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• COOPER POINT JOURNAL •

March 14, 1996

Volum e 26 • Issue 20

The Evergreen State College

Is Evergreen really diverse?

The col/ege's push towards multiculturalism leaves some behind

Evergreen loses one'

of its own in crash
BY REvNOR PADILlA
Evergreen student Jachin Thomas, a hopeful
teacher and lover ofliterature. was killed when his van
flipped over on Kaiser Road Monday,
According to a report prepared by the Office of
College Relations said, "Jachin was enrolled in Universal
Themes in Great Literature, as well as in Introductory
Neon; Issues in Ethnobotanyand a two credit contract."
He wa~ a member of the Evergreen Geoduck Swim
Team for a year and a half and a member of the S&A
Board during the 1993-1994 scllool year, He .was a life
guard at the Evergreen pool"and also worke'd at the
Copy'Center, th,e report said. .
Janette Parent, the Geoduc_~ Swim coach, is
organizing an on-campus memorial service. rhose who
want to help prepare tlie service should call her at 8666000 x6536.

BY OSCARJOHNSON
Many white students at Evergreen are "Talking About Race"
in an open forum that allows them t.o question the fears and
beliefs that make this a difficult issue. Last January students of
color gathered for a "Day of Absence." There were workshops,
festivities and a "Dumping Board" where students posted
anonymous notes. Notes venting a barrage of offensive
experiences these students face daily at Evergreen. By Noon the
board was full.
Few of Olympia's Evergreen students know much about their
sister-Tacoma campus -community. Last year some of the
campus' faculty faced charge~ ofCreverse") racism from ten of
their students. Although the charges were not substantiated, it
left the campus in a precarious position. Evidently Washington
state colleges can either maintain the Eurocentric norm or
experiment with "multiculturalism." Any other cultural
"...centricim," however, will not be tolerated.
Evergreen's Tribal Program is "the best kept secret all over the
place," according to program faculty Carol Minugh. It is a
"community-based program" located on the Quinault,
Skokomish. Makah, and Port Gamble S'Klallam Reservations.
Many Native American students at the main campus, however,
believe that the success of this program contributes to what
TESC alumni, Tiokasin Veaux, calls the "Apathy of [Evergreen I
staff and faculty" in addressing their needs. Veaux believes this
results in an inadequate Native Studies Program and a "lack of
active recruitment" on Native Reservations for the Olympia
campus.
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The Evergreen State College poses fundamental questions
about how our society, this institution, our local community,
and we, as individuals, deal with the reality of "diverSity." [n
this sense, Evergreen can be considered a kind of sociologicalmagic mirror. As we gaze into it we see both a reflection of
contemporary society and, perhaps, a glimpse into its future.
[s Evergreen as div ~ rse as it could-or even should-be? How
equitable is Evergreen as an' institution. How tolerant are we as
a community?
According to the latest TESC promotional booklet, our college
has a "commitment to build a student body of diverse cultures,
ages , ethnicjties, and background[sl." The booklet states that
this is necessary because this institution "believelsl strongly that
our students' educational background are enhanced and their
lives enriched in' a multicultural environment."

So. Just how diverse is Evcrgrcen anyway?
The statistics say that students of color have been 15 percent
of Evergreen's population forthe last two years. Since "numbers
don 't lie"lets just say their influenced by Evergreen's student
of color population at the Tacoma campus (58 percent of 189
students) and the Tribal Program (88.9 percent of2 7 studenls).
Despite rare student and occasional fac ulty cross-campus
activity, these are education centers for local communities. At
TESC's Hill Top. Tacoma campus 38.6 percent of the students
are African-American and the entire 88.9 percent of students
of color enrolled in the Tribal Program are Native Ameri ca n,
According to TESCs statistics for the Olympi a campu s,
students of color are actually 13.7 percelll of the population,
student s declining to identity their race make up 12.2 percent
of the population and Caucasians, the remaining 74 percent.
For the Northwest, these figures are a relatively impress ive
argument in favor of a diverse Evergreen .
If your one of3,409 Olympia Greeners, then you kn ow that
these days, as a Greener, there is a good chance you are not
from the Northwest. This is an important fact when TESC looks
to the local state population as its model for diversity.
According to the Director of First Peoples Advising Services,
Ricardo Leyva-Puebla, "Racial wise, the campus is equal to th e
state. We"re on ta rgt:t with the percentage ratio of the state of
Washington." Leyva-Puebla admits, however, that "based on
normal circumstances, [Evergreen's lout of state population is
gradually increasing." Based upon enrollment for the last four
years, nonresident students are estimated at 30 percent of
TESC's current population (not accounting for retention rates
and students who change residency status). As nonresident
enrollment increases it seems more equitable for nationally
renowned schools like Evergreen to use the national population
(with 26.4 percent people of color) instead of Washington state
(11.5 percent people of color) as a model for diversity.
[s Evergreen really on the way to becoming more diverse?
According to Fi rst Peoples Recruitment Coordinator, Diane'
Kahaumia, First Peoples Recruitment began as an effort to
increase th e student of coloLpopulation on th e Oly mpi a
campus. Kahaumia, says they target both "traditional" areas
and programs with a high percentage of students of color such
as; urban high schools and community colleges , as well as
"nontraditional" opportunities like YMCA's Big Brother/ Sister

See DIVERSITY on page 7 .

R.A.'s are coming soon "to a dor~ n~~r y~u

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BY JENNIFERKOOGLER
. The names of the student Housing st!lffwill change next
year from steward and A.R.M. (Assistant Resident Manager)
to a new, mUltipurpose name, R.A" or Resident Assistant. The
name change, which had been in deliberation within Housing
since October, will combine the current positions and
responsibilities into one position.
According to Beverly Peterson, (insert her official title
here), in a mandatory meeting for prospective R.A.'s on March
11 , the change comes in light of the fact that when current
- and future residents ask for a definition of a steward's or an
A.R.M.'s position, they are usually answered with something
resembling, "Well, they are kind of like R.A.'s". Therefore,
Housing "caved into peer pressure" from other universities and
colleges and replace the current titles with a more accessible
term.
There will be around 19 R.A.'s hired for the next school
year, creating a ratio of one Housing elite member for every
50 students. Some areas of the grounds, like A-Dorm and
Phase II and III (those are the apartmentesque dorms) will
have a higher concentration ofR.A.'s than other areas. Two
resident assistants will be on duty every two weeks and will
undertake the same duties stewards and A.R.M:s execute.
Currently, there are ten stewards and four A.R.M.s in
Housing, each Living in and serving a different section of the
Housing grounds. One steward and one A.R.M. are on duty
at only given moment when the Housing office is not open,
from 4:30p.m. to 8a.m. on weekdays and noon to noon on the
weekends. every day from late September to mid-June,
including all ofthe breaks. Their various actiVities while on
duty include anything from crisis intervention (which is
primarily an A.R.M, responsibility) to enforcing policy
violations (like vandalism and canine loitering spotted while
doing a walk through) as well as the more pleasant jobs of
turning off smoke detectors and unclogging toilets.
The increase in student resident staff members is an
attempt by Peterson and other Housing staff to build a
stronger sense of community, and not to have the dorms just

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be an apartment complex. R.A. s will be reqUIred to host at
least four activities a year for their residents and work together
as a group to produce events for the entire Housing community.
This is very similar for the current stewards and A.R.M. 's, who
sponsor activitiesJor both their area residents and Housing as
a whole.
Arthur Dennis, a steward in Phase II, stated at the meeting
that likes the fact that the R.A. structure will be less hierarchial.
placing everyone on the same level of training . Rosalinda
Noriega, an A.R.M. in Phase 11 and III noted that the
combination of an A.R.M. and steward's job into a R.A. position
takes a lot of pressure off of the current assistant resident
managers, who are trained to deal with crisis situations and
roommate conflicts, unlike the stewards. Having everyone with
the same background will allo\Y the responsibility to be spread
among others.
In addition to resident assistants , Housing will also be
hiring Residerit Directors, who will take over some of the higher
A.R.M. responsibi litie~ as well as some of the duties of the
Housing staff members. They will directly supervise the R.A.'s
and work with issues of student development and long term
resident concerns. R.D. positions will be filled by graduate
students or actual graduates.
In order to further the sense of comm unity in Housing,
the staff wil be forming a number of boards to deal with certain
issues that affect students who live on campus. According t!)
Chuck McKinney (insert his title here). the groups will have
themes such as social events, to plan activities for residents, and
an emergency response team that would prepare for major
upheavals like earthquakes and power outages. These groups
will get more residents to "facilitate and su pport" the
com ~unity.
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Peterson hopes tha the structural changes will give
residents a stronger sense of community and a greater support
network. People who live in Housing are "a bunch of people
trying to achieve the same thing, getting a college education",
and therefore should work together to s\lrvive the tribulations
of the experience.
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Cyberpunk author William
Gibson visits Evergreen
BY JENNIFER KOOGLER
On Tuesday, March 12, William Gibson, the "father of
cyperpunk~ and author of at least a half a dozen novels, spoke
to a group of students from the Virt ual College, Student
Originated Studies, and Data to Information programs as part
of their continuing PLATO lecture series. During his
conversational talk with faculty member Tom Maddox,
Gibson touched on several aspects of his works, cyperspace.
the Internet, and the reactions to the film he wrote, Johnll)'

Mnemonic.
Gibson has just finished a new novel called Idoru, whkh
according to Virtual College studentJonny Fink, who had the
pleasure oftransporting Gibson to the airport after the lecture,
is a Japanese term for young female pop stars. Although the
closeness to the time he finished the novel prevents him from

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0921: Vehicle broken into in F-Iot.
1050: Fire alarm at tli e CUP.

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1201 : Attemp ted burglar y at the Creenery
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There's a new student group on campusthe Peer Health Educa tion Group. It will -be
comprised of studeli ts serving as educators on
campus and doing lots of outreac h. It's an
excellent opportunity for an aspiring health
professional and t hose just int eres ted in
health and healing.
If you're interested in being a peer health
educator this spring an d/or next year... call
Casey at 866-6000 ext. 6555.

