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There's just something magical about stuffing a turkey.

TESC offers to lay off faculty and
enroll less
if budget cut
by Rob Taylor
Evergreen administrators responded
to the governor's request to plan for a two
percent budget cut by proposing an
enrollment reduction.
Allowing 80 or 90 less students to
enroll in 1994-95 and laying-off of the
equivalent of 19 full-time employees
(FTEs) would save Evergreen $744,190.
These proposed budget cuts are a
response to a memorandum issued by the
Governor's
Office of Financial
Management (OFM). The OFM will use
these proposals to draft a supplemental
budget proposal for 1994. The proposal
will then be submitted to the state
legislature on Dec. 15.
A letter from TESC President Jane
Jervis to the OFM also said that Evergreen
faces a $900,000 tuition shortfall. This is
because less out-of-state students are
attending the college than expected.
Jervis states that "We are currently

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November 18, 1993

exploring ways to mitigate this shortfall
through enrollment adjustments, but we
will not be able to erase it completely."
The letter and accompanying budget
reduction plan do not mention specific
areas that will be cut if the TESC budget
is cut two percent.
The college's reasoning behind the
lack of specifics is to "wait to make
specific budget decisions until the
development of the long-range plan,"
according to the reduction plan.
Evergreen is in the process of
drafting a long range strategic plan which
will be finished by this spring.
Administrators were purposely not
specific about which jobs would be
eliminated. The college wants to "allow
budget considerations to be driven by
long-range planning goals, rather than
having to adjust policy because of budget

see budget, page 10

Fatal Consequences

This pickup truck will be displayed on Red Square for the duration of Drug and
Alcohol Awareness week as a testament to the dangers of drinking and driving.
Awareness week hopes to inform students of the sometimes fatal
consequences of drug and alcohol abuse, photo by Ned Whiteaker

Purses and wallets stolen from Evergreen offices
by Rob Davis
Lock your doors, keep an eye on
your valuables, or risk becoming the next
victim of the Evergreen office thief.
"Three office thefts have occurred
so far this year," said Larry Savage,
Public Safety sargeant. "This is
y"""lhinc new. Because there is so much
honesty here [at Evergreen], we have a
tendency to forget that not everyone is so
honest."
Before the first week of school,
faculty member Nancy Taylor had her
purse stolen from her office in Lab II. "I
was interviewing students for individual
contracts. I went down one floor to the
secretary's office and in the meantime my
purse was stolen. I lost money, pictures,
my address book, my calendar... I felt it
was my fault somehow, but I also felt
violated," said Taylor.
Taylor managed to cancel all of her
credit cards but one, upon which the thief
ran up a juicy $1,000 charge.
On Oct. 29, a person stole a wallet,
billfold and laser tickets from the
Counseling Center. Staff members had
held a meeting in the next room at the
exact time of the theft. Later that same

Shary Smith, a substance abuse prevention and mental health counselor, had
her wallet stolen from her office in the counseling center three weeks ago. It was
later found in a men's restroom, minus $25. photo by Ned Whiteaker
day, someone stole a wallet from a fourth
floor office in the Seminar building.

"I was being a typical Greener,
leaving my purse out," said theft victim

Helen Lee of the Labor Center. " I got it
back, but minus $350. A few of us went
looking around for the person, and we
found two or three other women's wallets
in the men's bathroom. It took five days
for security to post a letter about the
event. That was way too long if the guy
was on a roll. I also tried to ge* the vice
presidents to do a bulletin, but they never
did."
Savage is still trying to come up
with a suspect. He believes that the
individual is a student. "This is someone
who had a need for money, and the
opportunity was there," said Savage.
"It educated me that being at
Evergreen is just like being anywhere else
in the community," said Lee.
To avert thefts, Savage suggests
that people call Safety more often even if
they merely suspect wrongdoing or a
person. "It's better to have too many
calls," he said. "Just be aware of who's in
your area. If people look out of place, call
us. Use the emergency phones. Lock your
doors even if you're going to walk across
the hallway, and lock up your valuables in
a closet."
Rob Davis is a writer for the CPJ.

Freshman retention plummets to lowest rate since 1985
by Rob Davis
The number of freshmen who
continued enrollment at Evergreen their
sophomore year fell nine percent in 1993
to 64 percent, the lowest fall-to-fall rate
since 1985. The transfer student retention
rate increased, "which suggests curricular
issues — retention within core programs
during 1992-93 and/or the appeal of
sophomore-level offerings," wrote Steve
Hunter, director of Research & Planning.
"In three of the last four years,
we've had drops in retention of freshmen,"
said Hunter. "That deserves serious
attention. We want to foster serious
discussion among faculty to design and
evaluate strategies for improvement."
"There was no way in hell we
expected that kind of attrition," said
Arnaldo Rodriquez, dean of Enrollment
Services. "We've all been working at
creating a social and academic
environment that students feel good about.

We need to get a better understanding and
become more proactive in understanding
what is currently happening."
"I will conduct a program-byprogram review for the 1992-93 core
programs," said Hunter. "We need to
determine the specific retention rate from
fall to winter and winter to spring within
each program. Did we lose them through
the year or over the summer? Was it the
appeal of sophomore-level offerings?"
"No single factor accounts for this,
which makes it difficult to predict," said
Rodriquez. "If students don't return in
winter, we should contact them to find out
why. We need to be sure students are
aware of our support services. If we're able
to discern reasons why people are leaving
and they are things we can do something
about, we'll see what we can do. I don't
know what happened last year, but we can
do much better this year."
"Major factors in the decision(not

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to return) were related to perceptions of
academic and social integration, and
financing a college education. Six factors
were identified: l)ability to pursue
personal academic interests at Evergreen;
2)Dissatisfaction with the quality/
c h a l l e n g e of core
programs;
3)dissatisfaction with Evergreen's
nontraditional approach, 4)uncertainty by
the student about his/her ability to do
college-level work; 5)Dissatisfaction with
the social environment; and 6)financial
difficulties," states a 1992-93 report,
Freshman Retention at TESC.
"Maybe some are students who
shouldn't be in college," said Rodriquez.
"I have to assume that things are imperfect
and that students will not always
continue. A 90 percent retention rate
would be great, but we're willing to take
80 percent. Something isn't right, and we
need to address this."
A group of next year's core program

faculty meet to develop different
approaches to teaching core programs.
"The retention rate is not the main focus,
but we're looking at breaking down the
isolation of core programs and becoming
more integrative," said faculty member
Brian Price. "Often we have students in
core who want to nourish an interest
outside of their program. There's a
possibility of having faculty from each
program teach a four-credit module and
lowering core to 12 credits. We could get
more specific that way."
"On November 3 the faculty held a
meeting," said Hunter. "They broke into
dean's groups to respond to these studies
and develop pilot projects. We're getting
people together in same areas of
curriculum, such as graduate school or
core teachers. The faculty are committed to
discussions."
Rob Davis is a CPJ staff writer.

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News Briefs
Leisure ski
classes offered
EVERGREEN—The TESC
leisure
education program is offering several ski
classes this winter.
The backcountry ski touring class
will begin on Monday, Dec. 6, from 6:30
to 8:30 p.m., in room 208 of the Campus
Recreation Center. The actual outing will
be held on Sunday, Dec. 12.
The class is designed for
experienced cross country skiers, and will
emphasize cross country downhill
technique, route selection and safety.
Participants will learn the Telemark turn
and other Nordic techniques.
The registration deadline for this
program is Dec. 3. To register, call 8666000 x6670.
Another cross country ski class for
people with little or no experience wiH
begin on Monday, Nov. 29, from 6:30 to
8:30 p.m., also in room 208. The outing is
scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 5.
A second beginning class will be
held on Monday, Dec. 13, with the outing
on Sunday, Dec. 19.
Participants will learn
basic
information about types of skis, bindings,
and boots. Students will also learn the
importance of protective clothing and
plentiful food.
The registration deadline is Nov. 26.
Participants must be at least 13 years of
age. To register, call 866-6000 x6770.

Public Safety
starts child ID
EVERGREEN—The Department of Public
Safety has initiated a child identification
program. Faculty, staff, and students are
encouraged to make an appointment to
have their children's fingerprints taken. An
identification card will be given to the
parents for safekeeping. Parents will also
receive a packet of information on child
safety.

Committee on
trip reduction
EVERGREEN—In response to the 1991
commuter trip reduction law, Evergreen
has formed a Trip Reduction Committee.

or anything else a volunteer would wish to
do.
Interested? Please call Gay Lea
Woolsey, activity director, or Cheryl
Sebaska, activity assistant at (206) 4919700.

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WA NARAL holds
pro-choice auction

I masturbate 'til I pass out.
— Response to question "What do you do for a
natural high without drugs or alcohol?"
The natural high board was posted for
drug and alcohol awareness week.
The purpose of the committee is to get
people to leave their cars at home and
instead take the bus, carpool, walk, ride a
bicycle, etc. The committee is looking for
creative ways to encourage Evergreen
students, faculty and staff to not drive
cars. Persons with ideas, or wishing
information should contact Sonya SmithPralt at 866-6000 x6152.

Plastic recycling
outside A-dorm
EVERGREEN—WashPIRG will be
holding a plastics recycling day on
Tuesday, Dec. 7. Only plastics which have
a number one, two, four or six on the
bottom will be able to be recycled at this
time. These plastics include pop bottles,
juice containers, shampoo bottles, deli and
badery containers, foam egg cartons, and
other foam containers. For more
information, contact WashPIRG at 8666000 x6058.

Child care center
feeds children
EVERGREEN—The campus child care
center sponsors the USDA Child and
Adult Care Food Program by providing
meals to enrolled children. Meals are
available regardless of race, color,
handicap, age, sex, or national origin, but
depend instead on parent's income.
The lunches they serve are prepared
by Northwest Food Services. Breakfasts
and snacks are prepared at the center. For
more information about income elegibility,

SECURITY? BLOTTER
Monday, November 8
0255: Smoke alarm in A-dorm.
0833: A recycling barrel was dropped
from The Clocktower.
2048: Fire alarm in B-dorm.
Tuesday, November 9
0058: A vehicle was towed from the dorm
loop.
0145: Another vehicle was towed from the
dorm loop.
0749: The A-dorm second floor courtesy
phone and mailbox were damaged.
Wednesday, November 10
0246: A vehicle was towed from the dorm
loop.
1808: Fire alarm in B-dorm caused by
burnt food.
1918: License plate stolen from a vehicle
while parked in F-lot.
Thursday, November 11
0554: Lab I was reported to be insecure.
1142: Motorpool tire chains were
recovered.
Friday, November 12
1114: Fire alarm in I-dorm.
1117: A supicious male was reported at
the parking booth.
1436: Exposure suspect sighted on the
Organic Farm trail, security responded,
investigation in process.
1510: A blue book bag was reported
stolen from the Computer
Center.
INFO: A wrecked, small truck was placed
on Red Square, near the CAB and
ClockTower, as a part of Drug and

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Alcohol Awareness Week.
1834: KAOS recieved an on-air bomb

SEATTLE—WA NARAL, an organization
that is dedicated to the protection of
reproductive choice, is celebrating the 20th
anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision
with their annual auction party. It will be
held on Dec. 4, from 5:30 to 11:30 p.m.,
at the Washington State Convention and
contact the child care center at 866-6000
Trade Center.
x6060.
The theme of the auction is "Where
were we in '73". Items will include a
nostalgic lour of Washington DC and a
1962 Lincoln Continental with suicide
doors. There will also be items that
support the pro-choice movement, such as
OLYMPIA—Intercity Transit (IT) has a hat made by Hillary Rodham Clinton's
started a fuel demonstration using a clean- designer and artwork from Lynda Barry
burning, domestic fuel called BioDiesel. and Nicole Hollander.
Tickets are $75 per person and are
According to an IT news release,
BioDiesel has been shown to reduce available through the WA NARAL office
hazardous emissions in diesel engines. It is at (206) 624-1990.
non-toxic and biodegradable, and blends
with petroleum diesel.
Two IT buses will be operating for
50,000 miles using a BioDiesel blend. For
more information, contact IT at 786-8585.

