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Greeners protest logging "Rider"
BY JENNIFER KOOGLER
On Tuesday, Novembe r 14" . the
Env ironmenta l Reso urce Center (E Re)
participated in a march on tl~e steps oft~~.State
Capital. The protest was lJl respon se to an
addition to a national congressional Rec'
bill called the "salvage rider", which calls for
the governme nt to ignore cucrrent
environmental laws for two years and remove
public input ~om the environmental decision
making process.
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The march started at a local coffee house
and 'proceeded to the steps of the Ca pital
building, where a group of around 40 people
demonstrated. Some spent the night in tents
and sl'eeping bags outside the Legislature to
prove their point.
The protest was part of an ongoing group
effort by the ERe and other local and regional
environmental groups to attract attention to
the community and media as to the harmful
ramifications of the sa lvage rider for the
Federal fores ts and the wildlife that inhabit
them.
According to Ron Smith, co·coordinator
of the ERe, the salvage rider (a rider is an
addendum to a bill that is stuck in at the last
-minute, whether it is pertinent to the bill or
not, in order to gain passage without a lot'of
debate) was attached to the Recisions bill by
Slade Gorton and other Senators in July of this
year. Its general wording states that any trees
in danger of being harmed by fire , disease,
iflsrcts, or other natural phenomena should be
available for harvest by timber companies in
order to "salvage" what product can be utilized
from an area before tpc wood is wasted.
President Clinton had threatened to veto
the bill with the rider attached to it because it
contrad icted his Forestry Plan, which . ~as
conceived last year in response to the spo'tted .
owl controversy and allowed for too much
environmental damage. However, for reasons
unknown to environmentalists, Clinton
"We will continue doing this u'n til t,he-IISal"vage Rider is repealed' and our democratic right to take part
in the decision making process is reinstated." -Brett Clupbe, protester
PHOT~!lY JOIE KJ STLER
region but the land itself, even if the Fish and
proceeded to sign the bill on July 27.'
S'mith also mentioned that another clause Wildlife Service had cautioned against it.
was added to the rider, which allowed for all Smith noted that the Sierra Club and other
sales of timber from national forests to private groups have been attempting to stop these
companies contracted before the Forestry sales through the judicial system, but remain
Plan's changes to 'environmental policy to be . for the most part unsuccessful.
In addition to the march, Smith and
co mpleteg despite the'-Fish and Wildlife
others
in,a fast that is part of a solidarity
Service's ~co mmet1dations.
Therefore,
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place, harllling not dnly the wildlife in the Oregon, who has been fasting on the steps of
DRESS CODE. PETITION
Congress proposes financial aid cuts
BY DAWN HANSON
Student Workers Organization's Rob Demko gathers
signatures in support for Bookstore employees, who are
currently working under a "dress code." They ar:e no
longer allowed to dress in extreme styles and must dress
appropriately for the work being done. PHOTO BYjOIE KISTLER
that state's capital for close to 44 days. There
are also plans ~or demonstrations in maj or
cities atross the country and for nonviolent
protests in the forests themselves. In Smith's
eyes, direct action is the most effective way of
voicing opposition.
In order to find out more about what is .
b'eing done to combarthe salvage rider, contact
Smith at the ERC office on the third floor, or
leave a rhessage at x6784.
As Congress squabbles over the budget on
Capital Hill, a threat looms over the status of
financial aid.
As part of their budget reduction package.
. known as the Reconciliation package, the
Republican Congress has been working for the
past two months, cutting billions of dollars in
student aid and other social services. The package
is a part of the Republican agenda to balance the
budget py 2002.
According to Evergreen's Director of
Financial Aid, Georgette Chun, the initial cuts to
financial aid totaled $4 billion in the House
version and $10 billion in the Sen~te version of
!he bill.
Marie Sackett, vice-chair of Evergreen's
WashPIRG chapter, says the package would have
been devastating to students in its original form.
It would have eliminated "the six month grace
period on Stafford loans. the elimination of
fundmg of Aroericorps and the loss of 250,000
Pen Grants and direct lending."
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But now,Chun says that the Republicans are
"putting all their efforts int() cutting direct
lending."
Direct lending provides students the
opportunity to borrow straight from the
government, instead of through banks and other
lending institutions.
Evergreen is not .currently on the direct lending
service; it was scheduled to be implemented this year.
However, Evergreen wants more time to study the
system before it is used her.e:-..· .-.
The loss of direct lending will still impact
Evergreen students, Chun S;tys. Stafford lenders
consider direct lending "a real competitor" to their
business, and have been "doing aU kinds of things to
spruce up their service." This includes turning loans out
to students faster,
Ajoint meeting of the two houses is scheduled to
make a compromise bill. It is unclear at this time what
_ the final version of the package will look like.
Even with the uncertainty of Congress dealings,
Chun believes that "there are going to be cuts" made.
After all, "when your trying to balance a budget, things
get cut."
Chun feels confident though that Clinton will veto
a bill that cuts aid too drastically.
. However, Sackett warns that even though Clinton
"says he'll do it. h doesn't mean he'll follow through."
This is why Sackett is asking students to call at 1800-S74-4AJD and teU Clinton to veto cuts to student
aid.
"We have to make sure that we, as students, hold
our elected officals to their promises." Sackett says.
After all, "we're the ones that can vote them into [and
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out of] office." .
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Fighting Geoduc'k s' season going along swimmingly
RY JANEITE PAI{ENT
The Evergreen State College Swim Team·s.
1995·96 season bega n two weeks ago. Their
seaso n is starting out strongly. with a win
('ommg III one of their first two meets.
The first meet of the season w~s on
November 3. With the Geoduc.ks travelmg to
McMiniville, Oregon to take on the Linfield
Wildcats.
Although many of the Geoducks swam
Ih eir personal bests, the Wildcats won the
mee t. However. they did feel the pressure of the
challenge by some excellent showings for the
Geoduc~s by both new and returning
swimmers. Milu Karp swam her way to the
season's first win. with a first place finish in a
time of .1:?7.~8 in the 1~0 meter backstroke.
ThiS mtlal taste ofvictory was quenched on
Novem?er 10. at their second m~e! of the
season. versus the LeWIS and Clark Pioneers of
Portland . Oregon. The Geoduck men and
women out. swam the Pion~ers. The women
Dbtammg SIX first place fillishes, and a final
score of99 to 66. The men racked up 10 first
place. victories for a final score of 130 to 16.
Second year swimmer Andrew Ackerman
called the rou.! ~'a n inspirational. win for the
team."
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Sarah Calhoun broke the fil:st school
~ecord of the season, with henime of12:06.46
m the 1000 meter Free. 'Calhoun also placed
first in the 500 Free.
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Other wmners on the women s Side were:
Milu Karp (200 Free and 100 Backstoke). Sarah
Godlewski (200 Individual me?ley), and Sarah
Lampo, Tara Murphy. Tamml Anderson and
. Calhoun (200 Free Relay). The men captured
first place finishes in every event.
Achieving victory versus the Pioneers
were: Jason Ferguson (200 and 100 Free),
James Carsner (50 Free and 100 Back), Nate
Mahoney (200 Individual Medley, Orin
Bentley (iOO Fly and 500 Free) and Garren
Oura (100 Breast). Amos Elias. Mahoney,
Bentley, Oura placed first in the 200 Medley
relay. John St, John, Carsner, Ackerman and
Ferguson scored the victory in the 200 Free
Relay.