1805: Assault in N-dorm.
2058: Library elevator malfunctions. entrapping
five occupant s.

Saturday, March 2
21 16: Street lamps between the Mods and Phase
III viciously smashed.

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Sunday, March 3
1248: Hit and run in F-Iot.

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1849: Cellular phone recovered from F-Iot .

Monday, March 4

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0750: Theft of$800worth of property from CRe.
0752: Vanda lism found in th e Library ba se ment.

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11 23: Ca nine loit ering without a leas h picked up
out side the CAB.
1615: Yellow rain jacket report ed stolen from th e
Library.

Tuesday, March 5
1048: Person experiences a chemical sensiti vity
'react ion in A-dorm.

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A speed limit increa se by fi ve miles along
Was hington State's interstate highway was
announced last month by the Washington
Sta te Department of Transportation
(WSDOT) an d th e Washington State Patrol
(WSP), and the Washington Traffic Safety
Commission (WTSC). Right now the basic
. speed limit is 60 mph for state highways. The
new speed limi t signs have begun being
posted as of March 11.

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Battery
Recycling
For a new recycling program. there is a small
recycling bin for batteries in the bookstore.
CA B, 2nd floor. Hous ehold dispo sa ble
batteries currently account for 88% of the
mercury and 52% of the cad mium released
by Americans into the environment. New
electronic devices now allow many alkaline
and virtually all mercury and ni-cad cell s to
be recharged and returned to the consumer.

. The Leonard Peltier Action Group owes its
upmost gratitude to the following individuals
and groups who for th e ~u ccess of ow recenl
. events: Northwest Indian Coll ege, Ga il
Trembley, Yvonne Tremb ley. Kenny Farmer
and Carol Apple, Tom, Delmar Blind , Mr.
and Mrs . Hapy, Nancy Haque , and Tara
Perkins (thanks for the blues!), The Corner
Cafe, Pat Tassoni and Works in Progress,
Copwa tch, KAOS, Bullsweet, Gangula
Stretch, Timothy Hull, The RMBB, JoN iTo,
Oliver and everyone at ABC House, Mirah,
Arrington and the Old Time ReIijun, Second
Hand, the downers, Pillar, OMJP, IASO, NSA,
ERe, The Cfl, the Native Studies Program,
TESC-Tacoma, The Olympia Food Co-op,
and, of course, all of the attendees. Thanks
to your support we will be ca rrying a strong
message from Olympia that twenty-one years
is enough and that Leonard Peltier must go
free! Stay tuned!

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0752: Someone gain ed entry to the faci lities cage
overn ight.

Wednesday, March 6
Rec kl es~

Safeplace Rape Relief and Women's Shelter
Services is now recruitin g volunteers. Spring
training starts April 9, 1996. Applications
must be received by March 22nd. Safeplace
needs people with skills and interests in
advocacy/counseling, working with children
and teens , support group facilitation,
community education, fund-raising, clerical
work, maintenance, and more. Summer
internships are also available . For more
information please call Safeplace at 7868754, TOO accessible.

New Speed Limit

llOl: Person stuck in A-dorm elevator. Car was

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Peer Health Group

Friday, March 1

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come in to find closure on some difficult disputants. Lynne explained to me just how
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med iations. Our highes t has been in the past staff keep notes. I think that's really important in a
to staff. Students and students are probably next. small community that its a safe place... that it
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repeated under any circumstances in an effort to though the center has not advertised. slots are
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Abortion clinics defended
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For safety reasons, all those defenders
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the clinic with phrases like, "there are many we ~ant. Another woman saId that, '1
people in the community who would like [0 reahzed I needed to put my money where my
care for your baby Please don 't go inside that mouth was." "It is a real tangible way to get
clinic" Thursd~ys are the day the clinic out there" sa id many of the defenders
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milita~t "pro-life:: protesters, the clinic is now
a re ere: and we are IIlvol ve d . T IS
being defended by people in orange vests opportumty fits mcely WIth student schedules.
with signs of their own. These people act as as the "shifts" are only apout two hours long)
escorts for women into the clinic, and mostly or as long as you have time for). Even local
try to block attention from those yelling to the business people come out to support the clinic
wom en from the anti-choice side. The on their lunch hours. One volu nt eer invited
defenders are allowed to stand on clinic others to join her in strapping on roller skates
property, and hold signs declaring that "the for some four-wheeling support.
cliQk doors will stay open", "Pro-Choice", or
Clinic Defense goes on every Thursday
"Clinic Support ". If th er e are en ough from 8:30a.m. to 3:30p.m. Volunteers are
volunteers, some will march along the road grea tly needed and apprec iated. Rainor shine,
and gather moral support from passing cars.
it is as good time for conversat ion with a
If th e anti-choice picketers don't show variety of interesting people, while defending
up, then the clinic defenders go hom e. Their an important ca use. At a time when anti role is to show support for the women and the choice legislation is 011 the rise, it is extremel y
clinic when it is being threatened.
important to show support for ch oice.
Most of the defenders are older women
The ad dress of th e clilli e is 1100
whorememberwhenabortionwasillegal,and Eastside Street SE, Olympia. The phone
don't want it to happen again. On the other number is 943-5127. If you are interested in
side of the property, primarily stand old men se tting up a carpoo l, call the Wome n's
Resource Center at x.6162.
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GIBSON from cover
really being able to explain what it is about,
Gibson did state that "the world we live in
('~uses so much cogni ti ve dissidence", he
believes that the novel is an interpretation of
the prevailing confusion, His' intent was to
capture what Tokyo is like, not to predict any
sort of futuristic world, like so many science
fiction novels tend to do. Gibson commented
that the book is most likely abou t "the near
impossibility of writing a science fiction novel
in 1996", much to the delight of the audience.
Much of the discussion between Maddox
and Gibson focused around Neuromancer,
Gibson 's novel wh ich was published in 1984
and is often cited as defining the genre of
cyperpunk. Maddox reflected that the novel
speaks to the implications of computer
networks , even though the technology <.iid not
exist at the time. Gibson noted that at the time
he wrote the novel, he'd never even seen a
computer, much less a PC, as had most people
back then. Looking back onit, Gibson believes
that the book kind of predicted the "takeover"
uf computers. but that the technology has
becom e so "ero ti cized" that the image is
.
becoming unrealistic to an extent.
Maddox asked Gibson about the intensely
visual approach to science fic ti on writing and
how it evolved for him. Gibson described how
that his writing began as a reaction to th e
science fiction he had read that lacked
descriptive elements. His earliest attempts at
writing were always descriptions of objects
which bought to mind their implied history,
using th e example of a chewed pencil. He
would ask himselfabout where it had been and'

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who had chewed it. Although he's not as
conscious of his efforts, he feds it, "necessary
to describe everything in a little 'more detail"
than usual.
Maddox brought up Gibson 's reactions to
Johnny Mnemonic, the film he wrote that was
released last year starring Keanu Reeves.
Gibson, who winced at th e mention of the
topic, said that trying to explain why the movie
failed to live up to his expectations wou ld be
"tryin g to explain why you r family is
dysfunctional." He didn't want to obsess about
it in public, but didgo into severa l reasons why
the final film was a thorn in his side.
Gibson commented that "wha t you see in the
film is what you would have seen if they had
taken over David Lynch's Blue Velvet in the last
month of post-production and tried to make a
mainstream modern day thriller." St udio
executives, according to him , did their best to
water down the film's content, one even said
he would act as an advocate for the "G ibson·
impaired". After test audiences reacted in a
confused manner to the fi lm (a whole process
Gibson disagrees with), the studio would
"make changes based 'on what the dumbest
people in the audience think". He noted that
Pulp Fiction tested badly, but nobody bothered
to make any changes to it because they never
expected ino make any money. Because of the
enormous success of Speed, which was released

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halfway through the filming of Johnny
Mnemonic, Keanu Reeves became a highly
marketable star and the studio anticipa ted a
large audience, therefore they wished to make
it more accessible. Despite his frustrations,
Gibson remarked that it was fun to watch the
cast and crew phYSically make the film, and
.
that "they loved it in France".
Gibson discussed the definitions of the word
"cyperpunk", a term which he help coin . "It's
become an illescapable as a label", he noted,
as well as fast becoming a "pop adjective". "If
you say 'those are very cyperpunk trousers',
people will know what you mean." He also
found it "infinitely weird" that some people
base their entire way of looking at the world
on cy.perp unk ideology, lik e a group he
encountered while on a lecture tour in Italy
who formed a political party around it. Gibson
worries that the term is fast becoming obsolete_

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On the subject of the Internet, Gibson and
Maddox pondered whether or not it will
become a tool of the dominant capitali st
society or will take on a completely new form.
Gibson said that the Internet is wonderful in
that anyone can talk to anyone, anywhere, and
literally marks "th e death of geography and
political boundaries." He has some anxiety
about what the future will bring, but notes that
more legislation lik e the "dera nged
telecommunications bill" could jeopardize the
Internet's potential to develop outs ide the
clutches of corporations. The Internet, web
sites, and other things lingering in cyberspace
are, in his eyes, still in a infan t stage that the
nature of cannot as of yet be defined.
Gibson told the crowd that his fut ure is still
"a beautiful blur". He hasn't got a clue what
he'll be working on now that his new novel is
finished, "and that's the best". He will wait to
see how it strikes people and then go from
there.

