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NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION

THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE .
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON 98505

CPJ looks at 2S years of Greener history
BY HILLARY ROSSI

DECEMBER 5, 1996

VOLUME27,NUMBER10

January 17, 1980
-A editorial response to the critics of the Cooper Point
Journal, written by Lawrence Stillwell, the Editor-in-Chief

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Parking violators
may suffer less?
December 6, 1971
Parking officials consider the use of "lock-inplace" inpound devices instead of the
traditional impounding of cars to a downtown
lot. After much consideration, this was
instated in the summer of 1996.

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JYovember13, 1980
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The citizens of the seventh floor of "A" Dorm unanimously
agreed to declare their independence as a protest to
developments in the United States Government. Rumor has it
that Secret Service agents quickly reclaimed seventh floor for
the United States and stole all of their beer:

Computer Services
June, 1972
Despite their late start, Evergreen greeted the
technological age with open arms by installing their
only computer"Hewpie". According to ~xperts it
primarily usedfor computer games, although DOOM
wasn't installed until quite a few years later.

'Possessed Gypsies" abduct sm.all plastic lUan
May 14,1992
A local actor/artist know as
"Small Plastic Man" was
abducted from his workplace!
home at Java Junkies by a
group of "drunken angered
conspiritors. " The return of
this 3 inch tall hunk of a man
was requested at once.

Everything You Ever Wanted to
Know About Getting Screwed,
but Were Afraid to Ask

Sun deck proposed for 'A' dorm

Febuary 19, 1981
Jim Lyon was a little bit pissed
off at the legislature when he
wrote the letter to the editor
that ran with this headline.

Febuary 28, 1980
Yes, my fellow readers. Housing was seriously considering building a Sun Deck on the top of "A" Dorm to prevent
students from climbing onto the roof Maybe this is an idea that should be revisited?

The Cooper POInt Journal
decided to run this feature for
the twenty-fifth anniversary of
The Evergreen State College this
THE eVERGREEN ST AT E COL LEGE
VOL UME 1 MUlotBER 1
week, because tomorrow our
school newspaper turns 25
the S&A Board had deyears old. On December 6, 1971,
cided to allocate fees for
the first student run paper came
the bowling alley to the
out at Evergreen, three months
Campus Recreation Cenafter the school opened its
ter. The bowling alley
doors to students. Since we
obviously never hapstarted on this project a few
pened.
weeks ago, Gary Love, the photo
Lab I, Lab II and the
editor, Crist in Cair, the calendar
Communications Buildeditor, and I have been on a ram.ing were still in the
page through the CPJ archives in
works by the fall of1974.
the basement of the Campus
Since we were going
Activities Building (several
back this far into
times), and have come up with
Evergreen's history, we
some interesting facts about the
might as well go all the
history of the school.
way. And after digging a
We first set out to only
wo:.:~~ little further, Gary and
find the first edition of the Coo- "'~t.... Cristin came up with an
per Point Journal. It turned out ~i=:;£:2~~U=·~Of~.:-...-.Jd,
article which was conto be named "The Paper, II a title
the editors chose so it would not .front page photo was taken be- . cerned with the history of the ·.
be offensive to anyone. There cause the photographer, Leahy, school. The article was in the
were 'six original staff members: had a crush on the girl it pic- first issue of the school paper
Marvin Wright, Mike Mason, tures and thought her photo on that was actually titled The CooDon Martin, B.ruce Brochmann, the front page would impress per PointjournaJ.
The school was built from
Chris Ness, and Lester Leahy. her. Wright said that he and Ma"The Paper" had no Advisor at son did not like the idea of the a miscalculation on anticipated
the time.
girl's photo being on the cover new college students in the early
When Italked to Wright page. He said they stole the 1970s, according to the article
a few days ago, he told me that original before it went to print, called, "The History of Everthe 1971-1972 newspaper staff and hid it in a refrigerator in B- green" : Evergreen had been apworked as a collective, so no one Dorm. Leahy then came from proved by the Washington state
person was in charge of the pa- the Mods, found this original, legislature during 1967, but did
not get accredited until 1972.
per and the process was all vol- and sent it to press himself.
The governor at the time,
unteer. -It was an "ad hoc atWright then asked me if
tempt to make something hap- the Mods were still at Ever- Daniel). Evans, appointed five
pen" as Wright puts it.
green, because back in 1971, Board of Trustee members for
Evergreen, but they did not
The Paper started, ac- they were only temporary.
Well anyway, now I was name the school Evergreen uncording to Wright, by these six
students going up to the Ser- curious about the 1971 plan for til a few months later. In the
vices and Activities Board and Phase II of the CAB building. I meantime, a few names were
asking for the money to put to- explored further. Fortunately, tossed around. Some braingether a newspaper. The S&A Gary had photocopied an ar- storms included Thurston
Board was reluctant, Wright ex- tide from the orientation issue County College, Washington
plained, because they wanted to of 1974 called, "Campus State College in Thurston
spend their money to build a Changes," and it explained ev- County, and Mudbay Univerbowling alley in the CAB as part erything that had been worked sity.
Dr. Charles McMann was
of Phase II construction.
on since the school had opened.
The S&A Board decided
The Phase II of the CAB Evergreen's first president, apto give them a little money to building never came about, ac- pointed by Evans. The Board of
start, Wright continued. He cording to the article, because Trustees decided on the school
then asked me if the bowling al- they could not settle an on go- mascot, the Geoduck, in 1970.
ing dispute about what to do The school was inaugurated
ley was built yet.
According to Wright, the with student fees. By that time, April 21, 1972.
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I found that at the time of
the school's opening, the CRC
and the CAB weren't structured
yet. Only the library building
was up and running, but wasn't
complete. Since Housing wasn't
finished by the fall of 1971, students l,ived all over the Olympia
area at the beginning of that
school year.
Since Gary and I wanted
a photograph of the layout of
the school at the time of its
opening, he went back to the
archives and dug out several
photos of the school. It didn't
quite look like our school, but
that stands to reason it was
about half the SIze it is riow. In
the middle of all this, we found
hilarious articles about different
extracurricular activities.
According to a 1972 artide, the S&A Board was selected by a computer at random, and the eight students ,
served one'to three month
terms.
The student activities inI
cluded quite a few jazz groups,
bus going to and from Olympia that was paid for by students, and a yacht club.
KAOS had just improved
to ten watts of electricity to run
their radio station (KAOS
started in winter, 1972) as reported in a 1974 article. While
very exciting then, ten watts can
cover only Housing at Evergreen, says John Ford, the 1996
director of news and public
events.
Anyway, that first edition
of the Evergreen school newspa- "
per had an article in it that explains the mission of a student
run publication at Evergreen ..
The Paper originally promised ~
"actually communicating with ttl
others and thus preserving and 0f
strengthening the sense of com- >.
munity at TESC." Have we done UO
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Students to display art pieces
throughout campus next week

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The Clock Tower was built with the
orginial Library Building.They were
both completed November 1971,
says Rita Sevchek, who has been in
the President's Office since the
school opened.
ARTWORK BY BRYAN FRANKENSEUSS THEISS

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In 1971, a group
called Firesign
Theater produced its
third album, "Don't
Crush that Dwarf,
Hand Me the Plyers':
A lyric from it was
"More sugar': A
couple of students
liked the Iyric( wrote
it on a wooden sign
and hung it from the
trees outside the the
dorms facing the A
Dorm parking lot.
About twenty years
later and ten feet
higher (the tree has
grown), the sign is
still there. '

The "dragon
stairs" down the
library stairwell
was painted in
March J971, and
took three
months to
complete. It was
painted by the
Man and Art ·
program, and it
instigated the
funding of
student painted
murals by the
S&A Board in
the 1970s.
Photo by Gary Love

BY

After twenty-five years at Evergreen, veteran teachers pose at the 1996 Employee Service Awards
Scout camp for a week.
"It was like getting ready for a field trip,"
Nisbet says.
The sleeping bags and backpacks were
appropriate, because Evergreen's first years
were an adventure for everyone.
"That first year, I don't think we had a
lecture. Not one," Nisbet says. "We didn't have
that, because that's what they did everywhere
else."
What they did have were seminars.
Because of the construction, these seminars
were held in faculty's homes, in churches, and
in one case, in a Girl Scout camp. One teacher
was known for taking all the chairs and tables

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out of a room before holding seminar.
There was also less writing than there is
now, and a heavy emp hasis ' on student
conferences. In Nisbet's class, he met with
each student once a week.
"It was a positive time," he says of the
early years. "[The students and facu lty had)
such a sense of expectation."
After twenty-five years, Nisbet thinks a
lot has changed, not all for the better.
"There used to be a lot more diversity in
teaching here, " he says. "If you went and
looked at the books in the bookstore the first
year and the books in the bookstore this

2.

