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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 23, Issue 18 (March 4, 1993)

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I arri\e at school. In two hours c \cryo ne has a Ilallened as~ and;.m inflatcd consciousness. Wc halc brought our mind's book to a dccper leYe! of comprehension. As the
students drain out of the room, I remain in my scat with my eyes dosed, [ see so much this way. My mind talks . [n this tjllest toward death anti silence, we try ollr best to
belic\'e that life is any different. I n the tree over lonking the palh it is \'ery tjuiet. Strange for a fore st to be thi s quiet. I am straddled in the woolly crotch of a wooden giant.
One hundred reet above the planet surface. My existence is the creation of a mind that keeps me entertained lor fear of insanity. The wind finally Ilaps the leal1ess FebJUary
branches to a clickmg applause . This sound cures the strange silence. A gray rabbit is now under me, undermining a subterrdnean cache of composting human food waste,
As the rabbit digs furious with two lucky feet , his nose guarantees hidden trea~ure within the earth. True insanity is brought on by silence. Growing uncomfortable in the
tree, [ shift my weight. This movement from abm'e perks the cars of the rabbit who returns to industry aner a pause. [think about my best frie.nd who lives inside an air tight
corrin in OUler space. This true insanity is not always malevolent insanity, sometimes it is a catalyst fo r imagination . All day long he is engulfed in the !lawless darknesS
within the air tight coffin. Roating through the solar systems, black holes, cosmos, nebulae, and ne\ 'er seeing any of it. What does my friend han to do all day'! (the
flammable gas) silence, (the spark) thought, (the cnntlagration) imagination. He thinks about me. [can hear and see all of his thoughts. A short grey skinned man
enshrouded in black satin, with icc blue hair and tangeri ne lips . He is standing in the sun, drinking the cool well water, talking conversations with the townspeople at the
well, and he [oaks as if he has been traveling for days . Then witho ut warning the little man stands up nn the lip of the \\ell. dears his throat and announces that he has
something to share with e\·eryone. It requires e\eryone's allention. They all tum from their labors, and he begins to speak . From the beginning he has them right in the palm
of hi s hand, it is the purest of magic, the way he speaks. it is as if the words and sounds go right into the imagination , like II'hen we were children. ([ never have been moved
the way he moved me that day with hi s story, and I " 'as cO\'ered in a sweat when he had finished.) The story is about the three wonders of the world : the ridional rabncatlOn
of fab les, thc cvcrvday e ndeanlrs of the eOl'ironment, and thc hilarity of human history. The tale begins In a p[acc called the Despera[to, which is in Andorra, the small
country located between Spain and France. The Desperalto is all descrt and sand, c\cept for a small part ncar the center or the DesperalLo called EI Xappo, which is a
watcring hl ile, a n oasis. One day at EI Xappo a raging long haired savage fifty foo t giant comes sweeping across the dunes of the Despcraho at a rapid pace. This giant is
big ; he has tug boats for shoes, circus tents for shirts , and a weeks worth of his fingernail clippings can prt)\idc a coastal community with the raw materials to bUIld the hulls
of len tall ships. Therc are fifteen people silting at El Xappo oasis that day, all sobcr, all dlinking not hing besides the sweet waters in the shade of the encircling banana
plants. They see thi s ten story building of a man jogging across the sand with a trail of du st behind him like the tail of a comet. This giant isn't runni~lg in anorJinary way,
he is JUnning like a f(x)1 o n fire , maki ng sudden 90 degree turns to the left or nght, and then correctmg the turn by makmg another one only a second al ter thc t Irs\. The giant
has hi s arms outstretched to the sky, his fingers arc pulling down at the air directly abme him, he is yelping large vocabulary words at random, and his eyelids are fluttering
ope n and shut likc the mouth of a ri sh. The who le thing loo ks kinu of funny from a far. but the fifteen people, who are aillrumpet and tuba makers, arc frightened of this
breach in reality. When the giant rcaches them they are so scared that they remain seated, lrol.en like a deer caught In the blinding headllght~ 01 anoncommg. flymg saucer.
When the giant reaches the shore of the oasis he does not notice the mUSical instrument makers, perhaps It IS a case 01 poor n Slon that gIants traditionally sui ~er Irom . The
giant gets down on hi s knees at the edge of the water hole, o bli\'ious to the cnamored horn makers. PUlling hiS duck billed lips to. the cool gl~ss) surlact of the pond,. he
proceeds to drink all of EI Xappo oasis. The oasis is left empty and a shiny boll'[ made 01 smooth muu \\alls IS all Ihat remal ns . HI S stomach tilled II IIh. the contents 01 EI
. Xappo oasis , the giant wipes hi s lips with the sleeve of his circus tent shirt, and trudges oil sloller than he alTi\ cd. The glUnt disappear.-; Into the hot altemc)o.)O sun and IS
never seen again by anyone in the Desperalto desert, the nati o n of Andorra, ,)r a~y\\here . It is sevcn mo nth s after this strange desert occurrence that ~ thlrtec~ year olu g.lfl
in Egy pt, whose parents are of substantial opulence, is si tting bencath the glare of a petroleum 011 burnIng torch that hangs I Will the \\"all <.II the tomb 01 Ramalrettl. The gnl
regular[y sneaks into the tomb through secret passageways that she found atthc back nf hcr bed chamber closet. Shc comC's here to play her <;ltde trombo ne, her parcnts
would be ashamed if they knew that she had taught he rself to play any Instrument. and that IS why she only prill"llccs In the pnvacy 01 thc sealed tomb. Thc glfls name IS
Windchimepang, named after her grand mother, thi s is the Egyptian tradition for naming gi~ls. WlOdchimepang alll'ays comes to the tomb lI"uh a blU/in~ wanu of fire and an
instruction book that she acquired through the black market. She purc hased the trombone from a local br..lss worker. who IS the second cOllsm to one ul the men who was at
E[ Xappo oasis the day that the giant consumed it. Windchimepang has laught herself It) play the tromlxlOe \'cry well. Her notes arc dean and pure, and (he sOll nd res(lunds
through the entrails of the cavernous subterranean maze like a thunder. The e choe s. 01 the musIC would 1nghlCn someonc I\~O does n't knoll' lI'hat the sounds IS, but
Windchimepang loves the bongish moaning ringing resonati ons that return to her ears alter tra\'ellng throu~h the ml[es and miles 01 passil¥ewaysanJ chambers that make up
the tomb of Ramafretti. Ramafreni was the Pharaoh 01 Egypt lrom 16:29 untIl 1676, one hundred years bel ore the complete breakdo\\ II 01 Egypllan monarchy \\'hlch lead to
the eventual takeover by the Muslim fundamentalists who spread the word o~ Allah .throughout the c()untry, replacing the ioolatry ~md peoa~ogy that I1lle~ the CI .untry for
centuries with a dogma that ran counter to the dog ma which resem bled many forms 01 Nau\"e AmerIcan and Greek rcllglons belore their Chnstlan take ove r. fhls tlmc penod
in the hi stoI)' of the world is marked b y thi s common occurrcnce 111 man) S(X:letles as Ihe religIOns that were bascd around natural phenomenon were replaced. by murc dlre,'t
and fundamental systems of morality that facilitated the gradual sp read o f capi t,di sm. The sound 01 the trnmbo nC' IxllllKCS oil the walls 01 the \(1mb ilnd la(je ~ allay In to

nothing at all. Gone. Forgotten: the original purpose. All of the words are disposed of. Out they go like the spark from the fire heading to the stratosphere. However, it is
the insanity that passes on forever . This does no t fade away , it passes on from these thin strips inked papers to the occipital lobes at the back Ill' your cranium. You may
have forgotten the words, but it is the insanity that is permane nt, lost fore\'cr to the ma/.e of our diverse illld robust insane imaginati o ns. We yearn to share thesc uni\'crscs
with one another. Trading narratives with one anothe r on the strect Ilr around our camplires o r inside our colleges; we trade insanity . A!l II'e share the thoughts, stories, and
ideas with another we are trading the stars, p[aneL'i and people of our many insane universes. E.\a mple'! Dear Nancy, [ had a sple ndid time at your party last Saturday. [am
afraid the stains won't come out, but [ got much usage o ut of that dress, and it is high time that a new one I pur': hasc , so don't I\orry a bout it. That man that you introduced
me to was very sweet, when we strolled out into the placid summer breeze, after making the cycle enough times from punch bOil I to foot. locke r bench to finger sandwich ·
table to patio wet bar, it seemed appropriate to reimburse him for his chivalry. [have little e.\ pelienc:e with what the Wtlmell in the !auies ftX1m call "pUlling nut' , aljd [
assumed certain things that he wanted from me. The gentleman btx.:ame fJUstrated with my feeble carnl\'al theatrics. A manied couple might enj oy thi s, but thi s was grossl)
inappropriate for such a minor oral transfer or saliva. I am afmid I might have shaken him up a lillie, and [ never got his name or address, is he a student? Please send me the
necessary information, this way [ can escort this spineless sack of shit to his gra\"e. Sincerely, Jannette Mook, DPM . The point is: I hal'e asked all o f you to listen to me, and
when you do it is natu[encc that [ speak into your ears. There appears to be no rea.~on. Then you come. Sometimes a year later, or you get it sooner. You see, I am the lost
[ocal giving direc tions to a city of found touri sts. Lost in the glory of these arts, los t in the majesty of these tho ughts, and a[~xlf to death bc,:ause o f their immo rtality. The
many words are small, barely readable, and despite the quantity, the quality and the u sefu~ness of it all is thrilling. On subversion: there is lillie enjoyment in f(lll~l\\ing
policy. There are as many lost policies as there are the souls to follow them. Will we claim exemption? We can claim sub\crsion! T he soul can get lost in the baltIC' of r.Jge ,
the war of justice, or the storm of concern. Free him, free her, but ne\'er free yourself. Re\'oluti,)IJ is no longcr enough. The subversive is the mosl lIseful member of our
community. Here on the. earth, the subversive is plagued with the hatred, anger, and misunderstanding of our mighty masses . Nil mailer hOI\" much Lhey embrace a Ime fur
change they will continue to persecute the subversives. Is thi s a necessary cvil that we have grown accustomed to? Dialogue example: you were singing before, right'! (to
which [ replied yes) A lot of peopl e around here didn't like that, it got them mad. But, du you want to knlll\ what I think (he rapped upon hi s c hest where his heart is,
impl ying that this was coming from hi s heart) Do you want to know whar [th ink ? (he got e\'en closer, and hi s lips were right on my car II'hen he s~lid:) I think that you arc
re-defining this enti re universi ty. To all of the Dr. C raniums for understanding, you a re I\'ho it IS done for , tl1 scr\c as your metaphor in the winduw . I want you tll kn Oll
about a place that is far away, and it cannot be reached by people yet, it is in the future . It is an abandoned blimp hanger. 1 ha\ c fi lled it \I'ith nothing besides applied
im agi natio ns. Yo u can come here and do the same. It is a can\'as of our sub\·c rsio n. We \\'ill un what no (I nc has el'er dUllc before. We 1\ ill U(' il in thi s monstrous building.
an a irship hanger, wc will be happy here. This is The Happy Land. A place where peoplc do. I am on the right trac k \I ith this , and I knOll beca use I feel diuy. Here is the
place where my hands me[t into my chest and e\'erything real becomes <.Ii stant thunder o n the amnesiacs ho ri7.lm. T hey as k him where he bought his mind I\'arping soul
bending skull crushing flight simulato~, and he responds that he made them himself: this is the real subwrslOn. The altitude chclOges and the sk) su mersa ults Iwe r itse lf,
once. twice, thrice. If they knew the truth , they wlluld mistake him for the nonnal as loose-leal" in a paper mill intimidators of the dance. The slightly abnormal geneti c
combination. the upbnnging reminiscent of a one clo wn circus, being taught to recog nize magic , and tca(;hing hims('lf tn fly in thc doud s with a hum ill his nose and a blank
stare o n cold brown eyes: this is where the insanity comes from, an e.\ cuse for the perpendicu lar palh , the s ub\ ersl I C uipluma. T hc pcople \\"h,. Ixlthncd to help the adultelean up after the party, the pencil pushers, the grunt number cJUnchers will make it to lhe lOp. Yeti gained ~()methil\g by running aWi:) ancr thC' party, [ gained >;()mc thing
by breaking my pencils, [ gained something from lca\'ing the numbers un-crunched, A scraped knee, a s plinter in my palm, and a lack 01 lugi ('al thinking ; my crcdent iab I
bring forth for employment. The drowning top calls o ut to me (help] break this pallern or keeping the suo\'e rsil'es locked in the basement. IS it pu~sible? WIll thiS Corny
Palaver Jamboree take the chance'! He enchants lebra drago ns and kisses lost tx:topl, visionary eyeballs shall awaken legends inside \ yphoidic hearts. Is she is out there
to night with answers to my Jaft ques tions? There is an a ir or Saturn in the stratosphere, tonight it is wann In the ue sert. 1 circle a[)()\'e all iO\'isible city in it wide arc and then
return to the cliff. The brief weeds , the loose clumps of calcium, and the ree ling stars dri\ e mc past tears <tnd into a cold warmth that sec ms emotionally permanent. The
dawn comes, the scene changes, and fresh characters for the subscquent performance march in from thei r warm green canvas tenls. The day pr(lgres~es \\'ith lillie mention or
the strange p[a~ tique onion love scat resting on iL~ edge, and the personalities course In and out like the tide. S he glides throughout the world wilh nothing besidcs thc key to
my heart in her hand and a thousand eyes in a smile that could frighten the Del·il. Just then the ocean ends unde r my feet, and when I squint beneath a visor hand on a
forehead cliff, it \Urns out that there have always been icc blue glaciers under thi s airplane of cant (coffee sir?)(no, no thanks)(hey buddy, you feeling okay'!)(yeah , I'm Just a
lillie disoriented, I forgot where [ was)(l1ightlands in twenty-three minutes). [am here to dcli\'cr a message to somellne that I have neyer met. E\eryone is getting in deeper
and deeper and deeper, eveI)'day more and more and more. Ex p[ore ne w frontiers? We hav e ye t tolcm e home ' The spra) paint v(lice on the unil'ersity sidewalk tell s me to
WAKE UP. I respond before closing my eyes thal there arc greater c halle nges to be met beneath the blankets. Up through the a tmosphere resounds a sound that raisrs the
eyebrows of my ramily me mbers ; the y are being called. Perhaps this time they will reach me . Perhaps they \\ill not. Eternal hope dri\'es my unsee n hands across the page
into your heart and across plains of impn)\"i seu answers to elaborate qu estions. I try to understand \\h at it is tha t I search lor each midni gh t 011 the ti e[ds of frozen mud in
front of the community center. I will return empty handed no more' soon. T he e1el'ators of the II'orld stopped l\Orking at exactly 9::23. When the people on Mars finish
readIng, the smiles inside their mouth s are accompanied by tcars on checks. At [a.~ tthe comforting ncws arri\"es, unifying thcm in this uncomm on reality where all arc alone.