All the magic has gone out of our lives,
or so modern science would have us beli eve.
There are no mysteries too big, no won.der too
inexplicable for the rational mind to break
down into co ncrete parts. What is not
exp lained is dismissed. Yet, somehow, even
today, questions persist that are unanwserable
by scientific method ("Why is it always sunny
when 1 work and rainy on my day s off?"). We
make sense of these questions as hum anity
always has, by believing that invisible forces
are meddling with us.
Folklore is about finding the motivations
of these invisible forces and sharing your
wisdom with ot hers. Outside of accepted ,
rational thought, floats a network of anecdotes
and old wives tales that pass along word of
mouth and lodge in people's consciou sness. I
thought I would take a look at some of the
fo lklore that has lodged itself in my brain.
Maybe you'll recognize some of these:
The eO'lltllgious Zit Theory. I have a
friend who strongly believes that you should
neve r, never acknow ledge someone else's
facial blemi shes. Not even in your own head .
The minute the pimple regi sters in your mind,
you are doomed to grow one of your own in
the exact same spot (or dam nearto it). It goes
without say ing that pointing at your own zits
out to someo ne else is a horrible betrayal,
passing on your affljction. As far as I'm
concern ed, this is the absolute betrayal,
passing on your affliction. As far as I'm
concerned, t.his is the absolute truth. The other
day, one of my roommates had the audacity
to announce the appea rance of a spot on her
chin, now everyone present at the time has a
spot there as well ... thi s is not a coi ncidence.
Smoker's Karma. I think thi s is a pretty
much universally acknowledged belief among
people of the smokil)g persuasion. There is a
cosm ic balan<.:e between the amount of
cigarettes you bum in. Every time yo u give a
cigare tte to someone jonesing at a bus stop,
you are making a karmic deposit and at some'
point, when you' re all out, you can make a

Meet the real .Greg Porter
last week the CP) printed a story'about the man
that you see here, Greg Porter, the new head of
S & A productions. We·also ran a photo
accompanying that piece that was well, a little
bit on the blurry side. There-fore here is a new
and improved and identifiable picture of Greg,
to whom we apologize for last week's photo.
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those peQple who insist t~ey're non-smokers
so they never buy a pack, but always smoke
yours. They should spontaneously combust.
If You Think Something Sad Will
Happen-It Will. This is something everyone
around me invariably beli eves when I'm
feeling pessimistic. Thinking that failure is
probably imfIDnent makes any good luck that
was in the area tum tail and leave. I'm not
so convinced. From my point of view, lame
things happen whether I expect them to or
not, I might as well be prepared. At least
that way I have the satisfaction of being
right.
The SQul Mate Hypothesis. This is the
belief that somewhere out there is the exact
match for everyone. When you finally meet
your soul mate, th ere will be a harmonious
meeting of minds and bodies, everything will
fall into place. There must be some truth to
thi s, occasionally you meet a couple who
were juS! meant for each other. On the other
hand, if th e perfect match for everyon e
exists, why are there so many unhappy
people? One.of my friends insists his soul
mate died in a horrible boating accident,
that's why he's never mel her. Really, this
whole idea 's only believable with such a
disclaimer. Sure, there's so meo ne for
everyone, it's just unlikely they ever meet
each other.
Everything is Drew's Fault. Global
warming, computer viruses, wilr, plague,
famine, hangnails... all these are Drew's fault.
Next time all of your well laid plans
disintegrate due to something that you could
have never foreseen or prevented, just be
awa re that it is due to Drew. Seeking Drew
out to demand retribution does no good. He
doesn't really mean to screw everything in
the world up, he just does somehow. Despite
the obvious drawbacks to the existence of
Drew on earth, it is rather comforting to have
someo ne obvious to blame when those
unreasonable messes appea r. Drew is a
necessary evi l.
These are just a few examples of the

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Salvage Rider protest for .the Roc

The Rocky Brook, Dosewallips River in what
forest
9 March 1996
0900 Left with a caravan of vehicles from th e
Asterisk Cafe, and proceeded -ont o highway
10l. Continued along the 101 until reaching
the town of Brinnon, and th e Dosewallips day
use campground. Large number of protesters
had already arrived , and forest service
p~rsonnel were directing traffic towards
parking areas.
1100 After listening to several speakers, th e
rally began marching across Brinnon and onto
Dosewallips Rd. We co ntinued fo r
approximately one mile before turning onto
Rocky Brook Road. A closure order had been
placed on this road barring access for a several
mile parameter around the Rocky timber sale.
1200 We reached the police blockade
enforci'ng the closure order. Fore st cover
aro und the rally locati on was largely thin
second-growth of Douglas Firs approximately
40-80 yea rs old . Approximately 30 police and
arm ed forest service officers were arrayed
against some 250 protesters. Throughout the
rally, bubbleman provided our audience with
great amusement and humor,wi th his bubble

Broo·k, DQsewallips River

is I~ft of the beautiful Olympia "bH~n~1
Photo by The Greenman
displays. Beyond the many songs and humor
this rally entailed. the event had a number of
moving speakers. Following this series of
speakers, the head ranger spoke, saying that
crossing the cl os ure boundary would
represent a violation of both federal and state
law. Protestors fhat were willing to face arrest
then crossed the closure line and began
marching towards Rocky Brook.
1300 Started walking along Rocky Brook
Road proceeding up the Dosewa llips
drainage. Forest varied in canopy along this
road. with most trees ranging between 50-120
years old. Species were largely Douglas Fir
although mariy small patches of Arbutus and
Pacific Yew were visible. Large clear-cut were
visible on the opposite (southern) slopes of
the Dosewallips drainage
.
'1330 Reach ed second police bloc kade
where approxim ately 25 federal officers were
preparing for a mass arrest scenario. At this
point I opted not to get arrested and ent ered
into the surrounding forest (south) along with
approximate ly 30 protesters (10 others

headed norrh). Forest canopy in this region
(2 miles inside' closure) was conSiderably
larger, ranging between 60-50 years in age.
Understory vegetation large ly consisted of
salal, cascara and stink current. Continued
down southern slope off logging road in an
attempt to circumnavigate the police
blockade. and rejoin the Rocky Broo k Road
further up within the watershed. Along my
route [ teamed up with three others
protesters in trying to ci rcumnavigate the
blockade. This proved too difficult and we
reconsidered our options, deciding instead
to try and evade th e authorities by crossing
Rocky Brook and exiting along the
Dosewallops River. Our attempt quickly
proved impractical. however. as the slopes
near the waterway quickly reached 70
degrees. [The Rocky Brook sale unit we were
protesting matched this slope inclination I.
This sojourn to the Brook did, however, prove
amazingly beautiful. We stayed for several
minutes to take pictures and examine the
waterway. This sec tion of Rocky Brook
passed over a bare rock strata and went
through several rapid elevation drops.
creating small waterfalls. After reconsidering
our options, we decided to retrace our route
and parallel the road in an attempt to exit the
closure area.
1345 We climbed north up the slope once
more, and proceeded east 'in an attempt to
parallel the road. Along our route the canopy
was largely Douglas Fir although we also
travelled along an old logging road
overgrown by young Alder.
1415 On reaching the road again we
managed to evade' several forest service
ve hicles, only to be discovered by a police
cruiser. I was not see n, ~o I quickly climbed
the northern slope and proceeded away from
the roadside. On reaching the ridge-line of
this slope, th e forest canopy opened up
so mewhat , wi th understory vegetation more

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wide spaced. The understory was largely
composed of sa lal. fa lse solomon's-seal, false
lily of the valley, and sticky curren t . I
continu ed along thi s ridge-line for '
approximately one hour befo re rejoining the
road below.
1515 Rejoined road and managed to move
undetected for only ten minutes before
discovery by a slow moving police cruiser. I
quickly moved back int o the forest cover,
proceeding rapidly north up the slope once
more. The officers below beckon ed my
attention. exclaiming, "Why don't you just
give up, and come down right now ... The
dogs will get you ariyways ... "
1530 On reaching the ridge-line once more,
I continued in my easterly progression out of
the closure area. Along the way. I passed
through a variety of foreSfZones, evidence of
the past intensive managem ent this' region
had received . Similar to my roadside
observations, I passed several groves of Pacific
Yew and Arbutus trees. Fatigue began to set
in after travelling one hour. inducing severe
leg cramps. Witnessed a owl at 1645.
1700 Reach ed closure limit, where the
earlier rally had been held. Large number of
forest service and police vehicle!.' remained,
so I cautiously climbed to the top of the ridgeline. Along route I startled two deer grazing
in the understory sala!. After carefully
circumnavigating the closure blockade I
angled back towards the road and rejoined it
approximately half a mile further down .
1800 Quickly followed 'roadback towards
Highway 101, moving away from closure site.
Passed two forest service vehicles without
incident before rejoining highway. Found ride
with fellow protestors and returned along the
101 back to Olympia, happy and free.