December 5, 1996

By JENNIFER KOOGLER
the Evergreen beach. Originally, Beebe envisioned
Once again, The Evergreen State College is the piece conSisting of large floating rafts covered
about be adorned with art.
with grass, but the idea did not prove feasib le.
The students from the academic program Therefore, he and Figel. who wanted to work with
Sculpture in Time and Place are working on a group floating rafts for a long time, brainstormed and
ofartistic pieces to place around the campus, both sketched a design and are now laboring to make it
inside and out, starting Tuesday; December 10. come to life. Beebe says that they would like to keep
They will stay up throughout Winter quarter to the exact look of the finished sculpture a secret, so
soothe our tired souls during the cold,gray months. interested students will just have to make the
Jean Mandeberg, professor for the program, mucky journey down the beach trail themselves,
says that the six different pieces will be set up on
Previous assignments had the class making
Red Square, on the path between the CRC and CAB, wearable sculptures, including masks, jewelry, and
inside the CAB, and even on the Evergreen beach. a suit of armor designed entirely out of bottle caps.
The assignment called for groups of three or Groups also designed alternative signs for the
four people to work collaboratively to make site campus, a sort of prelude to the larger project, that
specific projects for the campus. Mandeberg wanted included a comedy and tragedy mask set on a music
students to have a "conscious relationship for stafffor the Communications building and the large
different places," taking ihto consideration the red X's that dotted the Ubrary loop.
function of the site and how passersby interact with
Leann Drake, :l11other student in the class, is
it.
illustrating a map of the different sites where the
Beginningaround mid quarter, students have art will be displayed, allOWing Greeners to give
~orked in the Arts Annex wood and metal shops,
themselves a self-guided tour. The map will include
forming their creations out of wood, metal, the location of her project, which she describes as
concrete, wire, plastic, and various other materials, "things in the trees" beside the CAB building in
Their projects range from a huge electrical cord between the clock tower and the path to Housing.
comingout of the middle ofRed Square, stretching Maps will be available by Tuesday, December 10 in
out from the pavement and plugging into an outlet the Bookstore and at the Circulation desk of the
on the side of the Lecture Halls to weaving together Ubrary.
the trees lining Red Square with different materials.
Mandeberg hopes that the projects will
Ned Beebe and Becky Figel. both seniors, are inspire the average person who walks by to "see
constructing a floating sculpture to be displayed at familiar spaces in a different way."

'Housing Community
Center vending machine
vandalized
BY M!llW. iWlsrnOM

Professor reflects over twenty five years at Evergreen

TREVOR PYLE
When Ch uck Nisbet first came to teach
at The Evergreen State College, Red Square had
ye t to be completed, classes were held at a Girl
Scout camp, and eve rything was an
experim ent.
The school has changed after twenty-five
years, but the experimenting goes on.
Nisbet, who is a faculty member of The
Vanishing Father, came to Evergreen during its
first year. He taught at UCLA the year before,
where classes were overpopulated and
impersonal.
"I taught there [at UCLA) for four years,"
Nisbet says, "and during that whole time I
didn't learn one student's name." He also
didn't like L.A .. describing it as a 'carnivorous
environment' for his three children. So when
Nisbet got a call from Evergreen's dean ofsocial
sciences, who was a family friend, he decided
to relocate to the Northwest.
Evergreen itself was also part of the
attraction, Nisbet was in terested in the
freedom in curricu lum , the lack of a class
system between faculty and students, and the
concept of seminars.
The first class Nisbet taught at Evergreen
was called Environmental Design, and he still
remembers the first day. The students showed
up in the classroom (which doubled as Nisbet's
office) with sleeping bags and backpacks.
Construction was being done on the library
building, and the class stayed at a nearby Girl

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Photo by Gary Love

year. .. there was a much broader range ofideas .
You can't get hired unless you conform to a
g~nder- race-~lass ap~roach. Teachers are?'t
h~red for th~Lr e~penen~e or talent. They re
hlred ,:orthe~rpo~nt of vIew.
The .dlv~rslty among teachers has gon~
d~wn, while It ~as gone up fo~ students,
Nisbet s~ys, makmg scales out of his hands. H,e
also believes that at least one of Evergreen s
departments has weakened over the years.
"We d~n't have social sciences anymore," he
says. "!e have race-class;gender.. ~nd the
,
tragedy IS t.he st.uden.tsdon t know It.
Desplt~ hiS o~mlon~ about Evergreen s
probl~ms, Nisbet stili beheves the school has
made LIDprovements over the years.
"I have a computer now!" He says,
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dd"W kn
h t t h
sml mg, t en a s,
e ow ow 0 eac
core programs much better now. We can teach
writing better, the seminars are more
refined ...we've also improved team-teaching."
Chuck Nisbet moved his children over
500 miles to a school that claims a geoduck as
its symbol, a school where teaching is treated
differently, a school that has gone through a
lot of changes in twenty-five years. He
mentions that Evergreen has improved its
team-teaching, but they mus.thave been right
that first year; out of the four faculty of
Environmental Design, one, Larry Eickstaedt,
retired last year. The other three-Nisbet,
Carolyn Dobbs, and Phil Harding-are still
with the college.

Half-way through Thanksgiving break,
vandalism forced the public area of the Housing
Community Center to be locked for the remainder of
the vacation.
Someone tried to pry open the back area of the
branchs back door, they also ripped offthe two paneL~
of the candy vending machine and stole the bottom
two rows ofcandy, said Erik Ordway, auxiliary lead.
"If places such as the Housing Community
Center are vandalized, and we are not able to fix it
immediately and believe further vandalism might
occur, then we close down the building" he said.
This is the first time the Housing Community
Center was vandalized this year.
During holidays, access to the laundry room.
phones, reslrooms. and vending machines normally
remain open, but they will probably close around
December 20 for Christmas break, said Chuck
McKinney, assistant director of residential life.
As a result, Housing residents will have to use
the A-dorm or MODfucilities during break.
The damage to the vending machine was
estimated at $100 doUars.

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preference. The Submission Format is: type your
submission in Word or Wordperfect (Macintosh
or PC) and save it on a 31/2" disk with your name
and phone number written on the disk. Also
submit a paper copy of your submission with your
name and phone number typed on it. For
ArtlYork, most sizes of art are usable. CaU the
office if you are uncertain of the dimensions.
Negatives will be needed later for selected photos,
If you wish to submit your work, take it to
the Anthology Office on the third floor of the CAB
in the Students Activities area with your name and
phone number attached. You may also take it to
the First Peoples' Advising Services office on the
first floor ofthe Library building (the office is next
to KEY Student Services and Ca re er
Development). Written submissions will not be
returned, but artwork and disks can be retrieved
in the Anthology Office after publication. All
submissions will be selected for printing by a
selection committee.
If you are not able to bring your work to the
office, you may mail it to: The Evergreen State
College/ CAB 320, Students of Color Anthology
Office/ Olympia, WA 98505.
If you are interested in helping and want to
find out when the next meeting is, if you'd like to
check out (or buy) a previous Anthology, or if you
just have a question, call the office at (360) 866:
6000 x6143.
Rememberthe Deadline is FRIDAY,JANUARY 17,
1997 BY 4:00 P,M.
Submission Criteria taken from material printed
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according to articles in the Olympian last week.
Officers had a warrant out for his arrest for a
failed bank robbery that occurred on
Wednesday.
At 5:20 p.m. a Northeast Seattle branch
of Seafirst Bank was robbed of over 1 million
dollars , the Olymp ian articles said. Police
chased a white van, while suspects shot at
officers from the van, The van finally stopped
and three men fled . Two men were wounded
by po lice whil e flt'eing from the vehicle,
according the Olympian. The pair have since
been charged with the crime. Police believe the
third man , who got away, was Scurlock.
Police and the FBI also suspect that
Scurlock was responsible for 14 other bank
robberies in the Sl'attle area and two in
Portland, according to the Olympian.