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The next meet for the Geoducks will be.
in Ellensburg. Saturday, November 18. at
noon.
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·Real Lite News·
KAOS in your phone
As it turns out. Micheal Huntsberger,
Ge.neral Manager at KAOS, had all the
answers to the chaotic interference. "The
antenna system was built in the 1980's", at a
time when VCR's and portable computers
weren't a ' regular fixture on college
campuses. As as law, when a new antenna is
set up, ti le public has ,18 months to report
any problems. Fgytl1e most part, the new
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antenna was 'deemed fine. The technology
at the time was sturdy enough to endure the
radio frequencies emitted by the antenna,
but as technology grew, power .supplies in
VCR's. steroes and such dwindled and left
them more succeptable to radio interference.
Whether or not you hear it also depends on
how well your'equipment"is shielded. Eithter
way, if YDu're having a major problem with
this. you can call Huntsberger at x6895. He'd
be happy to help you with any kinks.
Not a new phenomena to the Evergreen
campus but still relevant, this time of year
leads one to ask, "Just why is it that I can hear
KAOS in 'my electronic equipment?" Tois
seemingly strange occurrence mostly plagues
Housing residents who reside in the Phase I
area.
I first became aware of this fa ct last year
when!11Y friends whohlled B415 home began
to complain of ul1usual noises emanating
from their VCR. Former resident April Levy
explained how .~he and her dorm mates were
effected by the interference. "We were sitting
around watching Wings of Desire and when
the plot reached a critical. dramatic point,
there was suddenly some kind of bluegrass
music or something." The disturbance
caused the friends to burst out laughing,
easing the tension but diminishing from the
dramat~c experience.
The sounds of music (and news) could also
be found inside my C315 phone and there are
reports of it resounding in A dorm as well.
Surprisingly, the radio station only reaches the
top three floors of each bu ilding.
This year. after finding KAOS not on ly on
ollr answering machine. but in the stereo as well.
I sought out the experts up on the third floor to
explain these seemingly random sounds.
Levy. who has since moved off.campus
and now only picks up KAOS on her
bathroom radio, misses those days when all
she had to do is' pick up the phone to hear
the lovely tunes,noted that she got better
reception on her VCR than on her radio.
This fact should not stop anyone from
tuning in to 89.3 FM and grooving to the
sounds of everyone's favorite community
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radio station.
Keith Coker. a supervisor for Evergreen
Facilities department, died Wedn.esday.
November 8. He was 64 yea rs old.
Coker was a beloved member of the
staff. He began working at the college ~s a
maintenance techincian in J 972. and before
he retired he was super.visi.!:,lg nine Facilities
sta lf members who worked on electrical.
mechanical, heating, and cooling systems.
He is survived by his wife Pat, his so n
Mark. Jnd his daughter Andrea. Andrea
and her husband Burke have a 2 year·old
son. Ross.
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1418: A person was being harassed by their . student uprising.
roommates.
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1154: Three hundred and forty eight dollars
were stolen from an A·dorm residence.
1533: A wallet was stolen from P-dorm.
1625: A car struck a deer on the Evergreen 1244: A possum was stuck 'in a Dumpster""
Parkway.
outside of the Communications Lab Building.
2130: A backpack was stolen from the Mods. 1527: A male was reported entering a first
floor H-dorm apartment. "Brandishing
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with the zeal of a gun", as a
Saturday, November 4
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.0030: Public Safety was notified that;! bicycle
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1209: A security cable anchoring equipment dorm acquaintance. Shortly after this, a male
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1348: The intruder alarm went off at The this person. who turned out to be another
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2245: The two rear wheels were stolen from
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1612: Burglary from E·Dorm. Two cassette
tapes and 1.5 grams of marijuana were
Tuesday, November 7
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0102: A fire alarm was maliciously pulled in
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awareness, not assDlDptions, please
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the saturday before last. i went to an allday conference put on by the olympia movement fo r justice and peace. it was an opportunit y to get together with other lefty-r~dical
type people and talk about social/political issues, lea rn , create a sense of community, and
form concrl'te plans for politkal activism. but
coa lition is always difficult, and i syent much
of the day fee ling ali enated, overwhelm ed, ,
and frustrated. i'm rea lly excited that the conterence took place, and i feel i made connections wi th a lot of potential allies, but there
were aspects of the event that bothered me, and
since i think these problems are common in
that type of environment, i wa nn a address
th em.
i'm assuming that everybody there had
similar goa ls: liberatio n, equa lity, and self-determination for all people. at the same time,
we were all com ing to the conference from different places in terms of age, race, class, ability, subculture, life experience, political focus,
ete. because mos t of my political work has
taken pla ce within the co ntext of punk rock,
.zi nes, riot grrri. fat liberation, and "young feminism ," i feel a distinct la'Ck of outright "activism" in my life, and i'mlacking a lot ofknowledge in the realm of current world politics. i
came to the event with an understanding of my
short comings, but at the same time confident
in my own knowledge and abilities, and excited
by the poss ibilities for collective strugg le and
coa lition.
maybe it was just my own insecu rity. but
throughout the co nference i kept thinking
"ma n. i don't do anything! these people are all
so much more accomp lished, knowledgeable.
and act ive than i am'" like okay, i'm a writer
and performance artist, i gotta big mouth and
~it around lalking about politics wit h my
people, cuz in this case that ~oesn 't seem at
all constructive. instead, i'm focusing on the
dynamic. i'm (as always) interested to hear
what other people have to say abour this.
my biggest problem with the conference was the way that people kept talking
abour "us" as if we were all exactly th e same
in terms of background, relative privilege,
BY NOMY LA.MM
and ideology. at the sa me time that people
talked about "preaching to the choir" (a ridiculous idea , in my mind, since none of us is
fr iends a lot, and those things don 't effect any ever at the end of our political process) and
sort of real political change. or what-fukn-ever. wondered how to go abour "recruiting" people,
and on some level i think that's true, like sit- i felt like the dynamics set up by the particiting in my apartment talking about h~w fucked pants were often exclusive to people who were
up everything is doesn't really change shit. and there in the first place. more specifically, i felt
there are situations and issues that ca ll for like the dynamics set up were exclusive to
strong and immediate action, cuz some arty people with less relative privilege - the very
spoken word performance piece isn 't gonna people who this kind of political work is supgive boeing workers job security and hea-lth posed to benefit.
when nO<fm chomsky- spoke at eve rca re. but at th e same time, i truly believe that
art and analysis are essen tial in creating a po- green, he kept saying things like ",ve, as privilitically conscious community. i don 't wanna leged people, have an obligation to do the pochoose between art and activism, cuz on aile litical work that more oppressed people are
hand i think that they compliment each other unable to do." (obviously not a direct quote.)
and are both important, and 01) the other hand while i thought that this was an extremely important point, i was bothered by the underlyi think they can be synonymous.
but that's not really a critiqueofthe con- ing assumption that we - his audience - were
fere nce, more speculation on some of the rea- all coming from this sa\TIc point of privilege.
