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by Early Ewing
While facing deep budget cuts, why
is the college exploring the possibility of
bringing Varsity Basketball to Evergreen?
Students have the opportunity to decide if
they want basketball to be an part of their
College experience. In a four-question
survey (included in this issue), students are
asked to expound on several issues
relating to the proposed basketball teams.
The Basketball DlF, the group responsible
for writing the survey, has been an active
body since April of 1992.
"Basically, if the students want it
[basketball] we will have it. If students
don't want it, we won't," said Denise
Robertson, a member of the Basketball
DTF. Robertson is clear that she has no
vested interest in bringing Varsity
Basketball to Evergreen, but speculates on
why it is receiving some reactions.
"When people think of Basketball,
they think of the NCAA," said Robertson,
"and all the problems associated with the
big time teams. We will not be paying
our coaches $ 105,000 a year. If we had a
DTF on Crew as an intercollegiate sport,
would people be so opposed to it?"
The Basketball team would be
funded by the CRC's Varsity Athletic
Program. The CRe is funded by several
sources: The Stllte General Fund
($188,000), The Student Activities Budget
($150,000), Leisure Education ($\30,000)
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photographs, poetry, prose, etc. Bring it to me, Leilani Johnson, at CAB 316, See-Page box, by noon on Friday. See your
name and work in print - it's better than 6 mud bath. Trust me ..

Volume 23 Issue 21

Feel a little dislocated, I,
Feel a little ... separated-Feel like someone who I used to be,
But memory misplaced and forgotten and left untouched
And pain locked up too long in a cold, dark, buried roo~,
Can't find its escape into the open;
The flames, the fire, the heat that feeds upon itself,
Consumes, devours , and explodes from within ...
To try to contain, control the pyre instead of putting it out
Is to give it rage-This blind hate to fuel the flames that burn me-And nothing so destructi ve,
Nothing so murderous,
As the hate I have and keep and use against myself-And nothing so blind,
Nothing so unjust,
Nothing so to make me cry ...
No wounds so deep as those I give myse lf,
No one to twist this gouging blade as I shall wi lIingly-So readily I plunge the cold edge of hate into myself, and
Thank God ...thank God, for no one to hurt me like I hurt myself.. .
And I feel
A little removed,
And close enough to bring me terror.
And I feel. ..Iike crying forever .. .
To find the pain so lost and so buried that I stab my own self
lu st to feel how much it hurts-To dig it up and put it on and let it out, and in crying let it wash
away
In slipping, spi lling rivers of hurt to pour form the eyes that saw it
all ,
That saw it for what it was--watched it like a camera and recorded
onto the film of my memory-These eyes that saw such a sick,
unnatural, and violating act
And knew it was not deserved;
Eyes that witnessed the unbelievable-Saw it and knew it, captured the pain and fear, and buried' it
In the deepest, darkest co rner of my mind, and now,
For these eyes just to cry ,
To feel it now and let it go and no longer be slave to a pain that
hurts too much to feel. ..and
Finally, to let it go ...
To let it go and step away ...
To rise above
And leave it all behind-To no longer stab myself or hate myself.. .
lust to love myself enough
To set me free .. .

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conferences and sports camps held during
the summer months.
The same amount of funding, in the
form of tuition waivers, will be allocated
to the Varsity Athletic Program, regardless
of the adoption of a Varsity Basketball
Team. House Bill 2020 requires some
tuition waivers granted to the college be
used to promote gender equity in sports
programs. Evergreen has always been
gender equitable and thus was granted
permission to use those waivers to
promote both men's and women's sports.
Currently, $40,000 is available in the
form of waivers. The CRC divides that
funding into approximately 50 waivers,
granting Varsity players half-off a full
year's tuition. The amount available for
this function would not increase with a
new Varsity sport. Instead, waivers would
be evenly divided among all Varsity
teams: Soccer, Swimming and Basketball.
The waiver funds are based on enrollment
and tuition prices, so if onc or both of
those increases, so does the amount of
money available.
Rugby has been mentioned as an
alternative to Basketball by many students .
However, Rugby is not a Varsity Sport
offered in District One of the National
Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
(NAIA) . The CRC considers Rugby a
Level II Club sport teams: competing
primarily against Club Sport teams
representing other colleges and
universities. The athletes on these teams
are not required to meet NAIA eligibility
standards. A staff member is provided to

see hoops, page 14

TESC gets first
police officer
These young community members, and others like them, are doing what many
Evergreen students don't, taking advantage of the college's 1,000 seat gymnasium. photo by Ned Whiteaker

Holocaust memorial marks 50th
anniversary of Warsaw uprising
Analysis
by Karen Rosenthal
During World War II, the Nazi
regime systematically annihilated six
million Jews who were seen as an
"inferior, defiling race." Although Jews
were the primary targets of the Nazis,
about 500,000 Roma (Gypsies) and at least
250,000 people with disabilities were also
victims of attempted genocide. Lesbians
and gays and others deemed "anti-social"
were also persecuted and often murdered.
Some Soviet prisoners of war, Poles, and
Slavs who were targeted for slave labor,
perished or were murdered. In addition,
thousands of political and religious
dissidenL~ such as communists, socialists,
trade unionists and Jehovah's Witnesses
were persecuted for their beliefs and
behavior.
Each year at this time we
commemorate those individu~ families,
communities, and entire pieceS'· of. ulture
that were destroyed in the Holocaust. This
year is especially significant because it is
the 50th anniversary (on April 19) of the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, where a revolt
and battle LOok place for 28 days, when'

the German Nazis attempted LO raze the
ghetto and deport the remaining Jews to
Treblinka to be killed .
The Jewish Cultural Center, the
Union of Students with Disabilities and the
LGBPRC arc co-sponsoring events to
commemorate those who bravely resisted
and perished in Nazi-occupied Europe, and
to remind us all that we are responsible
for speaking out against the hate and
op-pression that continues to exist in our
world.
On Thursday, April 15th, two
films will be shown at 7:00 p.m. in LH3.
Image Be/ore My Eyes shows how Jewish
Poland before its destruction was the
larg~ and most important center of
Jewish culture and creativitiy in the world.
Ironically, the last generation of Polish
Jews is beller known for its annihilation in
the Holocaust than for its achievements in
life. Through home movies, as well as
photographs, memorabilia, music, and
interviews with survivors of the lost
culture, we get a sense of a world that
vanished with the Holocaust, never to be
revived.
In A Day in the Warsaw Ghetto, a

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The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505

Page 12 Cooper Point Journal April 8, 1993

Address Correction Requested

by Samuel Loewenberg
The first crunpus Public Safety
Officer was commissioned last week, ten
months after the Board of 'Trustees
directed Evergreen to establish a police
force on campus.
On April 6, President Jane Jervis
swore in public safety officer Bob Webb
us a Washington state police officer with
jurisdiction on the property of TESC.
In order to receive a commission as
a regular police officer, the members of
Evergreen's Public Safety office will have
to complete 440 hours of training at the
state police academy, as well as 29 hours
of training at Evergrcen.
It may be two years before the
entire force is commissioned, according to
Executive Vice President for Finance and
Administration T.L. "Les" Purce.
Campus Police Chief Gary Russell
said this is because before officers can
begin the 12 week police training,
"officers have to meet physical
conditioning standards and they have to
find time in regards to their family
commitments."
Because he had already been trained
and was a police officer in Tacoma prior
to coming to Evergreen, Webb did not
have to go through the state academy.
When the board decided last June to
commission a police force at TESC, it was
the culmination of a debate about work
place safety that is nearly 10 years old.
Most recently, the debate centered
around the highly emotional issue of
whether the campus's security officers
needed guns in order to be effective. The
board determined not to arm the public
safcty officers, although they are given full

TESC's first commissioned police officer
Robert Webb. courtesy of TESC Photo
Services

wellpons training as part of their police
certification.
Purce says that he supported giving
the officers guns because it allowed them
to intervene in violent situations. Despite
the police academy training, Purce still
sees a problem.
" Without the maximum ability to
intervene with an arm in a dangerous
situation, there's going to be some point
where they can't enter [the conflict] and
the difficultly of being able to make that
judgement will always be there, as well
trained as they are."
The difference between what the
officers can db once
they
are
commissioned as opposed to before is
somewhat ambiguous. The current

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News

News Briefs
Workshop on
multiculturalism
EVERGREEN-Derald Wing Sue, Ph.D.,
will hold a workshop on "Multicultural
Organizational Development: Moving the
College Toward Multiculturalism" in CAB
110 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Wednesday, April 21. Preregistration is
required; to register, contact Student
Activities Office, CAB 320, x6220.

Drop-off for
recycling opens
OL YMPIA- The city of Olympia's yard
waste, cardboard, and pla~tic milk, soda
and liquor bottle drop-off days return in
1993, every Saturday from April 10
through December 11 , except holiday
weekends .
The Olympia site is located at the
City of Olympia Maintenance Center at
1401 South Eastside Street. The site will
be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. In addition
to yard waste, the city accepts cardboard,
plastic soda and liquor bottles and plastic
milk jugs at the site. No fee will be
charged to residents hauling only
cardboard or plastics to the site for
recycling . A small fee will be charged to
accept yard waste brought to the site.

Natives eligible
for scholarship
OL YMPIA-A potential $500,000
scholarship fund for Native American
students has received its flfst $52,000
contribution. The American Indian
Endowed Scholarship was created in 1990
by legislation sponsored by Rep. Ken
Jacobsen, D-Seattle. The state placed
$250,000 in a trust fund for the program,
but before the money can go into the
endowment, it must be matched in
$50,000 segments by private contributions.
Interest from the endowment will be used
for scholarships. Applications for
scholarships are being accepted and
reviewed by a screening committee of
representatives of various Native American
Groups. For further information contact
John Klacik (pronounced "classic"),
Associate Director Higher Education
Coordinating Board at (206) 753-2210.

WashPIRG holds
Hunger Cleanup
EVERGREEN-The WashPIRG chapter at
TESC is sponsoring the Ninth Annual
Hunger Cleanup, a work-a-thon to combat

There seem to be, like, eight ornine of them,
perfect photocopies of one another.
Sassy, May 1993, on the Gore sisters.

the growing problems of hunger and
homelessness. The event will take place on
Saturday, April 17, beginning at 10 a.m. A
rally will kick off the day at the Housing
Community Center. For more information,
contact Allison Bartlett at x6058.

Participate in
Earth Week
THURSTON COUNTY-Help Thurston
County Countdown to Earth Day from
April 17. to April 24 by p~ticipating in a
variety of fun and environmentally
educational actjvities. Countdown to Earth
Day, a statewide event, encourages
residents to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
You may also be able to get rid of random
junk at Thurston County's Community
Clean-Up Days. For more information and
locations of Countdown to Earth Week
schedules, call the county's Waste Line at
754-4348 or 1-800-624-1234, x4348.

Babes puts on
more shows

OL YMPIA-The enthusiastic response to
last week's production of Babes with Big
Hair has convinced promoters to schedule
two additional performances of the
Broadway revue on April 23 and 24. The
only change in the show will be its
location. Because of the demand for
additional performances, the production is
moving from the Capitol Theater to the
more upscale and spacious Washington
Center for the Performing Arts.
All of the proceeds from the
production are being donated to the
Columbia/Olympic AIDS Services Task
Force (COASn and the Olympia AIDS
Task Force (OATF).
The April 23 and 24 performances
will be at 8 p.m. at the Washington Center
for the Performing Arts, 512 Washington
St. Tickets are available at the Washington
Center and prices are $15 general
admission, $12 students and seniors, or
call 753-8586.

SECURITY. BLOTTER
Tuesday, April 6
0434: Narcotics were reportedly
confiscated by Public Safety.
2100: Three suspicious males were
reported in Modular Housing.
Wednesday, April 7
1812: A possibility of a violation of a no
contact order was reported.
Thursday, April 8
0108: The electrical plugs were found to
be maliciously slashed from the cords of
Dr. Pepper machines on the Library first
floor. Mountain Dew and various other
types of soda-pop were also in the
machines.
08 15: More narcotics were reportedly
confiscated by Public Safety.
1102: An acc ident reportedly occurred in
C-lol.
2034: A student reported $100 missing
from dorm room.
205 6: Two people were reportedJy trapped
by a rogue A-dorm elevator.
Friday, April 9
1254: A bicycle was reportedly found!
1733: In a repeat offense, dogs were found
to be unleashed.

2000: An accident was reported in the
dorm loop.
Saturday, April 10
0049: "Potato chip bandits" were reported
to have stolen potato chips from the Deli.
0914: A burglary was reported on the
library fourth floor.
1800: Two vehicles in B-Iot were
reportedly broken into.
2000: An attempted suicide was reported.
2030: Suspicious people were reportedly
seen prowling in F-Iot.
2300: Fire alarms in I and T dorms were
allegedly pulled with malicious intent.
Sunday, April 11
1644: A noise complaint was reported in
B-dorm.
2315: A fire alarm was acl:ivated in the
CAB.
Monday, April 12
0807: A theft was reported involving the
Java Junkies cart in the Community
Center.
The Public Safety Department
performed 41 public services (unlo cks,
jump starts, escorts, etc.) last week.

Page 2 Cooper Point Journal April1S, 1993

TESC graduate
wins film award
EVE;RGREEN-Hector Douglas, 1991
graduate of TESC, has won a "1992
regional college award" for an educational
film produced for television from the
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences,
the same group that awards the Emmy.
Douglas made the winning
documentary as part of his educational
program. Entitled "In the Cradle of
Storms," the film deals with Alaskan
environmental issues.

Win prizes with
Bicycle Contest
OL YMPIA-The 6th annual Bicycle
Commuter Contest is a contest designed to
promote a sustainable human relationship
with the Earth's ecosystems as well as
strengthening your heart, lungs and legs.
Contest participants track their bicycling
mileage and consistency during the month
of May . Commuting to and from work or
school counts, as do errands. Prizes arc
donated by local businesses and arc
awarded to top teams and individuals in
several categories.
It's easy to sign up, and the
registration fee is a mere $10 (including a
100 percent colton Bike Commuter
Contest t-shirt) or $6 without the shirt.
Increase your chances of winning by
forming a workplace or school team . For
more information, call 943-4595.

