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Obituaries
Evergreen loses a
student to suicide'
BY JENNIFER KOOGLER
Justin Comstock, a seco nd year student at Evergreen,
committed suicide on Sunday, March 17 in his apartment in
Lacey,
___~ccording to the Thurston Co unty Corone r's Office,
Comstock died of accute imipramine intoxication , or a suicide.
Comstock came to Evergreen in the fall of 1994 and wa<
enrolled in the Core program Law, Liberty, and Civilization.
This academic year, he took part in a group contract studying
-and developing technologies for fisheries managemenl amI the
program Data to Information. He graduated from Nort h
Thurston High School and attended So uth Puget So und
Community College before arriving at Evergreen .
Those studen ts who are having concerns with Comstock's
death should contact the Counseling Center at x6800 .
Ed Kelly, chairman
of the Board of
Trustees, dead at 53
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0902: Ferret loose in S-dorm.
Friday, March 8
]042: Media loan key stolen from a production studio.
2121: Glass door shattered in A- dorm .
Monday, March 11
1001: Ma licious mischief at covered rec pavilion.
1702: Volkswagen broken into.
1724 : Foul language lelton e-mail at I-lousing.
Tuesday, March 12
1407: Water pipes broken at soil farm.
1601: Filthy language left on e-mai l at public housing.
Wednesday, March 13
1118: Door hurned in B-dorm.
Thursday, March 14
1110: Five shelves and one outlet cover stolen from
Lib 4300 men 's room .
1229: Theft of bike seat.
1436: Dog habitation in the Mods.
Friday, March 15
0332: Three suspects in custody for trespassing in the
tunnels.
034 1: Assa ult in A-dorm pool pit.
0805: Student takes a tumble in A-dorm stairwell.
1027: Racial hateflyers about OTF arming issue posted
arou'1d campus.
Sunday, March 17
0 301: Fire alarm maliciously pulled in C-dorm ,
awaking an enraged Security Blotter editor from her
ty sleep.
rire alarm activated and contraband
discovered in B-dorm.
Monday, March 18
0815: Racist graffiti in Lib basement men's
restroom.
1714: Indecent exposure on the beach trail.
Tuesday, March 19
1018: Car theft from Mods. The vehicle was laler
recovered in C-Iot.
Wednesday, March 20
lll9: Violation of pet policy in the Mods.
Thursday, March 21
1536: Dog impounded at the Community Center.
1546: Report of a check stolen and forged.
Friday, March 22
0821: Parking booth broken into.
Saturday, Mar~h 23
0930: Window iluhe CAB pulverized.
Sunday, March 24
0613: Broken window in B·dorm reported.
2247: Fire alarm stimulated by cooking smoke
in U·dorm.
Monday, March 25
0730: Yet another broken window, this time in
0312:
Lib 1406.
19 26: Three
non-students of a juvenile nature
loitering in A-dorm.
Tuesday, March 26
1409: Dog of a Labrador nature loitering
dorm.
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BY MICHAEL C BENSON
Next year a third ofEvergreen 's studen ts may see their out that students would see more than the statu~ quo out of
rent increase, as Housing is currently seeking an increase the increases. She spoke of plans to better utilize the Housing
in their rent for the 1996-97 school year. The proposal, if Community Center and to reduce the hazards of vandalism
adopted; will mean students in housing pay $10-$20 more and malicious fire alarm pulls. Additionally, the new resident
per month, approximately a 4% increase. To find out more assistant program is designed to improve the quality and
about the reasons for the suggested increase I spoke with quantity of Housing events. The hope is that uninvolved areas
Mike Segawa, Director of Housing, and attended an open of Housing, like the mods and Phases 2 and 3, will be brought
meeting in the Edge (the social space in A-dorm) designed into participation more frequently, "We've been doing a lot of
research on how to build community and that's where this
to answer students' concerns.
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Justification for the rate hikes was offered by Segawa. money goes to."
Sermet remains unconvinced and plans to circulate a
There was no increase last year and inflation this year is at
about 3.5%. Since student housing is entirely supported by . petition against the proposaL "I don't like the fact that so much
student rent there's no other place to turn to meet increased money is being allocated to the Residential Life- program. I
labor and utility costs. When you factor in a week less in think it's just going to be a waste, [Segawa) wants everyone to
next year's rent calendar (Housing check-in will be love each other and be all happy in the community and I don't
September 20 mstead ofSeptember 15) with a fiscal impact think it's realistic."
Concerned students can communicate with Segawa over
of $43,000, the need tOy ,et aside money for long term
maintenance, and a restructuring of the student staff that the internet by e·mailing segawam@elwha.evergreen.edu. In
adds 7 new resident assistants, Segawa says be's confident person appointments can be made by calling Dano at 866-6000
x6622. Or you can write the Housing office, TESC A30l, or
the Board will view the increase favorably.
Serra Sermet, one of two students who attended the the Board ofTrustees, TESC Lib,3109, Olympia, WA 98505.
Edge meeting, grilled the Housing administrators fiercely
about ,their reasons. She felt that if students are priced out
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purpose. "Rents," according to Sermet, "are already
The Evergreen Housing office is in the bid proposal
exorbitantly high ."
stage
of a complete change of lock .systems in student
Segawa's answer to this challenge was that Housing
housing,
planned for summer. The age of the present
curved its increases to impact the richest students most,
system
combined
with the number of lost keys in
and burden the poorest as little as possible. Thus, if you're
circulation
have
prompted
the conversion. Housing is
living in the mods, or a four or five bedroom apartment,
currently
looking
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you'll pay $20 more per month, but if you scrape by in a 2
scheme
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person studio you'll only be nicked for $10. If you really
campus.
Comprehensive
maintenance
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can't afford an increase in rent, Housing will likely have
the
standard
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housing and has
accommodations available that are still in your price range.
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will
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Wednesday, March 27
'1433: Syringe found in housing.
1653: Four males seen spray painting the covered rec
pavilion.
Thursday, March 28
0448: Fire alarm engaged in B-dorm.
.Friday, March 29
1614: Hold lip alarm. accidentally pulled in cashier
cage.
Saturda~, March 30
0928: Three males reported painting concrete ash
containers.
Sunday, March 31
In the words of former Security Blotter Editor and
foreign correspondent, Matthew Kweskin, a relatively
quiet day on the Evergreen cam pus.
Monday, April 1
0666: Geod ucks reported to be risi ng from the inlet
and attacking nude sunbathers at the Evergreen
beach. hee hee ... April Fool's.
1321 : Fire extinguisher sto len and anotber
discharged at the covered rec pavilion.
1534: Male shoplifter detained at bookstore.
Tuesday, April 2
0833: Intoxicated male at Community Center.
1225: Female shoplifter at bookstore.
1144: First degree theft at the Bookstore.
2030: Third degree theft at the Bookstore.
Wednesday, April 3
Aserenespring day at Evergreen State
Housing residents will possibly see their rent increase next academic year by 4%. For the students
that live in Phase 2 and 3, pictured here, that would mean a difference of $20 a month.
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BY MICHAEL C BENSON
Sonya Smith-Pratt, of Evergreen's Parking office, says
they switched from Westside towing service to AMT for two
reasons: Westside lost its licen.se for a short time, and
Westside isn't close to a bus line. The downside is that AMT
charges more than Westside for both towing and storage.
AMT's basic impound rate is $100 and storage fees are $30
a day. Westside's rates are $85 and $28, respectively. Plus
tax, of course.
Larry Thornburg of AMT says they're worth the price.
• We're closer and faster. We're a full service station. We can
minimize any parking problems and we're right on a bus
line [on Harrison)."
While Tim van Mechelen of Westside admits they had a
problem renewing their license, he says TESC switched
companies only two days before they got it back. He
emphasizes Westside's commitment to the Evergreen
community saying that they have "supported the Geoduck
Sports Calendar for the la st four years. We try to give
something back," and he downplays the walk to Westside
saying they are "only an eighth of a mile off a bus route. I really
wish they'd talked to me before they switched."
Van Mechelen's confident that Evergreen will return to
his services though, "AMTwill make a mistake. You can count
on it."
Smith-Pratt says the decision to switch was made by the
Parking office in collaboration with Public Safety.
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
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APRIL 11, , 996
Ed Kelly, Chairman of
Evergreen 's Board of Trustees,
"always said exactly what was
on his mind, never mind if it
offended you," according to
President Jane Jervis. Kelly,
who will be remembered for his
humorous attitude and
willingness
to
voice
controversial issues, died over
the Spring break after suffering
a stroke while on vacation in
Pennsylvania.
Kelly wa~ appointed to his
six-year term on the Board in
1991 by Governor Booth
Gardener. He served as chair
since last June. According to
the staff and faculty newsletter
Ed Kelly
Green erScen e, Kelly was
involved in the Board's finance committee, the construction
ofthe Longhouse, and the hiring ofJervis in 1992.