sons i didn't feel totally comfortable there. i the idea that white upper & midd le-class abledo have one serious critique, but for some rea-. bodied male revolutionaries are th e pivotal
son i'm really frea ked out about voicing it pub- members of the political community is a very
licly. usually i'm not too worried about offend- dangerous assumption, and one that i felt was
ing people, and i don 't spe nd much time tip- somewhat perpetuated at this conference. it's
toeing around. but i'm really scared of alienat- dangerous because (well, duh) it's
ing the small political community that exists disempowering and exclusionary to people of
in olynlpia - a communit y that i really wa nt to color, working! poverty class people, women,
be a part of - and that's the biggest reason tha t disabled people, etc.
i didn 't vo ice my concerns while i was there.
i'l11 tryin g really hard not to target specific
REVOLUTION,
BABY
It's
true!
here are a few speciCfc examples of these
exclUSionary dynamicS: '1) the group discussion at the beginning of the conference was almost completely dominated by white men. 2)
these white men, again and aga in, spoke of"recruiting," but did not leave mu ch space for
women, people ofcolor, etc., to voice their concerns or share their perspectives. 3) i heard
several statements to th e effect of: "we as white
workers," and "middle-class people like us."
(probably not quite so blatant, but with those
basic implications.) i think it's really important that people identify where th ey're coming
from, but that does n't mean assuming that
everybody else is coming from the same place.
4) we were all encouraged, several times, to
march to the capita l building for a rally for
leonard peltier. however, nobody said anything about alternate mea ns of transportation
for disabled people. at one point i asked a small .
group of people if any of them would be driving to the rally, and i was answered by silence
and what felt to me like a stro ng air of disap·
proval. i ended up getting a ride and attending the rally, but i was pissed that i had to be
the one to sea rch out th e ride, and that accommodations were not made for disabled peop le.
i guess what i felt was really lacking was
a sort ofself-conscious political awareness. it's
not enough to understand the ways that (for
example) the contra ct on ame ri ca will affect
marginalized people, if these oppressive ide·
ologies are still being perpetuated in our political co mmunity. if we are striving for social
change, we must at the same time be striving
to eradicate our own oppress ive/do minating!
exclusive tendencies and behaviors, right?
BY
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I've been asked before, "What's it like to people society ignores. the ones who end up
, be a Christian at Evergreen?" Not ~asy. For . with toxic waste dumps in thei,r backyards, the
lIIe, being in an atmosphere where I know that ones that don't break the poverty cycle. I h",d
myviews are often not accepte~has 'made me some of the best conversations of my life about
a stronger person. I know that some of my who Jesus Chrisris, what I believe, and what it ·
Christian friends are frustrated because they means to be a Christian, ahd I never felt persehave had their entire seminar group gang up . cuted.
on them. The conEvergreen is
clusion I have come
much more like my
to is that privilege
first job. I'm no
breeds intolerance, .
longer afraid to tell
people that I'm a beand that wealth leads
liever of Jesus
to a nart
.
view of
the worl .
Christ, but it's hard
to share what is the
A perfect example is my work excenter of my life
pe rience thi s pa st
with my classmates
summ er. For th e
and my fr iends. I
get so sick and tired
majority of th e summer, I worked in a
of pi cking apd
:job I loved with about 50 college students. cho(1sing my words so I don't off.end..people.
They were overwhelmingly white, liberal, and My faith tells me th at I should declare "Jesus
from upper-middle class suburbia. I remem- Christ is Lord," but I don 't because I'm scared.
ber sq uirming when we were driving someWe need to start being tolerant of all
where and everyone made jokes and laughed world views, not just the ones we agree with. I
at the "Jesus is my best friend" bumper sticker don't just mean Christianity, but all religions,
in front of us, dr if we accidentally turned to philosophies and doctrines. My hope is that
the religious programming on the radio. After we won't let our privilege and our generation
I worked there, I got a job with a temporary make us unable to look outside our own spiriagency. J was working with people who tual worlds. I would encourage everyone to
couldn't get futl-time jobs with stability and have a conversation with a "born-again" Chrisbenefits because of racial discrimination , lack tian-we're not as freaky or weird as you think
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Pagans worship the Devil or the anti-Ch rist
or something??" ,
.
Actually no, paganism and Wicca pre- school and started running with the SCA.
date Christianity by several hundreds, and Many of them were witches. Talking about
in some cases thousands of years. "Worship the many forms that the Gods and GodofThe Lord and The .Lady," as they are some- desses have taken over the years struck a
times called. is the only surviving religion na- cord within me. I decided to become a practive to Europe. Satanism and Devil worship . tieing solitary witch.
was created in the middle ages by th ose who
Many of my friends who are pagans
wished to mock the church in Rome and it's are constantly worried about what their
Chris tian family , fr iends, partners and
teachings.
Many of the symbols, both good and bosses wi ll think of them when th ey find
bad, used by ancient
out. One of the most
pagans were opted by
prominent pagans
the Christia n church
in Seattle appears
over the years. So the
on talk shows and
. Satanism and Devil
God Pan becomes an
interviews with his
'arch type for th e
face blacked out.
worship was created
Devil, complete with
Severa l Wicc3 ns
horns on his head and
---Iii Hie middle ages
fear a modern day
cloven hoofs. The so"witch hunt. " I have
by those who
lar ritual of "Yule" bebeen practicing for
ca me Christmas, and
13 yea rs and not
wished to mock -the
so on.
once in all that time
In my family,
have I felt oppreschurch in Rome and
religion was never
sion from the Christalked about. We celit's('teachings.
ti an major it y. Of
ebrated Christmas
course this is not
and sa ng ca rol s in
true of everyo ne.
Welsh. Butthatwasas
Many pagans have
close to Christianity
lost their jobs, their
as we ever got. But as the saying goes, "some homes and their ch ildren due to religious
of my best friends are Christian." I attended persecution. But , just like being queer. the
aJesuit high school for a while. The brothers more that come out, the easier it is for all of
of the Society of Jesus are some of the great- us. The more people that understand that
est scholars and thinkers the world has ever we do not ea t babies and fly on brooms th e
known. My teachers who were priests were better.
kind and wise and eager to show me, not th e
People are people, whether they are
Eucharist, but how to learn and think for my- Christians or witches. We all deserve reself. lowe them a great debt.
specta nd to be judged by our actions alone,
On the other hand~ the-8ociety ofJesus noron who 'ourparents a.re orwhat counwas also instrumental in the Spanish Inqui- try we come from, or even what Goddess
sition . Wilen I was 17 1dropped O'J t of high we believe in.
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Greener Mean Time
MY ARIEL BURN ET I'
As a lIIear-ra ting, leather wearing, nonCrateful Dead-listening kind of girl, I was-absolutely convinced when I first arrived at Ev('rgreen that I was going to have a difficult time
making fTi ends here . That proved to be a very
long way from what actually occ urred and today I voluntari ly live with two vegetarians. By
and large. th ose things that initially made me
slispicious of people at this school are now."
large part of wh y I am 'so comfortable here.
However, from time to time I still get annoyed
wi th some of these quirks and I see it as most
unlikel), that I will ever be reconciled with the
co ncept of"Grrener time".