Eco-artists speak
at Evergreen
.EVERGREEN-Artists Helen Mayer
Harrison and Newton Harrison create
solutions to eco-system problems like
those surrounding the Great Lakes, the
Sava River in former Yugoslavia, and
most recently in forests from California to
Alaska. Their solutions are building blocks
for their works of art, designed to tell
stories with a format that looks more like

U.N. awards
TESC graduate
EVERGREEN-Tamar Chotzen, a 1981
graduate of TESC, has won the prestigious
United Nations Environmental Leadership
Award for her work as executive director
of the Hawaii Nature Center. Chotzen, 33,
joins a list of U.N. awardees including
Carl Sagan and Margaret Mead.
The Hawaii Nature Center is a 12year-old, private, non-profit organization
that provides hands-on environmental
education programs for elementary school
children and families. When Chotzen
joined the Center in 1988, it served about
6,000 students a year at one location with
a budget of $50,000 and a staff of one
full-time and one part-time worker. Today,
45,000 people annually visit the Center's
three locations operated by a staff of 15
with a budget of $850,000.
While at Evergreen Chotzen played
on the women's soccer team. During the
SlImmers she taught survival and problem
solving skills to people ranging from
troubled juvinilcs to business lcaders in a
program called "Hawaii Bound."

OLYMPIA-On Saturday, May 1, the
public is invited to explore the Celtic
origins of the ancient festival of Beltane
(May Day) on 12 wooded acres near
Shelton. There will be an afternoon of
dancing, singing and feasting to celebrate
the Earth and all the elements. Costs are
$30 per person, $50 per couple. Children
under 12 are admitted free. Group rates
are available. For futher information, call
Karen Clausel at 943-2738 or Pam
Crocker-Davis at 459-5340.

Errata
Dedicated to self pity .
Call it spring if you will. 1 call it
another week of muddy. disgusting water-logged special NW brand o' hell. Call
it moodiness if you want, I call it another
week trying to scarf down potato mush
because baseboard heading costs as much
as the payments on a new car. Woe to all
desolate creatures of April. Peace.

Remembering Holocaust (from cover)
50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto
uprising. In LH1, at 7;00 p.m. join us
for an evening of music and poetry. There
will be music recordings played that were
written by women and men in the camps.
Also, all are encouraged to share poetry
they have found , or written, about the
Holocaust, and about resistance to
oppression.
There will be a vigil to
commemorate all those who suffered and
perished in the Holocaust. Please come
with your poetry and thoughts to share, or
to just listen.
On Tuesday, from 2-4 p.m. in
Library 3500, the Theatre of Difference
and the Heartsparkle Players will be
presenting Stories for Remembrance of the
Holocaust. The groups "believe in the
richness and wisdom of the human story"
and act out stories of the audience with
inventiveness and courage. They perform
regularly in the Olympia area and have
gained a reputation for their sensitivity and
skills.
All events are free of charge. For
more information please call 866-6000,
x6493.
Karen Rosenthal is the cocoordinator of the Jewish Cultural Center
at TESC.

ANCmembers
provide
perspective

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by Amber Bell, Krista 'Eickinann and
Shannon Wianecki
Imagine: It's a flat ' ginger-ale
Monday. evening here at The Evergreen
State College. You just got off work.
You're being followed home by 15,000
lemmings. Your fridge is empty. As you
trudge past the Community Center, a '
passel of mindblowin', asskickin',
dirtstompin', freestylin' , flowerkissin',
ferocious GIRLS rage past you and
descend on the athletic field like locusts.
Emitting savage screams, they proceed to
tear up the turf with their buff bodies!
, What's the best thing about this
insanity called The Girls' Wrestling Club?
It's non-competitive!
"Competition is superfluous to the
sport. It interferes with the simple joy of
touching people in an aggressive but nonthreatening way. We tell stories instead of
counting points," says wrestling instigator
Shannon Mousetrap.
Krista The Crusher agrees, "You and
your fellow wrestler trade off parts of the
story and when it's over, you're done."
Amber Avalanche Bell adds, "We

Krista "the Crusher" Eickman takes down Amber "Avalanche" Bell during Monday
night wrestling. photo by Seth "Skippy" long
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love our moms. Don't you?"
Wrestling is like spaghetti. It's fun.
You'll like it. It's Monday, 5 on the
athletic field. No lemmings necessary.

Amber Bell. Krista Eickman, and
Shannon Wianecki are all happy members
of the Girls' Wrestling Club.

Shed no 'tiers' for hard-working S&A

Participate in
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German soldier, on his day off, chose to
enler the Warsaw Ghetto, photographed
what he saw. The photos were collected
years later, put with narration, and to
music (Klczmer and Yiddish) to vividly
demonstrate what life was like in the
ghetto.
On Friday, April 16th, two films
will be shown in LHl, at 7 p.m. Pink
Triangles examines homophobia from a
historical as well as contemporary vantage
point, including the Nazi imprisonment of
lesbians and gay men, historical materml
from the McCarthy hearings, and the
present day movement of the Christian
right.
Night and Fog is a film by Alain
Resnais, in which he takes the camera to
major concentration camp sites fo the Nazi
era, now hauntingly barren, and over these
scenes superimposes historic footage. The
title comes from the code name for the
rounding up of suspected members of the
anti-Nazi resistance in occupied Western
Europe.
On Sunday, April 18th, Temple
Beth Hatfiloh, in downtown Olympia, is
holding a Holocaust Memorial service. For
more info, call Rabbi Marna Sapsowitz at
754-8519.
Monday, April 19th, 1993 is the

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a science display or park than a Picasso.
They will show slides and discuss
their work at TESC, WedneS<tay, May 19
at 7:30 , p.m. in the Library Lobby.
Admission is free to the lecture, presented
by the Willi Unsoeld Seminar Fund,
established as a living memorial ' to a
member of Evergreen's founding faculty.
For more information, call x6400. '

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by Jerry Price
The sun is rising, it's the first week
of spring quarter and you're already
behind. As you stumble out of bed and
head for the shower, the obvious question
in your mind should be: "Gosh... I
wonder what the S&A Board has been up
to lately?"
I am so glad that you asked, for,
through the long winter months, the
students on the S&A Board have been
diligently working to assist student
activism in several ways.
For those of you who may have
forgotten, the S&A Board is responsible
for the allocation of student fees to the

student funded organizations on campus.
Winter quarter the board concentrated on
the allocation of what we call the "Tier 1"
organizations. These are the big fish that
receive large amounts of student money.
Tier 1 organizations include KAOS,
Campus Childcare Center, The Cooper
Point Journal, Recreation and Athletics,
and Services and Activities.
During winter quarter the S&A
Board received and reviewed Tier 1
funding requests, held hearings, and will
soon make funding decisions pertaining to
Tier 1 organizations. If you are interested
in seeing or reviewing the Tier 1 Budgets,
and I know that you are, they are posted

on the bulletin board across from CAB
320.
Perhaps the most exclttng
accomplishment of last quarter was the
implementation of "Special Initiative
Funding." In simple terms, this funding
allows students and student groups an
opportunity to receive funding to put on
events that are wanted by students.
Special Initiative funding has been
utilized for a number of events including
live bands by a student organization called
Tempo, the now infamous "Vampire
Dance" by the Camarilla, and the

see code, page 14

by Leilani Johnson
Two touring members of The
African National Congress (ANC) Youth
League. and Fred Dube, a native South
African currently teaching at Evergreen,
spoke on Monday, April 12, in Lecture
Hall 1.
The two youth, Aldred and Tabo,
and Dube spoke about the struggle for
equality and events currently unfolding in
South Africa.
"We are all from the trenches of
apartheid," began Tabo. "We have gone
through an education designed to make us
laborers, servants of white people. We
fight for liberation for education, because
while the whites have opened their schools
to us, we cannot afford to pay to go. The
problems are [within] economics and
government. "
" ... taking full control of government
and the economy is the ultimate goal of
Africans in South Africa,"said Aldred.
Perhaps the most provoking, if
ambiguous, statement of the evening was
made by Tabo when he said, "[Americans]
are not informed as a nation. You are
beamed into our living rooms, you are our
role models. Be careful of what kind of
role models you are used to be."
The Afrikaaners rule with less than
15 percent of the South African people
behind them.
"It is our duty to fight for a nonracist, non-sexist, democratic society. Our
struggle is not an issue of South Africa
alone, it is an issue for all of humanity.
We need to unite and fight against any
kinds of injustices. You are invited to
come and build a nation at Iarge,"said
Tabo.
Fred Dube stated, "We will survive
despite their wishes to clean us off, "said
Dube.
Leilani Johnson is Seepage Editor
for the CPJ.

Many students unaware of Social Contract and Conduct Code
by Stephanie Zero
Whenever a controversy comes up
on campus people start citing violations of
the Social Contract and the Student
Conduct Code. How does a student know
they are violating either document if they
don't even know what it is?
The SociaI Contract is the ideals and
goals of the Evergreen community. The
Student Conduct Code lists specific
violations of the Social Contract such as
theft, harassment, and bearing firearms and
goes on to explain the consequences of
these violations. The Code also includes a
grievance procedure so students can file
grievances against other students. (Faculty
and staff have their own conduct codes
that they have to abide by. If you want to
file a grievance against a faculty or staff,
you would go through their codes.)
Shawn Newman, former in-house
legal counsel for Evergreen and writer of
the Code, likened the relationship between
the Social Contract and the Code to the
relationship between the constitution and
the statutes implementing the Constitution.
Current Grievance Officer, Helena
Meyer-Knapp, says it's like Evergreen is
a house in the sense that we, invite people
in ' and say how long they can stay ... It's
not like a mall where everybody is going
about their own business. By agreeing to
study here we have put ourselves in a
community.
But how does a student know that
they've consented to this code?
The first time a student is supposed
to see the Social Contract and the Code is
when you fIrst move into student housing.
But as a student and co-coordinator
of the Women of Color Coalition
(WOCC) , Darice Johnson points out,
"Nobody sits down and explains it to you.
People are too busy getting classes, putting

away their dishes and getting to know
their roommates."
Last year, a controversy involving
the WOCC made the administration aware
of a lack of understanding and awareness
of the process of the Code, according to
Art Costantino, V.P. for Student Affairs.
Johnson says, "I realized there was
a problem with the Code when I started to
talk to people and found repeat offenders
in the community. If the point of the Code
is to protect the community, than why are
the harassers still around?"
Two separate DTFs, The Racial
Justice DTF and the Student Conduct
Code DTF are examining the Code for
different reasons. According to President
Jane Jervis the DTFs will be paralleling
their work so that they don't have
conflicting outcomes.
The DTFs' charges include looking
to see if the steps in the grievance process
are clear, if sanctions are being enforced,
and if the Grievance Officer is getting
enough job training.
Other colleges have a much more
extensive Conduct Code. Evergreen's
conduct code was drawn from model
codes, other schools' codes, and tried to
address problems specific to Evergreen.
When revising the code the DTF might
look at other schools' codes again but may
also cOme up with new ideas too,
according to Arnalda Rodriguez, chair of
the Student Conduct Code DTF and
former Grievance Officer.
The current policy does not
specifIcally address rape or sexual
harassment, two continuing issues on
campus.
According to Newman the college
doesn't ' have the authority to fInd
somebody guilty of the crime of rape
because the college isn't a criminal

prosecuting authority. The section of the
the Code that lists specific examples of
Social Contract violations says that it is,
"not designed to define violations in
exhaustive terms." Therefore rape could be
prosecuted under simply,
"harassment/physical harm" (number 6 in

WAC 174-120-030). Sexual harassment is
dealt. with through the Affrrmative Action
Office because it is a violation of civil
rights.

see S&A, page 14

'Student Conduct Code? Do we have one?'
by Stephanie Zero
Did you sign the Social Contract?
Do you remember somebody mentioning
it to you when you flfSt moved into
campus housing? What is the Student
Conduct Code? What are these
documents? Where do they come from?
What do they mean to the Evergreen
community? How are they used to
prosecute people on campus? Who uses
the documents? Who even reads them?!!!
Ten random students in the CAB
were asked if they know what the Student
Conduct Code is. Here are their answers ...
Tracie Romsland, second year:
"I don't know much about it, but I've
heard of it."
Lauren Towne, fourth year:
"Basically it's a policy that students are
supposed to abide by that deals with things
like harrassment, issues of tolerance and
respect in the community. There are
questiqris emerging about its
effectiveness. "
Lance Brown, flfSt year transfer:
"I have no idea, I think I heard of it when
I first got here."
Chertyn Crowl, second year:
"I might have heard of it before ... "
Wendy Palmer, third year:
"I haven't heard of it."
Jon Akeson, third year:
"I'm unfamiliar with the Student Conduct

Code, unless it's part of the Social
Contract. "
Terry Hoffer, fourth year:
"A set of guidelines to follow for ethical
and moral conduct. Something they wrote
to help understand differences between
different people and how people should
get along and interact."
Andy Krahn, third year:
"I'm not really familiar with it. I don't
feel guilty. It doesn't ~m relevant
whatever it is."
Renee Jones, fourth year:
"The what?"
Paula Harris, second year:
"I don't know what they expect of our
conduct. I got bad grades in conduct in
elementary school. I didn't think I'd have
to worry about my conduct when I came
to college."
Jessica Colleran, second year:
"I know of it, but I don't know exactly
what it is."
Bryan Kirkpatrick, third year transfer
student:
" Is it different from the Social Contract?
I've never heard of it. It sounds
impressive. "
If you want to know what the
Student Conduct Code is read the story
right next to this ...
Stephanie Zero is Editor-in-Chief of
the CPJ.