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with Pee'r Advisor Naomi Ishis~ka (right)
programs. Although Kahaumia says that First
Peoples Recruitment dose not have a quota as
a goal or to measure success, she insist that
"there's been a huge difference since 1987"
when 'the office opened. Evergreen's student
of color population has increased from an
average of 8.75 percent. between 1971 and
1986, to an average of 13 percent from 1987
to 1995. The Tribal program. which began in
1989, however, has also contributed to this
increase.
Whether or not there is a significant
increase in Evergreen's student of color
population, the students of color that are here
are looking to First Peoples Recruitment for
answers. "Students [mis]interpret statistics
and point the finger in the wrong way" says
First Peoples Recruitment Admissions
Counselor. Clarrise Leong, Both Leong and
Kahaumia say that their department is often
criticized by Evergreen'5tUdents of color for
not bringing more students of color to the
Olympia campus. "I've been told I'm not doing
my job: Kahaumia said. Leong says that in
addition to being misled by statistical data.
disgruntled students also complain that TESC
'catalogues are misleading because they overrepresent students of color in their
photographs of the campus community. Due
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Similar to First Peoples Recruitment, the
most common complaint brought to First
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overwhelming feeling of not seeing a larger
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have to speak to all the issues [oftheir culture
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Evergreen's population, Leyva·Puebla affirms
"Our job is to create diversity." First Peoples
Advising Services offers students of color:
advocacy, referral, counseling. peer and group
support and access to a personal computer,
library, lounge. and meeting room. In addition
to sponsoring student projects like the annual
First Peoples Anthology, the office was
contacted by over 600 students needing
assistance last year.
Claudia Sandoval. a second year cultural
studies student at Evergreen, is a Peer Support
Counselor for First Peoples Advisin'g Services.
"In seminar people assume that I was white
but once they find out [otherwise] they start
asking me questions about LA and being
Chicana: Sandoval said, She recounts one
time in seminar when an Evergreen faculty
said "I should remold my culture-around
American culture,~ Sandoval believes that in
addition to more students of color TESC
should require a multicultural program for
first year students. ''I'd want more people to
know more about me and my culture before
going into seminar," she says.
Umoja's new co-coordinator, NatashaJatton.
echoes why some African-American students
believe their issl,les are distinct from the rest
of Evergreen's First Peoples community. "This
campus is diverse in the sense that it's cool to
be Latin'-American or Native American,"
Jatton said-adding that. to Greeners, "South
Central-ghetto-Black is [alsol exotic." She says
that "for [mostl urban Blacks or southern
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a'party where mostly Latin dance music was
. being played, she was asked to play one of her
cassette tapes. " This tape wasn't on 30
seconds' before there was five peopl e
thumbing through Latin tap es Ifor a
replacementl." Jatton asserts, however, I am
here for an education. regardless of whet her
you accept me·my world is going to continue
to spin."
As a member of Evergreens racial majority,
second year student, Steven Thomas believes
that campus diversity is contingent upon
Washington state's population, Thoma s
transferred from The University of AlabamaBirmingham to TESC because of its alternative
academic approach. location and setting. He
believes "there are two directives behind
student recruitment that are at odds with each
other; an imperative to recruit within statl?
community colleges." as well as an attempt to
recruit more students of color "in a state that
is very whi te."
According to APEL Counselor, Christine
Ciancetta , the overwhelming majority of
students who have been attending Evergreen's
"Talking About Race" forum are EuropeanAmerican, Ciancetta is o[)e of the four faculty
members that developed the forum from
discussions that took place during last
january's Day of Absence, "What I've noticed
is that [thesel students want to understand
what the issues [concerning racel are," said
Ciancetta. The discussion group, which will
continue to meet weekly during Spring
quarter, is addressing such issues as; "How we
define racism: "White guilt," "Fear of Black
men/people of color." "Understanding white
privilege: and "Getting beyond politically
correct." Ciancetta believes that one of the
keys to unlocking these kinds of issues is
."understanding how my perspective is colored
by my background."
.
As students at Evergreen continue to explore
the issues and avenues of dialogue about race;
whether in the context of diversity at the
Olympia campus, allegations of racism at the
Tacoma campus, or the educational needs of
Native students on and off the Reservation, it
is evident that diversity is as much about how
we interact as it is that we interact.
Few people would argue that progressive
racial and ethnic relations are high on the
priority list of the rising Right-wing
constituency. As rising social and economic
tensions continue to polarize around issues of
race and ethnicity the role of Liberal
institutions like The Evergreen State College '
become increaSingly important. The current
decisions we make (or choose not to make)
concerning these issues. as an institution, a
community. and as individuals may set the
stage for national, and perhaps even global.
relations for the future.

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LETTERS AND OPINIQNS

Evergreen Swimmers
Storm
San
Antonio
Conclude Successful Season in Styl'e
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Women's Team Cleft)
Top Row: left to right
Christabel Fowler, Katie Uphaus, Sarah Skinner, Milu Karp, *Sarah
Godlewski, * Sarah Calhoun, *
Bottom Row: left to right
lammi Anderson, Tara Murphy, Scotia Stebbins, Joyous Sales, Sara
Lampo,*

Nine Evergreen swimmers were honored with invitations to the
National Swimming & Diving Championships, in San Antonio, Texas,
At Nationals, the team as a whole received four honorable mentions
for relays,
The men broke 4 Evergreen I'ecords: the 200 and 400 medleys
and the 200 and 400 free relays.
.

Individual Accomplishments:

Sara Lampo was named an All-American in the 1 meter diving
competition,
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MillI Karp received AII-Amel'ican honorable mention in the 100
backstroke,
James Carsner received All-American honorable mention in the
400 1M,
Information and Photos Compiled By:joie Kistler.
Layout:john Evans.

James Carsner,* Orrin Bentley,* Jason Farmer, Andrew Ackerman,
Amos Elias.

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room,

, , wh~t happened in that
Mlk~ was the
Mike Tyson will meet Eqmk Bruno,this third guy' (Kennedy, Thomas) up on sex
weekend, continuing his quest to 'unify the · chargesthatyeatandAmericawasdemanding
numerous heavyweight titles available right, a. sacrifice. Mike was it. He received six y~ars
now. 'Butit is no mere sporting eventtakingin jailandserv~d his tiinr,
put :and
place on'Sa.turday mght: . - '. .', resumed his career, Be.may or mar not be
. ~ince Ali became the heavyweight' innocent. But he did serve his time. Is his debt
champion the CfQWIl has had more meaning: , to s'oCiety paid?
No otherw~ight dass seefll~to .8ahr~Oize .' ,': ~parentlyIiot. Mikeiscun:entlr~ing
spectato..r:s like the ~eavywe!g'htS'. FIghts hounded by womens grou.p$, th~ picket his
becam~ pomp . and ., , c,~rcumstanc.e. . fights bec~use they say: he has no right to
Ent,ertainment. Dr~, ~eJl th~te w~s. a . reswn~ his life afterhe destroyed Desiree's. .
cunouscul~ma~~th ~~ to gnp The Seattle Post Iittelligencerrei'e!:s f~ him as
the country In th~ seventies, PolitICS were .. the coovicted rapiSt Mike,JYson "'as though
crumm~,_ MUSIC, ~as crummy. , The c()llvictedrapJsthasbe<;Orpep.artof~sname,
heavyw;eaght.champlons':f~re(~y,
, Everyone is c~ndemning hitn fur his latko
,Into this. vacuum stepped Mike Tyson, remorse, America wants aconfession and an
Ameanjuveniled~~uentstrai~~o~ttathe : apOlogy.
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~,etto: Savage:md Vlao~ Steppmg IntQ the
What if Mij(e Tyson 'is innocent'! If he is
n~g WIth not~m~ but hi~ shoes, trunks a~d innocent why should be apologize? If he is
a op,ped towel.. DlSpatchin~ opponents ~th innocent did he no.! take his punishment" like
a skill and reltsh that eXCited and thrilled . a man"" Ifhe is innocent does he not deserve
America. Mike Tyson became ,The youngest to resume his life? Many ifs,.no answers:·
heavyweight champion ever. , .
There does, however, remain a fight to be
. It all ~rumbled ,dOwn ~n his head after fought. Mike retum~ to the ring with many
taking Destree Washington to a hotel ,room. people agairl;st him, Knock h~ ass out ~e,
Hardly anyone knows what happene~ I,n that rn be rooting for you.
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room. Almost everyone haS" an oplnton of
Vaun Monroe ii'a WHkIy coocributQr to the CPl.

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Top Row: right to left
Garren Oura,* Jason Fel'guson,* Dan Floyd, Nate Mahoney,* Howard
Gearns.
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A star (.,) indicates the swimmer was invited
to compete at Nationals~

Fists and Fur
by Vaun MOlJl'Oe'

Men's Team (above)

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Should the. CPJ decide what ideas are acceptable?
When I first became the Arts &
. Entertainment editor at the CPl, I was'
reminded of the basic CPl philosophy: print
everything. Editor in chiefReynor Padilla knew
that I had had problems with poorly written
movie reViews in the CPjbefore, and he wanted
to make certain that if anything like that was
submitted to me as an editor, I would talk to
the writer about improving it but would still
print it however they wanted.
The CPj is, after all, a forum of selfexpression for the Evergreen community. If f
was the editor of, say, Fangoria Magazine, I
wouldn't have to print a review of Biodome
because, with the exception of Phantom ofthe
Mail, reviews of Pauly Shore movies are not
appropriate content for that particular
magazine. But when it comes to the CPj A&E
section , Biodome is just as appropriate as
Calvin Johnson, Macbeth or flamenco dancing,
I didn't have any problem with that
philosophy, and as it turns out just about
everything I've had submitted to me has been
decent to great. The only time I ever cut
anything it was because I didn't have enough
space, and J still regret doing it.
But a few weeks ago, the CP!s all-thenews-that-we-can-fit-in philosophy died a
sudden and unexpected death when the editor
chose not to run an almost-as-offensive-asusual installment of Jonah Loeb's cartoon
Snuggle. That was soon followed by a few
meetings wliich led to a new procedure for
dealing with allegedly offensive submissions.
The procedure is not as bad as it could
have been - if a section,editor doesn't want to
print, say, (oh, I don't know) a Snugglecartoon,
they ask permission from the author to have it
moved to the opinion section, where the editor
may then write a piece explaining wh}:' they
object to the cartoon (or what have you,) But if
the author doesn't.feel comfortable being
jumped upon in writing by the CPj staff, I
suspect that their subm~ion will not see print.
Ifyou ever read the small print in the staff
box, you'll find an official version of the print·
everything philosophy: • The Cooper Point
Journal is directed, srnffed, written, edited and

distributed by the students enrolled at the
Evergreen State College, who are solely
responsible and liable for the production and
content of the newspaper.... Evergreen·s
members live under a special set ofrights and
responsibilities. foremost among which is that
ofenjoying the freedom to explore ideas ~nd
to discuss their explorations in both speech and
print. Both institutional and individual
censorship are at variance with this basic
freedom."
Cutting articles from the CPJ is not
censorship, strictly speaking. But I believe it is
a symptom of the same flaw in human nature
- the need to control what other people think
or say.
For the record, I am not a fan of Snuggle.
I don't like the way it's drawn. I think a lot of
the jokes are juvenile and poorly executed and
more often than not I don't agree with the
politics behind them . Sometim es I find it
stupefyingly tasteless - I'm all for tipping over
sacred cows, but if you ask me it's just not right
to make zany jokes about Auschwitz or sexual
abuse.
The problem is. you didn't ask me. What
gives me or anyone else the right to draw lines
between what is and is not an attitude of the
Evergreen community? I'm sure 99% of all
Evergreen students 'consider themselves
individualists, so just who is capable of deciding
which opinions go too far outside of the norm
to be acceptable? If the CPj no longer includes
things that are "too offensive" or, for that
matter. "too PC," will it be an accurate reflection
of the attitudes and ideas present at Evergreen'!
I've certainly met a lot of offensive people in my
time here and I would be pretty disturbed ifthe
CPjpretended they didn't exist.
Loeb's cartoon about "an anorexic with
elephantitis" was ~ut because, according to the
editor, it "had no point other than to be hurtful
towards people who have been historically
oppressed."The problem with that description
is that it did have a 'point - it was intended to
be funny, and ifother Snuggle cartoons are any
indication then some people probably would
have found it funny, even though I didn't. Like