I have always bee n extremely uptight
about being 'on time. I detest showing up late
for anything. In fa ct, in order to abso lut ely
guarantee that I'm not tardy, I tend to arrive
to appo inted destinations early. This is a habit
that has been noted by fri ends and employers
who have. ten minutes before I was supposed
to b-e there, assumed I wa sn't co ming at all.
Thi s is why it is a continuing frustration
I have developed
a number of ways
.o f coping with
the "chronology
impaired~
--------for me that pun ctwilit), is an exception rath er
tha n a rule on this campus. Following a liberal arts traditi on, actual lime appears to be
open to interpretation . Even th e professors
show up for class late. Despite being a school
that has a clock as its most recogni za ble landmark. no oll e here seems to know how to tell
time.
Or I would think so. except th ere appear
to be two times that Greenei's r~pe,t, 4:20 and
7:30 (the latter is when the Simps'olls come on,
and if you don't know the former th en you
probably shouldn't). A friend of mine once
sa id that if yo u ever see a hippie running,
chances are it's a quarter after four, and you
could se t your watch (if anyone here wore one)
by how quiet things get at half past seven.
So Igenerally know where to find people
twice a day, which is nice, but during th e remainder oftwenry-four hours. it 's all relative.
So metimes it lends a sort of surreality to convcr~ations. ': 1really need to get to Seattle!" "I
might be go ing ill a few weeks ." "Okay, th at
works." or "What time is it?" "I think it's the
atiernoon." "Oh good, I thought it wa s still
morning." I don't know, maybe I'm jLlst anal ,
bllt I kinda like to know the minute, not just
the day. Even the hour would be sort of an
improvement.
~olletheles~, in li ght orall th e posi tives
I have discovered at Evergree n, tifT!c is a mi 1I0r ideology difference. I have developed a
number of ways of co pin g with the "cronology
impaired". If you are keeping to a schedule it
is important to determi ne how late they WilIally run , then you can eith er lie and tell them
to meet you that much ea rlier or adjust your
plans accord ingly. If you are meeting someone who yo u are not aquainted with well
enough to gauge their own personal clock, it
is allm able to assume a"Greener Mean Time"
(GMT) of half an hour past actual time.
However, the single most effective way
to deal with this wide-spread untimeliness is
to become more flexible. I honest ly hate the
fa ct that there is always a gap between when I
arrive and when my friends do, but I know I
can't change them anymore than they can '
change me. In fact, I rareiy wear my own watch
these days. I still know whattime it is though,
I just look for the running hippies.
PAGI6
NOVEMBER
16, 1995
.
Top 75 reasons why women should not hav~
freedom of speech
BV CA RSON STREGE-FLORA
About three weeks ago, a group of four
first-year students at the prestigious Corne ll
University got together to work on a project.
They worked very hard on their project , and
pt,lblished it on the Internet for the benefit of
all of us.
For those of you who are not on-line, you
may not have received thi s choice piece of
analysis that came from these Cornell boys
(whose poor parents are sh ucking out a fortun e
to allow them the privilege of doing this academic work).
The title of these boys dissertation gives
you a hint of the extent of their profundity and
sagacity. They named their little pfCIject the:
"Top 75 reasons why women (bitches)
shou ld not have freedom of speech". (A little
too much Letterman may have influenced th eir
conclusions).
Some examples (that have not been covered in the mainstream press because of concerns about offending their readership. But
this is the CPJ, damn it!, and we always provide the truth! Be warned, they are not pretty)
the existence of sexism. As vile as these boys actually ring true. Hmmmm.
On top of th:It, these boys 'were gener. may be, they served a purpose to educatt;'those
ous
enough
~o leave their e-mail addresses on
who deny that sexism exists. It is true that sunshine is the best disinfectant, and bringing sex- the bottom of the message. (It makes you wonism to the light will only better enable us to der about the value of an elite university). So,
take a moment today and send these boys a
fight it.
In addition to providing education, tflank you message for giving us fuel for ollr
these boys also gave women's groups (that in- movement.
Other people have been being creative
clude outraged men) the opportunity to j()in
together and mobilize. Getting pissed is the in their messages. One woman created her own
first step in action, and these Cornell boys pro- "Top 75 reasons why you should shut your
. mouth, you little punks": I like it. Try your
vided this necessary step.
Interestingly, th,e boys' own apology that own. Have some fun. But remember that the
was printed in the campus newspaper, points stupidity of these boys will only help us in the
out tbat, "We've seen almost everything on that end.
Evans Camps: emcl3@cornell.edu
list in some kind ofTV show, rap song, InterBrian Waldman: blw7@cornell.edu
net li~t , comedians act or talk show." Although,
Rikus Linschoten: rr12Acornell .edu
this was most likely fed to them by a Clever,
Pat Sic her: phs8@cornell.edu
concerned lawyer to ellicit sympathy, it does
a
~~oltr
by Marlyn Prashad
• If she ca n't speak , she can't cry rape.
• Whores get payed (sic) by the hour, not
the word
• Ifit hurts, I don't want to hear it
• This is my dick, I'm going to fuck you.
No more stupid questions.
• Dikes (unless I can jump it the middle)
• Feminists
• AAlrmative Action
• If my dicks in her mouth , she can't talk
anyway.
my grandfather
bows
as he greets whites
inwardly
i shrink
please don'.! give away
we are. asian.
I have always thought this
'but on this particular
hard blue morning
i am struck by how incredibly ridiculous
The Cornell PR office frantically' released
a sooth ing statement apologizing for th e inci-
am.
dent. Acco rding to the release, "We very much
regret that the in cident has occurred and [crucial part J that Cornell's good name and reputation have been damaged in the process".
Co rnell may regret the incident, but I
certainly don't. I appreciate the fact that these
boys were honest enough to let the world know
that sexism is not a thing of the past. It is a
very rea l concern for women and it hasn't gone
away.
I'm tired of entertaining questions about
they know
the second they rake over
the black hair
the smooth yellow skin
the slanted eyes
what is there to hide
,
'pot tHeir superior attitude
made aU too obvious,
thoughts chase each other
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around my head
like tom and jerry cartoon;
preying Oil the other
until YOll lose all trails
of who is the victim,
getting so angry
. i forget
who i hate more.
my grandfather
for being... asian?
why does that single thought
stagger me
enough to break my back
i ask over and over
what <"
is
it ,
that makes me ashamed
what
___steals
Pride from 'my straight spine.
wearily holding words
in the back of-my mouth
signaling departures of sorts
i realize
i've seen too many glassy, amused smiles
to feel sorry for tom
or jerry
anymore.
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lESC student
worker's rights
Students employed by Evergreen are
attempting to gain access to the contract
between Northwest Food Services (N.W.F.S.
runs the Deli and Greenery) and Evergreen.
The Student Worker Organization
(S. W.O.) is interested in this contract
specifically to see .if it addressed employee's
concerns. So far, access has been restricted.
We have been required to submit formal
forms intended to be used for access to the
public. This makes little sense considering
that we've identified ours.elves as students and
employees of the college. These actions are
an example of the college assuming a
restrictive posture over student workers.
Most recently S.W. O. asked if we could
copy part of the N. W_F.S. contract. Making
copies with Evergreen's supervision is a right
we're supposedly given in the public access
rules Evergreen ·has adopted . The only
response so far has been that the staff isn't
budgeted time for go ins to the copier.
