as
an Evergreen undergraduate, Weatherford and his buddy Richard Coker (in the
graduate program and last year's ultimate
Frisbee coach) decided to share the sport
with the college in hopes of creating a
college club sport that many people
could enjoy.
The result was that Weatherford and
Coker brought a club sport that allowed
kids to run around, play in the mud, and
make dramatic dives just to pound the
disk into the earth in victory after making
a full run across the field.
Today, Weatherford, as the team captain,
has added more to his roster. Now he has
a serious group of students who make it a
commitment to work on plays and drills
while keeping their wits and their minds
on the prize of the flying disk. These
athletes unofficially and affectionately
call themselves "The Seacocks", tipping
their hats to the Evergreen geoduck.
They started out as one team, which
unfortunately had a surplus of men and
a shortage of women. The fact that there
memorable because we won five games
early November at Sundodger, and I am
glad have a women's team finally.
What's the upcoming event for Ultimate that sticks in your mind at this
point?
"This Saturday we play a co-ed tournament in Burlington, Washington. We'll
probably be in the lower pool since it is
co-ed, but I'm confident we'll have fun
and be competitive."
Now that you are graduating this year
and will have to pass the mantle of
captain to someone else, what are your
general feelings towards your younger
crowd?
"There is definitely leadership potential, but it's really a matter of staying
motivated. It's a club sport, really run by
the students instead of an individual or a
hierarchy. Even though I may be captain,
it's pretty unofficial in my eyes."
As far as recruiting students, what
kinds of criteria do you emphasize
as far as what students' priorities
are? Could be personality, could be
academic schedule, could be physical
traits, etc.
"[The qualities] I look most for [in]
my fellow ultimate players are athleticism and commitment. You can create
a star Frisbee player out of someone
who's never touched a disk, if they
keep themselves physically fit, run and
leap constantly. The majority of what I
contribute as an instructor is providing
lessons in technique. The rest is the
well, because of the wisdom of the more
experienced players."
Describe what it is like to get up to go
to practice, especially when it comes to
worse-case scenarios.
"It can be tough in the rains or if it's
windy, or whatever, but I go to every
practice, since it's my responsibility. If
it is raining or snowing heavily, I generally need to keep people moving. At that
point I also have to put on my 'moral
officer' face and well as my 'discipline
face'" (laughs).
What are your goals for the time being
for the team?
"My major goal is to compete in the
UPA (Ultimate Players Association) at
the Washington/Be seasonals. College
Frisbee is competed at the national level,
so what we've been able to do or can
do is of particular significance in my
opinion."
For those interested in joining the Ultimate Frisbee extravaganza, check www.
evergreenultimate.com complements of
webmaster sophomore Gordon Baker.
Nicholas Pace is a junior enrolled in
India: Tradition & Beyond.
Upcoming and
Other News:
News
2/28/2009
The Men's
Basketball Team
wins against
Eastern Oregon
Univ. 84-74
3/3/2009
The Men's
Basketball Team
loses to Oregon
Institute of
Tech 72-82
Upcoming
3/28/2009
"SKILLS HAVE
Crew: Tough Love
IMPROVED ABOVE MY
Race in Porland,
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EXPECTATIONS-I'D
SAY DOUBLE OF LAST
3/7/2009
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RECRUITS INCREASE
Tournament in
SKILLS A LOT FASTER
Burlington,
AS WELL, BECAUSE
Washington
OF THE WISDOM OF
THE MORE EXPERIENCED PLAYERS."
were three to five women participating
on the Evergreen team on a daily basis
last year made it necessary to trade off
one girl per substitute out of the seven
players which constitute the amount of
players on each side of the field.
Luckily, this year there is a women's
team, captained by senior Erica Warren,
proving that Evergreen hasn't just caught
the ears of the Y chromosome.
To get a further insight into Evergreen Ultimate brings us to talk to the
master of the disk himself, captain Will
Weatherford:
Now that you're captain of a serious
club sport at Evergreen, how would
you say this year differentiates from
last year as far as accomplishments
go?
"We now have more recruits and more
tournaments under the team's belt,
although last year we did win the Olympia
Spring League, which I was very proud
of. The fall tournament this year was very
players' commitment to their physical
abilities."
Even though in pickup anyone can
join the game, do you ever expect your
athletes to treat it like practice?
"Pickup isn't about expectations, since
it's not part of the Evergreen program.
My players that are more enthusiastic
about ultimate Frisbee do in a sense treat
pick-up like practice. I strongly advise
players to play pick-up, even though it is
mostly for fun."
Are you still looking for more players
on the girls' team, since last year there
were only four or five?
"Yes definitely, but just as with as much
commitment as anyone serious about the
game."
If there is one thing you feel the team
has improved upon compared to last
year, how would you describe it?
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Word games
Delving into freakishly evangelistic atheists
by CASEY JAYWORK
A short visit to the
site
Richardawkins.
net-"A Clear-Thinking Oasis"-reveals the
cultish nature that the
so-called New Atheism, as a movement,
has embraced. The website's multitude of
photos of Dawkins himself are invariably
either of him preaching the good-news
of reason from his a professorial/priestly
lectern, or standing in bold defiance against
hordes of religious maniacs.