Tipper Gore, Jesse Helms and other moral
crusaders who do not technically practice
censorship, we step into shaky ground when
we suddenly appoint ourselves as art critics. I
mean . what the hell do we know about
cartooning? I am a cartoonist and I intend to
make my living that way some day, but that
doesn't give me the ability to decide what's bad,
After all, I've never understood the appeal of
X-Men or The Lockhoms, let alone Snuggle.
The absurdity of drawing lines becomes
apparent when you look at the things that
aren't being cut. Last week's Snuggle, for
example, depicted the lead singer of a rock
band decapitating himself with a shotgun,
accompanied by the caption "Nirvana cover
bands." Some people around th e office
thought it was laugh-out-Ioud funny. while I
thought it was heartless to make fun of a real
person who found it necessary to take his own
life . Apparently people suffering from
depression and drug addiction are going to
have to be a little more historically oppressed
before they'll get our sympathy. It's funny, even
wi thin the CPj editors, people are offended by
different things. When I pointed,this out, I was
told that I should have brought it up before so
they cou
the
- ld ,ha ve considered cutting
.
cartoon.
So now that it's okay to cut Sn uggle.
what's next? If ybu read last week's CPj. you
saw that a number of readers were offended
by now-controversial travel columnist Laurel
Nicole Spellman's "Depressed in Aberdeen"
article. A lot of people seemed to consider it a
thoughtless attack against working class
people . Would it have better served the
purpose of the CPjtocut the article in the first
place, or to get people talking about these
issues, exploring these ideas?
Back in the world of comics, at least one
reader was offended by Giles O'Dell's comic
strip when it was called False Face Societyrlf
you didn't like the story and characters and
considered the title "cultural appropriation" as
this reader did, you would probably think the
strip "had no point other than to be hurtful
towards people who have been historically

qppressed." So maybe that one should have
been cut too, or at least transferred to the
opinion section a~ punishment for not
receiving universal acceptance. Or is that
reader's definition of what's hurtful less
important than ours? I don't think the
currently titled Low Flow Flex would ever get
cut no matter who was offended by it because,
frankly, most of us CPj editors like O'Dell's
comics better than we like Loeb's, If the CPj
philosophy is still to offer a forum for free
expression, this sort of thing cannot happen.
On the other hand if we are cutting offensive
comics, why don't we cut the ones that are
poorly drawn and badly written? Are
sta ndards of decency more important than
standards of qua~ty? Is it more important to
send home the high school kids for wearing
short shorts than it is to give them a good
education?
In a magazine. cutting "bad" articles
would probably be the best thing to do, But in
an open forum for exploring and discussing
ideas, it isn't. Like in a brainstorming session,
no one person has the right to dismiss an idea.
Jfyou disagree with it, you let it be known. But
you don't squelch it. Even if we had the right
to say that certain ideas were unacceptable to
express within the Evergreell community,
those ideas would not go away, You can erast
the cartoon. but that will only encourage the
attitude that created it. You can stop the'KKK
from having parades, but it will only make
them more secure in their hatred.
Please let the CPj know how you feel
about these issues. If you want the CPj to be
open to everyone, let it be known, Otherwise
there will be no Snuggle and no Biodome. And
if there's one thing you really like in the CPj,
maybe there will be nOlle of that either. Like
, unarmed security guards, the print-everything
newspaper was something unique about
Evergreen. We'd better decide whether or not
it's worth protecting.
Bryan Frankenseuss Theiss

Reader urges community to think about affirmative action and
education
The education of African-Americans is
facing a major crisis, Well .. .in reality it has
always been in crisis but recently the
improvements made over the last 30 years
are in jeopardy. As a wave of conservatism
spreads across the nation, many affirmativeaction programs in higher education' are
under coming under attack. Many whites
believe that African-Americans and other
ethnicities hav e been given more than
enough opportunities to improve their
condition Goin the white mainstream} and
should now play the game on the same
playing field,
Two problems exist with this idea. Most
African-Americans are iIl-equipped to play
the game competatively and the playing field
is not level.. .at all. The much needed
"eq uipment" of course, is education .
Although elementary and secondary
education are a major part of the problem,
this article will focus on that which all of us
at Evergreen are currently pursuing· higher
education.
First, l~t's dispell a m~jor myth,
Admissions programs based on quotas are
illegaL For non-believers, I will refer to the
US Supreme Court's decision in 1978's Bakke
v, The University ofCalifomia Regents, Allen
Paul Bakke was suing the University of
Californa at Davis Medical School for
discriminating against him on the basis of
race. At the time the UC Davis Med School
had a special admissions program based on
a quota-system that set aside sixteen places
for disadvantaged applicants (theoretically,
a white person could apply and be accepted
under this program).

You can research the details of the legal
drama for yourself. But what ended up
happening was that four of the justices ruled
that the university's program was against
Title VI (equal opportunity and etc.), The
other four ruled that such programs were
justified- including quotas - because
minorities are still handicapped by the past
discrimination.
One justice stood alone, He ruled that the
university's speical admissions program was
illegal.but he also thought that preferrential
treatment could be used if it was carefully
reviewed and implemented.
The Supreme Court's decisio n meant
several things for affirmative action in
education. It prohibited quotas, so that
universities could use less stringent
admissions standards for minorities, but
could not reserve places for them.
Affirmative action, as we all know, is far
from perfect, The extreme (-ly stupid)
solution is to get rid ofit all together, A more
benevolent solution is socio-economic
affirmative action. But guess what? ~on't
work.
First off, while the ratio of poor AfricanAmericans is high in proportion to the entire
African-American population, white poor
still outnumber African·American poor.
Then those poor whites still score an average
of 200 points higher on the SAT. Also, the
African-American SAT score average does not
match the white average even for high income
African-Americans. This means high income
African-American students will not have a
very good chance of getting into a good
college, This shows that economic prosperity
,
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does not erase the effects of racism.
Here is the last piece of brain food for you
to chew on. If affirmative action was
eliminated, entirely two thirch of the 3,000
African-American freshman enrolled at
America's top twenty-five colleges would not
have gotten in,
There too many aspects to affirmative
action to talk about them in a short article,
But think about thrse things as you turn the
page or throw the paper in the trash, Culture
shock- how wo uld you feel at a
predominantly African American college?
Did you really get here because of yo ur own
hard work- think about the little advantages
of being white that add up. Out of the
"classics ofliterature" (like Hemingway) that
you might have read in class, how many were

by African-American authors? That's it for
now; agree with what I've sa id, dispute what
I've said, but don't stop thinking about what
I've said,

Most ignorance is I'incible ignorance: we
don't know because we don't want to
knoll'.
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LETTERS ANS OPINIONS

UnExposed failed to ch·allenge stereotypes
CAUTI ON : This critique may cause you to
think, It lIl ay cause yo u to see things in a light
uns ui table for closed minded members of
th e Eve rgreen community. It is sure to piss
J fe w people otT. make a fe w people laugh ,
~ nd provo ke those wh o possess no sense of
humor.
Expos ed . What a beautiful.
visually appea ling, presentation of such an
awfu l sc ript. I have never seen such an awful
show look so good. With an unidentifiable
pl ot and an impossible to foll ow story line,
it had to have so mething good going for it.
An in exc usabl e rewritin g of hi sto ry,
disguised as a myth , used not only to over
ex pound on th e universal suppression of
women throughout the evolutrono'fsoclety,
but a lso to draw an indistinguishable
conn ecti o n
betw een
spiritually
menstruating women and the Olympic
forests. l-lmmmm . J never realized that, as a
thoroughly suppressed woman, I am fighting
AG AJN~T my fellow brother in order to save
my backyard . Of course, one of the most
important reaso ns I have for saving this
fore s t, is so that I might learn to make
medicinal teas using an array of herbs not
necessarily available in Olympia.
On e must remember that it's impossible
to save th e whole world in just one two and
a half hour long play, (It would be like me,
trying to save the world by critiquing this
show in less than twenty five pages). An
impossible mouthful of political statements
were made on this stage. Along with the
eve r-pre sent issue of deforestation
(subjectively pertaining only to women),
there was also quite an appalling portrayal
of women as suppressed, formerly united,
spiritually inclined, nurturing, but
subservient due to an omnipresent
oppressor. This point was entirely defeated
by presenting women as flawless and all men
as being disgustingly self-centered assholes.
Much to my disappointment, this show fell

feign to the annoyingly stereotypical gender
roles of hurt woman, harmful man. Hate to
break it to you, but not all women feel this
way, and not all men are mean . I guess it
would have been too much to ask that
exceptions be mentioned in order for such
a weak point to hav e been con sidered
plausibly valid.
Not to mention that it is incredibly
idealistic to believe that some form of deep
rooted, uniting, force is a common thread
among all women . Today, it is she who does
not speak for herself, as a strong individual,
who is allowing herself to be suppressed.
This show failed to focus on the strengths
of women as individuals, choosing instead
to focus on the non realistic unity of women
in an individualistic society. Also, it is not
necessarily just men that women must stand
against, but often other women as well, as
both make up equal parts in this
suppressing force known as society. The
sense of unity created on 'this stage
co mpl etely di sregarded the reality of
woman vs. woman.
I move to the rite of passage for a woman ,
I sat in complete amusement as the cliche
of the red scarf was used to symbolize
menstruation, and the laughter escaped
from my lips as the young woman
symbolically smeared her blood all over her
fa ce and chest. I hoped something more
original wolild--h,ave been used, but I could
hardly expect it after a scene so predictable
as the one in which a high school girl loses
her virginity to her "oppressor". The choppy
script called not only for a good scriptwriter,
but also for a certain amount of character
not shown by the girl. The lines called for
pleading, begging, a certain amount of '
whining, but instead the audience was given
a strong, feminine character who threw her
orders and strength over her "molecularly"
bonded (boner driven) coactor.