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BY RYAN KEITH
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1997 at 4:00 p.m. is
the DEADLINE for submissions for the 1997
Students ofColor Anthology. The Anthology crew
is seeking poetry, short stories, artwork and
photography by the students of color at Evergreen.
For those ofyou who are unfamiliar with the
Anthology, this will be the fourth annual edition.
In 1994 the Students of Color Anthology series
began with Bridges and WindolYs. It was followed
by No Explanations, No Apologies in 1995, and
l!lst year's edition was titled Killing Kolumbus and
Other Love Stories. Each Anthology is produced,
laid-out and compiled by the Students of Color
Anthology crew. The collective series contains the
artistic voices of a small but strong and diverse
body of students enrolled at Evergreen. For three .
years it has provided a rare outlet for voices
presently, and historically, under-represented in
the dominant culture and society. All Students of
Color at Evergreen (that includes the ReservationBased Program, the Tacoma Campus, Individual
Contract students, in short, any student of color
enrolled at Evergreen) are encouraged to submit
their work.
The Submission Criteria for the 1997
Anthology is: the Written Format must be 81/2"
x 11" paper, 12 point type, double-spaced. Poetry
should not exceed two pages. Short Stories should
not exceed three pages. Artwork can be either
black and white or color. There will be fewer color
pictures chosen so you may want to include some
black and white as well, Photos, drawings ,
paintings, and three dimensional artwork are all
usable. The Number ofSubmissiollS per person
is five, and they should be ranked in order of your·

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we
apologi,
ze for this b(>cause he's the host ofJepurdy.
A man who attended The Evergreen
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In
the
first three ~ssues of~c 1989-90 school year, the staff of the CP} increased the.
State ·College from 1979 to 1984 shut himself
volume number each tLIDe they tncteased the issue n'umber. This was a mistake.
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on Thanksgiviqg day afte r allegedly robbing a
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We
would
like
to
apologize
on
behalf
of
0]
staffs
for
last
seven
years
for
misprinting.
bank on Wednesday,
Former Evergreen student William Scott • our volume numbers. We would like.to 'th;mk photo editor Gary Love, who noticed that.
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Scurlock was believed to be the bank robber • the CP} is o.n its 27th volum.e during Evergreen's 25th year, He has a keen eye.
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will
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st?rt
labehng
the
CP}
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volume
25
unless
we'Can
corne
up
with
a
plan
to.
police nicknamed "Hollywood." The nickname
orginated from the elaborate disguises the • reduce confuslOll WIth the volume 25 pnnted two years ago. The following proposals have
been made:
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robber wore during the bank robberies.
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• Labeling this year's remaining Cprs "Volume 25a."
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Scurlock was found dead in a camper in
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Hand
correcting
all
re'
m
aining
issues
of
the
CPJ
from
the
last
seven
years.
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a Seattle backyard after he apparently shot
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Affirmative action alive at Everg.reen
~y D.w lI ) SCIIUR
November's affirmative action debate gave
audie nce memb ers a fee l for th e issues
surrounding th e co ntroversia l program. Still.
ma ny student s left without a cl('ar picture about
what the program means at Evergreen.
Affirmative action is intended to ensure
l'qual r ight s empl oy ment and educ ation
opportu niti es . At Eve rgree n. it 's mea nt to
protect groups tvpically affected by prejudice,
called "affected groups," which include women ,
people of color. people with disabilities . and
veterans.
Despi te the present national backlash
against affirm ati ve action , th e program is
thrivi ng here. says Paul Gallegos, the Assistant
for Equal Opportunity on Prl"sidentjane jervis's
staff. Ga llegos. who heads affirmative action at
[vergreen . bel ieves it has had a positive impact
on the school.
Evergreen affirmative action is similar to
affirmative action efforts across the nation, says
Ga llegos. In fact , the program here is based
originally on Washington's state programs. [n
a job sea rch. Evergreen's affirmative action
happens after anti-discrimination and equal
opportunity mechanisms have been applied.
First, Gallegos helps hiring authorities
develop a clear picture of what they want in a
candidate. In doing so he hopes "to eliminate
some of the preconceived notions about what
an applicant should look like," said Gallegos. He
also tries to keep education and experience
requirements to a reasonable minimum, hoping
to reduce needlessly cutting the applicant pool.
"People of color have been shut out, have
been disadvantaged disproportionately in the
education system," Gallegos said. By "inflating"
the education requirement, the college excludes
people from different backgrounds; these are
people he feels can succeed.
Gallegos makes sure that advertising for
job positions targets a variety of communities.
Hiring authorities must post positions in major
- newspapers as well as co nta ct community

orga ni za tion s, women 's groups, ethnic Washington , then the college would like to
advocacy gro ups, disab ilit y support and employ women in at least half of their police and
advocacy groups and some state services. "\t's custodial positions. After they·reach that goal,
affirmative action for tha,t affected group.stops
about casting a broad net," said Gallegos.
When the applications (-Ome in , th ey are for those jobs, says Gallegos.
scree ned for minimum requirements. Those
Evergreen has reached a number of th ese
that do no t meet th ose requirements are goals but still falls short in many areas. Ensu ring
drupped.
that Evergreen's work force fully reflects the
Then affirmative act ion begins.
labor market is a very difficult task, explains
Gall egos rev iews the applilant pool to Gallegos. The school has been working at it for
llIake slIre t hat it includes affected grou p 20years. Ironically,saysGallegos, ifEvergreen's
members. If certain groups aren't represented, affirmative action was a system orst rict quotas,
he may require that more time and effort be put which may force the college to make unqualified
int o advertisin g. When the applicant pool i~~ hires, "we would have been done in five yea rs,"
accepted, applicants are cut through one of two Gallegos sa id.
processes.
Evergreen president Jane Jerv is, who is
For an exempt position, a committee reads ultimately accountable for ove rsigh t of the
all th e appli cation s and se lects a number of program, believes that it has some drawbacks.
appli('ants for interviews. Ga llegos compares She feels it is an effective and necessary tool for
the number of affec ted applicants in the achi eving diversity, but that Evergreen's "rnoral
interviewgroup with statistics to make sure that and philosophical co mmitm ent that goes
th ey are reflective of the labor force . If th ey're beyond the commitment of affirmative action."
not, he may question why some applicants were "Even if we meet all of the goals lof affirmative
excluded. A few more qualified applicants may actionl we would still strive for diverSity," said
be added to the interview pool by the committee Jervis.
to help correct the problem, says Gallegos.
In at least one case, however, Gallegos has
For an exempt position all applications are cu t back the goal of Evergreen's affirmative
scored according to a scoring key which is action. Because women compose 80 to 90
reviewed by the Washington Department of percent of the labor force for what the state
Personnel. Applicants with the top seven scores defines as clerical and support staff positions,
get interviews. If there are fewer than three this is the percentage that Evergreen would
affected applicants in the top seven, then normally hope to reach.
affected applicants with the next highest scores
Gallegos has instead set Evergreen's goal
are added until three are granted interviews.
to roughly 62 percent. He believes that the labor
After the interviews and the final force numbers are high, due to past practices of
recommendations are made, Gallegos reviews keeping women out of higher positions. He
the committee's decision to ensure thatthey had defended this position to the State of
reasons for disqualifying any affected Washington.
applicants.
Other alterations, such as adding sexuality
Overall, affirmative action is aimed at orientations to Evergreen's list of affected
raising the numbers of affected group members groups, would be more difficult to defend, says
in Evergreen's work force to reflect their Gallegos. "Affirmative action is statistically
numbers in the state's labor 'market, says driven, " said Gallegos. One of the problems with
Gallegos. For instance, if women comprise balf adding orientation to affirmative action is that
th e po li ce and custo dial labor fo rce iT) there aren't accurat e numbers in the labor
market, says Gallegos.

Sarvey Wildlife (are (enter seeks monetary

donations, materials and volunteers
VIEWPOINT ..
By LIz ELLIs
The Sarvey Wildlife Care Center, located
hetween Arlington and Granit e Falls, WA ,
needs your help.
The Wildlife Center runs entirely on
private funds . which have been dwindling; the
Ce nter is in the red by about $2,000 each
month. Iffunding doesn't improve, the center
will have to shut down. Its animals will
hopefully be transferred to other wildlife
rehablitation centers; if not . they will be put
down .
Kaye Baxter, Director, has been a wildlife
rehabilitationalist for 20 years and has operated
the Center for the past eleven years. A wildlife

rehabliltationist takes in injured wildlife and
treats them until they are able to return back '
to the wild. The Sarvey Wildlife Care Center
covers five acres and is-filled to capacity with
wildlife . Eagles, deer. bobcat, coyote, finchesnothing except bea rs are turned away (if
necessary they will keep bears for short periods
of time). The release rate runs 40-50%; many
of their nonreleasable birds of prey are used for
educational purposes in various communities.
The Center needs donations of money,
materials and vo lunteers. Interested in an
internship? The Center may be able to provide
you with one in return for your services. Going
home to Everett for the holidays? Want to
spend a few hours worklllg with birds of prey?