Jervis remembers Kelly as a "funny, very sharp, smart"
individual with a "very hearty and loud laugh" who would
interject humorous and pointed comments during the most
serious discussions. Straightforward and direct, it "was good
to workwith him, you always knew where you were" with him.
As an avid outdoorsman and "spokesman on the side on
conservation," Kelly represented Evergreen and the Board on
a committee for the Department of Natural Resources which
advised the government on the allocation of revenues from
public timber sales to colleges and other services. Kelly was
concerned with the preservation of the lands for future users.
Evergreen became a beneficiary of these timber sa les earlier'
this academic year.
Kelly was, according to Jervis, "locally famous at Evergreen"
for looking asleep at Board meetings. Despite his slumbering
appearance, Kelly would, at opportune moments, throw in a
jabbing remark that demonstrated he had indeed been paying
meticulous attention. In all his years on Ihe Board, Kelly nrver
missed a meeting.
Kelly died on Saturday, March 30 after suffering a stoke the
previous Saturday. Jervis says that there were hundreds of
people at his funeral. held Thursday, April 4 at the HamiltonMylan Funeral Home in Vancouver, WA. During the service,
attendees learned that in his youth , Kelly was a caddie for famed
golfer Arnold Palmer and once sold such an extrao rdinary
amount.of newspapers that attracted the attention ofTV's Art
Linkletter and appeared on his program.
Kelly is survived by his wife Busse Nutley, a former
Washington State representative and former Clark Counly
commissioner. The two were very active in politics and thtr ______
Democratic party in the state.
He is also leaves behind his mother, Ellen W. Kelly and two
brothers: Dick of Phoenix, Arizona, and Brian of Chehalis.
Kelly was "very devoted to Evergreen", being very generous
with his time, commitments, and financial support. "We are
all going to miss him ," says Jervis, noting that Kelly's absence
leaves "a hole in the Board and in our lives." The Evergreen
community will be telling stories about him for a long time.
Donations in Kelly's name can be made to the Evergreen
Foundation.
NEWS
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Four students arrested in bookstore sting
B~ JEFF AxEL
Four of your fellow studen ts have been
stung by surveillance. After losing $90,000
dollars over the last year, the campus bookstore
has decided to crack down on theft.
On the first two days of April, a
'professional asset protection investigator'
patroUed the bookstore. He apprehended 4
students, one of which was, up to the time of
the arrest, an employee of the bookstore. The
crimes allegedly committed by three of the four
students are classified as 3rddegree theft, while
the fourth student/employee is being
investigated on charges of 1st degree theft.
The student employee was initially fined
for third degree theft like the other three, but
police are also presently investigating the
amount of the employee's book scanning fraud,
which has been estimated to be as much as
$3500. Aconviction oflst degree t~eft is a class
B felony, anaCarries with it a maximum
punishment of 57 months in prison, but the
maximum sentence is contingent on a suspects
offender rating. An offenderratingis calculated
by the number of times the person has
committed the crime, and the likelihood to reoffend. The former employee will also have to
fmd a way to recoup the losses to the bookstore.
For the other three students, the fine is a
misdemeanor charge, carrying with that a $200
civil penalty plus cost ofitems the stolen. The
allegedly stolen items range from pencils and
art supplies, to textbooks, and even computer
software.
Evergreen police officer Bob McBride, in
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an attempt to assist the bookstore, looked to a
colleague he had met while hiring security for
the Mervyn's department store chain. He
chose Pat Horn, formerly of the Air Force
Military Police, to do the initial sting. Pat is
presently the security manager for Home Base.
According to officer McBride,
"Plainclothes deputies have worked in the
bookstore in the past, but they were not as
effective as the Asset Protection
Investigator(A.P.)" In all the time that the
deputies were employed by the bookstore,
there were no apprehensions. With the A.P.,
there were 4 arrests by this. specially trained
guard, in only two days. Evergreen's new
police chief, Steve Huntsberry, was interested
in helping the bookstore. He was quick to
commend the hiring of Pat Horn, being
familiar with the professionalism of Horn's
work. - .
Neitherthe bookstore nor Public Safety
would comment on the duration of the
surveillance, except to stress that the' person
(or persons) doing the surveillance will be
keeping odd hours and an erratic schedule to
avoid being predictable. This will ensure the
effectiveness of the anti-theft program.
The bookstore does not know how much
of the $90,000 dollar loss, called "shrinkage,"
comes from theft. Businesses do a year-end
inventory, and calculate the loss. Thebookstore lost money on their merchandise in
three ways; in-store breakage , poor
accounting, and theft. There is no way of
knowing percen tages and how much of the lost
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The booksto re hopes that scenes like these will be eliminated thanks
to their new private investigator hired to protect them from theft,
merchandise came from those three categories.
It was after being tipped off thata studen t
employee was giving away books that the
bookstore began monitoring the cash registers
with cameras, which documented the theft.
Here is how the employee allegedly ran
the scheme. Astudent, perhaps a friend ofthe
suspect would bring five textbooks to the
register. The cashier would scan the first book,
then pretend to scan the second book, scan the
third, and pretend to scan the last two. Then,
the employee would demagnetize all the books
so that they wouldn't set off tbe alarm at the
entrance.
This information, as well as the claimed "dollar amount of the employee's thievery was
ascertained by the A.P. The Asset P.rotection
Investigator was hired as a civilian employee,
what "limited" access means.
Hohman said the DTF has to consider
other things, like how Public Safety will be
trained and what the citizen review board will
do. The task force will feel more comfortable
talking about these issues in public, Hohman
said.
When Luppert, Liz Goodwin, Jeremy
Rice left Friday's meeting, they immediately
wondered whether it was ~egal for the DTF
to keep the public out.
They looked up a law called the Open
Meetings Act in the library. The law dictates
that committees al state institution must
keep their meetings open to the public except
under very speCial circumstances.
The purpose of this law is to allow
people to stay informed about what public
officials are doing. For awhile, it looked like
the DTF had broken this law.
But th e DTF is an advisory committee,
not a coml1'\itte,f thatgeates official rules for
the college. Mike 'Heistand of the Student
Press Law <::~r said that they are exempt
from the Open Meetings Act.
The students organized a rally against .
the closing of the DTF. It will be on Friday,
April 12 at 1:00 p.m -at the same time as
the DTF meeting.
which means he has different rules
governing what he can say and ask. The ~P.
has been trained to obtain information by
asking questions that a commissioned police
officer can't.
One student was allegedly caught
taking a few pencils, which soon became
some of the most expensive pencils on
campus. The total she paid was $200 and a
few bits, with the added bonus ofa criminal
. record. Bookstore manager Kristy Walker
says that the bookstore will, "continue to
(have security) as long as we keep catching
people."
Brian Coppedge and AmyLyn Riberra are
exhausted, They have just lived through what
may be the Single most dlvisive issue ever at
Evergreen. As student representatives to the
Board of Trustees, Brian and AmyLyn have
labored for months to gather student opinion
on whether or not campus Public Safety should
be armed.
Brian has a full time job along with being
a full-time student. He is also madly trying to
make up schoolwork he missed during the gun
controversy.
His broad smile and animated
excitement betray his exhaustion. Despite the
factthat he disagrees with the Board's decision,
he is enthusiastic.
We pretend that there is no student
governance at Evergreen, Brian explains, But
there is student governance; a governance by
default. The student~ who care about the issues
ban together to do something about them, he
says, .....we just don't choose who they are.
That's the overriding reason why there should
be a student government."
Brian knows. He was appointed to be the
student representative to the Board ofTrustees.
No one elected him, no student had a say in
his selection.
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AmyLyn is just as tired as Brian. Officially
she is the student representative alternate.
She's around in case Brian can't make it to a
meeting. That's what her official duty is. But
she and Brian saw gathering the student
opinion as a great responsibility. They banded
together and split the work. She is a full time
representative, despite her title,
"I don't believe in student government,"
she says, "I think that it would be a bad thing
for Evergreen. I've never seen or heard of a
structure that would work here."
Both of them talk with exasperation as
they recount their efforts with the gun issue.
They had to struggle to get a shared email account specifically · for their
representative efforts, That took three weeks,
They had to struggle to get a campus
mail box. They ended up with a bin in the
mailroom.
To research alternatives to guns they
had to make long distance phone calls. Vice
President of Student Affairs Art Costantino
offered his office and telephone. It was
awkward to sit at the vice-president's desk for
five hours making phone calls, Brian said. So
he made them at home.
His phone bill was $80.00 thislllonth.
"I jusfswallowed that cost." Brian says.
Both AmyLyn and Brian know that
Evergreen needs something. Somehow, they
say, students need a voice.
***
The Community Action Group at
Evergreen (CAGE) is a new student group
that formed shortly after the Board of
Trustees voted to give Public Safety limited
access to weapons.