The psychology of personality-worship
aimed at a prophet of truth is unmistakable.
To see a freakishly evangelistic atheist
speak of her conversion to the one-truebelief in unbelief, see "Sam Harris at AAl
07" on Youtube.com.
My point with this diatribe, I suppose, is
that the behavior of the new atheist faction
may be the strongest argument against
its goal of ending religion, because it
would appear that uncritical factionalism,
leader-worship, devaluation of the Other,
and other such "religious" tendencies still
arise in groups that have been cleared of
religion-as-such.
To be fair, atheist-prophet Sam Harris
writes, "Needless to say, my argument
against religious faith is not an argument for the blind embrace of atheism as
dogma,".and his speech which follows the
above Youtube.com clip concludes, "My
concern is that atheism can easily become
the position of not being interested in
certain possibilities in principle .. .it seems
to me that there is no reason for us to fight
in well-ordered ranks, like the red coats of
atheism ... [and] that intellectual honesty
is now, and will always be, deeper and
more durable, and more easily spread, than
'atheism."'
But regardless of how genuine we take
Harris to be, it seems clear that for whatever reason, atheism as a movement is just
as "religious" as religion-proper.
This suggests that efforts to eradicate religion qua irrational supernaturalism-which
proceed by attacking religion qua historical,
social institution- are misguided, because
the hydra's head simply springs up anew in
partly rooted in scientific and metaphysical propositions from a pre-scientific age
which have now come in conflict with what
we currently know/believe via modem
science? Perhaps-though it's difficult to
imagine how a tradition which garners its
strength from being old could avoid conflict
with relatively recent advances/changes
in human belief- but that's water under
the bridge at this point. Religious institutions are what we've got for dealing with
social and value problems, for better or for
worse.
In other words, I'm conservatively arguing
that a sense of history is a strong check on
the uncritical, dehumanizing factionalism
that Harris decries as being an intrinsic part
of "religion" and religious institutions give
us such a sense.
This might explain why such a profoundly
stupid position as creationism has been
rejected by the Catholic Church while
flourishing in the United States, where
fractured Protestant sects have lost all sense
of history. Indeed, this might also be why
eschatology is so popular here. It's easy to
think you're at the end of history when you
don't have a sense of being in history in the
first place.
It's not that there's anything particularly
good about these religious traditions (or
necessarily bad, depending on what one
views as intrinsic vs. incidental to one of
them). Rather, my point is that reforming
current models of meaning and identity
within religious traditions might be a more
efficient way of combating the problems of
uncritical, dehumanizing factionalism than
trying to tear the whole edifice down and
building new models from scratch.
IT SEEMS CLEAR
THAT FOR WHATEVER
REASON, ATHEISM AS
A MOVEMENT IS JUST
AS "RELIGIOUS" AS
RELIGION-PROPER
the very thing that was trying to slay it. A
more successful approach might well be to
join up with sophisticated theologians like
Paul Tillich and try to reform religion qua
institution from the inside, using piecemeal
reform to edge out existing travesties (e.g.
opposition to sexual education, anti-abortion-ism rooted in magic-soul theory, etc.)
without blundering into their own (e.g.
"Richard Dawkins will save us!").
By attacking religious institutions, the
new atheists are throwing the baby out
with the bathwater- ignoring the centuries
of evolution which have enabled them
to (somewhat) mitigate the mob-lunacy
which appears to be part and parcel of
any faction, supernaturalist or otherwise.
Might current religious traditions be less
problematically insane if they were not
Casey Jaywork is a senior enrolled in
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week nine, all of my
friends decide to do
fun things? Weeks one
through eight nothing
fun or exciting happens;
it's just the same old
boring Olympia stuff. But suddenly when it's
crunch time, it's party time for all the people
who don't have homework to do. This week
there has been a game night (not as lame as
it sounds), a bunch of fun dinners, several
birthday bashes, and even an absinthe night.
Side note-since 2007 absinthe (long
banned in this country) has been legal in the
United States. Drinking absinthe is quite a
work of art, because the liquor is so strong
that the best way to drink it is diluted in water.
The absinthe and the water together become
cloudy, like ouzo, and the final piece is the
sugar cube, over which the water is pored.
Apparently the sugar makes the absinthe
taste better.
The only reason I know all of this is because
my friend, upon learning of absinthe's legalization, bough an enormous bottle and spent
hours researching the proper way to drink it.
Why couldn't he have made this discovery
two weeks ago, when I would have happily
enjoyed my legal right to consume liquor that
is 150-proof?
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slow nights mean I get out early. Which is all
fine and dandy, but I do need the hours. Then
week nine rolls around-when there would
actually be a benefit to getting out early
(extra homework time}-and I am slammed
with hours. I haven't been this busy since the
Christmas rush.