If you have questions or any donatable
materials that you cannot transport yourself,
such as old clothing, old blankets or towels, pet
supplies, cleaning and laundry supplies, ligh~
bulbs, 3x5 cards, batteries or food such as pet
food, rabbit food, horse grain, eggs. fruit, bird
seed, meat parts, fish or Karo syrup, please call
Liz Ellis at 866-6320 or drop the donations off
at dorm apartment C303.
If you would like more informa tio n,
contact the Sarvey Wildlife Care Center at:
P.O. Box 2083
Everett, WA 98203
(360) 435-4817
** Ifyou are interested in an intemiship . ask
for Kay or Kaye or send a resume**

Affirmative
action debate
divides opin'ions
By TERRANCE YOUNG
On November 21 Evergreen State
Co lleg e invited Tim Wise and Dinesh
D'Souza to debate this resolution: "Forces
in th e US, maintain and encourage
in equity based on race, etlmicity, gender.
and disability. A ffirm ative Action is
necessary to correct the effects of these
Forces." Wise argued in favor of
Affirmative Action, D'Souza again st it.
joye Hardiman moderated the debate.
In his lO-minute opening statement.
Wise said two forces are maintainin g
inequity : Overt and ongo in g bias and
institutionalized racism. Of the two , he
said, institutionalized racism is the more
harmful. He supported his argument with
finding s from the Glass Cei lin g
Commission appointed by Bush and Dole.
The commission found that although
white males constituted only 43% of the
work force they occupied 97% of the top
managerial positions.
"It is not "acism but merit that is
creating this inequality," responded
D'Souza. He attributed Asian success to
family structure and work ethic. He cited
a statistic that sa id Asian students on
averag~ study 12 hours a week compared
to eight hours for whites and four hours
for blacks and Hispanics.
D'Souza closed saying that
ultimately we cannot be a fair country
unless we offer people this promise-not
equality of result, but equa lity of rights.
Wise finished by telling the audience they
have a choice, "You either resist injustice
or you are collaborating with it."
Although the Evergreen community
in general supports affirmative action
students gave views that varied in emotion
and content. For Cra ig St. Clair the debate
was the first step towards learning more
about affirmative action. "This is an issue
that I'd never considered. I lad it not been
for thi s debat e, I wou ld never have
considered it in depth . This really put b<?th
sides of the issue right there. It's time to
figure out where I stand."
Othe rs already know where th ey
stand. "Debating affirmative action may
be valid but to inv~te a co nse rvative
ideologue lik e D'Souza legitimizes hi s
racist, sexist, and homophobic views," said
Alice Zillah.
Either way. there can be no doubt
that the debate brought the affirmative
action issue to the forefront of peoples'
minds.
Copious notes contributed by staff writer
Reynor Padilla.

Nutcracker ballet
planned in Olympia

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Holiday fund drive

It is once again time for the annual Holiday Fund
Drive at the Crisis Clinic. In order to reach those
that find the holidays to be a difficult time ofyear.
the Crisis Clinic of Thurston/Mason counties
needs finacial assistance. This monetary support
will sustain a 24-hour Crisis rntervention
hotline, Information and Referral services afterhours access to mental health services,' Child
Protective Services and the Emergency Housing
Network program.
Over 35,000 calls were responded to last year

Ballet Northwest, of Olympia, is presenting the Nutcracker for
the holiday season. The performance dates are December 13-15
and 19-22 at tht: Washington Center for the Performing Arts in
Olympia.
Ballet Northwest is a community based, nonprofit organization
dedicated to dance as a performance art. Founded in 1970, Ballet
Northwest produces performances that feature local dancers,
sponsors touring dance companies, offers ed ucational
opportunities for both performers and patrons, and promotes
the art of dance in Washington.
Tickets for the annual performance are $lO and $14 and are
currently on sale at the Washington Center box offices. Or call
at 753-8586.
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PO Box 2463
Olympia, WA 98507
Or for more information, contact the Crisis
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Local poetry contest

Scams target students

The Federal Trade Commisssion in Seattle has announced the
discovery of severa l scams directed towards college students.
These includes free scholarship promises and a high paying job
with no experience needed. Students are advised to be on the
lookout for such scams and to contact the Commission if anything
seems like it may be phony. For more information on these and
The City of Olympia, Olympia Heritage other scams, call Pat Leigh or Chuck Harwood at (206) 220-6350.
Commission and Bigelow House Preservation
Associa tion are sponsoring their annu~1 "Ghosts
of Chri stma s Past" historic hom e tour on
Sa turday, December 14, 1996 from noon to
4: 00pm . The proceeds will go towa rds the
acquistion of historic furnishings and provide
support for visitor programs at Bigelow House.
November 17th
All houses will be served by an Intercity Transit
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shuttle bus which is free with the ticket purchase.
0212
"Contraband"
narcotics reported.
The bus is handicap accessible.
0903
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For more information call 786-5745.
1145 Due to insecure door, one bike removed from T-dorm.

Ghosts of Christmas
past tour returns

The Olympia Poet ry Network is offering a con test for local and
new poets. The contest is limited to previously unpublished poets
from Thurston, Lewis, Mason or Grays Harbor counties. The
prize is for the five best entries and includes a $50 cash prize.
The deadline for entries is February 15, 1997 and winners will be
announced in April.
The Olympia Poetry Network is a nonprofit organization that
has been sponsoring literary activities in Olympia for five years.
Prize money was donated to the Network.
For.l\lo,Fe informatiGn and the complete set of rules, contact th e
Olympia Poetry Network at:
OPN Contest
PO Box 4368
Tumwater, WA 98501
or call(36~) 352-1355.

Eco-feminism nature walk
A nature wa lk and eco-feminism workshop is scheduled for
December 8 in CAB 110 at 2:00 pm. This will include a discussion
with Emily Andrews. The event is sponsored by the Women 's
Center and is free of charge. For more inform ation, stop by the
Center or call 866-6000, ext. 6162
.

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Scholarships for Study
Abroad offered

November 18th .
0235 Stolen vehicle recovered! Justice triumphs once again!.
1502 Bike removed from location near I-dorm.
1544 Criminal trespass citation handed out regarding Pet policy.
1653 Random dog spotted leashless in.K.
1900 Disruptive individual found interfering with traffic near
the parking booth.

The National Security Education Program
(NSEP) is offering scholarships for students
interested in studying abroad. NSEP provides
Americans with opportunities to study in
regions critical to US interests. This excludes
Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New
Zealand. To be eiigible, all applicants must be
undergraduates at an US university, college or
community college.
The scholarship competition is based on merit
and is available to those wishing to study abroad
during the summer and fall of 1997, and the
spring of"98. The awards go up to a maximum
of $8,000 per semester or $16,000 for the entire
academic year.
For applications. write to:
National Security Education Program
Undergraduate scholarships
Institute of International Education
1400 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
or call toll-free at(800) 618-NSEP or (202) 3267697.

November 19th
1558 Ite.!Tls stolen from vehicle in F-Iot.

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0149 Malicious Fire alarm pull in A.
2218 Less than favorabler eaction to wild mushrooms repo rted.
November 24th
1759 Random person reported to be foll owing a Libraryemployee.
November 25th
0949 Stolen vehicle recovered in f lot.
1250 Vehicle towed from Mods.
1303 Vehicle towed from F lot.
1650 Boot placed on vehicle to enforce regulations.
1750 Boot placed on vehicle to enforce regulations.
1755 Boot placed on vehicle to enforce regulations.
2005 Boot placed on vehicle to enforce regulations.
November 26th
1358 Fire alarm in A d'ue to very well done foodstuffs.
1545 Boot placed on vehicle to enforce regulations.
1645 Boot placed on vehicle to enforce regulations.
1700 Boot placed on vehicle to enforce regulations.
1710 YetanothervehidetowedP:u:kingsuregotintotheholidayspirit. ..
1813 Random Dog spotted running amok in Modland.

November 20th
1113 Jump-start completed.
1438 Jump-start completed.
1444 Jump-start completed_
1546 Jump-start attempted.
1657 Jump-start completed.
2029 Jump-start completed.

November 27th
0901 Violence done to the Community Center's vending machine.

November 21st
1309 Subject arrested fur "disorderly conduct. among other things.·
2216 Another Criminal Trespass citation delivered.
November 22nd
0842 Fire in N due to candles. Housing policy makes sense after all.
1739 Backpack theft from Community Center.
2220 Yet another CT citation administered.