CAGE's first project began as a letter
writing campaign' to tuition payers. In their
letter they asked people to write to President
Jane Jervis and request an repeal of the gun
decision. But the letter writing campaign is
just one of many projects that CAGE hopes
to focus on.
"It [CAGE) doesn't have any
permanent goal or ... political beliefs," says
Ben Walters, one of the founding members
of CAGE. "It's completely determined by the
people who come [to the meetingsI and make
up it's constituency.
"If next week people want to move in a
different direction they can say 'Hey, let's do
this' -and that's what we'd do," Ben says.
"Right now the group arose out of
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THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
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APRIL
11, 1996
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part.
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people concerned about the process of arming
Public Safety, and some issues revolving around
that, " Ben says.
There's a movement in the group to talk
about student representation. "There's not
really a mechanism on this campus where
students can voice opposition, favor, whatever,
about the policies effecting them around
Evergreen, Ben says,
CAGE makes no claims to being that
student voice -not yet.
_
"I see CAGE as a first step to getting
student voice on this campus," says Kevin
Ranker, another member of CAGE. "Once that
is established, this will be way beyond just a
student organization-;it will be-the voice of the
student body -which we are not now."
"On the gun issue, solely, we are the voice
of 1,040 people," Kevin says; the 1,040 people
who signed the petition against arming Public
Safety.
The main focus of CAGE, says another
CAGE member, Laura Herrick, is
communication.
"In order for this to really work," Laura
says, "... we really do have to work on there being
a dialogue, with everyone involved -all the
different sections of this community, faculty,
administration, staff, the Board of Trustees,
students. They all have to be involved so that
everybody's voice can be heard and respected
for what they have to say.
As a group CAGE still isn't sure how itwill
prOVide a student voice. Almost every person
involved has a different idea.
CAGE's_meetings are 4:00 p.m. Fridays.
They encourage all members of the Evergreen
community to attend.
***
"The students need a voice in how this
college operaies," says faculty member Larry
Mosqueada. Larry teaches Political Economy
and Social Change at Evergreen. He's taught
here for almost seven years.
The students of the Evergreen State·
College need a student government, Larry says.
Students need to get together and figure out
how they want to govern themselves, he says.
Larry is quick to point out, however. that
a traditional student government isn't what
Evergreen needs. "You don't want a student
government that is just a tool for people to have
a line on their resume (for law school), " he says.
Larry's not sure what form of student
government should be used. But he has a 101 of
ideas.
H
BY REYNOR PADILLA
Imports
It's in the air. Many people say that students at
.Evergreen need a voice in how the college is run.
Yet they all have different reasons for why that
voice is important. And they all have different
ideas for what form that voice should take.
BY REYNOR PADILLA
Gun committee closes doors to
public, anti-gun students enraged
When the Board of Trustees voted to
giv.e campus police limited access to guns,
they also voted to form a Disappearing Task
Force CDTF). The committee would study
exactly what "limited access" should mean,
advise the board, and then disband.
The gun DTF, made up of student s,
fac ulty and staff, has kept its meetings open
to the public since late Spring quarter '96. On
Friday they voted to keep the publiC out of
their next two meetings.
The move to close the meeting is the
newes t line in the sand drawn between
students who oppose arming public safety
and the administration at Evergreen.
"If the administration is open to
students voice they sure aren't showing it in
action," said Aileen Luppert, one of the
st ud ents who was told to leave Friday's
meeting after it was closed to the public.
DTF members feel they can talk more
freely about their ideas if they aren't put under
public scrutiny, said Linda Hohman, the
official spokesperson for the DTF. That way
people from both sides of the debate can say
what the want to say "and keep it within the
confines of the group." she said.
Hohman sa id the DTF will keep its
meetings closed until they finish talking about
.
What kind of voice do students need?
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One idea is a lottery. Thirty-five student
representatives would be picked at random,
one forevery 100 ofEvergreen's 3500 students:
Under. this plan each representative would be
respo'nsible for finding the opinions of each of
the 100 people she represen ts.
Asystem like this, Larry says, would have
been helpful during the gun controversy. It
would have worked more like more like an
information tool than a vote.
If there were a vote, Larry says, it
wouldn't mean that 51 percent of the people
could tell the others what to do. According to
Larry's idea, motions would have to be passed
by a wide margin.
''This school is small enough that ... you
could have a representative democracy. You
can't do that with 250 million people, but you
can dOThat with 4000." Larry says.
***
"If students had a position that was
consolidated it would be very powerful."
President Jane Jervis says. " Very powerful."
Less than a month ago Jane's office was
filled with students, she says. They demanded
that she postpone her recommendation to the
Board of Trustees for two months.
The students asked Jane allow them time
to form a student government, she says. One
student said that it was Jane's responsibility to
give them a student government.
"The quickest way to kill a student
government is to have the presjdent design it,"
Jane insists.
She could design a government that
would be useless to the students -ifshe wanted
to. She could make it a mere tool of the
administration, she says.
"For the president of Evergreen to come
in and say 'this is how you must govern
yourselves' would be outrageous if I was ever
so foolish to do so," she says.
.
Jane thinks that students need student
government. But she knows they have a long
hard road ahead.
Jane and her husband still own a house
in Maine . It's where they lived before she
became president of Evergreen. The house is
situated in a planned community of 30 houses.
The little community holds town meetings on
a regular basis. They levy taxes. They maintain
the road. They work with the city utilities
company to make sure garbage, electricity and
sewage are taken care of. They govern
themselves.
Besides two younger families, all the
people in the shared community are around
Jane's age. They all come from the same social
and economic backgrounds.
It's "a very little town with 30
households, " she says. That's the way America
grew up, Jane says, based off of town meetings
in small communities.
Quakers and other homogeneous groups
work by consensus. The challenge for the 21st
century will be how to reach agreement on
issues in diverse communities, she says. "What
happens when you get diverse?" she asks.
"People all over the world are killing each
other over these questions," Jane says. "It's not
trivial."
Evergreen needs to "...invent a different form," Jane says. "There will be issues on which
we will not be able to reach consensus."
Jane says she believes in original sin.
According to that belief"we're imperfect," she
says. "So the institutions we create are also
imperfect. "
She says that the biggest roadblock to
creating a student government is that Greeners
will have to delegate their opinion to
representatives. Greeners may not be willing
to do that, Jane says.
"I don't know; to do so they'd have to give
something up, " she says. "You don't give
something up unless you've been hurting."
LETTERS. AND OPINIONS
LETTERS AND OPINIONS
A brief look at '
student
representation at Evergreen
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.Studenturges ,committee l1!embers to leave unju.st OTF
Dear DTF Member:
Please take a couple of minutes to read just
some of the wisdom that says "do not arm
Public Safety." Warrington & Associates,
Inc. were officially contracted by Evergreen
in '92 to ma ke comprehensive
recommendations for improving security
and safety for the whole Evergreen
community, including officer safety. Here are
some pertinent excerpts that deal with what
you are considering.. ,
"At Evergreen the safety officer safety issue
has been distorted to be defined largely in
terms of whether or not officers act as fully
commissioned police officers and need to
carry firearms in order to work safely. This
is not a balanced or complete approach to
this issue"
Reducing the number of arms in our
community rather than increasing them
would be a more reasonable topic for a gun
DTF. Here are some more compelling
reasons that hopefully may convince you to
not be part of an ill-conceived DTF process.
. A household member who lives in a
household with a gun is 41 times more likely
to be shot by that gun than an unwanted
intruder. Instead of arming Public Safety
let's work on an arms reduction policy in our
house (the Evergreen community).
The first recommendations that were used
as the justification to arm came from a
person who couldn 't help but be biased. His
"Some members of the department
have fail~dJ..9 [QIjpw the SOP, thus being the
primary cause of the citations.
work represents the foundation of all the
other work that preceded .this DTF and
determined what your charged with doing.
That person, Neil McClanahan has a
conflict of interest. He works for both
Thurston County Sheriff's department and
The Evergreen State College. This contlict
arises from the Sheriff department's desire
to change their workload levels. Thurston
County Sheriffworkload levels are lessened
if Ever,?reen handles "their own secuflty
needs.
Inherent bias could have been avoided by
hiring a truly outside party as was done in
'92 with Warrington & Associates. At that
time Evergreen's Board of Trustees voted to
not arm. The Warrington & Associates
report was very critical of Public Safety and
the Evergreen administration. On e
conclusion they reached was:
"The claim that security cannot respond
to most incidents [without guns] safely and
effectively is preposterous in light of the
thousands of security departments,
nationwide, many on college campuses that
perform protective [unctions without
relying on lethal force. "
A major concern of the group was the
safety of officers, Warrington a highly
qualified security consulting group said the
following about safety:
Regarding L&I citations they said:
.RECOMMENDATIONS:., .TlutE~
administration work do~ly with L&I to
cJmJY the JOllowing questions:
1. Other than the 'general duty clause',
what specific section(s) of the WISHA law
was used by L&I in determining that actions
by campus security officers were unsafe?