Do all of Olympia's inhabitants have an
internal clock that tells them when would be
the least-convenient time to go out and have
fun, so poor college students already stressed
because of class have the added aggravation
of being busy at work and having to miss out
on all the fun?
Finally I caved; I broke; I threw caution to
the wind, gave my homework the finger, and
consumed a bottle of red wine.
I don't know about you, but to me, a wine
drunk is much different from a beer or hardalcohol drunk. A wine drunk makes me a little
loopy, a little crazy, but definitely relaxed, all
while I am still pretty much able to function.
It was the perfect thing; I felt relaxed, and I
remembered what it was to have fun without
the inherent guilt to homework hanging over
my head. Soon everyone dissipated, and I
went to my room and sat down in front of
my desk.
My notebook was open to a story that I
have been working on and struggling with. I
have two main characters, and I know what
happens to them, but not who they are. So
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I sat down, still feeling good, and picked up
my pen. I started working, writing back-story
for one of the characters.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, I began to write
about this third character-he just showed up
in my head! As I wrote, I found out more and
more about him, and I realized how important he is to the story.
It was brilliant-the more I wrote, the more
of the story I could see emerging from the
cloudy recesses of my mind. And the only
thing I have to thank for it is that wonderful
bottle of red wine.
I don't think the wine was my inspiration,
but I do think that it quieted the part of my
brain that had been screaming, "fuck, it's
week nine" and with that voice silenced, I
was able to tap into my creativity.
I want to try again with another bottle, but
I am afraid it will have an adverse effectinstead of writing up a storm, I will fall asleep
on my notebook.
Erin Gray is a senior enrolled in an independent learning contract.
It seems that our analyzing, thinking minds drain
energy from our lives day
in and day out. Thinking
I
all the time about all sorts
of things just stresses
people out. We all know
stress sucks. Ughh . .. who wants stress in their
lives? Ah. .. but what would life be like without
stress? Yes, we know it would kick ass.
Incessant thinking has a tendency to draw us
into the past, or project our attentions into the
future. This constant mental noise we call thinking causes a serious leakage of energy.
If I am caught up in the past (memory) or the
future (imagination), I can't truly live even one
moment of life. But, whether we are aware of it
or not, we are all alive now and only now. This
moment is all that is real. Past and future seem
to be mere modes of thought. The mind spins
out its innumerable threads of illusion, and in
order to feel separate from the world, builds a
limited identity .. .i.e. "I am this body-mind"
based on limited thought patterns.
But, there are those moments when the mind
stops thinking altogether, and in the fullness
of that silence, I am simply amazed that I am
alive right now. Here, even simple actions, like
washing the dishes, become wondrous realities.
Here I am, fully conscious ofmy own presence,
just washing the dishes. I'm not thinking about
my future plans to go to China, or lost in my
memories-I'm not thinking about anything at
all. I am simply present. I am here. And in that
present-moment awareness, all my thoughts,
ideas, beliefs, and labels just disappear.
Initially, it may be frightening to stop thinking
about anything at all even for just one moment
of life. Yet, it seems it is only the mind that is
afraid Thus, for the thinking, analyzing mind,
moments of deep silence and stillness are
unknown, indescribable, unthinkable-and
that's what makes those moments so beautiful.
This silence is deep and dark, a mystery beyond
mysteries-indefinable and unfathomable.
And it is always here and now. The present
moment is our reality. In this moment, there are
no problems, no fears, no desires, no stress, no
worries about anything, no feeling of lack or
incompletion. In this moment, I am truly at ease
with myself-! am at home.
Without labels or names for what is seen, what
kind of world would we see? Mental labels and
names are altogether limited and transient. And
how real are these mental labels anyways? It
seems that ultimately, all mental labels, names,
and definitions are limiting the infinite beauty
of life and have no inherent reality.
Have you ever looked at a garbage can and
seen its beauty? What would the world be
like without garbage cans? What we normally
call ''trash" is a complete wmk of art in itsel£
"Garbage" is not garbage. It's an art exhibit.
Everyone is invited. But, ifljust label it ''trash"
and disregard it, I miss out on its beauty and I
can't fully appreciate it.
In short, the thinking, rational, analyzing mind
seems to split things into compartments where
there are no compartments at all. It labels,
defines, judges, and tries to squeeze the nameless life into a mental box. Seeing life through
such a limited perspective obscures the enormous depth and beauty within anything. And
the constant stream of thoughts seems to leave
no room for true rest or peace. But a stress-free
life is possible for all of us. Joy is our birthright.
The simple reality of the present moment
requires nothing-no thoughts, no sitting in
caves or climbing mountains, no studying texts,
no labeling, no names, no definitions. All it
requires is being present, breathing, and fully
living each and every moment.
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Jake Salzer is a junior erolled in French and
Japanese Media.
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Tolerating a
diversity of opinions
by RUSSEL KATZ
I understand why
Greeners
want
to stick up for an
underdog, but people
can be blinded by
oversimplification.
Contradictions and
double standards manifest themselves
when people ignore the reality that is
the Palestinian and Israeli conflict. The
major shortcoming of the Palestinian
solidarity/divestment campaign is their
one-sided view of suffering, while
maintaining that Israel is a racist entity.