S.W.O.'s questions about why the public
access rules were imposed haven't been
sufficie ntly answered, but if Evergreen needs,
to impose these rules we suggest that they
follow every part of them.
I suppose the S. W.O. could file a grievance
usmg the Evergreen's rolicie-s and Procedures
(P&P) But what's the P&P for? We at the
S.W.O. know it's not ours. The P&P is a
contract Evergreen administrators have the
final say in.
The S.W.O. is here to say, as students we
are now involving ourselves on terms we wish
to establish. Let's face it, minimum wage is
an insult. Here is one real example is of how
insulting this can be, Evergreen employs
student worRers to take care of children at
minimum wage. What dose this say about
the value Evergreen pla~s on these important
jobs connected directly to future generations?
Another example of how the school doesn't ,
value student workers is with the lack of
accountability shown when S&A Productions
( not to be confused with the S&A Board) ,
blows all its money to the point it has to lay
off students who wanted those specific jobs.
If, as in these cases, Evergreen doesn't
voluntarily recognize the importance ofthese
jobs we surely don't imagine they will
recognize the value of all the other jobs
students do to-keep this college running. We
must draw the line somewhere!
I know most of the people I've seen in
person in the President's office didn 't make
the decision to have me file formal forms and
I doubt anyone wanted to have S&A
Productions ena those student jobs.
Undoubtedly these employees are doing their
jobs as they understand them, trying to follow
the spoken and unspoken priorities.
The S.W.O. wants the priorities rearranged
from the bottom up. We shouldn't be
misunderstood. As our identity as organized
student workers develops we look forward to
commtinicatingwith, and negotiating with
the Administration in -an atmosphere of
uplifted respect and cooperation.
We believe in a stude nt initiated contract
between student workers and Evergreen.
Something far more meaningful than
anything found in the P&P.
The interests of Northwest Food Services
are protected in their contract. The interests
of most of the nonstudent employees are
protected with their contracts. Student
workers can also work to'make their contract.
Organized workers regularly create their own
rights with action and contracts.
Work for better pay and more of a say in on
campus work related issues. Call now to get
involved in the S.W.O_, x6098. It 's proven to
be JVorth your time.
-Jeremy Rice
Students of
color still teaching
the highly offensive action, as I was by the
choice of the means to offend. When I saw
the title, I imagined that the author did hav!?
some form of misle,ading knowledge of the
so-called "F.a lse-Face SOciety'· , or they
wouldn't have chosen it. Most people are
unfamiliar with the name, and to see' it
staring back at me from the comic page did
find me a little taken aback. My assumption
that the author was slightly aware only made
me feel sick. This wasn't the first time, mind
you, that I have felt this way. After all, I am
at Evergreen. The school that just reeks of
multiculturalisms.
Here at Evergreen multiculturalism is
defined in the minds of most students as
"what can I appropriate next?" It really isn 't
that crazy concept of some kind of
multicultural balance, so don't ,fool yourself.
I've come to realize that peop le are so
consumed in their own individualism that
they are only out for their own benefit. They
don't think before they act or speak, and
obviously don't care about what orwho their
actions may harm. In this iIistance, the use
of the name "False-Face Society" was found
highly offensive.
The False-Face Society, also known as
the False-Face Medicine Society, is a living
part of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois/Six
Nations Confederacy) culture. I am not a
member of the Haudenosaunee, and given
my lack of knowledge on the topic, I did the
only thing understandable. I asked a friend
of mine who is Haudenosaunee about it. She
explained a few things to me abou t the
society, and with her support, I decided that
something had to be said. I, of course, am
not of that society, so I have no right to give
an explanation of what it is. For the sake of
the situation though , I will say as much as I
am comfortable with. What I had learned
-Ryan Kieth
[n regards to Juli kelen's le-tter ell/9), we felt
obligated to respond to the misinterpretation
of the Jesus "Xui" Garcia (Veronica Barrera)
article on Cultural Appropriation (1l/2). As a
Xicana and an Apache/ Mexican Indian, and
as coordinators of LA SO and MEChA we felt a
need to express our understandings of how
people often misinterpret what People of Color
are saying. It seems that white people often feel
that they need to invalidate our thoughts, our
words and our feelings, in order to uphold their
comfort level.
The letter written is obviously comln,g from
a white skin privileged perspective. It seems
that only someone who is not of color would
think that it is possible for us as People ofC()lor
"to regroup, recharge .. " and then educate some
more." Obviously you are seriously
handicapped by your privilege and are unaware
of th~rue...struggle...that People. of Color face
everyday, every place, all the time. Where 1~~t1ign
should we go to regroup or recharge? Wherever
we are there is oppression, racism and
ignorance. We live in war zone called everyday
The recent theft of political campaign
life_ I'm sorry to say it, but there is no "recharge" signs by Evergreen State College students
available.
shows a shocking disregard for free speech
. JOli, you speak of the Enemy and how will it
and private property. But even more
be when we encounter this enemy. For many of shocking is their defense in the Cooper Point
us, we have encountered it, and its effects from jour'!al of campaign sign theft as a political
the first timewe stepped into a public place. We
statement.
suggest you look in the mirror, and stop
Campaign signs are politieal speech, and
assessing us and reassess yoursel/l
. as such are protected by t'he First.
The feeling that came across in the article is
Amendment of the Constitution. Stealing
that, as People ofColor, w!' should willingly_take
signs is not a political statement, it's theti.
on the "role" as the educator. People of Color
Silencing the opinions of those with whom
are always expected to educa te others. There
you disagree is never the right thing to 'do in
is no escape from this. In semina r, at th e a democracy, where an educated and
supermarket, at the gas station, we are looked
informed public is the key element of
to for answers and explanations. We came to
government of the people, by the people, and
this school to get an education, not to educate for the people.
curious onlookers about ourselves. We are not
To me, a college educa tion represents an
here to be objectified and our culture is not here opportunity for students to explore a wide
to be romanticized by you.
.
range of ideas from diverse cultures , groups
As People of Color we are not automatically and societies. Learning about the ideas of
your educators. As students we are not
people who are different from yourse lf is a
responsible for your education. We are only chance for greater understanding and
responSible for our own . The ironic thing, is
provides a foundation for your own opjnions
that by responding to this biased and
and beliefs. Preventing free speech is a form
paternalistic letter we are still taking the. time
ofthought control, a way to prevent people
to do our best to educate you. You need to work
from thinking or doing something you don't
on educating yourself. But until that happens,
want them to. Perhaps these students should
it seems that we wi ll have to continue until
repeat freshman year and spend the time
people like you understand and stop
reviewing Amer ic an hi story and the
misinterpreting People of Color. IN 500 YEARS
Constitution.
.
OF RESISTANCE.
I don't want some narrow-minded college
-LisaNa Red Bear(MEChA co-coordiantor)
student or anyone else deciding which
-Cla udi a Sandoval(LASO coordinator)
thoughts and ideas are appropriate for my
consumption. And I take offense at the letter
F~alse
writers' excuse that they were only doing
what was best for the many apathetic voters
who are too lazy or incompetent to make up '
their own minds about an issu·e. If the
Last week as I was flipping through the
students want to express their opinions on
pages of the CPJ, I came upon the comic p~ge.