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TIIE EVERGREEN STATE

March 4, 1993

COLLEGE

Volume 23 Issue 18

Rally rages; HB 1433 clears first hurdle
by BurDle Gip!!OD
House Bill (HB) 1443, which
amends current civil rights laws to include
se~ual orientation, was heard on Tuesday,
March 2, and passed in committee 7 to 4.
HB 1443, if passed into law, would
add individual sexual orientation to already
existing laws that prohibit discrimination
in
employment,
housing, public·
accommodations,· credit, insurance, and
commercial ttansactions.
On_Saturday, .Eebruary__ 21, .prior. -to
the hearing, there was a rally and march in
support of the Bill. The Freedom March,
organized by Queer Nation (Seattle
chapter), started with a rally at Seattle
Central Community College.
Over 100 people attended the rally
and heard speeches by Cal Anderson (state
rep, 43rd district, chair and principal
sponsor), Scott Piscuelac (Queer Nation),
Sara Seamon (Queer Nation), Sue Camey
(W AC), Chris Smith
(Stonewall
Committee for Lesbian and Gay Rights),
Ms, Hadden (Radical Women) and Rev.
Bob Fitzgerald (P-FI...AG).
Two people completed the Freedom
March from Seattle to Olympia, with up to
15 people joining in along the way,
"If I did a count on the cheers and
honks along the way, it would be 50 to 1
for," said Kent Johnson, one of the
finishing marchers, referring to the
Legislative Hotline's count of 50 to 1 calls
against HB 1443.
Over 70 marchers joined the
Freedom March in Olympia's own march

George Hermosillo, Evergreen student and supporter ot HB 1443, argues with an
opponent ot the proposed legislation on the Capitol steps as others look on, photo by
Ned Whiteaker
endorsed by Sound OUI, Queer Nation
confrontations happened between con,
Seattle, Capitol City Pride Group, Citizens
wearing pins stating "NO SPECIAL
Against Hate Crime, Washington Freedom
RIGHTS, NO ON HB 1443," and pro.
CoalitiOll and the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual
George Hennosillo, a bisexual
Peoples' Resource Center.
student of color at TESC, delivered
The Freedom March came to an end
comments to the opponents of the bill
at the Olympia rally, held at the steps of after the rally,
the Capitol. Several local speake~
"If they are allowed to legislate their
addressed over 100 supporters of the bill
homophobic, bigoted, Christian, right-wing
and over 15 against After the rally, small
hatred and believe that these are special

rights not civil rights, what's to stop them
from coming for me next and revoking my
civil rights guaranteed by the Civil Rights
Act of 1964,"said Hennosillo.
The legislation as expressed by Mr.
Hennosillo is a precedent "that if not
passed could lead · to· more extreme
legislation reminiscent of the massacre in
excess of over 100 million native people
in North America"
The hearing was scheduled to occur
in hearing room A of the John L. O'Brien
Building, but was changed to the
Legislative building in order to house the
over 900 people who attended.
The committee had set up a list of
: :;peakers with 50 percent for and 50
~ percent against, however throughout the
hearing people against the bill screamed
that the count of speakers was 24 for and
II against. There were several disruptions,
(.lade by pros and cons, which were
handled immediately by Cal Anderson,
. chair of the committee. He stated that it
was a waste of speakers' time to interrupt
the proceedings in any way. The hearing
lasted till 10:20 p,m, - although not
everyone who wanted to speak did so,
Non-parallel to sister bills introduced
off and on since 1977, HB 1443 will move
on to the House Rules and, if passed, will
move to the House Floor, turning into law
if the support is present.
Burnie Gipson is lhe Asst. Business
Manager for the CPl.

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)Y.~!hington ~E~i~,.&!~,,~ ~~u~Ere~~!:i.2~tBoQ~~2.~t~_

On January 6, 1993, the Attorney
General's office of Washington State flIed
suit against Jorge Gilbert, his wife Renee
Bourbeau and Two Thirds Productions.
The state is asking for several things
inclu~ng $1094.00, the amount of the
bookstore's purchase, together with a
$500.00 civil penalty and plaintiffs costs
including reasonable attorney fees,
The question in the case is whether
Gi[bert, a member of Evergreen's faculty,
had a conflict of interest. Did Gilbert
economically benefit when Evergreen's
bookstore ordered copies of four materials
published by the Canadian non-profit
organization, 1)\'0 Thirds Productions, of
which Bourbeau is an officer? "It's an
unusual case," said Shawn Newman, the
defense attorney, "because the court
decisions I've researched and am familiar
with are very blatant situations. None, that
I've found in the state, deal with non
profit organizations,"

Gilbert, "because I haven't done what the
college is telling me."
Although the plaintiff in this case is
the State of Washington, the cost for
litigation will come from Evergreen State
College's budget
.
Janet Fricke[ton, Assistant Attorney
General, will bill the college at 50 percent
of her time, as is standard for her work
with the college.
' ''Litigation doesn't really benefit
anybody, quite frankly, except the
attorneys," said Newman. "You're talking
about up to ten grand to do it."
Frickelton has no idea what the cost
of litigation will be for the college, and
explained she does not get too involved in
the billing process. Newman suggested the
cost to the defendants would be far less.
"I've represented the
faculty
association at Evergreen and I work with
the state association," said Newman, "so
it's not going to cost him [Dr.Gilbert] that

Twentieth anniversary of
Wounded Knee commemorated
by Andrew Lyons
The Wounded Knee 20th anniversary
commemoration started the night before
speakers or students gathered last
Wednesday. Carmine Campione sat atop
the clock tower and played drums Tuesday
night and into the following morning
under a orescent moon. The planet Venus
was at it's most visible that night.
While the drums played on into the
night, people took chalk to Red Square
writing "bury my heart at WOtmded Knee"
and other slogans as a reminder of an
event that took place two decades ago. Far
enough in the past that the median age
student might have heard the name, but
doesn't remember it taking place.
In 1973, while the United States was
just recuperating from war in Viet Nam,
half way around the world, a group of

Native Americans were involved in a
struggle in this country.
"This little group of Indians was
trying to get noticed, to stop the genocide
that's going on, To stop the cultural
appropriation which is genocide, to bring
attention to it," said Tiokasin Cetanzi
Veaux of the Native Student Alliance ..
"They decided to do that at Wotmded
Knee."
The government didn't see this as a
protest of cultural appropriatioq, they saw
it as an uprising, Soldiers with 16 and 50
cal. machine guns were sent, as well as
tanks and F-16 fighter planes. The struggle
between the government and Native
Americans at Wounded Knee lasted

see struggle, page 14

The Evergreen State College
Olympia. W~ 98505
Address Correction Requested

on both sides,'"
The state's case rests mainly on the
assertion that Renee Bourbeau was the
sole officer of the non-profit organization,
Two Thirds Productions, The biUing
address for Two Thirds Productions,
asserts the Attomey General, was the same
as the address for Gilbert.
"The college's big deal," said
Newman, "is that the registered agent for
the corporation has the same address as
Dr. Gilbert's home, but the principal place
of business is in Canada,"
In addition, the State asserts that the
checks for the materials purchased from
Two Thirds Productions were sent to the
defendants address and endorsed by

dml
neither Gilbert or Bourbeau needed to
receive a salary from Two Thirds
Productions to economically benefit from
the relationship,
"The nexus they are trying to get Dr.
Gilbert on," said Newman, "at [east the
one they have enunciated, is that his wife
is an officer and she must have gouen
some benefit.,,, They have no proof she
got any money, we have even offered to
show she hasn't gotten any money,"
. . ."1 think there can s~lI.be benefits to
mdivlduals, even though It IS a non profit
corporation," said Frickelton. "I don't
th~k we need to sh<?w [money] went into
theIr personal checking account."

see suit page 14
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Cuts may affect Perkins Loans
by Brian Almqu~t
Perkins Loans for needy students at
Evergreen are one of several services that
may be affected by budget cuts later this
year, This was revealed when the Finance
and Administration Division of the school
had its public discussion about the budget
on Monday at 2 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
Other service cuts that will directly
affect students include: A reduction in
Computer Center hours, reduced Public
Safety efficiency (responses may be
reduced to "in progress" situations),
increased Pool closures, the elunination of
the second tuition deadline, three to five
day waits for Emergency Student Loans,
reductions in snow and graffiti removal,
and cuts in the recycling program.
As a result of projected shortfalls in
state revenues TESC president Jane Jervis
and the school's Operational Planning and
Budget Council have asked each of the
school's divisions to plan for 5,10,15 and
20 percent cuts. The Finance and
Administration Division, responsible for
the Controller's Office, Public Safety,
Facilities,
Payro!l, . Computing and

Communications and more, made its
recommendations public at Monday's
forum in the Recital Hall. Departments
within Finance and Administration were
asked to make plans for a nineteen percent
cut.
Perkins Loans, a fonn of federally
guaranteed student loans, require money
from the school's Controller's office, If
the program is cut, 295 students at the
school with low-interest loans would be
affected.
The audience at the forum had many
students present, a fact that seemed to

see budget, page 14
Internal Seepage
GRE:fun as TESC:job
Our lady of pleasure
Barista speaks up
Electric tape
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News

News .B riefs.
Budget meetingnext Monday
EVERGREEN--There will be an allcampus budget meeting the afternoon of
Monday, March 8 from 3-5 p.m . in
Lecture Hall 1. At this time, each division
of the college will present a draft budget
proposal. Students, staff, and faculty are
su-ongly encouraged to attend.

Don't wimp out by saying that Evergreen is different
than the "real world". If this isn't the real world, then
what is it, spam? ·And if it's spam, why doesn't it
come with a key?

Forum to be held
. on environment

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More about
safety phones
EVERGREEN--As reported in an earlier
News Brief, three of the eight emergency
safety phones that are planned have been
installed. The target completion date for
the remaining five is March 31. U.S. West
has also agreed to install courtesy pay
phones next to most of these safety
phones.
Each safety phone is equipped with
an arc light, strobe light and a button to
push for direct connection by voice to the
Public Safety Office.
These safety phones were installed
to assist in reporting personal safety
issues, requesting escort service, vehicle
assists, and for instances when direct
contact with the Public Safety Office is
necessary. Uyou have additional questions
or would like more information, please
contact Donna Johnson at x6315.

Sara Steffens from her Forum piece (page 8 this issue)

Women discuss
the Middle East
EVERGREEN--In honor of International
Women's Week, the Middle East Resource
Center and the Jewish Cultural Center
invite you to an evening with Leah Green
and Rajaa Gharbi. Green, who speaks both
Hebrew and Arabic, will share information
about her work with the Eanhstewards
Network in the Middle East, including a
look at the role played by women in the
combined Arab and Jewish peace groups
there. Gharbi will address issues affecting
Arab women in modem day Sufism as
well as the representation of Arab women
in U.S. media from a feminist perspective.
This is a rare opponunity to learn about
an area of the world too often
misunderstood. Be there Tuesday, March
9, 7 p.m. in LH3.

Travel with a
learning contract Access Services
EVEROREEN--TESC faculty, Lovern has relocated
King, is. offering students an opportunity
to start learning from life with spring
Individual Learning Contracts geared
specifically to get you out into the "real"
world. A strong believer in travel as a
learning experience (and an avid traveler
hersell), King is looking for students who
have a defmite idea of where they want to
travel and what they want to learn while
they are there.
King will be available for conferences
on Spring Travel Contracts on March 10,
11 and 12 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the .
Library near the Reference Desk. She will
also be at the Academic Fair. She is
requesting that students come ~repar~
with a draft contract filled 10 With
destination and objectives. The draft
contract can also be submitted to her
ahead of time in care of the Tacoma
Campus or leave a message where you can
be reached at x6004 and she will call you.
You can reach her directly at 7750 E.
Broadway, #26, Mesa, AZ 85208 or call
602-380-4382.

EVERGREEN--The Access Service Office
which serves Students with Disabilities has
temporarily relocated to the third floor of
the CAB, CAB 312. They will be in this
location until further notice. Their mail
stop will be CAB 320, and the phone wi~1
remain x6348. The number for the TDD IS
866-6834.

Opportunity -for
study abroad
EVERGREEN--A partnership agreement
with the University of Washington once
again creates an opportunity for up to
seven Evergreen students of junior ~
senior standing to enroll at the UW s
Henry M. Jackson School of Inte~onal
Studies during the 1993-94 academic year.
Under this program, successful applicants
may spend up to a ~ll year there as
special students, studYI~g lan~e, area
studies, economics or mtema1lonal uade
and affairs.

SECURITY. BLOTTER
Tuesday, February 23
1451 : Burning food activated the fue
alarm in B-dorm.
1710: A suspicious person was reponedly
sitting atop the clock tower on the ledge
and shouting statements to people below.
1810: Three people and a baby were
reponedly trapped in the CAB elevator.
Wednesday, February 24
1209: A student fLIed a repon regarding a
stolen bicycle.
1340: A prank call was reponedly made to
the Emergency Communications operator.
2101: Two soccer teams were reponed at
the CRC foyer demonstrating actions
which could lead to a fight.
Thursday, February 25
1634: An act of thievery was reponed in
the Branch.
1712: The glass door to a fue extinguisher
storage unit was found to be broken in Adorm.
1938: A harassing phone call was
reponed.
Friday, February U;
0805: Graffiti was reportedly found in the
third floor library mens' room.
2228: A fire alarm was activated in D-

dorm reportedly because of a
malfunctioning smoke detector.
Saturday, February 27
0811 : A prank call was reponed.
1136: A bookstore employee was
reponedly found trapped in an elevator.
1319: Another prank call.
1330: A disturbance between two people
at the CRC was reported.
1543: An insecure condition was found on
the Library fourth floor.
Sunday, February 28
2100: A student reponed that she was
bitten by a dog near the Community
Center.
Monday, March 1
0428: Chalk writing was reported in the
Library third and fourth mens' rooms.
0454: A room in LAB I was reportedly
found to be insecure.
0917: A vehicle was towed from F-loL
1230: Burning food reportedly caused the
activation of the fue alarm in C-dorm.
1338: An ornament was reponedly stolen
from a vehicle in F-lot.

The Public Safety Department
performed 35 public services (unlocks,
jump starts, escorts, etc) last week.