Cooper Point Journal April 15, 1993 Page 3

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Heidi: Bitter over battering
STUDENT GROUPS
WEEKLY

compiled by Curtis Goodman
·The Peace Center and The Native
Student Alliance are co-sponsoring two
events on Tuesday, April 20. At noon, in
the Library Lobby, speakers will discuss
Treaty Rights And Shellfish followed later
that evening with a video and panel discussion about the Skokomish River Basin
Restoration Projecl. The evening presentation is scheduled for 6 to 10 p.m. in LH3.
For more information, please call x6098 or
x6105.
·The Veterans and Reservists group is
sponsoring Tax Night Blues an evening
with the Dick Powell Band, Thursday,
April 15 in the Nightcap Cafe. The show
begins at 8 p.m. and admission is free. For
more information, please call x6036.
·MPAIGSA is sponsoring a Spring
Concert featuring Neva Reece, Saturday
April 17 at 8 p.m. in the Library Lobby.
Admission is $5 or $3 for students. For
more information, please call x6479.
·Slightly West is currently accepting
reproducible graphics, line drawings and
art for the spring issue. Call x6879 for
more information.
·Student Produced Art Zone (S.P.A.Z.)
is sponsoring a Brown Bag Art Hour,
Thursday April 15 at 7 p.m. in CAB 320.
This weeks activity will be mobiles. Please
call x6412 for more information.
·S&A budget deadline is Wednesday,
April 21 at 5 p.m. S&A is offering workshops to help student group coordinators
prepare their proposals. The remaining
workshops are on Thursday, April 15 from
4 to 5 p.m., Friday, April 16 from 12 to 1
p.m., Monday, April 19 from 3:30 to 4:30
p.m., and Tuesday, April 20 from 12 to 1
p.m. All workshops will be held in CAB
315. For more information, please call
S&A Board Coordinator Jerry Price at
x622 1.
·The Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Peoples'
Resource Center is now hiring next
year's coordinators. Interested individuals
can pick up an application in front of the
Center or at the S&A office, both on the
3rd floor of the CAB. Along with the
application, the current co-coordinators are
asking applicants to attach information
about their goals for the Center, personal
agenda and ideas on improvements for the
Center; these additions are to be explained
in about a page. Applications and short
essays are due by May 7th. The Center is
setting up a hiring committee and is asking for any individuals interested to be on
the committee. Anyone wanting to give
input on hiring questions can drop their
input by anytime at the Center or their
mail stop.
·The Middle East Resource Center is
dedicated to providing information about
Middle East issues and to bringing together persons of Middle Eastern heritage.
We accomplish this by sponsoring and
attending events, and by examining media
portrayals of Middle East related issues at
our meetings and great potlucks.
This is the time of year to be planning for next year and we would like input
from all interested people. We will hold a
planning meeting Tuesday, April 28, 2
p.m. in CAB 320. Please come and bring
your ideas.
Also, most of the group's members
are graduating this year. We need
returning students in our constituency to
continue this much needed service to the
Evergreen- community. We also need a
coordinator for Spring quarter. This is an
excellent opportunity to learn about a
position that could continue next year.
Please contact Alice Saliba at the Middle
East Resource Center, x6749 or x6220.
We hope to see you April 28!

Curtis is currently working without
a net.

by Heidi
Hello soft young things. Spring is in
the air, or is that a gust of hurricane-like
sneezing? Or perhaps it is the aftertremors of a violent shift in the earth' s
crust, as yet another dysfunctional duo get
it on after some drunken brawling and
possessive posturing (ah love). I can't say
this is particular to the queer population,
but then again, I won't lie and not tell you
that the gnarliest fight I've ever had the
pleasure to intervene in was between a
couple of pissy gay men on capitol hill.
(thank god i don't run into that a lot in
oly. [and don't tell me about it, i catch
wind of the ridiculous dyke brawls and
nearly vomit, i don't need to hear about
the boys too]) Gee, I guess . if that
mentality appealed I'd buy a train ·ticket to
visit my uncles in rural-spotted-owl-tasteslike-chicken-Medford-fuckin' -Oregon or
go home to dose up on some racist jokes

me on the way]). But lucky me, all I have
to do is be peripherally . aware of my
lovely sisters to enrich my daily existence
with higher thought process and tangy
inter-personal joie de vivre. Because, let
me tell you about lesbians, we are angry
but gentle, passionate yet... stagnant, at
the same time superfluous to the scheme
of things because why? we'd rather
research goddess culture than deal with
lesbian battering. Because if the universe
worshipped a big-ole-organie-juice-of-lifedrippin' snatch, there would be no more
war because women are not creatures of
petty conflict and retribution before
communication. But I'm not bitter, no, not
me. Because I'm filled with the light of
jesus and you can spell that I-'M-F-I-N-E.
Heidi Morkert welcomes response to
her column. Send it to her clo the CPJ.

(my uncles likes to tell "nigger jokes"
when i'm around to watch my "pretty
green eyes flash" i hate them. and now
you can too) in the malignant bosom of
my immediate "family" (or hey! i could
give my ex girlfriend Wench a call! missi-probably-wouldn't-hit-you-only-cause-idon' t-think-i' d-live-very-Iong-but-if-youwere-smaller -than-me-you' d-be-toastedbaby-rabbit-but-i-sure-do-like-you. she sure
was a charmer, i'll date a scorpio again
REAL SOON [she can go to hell and lick

"Bow Wave" ofTESC waste looms

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by Greg Wright
A "Bow Wave" is a term that is
used to describe the impact of the bow of
a ship as it slides through the water. A
ship really doesn't just cut through the
water. Water creates resistance and the
bow of large ships have to push the water
out of the way, creating a shock wave to
everything in its path. You have probably
seen dolphins riding the shock wave off
the bow of the ferry.
We arc experiencing the shock of a

solid waste "bow wave" right now in our
society. We have been happily dumping
our garbage in the ground for free for a
long time. Now we have realized that we
have been living on an environmental
credit card and payment is due. And it is
going to cost us a lot more than if we had
dealt with the problem from the beginning.
The "Bow Wave" effect.
Interestingly, that is what is
happening with our recycling efforts here
at TESC. We all agree that the program is
what we want to do, but nobody has ever
agreed on how it should be paid for. Now
we arc in an economic crisis and it is
apparently easier to let the program slip to
the wayside. Unfortunately, the ~ow Wave
will not go away and in fact as more time
goes on it will gain momentum and the
price to solve the ' problem will become '

even greatcr.
The recycling program should be
supported by everyone on campus. We
need a viable solution that will provide
lequilable support from all sectors of our
community. An aggressive, growing
recycling program will pay for itself. The
truth is that without an aggressive effort
we will only be maintaining. We will
never reach our State Mandated Goal of
50 percent recycling rate by 1995.
In some ways, it is really only a
question of how much credit do we want
before we sit down and agree upon a
payment plan.
Let's do it now! Let's not send a
"BOW WA VE" into the future.
; Greg Wright is the Recycling
Coordinator for Evergreen.

'Mystic nllmbers from Pythagoras and Dante's
Inferno
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Marino
,
Numbers have often been seen as
mystical. I will illustrate this with
examples from ,the Middle Ages in
Europe.
S1. Augustine thought that six was a
Multiply now -the numbers on the
penect number: To back his claim he said:
"Six is a number perfect in itself, and not
right side of the previous factorization in
because God created all dUngs in six days;
all possible ways (such as 2 x 2 x 31 =
rather the inverse is true, that God created
124). The products that we obtain this
all things in six days because this number
way, together with I, are the factors of
is perfect, and it would remain perfect,
496. Ifwe add them we get: 1 + 2 + 4 +
even if the day of the six days did not
8 + 16 + 31 + 62 + 124 + 248 = 496.
exist." This is God-the-mathematieian type
We started with the number, we
of thinking.
' broke it apart through factorization and we
There is a precise defmition of
recover it through addition. Maybe this is
perfect numbers ascribed to the
not mystical, but it is weird. Personally, I
Pythagoreans. A number is ''perfect'' if it
find the idea that this property of a
is equal to the sum of its proper divisors.
number could imply any mystical
(Any number is a divisor of itself, but it is
perfection very questionable. But there is
not a proper divisor.) Six, for instance, is
no question that the idea is intriguing; it
perfect because 6 = 1 + 2 + 3. So is 28,
has a kind of self-reflection, and it has
28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14. The next perfect
generated all kinds of research.
number is 496.
Until 1952, only nine other perfect
By the way, does the reader
numbers were known and, with the aid of
remember how to find all the divisors of a
today's powerful computers, 18 more have
number? Take for instance 496. First find
been found . One unsolved problem is if
its prime factorization. For 496 it looks
there are any odd perfect numbers.
like this:
We can find another example of a
496 2
mystical use of numbers during the Middle
2482
Ages in the Divine Comedy. Some
124 2
numbers that Dante considered mystical
are: 3, 33, 9, ' 10 and 100. Three
62 2
represents the trinity. The Divine Comedy
31 31
is divided in three books: Inferno,
Purgatorio and Paradisio. Each one of
This menns that
these books is composed of 33 cantos.
496 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 31.

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hy Seth Williams
David Brower's visit to Evergreen
Wednesday night was a much-anticipated
and well "attended event. A crowd of
young and old packed the Library Lobby,
overflowing up the staircase and onto the
third floor. Brower's talk, entitled "IL's
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introductions by President Jervis and Craig
Unsoeld, who outlined the history of the
Unsoeld Seminar series and Mr. Brower's
life, respectively.
Brower, who I immediately mistook
for Tom Foley, appeared tired, yet very
vibrant for his eighty-years. The founder
of Friends of the Earth and Earth Island
Institute took the podium with confidence
and worked the crowd with some oneliners and clever anecdotes.
Brower related many unnerving
figures regarding topsoil loss and
deforestation, which he carried into the
realm of the economy. He said, "Sustainable growth is an oxymoron." I agree, for
after all, how can anything grow indefinitely within this closed ecosystem we
call Earth? Brower blamed modem

economic practice further, noting that
depleting ' the planet's "environmental
capital" equals "stealing from our
children."
Throughout his talk, Brower
emphasized the importance of the smaller
entities of our world. After explaining
that there are 4,000 to 5,000 types of
bacteria in a gram of soil, he stated, "We
might not be able to get along without
them. He frequently mentioned the need
for diversity, both in nature and within
social movements.
Halfway through his lecture, Brower
made a unique call for audience participation: he asked people to approach the
mike with statements or opinions rather
than questions. This approach showed his
expericnce with public spe3king, for such
a tactic could take the pressure off of the
speaker, yet still provide input from the
audience.
Brower wrapped up his talk by
expressing a fascination with what has
evolved on Earth. He explained that a
living planet is a miracle and . .. a tenuous
experiment at best We need all the help

we can get." Finally, he insisted that the
diversity of life is "our number-one asset."
After a standing ovation, much of the
crowd moved upstairs to partake in a
catered munchie reception.
When talking to people who had
listened to the lecture, I realized that
Brower was an inspiration to many. Those
I engaged were impressed by how much
this person had achieved during his career.
A lot of respect exists for this pioneer
environmentalist who is still going strong.
Seth Williams frequently contributed
to this issue of the CPJ.

Barter Fair is low-cost networking tool
by Seth Williams
On Earth Day, April 22, Red Square
is the site of the Evergreen Barter Fair.
This event is a chance for our campus, the
surrounding community, and visitors to
gather in an atmosphere of constructive
exchange. It is also an opportunity to share
our commitment to a respect for the Earth
and its myriad members.
Everyone can benefit from bartering
- the exchange of goods, services, and
ideas. These forms of energy are traded
according to their use value to each party
involved. A person trades something that
is valuable to someone else for something
he or she needs. With some guidance,
bartering can not only enhance the good of
individuals, but also the common good.
Bartering is an alternative to our
present economy based on monetary gain,
which is pulling us deeper and deeper in
debt to future generations. Because
currency, whether paper, plastic, or
electronic, has no real use value, besides
firestarter perhaps, it has allowed the
growth of speculation, credit, and
ultimately debt. The result is a drastic
global imbalance of material wealth and
destitution within a degraded ecosystem.
Many have lost the understanding that true

wealth lies in our environment: the
community of natural resources, social
organization, culture, and wisdom
developed by our ancestors. Now, we tend
only to value numbers and monetary units

and the possessions that legitimize them. It
is crucial that we change from a society of
number-crunchers to one that recognizes
the many forms of wealth the Earth and its
inhabitants have created.
To overcome this compelIlIve
materialism and its resulting individuality
. and isolation between people, it is crucial
that we learn to depend on each other to
meet our needs. The government, the T. V.
and the "man" have shown that they
cannot sustain a healthy society. However,
bartering represents a way for people to
share the commodities, knowledge, and
inspiration needed to create positive
change within their communities. It aids in
the forming of networks that build

interdependence and self-reliance among
peoples. By understanding the values of
others, we can learn how to build
community.
Most of all, bartering involves the
person-to-person interaction that is so vital
to learning. The Evergreen Barter Fair is
an cxercise in which its participants can
engage in a form of "interdisciplinary
learning." Without a doubt, communicating
and understanding one another's values
and abilities is a complex and challenging
process. However, it is a task that
Evergreen and the world can benefit
greatly from. The Barter Fair provides a
forum for this learning to happen.
This Earth Day event is free and
open to the public. It runs from 10 a.m. to
7 p.m. on Thursday, April 22 in Red
Square. Have a craft to share, materials to
exhibit, goods to trade, or creative energy?
Then come out and don't forget musical
instruments, songs, games, and talents.
Tables and chairs are available. If you
have questions, ideas, or just need some
help setting-up, call Ted or Dan at 8663906, or Seth at 705-0509. See you there!
Seth Williams likes to trade
massages.