Referendum 48, they should put up their own
As fTlany ofyou know, the comic page has been
signs instead of Silencing those of the other
one of the numerous homes on campus for
side. The leul'r writers argued that the police
"culturally insensitive" voices. What I saw
officers' time would have been better spent
there was a comic in the upper-right hand
chasing after more dangerous criminals, but
corner ofthe page entitled "False-Face Sociery."
I believe that in a democracy the silencing of
I was slightly surprised. Not so much by
theft is .
anti-free speach
Face
not for comics
NOVEMBER
free speech is the most dangewus crime of all.
'. In a tyranny, public knowledge and acc('s~
to in(ormation is a dangerous thing. For a
democracy like the Un ited States, it's the key
to freedom.
-Kasia St'uck
~~olitical
action
Censorsspeach
As a journalist,1 was more than a bit
dismayed at the letter in the CPJ of li/2, "Sigll
Thieves Speak Out." What they claimed as
"political action" wa s in fact, thievery.
vandalism and an outright attempt to censor
someone else's speeech.
Referendum 48 is an abomination, a vile
scam on taxpayers by big buisness. It deserves
to go down in ignominious flames. Many have
spoken out against it, myself in'cluded.
However, the proponents of this thi every
have every right under the Constitution to erect
signs advocating it.
Th~ir signs constitute prol~cted speech.
M~ Cain and Ms. Perkins have every right
to make their own vigorous counterspeech signs, posters, speeches in public forum s,
letters to the editor, et al. These are also
protected under the Constitution. Their actions
are not, regardless of their declaring the sign s
"propaganda." Had it been anti-48 signs stolen
because they were "Ieftist propaganda," I'm
sure these folks and others would have howled
in wounded righteous indignation.
That their arrest was executed with "extreme
prejudice" is not surprising and most assuredly
unwarranted. There's nothing wrong, however,
with their being arrested itself. What they did
was wrong, and in principle it hurts all of us as
such actions chip away at the First Amendment.
There are many on the Right these days who
would love to see that part of our Co nstitution
walered down, if not neutered. It falls to us to
protect this part of the Bill of Rights, the one
thatholds the rest of the document together.
. If we don't respeC! everyone's right to speak,
we can expect no such respect ourselves.
Progressives, above all others need to realize
this necessary tolerance, that we make it into
the next ce ntury with dignity and integnty.
-John Ford
News Director, KAOS
:~hristianity
ain't always
wb.at you think
I am a Ch ristian. Wh ich means I am a.'
believer in Ch ri st and h.is teachings.
Chri stianity requires that
I love
unconditionally and hono r God's. people,
regardless of race, sex, or religion.
I am writi ng to sta te that I support Rya n
Keith and eve ryone else who feels bitter toward
Christians. You have every right to denoun ce
the atrocities of missionaries to native peoples
all over the world.' Or to express disgust at the
Christian right for their discrimination and
abuse of homosexuals and pro choi ce
supporters. However, it is not right for you to
generalize and blame Christianity for the
crimes of social injustice committed by
Christians throughout history.
Christianity is not a western religion or a
creation of the Europeans to aid in the demise
of native peoples. Christianity began in the
Middle East. The first Christians were North
Africans, and Jesus was not 'white! The Bible is
probably the most carefull y translated
manuscript known to man. The words of God
have not been rewritten to suit the historical
mood_
The words may have been
reinterpreted.
Christianity isn't "a tool used to keep the
masses down." It may have been used to
control people, but the rootsofChristianity are
in Christ. Jesus was a revolutionary teacher. He
wasn't out to oppress people, he was trying to
free them. He healed the sick and helped the
poor. He taught his disciples to do the same.
The apostles li ved in an intent ional
community, sharing all of their possessions so
no one was in need. Ch ristianity has bee n
16, 1995 THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
PAGE
7
Letters & Opinions
Continued from
Christianity pg. 7
Budget
att~cks
students
and enyiornment
I\' c~ t l' rni zed.
COld Light
ByStacey Wickett
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dear cpj reader~ and staff,
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column,
which talked about my identification
ide:ils of individualism and greed.
Se ll a te approve d a budge t for th e fed eral
with
the
word "queer," was headlined "why r"
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bother with labrls?" i didn't write the
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to br li ke so me Greek myth ologica l pl ace . environment this wa s a true nightmare! Many
headline, and i think it reconstrued and
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renewal of th e earl h. A place when:' there is congressional budget, but the effects that it will
label myself" stance really gets on my nerves,
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no sickn ess, violence , envir onm ent al have are profound!
ClIZ it often means that marginalized people
dl's tru cti o n, prejudi cE'. Ju st pl' 3Ce and
The cut s to student aid is the prime example
are left without words to vocalize rhr ir
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balance. ·· Respecting of the four legged, th e of budgrt cuts that target us, Over 10.5 billion
positions/identities. of course no single word
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existence, but it's important to have language
hl asp hemous. and th e childi sh beli efs of version of th e budget. How does th e congress
to define our exp erience, and that means
un ci\·ili zed hea thens." Many Christians do expec t us to pay for college? We are working
using words like "queer," "fat ," ."non-white,"·
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"girl," or whatever. in thatcolurnn, i was not
th ey shouldn 't. In fact it is sin ful for th em to loans yet Congress is working to deny our access
saying that we "shouldn't bother with labels;"
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abuse th e envi ronment. Throughout the Old
to higher education.
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and th e New Tes t a me n ~:,.God speaks abollt
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SELF-identification - claiming the labels that
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as saults on the environment. Th e most c\JJrt!<.l71U '71!"'''' pt1lr/h rrT(: lI(1wjiJ.f1 ,rsh
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just ruler or provider, as God was and is for , National Wildlife Refuge. An area that is homr
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God's creation. Th erefo re it is wrong for me oil drilling. This is despit e the fact that over
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to disresprc i it.
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m:lkr oth ers awa rE' of th e nE'ed for th eir
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sa lvation. I bE'li ev(' Chrbt Awaren ess week is What's next, Yellowstone or Yos('mitr?
Our Letter and Opinion Pages
a w('c k to remind us of Chri st and hi s
We still have a chance to tell Washington DC f!2,[J!III/: /l(1ttlld 1f'1I/101r! ,{lAm:
exists to encourage robust public
teac hings. To foc us on Go d and how we
that we as students will not stand for this direct
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debate. Letter and Opinion
shonld be li ving our lives. It's a time for me attack on students rights to high er education
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represent the sole
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aJl d relationship with my God.
areas. Pl ease ca ll Pres id ent Clinto n and
endorsed
by
the CPJ staff.
