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The Evergreen State College
HAPPENINGS FROM THE THIRD WORLD COALITION--MARCH 1984
WONDER WOMAN by Genny Lim
Sometimes I see reflections on bits of glass on sidewalks
I catch the glimmer of empty bottles floating out to sea
Sometimes I stretch my arms way above my head and wonder if
There are women along the Mekong doing the same
Sometimes I stare longingly at women who I will never know
Generous, laughing women with wrinkled cheeks and white teeth
Dragging along chubby, rosy-cheeked babies on fat, wobbly legs
Sometimes I stare at Chinese grandmothers
Getting on the 30 Stockton with shopping bags
Japanese women tourists in European hats
Middle-aged mothers with laundry carts
Young wives holding hands with their husbands
Lesbian women holding hands in coffee-houses
Smiling debutantes with bouquets of yellow daffodils
Silver-haired matrons with silver rhinestoned poodles
Painted prostitutes posing along MacArthur Boulevard
Giddy teenage girls snapping gum in fast cars
Widows clutching bibles, crucifixes
I look at them and wonder if
They are a part of me
I look in their eyes and wonder if
They share my dreams
I wonder if the woman in mink is content
If the stockbroker's wife is afraid of growing old
If the professor's wife is an alcoholic
If the woman in prison is me
There
Women
There
Women

are copper-tanned women in Hyannis Port playing tennis
who eat with finger bowls
are women in factories punching time clocks
tired every waking hour of the day

I wonder why there are women born with silver spoons in their mouths
Women who have never known a day of hunger
Women who have never changed their own bed linen
And I wonder why there are women who must work
Women who must clean other women's houses
Women who must shell shrimps for pennies a day
Women who must sew other women's clothes
Who must cook
Who must die
In childbirth
In dreams

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Why must woman stand divided?
Building the walls that tear them down?
Jill-of-all-trades
Lover, mother, housewife, friend, breadwinner
Heart and spade
A woman is a ritual
A house that must accommodate
A house that must endure
Generation after generation
Of wind and torment, of fire and rain
A house with echoing rooms
Closets with hidden cries
Walls with stretch marks
Windows with eyes
Short, tall, skinny, fat
Pregnant, married, white, yellow, black, brown, red
Professional, working-class, aristocrat
Women cooking over coals in sampans
Women shining tiffany spoons in glass houses
Women stretching their arms way above the clouds
In Samarkand, in San Francisco
Along the Mekong
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN•s DAY
March 8 is International Women•s Day. We
would like to dedicate this issue in
celebration of women and the contributions
made by Third World women. Several
activities have been planned by the Third
World Women•s Office and the Women•s Center.

March 6: SIMPLEMENTE JENNY, a film
featuring the voices of Latin
American women and how their
culture has shaped their roles.
The film is free and will begin
at noon in CAB 108. Sponsored by
EPIC.

March 3: The Righteous Mothers--an exciting,
empowering musical group will
begin the week. The concert will
start at 8 p.m. in the Recital
Hall. Tickets are $4.50, more if
you can, less if you can•t. Free
childcare provided. Sponsored by
Tides of Change.
March 5: A woman from New Movement in
Solidarity with Puerto Rican
Independence and Socialism. The
talk will begin at 7:30 p.m. in
Lecture Hall 1. Free admission
and childcare. Sponsored by the
Third World Women•s Organization
and EPIC.

Heartsparkle Players (a theatre
group to educate kids about
sexual assault), FIST (Feminists
In Self-Defense Training), and
Safeplace (Rape Relief/Domestic
· Violence Shelter Service) will
be giving presentations to children, adolescents, and adults.
The event will begin at 7 p.m. in
Library Lounge 2100. Free
admission and childcare.
Sponsored by the Parents' Center
and the Women•s Center.
March 7:

Potluck! A chance to share with
other women and learn about our
diversity. Various women will

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be sharing their personal experiences as women through poetry,
dance, music, or discussion.
The evening will end with songs
and celebration. Kids are
welcome too!
March 8:

International Women's Day!!
Vinie Burrows will perform her
one-woman-show--SISTER! SISTER!
A salute to all women! Performance
begins at 8 p.m. in the Recital
Hall; $3 students/$4 general. .
Free childcare provided. Sponsored
by the Third World Women's
Organization, the Women's Center,
and Evergreen Expressions.
Carmen Carrasca, the story of a
Columbian basket maker and the
changes that occur to her family
and village once she becomes
financially independent; noon;
CAB 104.

March 9: Vinie Burrows will be presenting
two workshops: A UNITED NATIONS
DECADE FOR WOMEN and UNITY IN
PEACE AND THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT.
Time and place to be announced.
Sponsored by the Third World
Women's Organization and the
Women's Center.
March 10: Wallflower Order Dance Collective
and Grupo Riaz will be performing
in Seattle. A van will leave
TESC Library loop at 5:30 p.m.
to travel to the performance.
Tickets are $7. Sign up at the
Women's Center.
For more information about any of these
activities, please call the Third World
Women's Office at 866-6000, ext. 6006.
FIST
The Third World Women's Office has contracted
Debbie Leung, a member of FIST, to do a
~ries of workshops on self-defense.
They
~re scheduled for Wednesdays at 6 p.m. in
the KEY Lounge, through March 7. They are
free. For more information, call 866-6000,
ext. 6006.