Jobs vs. environlllent tradeoff a fallacy
by Rill Rradlee
So what's all this talk about jobs and
owls, endangered species and the
environment? Can we protect animals and
plants and, at the same time, have a decent
economy? And can we, as individuals,
have any impact in this whole mess? Here
are a few ideas on the subject.
In 1973, the Endangered Species Act
(ESA) was passed to aid in the
preservation of animals and plants. At that
time, 109 domestic and 300 foreign
species were listed by the Secretary of the
Interior. According to Phillip A. Davis of
CO Weekly, that list has grown to nearly
600 domestic and 500 foreign species
listed with 3600 species on a waiting list.
The numbers are growing due to a vast
increase in population and economic
growth and ensuing loss of habitat.
As the listed species grow, so do the
tensions between proponents of the Act
and industry interests that want to see it
weakened. Even though a statistically
small percentage of projects have been
stopped by the ESA, approximately one
percent, industry is trying to portray a
"jobs vs. the environment" scenario. This
simply isn't the case. A study done by
political scientist Stephen M. Meyer,

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reported in the April Sierra Q1agazine,
finds evidence that "the ' states with the
toughest environmental policies showed
the most [economic] growth." Meyer also
found that there were no studies showing
a negative impact by environmental
regulation, only "anecdotal evidence" and
old assumptions. Ironically, Meyer initially
set out to measure the amount of negative
impact, simply assuming a negative impact
existed.
Clearly, some conflicts between
species and industry will result in the loss
of jobs. But the net result of
environmental regulation appears to be a
strong economy. We should all be
concerned with working out sensible
solutions for displaced workers, but one
has to wonder if industry is really
concerned about the workers or just their
profit margins. And what about these
species so rapidly going extinct because of
humans? At Evergreen, we may have a
greater appreciation of species for their
intrinsic value. But the past 20 years has
also shown the critical links between biodiversity and human survival. We can
never know what a species, once extinct,
might have provided for us. Yet our
children will certainly know that their

world has bcen impoverished because of
our choices.
The Endangered Species Act is up
for renewal this year. Industry will be out
to make it weaker but you can make it
stronger. Have an impact in that deci.sion.
Jolene Unsoeld is on one of the key
committees (Environment and Natural
Resources) which will decide on all
legislation affecting the ESA. Write a
letter or call her at 753-9528 and let her
know your opinions. Individually handwritten letters are most effective, but
phone calls also have an impact. Stop by
the WashPIRG office, L3228, or call
x6058 and help with environmental
campaigns. Currently we are working on a
national Bottle Bill and campus recycling.
Weekly mcetings are Mondays at 6 p.m.
in the WashPIRG office.
Once a species goes extinct that's it;
there are no second chances on 25 million
years of evolution. But don't fool yourself
into thinking you can' t make a differevce.
Get involved; with estimates of 17,500
species going extinct world wide each year
there is no time to lose.
Bill Bradlee is a Coordinator for
WashP1RG Environmental Action

·T hekla made for drinkers not. music lovers
by Jane Laughlin
What is most offensive to me about
the new club in downtown Olympia,
Thekla, headed by Seattle's Pit Kwiecinski
and Lonni Huston (also involved with the
Re-Bar), is that while Kwiecinski
unblinkingly claims that he supports the
Olympia music scene, he has facilitated
the opening of a 21 and over club. These
people know nothing about the Olympia
music scene, which doesn't surprise me;
they're from Seattle.
In nine months, I will be old enough
to gain access to Thekla. But, I will have
no desire to (if it is even still open). I
don't wish to support an establishment
which excludes half of the scene on the
basis of age. I don't wish to support yet
another alcoholic's playground/meat
market. I especially don't wish to try to
see a band that I like (who has sold out to
a lucrative bar gig) in the midst of a
bunch of drunks.
I fear that tlle traditionally 0.1. Y.
(do it yourself) punk scene here is once
again being threatened. First, the police
shut down the Surf Club last Spring under
highly suspicious circumstances, and a few
months later, the thriving all-ages co-op,
The Un-Cola, went under due to trivial

municipal pressures. Oly is left with two
all-ages spots: the occasional show in the
backstage of the Capitol Theater, and the
rare Library show at Evergreen. Other than
that, there's nothing but basements.
So, along come Kwiecinski and
Huston, who see' that there's an available
club for lease right downtown. It used to
be an all-ages punk rock venue which
hosted dozens of great out-of-town and
local bands, as well as part of 1991's
International Pop Underground
Convention, organized by the indie label
of all indie labels, K Records. After being
shut down by the cops following a policeincited "riot," the old Northshore Surf
Club space endured a series of pathetic
dance club ventures, which at least let in
minors, as long as they were dressed
properly (i .e., no gang-wannabes).
Anyway, Kwiecinski and Huston decide to
capitalize on the space, but instead of
returning it to an all-ages club where
everyone could see touring and local
bands, they opt to cash in and sell liquor,
just like the Re-Bar and every other
crappy club in Seattle. Some business
concerning insurance and liability and blah
blah blah is most likely alleged in this
maller. But hell, who cares about minors;

they'll just have to wait like everyone else, "moshing" - we prefer to dance and enjoy
til they 're old enough to booze up like the • the band, possibly because most of us are
sober at the time.
grown-ups!
Before I came to Olympia from
I don't know if it's obvious, but I do
Seattle,
there existed other all-ages clubs
not drink alcohol. However, most of my
who
sponsored
music and art: the
friends over (and under) 21 do, and still
Tropicana
and
the
Reko Muse. Both had
do not enjoy going to bars to see bands.
to
shut
down
largely
because of the lack
That atmosphere is not set up for music
of
support
from
the
city.
I'm sure Olympia
lov~rs, it is designed for drinkers. It is an
"officials"
are
now
wetting
their pants
uncomfortable and ugly environment for a
over
the
prospect
of
a
new
bar
in town, to
lot of 'people who really come to see and
keep
those
"rebellious
punk
kids"
off the
hear the band, not just to get wasted.
streets,
and
to
allow
the
alcoholics
to
These two mediums do not mix well, as it
continue
to
wander
the
alleys.
has been proven time and time again. If
Pit Kwiecinski and Lonni Huston
you want to get drunk and transform
don
'
t
seem
to care about or know anything
yourself into an obnoxious fool, fine. It's
about
Olympia
's music scene, except what
your life; I don't care. But don ' t interfere
they
have
heard
from the bands willing to
with my or anyone else's enjoyment of the
play
bars,
or
maybe
what they have read
band. Drunks couldn't care less about the
in
Sassy
or
Spin.
If
they
knew anything,
music being played, as far as I've seen,
they
would
know
that
most
of the people
the drunk people at shows (my beloved
and
bands
involved
support
friendly,
friends included) mostly care about
DJ.Y
.
attitudes
and
the
genuine
love of
staggering around and being drunk. In the
our
music.
All
we
don't
need
is
another
context of live rock music, some morons
take it upon themselves to slam violently capitalist scumbag trying to exploit and
into others in an inebriated attempt to "get destroy, wi th greed and thoughtlessness,
what it has taken so much work to create.
the pit going." I have seen this happen
If
Kweicinski cared about the Oly scene,
several times, and it is not welcome here.
as
he claimed in an interview in the March
Anyone familiar with the Oly scene knows
issue
of Sound Out, he would have had the
that this is generally not a town for
courage and integrity to provide a place
for all people to enjoy music safely, and
for bands to play who don't believe in
selling
out to the alcohol industry. He says
describe their sexual activities. Not only
of minorities like lesbians
he
is
supportive
are those words ill chosen after Kelly's
and
gays
in
his
establishment,
but you still
recent eating disorder escapade, but they
don't
count
if
you
are
under
21
at Thekla.
aren ' t entirely accurate either. Last
Jane
Laughlin
is
an
Evergreen
Wednesday was the first concrete proof
student.
we had that they even had sex. There was
no mention of it before, and every on-air
attempt Dylan made at luring Kelly into
bed had failed . If it wasn't for Kelly's
outburst we still wouldn't have any
grounds for believing that they actually
by Deborah Sherwood
Scholarship Placement doesn't
did. You w~re)ust out. of line :'3~ng th~~
they were still happIly porkin away,
place ... BEWARE!
and. it bothere~ me. And while I'm on the
As budget crunches push tuition
subject, I am Just ~o happy those tw<? are higher, finding scholarships becomes an
together. Every Ume ~at Dyl~ kisses inviting option to combat it. Since time is
Kelly, those are my bps feehng hers. short, placement services seem like a good
Those signs you saw pos~d all about investment. Early in November, I stopped
campus after they started dating, that was at a lunchtime CAB table set up by
me. I was just so overwhelmed that I had Scholarship Placement Services (Olympia).
to share my joy. (Q: How is it that hate~ul I was very excited to hear that for $125
they would write letters and place me with
accu~tions can stay up for weeks while
my signs of love are tom down by lunch as many scholarships as their computers
matched me with, nationwide. They said
the next da~?)
The hst goes on , your comments on the process would take 8 to 10 weeks, and
Jim. and Cindy are irrelevant. They ~ if I didn't receive at least $300 in
typical TV parents, everyone knows thiS, scholarships, I would get a full refund...
what was there to lose? Since that fateful
there is no news there~ noth~ng to "report"
November date my investment has not
on. At least Andrea IS seemg somebody
proved fruitful, and I have spent many
now, let's at least give her points for that.
frustrated months trying to find out just
Steve isn't going to come out, give it up.
what is happening in that office which
If anyone's queer at all. it's Brandon, and
never calls me! It has been over 22 weeks
see Brandon page 8
(so much for ' 8 to 10) and I have not
'
received any scholarships. They won't
refund my money. They kcep feeding me
excuses: their computers broke down, they
were refused by one company and had to
If you and your pet would like to
start
up with a new one, they're too busy
make a step to help control the Earth's
taking in new applicants (approx. 50 per
population, all it takes is a phone call hy
week).
you to begin. Remember, the longer you
Stop Buying These Services! When I
wait to take this step, the closer your pet
talked
with the Attorney General's office
can come to helping produce the nearly
they
groaned
and said that scholarship
13.5 million unwanted animals each year.
in general are a rip-off.
placement
services
Michelle Minstrell is a Evergreen
I
have
since
heard
that Evergreen's
student.
Financial Aid Office will do this for free.
I believe my money is forever lost to
people who know their clients are students
who can't afford lawyers - and who are
too naive to pay attention to the unprinted
details (no signed contracts, etc.) AAGH!
had some good food still on them. I was
I can ' t believe I trusted these people! Save
amazed at how much food had to be
your money. It' s worth the time and effort
thrown out! Now, I'm nobody's parent.
to apply to scholarships yourself.
I'm simply acknowledging how Evergreen
Otherwise you may lose not only your
is in many regards, highly conscious of
money, but your time and sanity as well.
environmental and social issues. Let's
Deborah Sherwood is a concerned
make something so simple as wasting food
citizen who would like to hear of similar
one of these priorities. Perhaps our eyes
experiences and perhaps organize to
can be bigger than our stomachs, if so,
prevent further fraud. Call her at 866let's be more aware of this. In short, let's
4390.
keep some attention at home to those
simple matters as we are expanding our
concerns to global level.
Thanks and aloha.
Tim McLeod is an Evergreen student
a message from the CPJ.
and Corner Cafe employee.

Follower sets Skip straight on Bev

by Pat Castaldo
.
Sorry Skip, I simply can't sit back
and remain silent any longer, something
must be said about your Bev Reports.
They suck. You claim that Andrea has no
grasp of the obvious, but I wouldn't be so
quick to open my mouth, Mr. Skippy.
There is just so much about the Bev you
seem to be missing that I can't even
believe you consider yourself a True BevBeliever. You call them sniveling brats?
You with your White-Bread-Bar-CodeRamble-On-For-Half-A-Page-And-JustTell-Us-Pretty-Much-Nothin~ column, the
record has got to be set straight.
First and foremost, the Bev does not
consist of seven, make that eight (sorry
David, yo.u weren't al,:,,~ys a p.ri~ciple),
separate high school entities, but IS mstead
the embodiment of an entire generation's
hopes, fears, dreams, wishes,
disappointments and desires. Wh~n I
watch the Bev, when any true bebever
doe~, a transformation .occurs ... I become
as pissed 01 f as Kelly IS at what everyone
thinks of me, I'm all of a sudden the rebel
that Dylan wants to be, the hurt and
rejected pitiful soul that is Brenda, and the
not-so-cool-but-Iove-to-think-I-am Steve. I
regain Donna's innocence, some of (only
some) Andrea's nerdish tendencies, I drive
a 'stang like Brandon (in my particular
case it was a 'vette - that's Chevette), and
dance like David. For one hour every

week, I live the life again. I become, fullon, the Bev.
Brenda sucks. Brenda is a bitch.
Brenda has funny eyes. Brenda this.
Brenda that. Give it up! Regardless of
what you feel about her, you can't deny
the importance of her role in both the
show and your everyday life. Skip, you
just have to stop the predictions of her
demise. Spelling has too long gone with
the flow on this one, the public isn't
always right and this is a classic example
of that. Losing Brenda would change the
dynamics of the entire show; the chemistry
just wouldn't be there anymore. There
would be no contrast. Skip, did you not
notice the sinister black pseudo-Princelooking shirt, the one with the ruffled
sleeves (I believe the proper name is a
Poet or Stafford shirt) that she wore to
Jack's funeral (that's Dylan's father for
you non-followers), was in direct contrast
to the shirt of similar means that Kelly so
gracefully donned in angelic white during
the most recent edition of the Bev? Brenda
is that part of you that just feels sucky
sometimes that no matter how good things
get, part of you is lacking. You've gotta
love being able to hate Brenda the way
you do, don't you?
One thing that really bothered me
about your last Bev Report is the way you
termed Kelly and Dylan's relationship.
You used the words "porkin' away" to

Beware Scholarship
Placement Scam

Control animal population explosion
by Michelle Minstrell
Puppies and kittens are so cute and
cuddly . These darling little animals all
grow up to be adults · who, just like
humans, have the tendency to breed. As
the Earth faces a human population
explosion, it is also burdened with many
unwanted pets. That is not to say that
these are not good animals, that they are
sickly or old. These are often purebred,
well-mannered animals that the owner
could no longer care for or did not want in
the first place. Humans can be taught birth
control methods, dogs and cats cannot. We
must help stop the overpopulation of our
pets, as a humane measure, and an
environmental one.
Every year, many of these unwanted
animals are abandoned, some at shelters
like our very own in Thurston County, and
some are less humanely dumped in
wooded areas to fend for themselves.
These lonely animals often cause a
nuisance for neighbors and are called
strays, soon to be picked up by Animal
Control as well. Once they arrive at the
shelter, the animals face the possibility of
adoption, or the inevitability of a lonely,
humane death.
Spaying and neuteri!1g are the

ptocesses of remov ing your animals'
sexual organs, rendering them unable to
produce young. Information on these types
of services is available through Animal
Control, 943-3640. This operation d<X's not
harm your pet in any way and can even
make them a better companion animal by
removing many of their violent tendencies.
Many agencies in this area have programs
set up to help defer some of the cost of
the surgery for lower income persons.

Corner food waste concern
by Tim McLeod
This past week I had the opportunity
of washing dishes at your friendly comer
cafe. Quite different from the work I'm
used to, with music stomping and booties
shaking the evening was a "sudzy groovedown slippery funk dish jam! " At any rate,
there I was, washing away to the Dancehall Rhythms with a big smile on my face,
when I started to notice something that
made me a little sad. I was observing, as
the dirty plates and bowls were piling
high, how much food was being wasted.
Yes, every so often there was even a
whole plate of food, barely touched, and
tossed into the dish tub. Most of the dishes

Think before you drive.

