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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 21, Issue 12 (January 24, 1991)
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Crossfire
Ianuary 24, 1991
Bits of the news spin in a brain
like a whirlwind, but there is no wind,
no brain, no news.
Volume 21 Issue 12
Response to war loud ,and varied
by Sam Loewenberg
Intervention Coalition.
As war wages in the Persian Gulf,
The Northwest Coalition has gained
anti-war groups have arisen across the support from across the state and
nation. Their agendas and methods differ, organizes many of the major marches in
which can have a marked effect oil their Seattle.
The , Olympia
Coalition,
. comprised primarily of members of the
influence.
Among
Washington
state Evergreen community, organizes marches
organizations are the Northwest Coalition
in Olympia and teach-ins at The
Against U.S. Military Intervention in the Evergreen State College.
Middle East and the Olympia AntiThe
Northwest
Coalition
has
No one knows if it happened or not.
Did it? No one knows for sure.
We saw it happen,
though no one was there,
and though, of course,
there really isn't anything that could
happen. Is there?
But maybe someday the wind
will shift, and the stars
will tell us why it was there.
Anonymous
Photos by Jason Morales
protesters marched in
Olympia on several days.
In the the photo above,
protesters are shown
blocking traffic on Fourth
Avenue downtown. When
they reached the Federal
Building, serveral activists
chained themselves to the
enterence. photo (above) by
My Own
Removing masks and walls and shields,
I slipped my hands into your heart.
And felt around for your soul.
A velvet feel so cold it burns.
This I stole from you
and clenched it to my chest
I sheltered you enveloped you
And claimed you as
my own.
Sam Loewenberg, photo (left) by
Honna Metzger
displayed stronger leadership than the
Olympia Coalition, whose marches have
been plagued by miscommunication and
a lack of planning. In one instance, an
attempt was made to close a Federal
building which already had been closed
for two hours.
For their January 19 march, the
Northwest Coalition coordinated with both
the Seattle Police and the University of
Washington Police. By doing so, the
ultimate rally destination was moved, so
it would not disrupt the UW library.
In contrast, the route of the Olympia
Coaliton's January 17 march appeared
random, deviating from the route agreed
upon with the Olympia Police Department
(OPD) . "It's not that they didn't talk to
me," explained Lt. Bill Flinton. "But the
crowd didn'L always go where they said
Lhey were going."
The role of the police in the marches
has been as peace-keepers n1ther Lhan as
adversaries. Lt. Bjornstad of the OPD
said
protesters
have
been . very
cooperative, and thaL communication is
usually very good. The police even
. blocked off the section of street in front
of the Federal building where the
protesLers were stationed, so they would
not get run over.
Since war began, protesters have
gone out of their way to make it clear
they arc against government policy, not
the soldiers who enforce it. When prowar demonstrators were encountered, anti-
entreaties to come join them.
The showing of pro-war marchers in
Seattle has grown dramatically, apparently
in
response
to
the
anti-war
demonstrations. Newspapers reported the
number of pro-war marchers on January
19 as between 2,000-4,000.
In comparison to the anti-war
protesters, many of whom have been
demonstrating daily since the war started,
Saturday'S demonstration in Seattle was
the first time for many of the pro-war
activists. "I think now, probably every
Saturday you're gonna see people down
here [the Federal building], when
ordinary working people can come make
their statements," said UW student
Camilla Paynter.
Pro-war demonstrator Kathy Haselow
feels the news coverage has been biased.
She believes too much time has been
given to the "peace-mongers." According
to Haselow, the media, "hasn't given
people that do support the troops the
chance to talk and be seen, and that's
what gets back to the guys over there in
the Middle East."
Many anti-war protesters, like
Evergreen
faculty
member
Larry
Mosqueda, feel mentally energized,
though physically wearied by the
continued marches and speeches. Others,
like Evergreen student Paul Slusher, seek
more radical change. "It's frustrating for
me sometimes, to just sit here and march
again and
It's kind of redundant.
"Support our soldiers, bring them back
. alive!" ..
Protester Margie Boyd recounted a
story of pro-war demonstnltors who
converted to the anti-war side afLer
speaking with activists at an open mike
event.
