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In addition to that, she likes to read, write, and
The S&A (Services and Activities) Board, collect wind chimes.
a group of ten students who designate funds
John Ford- John came to Evergreen by
for the various student groups on campus. has Amtrak train to find Matt Groening. He had
chosen its new members for the '95·'96 school been incredibly active around campus,
year.
including working for the CPj and Infectious
The S&A Board receives its funding from Waste Theater. He currently is the news
a percentage of tuition payments, averaging director at KAOS and works for Housing,
around $100 per student. This totals to around where he occaSionally fills the pop machine
a million dollars to which they can allocate to outside A-Dorm. John is interested in films,
the student groups on campus such as the food, and First Amendment issues.
Jewish Cultural Center and Soda Pop. This is
Raina Brody- Raina was drawn to the
in accordance to the Washington State Action Green by its sense of community and the fact
Code which states that any capital taken from that Olympia is "a hip little town". She enjoys
students must be used under student ceramics, the Oly music scene, dance, opera,
supervision. The board approves the budgets and neon art. Russian studies also interest her
made up by the groups and submits them to and she is currently enrolled in Science of
the Board ofTrustees, who then authorizes the Mind.
final budget.
Carson Strege-Flora- Carson likes the
Here is a profile of the students who will fact that Evergreen is relatively. inexpensive yet
be serving on this year's S&A Board:
still provides a quality education. In the past,
Jules Carsten Connolly- Jules has been Carson has been the Assistan t Managing The S&A board is, from left to right, top row: S&A Board Advisor Tom
involved in agricultural and queer studies here Editor of the CPj as well as a columnist. Mercado, Denise Robertson,John Ford,Jennifer Daniels, Carson Stregeat Evergreen and is currently a co-coordinator Currently, she is co-coordinator of the Flora, Jules Carsten Connolly, Neil p, Broundage. Bottom row: Naomi
for the S&A Board. In the past she has been Women's Resource Center and works with the
Ishisaka, Raina Brody, Libby Oust Libby), Erin Ficker, and Rene Juarez.
active in the Evergreen Queer Alliance and likes National Abortion Rights Action League
to farm, garden, and participatr in compound (NARAL). She is taking Making Public
bow shooting.
Naomi Ishisaka- Naomi wanted a non· former interim CPj photo editor, Erin is also
Information this year and when she finds time
Libby (just Libby)- Libby is also a in her busy schedule, she likes to read, travel,
traditional education, so she chose Evergreen. a lifeguard at the CRC pool. She lists hiking.
coordinator for the S&A Board. She came to and learn more about workers' rights and She has 'been active in many First Peoples' canoeing, and turtle collecting among her
Evergreen to escape her horne in Seattle. Libby media issues.
groups, ASIA , and the Women's Center. Last interests.
Rene Juarez- Rene was drawn to
has taken Writing From Experience and
Neil P. Brundage- Neil admits freely year, Naomi was the editor-in-chief of the CPj
Foundation ufVisual Arts in the past here and that he was drawn to Olympia by his love for
and worked on the Students of Color Evergreen in an effort to get as far away from
was coordinator of the Evergreen Queer Evergreen. In the past he has taken the Japan Anthology. She is currently a First Peoples' Fresno, CA without leaving the country arId
Alliance. While not hard at work, she enjoys Today program and spent two years in
Peer Support Counselor and is interested in still enjoy a different approach to education.
writing, painting, and hanging out at Kinkos. Hakodate, Japan working on the Kamiiso cultural and urban studies.
Last year, she was in the C(ART)ographies
Jennifer Daniels-- Jennifer was attracted Board of Education and taught English. He is
Erin Ficker- When asked what brought progam and is now enrolled in Politi ca l
to Evergreen due to its interdisciplinary currently enrolled in Masters in Public her to Evergreen, Erin replied, "a van ". Last Economy and Social Change. In addition to
curriculum structure, and has taken Administration and plays intermural year she made it through Problems Without working with MEChA and the Women ofColor
C(ART)ographies and Psychological Aspects of basketball. He hopes that with his position on Solutions (don't forget the ???) and has moved Coalition, Rene is a former Toys ' R' Us
Health and Healing. Last year, she was the the Board that he will become more mvolved on this year to the Shakespeare and Chaucer employee.
coordinator of the Rape Response Coalition. with life here at TESe.
program. A returning Board member and
BY JENNIFER KOOLGER

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Noam Cho'msky, famed intellectual giant, rocked the house with an 1800 plus crowd, Aside from delivering
an enlightening speech, he also opened the eyes of hundreds of Evergreen students to the fact that we
have a campus gym. See page 6 for th-: full story.

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OLYMPIA,

Evergreen grad
arrested in
"Witch Hunt"
By REYNOR PADILLA
WENATCHEE, Washington- Evergreen
graduate Paul Glassen was arrested for
"witness-tampering" in allegedly bogus child
sexual abuse case, according to an extensive
Knight-Ridder News Services article written
by Armin A. Brott and printed in th e
Sacramento Bee.
How and why Glassen , a Child Protective
Services (CPS) worker, was arrested, Armin
reports, started wi.1h a disagreement between
Wenatchee resident Robert Devereaux and hi s
foster daughter Annie Weishoff.
Devereaux refused to let Weishoff. I S,
have sex with her coyfriend in Devereaux's
house . To get revenge Weishoff la ced
Devereaux's soda with iodine. Devereau x
wasn 't hurt, but he reported the poisoning
with the authorities and Weishoff was later
arrested.
According to the Brott'~ article, Detective
Perez questioned Weishoff in jail four days
later. Perez interregated her alone, against CPS
rules, for several hours. Weishoff told Perez
that Devereaux had sexually abused her. Perez
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BY ANDY SCHOENSTEIN

Students warm up on
the floor of the Longhouse.
If we knew aJ] their names,
we would have written
them here. Ifyou know any
ofthese students, please
give them a copy of this
newspaper. Ifyou are one
of the students in this
photo ... send a copy to
your parents. They'JJ like it

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charged and arrested Devereaux with multiple
counts of sexual abuse later that day.
This is where CPS worker and 1982
Evergreen grad Paul Glassen comes in.
Accordi'ng to Brott's report, Devereaux visit ed
Weishoffthe next day- "I feel really bad." she
said, "The police officer was, like, trying to set
up Dad or something. He made me say a whole
bllnch of lies."
Glassen immediately reported Weishoff"s
story to his boss, Armin wrote, who in turn
reported it to Perez. By the next morning Perez
arres ted Gla sse n for "tampering with a
witness." CPS placed Glas se n on
"admillistrative leave" and later fired him.
According to Brott, Classen is one of 80
adult s that have been arrested in what has
be come kn own as the Wenatchee Witch
Hunts- a story abo ut Robert Rodriguez, an
al lege dly ull sc ruplilou s and unproffes ional
~('x-ab u se investigator who used. "unethica l
alld illegal met hods to prosecut e innocent
people." Brott wrote.
Accordin g to another article by Dorothy
Rabi nowitz from the September 29,1995 Wall
Stree t Journal, some suspccts have been
charged with over several thousand counts of
chil d abuse each. CPS ha s placed 50 children
in foster homes. 28 of the accused are in jail.
nine of them await trial.
Nea rly everyo nr wi th any co nnection to
the case is being accused of sex ual abuse.
Rabinowitz reported that defense investigator
Larry Daly and KREM-TV news reporter Tom
Grant have both been accused . Gra nt aired a
news repo rt that Rabinowitz ca lled an
..... unrel enting, generally remarkable expose
of the Wenatchee prosecutions ... "
Brott's article continlles. delving int o
more detail about the cases in Wenatchee. The
article concludes with Glassen, who from the
\afety of Ca nada , sa id . "I've seen lots of real
child abuse cases in my 30 years ofcounseling,
but I've never seen any psychological abuse as
bad as this," he ~ays. "A nd the worst thing i~
th e}"ve been abused b)' the very people who
are supposed to protect them."
The trials of Wenatchee are beginning to
ge t more public attent ion , with an
il1vestiga tive series airing Thursday and Friday
at 5 pm on KING 5 and a rumored Newsweek
Jrt icle nex t week.

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Teachers may come and go at a
school or in the lives of students, but the
beauty of education occurs when a teacher
provides inspiration and insight that her or
his students carry long after class has
ended. For four years, Evergreen's Performing Arts program was lucky enough to have
Charlotte Tiencken-Wooldridge share the
inspiration and insight she got from her fifteen years of professional theatre experience.
Aside from teaching, Charlotte directed and produced numerous plays, was
the faculty coordinator for the Spring OneAct Play Festival for three years, founded the
Fall Children's Theatre Program, and
brought dozens of first-rate professional
performing arts productions to Evergreen
as the Executive Director of Evergreen Expressions.
Charlotte is a native of North
Carolina and she lived and worked in the
South until she came to work at Evergreen.
At the age of 12, she worked with a small
children's theatre and knew that was what
she wanted to do with her life. Sh-e graduated with a BA in theatre from a college of
about 1700 students in the mountains of
North Carolina. Charlotte said her school
was similar to Evergreen in its non-traditional approach to education in the Liberal
Arts. She learned diverse skills in the
school's small theatre department. which
led to a job doing both sound and costumes
for a touring children's theatre in North
Carolina , an internship in lighting at the
Theatre of Virginia, and a summer stock
position for two seasons as a stage manager.
After a good dose of the real
world. Charlotte decided to go to gr.aduate
school to study her first love, children's theatre. She recieved her MFA in children's
theatre direction at the University of Texas
at Austin and from there, taught public
school drama in New Orleans for a year as
Artist-in-Residence. She then spent three
years in the Great State of Arkansas as a
stage manager for the Arkansas Arts
Children's Theatre and as a production
manager for an opera company. Arkansas
is where Charlotte met her husband Terry,
a fellow creative person, whose occupation
as a visual artist luckily lent itself to mobility. From Arkansas they went to Alabama.

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where Charlotte was associate production
manager for two seasons at the Alabama
Shakespeare Festival, then moved to her namesake in her her home state, Charlotte, N.c..
They lived there for two yeafs. Charlotte working as production manager for the Charlotte
Performing Arts Center, and then, finally.
came Olympia in 1991.
Coming to Washington state from
the Southern United States, said Charlotte,
".. .was like moving to another country, only
we still spoke English, though it was a,different kind of English." She was born in a town
that was founded in 1670. and she said the
newness and lack of tradition and heritage on
the West coast made for a profound difference
in social and cultural structure. Despite the
in itial culture shock. she really has grown to
love the Puget Sound area, though she still
hasn't gotten used to the rain. She is very excited about her new home of Tacoma, which
she feels is a growing town with great potential and vision.
Charlotte said it was a very difficult
decision to leave Evergreen . About the faculty
here, she said "They are a fabulous faculty and
I'm going to miss a lot of people .... there are
people here 1love dearly." She noted missing
proffessional theatre as one reason for leaving
and said, "I am someone who is always looking for new adventures and new ways fulfill
my potential as a human being and as a creative person." Everyone in the Performing Arts
area at Evergreen will miss Charlotte terribly,
both her friendship and her many contributions as a faculty member, and we all wish her
the best ofluck!

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Plants stolen from CAB
during the big blackout
BY MATTHEW KWESK IN

Sunday night Public S~fety recovered
three plants that were stolen from the CAB
building. Whilst hippies were drumming in
traffic during the campus wide power
outage last week thieves brutally stole four
plants from the second and third floor of
the CAB building. Two of the recovered
plants were stolen during that fateful night,
the other plant was stolen at an earlier time.
Public Safety officers Bob McBride,
Lana Brewster. and Larry Savage received a
warrant to search a campus dorm room
based on an anonymous phone tip. The
stolen plants as well as visible marijuana
and paraphernalia were confiscated. The
thieves, two eighteen year old female
Evergreen students, were questioned that
night. They claimed that the remaining
plants may be with two males from Seattle
that the)' were with the night of the
blackout. Public Safety's Larry Savage feels
that these fellows may not be from Seattle,
the remainder of the plants may be somewhere in the dorms. The campus Grievance
Officer will deliberate the fate of floral
pilferers, a process which is the combina-

tion of detention and seminar.
The five plants that were stolen from the
CAB were valued at over four hundred dollars .
The most expense of these, two eight foot trees,
are still unaccounted for. Student Activities
Director Tom Mercado fears that these trees
might be dead by now due to evidence of abusive handling at the scene of the crime. The
three recovered plants were smaller, and did
not show phYSical signs of damage however,
such stresses are not good for flora.
The plants in the CAB were bought to try
to pacifY the building's concrete walls and poor
lighting. Tom mercado sees the CAB as "the
campus's living room." A place to go when you
have a break from class or to study, but he also
sees this as the campus's most neglected building. The replacement of the plants will pull
from limited financial resources, competing
with the need for new furniture and other additions. By chance new plants bought by Student Activities were delivered last week after
the thefts. Rather than increasing the number
of plants in the CAB, these will fill in the empty
holes.

I s lbhe wateT.$ and the growth of all things
Because 1 am Wiccan .