Page 2 Cooper Point Journal March 4, 1993

Bill would add student to'
TESC Board of Trustees

are a desire to have fun and a commitment
to work as ' a •group. Please bring your
talent. creatiVity, and ideas to help make
ITOC a success I For more infonnation,
call Jen McAuliffe at 866-0588.

Major areas normally available
through this .program include Chinese,
Japanese, Korean, Mi!1dle Eastern,
Russian, East European and South Asia
studies, as well as comparative religion.
To be eligible for this program,
students must have completed 75 quarter
hours at Evergreen before beginning their
studies at the Jackson School. They must
also demonstrate a seriousness of study
that will ensure success in the School's
rigorous academic program.
Students interested in this junior or
senior year at the Jackson School should
contact Jose Gomez, Associate Academic
Dean, Library 2214.

Evening honors
women's poetry
SEATTLE--Radical Women is holding an
evening of poetry by women whose words
are weapons in the battle for freedom from
South Mrica to Eastern Europe, "Fighting
words: Worldwide Feminist Poetry." This
International Women's Day celebration
features a special eulogy for Black lesbian
feminist poet Audre Lorde. It will be held
Thursday, March II at 7:30 p.m. For more
information call (206) 722-6057 or 7222453.

Camp teaches
about water
THURSTON COUNTY--"SpalUling the
Ages" is a weekend camp for youths and
adults to learn about farms and water.
Participants will learn together how
salmon, streams, groundwater, and farms
are all related. They will also learn how to
test their own water. Applications are due
March
15. For information and
applications call 786-5442.

ITOC seeks
participants '
EVERGREEN--A student-run theater
group, Independent Theatre on Campus
(ITOC) seeks to help students enjoy acting
without being in a performing arts
program. lTOC will meet tonight, March
4, at the "pit" on the third floor of the
CAB. Students will enjoy a variety of fun
acting activities and discuss plans for a
spring production. The only prerequisites

The following scholarships are now open
to applicants. There are many, many,
many more scholarships listed on the wall
of the Dean of Enrollment Services, fust
floor of the Library, next to Financial Aid.
These 'are only the scholarships sent
directly to the CPl.
-The National College Poetry Contest is
open to all college & university students
desiring to have their poetry anthologized.
Cash prizes will be awarded the top five
poems. The deadline is March 31. For
contest rules, .send a self-addressed,
stamped envelope to: International
Publications, PO Box 44044-L, Los
Angeles, CA 90044.
-Applications are now available for The
George Ganno Memorial Scholarship. The
scholarship is open to college students
from the state of Washington who intend
to spend a year in Israel at a college or
university. Applications may be obtained

EVERGREEN--Critics and supporters of
the Endangered Species Act will debate
this hody contested law as part of the
Fourth Annual Rachel ' Carson
Environmental Forum on Wednesday,
April 7 from 7-11 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1.
The forum, sponsored by the Master of
Environmental Graduate Student
Association, will feature a panel discussion
exploring the history of the act, its
strengths and weaknesses, and the issues
surrounding the upcoming congressional
reauthorization. Admission is free. For
more information, call x6479.

Backstrokers at last Saturdays NAIA regional swimming and diving competition.

photo by Ned Whitaker

Flowers on sale
at Organic FarJil
EVERGREEN--Due to slow sales, the
Organic Farm will no longer be selling
dried flowers in the CAB on Tuesdays.
However, if you would like to purchase
flowers , you can buy them directly from
the Organic Farm, Monday through
Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p .m. Dried
bouquets of statice, larkspur, and nigclla
are $3.00 each or two for $5.00, while
dried larkspur and nigella bouquets arc
$1.50 each or two for $3 .00. Please give
yourself or your friends a gift while
supporting the Organic Farm.

Family event for
St. Patrick's Day
OL YMPIA--The Olympia Parks,
Recreation and Cultural Services
Department, is sponsoring a festive family
event for St. Patrick's Day, featuring
continuous live entertainment, Irish craft
display booths, games for kids, face
painting, story telling and lots of food. It
all takes place Saturday, March 13, from
noon to 5 p.m. at The Olympia Center.
Admission is free, but donations for the
local food bank are appreciated. For more
information call 753-8380.

Errata
Carolyn Dobbs was not the Interim
Vice President for Student Affairs in
October 1992, as "Basketball at
Evergreen?" erroneously stated.
Fish'n' chips with lemon is not John
Q. Public' sfavoritefood. There' snosuch
thing as the tooth/airy. Grass, infact, is
'everything but green. From now on, S
means Hand vice-verha.
Emi 1. Kilburg makes her first guest
appearance in Errata this week, so give
her a nice hand, ladies and jellyfish.

by contacting Ruth Bovarnick, Jewish
Education Council, Jewish Federation of
Greater Seattle, 2031 Third Avenue,
Seattle, Wa 98121, phone (206) 448-1202.
-The National Research Council is seeking
applications for senior and postdoc!OraI
research associateships. For more mfo,
write to Associateship Programs
(GR4301D1), National Research Council,
2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20418.
-KCPQ-TV is offering scholarships for
students intending
pursue a career in
broadcasting. For an application and
funher questions, contaCt Adel Hauck: at
383-9501 or 625-1313.
-Scholarship Matching Services is a
professional scholarship search service
who will help students locate nongovernmental financial aid sources. For
further infonnation, contact Jyll S.
Campbell at (714) 373-1139.

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Geoduck women are
headed for nationals

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by Jan Smisek
Four Geoduck athletes qualified for
the NAIA National Swim Championships
in this weekend's Bi-District swim meet.
The meet was hosted by The Evergreen
State College and featured approximately
250 swimmers from eleven NAIA colleges
in British Columbia, Washington, and
Oregon.
On the opening day of competition,
Michelle Burlitch, Kristie Copp, Dianna
Otteson, and Erin Sweet set new team
records en route to qualifying for
Nationals. In Thursday's 400 Medley
Relay prelims, the women finished with a
~ ___ time of 4:37.31 and in the 200 Free Relay
Finals they finished with a 1:52.30.
Dianna Otteson swam her way into
another National Championship event on
Friday. Originally seeded 19th, Otteson
placed 16th in the 100 Fly prelims and

finished 15th with a 1:04.65 in the Finals.
On Saturday, teammate Kristie Copp
qualified for another National
Championship event. She entered the 200
Backstroke seeded 16th and finished by
setting a new team record of 2:29.86 and
qualified for Nationals in that event. Also
on Saturday, Otteson swam a national
qualifying time of 2:21.98 in the 200 Fly,
placing lIth in the finals and qualifying
her for her founh national event.
The Geoduck women leave for San
Antonio, Texas on March 10. National
competition begins on March lIth and
finishes up on March 13th. They will be
accompanied by their coach, Janette Parent
and Assistant Athletic Director, Pete
Sleilberg.
Jan Smisek is the Evergreen Sports
Information Director.

Go vegetarian gradually
by Connie Frey
Diet, like everything else at
Evergreen, is a volatile issue - everyone
has an opinion. There are righteous
vegetarians and equally righteous meateaters. Reasons for a panicular diet
include religion, morality, politics, and
~nomics. Health as a reason, or more
importantly, as a consequence of
vegetarianism, receives little or no
attention.
Changing diets · should not be like
getting a new haircut. eliminating meat
cannot be done as easily as shaving off
dreadlocks. Any change in diet has to be
done slowly because our bodies need time
to adapt. For example, if you are a heavy

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meat-eater and want to become a lacto-ovo
vegetarian (vegetarian who eats dairy but
no meat products), give yourself at least
one year to make the transition. Cut down
and slowly eliminate red meat
consumption, then poultry and fish, and
begin substituting viable 8ltematives (pizza
and bagels from the Deli do not cut itl) If
your ultimate goal is that of a vegan diet
(no animal products) give yourself even
more time to adjust, as well as learning
about nutritional needs and how to meet
them in a vegetarian diet.
There are many variables that need
consideration in a vegetarian diet. Some
protein complementation, vitamins, and
minerals are not as abundant in plant
. foods as animal foods and need to be
recognized. In panicuIar, the vitamins Bl2
and D, and the minerals zinc, iron, and
calcium, are all possible suspects of
deficiencies in a vegetarian diet. If you do
not know what protein complementation
is, or what.plant foods contain iron, learn!
You need to understand the effects of such
changes before radically changing your
diet. Whatever the reasons for altering
your diet. make sure that keeping your
body well nourished is also a priority.
Connie Frey is a student on the
Wellness Committee.

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by Robert Taylor
A l>ill adding a student representstive
to the Evergreen's Board of Trustees, is
being considered by the Legislature.
. The bill would add a student
representative to the Evergreen State
College Board of Trustees, the primary
decision making body on campus.
The board member for the Evergreen
State College would be chosen by the
governor from among the applicants for
the position for a two year term, and
would participate as a full voting member
of the Board.
Nominees for other institution will
be selected by the governor from a list of
three people chosen by the student
government body at that institution.
Substitute House Bill l005/Senate
Bill 5269, the legislation in question, was
passed by the House of Representatives in
late February by a vote of 88-12.
Similar legislation was also passed
by the House last year, by a vote of 92-6.
Former chainnan of the Senate Higher
Education Committee, Sen. Jerry Saling
(R-Spokane) would not let the bill come
up for a vote in that committee; a
requirement for the bill to pass the
Legislature.
In the words of Steve Lindstrom,
lobbyist for the Washington Student Lobby
(WSL), Saling was "putting his foot on its
(the bill's) neck until it died," despite the
student desire to be represented and
involved in the imponant decisions state
college and university governing boards
make. This is evidenced by the continuing
push to pass this legislation by student
lobbying groups such as the WSL.
Lindstrom, whose organization has

been lobbying in suppon of this legislation .
for years, pointed out that versions of this
legislation have been proposed as far back
as 1968. Versions have passed one or the
other house of the legislature, but have
always been stopped by opposition from
university and college presidents and
admiilistrations.
Jennifer Jaech, Evergreen's
Legislative Liason, explained TESC
administration opposition to the bill in
these terms: "It's not an anti-student
stance; the Board (of Trustees) would
never change a policy before consulting
students. It's that a governing board
represents outside interests and was
historically designed as a board of
overseers. Trustees and regents
are
supposed to represent broad interests and
the public who is paying tax dollars."
Jaech also pointed out that s~dents
have in the past been selected as voting .
trustees or regents, but this has not been
an institutionalized policy as would' occur
in the proposed legislation, and that
faculty and staff currently do not have
voting representation on college governing
boards either.
The bill was scheduled to be
considered by the Senate Higher Education
Committee in executive session, which is
held in public but not open to public
comment. on Wednesday, March 3.
College and university
administrations have been concentrating
their efforts on stopping this legislation in
this committee, and if past efforts are any
standard to judge by, they may well
succeed.
Robert Taylor is a staff wrilt;r for
the CPJ.

GRE: flail or be flailed
Analysis
by Roxanne Sadovsky
Here's the problem: It's your
founh year at Evergreen and you're going
to graduate in June. You are faced with
two choices: either flail or be flailed. Your
transcripts resemble a hodgepodge of
ethnic studies; between ~ Dostoyevsky
novels you're studying Russian language
and waiting tables. Pan of you wants to
run away to Israel and live on a kibbutz,
pan of you wants to try Broadway, pan of
you wants to endure graduate school - all
of you wants to win the lottery.
Your father has been generously
supponing you through college (as any
good oncologist would), and you could
probably manipulate a few more years out
of his good heart, but your Jewish gUilt
and newly acquired Russian ethics won't
let you. On top of it all, you have four
snakes to raise.
What do you do? U you can
logically solve this dilemma, you'll
probably do OK on the Graduate Record
Exam (ORE).
So, who remembers bubbles and
number two pencils? A couple of
Saturdays ago I was reacquainted with the
wonderful world of standardized testing
and the consequent wonderful world of
feeling like an asshole. The ORE is that
thing that looks like the SAT, but tastes a
lot worse. However, while the SAT
determines where you are going to spend
the next four years of your life, the GRE
determines if your life will continue
thereafter. Or so it seems. Successful
results of the GRE equals choice of
graduate school, which equals choice of
field of study, which equals job, house,
money, kids, which equals happiness.
Right? Wrong.
We all know, or hope to, that this
theory isn't true, but for some reason we
are occasionally lured into this romantic
ideal, this pre-paved street of gold,
whereby follOwing the established rules,
we will frolic in the glamour of fax
machines and hair appoinbnents. And this
is why we take the ORE. But the GRE
ta1Its back: it speaks to us all - it is
spilling out its guts to us temporary

conformists, it is point blank telling us that
standardized tests are a ploy to tum all of
us into sheep and if we don't throw down
our pencils and revolt, we are all going to
spend the rest of Our lives grazing .... Well,
OK, I may be reading a tad too much into
things, or venting my frustrations for
having received a score in the negative
numbers, but my point is: don't fear the
ORE like the plague, and certainly not any
more than the house with the picket fence.
Anyway, on to the test.
As you sit anxiously in your desk
and chair waiting for the ticker to
commence ceremony, you scrutinize the
situation. Among you are all ages, shapes,
sizes, and colors, no doubt wondering the
very thing you~e, that is: what am I
doing here? Couldn't they just test me to
see if I'm a good person? Then, grounded
in rat-race reality, you pray that the
mentality of the test makers is as pitiful as
the guy at the front of the room giving
you directions in mono-syllables, in which
case you'll do just fine. No such luck.
Indeed the Graduate Record
Exam echoes the vocabulary words of the
SAT, except there are more of them and
they have a lot more letters. Like the SAT,
they give you the sentence completion and
antonym sections, where you are supposed
to provide "the word that most properly
fits." Well, having spent four years at an
institution where everything is relative,
where every seminar is a conundrum,
choosing the precise word could easily
invoke a catharsis. I mean, it would all be
fine and good if the given words varied
even slightly in meaning, but they have
five definitions to describe the same thing.
How does one choose? Last week we
spent two hours discussing the true
meaning of borscht!
To compensate for the Steven
Hawkins vocabulary, ETS (the people who
make the test), ever so generously
provides the test-taker with your every day
basic 'algebra and geometry (they're kind
enough to leave out your every day basic
quantum physics). Granted, I know some
people who plan their evenings via the

see GRE, page 14

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Coll1mns

Skippy gets serious about DIV
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Hints for beautiful baby queers
STUDENT GROUPS
WEEKLY

compiled by Curtis Goodman

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·The LGBPRC (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
Peoples Resource Center) continues its
movie series with a screening of Paris is
Burning and The Rocky Horror Picture
Show Thursday, March 4 in LHI at 8 p.m.
Admission is free. For more information,
please call x6544.
,YWCA invites everyone to a night of
film Tuesday March 9th on the
experiences of people of color in a racist
society. Slaying the Dragon is a film about
Asian American women in the U.S. media
and True Colors is a fIlm about how two
men, one black and one white, discover
racism in the Midwest The fIlms are free
and begin at 7 p.m. in LH5. For more
information please call x6555.
·Tbe Women's Center has a full week of
events planned for International Women's
Week. Events include a Joanne Rand Folk
Concert in LHI on Friday, March 5 at 8
p.m. for $5, a DJ dance Saturday, March
6, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on the second floor of
the CAB for $2 and a film night Monday,
March 8 at 7:30 p.m. in LH2. Night
Withoul Fear and Remember the Witches
will be shown and are free. More events
are scheduled, so please call x6162 for
more information.
·Tempo is sponsoring Four Bands/Four
Bucks concert and dance Friday, March 5
in L2000 at 8 p.m. For more information
call x6636.
·Sligbtly West is currently accepting
prose, poetry and graphics for a spring
issue. The deadline is March 12. Watch
for the Winter issue due out this week. For
more information please call x6879.
·Student Produced Art Zone (SPAZ)
would like to encourage students to pick
up an application to display their work at
Olympia' s Artburst, March 19 through 28.
Applications are available in CAB 320 or
call x6412 for more information.
·Tbe Evergreen Sustainability Coalition
is currently involved in an environmental
audit of Evergreen. If you would like to
contribute to making the college greener,
please come to the CAB's third floor "pit"
at 4 p.m. every Wednesday.
·Tbe Camarilla - A Vampire Fan
Organization meets every Thursday at
7:30 p.m. in the S&A conference room.
For more information call x6636.
·Tbe Student Representative to tbe
Board or Trustees, Kim Goforth, would
like to hear from you. For students
interested in contacting her,
correspondence can be dropped off in the
S&A Office; Kim Goforth, c/o S&A, CAB
320.
Curtis Goodman has just
experienced a core breach in his memory
and is losing power ...