Israel's Declaration of the Establishment of the State reads: The State of
Israel will .. .foster the development ofthe
country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice,
and peace as envisaged by the prophets
of Israel; it will ensure complete equal-
THE PALESTINIANS
ARE SUFFERING, BUT
SUFFERING IS NOT
A ONE-WAY STREET.
THE PALESTINIAN
AUTHORITY (PA) HAS
REPEATEDLY REJECTED
PEACE INITIATIVES NOT
BECAUSE THEY AREN'T
FAIR, BUT BECAUSE
THE PA CARES MORE
FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL THAN
THE FOUNDATION OF
A PALESTINIAN STATE
ity of social and political rights to all its
inhabitants irrespective of religion, race
or sex; it will guarantee freedpm of religion, conscience, language, education
and culture.
This is not just an empty statement.
This perfectly describes Israel today. A
very diverse blend of nationalities, races,
and religions call themselves Israeli citizens and experience this freedom. The
only legal distinction between Arabs
and Jews in Israel is that the former are
not required to serve in the military.
Never mind the fact that Hamas charter exclaims "Israel will exist and will
continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before
it."
Or that the "Islamic resistance movement believes in an Islamic Waqf
concentrated for future Muslim generations until Judgment day."
Israel is portrayed as a monolithically
evil apartheid state despite the fact that
its citizens are a diverse mix of Arabs,
Muslims, Jews, Druze, Ba'Hai, and
others. In addition, there have been 47
Arab members ofKnesset (Israeli parliament), with nine currently serving.
Israel's citizenry has been the target of
over 3,638 rockets and 2,428 mortars
since 2005 Israel's pull out of Gaza,
ending the occupation. From 2001 to
2009, over 8,088 ballistics have been
fired from Gaza at Israel. Israel forcibly
removed all 21 Jewish settlements in
Gaza and four in the West Bank as a part
of the Unilateral Disengagement and its
works toward peace; rocket fire only
increased since then. There is no logical
rationale against Israel's right to defense.
Never before in history has any armed
force gone to such an extent to protect
the citizens on the other side of "the
line". The Israeli Defense Force (IDF)
dropped over 980,000 leaflets, made
over 30,000 phone calls, in addition to
writing text messages and radio warnings of targeted areas in order to reduce
civilian causalities; Hamas, on the other
hand, used human shields-a war crime.
On Al-Aqsa TV, Feburary 29, 2008,
Hamas MP Fathi Hammad endorsed the
use of human shields, saying, "For the
Palestinian people death has become
an industry, at which women excel and
so do all the people living on this land.
The elderly excel at this and so do the
mujahideen and the children. This is
why they have formed human shields
of the women, the children, the elderly
and the mujahideen in order to challenge
the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if
they were saying to the Zionist enemy:
'We desire death like you desire life.'"
The perverse perception that Israel
is a racist state is not based in reality
and exposes a double standard. Israel
embraces all the freedoms and liberties
that many have come to take for granted
in America.
"Are these the laws for which the Palestinian street is waiting? For us to give
rights to homosexuals and to lesbians,
a minority of perverts and the mentally
and morally sick?" said Hamas leader
Dr. Muhmud al-Zahar regarding gay
rights in Israel (The Times UK, October
7, 2005).
The Palestinians are suffering, but
suffering is not a one-way street. The
Palestinian Authority (PA) has repeatedly rejected peace initiatives not
because they aren't fair, but because
the PA cares more for the destruction of
Israel than the foundation of a Palestinian state. Hamas doesn't want peace
with a secular and democratic Israel, nor
with Fatah. They are a radical Islamic
politic and cannot accept a Jewish
state on principal. Strict Sharia-based
rule relegates all non-Muslims as kafir
(infidels) and dhimmi (second-class citizens) who must pay a Jhizya (high tax).
My point in all of this is that I believe
there is some sort of cognitive dissonance
permeating throughout this discussion.
If you feel strongly about Palestinian
solidarity and human rights, I strongly
urge you to rethink the multiplicity of
suffering and how the issues are being
portrayed to you. My point in representing this contrasting view isn't just
to voice my feelings of the matter, but
also to make a statement about the value
of a variety opinions and perceptions
that should be able to be voiced freely
throughout campus, because diverse
opinions are very much integral to creating a functional learning environment.
Russel Katz is a sophomore enrolled
in Advanced Foundations of Successful
and Sustainable Businesses.
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within] civilian areas and civilian structures, whether it be an apartment buildIf you've never read
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to be immune from a response from
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wouldn't know that
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late into English. It is
Any use of a civilian infrastructure to
usually equated with
launch bombs is itself a war crime ... the
"explanation"; more accurately it means misuse and abuse of humanitarian
"shed-light." Hasbara is the word Jews symbols for purposes of launching
use to describe defending Israel in the attacks is called the perfidy principle.
For example, using an ambulance to
media.