Because I am Wiccan
BY LLYWELYN

Last week 1 was asked to write
an article about being Wiccan in our modern age. As my personal Goddess Hekate
is wont to do in such circumstances, a
perfect example was given to me that
night.
The power in the dorms was cut
at midnight on Thurs~lay night. Within
three minutes an impromptu drummiiJ g
circle formed nine stories below me. Wi th
screaming. chanting and drumming the
crowd that formed quickly started to experience "Blackout" mentality. As the
voodoo lik e drumming drove them
deeper into a frenzy they seemed to lose
all control.
Several people on my floor were
upset and trying to get back to sleep. Unfortunately the constant rhythm made it
impossible to do so. I went down and explained to the drummers that I liked the
sounds but that people were trying to
sleep. They were extremely cool about it
and asked if they could do one more set.
At the end they stopped drumming and
we talked and showed our flashligh ts off.
1went back upstairs to my room. Within
10 minutes the drumming started up
again with even greater intensity. This

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time some of the residents of my floor
started flinging water down on the crowd
in an attempt to drive them off. Anything
else I could do would only cause more
problems.
After an hour of constant drumming. members of hOUSing set up a Barbecue grill and started a cookout. Eventually the lights came back on and the
drumming slowly tapered off, but not
before everyone's actions had divided our
community.
What does all this have to do
with Witchcraft and living in our modern
age? I have been a Witch all my life. The
first lesson you learn is that everything
you do in life is returned to yo u three
times. You do not learn this for any high
or lofty reason, you learn this because it
happens to you over and over again . Be
respectful of others lives and feelings . and
you get respect back. Keep hundreds of
people up with drumming until2 AM on
a night before classes and you get shit
back later on. I was tempted as the others
to go out .and get a big hose and try to
tame the crowd, but I knew that they did
not need to be punished by me. Karma
. would be far worse and more pointed
than anything I could do from our balcony.

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CAB 316, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington 98505

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News ~ Briefs/ Real

Evacuation
rescheduled
The campus-wid e evacuaiion drill will
be hdd Monday, Novembe r 13th at lOam.
The drill. orginally scheduled for
October 10th, was postponed due to extreme
weat her cond itions. will take place no matter
what turbulent storms abound, so please
remember to dress appropriately.
From var ious places on campus,
individuals should proceed to one of th e
('vacuation sites: the soccer field, the Semin ar
tield, Held five by th e Child Care Cent er, or
the Librarv Meadoll'. Use the closest site to
your loca tion .
[JOIl't forget to use the buddy system.

D.C.
Internships
The Fund Fur AlllericJ n Studies, in
conjunction with Ceorgrtown Univers it y, is
[llrre ntl ), recruiting studt' nt s to study in
Wash ington D.C. over the summer of 1996.
Undergraduates interested in pursuing careers
in public policy, bu sin ess. o r political
jo urn ali sm are encouraged to apply. The
program runs in three seven-week programs
and provide opportunities to meet peers from
all ove r the country as well as national and
international leaders dt several conferences.
Stud ents ca n rece iv e six credits for
courses and up to three additional credits fur
internships. Interested individuals should call
1-800-741-6964 for more information. Sav hi
to Chelsea for Ille.
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Enviromental
volunteers
needed
The Washington Wildlife Alliance has
laun ched a campa ign to ban the use of bait to
ca tch hears and the use of hound dogs to hunt
bears, co uga rs, and bobcats.
The Allianre believes th at practices slIch

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as luring a bear into a specific area to shoot at
close range or to use viciously trained dogs to
force animals into submission goes against the
concepts of sport and fair chase, because they
give the hunter an unfair advantage.
In order to place this initiative on the
November of 1996 ballot, the coalition must
circulate petitions to gather at least 181,000
registered voters signatures between February
SandJuly 5 of 1996.
If you would like to volunteer for this
ca LlSt', contact the Washington Wildlife Alliance
at (206) 633-3435.

Programs at
Asian
museum
The Wing Luke Asian Museum, on 7th
Avenu e in Seat tle, is celebrating the holidays
with Saturday programs designed for families.
This month. the museum is celebrating
Loy Krathong, the Festival of Floating Leaf
Cups . on Saturday, November 11 from 2-3pm.
The festival is celebrated in Thailand when the
rain refills the rivers and people rejoice in the
abundance of water by sen ding wishes down
the river in floating leafcups shaped like lotus
blossoms.

Tuesday, October 24

0800: Habitation Violation in the fourth floor 0340: A suspicious person who missed the la st
of the Library.
bus was allowed to stay the night in A-Dorm,
1150: Theft 01'<1 stereo from A-Dorm reported. 0915: The above suspicious person was making
j 250: Bike storen fTorn a bike rack in th e Mods.
people feel uncomfortable in A-Dorm.
1310: Theft of a wa ll et form a purse in the 1217: A person fell on the second floor Library
Mods.
. Lobby stairs.
1413: There wa~ a domestic dispute by A 1240: Theft of a bike from the Mods.
Dorm.
1744: Theft of a bike from the front of the
1500: Bike stolen from a bike rack in the Mods. Library.
2330: An Evergreen student was struck by a 1800: Indecent exposure at TESC beach.
drunk driver at Mud Bay and Kaiser Road. The Bicycles were not involved, but sex toys Were.
~tlldcnt was taken to hospital with head
.
injuries, the driver was arrested.

0300: A st udent was asked to wait until spring
before rappelling from A Dorm.
] 355: Habitation vio lation by 3415 Overhulse
Road.
IGOO: The Corner Cafe reported that money
which was missing a month ago was returned.

Sunday, October 22
0602 An anatomy poster was stolen fTom the
V\'ellness Center.
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Monday, October 23
0944: Theft of a bike from N Dorm.
1107: Theft of a back pack ITom P Dorm on
Saturday night.
1817: A theft that occurred Saturday at the
Community Center was reported.
PAGI! 4NoVEMBER

2, 1995

Housing's Happy

Vet:eran!i Dayt=inally
recognized at: Evergreen

Hall.o~een

Wednesday, October 25
0100: Suspicious persoll ill the A-Dorm "Edge".
1110: Suspic ious person in th e Mods and
Coopers Glen apartments.
1218: Theft of a bike from J Dorm.
1850: Vehicle stolen from FLat.

Thursday, October 26
0106: Several fire alarms were maliCiously
plllled during the power outage.
0832: Four plants were sto len from the third
floor of the CAB during the power outage.
1627: Graffiti was reported in the CRe.

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O'CONNOR
This year, Evergreen will officially
recognize Veterans Day for the first time
in school history.
When Paul Gallegos, special assistant
to the president for equal opportunity,
approached the Office of Veteran Affairs in
August with the idea of planning some sort
of official event around Veterans Day, many
of us in the office were not entirely sure
when or what Veterans Day is. Since then,
campus veterans have been doing some
soul-searching.
Most
Americans
have
never
acknowledged, celebrated or honored
Veteran's Day, other than perhaps having a
day off work. People who are not veterans
or are not relatedto one may have never
co nsidered the ideology behind this holiday.
For vets and their families, the issue is more
complicated . Veterans ask themselves
questions like: How can I acknowledge my
service without condoning the negative
aspects of war? Is it wrong to celebrate being
a veteran? Is that celebrating war? It is
extremely painful for many vets to reflect
back on their serv ice and the re sulting
exper ience s.
When the idea was proposed that we
recognize Veterans Day by visiting the war
memorials, one vet sa id, "Memorial Day is
for dead veterans. Veterans Day is for those
of us who lived." Some of the vets do wish
to reflect upon those whose lives ended as a
result of milita ry serv ice, particularly those
whom th ey served alongside. The meanings
of Veterans Day are as diverse as the
veterans themselves.
Veterans Day - originally called
Arm ist ice Day - was created in 1918 to
celebrate the end of World War II and honor
vetera ns of military service. Changing
ideologies have accompanied the changing
times. The ideals of patriotis m, democracy,
freedom, war, duty, honor and America
have been reshaped by millions of hands
over the past 77 years. In shaping the first
recognition of Veteran 's Day on campus, the
planning committee had to define terms
and answer tough questions
Why hasn't Veteran's Day been
recognized at Evergreen in the past? The
answer may lie in the fact that Evergreen
carne into existence when this country was
being torn apart by sentiments about the
Vietnam War. "Coming back from Vietnam in 1968 ... meant getting spit upon ," says
stu dent Michael Mangin. It is no wonder
that Veterans Day was a hush-hush holiday.
Staff members, students and faculty
members in the past have asked that
Veterans Day be recognized, but due to lack
of support, or possibly due to fear, it never
happened.
Is it best to let Veterans Day remain
hu sh-hush? When asked how they would
like to recognize Veteran's Day, campus vets
replied in numerous ways. "Are you
kidding? On this campus?" "I don't want to
recognize it." "It's about ~irne!" "That's in
the past. I don't care about being a veteran
as long as I get my benefits ." ·What a
wonderful idea I" "I'll go if there's food." The
most common reply of all was, "Instead of
recognizing our service, can we let the rest
of the campus know that we're not bad
people?"
BY SHELLY

The Adefua Cultural Education Workshop
will be hosting Th(' Odullde Festival '95
ThanksgiVing Weekend ( Nov. 24-26th) at the
Garfield Commu nity Center in Seattle.) The
festival will consist of concerts, drumming, and
dance workshops as well as an African
marketplace fll11 of gift·giving ideas. Special
gues t artists include Assane Konte and Abdou
Kounta of the Kankouran Dance Company of
Senega l.
If you wO!Jld like to attend one of the
workshops or need more information , ca ll (206)
722·6602.

Cr~~ Matthew Kweskin

Saturday, October 21

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African
harvest
celebration

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Reservations are required for this
activity. Families are admitted free with each
ad ult admission of $2.50. To reserve a place
or find out more about th e mllseum, call (206)
623-5124.

Study
abroad
~orkshop
Academic Planning and Experiential
Learning is sponsoring a Study Abroad
Workshop on Thursday, November 9 from 3
to 4pm in Library 2218.
The workshop will include a
presentation by Jose Gomez, Academic Dean,
about the resources and materials available for
students to travel and study. Call th e APEL at
x6312

The Real
Life Ne~s
and you
From time to time, the News Briefs page
will feature strange but true stories from the
Evergreen ca mpus and beyond. If you have

Scan

TOM

such a story, please con ta ct the CPj office at
x6213 and tell the friendly voice on th e other
end of th e phone that you have a piece for the
Real Life News. Please remember that these
stories should he appropriate for publishing
a nd not harmful or derogatory to any
individual or group, (without th e irpermi~sio ll ,
of course.)

Repeating a
class?
If you have taken a specific class mulitple times.
the folks at the CPJ want to talk to you. You
could be featured in these very pages in an
article discussing what the advantages are to
taking a class more than once (or someihing).
Ca ll us at th e CPj at x6213 or e-ma il us at
cpj .. @e lwha. evergreen.edu. and leave a
message for Steve Thomas. This article could
be very important to the community, so please
fe el free to contribute.

ConSidering the array of responses, self-identified veterans in the campus
Veteran's Day obviously needs recognition, community. The responses I receive will, in
The committee decided to focus on the most some form , appear in this, as well as the next
common request; educating the Evergreen issue of the Cpr
community.
There is a significant veteran
While planning for the holiday, population on the Evergreen campus .
concerns arose over the adversity we may Fourteen percent of faculty and staff and 8
face on campus,
percent of the
Several vets are
students identify
apprehenSive about
themselves
as
Most Americans have
being identified as
having
served
in
never..acknowledged,.celebrated
veterans. As a female
the U.S. Arm,:,d
o(honored Veterans Day,
vet, I have not
Forces.
In
other .tha,n perhaps having
experienced hostility
recognition of the
.
a day
on campus, but I have
Greener Vets and
witnessed negativity
Veterans Day, a
wh en people lea rn
week of activities
that I was a soldier. I knew I would be will lead up to the actual holiday, November
writing about Veterans Day for the CPj, and 11.
I wanted to ensure I would be dealing with
The planning committee has worked
facts, not merely my experience or diligently to tailor activitie s to meet the
misconceptions within the community. To needs of vets as well as the rest of the
accomplish this mission, I created a campus. The theme for the week is
questionnaire with input from committee "Veteran's Day: Celebrating Community."
members. Six questions were sent out to all We welcome all members of the Evergreen

community.
KAOS will host a discussion with vets
of various eras, and share some short stories
and music . This program will be aired on
Thursday, November 9, from 4 to 5 pm.
The two display cases in the library
lobby will feature photos, memorabilia and
creative work supplied by campus vets. A
blank book will be located nearby, where all
are encouraged to comment on the display.
Veterans Day activities and share what th e
holiday means to them.
"No Time For Tears ," a film about
American women who se rved in Vietnam,
will be shown in Lecture Hall 4 at 12 noon,
on Wednesday, November 8. This film will
be followed by a panel of combat veterans
to discuss with community members their
feelings about service, com bat, and Veterans
Day.
The next issue of th e CPJ will contain
more input from Greener Vets.
"Veteran's Day: Celebrat in g
Community." Let's all come to ge ther to
make the first official recog nition of
Veteran's Day at Evergreen positive a nd
enlightening for the entire community.