by Heidi
.
This article is for all those beautIful
baby queers that are too scared to talk to
any "real live" queers but read this column
in the dark comers of their living rooms
with their hands down their pants. (o.k. so
may~ i'm exagerating but then again,
maybe not who can say) TALK ABOUT
IT! Approach somebody who you know to
be queer positive and educated. a~d sensitive to coming-out-or-not-anxIeues. (all
three million of them) AND FOR GOD'S
SAKE DON'T ASK A STRAIGIIT
PERSON! (hint: i'vealways got time for
this subject) Don't worry about asking
questions!!! I still ask elder (in out-time
and/or age-time) about stuff. (i hardly ever
agree, but oh well) Coming out is a mixed
bag, an endless experience (ignorant
people will always want to assume you're
straight or "wouldn't want to assume"
anything [oh my god. how i hate that, let
me count the ways]) Remember kids, you
don 't have to flame (although sometimes
it's just a glorious example of manifest
destiny. he he he WHOOOSH! bye bye facial hair) to be queer. And just because
you're OUT doesn't mean you will be a
sexual deviant' s deviant, i.e. S/M (sadomasochism), transgender (surgical sex
change, cross dressing, identifying with
opposite sex gender stereotypes), bi/monosexual (mono meaning completely gay or
straight), leather dyke (read:yummy), BID

[straight and queer] your life needn't be
eSuOgen deficient)
Fag #3 "I just don't know, maybe I'm bisexual" (be bisexual then. DON'T use it as
a closet fO( being gay but retaining the
"saving grace" of "sometimes ' I'm
straight" it's disrespectful to bisexual
people who don't use it as a way out of
being out)
(bondage and degradation), a prancing &
cooing queen, etc. But it doesn't mean you
WON'T either. (i was trying to be
comforting, but the truth leaked out again)
Quotes to be DESTROYED:
Dyke #1 "But I can't Imagine diving for
muff' (no one says you have to, it's just
fun)
Dyke #2 "But breasts don't turn me on"
(acquired taste, dear, give it time [or just
add honey])
Dyke #3 "But I don't get along with other
women" (sexual tension tends to do that.
get over it)
Fag #1 "But I'm not effeminate" (so don ' t
wear lipstick. get a pair of boots and
sweep some boy off his feet & give him
the ride of his life)
Fag #2 "But I LIKE women." (see: "fruitfly" and "faghag", there are plenty of them

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by Greg Wrigbt
March II , from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.,
will be your day to recycle a few good
plastic bottles. WashPIRG and The
Evergreen Recycling Project will be
collecting your plastic packaging in the Adorm courtyard.
But, there will be some work
involved for you.
Plastics are categorized seven ways
according to their makeup. Look for the
recycling symbol (arrows) and number (124-6) embossed on the side or the bottom
of your containers. The number indicates
the type of resin or type of plastic which
the container is made from. We are able to
market only these four types of plastic at
this time, so you will have to look
carefully before you haul all of your
plastic to the campus.
1
P.E.T. (polyethylene Terepatthalate)
- beverage containers, 2 liter pop
containers
2
H.D.P.E. (High Density
Polyethylene) - some grocery bags, milk
and juice bottles or jugs, dairy containers,

In 1973 a crack commando unit was
sent to prison by a military court for a
crime they didn't commit. These
individuals promptly escaped from a
maximulTI security stockade to the Los
Angeles underground. Today, still
wanted by the government, they survi ve
as soldiers of fortune. If you have a
probl e m, if no one else can help, and if
you can find them , maybe you can hire:

The Happy Squad of Earth
Page 4 Cooper Point Journal March 4, 1993

laundry containers, shampoo bottles
4
L.D.P.E. (Low Density Polyethylene)
- grocery bags, some food film wrap,
garbage can liners
6
P.S. (polystyrene) - transparent deli
and bakery containers and trays, dairy
containers, clear and foam bakery and
meat trays, foam egg cartons, foam coffee
cups, plates and bowls. PLEASE NO
PEANUTS OR PACKING MATERIAL.
Plastics must be CLEAN to be

see plastic, page 5

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one because it dealt with pilfering pastry
from the Deli and the results from this
question might ruin one of the biggest
nutritional scams of the nineteenth century .
These nine questions were asked to
fifty randomly selected Evergreen
community members at different times and
in different on-campus locations during the
eighth and ninth weeks of the winter
quarter, following each question are the
responses.

compiled by D. F. Scherer
I enjoy walking around campus
asking people what they think about things
that are going on. This joy has caused me
to get formal and write down your
responses to my questions to include in
this all new section of the best damn
college newspaper in the world! I call it
the Mirror because it is supposed to be a
reflection of what we are.
Below you will find nine of my
original ten questions, I scrapped the tenth