During the marches through· business
areas workers occasionally waved and
flashed peace signs. The marchers, many
uf them surprised at the support,
r';sponded with excited applause and
If the war in the Middle-East
continues, the potential for a split in the
anti-war movement becomes real. The
division will come between those who
wish to continue non-violent marches and
those who seek more radical action not
sanctioned by the government, such as
civil disobedience and, perhaps, violence.
Sam Loewenberg is a staff writer
covering various aspects of the reaction to
the Persian Gulf War.
Cracked paths
A.W. Brown
Draft bureaucracy awaits
enabling legislation
".
One experim'e nt per quarter: the Bulletin Board has been removed. In its stead we give you
this, that. and the other thing. Poetry continues to l3>e accepted. We'll also take fiction, tirades,
.and other word sets.
,
But heed this: The editors' axes will be wielded (with jurisdiction). Your best bet is to keep it
short--that's a maximum of 222 words. Count 'em.
High contrast photos and artwork are invited. We get to choose, you get to complain.
For everything we will print pseudonyms at your request, but we must have a name and
phone number as well.
Give us your seepage.
Page 16 Cooper Point Journal January 17, 1991
by Tedd Kelleher
If Congress passes draft-enabling
legislation, draft notices could be sent out
in as few as 24 hours, and young men
drafted eould be reporting for duty in as
few as 12 days.
.
If there is a draft, the first to be
drancd are those born during the year
1971. The draft will begin to draft those
bOI1l in · the following year only after
every eligible male from 1971 has been
inducted. The draft will induct entire age
groups, year by year, until it reaches
those born in 1966. It will then begin to
induct those who are 18 .
Unlike systems used during past
wars, men in college can be drafted. Men
drafted while in college will be allowed
to finish the quarter or semester they are
in. If the draftee is a senior, he wiu be
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505
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allowed to finiSh the year.
Although men with certain medical
problems arc exempt from military
service, the rules are more strict than
they were in the past, according to Glen
Anderson, a counselor with the Thurston
County Draft Counseling Center.
Although the system was reformed in
the early eightie~ to prevent the class
inequities encountered in the past, those
who are less educated and have less
be
drafted
money
will
still
disproportionately, according to Anderson.
People in college "know how to cope
with the system," and "don't get jacked
around as much," said Anderson.
Draft boards have already been
selected by the governor and approved by
see draft, page 5
The new swaths across Red Square have begun to disintegrate. See story on
page 5. photo by Leslyn Lee
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U.S. Postage Paid . Olympia, WA 98505
Permit No. 65
Increase
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mInImum wage"
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OL YMPIA --Washington's Office of
Financial Management (OFM), · has
recommended
that
Washington's
minimum wage be increased 55-cents an _,_
hour to $4.80 on JanUary I, 1992. Under
Initiative 518; adopted by voters in 1988,
the state minimum wage was increased
, from $2.30 per hour to $3.85 per hour on
January I, 1989, and then to $4.25 on
January 1, 1990. The initiative ' also
requires OFM to review the state
minimum wage every two years and .
"make recommendations to the legislature
and the governor regarding its increase."
"I
fully
support
OFM's
recommendation to increase the state's
minimum wage," Gardner said. "It's
tough enough to get by on the minimum
wage. These workers deserye an increase
to keep up with the cost of living, and I
urge the legislature to take action on
OFM's recommendation during the
legislative session."
Fertility
awareness
EVERGREEN--The ovulation method
of fertility awareness is a day-to-day
method of determining when in a
woman's reproductive cycle she is fertile.
It relies on daily observations and
keeping a daily chart. It involves no
chemicals or devices to put into the
woman's body, and is a safe, natural,
reliable method. A woman or couple can
use this information to achieve a
pregnancy or avoid one, and for increased
body and sexuality awareness,
News
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Anti-nuke VOIces descend on Vegas
,
by Eric Engstrom
Nine ntJclear bombs were detonated
by the United States during 1990. All of
,,..
them were underground tests conducted
,
by the Department of Energy on land
near Las ' Vegas which belongs to the
Western Shoshone Nation. The United
Found on tampon dispenser in Library
Nations is now debating a Comprehensive
women's restroom.
Test Ban Tr~ty that would halt all
nuclear weapons testing. The United
States plans to veto that treaty.