Who are the veteran!i?
BY SHELLY O'CONNOR
the freedoms of speech, expression, religion
The goal set by the planning and opportunity. Students in particular are
committee for the first Veteran's Day at continually demanding freedoms from
Evergreen is to create understanding oppression for groups of people all over the
between the veteran community and the world. People support freedom, but do not
Evergreen community at large. Education always support the force that sometimes
is the focus of our lives here as education ensures that freedom .. "All wars are bad, unless
enable s understanding. 'In effort to . it is through a particular war you are the one
educate the community, I would like to who is freed from oppression .... Freedom is not
present some statistics, relate issues and free; it is essential that our guard never be
dispel two myths about veteran's.
relaxed," says studentJ.W. Macintyre.
It is important to veterans that the
Fourteen percent of staff and faculty
and 8 percent of the students of the civilian community understand that serving in
Evergreen community are self-identified combat does not mean that those who serve
veterans, peo ple who have served in th e
Arm)" Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and
Fourteen percent of staff and
Coast Guard. Some 27 miHion Americans
fa~ulty and 8'perc~nt oithe· .
now living have served in the military;
students
of the Evergreen
approximately 22 million of those have
j
' .
seen combat. There are veterans who have
.community qre s~/f:identified
served in the Spanish-American War, both
, v~terans, people ~ho
World Wars, the Korean Conflict, the
have serv~d 'the
Navy,
Vietnam "Police Action" and the Gulf War.
Marine.
Corpsi
Aii'
Forc,earid
In recent years, veterans have faced
'- Cqast GuariJ. .' ..
adverSity in such places as Panama, Haiti,
Cuba, Lebanon , Granada, Somalia and
Bosnia.
All of the vets who served in combat agree with the politics behind their jobs.
"Veteran 's Day is neither the celebration
know of someone who didn't come home.
Vets who do return to the states have ofwar nor the acknowledgment of winners and
to deal with the positive and negative losers, but the remembrance of those who
experiences; they are thankful that they made a sacrifice to uphold the ideals and
made it and feel guilty about those who protect the freedom of this country," says
didn't. Their families and communities student Eric Durbin.
Veteran's Day is not only about combat
have to deal with their own issues relating
to military service. Some people have vets, although they are the ones who make the
found their service to be very rewarding ultimate sacrifice. Without a peacetime force,
and enriching. Some are continually there would be no peace, "It is true that
haunted by their memories of service or throughout history, nations who have
by the reactions they received from others. continually prepared for war have gone to war.
Thousands of veterans corne horne with It is also true that nations who are unprepared
physical and mental disabilities that they for war are invaded and thus have war thrust
must face everyday for the rest of their upon them," says student Stacey Wickitt.
lives. Approximately 109,00 American "S tanding between war and the civilian
service members died during the Vietnam populace of our country is the military."
"Vetera n's Day is a day when we
era. Some 150,000 Vietnam vets, unable
to deal with their experiences, pain, and recognize the people who have served our
societal reactions upon returning to the country... I was never in a war or conflict, but I
am a veteran," says student Dann Chesmore.
states, have since committed suicide,
Here are two myths about veterans that
There are two issues veteran's within
need
to be dispelled:
the Evergreen community often find
Myth 1: Veterans get a free education.
bothersome. Emphasis here is placed upon

in

"rmy,

There are various educational benefits for
veterans. Those benefits depend upon
what is offered at enlistment. Most vet
students receiving educational ben efit s
are under the G.L Bill meaning that for th e
first 12 months of service, they paid $100
a month into the G.1. Bill fund. If the
veteran enters college within 10 years of
leaving the service, monthly allotments
are available, up to a .specified amount, as
long as the vet is degree-seeking and
receiving full credit. Although this is a
fund the vet paid into, planning for future
education, it often counts against the such
as (student) loan repayment programs.
Some veterans who were di sab led in
receiv e
vocational
service
do
rehabilitation as a result of their serviceconnected disabilities. Most vet students
have to work while in school, despite any
educational benefits th ey might be
receiving.
Myth number 2: They are war
mongers and baby killers. "To blame
veterans for war is like blaming women for
rape," says one anonymous veteran.
People enter the military for a variety of
reasons, the least common of which is to
kill. For a time, men were drafted. The
service offers travel and educational
benefits to those who might not otherwise
further their lives. It provides path up
and out of undesirable positions, "It's not
perfect, but it's the only window open for
many citizens," says staff member Wanda
Curtis. Wickett says, "No one hates war
more than those who know the face of

a

war."

For many Greener vets, it was
painful to respond to the Veteran's Day
questionnaire I sent out to them. It has
also been painful for me to read these
responses. There are several who have
told me that they cannot or will not
respond, due to the anguish surrounding
thoughts of service. A few vets expressed
disinterest for what was once merely their
job. Whether or not vets want to celebrate
Veterans Day, or how they want to
celebrate it, their contribution should be
recognized by all who value the freedoms
they helped to preserve.

THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL. NOVEMBER

2, 1995 PAGE 5

News
Chomsky visits Evergreen
tions. bugging our legislator. that 's what
life's all about. " he affirmed.
addressed a crowd of Evergreen stuNoam Chomsky. MIT professor and
social analyst, spoke in Olympia on Octo- dents and faculty concerning the U.S. led
ber 22 and 23. The 67 year old outspoken "Prospects For World Order." Coinciding
intellectual was in town for two talks. The with the 50th year anniversary ofthe United
first was held at the Capitol Theater as a Nations he spoke on the U.S.'s responsibilbenefit for the Liberation Cafe: Olympia Po- ity for the U.N.s fallure to effectively remlitical Cultural Center. Chomsky's second edy both the Cold War and current global
presentation, which was preceded by a press ethnic conflicts.
Chomsky'S argument was based
conference. was held, free of charge. at The
on what he described as the. "two conflictEvergreen State College.
Pete Buhmer. Evergreen facult y ing visions," that th e U.N. was founded on.
and member ofThe Olympia Movement for Namely, "th e one that we're all familiar
Justice and Peace, said that planning for th e with," and the more realistic (and less menevent started ill 1993. Buhlller fuulld that tioned) visiun of a western based world govthere was interest in Choms ky after he ernme nt that serves the int erest of a powershowed the film "Manufacturing Consent." ful minority.
Asking any institution of authora documentary based on his novel of the
same name, to the program he was teach- ity to justify itself was a key point Chomsky
ing at the time.
made during all three of his appearances,
"I wrote to him sayi ng that the particularly when asked to address potennext time he had time open in his schedule, tial solutions or strategies. "Anytime you
if he could come and speak in Olympia, " find any authoritarian structure. you should
Bohmer explained. Chomsky agreed after challenge th em," commented Chomsky. "If
finding he would be spea king in Oregon, they can't meet the burden of proof then it
and confirmed last month's date in the sum- may lead to a vision where there is no higher
authority," he added.
mer of1994.
The events drew "about 3,000
Chmsky's fist lecture, "A Critique of
Growing Inequality and Right-Wing Politics people." from places as far away as Seattle
in the U.S .... addressed what he calls the his- and Vancouver. Bohmer believes that the
torically "cyclical" nature of the current rise large turnout has "made people feel less isolated because they have [unorthodoxl
of conservative politics.
According to Chomsky this political ideas." "People can now say 'Look.
shift that began in the 80's is analogous to [Olympia's l not quite as conservative as I
the American political landscapes of the 20's thought.'" said Bohmer.
Despite an overwhelming show of
and 50's as well. In both cases the resurgence
of monocultural nationalist sentime nt s, solidarity. genuine appreciation and what
propaganda of the national enemy, and vic- Bohmer describes as a. "pretty positive." retim scapegoating were abated by those who sponse from those who attended Chomsky's
questioned and challenged the powers th at lectures. there wa~ a subtle airof di~appoil1t­
ment as the event s came to a close. Man)'
be.
At the Monday morning press Evergreen student s I spoke with abou t
conference Chomsky provided personal in- Chomsky's talks expressed that their expecsight into variuus sorial and political issues tations had not been fully mel. Numerous
affecting t he world. Many of Chom~ky's student responses ranged from "he didn't
responses to such issues expressed his aver- really say anything we didn't already know"
sion to mass media's deference to the U.S . to "t he problem I have with Noam is he's
preaching to the converted."
b!Jsiness agenda.
Solidarity and a well inform ed
"The core of the business agenda
Iwhich includes the health ca re industryI is confirmation of ones sociopolitical beliefs,
manipulation," stated Chomsky. "They are however, was enough to bring an estima ted
out to make profits and don't ca re abou t total of 3.000 people over a period of two
people. so they give them the worst type of days together to hear Chomsky speak and
would undoubt edly do so again. Even those
care," he added.
As an attempt to address possible who expressed some disappointment were
stra tegies for comba tin g the plethora of pleased to have had the opportunity to hear
sociopoliti cal ills he is known for elaborat- him speak in person.
Chomsky also said that he enjoyed
in g on, Chomsky reaffirmed his beliefof an
unyielding business agenda stating that. his time in Olympia. teUing Bohmer that "he
"The power for the state to coerce is quite would like to come back" and wished he had
limited-obstacles are in the highly class con- more time to spend here. However "he
scious business community and the govern· didn't promise when."
If you can't wait that long to
ments that run them."
Chomsky felt he could not provide quench your need for more Noam
any specific effective strategies for coalitions Chomsky. his talk at the Capitol Theater is
because subjects of coalitions varied. How· going to broadcasted over KAOS on Friday,
ever, "Demonstrating. taking over institu- November 3. at noon,

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On Wednesday. November 1. Michael
Cardew and Jim Robbinson from Northwest
Food Services and Nancy McKinney. faculty
Iiason to NWFS held an Open Focus Group to
discuss grpwth and fut ure directions ofthe dining facilities at Evergreen. The meeting was attended by three faculty members and myself.
That was it. Despite the extremely low amount
of participants. the group aired concerns about
the Greenery changes and the overabundance
of customers at the Deli.
Cardew stated that the lack of turnout was "fairly typical" of the Evergreen community, citing the meetings concerning the
CAB closing last yt'ar, which were only attended by about five students. A lack of publi ci ty may have been to blame. The meeting
was only announced through campus mail and
the faculty newsletter "GreenerScene". These
mediums only reach a very small percentage
of people on campus, especial1y students.
The main topic of conversation
circled around the existing NWFS facilities and
th eir ability to accommodate a growing campus population. Robbinson noted that the facilities currently used. like the Deli and the
Greenery. were built with only a small amount
of people in mind. With the increasing amoun t
of staff and students, the space with which
NWFS has to work with becomes more and
more strained. McKinney noted that this space
crunch is being felt all over campus. from the
parking lots to Housing, and not just within
the realms of dining.
The long lines at the Deli are partially
a result of the tight space that doesn't allow for
more cashiers and has students extending far
back into the salad bar on some days.

Robbinson stated that the lines also revolve
around the class structure at Evergreen, which
for the most part lets students out at noon,
packing the Deli with hungry people. He suggests that a stratified class structure in which
students wouldn't all get out at the same time
would ease the burden on those waiting i.n
lines.
Changes in the Greenery. including
switching from ala carte (items paid for separately) to an "all you can eat" format have also
increased the Deli business. Contrary to popular belief, the Greenery is being utilized by
about as many students as last year. McKinney
stated that both students and parents had requested an easier meal plan such as the new
system. but commented that ifit does not work
after the end of this academic year that she and
NWFS will evaluate the situation to ensure th at
it is serving the community well.
Other topics of conversation were
brought up by facul ty member Donna
Johnson. who was concerned with the quality
of Deli service after 5pm. when the rush of the
day is visible, making the Deli a somewhat
messy place. Johnson was also concerned with
the variety of offerings. and would like to see
more low-fat, grab-and-go items
In the future, NWFS would like to
expand their services into other places on cam·
pus. including espresso or food carts in the Lab
buildings. If you would like to put in your two
cents about the future ofNWFS, how you feel
about the whole Deli/Greenery debate, or any
other campus food concern. attend the next
meeting Wednesday at 3 in CAB 108. If I am
the only student thert' again, they'll make me
speak for all of us. You don'l want that, believe me.

Institute for Spanish Arts presents a
dance and music event that will set the
Washington Center stage on fire!

by
Dear Yonnique Huffington,
J'm sorry I couldn't contact you sooner.
but you must understand that I am under
strict supervision here at Evergreen The
government has commandeered my thesis
research and has ordered me to absolute
silence under pain ofenforced
discombobula tion.
It all started out so innocently, I was a
sophomore like a lot of sophomores here. I
used /0 like to sketch flora and eat the Tofu
Scramble at the Corner Cafe, but alI that seems
so long ago ... 1 met this guy named
Banditotrauser, Clide Banditotrauser. a specialist in experimental mycelium cultures and
simian sexology. It all seemed so
ir!nocent... Now J'm in way over my head... Our
group has researched your past. We know that
you sold Readers Digest and simulated woodgrain finish tables and chairs to old women
during their supping hour, We know that
you've researched the effects ofiildole hallucinogens on simian subclasses during your leisure hours... that you believe in the liberatory
power ofmega bong hits. You threw a brillian t
career away in comparative psychopharmacology to hold a lousy-stinking telemarketing
job-"
"I had no choite ... or did I?" Interjects
Yonnique. cheeks turning crimson. The letter
trails off into celtic memes and serpentine
glyphs:an evident attempt to baffle unlettered,
doughnut-inhaling government agents.
Telephone poles streak by but never
move. He wants to read on,but the bus travels
over unpaved roads.An enormous divot is hit.
Turquoise t'lrd-water spews up from the toilet
bowl,covering him with Sickly smelling gunk.
Amorphous.blue-gellied turds cling to him like
deep-sea annelids.
"Oh, Damn!!" he yells, grabbing a stack
of handiwipes from the dispensor. He rips
them open and furiously wipes at saniflush
ooze.
"Ah shucks," says Yonnique,imagining

7-7

Sat

8-6

Sun

8-5

--Vogue

LACEY '
Nexl to Fred M eyer
720 Sle a ter Kinney Rd

It's
true!

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Information Tab Ie Wed. & Thurs., 10AM-3:30 PM, CAB lobby
""I'.