Equating hasbara with propaganda is transport fighters or weapons or disguisfalse and offensive.
ing oneself as a doctor in a hospital, or
In a recent CPJ article, SIIA Shalom using a UN logo or flag, are war crimes."
(Students Interested in Israel Advocacy And, the fourth violation, "of which
and Peace, i.e. "Introducing Evergreen's little has been made, is the prohibition
own little 'Israel lobby"'), BlueStarPR, in the Fourth Geneva Convention and
and StandWithUs were accused of international jurisprudence against the
racism.
direct and public incitement to genocide.
It remains a mystery how calling The Hamas covenant itself is a standing
suicide-bombing a crime against human- incitement to genocide. [Similarly,] just
ity is racist. Neither StandWithUs nor before this fighting started, I saw Hamas
BlueStarPR have ever been singled out leaders on television referring to Israel
as racist except perhaps by the Council and Jews as the sons of apes and pigs."
on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
As for the Israel on Campus Coalition
which refuses to condemn Hamas or (ICC) -centered Zionist conspiracy, the
Hizbullah by name as terrorists. It is an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is also
oddity of the left that criticism oflslamic a member of the ICC, and the Amerimisogyny and violence is conflated with can Jewish Committee, The American
race, whereas Israel's response to eight Jewish Congress, the Committee for
years of over 8088 ballistics fired at 10% Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in
of its population (a war crime), leaving America (CAMERA), Hillel, and over
over 1 million Israelis under threat of 30 others Jewish organizations. Are
attack, is seen as unprovoked aggres- these, too, part of the Jewish cabal to
sion. Some have forgotten that Israel "white-wash Israel's illegal occupation
unilaterally pulled out of Gaza in 2005, of Palestine"?
The closest thing to apartheid is across
ending the occupation of Gaza.
Is
Israel-advocacy
"dominating" Israel's border. In Jordan it is illegal for a
campuses? Can you name a campus Jew to hold citizenship. In Saudi Arabia
dominated by Israel-advocacy?
it is illegal to practice Judaism, and for
Consider York University, where women to drive. In Iran women can be
Jewish students were trapped in the arrested for revealing too much hair.
Hillel office for hours by an angry mob In Syria women require male guardian
chanting "Die, bitch, go back to Israel," permission to travel. Not to mention
and "Die, Jew, get the hell off campus." honor killings, or that homosexuality is
Or at UC-Irvine, where Amir Abdel punishable by flogging, stoning, hangMalik Ali, speaking at "Zionism Aware- ing, or beheading in Iran, Saudi Arabia,
ness Week," said that "Congress, the Sudan, Syria, the United Arab Emerates,
media and the FBI [are] in their [the and Yemen.
Zionists] back pocket," and "Israelis
Alan Dershowitz comments on Israel's
knew about and were in control of 9- media problem: "It is difficult to fight
11," and that 9-11 "was staged to give an enemy that loves death in a world
an excuse to wage war against Muslims that loves life. The world tends to think
around the world."
emotionally rather than rationally when
In June 2008, the British Community it is shown dead women and children
Security Trust approximates an "88% who are deliberately placed in harm's
rise in anti-Semitic incidents involving way by Hamas. Instead of asking who
Jewish students and campus life."
was really to blame for these civilian
Irwin Cotler, a former Canadian deaths, people place responsibility on
justice minister, MP, and law profes- those who fired the fatal shots."
sor at McGill University said that
The one-dimensional evaluation of the
"when you deliberately hit civilians Arab-Israeli conflict conflates criticism
not infrequently but in a systematic, with new permutations of the "blood
widespread attack, that's defined in libel" and "The Protocols of Zion." The
the treaty of the International Criminal task in debate is the disambiguation of
Court and international humanitarian legitimate criticism of Israel from antilaw as a crime against humanity ... When Semitism, which most seem unable to
Israel responds and civilians are killed do.
because Israel is targeting an area from
Noah Milstein is a junior enrolled in
which rockets were launched, then it is
Hamas which bears responsibility for Developmental Psychology and Educathe deaths, and not Israel, according to tional Practice, and coordinator for
international law."
SIIA Shalom. which can be reached at
Cotler lists four ofHamas 's war crimes: siiashalom@gmail. com.
" ... the deliberate targeting of civilians is
in and of itself a war crime ... A second
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Macklemore, Asliani, and The Elements
Artists in the March 11 hip-hop show
by JAH'DI LEVVI and YONATAN
ALDORT, produced by HIP HOP
CONGRESS
Macklemore was born in Seattle on June
19, 1982. He moved around some as a
child, but he grew up primarily in Tacoma
and Seattle. He currently resides in Seattle,
but has strong ties to Olympia, where he
lived while attending The Evergreen State
College.
In addition to his work as a solo artist,
Macklemore collaborates with Olympia
emcee XPerience to form the duo Step Cousins. XPerience, who still lives in Olympia,
is also a producer who contributed several
of the beats for Macklemore's solo album,
The Language of My World.