November 28th
1620 Happiness and love fill the world. Apink light infuses campus.
November 29th
0029 Suspicious person spotted in A-dorm.
1605 Random canine spotted running amok on Red Square.
November 30th
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LETTERS AND OPINIONS

Status' QUOREPRI~T*

What Does Jesus Mean To You?
COMMENTARY ..
By GREG SMITII
(.\ ,\ \Pl IS MINISTER WITII EVERCRE~N STUDENTS FOR

CHRIST
"W ho is Jes us '?" I fr equentl y ask
Evergreen students this que stion . One ,
answered, "Jesus is whoever you want him to
be." Other answers from a variety of sources
Jnd perspectives followed. Je sus is a
mmhroo m, 5011 of God, metaphor, Messiah,
fir st-ce ntury religious revolutionary, very God
- very man. 111isrepresented rabbi . and Jewish

COLUMN ..
By VAUN MONROE
John, one of Jesus' discip les, described
Jesus in my favorite way. "The Word became
Blood was shed in order for the United
flesh and made his dwelling (tent) among us." States to come into existence . The
The eternal and powerful Truth (Jesus) became Revolutionary War was fo ught to break free
flesh and tented with us. Living in a tent gets from tyrannical English rule. The Declaration
you really close to earth where we all live of Independence was the mission statement
geographica lly, but it locates you physically in written to protect the
a highly vull1erable and fragile condition. We rights of individuals.
are at the mercy of not only the elements of One man, olle vo te.
nature, but in a personal paradigm of so many Democracy.
ofthc c1emcn ts of our human nature which we
The Declaration
of Independence had
no ideological room
for enslavement of
Black people (labor)
and extortion of Red
people (land) so new
laws were created to
make room. Newlaws
that protected the
rights of wealthy
whi te malesl For
people of color these
laws helped create a
perpetual underclass.
For white people, the
results were a culture
infected by white
supremacy.
No matter how
'white' they dressed or
acted there remained some separation . But in
a white supremacist culture we always had
people of color that yearned to be white. So
do not understand and cannot control. Into they kept on trying.
this campground called humanity, Jesus
Meanwhile some white people started
pitches his tent and reveals God's compassion, feeling kind of bad about their ill gotten gains.
integrity, and self sacrifice. He also reveals our A new../aw was created to try and offset the
spiritual disease - pride, se lf obsession, roadblo~ks to opportunity. The roadblock of
callousness, and rebellion. Fortunately, he racism. The new law was called affirmative
reveals the path of God's forgiveness and our action.
repentance.
Some minorities have made gains but the
Who is Jesus? Well, he's no front man primary beneficiaries of affirmative action
for Santa Claus and Wal-Mart. Jesus is the only have been white women. Yet, when
good news in the universe telling us in word proposition #209 was on ballots in California
and se lf-sacr ifice that God loves us and is 70 percent of white women voted to abolish
affirmative action. Where were our white
calling us into relationship.
sisters?
(The idea for · th e chart came from Between
White Supremacy combined with greed
Heaven and Hell: A Dialogue Somewhere to crea te a mindset that allowed some white
Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C.S. people to ruthlessly exploit people of color.
Lewis. & Aldous Huxley, by Peter Kreeft .)
Moreand more people both white and of color
continued to pour into the United States to
repeat the cycle . Many of the white
,. immigrants were allowed to merge if th.ey

THOUGHTS

Non-Sages I Sages
Those who do
notclaim to be the
God the Bible falks
about.
Those who do
claim to be the
God the Bible talks
about.
ca rpenter.
For the graphically oriented learner the
accompanying chart might prove helpful in
explaining who Jesus is and who he isn't. For
the not so graphic ally oriented, the chart
intersects two different groups of people. One
is an absolute category - those who claim to be
the God of whom the Bible speaks. One either
claims this or they don't. Transcendent,
creator, savior, judge, fu ll of grace, and
co mpassion, are a sma ll sampling of th e
biblical God's actions and attributes.
The second category. sagacity, is a relative
one with several attributes. First, the attribute
of wisdom which gives inSight into matters of
th e human heart and character beyond the
superficial layers seen by most of the populace.
Seco nd , a great openness of heart exemplified
by com passion and humility. Third, sages are
creative thinkers and can 't be easi ly classified
III th e normal categorIes of their culture.

COLUMN ..

adopted the ways of the new country.
I wonder if revolution has become
impossib le in the United States. In a
democracy th is large it is easy to convince
yourself that one vote doesn't matter. The
infighting amongst specia l interest groups
dilutes voting power
even more.
For instance, if an
Italian
American
marrie s a German
American and they
have kids, what is the
designated
race?
White American.
Status quo. If a Black
American marries a
Native American and
they have kids, what is
the designated race?
Biracial. Status quo .
Because the child is
non-white.
What
happens to the blood
percentage s
estab lished by the
government to decide
is
Native
who
Ameri can? If whites
mix people of color,
the chi ld is biracia I.
Loss of status. Status quo.
Divide and conquer. Black vs. Asian .
Men vs. Women. Straight vs. Gay. Christian
vs. Left. All smokescreens to prevent us from
seeing the war we should all be waging.
Poor vs. Rich.
There is enough wealth in this country
so that every citizen could live comfortably.
But we don't. How can this be? Our
situation looks like a poorly written,
Machiavellian science fiction novel. But it
works. 97 percent of CEO's at fortune 500
companies are white males. In a democracy of
increasingly individual individuals can we
think about something other than self long
enough to change the status quo?
"We do not live for ourselves only, but for
our wives and children, who are as dear to us
as those of any other men" -Abraham

Ordinary
folks
like us

Socrates,
Buddha,
Confucius,
Moses,
Lao-Tzu,
Black Elk

Iumtb Jesus

AND SHIT

BY VAUN MONROE

liars

LETTERS AND OPINIONS

EPIC Heats Up

VIEWPOINT ..
By STEPHANIE GUiLLOUD
As a transfer studen t, I was trying out on iss ues that overlap is also a major
different groups, trying to meet people, get concern and goal this year. They are hoping
involved, etc. I attended an EPIC meeting and to conglomerate on a winter film series.
haven't missed one since. Regardless of its past,
In the first seven weeks ~f this year,
which I hear wasn' t as
EPIC has sponsored
active, EPIC is moving and
six speakers, raised
shaking now. The mission
money to send a corn
The. directi0ns that EPIC
statement is to gat her
grinder to the women
people together that are
of war-tom Chiapas,
concentrates on ~'re
committed to gear ing
Mexico, shown over
active ones, and .
society and our resources
six films, and is
successful actions
towards more social,
currently working on
human , and eco logica l
reql,Jire a good deal of
severa l campaigns.
ends rather than the goals
Th ey are target ing
. o~ganization,
of production and profit
Disney and Nike 's
that dominate
thi s
exploitation
of
corporativist world. The group is interested in
workers in the third
changes of the broader social structures and focus world, American prison issues, Shell Oil's
un awareness and action to bring these ideals to horrendou s policy in Nigeria, and the
the community.
invasion of East Timor. Within the group
These are high-fa lootin g goa ls, but the there are numerous sub-committees that
excit ing thing about this group is how they form if there are two or more people
implement these goals into actions. Primarily, interested in an issue. Many of the issues
they prOVide a space for organization and are international ones, but possibilities are
education , incorporating as many people as are limitless and up to the initiative of anyone
interested. This year, getting more support to and with an idea for an action or information
from the community in Olympia and further out to share.
is an already-successful ambition. EPIC ha s
The directions that EPrc concentrates
worked with groups in Seattle, the Community in on are active ones, and successful actions
Solidarity with the People ofEI Salvador (CIS PES). req uire a good deal of organization .
and the Nike ca mpaign out of Portland. EPIC Through the group's meetings maintain a
sponsors a great many events that you may be consistent 20-25 members, the more people
aware of sin ce the super-week when every day involved, the more work can be done. EPIC
there was a new issue ~ nd a new speaker. Many meets on Tuesdays at 3:30 p.m., and aU are
of these events are co-sponsored with other groups welcome to join and share ideas, listen to
around campus. EPIC worked with Latin America others, contribute time or help, or merely
Student Organization (LASO) and M eC~a to absorb the multitudes of educating
bring EI Salvadoran speaker Francisco Calli on the information that flows through.
Day of the Dead. Working with campus groups

• Due to computer and editor error. Valin Monroe's
column was misprinted last week. I apologize (or rhe
error.
Sincerely,
Trevor Pyle
Letters & Opinions Editor

Reader Decries D'Souza
COMMENTARY"
ByTUANTRAN
Iam writing this article in resp~nse to the
debate between Tim Wise and Dinesh D'Souza
on affirmative action at the CRC on November
21. As an Asian-American, I am offended by
Dinesh's arguments against affirmative action.
First ofall, I resent this notion that Asians
are superior t"o others, including white people,
on academic achievement. Dinesh cited the
test score on the math section of the SAT as an
example of his \\Osition . What he fai led to
realize is that most Asian immigrants do well
in mathematics because it is a subject that is
not dependent on the knowledge of the English
language and the American culture.
Furthermore, as a matter of economic survival
in this racist country, Asian immigrants are
forced to go into technical fi elds such as math,
computer science, or engineering in order to
get a job after college.
Second, I wonder how much money the
conservative Republican party is paying
Dinesh to betray his own people? As an
immigrant from India, I am sure he must be
aware of the hi storical fact that India was
colonized and explOited by the British empire.
Not only is he offending the memories of his
great countryman, one of the most revered civil
rights leaders in this century--Ma hatma
Gandhi, Dinesh is a "sell-out" to the Asian
community of which he is a member. To group
the white people together with th e Asian
people against other minority groups, Dinesh
is playing into the "Divi.de and Co nquer"
strategy which the British used against India,
and the white dominant culture is usi ng
against the minorities in this country.
Third, .the stereotype that Asians are
successful in this countryis not true. AsianAmericans come from a diverse social,
educational. and economic backgrounds. Ifit
is true tMt Asians are successful, then why do
so many Asian-Americans live in the poor areas
of the city, along with African-Americans?
During the Rodney King.riot in' Los Angeles,
Asian stores were being looted be~ause most
Asian-Ameicans couldn't afford to do business
in the more expensive white community.
Furthermore , the looting of Asian stores
during the Rodney King riot is a clear example