2. What Federal OSHA, State WISHA
compliance directives, or other guidance
exists for determining when an unarmed
security officer, armed police officer or other
category of protective service worker is or is
_Dot-safe? .
3. What specific guidance (compliance
directives, guidelines etc.) is available
regarding standards for indicating when a
protective service worker should be provided
with a firearm. soft body armor, or other
personal protective equipment?"
.
We have been examining the history of
student governance and representation at
Evergreen for the past several weeks. Originally.
we had planned to construct a poster·sized time
line and leave it at that. But we found in
gathering everything we would need for the
time line, we ended up with a good deal more
material than we needed. So we turned the four
credit poster project int~ a more extensive
project - a poster which is now mounted in the
second floor of the CAB, and a more extensive
analysis ofour impressions and analysis ofwhat
. the history has been.
In the course of putting this together, we
looked at documents written by the students
over the course of the last 25 years recording
their attempts and proposals for different
. forms of government. We interviewed
administrators, includingJaneJervis, academic
deans, faculty members, former administrative
staff. and of course, students themselves,
former and present. We did our best to be as
complete as poSSible, though we are sure that,
given lack of documentation, the reticence of
. some individuals to be quoted , and time
constraints we feel that this is not entirely
complete history. Nonetheless, we feel it is
useful to understand some of the underlying
dynamics of attempts at student
representation.
Although part ofthis article will be analytical
in nature, we feel it might be helpful to start
with some ofour recurrU lg inlpressions we got
when talking to people and looking at the
history. Some of what we noticed was:
1) Re--inventing the wheel: We were struck
at how often students attempting to form
student governance ignored their own history
and repeat~d failed proposals. There is little
attempt to examine what has occurred before,
and little coinmunicatiorrattempted with those
who been .involved in past attempts; Without
this. there is no way to learn from past mistakes.
or attempts that actually did provide some
measure of representation.
2) Lack oftrust between both administration
and students:. The assumption on the part of
many students is that the administration is
constantly engaged in a conspiracy (0 trick or
undermine the desires of the students. It is
almost always an "us" vs. ithem! type of
dialogue. The administration for their part
seems to regard most student attempts to be
heard as representing only the most vocal
arm Public Safety, with their safety concerns
handled in a responsible manner, if the DTF
doesn't have these answers? And what about
many people on both sides of the arming
issue? Both sides would have had a much
more fruitful discussion ifissues like this had
been dealt with responSibly.
These are just some examples of the huge
credibility gap that needs to be bridged in
regards to_ handling the gun issue
appropriately and fairly. As members ofthe
DTF, ifyou ignore these issues as those who
are responsible for creating the gap did,
many people are planing to oppose your
work to arm.
DTF members, individuals with
conscience and a sense of responsibility to
other community members pot included in
the DTF, even those whom differ with you
on the anning issue, please get up now and
leave this unfair DTF behind you.
"
Jeremy Rice
Clearly these are questions that the
administration has a responsibility to find
answers to before the arming question is
considered. Now we have a situation where
gun DTF members are working towards
arming security and we still don't have the
answers to these important questions. How
can one expect to find an appropriate way to
Activist clarifies her views on social issues
BleSSings CPJI have been a full-time Peace Worker for
15 years. I have been a single mother for 21
years. Except for 10 or 12 years in childhood, i have lived at or below poverty level
for most of my life. I also am well educated,
the best of that coming from first hand
experience living and working with Native
Americans, land based Hippies, refugees
form EI Salvador, Homeless people in Santa
Barbara, Santa Cruz, New York City,
mothers of a variety of cultures and
backgrounds and recently with an influx of
young people, including runaways and street
kids, fleeing to rural mountain communities
in search of the endangered dream. My
perspective is steeped in the strength that
comes from intense physical and emotional
struggle. Living on the edge of survival
requires muscles of hauling water, chopping
wood , gardening and carrying children.
Living on the edge requires emotional
stamina to withstand the oppression exerted
by the majority of those who enjoy many
levels of privilege. Even people of conscience
who have enough often are oblivious to the
suffering of those who simply do not have
their basic human needs met. This is a
worsening situation that i attempt to voice.
I apologize for targeting Jonah Loeb
because he is simply a cog displaying a view
that is immense in it's all pervasive attempt
to strangle hope and hold up the buck and
all it degrades in the line of profit. Any of us
raised in this society are damaged. myself
included. I often bite off more than i can chew
and did so in this case'. To layout the scope of
my experience and outlook requires space
inappropriate to the CP] letters pages. But i
do not back down from encouraging people
to get educated about the details of our
behavior emanating outward affecting the
whole of this Earth. The humor Jonah
expresses is basic to patriarchal colonialist
capitalism. In forming death squads in a place
such as EI Salvador, young indigenous men are
kidnapped from villages, taken to -be
brainwashed, given alcohol. shown porno
movies, told all women are whores,
encouraged to rape the women as a weapon
of war. The U.S, government taught
AmeriKKKan G.I .'s to do such things in
Vietnam. Look at the recent rape of a 12 year
old girl in Okinawa by 3 U.S. G.I.'s. Anyone
familiar with Ujock" mentality in this so-called
.society has similar stories. The challenge is
whether truly sane men and women will ever
be able to assess the immensity of what all
humanity faces and quickly implement
humane, workable solutions before It's too
late. The degradation of women sexually. the
trivialization of Kurt Cobain 's suicide, joking
about incest and other forms of abuse would
fit the theme of Hustlermagazine. Once again
i say such humor is not unique, revolutionary
or what i want to keep encountering. Though
i respect the CPJs effort to honor freedom of
speech, i encourage the statfto ask themselves
if they want the CP] to reflect conscience-
which is under attack by the media
corporations who are doing all they can to
silence those opposing the greedy right wingor be open to any and all perspectives. It is
true Loeb's work provides a frame of reference
for what is out there. It hurts my hearL
Gandhi has been a role model for me, The
fasting i have done in the past and those i will
do in the future are all spiritual tools striving
towards a more livable world. Anorexia is
another symptom of the sick society where
SO many women feel an impossible beauty
standard shoved down their throats via the
manipulative media. Fasting and anorexia
have deeply differing motivations :
Pornography is an integral part of the rape
and torture used by death squads and
military abusers all over. So i call to all people
who are committed f~r a healthy children's
future to examine the problems basic to
oppression and capitalism, aU forms ofabuse
and strive to activate a better way,
I highly recommenced the writing of
ball hooks, Helen Caldicott, Susan Griffan,
Vine Deloria, Gandhi, Starhawk, Steven Hill
and others who address issues destroying us
and visions to activate solution.
In peaceful struggle,
Swaneagle
Reader reminds us to protest
properly
Dear Evergreen "community,"
On the bottom floor of the CAB this
morning, I watched a maintenance employee
attempt to scrub stenciled graffiti from the
floor tiles. ("DON'T STEAL UNCLE SAM
HATES COMPETITION" the spray-painted
block letters advised).
. If{..e09~rd Peltier Isnhet free
next>you kflow, it'.s YQl\ and me
last c~ance ~irne qUicidy approaches]
while FBI in~siQn uPQn us encroa~es
Divid~ .~ conquer is s<iudly in plac~ '.
~riipu.IatiI1g people by .class, ~ex and race
C~~tions. sl~twith greelir glee .
.ptlVI!eged ,Avlencans too placId.to ~e
Arn~a-HiderwouJd be proud
IfLeonard.I>eltier isn't set free '
'ifs'f o{ la£k ofcouragefr~m y~u.and me
. His 'struggle is a 500 year case '
~ohaIt' genocide of entire race
Media twiSts reillity colonialist created
· pla~ting.dwellers upon .these lands u~justly
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All chil!Ven's future is finally at stake
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I wish to publicly thank all the wonderful
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Resource Center, Cindy Sousa, Carson
Strege-Flora and Marcia Bjerrum worked
with many volunteers to make everything
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women who volunteered their time, talents
and energy should be recognized for their
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and the non·hierarchical model of educa'tion
that is promoted at Evergreen. The truth is that
the Administration is given full authority over
the day·to-day administration of thi s
institution, (thatis why theyire called that!)
This unpleasant reality is something many
students run smack into when they try to
organize. Having been told that they are
responsible for their education. they are
surprised to discover that it doesn!t apply to
collective efforts at representation. If you look
at. the section of the Was hington
Administrative Code (WAC) that describes the
running of this institution, you lind this: i
Managemeht of the college... and authority to
control collection and disbursement offunds.
is vested in a five member Board of Trustees
appointed by the governor with the consent
oCthe Senate ... Evergreenis president is chosen
by and is directly responsible to the board of
trustees for executive direction and
supervision ofall operations oflhe college.ilt
also states thilt idecision-making at Evergreen
will take place at the administrative level
closest to those' affected by the particular
decision.! Surprised? You shouldnit be - any
state chartered school has exactly the same set·
up.