On January 4 and 5 about 2000
Any woman not on the birth control
For more information or to register
pcople gathered in Las Vegas to protest
pill can use the Ovulation Method for a class, please call Wendy at 357nuclear testing, and to show support for
including women in or approaching 463~ or the Student Health Center at
the Test Ban Treaty. A conference was
menopause, nursing mothers, and women 866-6000 x6200.
held where peace activists from around
with irregular cycles. It can be used for
the world shared strategies and solidarity.
the rest of the woman's reproductive life.
Representatives from the Soviet "NevadaWomen using this method can often
Scmipalitinsk" movement told how they
catch early signs of an infection or other
successfully closed down the nuclear
problems because of their increased
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SEATTLE--Bumbershoot, the Seattle
-~
I.ne
testlllg
awareness.
Arts Festival, is accepting applications for deadl
ehlers, representatives from the Japanese
Wendy Anita Van DiIla, a teacher the 1991 arts extravaganza. Each Labor
LACEY--The fourth annual Lacey
Congress Against the Bomb, German
certified by the Ovulation Method
Day Weekend the festival attracts more Spring Fun Fair is scheduled on Saturday
Greens, activists from Moruroa (where
Teachers Association in AnchQrage,
than a quarter-million people to the and Sunday May 4th and 5th at Saint
rr:.lnce detonates its nuclear weapons), as
Alaska, is offering classes sponsored by
Seattle Center for four days of the hottest Martin's College. Applications for food
wdl as organi zers from Greenpeace,
the Student Health Center at Evergreen.
American PC<lee Test, and Food Not
international, national and regional and commercial vendors, arts and crafts,
The class is three sessions long, two
performers and artists.
volunteers and "Kidsworld," are available
Bombs
also
participated
in
the
weeks apart and for two hours each.
conference,
This year Bumbershoot rings the bell by calling the Lacey Chamber office at
Unlimited follow-up appointments and
on its 21st year and will run from 491-4141, or by writing to: Lacey Spring
On the conference day, several
phone consultations are included. The
August 30 to September 2. Applications Fun Fair, 7 South Sound Center, Lacey,
hunureu people marched to the DOE
cost is on a sliding scale based on
are being accepted in music, theater, WA 98503.
building and surrounding it with a human
income (bartering can be arranged). Low
dance, visual arts, literary arts, kids'
This free community celebration
chain, The follo willg day 1500 pcople
or no income women or couples are $30. activities, crafts for the art market, and attracts about 10,000 visitors and is
protes ted at the test site. About 750
The two books for the class can be food booths for the Taste of Seattle. For sponsored by the Lacey Area Chamber of
pcopk were arrested as tJley crossed the
purchased at the Bookstore on campus, a Bumbershoot application please call
Commerce. The festival features two days
fence surrounding tJ'le site.
reen students were among thos~e~w;;;;hho~~=:rl
Vegas to attend a rally ,~n support of an
Your Fertility Signals and The Ovulation (206)447-9730. Deadline is February IS.
of
family
fun . including:
live
Twenty-five Greencrs (10 of whom
international treaty to ban nuclear testing. photo by Eric Engstrom
Method Charting Booklet. Partners are
freely, love freely, and know $ese people
needed to do was look into one another's
entertainment, exhibits, food, face-painting
were arrested) , sponsored by the Peace '. vorld of good by cutting all the fences
encouraged to attend at no extra charge.
and pony rides for kids, plus many more
Cel\ler and the Environmental Resource l!nd giving the site back to the pcople we
from across the globe who kare deeply
eyes."--LesJie Watkins
Classes are open to the public.
"Anger leads to activism, which is
activities.
Center, participated in the action. Some stole it from. The test site is an about this earth and each 'O ther. If we
abomination
to
the
spirits
of
the
planet."
could
only
keep
that
feeling
and
spread
what
led me to cross the line. I'm angry
EVERGREEN--S.ick? Not feeling
Non-profit and commercial vendors
11(,
of their thoughts follow.
--Mike
it--imagine."--Julia
Larmour
with
the
government desecrating land that
"When I returned I fell really
well? Is it possibly a cold? Well, come are encouraged to appl}l but Friday,
"Contrasts, Lights and people staring
"I think the thing that impressed me
we all must share, I'm angry with the
powerful. It was the first time I've been
on in to the Health Center located in the February 8, 1991 is the application
past one another along a strip, and our the most was the solidarity we kept all
government's idea to continue producing
Seminar Building 2110 and check out our deadline for vendors who wish to
\
arrested. It was elating to witness how
community
of
hope
and
celebration
in
the
the
way
through.