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* Stephen Kin.g by no means endorses the CPJ fiction page.

Events

352-3676

NOVEMBER

"With this
multicolored
Zoot
suit,
I, Yonnique
Huffington,
christen a new
era of my being, " he smiles
and adjust his
amber earmuffs
to a position
complimentary
to the Z-suit.

Flamenco

11:1 ,It},

OLYMPIA

6

you're involved with ," says Yonnique,squatting
down beside her.
"Yes,look at the way each strand crisscrosses,pursuing a seemingly singular dcstiny-"
A skateboarder executes a three-quarter
turn off a railing.
"Righteous!" IJipes Yonnique.
"-but subtely maintains the whole .. .look
deep inside it... Yonnique stares and the yarn
seems to writhe. there is no end to the twine's
configurations. His mind forsakes the ambits
of time and place to fuse with the cradle. She
rotates it slightly, there is an earthquake in Albania; she changes the pattern again.tribal war
erupts in New Gui~ea; a twist of her wrist and
a starving salamander consumes a brokenwinged butterfly;she puts the cradle upSidedown and a boy and girl are married in a Bavarian forest; she moves her index and thumb
again and Yonnique is snapped out of his
trance. He comes back to reality with a grumbling stomach.
''I'm starved."
"The primate lab is offering free food in
exchange for volunteer work there. "
"What kind of volunteer work?"
"They're researching the effects of different mo lecules on the larynxs of apes and humans. I hear the food's pretty good. But you
have to sign a waver saying you won't discuss
the experiments with anyone ... as long as you
live."
"That's pretty heavy," says Yonnique excited to find something related to the inscrutable letter.
.. What's your name."he asks sta ndin g up.
"Jeffries, Thumbelina Jeffries"
"Well Thumbelina, that eat's cradle is
qui te a treat. "
"A little something an anthropologist in
Burma taught me when I was there doing field
work."
"Where's this primate lab?"
"Oh my god! Watch OUlluUt!!" ...

The~eenof

Will - The ~ympian

aetween Ernst & Payless
400 Coo pe r PI Rd .

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himselfbeing whipped by that Asian harpie up Yonnique asks a hipster passing by.
"Never heard of her. maybe she's at Ever
front.
Despite his smelly dampness,he resumes green. take the 41."
He hops the 41 with little fanfare. The
reading the cryptograph. "When you get to Evcampus has a fine scent about it. Hippies
ergreen," he decodes.
"I won't be able to help you much. or even shuffle to classes. mods and punks strut defiacknowledge your existence: too risky. You'll antly CABwards. Yonnique walks aimlessly,
be on your own.Always remember that here, taking it all in. He stops in front of the " Free
=
Box" outside the commuamid the larch trees and
nity center.
twelve varieties oHern you
Some party goer has
can make a differenceleft the remnants of a muleven if you feel like shit
ticolored zoot suit in the
most of the time.
box:a garishly oversized
Yours possibly forthree piece suit with
ever,
swinging
watch
Dumpster Gurl
chain. Yonnique exchanges
"Dumpster Gurl?"
his soiled clothes for the
"Open up in there I
new duds. He keeps the
gotta shitl"
earmuffs-believing in
"Just a minute.
their
talismanic
please." he throws the
pro pert i es., Yo n n iq u e
handiwipe in the toilet and
checks himself out in the
flushes. Walking back to his
bathroom mirror of the
seat. children bat at him for
Community Center.
his earmuffs but he deftly
"With this multicolshields his head,deflecting
ored 200t suit.I .Yonnique
migitoid arms with heroic
Huffington, christen a new
determinacy.
era of my being," he smiles
He looks at the Asian
and adjust his amber earwoman's seat-empty. In
muffs to a position compliher place is an Alfdoll from
mentary to the 2-suit.
the failed t. v. series. He
Emerging from the
looks out the window but
Community
Center.
she's gone without a trace.
Yonnique stares at the
Nonplussed, he reposimultifarious trees and vegtion~ his earmuffs. He
stares down at the foot guard of his seat. "Who etation that surround him. He takes a deep
will be theJohn Brown of Pot?" is carved primi- breath and picks at a.zit."People and forces
know that I'm here." he muses.
tively on it.
Seated in front of him, a beautiful woman
His mind reels. Who is this Dumpster
Gurl? What group was she working with and 'd ressed in a sarong is involved in a cat's
how did they know of his interest in mind- . cradle.She sits transfixed by the intricacies of
the twine.Occasionally she will move her finmanifesting organics'!
Getting off the Dog Pound bus he inhales gers slightly. causing the pattern, the paradigm
to shift.
the pure air of Olympia.
"That's a rather complex string-structure
''I'm looking for Dumpster Gurl."

.'

Downtown Oly
M-F

Part t~o: The further
adventures of Yonnique

Seattle WA 98121
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
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2, 1995

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Sonics~ first round fades not forgotten
by John Evans
Two years ~go. after the triumph of a 63 win
reg ular seaso n, if you told the average
Wa shingtonian that (he SuperSonics would not
on ly be bounced in the first round that year but ·
th e following seas on as well, they prob ably
would have la ughed and said, "Yeah , right, and
th e Mariners will come within two wins of th e
World Series! "
Well, we've all lea rn ed lately that anything's
possible in Northwest sports. fro m the highest
highs to the lowest lows. The ineptitude of the
Sea hawks is o ur only constant.
Disbelief. Shock. Il orror. These were all words
Western Washington fans conjured following
th l' spectacu lar fl ame-o ut s of th e Seattle
SuperSo ni rs the last tw o yea rs. What was
considered a fluke in 1994 has become almost
an annual tradition of disappointment. Tht'
pressure co ntinues to build for a franchise and
it s cnarh . making first round survil'al thi s year
all the more di fTicu lt. With th e barrage of
pointed questions. ne"'s fea tures and plain bad
memories the te;Jlll will face come April. it will
be as cha ll eng ing to overcome co lossa l anxie ty
;IS it will th eir firs t rou nd opponent.
Considering th e sma ll galaxy of stars on Ihe
roster, the Sonics may well PU I up all sorts of
impressive sta tis ti cs this year. Al l of that will
Illeanvery littl e without a seriou.\ run into May.
Cons id er in g evt'r},o ne's ex pectat ions. the six
mon ths un til th e seco nd Sl'3son seem almost
pointless.
We're all still ree ling fro m the bitter defeats of
hack 10 ba ck firs t round flop s. The team that we
know alld love has gea red up for one last title
que~t. If they fail. trades may be ,ratt er them to
the four winds.
The changes began this year. In an effort to put
the humi liations of th e past behind th em, th e
ba IIclub has unveiled a new logo, new co lors,
new uniforms, and will play in a newly renovated
facility .
Unfortun ately, if ow nershi p thought th ose
were the prob lems with (he Sonics. the grue ling
1·5 jaunt to Tacoma for "home games"
notwithstanding. th ey have ano th er thin g
cOllling.
On a team so laden with talent as Seattle, their
ea rl y demises in the sprin g seem be the
conseq uence of poor coaching.
Internal strife often ravaged the squ ad in their
last campa ign, parti cul arly at a time when team
so lid ari ty is mos t importa nt- the post seaso n.
Ceorge Karl IIsed a deep rotation in the Sonies
;)7-25 regular season. th en inexpli('ably went to
plilying Ii or 7 players in the [..a kers series. Two
players acq uir ed to spark Seattle in the
postsea son. Sarllnas Marcu li onis and Bill
Cartw right , rode th e pines inlTunch time.
Mu('h of the troubles were ca used by disputes
over minutes. but there were also charges of
favoritism to Kemp and Payton leveled agai nst
K'lrl. a matter which he promised to re·eva luate.
It i~ \'ital that the en tire team has faith in their
coach to the ver), end. Sending headcase Kendall
C; ill h,lck to Charlntl e won't put an end to all the
t ~ am's bickeflng. though Karl would like to think
it will .
When the fra nchise surp ri singly decided to
retain th e service, of their besieged cnach, th e
players didn't exac tIy give a collectIve cheer. Karl,
hattered by intense criticism, must shou lde r the
huge burden of expectations by ownership, his
players and t he fans . Forgiveness won't come
ea,i ly from anyone .
While th e green team has high hopes of
conking up a champ ions hip thi s seaso n, th ey
may not have the necessary ingredients . Lacking
Ihe un stoppable, nea r god like pl ayer each oCthe
la\t five NBA champ ionship teams boasted
(Michael Jordan with the Bulls and I! akeem
Olajuwon of the Rockets), or even a superstar big
man like David Robinson or Shaq uille O'Neal,
Seattle lacks the essential recipe for NBA glory
in the '90s. In fact, even if they beat their first
rou nd curse there is no guarantee that th ey can
emerge from seven game series wi th th e likes of
We~te rn Co nference superpowers !-louston.
Phoenix and San An tonio.
Shawn Kemp st ill has a gl immer of potential
to become such an NBA deity, but he hasn't
developed the sort of multi-faceted game that
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2, 1995

make Jordan and Olajuwon legendary. He may
be doomed to be nothing more than a thrilling
showma n, capab le of explOS ive aerial
pyrotechnics but not the sort of final sel'Ond
heroics made routine by the league's champions.
The jUly's still out.
It's been said many times that the Sonics' fast
paced transition offense works well to a point,
but in the playoffs teams control the ball and the
lack of a half-court attack sinks Seattle. A
shortage of pure shooters, no dependable
rebound ing and a lack of diSCipline are also
common exp lanations for the tea m's downfalls .
Nonetheless, Kemp and the Son ics should
make their usua l regular season cruise, soaring
to the top of th e Pacific Division behind a lineup loa ded with its cll stoma ry explosive
weaponry.
Looming to th e south , howeve r, are Seattle's

nemesis, the Los Angeles Lakers, and a Phoenix
Suns team that seems ready to shine more
brightly than ever this season.
The Suns have addressed their most glaring
weakness , trading for Cleveland's Hot Rod
Williams to upgrade the center position .
Williams isn't any more HakeI'm Olajuwon
than Kemp is, but the move is anoth er
indication of Phoenix GM's Jerry Colangelo's
commitm ent
to
making
whatever
improvements are necessary to get Charles
Barkley a championship.
Shawn Kemp was manhandled by Dikembe
Mutombo in '9 4, but it wasn't anything the
Rain-Man did agai nst Los Angeles that cost
Seattle last year's series. Gary Payton was the
Sonic starto crash and burnagainstthe Lakers,
lit up by Nick Van Exel after Robert Pack abused
him the season before.

Rugby wins
fi!st league
VIctOry

Mens' soccer finishes season
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0 " Sa turday. October 21 Evergreen's Men 's
Ru gby hosted Sou t hern Orego n Co llege
(SO.c.) in th eir first league game of the 1995
season. S.o.c. took and early lead with two
tries (a try is a five point score) and one 2 point
conversion (a conversion is an opportunity to
kick for an extra two points after each try).
At the beginning of the second half Darren
Almin scored a beautifiJI try off a blocked kick,
putting 5 points on the board for Gangrene.
Veteran Dan Floyd scored another try soon
after, with a breakaway half field run . Armin
made the conversion to tie the game, raising
the spirits of the Gangrene squad. Trevor
Anderson kept the team rolling with a
phen omenal 90 yard try, followed by scores
from both Kaman andJ .L. The end scoreof2912 gave Gangrene a respectable league victory.
Gangrene Rugby is in need of both new and
experienced players. Practices are Mondays,
Tuesdays and Fridays from 5:00 pm till dark.
All ages are welcome. and you don't have to be
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Payton did post his best year yet in '94. leading
the team in scoring and joining Kemp and Detlef
Schrempfin the All-Star game.
That trio was honored when they became the
first three team-mates named to the AII-NBA
team in 20 years.
Schrempfis an unsung hero, reliable, versatile '
and tough. He's the rock of Gibraltar on a
mercurial team. !-lis downside is that he hasn't
shown an aptitude for hitting big shots down
the stretch, a flaw that cost Seattle dearly in the
debacle against L.A.
With the addition of Hersey Hawkins, a guard
with a smooth touch on the long jumper, and
e.qually sweet-shooting rookie She rell Ford, the
Sonics may have upgraded their arsenal for '95.
But unless the team can exorcise the demons of
years past, another season of promise will end
with our championship dreams unfulfilled.

M. FINK

Evergreen from the Tacoma Community
College. Bushey brought with him a new
style that required a some major
adjustment$, resulting in a bumpy start to
the season, but in the end it translated to
what it takes to make it to ~he playoffs.
Defender Pat Kelly describes the, year as
"reaUy strange."
In addition to the new coach, there are a
lot of new players," Kellyexplains. "We got
off to a slow start partially because we were
adjusting to a new coaching'style, but also
because we just had a string of bad luck. The
first few games we would alway~ play weU and
we were often ahead near the end, but when
we lost it was always the result of small
mistakes costing us the game."
But the team focused ~m these problems,
eliminating them systematically, impro\ling
to such a point that they haven't lost any of
their last-eight games.
Evergreen participated in the first round
of piayoffs by facing Seattle University again
yesterday. .