2. Sometimes the Administration simply
does not want to hear unpleasant truths. The
best illustration of this fundamental djmamic
is the recent response by the Administration
on the gun issue. JaneJervis repeatedly stated,
to us and others. that she would listen to all
the students - and aU other concerned voices.
But her recommendation represented her
views. This is a niodel where sh e is at the
center. listening and then interpreting others
views as she sees fit. Where does that sound
like the center of gravity is?
3. Sometimes the S&A Board likes to protect
its turf. In the absence ofa truly representative
student government, the S&A Board holds a
tremendous amount of pOwer. Naturally. they
feel that they do a good job with the
responsibility they hold. Sometimes they feel
they do such a good job that they should be
allowed to go on doing it· without too much
oversight from other student organizations. In
the different models we looked at. where the
S&A·Boara was placed in the organizational
chart was often a contentious issue.
4. It is difficult for students to make the
time commitment to work for a student
government without institutional support. At
the same time. support in terms of either pay
or credits can lead to undue influence by
whoever is prOViding the payor credits.
Anyone who has ever attended student
meetings knows they can go on for hours. and
lead to Significant responsibilities outside of
the meetings. How many students have time
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minority, and its strategy often bOils down to
providing ways for this section to blow off
steam instead of taking their concerns
seriously.
3) Lack of trust between students and other
students: We almost lost count of how many
proposals that, even ifflawed, might have been
the foundation for something positive if other
. students had trusted each other. Instead, a vast
amount of energy was invested by some
students in tearing down other students
proposals and organizations. The stress on
individuality at Evergreen often leaves students
unwilling to let others represent them, yet they
are equally unwilling to work for consensus.
The resulting squabbling uses up everyoneis
energy, letting only those with the strongest
egos survive.
4) Student hypocrisy about democracy: The
stUdents who swear up apd do~ that they are
intereste~ in all other students deciding what
type o( ggyernance they want are usually the
ones'With the most particular ideas of what a
student government should look like, and the
most willing to push their own agenda. Some
students were convinced that their criticisms
and suggestions ofstudent government was the
complete and most correct picture ofwhat was
occurring, ignoring altogether others! views on
the process.
5) The unseen, but powerful role of the '
faculty: Numerous times we noticed how much
power the faculty has.in determining
curriculum and other issues. And yet usually
students tend to ignore them in attempting to
build a power base. For some reason, faculty is
simply left out of the equation . leaving a
students vs. the administration dynamic that
. doesn!t even represent the real situation.
Faculty is seen as neutral message bearers for
administration desires, when in fact they either
are' influencing the message or composing it
themselves. Did you know that the vast
majority ofthe faculty was opposed to arming?
Why didn!t the anti-gun forces take more
advantage of that?
Why do all attempts at Governance Fail?
There are actually some basic and
fundamental reasons why, beyond the
impressions just offered, attempts at student
representation constantly flounder?
. 1. There is an inherent contradiction
between the hierarchical structure ofTESC as
a state college charted by the State Legislature,
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or ener&'Y for this? This is one factor ill keeping
work towards a stud en,t governm ent to a
miniinum. Obviously. ifstudents were paid or
gained credit for ongoing work In governance.
this would make it easier ror student s to
participate. But how would such a body have
any independence ir it were bankrolled or
accredited from the Administration or S&A
Board? Even if they Wtrl' independellt . wuuld
they be seen that way by the other students?
S. The constant turnover in students makes
fo r a lack of consistent memb ership and
leadership in student organizations. Even if
students start here in their freshman year. that
means they have only a rew years to participate
in governance. In addition. interest in such a
project takes a while to develop. And if youire
a transfer student. you have even less time. Of
course, you can always stay at part-time status
for several years in a row. becoming a semipermanent fixture in front orthe CAB building
(who do you think is selling all those old
clothes?). But itis not always practical. The
most consistent model we noticed was that an
organization would start in the Fall quarter,
pick up steam in the Winter. get really going in
Spring - and then die a sad and lonely death
during the Summer. Next fall. start the process
over again, or hang on to a non-functioning
shell of the previous organization.
o. Students often distrust anything that
looks even faintly like a typical representative
government. The students that get involved in
projects like this tend to be the most politically
aware. By unhappy co incidence, those
students who are most politically aware. are
also most cynical and distrustful of all forms of
government. Given the current composition
of Congress, we can hardly bl ame them.
Unfortun ately. the result ofthi~ on the campus
level is ugly - mutual distrust on aU sides. And
sometimes virtuous posturing takes the place
of actuaUy doing the hard work of consensus
building among students.
We would like to end this article with some
positive suggestions for students to overcome
the obstacles placed in their path.
Unfortunately. we have no solutions. We would
like to think that if a group of students is
attempting some model of representation,
having knowledge of the pitfalls will prevent
them from joining the long line of previous
failures. It is in this spirit we offer this analysis,
and we urge you to take a look at our poster.
incomplete as it is. We also urge you to take
your own look into the history of student
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Dear Editor,
Two other students and I attended the
Th e first teacher th at I had at
April 4 me.eting for the Disappearing Task Evergreen happens to be on this DTF. He
Force responsible for a recommendation moved to close the meetings on the grounds
defining "limited arming" for public safety. that he felt "self-censored" by student
Although we were not allowed to participate expressions such as this memo. I will never
we could observe. A fellow student of mine forget the expression on his face. while they
utilized his options for participation and voted to close the meeting. While the DTF
submitted a memo that the DTF planned to voted to silence me. he sat there and smiled.
discuss that day, About an hour through the I am disheartened that any teacher at
meeting, a faculty member moved to close the Evergreen would take part in discouraging
meetings due to it's "inflammatory" last students to speak their minds or educate
paragraph, Staff and faculty alike agreed with themselves.
I used to believe that Evergreen
this gesture and we'hac! to leave.
At a college that prides itselfon an open, embraced expressive and diverse learning.
participatory learning environment, the DTF After months of hard work on this issue, I
should be ashamed of themselves for acting have found q)lite the opposite. The closing .
otherwise. A student memo, seeking of this DTF is just another expression ~fthe
involvement in decision making processes, hierarchy at Evergreen that cpntinually
should be praised and studied with care. stunts student expression. Faculty members
Instead, the DTF attacked his expression and who support this process are teaching
penalized students for it's passion. I am Evergreen students to shut up and leave
disgusted by the process this school has taken rather than to,.speak up with strength.
to arm security officers.
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VAUN MONROE
What is Black? If you were to ask that
question you might get a different answer
from every person you asked. I recently
asked myself that question as I pondered the
lo~membership of UMOjA, the Black stu. dent union.
.
UMOjA means unity in Swahili and
it is plain to see that the Black peo~le on this
. campus are not unified. But that IS not un- '
usual. There has always been some antagonism between different factions of the Black
community_ Between dty Blacks and countty Blacks. Between rich Blacks and poor
Blacks. Between disenfranchised Blacks and
assimilated Blacks. Often the most acrimonious antagonism occurs between darkskinned Blacks and light- skinned Blacks.
This antagonism is deep seated and
old. It comes from slavery where the value
of slave incre<!sed with the whiteness of
his skin. The more 'valuable slaves were
given better positions, usually in the house.
Some of the light-skinned blacks we.re the
masters own 'children and th us were provide<l with more privileges.
Some .of these Blacks were very fair
skinned Blacks began to internalize the message of the dominant culture: _Ihe light·
skinned Black began to believe himself suo
perior to his dark-skinned brother. Lightskinned Blacks began to place merit based
on skin color and sought to physically separate themselves from dark-skinned Blacks .
Some light skinned Blacks attempted to
·pass" for white. And after betraying self and
society, he usually' cut himself off from the
Black community and renounced his ")3lack"
ways.
Dark skinned Blacks reacted to yet
another rejectign with a fury fueled by centuries of stinging rebukes. The pain is always
keener when the betrayer is a family member, isn't it? In the 60's when Black became
beautiful on college campuses (and in soci·
ety at large) some dark- skinned Blacks took
pleasure in exacting a measure of revenge on
light-skinned Blacks. A new standard of
"Black" was established with the emphasis
being placed on dark skin and urban cool.
Light-skinned and suburban Blacks often
had to prtlve they were ~Black" before being
allowed to join the Black student union.
ALI of which is irrelevant, right? In
today's diverse society that kind of behavior
is outmoded. There are no longer any extra
privileges for light-skinned Blacks. There are
no longer any penalties for identifying with
dark-skinned Blacks. Dark-skinned Blacks
no longer harbor hostilities toward light·
skinned Blacks. No one is trying to pass.
There are no misconceptiDns about who or
what is Black. Blacks do not internalize the.
fear and loathing of themselves held by the
dominant culture. Still [wonder, why is the
membership ofUMOjA so low? And now I
must also ask, why are there no light-skinned
Blacks in UMOjA '?