Artistically, Macklemore is extremely
unique as a white emcee who regularly
addresses issues of race in America. His
persona as an artist is distinctly humble
and down-to-earth, with a strong emphasis
on honesty and searching for identity. His
lyrics are thought-provoking and captivating, with delivery that draws the listener into
his world. Many of his songs address topics
that are easily relatable, while simultaneously maintaining a great depth of content.
His style is like a cross between Common
and Eminem: courageous enough to tackle
serious and controversial topics, while fully
embracing his status as a white emcee.
Macklemore's lone album to date, The
Language of My World, dropped in 2005
and remains a critically acclaimed piece of
work. The album features Macklemore's
signature style of flow over catchy and
soulful beats. Following a short intro track,
Macklemore opens with one of the album's
most (if not the most) provocative songs,
"White Privilege." "White Privilege", as the
name suggests, deals with Macklemore's
sentiments concerning what it means to be
a white emcee, and the issues of cultural
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other contemplative tracks.
The album has its humorous moments as
well. Offsetting his often serious subject
matter, Macklemore is not afraid to clown
around sometimes on tracks such as "Fake
ID", "Bush Song", "Penis Song", and
"Remember High School." The "Bush
Song", for example, takes an utterly goofy
approach to viciously satirizing our now
ex-President. In a strange sing-song Bush
impersonation,
Macklemore
rhymes:
"Unemployment is up, our economy's in the
ditch, our country's at war, but I don't give
a shit, I'm rich."
Overall, The Language of My World is an
excellent album, and could even be considered a masterpiece. Despite having no other
solo productions, Macklemore's exceptional
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talent and uniqueness as an emcee have
carved him a distinct niche in Northwest
hip-hop. His album is definitely worth picking up, and you can see him perform live
in just a couple of weeks alongside One.
Be.Lo, Josh Martinez, The Elements, and
Asliani. Stay tuned for more info on other
performers next week.
Repping Evergreen in the March 11
show will be The Elements and Asliani.
The Elements are a hip-hop group whose
members are Rhino and Energy. Rhino is
from Seattle, and Energy currently attends
Evergreen. They are fairly new on the scene,
but anticipate the release of their first album
in April of this year. They have already
performed alongside a variety of successful
artists. Artistically, while they are based in
hip-hop, the duo has a diverse musical background and favors a widely experimental
style, frequently introducing electronic or
dancehall themes into their songs.
Asliani hails from Boston, but is also a
current Evergreen student. She has recently
released her first solo album, U Do It Or
U Don't, which is available for $10 at the
Evergreen bookstore. Asliani has described
her music as being inspired by powerful
female emcees like Da Brat, Queen Latifah, and Salt-N-Pepa. Her album features
soulful lyrics and high-quality beats that' 11
have your head nodding. Asliani is also a
bilingual artist; her album features rhymes
in both English and Spanish.
The show featuring One.Be.Lo, Josh
Martinez, Macklemore, The Elements and
Asliani will be Wednesday, March 11 at 8
p.m. Tickets are available at the Evergreen
bookstore, Rainy Day Records, and Reggie's
Records. General admission is $10, and it
is $5 for students. This will be one of the
year's biggest shows, so brang yo ass out,
because you won't wanna miss it. Word up.
PEACE!
Yonatan Aldort is a junior enrolled in
Decolonizing the Mind. Jah 'di Levvi is a
sophomore enrolled in Health and Human
Development.
Who's Watching the Watchmen?
Will the adaptation of the timeless comic succeed?
by KEVIN SCHNEIDER
With all the hype and buzz, it's hard to tell
whether Watchmen will be another failed
attempt by Hollywood to tap the gravy
train that is the comic book industry.
For those of you who don't know Watchmen, it is a twelve-issue comic series
created by writer Alan Moore and artist
Dave Gibbons from 1986 to 1987. To this
day, the debate continues as to whether
Watchmen is the greatest graphic novel ever
written. But what cannot be debated is its
great influence on the industry. Watchmen
is to comics as The Beatles are to music.
Watchmen's greatness is in large part due
to Alan Moore's literary prowess. Moore
has been noted for being one of the first
writers to apply literary and formalist
sensibilities to the graphic novel medium.
Moore has had such a significant impact on
comics that he has been noted for singlehandedly changing the way comics are
written, read, and valued.
The influence of Moore's work already
reverberates through Hollywood. Comics
like Batman: The Killing Joke, written by
Alan Moore, laid such a strong foundation
for actor Heath Ledger that he used The
Killing Joke as a tool for the development
of his character, the Joker, in the movie The
Dark Knight.
In Hollywood, Moore's work hasn't just
been used for inspiration. Hollywood has a
sort of a one-way love affair with his work.
To Moore's dismay, Watchmen isn't his the
only graphic novel that has been adapted
into a movie; others include Vfor Vendetta,
From Hell, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Although at first Moore was excited to
see his graphic novels become movies, he
soon realized that he wanted nothing to do
with Hollywood. Moore on many occasions has vocalized how much he detests
Hollywood's adaptations of his work. His
opposition crystallized after the disappointing 2003 film version of The League
ofExtraordinary Gentlemen.