IT runs two buses
on BioDiesel

US WEST customers
to see lower rates

Audubon talk
on albatross
OLYMPIA—Black Hills Audubon's
monthly meeting will be held on
Thursday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m., at the Lacey
Timbcrland Library. Don Williamson of
the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge will
be there to present a show on albatrosses
and other seabirds of the Midway atoll.
Members of the public are invited to
attend.

Nursing facility
needs volunteers
OLYMPIA—The Evergreen Nursing and
Rehabilitation Center is a long-term
nursing facility which has been providing
care and services for over 15 years. They
have approximately 145 residents; some
are there for just a short time, while some
make the center their home.
The center is looking for volunteers
to visit residents, assist in games, at
feeding during mealtimes, arts and crafts,
decorating, music, passing mail, reading,

OLYMPIA- Nearly 2 million customers
of Washington's largest telephone
company will see a drop in their monthly
phone bills as a result of action taken
November, 15 by state utilities regulators.
The Washington Utilities and
Transportation Commission (WUCT)
ordered US WEST Communications, Inc.
to cut its business and residential rates by
$33 million. The rate reduction is in
response to the commission's annual
review ,of the company's reported
earnings.
The three member WUTC has
authority to regulate telephone rates and
services provided by US WEST in the
state.
Every April the company must
report its prior year's earnings to the
commission. US WEST is currently
required by the WUTC to share with ratepayers any earnings above an 11 percent
profit level on its statewide operations.

—

threat.
1927: License plate stolen from a vehicle
in F-lot.
Saturday, November 13
0138: A vehicle was broken into in C-lot,
and two additional vehicles were
vandalized.
0325: The service gate arm was broken
off and removed at Overhulse and
Driftwood.
1230: A woman reported that a smoke
bomb had been set off in the front seat of
her vehicle while parked in F-lot.
1307: Another rear license plate was
stolen from a vehicle while parked in Flot.
1924: A two vehicle, no injury accident
occured at Parkway and 17th Ave NW.
2359: Various windows were broken out
on the wrecked vehicle parked on Red
Square.
Sunday, November 14
0132: Fire alarm pull station maliciously
pulled in B-dorm.
0854: A man reports his backpack stolen.
1518: A set of rear windows louvers were
found in the woods by F-lot.
2342: A vehicle was towed from the dorm
loop.
Campus security reported thirty-four
public serive calls, including but not
limited tojumpstarts, escorts and unlocks.
-compiled by Rebecca Randall

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Howard Zinn speaks on campus about activism, politics
by Rob Davis
Acclaimed author, playwright, and
activist Howard Zinn spoke to around
1,700 people at appearances both on and
off campus last week. EPIC, KAOS, the
Labor Center, Middle East Resource
Center, TESC academic programs
sponsored his visit.
"So many people worked on this
collectively," said Peter Bohmer, professor
of Political Economy and Social Change.
"Students and community people came
together to plan things out. He stayed at
my house and slept in my daughter's bed.
He was very down-to-earth, very
approachable. Most people who are
teachers tend to be elitists."
Bohmer first became aware of Zinn
during the Vietnam War. "When I lived in
Boston, I heard him speak. I've used his
book five out of the six years I've taught
here."
One of Zinn's talks, "Failure to
Quit" named after his recent novel, took

place on campus last Thursday. What
follows are excerpts from his speech.
"In 1986 when [President] Reagan
blockaded Nicaragua, some of us sat in at
the JFK building to protest. They arrested
550 of us and we spent the night in jail.
The official charge was 'failure to quit';
that epitomizes social activism."
"I was 18 when I first read Karl
Marx. What he said about capitalism made
sense; it's not a very humane system."
Zinn's experience as a WWII
bombardier have allowed him to gain an
understanding of the desensitization of
military life. "I can understand how
soldiers commit atrocities. They're really
not brutal, they're ordinary people. But
decisions are made for them, and they are
desensitized."
"War is poison; one drop and
you're dead! During the Gulf War,
everyone went along. We learned nothing
from Vietnam. They paid no attention to
the anti-war movement on national TV,

they just wanted to get it over with quick.
It's discouraging to see how a president
could get his way and mobilize his
popularity."
"We need to create jobs for
everyone. They're always so afraid of
being called big government. They don't
call it big government when they go to
war!"
"If you want political change, use
svery facet available. Non-violent
demonstration, the political process...
mediocrities will arise from voting. To
depend on these guys [politicians] is a
terrible mistake."
"We have an enormous amount of
wealth in this country that could be taxed.
We could take care of all these problems:
poverty, crime, everything. We need
another movement in this country that
meets the needs of everyone: equal wealth
distribution. We can't clean up the
environment until we take hold of the
entire system."

"NAFTA will not have a
cataclysmic effect. It's been overblown
both ways. The corporations will still
own America."
"Violence is a desperate action, it's
corrosive to everyone. Bring people
together to overwhelm through numbers.
It's pointless to be hopeless. If you
believe in change, then it will happen.
Every small effort works. Good things
may yet happen if we keep doing as much
as we can."
Bohmer agrees with Zinn on most
points, yet varies about priorities. "He
mentioned taxing the rich, cutting the
military, and health care. I believe in
revolution and reform, and changing
society totally. He doesn't stress that."
"Having him here was so
uplifting," said Bohmer. "People can
make a difference. So many people are
very cynical these days, and he's still
fighting."
Rob Davis is a CPJ staff member.

Greeners speak on multiculturalism and diversity
by Chris Wolfe and Jennifer Fiore
How many times at Evergreen have
you sat in a class discussing
multiculturalism and looked around to see
only young, while faces? Or maybe you
were the only person representing a
particular culture and the students put you
on the spot, expecting you to explain your
culture in 50 words or less?
Last week we surveyed 100
students, staff, and faculty to find out
what they thought about multiculturalism
on campus. While we only got 59 of the
questionnaires back, and that's not by any
means an accurate sample of the Evergreen
community, we did see patterns of thought
in respondents' answers.
Most
respondents chose to stay anonymous.
An overwhelming majority of
people surveyed felt that Evergreen should
~<Trtw toward multiculturalism, although a
significant minority (14 out of 59)
expressed some reservations with either
multiculturalism or the methods of its
proponents.
And though most agreed
m u l t i c u l t u r a l i s m is desirable for
Evergreen, not everyone agreed on its
definition,
To m a n y respondents, a
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working, or socializing with people from
other c u l t u r e s . But for others,
multiculluralism means learning from
people. "An attitude or atmosphere which
tolerates and encourages the sharing of
idcas/belicfs/customs of people of different
[cultures]," is how one student put it.
What's the difference then,
between a multicultural campus and one
that's diverse? According to most
respondents, the difference lies in the
word culture. There can be many
differences within one culture, providing
diversity. Diversity is "a wide variety of
people from different classes, ethnic
groups, geographic regions, and
religions," wrote one student.
Almost everyone wanted a
multicultural Evergreen, for many different
reasons. Some felt that we would have
"less problems with bigotry, racism, and
sexism," because, "...people could work
more easily toward overcoming biases and
misconceptions..." in a multicultural
environment.
Alumni David Wagner wrote:
"Learning and critical thinking are
enhanced (especially with TESC's
teaching style)..."
Not
everyone,
however,
unreservedly embraced multiculturalism.
Some respondents were concerned with
reverse discrimination. "[There is] so
much racism disguised as multiculturalism
that calling our school a school of the
open-minded is crap," wrote an
anonymous student. One staff member
supported a multicultural Evergreen but
added that, "We need to appreciate people
of various cultures, including Caucasians."
Others equated multiculturalism
with political correctness. "TESC is
trying to be multicultural," writes a

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student, "but in the process too much
focus is put on PC and everyone attempts
to be the victim attaching another group
with the blame for their suffering." And
Virginia Lore, a student from Kansas, here
two months, writes, "I am concerned about
freedom of thought being trampled by the
semantic police."
More than a few respondents
seemed dismayed by the conflict created
by the struggle toward multiculturalism.
"This campus is too polarized," one
student wrote. Another said she has seen
"...individuals laughed at, kicked, insulted,
slanderously attacked and downright
ostracized for their beliefs." "Diversity is
more of a forum, less of a battlefield,"
according to a student.
Do our respondents feel TESC is
multicultural? This is where the answers
got a little more complex. A minority of
people surveyed said yes, Evergreen is
multicultural. The rest were divided
between people who flatly answered no,
and those who felt TESC was somewhere
in between.
"Multicultural[ism] runs on a
spectrum...," says Beth Lambach, a
student, and that "compared to [her]
small, white hometown, TESC is very
multicultural. Compared to Seattle or
Chicago, it is not."
"TESC has made an effort towards
multiculturalism, but the lack of

"(There is] so much racism
disguised as multiculturalism
that to call our school a school
of the open-minded is crap."
diversity... means we are hearing about
other cultures through white people,"
remarked another student.
One alert student noticed that most
Evergreen students are white and come
from middle class and liberal families.
And another wrote, "We are taught a
multicultural discipline, yet there is not a
representation of diverse cultures on
campus."
Finally, we asked how Evergreen
can become multicultural.
Many
respondents didn't answer or didn't know,
but at least one student thinks "TESC
must require multicultural curriculum for
all students."
A faculty member recommended
that "hiring and admissions should aim at
affirmative action."
In a country which has
traditionally valued the word of the white
man over the rest of the population, can
we make room for everyone else's
thoughts and become a multicultural
community? This is one challenge we
face now.
In the words of an Evergreen
student and staff member, "We should
practice what we preach — and not for the
sake of PC, but for the sake of TRUTH
(his emphasis)."
Jennifer Fiore and Chris Wolfe
are Evergreen students and CPJ staff
members.

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Men's group works to foster understanding and justice
by Rob Davis
The Men's Group meets weekly to
hold open discussions on issues pertinent
to men without fear of negative
stereotyping or conventional masculine
behavior labels.
The group's mission statement
summarizes both its hopes and ideals:
To work against violence and
violent acts. To stand in solidarity with
women, people of color, people of
alternative sexual orientation, and all
oppressed peoples. To reject all token
privileges of gender and class in favor of
equality and true freedom. To provide a
regular forum for men to meet to
confront and heal their issues in
conjunction with the creation of
advocation and support of activities on
campus and in the larger community that
do the same.

For your information
The Evergreen Men's Group
meets Wednesdays,
5 to 7 p.m.,
on the CAB third floor.
Call x6636 to find out more!
"We need to break the
stereotypes," said Christian Hoerr, Men's
Group coordinator. "We need to show that
men are individuals with feelings and
concerns, and provide a place for
discussion without people being judged."
"It's conventional for men to be
the silent majority," said George Bratina,
a group member. "It is far too easy for
other groups to point the finger at men."
Men came up with ideas for a

men's group during the Orientation Week
Men's Social. The first meeting, a potluck,
created the framework for weekly meetings
which have occurred since then.
The group decides the topic of each
meeting's discussion by consensus. So far,
they have discussed mothers, fathers, and
self-esteem/dependence. The group splits
into smaller groups to hold private
discussions, where ideas and emotions are
exchanged in an open manner.
"Other than c ont i n u i ng the
meetings, we'd like to see the Men's
Group sponsor retreats, workshops, and
other activities," said Hoerr. "We want to
educate about stereotypes and
discrimination, and educate women about
men's issues."
"At Housing's rape education for
men, there were only eight men there,"
said Bratina. "More needs to be done.

Two of us went to Take Back the Night
to talk to people about acquaintance rape.
We're talking about possibly working
with the Rape Response Team and
holding rape awareness workshops."
"Last year's graffiti provoked a lot
of men," said Hoerr. "Some of us felt
threatened. The idea for our group gained
a lot of power from that. I feel that unwise
responses like the poster vandalism during
Sexual Assault Awareness Week
empowers cowardly people. The people
responding depreciate to the same level by
buying into the coward's agenda."
"Men are coming together and
deciding it's time to do something," said
Stephen Brock, a peer counselor.
Rob Davis is one hell of a CPJ
staff member.