Editor's note; Lately there has been a vast amount of/etters being submitted. That's
a really cool thing, but just so ever)!One can have the opportunity to be published,
please try to keep your stuff within the word limits. Those limits once again are
400 words for letters and 600 words for opinions. I know that there is longer stuff
than that on these pages; remember we just want them to be around that length.
Thanks again for all your work.
If you'd like to submit a letter or opinion Riece to the CPj. write it up on a MAC or
IBM disc and have it to the office in CAB 316 by noon on Mondays.
Sorry the staff is not named anything cool in the box below this week. Stay tuned.

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As for the technical and other aspects, the
dancing was good and well choreographed,
The soundtrack was immaculate, and the set
was very suiting to the themes. The vocalists
were notable, and I liked the live music, I'm
glad the director managed to find the few
hippie- musicians on campus who can stay on
beat and hold a steady rhythm. J also saw
some nice lighting techniques (although there
were some cardboard sign hung on the
lighting grid, very near to the instruments.
Considering how hot those lights get, I was
almost hoping one of the highly flammable
signs had burst into flames). Like 1said, this
was a nice presentation of a poor show, in the
light of realism. It was a myth that might
easily have been, mistakenly, taken seriously.
On a closing note, I would like to bring
attention to the most inexcusable tidbit of
irony I found about this production . One of
the statements made onstage, concerning
deforestation, called to save our trees. I only
wish that everyone in the audience might have
had the opportunity to see the incredible
amount of cardboard overflowing in the
dumpsters behind the scene shop. Discarded
signs from the building of the set that were
not placed in the appropriate cardboard
recycling bins. Such a short walk it would
have been from the Experimental Theater to
the dorms, where adequate recycling
dumpsters are available. Hmmmm. Now, if
you will excuse me, J need to go join hands
with every other woman on campus. We're
going to go menstruate together to save the
Olympic forest.
Dana Maher

be' ashamed·of this J"ilm'

In ta'st

week's. CPJ, Nativ~ Student Alliance
coor~inat9r Karyn C~uterby spoke of the.
horrendous effects of alcohol on Native people.
Karyn wrote ~ put it mildly, alcohol has had a
pretty Ilarsh impact on N~tive peoples~, and
·later went on to cl~ssify this oppreSSiQlf as
gen~de. Alcohol hasaqd c~~tiAues-t91>e used
·as a tool ofopp~io!l ofNative~ple in places
like the Americas, Afrka, and rrelarid . : ..
In filq there is ~en ~ ~oliqaJ to celebJ'l!tethe
, .use of ~lcoJtol a ·.tool to pacify 'andnuinb
'. Naliveprop./e,. Theholiday·is$ainrPatrit:k'sDay .
.. and the p€?ple al:ethe ~. SaintPatri~'s D~y
; isknO\~ as a .day when~' everybOdy·is Irish";
·and by no coircideqce it is ·.aIso a clay based
· arQund the m~s.s consumption of alcohoL This .
iaea is r.:na~~arketed. WalIQng through the
· grocery: store the other day I saw some Saint
· PatricI<~ r>aY stickers ,vith the Peanuts" comic
, strip ~har:acters. To my clismay. one,~ad a very
dazed and 4ltoxicated looldng Snoopy a~ong
with the ~ptio.n "Qh I ihlnl< fdrarik-to much
greertrOotbeei". This is
seasonal joke; this
is.nicist aIJd offerisive:The' ideathat"being Irish"
1~ · synonymous wid. ~bejng drunk" is a
· s!ereotyi>~ that has colonizecf both I.rish and
Irish-Americansfor ce.nturies.
those of you

to

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For.

whothlnkbclng~hisdriil.ldilgbetrlacedwi!h

green food 'coloring: I encourage you' to look
deeper int\> IOSh cUl~: and thro~gh the,haze
tbM;lI.cobol has created, to see a culture rich with .
and music; aUofwhlch
.theitte.r, literature,
is protected by a powerful history of p?litical
acqvism,
. '. . ..
It.is.the responsibility ofevery person to stand
to the stereotypes which have CC?lonized imd
· opp.~d.~ative M>ple for centuries. ~c;o!tpl
is just on~ ofthe many, Th~ Saint Patrick's pay,
'may:,w~ aU looka(the ri~ and div~rse Celtic
.·cultl,ll'e ~hd ,notthe carnage <?f'800 yeats .of
occupied Irel~d'.:riocfaidhar.Ja-. ' .
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. Ryan Kelle}" Warner

sport,

up

Reader responds to activist's
letter

To the Editor,
While reading her letter in last week's
paper, I was moved by the strength of
Swaneagle's resolve. This is one reason that
I am writing my letter; it seems a shame to
let such resolve and devotion go to waste.
Along with an emphasis on the importance
of right action, I was aware of other, less
admirable traits which characterized
Swaneagle's' letter, "Former Greener
admonishes cartoonist's letter and outlook".
First of all, in her arguments, I was struck
by her tendency towards ridiculous
exaggeration. At one point she calls Jonah
an unwitting proponent of "fascism's
expansion". She then proceeds to compare
Jonah's wit to propaganda employed in the
training of death squads in South America.
She supports her comparisQn by stating that
Jonah's cartoon is 'fraught,with ignorance,
sexism, racism and violence" / and that these
are characteristics that are the foundation of
the mentality of your typical death squad
leader. Aside from the fact that J don't agree
with her analysis of Jonah's cartoons, and
obvious fallacy in this rhetoric is it's
complete disregard for the intent and
context of the two things'which it compares.
One could argue using Swaneagle's rational
that people who embark on hunger strikes
are unwittingly promoting anorexia. For
both the anorexic and the activist sacrifice
food in an effort to realize an ideal.
My second objection to Swaneagle's letter
is in the way it manipulates its forum. After
identifying herself as a proponent of peace,
she tricks us (and perhaps herself) in to
thinking that she will focus on Jonah's letter
and comic. However, the true intent in her

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14, 1996

ceqsore9 ;0 .get' tb~ 'MPA~ 'Board's R. rating.
Nonetheless, they are generally ingeniouS and always
Wpw. Alali ' Smit~ee 'hlls haa one heck oia
gettmg that offramp grisly. Such viplence is a staple of the genre; in large
dlverse caree'r: Jie started 1)u,: wlth Deatll of'IJ ..
~Om the .Highway to . part tb~ SUCColSS of it horror movie depends upon the
Gunligltte«1967) and hi$La(est film isHeilraiser IV:.
I-lell installed.
. originalityand inten~ty of the carnage: By tbatscale,
Bloodline, in theaters now. In between, ~e'5 'directed
It's far more th'e film.rates a solid B·.
.
such films as' Let's Get HarI}' (1986), 'fhe Shrimp on
ambitious than most
T~ere are lots of chcats in the continuity and
theBarbie (1990)'and Solar Cri,~L--(1990). .
sequels, let alone the plot shortcllts, ~ut the overall storyline maintains
. A pretty eclectic resume for it guy that doesn't
FOURTH Installment '. interest.
.
~st.. ,
. .
.
in a horror series.
Pinhead gets a decent chunk of screen time,
~n Smithee, a.k.a. Ailtln SlJlithee. is a nom de
Taking place in three albeit most ofit in the final reel. His trademark pithy
plume assumed by. directors who don't want their
completely different Jines aren'r a.~ i:lUUing this time out, and he's lost most
l}ame on' a pictqre, David Lynch, angry about the
eras in time, the film r ofthe mystery that made him such an ominous tigure
stucUo's final cut, took his Dame off lJuI!e (1984) and
presen ts a range of in the original. He comes off as more of a Sci Fi bad
th~:taleDted Alan Smithee got the credit. Keep an eye
' visua l looks in set guy, a creepy one, but not a terrlfyingentity.
ontQis fellow, lthlnk a B'est Director Oscar, Ilr atleast
design
and
One nice Pinhead line; "Do I look like the kind
a Lifetime Achievement Award, is in his future. "
costuming.
Th e of man who cares what God thinks?"
r ", Tn tQec;lseof Hellralser IV; a directorial thangebudget is well.spent;
Leaving the theater 1 was happy that there was
upledto:tlleac~laimed Mr, Smithee taking over the
the movie has th e almost nothing la ughableabout the movie, and that it
, helm·when Kevin Yagher bailed. Yagher, lin FIX guru
"look" of an A-film seemed a serious eff~rt ,by everxone involved
Wi~ a~.r corpse aI)d'iombie effeets'-reallr.didn't
and that is certainly a (especiaUy the gn:at Alan Smithee!). But I just sort of
need to be a~ham'lid -of having his namealtached to .
twins in
boost to its credibility. felt like, "So what?"
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thisfi1.ln.:-><,)·
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The third chapter
:rhere are somecool monsters andni3ybern, and
, t~The horror m~bas certain deitie's th~f are
'
,
wasn 't directto video the dramatic pace builds well, but why mal<et~
irom~a5eIy illell,~fia~te:, Jason, Mic~!lel Myers, ~. men, each possessing the innate ability to open d~rs but it looked like it should have been. A lousy script movie? I didn't see tnat the fiendish originality of E,viJ.
freddy;'l'iQhQd nas I?icQint ~o less,notorious than to HeU {by building those famlliar little gold puzzle and some bad acting didn't help, either.
Dead, the sobering allegory of Dawn ofthe Dt~M1;-or.
any or!h¢;'~ a$ a' ~do-rn'asOcbiSttc Cenobite bOxes). '.
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The new one, however, has a cast of unknowns the mind.wrenching darknesS of The S/J¥iin8- l'blat
~~ ~'t: bt I~in:with the serial,killer crowd. A .
Pinhead and Angelique (another demon) need who do a respectable job. The numerous characters in
isn't to say this filrp needed to be· ~ · ~, bell, a
flirilop ~ the inremal.O:epths;. Pinhea~'s ,1Imb,ilion a descendent of the bloodline to construct the ultimate each time period offer Pinhead and friends a lot of sequel that isn't a retr.ead ofits predecesSors deSlirves
IS ll> ~ ~ Pl'tmallerlt gat~way tha.t would granJ his . QOl[, but their dark designs are resiste~ bY' each
victims, and the baddies take advantage in various some respect. But I doubt HelJraiser N will 'go down
ItglO,lI,$ gf, th~~~ tota!;acceU,to o~ w~Cld.":rne : generation. That doesn't make the bad guys too happy, bloody ways. Some of the obligatory death scenes are in history as anything more than a compelt'nt horror
bloo4line ofth~ titl!refe~ to,a ge!leaJogy ~ creative .and t~ey take it out on the unfortunate mortals. way too abrupt, suggesting the coup de grace was film.
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letter lies in the fact that if she convinces us
Jonah's cartoon if destructive, she also
validates her assumptions concerning; Men
and their supposed quest "towards the
destruction of all life as we know it", the allinfecting effe<:t of "institutionalized
colonialism", and the essential stupidity of
civilized man, which she uses to support her
stated point. By not putting direct emphasis
on the assumptions which she uses to argue
a puppet point, Swaneagle wou ld have us
accept them without actively considering
their validity.
This is not the sort of treachery we would
expect from a person of principle, so I will
assume that Swaneagle was not aware of
what she was doing. It seems from the
scattered and extreme nature of her
argument(s) that Swaneagle is, as am I,
confused about how to improve an
unfriendly world . My advice to Swaneagle
is to first consider that it may be possible that
the entire history of human kind has not
been a conspiracy devised by a secret society
of24,OOO year old male cave dwellers using
magic wands to shape events with the sole
purpose of making her life miserable. It may
also be foolish and more than a little vain to
. separate one's selffrom the corruption which
is present in our world. And accordingly it
is counterproductive to solve, for one's self,
all of the world's problems by associating
them with easily discernible trends, like the
prevalence of male authority. Articles like
Swaneagle's should not be taken seriously,
for passion alone does not make a point
valid .
Sincerely,
Gabriel Clark-Leach