l. Do you read the Cooper Point
Journan 94% responded yes, 6%
responded no.
2. How does tbe Cooper Point Journal
compare to any otber college newspaper
that you bave read? 36% had not read
any other college papers, 26% found other
college papers to be the same as the CPJ,
22% found the CPJ to be worse than other
~~~~~~~ college papers, 16% fOWld the CPJ to be
Tarot Readings, ~ better than other college papers.
3. Do you like egg nog? 54% like egg
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Herbs, OIls,
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Incense,
~ nog, 42% don 't like egg nog, 4% passed
the question.
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4. On a scale from 1 to 10 rank tbe
e~
8rooms, music,
~ rollowing sections of tbe Cooper Point
8ooks, :lewelrll,
Journal (with 1 being very bad,S being
and mona. • .
~' moderate, and 10 being excellent): The
Security Blotter: 6.934, Response: 6.904,
~ 608 S. eolilmbia • S5'-4349 ~ Forum: 6.428, Quote or tbe Week:
6.166, Calendar: 5.700, Columns: 5.646,
ll~~~~~~tS:f: Advertisement: 5.160, Comics: 5.117,

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said bad effect on education, 24% said
good effect on education, 10% got very
angry and refused to answer, 2% said
would have no effect on education.
9. What is tbe '.rst derivative or
r(x)=9x3+2x.lJ3? 46% did not know, 20%
made incorrect guesses, 16% fell silent,
12% answered correctly with f(x)=27x2+2 ,
6% said, "who cares?"
Tune in again for questions
concerning hippy concentration, narcotics
officers, and what people are doing for
spring break.
D. F. Scherer's work appears
frequently in the CPl.

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recycled. That means food free, soap free,
residue free, label free, and liner (foil or
paper) free.
Other plastics wilJ be collected by
WashPIRG and sent back to the Society of
Plastics Industry . (SPI) headquarters in
Washington D.C. This is your opportunity
to tell the plastics industry to take the
wrap!
For more information on the
campaign , call the Recycling Project a t
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News Briers: 5.064, SEE-PAGE: 5.050,
Arts &
Entertainment: 5.000,
Classifieds: 3.176.
5. How many bours or KAOS radio do
you listen to per week? 40% 0 hours, 6%
1/2 hour, 14% 1 hour, 6% 2 hours, 10% 3
hours, 18% 4-10 hours, 6% more than 10
hours.
6. Whicb shows on KAOS do you_
regularly tune in to? (number of people
who mentioned this show) Riot Gml
Radio (4), PLUJ (4), Up Front (3), Happy
Squad (3), Indigenous People's Network
(3), Extrapolation (3), Monkey Wrench
(2), Wimmin Do this Everyday (2), Sister
Sound (1), World Chaos (I), Gospel Show
Revue (I), The Beat (I), Color Outside the
Lines (1), Movin' Right Along (1).
7. What are some or the most
productive student organizations at
Evergreen? (number of people who
mentioned this organization) Women's
Center (6), LGBPRC (5), EPIC (5),
WashPIRG (4), Amnesty International (4),
KAOS (3), The Corner Cafe (3), Women
of Color Coalition (3), Native Stude nt's
Alliance (2), The Rape Relief Protocol
Committee (I), KEY Student Services (I),
S&A Budget Committee (1), ASIA (I) ,
Soda Pop (I), ERC (I), The Camarilla (1).
8. How would firing all or the professors
currently employed by The Evergreen
State College and re-hiring any
proressors who wanted to return to
work on a voluntary basis effect the
education offered at this college? 64 %

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A perfo rmance b y the University Sympho ny Orchestra fea turing
John Corigliano's Symphony No. I , a com pellin g and powerful t ribu te
to the AIDS Q uil t, plus Beethoven'shope-fi lled Symphony No. 7

for sure! Oh, sweet Jesus., don't let those
results come back positive. I'm not sure I
could handle it.
Today! Holy shit it's today! Why do
I keep thinking about religion? They say
that people often return to the Church
when they are scared of dying. Me? I'm
terrified. But who am I kidding? I don ' t
have it. Plain and simple.
Stop thinking about this, Skip. Keep
busy. Keep busy.
What? Is it that time already? Boy,
I almost forgot. (yeah sure) Time to run!
Come in? Thanks. Well?! Yes!!!! '
Are you sure? Whew! Big sigh of relief!
Thanks. What? Yeah, you can be sure that
I'll take care! Thanks again!
Wow! I'm clean. What was I
thinking? Of course I'm ok. All that worry
for nothing. Nothing? No, not nothing.
Now I know. And knowing is half the
battIe.
Hey kids! Go find yourself a piece
of mind. Get tested and be sure. It does a
bod (
t h r ) ood'
Y or two, or ee... g
.
Skip wants to encourage everyone to
go get an HIV test. He also says, "Mom,
don't read this one to Grammar

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ON CArv1PUS SPECIALS

Q!!ILTOF LOVE

Two weeks, huh? Okay, I'll see you
in two weeks I guess.
Stay busy. Have to stay busy. Can't
have any slack time to wonder about the
results. Stay busy.
What happens if it's positive? Jesus,
what will I do then? Oh God, don't let it
be positive,please don't let it be pOsitive.
Wait, I don 't believe in God. Why the hell
am I . praying? Shit, what am I worried
about? I've always been good and safe.
No worries, right?
But what about that off-chance that
it'll be positive?
No way. I'm clean. Why -worry?
Stay busy.
Stay busy.
One more week. See, I'm doing fme ,
really. Too busy to notice. What's that?
Me? Oh, I'm fine. Just a little distracted I
guess. Sorry, won' t happen again.
Five days. Five more and I'll know
for sure. Shit, I can take this. Yeah, I'm
tough enough to deal with this. Yeah!
Hey! I'm handling this whole thing
pretty darn well if I do say so myself
Only a couple of days left. Yeah.
.
Shit! Tomorrow is when I find out

That happy guy in Red Square queries all

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So! COMING OUT TO
PARENTS! ... uck. Do it or don't do it I
have no advice. I'm out to mine, they're
ostriches about it I respect them less than
I used to. (a feat in itselt) I also have. a
gut feeling that both of my sisters are
queer (they thought i was a dyke before i
did [takes one to know one, and i believe
that]) Straight identified queers are bad for
my yeast infection.
Coming out brings you in touch with
a whole . new world, mostly it's a spectacular one. (although sometimes it 's
disillusioning, and that hurts) I've met a
large number of exceptional people of all
orientations since I've come out as queer.
(and as myself, more and less than a
stereotype)
So burgeoning baby dykes, boy toys,
and bisexuals, (and everyone else) my
advise is DON'T ISOLATE yourself!
Beyond a period of helpful pondering, it
only encourages imaginings of worst 'Case
scenarios, inaccurate stereotypes, FEAR,
and WORRY! (i was convinced some
cyber-dyke was gonna eat me alive for a
mid morning bulldyke snacky-poo [instead
i turned into my worst/favorite fear])
WELL! So much for being ' nurturing!
Vaginas have razor sharp invisible teeth
and WILL swallow your f<\fe off in one
orgasm! - XXOO HEIDI
Heidi Morkert invites response to
her column. Please send it to her c/o the
CPl.

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by Seth ''Skippy'' Long
Should I? I mean, do I really need to
do this? I'm pretty .sure it isn't necessary, .
right? Y~. I'm fine. ' No reason to
,
believe otherwise.
But wJ:lat happens if I'm wrong?
Then what? And what about her? God,
what an awful way to screw up a budding
relationship.
.
Okay. I'll go. No, I'll go.
Pick up the patone, you idiot, and
make the call. Gotta get in line for an
appointment.
What' s that? You can see me today?
Uh; isn't there a waiting li~t or anything?
Oh. I see. Yes, 5:00 would be fme. Yeah, take the one, thanks.
see you. the~.
.
No, you can do it. I have a phobia
Hi, I ve got a 5:00 appomtment. about sharp objects. I'd make a terrible
Yeah, that's me.
junkie. Heh. Heh. Heh.
How long does this take? Oh,
Yes, I'm nervous. Watch? No. Just
cOWlseling, huh? Okay, let'~ do it then.
let me turn my head so I don't have to
Yeah, I know all of thIS already. No, watch you. What? No, don't telJ me about
I've been pretty safe so far. It's just it either. I tell you what, how 'bout if I
there.'s someone ~ew now and I thoug~t just blabber on Wltil you're done? Sound
that It was about tune I checked up on It. good?
Yeah
, pretty s~. ,
Great.
Oh. No, I ~~ tknow th~. ~at.are
That's it? You're done? Wow. That
the other tests like. Uggh. I think III Just wasn't so bad. Thanks.

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International Women's Week
Reclaiming women's history :

Do not ignore the songs of threads when viewing a quilt
Perhaps all artists were, in a
Sense, housewives: tenders of the
earth household. -Erica Jong

Jesus
but give
me the

world.
-Nikki

We may eat
the fruit of the
trees of the
garden,
-Eve

Men, their
rights and
nothing
more,
woman
their rights
and
nothing
less.
-Susan B.
Anthony

Women & revolution! ~t tragic, unsung
epics <if courage fay sifent in tlie worU's /iistory!
-l)'"ang Ping
The Anglo woman is always there with her superiority
complex. The Chicana woman will be looked upon as
having to prove herseH even in the smallest task.
-Enriqueta Longauex y Vasquez

"OUr
work
brings
people
face

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Enjoy brunch and a Women's Open
Mike at the Comer this morning, from
10 a.m . to 1 p .m. in Housing's
Community Center.

Monday· 8

to be fearful
to be unresolved. -Gwendolyn Brooks
You curl your hair and point your face.
Not I: I am curled by the wind, pointed
by the sun. -Julio de Burgos
-I'm
nobody,
Who are
you?
Are you
Nobody,
too?
-Emily
Dickinson

Today the
survival of some
.. ... stereotypes is a
psychological
strait jacket for
both sexes.
-Mirra

Komarovsky

The
o cean
is a
place
of
parado x es.
- Rachel
Carson

wliy irufw{ must "(joa oe a noun? 'JII/Iiy not a vero
W

- tlie most active and dynamic of aU -Mary Vafy

'UJOman,

fwJrtm
roar in

numbers

toohig
UJ

igrum.
-9lden
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One never sees
what has been
done. one only
sees what
remains to be
done ...
-Madame Curie .

comic
to hear
oneself
called
old,
even at
901

When you see What some girls marry,
you real ize how they must hale to
work for a I iving. -Helen Roland

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Environmental-political singer songwriter Joanne Rand will perform at 8
p.m. tonight in LHI. Admission is $S at
the ooor.

Sunday· 7

It is brave to be involved,

Jam

Friday· 5

Dance with DJs Wendy Jo and Renee,
from 9p.m. to 1 a.m. tonight on the CAB
2nd floor. Admission is just $2 at the
door. Cameo by Bonnie's Backyard.

the dead
and
fight
like hell
for the
living.Mother

I would venture to guess that Anon,
who wrote so many poems without
signing them, was often a woman.
-Virginia WooH

A racism workshop for white women
will be facilitated by women from
Safeplace at 7 p.m. tonight in CAB 110
(the Women's Center).

Saturday· 6

Pray for

Laughter is
by definition
healthy.
-Doris
Lessing

Thursday· 4

Today is International Women ' s Day!
There will be an open house at the
Women's Center from lOa.m. to4p.m.

Lauren Meeker's films Remember the
Witches and A Night without Fear will
be shown in LH2 this evening. A
discussion facilitated by the filmmaker
will follow. The films and discussion
run from 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Thesday· 9
Leah Green and Rajaa Gharbi will speak

at 7 p.m. tonight in LH3. Green, a
Jewish member of the Earthstewards
Network, will present slides and
information about her work in the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Gharbi, Ii
Tunisian poet and media specialist, will
address issuesofimages of Arab women
in the US media.

Wednesday • 10
Two ftlms will be shown in LH2 at 7
p.m. tonight. A Stale of Danger
chronicles the role of Arab and Jewish
women in bringing peace to the Middle
East. Confronlation:Latinas FighlBack
Against Rape tells the story ofa response
to acquain~ce rape.

Thursday • 11
"Women's Health, Life and Safety: A
Regional Perspective" is a panel discussion with three speakers from the
Evergreen community. The discussion
begins at 7 p.m. tonight in CAB 110.

More coalitions needed
by Seth Williams
together.
When guided by this shared vision,
Here at Evergreen, we are fortunate
enough to bave the opportunity to earn a a network of coalitions evolved from the
progressive education, an alternative to the ground up has the potential to be a true
standard routine of 's o many schools across repreSentational body for humanity. The
the country. As a result, the students, many different governments of today,
faculty;. and other members of the despite all their differences in principle
community are a testament to ' . and practice, do not come close to meeting
nonconformity, to radical thinking, and to the' needs of the people. We are plagued
the dream of fmding a better way. Most of with institutions in which control and
us want to see society change for the influence comes top-down from employees
better, but it seems the powerful who have lost sight of an ethical end. This
ideological differences that give us our has to change.
identities also keep us from supporting
By building coalitions and
each other in the realization of that dream. associations, we can reclaim the right to
If we really want change to occur, we government that is realistically by and for
must recognize the necessity of forming the people. Becoming involved in a shared
alliances, networks, and coalitions to effort is empowering for the individual as
promote understanding and action towards well as the group. It is the best way to
that goal.
overcome the fierce individualism and
Coalition-building is the art of alienation that mainstream society tries so
bringing together diverse members of a hard to instill within us. The success of
society or institution to work together in grass-roots organizing is evident here in
harmony for a common cause. This Olympia, where a myriad of people's
practice not only fosters unity and associations are already at work. The
understanding among participants, it can Thurston Rainbow Coalition, Sustainable
effect positive tangible results in the name Community Roundtable, Evergreen
of social change. By working toward Sustainabilty Coalition and many other
shared goals within coalitions, student groups are forging ahead in uniting
representatives of varied, often conflicting various interests.
Yet, these few groups, as diverse as
interests, have the chance to move from a
state of contention to one of creative they may be, are not enough to effect
widespread social change, which requires
evolution.
The need for coalitions has never the participation of all members of society.
been greater. Frequent skirmishes between Each opinion should be voiced and heard,
various campus interest groups point to and everyone needs to realize that their
our lack of cohesion, while looming view is vital to a holistic vision ~ For the
budget cuts threaten to wreak havoc in voices of all participants to - be respected,
unknown ways. On a larger scale, coalition-building must honor methods that
ecosystem destruction, the suppression of insure everyone a chance to contribute to
the group process. In practice this may
one culture by another, economic failure,
and basic problems of racial, sexual, mean regular meeting times when each
religious and class inequity have placed person has a chance to speak his or her
our future on a tenuous standing. As mind. Respect for all members could also
people realize that the dominant world be maintained with a level of trust that
involves sensitivity to various concerns
view is bringing about the impending
destruction of life on Earth, they look for and allows for the their communication
ways to become part of the solution. The when needed.
building of people's coalitions is such a
If a group process fails to achieve an
way, because true hope for humanity lies understanding or balance, members
in our ability to create unity within the become alienated and the common purpose
community, from the local clear up to the can no longer be called as such. This
self-defeating pattern is too often the end
global level.
Coalition building can have of many associations that start with good
enormous impact at all levels because it intentions. Only by first overcoming
draws on the power of the people to inequity and repression on the most basic
level, within the Evergreen Community,
organize themselves. A small local alliance
can send representatives to larger can we hope to effect change on the scale
necessary to safeguard the prosperity of
coalitions that encompass wider regions
the Earth -a nd its diverse community of
and areas of concern. In this way,
life. And some day humanity may again
grass-roots-Ievel interests converge to
find the balance it has lacked for so long.
guide social planning and envisioning for
Seth Williams is a regular
the common good. The vision, or
contributor to lhe CPJ.
imagined reality, is vital in maintaining
unity at any level. For without a common
goal, people lack the inspiration to work

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Support rugby before hoops
by Rachel Bennet, Erin Shawn and
Clover Simon
To the Cooper Point Journal:
We are writing in regards to the
Basketball Disappearing Task Force. The
DTF is proposing to create a basketball
team that would possibly draw more
students to Evergreen (an ironic goal when
the 1993 budget cuts plan to reduce
enrollment numbers). It will cost $30,000
to start basketball teams and $8,000 yearly
to maintain them. It is obvious that there
is a lot of money and energy being
invested in creating these teams. This
amount of attention seems inappropriate
considering that there is an existing sport
that has received little recognition from
the school.
The men's rugby team has been
together for four years and the women's
since fall of '92. Currently, the school
considers us a "rec sport," which is
inaccurate since "rec sport" teams are
intramural. Our teams compete with other
c1ubside and collegiate teams throughout
the Northwest. We have organized all of
our games and tournaments without any
assistance from the school. The rugby
teams have already achieved the goals that
the basketball DTF hopes to meet: we
have raised all of our money for uniforms,
tournaments, and traveling to other
schools; everyone is allowed to join the
teams; our games are free to watch; games
and practices are scheduled around
students' academic and work
commitments. Furthermore, we have found
coaches, insured ourselves, and joined
both the United States Rugby Football
Union and the Pacific Northwest Rugby
Football Union, which are required in