Perhaps the biggest news story YOll haven't
heard abou t this year at Evergreen is just how
well the men's soccer team i$ doing.
They finished their regular season last
Saturday with a tense 1-0 victory over rival
Seattle University.
.
The game was scoreless until the last ten
minutes when the Geoduck striker Ben
McDonald scored on a penalty kick, and that
win secured their place as second in the
league.
This year has been better for the team than
their 10-7-2 record might lead one to belleve.
On October 21, they beat Simon Frasier, who
were at the tiJhe the forth ranked NAJA team
in the nation, despite the fact that 'Simon
Frasier-is in British Columbia.
The following week Ben McDonald was
named the national player of the week by the
Soccer America organization 'for his
outstanding play in that game and others.
Much of the success can be attributed to
new coach ~ean Bushey, who came to

Feliz Dias De Los Muertos:

Jesus Garcia discusses Cultural Appropriation with Veronica Barrera
As this year's co-coordinator ofMEChA,
the Chicano/Latino student union on campus,
I was faced with the task of organizing a celebration on campus commemorating the Days
of the Dead. The Days of the Dead, November 1-2, provide an opportunity to remember
and honor our deceased relatives and ancestors. There is not space to proVide an ample
desription ofthe holiday. But our library provides plenty of resources on the origin and specifics of the celebration, which is celebrated in
Mexico and other Latin American countries.
Suffice to say that activities range from simple
graveyard visits to elaborate processions and
fiestas. The event has gained a lot of popularity in the United States recently. It had become
one of the two major events MEChA sponsors
at Evergreen.
This year MEChA decided, for the first
time in many years, not to organize a campus
event. The reasons will become evident as they
are echoed here in the following discussion I
had with Veronica Barrera, a staff person and
advisor to LASO, the Latin American Student
Organization. I talked to Veronica to try to sort
out my feelings about mounting a production
for Dias de los Muertos- the following is an
excerpt from a second discussion we had on
the issue.
VERONICA- It seemed to me that there
was a trend, that we weren't going to- as students, staff and faculty of color - the groups of
people of color on campus weren't going to do
any more obvert displays of our culture because those obvert displays of culture were being appropriated or weren't being appreciated
,or respected, to the 8I(tent thatwewanted that
to happen . Therefore we are going to make a
statement by saying "We're not going to show

by Jesus "Xui" Garcia
you ... we're not going to give you these concerts
and shows, and so on a so forth, of our culture
because its already been an appropriation."
There's so few of us on campus, and we have
so little money, that I think our resources
would be better spent on our own enrichment,
rather than continuing the process of having
to educate other people who either appropriate, disrespect, and don't honor. It seems to
be a waste of time. And it seems to make the
people who are putting it together uncomfortable because we have this need of wanting
people to come. Either nobody shows or the
people that show are there to suck energy from
us. Or we have the same people of color coming to the same activities aU the time. Well if
thats going to happen, then we should go
ahead and spend our resources within our
community. Enrich our community and do
things within our community on campus, to
enrich us and empower us. We just don't have
the time or the patience to be educators. We
are educators in seminar, we are educators in
our programs, why do we have to do that with
our organizations and with our organizations
money? There's no reason.
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Evergreen has accepted the challenge
and the responsibility of preventing sexua l assau lt and domestic violence on campus
through institutional funding of a part-time
permanent position.
Mary Craven has resumed her responsibilities as Sexual Assault Prevention coordi nator and will continue to provide the community with information as well as consultation
and advice to survivors
ofsexual assault and domestic violence. She
will coordinate outreach through CPj articles, brochures that incorporate policy and
procedures, new student orientation programs, and training and
workshops in the
dorms.
Mary works in
the Women's Center Mondays from 8am to 5
pm. Please drop by and say hello.
In future CPjissues , we will attempt to
give as much information as readers request,
induding answering questions regarding the
internal Evergreen process and discussing
other on and off campus resources. Rape survivors are less likely to be silent if they know of
other safe alternatives.
Some information about sexual assault:

-1 in 6 men will be raped in his lifetime.
-Women betwee n t~e ages of 16 and 19
are most likely to be raped.
Contrary to popular belief, most rapes
are not perpetrated by strangers jumping out
of the bushes. Instead they are acquaintance
rapes (non-consensual sex between adults who
know eac h oth er) ,
perpetrated by our
dates,
partners,
friends , neighbor s
and classmates. In
other words ....84% of
rape survivors know
their attacker.
·Statistic s
from the Sexual Violence Program, Univ
of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
On Tuesday, November 7th, the Rape
Response Coalition invites you to participate
in recognizing and affirming those survivors,
men and women, of sexual assault. We ask you
to please stop by our table in the CAB lobby
and take the time to write a message and/or
simply the name/s of people you know who've
been raped. After collection, we will be presenting the numerous symbols for all to see as
a visual statement. Thanks, Julie Pettigrew, Cocoordinator,
-Rape Response Coalition

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there's the educators that empower their own
VERONICA- Yeah- (for peo ple) who
people_ And at this point, maybe the organi- come in with prior knowledge, who come in
zations, not all of them-but a few of them, are already with respect, so that we don't have to
making some decisions to empower their own. (work unnecessarily). Because it's ex hausting.
And it isn't about separation. It's more about
XU[- Yeah, it is. There's so much disresurvival. !-low we survive being 12% people of spect. Like Cinco de Mayo and St. Patrick's
color- and not all those people associate them- Day, another reason to get drunk. Or its
selves as people of color, and are not all cultur- trendy. "0000, Days of the Dead! Skeletons
ally of color, and they don't all wear it in their and colorful imagery, how cool !"
face. The few of us who do have a different culVERONICA- So there we go again, havture, who do associate with a different culture, ing to put our sense of spi rituality and our
who wear it in our
sense of culture and identity
faces every day -are
up for display. Thats what
the ones who are taruncomfortable, we are on
display. Like in cages, we're
geted. So its really
You either have to
about our survival at
being looked at. It doesn 't
this point. We need
feel like the best way to
defend yourself or you
spend that kind of money to
places to be safe.
XUI- I was reput us, people of color, on
have to educate or end
ally umcomfortable
display once more.
Where we are starting
with part of last
up just being an exotic
year's celebration
from with this statement
because there was
that we are putting together
piece of furniture_
this woman who
is that we are going to realcame up to me and
istic about where we are at.
- Veronica Barrera
asked me if I worWe are in the United States,
shiped the devil?
we are Washington state
There were other unand then we are at the Evercomfortable situations that night. I shouldn't
green State College- where
have to feel like I'm some sort wierdo because (peep Ie of color are very much in the minorsome people don't understand what I'm doing. ity). We have to start from there. Is this good
VERONICA- You either have to defend for us? Is this healthy for us to put ourselves
yourselfor you have to educate or end up just on display. Obviously this year we've made a
being an exotic piece offurniture.
concious decision: No it's not healthy. We've
XUI- Sowhy go through that? This year learned from our past. Maybe next year we'll
I thought why not have a intimate celebration, be ready aga in but this year we're just not.
for people who would want to come to cel- We're going to focu s within. We're going to be
ebrate. That way we wouldn't spend an arm in safe environments so that we can survive.
It's about surviva l.
and a leg on a big production.

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2, 1995

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-1 in 3 women will be raped in her life
time.

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It all goes down on the Third Floor
Another installment of the weekly listing of Student Activity fun
Howdy again <,veryone. Let me begin
bl' apologizing for the omission of this colII;nl1 last week You know how a power outage ca n'do stra~ge things to a perso n's mind.
. ted ,
G·Ive n tl13 t th I' room .IS now full y I'11 umllla
here's the latest on what the student 3ctiviti es are up to. Keep a candle or f1ashlight
. st 'In case.
nea rb y JU
For aII you I1't erary an d ar t'IS t'IC sou IS.
now is the time to unleash your talents onto
the world. or at least the greater Thurston
County area . Evergree n's literary magazine.
. 3ccept'mg su b miSSIO
" ns lor
c
Slightly Wes.t IS
the Fall Quarter issue. This includes poems,
short stories, photographs, sketches , what
· you Ilave
Ilave you. Jus t d us t 0 ffth ose cIasslCs
lying underneath the bed and get them to the
ed itors by November 12.
The third floor 's own Mary Craven will
be coo rdinatin the Sexual Assault Prevention group agai~l this year, which will include
preventive efforts regarding domestic violence and working with survivors of sexual
assault. Craven will be available Mondays in
the Women's Resource Center and on Fridays
from 8a .m. to noon in the Office of Student
Activities in CAB 320. If you are previously
trained in working with sexual assault issues
and are interested in working with Craven for
a peer advocacy prog ram , contact her at
x6220.
It is time once again for the One Act
Play Festival, and the organizers of this year's
event are looking for sc ripts of any genre,

~ussing how Initiative 166 (see the. Oct. 19th
Issue of the CPJ)affects thecommumty_ Ittakes
place November 2 from noon to 1:30 tn the 2nd
floor Library lobby. If you are late, go anyway_
In other EQA news, Coordtnator Shawna Rae
has~;r o,",:n r~di~.sho,",: ~n our very own:9 3
KA statIon ea mgwlt queeflssuesan t e
community at large. Tune m Mondays at
3:30pm and help Shawna
name
the show. For
.
.
.
those of you more pnnt-onented, the PInk
Poodle newsletter should be available for your
eyes and mind as you read thiS. The newsletter also deals with
queer issues and political
ac.
.
.
tlOn, as well as announcmg upco~mgevents_
The Women of Color Coalition IS sponsoring the Day of the DeadhcelebratIOn Novem.
ber 3 at 7pm in the Long ouse. The evenmg
will feature an open mike, potluck, and offerings to those who ar ego~e but not forgotten_
You are encouraged to bnng candles, flowers,
or other re~ebrances oflove~lobnes:
. O~, ere are some s~a_ ut I~portant
last notes. L.A_S_O_,orthe tinAmencanStudent Organization meets on Mondays from 45pm in CAB 320. MechA meets on Tuesdays
at noon also o.n the 3rd floor. AS~, otherWise
known as ASIan Students In Alliance holds
their meetings Tuesdays at noon also. Coordinators Marlyn Prashad and Khanh Hoang
want everyone to know that ASIA is for all
Asian-American students. SPAZ, the Student
Produced Art Zone, is having meetings Thursdays at 5 up on the third floor. That is all for
now. You can turn the lights off now.

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previously printed, works-in-progress, or not
published material. If you want to see your
script produced, place your submissions in the
One-Act Play Festiva I box on the third floor
copy room in the Communications building.
Include all pertinent contact information on
the sheet. Your creations should be turned in
by November 17. If you have any questions or
would like to direct one of the plays, contact
Brian Pitts
at 866-9222 or e-mail
pitts@elwha.evergreen.edu.
If you picked up this paper on the day it
came out (congratulations!),yoll still might not
be too late to attend the Evergreen Queer
Alliance's lecture on homophobia in the Washington State Legislature, which features representatives from Hands- Off Washington dis-

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keys. Picture a road. and on that road you pass
a Men nonite family talking to eac h other in
German. they're on their way to sell furniture
and dairy products at th e loca l market. Then
yo u sec a couple of yo ung girls ca rrying buckets of water on their heads. They're Mayan,
prubably refugees from Guate mala or El Sal\·ador. They sm ile and greet you in Spanish.
Furth er along th e road you start to hear music. Yuu recognize it. It 's Bob Marley! Up
ahead you see a group of Creole men playing
basket ball ....... Welcome to Belizel
This past slimmer I worked as an intern

for the Christian Environmenta! Association in
Belize. My duties varied from swinging a hammer to teaching about green technology and
about living a lifestyle that
reflects caring for creation
from a Christian perspective. CEA is building an
education center in th e
OU
heart of Belize for college
students to take semester
courses in Belize. Volunteer groups from different
churches in the US came to
help with construction and
10 be a part of different
mission projects aimed at
helping the ellvironment.
An example of this is helping with a vacation bible
school on ca ring for creation, at a local church.
Another was helping
Siwa bon Foundation upkeep their buoys along the coral reef.
I lea rned a lot about life after living in a
tent without electricity or a toilet for two
months. I got to step outside of my culture for
a while and experience a different and better
type ofliving. It was easier for me to focus on
God while livin g in the jungle. There weren't
any distractions. From my teachings about

lifestyle choices and actually having to make
some while I was there, I realized how alien
Christian culture is or should be from American culture. I saw how
Christianity has been
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by the American way
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Unfortunately, it is
something we all too
eas ily tak e for
granted.

I learned a lot
a b t I e a &.ter .
living in a tent
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okay, i'll start right offby saying i'm queer.
this isn't something i usually talk about pubIiely, which makes me feel like i'm "hiding" or
avoiding the issue, but it's an issue i don't feel
absolutely clear about in my life so it's hard for
me to bring it into a public arena. lately i've
had several conversations with friends about
queerness in our own lives - when, if, and why
we identifY as "queer." and because it's such
an ambiguous term, it's kinda hard to figure
out exactly what it means to me, and also what
it might imply to other people.
first of all, i'm partial to words
like "queer," "dyke," "fag: "homo,"
and the like - as opposed to "lesbian,"
"gay," "homosexual," "bisexual" or
(gag) "bi-curious." i absolutely prefer
"queer" because it's inclusive of pretty
much anyone who doesn't identifY
with hetculture: lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, etc. to me, the more "acceptable" sounding words are really
sterile and removed, and to be honest
i think they just sound dumb. they
also (with the exception of "bi-curious" which sounds totally trivial)
don't allow for any sort of fluidity or
uncertainty. they make it seem like
sexuality is completely defined by who you're
sleeping with, which is just bullshit. espeCially
considering that any old five-year-old is assumed to be straight whether or not they've
ever even thought about sex.
i know that i personally feel alienated by
het culture. i can't ,relate to any of the rules
and standards of het romance, and since the
age of about twelve i've known that i liked girls
in a way that was "weird." i'm attracted to different individual people in different ways and
for different reasons, and i'm attracted to men
and women in different ways and for different
reasons. my attractions are not strictly defined,
and i don't necessarily feel like i have t~in,
prove, or qualifY that to anyone. like, i'm still
figuring it out myself, right?
but i also have my insecurities about identifYing with "gay, " "lesbian," and even "dyke"
culture/communities. at this point i'm not in
a relationship and haven't been for a long time,
i don't have much "experience" with girls, don't
know ifi really even like boys in "that way," but
don 't know ifi can honestly call myself a dyke,
yadda yadda yadda . i sometimes feel like if i
can't define myself. cut and dry. then i can't
really be a part of either queer or het culture.
and i think that's really fucken stupid CllZ it's .