Cooper Point Journal April 15, 1993 Page 7

Porum·
Community access vital goal of CPJ
by Bryan Connors

The thorns were everywhere ... : a
limited . budget. nasty letters. daily
compromises over one thing or another. a
skeleton writing staff, the ·flu.
bureaucratic runarounds. mechanical
breakdowns. physical exhaustion. legal
hassles, dirty looks, insults. screaming.
and general misunderstanding.
From Editor Matt Groening's What
Th e CPJ Has Taught Me: A SelfEvaluation. published in the May 26,1977
issue of the CPJ.
I've been a student journalist, off
and on, going on four years now. I've
been a calendar compiler, an
Arts/EnterLainment reponer and ediLOr, a
movie reviewer, a general reporter, a news
reponer, a head writer, the Security Bloner
compiler, and for the past seven months, a
Managing EdiLOr. So please believe me
when I say that I know what Mall went
through ... I've gone through it myself.
But, in all of my experience, the one
thing that I have really found, and what
has increasingly bothered me, is that the
communities in which newspapers serve
are largely unaware of what goes on at a
newspaper.
People ask me time and again, "why
did you guys let that get in?" or "how did
you people decide LO place that article
where you did?" or "what was the
meaning of that [headline, graphic, photo,
comic, etc.] that was run?" Probably the
most often asked question is "I have
something I would like to submit - how
do I submit it to the CPJ?"
I try, to the best of my ability, LO
answer these queries. Sometimes the
answer is fine by them (a contributor
sometimes even results from these chats),
but a lot of the time they shake their heads
and/or shrug their shoulders.
It has been my experience that the
majority of people's attitudes LOward
newspapers (be it a regional, daily or a
college weekly) are either of great
intimidation. extreme hostility and
suspicion. or apathy.

It's no great wonder. though, with
all the sensationalist, shoddy. insensitive,
and just plain 01' scraleh-your-head-andwonder-what-the-heck-they-were-thinkingwhen-they-did-or-said-that kind of news
media that surrounds most of us nearly
every day,
But, to tell you the truth. I think that
the reason the community responds in
these ways is that there is little
communication between newspapers and
the public and visa-versa.
This is the reason I've decided to
write bi-weekly column type of articles on
the subject, to facilitate some kind of
communication between you. as the
Evergreen community. and me (and
hopefully everyone at the CPJ), as an
editor and journalist at the Cooper Point
Journal.
In the coming weeks, I will try LO
explain current editorial policies.
submissions policies. the functions of the
editors and staff. and discuss any "hot"
topic that may pop up.
But that is only a part of the
communication process. What is vital. is
for you, the reader of the CPJ. LO give
some participation.
So what's on your mind where the
CPJ - or journalism as a whole is
concerned? What do you know? What do
you want to know? What do you dislike?
What do you like?
Ask me or tell me. most of the
people here. including myself. really want
to know what you think. I'll answer or
comment to the best of my ability.
So this is what you can do:
·Type or write (legibly) your
questions or comments down and either
send them to me. Bryan Connors, the
Cooper Point Journal. TESC, CAB 316,
Olympia WA. 98505. Or, stop by the CPJ
office, CAB 316 (located in the S&A
offIces), and drop it off in my box or the
general submissions box. Please specify
that it is for me. so as not to have it get
mixed up with other submissions.
·Call the CPJ office, 866-6000,
x6213, and either leave your questions or

Illlagine paperless call1pus
by Chaelon Myme
Evergreen Students:
In the proces~ of completing our
winter quarter writing assignments. reams
of printer paper (approximately a pallet a
quarter - that's 32 boxes at 2600 sheets
each) were printed upon, de-perforated,
collated and stapled. and eventually given ·
to our respective faculty members. A digital encoding of your document remained
on your disk (if you saved it) and the hard
copy remained with the faculty.
Ideal\y. no paper needs to be used at
all.
The fact is that many of Evergreen's
faculty have their own computers. either
in their office or at home. usually a Macintosh or an IBM clone. Instead of printing
copies of the document, it is more efficient
to simply give the faculty a copy of your
disk with instructions for which fIle LO
access.
For some classes, this is a necessity.
I've given out my disks with Prolog or
SPSS programs saved on them so faculty
could check whether the program ran. It
worked out well - he took the disk, loaded
it onLO his hard-drive. and gave it back LO
me the next day.
The point is that in most academic
writing, it is the information which is
important. and not the medium of presentation. In many cases. there is no need LO
use paper.
Let's speculate for a moment, disregarding very real budget limitations. If
we accept my proposal as a good one, we
arc free to imagine even more efficient
means of transmitting textual work from
student LO faculty. As it stands. lending a
disk is a refinement over wasting paper,
but it still involves an unnecessary physicalily: the disk (which, like all physical
things. can be lost or damaged). Instead.

we should develop some system of uploading with which the student can send
his document(s) to the faculty at any time
of day. using a modem. Or perhaps Computer Services can provide the faculty with
an electronic mailbox accessible from the
Computer Center.
There are some very real problems
with electing a move to a "paperless office" style of academic exchange. For one.
moniLOrs just aren't as easy on the eyes.
and the software doesn't support a means
to make comments in the margins. As one
representative of the Computer Center
remarked. "Just thinldng of reading twenty
term papers on a monitor makes my blood
run cold." But these problems aren't
necessarily insuperable. Better monitors.
bener software. better means of exchange
- these arc all possible, but the impetus
must be there.
Can TESC make the move to paperless? Consider the size of our school, and
then compare it to the University of Washington. How much paper might they use?
Multiply that figure by every college in
the United States. That's tons of unnecessary printouts. Give your favorite
printer the quarter off. Ask your faculty
about what kind of computer they have,
and what word processing program they
use. See if they would mind trying out this
set-up during the spring quarter with whoever is willing and able to cooperate. For
it is in late spring that the really humongo
tractates get written - and printed.
If anyone has questions about specifics, new ideas, or would just like to discuss this topic. please can me at 357-3984.
Chaelon Myme is a graduating stu- .
dent and former CPJ lackey. He submitted
this on disk. We are. of course. going to
print five or six copies of it in the editing
process.

Page 8 Cooper Point Journal April 15, 1993

comments with me (I'm usually there). on .
Last, I just want to say that all my
comments and opinions in the coming
the voice mail, or one of my wonderful
weeks are mine and not necessarily those
colleagues will take down your message
of the CPJ or its staff (although be aware
and deposit it in my box.
that they will see my pieces in the coming
. ·Come in. sit down and talk to me
one on one.
weeks on the layout table well before you
will).
·Finally, and most importantly. aU
So, please, let's build an avenue of
questions and comments have to include
communication.
I think everyone might
your name and phone number. Without it,
benefit.
..
do
you?
I can't use them. And when that happens,
Bryan Connors is the Managing
we're both losers.
Editor
of the CPJ and durn proud of it.
I'm hoping this will be easier for
both of us.

Let Vietna:m live in peace
by Paul Slusher
On a dirty street corner in Saigon,
Vietnam. suddenly a labor and age
weathered hand appears, reaching out to
mc. This taLtered and toothless Vietnamese
woman. nearly sixty. accompanied by a
half naked three year old. begs for
pennies. Her eyes look tired. her body thin
and feeble, showing the years of labor and
poverty. She has endured. I stop to greet
her. She docs not smile. but instead places
her other hand on her belly as she winces
"I am hungry." The child nervously clings
to her tattered and dirty black pants. his
eyes widen with suspicion as I greet him
in Vietnamese. Shyly he finds refuge by
slipping his malnutritioned body behind
the curtain of the old woman. only to peer
out again to catch another glimpse of this
"odd looking Whitey."
Like this woman. Vietnam herself
stands with an outstretched arm and an
empty stomach. She longs for food to
grow, to develop her young. LO rebuild her
land that has been ignored for far too long
by nations that have the potential LO assist
her'. She has endured severe poverty and
war for a time that feels like eternity. She
has been attacked by forces such as the
Chinese, the Khmer Rouge, the French
and of course the ever military-oppressive
United States for so long. she knows no
other reality. And for as long as she can
recall. all she has asked for is to live free
from domination. to be a united Vietnam ,
and LO be allowed to strive to improve her
existence. Perhaps this is too much to ask
of. a world chock full of imperialist powers
that strive Lo keep much of the world poor
underdeveloped and uneducated.
According to the United Nations. the
average Vietnamese consumes
approximately eight Kg of protein less per
month than the "basic nutritional standard"
set by the World Health Organization.
Economically. Vietnam is one of the three
poorest countries in the world. As I have
travelled through this beautiful land once
called "Dai Viet" (The Great Viet). I have
seen the poorest of the poor breaking their
backs working on the countless miles of
rice paddies. living in homes that make
woodsheds look like luxurious homesteads.
AdmiLtedly, Vietnam is not without

corruption and internal abuse. North
Vietnamese are favorably placed in high
government positions, and "top brass"
military personnel are occasionally seen
mingling, drinking and living it up in
expensive hotel restaurants. Despite these
internal problems. of which there are far
too many to mention in this piece, the
issue of the day for Vietnam is currency ...
and the lack of it. Without aecess LO
development aid, loans, investment and
foreign trade markets. there can be no
improvements in these numerous domestic
issues that scream to be addressed.
All the while. the $2000 suit-clad
power brokers in D.C. can only repeat the
tune of their favorite dead horse... the
2000 or so MIAs in Vietnam. It doesn't
seem to maller to these men . I dare call
"evil." that Vietnam has. since the days of
Jimmy Caner (remember him?) been
bending over backwards to resolve the
MIA issue and "normalize" relations with
the U.S. (i.e. remove the U.S. trade
embargo). I suppose it also doesn't mean
much to men such as these that Vietnam
has been slowly decaying with the diseases
of underdevelopment and malnutrition for
decades.
Instead of beating the MIA dead
horse, we should be discussing how we
can help the Vietnamese help themselves.
Particularly. to rebuild their war-torn land,
that which we (the U.S.) did more than
our share LO utterly destroy. More than
once I fought off tears of anger and
empathy as I watched an elderly man
hobble down a dirt road, lacking some
major body part. .. his skin scarred... his
skeletal image showing through his old
and hungry body. It brought me to the
point of anger LO see so many binh
defects. thanks to the toxins leftover from
the countless B-52 bombing missions. I
am feeling anger ... empathy ... sadness
like never before!
The time has come for the people of
the U.S. LO demand of this "so called
progressive" Clinton administration to lift
the terribly damaging embargo. It is time
we cried out "let Vietnam live in Peace!"
We owe them at least that much.
Paul Slusher is aformer coordinater
of EPIC and is currently in Vietnam.

Brandon at the RE-BAR? (from page 7)
you can forget seeing the day when he'll
wear anything from the Queer Zone to
school or show up at the RE-BAR on
Thursday nights. All in all, Skippy,l'd cut
the predictions, they only make you look
stupid.
The next new episode promises to be
a good one. Dylan has declared KeIl and
himself "soulmates." Brenda is starting LO
dress more normal again, it's time for a
scene with Nat in it, Steve will be finally
over the basketball shot (which we all
knew he'd make). and if we're lucky,
we'll see both Gil and Mrs. Teasly. Hope
you didn't take all these criticisms too
harshly, Skip, I'm just looking out for
what really matters.
My notes on Mel: Okay, it's Mel. Not
M.P .• the place, or even The Mel, it's just
Mel. Good. Now, do you really think that
Michael would be that good in bed? I was
all for him cheating on his wife until he
was actual1y there with the other woman.
It just felt awkward. Everyone I've poned
made a face. Finally, they actually showed

a date of Matt's, wonderful. Classic that
he didn't like the guy. though. Hopefully
he'll be getting out more. Skip, there is no
reason for Billy to "dig," he's cool enough
and has it all under control. The kid is
awesome and I love him, who wouldn't?
His relationship with Allison hints of
Moonlighting. and I like that Jake and Jo
- are we talking cheesy in bed or what? It
does fit, though. Every episode, Mel
increases in stature. I watch it now on its
own merits. not just because it follows the
Bev. And that's saying something.
Pat writes about what he feels is
important.

"We're so glad
you're our
neighbor!
a message from the CPT

Response
Thekla, parking
and CAB closing
To the Evergreen "Community":
My top five concerns for the month
of April:
5. KAOS pledge drive. Give KAOS
money. especially on my show, "Movin'
Right Along" Tuesday nights, 2 a.m. to 5
a.m. I'm giving away a hockey poster
from a local minor league team!
4. The Mima Mounds. These
natural wonders of the great earth need
help. The prairie is being restored and they
need volunteers to pick up sticks.
Seriously. Call Reid Schuller at 902-1679.
3. The CAB closure from midnight
to 6 a.m. Yes. this is someone's brilliant
idea to secure the campus and prevent
mischief. It is also a wonderful idea. it
encourages exclusivity and inefficiency
and inconvenience. SLOp them before they
try it out. Call Student Affairs "at x6296.
2. Thekla. It might be a great club
but it's still 21+. and that's why it sucks.
Twenty-one and over clubs might as well
donate the cover charge to the alcohol
industry to save time on accounting.
Thekla is a slap in the face to the youth of
Olympia. It's basically saying. "Poor kids.
you have nothing to do, here's another
place you don't belong! Heh, heh." No
maLler how progressive a 21+ club
advertises itself as being, it's still a lackey
for the corporate empire.
1. Parking Booth News. Someone
keeps chewing up and eating all our pens.
Busses are still rolling by four times an
hour. On April Fools' Day we messed
with the time clock so it would say.
"March 32, 1993." What a bunch of jokers
we are! Final\y, I'd like LO say a big hello
to all the regular parking booth customers
including, " Early Morning Guy in the Blue
Camper Van ," "Woman Who Always
Smokes" and "The Silverdale Cycling
Car."
Dante "Too Much Time in the Booth"
Salvatierra

People of color
do fight for earth
spencer crandell.
You make assertions that people of
color are not active in the environmental
movement because they are "busy battling
racism." Let us say for a moment that this
statement is the least bit accurate. and add
to your thought that the reason people of
color are busy battling racism is that white
people (i will use your definition of non-

people of color) in ameri1ckka refuse to
deal with their racism, after all it is their
racism, isn' t it?
I refuse to believe that people of
color are not busy in the environmental
movement because of racism. While it is
true that because of racism, people of
color are kept out of discussions that we
have many thoughts about (the recent
"forest swnmit" is a good example, just
where were those northwest natives
anyway?), there are and have been many
people of color involved in the caretaking
of our mother whom many of you refer LO
as earth.
If people of color at Evergreen seem
too busy to help you plan one day to
honor our mother, then i suggest it is you
that needs LO become flirther educated· on
the ways that people of color celebrate and
fight for our mother every day. We cannot
afford LO focus on the environment when
it is convenient or politically correct. You
may have to deal with some issues of
racism before "these two movements join
hands." but there are people from many
nations who are working LO make that
happen. Thanks for the thought-provoking
article.
To all of my relations.
G. W, Galbreath

9/9.'3, a 5 t~e secon Rodne!j
dr~ lNS to (). close ....

.