Today, Moore has no intention of having
anything to with Watchmen's adaptation.
He has stated that he intends to give any
resulting royalties from Watchmen to the
comic's artist, Dave Gibbons. According
to Moore, David Hayter's script "was as
close as [he] could imagine anyone getting
to Watchmen." However, Moore added,
"I shan't be going to see it. My book is a
comic book. Not a movie, not a novel. A
comic book. It's been made in a certain
way, and designed to be read a certain
way; in an armchair, nice and cozy next to
a fire, with a steaming cup of coffee." To
many hardcore fans, Alan Moore's protest
prompts the widespread boycott of the
film.
Despite this great opposition to the film,
there are many fans who remain optimistic.
Many fans (like myself) have had a few
scares during the films development. Word
of a new ending has been confirmed and
new costumes for our favorite heroes are
now public. To many purists, this appears
to be blasphemy.
Although differences between comics and
film are commonplace, for Watchmen fans
it leaves more of a sour taste. Unlike many
film adaptations of comics, Watchmen
doesn't have a large mythos from which
the script can be derived. Movies like the
X-Men trilogy and the Batman films have
hundreds of comics from which a writer
can base and elaborate upon to develop
a script that will not isolate any potential
viewers. Watchmen has only twelve issues,
so any differences between the film and the
graphic novel will be more obvious.
One argument highlighting .the differences between the film and the graphic
novel is the overall look and feel for the
film. It's similar to the original X-Men
movie; having the X-Men dressed in black
rather than the classic multi-colored tights
seemed like a huge departure from the
source material. However, once it appeared
on screen, it worked.
Many argue that the film is trying to do
what the comic did-make fun of superhero costumes; but instead of making fun
of comic costumes, it is making fun of the
movie costumes.
Watchmen is a revision on the superhero
narrative. Moore's exploration of the often
sexual motives for costumed crime fighting sheds light on past superhero stories. It
forces the reader to reevaluate every superhero in terms of Moore's vision. The same
theme is being developed with the film,
but instead of forcing people to reevaluate
comic book superheroes, the film wants the
viewer to reevaluate movie superheroes.
Hopefully, when Watchmen comes out
on March 6, it doesn't disappoint. It is my
sincere hope it will at least demonstrate a
sort of competency that a graphic novel of
Watchmen's caliber deserves.
This is a pre-review of the film Watchmen. I intend to watch the film and write an
actual review as soon as possible.
Kevin Schneider is a freshman enrolled in
Legacy of the American Dream.
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Oly Old Time Festival
by CATHERINE KANA
This weekend "Olympia's Old Time
Music community" presented "the first
annual Oly Old Time Festival" from Thursday, February 26 until Sunday, March 1.
Types of music performance included
"traditional Appalachian, southern-style,
grassroots string bands, fiddles galore, a
clawhammer banjo and guitars." There
were also workshops, including clogging,
and tune-learning sessions. A whole pile of
old-style dances were led by "acclaimed
callers." Some featured bands were the
Peach Colored Jug Smugglers, Deaf Lester,
The Tallboys, and Surprises.
I entered the Cherry Loft late on Saturday
evening to find a ballroom sizzling with
fiddles and square dancers. Groups of
fiddlers had their fingers whizzing across
the strings and feet stomping a beat. The
musicians sat in the entrance and in all
comers of the hall. Bands featured at this
"Culminary Square Dance" of old-time
music "in its finest and most authentic
form" were Centralia's Young Geezers,
The Water Tower Stringband, and the Atlas
Stringband.
I danced straight through three dances
of partner swinging, promenading, linemaking, and feet-stomping. The last dance,
at just about midnight, took the word vivacious to a whole new understanding. The
dance included several kinds of formations
of two couples and centrifugal motion for
a head-spinning kind of ecstasy. Four held
hands in a line and spun in a gigantic circular motion.
The festival finished on Sunday at 7 p.m.
after four days of old-time foot-stomping
music. Sunday, March 1 featured a concert
and dinner to celebrate the two-year
anniversary of Camp Quixote at the First
Christian Church.
Catherine Kana is a sophomore enrolled
in (Re)imagining the Middle East.
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2. Ruthie Foster- The Truth
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3. V/A- Dark Was the Night
4. M. Ward- Hold Time
5. Willie Nelson and Asleep at the
Wheel - Willie and the Wheel
6. June Madrona- Battlegrounds
7. Shemekia Copeland -Never Going Back
8. Mirah - (A)spera
9. Eliane Elias - Bossa Nova Stories
10. Rob_yn Hitchcock and the
Venus 3"- Goodnight Oslo
11. Chris Joss - Sticks
12. Hello Seahorse - Hoy A Las Ocho
13. Eleni Mandell -Artificial Fire
14. V/A- Carribbean Tropical Music: Martinique
15. Soul of John Black- Black John
16. Angus and Julia Stone- A Book Like This
17. Zion I - The Take Over
18. Soundtrack of Our Lives - Communion
19. Rachel Garlin- Bound To Be Mountains
20. Sarah Borges and the Broken
SingJes- The Stars Are Out
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22. Dm Stith - Heavy Ghost
23. Sara Lov - Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming
24. Thomas Dolby - The Sole Inhabitant
25. Mariah Parker - Sangria
26. Connor Christian and Southern
Gothic - 90 Proof Lullabies
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29. R_yebender - Hollow and Drifting
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Thursday, March 5
A discussion of issues effecting
Israel and Palestine
Featuring Dr. Steven Niva and
Donna Schumann. Noon-2 p.m.