i~bellbeQt

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were unhappy with the film's
"IiY-\3~ frank;nsetisSTlie~ .. : ". . Bradley) and realizes how much Hell
structur€a1fetinitial shooting wu
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has changed since her day. Both
completed. Originally, the story was
.
When llovelist-tumed'jYriter/direetor' dive' . A,ngeliqiie and Pinhead consort with
told in chronological order; so the
Barker un~eiled' his lii'st fil.m HelkiJisCrln 1987. it · Merc~nt until we cpme back to the
series' most famous character, Pin·
·instantly ~ the stakes fqr'the horror,genreaild 22rid century, where the nllrrator
Head, didn't show up until a third of
.emb¢ded itS~into the public-:constiousness. In . Merchant .will attempt to c;nd. his
the way into the film . Miramax
shaJ:P. contrast.to th~ popular' Fri4ay the 13th ·and family curse a.nd the HeJ1raisersaga ..
insisted that new Sj:enes bewrittl'n
Nightmare On Elm Srreetsupi!matur.:il slasher 'sagas once and for aU, '
and shot so that the film could be
'ofth~ time. it wasa sirIIple,lo\y Qudg~btale pr.tWisted
The film is.full.of good ideas,
reordered in such a way ttr.it Pinhead
relativesandth~del!l\ngs with.~ns:'The'film was but the execution isn~t as Consistent
is seen early on. At this point in the
successfu.1 ej\ough to iliatrant, a ,sl!qu~l '" the or as jnvolving .as HeJ/raiser or
production, director Kevin Yagber
frequen tly ,disturbing •.:. un~elell,tingly surreal Hellbound. Tjlis, of course, is lethal
(the FX expert who designed ClIU~ky
'Hellbo!lnd: He/ltaise.r 2 ·which ·w.as', released to at this point in the series because the
for Child's Play) decided he'd had
c:ons'i'derable acclaim and, financial success a t film deals with images and ideas that
enough. Joe Chappelle, director of
Chri~t~:tiI pf,~98~. But then sometbi.ng went sour. have already been used in three
this year's emb3rrnssing Halloween:
'1992 brought Hellrais(:.r 3: 'H~fJ On Eartb, a 1T!0re !novies, Pin Head was a striking
The Curse ofMichael Myers, sh6t the
': c~mmerdaJ' take .on the'series which t~k ,pl~ce at a image when he first hit the screen, so
new scenes.
mght dub, feat\Jr~ a lot ofrock musicllOd borrowed striking in fact that people consider
Most of the film's problems
as much from Nightmare OIl ElmStri:etseque!s as it him the main character even though
could probably be attributed to the
did from Barker..lt mad~ ni~ney,but a l~tof the fans he doesn't really come into the story
reworking of the story. One of the
w~ren't happy with thedireqi,oothesenesw~ taking. until more than an hour into the first
film's central elementS(andcertainly
. " Hellrais~.p .BIQQd/iiIe, which .was finally' film. So like' that poster you've had
one of the most intrigUing ideas) is
released last.lioaay after overayear ofdelays, is a last hanging on your wall for three years,
Deleting so~e of the 18m ~~Scenes Oikethis one, of Angelique
the changes that have. ,?ccurred in
ditch attempt to retur.n the series .tQ its r.oots, .he has lost his power. It's difficult to
assaulting a gambler) left ~p's. i,n the .story.·
HeU and theresulting feud betweep
Unfortunately. the results ar;1l.~~~ dti~ to $ev.~ b~ ~ared of something you are so
Angelique and , Pin ' Head.,
missteps and UI)wbe SfU<Jio.intemrence. .: :..,;,. . familiar with.
Unfortunately, we never see what the old Hell was like,
The ptotis.verycolI')p1ex. SQ.ifsdiffic~ttoeyen- ,
That being the case, the makers of Bloodline reduced to cool-looking serial kiUers.
On the other hand, Bloodline is closer to the and don't even hear much about it. when Angelique
describe it without giving awayinterestiligs.urprises. .should have taken extra care to treat the character with
tone of the original than Hell On Earth, and in the fine sees the leather·clad, ritualistically mutilated Pin Head
'~~YO\l wapt to see it fresh, stopri!a!Hng. The story ':, at least as much lltherworc.lly respect ashe has been in
begmS'9n'a 22nd century spa~ · stat\on, where the the past. This, however, is not the case. Previously, the tradition ofFrank.rebuilding·himself-from-the-inside- come out of the box and realizes how much things have
station.'s deSign~r Paul MpclIant (Bruce R.amsay) is <;~o.bites' arrival was'accompani~ liyblinding light, out (HeJlraiser) and mental-patient·cutting-himself·to- changed. we aren't able to understand how she feels.
sllm_moniilg the Cenobites (th~ si·!iomasochistlc powerful wind, shattering glass and clinking chains remove-imaginary,bugs (He1l9ound). there are some This narrdtive hole cannot be blamed on the Script.
:demons w~o ~re. t~e . backbo.ne to the Helkai.ser .. ,_ thatbang eerily from above. Most of this stuffhas been almost artfully repulsive scenes of bodily mutilation Early articles about the film show photographs of
m}'thos) ..His ntua! 1$' m~rrupted by armed guards, ab~ndoned in' Bloodline, so the drama level of Pin that remind the audience that HeU means business. elegant 18th century Cenobite gamblers in wigs;
who have heen .ent to' retrieve;hlm., ~l'chal\.t Head's arrival lies somewhere between a collision of True to the HeJ/raiser spirit, such acts are more often apparently they had some sort of bet involving the
perpetrated by obsessive mortals than by demons,
lamenl ronfiguration. None of these scenes made it
. des~teJy tries to cimvinve one of the gtllIrds: that' worlds an4a Star Trek beam in.
Bringing the series into the .past ancfthefuture into the film, and it really feels like a book with
he has set,. traJl ~r dangtll'ous ~,gs th~t may ~ ~t
There's ~lso a new addition to the mythos that
. 1~se~<I!,,>t:'lat' ~ pJanbas ~ ~pt:td.
."
borders on sillmess: Pm Head, for some reason, has a is an intriguing idea , and even the science fiction important pages tom out.
With the film in th~state, it's hard to decide
• • ~nHs~~usba!=ll.to 18th century dog, Not a Pin Head dog, thank god, but a pieced elements of the story mesh sU'1lrisingly weU with the
Cenobite mythos. But space ships, being closer to whetherornot the strengffis outweigh the weaknesses.
Pa~ Uld UlV<lM:$ hl$ ancestor. a toy maker n3med . togetiJerbeast that eats people before Pin Head is able
,PhiUp Le~challd (~Iso;.RluPsay). Le~rrhand t~ show them the Sights in his homeland. The beast reality than sadomasochistic demons , are less You certainly get both in largeguantities. One mustat
convincing on such a low budget. This, combined with least admire what Yagher and Atkins endured jUst
~~~ die ~1ament.~~tion, the: puzzle .bas q't<ittering teeth similar to those' of the Cenobite
the fact that some of the action on board the space trying to get the film made right. A sequel that takes
~thit o~ ~ ga~ t~Hell. After tlie bqx '· cal!ed the Chatterer. Perhaps it is what remains of
station is poorly staged, makes the conclusion less this many risks, no matter how badly it fails, is
sU~$.~ntifulhalf-bwn~il/ha1f ~named Cha~erer, Butterb&l1 ~j\d Female Cenobite who were
·~~~akntfua ViiXas)\ t!ieJoy iililir ~fi.r.es, ) ~.ughteted in f!ellbound, but there's not much to satistying than it could be. With a great premise, some infinitely better than unimaginitive, ineptly
th;ltile mustft\d~lthi!~'., a04 deSigns a;n M1POrtthis theory. Theredoesn'tseem to be any good powerful moments and several daring new twists on constructed retreads like the recent Halloween sequel.
the mythos, this should be a great conclusion to the For god's sake, they added spaceships to Hellraiserand
~lidote ~alled thdllymun (oDfigUr'ation Which ~n to bring a dog into the story, and the fact that
~. thiji:I~, ~~~
.' 6e ~ts 'peOple ,puts Pin Head the zealous servant of saga, but it's hard to walk out without feel ing like it dida halfwaydecentjobl
As the conclusion of Bloodline erases the evU of
' .. ·.uMaQ:~~~ Jro,weV~f, fie. verd~$ up hiS '. HeUon~leveiofth~~yinTobeHooper'sEatenAlive didn't tit quite right; like something was missing.
Which shouldn't be surprising considering the Hell once and for all, the fading integrity of the
~ so)he~ IS ~!hJ:ou8Ii his bI~~ " w'bq fieds Robert EngIund to a giant crocodile.
Hollywood Hell that the movie was subjected to. The He/Jraisersagagoes with it. After all this isn't ~he '80s,
'~~rin~ theltQry to ~~t ~y.~te BtlJ: .·, Whidl brings me to one of the fundamental
story was outlined by Barker and scripted by his when villains caine back from the dead no matter how
Oil ~~ 'l~~ .ore ~~e, the 20th-century faul ; w~e$S~in both Bloodline and Hell On Earth.
~t~t6ftnurse)is~.m.ite«wolicihg RalhedlliiiexpandiilgontheCenobites'dutytoHeil child hood friend (and writer of all the Hellraiser slim the odd~. This is 1996, year of the two week