Is it respect or
responsibility?
To Vanessa.
Vanessa. [in your April 8 Response
piece] you pointed out that in your mind
the issue was respect - respect of
Women's History Month. Well, in my
mind, the issue seems to be one of
responsibility. That is ... where were you
(and, for that matter, Peter) during all of
the various events we sponsored and
planned over International Women's
Week?? Obviously you missed the Joanne
Rand concert, the Dance. the two nights of
films. the event put on by the Jewish
Cultural Center and Middle East Resource
Center that "we helped sponsor, the
workshops and panel discussions, the art
display. and the journal of Evergreen
women writers and artists that we
published. You also missed the huge
display in front of the Women's Center
that was a display of some of the women
who have made an impact on history
(including a short bio). Amanda, myself,
and many committed volunteers worked
hard LO bring the events we did. You did
not even have the respect to notice (or,
more importantly. attend). Nor did you
take on any responsibility for either
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _-,

coming to the Women's Center to offer
your pcrspecti ves. insights. or suggestions.
putting on your own event(s), or writing
your own article in the CPJ on "Margaret
Sanger and her pioneering work in birth
control - education" or any of the
"numerous lesbians who have contributed
to this country through literature, politics,
science, and so forth." I fmd it curious
that you took the time to respond to the
See-Page (added to the energy and
creativity it must have taken to take it
completely out of context) and focus on
the issue of our respect when you did not
take any responsibility on yourself for
making International Women's Week and
Women's History Month "uplifting LO
many well-intentioned people of both
sexes." In regards LO both your and
Peter's comments on the "scrawl":
"lesbians are cool" - I ask you to ask
yourself what you find so alienating in it.
Lauren Towne

Women's Week
addressed issues

To Peter G. Ivey and Vanessa Henry:
The Women's Center sponsored
the See-Page as a part of a whole series of
events during Women's HisLOry Month. I
found both of your letters to disregard any
of our work, which addressed a wide
variety of women's issues. If you were
inspired LO write letters of criticism to the
CPJ. then why weren't you also inspired
(;uopel' POlIlt <loul'na.l
to volunteer for planning. to allend any of
VOLUNTEER
our events. or to take the time to look at
may delay publication. Submission deadline for
Comics Page Editor: Emi 1. Kilburg
the display of pictures and bios of women
Comics and Calendar item. is Friday at noon.
See-Page Editor: Leilani Johnson
in
history that we have offered.
All.ubmission. are subject to editing.
New. Briefs: Evenstar Deane
Taken out of context, I can see how
Editing will auempt to clarify material, not change its
Security Blouer: Andrew Lyons
on the See-Page was probably
the
collage
meaning.
If
possible
we
will
conmlt
the
writer
about
Assist. Photo Editor: Ned Whiteaker
substantive changes. Editing will also modify not enough to interest people to the
PSA Designer: Sienna Flanders
submissions . to fit within the parameten of the "political ramifications of Women's
Graphic Slave Artist: Chris Wolfe. Robert Cook
COO/MT Point JOUTfUJI style guide. The style guide is
Layout Derni·goddess: Wendi Dunlap
History Month." Volunteers created the
available at the CPJ office.
EDITORIAL··866-6000 1:6213
co\1age as a part of the whole month's
Editor-in.Chief: Stephanie Zero
We strongly encourage wrilen to be brief.
activities. I understand that the. moon, the
Subminiona over one page single spaced may be
Managing Editor: Bryan Connon
ocean ele ... are not personal symbols for
edited in order to equally diltribute room to all
Layout Editor: Brian Almquist
all
women. But for others, including
authors. Forum pieces should be limited 10 600
Art.lEntertainment Editor: Sara Steffens
myself,
they are and they have been
Photo Editor: Seth SIcippy" Long
words; response pieoes Ihould be limited to 450
ancient
and
sacred symbols for many
words.
Copy EdiIorll'ypUt: Angela Marino
in
many
different cultures.
women
Written
submissions
may
be
brought
to
the
BUSINESS··866·6000 1:6054
Peter, you stated: "There are
Bu.iness Manager: Julie Crosslllld
CPJ on an mM formatted 5 'A" dislt. Disks Ihould
Alsist. Busines. Managerl
include a printout, the lubmission file name. the
numerous males and females who... are
Ad Proofreader. Burnie Gipson
author', name. phone number. and addresl. We have
hesitant to get involved with such a
Ad Sales: Ryan HoUander
disk! available· for !/lose who need them. Disk! can
spiritually and sexually oriented Women's
be picked up after publication.
Ad Layout: Bill Sweeney, Guido Blat
Center... The Women's Center should be
Everyone is invited 10 anend CPJ weekly gender oriented - leave the sexually
Circulation Manager: Katie Taft
Distribution: Mary Bauer
meetings; meetingl are held Monda),! and Thundays
oriented thought to theLGBPRC."
at 4:00 p.m. in CAB 316.
ADVISOR
1) I don't expect any woman LO
Dianne Coorad
If you have any questions. please drop by
separate
her spirituality or her sexual
The U....s GuIde
CAB 316 or call 866-6000 x6213"
orientation
from her gender when she
The COO/MT Point JOIITMt exists to faci1ilate
The CPJ publishes weekly throUghout the
walks into the Women's Center, nor do I
colrummication of events, ideas, movement., and
academIc year. Subscriptions are $17 (3rd daIS)
find the positive expression of either of
incidents affecting The Evergreen Slate College and
and $30 (nrst claIS). SublllCrlptions are. valid for
surrounding communitie •. To porttayacx:urately our
one calendar year. Send payment with mallln& these to be alienating. I think we should
community. the paper strive. ~publi.h material from
address to the CPJ, Attn: JUlie Croaland.
work more on celebrating our differences,
AdvertIsIng
.
anyone willing io worle with UI. The graphici and
while worldng together. This has been my
articles published in the Cooper Poui, Journal are the .
Por information. ntes. or to place display and
greatest criticism of the women's
opinion of the author or artilt and do nOl necessarily
cla..ifiedl.t"eni.emenll. coolla 8~ x6054.
movement, that generally it didn't
reflect the opinions of our staff.
Deadlines are 3 p.m. Fridays to reserve display space
encompass many of the differences
SUbmissIon deadline Is MOD·d ay lloon. We· for the coming issue and 5 p.m. Mondays to lubmit .
between women, thus allowing for ' the
will uy to publish material submitted the following
a cliisified ad.
of many women who did
marginalization
Thunday. However. .pace and editing constraints
fJCooper Po;"t JOIUMl 1993.
not fan into the "mainstream" agenda.
M

2) I would encourage women who
are interested in women's issues (but
hesitant about getting involved with the
Women's Center) to come talk to myself
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m .• or you can leave
a note in our mailbox, CAB 320 (Please
no anonymous notes if you expect us LO
respond and dialogue about problems).
3) I think that it is ridiculous that we
"leave the sexually oriented thought to the
and/or my co-coordinator, Lauren. We are
both in the office (CAB 260) on Mondays
LGBPRC." If you are truly dedicated to
working on women's issues. then you
better be truly dedicated to working on
homophobia, racism, classism,
heterosexism. ableism. and ageism. as
these are all issues that affect women.
Vanessa: in response to your
concerns about different spellings of
women. history. etc.... men probably
created those words in the first place. I
suppon women who choose to use
spellings such as "womyn" or "herstory".
as it seems to be an empowering act of
owning a word that belongs to us. At the
very least, I don't find these different
spellings harmful. offensive or
disrespectful, and if anything they
challenge the dominant discourse.
I am not quite sure who we were
alienating by writing "lesbians are cool"
and "sisterhood is powerful." To me, both
statements are positive and women-loving.
Are they alienating because they actually
say something affIrming about two
oppressed groups in this society? Every
day we are all bombarded with images and
messages affirming heterosexuals and men
(and white society, I might add). I think
that it is okay to "scrawl" two statements
of self-affirmation. if we don ·t. who will?
For myself. (and I happen to be a woman
who is devoted to women's studies), I see
a strong connection between the political
issues of Women's History Month and
self-affirmation. Hence the cliche "the
personal is political."
I think that Women ' s History Month
deserves an immense amount of respect, in
fact I find it very sad that because women
have been tragically left out of history, we
have to set aside only one month to honor
them. I put a lot of time and energy into
offering events that served to inspire.
instill respect, and interest you in
Women's HisLOry Month. What did you
do?
Amanda Ray

The Cooper Point Journal welcomes all
response . However. the letters have been
getting a bit long lately. 450 words is our
upperlimit. and we mean to stick by it
now. The fate of letters that are longer is
uncertain at this point. but frankly, it
looks grim. While we are on the subject,
Forum pieces seem to fit better when
they come in at less than 600 words.

Cooper Point Journal April 15, 1993 Page 9

Arts &c·Entertainment Entrepreneurs bring slice of Haight to Oly
by Bryan Connors
One day, as I was shuffling over 10
the bank, I did a right take down 4th and
Columbia and realized how incredibly hip
and happening that part of IOwn had
become - especially the row of shops in
the 80-plus-year-old Angelus building.
I mean a building that has a comics
shop (1 was a rabid collector and dealer in
my misspent youth), a guitar slOre (I play
bass) , a record store (I've been known to
sp in a platler or two), an import store that
has clothes from India (I've been 10 India
and would give part of my colon to go
back some day), and a pub and eatery (I
like to cat and have an occas ional brew)
seemed tailor-made for me.
What's really strange is that this row
of shops look as if someone plucked a
building off Haight and Ashbury and
plunked it down in Olympia.
So, I said to myself, " Bryan, you
must report on this ," and I took my trusty
Media Loan tape recorder and started at. ..
The Danger Room
Now here's a joint that any comics
fan would have to like, a good balance of
mainstream and alternative comics, the
option of getting a comics me with no
minimum order (comics that are held for
a customer until they come in), every
comic bagged and boarded for free, and a
friendly staff that won't yell, "This isn't a
library!" every time you pick up a book.
But perhaps the best thing about The
Danger Room is that its owned by two
current Evergreen students Charis Dube
and Tim Shields.
And what persuaded these two full
time students (Dube is currently enrolled
in the Masters in Teaching program,
Shield in The Helping Professional) 10
open up a comics shop? "I wanted 10 open
a business for a long time," said Dube,
"but I didn't have an area that I knew
enough about to open [one] ... so Tim
suggested a comic shop."
Shields adds, "The location was,
kinda, perfect and the [space] opened up
so we jumped at it"
Probably the shop's greatest asset is
that its large selection of alternative (read:
mature) comics from , for example,
Fantagraphic (Hate, Love & Rockets, Eight
Ball) and DC's alternative line Vertigo

(Sandman, Doom Patrol).
"Our average customer is between
18 and 25," Shields said, explaining one
of the reasons for the emphasis for those
comics, "so there's a lot of caU for those
books." But don't think that this is just an
alternative comics shop, they have a good
selection of mainstream comics too
(Batman, Spider-Man , et al).
There's been a lot of word from
comics fans around campus about The
Danger Room. Just the other day, a certain
CPJ Comics Page Editor who will remain
nameless (Emi J. Kilburg), said to me
"Yeah, that place is cool, it has more
alternative stuff then [that other place]
does." I'd believe her ifI were you ... she
might beat you up if you don't.

operated by his children, Rachel and
Aaron. Animas professes to buy its goods
directly from co-ops and families in India
and Guatemala and, according 10
Kirschinick, at a fair price.
"What happens is that people go [10
these] countries, set up a faclOry, and
make a IOn of money," Kirschinick said,
-"I don't like that - I go to the source."
A self-professed Dead Head,
Kirschinick' s store in Durango stocks a lot
of those Gratcful guys paraphenalia. When
asked if he plans to stock them in the
Olympia store, he answered a quiet:
"Maybe."

Locals delight in the titallating array of rrusic supplies at Moon Music,
conveniently located on 4th Ave. photo by Seth "Skippy' Long
The shop is only around six weeks Positively 4th carries new and used
old, and reminds me of the used and/or alternative records and tapes, used on-consignment guitar shops that have all mostly obscure - albums, T-shirts,
but disappeared in Seattle and Tacoma.
underground comix, and videos.
"It's how I, as a customer, would
The one thing that aren't around in
have liked 10 have seen a store," said much abundance are CDs, which Vidor, in
owner Steve Wold, "where I would walk great disdain, says are a perfect example
in and have things obviously fair-priced of how the big record companies and
and have an easy-going atmosphere with retailers work. They forced the musicno hard sell."
buying public to accept compact discs in
The guitars here are great. Last time, order 10 make ungo9ly amounts of money.
I spied a cherry Fender jazz bass (it "Besides," Vidor said, "CDs have no
almost made me drool) and a classic soul." I tend to agree with him.
Epiphone hollow body guitar that would
The shop is the perfect example of
make any six-string picker get the vapors. your basic funky used ' record shop, the
Besides guitars, the shop also carries kind one would find in Seattle, Portland,
guitar assessories (bridges, pick-ups, or San Francisco, with posters, flyers,
tuning pegs, effects boxes, cords, etc), stills, and record covers sprayed all over
amplifiers, strings (good prices too), drum its walls.
sticks and assessories, and other neeto
Business has been good for Vidor
odds and sods.
since the explosion of independent record
Also, for all you folkys out there, outfits that have been pervasive the last
Moon Music has a good selection of few years.
acoustic guitars and small-mandolin-type
Note: if anyone really wants to know
instruments to choose from .
the real history of TESC, talk to Win . ..
And how's the shop doing in such a he's been around here since, almost, the
short time? "It's been going pretty good ... be¥inning.
I didn't think that it was going to be this
good," Wold said, with a bit of bemused Animas Trading Co.
puzzlement. "I didn't realize how many
Stocked with a bevy of clothing
musician were around ... [and] I've gotten from India and Guatemala, Animas is a
a lot of business from the college."
must for the fashion-wise Greener.
Wold is now in the process of
Animas is owned by Ron
building a studio in the back of the shop, Kirschinick (who lives and operates
which adds another element of " music" to
another store in Durango, Colorado), and
the name Moon Music.
Positively 4th Street
The grand-daddy of the row of shops
in the Angelus building, Positively 4th has
been supplying Greeners and others with
alternative records in its present locale
since 1982.
"I'm a vinyl junky," owner and
Evergreen alum Win Vidor said, "I've
tried to get out of it, but I never could do
it"
For the 20 or so people out there
who have never been in the shop,

Moon Music
Some people swoon at the sight of a
painting by Rembrandt, others at a Ferrari
sports car; I swoon at the sight of a nice
shiny black Fender Precision bass guitar.
If you're like me, then Moon Music
is the place for you.