That,
and
the
sense
of
nuclear weapons, and most of all I'm
people united can take power instead of
cold self diagnosis center in the lobby. It participate in this year's fair. '
the
other
angry
having to pay taxes to support this
barren,
spiritually
poisoned
desert.
friendliness
and
kinship
among
vicin!!y .
will inform you about the signs and
being pushed along by our corrupt
Empowerment
and
a
mindful
return
protesters.
It
was
a
very
supportive
senseless
production."--Barbara Bellettiere
0116: Non-student dislocated right knee
symptoms of the common cold and help
govcrnmenl."--Ryan Soners
through
our
meditative
playfulness
in
the
"The
reason I've gone down to the
at the "Over Slimulatio'n of the Senses"
you discern whether or not you need to
"1 wonder how many megawatts of
Valley
sands."--Mark
Dooley
"It
was
elating
to
test
site
in
years past, and will continue
Death
Dance
I'n
Ll'brary
4300.
VI·c·:m
k
'
f
Ilower
the
lights
of
Las
Vegas
use,
Let's
u
ma e an appomtment to see one 0 our
"The lights of Yegas suck-Lheir'-----"·'QwHness-ht>W- peef>,....
le
~----lto-S.o-in-the-future,-is-simply-because-l,----eekJn"--_ _-+_ ___'.I=.l
IlIJl.h!g the dumR! I think we could do a
transported to Blac1LHills--.Hospital.,- - - - 'pr,actitiQners.- _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _-J:.Y..ERGREEN~erg.LrJL
power out of the Colorado River. The
united can take
couldn't not go. It's when I get recharged
0950: Graffiti found on the south side of
The common cold is caused by a Natural History Journal, in its second
'
people
looked
sucked
dry,
too.
Spiritual
on community, optimism, love, and
the CAB.
virus and not a bacteria, therefore it year of combining th~ ~di~ciplines , of
poverty
in
one
of
the
richest
cities
in
power
.
..
inspiration."--Jolie Lonner
"
2246: Report from A-Dorm of two men
cannot be treated with antibiotics. You science, literature, and art, IS acceptmg
America.
And
this
is
where
we
chanted.
"I'm really pleased that so many
being verbally abusive to students, one of
can take care of a cold by avoiding submissions for the winter issue through
This
is
where
we
marched
with
banners.
atmosphere.
All
in
all
it
was
a
very
people
from Evergreen were willing to
"
which may have been armed; Thurston
vigorous activity, by drinking extra fluids, Groundhog Day, February 2.
Through
the
slot
machines,
past
the
educational
and
spiritual
experience."-drop
everything
to go to Nevada on such
County called, the men were removed
and relieving the symptoms with nonContributors may submit writing or
I,
us-owe
marched
Michelle
O'Byrne
short
notice,
I'm
hoping for 50 in the
dealers
who
smirked
at
)
from campus.
prescriptive medication.
artwork related to natural history or the
j'
through
the
streets
of
Vegas
and
people
"I
never
felt
so
close,
so
fast,
to
spring."--Julian
DePuma,
Peace Center
Sunday, January 20
Also available is the "Cold Care Kit." environment Guidelines and additional
honked
in
support.
Dancing
girls
gave
us
anyone
as
I
did
to
my
affinity
group
Coordinator
0139: Three high school students hanging
It has been created for your convenience information are available at the ENHJ
the peace sign. The conference was a when we were arrested. There were four
If you're interested in participating in
around dorm loop, acting suspicious.
and is intended to help you take care of temporary office, located near the "H"
microcosm
of
peace--so
many
places
of
us
who
refused
to
recognize
[police]
the
spring trip to the Nevada test site,
2035: The thermostat 'in the Library
your cold in your own home. It is a section in the library stacks--study room
grabbing
the
person
next
to
them
and
authority
on
Shoshone
land,
and
the
contact
the PC<lce Center at x6098.
men's restroom was reported to have
great deal for your health as well as your 3316. Copies of the first issue are
speaking,
sharing
their
emotion,
and
the
others
stayed
wilh
us,
supporting
us
in
Eric
Engstrom is interested in Soviet
been tom from the wall.