Peace.
Vaun
BY
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made.
Popular
mat erialism has a great day
merchandising goodn ess.
On the other hand, Good
Friday I Easter just doesn 't provide the
same sort of merchandisable good feelings,'
one is pulling ya rd , roof. and tree decoratiQns
out of th eir attic to depict an execution. EaSter
dinn er doesn 't sound as good as Chris las
dinner: "pass the sheep please." Resurreftions
are too fantastical compared to births.
Th e real problem, though, ar ~ the
popular implications. Christmas sounds like,
God likes you and wants to spend SQme time
with you. Good Friday I Easter sounds like we
rea lly suck. We killed him.
To add in sult to injury, the Christian
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By Michael C Benson
On Wednesday, April3rd, when I met a
friend of mine for lunch, she told me about
some chalk graffiti outside the CAB. It
promise.d free burritos to all who attended
Circus Olympus in the basement of the library
at noon (which happened to be the time) .
Though I was skeptical, (I figured we were
about to become unwitting participants in
someone's psych contract) we decided to
check it out.
There were, indeed , free burritos .
What's more the coordinators promise
burritos to all who participate ·every
Wednesday in the library basement till May.
But it isn't a spectacle they're advertising.
Bryce Panic, Fezdak Water, and Mara West
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.
Somewhere along the way'some Iight~
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booth, or operate a puppet, or guess weights
and ages? Tell a fortune, perhaps? There's
probably a role for you in Circus Olympus,
Circus Olympus is planning one show
per day on May 11th and 12th as a part ofthe
Spring Arts Festival. There will be ' parad es,
games, acts, a big top on Red Square, and
much more. Skills workshops for the players
are being planned and some props are already
in the making. As PaniC put it, "We're gonna
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film in social change. Festival director Kathy Doiron
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The video and lecture series which will be held ate portrayal ofhumarust and spmtuallove won him
Aprill5 through Aprill?, at the Midnight Sun, prom- the devotion of an in~emationa~audience. Worki~g t~e
Vaunvs. the Oscsrs ises to be at the cutting edge of the latest "Le-fi revo- same the~e oflove In a very d.urerent way, thIS. irOniC
Lone Ranger, Green Hornet for ethnic variations) lution that is occurring throughout the world's artis- and sometimes absurd allegoncal story weaves Its ~ay
byVltun Mon....
where
Danny Glover can't even wipe his ass without tic communities. OfspecialinterestisG~Roc:bas through th.e bohemian cultures of Buenos Aires
On Monday, March 25th the Academy ofMoneeding
help from his white pa~tner, Mel Gibson.. " who will present various videos from an alterna-tive andMonteVldeo, Uruguay. A poet who has only expetion Picture Arts and Sciences held it annual orgy of
video collective in Mexico City, including Nobody's ~enced cor.nplete f~i1ure wi~ love m~t confron~ the
Let
us now segue to the white man as saVIor
congratulatory self worship. As usual It.was a while
film. These Iypt!s of films deal with racial issues but Innocent, which shows on April 17 at 6 PM. Rochas !"adequacles of hiS sexuahzed and Inte~ectuahzed
thing, which (J guess) is why I can't understand.
the stories are told from the viewpoint of the white will be on hand to present his film .about Ideas o~romance --:hen he mee~ a prostitute on the
1 can't understand how in a year that gave us
undergroundperformance artists, punk gangs, and other Side. The ~cnpt quot~ dlr~ctlr fro.m the love
Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle in DeviJin a Blue people. So in Come See the Paradise we see the Japa- .political activists in the world's largest city. Rochas will poems of poets.like Arge~tme Oliveno Glron~o and
nese
Internment
through
the
eyes
of
Dennis
Quaid,
Dress and Angela Bassett in Strange Days and Waitalso speak directly on alternative media productions. U~guaya~ Mano Benedetl,.-and the outrageous.lTn~ges
ing to Exhale, a movie about a talking pig got more the heroic white guy. In Cry Freedom, ostensib~ the Nobody's Innocent is like a 90's Los Olvidados based ~hich Suble~ pulls outofhlS wacky bag~fma~c tncks
story
of
Stephen
Biko,
we
soon
find
Stephen
dea
and
nominations than films involving Black artists. In fact
the focus shifted to Donald Woods - the white re- on a punk gang called "Mierdas Punks." The expres- In .order to 81~e fo,:,," to complex. emollons Just may
the final nomination score was Pig 7, Blacks 1.
,. sions of urban youth and alternative culture -includ- shme a ray of light mt? t~e dark sld.e of your heart:
In a recent issue People magazine featured a porter. Or pances Wieh Wolves in which Kevin ing music, performance and politics - are reflections
On~ of the prm~lpal b!esslngs of atte~dmg
story on Hollywood's continued exclusion of blacks Costner becomes a bener white man after coopting the of the current P9litical situation in Mexico and show these films IS that they will proVIde an opportumty for
spirituality
of
the
Native
Americans.
from decision-making and off-camera postiions. But
The Academy Awards was hosted by us some of the complexities ofwide spread social un- one to challenge from the ethnocentric media and enHollywood has a tradition of marginalizing people of
tertainment industry. Cine al Frente not only provides
Hollywood's
house niggah - Whoopi Goldberg. rest in our time.
color in films. In fact many "classic" films are odes to
Coco
Fusco
will
be
at
the
Capitol
Theater
on
ourco~munity~ararech~nceto.vi~wcritical~ms
Whoopi gets rewarded by Hollywood with top draw
white supremacy. Consider these:
April 20 @ 6:30 PM to present her new works The ofth.ehlghestartiStica~dsoaalment,ltalsoprovldes
status
for
selling
out
black
people.
She
cracked
on
Jesse
Gone With the Wind-I know the films is about
Couplfin the Cage and Pochonovela. Fusco is one of us WIth .a welcome respite from our rele~tless a~d shalthe south and was made a long time ago (1939). But Jackson for boycotting the Oscars - and made it okay the most dynamiC and versatile Latina artists low m~mstream ~~dia: These films ~hlc.h radiate out
for
the
white
audience
to
mock
him.
Whoopi
has
never
it's still a favorite of many Americans and (because?)
andintellectuals in media production here in the US. of a c:liffe~nt .politlcal Intent deal Wlt~ Issues of cuIblacks were portrayed as fawning, loyal, and obedient. been touched by a black man in any of her movies. This New York based writer film scholar and interdis- ture Identity In more complex and pithy ways than
White
America
doesn't
seem
to
notice
or
think
it
The Magnificent Seven - a remake of
ciplinary artist will introdu~e two of her videos. Fusco most .anything H~llywood offe~s. The New L~tin
Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai which took the Oscar strange. Her on screen lovers were Ray Liotta, Harvey has written extensively on Latin American cinema and A~encan fi,,!, festlval creates a bndge. for Olympia to
Keitel,
and
Ted
Danson.
Her
real
life
lovers
are
all
white
for best foreign film ill 1954. It is one of the finest acthe politicS ofidentity, iii media and cultural represen- ~tne~s the CI~ema from cultures which are production films ever made. After Hollywood was done with too. What would happen to, oh, say... Julia Roberts if tation. She has collaborated with performance artist mg high quality film and art, but are all too often
it it was the story of seven white guys beating down a she locked her big ass lips with a brother on screen? Guillermo Gomez-Pena on numerous projects includ- drowned out by ~ur US medl~. ~ong th.e v:ay we may
gang of Mexican bandits to protect a group of Mexi- What if her next three movies had her involved with ing The Couple in the Cape. Her new video lea~ about making and recelvmg media In new and
can peasants who were unable to protect themselves. men of color? Think America would notice?
..
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Black America is 12% of the population but we Pochonovela is a parody of Latm American soap op- eXCiting ~ays.
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three Rockys. Cliffhanger. Demolition Man.
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Guitarist Finn isalso a
nutmeg flavor,"T/Ie high pitched vobig part of the Nutty sound, but
cals ("freaky deaky /1 can hardly
unlike a lot of funk-rock players
speak / I like your body') come off
he knows when to shut up. Rock
not as lyrics about bodies, bUl as an
is allowed in these parts, but it
homage to lyrics about bodies.
has to wait in line. The Robin to
One of I he best song s .is
Meganut's Batman has got to be.