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Outdoor Recreation
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Accessories

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The Colu-mbia Street Public House and
Restaurant
Now that we're nearing the end of
our little tour of the Angelus shops,
doesn't a ni ce cold micro-beer sound
good? No? How 'bout a bite to eat?
Wel1, in any case, The Columbia
Strect Pub is as good a place as any 10
stretch out with a pint and a plate of food
and relax.
Did 1 say relax? Gosh, relaxation is
the Columbia's middle name. With its nice
fuJI front windows, a full and beautiful
bar, and spacious ambience, the Columbia
is a great place.
The Columbia is owned in part by
Larry Stenberg, who just happened 10 have
been at one time Dean of Students, and
later Director of Communit}j and Alumni
Affairs at TESC. The Colur bia has been
in operation since 1988.
"We really did want a community
place," Stenberg said, "sometimes people
come in and hang out and order a cup of
coffee.... "
One nice things about the Columbia
is that they have live music five nights a
week. Sunday is open mike, Monday is
blue grass (you just might See a Evergreen
faculty or two in the band), Wednesday is
Irish music (good stuff - it got my blarney
up when I heard it), Thursday is
unplugged rock (starts after IO p.m.),
Saturday is jazz (there's a cover on this
night).
Now the Angelus shops aren't the
only fine establishments on 4th and
Columbia. There's the tried-and-true
Smithfield, Fuji Teriyaki (try the number
three with a side of Fuji's special sushi,
your mouth will love you), and, across the
street, serving the best greens in
Washington , Barb's Soul Cuisine and Jazz
City.

Bryan Connors knows hot cuisine.

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THE NIGHTCAP CAFE presents Blues
Night with the Dick Powell Band,
beginning at 9 p.m. IOnight in the
Greenery. Entrance is always free. The
Nightcap Cafe is a TEMPO production.

"A KISS TO BREAK THE SPELL," a
reading by lesbian poet and author Jean
swallow, will be held from 3 10 4 p.m.
today in COM 117. Admission is free.

Ih30 $7

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Meddaphyslcal and
speclallUests 1110 S5

GOVERNOR LOWRY has proclaimed
that April 18 through 24 is Sexual Assault
Awareness Week. Safeplace will be
. distributing and displaying posters and
brochures throughout the community 10
increase awareness of sexual assault and
date rape. To seek information on how
you can get help, call Safeplace 24-hour
crisis and counseling, 754-6300. The crisis
line is accessible 10 deaf individuals from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m . on weekdays.

OL YMPIA FILM SOCIETY shows Bad
Lieutenant with Jonathon: Vampire
Sterben Nicht tonight through Wednesday

THE WAS HINGTON CENTER presents
Inspecting Carol, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
tonight Tickets are $181$21 for students
and seniors, $23/$20 for everyone else.
Call 753-8585 to reserve a seat.
KARP, GODHEAD SILO, and Roger
Nusic play tonight at the CapilOl Theater,
beginning at 9:45 p.m. Tickets are $5.

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homophobia and the nature of oppression,
will be shown tonight in observance of
Holocaust Remembrance Day. Call 8666000, x6544 for time and location.

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TESC LGBPRC offers separate bi men's
and women's rap groups every Thursday
at 5:30 in CAB 314.

TOE. April 20th

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EARTHQUAKE AWARENESS WEEK
also begins today. Families and individuals
are asked 10 use this time to learn more
about disaster preparedness. Detailed
planning guides are available at local
emergency services. This is also National
Library Week.

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JAPANESE DYED TEXTILES by artist
Shizuo Okawahara and his son MakolO
will be exhibited at Evergreen Galleries 2
and 4 through April 29. Admission is free;
for more information, call 866-6000,
x6488.

wltb wi_ala by ,uUu. Brown
aIIow.aarta at 1t3O S5

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LEARN TO COUNTRY SWING DANCE
every Friday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Classes take place in MUltipurpose Room
A of the Olympia Center. Fee is $20 per
person. Call 753-8380 for more
information.
SPEAK WITH JANE JERVIS at 8 a.m.
this morning in the CAB, opposite the
Deli. Feedback is everything.

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7:30 p.m. IOnight at the Capitol Theater in
downlOwn Olympia. Tickets are $3 at the
door. Experience Olympia's only live soap
opera.

A TALL SHIPI

(behind Bayview Market). She's a 135
foot. gatt-rigged schooner built in 1913.
Come aboard for daysails today and
tomorrow, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.in. Sign up
at the boat a few days in advance; look for
the tallest masts in the harbor.

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night at the Capitol Theater. Tickets are $5
for non-members, shows begin at 6:30 and
9 p.m. Call 956-0191 for info.

CAPTAIN NAFTA will appear today in
Sylvester Park, as part of an afternoon of
music, speakers and theatrics [sic]
sponsored by the NAFTNGATT Justice
Committee. The public is invited 10 learn
more about this trade agreement. Events
begin at noon and last until 4 p.m. today.

NDAY

GIRLS' WRESTLING converges upon the
athletic (soccer) field each Monday
evening at 5 p.m. Stress relieving! It's
fun! All girls welcome.

MY MOTHER READS this page. I think
she reads it siuing on a stool in the
kitchen with a good, dark cup of coffee.
Everyone say, "Hi mom!" Everyone say,
"I love you, mom, send mon6y. Or
coffee."

TESC LGBPRC holds community
meetings every Tuesday in L2205 at 6:30
p.m., followed by separate men's and
women's rap groups. Lesbian, gay, bi,
trans and questioning welcome.

WHEN LIFE GETS you down, you might
like to try shoving peas up your nostrils.
Or broken pieces of crayon and old pieces
of POtalO chip from the floor. It sure
seemed to work great when I was a kid.
Warning: never put clay in your nose.

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W§EDNESDAY

STANDARD DEVIATION will perform
acoustic folk music at 8 p.m. IOnight in
the Library lobby. Admission is $5, or $3
for students; all proceeds benefit the MPA
Graduate Student Association. Tickets are
available at TESC Bookstore.

JAPANESE ARTIST Shizuo Okawahara
will present a free demonstration of textile
dying techniques from 9 a.m. through 4
p.m . today. The demonstration will take
place in the Printmaking Studio of Lab II.
For more information, call 866-6000,
x6488.

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WOMEN AND CHRONIC FATIGUE
Syndrome is a worlcshop beginning at
12:05 p.m. today in Room 103 of the
Olympia Center. It's free!

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TO Pl..AC£ AN AI>.
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OR STOP BY WRI1E ~ CPJ

CAB 36 . ct.YMPIA. wA 98505.

CRUISE SHIPS NOW HIRING - Eam
S2,000+/month + world travel (Hawaii,
Mexico, the Caribbean, etc.) Holiday, Summer
and Career employment available. No
experience necessary. For employment program
call 1-206-634-0468 ext. C6091

Camp counselors wanted for Girl Scout residential summer camp near Puget Sound. Must enjoy
children and outdoors. Salary/meals/lodging/
traininglon-the-job experience provided. (206)
633-5600 for applications. EOE.

GREEKS &. ClUBS RAISE A COOL
$1,000.00 IN JUST ONE WEEK! PLUS $ 1000
FOR THE MEMBER WHO CALLS! And a FREE
IGLOO COOLER if you qualify. Call
1-800-932-0528, Ext. 65.

SLOVAKIA/POLAND summer trips led by
local students. Hike in the scenic Tatras, visit a
Gypsy village, explore castles and medieval
towns, meet Slovaks and Poles. Call
80Q-666-JOIN.

Sul1YTler nanny for 4 yr. old and 7 yr. old boys3 days a wk. - start June 14. ReferencesExperience with children - Must be High
Energy and plan daily 'adventures! $6.00 an
hr. - Near Yelm Hiway and Boulevard
intersection. Week~rids and evenings if desired.
491-4502 ·

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If you'd like to place a classified ad in the
Cooper Point Journal, get in contact with Julie
Crossland at x6054 or CAB 31 6. Non-business rate
is 30 words for $3.00. Lost & Found ads are FREE!

There are lots of people in this world. Be sure
to laugh and draw cartoons about them.

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HELLTROUT
VANDINGLEFONDLE
SHOCKTONE RECORDS

by Seth "Skippy" Long
One of my fIrst assignments for the
CPJ was photographing Helltrout'·s
farewell show at the now defunct North
Shore!Vortex. By the end of that show I
found myself thinking, "Why haven't I
been listening to these guys all along?"
The music was powerful, each note like
taking a boot in your throat. The
performers were top nOlCh and the
audience was nothing short of perfect.
So when I heard that Helltrout had
finally put out a CD nearly a year after
that farewell show, I was a little more than
happy.
Vandinglefondle is a very complete
album. Its 10 tracks run the full gamut of
the 'Trout's musical tastes, from glamrock solos to crunchy (dare I use that
awful word?), grungy bass/guitar power
strumming. The mix is wonderfully clean

and precise, everything one would expect
from a high-quality recording but without
the hype!
The album opens with "Stole Yer
Face," which appears to take a huge swing
at Mod Hippies with such easy targets as
patchouli, Jerry, Dead bootlegs, chiba and
sandals.

Some notable songs include:
"Punchcock," which offers such
memorable lines as, "My love
connection's been disconnected/When I
got drunk and naked and arrested/Please
don't punch me in the cock/! said
please!/Please don't kick me in my
dick/I'll get sick!/Please don ' t punch me

Lung Samba likened to leathery orange peel
BIG LUNG SAMBA
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO
PINE CONE ALLEY PROD.

by D.F. Scherer
When I listen to The Big Lung
Samba I am walking through the sunscorched sands of the Andorran desert. A
place where winter brings nighttime
temperatures of 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
During the scalding hot day any terrestrial
life, of which there is virtually none,
would erupt in flames upon leaving the
protective shade of an overhanging rock.
Walking through the burning desert is only
possible in a clumsy heat-resistant suit that
can withstand the noontime 160 degree
temperatures.
Stumbling across this barren
wasteland, I note the two outstanding
features of the Andorran desert: the yellow
rocks of strange wind carved statues and
the awesome glare of a blaring sun, there
are so many that they are becoming less
and less intriguing, All life exists hundreds
of feet underground this fiery surface.
Tunnels burrowed by life-forms long
extinct supposedly lead into mystical
chambers of waterfalls and lush plant life.
However, no one has ever returned to
validate this myth.
I stumble into the mouth of a wellcamouflaged cave, note the strange
markings of a forgotten hieroglyphic. My
thermometer reading plummets, inviting
me to shed the piotective shell of my heat
SUit Exposing my ears to the outside air,
a strange humming drone is audible,
echoing up from the humid depths of this
down sloping hall. My eyes adjust to the
faint green light, and a spiral staircase
appears, going down to forever.
Mter three hours of laborious
downstepping I am there - a jungle bathed
in an intense bio-luminescent green hue
that emanates from the reproductive bulbs
in a canopy of dense foliage. The droning
hum from the opening of the eave is now
distinctly a symphony of an interesting
distortion.
Hiking toward the source of the
music upon a well-padded trail of blue
dirt, I approach a clearing and behold a
dozen musicians playing a swampy
percussive melodic chant There is a lizard

dog crow playing a 23 foot tambounne,
and a goat tickles the strings of a lute with
a leathery orange peel. An instrument that
can best be described as a tuba is keeping
a bass rhythm by a beast best described as
a 46 foot orangutan. A mossy wall drips
mellifluous nectar and a family of 12-inch
spiders share the effort of strumming the
silken strings of a guitar. Many other balls
of fur, piles of scales and lumps of mud
arc playing upon musical instruments that
ucfy literary description.
Above it all, a strange hairy
vertebrate beast, oddly resembling the
mythological Dionysus, sings a brute
system of nonsensical lyrics that weaves in
and out of the euphonious cacophony. The
man-thing makes a gesture of invitation,
asking me to play upon a set of earthen
kettle drums; I am happy to accept.
I spend the day experimenting with
this peculiar orchestra. in which species of
mixed evolutionary designs join together
to create the music of the basement of the
Andorran desert. As the evening falls. the
green light of the canopy fades, a warm
darkness descends upon the cave. and
'before I realize it, sleep has hit me like a
drug. '
In the morning I am woken by the
sudden suns dawning on the horizon of the
flaming Andorran desert. I am above
ground again, and the cave entrance is
nowhere in sight. Seeing my heat suit at
my side, I don the heavy plastic outfit
before the sun can evaporate me. To my
east, I see the base camp, where I am part
of a very important research team studying
pyromania. Finding no sign of how I may
have gotten here, I head towards eamp.
Spending the following weeks
trudging around in the heavy plastic heat
suit, frustrated and unable to relocate the
cave entrance, I reluctantly return to my
boring country thousands of miles away. A
32-hour flight leaves me weary at the
doorstep of my suburban homestead,
where I am greeted by a small wooden
package bearing no return address. Inside
of the box wrapped in fig leaves, I fmd 23
unmarked audio cassettes. Upon hearing
the fllSt notes of the fIrst tape, I recognize ,
the music that comes through the speakers
of my hi-fi. It is the music of the
subterranean Andorran desert forest band.
Some of these albums have been

made available to the general public for
their listening pleasure. The most recent of
these is titled Arrington's Big Lung
Samba. For five clams or six dollars it is
available in the local musicians section at
Rainy Day Records, copies are also
available for sale at the home. of Arrington
de Dionyso at 3138 Overhulse Road,
Apt.62, Olympia, Washington 98502. All
of the money is donated to the cost of
producing these albums and to feed a new
baby.
D.F. Scherer is a blitzkrieg in a
bathrobe.