KEY staff helps first-generation students through college
by Marcelline Love
Keep Enhancing Yourself (KEY)
is a federally funded program for first
generation college students that is offered
at Evergreen.
After the death of Martin Luther
King Jr., civil rights activists saw a need
for a program which would support first
generation college students in their efforts
to earn a higher degree. People thought
that if a student's parents had not gone to
college, then there was a vacancy in the
student's knowledge of what to expect

when entering the academic system.
KEY was created as a cultural
bridge and a resource to help first
generation students reach their highest
potential. It seems to be working; the
percentage of KEY students who graduate
is higher than the national average of
students who enter college and graduate.
KEY is located in the Student
Advising Center and is characterized by
Jennifer Oatman, of Student Development,
as a "mentoring service."
The five employees of the KEY

On Dec. 7, students can recycle
used plastics in A-dorm courtyard
by Naomi Ishisaka
Keeping with Evergreen tradition,
students from the Washington Public
Interest Research Group (WashPIRG),
have again organized this quarter's plastic
recycling day.
Evergreen's current recycling
program handles tin, aluminum, cardboard,
glass and mixed paper, but not plastic.
According to Liz Hoar, campus
coordinator of Evergreen's WashPIRG
chapter, the explanation is that plastic is
much more difficult to sort and collect and
there is less of a market for recycled
plastics.
"Plastic packaging is one of our
biggest problems," said Hoar, "People
don't think it's a problem because it can
be reduced into small pellets, but those
pellets are toxic and non-biodegradable.
Recycled plastic doesn' t generate a market
and manufacturers would rather use virgin
material."
Hoar urges students to avoid
plastic packaging, "I shop at the Co-op
and encourage people to reuse containers.
Really, recycle, is the last step. We need
to make sure we don't forget the first two,
reduce and reuse." Nevertheless, Hoar
says, it is hard to avoid plastic.
So, on Dec. 7, students can take
their plastics to the courtyard of A-dorm
and have it sorted and collected by a team
of WashPIRG students.
This project is also supported by
Greg Wright of the Evergreen Recycling
Project.
Hoar said the only thing needed to

mobilize a recycling day is the activism of
students. If you would like to organize
one of these events, call WashPIRG at
866-6000 x6058 or contact Greg Wright
of the Evergreen Recycling Project at
x6782.
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Qualification for KEY is based not
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program must meet the federal guidelines
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guidance and health and personal
Guy Trombley, academic specialist
counseling. The KEY advisors' goal is to
for KEY, was a KEY student himself
reduce any barriers to a student's academic
during his undergraduate years at another
goals.
college.
Before Fall Quarter started, KEY
Trombley, who was a first
sent a to mailing around 250 people who
generation student, stated that his parents
qualified for the program. Other than that,
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the program relies on the students to make
way their son could get all of the things
themselves known. If a student has not
in life that they wanted for him but could
identified her/himself as a first generation
not give him themselves.
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For Trombley, involvement in ;,
paperwork, or was missed during the
KEY was a form of "academic nurturing, :'
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where maybe a professor wouldn't pick up
quarter, all that student has to do is go to
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Looking around for... Bob the Orb
by Matt Reeves
Knoll, he replied nonchalantly, "That's okay.
I first heard of Bob about four years We have four more."
ago when I was a first-year student at
"Where did they come from?" I asked
Evergreen. I was living in the Mods then with him.
two brothers, Jordan and Aaron. Jordan was
"I'd rather not say," Bill replied.
a first-year student like me and Aaron was a
A few weeks later I spoke with Bill
junior.
again. We were joined by another member of
One afternoon, the brothers and I sat his strange group who also asked to remain
down in our living room and Aaron regaled anonymous. I will call her "Shirley."
us with all manner of Evergreen lore, such as
The two disputed the legend that there
the presence of a vast network of tunnels exists only one Bob.
beneath the campus, and how they were built
"Quite obviously," he said, "the legend
in order to mobilize riot-troops in case there is incorrect. There is more than one Bob."
were any unruly demonstrations. And another Shirley suggested that perhaps Bob
that Evergreen was originally intended to be reproduces asexually.
a prison, hence the tunnels and the brutal,
"But where did these Bobs come
utilitarian architecture, the turret-like from?" I asked.
clocktower, etc.
"One night," Shirley replied, "I was
Another legend I learned about that blindfolded and tied on to four other people...
afternoon was that of Bob the Orb. Eventually we were led into an unfathomably
Supposedly, Bob was a huge aluminum ball large cavern where we located Bob." She
that fldated around in the woods, was found said that even though she was blindfolded,
by students, camouflaged with leaves and she could tell it was a large cavern from the
branches, then found again by other woodsy echoes inside.
folk who would take Bob to be hidden
"When did you first learn of Bob?" I
elsewhere.
asked her.
Jordan and his friends claimed to have
"It's something that you' re born with.
found Bob, played with him and hid him, I was born with the knowledge of Bob in
only to find him gone the next day.
every cell in my body."
I didn't believe a word of it. There
She went on to say that Bob probably
was no reason why I should. It sounded too sprang full grown from the head of Zeus, and
much like one of those stories that students that Evergreen students have not taken Bob
think up after spending too much time out in as "religiously" as they ought to. She
the Mods, deprived of oxygen and sunlight. suggested that Bob should be worshiped and
Perhaps the asbestos had got to them. Perhaps that the Evergreen clocktower should be
it was drugs.
converted to a Bob the Orb shrine.
In any case, I didn't give Bob much
At the time we spoke. Bill said that
thought until this
two Bobs had been
year,
when,
and put
Evergreen students have dismantled
sometime around
up on the roof of the
Halloween, Bob
Library Building on
not taken Bob as
appeared on campus,
the fourth floor. Sure
religiously as they
prominently
enough, they were
d i s p l a y e d on the
there: four Bobshould. — "Shirley"
Grassy Knoll on Red
halves, one badly
Square with a sign reading: BOB is BEAUTIFUL. crushed. They were made of aluminum, very
This Bob appeared to be the right size shiny on the inside and glossy black on the
and shape, but painted entirely black. It did outside.
I asked longtime Evergreen employee
not fit the descriptions I had been given of
Bob in the past: a shiny aluminum ball, 4 to Pat Spears to come up from Central Receiving
5 feet in diameter, dented, with a hole in one and take a look at them.
"I think I know where these came
side, handles on two sides and covered with
from," she said. She led me down to the
graffiti.
True to his nature, this Bob on the library basement, and pointed to where a pile
Grassy Knoll disappeared only after a few of "surplus and scrap" parts sat unprotected
in a corner. There, atop the heap, were four
hours.
By sheer luck, that afternoon I was translucent white plastic hemispheres which
introduced to a man who claimed to have looked very much like the counterparts
been one of the people who put Bob on the to the B o b - h a l v e s on the roof.
"I think they came from here," she
Knoll. He requested that he remain
said. "I'd bet money on it. They
anonymous, so I will call him "Bill."
When Bill was informed that Bob had were probably light fixtures, but I don't
they
were
ever
used."
been snatched from his perch on the Grassy t h i n k

Artist's idea of Bob shrine, by Seth Long
It did look as if huge, hanging
light fixtures were these Bobs' original
purpose.
George Leago, head of facilities
maintenance, agreed.
Leago had seen Bob on the Grassy
Knoll. He had suspected that it had come
from this scrap heap in the Library
Building basement, but had not reported
the parts stolen. Since the items in
question were scrap, he hadn't seen any
harm done.
"What disturbs me is that [these
people] were not authorized to remove
things. I would have liked to have been
asked first," he said.
That afternoon, the four Bob-halves
were removed from the Library Building
roof.
* **
There is much speculation and
myth-making as to where the original
Bob's origins lie. Evergreen faculty
member Phil Harding told me that he
thought Bob was originally some sort of
buoy.
"Many years ago," said Harding,
"there was a freighter that came into the
Sound. There was something about
bypassing entry tariffs. There was police
involved. Bob was taken as evidence.
After the investigation, the freighter was
confiscated." Since this took place near
Evergreen, said Harding, the school was
able to acquire the original Bob.
This buoy theory is widely held at
Evergreen. George Leago and others I
spoke with also felt that Bob had been a
float of some kind.
But faculty member Walter Niemiec
disagrees. He claims that Bob was
purchased sometime in the early '80s for
experimental use. Soon afterward it was
stolen from its storage place and passed
into myth.
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experimental purposes. He'd gotten it from
Boeing surplus.
"Don Humphrey was the Dean
then, I think. I convinced him that we
should get [the vacuum vessel] because
we were planning the vacuum experiment
for the science program. After that it was
in the shop by the science building. One
of the technicians was doing some leak
tests, trying to plug up some leaks on the
vacuum," said Romero.
"What I wanted to do with that
—whatever you call it — the 'orb,' was to
put a jet [engine] into the vacuum, break
up water and expand it into the vacuum to
see if I could separate the hydrogen and
oxygen." The experiment's purpose was to
free hydrogen for use as a fuel. Romero
called it "a meaningful experiment," and
said that, to his knowledge, it remains
undone.
It seems likely that Romero's
"vacuum tank" and the original Bob the
Orb are the same entity. His description
matched the one I had been given by
others who claimed to have found Bob in
the past. It is conceivable that students
mistook Bob's stainless steel form for
aluminum (Hence the acronym "BAB",
which stands for Big Aluminum Ball.
Pronounced with a Boston accent (bahb),
it sounds like "Bob.").
But where is Bob now? No one
can say for sure. There is as much
speculation on Bob's whereabouts as there
is on his origins. Currently, I've heard
three theories. One is that Bob was
dropped into the Sound, one is that he
was taken from campus and melted down
for scrap, and one is that Bob was taken
by someone who uses him as a yurt.
Evergreen student Noah Soule
claims to have found Bob in the woods at
least twice. Soule (who subscribes to the
scrap-metal theory) also claims that two
years ago he saw Bob being taken away
from campus.
"One day I was in a car coming
back to campus," he said. "I saw a truck
coming towards us and zooming past us.
It had Bob in the back of the pickup
truck. I was really bummed about that."
Indeed. Bob's alleged absence from
the Evergreen campus is sobering and
disappointing. It is a little like learning,
once and for all, that Bigfoot never
existed.
But whatever the case may be, it is
apparent that wherever he is from, and
wherever he is now, many feel that Bob
has made Evergreen a better place.
"I feel, and let me say this very
sincerely," Phil Harding told me, "I feel
privileged that Bob's life and mim
crossed... Bob enriched my life by
passing through."
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Grammarians move on to 'into, onto'
student groups weekly
•The Middle East Resource Center
(MERC) presents a brown-bag lunch with
Diana Abu-Jaber, Arab-American novelist
and author of Arabian Jazz on Friday,
Nov. 19 at 12:30 p.m. in CAB 108.
•The Native Student Alliance will
be showing Incident at Oglala and a film
about the Klickitat occupation Thursday,
Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. in LH1.
•Evergreen Student Activities
presents blues singer Laurette Langille at
the Cafe Verde Coffeehouse, the first floor
of the CAB Thursday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m.
FREE!
•The Men's Abuse Survivor Support
Group meets Tuesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. in
L4004. For information call the Evergreen
Men's Group at x6636.
•KAOS brings us an evening of
storytelling with Tellebration '93 at the
Recital Hall on Saturday, Nov. 20 at 8
p.m. Tickets are $4 for students and
seniors and $5 for everyone else.
•The Scisterhood is planning a
polluck/movie night in the Edge (A-dorm)
on Thursday, Nov. 18 from 6 p.m. to 9
p.m.
•Every Wednesday,
Student
Produced Art Zone meets at 7 p.m. at the
Corner. For information, call x6412
•TEMPO also meets on Tuesdays at
noon in CAB 320 for those interested in
bringing bands to the campus.
•And you know who meets on
Tuesdays as well? The Evergreen
Students For Christ gets together at 7
p.m. in L2218 for singing, friendship and
discussion.
•This was compiled by Dante
Salvatierra so there!
Dante "The Man" Salvatierra
emobdies the ideal of robust public debate.