of the division within the minority groups that
white America has successfully instigated.
Fourth , Dinesh 's idea of "Rat ion al
Discrimination" is nothing but an attempt to
rationalize discrimination. I presume Dinesh
is good in mathematics since he is Asian. Then
why did he fail to realize that the statistics used
by insurance compa ni es are inherently
discriminatory since it penalizes people with
good driving records for belonging in a
minority group, such as men under 25 years
old. The reason insurance companies can get
away with it is that they are one of the richest
and most powerful industries in this country.
Fifth, without any evidence to
substantiate his arguments, Dinesh resorted to
name calling in his debate with Tim Wise,
using terms such as: "Under-whelming," "Slow
learner," and "Uncle Tom." The phrase "Uncle
Tom" applies to an individual of the oppressed
group who identifies with the oppressor. I
think Dinesh was referring to himself when he
called Tim an "Uncle Tom. "
Sixth, on a more personal note, as an
Asian-American and a graduate 6fthe Teacher
Education Program (MIT) from The Evergreen
State College, I am unable to get a teaching job
at most sc hool districts in thi s state. My
application and placement file are not being
screened by anyone who is in the position to
hire new teachers. A secretary at the Evergreen
School District in Vancouver was blatant
enough to tell me that if! wanted to get hired,
I should have contacted the school principals.
I wonder how many school principals in this
state are Asian-Americans? Thus, I am not able
to get a teaching job for which I am qualified
because I am not part of the "old boy's
network."
Finally, I have encountered overt
discrimination remarks, such as being called a
"gook," and a "chink" by white guys driving by
while I was walking along Harrison street, in
Olympia, about eight years ago. Even then, I
didn't know that people discriminated against
me for being an Asian. I wanted to assimilate
into this culture so much at the time I thought
I was white. I hope one day Dinesh will look at
himselfin the mirror and see his true reflection.

The Evergreen State College Lacks Ideological Diversity .

BY CRAIG ST. CLAIR
It is an obvious fact that this campus knows
nothing of conservative thought. Co nserva tism
on this campus is always equated to Republicans,
Republicans to "the Right ," and "the Right" is
inh ere ntl y racist, fascist , ev il, wrong , and
probably many other epithets that I have yet to
encounter. Il hink it isvery difficult to attain any
understanding of anything if one objectifies and
dehumanizes a subject (i. e. "the Right") and has
also demonized it with various epithets. The
conservative movement of the last 50 yea rs is a
com pl ex move ment of often op posin g and
conflictin g id eas. I am more co ncern ed with
co nservative inlellectual hi story, ralher than
pulitica l hi slory. For ideas are the genes is of
action. and if actions are to be understood, th en
Ih e id eas behind them must be understood as
well. With thi s college's heavy emphasis on
things political, ideas are ofte n neglected.
Our own Prof. Ken Dolbare publi shed a
litt le book in the early 70s en ti tled American
Ideologies. II gives an apt description of the
primary di visions with in the conservative camp.
appli cable st ill today. He draws two distinctions
among co nservative thought: individualistconservalism and organic-conservatism. Within
conserva ti ve ransk s, George H. Nash's The

Consen lJcive Intellectual Movement in America

draws similar disti nction s. He depicts th ree
bran che s of conservatism: libertairan,
traditionali st. and anti-Comm uni st. Since
communism is not the threat it was in the ea rlier
part of this cen tury, l think it fair to deal with the
libertarian and traditionalist branches, wh ich
correspond to the individualist and organic