,budget. - ' The kit includes Tylenol, available for $1 in the Bookstore.
of
their
worlds.
I
felt
such
peace
our
decision
not
to
walk
[to
the
police
allitudes
and perceptions toward 'nue/ear
Monday, January 21
Sudanyl, tissue, disposable thermometers,
and
joy
to
pc
able
to
speak
freely,
act
veNo
words
were
needed.
All
we
weapons
testing,
0214: A vehicle was vandalized while
and Chloraseptic throat lozenges. They
parked in the dorm loop.
can be purchased for $2.25 from the
0406: A potted tree was vandalized on
Student Health Center from 8 am-noon
the 1st floor of the CAB.
and 1-5 pm Monday through Thursday,
Holl8Uc Thenpy lOr
kub! mel ChranIc: Allmento
1000: People were reported to be
6-9 pm Wednesday evening, and 8 amCo\oered by,HartJ'GnI bwurance
noon on Fridays.
sleeping in a V.W. ,Van in F-Lol.
IIARJ[ JANARDAII" PIlULBAII C.A.
352-8247
EXPERT REPAIR SERVICE
Campus security informed the people that
they were ' not permitted to do so.
PARI'S
FOR THE DO-IT YOURSELFER
1500: People reported to still be sleeping
in F-Lot, campus security told them to
aE.IL... ..,I~~-VOUS
.
leave.
EVERGREEN--A disappearing task
...
Campus security preformed 54
force has been appointed by Interim '
public services (escorts, jumpstarts,
President Les Purce to develop the
I
locks/unlocks, etc.).
process that will be used to select a new
"War is menstruation envy"
Applications for
Bumbershoot
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Lacey Fair
set
Stuff it 'and get
"Cold Care Kit"
Security Blotter
VVednesday, January 16 ·
1338: Fifty vehicles were cited for
ex pired tabs,
2015: A wallet was reported stolen from
LAB 2.
Thursday, January 17
1043: Burnt toast caused a fire alarm in
S-Dorm.
1912: Three nude women were reported
to be causing a disturbance in the sauna
of the men's locker room at the CRC
Center. The women refused to answer
questions to campus security.
2030: Graffiti was found on the north
side of the CAB.
2206: Graffiti was reported to be on the
1st floor of the Library.
Friday, January 18
0857: Graffiti was found on the 1st floor
of the CAB.
1920: Graffiti was reported to be in the
Lab 1 men's restroom.
1949: Graffiti was found in the Library
3rd floor men's restroom.
2246: Custodial services reported that the
wires had been pulled on their "little
cart."
2337: Fire alarm in Library Lounge 2;
911 called.
2337: Vehicle headlights were broken in
C-Lot
Saturday, January 19
0033: Suspicious person reported to be in
C-Lot, a flat tire reported on vehicle in
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president: The DTE has been , cbarged
with"-identifying- the-:primary~ Challenges '
facing Evergreen in tI\e 19908 and
identifying the ' qualities and traits the
president will need. , '
The task force is scheduled to deliver
thei,r recommendations by March 12. The
board of trustees is hoping to appoint a
new president no later than July 1, 1992.
The members of the Presidential
Search Process Disappearing Task Force
are: Faculty members Jan Ott, Pris
Bowerman, Richard Cellarius; staff
members
Shannon
Ellis,
Michael
HuIitsberger,
Eugene
Fujimoto;
community members Marilyn Ward,
Virginia Taylor; alumni Steve Salmi,
Doug Riddels; students Jennifer Nelson,
Raquel Salinas; Trustees Lila Girvin, and
John Tercey.
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Miscellaneous
News
Seattle war protest
I..y Honnalore Metzger
About 200 war supporters descended
on the Seattle Federal Building Saturday
evening for a yelling and chanting
confrontation with the anti-war activists
who usc the Federal Building as a
makeshift base camp.
Earlier in the day about 5000 peace
supporters marched from Gasworks Park
to the University of Washington.
The pro-war marchers appeared in a
i1utler of countless American nags, taking
over half the street and ye lling "U .S.A.,
U.S .A!" and "Support our troops!"
The men, women, and childrpn then
gathered opposite the Fedeml Building.