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the way i see it, the more people who identifY
as being queer, the better. i am , and forever
will be, in process, and ifi have to wait until i
get someone else's approval then th at's not
doing anything for me. i need to trust myself
to be self-identified.
my friend ingrid was telling me about this
article she read that talked about th e differences between "queer" and "gay." she was saying that "queer" is also indicative of a political
stance, an overall dedication to
the politics of liberation and
equality, and the abolishment of
injustice and oppression. whereas
"gay" is just, you know, sexual
preference wi th no strings
attatched.like"gay"issomewhite
guy who wants to live with/sleep
with/date other men without having that impose on his right to
drive his bmw, work his corporate
job, and climb the social ladder.
after we talked about that, i was
better able to clarify my own position. cuz it's not like i can identify with that gay dude any more
than i can with straight women.
i often feel like "hell, if i can't define my
sexuality to myself. why should i bother with
'coming out?' if there's no girlfriend for the
family to freak out about, why does it even matter right now?" ifbeing queer were only about
who i'm fucking then it would not be an issue
to me. but the thing is, it is an issue, and ifi
wanna live in a world that feels safe to me, then
i have to look at safety not just in terms of "will
i get jumped ifi'm holding hands with my girlfriend in public" but also in terms of "what am
i having to hide or fake in order to feel acceptable in any given situation?"
as we know, "coming out" is a political
statement, no matter what. i dOll't think that
people have an obligation to be fully "out" in
order to be legitimate queers or whatever - i
mean i understand that it's just not an option
for some people. some people ca n't risk losing
their immediate communities, or losing their
jobs, or losing their families, etc. i don't feel
that i'm personally at risk of any of these things,
and because of that i feel like i need to be visibly queer - as a political stance - whether or
not i'm absolutely positive that i'm a dyke .
so hell , i guess this is my public "coming
out," eh?

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BABY
BY NOMY LAMM

feeling of things -we joke about "eating pie" (a
metaphor for urn, well, you kn ow), about
canadian milk cartons that say "homo" on
them in big huge block print, "dike access
road ," the saying "finger in the dike," and any
other silly queer references we pick up on. we
make suggestive comments to each other,
check out the girls as a matter of course, and i
don 't feel like there needs to be any sort of explanation or justification if i know that these
same girls are sleeping with boys, or have never
slept with girls, or whatever. that's their own
business, and i think that one really important
focus of queer politics needs to be the simple
ideal of not putting limits on people's sexuality.
i understand some people's frustration
with (for example) girls who will say that
they're dykes but still sleep with men. i can
see how that would seem like this weird double
validation, where they get the support of th e
queer community but also get mainstream approval for being in het relationships. on the
other hand, being queer is not as simple as saying "okay from now on i only fuckgirls." it has
to do with where you feel you fit in, what appea ls to you, what you identifY with, who you
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·Letters &
Why green
armbands?
If you have been examining the upper
arms of fellow greeners. you have probably
noticed that many people are wearing green
armbands. The attractive green ribbons
represent more than an impeccible fashion
~ense. Anyone wearing one ofthe bands has
vowed to fast eac h week for twenty.four
hours in sol idarity with others who are
protesting the recently initiated sa lvage
logging legislation.
The legislation. a rider which was
attached to a spending bill. was voted on by
congress and signed by the president without
any meaningful public debate. It allows for
the cutting offorests without regards to the
Endangered Species Act. the National
Environmental Policy Act. the National
Forest Management Act. The Competition in
Contracting Act, or any other environmental
or criminal law. Additionally, timber sa les
under the salvage rider are not subject to
appeal or any form of public recourse. It has
therefore been dubbed "Logging Without
Laws" by it's opponents.
To illustrate their disdain for the
legislation, people &om Olympia to Eugene
are holding weekly fasts beginning Tuesdays
at noon. They plan to continue the fasts until
the following actions are taken:
·Congress vot~s on the rider as a single issue
with open debate. (Since the
ride r
was attached to an unrelated bill. it was never
considered on it's own merit)
·All logging on ancient forests is halted until
the aforementioned occurs.

concerning land use and protection may very
-Public hearings are held by the Forest Service
likely go outthe window, too. How would this
and the Bureau of Land Managementto discuss
happen?
The taxpayer would have to pay for
the effects of the salvage rider on the ecosystem.
environmental
impact studies, the same
·Citizens and media are allowed to enter and
studies
the
prospective
"developer" currently
monitor the ancient forests which are being
pays
for,
then
to
uphold
environmental laws,
clear·cut. (Contrary to Constitutional rights,
the
businesses
would
be
given money to not
access to these public lands is being denied).
log
or
develop
the
land.
Because of the
· The Forest Service and the Bureau of Land
exorbitant
costs
of
such
a
policy, it seems
Management clearly reaffirms that they will not
suspiciously likely that the government will be
harrass employees who take action to assure
more lenient on environmental laws so as to
that environmental law is followed.
avoid
this out of pocket expense. So we
The fasters welcome anyone who would like to
thought,
"wow. here is a chance for us to take
join them to obtain a green arm·band &om the
a
stance
against
these greedy world governing
Environmental Resource Center on the third
corporations,
what
an opportunity!" Because
floor of the CAB building. (But you don't need
we
understand
the
easy
rut of apathetic feeling
a band to take part.) And if you see someone
many
voters
share,
we
didn't
want them to be
wearing one of the bands, feel &ee to ask them
"misinfluenced"
by
the
nasty
propaganda set
any questions you may have regarding the rider
out
by
these
tricky
selfish
corporations.
or the fast. .. The more people that are informed
Therefore,
we
removed
13
signs
&om East Bay
about this," says faster Sue Kaplan, "the better
Drive.
Those
rich
and
greedy
business
people
the chance that our demands will be answered."
man
with
cellular
phone
was
had
set
a
trap,
a
-Kelly Feineman
in ambush waiting for us. He called the cops
while chasing us in our car (unbeknownst to
us) and five seconds after we arrived at our
destination just a few blocks away, two regular
police units, a K·9 unit, and later a sheriff all
stopped in to say hello. The anger and wrath
that was unleashed would have been more
This past Thursday we made a decision to appropriate in a domestic violence or rape
take political action on an issue that angered incident, as would have the timely response
and frightened us. The issue is Referendum 48. and dedication to press charges against us
If this referendum passes the general election "wanton criminals" to the fullest extent of the
this Tuesday, not only may billions more of our law. The time and money spent to issue all
taxpaying dollars be used to payoff big four of us citations, as well as the time and
businesses. our environmental regulations

Sign thieves
speak out

money that wiU be spent for our arraignment
in court will certainly exceed the value of these
13 campaign election signs. But the lesson is,
"Don't mess with big business!" They own the
system, no jokel The people who had East Bay
staked out were with the Building Industry
Association of Washington , who would be one
of the largest benefiters &om this referendum.
The fact that real people were so disturbed by
this issue passing as law through Washington
State Congress and obtained over 90,000
signatures to have it on the ballot to be
approved or disapproved by the people of the
state before it becomes law indicates how
extremely,.important it is for YOU, yes we're
talking to YOU. to get involved and not give
the greedy any rnore! Get involved by voting!
The election is being conducted entirely by
mail·(or bring) in ballots this year, if you don't
have a ballot contact the Thurston County
Courthouse, Auditor's office, by election day,
Nov. 7. Let's not wait to have to fight this law .
once it passes, let's vote, NOW, and nip it in
the bud!
P.S. If anyone has any legal help to offer, please
contact the CPJ, who will contact us, thanks!
Leve, Kelly Cain and Tara Perkins

It's no wonder other events collide with Indigenous People's Day
Almost a month ago, there was all
occasion on campus that many of you may have
been unaware of. All in the single week of
October 9·13 three events of remembrance and
education (or the lack thereof) were
celebrated. Columbus Day (observed Oct. 9,
officially Oct. 12), Indigenous People's Day
(October 12), and Christ Awareness Week (the
whole week). The irony of this was. and is,
amazing to me.
As a member of the group of people so
generally referred to as "Native Americans".
"American Indians". or by whatever the current
trend may be, I was insulted. It wasn 't until I
gave it more thought that I realized how fitting
it really was. Just as it has always been since
Contact; the cross, the sword, and the Indians
(meaning no disrespect to the people oflndia)
were all together again. It was the good old
combination that has equaled genocide. A
comb in ation that has since then been
answered by Resistance, Realization, and a
need to tell the truth in history.
Christianity for indigenous people in
America has only been an aspect of the larger
plan to destroy the original peoples and their
vastly different cultures. Christianity worked
side by side with disease, the weapons of war,
and government and civilian actions.
Christianity has had it's effects on. to name
only a few things, tribal affiliations, clan
identities, personal relationships, the value of
women in society, ties to and respect for the
land, traditional forms of government, and in
many cases, the strength and unity of the
resistance to colonization and genocide.
Christianity as it is known today in the
U.S. is a product of European influence. The
bible that is constantly referred to as the word
of God was written and rewritten to suit the
current mood changes in history before it
made it's way to the English language . The
language of the British. A people who have
hi~torically not been very gentl e or
understanding in their foreign relations. To be
honest. I think Jesus had a completely different
plan and he is misquoted, and misrepresented.
Wh ether it wa s an in spiration, or a
justification by sick people for the historical

0AG.'1- NOVEMBER 2, 1995 THE

and current atrocities of Christendom.
Christian ity has accompanied the sword and
the genoc ide. It's like a holy trinity in itself. It
is still a religion that has different factions that
can't agree and are willing to kill each other over
"which way is the right way."
Christianity is just a tool used to keep the
"masses down." It has always been used to keep
the oppressed grollps in check. To make them
thankful and accepting oftheir domination and
oppression. After all, the meek sha ll inherit the
Earth. right? It was forced on the A&ican slaves
in America. It was a powerful advantage over
them, for if they were Christianized, they would
(hopefully) be submiss ive. Whether the
preacher was lying in "his" presentation of the
scriptures to those who were illiterate or not, it
was still Christianity in that situation.
Christianity kept the "master" on top. And
they're still trying to use it that way. It aint the
19th, 18th, or 17th century any more. It's not
going to work.
In the case of the Indigenous people,
Christianity was used to divide and conquer. In
that sense, it was not only a superficial tool. It
was the very beliefs of Christianity that also
played the offender. The "worship" of the
Mother Earth, the parallel respect and
honoring of women. the respecting of the four
leggeds, the winged, and those who swim as
equals was and is still seen as savage,
superstitious, blasphemous and the childish
beliefs of uncivilized heathens. Heaven is the
ultimate goal for Christians. It's a worry about
getting your own ass out of here and up there
to sit on white clouds and look at God
philosophy. Heaven is separate, and different
form the Earth and our immediate lives here.
This creates a situation where people can
disregard and disrespect what is here on our
Mother, wh ich is so sacred to indigenous
people. With that tie to ourselves severed, we
can' dump nuclear waste. level forests, wipe out
entire species, build huge piles of concrete, own
the land, dig holes, take oil, gold and uranium
and replace it with spilled blood.
I also find it very interesting that one of
the mairi'''r('asons that our (meaning some of
"us") European ancestors were so confused after