conservatism that Dolbare describes. it is these which appeared in the late eighteenth century
different aspects of conservative thinking that with the thinking of Edmund Burke. Classical
need to be underslood in order to properly Co ns erv ative thought ha s a strong social
understand the nature of conse rvatism in or ientation . It emphaSizes soc iety over the
Ame rica.
individual , for it is society that sustains' the
The individualst/libertairan conservatives individual and society that will remain when the
are strongly influenced by the classical individua l has passed. These conservatives
Libera lism of the late eighteenth and early believe that civilization aand cu lture have come
nineteenth
about through
cent ury. They There' is a very strong liberal presence centuries
of
largely draw on
.
.
d b
h
human practice
th e beli efs in a
in America, an
y t at I mean an
and deliberation.
free
market
orientation towards freedom and
Such a soc iety
t
f
f
h
derives much of
~~~neO:iCS anod against any sort 0 restraint. W at we its life and
in d i v i d u a I
. lack is qualitative conservative
underst anding
freedom . These
presence, divorced from any sort of
from this past
co nse r va tive s
'd
I
h
'II' °11 h '
practice
and
I eo o ,gy, t at WI Instl t e proper
c u s tom
believe a tru ly
free market,
inner strength and guidance that
Abandonment of
makes,dvility possible. .
this practice is
which would
enable men and
unhealthy for a
women to be
society. Change is
tr uly free, then all of our social ills would be somethin g that mu st happe n slow ly, for
all eviated . Do lbare cites Milton Freedman as collectively, human beings need time to adapt.
being a primary spokesman for this aspect of Russell Kirk is the foremost conservative of this
conservatism, wh ile Nash cites F.A. Hayek, the type and has been most influential within the
more influential of the two within conservative conservative movement.
ci rcles. Both men are economists, and both
Many American conservatives tend to
believe capitalsim to be the way to attain freedom display a little bit of both ofthese differing aspects
in a society. Any restrictions from outside of conservative thought. [t is my experience that
sources, especially government, are viewed as the defining difference between the two depends
da ngerous to freedom and precursors to on where one puts one's emphasis. Russell Kirk,
socialism.
to give an example, believed in a free market, yet
The organic/traditionalist conservatives abhorred the inhumane effects of industrial
, draw largely from classical Conservative thought capitalism. Many "conservative" politicians,

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through not intellectuals, tend to believe the
other way, take your pick of nearly any
Republican.
I tend to side with the orga ni c/
traditionalists. [strongly believe that America
suffers from an ideological imbalance that
emphasizes individual freedom and liberty at the
expense of proper individual restraint and
respect for others. There is a very strong liberal
presence in America, and by that I mean an
orientation towards freedom and against any sort
of restraint. What we lack is a qualitative
conservative presence, divorced from any sort of
ideology, that will instill the proper inn er
strength and gUidance that makes civility
possible. [f we do not want to rely solely on law
as a means of controlling behavior in our society,
which we largely do, then we need to reinvigorate
forces that provide individuals with enough inner
restraint and discipline to allow a more
meaningul, fulfilling existence.
Harriet Martineau, a fema le British visitor
to America in the early 1830s, remarked that the
law cannot create virtue, but only prevent vice.
We need to bolster and support institutions and
forces within our society that will cultivate a
measure of virtue that will allow individuals to
live in a meaningful manner with themselves and
with one another. Freedom cannot truly exist
without more of a sense of inner restraint and
strength.
For those who wish to discuss these issues
and ideas further, drop me an e-mail at
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One of the funniest comedies of the decade-and you've never seen it
The Stupids is coming soon to a .video store to you

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UY ED WARD

BR'Al' F1tANKENSEliSS TIII:I ~~
There are plenty of task s less
intimidating than trying to convin ce people
th at a poorly marketed , unpopular comedy
starrin g Tom Arnold is an abso lut ely
hilar ious, mu st see masterpi ece. But
sometimes a ca use is so noble that one must
ignore the obstacles, look straight ahead and
proceed without fear.
The comedy in question isThe Stupids,
a ve ry unconventional and intelli ge ntl y
written film that should appeal to fans of Th e
Simpso/ls or LMe Night I Vit h Conan a 'Brien.
It fl oundered in thea ters for abou t a week la t
summer, but it's coilling to video December
10th.
The first thing you need to knoll' about
The Stupids is that it's not what you think.
I)e'pite the trailer, it is Tlot a Tom Arnold
I'eh icle. Arnold is grea t as man-ot~ the-hou se
Stanl ey Stupi d. but he's not any more
important th an (o-stars Jessica Lundy as hi s
wife joan, Bug Hall (A ll ~ l fa frum the lTIudern
Little Rascals) ;15 his son Buster, or Alex
McKenna as his da ughter Petunia. There are
also appearances by Christoph er Lee and Bob
"Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan , and even walkons by respected Ca nadian directors li ke
David Cronen berg and Atom Egoyan. The cast
is rounded out by the Stupids' dog Kitty and
ca t Xy lop hone, done in stop- motion
animation by Killer Klowns From Outer Space
creators the Chiodo Brothers.
Having th e word "stupid " in the title
seems to have made people compare the film
to Dumb and Dumber, something it has very
little in common with. Director John Landis
(who directed one of the greatest comedies of
our time, The Blues Brothers) intended it as a
children·s· film as opposed to an -adolescent
film . As he pointed out in an article in
Cinefantastique, " __ ,there's not one
scatological reference, there's not one sexual
innuendo; there's no farting or vomiting_"
Aside from making the film funnier, this
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anymore by stea ling hi s garbage week after
approach is also fa ithful to the film 's source
week_
material, the series of children's books by
In a more conventional comedy,
Ilarry Allard and james Marshall.
this would be a throwaway joke,
Wh en La ndis first ca me
But in The Stllpids, it 's the
across the project its script was
beginnin g of a hilariously
appa ren tly a conventional
comp lex plot. Stanley goes
coilledy ve hicle. He threw
searching for the garbage
the script out and hired
thieves, and before the
Brent Forre ster, a
movie is even a third
writer fr om The
of the way over he's
SimpsollS, to sta rt a
go tten mixed up
new one . It is
with ali ens and
Forres t e r' s
arms dea lers, his
brilliant writing
kids think he's
that makes The
beei, kidn apped
Stup ids one of
and hi s wife has
t he funnie st
abandoned her ca r
comed ies of
on a busy street to
th e deca de.
run from police
So now
who aren't even
let me explain
looking for her.
th e conce pt.
i\1istmdmtanding
The Stu pids
after misare a fami ly
UlrlntJrlng
who, for no
weaves
discernib le
int o
a
reaso n, a re
co mple x
co mpl e t e ly
imaginary
devo id
of
conspiracy.
common sense.
The fact that the
They're a loving fa mily
conspiracy
does
and th ey try to be
IS
not
exist
norma l, but they just
irrelevant: the
don't know how_They
Stupids ' skewed
cannot stop themselves
graphic by Bryan Frankenseuss Theiss
perception of the
from
horribly
world becomes its
misperceiving even the
own
Stupid
reality.
most common everyday events. In the opening
Perhaps because of its writer's
scene, Stanley Stupid discovers that the family
background,
the comedy is more. similar to
garbage can has been moved from the curb
The Simpsolls than anything else_In a way
and emptied, so he assumes that his garbage
it's almost like Homer Simpson: The Movie_
has been stolen. Stanley and Joan discuss how
You have a whole family of Homer Simpsons
they will get new garbage until they get back
who, miraculously. wind up being able to take
on their feet, but Stanley is outraged and
care of themselves despite their supremely
doesn't want to let people push him around

defective brains . The jokes are in rapid-fire
succession like Airplane! but they neve r stoop
to parody - the humor comes almost entirely
out of the ridiculously long series of idiotic
mistakes_
At times, Stanley eve n stumbles into big
action scenes, with renegade soldiers trying to
kill him because of their own Stupid-esque
misinterpretations, These scenes are a lot of
fun, though they could have used more of the
anarchic excessiveness Landis demonstrated
in the epic car chases of The Blues Brothers_
The real -life villain s respo nsible for these
shooto uts and explosions are the wea kest
element of the film . Landis seems to have lost
some of his visua l flair over the years: th e
gl'nu ine threat in these scell es could have been
pla ye d to more effect with some grim ,
dr3matic Die Hard style photography. Still ,
the villains arc funn y and the on ly scene th at
rea lly does n't work is a cameo by Singled Out
hyperbabt' Jenny McCarthy, who actually isn't
very conl'in cin g as the star of a Bayll'iltcl!esq uc TV show.
But th e fell' misses don't matt er; th e
oth er jokes are so funn y and in su ch large
quantity that Forrester could have sold them
in bulk to every other comedy that came out
during the summer and still had pl enty left
over. There are long stretches of the movie that
had me laughing continuously, and I was not
the only one in the theater buckl ed over with
tears streaming from my eyes by the end of the
Christopher Lee scene.
There really is no other movie like The
Stupids, Ifthe.e was, the stomachs of America
would be in danger oftearing from too much
laughter. We're talking comedy on the level of
The Jerk, just a tier or two below Pee Wee's
Big Adventure. Ifyou're not willing to give it a
chance on video, then, let's face it, you 're
stupid_

This is the cover of the first .issue of the
third volume of Stranger in Paradise by
Terry Moore

Due to an
unfortunate psychic
snafu, eraiH CVoyant'i
Cosmostology will
not be seen this week.
However, Carmine
Rau asks us all to
prepare our brains
for next week's end
of the quarter special
edition. Thank you
for reading the CPJ
once again.

Resistan(e to the entertaining Star Trek: First Contact is futile
BY JENNIFER KOOGLER

Once upon a time, I wanted to see a new
movie called Ghostbusters. My father being
in a prominent position to obtain tickets for
the preview, I spent days drearoing of
floating green blobs and slinky laser beams,
Unfortunately, by the time we arrived at the
theater near us, the crowd had overrun the
event. Alas, we were forced to view Bill
Murray in all his slime splendor at a lat er
date, but in exchange we were snuck into Star
Trek III: The Search [or Spock. Upon leaving
the theater, I knew that I had found a new
love_ Exploding starships, sneaky aliens, and
advanced levels of intri gue (a t leas t for an
eight year old) soo th ed my Sca r Wars
depr ived soul.
Several years later, the eighth film in the
~eries ha s arrived at ou r local movie house.
I met Star Trek: First COlltactwi th plenty of
si lly bubb li ng enth usiasm, as it li ved up to
my expectations. First Contact is ~u r e l y the
mos t ent ertaining of the Treksto ries to grace
the big screen.
First Cuntact Illarks the fir st Star Trek
film withou t any of the original te levisio n
,eri t's cast present. Tha t's one of the r ea~o n s
I was par ticularl y draw n to thi s fi lm as
opposed to Star Trek: GeneratiollS. l enjoy a
good sp in around the galaxy with Ca ptain
Kirk and crew jus t as much as the next
Trekker, but really people, it's over. While it
was appropriate to have Kirk usher in the
new crew into the Illotion picture realm , it
wo uld see m just a tad extraneous to have
them horn in on eve ry film. Bouts of
nostalgia for th e original series (like th e
recent sweeps month, where Deep Space
Nin e charac ters time travel back to the

Tribbles episode), are humorous and