order to play. Most importantly, we have
done all of this with little support or
encouragement from the school. In fact,
for the most part we have encountered

hostility and resistance from the College
Recreation Center. For example, we are
not allowed to practice on the good fields
because they must be rented out to soccer
teams. Instead, we are told to "be careful"
while we practice on a hidden field which
is full of mud, tire ruts, and holes. The
CRC isn't willing to put a little money
into fixing the field, yet they will spend
$8,000 a year on the basketball teams.
Something doesn't seem right here.
Evergreen's philosophy encourages
students to be dedicated and passionate
about their studies and extra-curricular
activities and professes to support them in
their pursuits. The school's attitude
concerning the rugby teams is a staIk
contradiction to its philosophy. Apparently,
it is the administrative figures at the CRC,
rather than the students, who are so intent
on having collegiate basketball. Weare
not aware of any basketball teams created
by students that are currently competing
against other schools and states like our
rugby teams are.
If Evergreen wants to spend $30,000
to start a basketball team to bring more
sports to TESC, flCSt we ask that the rugby
teams be fully acknowledged and
supported. We have successfully created,
maintained and improved two teams for
only a few hundred dollars. Yet, in order
for Evergreen rugby to be seen as serious
and competitive by other schools and
teams, we need encouragement and
financial support from the school. We are
an organized responsible group and we
want the same respect that the soccer and
swimming teams currently receive. The
rugby teams can make a vital contribution
to school spirit and Evergreen's greater
community.
Rachel Bennett, Erin Shawn and
Clover Simon are Evegreen Women
Ruggers.

Natives still face condescending, colonialist attitudes
by Tiokasin Cetanzi Veaux
Qualitative perspectives come from
qualitative aspects, and are manifested and
controlled through experiences; including
physical aspects which are determined by
emotive idea· imagery, thus the oral
tradition of the Native American cultures.
Usually the abstraction precedes the other
to gain dimension and yet simplify, to
effect clarity and completeness (straight
talk and connectivj!ness), definitions
minimal for finiteness, solidity and
dynamic tension. Single meanings are
-emphasized and stressed to lessen
complexity verSus the Euroamerican "soft·
culture" ideas and concepts of materially
rationalized communication by "beating
around the bush."
The intellectual imparts a ituth in
culture while the emotive effects esthetics
experiences, thus the blended of two
perspectives on "View From the Shore."
The combination of language and life
experiences are blended. For example,
Gary's so-called "adoptive" background
and coming into his own inherent cultural
right as a PomolNative American in his
teenage -years and being educated in
"Americana" is a courageous step. Most

"adopted" - of course, we as Natives
know the true meaning of the word Natives take a course of action, once they
are told their identity, likened to learning
to walk a new path without the crutches of
what "the ravages of this materialistic
culture" inundates as reality, or rather
disillusionment of reality.
On the same hand is my experience
of being taken away from a beautiful
culture of the Lakota, so beautiful that
your tongues of Europe cannot begin to
hold the true meaning of expression and
existence. Being tom away from a family,
hair chopped off, watching others being
beaten for speaking a natural language that
tells no lies, as well as being bealen. I
watched my Lakota brothers and sisters
being lied to, I saw the lost stares of fouryear-olds, five and six year-olds that haunt
me to this day. What would you think of
a people who indoctrinate, beat, and lie so
as to make six and seven-year-olds hang
themselves because they can't take the
beatings _ anymore? For most Native
children their monsters were real, for most
"adopted" Native children their monsters
became real after being allowed to know
the truth, after seeing the truth.

When the Lakota relates to nature it
is like one of the elements is speaking of
another element. The Lakota lived in
nature so long that they became part of it.
We are one of the balancers of nature; and
we created a true god, but Wakan Tanka is
not an image of man, but a supreme spirit,
"God" of the other spirits and the living
beings. The Lakota are a very religious
people, our alters are the unusual
formations in nature: the sun, moon, trees,
hills, hills, rocks, etc. The Lakota are too
humanistic to clash with another race,
much less dominate. The true Lakota has
always been an intellectual being. I am
writing this with my experiences of being
a Lakota, whose people still hunt the
buffalo ceremoniously and raise - the
buffalo with respect, who lived in tipis,
and with brothers and sisters who still
fight the white men. White fighters were
true patriots, hired killers; my paternal kin
were victims of a massacre. I heard them
speak in the formal language of the
Lakota.
The elders tell of the Lakota culture
and activities, being actually there and
experiencing and enjoying their lives in
nature. They described in detail a beautiful

culture and activities, being actually there
and experiencing and enjoying their lives
in nature. They described in detail a
beautiful culture - so beautifully and so
precise with so clear a picture with words
and songs. I have never read a book on
"Indians" that equaled what I heard from
these Lakota people. I heard the truth from
their mouth, their words come from a
language of respect that it cannot tell a lie.
I had hopes that, because it is the
" Year of the Indigenous People," we
might have been allowed to voice the true
spirit of Turtle Island, but, no, I still see
the condescending, trivializational attitudes
toward the Native of this land .. . in 1993
the colonizations continue.- So you see, for Gary Wessels
Galbreath, who kept his "adoptive" name
out of respeCt for his white society and for
this one Mnicoujou Lakota, we know the
pain .. . in hopes that someday we all may
know the power that is peace.
Mitaukuye Oyasin
"All My Relations"
Tiokasin Cetanzi VemLX is an
Evergreen studenl.

Cooper Point Journal March 4, 1993 Page 7

Forum

WODlen's Week: Let's chat
by Sara Steffens
Wel.c ome to International Women's
Week .and this article. Both men and
women are cordially invited to hang out
here for awhile. So, let's chat.
Isn't it sad that hundreds of Greeners
lament "PC tyrariny" on campus, yet stand
by and allow themselves to be silenced?
Even more disbJrbing is that they
frequenily blame their silence on people of
color or feminists.
The most important thing you can do
to improve the political climate at
Evergreen is to stand up for yourself and
speak out
In the process, you must constantly

chalJenge yourself. Annoyance at PC
speech codes is not an excuse to stop
fighting sexism and racism. Find new
ways to speak about sensitive issues. In
full recognition of my inability to foresee
the peculiarities of.life's rich tapestry of
situationalism, I humbly suggest a few
ideas.
-Appreciate humor: it's unifying, it
breaks tension, it makes us nicer.
Sometimes, it will also allow you to see
pop spout from someone's nose.
-Woman, womyn, wimmin, w~m~n:
claim your own spelling! I have three I
particularly like: wmn (pronounced
wwmmmnnn, like an engine revving),
womb-man, and rutabaga (which may not

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: the word
by Lynn-Teresa WiUiams
Aretha Franldin knew what she was
singing about when she belted out the
words "R-E-S-P-E-C-T/Find out what it
means to me." We'd all be better human
beings if we'd took the time to fmd out
how we could be more respectful to others
whose occupations are dedicated to
providing services to the community in
which we live, work and study in.
One service in particular that some
people in the Evergreen Community
provide is the maintenance of the grounds
and areas in which we congregate, study
and eat in. This includes the CAB, which
is going to be the focus of this editorial.
This Forum piece is also about my friend
who cleans up after Evergreen students,
staff and faculty. This is about his dismay
after doing what he considers a
masterpiece in cleaning, only to turn
around again to see inconsiderate students

trashing the area he'd just cleaned. He said
this doesn't happen just once or twice. It
is a regular occurrence which on bad days
can get pretty annoying.
Talk about lack of respect. I guess in
a society which teaches that winners are
rulers, .one should expect disdain for
services such as cleaning. The rub is that
this is Evergreen, a school that lists the
numbers of each and every one of its
employees in its directory and features
them in house organs as respectful
members of a community which honors
their willful participation in that
community as intelligent, creative, capable
human beings. So, is my friend being told
a lie, or are those students who like to
trash community property insensitive louts.
Any Marxists in the house like to
respond?
Lynn-Teresa Williams is a regular
contributor to the CPJ.

look like woman to you, but I claim my
right nonetheless).
-Recognize that enforced gender
roles are bad for everyone. Men don't
enjoy them any more than women do. If
you don't believe me, name a "man you
know who likes sexism. Don't wimp out
by saying that Evergreen is different than
the "real world." If this isn't the real
world, then what is it, spam? And if it's
spam, why doesn't it come with a key?
-Refine your categories. The ideas of
all feminists are not the same. H I tell you
I'm a feminist who doesn't hate men, then
you must concede that not all feminists
hate men.
-Don't swim until half an hour after
you've eaten. Adhering to this great rule
of thumb "afflllTls the importance of
women's oral traditions.
-Commit yourself to creating
wholeness and smoothing wounds. Don't
say, "disempower rich white males." It is
distracting, confusing and divisive; it is
based upon a skewed conception of power.
Advocating disempowerment presumes
that when power is added to one end of
the teeter-totter, it must be subtracted from
the other end. Are we ready to reject the
notion that more choices for women would
be better for both men and women? Are
we wiDing to say there is no more
harmony in peace than battle?
-Don't be squished between the
window pane and the screen. Quick what kind of a woman shaves her legs?
Answer: the kind of woman who shaves
her legs. In other words, there is no
fashion or factor which separates real
womyn from fake women. (Moms can be
feminists too.)

-Quit perceiving the American public
as apathetic and unwilling to listen. This is
bigotry and elitism as sure as any other
sort. H they "dOn't get it, it's because
you're not talking right. People are willing
to do things to improve their own lives
when off~ a course of positive action.
Rephrase, rethink, reconsider.
·Think for yourself. Valid
philosophies do not come pre-packaged
like Pillsbury cookie dough. Only your
own love and work can form a legitimate
morality.
-Treat all people you encounter with
a belief in their absolute right to personal
opinion and their inherent worth as a
fellow human. Then try to change their
opinion. Mter all, how can I believe · a
statement prefaced by the assumption that
I am shit? I close my ears and you have
lost your opportunity to influence me.
-Women, enjoy your life. Every
moment of your happiness is a blow
against centuries of women's oppression.
Open your eyes: our world is a delirious
intricacy of joy and hope. Do what you
want, take advantage of your opportunities.
That is the whole point.
-Determine the difference between a
challenge to your views and an attempt to
silence. If you are challenged, listen and
think. You will not promote open
exchange of ideas by closing your mind. If
someone tries to censor, stifle or silence
you, protest clearly, firmly, immediately
and lovingly. Your means are your ends.
Sara Steffens name is spelled S-A-RA (no H!), S-T-E-F-F-(no PH!)-E-N-S, and
the Calendar deadline is NOON FRIDAY!
GET IT? GOT IT? GOOD!

Wines owned by U.S. Tobacco boycotted by local groups
by April ReboUo and Ian Slingerland
Starting in January of this year, the
United Farm Workers of Washington State
(UFW -W A) as part of their continuing
boycott of US Tobacco owned wines
(Chateau Ste. Michelle and Columbia
Crest) launched a campaign asking
restaurants who carty these wines to honor
the boycott. The boycott of US Tobacco
owned wines was called in 1987 by
vineyard workers at Chateau Ste. Michelle
winery who, as a result of their organizing
efforts, were the target for harassment;
some were even flred. Chateau Ste.
Michelle (CSM) continues to deny its
vineyard workers' request for a free and
.fair union election.
Under the National Labor Relations
Act of 1935, workers were granted the
right of collective bargaining with their
employer, that is, all workers EXCEPT
farm laborers. This holds true today. 58
years have passed since the creation of the
NLRA and not much has changed. Right
now, in eastern Washington, farm workers
are being forced to sign anti-union
"pledges." Some farm workers who
refused to sign these have been threatened
or fued. Farm workers are still exposed to
hazardous working conditions over which
they have no control. Right now, farm
workers don't even have the right to overtime pay and most all farm laborers work
over 40 hours a week during peak seasons.
No law prohibits employers from
granting a union election. The UFW -W A
have proposed several means for
conducting a fair union election including
the formation of an independent
commission. A commission patterned after
the Dunlap Commission was created and
successfully ended a labor dispute in Ohio
between farm workers and Campbell's
Soup Co. The UFW-W A also supports
using the Washington State Public
Employees Commission to supervise union
elections. This commission has the
authority to do this, but still, CSM

continues to deny its vineyard workers the
right to an election. Chateau Ste. Michelle
is the largest winery in Washington and
employs around 100 vineyard workers
year round.
In response to the farm workers
request for a nationwide boycott of UST
wines, several boycott and support
committees have formed in Washington
D.C., Boston, Seattle, and Olympia to
name a few. The Olympia Farm Worker
Justice Committee (OFWJC) is a group of
concerned citizens working in the Olympia
area on the boycott Yes, we're the ones
you see out in front of Top Foods and
other various locations leafletting. The
group does this kind of informative
leafletting weeldy.
With the new restaurant campaign,
the OFWJC has been at work educating
restaurants in the Olympia area that carry
the boycotted wines. After creating a
dialogue with the restaurant, the OFWJC
continues educating patrons about the
boycott through informative leafletting.
With these efforts, the OFWJC has
informed restaurants and the community of
the ongoing boycott As a result of the
OFWJC and community members
dialoguing with restaurant owners, several
Olympia restaurants have chosen to honor
the boycott and pull UST owned wines
from their wine lists. Local restaurants
which have pulled the wines are:
-The Asterisk & Cheese Library
-Ben Moore
-Columbia Street Public House
-Chattery Down
-Cork & Crock
-Crackers/fugs
-Gardner's
-Henry C's House of Prime Rib
-Jo Mamas
-Patrick's Restaurant and Sportsbar
-Urban Onion
We express gratitude to these restaurants
for their decision to support the rights of
vineyard workers at CSM.

The Student GovemancePlanning Committee is holding their first meeting on Wed. March
10 at 6 p.m. in the S&A Conference Room in the Third Floor of the CAB. Anyone with any
interest, disinterest or mild curiosity is urgedto attend.
.
Support student empowerment!

Page 8 Cooper Point Journal March 4, 1993

Community support has been
instrumental so far in the ·campaign and
we hope it continues with community
members contacting supportive restaurants
to show their gratitude. We also ask that
individuals sign available cards expressing
sapport for the boycott and leave them at
establishments which continue to carry the
boycotted wines. These cards are available
at the Evergreen Political Information
Cenier (EPIC), located on the third floor
of the Community Activities Building at
TESC.
Community involv~ment includes

students from TESC, including a large
number from the program Search For
Justice, EPIC, Olympia Movement for
Justice and Peace, and other concerned
individuals. There is plenty of work
involved in the restaurant campaign and
help is always needed, so if you support
the boycott and are into making things
happen in your community, contact the
OFWJC at 352-2153.
April Rebollo and Ian Slingerland
are members of the Olympia Farm Worker
lusticeCommitlee and Evergreen students
in their spare time.

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CC.,.

Be$pODSe
Umoja "Negro"
test fails
Well, I guess ~ joke's on us. Or
you didn't get it. Or that maybe you didn't
care which raises the question why didn't
you care, and that leads me to the question
why should we care if you don't care?
Never the less, Umoja thought that we'd
get a rise out of the Evergreen Community
by using the term Negro instead of
African-american or Black in front of the
words History Month. Since the
community has a reputation for becoming
quite vocal on a variety of issues
concerning race, we decided to use Negro
to illustrate the fact that most whites are
very superficially committed to eradicating
the disease of racism from Society.
I've talked to some people of color
who saw the Negro History Month banner
and one person told me that there were
whites who were offended but who were
too afraid to raise an outcry. And that's
scary, because if whites are going to be
our allies in eradicating this disease, the
fear factor has got to be overcome
somehow. I mean, how can we trust you
to stand by us if you're too scared to stand
up for what you believe in? That answers
the "why should we care if you don't
care" question. Oh, and by the way, what
do you believe in?
But I guess a lot of you out there are
saying "damned if I do and damned if I
don't" In this case, you're right. The point
is that people of color have been noticing
that white people tend to gloss over the
real issues of , racism: the emotional
investments that whites have in an
oppressive system that favors perpetuating
their roles in positions of power. It is easy