Hello, how are you? We are fine, if
a bit giddy at this point in the quarter.
Actually we're more than a bit giddy, but
we don't want to burden you with our
sorrows and trials. Don't mind us; we'll
be all right.
We received a question on the net
from "Modern" Sara Steffens, editor-inchief. She asked us (and quite politely,
loo!):
Dear Grammarians:
Could you please explain how one
properly uses "into" and "onto?" For
instance, which is correct: Evergreen logs
on to Internet; or Evergreen logs onto
Internet? As you have noticed, this has
been a hassle for CPJ copy-editors.
Thank you in advance for your
time and concern.
Sincerely,
Modern Sara, editor-in-chief

We hear you, sister! This problem
is one that seems to get worse the more
you think about it. We had hardly given
this puzzle a thought before the question
was proposed. But when we hunkered
down to whip out some snappy answer,
we found ourselves wracked with
uncertainty.
The most traditional way to
explain this grammatical pickle is
apparently not meant to be understood and

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in the room" (i.e. to some place in the
room) and this magically gets turned
around and is written into, or perhaps in
to.
This, you can see, is trash. So let's
clean it up, shall we? (Or perhaps we
should recycle it.)
Okay. In is stationary, into
indicates movement from the outside to
the inside, and in to has a separate stress
on each preposition. Vanessa declared that
Lovica lives in an apartment after she saw
her walk into the building.
While she wouldn't win any prizes
for her observational skills, her statement
would be grammatically correct. I n

describes something stationary, and into
describes the action.
We've been known to give in to
peer pressure. (Only rarely, of course!) In
and to perform separate functions. Give in
is the phrasal verb in the above sentence,
and to is the preposition.
On to and onto are similar to the
above in usage. We threw our grammar
texts onto the table after reading the
rubbish about these nasty prepositions.
"On to our writing!" we cried. "We must
clear this up for our faithful readers."
As you can see, Evergreen must
log on to Internet. One does not "log",
one logs on. Thus, the phrasal verb in
Sara's example is log on, and the
preposition is to. On and in form the
phrasal verb.
Now that we all know each other
so well, we thought we'd let you in on a
secret. It may be a shock to you, because
it involves a superstitious belief that
many of you have no doubt clung to for
decades. Are you sitting down?
The previous sentence was
grammatically correct. "Sure," you are all
thinking, "I say that all the time." But
let's take a closer look at that sentence.

see grammar, page 7

Why we should nix the death penalty
In a time when violence is on the
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violent crimes of the day, Americans
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that terrorizes a nation.
At first glance, capital punishment
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Americans, hopefully making our country
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•Fact#l: Murder rates are lower in
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FBI reports state that there are 4.9
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a certain correlation between the death
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our society.
•Fact#2: Innocent people are
executed.
The Stanford Law Review found
that between 1900 and 1985 23 of the 139

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prisoners executed were later found to be
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•Fact#3: The death penalty costs
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The only other four industrialized
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Boxed sex: Even better than the real thing?
Box presents pristine, perfect
pictures of precious persons performing
primal practices privately. They share each
others' warmth, bodies touching bodies
under sheets and not. Sex is alluded to and
not shown out right; private undisplayable
parts remain just that, hidden from the
public eye; America's voyeuristic
tendencies cut short by its own selfimposed governmental censorship.
Televised relationships, those of
sitcoms, soap operas and Star Trek, fail to
reflect any sort of societal reality. The
inadequacy of boxed relationships is
pushed to a point where people are forced
to continually question their own
interactions with others. "That's not the
way it is on TV," is a common
disillusionment.
Box watchers expect perfection in
action and appearance.
Physical self and superficiality
reign nightly as Billy and Allison, June
and Ward (Cleaver), Micky and Minnie,
even Bert and Ernie, show us the way we
ought to be. Televised love-spats are also
effortless. Post debate, no question
remains in the viewer's mind that the
couple was meant to be, a match made in
heaven, or at least on TV.
We search for that in our partners
and lovers, that image of perfection
presented to us on TV. Looking for Mr.
Right is all we know how to do,
conditioned daily with box, their image
should match that on the screen. Give or
take a pixel or two, our love interests
should remind us of our favorite character.
Maybe in the eyes, the hair or perhaps
just the breasts. Images and curves fulfill
every need, facades acting in place of
reality, in lieu of substance. We see it
everyday mirrored 'real' life reflected on
TV.
Boxed, 30 minutes is enough time
to tell someone 'it's over.' Regardless,

this is not a sad occasion, it is the butt of
a joke or an aspect of a certain character's
growth. The most serious of relationships
require an entire hour to end, perhaps two
episodes, though such a serious coupling
manifests itself oh-so-rarely—as seldom
as one sees a toilet being used on
television.
Throughout box, the main
character is with whom we associate
ourselves, the focus of a particular show
becomes who we are. We identify with
that person.
When a popular box creature
creates or destroys a relationship, it's only
that one perspective in which we can
share. Television can hardly take the other
person's feelings into account; there
simply isn't enough time in the day (or
rather the 30/60 minute format).
When a break-up occurs, it is only
the main character's feelings we take into
account. This creates particularly shallow
relationship perspectives, cold, non-caring
ones. When cries of concern regarding the
other's feelings are made, it remains a
sham. These cries are heard only for selfjustification and guilt removal. Box
watchers become accustomed to caring
only about the main character in a series,
namely themselves.
An entire generation of television
viewers know their relationships in terms
of seasons, of characters rotating on and
off screen. When the time comes to fall in

love, a new character will suddenly appear,
perfectly filling the need created within the
lead's heart. The lover will come and go
with the season, staying a jaunt, being a
guest star for several episodes, and then
exiting. Simply no longer being listed in
the credits—that's the easiest way to tell
when a relationship is over.
People just don't disappear in real
life, the relationships we have aren't

specially crafted by a team of writers. Box
does not teach us what to do in such
situations, when the relationship ends and
the person is still in the picture. Box has
neglected to tell us that other people's
lives are dramatically affected by our
actions, that what happens off camera is
just as important as what happens on.
Unlike box, life has subtext.
Pat failed to complete a hat trick.

Grammarians, from page 6
Did you happen to notice that it ended
with a preposition?
Yes, kids, that's right. The dogma we
have all swallowed as children (yes, even
us) is false!
Sometimes a sentence would be
just too unwieldy without the preposition
at the end. If you said, "On what the hell
am I sitting?" people would laugh and
point, and then you'd feel bad. The rules
of grammar serve to clarify speech and
writing, not to muddle it.
Rules are based on usage, not on
the whims of The Man Behind The
Curtain, or "them," or even John Dryden.
Unfortunately, a lot of people have

believed John Dryden and perpetuated his
pedantic decree ever since it was
committed to paper in the 17th century.
His "thou shall not end a sentence
with a preposition" has been the bane of
well-intentioned writers ever since. Can
you image Hamlet saying, "Off my head
should be struck," rather than "My head
should be struck off? Even Shakespeare
knew how much was too much.
On that little historical note, we
leave you for another two weeks. Don't be
sad; we'll be thinking about you. And we
hope you'll be thinking about your
grammar. It is, after all, your friend.
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Response
Contributors need to take responsibility

We received so much
response to this
cartoon by Jonah ER
Loeb that we decided
to reprint it here so
that those of you who
didn 't see it last
week may better
understand the letters
on this page.
—the editors

for more
Response, see
page 10

RlN T/M TIN IN
THE PHILIPPINES
Snuggle by Jonah ER Loeb from 11/11/93 CPJ

Racist cartoon has
no sense of humor
Dearest Jonah,
About your cartoon, well, your initial
response, along with many other selfproclaimed, "progressive" whites on this
campus who do not like criticism, and who
are sick to fucking death of us whiny people
of color being offended by every tiny racist
remark, comment, or opinion, that you are
respectful enough to share with us, may be
that your pathetic bit of humor is being taken
too seriously.
If you think that racism is something
that is taken too seriously, then you can suck
my dick. I am sick of fucknuts like yourself
perpetuating racial stereotypes that I and
others like me have had to endure, and live
under the stigma of, since the day I was
ejected into this foul and petulant world.
Look, straight out, it's just not fucking
funny! Next, just because you can, you might
draw a cartoon featuring a pickaninny, with
skin as black as tar, huge white lips, little
thought balloons with "Yes, suh," "No, sun,"
contently smacking away on a slice of
watermelon, with a whole one tucked under
his arm. That will be a real riot, buddy.
And you may have some people with
"no sense of humor" coming to engage you in
a very frank discussion.
But please don't keep your ignorant,
insensitive crap to yourself, and keep the
"hood" off. I like to know who my real
enemies are.
Love,
Alex Sewell

Portrayal of
Filipinos offensive
Dear Jonah,
Thank you, thank you, and thank you
again, Jonah, for exemplifying the primary
reason our society has not progressed as a
whole. How funny you must think you are.
Your inept portrayal of Filipino culture
appeared in the last issue of the CPJ. I think
you know the one: "Rin Tin Tin in the
Philippines."
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but
your comic strip failed miserably. It was
neither humorous nor amusing. It just showed
me which side of the face (the ignorant side
or the stupid side) you stood on.
Just in case you don't know the
difference, here are the definitions. Being
ignorant means not knowing better, being
stupid is knowing better but doing it anyway.
Suffice it to say, I think you know better.
Now I know you don't sit in your
room, glowing bright with the light of little
crosses, alive with the soothing sounds of Al
Jolson, and draw your comic strip to suit my
tastes, but that is your creative right as well as
your First Amendment right to do so. It just
amazes me that someone could have so little
cultural sensitivity. To say the least, your
comic strip was crass, offensive, tasteless,
racist, and derogatory in every respect. It did
nothing but perpetuate another negative Asian
stereotype. I'm amazed your "free and
creative mind" didn't think of having a
Japanese tourist, standing in front of a Korean
owned grocery store, conveniently located

right next door to a Chinese laundromat,
taking a picture of the whole event. Well, I
guess there's always a next time.
I know you must be thinking, "Here
we go again, another militant ethnic person,
screaming racism, preaching multiculturalism, and all that crap." Don't worry,
it won' t be that way for long. White European
males are already a minority in the world,
it'll just be a matter of time before the statistics
hold true in the Good Ole' U.S. of A.
I have to wonder whether or not you
would have done something like this to "bash"
other people of color (i.e. African Americans,
Latinos, Native Americans, etc.) or any other
type of "minority" group (i.e. homosexuals,
women, Jewish, handicapped, etc.). Or do
you think that those groups are too hot to
handle? Or did you think that Asians wouldn't
react to it (you do know that we have a
reputation for being docile and subservient)?
Maybe you simply thought that all the
Asians on campus were in the EF program
and wouldn't understand your attempt at a
"joke." Maybe you were just inspired by
your muse. It's just a shame that your comic
strip makes us think that your muse is named
Adolph.
I hope that the feelings I harbor for
your comic sense have been expressed
thoroughly. I know many who share my
thoughts, and guess what, they're not all
Asians. I know this may be a shock to you,
but some were even European Americans.
There is hope for us all.
In closing, I would like to reiterate
that a mind is a terrible thing to waste. My
condolences, Jonah.
Frank J. Petty HI
(A non-dog-eating Filipino/Czechoslovakian-American and ASIA co-coordinator.)