Contact. was that Native Americans and the
Americas were not mentioned in the Bible.
This challenged their reality. It still does,
because there are still many people trying to
prove that Native people are the lost tribes of
Israel, or people from Atlantis or Asia or
something. In fact, up until the turn of this
century some folks were still debating whether
Natives had sou ls or not. Those same people
are th e ones who took Native children away to
Boarding sc hools and tortured them. they are
the same ones who today deny education and
health care to the ch ildren and then condemn
those children for not meeting their biased,
racist , and ethnocentric standards. So don't
give me this bullshit anymore. About how it
isn't connected. About how what happened,
and is happening all over the world isn't
Christianity. Christianity is a European
creation and the people who are behaving in
that manner are Christians. I've heard it before,
and that is Christianity. Having Christ
Awareness week during Indigenous People's
Day just shows me how far we have not come.
Christianity in the Americas, as we know'
it, is a newly arrived foreigner and it doesn't
allow for the indigenous connection and
understanding of this land.' It has left many
casualties of many colors in the Americas. In
the U.S. we now have people who are so lost
they grab on to anything that they can. There
are privileged white U.S. kids grabbing on to
Rastafarianism, New Agers trying to suck what
blood they haven't already tried for from
Indigenous culture and spirituality, Rich kids
&om suburbia who watched too much MTV
and who's parents -drive BMWs trying to
pretend they're from the "hood" or the
"barrio", 19905 Christians who say they're
different riding their bikes and knocking on
your door, and white kids taking their U.S.
dollars to India, Tibet , Latin America, or
wherever to "find themselves". I think that they
should try to realize thkt going to pow wows,
or performing wannabe ceremonies, or sagging
their pants. or going to Guatemala is not going
to save them. They have to realize that what
may be good for them is not so good for
everyone . They need to look to their own

traditions and situations to see themselves.
When it comes to spirituality, I have no
intention of telling anyone how to worship tht
Creator. I'm not going to travel around to
different houses or different countries and
think that I am going to save anyone by
introducing them to my "superior" way. But I
will say that you can keep your Christianity.
Our relationship with the Creator is strictly
between us as individuals and the Creator. No
one else. And my spirituality doesn't need
saving, and it doesn't require a week to make
others aware of it. It's mine, my ancestors have
fought and been killed for the right for me to
be as I am today. And it is up to me to hold on
to it for my descendants, no matter what they
choose to do. I have no urge to push it on
anyone, and no one can take it &om me.
-Ryan Keith
To God, we hope you don't mind, but we
~Yould like to talk to you. There are some
things that we need to straighten OUI, it's about
these Christians, they claim to be from your
nation. But man, you should see the things
they do, ali the time, blaming it on you.
Manifest Destiny, Genocide, maximized
'profit, sterilization, raping the Earth, lying,
taking more than they need... We ask them
why? They say it's God's will, damn God, they
make it so hard. RememberJesus? Would you
send him back to them? Tell them not to kill
him, rather, they should listen. Stop abusing
his name, and yours. We do not mean to be
disrespectful, but you know how it is, our
people have their own ways. We never even
heard of you until not long ago. Your
representatives spoke magnificent things of
you, which we were willing to believe. But
from the way they acted, we know you and we
were being deceived. We do not mean you or
your Christian children any bad, but you all
came to take all we had. We have not seen you,
but we have heard so much. It is time for you
to decide, what life is worth, we already
remember, which maybe you forgot ...
-John Trudell

Ought Six s
by Lub Unger
I first heard Thirty Ought Six about
a year before their first full length release,
Bosozoku. They were opening up for Hazel at
La Luna in Portland. I had never heard of them
in my life, but after seeing them live for the first
time I remember being impressed enough to
give them another shot.
La Luna has a high stage so you can 'I quite
see what the musicians are up to. They are just
far away enough to give the show_that imper.
sonal touch. So when I found out they were
playing at the Capi tol Theater backstage, I
jumped at the opportunity to see them again
and to get a more personal look at the band.
At the Capitol the band played right on
the floor and [ was eye to eye with them. This
enabled me to see the band's facial expressions
and how they played their instruments. Not
just how the instruments sound when they are
being played but how they look. I have two last·
ing impressions &om this experience.
First of all I was amazed at the way Ryan
Paravecchio played his drums. He would be
drumming away and suddenly he would just
drop this stray beat on his snare. Not that it
was stray brcause the beat didn't make sense,
but it was because it was not typical or ex·
pected. I could see him doing it, banging away
at his cymbals and bam. He hit his snare. Then
it would become part of his rhythm. You could
expect that back beat about every eight counts.
It is this lyrical drumming that first impressed
me about Thirty Ought Six and it is what keeps
me coming back.
The second amazing feat that Thirty
Ought Six performed that evening was accom·
plished by singerlbassist Sean Roberts. I had

known that Roberts had a powerful voice. His
vocals seem to fly out of the wall of noise that
30.06 produces during their more noisy extremes. But when I saw Roberts back off about
two or three feet &om his vocal mic and I could
still hear his intense, moody vocals over the
noise, I was totally flabbergasted. This man has
an impressive set of chops that he can real\y

on Hag
Thirty Ought Six is the kind of band that en·
joys playing with dynamics. They may start off
a song with some slow and moody
instrumentals and then kick in with the force
of Sean Robert's bass and David Blunk's edgy
guitar. On track eight, "Moreau", Roberts is
singing along during the quiet intro and when
the wall of noise kicks in his voice sounds more

Thirtv Ought Six (from left • Sean Roberts, Rvan Paravecchio,
and David Blunk). Photo courtesv of Mute Records
project, he is not simply relying on the power
of amplification.
I noticed Sean's amazing vocal talents
once again when listening to their second fulllength album Hag Seed, which is being reo
leased on Mute America on November 7.

intense and strained so he can still come over
top the instruments. [t was an effective tech·
nique that reminded me of why I started lis·
tening to this band in the first place.
Likewise, Paravecchio's drums are also still
inspiring. In a couple of songs, like "Eris",

Paravecchio,s drums are rapid fire beats that
make you want to dance. But often he does his
best work at the bands slower more introspec·
tive moments, creating rhythms that are as cre·
ative and as lyrical as the other instruments.
This is not what you would call a happy
album and 30.06 are not what you would cal\ a
happy band (what'd you expect, they're named
after a gun). Yet. I don't know if! am willing to
buy the classification that the press packet tries
to put on them: aggro·rock. I don't know what
the hell aggro rock is, but Ido think that 30.06·s
music contains more varied and complex emo·
tions than aggression. Aggro-rock might be the
perfect title for the kind of music that bigjocks
like to mosh to and annoy all the music fans.
But 30.06 is a mosher's nightmare. It is hard to
tell when they are going to get loud and intense
enough to mosh to, and just as the jocks think
it's time to mosh, 30.06 will change the pace
again.
They do tend to stick to the darker emo·
tiolls (especially on this latest release). But I see
more introspection, moodiness and depres·
sian than pure aggression. There is some
'aggro', but that is not their essence. When
Roberts sings. "Once. took a bu llet in the head/
fired by a friend/ never spoke aga in," on the
track ca lled "Adamantine" . you don't get the
sense that he is mad but more that he is de·
pressed. Yet, you do get the enjoyment of hear·
ing something really specia l as his eerie vocals.
sweetened with Blunk's harmonies, go straight
to your gut.
If you like music that deals with the
darker side of humanity and offers up some
pleasant musical surprises, maybe you should
try 30.06's Hag Seed.

slaow a perfect finale to tiLe
by Andy Schoenstain
I'm always saying I need to get off cam·
pus more, but this week was ridiculous. Every
nightforthe past8 days orso, I drove into town
to see a film or a show, or to volunteer for the
festival Tonight was the last time. For one
thing, my Bug finally gave in to the pressure

the pit without my right shoe.
I thought the delirium I felt while watching the surrealist film Even Dwarves Started
Small after watching 6 hours of bad films at
ALL FREAK/N, NIGHT last Saturday was a
'once in a festival' experience. Fugazi was at
least as effective as those damn dwarves in tran·
scending me into a trance·like state. I also

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Once inside, however, the heat gradual\y
rose. It rose as Calvin Johnson put on a little
dance performance to the beat laid down by
his band Dub Narcotic Sound System. The
band was really tight, and Calvin is a pretty
damn good dancer. He has fun with it, anyway.
Finally, the heat rose qUickly to an uncom·
fortable level as Fugazi got underway. After
they set up, the movie screen was pulled
down and they played a video by Jem
Cohen (who apparently was there film·
ing) with Fugazi for a
soundtrack. For some reason it
was really exciting. The black
and white images of people in a
subway station seemed to be a
very appropriate companion to
the music, and ofcourse we were
all anxiously anticipating seeing
the band play right after the
video. The screen flew up, the
lights went on, and Ian MacKaye
said "Hi , we're Fugazi from
Washington D.C. ". The music
created a wall of sound with only
four instruments that assualted
the crowd. loudly punctuated
with the voices of Ian and Guy
Picciotto.
Of course you can't really
write about music, you just have
to hear it, but 1'1\ just say that Fugazi, like
Unwound, (who played a typically awe·
some show with Bikini Kill on Saturday)
creates a musical environment wherein
improvisation and emotion are cradled
and exist &eely. Yeah OK anyway.
During tht: set, I was only aware of the
people around me in the &ont, al\ of whom
seemed to be in the same ecstatic state that I
was. I became aware of the rest of the audience
when the set ended, as the whole theater
roared, begging them for multiple encores.
which they gave.

.'aI
When they came out for the first "ncore,
Guy gave Olympia a huge compliment by say·
ing that it was the first town they played that
they felt truly comfortable in, where the audio
ences and the people at the venue were all reo
al\y cool, and they've continued to be so. To·
night proved his point, because every other
time I've seen them. (not in Olympia) there was
always a significant contingent of the audience
with jock attitudes, but tonight at Capitol The·
atre , everybody was really cool and really
happy.
It was also a nice
change from most of
the Oly shows I've
seen. probably be·
caLIse Fugazi is a really
good punk band that's
from out of town .
When YOll se e Un ·
wound or Bikini Kill
here in Olympia .
people just look dead.
whereas everytime I
saw them back at
home in San Fran·
cisco. people went
nuts. I guess its sorta
weird to go all crazy
for performers that
you see on the streets
all the time. but I swear poor Kathleen from
Bikini Kill looked like she was gonna cry be·
cause the audience was so dead on Saturday.
Guy also noted the Film Festival and the
Capitol Theatre as being really cool things
about Olympia and that we should appreciate
them. And, of course, it's due to all those cool
people that cool things like the festival and the
theater exist. Speaking of cool, all that unbear·
able heat and sweat inside the theater was only
a dream once outside. While I waited for a ride
after I found my tire slashed, I swear ice started
forming inside my shirt.

"Guy gave

Olympia a huge
compliment by

saying that it was

the first town they
played that they
felt truly

comfortable in,"

and decided to stay in town for the night, its
slashed tire being only the last straw in a series
of problems it developed this week. The other
reason I'm not going to town again anytime
soon is that tonight was the Closing Gala of the
12th Annual Olympia Film Festival. And boy
what a gala. I'm still dazed, and my right foot
is sore because I spent most of Fugazi's set in

thought the crowd on Friday for the film Kids,
which I sold tickets for, was the largest I would
see at the Capitol Theatre, but tonight's soldout show had a line about 8 people thick,
stretching around the corner and down to
Fourth Avenue. Most people didn't get in until around 10pmafter spending at least an hour
&eezing their asses off.

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Blur's fourth
album a Great
Escape
by Jan Koogler
There are just some albums that don't
leave your head too easily. The last album
by this British group. Parklife, sat in my
tape player for months, playing over and
over until I was phys ically threatened by
my roommates. Sa when I received Blur's
latest release. The Great Escape, I couldn't
wait for it to meld itself to my CD player.
Even though it didn't quite turn out that
way, this album still has th e capability to
wind around inside your brain long after
you've stopped listening.
Blur ha s had an interesting time here
in the U.S. since the release of Leisure, their
first album, in 1991. Th"t album and its
follOW-lip, Modem Life is Rubbish, in 1993
went largely unnoticed by the American
music public and critics until Parklife
ca ught the cresting British new wave in
1994. Largely due to the disco-esque single
"Girls and Boys", Blur found themselves
lumped in with bands like Suede, Oasis,
and Catherine Wheel. Ever since, they've
run the press gamut from front cover features to occasional references to them as
"Justine from Elastica's boyfriend's band."
The Great Escape comes in the wake of the
British media frenzy, and proves that
Damon. Graham, Alex, and Dave have the
ca pacity to overcome the whiny, sombe r
English musical image.
With beginning chords that will make
you wonder if you've left the funhouse after Halloween, "Stereotypes" , the first
so ng. draws listeners into a sleazy suburban neighborhood that is home to a promiscuous divorcee who "runs a little B&B".
From Ihere. the album drifts in and out of
the lives of ordinary and often eccentric individuals. The incredibly boppy "Country House" follows the life of a city man
who finall), made enough money to move
OUI to the countryside, only to spend his
time . "read in g Balzac. kno cking back
Prozac.·' because "it 's a helping hand that
makes you feel wonderfully bland". The
novel makes occasiona l stops into the
realm of social and melal1choly commentary. such as "The Universal", and "Best
Days" . whi ch claims that. "other people
wouldn't wallt to hear you if you said that
these are the best days of om lives." These
lyrics are perfect for thme days when you
just need affi rmation th at others are
strange r than you.
Musically. Blur contillues the experimental sound that began with PilIklire.
Starting from their traditional guilar-bassd~um roo ts. Blur doesn 't fee l the least bit
threat ened to throw in the occasiollal pipe
orgall or other random non-traditional instruments that awaken one from the haze
left by more popular guitar crunch ing
bands like Bush or other bands too
wretched to mention here. The crowning
ac hievement comes on "Ernold Sa me",
which sounds like the Muppet s doing a
take off of "Masterpiece Theater."
I ca ll't say that I cherish this album as
much a\ I do Parkljre or Leisure, but it's
st ill growing on me. Definitely check out
The Great Escape, if not for the intrinsic
melodi es. Ihen for the imaginative packaging. co mplete with lyrics and chords.
Blur i~ 0 11 (' of those bands that rem inds
one of Cracker Jacks - th ere's a Slirprise in
every hox .