toJ;.i'm8U;~d's<~ ~oon:desiBJl., ' andtbW geometric goo U!via~an, both films pretend sequels) Peter Atkins. The trouble is that .spanning maximum theatriqil horror sequel. Goodbye Pin
: to~'~~"~Uque0vl;li!~" war~~ that ~·s 11;0 moti~() un~~tand. "As {I 'result, the thr~e time period~ was ~ear impossible to handle Head r goodbye Hellraiser, goodbye sequels to horror
usmg Muamax s short shootmg schedule ofthe 'BOs. N9w that's whathaU a happy endingti
J;ein,toa
e~tfr.lJe~~ease in Pa~. !i~li$ti~am~IOf~~~.teS.~mS,
less; delicately
$4
million
budget. Worse, Miramax decided they. . -- -.
i xneets~~ ,
, ~ ~· as ~~!id; ~ ilie-emofilmle$HnfOn:ei$o{.qNetthwll "~$ma~e .....and
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Left Over Sa~mon and Jim Paige bless 4th Ave. with proletariat folk and acid bluegrass
by Christian Miller
All of those that attended the Left Over
Salmon concert Sunday night at the 4th Ave. Tavern
were blessed with a surprise guest appearance by
Seattle folk legend Jim Paige. Paige played a short
and entertaining set, in which he sang songs that
blend the iracable irony of punk and the political
commentary of proletariat folk.
In one song, Paige sings sarcastically:
"Roll out the red carpet for the censory
Roll it out and let it flow '
Roll out the red carpet, here we go."

Paige also scrutinizes the soulless, insipid ethics
of the music industry:
"Let's tell the tale ofour culture
get the monkeyolf your back
we've been here for a million years
we always sallg our own song
until the music biz came along."
!fyou have not had the opportunity to catch Jim
Paige and his sardonic folk songs you should look for
him at some of the festivals and political events that
occur in the Puget SOund region. He has pta}'l'ttar-

The Acid Bluegrass of Left Over Salmon provided
a festive counterbalance to Jim Paige's cynicism. The
five piec.e used an electric mandoin, a fiddle, and a
washboard (along with the standard guitar, bass, drum
set up) and played one breakneck paced blugrass song
after another. With each new song an element of
improvisation provided a plethora of rhythms and
textures that allowed each song to have fresh
harmonies and surprising melodies.
The band also mixed in an element of the down
~~mebluesaswell, venturing into the psychedelicland
~umbershootand Hempf~standisoftenseenjamming . of spectral noises that echo, shriek, expand and
contract into a euphoric spiral of sound. Jim Paige
m front of Starbucks at Pike Place Market.
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14, 1996

joined the band for a few songs during the second
set, and strummed his guitar to some witty
improvisational lyrics about the virtues of hemp.
Left Over Sa lmon played two long sets. in
which the movement and energy of the music did
not abate. For an encore the lead singer jumped into
the hot dense crowd of revelers engaging them in a
sing along celebrating the hempster's ritual of
waking and baking. As the sing along c.me to an
end the singer raised up a tobacco pipe, in which
he inhaled a celebretory toke and proclaimed, "We
love you Olympia!" at which point the concert
concluded with a friendly and auspirious tone.

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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Is Belly Dance fetninist?
by l'vl:lry·)e;lIlne Perry
What is Belly Dance?
Bdl), Dance is an anc ient dance form that
hJ S unfort unately been stereotyped by so me
people as exploitive of women - "the harem girls
dJIll'ing for the sultan ". However belly dance ca n
bl' Inoked at as a feminist art form when you go
l,,,rk to the historical roots ofwomen's da nce.
There are many theo ri es as to the origi ns
of belly dance. One theory is that it dates back
thousands of yea rs ago to a matriarchical age.
Women supposedly invented agriculture as a
stable base offeeding the community as opposed
to th e previous method of "ga thering" which
involved wandering from pl ace to pla ce.
Agricu lture gave birth to villages and society.
So me people believe that in those days,
peop le did not know that babi es came from
sex ual intercourse. There was no word fo r
"father" in the language. Men were merely sexual
conso rt s to women. Women were looked on as
magical beings who cou ld create life by growing
crops and giving birth. BeUy dance is said to have
been danced by and for women in honor of the
Goddess of agriculture and childbirth.
My first belly dance teacher. Sirocco of
Northampton. Massachusett~. had a theory
about the traditional belly dan ce soloist's fivepart dance. In the first part. the introduction, the
dancer comes out and dances joyfu lly covered in
her veil.
In the second part. the slow undulating veil
dance. the dancer slowly takes her veil off and
dances with it. She moves in and out. sensuously
veiling and unveiling various parts of her body.
Some people think of this as a "strip tease". but
Sirocco's theory was that this represented the
"Sac red Mystery" of conception from the era
when it was believed that women magically
conceived children without the aid of men .

At the end of the veil dance, the
dancer ceremoniou sly presents the
veil to an'" honored guest such as a
revered gral1dmother. The third part
of the belly dance is a joyful
celebration of pregnancy.
The fourt h part involves the
floor dance and the drum so lo. The
dancer knee ls and lays down on the
floo r and slowly undulates in various
positions. Then the music builds
into a fast drum solo an d the dancer
stands up and shimmi es into a
crescendo .
Some people think of this as
representing a sex act building into
an orgasm. But Sirocco had the
the ory th at the floor dance
represenh a woma n in labor. She
believed that the drum solo has two
simultan eo us ye t different drum '
beat rhythms; and that these two
rhythms represent the hea rtbeats of
the mother and the child being born,
and that th e crescendo represents
the final moment of birth. The fifth
an d· fin al part of the dance is a
celebration of the birth.
I have done further research
and found many discrepancies with
Sirocco's theories. Some say that the
veil dance was not a part of Middle Eastern
culture. They beli eve that Hollywood invented
the veil dance. and modem Egyptian and Turkish
women adopted it and added it to their belly
dance.
Many people think of belly dance as a
ferrility dance th at honors both the God and the
Goddess. Others feel that the dance is not sexual
but sensual. And some dance just for fun ·and ,
good aerobic exerci se.
There are many influences on belly dance

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Dron" about the history of the Rom or "Gypsy"
peoples. A tribe of people from India have
wandered through the world and their culture
has taken on different forms in various countries,
including the "Gypsy" dancers of Hungary. th e
flamenco dancers of Spain and th e Ghawazee
dancers of Egypt. If you look at Ghawazee belly
dancers in modern Egypt, you can see the roots
from India.
Another influence is North African culture.
including Tunisia. the Sudan. and the Bedouin
peoples.

Belly dance also reflects Persian 6/8
rhythms, Turkish 9/8 rhythms, and Greek and
Israeli folk dances, as well as ancient Egyptian
temple dances.
What about the costumes? Why do belly
dancers wear jingling coins? One theory is th at
once the Middle East became a patriarchal
society, women were not aUowed to own anything
but what they wore on their bodies. Poor women
had no dowries, so they danced in the streets for
coins and jewels and immediately sewed them
onto their clothes.
Another theory is that women could not
ask for divorce . If a man demanded a divorce, the
woman was immediately thrown out onto the
street with nothing'but the clothes and jewelry
she had on her body. Therefore she sewed money
onto her clothes and wore lots of jewelry as an
insurance policy. Please note that this is only a
theory and I do not wish to stereotype all Middle
Eastern countries.
However, in the past three or four years, the
attempt by some radical Islamic fundamentalists
to influence governments and society has had an
influence on belly dancers in Egypt. Some dane·
ers have had stones thrown at them , and those
who still dare to dance wear much more "covered·
up" costumes. In the past year or two, there have
been rumors of this occurring in Turkey as well.
However, belly dancers are still hopored and
r,espected by some Arabs .
To sum up, Belly Dance is such an ancient
and varied dance that I have only touched on
about ten percent of its history. Belly dance is
what it means to you . .
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