to get riled about a ·few names, or blatant
forms of racism but much harder to get
riled or even concerned with the
unconscious racism within us which gets
played out in our daily interactions. Well,
next week, Umoja's co-coordinator Jena
Hurreh will continue this dialogue. We'd
like some response to our little
experiment; we'd like to know how you
feel now that the cat is officially out of
the bag. (No, pun intended.) Because, as
far as the other questions go, only you can
tell us if you care, and why or why not.
P.S. Also Umoja would like to thank
the staff at the CPJ for becoming part of
the conspiracy to "test" the Evergreen
community.
Lynn-Teresa WiUiams

Flyer poster
defends herself
"Patronizing sappy liberal guilt,
anyone?" Why, yes, Mr. Nasser, I have
had enough of yours. I wonder what you
are so afraid of that you will not believe
the words of those who are lesbian, gay
and bisexual and/or those who are women
when we say we know our experiences
and the violence and lack of justice
existent in our lives. You attack Barbara
Gibson, telling her in so many words to
lighten up, and yet I wonder why you are
so hung up, STUCK, on the flyers that
Ellen and I posted on campus last year.
You seem very afraid and your neo-, or
should I say old-way vigilantism attacking
women indicates to me a certain male
privilege that is feeling discomforted by
those seeking justice in the academia and
elsewhere.
I'm not going to talk about last
year's events because Ellen and I clearly
explained our motives and purposes. Also,
Ellen used the grievance process which
resulted in her doing an individual contract
and the faculty (whose name I'm
protecting like a good girl should) still
remaining on campus without any antisexism training or punishment (for lack of
a better word). Instead the harasser(s)
remain with another notch on their belts,
and my friend is seeking education off
The Evergreen State College campus.
Obviously, you didn't hear a single word
we said last year, so why say it again?
I ~ill say this, though. H I was alone
in a room of one hundred male faculty
while being harangued for the flyering we

did last y~, I would still stand by what I
did and have Ii good time doing it. Maybe
flyermg i~'t the right way to do things in
the end, but it sure got a lot of people
wOrklng ' in .issues of ~xual harassment
'and a lo.t of faculty qUestioning the quality
o( the. classroom here at The Evergreen
.
State College.
FIGHT RACISM FIGHT RAPE
QUESTlON MALE ,PRIVILEGE
ALWAYS, .
Jennifer Sharer
Class or 1992

Espresso poem
mocks baristas
Dear CPl,

OK, so I haven't been caricatured on
the comics page, but I know a personal
attack when I see one. Emi J. Kilburg's
poem, "I Wanna Make Espresso" on the
back page of the Feb. 28 CPJ was like a
slap in the face to me. It mocked
everything that I have worked for in the
last five months of my post-Evergreen life
as an employee of a Nordstrom espresso
cart.
Even I didn't think the CPJ would
go so low. Espresso baristas (as we prefer
to be addressed) are an under-appreciated,
yet vital part of our region. If all espresso
carts and caf6s disappeared tomorrow, the
fabric of existence in the Northwest would
unravel to resemble a tom and trampled
flannel shirt laying in a ravaged field after
a Lollapalooza concert. With over 3,000
espresso carts in the Puget Sound region
alone, that means there are at the very
least 6,000 baristas that toil through wind,
rain, and snow to feed the public's
addiction. Ms. Kilburg's poem ridiculed
the profession that pays the bills for
thousands of people that I'm sure strive
for loftier jobs.
And by the way, I can make a
"double tall skinny extra hot dry
cappuccino with a shot of vanilla and an
Equal" that would make Ms. Kilburg
weep.
Sincerely,
Linda M. Gwilym

displays a high moral tOne in justifying
Evergreen's conflict-of-interest policy,
which he says, " is directly tied to ... the
law." In fact, Evergreen has no
conflict-of-interest policy. And Lidman
knows it. Is this attempt to deceive the
public his way of heeding his own call to
make ethical behavior "the norm in public
affairs?"
All this moral · posturing is mere
sleight of hand to deflect attention from
my charges.
At the University of Washington,
professors are free to order their own
books and keep the royalties, as are
professors allover .the world. This is not
something they get away with, it is
standard professional practice. If
Evergreen wanted to interpret the law so
as to conflict with that practice it should
have informed its faculty. It did not
Gilbert received no royalties. He
proflted in no way. The Evergreen lawsuit
gets the most basic factual matters wrong.
It acts on the basis of a law, concerning
purchasing agents, that says exactly the
opposite of the Evergreen version, and it
makes reference to a non-existing statute.
About this incompetence Lidman says
nothing. Had Gilbert received royalties,
the total would have been around $90. For
this hypothetical sum, the taxpayers will
spend thousands prosecuting Gilbert.
About this pettiness Lidman says nothing.
Instead he preaches "responsible
citizenship" to our students.
Gon1.8lo Munevar
Evergreen Faculty Member

End theft of
Native culture

To all concerned:
I am Ruben Roqueni from the Yaqui
Confederacy in the Sonoran desert. I too
listened to Gary Wessels Galbreath's show
on Feb. 8, 1993 and most other shows
prior to as well. I have been shown a letter
written in response to that show written by
Mary Zodrow and W. Chris Maun and this
letter is in rebuttal to that response. While
I am offended by that they wrote, I find it
a typical response from "so-called" white
liberals in defense of their, at best, subtle
forms of racism. I also fmd that many
Mary Zodrow and Chris Maun raised
folks in the process of re-educating
a variety of points in the letter regarding
themselves are sensitive to strong, no
the programs "View From the Shore" and
holds barred, if need be - offensive forms
"The Indigenous Peoples' Network." Since of reaction from any people of color. Most
the issue of business support was raised,
times, this sensitivity responds by
we feel it necessary to clarify KAOS " undercutting strong reaction, whether it be
underwriting policy as it relates to specific
verbal reaction or physical acts of
.program content.
rebellion, to genocide, by finding what is
Item four of the policy statement "wrong" with the reaction and ignoring the
says: "Underwriters shall have no control, whole picture.
rights of ownership or privileges relating
Appropriation is the new thing. You
to the content of underwritten programs, or know, "We lost our culture. We don't like
the general operations or programming of what we've been offered. Can we borrow
KAOS, nor may any underwriter support a few ceremonies? We don't mean any
or reject individual program componentS.
harm." New Age in my opinion is a
Concurrently, underwriters shall have no
vampire on Native culbJre. In my own, we
liability for KAOS programming, beyond
have a famous one named Carlos
financial agreements."
Castaneda. He is a liar and yet when we
Also, KAOS welcomes listener look up Yaqui religion at the library, his is
feedback on any programs or issues raised
the only name. And if I said to you, "I
over the airWaves. You may leave truly despise everything about the lies,"
comments on the KAOS listener comment would you expect something milder?
line 866-6000 x6897 , or direct written
Don't take the books off the shelf - take
comments to Diana Arens, Program
them out of our category. In fact, leave us
Director, KAOS, TESC CAB 30"
out of any white category all together.
Olympia, yv A 98505.
Yeah. That will save us a lot of heartache.
Sincerely,
Now take the so-called Evergreen
Diana Arens,
"sweatlodge." Same thing. We have shared
Program Director
since the day white people set foot on
Tom Freeman,
these shores and yet you still continue to
Business Manager
steal whatever you can. Many Native
people have shared the sweatlodge with
non-Native peoples with the assumption
that it will be respected at all times. But
the sweats around here are, more often
than
not, started by white people who
Russ Lidman's misuse of The
Olympian to reply to my article (Feb. II, WOUldn't know what to do with a real
CP1) illustrates perfectly the malady that Indian if.... They did not learn the sweat
from any Native person and if they did,
afflicts Evergreen.
Lidman misleadingly "corrects" me they should not be doing it the disrespect
by saying that Evergreen is not suing of an Indian-like sweat In Christian
Gilbert, the state is. In fact, an assistant culture, there are ma.,y disrespectful forms
Attorney General serves as Evergreen's of chun;h. Look in The Enquirer. But we
lawyer, and thus all of Evergreen's
will not tolerate it The whites have taken
lawsuits are pursued through the Attomey
our lives, our bodies, our land, and
General's office. It is ironic that Lidman
sometimes even our pride and now they

KAOS sponsor
policies clarified

Gilbert suit is a
waste, petty

want to take our religion. Beyond using it
ift a respectful manner, which most of us
would probably allow (again), they
bastardize it, make it ugly. When I hear
Gary say it is "our right and responsibility
to bum" these sweatlodge facsimiles I
understand the anger that leads him to say
that. I understand it in my heart. Not just
in my mind because I go to or went to
Evergreen, but in my heart that hurts, was
born hurting. In M. Zodrow and W.C.
Maun's letter, they call what Gary has to
say a call to "violent and illegal acts," that
Gary does nothing to bridge the gap
between cultures. They talk about MLK,
Malcolm X, and Billy Frank. When I read
these things it wasn't so much that I was
hurt. I've heard all that before because
those kind of statements are part of the
cultural healing dialogue.
Rainy Day Records is another issue.
Before we go on, I would like to say that
Tio'Ka'Sin Veaux has spent about an hour
helping Rainy Day rearrange the
categories of some of their music, more
specifically, their selection of Native and
so-called New Age music. The whole
paragraph in the letter about Gary's
comments about Rainy Day (and I might
add Radiance to that group of ignorant
shops and in my experience it's NOT done
innocently) is not well researched at all.
That's all I need to say about that.
And lastly, the letter states, and this
is MOST offensive for me, "We
understand that Galbreath did not 'adopt'
his Indian heritage until he was a teenager.
Would he deny the same right to adopt
meaningful spiritual living practices to
mitigate the ravages of this materialistic
culture?" First of all Gary was BORN, in
this life, Indian. He was, like many
unfortunate Native children, taken away
from his mother by the white system. That
Gary has maintained ANY amount of who
he is, is remarkable. He did not 'adopt' his
heritage as a teen, he has always known
he is Indian. He has always known what
tribe he came from and that he was taken
away from his mother. Now, you tell me,
what a kid is supposed to do in eastern
Washington about his Native heritage,
adopted by white ranchers. Gary is mad
(and should be) and hurt by these
circumstances in a way that will affect
him his whole life. We only ask that nonNative culbJres look to their own heritage.
There is undoubtedly something rich and
earth loving there.
Thank you for listening to my words.
To all my relations,
Ruben Tomas Roqueni

Galbreath helps
bridge cultures
To the Editor,
I am writing this letter in response to
the letter printed in last week's issue
written by Mary J. Zodrow and W. Chris
Maun. The letter addressed Gary Wessels
Galbreath and "View from the Shore"
which aired on , KAOS, Feb. 8. They
slandered Gary and also misinterpreted
much of his language and ideas. I am
appalled by Zodrow's and Maun's
declarations of ignorance, and the lack of
historical context they have, evident in
their assertions about multi-culturalism and
identity.
First of all, to say that allowing Gary
to continue what they called his separatist
mentality would be to diminish KAOS'
and Evergreen's efforts to create pluralistic
and multi-cultural healing is uninformed,
contradictory and a blatant insult. As a
KAOS programmer and a recent
Evergreen graduate, I have had a chance
to work with and witness some of Gary's
work. Not ·only does he extend his radio
prograin to non-Natives and encourage
dialogue, he constantly offers his skills
and experience to different groups and
individuals in order to create
understanding. If Zodrow and Maun had
even researched what Gary does to make
a living, they would not make such a gross
statement. Gary works with First People's

see Galbreath, page 14

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DeLaria talks dildos, dykes
(weeeeee! [hey Lea. what was your
number?])
When Lea is faced with the age old
question "when are you gonna get married
and have children?" the belligerent
beauty's response is "PROBLY' WHEN I
by Heidi Morkert
STOP EATIN' PUSSY!" (did you really
Lea DeLaria is a total powerhouse say that to your tiny li'l old greataunts?)
(major babeage). I'd go dildo shopping
Who needs to visit home' for tension
with her in a second! Speaking of having when Lea can have you on edge for 90+sex with Lea DeLaria (i mean dildos), she minutes (and SHE has a sense of humor)?
claims to be a liuIe old fashioned because
Lea receives bonus points for not babyshe likes her strap-ons to "look like a real
sitting sensitive (pronounced thenthitive)
live big ole' dick." (Na, you're not old
queers (or is that gay men and lesbians?)
fashioned Lea, you're just obnoxious and
about currently hemorrhoid-like political
blunt [or do i mean interesting?]) Many
issues like SIM & classism. She got booed
lesbians would rather have a porpoise
in San Diego for the joke "What's the
dildo (I shit you not), than compromise difference between a dyke and a lesbian?
the elusive state of purified-organic- About thirty thousand dollars!" (Doh!
available-at-your-Iocal-hummus-hang-outissues! there must be a lesbian involved!
lesbianism, by riding the simulated [let's see, hemorrhoids + a sense of humor
reproductive merry wand of patriarchy! = .. .lesbians?])
--------------,
Her "Dis Holly Near" quota was met
by perfonning a rousing rendition of the
song "We are a gentle angry people" and
interpreting a choice quote. Lea, looking
(and feeling i'm sure) angelic recited "I
by L.N. Pearson
feel like a ... LESBIAN ... when I'm ...
Razor-sharp wit (you laugh when it
making love to a... WOMAN. Very
. hurts), a flair for controversy (did she
GOOD, Holly! I feel like a lesbian when
really say that!), and a deep bluesy voice
I'm BREATHING! I feel like a lesbian
singing tales and bUths: all these are part
when I'm lakin' a big ole' DUMP!" Lea's
of Teresa Jaworski. Jaworski, famous for
song goes something like (now sing along
her irreverent "Evergreen Blues," no doubt
kids): "We are a gentle, angry people, We
will be claiming furt,her notoriety for her
are a gay and lesbian people, we are a
performance of her original one-woman
sado-masochistic people," followed by,
show, THIS SIDE UP, on Wednesday,
"Yeah! she kinda forgot THAT part, didn't
March 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall.
she?"
THIS SIDE UP is a montage of
The audience had a mixed response
scenes exploring one woman's journey to
of confusion, offense, and the spiuer
the outer ieaches of society, the edge of
spauer of encouraging hoots [not that this
.Sanity, and the inner sanctity of the body.
is a point of contention [or bigotry and
Leavened with satire and sail, Jaworski's
idiocy] ... or anything]. Personally, I'm
work rises and expands the notions of how
havin' a hard time visualizing a
a woman struggles with the constraints of
dominatrix feelin' gentle and angry at the
her world. Through poetry, music, and
same time with a whip and pair of cuffs in
monologue, she examines hypocrisy,
her grasp (ha ha ha... snort). Anyway,
taboos, and the too often unseen image of
what could be more heartwarming than a
a woman seeing herself.
dyke who gets away with forcing seven or
Jaworski spent last quarter studying
eight
(mostly gay) men to yell, "I am a
African-American literature by women;
lesbian 1' at the top of their lungs? (My
she initiated her work in response to these
god, that's practically a direct reference to
voices. In the interim, her work has taken
wet muffs [i.e. well-lubricated female
on her own voice, and tells her stories '
genitalia]
for gay men. They'd probably
through characters she has created. Each
rather
talk
about eating pigeon shit than
character is an individual striving to see
pussy.
Aha
ha ha ha ... )
her own reflection, daring the forbidden,
However,
it was when she answered
waiting impatiently for maxims from God.
"How
can you tell when
the
question
• If you have seen Jaworski sing, you
you've
lost
your
lesbian
virginity?" by
know that you won't want to miss the
saying
that
it
didn't
really
matter
what the
opportunity to hear her speak next
technicalities
were
as
long
as
you got
Wednesday. The perfonnance is free and
naked and had hot sex with another
you don't need to reserve tickets. If you
need infonnation, call x6833.
LN. Pearson is a regular
We can help
contributor to the CPJ.
youjind

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Mr. ManiacalcircUmlocutes 1/3 Hitler marks

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Point taleen. Have you any clues
that
it has been exposed to the
There is 'an ominous presence on / '
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environments, I feel it is safe to ascertain regarding the perpetrators behind 1137
campus.
of you during
have undoubtedly
"There are two possible scenarios.
that who ever wrote it pressect really,
walked byMany
it llflIlwares
.the daylight ' //.:
'1.. '/Vi~(
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Either
it's a sign of impending
really
hard."·
houts. Just yesterday. I noticed it while
~~
armageddon, in which case we are all
And?
observing the bevy of chalk drawings and
/ / /;
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doomed, or it's just a bunch of smanny
"You're brushing against my foot. ..
adorning this campus... this,
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core program students with too much time
stop it. Are you sure this glass is clean?"
Chalk has become the mainstream L!I~_ _"!-"""';:;""",~...}.....t!--...-:.--,'--.:..,.I;':''/_
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on their hands."
Yes, it's clean. Please continue.
"I'm thirsty."
for paSsing information along the
Anything else?
"I also believe it was written by a
Oh sorry. (I get him a glass of right handed person."