Last week, we explained the purpose
for our open forum pages and how to use
them. This week, we are starting a new
policy
regarding
contributor's
responsibility.
We believe it is valuable for
community members to publish their
thoughts and opinions on our forum pages,
whether or not we agree with them. We
also believe that contributors must hold
themselves accountable for these thoughts
and opinions.
The Washington State Constitution,
Article 1:5 reads, "Every person may freely
speak, write and publish on all subjects,
being responsible for the abuse of that
right."
When you submit an article, cartoon
or photograph to the CPJ, you enter into a
sort of contract with the newspaper. CPJ
women in the Philippines were kidnapped,
forced into sexual slavery and raped up to 24
times a day. The Japanese called these rape
camps "comfort stations."
Under U.S. occupation of the
Philippines, U.S. military bases promoted
and facilitated the use of Filipina women as
prostitutes. In both cases, extremely
inhumane, imperialist, racist and sexist
treatment was justified through images and
words that dehumanized the victims in the
minds of the perpetrators. The U.S. sailors
called the Filipinas "little brown fuck
machines fueled by rice."
If you dehumanize a people, i.e. refer
to them as Dog Eaters, then you separate
your existence from them and reestablish
power over them. That is the launching point
for justifying sexism, rape, class oppression,
genocide and, in your case, racism.
Since you seem to uphold and promote
this racist imagery of Filipinas/os, I can only
assume that you support the treatment of
Filipina "Comfort Women." Without people
like you around who represent and mirror the
power structure of the United States, it would
be much harder to implant these racist/sexist
attitudes that promote an justify the rape of
women of color and White women around
the world.
While you're supporting the racist/
sexist treatment of "Comfort Women, "don't
forget to go down to Lyle Point and show
your support for the developers because the
"savage Indians" down there are not fit to be
sovereign on their own land. Maybe you
should have volunteered for the National
Guard when they invaded Los Angeles
because I'm sure that you don't trust those
Black and Latino "gangsters." Maybe you
should apply to work for the Immigration
and Naturalization Service because not only
could you go after those river crossing
"Wetbacks," but you could also wait

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anxiously on the shorelines for the Asian and
Haitian "boat people."
It is good to know that you, Jonah,
exist. Many Greeners either think that this is
Utopia where liberal racism can't function, or
they are too scared to show their true
supremacist colors. A l t h o u g h I could
personally live without your presence, liberals
can always use a good dose of reality. Oh,
yeah— I'm glad that in your past cartoon
you put Asian Students In Alliance in an
armed fox hole because with students like
you around, we must be ready to fight.
Wayne Wah Kwai Au

Cartoon shows
ignorance of artist
Response to "Snuggle" comic 11/11/93
Jonah ER Loeb did you think your
caricature of the Philippines would go
unnoticed? The humor sure did, but your
racist bigotry did not. You probably thought
those passive Asian-Americans wouldn't
respond to the prejudice connotations in your
comic rendition of "dog-eaters." Here in this
paper are your feelings and thoughts. Pictures
may say a thousand words, but yours only
tells me the ignorance you have.
I am glad you came out with your
comic and proudly signed it, unlike the two
"men" who defaced the survivor tree sign. I
like to know the kind of people I fight against,
who perpetuate this type or any other form of
stereotypes.
If you want to respond, I'd wish for
you to do so in person. Come to the third floor
of the CAB and talk face to face with the
individuals who wrote a response to your
cartoon. You have committed to your actions
by having this cartoon in the public media, so
why don't you take responsibility for it?
We'd love to see you.
Thomas Brierly

Racism hurts all if
left unchecked
The new adventures of Joenut Wetdreaming
sup!
Dear Jonah ER Loeb,
Why stop with racist stereotypes of
Filipinos? Here are some suggestions for
images that your cartoon can conjure in the
future: Japs, Greasers, Niggers, Sambos,
Redskins, Gooks, Wetbacks, Coolies, Spies,
Spearchuckers, Beaners, Chinks, Chiefs,
Orientals, Negroes, Flips, Nips, Jungle
Bunnies, Savages, etc...and of course Dog
Eaters.
Hey, don't stop with racism, try your
hand at sexism: Bitches, Whores, Ho's, Sluts,
Wenches, Bimbos, etc. You might as well
draw some pictures of Fags, Queers and
Dykes to round out your collection with a
little Homophobia. Not only would you be
the most popular guy on campus, but you
could even help Evergreen bridge its ever
widening gap with the White supremacist
groups and the Christian Right in and around
Thurston County.
I can only assume that you did not
attend the presentation that Asian Students
In Alliance, among other student groups,
sponsored on the very same week that you
chose to publish your racist cartoon. Dr.
Carol Pagaduan Araullo, a Filipina activist,
came to talk about Filipina "Comfort
Women." Under Japanese occupation,

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Olympia privileged to have Zinn and Terkel in its midst
by Joomi Lee
Olympia was privileged to have authors Howard Zinn (A People's History of
the United States) and Studs Terkel (Working and The Great Divide) give lectures to
the community. Zinn spoke at The United
Churches on l l t h and Capital Way while
Terkel was at the Washington Center. Both
men were funny and surprisingly optimistic
durimg their talks.
Zinn spoke to a standing-room-only
crowd. The room was incredibly hot and I
noticed one woman falling asleep halfway
through the lecture. Despite the heat,
everyone else paid rapt attention as he told
his jokes to counterpoint the bleak
depression of his book, A People's History.
During the question and answer session, some of the remarks that the audience
made bothered me. For instance, there was a
woman who told Zinn that women were

more peaceful than men, men start wars,
putting women in national power will decrease violence, and blah, blah, blah. This
will sound politically incorrect but it bothered me because I've caught myself making
the same kind of generalizations.
What about men
like Ghandi, Buddha,
Jesus and all the other
men that they've influenced like Myles
Horton, Martin Luther
King and Bill Nye?
What about women like
Queen Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great and
Margaret Thatcher (whom Studs Terkel described as "Ronald Reagan in drag"). Have
they really contributed to a peaceful world?
Women are just as capable of feeling
hate and violence as men. It's true that most
violent crimes are committed by men. But

the rate of violent crimes committed by
women increases every year and gets worse
with each younger generation of women.
The rapid activity and growth of "girl gangs"
in major metropolitan cities here in the States
is just one example.
Afterwards, Zinn
told me that he
wanted to "write a
1992 edition of the
book, updating its
history to cover a full
500 years. This book
is selling better now
than when it first came out. But my publisher
didn't think it was worth it [to update]. This
book is just peanuts to them... and I can't
take it to another publisher."
Zinn isn't the only one who's found
the publishing experience a mixed blessing.
Earlier last year, Susan Faludi (author of

Women are just as
capable of feeling hate

and violence as men.

Backlash) made publishing news when she
decided to have a different publisher print
her next book, The Man Question, instead of
Crown and Anchor. According to Publisher's
Weekly "Susan has complete editorial control over her book...including the power to
choose an editor or to quit an editor. Thi s was
just as important as the money involved," a
cool $1.5 million. Her new book will be
released in 1994. It makes me wonder what
happened during the editorial process for
Backlash.
Things are still up in the air as far as A
People's History of the United States is
concerned. As he left, Howard Zinn mentioned that he would "continue to approach
my publisher about a new edition." I hope
that he does as well as Susan Faludi did.
Studs Terkel, in the meantime, is working on
his next book about the elderly.
Joomi Lee is a CPJ contributor.

Bulldozing aspirations relate to male testosterone, beagles
by David Henderson
As I was having dinner with my friend
Joan this week, I told her of my lifelong
desire to drive a bulldozer. She quickly asked,
"Have you ever done it"?
I sadly said, "No."
She inquisitively asked, "What is it
about a bulldozer that gets you so excited"?
"1 don't know... Well, I suppose that
a bulldozer would fulfill my need to be in
control, to be able to rip apart trees, conquer
new terrotory, plow through forests, crush
cars, and have in my hands one of the biggest,
strongest, meanest pieces of machines
around."
"But David, you talk to trees, you
believe the earth has rights against human
degradation. I can't see you plowing through
trees. Trees are you friends."
"You're right, Joan, but have you
ever wanted to drive a bulldozer"?
Joan responded with disgust in her
voice, "No, David, that is what men like to
do. I have never thought about it, nor have
any of my girlfriends. Most women don't
like to destroy things or have any desire to
drive bulldozers. I don't know what it is
about men."
I pondered this perplexing problem of
bulldozers for a minute and then said, "Well,
Joan, the bulldozer syndrome must tome
from the male hormone testosterone. It causes
men to want control and commit diabolical
acts such as rape and nuclear warfare. Such

acts, whether committed by the penis of the
flesh or the larger penis of intercontinental
missiles mimic each other."
Our dinner ended and this testosterone theory couldn't get out of my mind. The
next day I went to the library and found a
study scientists had performed on beagle
puppies at a well respected university. At six
months of age, the puppies were injected
with massive doses of testosterone.
The report stated its conclusion as
follows, "Most of these juveniles, unremark-

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conduct." A footnote in the study stated that
the hip-bath method was taken from the 1931
edition of the Official Boy Scouts Manual of
America.
Testosterone may explain some of
man's oppressive behavior towards nature,
women, and all of society. History and culture can explain a lot too. My advice to men
everywhere: When the bulldozer syndrome
appears, remember the ice water hip bath.
David Henderson is an Evergreen
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Barter board may answer TESC's trade needs
by Seth Williams
Frustrated with those never-ending
mechanic's bills? Wish you could sew that
rip in the crotch of your favorite trousers?
Perhaps you like to share your talents with
others. If anything close to a yes has crossed
your mind you should know about the Barter
Board.
The Barter Board is a piece of wall on
campus for helping people exchange their
special skills and services. Some students
have assembled an ornate sign-up sheet in
the Housing Community Center (the Corner)
so anybody can walk up and fill in any vital
information like a name (or acronym), a way
you can be contacted, the skills or services
you can provide and anything you want in
exchange. Wouldn't you like someone to
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rock" favored by American youth on MTV.
Seven were killed in fights in which the
victims were literally ripped into pieces.
Ninety seven percent evidenced bizarre sexual
behavior, mounting any handy object, a feeding dish, a bone, even each other."
Then the article concluded, "Hip baths
administered in ice water proved the most
effective means of controlling this aberrant

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crisp mornings? By taking an active interest
in this skills exchange, you can help yourself
as well as the rest of us starving students.
Bartering is not only a way to take
care of practical needs, it is a time-honored
way of economic exchange. Before we were
bestowed with shiny discs of metal, crumpled
scraps of paper and the ever-slick plastic
passports, trading directly with neighbors or
travellers was the best way to get those things
you couldn't produce on your own. Because
trading involves real, inherent values (a box
of apples has nutritional value and chopping
a cord of wood has energy value), it remains
on a more human level than cash or credit.
People who trade recognize the quality of
work and the time necessary to perform services or create goods. Bartering becomes a
way of understanding other people's work
and their values.
And, of course, to barter is to fulfill
needs despite a lack of cash-flow. It actually
feels good to be independent of those filthy

greenbacks of Uncle Sam. So give it a try:
check out the Barter Board next to the side
door in the Corner. Write down those skills
you have to trade or would like to trade for.
If someone has a skill that you can use,
contact them and work something out. Once
you decide upon a fair trade both will go
tbout their work with a peace of mind and
ight heart. Things could get sticky if someme needs a service but can not do anything
;hat the other person wants.
I suggest that we donate our services
in faith that another will return a more suitable skill in the future. If you make such a
donation on faith, you could even make a
note of the hours put in and then ask another
to honor your word. In a sense, this is sort of
a spoken-word credit system, eliminating the
need for bills, receipts and the rest of the
waste stream. Good will cannot be packaged
and priced to sell.
Seth Williams is a member of the
Evergreen community.