I havr no urge) \? push Christianity on demand that he veto the budget. This is the
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anyo ne, and I pray no one will try and take it
way that we can have a lasting impact on our
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away fro m me. In some parts of the world , lives as we ll as th e future of environmental "A lld .fi1 ~ dttl m/Ip
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President Clinton's phone #: 212-456-1111
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words
or less.
rE' mindr r. Evergreen is a unique pla ce for
-Marie Sackett (V(?JII/e II! !m!1t I! :r e:qx:riCl1a;
lea rning. As a school, we are trying to build
CW't,}, prt1pr:r ""mllef'S tlltrl PC'II lack.
co mmunity and hon or of diverSity. We
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should all be prou.d of our herita ge and
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cliltmal be li e r~. And we should continuously
strive to learn form out differences in a
positive way. My requ est is for you to rethink
your perspectives on Christianity. Try to be
I am writin g in res ponse to an articl e
consc io us of th e he t th at th ere may be a printrd in th e Cooper Poinljournal, and more ~
Christi an in your seminar who cares for the specifically to a recurrin g problem in th e
environm ent , hates prejudice, and housing area.
q.o(11f m : Q§7 sl,/! !tave !lfp pricit;
di sa pprove s of capitalism . Th e onl y
The problem, as I see it, is noise. I have lived
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difference between that person and you is in student housillg for over a month now and
Microsoft Word af)d bring your
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their spiritua l beliefs. I should not have to feel I can relate to the patterns of noise which
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feel afraid to express my love for Christ for are all too common , It seems that people find
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fear of bein g laughed at or ridicu led for my it necessary to scream at the top of their lu.ngs
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beliefs. I should not have to sit and listen to for just about an y given reason, and at any
have any questions
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-Bree Oatma'n
I can understand that thr constraints of
society make yelling a wonderful release, but
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The article in the CPjtitled, "Wooo-Hooo!
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It 's darkl," illustrates my frustrations with the
noise I so constantly hear. When the power
Business
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have been an honor. I have not seen war, but occurred on a week night when I had class the
I have survived battles. Doors at 3 a.m. next morn and my roommate had to be to work
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sundered by shotguns: cars forcing each at 6 a.m. This behavior is disrespectful to
Meetings: Mondays at
oth er into ditches: hunger: heroin ; prison: people in our community such as us.
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and lives have been laid in th e balance to save
Reynor Padilla makes an interesting
min e. I am thankful.
statement at the end of his article, .. .. .when
Respect on e another. The Tao Te Ching everybody is in the dark suddenly we bewme
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- Matthew Dills and HillaryCarroll
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ere:
Jodie Foster refuses to wrap things into neat little pa~kages with Home For the Holidays
by John Evans
dt"
Y'eteran's
Day respnse
PAG E 8 THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL NOVEMBER
16, 1995
ConSidering her privileged background, it came as something of a surprise that Jodie Foster would so thoroughly understand the nuances of orpinary family life. But Home for the HoJi"days perfectly captures the depressing
banality of middle-class American gatherings.
Thank.sgiving, for most of us, is a
grey holiday celebrated in grim, SlJow-.
choked suburbs where dirty slush fills
every gutter and everyone has a badcold ..
Foster's film takes place in just that sort
of setting,
At first glance Home for the Holidays has a bleak feeling to it. Its characters don't lead lives of joy, adventure,
risk, or color. They seem trapped, without options, resigned to growing old and ·
9ying without glorious romances or
heroism.
.
On the other hand, these are loving,
decent peo·ple who recognize the humor
Holly Hunter and Robert Downey, Jr.
in their situations and are just trying to
get by in an often sensel~ss wor!d,
in Jodie Foster's
What you have here is a movie
about reaJ life. '
wildly unrestrained sense of humor that buoys
Holly Hunter (Copycat) is Claudiai..arson, Claudia's spirits. Tommy doesn't come alone.
a single mother living in Chicago. Claudia.has With him is a charismatic stranger, Leo (the
just lost her job restoring paintings and her six- underrated Dylan McDermott). At first
teen year-old daughter has decided to have sex . Claudia thinks Leo is Tommy's boyfriend, but
with her boyfriend over Thanksgiving. Claudia when she discovers their partnet~hip extends
is obligated to spend Thanksgiving in Balti- only to business, she explores a mutual attracmore with her family, while the.Se problems tion with Leo.
The reunion turns ugly when Claudia's sisawait her return . Henry and Adele (Charles
Durning and Anne Bancroft) welcome their ter, Joanne (Cynthia Stevenson of The Player),
daughter ba(k to the nest with the kind of suf- her oafish husband Walter (Steve Guttenberg,
focating love and concern that drives adult in inspired casting) and their bratty tykes archildren up the wall. Claudia grudgingly allows rive tor Thanksgiving dinner.
her doting parents to suck her temporarily
Tommy provokes Joanne by dumping the
• back into' childhood.
turkey in her lap and snapping a Polaroid of
Tom~y (Robert Downey Jr.), Claudia's her outraged reaction. He snickers that she
younger brother, saves her from sheer bore- looks like a baboon, sending her into hysterdom by unexpectedly showing up at the home- ics,
stead. Tommy is an irrepressible sort with a
Tommy is always taking pi~tures of the
Tommy after some fo otball o~ the lawn
and Henry turns the hose on them.
Chaplin has some scene-stea ling an tics as dotty Aunt Gladdy, wh o dozes at
the dinner table and has a knack for inappropriate behavior.
David Straithairn appears with a notable cameo as Claudia's hard-luck former
boyfriend (she dumped him), a furn ace
repairman, He is so pathetic that he has
no one to spend holidays with and frels
needed when people call him to fix their
furnace . It's a painfully funny scene.
McDermott 's sexy Leo provid es
Claudia with a little excitement, re-energizing the depressed woman with his interest. This is th e film's only lapse into
formula , but in contrast with th e mundane world Foster has presented th e fan tasy feels richly deserved.
Foster has assrmbled a great cast,
and it is the chara cters th ry prese nt th at
are important and not the workings of the
plot. All of the [rlationships are complex.
Screenwriter W.O. Ri chter saddles
are two members of the great cast the Larsons with a variety of problems
without promising resolution. Everything
isn't wrapped up into neat little packages
family, but his photos are not of the whole clan by the closing credits. Kind oflike real life,
There isn 't any slapstick falling down sort
posing before the fire with fak~ smiles plastered on their faces. Instead he likes to catch of hilarity, but the movie is deeply funn y withClaudia when she is at her most vulnerable, in out resorting to the madcap family hi.jinks one
various states of undress, and photograph her. might expect" from this subject matter.
We're also spared Hollywood melodrama
It's a metaphor for the film ; instead of the
usual artificial schmaltz of family fare we see and crocodile tears. No one has a heart attack,
the Larsons nakedly, with all their private im- is dying of cancer or faCing Alzheimers. The
family isn't brought together by a tragedy and
perfections exposed.
The disaster of the Thanksgiving meal re- there are no teary bedside confessions. Foster
veals all kinds ofintra-family strife. Joanne re- side-steps the usual "family picture': sentimensents Claudia for imagined irresponsibility. tality and contrived heart-string tuggings,
Without moments uf side-splitting huShe's unhappy in her life and somehow thinks
Claudia is leading a charmed existence free of mor, or heart-rending pathos, Home For the
domestic toil.
Holidays instead has .a subtle effect on its auGuttenberg hits all the right notes as the dience. As honestly as it can , the film charts a
frowning Walter, waxing philosophical about course through the ups ancnibwns of fami ly
business while no-one really listeJ)s, In one dynamicS. What a refreshing approach ,
funny sequence he gets into a fight with
Home FOf the Holidays.
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C7 ~nteitain~ent
Sometimes home is not a holida,
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Vouldyou
please shut up!