SPSCC Building 26 Room 1
Shelly Vendiola on
environmental justice
Shelly Vendiola speaks about
environmental studies and
social justice. Hosted by the
Women of Color Coalition.
5-6:45 p.m. SEM ~I AliOS
Last day of auditions
for The Tempest
Show up at 5 p.m. in COM 210
or make an appointment with
director Paul Purvine at purpau@
evergreen.edu. You can bring
a resume and a monologue, if
you want. 7 p.m. Sem II E 1105
Remembering Willi
"Join members of the Evergreen
community for a night of
storytelling as we honor and
remember Willi Unsoeld (a
founding faculty member
of TESC), who perished
in a slab avalanche on Mt.
Rainer in 1979." 7 p.m.
The Cabinet of Curiosities
S.O.S. Performances is putting
on a show that's a series of
student-originated works,
running through the March 7.
It's $5 for students and $8 for
non-students. 8-11 p.m. at the
COM Experimental Theater.
and $5. 9 p.m.-midnight at
The Loft on Cherry Street.
Friday, March 6
Free Reiki workshop
Reiki is a spiritual practice and
technique from Japan for stress
reduction and relaxation. Show
up early and bring a lunch. I 0
a.m.-5 p.m. in CAB 320. Free!
World Sacred Art Exhibit
A collection of hallowed ·
art from around the world,
reflecting culture and
interconnectedness. N oon-11 :45
p.m. Kenneth J. Minnaert
Center for the Arts at SPSCC
Winters and Losers tour
Featuring Grieves, Budo,
Souccrate, Type, and Puget
and the Elements. 9 p.m.-2
a.m. at The China Clipper
on 4th Avenue. 21 +
Saturday, March 7
Queer Acts
The academic program Acting
and Directing: Queer Theory is
putting on a show of completely
student-originated works. 7-10
p.m. in SEM II C4107 Free!
Night of Songs and Prophecy
Hosted by Lucifine. As the title
may suggest, there is going to be
a lot of music and prophecies.
Also, there's a tarot card reading
before the show. The price is
a sliding scale between free
ENTG
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.
Tuesdays
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, 5:30p.m.
Student Video Garners Association
CAB 3rd floor (TV lounge), 6-9 p.m.
Greeners 4 Christ SEMII D 1107, 78:30 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,
1-4 p.m.
Synergy CAB 320, cube 17, 1:30 p.m.
Women's Resource Center CAB 320,
1:30-3 p.m.
Sunday, March 8
Substance-Free Sunday Movie
The movie is to be announced.
8-10 p.m. in the HCC.
It's week 10, almost over again!
Monday, March 9
Evening of Kora
Sean Caskell plays the Kora at
the recital Hall in the COMM
Building. 8 p.m.-10 p.m. in
the Recital Hall. Free!
MEETING TIMES
Black Student Union CAB 3rd floor
(TV Lounge), 2 p.m.
Center 4 Sustainable Entrepreneurship SEMII A2109, 2 p.m . .
Students Educating Students About
the Middle East (SESAME) CAB 320,
2p.m.
Clean Energy Lab II 1250 (February
18), 3 p.m.
Pre-Health Society Lab I room 3033,
3-4:30 p.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
A2109 , 4 p.m.
Hip Hop Congress Lecture Hall Rotunda,
4-5:30 p.m.
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Bike maintenance class
Learn how to fix a bike! 3-5
p.m. CAB Basement. Free!
Tuesday, March 10
TRADITIONS
cse@evergreen edu
Self-eval workshops
"Self evaluation workshop
presented by the Writing
Center: writing prompts, ample
discussion, and space for
questions will help put your
quarter into focus. Whether a
first-timer or a seasoned pro at
self-evaluations, these workshops
will strengthen your evaluation
writing muscles." 2-5 p.m. in
The Writing Center. For more
information call (360) 867-6420.
No buses in the library loop
Starting today, because of
construction, Intercity Transit
buses won't be able to pick
anyone up in the library loop
bus stop from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. Instead, the bus will
pick you up on Evergreen
Parkway. The construction
continue until May 29.
CAFE: S• WORLD FOLK A RT
WHO: Center for Sustainable Entrepreneurship in cooperation
with the Economic Development Council and Small Business
Development Center.
WHAT: Free business plan workshop for all of the community.
Come with a business idea and learn how to bring it to life.
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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 HCC, 6-9 p.m.
Socialist Alternative SEMII C31 09, 6
p.m.
Thursdays
Global Medical Brigade SEMII E2109,
4p.m.
Sabot Infoshoppe 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
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