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Page 12 Cooper Point Journal Apri115, 1993

BLADE RUNNER, DIRECTOR'S CUT
DIRECTED BY RIDLEY SCOTT
LACEY CINEMAS
by Cameron Grey Rose
The anxiously awaited , re-edited ,
version of the cillt classic Blade Runner is
finally here. It does not disappoint.
The story is the same. Harrison
Ford, who plays Deckard, is a Blade

hate sci-fi, the special effects make it'
worth seeing.
If you've never seen Blade Runner
on the big screen. you're missing the
whole point. The movie is big and
beautiful and meant to be big and loud.
With its crowded screen and doubly-dense
soundtrack, the film emerges as an
incredibly overwhelming experience that
cannot be duplicated on a TV set
I'm sorry, I don 't usually compare
different movies to each other, but I'd like
to here, if for no other reason than because
changes were made in the original Blade
Runner which were not Ridley Scott's, but
'
the studio's.
The voice-over, added by the studio
because they thought the plot was hard to
follow, has now been deleted. This way,
Deckard seems much more a lost, troubled
and lonely soul. The audience can really

Runner, a special bounty hunter who·
tracks down stray replieants: manufactured
slave labor. Six rcplieants escape to Earth
and Deckard is rudely pulled out of
retirement to fmd them. The replicants,
howevet:, seek only to expand their fouryear life span, which is quickly ebbing
,
away.
I could go on for pages about the
visuals alone. Scott's vision of future
society is dark and crowded. Even if you

Rich to weave textured soundscape
by Jan Cillo
The magical soundscape of Robert
Rich will be presented in TESC Recital
Hall on Thurs., April 22.
Robert Rich's music is an intricate
dealing between the tension and interplay
of the physical and metaphysical, the
sensual and the mystical, the material and
the abstract In his words, "on the deepest
level, it is the yeaming for unity."
The inspiration for Rich's latest
work Gaudi was Spanish architect Antoni
Gaudi. a name new to many of us. He
feels Gaudi's work embodies an awareness
of duo perceptions. Listening to Gaudi,
you can feel the jags, thrusts and spirals of
the architect's design, but the emotional
space of Rich's compositions is more
compelling.
Rich has been an innovator since the
age of 13. In 1976, he began building his
own synthesizers and experimenting with
improvised music and sustained sound
environments. An interest in trance states
and lucid dreaming led him to a degree in
psychology from Stanford University.
Rich's all-night Sleep Concerts, fmt
performed in 1982 for a sleeping audience
in his Stanford dormitory, and evening
Trance Concerts have become legendary in
the San Francisco Bay Area.
Robert Rich is a true explorer of

sonic mysteries. His music is a weaving of
persuasive rhythms and drifting tones. He
uses bamboo flutes, talking drums and lap
steel guitar, to add contrast to meditative
sythetic backdrops.
Rich has released solo works in
Europe and the U.S. including Numen and
Geometry, Rainforest, Strata and a
compilation inspired by Dali, The Endless
Enigma.
Jeff Greinke will also present a solo
performance of engaging layered sound
and music on April 22. He produces a
sound characteristically rich in texture and
depth, with subtle detail achieved through
the intuitive and meticulous process of
layering.
Greinke began composing and
performing music in 1980. He moved to
Seattle, became friends with Rob Angus,
and began a production company called
Intrepid, through which he produced his
first LP, Cities In The Fog. Greinke has
since released several other recordings,
including two CDs in 1992, Crossing
Ngoli and Lost Terrain, a collection of
recent studio compositions.
For more information on this event,
call Evergreen Expressions at 866-6833.
Jan Cillo is still handling publicity
for Evergreen Expressions.

by Curtis

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in downtown Olympia.
Tickets $18/16114
($16/14112 students and seniors)
On sale at the Washington Center
Box Office 753-8586.
Ticketmaster outlets at Disc Jockey.
The Wherehouse, or by calling
Ticketmaster at 628-0888.

Goodman

A Call To Arts!
Since October, a small group of
students calling themselves the Coalition
for Artistic Expression has slowly been
planning, plotting and envisioning an event
of great magnitude. From this 'dream has
sprung the Spring Arts Festival.
The Spring Arts Festival, scheduled
for April 29 through May 10, was
originally envisioned as a week-long
celebration of student works. The event
has grown to cover 12 days and to include
The Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, Senior
Thesis shows, the Evergreen Composers'
Concert, a student fIlm night and Taste
Like Chicken, a day of bands and events
sponsored by Tempo.

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The idea started when Sharon
Romeo (of Slightly West) and I
approached Kelly Kaczynski of SPAZ and
Jeremy Miller of Mindscreen. Kelly,
Sharon and I became the coordinating
group for the project and have been
running with it ever since.
According to the Festival's mission
statement, the purpose of the event is to
"unite the Evergreen Community and
celebrate artistic expression in the widest
possible definition." So if you are creative,
or crazy enough to believe you are, there
is still time to get involved.
For anyone interested in helping
with the festival, a potluck is scheduled
for Friday, April 16, from 5 to 7 p.m. in
the Edge. Students interested in
volunteering or displaying their talents
should contact Sharon at 866'{)()()(), x6879,
Kelly at x6412 or Curtis at x5165.
Curtis would like to thank Kelly and
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creativity. It's coming!

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sympathize with him. For the frrsl time, I
discerned that the movie was really from
his point of view and I could see the
events through his eyes. In one scene,
when Deckard "retires" a ' replicant on a
crowded street, the original had a voiceover of Deckard lamenting that he hated
shooting a woman in the back, even if she
was a replicant. In the re-edited version,
the haunting look on Deckard's face as he
obServes the dead woman speaks for itself,
and makes the scene much more dramatic
and penetrating.
The hyped, tacked-on happy ending
has been removed; replaced with one that
really respects the minds of the audience.
If you 've seen the original. but not
this version, you've done yourself a real
disservice.
Cameron Rose quite often reviews
films for the CPJ.

Student group plans 12-day festival,
chock full of tasty student works

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much White Bread Class to even think
about primping like Chris Cornell before
a show. Way 100 much class.
If music were food, Helltrout would
be the meat and potatoes part of the meal.
Their music is served up nice and heavy
with lots of bass and gravy; both of which
have been proven to clog arteries in lab
animals.
Bottom Line: for God's sake buy
this album! Run - don't walk - over to
Rainy Day and get it now! (No bootlegs,
kids. These are locals we're talkin' about
here!) Remember, the soul you save may
be your own!
Seth "Skippy" Long stands firm
against the slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune.

Blade Runner reincarnates, minus happy ending

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"It's not over" sounds like a
Mudhoney song I once knew. But then
again, so do ,a few other songs on . the
album, which is fine with me, because
Helltrout's music jUst has so much more
depth than Mudhoney's. What more can
you say?
Nine of the 10 tracks were recorded
in a studio and the tenth track, "Vishy-swa
Bully I Nccd You Russ," was recorded
live at KAOS sometime last November.
This 13-min!,ite baby uses the 'Trout's
"Mighty Rock Sound" to deliver a living
Wall-O-Sound for your listening pleasure.
The music is very reminiscent of
some early Soundgarden. In fact, if you
liked, Louder than Love, you'll really dig
on this album. But please don't get the
two confused. Helltrout is not about to sell
millions of records and Soqndgarden is not
about to play the Capitol Theater any time
soon. Sounds like a good deal to me, we
get a great band and they get screaming
teenage girls. Besides, Helltrout has too

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Legislature, gov play budget guessing·game
provide for each extra student is
considerably less in the House plan than in
the Senate plan, 5,300 dollars as opposed
to 8,000, according to Jennifer Jaech,
assistant to TESC President Jane Jervis.
It is for these reasons that, according
to Jacch, the higher education community
generally prefers the Senate budget plan
for higher education to either Lowry's or
the House's.
Meanwhile, the Operational Planning
and Budget Council (OPBC) is currently
redrafting division proposals presented to
the Evergreen community in early March
in three separate interdivisional groups,
according to interim Provost Russ Lidman.
One of the factors guiding OPBC
deliberations arc provisos included in the
budget packages, that in some cases

higher education overall which is less than
the Senate's six percent cut or Lowry's
seven percent cut.
But keep your eye on that pea. In
actuality, the Senate budget cuts less
money overall from the TESC budget,
according to Evergreen's college budget
officer, Steve Trotter.
TrOller explained that the 4.5 percent
budget cut is applied to all TESC revenue,
which includes support from the state and
tuition monies it receives, a total of
approximately 55 million dollars. The
Senate budget cut only applies to the
support from the state, a figure of around
35 million dollars. So the smaller cut in a
larger figure is actually a larger dollar
amount.
In addition, the money the state will

by Robert Taylor
When is a 4.5 percent cut in the
Evergreen budget worse than a six percent
cut?
It's riddles like these littering the
budgets from Governor Lowry, the House
of Representatives, and the State Senate,
that TESC faculty, staff, and students are
trying to solve, prior to drafting the
college budget.
The House of Representatives
unveiled its version of the 1993-95 budget
for the state. It calls for a tuition increase
of 30 percent over two years along the
plan first proposed by Governor Lowry,
enrollment increases of tOO students for
TESC over the two year period, 20 more
than in the Senate plan. The House also
proposes a 4.5 percent budget cut for

Safety changes continue (from cover)
guidelines state very clearly that the . Public Safety as being "sev.erely alienated
officer is not supposed to get physically from the rest of the campus community."
involved in any violent activity whatsoever
The report cited several incidents in
and is supposed to wait for Thurston which Security did not intervene in a
situation because the officers were
County.
Th e new guidelines for interpreting their personal safety guidelines
commissioned officers leave the decision too narrowly.
According to the report, a Security
of whether to intervene up to the
individual officer. But, as in the current Officer stood by and did nothing while an
guidelines, the officer may not get Evergreen student seriously injured
involved if there are weapons or if the another student with a broken bottle on
Halloween, 1991. The injured student is
officer is otherwise threatened.
The gun issue came to the fore in suing the school for negligence.
The consultants concluded that
1989 when Security Officers fUed
complaints with the state Department of security "is essentially dysfunctional due
Labor and Industries (L&I), charging that to their inability to respond effectively to
They recommended
they were working in unsafe conditions incidents."
and that they wanted guns. L&I cited the restructuring security's mission and giving
college several times for endangering the one officer on duty a gun at all times.
Russell defended the officer's action,
officers.
Chief Russell explained why the pointing 10 the Standard Operating
officers complained to L&I and why they Procedures (SOP) in effect at that time
wanted to be armed. "We felt like we (and currently in effect), which state that
were acting like cops but that we didn't an officer is not supposed to get involved
have the ability to protect ourselves or in violent incidents but is to "proceed to a
others... It is a genuine concern of the nearby safe location 10 act as a witness or
officers that they are in harm's way here to be in proximity" and wait for the
and they didn't have the tools to protect Thurston County Sherifrs deputies to
arrive.
themselves."
Last year, Puree commissioned an
The revamped campus police force
outside consultant to evaluate the situation. will be armed with a non-lethal pepperThe report, by the Portland fum of based gas. Russell is reticent about
Warrington and Associates, Inc., criticized

Hoops to happen? (from cover)
Basketball has the potential to
generate a larger community draw than
either Swimming or Soccer, but the
revenue from Basketball ticket sales would
be equally divided among the Varsity
teams. At Saint Martin's College in Lacey,
the 5,000 person-capacity gym has held

sell-out crowds. TESC Gym will hold
about WOO in its basketball seating
arrangement. TESC is the only school in
its district without at least one basketball
team.
Early Ewing is a staff writer for the
CPJ.

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about Evergreen's proposed basketball teams. Tum yours m to the survey box In the
S&A office or mail to Basketball DTF; TESC; CRC 210; Olympia. WA; 98505.
1. How would the presence of a basketball team affect your social life?
A. my social life would improve
B. no change expected
C. my social life would get worse
comments:

2.. How many basketball games would you attend?

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A in favor of adding basketball 10 TESC's sports program.
B. no opinion
C. opposed to adding basketball to TESC' s sports program.
comments:
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A Student
B. Faculty
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C. Staff
D. Alumni
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Russell said that Evergreen will
continue to have an internal adjudication
process, and that Public Safety Officers
will not arbitrarily arrest people like
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normal police officers.
Samuel Loewenberg is a staff writer
for the CPJ.

S&A still busy for
spring (from p. 3)
LGBPRC sponsored "March On
Washington." If you have an event that
you believe would be beneficial for the
Evergreen student community, we
encourage you to apply . Special Initiative
guidelines may be obtained at the front
desk of the Services and Activities Office,
CAB 320.
.
This quarter, the S&A Board will be
concentrating on "Tier 2" organizations.
These are the organizations run strictly by
students, and provide vital channels for
student organization and activism. There
are approximately 30 of these groups
which range in focus from the
Environmental Resource Center, to Slightly
West, to the Women of Color Coalition.
Thc S&A Board will also continue
its funding of special initiative during
Spring Quarter. Meetings are held on
Mondays from 5 10 6, and Wednesdays
from 3 to 6 in the S&A Meeting Room.
All meetings are open to the public. Also,
minutes for both previous and upcoming
meetings are posted on the bulletin board
across from CAB 320.
As a fmal note the S&A Board is
now accepting applications for S&A Board
Coordinator and S&A Board MinutesTaker for .tJie '93 to '94 school year. If
you would like more information about
these positions please feel free to contact
me at x6221, or the S&A Board office in
CAB 320. For an application please stop
by the reception desk in CAB 320.
Jerry Price is the S&A Coordinator.

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The Code has not been revised since
it was written in the 1986-87 academic
year. It was written because, legally, the
institution needed to tell students the
consequences of violating the Social
Contract.
What did Evergreen do for the 16
years it was in operation before they had
a Student Conduct Code? Founded in
1969, Evergreen officially open for classes
in 1971. Every one of the spccific
examples of violations of the the Code has
happened between 1971 and 1988.
"Evergreen is not immune to crime,"
said Newman.
In April of 1984 a woman was
fatally shot in the Greenery. In the 1991·
92 academic year, the Code yielded 11
guilty verdicts, four for
harrassment/physical harm, one for liquor,
one for drugs, and five for civility. In
some cases students were found to be in
violation of more than one category.
Before creating the Code it was like
driving down a highway and instead of
posting the speed limit, the signs would
say, "If you're going too fast we'll arrest
you," says Newman.
Meyer-Knapp says that the Social
Contract and the Code give us alternatives
to ways of reaching a judgement from the
legal structures that exist beyond
Evergreen.
"Abandon the Social Contract and
you would have courts and arbitrary
dismissal of students. Without the Student
Conduct Code there is no -basis for
dismissal of students," said Meyer·Knapp.
Helena Meyer-Knapp is the first
woman in the role of grievance officer at
Evergreen. Stephanie Zero is Editor·inChief of the CPJ.

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contradict proposed TESC budget cuts.
These provisos are appropriations that
must be spent as the Legislature directs.
For example, in the House budget
"$372,000 of the general fund
appropriation (for two years) is provided .
solely for assessment of student
outcomes," but the Academic division budget proposal made in March proposed
eliminating assessment, for an annual
savings of $120,000.
When asked to comment on how
OPBC will deal with these problems,
Lidman responded "This is a public
institution; it's publicly funded; the
Legislature said that 'we want those
programs, and they have the authority 10
say what they want."
He further indicated that the OPBC
would structure its budget proposals to
conform to legislative mandate.
OPBC is planning to open its
proposed 1994-95 TESC budget to public
comment May 10.
Robert Taylor covers legislative
budget issues for the CPJ.

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providing them with batons, however,
because he feels it is too easy to injure
someone.
As per the consultant ' s
recommendations, the officer's uniforms
will be less militaristic and more of the
" soft look" variety, in keeping with the
college's environment.

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