.fAREWEL~!..f-1

We would like to express our fondest
farewells to Kim Bingham, Third World
Coalition Secretary. Her last day here
was February 24, 1984. She had been here
for seven years before deciding to move
on to bigger and better things. Congratulations Kim, and good luck!
THIRD WORLD WOMEN SUPPORT GROUP
The Third World Women's Office and the
Third World Peer Support Office will be
having a drop-in hour to begin a Third
World Women support group on Mondays at
4 p.m. in L-3236. For more information,
call 866-6000, ext. 6284 or 6006. Childcare will be provided by the Parent
Resource Center.
NWIC
The Co-coordinators of the NWIC would
like to announce their new hours and
meeting times.
Les Rhoads--Wednesday 9:30-4 p.m.
Friday
9:30-4 p.m.
Vince Brunn--Tuesday 1-4 p.m.
Wednesday 1-4 p.m.
Thursday 9-4 p.m.
Friday
9-4 p.m.
Meetings--Wednesdays at 4:15p.m. in
L-3220.
PINE RIDGE RELIEF FUND
The NWIC is putting out a last call for
contributions of warm clothing for the
Pine Ridge Reservation. Drop off any
donations at L-3220.
PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH
The selection process for a new President
has been narrowed down to six finalists,
all of whom have been invited for an
interview. Interviews have been scheduled
over a two-day period, and time has been
allotted for open interviews with the TESC
community. It is important that yoU'r'

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input into this process be included. If
you have the time, spend a few minutes
and check out who the candidates are and
leave your impressions with Betty Beeman,
Coordinator for the Presidential Search.

Clairol Loving Care Scholarship--$200$1,000--Academic, vocational, or paraprofessional courses. Criteria--must be
30 years or older, U.S. citizen, financial
assistance, official acceptance into an
accredited program in the U.S., within
24 months of completin9 program of study,
and a definite plan to use the training.
Scholarship does not cover doctoral or
post-doctorar-siudies (except to complete
law or medical school) or correspondence
courses.

The candidates coming i n March are :
Murry De Pillars
March 2
Joan Wadlow
March 6
Patrick Ca 11 an
March 9
Thomas Feld
March 13
The interviews are scheduled for noon in
CAB 104.

Details on each of these are available
in Library 1218.

SCHOLARSHIPS
Listed below are the scholarships
currently available. Applications for
each of the awards are due April 15 in
the Financial Aid Office.

ETHNOGRAPHY OF NEZ PERCE
The Park Service is seeking a study on the
ethnography of the Nez Perce Indians and
their relation with the Spalding Mission
in Spalding, Idaho. The study is to
begin in the summer of 1984 and end by
the surmner of 1985. No deadline was
specified. Applications are available in
the Development Office, L-3103, or write :
National Park Service, 200l-6th Avenue,
Room 1920, Seattle, WA 98121.

Ethel MacPhail--$1,000--Full-time junior
or senior woman studying in a business
management related field; financial need.
Edith Draham--$1,000--Students who can
demonstrate ability in fiction writing;
financial need.

CALENDAR
3/2,6,9,13

Jean Skov Memorial--$500--Full-time women
students study1ng pre-1798 literature.
Carlton Morris Cooley--$500--Senior
demonstrating excellence in writing the
English language, with equivalent of 48
credits in English and participation in
college governance.

3
5

Shauna May Memorial--$450--Full-time
students who have distinguished contributions to community, academic excellence,
or other demonstrated talent.

6
6,13,20

Charles J. McCann--$250--Full-time senior
who has completed at least one full year
at Evergreen; financial need.

7

Ward Bowden Memorial--$250--Full-time
student in journal1sm or political science;
financial need.
Roger F. Camp Memorial--$150--Full-time
sophomore; exceptional financial need:· ··

7,14,21
8
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Presidential Candidates
Open Interviews with Students
Noon, CAB 104
SELF-RIGHTEOUS MOTHERS Concert
8 p.m., Recital Hall
SIMPLEMENTE JENNY Film
Noon, CAB 110, FREE
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Discussion
? .p.m., Library Lounge 2100, FREE
Third World Day of Absence Mtgs.
Noon, L-3205
Potluck for Third World Women
Call ext. 6006 for location and
time.
Third World Coalition Mtgs.
1 p.m., L-3205
Vinie Burrows, SISTER! SISTER!
8 p.m., Recital Hall

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vALENDAR (continued)
3/8
Carmen Carrasca
Noon, CAB 104
Vinie Burrows, A UNITED NATIONS DECADE FOR WOMEN
9
and UNITY IN PEACE AND THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT
Time and place to be announced.
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All-Campus Academic Fair
3-6:30 p.m., Library Lobby
AND WHEN YOU LEAVE, TAKE YOUR PICTURES WITH YOU By Jo Carrillo
Our white sisters
radical friends
love to own pictures of us
sitting at a factory machine
wielding a machete
in our bright bandanas
holding brown yellow black red children
reading books from literacy campaigns
holding machine guns bayonets bombs knives
Our white sisters
radical friends
should think
again.
Our white sisters
radical friends
love to own pictures of us
walking to the fields in hot sun
with straw hat on head if brown
bandana if black
in bright embroidered shirts
holding brown yellow black red children
reading books from literacy campaigns
smiling.
Our white sisters radical friends
should think again.
No one smiles
at the beginning of a day spent
digging for souvenir chunks of uranium
of cleaning up after
our white sisters
radical friends

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AND WHEN YOU LEAVE, TAKE YOUR PICTURES WITH YOU (Continued)
And when our white sisters
radical friends ·see us
in the flesh
not as a picture they own,
they are not quite as sure
if
they like us as much.
We're not as happy as we look
on
their
wa 11 .

Third World Coalition
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505

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