Anti-war suppo rters, who numbered
about 250. surged immediately toward the
curb shoutin g, "Bring 'em home al ive!"
Seattle Police quickly formed a
hUlllan barrier between the two factions.
which allowed buses and cars to pass,
but kept the opposing sides contained.
Pro-war signs proclaimed, "Peace
through superior fire power" and
"Freedom isn't fre e," bu t most hoisted the
ado pted pro-war sy mbol: the American
nag.
Although abo ut half the peace
~ upporters joined h,mds in a circle away
lcom the curb, others eagerly traded
t,lUnL, li ke "impeac h Bush" wi th the other
Si lk . c1espi'te picas from movement
leaders to be "quiet and peaceful."
After the initial agitation had died
down, many peace advocates simply
stared at the war supporters with
expressions r~ging .from ridicule and
incredulity to alarm and sadness.
"Each side of the street wants peace,"
commented . Scott Miller, an Olympia
peace supporter who stood watching the
confrontation. He has allended several
protests since the war started.
. "[War supporters] are
good
Americans just like you and me. ' Just a
lillie wrapped up in their fl ags," he said.
Pro-war demonstrator Brian Bills
asserted that the war is a moral
imperative.
"[HusseinJ has killed eno ugh people
already. What' s his quota'? The only way
to stop people like that is through
m iIi tmy force."
Another pro-war activist defiantly
revealed his "FUCK Iraq" shirt to peace
supporters.
Both sides cheered and applauded
wi ldl y when cars went by in support of
their side.
"Ii's like a big footbaJl game,"
observed Scott Allison, an organizer of
the Federal Building peace protest.
/lonna
Met zger
has
rece ntly
purchased an America n fla g pendant.
Strip degradation under investigation
The Student Governance of The Evergreen State College on
Wednesday, January 23, 1991, unanimously voted to approve the
following resolutions:
by Paula Michele
The recently constructed anti-slip
strips installed ' on Red Square this fall
arc now cracked. Laura Barrett, assistant
facilities designer, claims that three
separate tests are now being conducted to
determine exactly what happened to the
concrete. These tests, which include
petrography, will also indicate how the
cement should be repaired.
Barrell stated that de-icer was placed
on the cement during the winter holiday
to help prevent accidents. Furthermore,
RESOLUTION FOR SUPPORT OF ANTI·WARACTIVITIES
The students of The Evergreen State College resolve to support
the efforts of fellow students, staff, faculty and administrators who
have taken a position that opposes the Persian Gulf War. The war in
the Persian Gulf is representative of the precise kind of harm that is
caused in an environment where substantive dialogue is suppressed
rather than entered into. The students of The Evergreen State College
will regard any punitive actions taken by the administration without
just cause against members of The Evergreell State College
community to be a per se violation of the First Amendment
guarantees of free speech.
SANCTUARY RESOLUTION
The students of The Evergreen State College wish to acknowledge
'lnd strongly support The Evergreen State College faculty vote of
January 16, 1991 that establishes The Evergreen State College as a
sanctuary for all G.l. and other resistors to the Persian Gulf War. We
further wish to extend sanctuary to Arab Americans and returning
U.s. Persian Gulf veterans harassed by United States government
officials. We also acknowledge and support the ~fforts of currently
enlisted servicemen and women who are conscientiously objecting to
this wa r.
by Dr. Jennifer Booker
You sit in front of the TV and watch
unreal, eerie pictures of the Middle East,
maps of strikes and bleary-eyed
newscasters. The feelings of horror,
sadness; fear, tension, and hopelessness
can be overwhelming. Everybody is
feeling it. For some the psychological
...you, the individual
are neither singly
responsible for sta.rtirig
the war, or for stopping
REQUEST TO FLYTHE FLAG AT HALF MAST
In addition to the approval of the resolutions, the Student
Governance is also submitting a reques t that the U.s. flag located at
the main entrance to campus be lowe red to half mast for the
duration of th e Persian Gulf War.
it.
HealtlL risks In traveling overseas
Lil. Dudo
i:. very year ,
E vergn.:en
stud ents.
tacult y. and start. Journe\' to overseas
destinati ons for vacation and stud y. yet
they may be ill-prepared to cope with the
pOlelllial
health risks in volved in
inlernational travel.