The sun and moon are doing
multiplication at Happy Land
by Fezdak Clamchopbreath
Several unpopular Beat poets delivered fair well addresses this week at an informal lecture given outside our carnival gates.
Amidst hysterical tears and mucus, we heard
the drugged up speakers stumble over root
words for the last time in garlic, "Mhanne,
we served with a mind tripping cool cat
vernacular and a fast food aluminum tray of
surrealism," but our beat changes. Foiled
coyote retires a vegetarian, and the road

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runner begins a career in talk radio. We do
not want to fill our creative gaps with acid
spackle and marijuana putty. (The Tagalog
Mima dreams, "the organic, the whole wheat,
we are the self made fools.") Perhaps not free
from anything besides a synthetic stupidity,
an imaginative crutch, the substance use;
sensitive to reality, enchanted with the real.
(Tiokasin responds, in a jar of Soda Pop (I'll
buy you a bottle of pop). See more: a feast for
the eyes, a lung, a liver, a heart, a brain. Now
you drink the clammy stew of a retarded baby
boiled in feces. If you are the wick, would
that make me a candle, or are we both the deaf
and uneducated Thomas Edison in a New
Jersey laboratory? Send all the bills to Happy
Land, especially Jake, he'd be great for electrical things. Ready to fly solo? It's the drug
and alcohol awareness week, so put on your
winged feet, open your eyes, and don't be
afraid to tell the shadowy beast your name
(unless there is a basement under the basement). Pull the drain stoppah from the hoe,
we are becoming increasingly coherent during the search ford'anal yeppah. The sun and
the moon are doing multiplication at Happy
Land (which doesn't exist).
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Jonah, be glad we're
just eating dogs
Dear Jonah ER Loeb,
As a Filipino-American I must say
that I was not offended by your cartoon in last
week's CPJ. It was the one depicting Rin Tin
Tin's empty collar in the Philippines while
an, "URP!" echoed off into the hills. I guess
this was to imply that the dog was eaten by
the Filipinos. I was not offended because it is
true that Filipinos love to eat dogs.
It should be noted that this was not
always the case. After getting tired of killing
and eating white men, the natives in the
archipelago had to settle for eating the white
man's best friends. This has been ingrained
in my genetic code so that every time I see a
loose dog on Red Square ready to bite a
helpless child and generally making a
nuisance of itself, I get hungry and salivate
uncontrollably. Every so often, however, I
revert even further to my native DNA and
find my craving for white men is even
stronger.
In actuality, your cartoon would
probably hurt and damage the sense of pride
we Filipinos have struggled to build for the
last few centuries. But seeing as how you're
really a nobody in the scheme of things and
just another pinhead in a pin factory and just
another lame cartoonist who isn't creative
enough to pick on his own damn ethnicity, I
won't eat you.
Love,
Dante " I really do love whiteys " Salvatierra

Reader defends
Jesus
Lizard review
As a sometime contributor/
procrastinator to the CPJ, I'd like to defend
what goes on at the paper. A critic's review
of a show is a personal account of what the
critic experienced at the concert and one
personal opinion of what happened. Nothing
more, nothing less. That makes Rob Davis's
account of what happened just as valid as
Daniel F. Swing's and Matt Rudy's. Every
member of the Evergreen community is
welcome to contribute to the CPJ as long as
it's turned in on time.
Daniel, the CPJ's quality improves
when the editing staff has a greater pool of
contributions to pick from. Do you think that
they choose to print the worst possible stories
that have been given to them on purpose? If
the quality of the paper makes you "throw
up."(like a certain Seepage item that will go
unnamed), why not contribute something
yourself? That may mean a story every week,
a story every month, or a story every quarter.
It depends on how much time you're willing
to spend.
Matt, you're not the only one who's
spent time and effort writing a story only to
be disappointed when it doesn't get printed.
Last year my Yello Sno vs. Slackjaw story
wasn't released because I turned that in
extremely late. The paper runs on a schedule
and it isn't based on a slacker timetable.
I'm probably the only one that liked
all three bands, including Cop-Shoot-Cop
(gasp). My personal opinion? The show was
worth the $6 I paid (gasp) to get in, even
though I also hated "to stand around waiting
for an hour and a half." Did I know how anal
David Yow could be? Yes, because I've seen
The Jesus Lizard before. Matt's right, "If

anything, Yow has toned his act down."
There weren't any gross jokes about
molesting nine-year-old girls, for instance.
Yours truly,
Joomi Lee
P.S. Matt, what is a boilermaker?

Rape is not always
cut and dry
A lot of people were unimpressed
with Matthew Zipeto's criticism of Andrea
Stoops' photography. I agree that a call to
censorship is undesirable. This is apparently
the reaction of a man who seems to feel
powerless against a movement which aims at
changing the balance of power. Such reactions
are to be expected when the traditional power
structures are being altered.
However, Andrea said something
in her response which concerns me and I
think that Matthew misdirected his criticism
on this point. Andrea said that Barbie and her
friend are killing Ken. Is this really what you
want? I hope not because all Hell will break
loose if women start killing their attackers
and it will negatively affect you too Andrea.
What ever happened to the American Judicial
system? Due process is important because
not all rapes are as cut and dry as the case
between Ken and Barbie.
Perhaps Andrea does not trust the
Judicial system, and I can't blame her if she
doesn't. Nevertheless, we don't need a society
full of vigilantes. If you're unhappy with the
courts it is your right and obligation to change
the laws. Furthermore, I believe that the
notion of Ken raping Barbie is rather absurd
because neither of them have any sexual
organs.
I also don't understand what Lara
Shepard-Blue means when she says that
Barbie is a symbol of women's oppression.
How is this? Were you beaten by your parents
until you finally agreed to play with a Barbie
doll? If she symbolizes women's oppression
it is because little girls have oppressed
themselves by playing with these dolls. My
sister would have screamed oppression had
she not received a Barbie doll. If anything, it
is the parents who are oppressed by spending
hundreds of dollars on Barbie dolls
(everything from the traditional Barbie to the
Glamour Barbie), not to mention clothes,
mansions, swimming pools, and Corvettes.
Katie Taft says: "Mr. Coley's and
Mr. Zipeto's words threaten to silence me."
Don't worry—they can't silence you, but
you can give up and then you'll have only
yourself to blame. And Camilla Eckersley
and Kristin Long say that getting rid of men
is "the only way for [women] to have an
intelligent, open discussion of feminist
politics." What F ve read in this paper is more
reactionary than intelligent.
Unfortunately, Zipeto gave the
Women's Center a good reason to patronize.
But something good came of it — they gave
up their space in the CAB. They put it in
writing. What are we going to do with it
guys?
Mark Wright
By the way Lara, the fliers last year said
"Dead Women Don't Refuse"—not "Resist."
Trust me on this one. And to Your Majesty
"Lakefair King," why should PC bashing be
out of style if disco and the Grateful Dead
have survived?

PC: beginning or
end to racial strife?
I would just like to respond to the
articles written about PC within the last couple
of weeks by Oliver Moffat and Dante
Salvatierra. I do realize that there were flyers
denouncing PC posted around Evergreen
bearing the names of "the Shadow and AD."
Having read the flyers, I do not think their
ultimate goal was to attack PC, but rather to
get people to formulate thoughts about PC. I
feel that with your responses, their goals
were met.
Oliver Moffat said that the people
who wrote these posters were paranoid white
males who lived in fear. How do you know
that they were white males? Did you ever see
the people who posted the flyers?
Not all PC bashers are middle and
upper class white males. There are many
people in the Evergreen community who
believe that we need to expand our horizons
beyond PC. Anyway, does PC tolerate
everybody, or does it just tolerate those who
are left of the center in the political spectrum?

budget cutbacks, from cover
cuts," said Bill Zaugg, assistant to Student
Affairs V.P. Art Constantino.
Although the memo from OFM
states that Evergreen should "first consider
cutbacks in those areas which have the
least impact on direct service delivery,"
the plan states that cutbacks in the areas
suggested by OFM "are not in the best
long term interest of the college or of the
students we serve."
For example, further cuts in the
travel budget would directly decrease
TESC's ability to use its motor pool,
which is funded by the travel budget.
Motor pool expenses include support
of Public Safety vehicles, garbage trucks
and maintenance pickups, and registration
and staff travel to the Tacoma campus.
Equipment purchases, which OFM
suggests cutting, cannot be cut very much,
according to Evergreen administrators.
The OFM also suggested cutting
managerial staff. But the number of
classified staff at Evergreen has decreased
from 207 FTEs in 1981-83 to 183 now.
Exempt staff (professionals, librarians and
counselors) includes only one more FTE.
The Evergreen plan does not want to cut
more staff.
As Zaugg put it, "Our director of
Financial Aid spends a lot' of her time
processing forms and talking to students;
our managers are involved in 'direct
service'."
The college suggests an enrollment
cutback with a corresponding staff and

faculty layoff to preserve student to
teacher ratios.
The plan states, "Most seminars
have 25-25 students assigned to each
faculty, and some have more than 30
students. Seminar instruction is the core of
academic experience at Evergreen.
Seminars of 25 students mean fewer
opportunities for intensive interaction
between faculty and students, and have
also strained classroom space because
TESC's classrooms were designed to
accommodate smaller classes... further
growth in class size would seriously
undermine educational quality as seminars
grow too large to work effectively.
Finally, key aspects of our pedagogy, such
as narrative evaluations,
become
impossible to sustain when faculty must
meet with too many students at the end of
each quarter."
These budget recommendations do
not have the force of law, nor are they
mandated by the recent passage of
Initiative 601.
The legislature and the governor will
determine Evergreen's budget for the next
academic year during the next legislative
session starting in January.
Robert Taylor is a staff writer who
covers budget stuff for the CPJ.

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Dante Salvatierra said PC bashing
went out two years ago. Even though I agree
that PC bashing is a bit old, I also feel that it
is still a big political issue that persists in the
United States. If PC was not an issue, then
AD and the Shadow would not have made
and posted the flyers.
In the end, I wouldjust like the readers
to think about what PC actually is.
Is PC just a beginning or an end to the
solution of racial problems in the United
States? Does PC really accomplish anything
except putting nicer names to the
disadvantaged? Does PC really decrease
intolerance as a whole? Does PC really
tolerate everybody? Are the only people who
oppose PC at Evergreen white males?
I just hope that we all realize that PC
could be a good start to the racial problems
that plague the United States if it was practiced
as it was preached and its adherents were not
so puritanical about the whole thing.
Chad Browning
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Evergreen Expressions presented
"An Evening of Orissi Dance," featuring
Protima Gauri Bedi and Company to a
sold out show at the Experimental Theater
on Wednesday, Nov. 3.
Orissi, an ancient Indian dance,
dating back at least 2000 years; has made
a recent comeback in India and is currently
sweping the world. It balances lyrical
upper body motion with athletic lower
body movments characterised by foot
slaps. Using a strong element of mime,
one dancer can assume the role of several
characters in telling a story through dance.
Although the movement is fluid and

Yardbird's
memorial turns ugly in f nal celebration
by Dan Ewing
The good citizens of Olympia were
given the opportunity to bid farewell to
Yardbirds Family Shopping center last
Wednesday when the Olympia Film
Festival hosted Hello Dere, a tribute to
the downtown shopping center which
closed down earlier this year.
Former Olympian, Olympia Film
Society veteran, and K pop icon Lois
Mafeo hosted the event which began at
midnight, and was attended by forty or so
of the bereaved. Very few in attendance
were former employees, the crowd
primarily comprised of former patrons of
the now-deceased shopping mecca.
The evening was primarily people
sharing memories of the Yardbirds, but
there were interesting talks about the store
and it's contents but only in a peripheral
sort of way.
Teen idol Brent Claude Turner
thrilled the crowd with a story about being
led to Yardbirds' fabled blue room after
being caught for shoplifting by a large
security guard (not in attendance) who had
worked at the store catching and punishing
would be thieves 'forever.' The walls of
the blue room bore pictures of crying
children and stolen merchandise. Turner
reminisced that it was almost worth the
$150 fine just to see the room for
himself.
K pop superstar Calvin Johnson
silenced the crowd with a gripping account
of his dangerous journey into the heart of
the Yardbird graveyard while attempting to
find the store's private helicopter
reportedly hidden in one of the giant
Yardbird monuments.