"Count Mackuluv." an absolutely deKeefus, the keyboard maniac
.licious cut about a "pimp daddy v,amwho lends tremendous funk-cred
pire." It would be hard to deny the
by playing exclusively old school
modem day Parliament mantle after
keyboards. Keys are usually the
you hear this song - it's a rich funk
missing ingredient in funk rock
groove filled with colorful cartoon
bands, but not this one. Keefus
characters, robot talking, the sweetalways seems to be in the middle
est backup voices this sid e of
spurting out slippery grooves,
Mudbone Cooper and catchy chants
saying "Count Mackuluv" into a
and choruses that will make the hair
talkbox, hinting at Parliament's
on the back of your neck stand up. It
"Aqua Boogie" or quotin~ a riff
doesn't get much better than this ...
from Grand Master Flash s "The
but then all of the sudden it does on
Message:
the track "Highperspice (Nutmeg
Meanwhi le, drummers
Music)." This is the kind of song you
D-Rek and Fish (ofFishbone) are
thought became extinct on January
pounding out some of the most
1st, 1980 when the '70s were erased.
solid beats you'U find anywhere,
But there it is, standing before you.
trombonist Tom-Bone is acting
a hulking funk monster that hits the
as a one man horn section and
one harder than anything James
back up voca lists Mark and
Brown has done in at least a decade
Audra are adding a soulful foun·
and a half - a groove that will rip
dation to Meganut's megalomayour booty right out of your pants
niacal tongue twisting.
and shake it for you. As if that
While Bozo the Town
weren't enough. it's a showcase for
was an inlroduction to the band.
Meganut's super-powered punnery
Highperspiee is a test of theif
: "The thrillsvery glow boy is thrilled
abilities. Everyone gets to show
you to
to breath to be rollin' in dough with
off more - Meganut does some
you / igloo in the snow with you, no
rapping. Finn has an extended Tom-Bone, Audra, Mark, D-Rek, Fmn, Keefus, Jellybean, and
matter what we do / we're in the mosolo on "Let the Shit Hit the Fan"
ment with you / stepping out of my
and Audra sings lead vocals on Meganut)
nutmare and onto your Realm
"Pair-a-Noids" and on the first
Weapon of Choice ballad, -Leprechauns and Silly
"Glo in da' Dark" is a straight ahead hip hop Street... you leave me in suspended pla(lamation on
Things."
song complete with a drum loop and Dr. Ore style key- Smelinose Place ... Highperspice, doper than dope
The aforemen tioned ballad is a sweet little boards. The sound is surprisingly minimalist for a full- space nine ... •
Weapon of Choice is not a group that tries to
thing that tastes a bit like the Brand New Heavies, and fledged funk band, but it doesn't matter because you 'Il
it's only one of the new flavors concocted on the al· keep your eyes on the vocals. There are two kinds of play funk. They are a genuine Funk band. They clearly
love and understand the full spectrum of funk, which
bum. "Just Cuz She Was Nice"leans a little toward ska, singers who rap: the ones who try to imitate Chuck 0
making the Fishbone comparison more concrete. It's or Eric Band come offsounding like asses, and the ones is why it flows so I)aturally from their brains. I like funk
also one of the more serious songs on the album, a trib- who create their own distinct styles. Meganut belongs rock, but Weapon of Choice practically makes that
ute to women fighting back a~ainst domestic abuse: in the latter category with Prince and George Clinton, subgenre extinct by proving that the spirit of
"J ust cuz she was nice / it don t mean that she will be rapping like an outsider who hasn't had much expo- Mothership Connection·era Parliament is alive and
pushed around twice / once is enough / too much for sure to the cliches that drag down less original rappers. well and wandering the universe. Mark my words:
any girl in her right mind / next time maybe you won't
Perhaps the biggest departure from the first Weapon of Choice will some day rule the world. But
be slidin' / baby, you'll be runnin' and a hidin' / cuz album is "I Like Your Body: an amazingly authentic why wait? Join the Nutmeg Potty today.
For more information see the Weapon of
that girl's got a gun / when slie getchya you'll be the roller boogie track - sort of a period piece. It's hosted
one / with the bullet hole in your machismo.·
by a fictional DJ named Splash (ofSplash 'N the Pants) Choice web site: http://www.Loosegroove.eom)
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Fargo is ,the Coen·brothers' best film yet (and that's saying a lot)
byJohn!nnl
I've survived the brutal winters of the American Midwest. In the icy expanse~ of the northernmost states,life seems to move at a slower pace. One
could say that time freezes, along with the roads, the
plants, the buildings, well, pretty much everything.
But don't be fooled by the accents, the regional slang
and the folksy mentality; crime is alive and well in
Fargo, North Dakota.
The latest, and greatest, brainchild of the
film-making brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, Fargo is
about a scam that "looks pretty sweet," but, if you'll
forgive the expression, snowballs into a real disaster. This darkly comic gem takes a big city Iypt! crime
and puts it in a provincial setting. It turns out to be a
match made in hell.
The story revolves around conniving car
dealer Jerry Lundegard (William H. Macy, recently
starring in the fine film adaptation of David Mamet s
play, "Oleanna H). Jerry hires a pair of shady types to
kidnap his own wife, so that his wealthy father-in·
law will pay an $80,000 ransom to get her back. Jerry
would keep half the money himseff and the kidnap·
pers the other $40,000. We never find out what Jerry
needs the cash for, but he's pretty desperate for it.
Carl (Steve Buscemi, of Reservoir Dogsfame)
is the spokesman of the thuggish duo and he remains
in phone contact with Jerry while the plan is carried
out, and then in the increasingly bloody aftermalh
as the whole house of cards starts to collapse.
Margie Gunderson (Frances McDormand of
Short Cuts) is the wise, unflappable local sheriff who
unravels Jerry's scheme. She knows when to turn on
an amiable charm. and despite her simple life, noth·
ing seems to disturb her too much; not even murder. I won't ruin the surprise, but something does
fool Margie, and it has nothing todo with the crimes.
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It's a great bit of business.
In that scene, and throughout Fargo, the minor
characters add their own special flavor to the film.
Margie's husband Norm, God bless him, is a
good-natured oafwho never worries, or thinks, any more
than he has to.
After discovering two bodies,
Margie asks her somewhat dim deputy what time a
townsperson's shop opens. He says, Gee, Margie, you
don't think he's mixed up in this somehow? Margie says
no, I just want to get Norm some bait.
Most of the cast talk in a quirky regional vern,acular, with fascinating Scandinavian sounding accents.
Their language is full of "Yah·s (yes) and "Real good
then"s and "Oh Geez"es and "here"s tacked on all over,
like this: "I'm cooperating fully, here ... "
The mannerisms and dialect of the characters are
a large part of the irresistible charm of Fargo, All the
performers make full nse of their characterS' unique
batkground.
Carl (Buscemi) and his dull-eyed, taciturn accomplice (a very memorable character) are not the most competent bad guys in the history of malfeasance. But they
are ultimately undone as much by their greed as their
essential ineptness (though that sure doesn't help).
Avarice seetfis to be a focal theme ofthe picture.
A few examples:
]. A customer is irate because Jerry sold him a
car at $19,500 and Jerry was charging an extra $500 for
"sealant" supposedly put on at the plant. The customer
knows Jerry is deceiving him but Jerry passive-aggres·
sively persists. He checks with his "manager", ostensibly, while really asking for hockey tickets. He comes back
and says that while the manager has never done it before, he's willing to knock off a hundred bucks on the
"sealant". The customer is practically hysterical but resigns himself to the cost. A small, faintly triumphant
glance shows Jerry has won. In this scene we see his whee-
dling, non-confrontational style pay offfor him. Wliat
an original villain! .
2. Jerry is offering the two kidnappers 40 grand
for their services, telling them he's asking for 80. In
fact, the ransom figure he quotes to his father-in-law
is 1 million. This deception stands to make him an
extra $960,000.
3. After complications and bloodshed, Carl de·
mands another $40,000. Jerry actually tries to refusel
4. Carl explodes at a smanny parking attendant
over a four dollar parking fee.
5. When Carl ends up with the full million, he
only brings back $80,000 to his associate. On top ofit,
he refuses to split the value of their car. This doesn't
make the guy too happy, even though HE has already
made twice what he expected to going in.
The film's frigid locale is lensed to beautiful effect. The icy mists, fields of fresh snow several feet deer.
and frozen crust over everything assume a surrea ,
otherworldly beauty. Use ofslow-motion in these shots
further emphasize the harsh beauty of the conditions.
Joel Coen directed, while Ethan produced. They
wrote the screenplay together. It is their best film to
date, and their impressive list of credits includes Blond
Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing and Barton
Fink. Diverse subject matter there, from parenthood
to the Irish Mafia, while the common thread is the
wildly distinctive Coen style.
I consider th ree elements most important in
movies: a good script, good acting, and a good visual
look. It's rare to see superior achievement in all three
categories, in a single film . Fargo pulls off the trifecta.
The plotline, while based on true events, isn't
that original; it is the particulars of the story, the time
and place and peculiar characters :nvolved, Ihat makes
Fargo so special. It's a classic.
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Weapon of Choice rockets past dope space nine with Highperspice
by Brpn FnnlrllnHuss1h.I..
A lot of bands have been called "modern day
P-Funk," but such cl,!ims are usually made by people
who aren't very schooled in the ways of the Funk Mob.