People usually do not visit a health
care provider 'prior to a Lrip, perhaps
because they are unaware health hazards
exist, or they believe the health risks arc
slight in the areas they will be visiting.
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inacc ura te due to the ever-changing
geograph ic disLribution of disease patterns
and international health requirements.
Without
proper
precautionary
measures and knowledge of disease
prevention , American travellers can
contract illnesses . which ran ge from being
simpl y bo thersome to disruptive to li fethreatenin g or even fatal. Because we are
not acclls tomed to encountering the
majority of these illnesses in North
America, most of us arc not aware tha t
unless our normal daily habits arc
co nsciously alte red while abroad, serious
illnesse ' ccm be co nLractecl.
Several
sources
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medical
inlormaLioll arc avai lable to the traveler.
Thc reso urce book, lIealth Information
For International Travel, as well as
weckly upd ates, are kept at the Student
Health Center for use in giving
individualized advice to those planning
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existence in this moment for despair can
only feed war. Trust your ability to deal
with war in the best possible way for
you, and therefore those around you and
the world through the ripples of peace
coming from you.
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Family Medicine in Olympia.
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responsible for starting the war, or for
stopping it. Yet you can relieve your
anxiety and stress by doing things about
it that you are able to do, make a phone
call, carry a sign, join a march or rally,
speak out about how you feel. Reach out
to your support network and be there
when they reach out to you. Take care
of yourself by eating good food and
getting enough sleep. Plenty of B
vitamins and vitamifl C are very
important during stressful times. Stay
away
from
stress foods,
refined
carbohydrates,caffeine and sugar. You
can increase your effectiveness in creating
peace by keeping your personal power at
its healtlliest and most optimal level.
Don't forget that exercise is an excellent
release valve for tension and stress, and
can help prevent us from storing it in our
bodies.
Remember the Buddhist Koan of the
monk running from an angry bear who
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to grab onto a branch to save himself
only to see a starving tiger waiting
beneath him . Two hungry gophers begin
to gnaw on the branch he hangs by. He
sees a bush of wild strawberries and
plucks and eats the giant, red, ripe juicy
berry, and he joyously exclaims, "How
delicious!" With this spirit we can create
previously not competed.
The men, represented by five
swimmers on Friday and three on
Saturday, managed to score 27 points
behind a seventh place finish in the 200yard medley re lay and Brad Carlson 's
fourth place in the lOO-yard breaststroke.
Carlson, who competed at the NAIA
National Meet in ul e spring of 1990, is
still working to bring his times down .~
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about this war, this distress of wartime?
One thing to remember . is that you,
the individual are neither singly
diseases which ma y u" encountered have appollltment
lor
an
individuali/.cd
no vaccines. and some have no treaUnent. consulta ti on at least 4-6 weeks prior to
Therefore, preca utionary measures arc the yo ur departure date. A little know ledge
traveler ' s onl y defense agai nst contracting ;lIId preparation can make for a successful
what may be' a seriously debilitating or and enj oyable experience, and bring YOll
even dead ly illness.
home Il1 good heaJth.
If you arc planning to travel abroad,
Li z Dudo is a firSl-lime contributor to
it IS recommended you make an the CPJ.
travel abroad .
Because so much more is vital in
bcing prepared for safe foreign travel
th:1I1
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checkin g
vaccination
rcquirements, it is imp0l1ant to makc an
appoi ntment with a medical proVider
knowl edgeable in current Lravel-rclated
health co ncems prior to departure. Many
she believes that dc-icer could not have
harmed the anti-slip strips unless it was,
"weak concrete to begin with."
A spokesperson for First Brands
Corporation,
located
in
Danbury,
Connecticut, stated that Prestone DEICER, "like many other brands of deicer, is not recommended for use on
porous surfaces such as icy concrete ...we
don't advise it." This corporation
not a safety problem, and the strips arc
still "more or less non-skid."
According to Barrett, the test results
will be out by the end of this week. the
cause, solution and cost to repair the
concrete on Red square.
, Paula Michele.[ormerly Paula Lang ,
is af) Evergreen student. A future article
will report the cause, solution, and cost
for repair of Red Square's cracks.
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suggested that sand would be the safest
and most effective solution for ice and
snow on cement.