The Olympian's ace reporter Brian
Rainville told, with a glint in his eye, of
all the unconditional love he received
wearing the Yardbird suit in this year's pet
parade.
SubPop Bigwig Rich Jenson, the
only speaker to have actually worked at
Yardbirds,
birds, told an intriguing (ale of his
adventures in both the men's pants
department and the fourth dimension.
Perhaps the most poignant part of
the evening was a showing of Stella
Mars' Pixel-Vision™ account of the final
day of Yardbirds. The film maker/narrator
spoke of what the store meant to her and
her family as she approached it on the
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with an interview with an old woman,
lamenting the passing of the shopping
center and of an era.
Despite the generally pleasant
mood created by all of these fine stories, I
was disturbed by the tribute's finale
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head. Punk-rock sensation Tae Won Yu
held a string which went over one of the
lighting bars and held the effigy aloft
while blindfolded would-be executioners
took swings at it. After the head had taken
a thorough beating, a fatal blow sent a
few bloody prizes from a gaping head
wound. Tae dropped the rope, the head fell
to the ground, and there was a mad dive to
the center.
It was disgusting.
Most of the crowd, people who
seem to spend so much time and energy
looking calm and oh-so-cool, went hogwild. There was a pile of people on the
floor three or four deep and paper mache
flew through the air like confetti as
everyone fought over Yardbirds trinkets
and candy.
The weak and helpless were pushed
aside in an atmosphere of violence and
greed which made for an unfortunate
ending to a touching memorial.
I'm sad that Yardbirds has closed.
But the terrible display at the end of this
tribute made me wish it had burned to the
ground years ago with all those bastards
inside.
Dan Ewing secretly vies to be
called an "ace" reporter. -»t

poetic, Orissi choreography is very strict,
and includes prescribing movements for
the entire body, including specific eye and
facial postures. Years of study and practice
are required to master the complicated
dances.
Protima Gauri Bedi is one of
India's most famous performers of Orissi
dance. She has danced in India, North
America and Europe, with over 500
performances to her credit. Prior to this
she was India's foremost model, and is
married to the nation's leading actor. Bedi
applied her fame to help preserve India's
dance heritage.
In 1979, she started the Orissi
Dance Center Trust in Bombay, and the
vice chancellor of Bombay University
Made her training program a part of the
Adult and Continuing Education Program
at the SNDT University in Bombay.
After ensuring the success of the
Orissi dance training program at Bombay,
she undertook a unique project — the
village of Nrityagram. Built on 10 acres
of land in a barren section of the country,
Nrityagram, or Village of Dance, is the
only village in the world focused on the
teaching and learning of the seven
classical dances and two martial dance
forms. Scholarships help those in need
cover costs for their education at the
village, where students also learn
Sanskrit, Indian literature, the history and
background of dance, and its
interrelationship with the ancient temples.
Students at Nrityagram have a daily
routine that includes a five kilometer jog,
eye exercises, and 10 hours of training in
dance by the foremost gurus in India.
They also grow their own food. "Being
close to nature is essential for creativity,"
Bedi said. Students live at Nrityagram for
six years.
Before British colonialism in India,
Orissi dance was intergrated into activities
of the temples, where dancers were
involved with worship as well as
entertainment. During the early
occupation of British forces, Orissi
dancers used the mime element of their
craft to communicate suppressed
information to large Indian audiences. The
British banned the practice of the temple
and suppressed Orissi dance, which nearly
extinguished the tradition before India
became independent. India's effort to
recapture some of its pre-colonial culture
has made Orissi dance very popular.
Wednesday's performance featured
Bedi performing the "Mangalacharan," an
invocation to the elephant-headed god
Ganesha, seeking his blessings for an
auspicous beginning. The latest batch of
students from Nrityagram, in their first
performance outside of India, then
performed "Batu Nritya," highlighting the
sculpturesque postures of the dancers from
the walls of the Konorak or sun temple.
Other dances performed included "Pallavi,"
"Jatayu Mokshu," "Das Avatar," and
"Moshka," a dance of joy through which
the dancer liberates the soul from the body
to merge with the infinite source. The
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Crispin Glover speaks of career and upcoming projects
by Cameron Rose
Actor Crispin Glover's distinct
career includes such mainstream hits as
Back to the Future and such offbeat tales
as Rubin and Ed. In addition to his acting
career, Crispin is an accomplished writer
who started his own publishing company,
Volcanic Eruptions, in 1988. He is
starring in the forthcoming What's Eating
Gilbert Grape]
On Friday Nov. 12 at 9:30 p.m., at
the Capitol Theater, Crispin presented
Hotel Room, episode 3, directed by David
Lynch with script by Barry Gifford. Hotel
Room was a two hour work broadcasted in
three segments on HBO in January 1993.
Unfortunately, in order to fit it in the time
slot allotted, 15 minutes were trimmed off
the film.
What was seen at the Olympia
Film Festival is the original director's cut
never before seen at its full length.
Afterwards, Crispin answered questions
from the audience.

What follows here is an edited
version of an interview which took place
November 1, 1993.
Cameron: What's your sign?
Crispin: I was born on April 20, cusp
of Taurus and Aries.
Cameron: Tell me about working with
David Lynch.
Crispin: He's great. I mean I loved
working with him I had been a fan of
his..., I mean I used to go see Eraser head
over and over when I was sixteen. It's a
great movie that had a lot of 16 on me.
Getting to work with him I loved it, just
loved it. I've worked with him twice, it
was a great experience, very intelligent
person.
Cameron: You told me for your Wild at
Heart character everything was written
out. How did David Lynch direct you for
that?
Crispin: Extremely specific, he's the
most specific director I've ever worked
with. Another thing that I did with him is

called Hotel Room for that every nuance,
every thought was written out...
extremely specific, there's nobody that
I've worked with that is more specific
than David Lynch. Most directors don't
really direct you very much, but he does.
It's wonderful, you want to be
directed by him. Most directors, if they
tried to direct you a lot would drive you
insane, but [with] David, you just want
him to direct you because he's such a
great director. Everything he's saying
makes sense. As surreal as his films seem
they are ultimately cerebral and extremely
well thought out. He does not give a false
direction, it all makes sense.
Cameron: Tell me about Hotel Room.
Crispin: It's another thing I did with
David Lynch. There's a television version
which is 30 minutes but I think they will
be showing the 45 minute original. We
shot it in three days and it's me and a girl
[Alicia Witt] in a hotel room during a
blackout. It's very straightforward, it's not

Washington Center comes alive with talk from Studs
by John Ford

A natural resource visited Olympia
Saturday night.
"An Evening with Studs Terkel"
brought the award-winning oral historian
and self-described "guerrilla journalist" to
the Washington Center for the Performing
Arts as the second installment of South
Puget Sound Community College's 199394 Artist and Lecture Series. And what an
evening it was.
Louis "Studs" Terkel is the author
of eight books of oral history, the most
recent being "Race: How Blacks and
Whites Think and Feel About the
American Obsession" (soft-cover, Anchor
Books). Previous works include the
Pulitzer-Prize winning, "The Good War:
An Oral History of World War II,"
"Working: People Talking About What
They Do All Day and How They Feel
About What They Do" and "Hard Times:
An Oral History of the Great Depression."
His curious nickname, Studs, was given
to him because of his love of Chicago
author James T. Farrell's novel "Studs
Lonnigan."
Terkel doesn' t merely stand at the
podium and pontificate on a given issue,
he moves about both physically and in his
dialogue just as in his books, a style he
likens to jazz in its theme and variation.
One topic invariably leads to myriad
others, but always gets back to the main
theme.
The 72-year old writer, disc jockey
and amiable provocateur, possesses a
wide range of eclectic interests including
folk stories, jazz and whatever became of
the American Dream.These interests and
the telling of what he terms, "the
extraordinary acts of ordinary people," are
the basis of all his books as well as his
weekly syndicated radio program The
Studs Terkel Show, a program that has
been on Chicago's WFMT for 40 years.
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it that, as did Terkel) primarily dealt with
his favorite subject — the man (or
woman) on the street and the universal
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passionate, fiery, blunt and funny —
whatever tells the tale best. He is happiest
when destroying stereotypes, dispelling
them, melting them with the white-hot
light of fact and truth. For example,
speaking on the economy: "We are in a
depression. It is not a recession. Go visit
Minnesota — it's the 'Grapes of Wrath'
all over again, families losing everything
to the banks."
For the first hour, he spoke of his
books old and new, and some of the
people whose stories make up those
books, describing oral history as the
gathering of "voices not normally heard,
that offer a truth otherwise not heard at
all." Then, with the help of master of
ceremonies (and SPSCC Director of
Student Programs) Chris Yates, the floor
was opened to questions; the "theme and
variation" of jazz changing to the "call and
response" of gospel music. He guaranteed
a good time: "If I don't know the answer,
I'll fake it!"
On the 90's: "I've mixed feelings."
On Clinton: "Mixed again. He
keeps folding, he folded on Lani Guinier,
it's a shame."
The American worker: "The worker
doesn't feel necessary. To feel needed is an
essential human need."
Vietnam: "We lost Vietnam
because we had no idea why we were
there. Nixon said this created a 'Vietnam
Syndrome.' We needed to beat someone.
So we beat Grenada, the people loved it. It
was ridiculous, it was like Muhammad
Ali beating Woody Allen."
An audience member asked if PC
picked up where communism left off as a
threat, whereupon Terkel referred to the
Sixties and Tom Wolfe's coining of the
phrases Radical Chic and Limousine
Liberal, and how they were used to bash
the leftists just as PC is used by the
Right today.
"It's a perversion of the language,"
he said. "In the Bush-Dukakis debates, the
'L-word' (liberal) replaced the 'C-word'
(communist) as bad guy. Its awful... The
liberal media-that's the joke of the
century! who's on PBS ? William F.
Buckley, Robert Novak and John
McLaughlin, not Noam Chomsky! NBC
is owned by General Electric!"
The issue of National Health came
up. "Everyone wants National Health,
they don't care if it's 'socialized medicine'

Studs Terkel. photo courtesy of SPSCC

— except the insurance companies. All
the other industrialized nations have it
except us an South Africa, and it works.
It's flawed, but it works. And wouldn't it
be ironic if they got it first?"
And so it went for the remainder of
the two hours. It probably could have
gone on all night judging by the crowd's
enthusiasm, but even Terkel is after all,
only human. We just need more like him.
To quote John Kenneth Galbraith,
"If Studs did not exist, some suitably
qualified supernatural authority would
have to intervene and invent him. And
that, admittedly, would be a demanding
task."
On a hopeful note though, a
sizeable portion of the audience were
students, many with an idealistic gleam in
their eyes. At the autograph session in the
lobby that followed "An Evening with
Studs Terkel," several of these students
expressed a wish to become oral historians
themselves. The pleased look on Studs'
face showed that their ambitions were far
more pleasing to him than their applause.
That's just his style.
John Ford is an Evergreen student
and prolific CPJ reporter. Q_