To these naive individuals. any urban metal band with
a lame white rapper and a token slap bass solo can be
considered the epitome offunkativity. This does not
mean that there isn't some amount of validity to at·
taching the adjective funky (note the lower case f) to
bands like Fishbone or the Red Hot Chili Peppers. who
infuse the influences of P-Funk, Sly Stone and the
Meters into their punk rock and ska backgrounds. But
when bands are considered funk because they sound
kind oflike the Chili Peppers who in' turn sound kind
oflike funk, you have a problem.
Therefore, I was pretty skeptical when 1 first
heard about Weapon of Choice. even though the per·
son who told me about Ihem (my brother) is a walk·
ing encyclopedia offunk history. He told me that they
had opened for Fishbone. Ihat they were fmnds WIth
them and that they were pretty similar bands because
both of them talk abou t nutmeg a lot. That 'sjust what
we need, I Ihought. Anoth er band trying to be like
Fishbone. And 10 make matters worse, my brother
made the unthinkable claim: "They're a lot like a mod·
em day Parliament." Yeah right.
Then my brother mailed me Weapon of
Choice's first CD, Nut Meg Sez "Bozo the Town ", and
I instantly shut my mouth. Here was a modern album
that was knock·you.on·your-ass Funky (note the capital F) with a hard edge, and without a single weak link
among its 12 tracks. These are fun, groove-oriented
songs that never slow down until "Gutterball," the laid
back, jazzy track that eases you out of what the band
calls "The Nutmeg Potty." The album pulled me in on
the first listen and to this day it has not let go.
Now Weapon of Choice has launched the sec·
ond wave in the Nutmeg campaign, Highperspiee. This
cartoonish masterpiece is a little more playful and a
little less consistent, but a lot of the songs are miles
ahead of even the best songs on Bozo the Town. For a
change of pace, the hard rock guitar grooves of the first
album are mostly absent. This isn't really a good or
bad thing, but it does bring the band further out of
the funk rock camp and closer to the tradition of un·
cut P·Funk.
The president of the Nutmeg Potty is a crazy
bald guy in a cape named MeganuL He's what we earthlings call a lead vocalist and bass player. You couldn't
ask for a better frontman - he has the cartoon insan·
ity and powerful stage presence ofBootsy Collins, the
superhuman wordplay skills of George Clinton, and a
voice somewhere between Angelo Moore and Junie
Morrison.
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in' the'
p.drlC Northwest
'byTeriTedIt
Praised for its poetic use oflanguage and Pacific Northwest setting. David Guterson's latest
book, Snow Falling on CeJhrs, became one of the
sui'prise best-sellf3 of 1995.
Set in 1954 on San Piedro, a fictional island
in Puget SOund, Snow Falling on Cedars looks at
issues of racism, community dynamics, interracial
relations and the uncertainties .o f justice. The
novel's plot centers around the mysterious death
of Carl Heine, a local salmon fishennan. Circwnstan~al evidence and the suspicions of the community bring the authorities to arrest Kabuo
Miyamoto, a local Japanese-American strawberry
farmer. Scenes from the trial are interwoven with
flashbacks and vignettes which deepen the characters and the story's events.
In Snow, Guterson tackles a topic which is
sensitiveformany Americans-anti-Japanese sen·
timent during and follOwing ww n. The novel
clearly indicates that Kabuo's Japanese ancestry is
the 'primary reason for his arrest, and shows the
community's c{)ndemnation of him as one who is
"different" and "can't be trusted." Guterson portrays this in a way which is empathetic but doesn't
reduce Kabuo to a simple martyr figure.
Perhaps the strongest aspect of the book is
Guterson's skillful imagining of both the physical
and socio-cultural climate of the Pacific Northwest
during the 19505. The setting of the novel has de'tailswhich ring with .i feeling of authenticity, 'and
Guterson draws from real historical events, WW U
and the intemment ofJapanese-Americans to show
how these events effected the lives, opinions and
actions of the characters in the book. He does a
wonderful job of portraying the feelings of a community living ,n an era where loyalty and identity
were at times ambiguous.
One particularly interesting storyline in the
book is the interracial ~elationship between Hatsue,
Kabuo's wife, and Ishmael Chambers, the local journalist, during their teenage years before VI/W ll.
Their struggle to deal with their feelings for one another in a society where race mixing was viewed
very unfavorably is very moving.
.
Guterson writes with elegance and several
of the passages in the novel radiate with stark, Iyri·
cal beauty. The book sketches interesting characters by glimpsing into the inti"19te details of their
lives and personalities. I liked Guterson's attention
to detail,like the in-depth discussion of the role of
forensics in the case, but at times the story seemed
to be bogged down with unnecessary description.
Many reviewers called the book "suspense.
ful," but I found Snowrather lacking in excitement.
Some of the courtroom scenes seemed monoto·
nous and dull. While the novel is an interesting
piece of social and historical 'commentary, I don 't
tllink it works as a thriller. The ending is realistic
though somewhat lacking in drama. Still, a book
as well thought-out as this one is definitely worth
the time to read.
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11, 1996
by Andy Sch oe n ste in
Thursday, April 11
Survival Shelter Workshop were your folks too liberal
to send you to Boy Scouts?
Now's your chance to catch up
o n your basic man vs. n ature
kn o w-how.
You women pobably
kn ow t hi s stuff already.
4pm
in the Longh ouse .
Sponsored
by Wilderness Awa reness
Group, call x6636
Friday, April 12
Free Contact Improvisation
Workshop with Jerry Kraus.
From lOam-noon in CRC 316.
Call Meg Hunt @ x6076 for
more info.
Nuxalk Nation Traditional .
People speak about their
fight against logging in the
Longhouse tonight at 7pm.
Saturday, April 13
DANCE VII Presented by
SODAPOP and the Gaming Guild
features 80's & 90's technoindustrial-new-wave-type
musi c .
In LIB 2 000, 8pm ,
free (canned food donations
requested) .
FREE SHOW with Gangula
Stretch and Reverend Asher
Dudley in the Housing
community Center, 8:30pm.
Surf Dance @ Studio 321
featuring Atomic Teen Idol s,
9pm, $3 .
Masterworks Choral Ensemble
15th Anniversary Concert
celebration with trumpets and
drums featuring selections
from Carmina Burana and
pieces by Bach, Haydn and
Handel as well as original
work.
Tickets: $l3/general,
$7 / students.
At the
Washington Center, 8pm.
The Cristopher Overstreet
Project performs a night of
experimenta l music @ the
Matrix Coffee Ho'~se, 434 NW
Prindl e i n Chehalis.
Tickets
are $5 advance from Rainy Day
or positively 4th St . , or $7
@ the door.
XXenogenesis - according to
the flyer I recieved about
this, ancient secrets of
mind-body spirit are now
unveiled.
If you are .
i ntere sted in learning these
secrets , attend a free
seminar from 9-5 in the "Log
House Center " (Longhouse).
Sunday, April 14
Cirque Eloize - Montrea l
circus troupe mixes comedy,
theatre, dance and-mUsic, and
yes, they're in the same vein
as Cirque du So lei l.
At the
Washing t on Center, 2pm , $10.
Peter Thomas plays ' classical
guitar at 7pm, 4 Seasons
Books, 7th & Franklin ,
downtown, free.
. Reunion for TESC's 1993 '
Nature of Natural History
Program @ Dr. Steven G.
Herman's house in Tumwater.
All program participants
invited to attend.
Ca l l John
Munari at '705-1613 or Dr.
Herman at 943-5751.
Monday, April 15
Jane's weekly P.R. gig - meet
TESC president Jane Jervis
today by the Deli from 9 lOam . No point bitching to
your friends- feed your
compl aints (o r good-natured
?'s & compliments) to t h e big
c hee se herself.
Wednesday, April 17
Beautiful Daze - A Senior
Thesis Performance by
Cemantha Crain, Ericka Curran
& Laris sa Podzaline. The
performance will include the
o ne - act play 'Ha iku ' by
Katherine Snodgrass and
ori'ginal work createq by the
performers, followed by a
post-performance discussion.
Showing April 17,18 & 20 .in
the Recital Hall of the
Communi cations Bui,lding @
8pm, FREE.
FIST (Feminists In Self
Defense) is teaching a 6 - week
Women's Self-Defense Series
t hat starts today . The
sliding scale fee ranges from
$20 ~ 35, and free childcare is
available wi one week's
notice.
6-8:30pm at The
Olympia Center, room 204.
Call 438-0288.
NAKED (a band) plays tonite
at the 4th Ave Tav.
They
want you to go.
9-midnight,
$1.
Thursday, April 18
Sisters Speak out in Defense
of Cuba I
Feminist activists
who have recentl y ret urned
from Cuba will comment on the
effects of Clinton
Administration policies on
the people of the island.
7 :30pm at New Freeway Hall,
5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle
(!), sponsored by Radical
Women.
Cuban Cuisine
available @ 6: 30 for a $6
donation .
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Olympia Arts Walk - on
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