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Believe it or not, F,iday and 'Stua,t Saves His ,Famify are both well worth your time and money
by Bryan Frankenseuss
Theiss .
I must admit that I wouldn 't be the first
person to complain about intelligent family
dramas or interesting independent films being
buried beneath mindless Hollywood shoot 'em
ups, superfiCial mega-budget sci-fi action flicks
and insanely popular mmedy misfires. After
all, I can go see those overlooked gems, you can
see them too, and they can laugh at Jim Carrey
as he pretends to talk out of his butt. Besides, I
like over-the-top action and computer animated dinosaurs that bite people in half.
But every once in a while I'll walk out of
an empty theater with that unique l-just-sawa-great-movir feeling and then come to a realization: Batman Forever's Batman and Robin
could have beaten box office records with all
four nipples tied behind their backs. But this
is actually a clever, well made !.Dovie and it
couldn't even pull a profit. l.had that reaction
to both .Friday and Stuart Saves His Family,
which are now available on video.
Friday follows in the footsteps of Above
the Rim and Tales From the Hood by selling a
lot of soundtracks without pulling people into
the theaters. Since one ofit's two soundtracks
was primarily rap music, and since the film
stars Ice Cube (who also co-wrote the screen-
play with OJ Pooh), perhaps people expected a
boring musician-vanity film, a la Tougher Than
. Leather orGraffiti Bridge, Or maybe they
thought it would be a ridiculous, ill-planned
attempt to cash in on a musician's success, the
Cool As Ice oflegitimate hip hop.
Friday is neither of these things, nor is it a
Cheect. and Chong style drug comedy as the
advertisementsInsist. Really it's a naturalistic
day-in-the-Iife tale that seems to unravel in realtime. The writers insist that a lot can go down
in a single day and they intend to show just how
much,
The story revolves around deancut Craig
Johnson (Cube) and his drug dealing friend
(Dead Presidents' Chris Tucker) and mostly
takes place on the block where they live. Tucker
is a pathetic pothead and proud of it. Cube is
mostly straight-laced but Tucker chides him
into smoking a joint with him.
This leads to disaster --it turns out that .
Tucker was supposed to sell the drugs and the
two will have to come up with some quick cash
before the angry neighborhood drug kingpin
swings by. The two sit on the porch and try to
figure out who they can borrow money from,
while intermittently dealing with parents,
dates, and enemies.
One of the neighborhood threats is an
obnoxious money-addicted girl who considers
Craig her property and drives around
in a fancy sports car blasting a horrible 2 Live Crew song called
"Hoochie Mama." Craig finds himself
in trouble whenever he talks to another female . It's funny to see Ice '
Cube.get pushed around by a female
after hearing him talk about "bitches"
all these years.
A more physical threat is a hulking neighborhood bully (played menacingly by former WWF champion
"Zeus") who forces Tucker to break
into houses with him and then keeps
the loot for himself. Every time the
leviathanous, steely-eyed brute rolls
onto the scene on his dinky bicycle,
in comes an intimidating score.reminiscent ofJohn Williams' /awstheme
aQd off go the poor saps' necklaces
and gold watches,
The only character that really ,
. bogs down the movie is Cube's father.
By the end you are supposed to re- '
spect him, but he's an oafish character who is difficult to take seriously:
mostly because his role involves some
lame toilet humor. Still, the events
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boi l up to an int ense climax that puts across
. a prell y powerful message, in sp ite of th e
s~art
eno ugh: I'm
enough, and doggone it,
peop le like me.
Shove all yo ur expecta tions to the side, beca use Stuarl Sa.ves His Family is not what you
think. It 's not an uproarious co medy, of course,
but it wasn 't intended to be. Actu ally it's a serious family drama that forces you to care about
its cartoonish title character.
AI Franken plays St uart , and he also wrote
the film. It would have been hard to tell from
the SNL skit, but he actually empathizes with his
character- in fact, he was in and out of therapy
and 12 step programs for years and knows what
it's like. The lingo and attitudes seem real beca use they are real. And since Franken is able to
. ch3r3cter's in vo lveme nt.
\"'hat's rea lly grea t about th e film is the
wr itin g, whi ch eve n rap fa n ~ like my se lf
w() uld n't expect from Ice Cube. Most of the
movie takes place on Cube's porch. and yet
e\'ery little inciden t seems to connect into a
co mpl ex web of coin cidences and mistakes.
Despi te fai rly static direction by video director F. Ga ry Gray
and occasiona lly
juvenil e hum or,
Friday
pull s
through as a
unique
and
memorable film.
Stuart Saves
His Family has an
entirely different
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pain to Stuart's una ssured mother (Shirley tions they find themselves in are so real. The
Knight) and sister (Lesley Boone). Stuart has movie's advertising slogan was "You'll laugh
esca ped his father, but he keeps going back to because it's not your family. You 'll cry because
help the other victims. Along with therapy and it is." That's a very accurate description, but
cookies, Stua~t is a ddi~ted to saving people,.es-. apparently moviegoers didn't buy ·it or weren 't
pecially his family.
. interest€d. On an SNL ' episode during the
Vincen.t D'Onofrio (who had a great film's brief, disastrous run , Frariken effectively
cameo as Orson We lles in Ed Wood) stands out killed-offStu;lrt with a Daily AffirmatiollS last
in hi s role as Stuart's rebellio\:Js brother who hurrah in which Stuart obsessively munched
sticks up for him at home and in bars. He's very on cookies and unapologetic~lIy chastised
charismatic, despite having a few things in moviegoers who went to see Dumb and
common with his father. There's also a great Dumber and not Stuart Saves His Family. Decameo by the aforementioned It's Pat star scribing his favorite flavor ofPepperidge Farm
Sweeney as an incredibly timid secretary who cookies, he yelled, "I eat them ... you can shove
Stuart gives advice to . ..,.'
them up your ass!"
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- Poor Stuart. He has every right to be annot contain good guys or bad guys, only people gry. Hopefully this wonderful film will filid its
with diffe'rent character flaws. It is easy to re- au~ience now that it's on video.
late to Stuart and his family because t~e situa- .
in Stuart Salles His Famiy, he also wrote the screenplay.
fo llowed with some success , but audiences
began to get tired of the joke. Really, how
much room in the world is there for moronic
rocker duos? Bill and Ted have been mostly
forgo tten but can Wayne and Garth exist in
the same universe as Beavis and Butthead?
Othe r film s based on Saturday Night
Live sketches were plann ed (Hans and Franz
and even Coffee Talk were in development),
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Sweeney's one-joke androgynous character)
was so poorly received it wasn't released outside of a three city test run. Even original pre~ises bega n to bomb if they starred SNLcast
members (Billy Madison, Tommy Boy). And
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Smalley, th e character who says ''I'm good
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respect his character, so are we.
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they end up with the opposite. While Wayne and
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cancelled and by half way through the film the
show isn't funn y anyway because we understand
Stuart and accept him the way he is. Watch another Daily Affirmations after seeing the movie
and you might not remember which parts were
supposed to be funny.
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with the family th at turned him into a recovery
addict. Sometimes that involves locking himself
in his apartment and gorging himself on cookies - other times it mea ns flyin g home and
throwing himselfin the path of his family's fl)anifested dysfu nctions. His father (Harris Yulin) is
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