written by David Lynch, it's actually
written by the same man who wrote Wild
At Heart [Barry Gifford]. My favorite
David Lynch [films] are the ones he writes
himself, the things David Lynch writes
have a more surreal feel to them. This is
more of straightforward drama, though it
does have oddness.
Cameron: Tell me about The Orkly
Kid.
Crispin: That an excellent film, a half
hour film I did for AFI, one of my first
films and still one of very favorites. It's
based on a real person so I. was able to
watch videotapes of that person.
for the next half hour Crispin and I
talked about film making in general, he
mentioned he was making a film of his
own.
Cameron: Tell me about your film.
Crispin: It's a video actually. It's based
on a book of mine called The Backward
Swing, it's a moral tale with a severe
backlash told through the eyes of a man
with questionable intentions.
Cameron: Your descriptions of your
books seem deliberately vague.
Crispin: Yes, I don't want to say too
much. I don't enjoy when I look at a film
or book and they give you an outline of
the plot.
Cameron: When did you start
publishing your books?
Crispin: I started making my books
when I was around 18 or 19.1 didn't plan
to publish them when I made them and it
wasn't until years later that I actually
published them. I've made a lot of more
books than I've published. I've published
three and I've made 18. I've made quite a
few. It's strange because I'm going to do a
book reading and I've never done that
before.
I made a book lastyear. No, I was
moving last year. The year before. I
should make a book again, I haven't made
one in a while but the kind of energy I
pug into book writing I've been putting
into screenplays.
Cameron: Tell me about you
book promoting tour.
Crispin: I'm not having a tour,
I'm just coming up for the Olympia Film
Festival, and I'm going to do a book
reading and I've had slides taken of my
books and I'm going to read them along
with the slides. I am going on tour next
year with Gibson Haines whose in a band
called the Butthole Surfers. I have not
heard their music but I know him and he's
a funny fellow. I met him working on a
film in Texas. I thought the film festival
would be a good time to try out my book
reading.
Special thanks to Michael
Huntsberger for making this interview
possible.
Cameron Rose loved Robert
Altman's Short Cuts and would watch it
over The Graduate any day. If you see her
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Davye brings wonders of the human spirit to Cafe Verde
by John Ford
You missed it, folks.
You missed a most remarkable two
hours Thursday last in the Greenery as
Cafe Verde presented "An Evening with
Fern Davye" — contemporary international poetry. It was an evening not to
be forgotten. (And the poster was
incredible as well.)
The lights were dimmed in The
Greenery, save for a garish table lamp on
the stage floor. A CD of Miles Davis'
"Kind of Blue" was playing, an album
reminiscent of NYC's Greenwich Village
and smokey basement jazz clubs.
Soon, a diminutive woman clad in
the clinging dark-hued garb of the "beat
generation" padded barefoot onto the
stage unassumedly. She proceeded to
ama/e, excite and delight the twenty or so
who showed in a delectably intimate two
hours of soulful emotion and erotic power.
Davye began with a piece by Diane
Ackerman, "When I kiss you," a poem
that set the general tone for the evening
and let us know exactly with whom we
were dealing. She exploded into an tidal
wave of lights, colors, tastes, sounds,
shadows, textures, temperatures and
deepest feelings — the true elements of
erotica. Some explosions were no bigger
than a whisper, yet they thundered in the
heart.
There was no socio-political
agenda at this presentation, gentle readers
(how refreshing!), just the wonders of the
human spirit, wonders we all too often
lake for granted if not forget. Davye took
us on a vivid tour of writings she loves.
Sharon Olds, Adrienne Rich and Ishmael
Reed were just a few taste treats of the
literary feast offered us.
One piece stood out as most
definitive of Davye's performing style, LiYoung Lee's "Persimmon." Lee's
description of the eating of the jusl-ripe-

enough fruit was exactly like her readings
— savoring each delectable word-morsel,
letting the sweet juices run down her face
and body for all to see her delight. To hell
with anyone bothered by that image —
these works are to be savored, it's only
right that we fill ourselves with their
richness.
Thursday night last at Cafe Verde

was evocative, heady, succulent and
charged with the honey-coated electricity
of lavish sensuality. As performer, Fern
Davye becomes all men, all women, all life
and light.
And you missed it.
You do, however get a second
chance. This remarkable person is
tentatively booked here again the last

week of January. (Thank you Javier
O'Brian!)
If you love language, if you love at
all, don't blow this reprieve — your soul
will be the poorer for it.
John Ford is a politically
incorrect first year student at Evergreen
who knows what a good time is. ©

Bev sets women's movement back 20 years
by Seth "Skippy" Long
Last night's episode just proves that
a good idea is easy enough to destroy. All
it takes is one wrong plot turn to wreck
the entire message.
The writers started out okay. They
wanted to do a good thing. But somewhere
between Take Back the Night and getting
laid they screwed up. Imagine that.
Maybe they were trying to make up
for the Vegas strip club scene from last
week. Maybe not.
Never the less, I wanted to toss my
deli sandwich. Date rape is a serious topic.
You can't just make some lame, hamhanded attempt to address it. It has to be
done right or not at all. Perhaps somebody
should have told them that earlier.
So Steve slept with Laura and didn't
call her later. Sounds like a standard
sleazy Friday night in the Mods to me.
The hard part about it is that she later
claims that she didn't want any part of it.
He says she did.
Sounds like the making of a great
date rape discussion, right?
Here's the dilemma: Kelly wants to
believe them both. So what do we do? We
start blaming Laura for making up the
whole sordid affair.
Tension builds until the Big Rally
where Laura has been persuaded into
"outing" Steve. I need to stop here and say
that not only is this an overall bad idea,

but could also land anyone who tries it in
court with a big fat slander suit if s/he
can't prove the allegation. It's one thing to
find your voice and gain back your self
confidence, it's entirely another to publicly
slander someone.
Fortunately, Laura doesn't gel the
chance to name Sieve (who we're

supposed lo feel sorry for by now).
Instead, Kelly intercepts the microphone
and tells her own story of a near-rape
experience and says she wouldn't have
survived if Mr. Sensilive himself, Steve
Sanders, hadn't come to her rescue.
End of the line. The lesson (of
course) is thai you have lo say no for il lo
be dale rape, right? Well, uh, wrong. It's
not lhal simple. Bui whal Ihe hell, ihis is
TV. They can be as simple as the format
calls for. Yel another halchel job by Ihe
Bcv. Oh the humanity.
Seth "Skippy" Long has seen hell
and it is in Centralia. "f

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Steel Pole Bathtub to give local performance
by Joomi Lee
Steel Pole Bathlub, Wilchypoo,
and Sleepwell are playing lonighl
(Thursday) al Ihe Capilal Thealer in
Olympiaal 10p.m.
Unlike most bands, ihey used, lo
live in Seattle and moved away lo sunny
California. Mindless lemmings they're
definitely nol. Neilher are ihey a '70s
band, as Ihe Marcia Brady photo on one
of their album covers might misleadingly
suggest
Nol truly punk, nol Iruly hardcore,
not Iruly metal. Imagine, instead, a simple

ihree piece playing noisy aggressive music
with the occasional prerecorded tape
sample ihrown in. But that was three years
ago when ihey could be filed next lo
Agent Orange and Nomeansmo. Who
knows how their style has changed.
Maybe they'll do a Jimi Hendrix song, or
even their Sonic Youth cover.
Go see Ihe show and find out.
Sleel Pole Bathtub play at the Off
Ramp in Seattle tomorrow (Friday) night.
Joomi Lee is a TESC student.

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1HURSDAY
EVERGREEN—Cafe Verde (that's
the Greenery coffee house) presents the
traditional and original blues of Laurette
Langille. The cafe opens at 8 p.m., and
admission is free. This event sponsored by
Evergreen Student Activities.

EVERGREEN—The Middle East
Resource Center and the Thurston County
Middle East Peace Coalition present Diana
Abu-Jabcr, Arab American novelist and
author of Arabian Jazz. Jaber will speak at
a brown bag lunch from 12:30 to 1:30
p.m. in CAB 108. Admission is free.

EVERGREEN, AMERICA—Today
is the Great American Smoke Out. Quit
smoking today! Evergreen's version is
sponsored by SodaPop and the Wellness
Center, from noon to 2 p.m. in the CAB
Lobby. For more information, call
SodaPop at x6555.

RIDAY

SATURDAY

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OLYMPIA—Evergreen's Theatre of
Difference and the Heartsparkle Players
presents Stories of Personal Magic at 7
p.m., Four Seasons Books. The
performance is an improvisation based on
audience member's personal stories.
Donate $5. Call 786-0952 for more
information.

EVERGREEN—Thanksgiving break
officially begins today, and Greeners
invade the world at large. You might like
to use this opportunity to drink more
coffee.

OLYMPIA—Nancy Luenn reads
from her book Song for the Ancient
Forest, 1 p.m. at Four Seasons Books at
Carnegie's. Four Seasons is located at 302
E 7th St. Call 786-0952 for more
information.
EVERGREEN—Tim McHugh and
the Lost Poets play in L4300 at 6 p.m.
Admission is $2 for students and $5
general. Margaret Palmer, Chief Johnny
Jackson and Steve Robideau will speak.
Binah Paz McCloud will read poetry and
Native American music group the
Landlords will play. Proceeds help protect
Lyle Point and the fight for Native treaty
rights.
EVERGREEN—Tellebration '93, a
celebration of stories for adults, begins at
8 p.m. in the Recital Hall. Tickets are $6
advance (from the Bookstore, the
Bookmark or Four Seasons Books), $7.50
at the door.

EVERGREEN—A teleconference on
building coalitions for a creative America
runs from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in LH5.
This interactive teleconference will explore
how the arts can address issues such as
education and employment. Admission is
free.

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the Scottish Rite Temple, 1155 E
Broadway. Admission is $4 for adults, $1
for children. Essential Foods has donated
lots o' vegan turkey slices! Sponsored by
EarthSave.Call (206) 633-1962 for more
information.

OLYMPIA—Robert Charles and
Friends play guitar, bass and drums at
Studio 321, 9 p.m. Tickets are $5. Studio
321 is located two blocks north of State
Ave. at the corner of Jefferson and
Thurston. Call 754-3525 for more
information.
YUM—Last week, Andy and I saw
the last wizened weenie idly rotating on
metal rollers in the Deli. Lonely and
forlorn, that weenie rolled and rolled,
twisted and turned. It reminded me what
life is really about.

EVERGREEN—The Native Student
Alliance shows Incident at Oglala (the
Leonard Peltier story) and a new video
about the Klickitat occupation at 6:30 p.m.
in LH1. Admission is free.

TACOMA—Artists Against AIDS
presents an auction fundrasier, 4 to 7 p.m.
in the Bostwick Building, 764 Broadway.
Admission is $10 per person. For more
information, call 383-2565.

OLYMPIA—Obrador plays at
Thekla, 9 p.m. Cover is $5; you must be
21 or older. Thekla is located at 116 E 5th
Ave.

SUNDAY
OLYMPIA—Elizabeth Stellas will
speak on gender inequities and violence in
society, 3 to 5 p.m. at St. John's Episcopal
Church (19th and S Capitol). Admission is
free and open to the public.
OLYMPIA—The Capitol Area
Youth Symphony will perform at the
Washington Center, 3 p.m. Call 753-8586
for ticket information. (Including the price.
Doh!)
OLYMPIA—Sublivion and Simple
Ritual play at City Lights tonight. You
must be 21 or older. Call for price and
lime.

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UESDAY
SEATTLE—Saxophonist Michael
Paulo plays at the Backstage, 7 p.m. Paulo
has played with Kenny Loggins (!) and
Johnny Matthis (!!!). Tickets are $14,
property of Ticketmaster until you buy
them. Charge by phone: 628-0888.

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MY CAT—Many of you may be
worried about my cat. Or should I say
former cat? (Don't feed me that kitty
heaven line again, you heartless suck-ups.)
I had a dream a few weeks ago about her
fluffy white underbelly. My cat's belly
always sort of drooped, since the time she
was left alone with our parakeet.

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smoke MONOXIDE inside so ,
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I totally never thought that he would, he started smoking when he was 15. his family had just moved to japan and all
his new friends smoked so I guess he started smoking too.
my mom smoked for a little while too. she started in high
school so that she could be a rebel, when she got pregnant
with me she quit so that I could be a normal healthy child, it
was easy for my mom to quit because she wasn' t really that
attatched to cigarettes, my dad on the other hand was really
addicted, he worried all the time (he still does) and cigarettes
were his main way to combat worry and stress, his addiction
was more emotional than physical. I worried about my dad
dying from cancer or emphysema or some other horrible
smoking disease, my mom and brother worried a lot too. my -w^ ^-9*?*;*+
dad tried all sorts of ways to quit smoking but he never
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seemed to be able to. he would quit for a little while, but
always relapse, like I said before, we pretty much gave up
hope after a while, then he quit, just cold turkey without
anything special. I guess he just went through some sort of
change that finally gave him strength to do it. I don't know
if I've ever been happier about anything in my whole life.
cigarettes can't take my dad away from me. '&
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