perhaps poignant at times, but become trite
if overused.
Anyway, back to our story_ First
Contactuses the time-tested-time-travel twist
to plummet Jean-Luc Picard and the rest of
the regular Next Generation cast (including
Lt. Worf, played fabulously, as usual, by
Michael Dorn , who arrives from his Deep
Space .Nine duties in true Kli ngon fashion)
back to the mid 21st century, They follow
the Borg, everyone's favorite cube-traveling
villains, to thwart the alien 's plans to conquer
and assimila te la rlh befo re human s had
space travel ca pabili ties.
The crew tumbles through some sort of
subspace fi eld (unlike the "slingshot around
the sun" method used in Star Trek IV) and
find them selves in co nstant comba t with the
crafty cyborgs throughou t the film. The Borg
att em pt s to ass imil ate the crew of the
excep tionall y swa nk ne\\' Enterprise E, but as
you ca n guess, they aren't ready to give up
without a grand an d glorious fight. Crusher
(Ga te, McFadden), Pi ca rd (Patrick Stewart ,
who acc ordin g to my mom is "hot" and
"buff" in this film), and Worf log in some
spectacular act ion scenes attemptin g to
destroy the see mingly un stoppabl e Borg
from ruin ing a perfectly good stars hip and
its crew.
Meanwhile, Riker (Jonathan Frakes,
who also directed the film ), Troi (Marina
Sirtis, who has an actual role to play rather
than just standing around sensi ng things) ,
and Geo rdi (LeVa r Burton, sporting new
cybernetic eyes in a fetching shade of blue
rather than the sta ndard bland banana clip)
hobble about down on the surface in search

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of Zephram Cochrane, the man who
designed and piloted the first warp driven
ship and made the "first contact" with an
alien species, ushering humans into the
space era. Cochran (played by james
Cromwell, who was also Fanner Haggott in
Babe) suffered damage to his ship when the
Borg attacked Earth, and the Enterprise
cohorts must lend him a helping hand to get
the ship back in shape in time for history to
happen. Coc hrane find s out about his fate
through countless violations of the Prime
Directive, and end s up a reluctant hero,
which Cromw ell portrays quite
ronvincingly.
Alfre Woodard plays Lily, Coch rane's
coll eague in warp technology, who end s up
on th e Ellterprise and develops a friends hip
of sorts with Picard. Her exchange \\'ith the
Captain as he sorts out hi s true drive behi nd
hi s desire to conquer th e Borg (remem ber,
he was captu red and made one of t hl'1ll in
the 1990 two pa rt episode The Best u[Boch
Worlds, which yo u can borro\\' from Illy
mOIll if yo u ha ve n't see n it ) marks th e
dramatic high point of the fil m. She and
Patrick Stewart rake time out from kicking
Borg ass to flex their cereb ral muscles, a
necessa ry and enjoyable componl'nt of any
Star Trek film.
Despite the compe lling Borg ac tion
sequences and humorous exchanges with
Cochrane, the real stars of First Contact are
Brent Spiner, who retu rns as Data, and Alice
Krige, who plays the Borg "queen," This may
be just a personal weakness of mine, but I
will never cease to be amazed by Spiner's
portrayal of Data. Generations introduced
him to th e emotion chip (which apparently
,.

,he can turn on and off now), the use of which
he continues to explore in. this film as he
wrestles, both verbally and physically, with
the Borg queen as to the question of
individuality vs. collectives (among other
things). I found it particularly interesting
that two non-humans ended up arguing the
finer and duller points of humanity_The late
founder of th e Star Trek universe, Gene
Roddenberry, often used aliens to reflec t
human nature (ex: Spock). I was glad to see
that producer Rick Berman and the others
in charge of his vision have preserved this
traditi on.
First Contact joins th e list of Star Trek
films directed by cast members. Frakes
takl's the helm and maneuvers the film quite
smoothly over its elaborate speCial effects
shots and pa tchwork story line. The story.
which cou ld have brE'n con fusing given the
time travel and switchin g back and for th
from differen t plot tw ist, rllns together
co here ntly. I also admitted ly knolV very
little abou t film and directin g and such, but
some of Frakes' ca mera shots were
astou ndi ng.
Though it did not featu re Malcolm
McDowe ll (a persona l favor it e sin ce A
Clockwork Orange) like Generations did,
First Contactwins hands down ove r its Next
Cener,1tion film predecessor. I vote that the
next one be directed by LeVar Burton. \\Iho
has directed many episodes of Voyager and
Deep Space Nine, and feature a cameo by
Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher, just for old
ti mes sake.
And so, my Star Trek enthusiasm
gushes on. First Contact is a stellar film
which should awaken the Trekker in us all.

One of the most wonderful
capabilities offiction is its occasional ability
to produce characters that do not exist, but
seem a bsolutely real to the reader. By the
end of this month there will be new issues
released of three com ic books that all do
this exceptionally well. The three are: Terry
Moore's Strangers In Paradise, Martin
Wagner's Hepcats, and Donna Barr's The
Desert Peach . . If you want some new
imaginary friends hanging around your
house , check out anyone of these series,
Strangers in Paradise is the mo st
mixed bag of th e three. It is primarily the
story of three friends, named Kachoo ,
Francine, and David. Where the series
focuses on its leads, there are very few
books out there that can match it, as he
obviously knows them very well. Their '
facial expressions and body language are
consistent, and their actions, while often
surprising, always make sense. Moore's
greatest strength as a cartoonist is his
ability to capture a moment in a facial
expression.
Unfortunately, almost all of the
characters outside of the leads are
aggressively one-dimensional. This creates
something of a strange contrast when the
two styles of "people" are forced to interact
Generally speaking, the caricatures work
well wHh the characters for comedic
purposes,
but seem
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th e rest of the world around them measured
up , Still, you can't entirely hate a world
whose grocery stores stock Bjork Flakes,
Hepcats is another slice-of-life style title
about a group offriends; in this case Arn ie,
Erica , Joey, and Gunther, The first major
sto ry-arc entitled Snowb li nd (still in
progress) is primarily about Erica with all of
th e other characters relegated to supporting
parts, On its most basic level it's the before
and after story of a failed suicide attempt.
What Snowblind is really, though, is a
character study showing what made Erica
who she is, and an attempt to see what she
might become, It also seems to be a place for
Wagner to experiment with the styl istic
storytelling options open to him in the comic
book format. The narrative shifts from firstperson, to third-person quite often, and the
composition and pacing of the panels show
his background in both film and daily strips.
InsightfuUy written and beautifully
illustrated in black-and-white , Hepcats is
worth the effort of seeking out.
The final comic for this column is
probably the most difficult to explain. The
Desert Peach is about a grave digging
batallion for the German Army stationed in
Northern Africa during WWIL The Desert
Peach takes on issues of sexuality, friendship,
perception of others, the military mindset,
and patriotism in ways that I've never really
seen them addressed before. It also has

This is the cover of a compliation of The
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possibly the largest and most complex casts
ofcharacters in contemporary comics. Every
character in this series has been used as a
symbol for at least one thing, but they never
seem confined to these roles as symbols_
Somehow, Barr manage s to continue
producing intelligent comics that juggle a
huge cast of characters, that always have a
finite story in every issue. and that always
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tesc and hit & run art present
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radical women general meeting
look at greener life)" (note: your
at 7:30 pm. dinner, with
calendar editor recognizes that
vegetarian option will be at 6:30
"your" is used in the wrong
pm for a $6 donation. new
context in the title of this
freeway haU, 5018 rainier ave s., . performance but that's what's
seattle. for rides or childcare
written on the flyer). the show
('aU (206) 722-6057 or 722-2453_
starts at 7:30 pm in lecture hall
one and is free!
fr'iday, decenlber 6
go to liheration cafe (it's on top
of buUdog news) at 6 pm tonight
for a potluck and a film about
labor rights in indonesia for
nike workers.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CPj!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CPj!
open mouth night at barnes &
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, COOPER
noble at 7::JO pm. sign up begins
at
7.
POINT JOURNAL! HAPPY
'BIRTHDAY CPj! the cooper
point journal turns 25 today and
sunday, december 8
so we're throwing a birthday
party in the cpj office today at
tonight through wednesday:
"heavy" and "crows" play at the
2_ the preparations have already
capitol theater. "heavy" stars
begun for musical chairs, pin
everyone's favorite model/
the tail on the see-page, and a
"actress" / aerosmith video star
lip sync contest (don't worry,
liv tyler along with pruitt taylor
there will be no spin the bottle).

vince, sheUey winters and debby
harry. It's about how the lives
of a waitress, a pizza maker, a
restaurant owner and a barfly
are momentarily shaken when
a new waitress is hired_ "crows"
is a drama about a lonely girl
seeking companionship. The
two girls set off to reach the end
of the world together. in polish
with english subtitles.
help bring pedals to the people.
the olympia bike library needs
your help getting the pink
community bikes ready for next
season. community bikes are
freeeee! if you like to-work on
bikes or if you want to learn,
give them a call at 709-8769.
they have work sessions just
about every sunday.

IlR THE ~nFI.U6Nc.G ""
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tuesday, december 10
The evergreen queer alliance is
having a holiday potluck so
head out to the potluck at 7 pm.
annie ross (ma.ybe best known
to twenty-somethings as the
principal in the cinematic
masterpiece "pulnp up the
volume") will be singing at
dimitriou's jazz alley (2033 6th
ave. in seattle) tonight through
sunday. for reservations or
more info call jazz alley at 4419729.

next week is the last issue of the quarter. our
first i~sue of next year will come out onjanuary
16. if you have any calendar items for the thirty
five days between issues, please submit them to
the cpj office by monday, 'december 9 at 5 pm.

tlnga Qnd atuff:
MONDAYS:
Women's Food Issues Group:
Noon , Women's Resource
Center (CAB 206).
Women in Technology and
Science: Noon, CAB 206.
CPJ Story meetings: 4:30,
CAB 316.
EF/Eyergreen Coalition: 4
pm, Sem 4153.

Eyergreen Students for
Christ: 8 pm, LIB .-.,004.
WEDNESDAYS:
Jewish Cultural Center: 2
pm, CAB 320.
Queer Boys Group: I pm,
CAB 314
Coming Out Group: 5 pm in
CAB 314.
Irish American Student
Organization: 1:30, CAB
320.
Riot Grrrls, 6 pm, D303.
Wilderness
Awareness
Group: 2 pm, Longhouse.

TUE~DAYS:

The Not Straight Women's
Group: 6 pm, CAB 206.
Eyergreen
Political
Information Center: 3:30,
Cab 320.

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program

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Union of Students with
Disabilities: I pm, CAB 315.
The Student Health Center
(Sem 2100) offers free and
anonymous HIVI AIDS
testing eyery Wednesday.
Testing takes place from 3-5
. and results are from 5-6.
There is a two ,week waiting
period for results. This is a
f'~st come, f'I.rst seryed, walk
in e~inic, testing takes
approximately 20 minutes,
expect a wait.
THURSDAYS:
MECHA (the Chicano Studen~

Union): 3:30, CAB 320.
Nathe Student Alliance:
Noon, Longhouse.
MIT/MES/MPA GSA: 4:30,
Lab 13023.
FRIDAYS:
The Gaming Guild: 3:30,
CAB 320.
Linux/Unix Users' Group: 3
pm, CAB 315.
. SUNDAYS:
The third Sunday of eyery
month is L.t.M.B. (lesbians in
Maternity and Beyond). 2-4
pm, Lib 2127.

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