NelYouag
by Bryan FranbnseussTheiss wars.
Filmmaker Michael Moore first carne to
national prominence with Roger and Me. his
humorous documentary about GM factory layoffs in Flint, Michigan. Having already been editor of The Nation he followed his first major success with a sequel documentary for PBS and a
hilarious, politically oriented news magazine
show called TV Nation which aired for one summer each on NBC and Fox.
Moore has a fantastic talent for seeking out
problems and attacking them with guerilla comedy and intense sarcasm. When TV Nat;onwent
after NAFfA they didn't just state that they felt
it explOited Mexican factory workers. Instead
they pretended they were moving the show to
Reynosa to save money and had the owners of
American run factories give them advice. When
they found out about a vicious corporate crime,
they didn't send in an investigative reporter, they
sent in a g.uy in a chicken suit named Crackers
the Corporate Crime Fighting Chicken, who was
just wacky enough to attract gaggles of mainstream reporters who covered the chicken, thus
exposing the corporate crime.
Like Moore's documentaries, TV Nation
was simultaneously entertaining, educational,
and subversive. It's amazing that it ever made it
onto television.
Considering Moore's background, it's not
surprising that his first fictional film, Canadian
Bacon (which played at the Olympia Film Festival last Saturday), is a hilarious and insightful
satire about America's addiction to pointless

. A:ct III Theatres, .one of the 10 latge$t
movie theater chains in Aroeri.caj·Qow controls
all the first fUn cinemas in Th\liston·(:O\1l1ty.
.' With. the recent acquiSition'ofthe Capital Mall Tht;ater, Act III cemented .its hold on
aU Hollywood movie dolfars in the South
Sound area. The capitol Theater in downto~
Olympia is now the region's sole independent
movie house.
Christie Langenbach is a m~nagef. at the
Capital Mall location but also worked there
when Moyer Theaters operated the cinema.
"They (Moyer) didn't care a~ut this
theater, she said; "They didn't even'come up
here for 3 years." To Langenbach, Moyer Theaters neglected the Capital Mall location,
Langenbach says she is much happier
working for Act m.
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"People' (c~oroers) are always telling
. me they're happy Act Wtook over/ she said. .
. With this move Act]U ~es no compe- .
tition in TIt rstan <;Qunty~ Residents ~ipg .
t9 see first.run movlesmust either give Act m,
their patronage or leave the county.
.
. "Anyone can come in here Ifthey want,"
said Langenbach, referring to other comparues. "They're (ActllI) not trying to scare any·
poe away."
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The effectthe movie monopoly will have
01) area consumers is .still unclear.
.
Langenbach said that while the Capital
MalI~aschang~itsu,ve.qtoryofconcessi~ns, '.
the value of their products has not d,ecreased, .
MatUJ,ee prices were $3.50 in theMoyer era and
Actmchargesonly$~.OOforshowingsbefore

6:00 p.m.
.
Approximatcly five employees quit after
the sale of tbe theater. Langenbach malntair)s

that they left for other re~ons, suc~ as job
opportunities e~wliere. •
< Jerel Johnson wa'$ an Act III employee
fur three years at a Puyallup theater. He
praised the company for offering e~rfor­
manCe raises. something that MQ)'er Theaters didn't.
.' Mo~r sokl all of their movie theaters
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Coast. They are currently expaQdiDg into Neyada, In addition to the Capital Mall outlet,
Act
opqates the State l'ri-Ci,nemas in
downtown Olymp.ia,and Lacey ,Cinemas on
Martin Way.
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two or three songs solo then play his set at the
end. The three gems he laid on us this Saturday were "Comes a Time", "Needle and the
Damage Done" (for Shannon Hoon since Blind
Melon was supposed to play.) and "Heart of
Gold."
Beck came out next and played by himself. He made comment that this is guys with
acoustic guitars with harmonicas around th eir
neck night. His set was touching and seei ng
his young skinny frame strumming and blowing his harmonica made it clear why Neil asked
him to play.
Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois came
on next and sounded very ripe. I have never
hea rd of Daniel Lanois but the couple sitting
nex t to me told me all about him while they
were generously feedin g my tapeworm. Turns
out Daniel Lanais is a musician's musician and
writes so ngs for all sorts of people. including
"The Maker" which Jerry Garcia played.
Ncxtwas Bruce Springsteen who took the
amphitheater by surprise. Sticking by Beck's
comment he came out solo with a guitar and
harmonica and silenced the whole amphithe·
ater with his songs.
After he finished his set he came back out
with Neil. Neil said "Bruce wants to play another song, but he doesn't know anymore". so
Neil and Bruce played "Down by the River".
phat. The Pretenders came on next and Chrissy
Hynde sounded so sweet. She also played
"Needle and the Damage Done" in memory of
Shannon Hooll.
I'm not into Hootie and th e Blowfish , but
they sounded great and donated their time so
what the hell? Nei l and Crazy Horse came on
next and fucked shit up. Started th e set with
"Pocahontas." then played "Look Out For My
Love". After that they went into "Cortez th e
Killer." Si nce the audience was ill a trance after that he woke them up with "Powder FingeL" He closed the evening with "Tonite's the
Night" and "Rockin ' in the Free World."
Every aspect of the Bridge Benefit is awesome. It's a nice excuse to drive down 101 and
pick up hitchhikers in Humbolt Coullty. We
picked up three. It's hard not to when they lure
you 10 the side of the road with some of that
Humbolt County smoke signal stuff.
The concert itselfis a for sure once a year
dose of Neil. The children from the Bridge
Schoo l have the best seats in the house. right
on th e stage. While the bands are playing, the
huge video screen hanging from th e top shows
the performers and th e children who th e
evening is for. smiling and clapping in that un·
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maverick since Crazy Horse has played with
Neil. Sin ce the cause is so real and the night so
acous"tic it makes the evening way unpretentious which creates a casual vibe for artists and
audience.
All performances were awesome, but Neil
and Crazy Horse are in the next zone. The way
they sway and jig around is like a pack of musical animals that have grown up together. How
the show is set up is Neil will come out and play

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The Bridge Benefit has been happening
for nine years now at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. The Bridge
School was founded in 1986 by Pegi Young
(Neil Young's wife) and Jim Fordever, two parents of children with severe speech and physical impairments, and Dr. Martin Buzolich, the
founder and director of Augmentaive Communication and Technology Services, which serves

severely speech impaired children throughout
the Bay area. It was her contact with a variety
of school programs, as well as Pegi's and Jim's
experience with their own children , which inspired the group to create an educational program to meet the needs of this special group of
children.
This year's artists were Bruce Springsteen,
Hootie and The Blowfish, The Pretenders,
Beck, Emmylou Harris with Daniel Lanois and
of course Neil Young who headlines the show

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Alan Aida plays the president, a phenomenally unpopular democrat who has pretty
good intentions but isn't too bright. Under
pressure from a weaselly advisor named Stuart
Smiley (The Usual Suspects' Kevin Pollack) and
a macho general (Rip Torn), the president goes
looking for a Cold War to boost the economy
and his popularity ratings. After running down
the list of enemies, Smiley comes across some
limp excuses to convince the American public
that Canada poses a ser ious threat to the
American way oflife.
Convinced by TV propaganda to hate Canadians, a handful oflaid-off factory workers
(Rhea Perlman, Kevin J. O'Connor, Bill Nunn,
and the late John Candy) decide to venture over
the border to playa prank on their new enemies. When one of them is left behind by mistake, things get blown out of proportion and
the U.S. and Canada find themselves in the
middle of a fake international hostage crisis.
Moore (who acts as writer, director, and
producer) seems as adept at satire as he is at
documentaries. The story is complex and
heavy on gags that rarely miss, almost like a
live action version of the Simpsons.
What's really surprising is the well rendered atmosphere - the bleak, grey look of the
border town where most of the events take
place really compliments the subject matter.
We see America as a dirty, smog-infested wasteland whose inhabitants are desperately grasping for something to believe in. Forced into the
most amoral and least rewarding jobs, they

need someone to take their aggressions out on,
and their neighbors to the North are a perfect
scapegoat.
There aren't really any characters to care
about here. The ridiculously patriotic Sheriff
Boomer (Candy) seems like the central character at times, but. there are so many other
things going on in the film that it's difficult to
really focus on anyone. Ordinarily this would
probably damage a film, but here it doesn't
matter. The characters are not as important as
the situations that they find themselves in.
Moore describes the film as a cross between Dr. Strange/ave and Animal House. The
description is fitting, though thankfully the
film lies heavily on the Strange/ave side, with
a bit ofloveable cheesiness injected in. Unlike
a lot of recent Hollywood attempts at satire,
Moore really knows how to take real life situations and exaggerate them to the point of absurdity. This material is funny because it's ridiculous, but it's scary because it's true. The
"Operation Canadian Bacon" newscasts are
hysterically ludicrous, but they're not much
worse than the actual CNN coverage of Desert
Storm which our country swallowed en masse.
In fact Canadian Bacon may be the most
openly left-wing comedy I've ever seen - but
unlike TV Nation, the movie isn't being given
much of a chance. It opened in New York a few
weeks ago and has yet to be distributed widely.
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2, 1995

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CHECK OFF WHAT YOU
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by Andy Schoen stein

Thursday, Nov. 2nd

o

This week's Cooper Point
Journal comes out today.
Co pi e s o f TESC 's stude nt produced we e kly newspaper are
available in the CAB and at
various o ther locations o n
campu s .
Distr i buti o n starts at
noo n.
FREE'

Friday, Nov. 3rd
DAY OF THE DEAD potluck
and o pen mic in the
Lo ngho use, 7pm.
This
event i s t o honor ou r
ancestors and o ther l oved
o nes who have passed o n.
Hosted b y the Women o f Colo r
Coalition .

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TWO NEW ART EXHIBITS OPEN
Thr o ugh
Fresh Eyesis an exhiLit
o f photographs taken by Olympia
"at-risk" teens in GALLERY II
in the Library, and there will
be a recepti o n today from 46pm.
T.E.S.C. METALWORKING
STUDENTS present their func tional and sculptural work in
GALLERY IV, located o n the
fo urth fl oo r of the Library
building.
Both exhibit s run
through 28.
TODAY ON CAMPUS.

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N.W . Lesbian Gay Film
Festival 1st planning
meeting @ 7pm in CAB 3rd
floor con feren ce room.
Call
x6542 f or mo re info.

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Local writer Rosea nna
Hart talks abo ut her book
Twelve Walks Around Olympia, as well as the pr oc ess o f
Self-Pub li s h i ng tonight at 7pm
at Fo ur Seasons Bo o kst o re @ 7th
& Franklin, d ownt own Olympia .

D

Was h ington Native Plant
Society presents a
slides h ow and talk on
Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest with TESC faculty member
Dr. Mike Beug.
7pm at the
Olympia Community Center, rm.
101, 222 N . Col umb i a St.

CoMICS

HO$E-HEAf) BY J09N KNI9ElY

Wednesday, Nov. 8th

Saturday, Nov. 4th
2nd Annual " Social Justice and Equality in
Olympia - Building Community and Fighting Intolerance".
This i s an all day conference
designed to unite the many
groups and i ndividuals in the
Olympia area who fight f o r
peace, justice, and
sustainability.
From 9am-5pm
at First Christian Churc h, 701
Franklin St. SE at the corner
o f 7 th in Ol ympia.

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MARCH ON THE CAPITOL FOR
JUSTICE for Leonard
Peltier.
Noon march
departs from Sylvester Park in
d ownt o wn Oly~pia, rally at Ipm
at the Capitol Building . Call
383 -9108 for more info .

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VETERAN'S DAY EVENT Film
& Talk with comba t v eterans.
Noon in Lecture
Hall 4 .

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GET VACCINATED !! t The
Student Health Center
o ff ers free Measles and
Tetanus shots for Evergreen
students from 10am-2pm in the
CAB.
If you are leaving the
country o r planning o n going to
grad sc h ool, you're gonna need
t hese shots, so save time and
money by doing it now'

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Join Mindscreen in Lecture Hal l One @ 8pm for a
terrifying William Cast le
double feature: Mr. Sardonicus
and 13 Ghosts. Mr. Sardonicus
features the PUNISHMENT POLL'
Additional fun is included.
That's 8pm in Le cture Hall 1.
FREE '

Water Watch, a project o f
WashPIRG, i s organizi ng a
c leanup of Gree Cove Creek (on
Kaiser Ro ad).
Meet at the
library loop at 10:45am on
Saturday morning.
Wear old
cl o thes, b oo ts & gloves.
Call
x6058.

SPEND AN INTRIGUING
EVENING WITH GERTRUDE
STEIN AND A COMPANION.
A
personal story of t h e forty
year relat i o n s hi p between
Gertrude Stein and Al ice B.
Toklas.
At 7:30 pm @ Th e
Washington Center for the
Performing Arts, with a preshow discussion at 6pm . Tickets are $15 - 18 f or adults , $13 16 for students and seniors ,
with half-price student rush
tickets available o ne hour
before curtain . Call 753-8586
for more info .

Sunday, Nov. -5th
Damn, ya know what?
I
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Use
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h omewor k .

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M,?nday, Nov. 6th

Evergreen Express i ons
presents DANCE AND FILM
tonight at 8pm in the
TESC Experimental Theatre,
located in the Communications
building . This is an incredibly unique theatrical performan c e where a dancing duo
performs amazing feats of dance
in front of huge animation
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The Abbey Players pre sents Lost in Yonkers.
Opens today and plays
No vember 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16,
17, 18 at 8pm , and November 5,
12 at 2pm @ The Washington
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Tickets are
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OKLAHOMA @ The Washington
Center f or the Performing
Arts .
Presented by Olympia Friends of the Arts.
Today
and t omorrow at 7:30pm as well
as tomorrow at 2pm.
Call t he
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ticket info.

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Bl ackwash Theatre pre sents AN EVENING WITH
EDWARD ALBEE - tw o o f his
one - act plays will show - The
Americ4LI Dream and Zoo Story.
At STUDIO 321, located at 321
N. Jefferson in Olympia . The
show will run November
3,4,10,11 ,12 , and 17 ,1 8.
Sunday, Nov. 12th is a "pay what
you can n ight", and every other
night, tickets are S8 at the
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