pathways here. From reminders of
"Can I have a different glass?
There's something floating in this one."
Wounded Knee, to the Happy Squad water.)
So?
"Is. that strongest thing you've got?
Andy Lyons has a little (ominous)
squalor to, "you may be a wingm~t, but
"So? It wasn't a left handed person!
you're my favorite wingnut(?)," to Is this glass clean?"
Everyone always wants to blame left . voice in his head that tells him what to
elaborate murals detailing defecation
Yes, it is.
handed people for these kinds of things
write. No, he doesn't.
As you have spent the majority of
fetishes. But buried in · these exists the
unfathomable rambling of the dark and this afternoon deciphering the coded
mysterious organization, 1/3 Hitler.
message of 113, I wonder if you have come
quite inspiring as I rest comfortably on my
by Sara Steffens
Just who are these subversives who to any conclusions. as to its meaning or,
rump.
At
this
point
my
nervous
system
is
run amok during the witching hours, indeed, its mission here on campus?
Sizzler is flipping tiny shrimp
airborne. After my fifth cup of coffee, my
scrawling their coded propaganda? Are
"The main focus of my research was
internal combustion process starts. The carcasses in heavy black skillets for
they the bombers of Twin Towers now the 'SPAM IS 1!3 HIlLER' message. I
delighted diners to devour. The shrimp
world is alive! I can do anything!
hiding out in the woods of the Northwest? cross referenced the use of Spam in cult
look like little grubs. Sizzle, sizzle.
Excepting, of course, scrutinize inferential
Chagrined hippies, lef19vers from the free activity with The New Webster's Library
Excellent choice, sir.
statistics for another hour. TV, my friends,
love era? Some radical faction of former of Practical Information and my volume
AM/PM: giant jerking wienies in the
members from the local Elks Lodge, gone of The Encyclopedia of Ultra-secret Evil and lots of it, is the prodigal students' best
sky,
disembodied
eyes wide with the
bad? Or some age-old secret cult which
ninth
week
pal.
TV
is
my
soulmate.
Cults That Nobody Knows About [1967
Eyes glazed, mouth frothing slightly,
wonder of it all, the wieners are throbbing,
has now descended upon Thurston County edition]. According to it, the reference to
the wieners are alive, the wieners twitch
with ill intent?
Spam symbolizes death by extreme I lift a shaking hand to the channel
Concern and wonder about this gastronomy... or it is the symbol of life, control. Click. Click. Click. I channel-surf across a field of yodelling technicolor,
with the nimble grace of a seasoned expert rhumba into the wide-open mouths which
group has risen to an all time high with depending on your school of thought.
(it takes a very steady hand), rolling over will be their ultimate demise. But there is
last week's take-over of a local public
That's fascinating, Xavier, what
waves of Three's Company (Jack thinks a certain wisdom here: these wienies do
radio station, KAOS 89.3, when listeners else? "Don't interrupt me. I was unable to
not fight their destiny, they embrace fate
that Janet wants to do the do with him),
were bombarded with the "Manifesto of approach the epitaph-like chalk tome for
with a poignant joie de vivre, dancing to
up-close inspection, as any attempt Supermarket Sweep (It's the Ajax! The
1/3."
the grave.
Ajax is on sale!), thirtysomething (ahh ...
Xavier Maniacal, renowned witch resulted in attack by an unruly pack of
The Bon Marche has a towel sale.
Hope to Michael, "I want somebody like
hunter, vampire-killer, and professional tree frogs. The leader of which was a
you, only nicer." She's been considering To celebmte, a woman frolicks with her
watanabi, is with us today to help beast named'Rolo' who croaked in
children across a sunlit field, waving
an affair). I don't let anything crawl into
decipher, and if possible explain, the tongues and who,· along with his tribe,
my head, don't blink, let the images pour bath towels like flags. Her hair streams in
foreboding existence of a group with such would tum and bow in reverence toward
the gloriously refreshing wind. Bathtowels!
the chalk whenever jets or light aircraft over me, a perfect poi of nonsense and
an obscure pen name as 1/3 Hitler.
Bathtowels! L. must... buy... bath
profundity. Daring, I walk the razor's edge
Welcome Mr. Maniacal, do you mind pass overhead."
towels.
This is very unnatural, Xavier. I can between absurdity and enlightenment.
if I call you Xavier?
Little Mighty Dogs leap three times
Out of the shattering of fleeting
understand your apprehension, is there
"Not at all, just don't touch me."
their height, promenade proudly pulling
image, severed voice, floating type, a
anything else you can add?
As you have spent the .maiority ...
strange sentience emerges. The against the cord which restrains them. Like
helium balloons tethered to a child's
commercials - where do they come from?
chubby writs, they are not truly free. Their
Could it be ...
fur is streaming, their leeth gleaming,
A message from the heavenly,
immanent and transcendent flanks rippling as they trot and pose. Oh,
father/mother/cameVmysterious orb assails the caninity. It doesn't take a big dog to
constantly, and only a few (the humble) be a Mighty Dog, it takes a special dog.
We are Flintstone's kids, ten million
begin to sort the threads of the call. And I
- and growing. (Has genemtion X
strong
am one.
A nervous H&R Block customer found a name?)
I am enraptured: I imagine drinking
rubs sweaty palms, chafmg skin against
skin, worries about hair loss, whines filing Taster's Choice in Paris with a soft-eyed.
about his income tax. But then: "Ignorance fuzzy-headed lover. I will go blonde with
breeds fear," he says. Somewhere in the Clairol and become the new strong woman
I've always dreamed of being. And Jack,
distance, a candle is lit for justice.
We're taking our Mastercard to the they're good for take-oUl or delivery . I
grocery store.... Everywhere, bananas will soothe my troubled guts with gentle
glisten in perfect phallic ordination, bottled pink Pepto goop, like a bridge over
water lines up like soldiers trimly on the troubled waters. Frothy, creamy
shelves. The check-out woman smiles. cappuccino: it's now so simple, the
miracle of modem science surrounds us.
(She, too, is Jesus. I must have her.)
The new Diet "one awesome God bless America I found a reason to be
calorie" Coke commercials are beautiful, glad.
See you all at the Computer Center
subtle, insightful. Taste it all ... it's what's
inside that counts... surgeons who next week. Courage, comrades, and
sculpt ... live your life as an exclamation, godspeed.
Sara Steffens is out of clean clothes.
not an explanation! Tan smooth silkaline
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by Stephanie Zero
Plenty 0' black lingerie. Plenty 0'
exposed cleavage. Plenty 0' shakin' butts.
Evergreen, where have you been?! This
college has so much potential for the
fantastic and the bizarre, and the Camarilla
brought it out last Friday night at the rave.
I was greeted at the ticket counter by
a woman in sheer black lace bustier, a gstring and garters. Okay, so I kind of
tripped when I turned around to take a
second look. Oh! but you should have
seen the chicles behind the wire fences bull whips and bare skin and Oh baby!
Give me more! One with merely electrical
tape to conceal her nipples tOok an interest

Although this rave ·
was pre-advertised,
school-sponsored,
and virtually drug free,
nowhere did it
fall short of
the wild side.
in our photographer Skippy when she
dangled her whip over the fence in front
of his camera.
This wasn't just a dance, it was
entertainment. The dance was the main
attraction but there were plenty of side
shows: three bands, a tattoo raffle, a
leather fashion show, role playing,
Dancers acting out S&M, and the
appearance of Miss Gay Tacoma.
Because it was organized by the
Camarilla (a Vampire fan club), there was

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an excess of blaCK garments. Surprisingly, a party ..... When they broadcast acid
I only saw one pair of fangs. I was happy . house, the floor got wet, but otherwise it
to see someone in a Cat in the Hat hat, was lame. Fitz of Depression did a set and
what I relate to as rave wear.
attracted a thrashing throbbing mosh pit
Rlimor has it that raves started in (or was it just male bonding?).
San Francisco as all night, drug enhanced,
Another uncharacteristic feature of
dance-a-thons held in abandoned this rave was the presence of the Olympia
warehouses and advertised only by word AIDS Task Force and the condom drop.
of mouth. The fllSt time I heard of a rave No dental dams. (Who uses them anyway?
was three years ago, when I met this guy Lea Delaria says saran wmp is better
from England at the OZ dance club in because you can see what you're eating, or
Seattle. He said that the way we was that a joke?)
Americans danced was tame compared to
What it comes down to is, people .
the raves at home. He said there were no actually showed up for an Evergreen
good writers except for himself. A bloody dance. It was advertised as far North as
01' wanker in the US on intern with Seattle and as far South as Portland. Hey,
Microsoft. Damn good dancer though. Oh, who needs to go to the city when you can
but that's another story.
have the city brought to you.
So, although this rave was preStephanie Zero is our resident
advertised, school-sponsored, and virtually groovilicious mama and our ever so
drug free, nowhere did it fall short of the dignified big cheese.
wild side.
The music? "Acid party. Let's have

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seventy days and ended with the arrest of
Leonard Peltier.
"We don't anack anybody," said
Veaux, "we only defend ourselves, and
that's what we were doing. They were
attacking a church, that's the irony of it, a
church."
They were able to hold that defense
for seventy days. Last Wednesday, people
who were there spoke of their experiences
at Wounded Knee and what it meant to
them.
"The veterans that came heard the
music in the parking lot," said Veaux,
"they heard that and they got to the totem,
the welcoming figure. Two of the ladies
began to cry because they saw the big
banners and the drums, and read the
chalkings. "
"All the speakers were
unbelievable," said Campione of the
twentieth anniversary. "People were very
receptive, we got an incredible amount of
support. "

"For me," said Veaux, "doing this
gives credence to my culture. We're still
here, we'll not fade like people want us to.
We want the truth known that we're still
here and that we won't go away. For us to
bring that forum and those films about us
in this century, which is almost over, that ·
makes us modem.
, "If one or two people in the crowd
get it, then it's worth it," he said. "Their
minds are changed and set in a different .
way now. Once you are allowed to know
the truth, you will thirst for it always."
The Native Student alliance is
planning to hold a native environmental
film festival. Films made by natives and
films with a non-colonialism out-look will
be featured. Other events planned in the
future include a Paw Au (pow wow) and
a Potlatch. For more information contact
the Native Student Alliance at Ext. 6105.
Andrew Lyons is a CPJ staff wriler.

Galbreath, from page 9

subject to be challenging and accurate. I
burned a sweatlodge that was on the land
I rent because I felt that its existence and
disuse was disrespectful as most Native
peoples burn the lodge after its use. Also
I knew that it was made by a white male,
"respectfully. "
I feel that as long as Native people
are being persecuted for their spiritual
practices in a coUntry that is rightfully
theirs, white people should not be
appropriating Natives' practices. WHITES
SHOULD BE FIGHTING FOR THE
RIGHTS OF NATIVES TO FREELY
PRACTICE THEIR SPIRITUAL WAYS
OF LIVING. There are not enough white
people actively challenging their genocidal
legacy and white privilege and racism to
think they can bridge cultural gaps by
practicing other cultures' spirituality.
When all these white males in the men's
movements start working to fight sexism
and racism and support Native sovereignty
movements then maybe they can-ASK jf
they can join their Native sisters and
brothers in spiritual celebration and
healing instead of reaping the benefits of
their unchallenged privilege.
I think Zodrow and Maun should
continue to listen to "View from the
Shore" and really listen to what Gary is
talking about. Anyone who has had the
chance to talk with Gary will know that he
speaks from the heart and is willing to talk
to anyone who will take responsibility in
learning the truth and treating others with
respect Zodrow and Maun did nothing to
encourage a respectful dialogue and
wrongly criticize someone who gives so
much of his energy to supporting
community.

Advising at TESC and is one of the most
dedicated and supportive people for
students of color as well as a vocal and
active proponent for non-oppressive
situations for all people at the TESC
campus and beyond
Also, Gary has been an integral part
of making KAOS and Evergreen what it is
today, so to suggest that Gary diminishes
these efforts is, as I said before, an
obvious contradiction.
Secondly, I want to address the
statement about Gary adopting his Indian
heritage (as if that had anything to do with
the content of his show). The comment
was racist and bears no similarity to
someone adopting a spiritual heritage that
is not indigenous to his or her ancestry as
Zodrow and Maun suggest. Like many
Native children, Gary was adopted by a
white family and raised in cultural
traditions foreign and oppressive to his
ancestral ways. This is a common
experience for many people of color
because of the brutally imperialistic ways
of white peoples and the imposition of
white cultural nonos onto non-white
families. Gary reclaiming his hereditary
identity has an extremely personal and
political meaning and is in no way similar
to someone filling their empty life caused
by white imperialism by appropriating
someone else's spiritual practices. This
comment alone enrages me to no end, and
I fmd it to be completely ignorant and
condescending.
Lastly, I want to address the issues
of burning sweatlodges and non-Natives
practicing Native spirituality. I am a white
woman who fmds Gary's criticisms on this

GRE, from page 3
Pythagorean Theorem, but in my case the
only numbers I have touched since
high-school are those sweet figures' in my
checkbook, whose contents, incidentally,
could easily buy me a perfect score.
The GRE also includes those
bizarre situations that are supposed to
teach you to think. (personally, I think it's
a collusion between the GRE people and
the institutions of psychotherapy).
Anyway, you are suppose to
parallel the relationship between, for
example, an ant and a foot (ant:foot) to an
unemployed musician and a lawyer
(unemployed musician: lawyer). Of course,
the situations get a bit more complicated
(i.e.-unemployed lawyer:musician is as
shit: fan), and the more complicated they
get, the more insane you go. Makes for a
good party game, but that's about it.

In a nutshell, the GRE covers all
that fun stuff you've forgot about since
your senior year in high-school, though
ETS (the people who make the test) sw~ar
that you've been honing your SAT skIlls
throughout college. Who knows, maybe
we have. Perhaps we have all been
refming that conformist baaah since the
day we were born. In any case, I can
definitely say the GRE has made me a
stronger person. For one, I can now
understand that guy in seminar who
always speaks in "isms," and much more
important, it's another one of those
spectacular human events in which I can
proudly say I participated.
So, if happiness:graduate school
as picket fence:offspring, can we in all
fairness, then, surmise that GRE:SAT as
ignorance:bliss? Perhaps.
Roxanne Sadovsky is an overstressed Evergreen student.

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surprise several staff members that were
also there. Students voiced serious concern
about the loss of Perkins Loans and the
recycling program. Some felt that the end
of the loans would make the school less
accessible to those students that are not
from financially privileged backgrounds,
while others questioned the wisdom of
cutting the recycling program in light of
increasing solid waste disposal costs.
Scott LeDuc, a student that
publicized the forum by placing red flyers
in many campus locations, expressed
concern about student participation in the
budgeting process. "As long as we can
solicit quality student representation, that's
my goal," he stated. "It's time for students
to speak out," he noted, pointing out that
all the school's budget proposals will be
made available to students at a public
forum in LHI at 3 p.m. on Monday,
March 8.

The Wrecked Angle by Steve McMoyler
Community members were
concerned about losing access to the CRC,
while staff members were feeling pressure
to deal with layoffs while facing the tasks
of maintaining new buildings (Le. The
Arts Annex and Longhouse) and dealing
with new technology. Puree himself
expressed reservations about cutting
maintenance when the school is dealing
with problems in the Library Building's
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
system.
The bottom line is: school at TESC
next year is likely to be more crowded,
more expensive, more bureaucratic, while
there will be less quality, diversity, safety
and cleaning happening around us. Merry
Christmas.
Brian Almquist is Layout Edilor for
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sui t, from cover
Gilbert asserts the college had full
knowledge of his affiliations with Two
Thirds Production and not only was the
relationship featured prominently in his
resume, but letters of recommendation
praised him for the resource.
"The thing is the resources for this
type of material, for Latin American
culture and Latin American literature, are
not abundant," said Newman. "When
Gilbert was hired ... they said 'this is great,
this is an emerging area of studies, this
guy is at the forefront of this.'"
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financial part went. He could have brought
a copy of all those things that he wa,nled
and taken them over to the state pnnter
and had the state printer print them up,
and we could have put them in the
Bookstore and we could have charged the
cost for the printing."
"I am not in a hurry," said Gilbert,
of the length of time it may take to get a
hearing date. "I have no intention to quit
my job. Time is on my side."
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