Mike Cotey, a campus safety officer,
claimed he was uncertain why sand was
not used, but remarked by using de-icer
maintenance would not have to shovel
sand after the ice and snow melted.
Maintenance had no comment Cotey also
stated, "In hindsight, it was ' not the best
approach. It was probably the only one
open at the time." At this point, he
believes the cracks on the concrete are
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. REDUCE
RE-USE
RECYCLE
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Evergreeil has an active recycling
program which needs stror!g community
parlicip~lion.
Through Ihis regular
column, readers can become informed
aboUi how the program works and how
they can help its effectiveness. c-edilOr
by Glenn Duncan
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Evergreen has good facilities for
col lecting recyclables, but not everything
is accepted by the outside recycling·
contractors. These are the materials that
vendors wi ll haul away from the college
at this time.
GLASS: All colors of food and
beverage containers. You don't have to
remove the aluminum rings or the labels.
No light bulbs, window glass, or heattreated glass (Mr. Coffee-type containers,
test tubes, and so forth). These exclusions
arc in affect because certain glass types
botch up the remelt process. Please
separate by color, again because of the
remelt process whic h turns bottles into
more bottles and requires a high degree
of color purity to do so.
ALUMINUM: Cans, tin foil, and
those crushable pic plate affairs. Every
bit recycled reduces the amount of the
planet being ground uP. for raw bauxite.
Also, the energy costs for refining
recycled material are much lower than
that for the conversion of bauxite into
fin ished 'goods.' If you're going to
recycle aluminum foil, make sure it's free
of food remains.
TIN: 'Tin' cans. Food containers of
all types . THE LABELS MUST BE
REMOVED, because they muck up the
process by which the 1% of each can
that is actually tin is removed in a waterbath. The C,IDS must also be washed out,
have ·the ends removed, and be flattened
before recycling. This is the vendor's
request and is due to the transportation
costs involved in serving the Evergreen
campus.
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starting to get geared up for plastic
rec ycl ing , so at thi s point most kinds of
plastic arc not recyclable. The vendor
will ONLY accept P.E.T. plastic at this
time, which is the type found in plastic
pop bottles, seltzer bOLlles, and liquor
containers.
This is the on ly -type of plastic that
can be recycled on campus, so please
don't add milk containers, JUice
containers, shampoo bottles, cooking oil
bottles,
detergent
bottles,
yogurt
containers or any other plastic to the
recycling stream because they must be
separated out by' someone else and
redirected into the trash dumpster. Milk
and juice containers (H.D.P.E. plastic) are
currently accepted at many recycling
. centers, and it is hoped the Evergreen
recycling program will expand to include
them at a later date.
PAPER: Nearly all grades of paper
can be recycled, the exceptions being
waxed paper, carbon paper and some
specifics like used tissue paper and paper
with food wastes on it. Envelopes with
plastic windows are recyclable, and you
don't have to remove staples joining
multiple sheets before recycling them.
At this time there is no paper
recycling operation set up in the housing
complex·. There is a well-established
paper recycli ng operation on the main
. campus; in the housing area the situation
.is reversed. A lack of protected areas for .
storage, difficulty in gelling the paper to
the central processing area and a high
degrcc of contamination made paper
recycling in the housing complex less
than successful last year. This aspect of
Evergreen's recycling operation will be
addressed in the fu ture. For now, call
x6326 to leam the locations on the main
campus where paper can be recycled.
Glenn Duncan is Evergreen's
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OPEN DO'OR LECTURE AND FILM SERIES
Tuesday, January 29
Lecture: "The Colonial EXperience of Latin America," Peta Henderson, Cultures in Collision, 9-11 am, CAB 110.
Lecture: "Cam us dans son temps," Marianne Bailey, French Culture, 11:15 am-12:30 pm, LH 4.
Film: "Family Gathering, Lise Yasui, 1988, and Survivor Art and Poetry, Society, Social Change, and the Expressive Arts,
12:45-3:30 pm, LH 3.
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Wednesday, January 30
Lecture: "The Indian Environment: Agriculture," John Perkins, Environment, Regions, and Governance, 10-12, LH 2.
Lecture: "La Pen see de Camus," Susan Fiksdal, French Culture, 10:30 am-noon, LAB I 1050.
Thursday, January 31
Media Lab Student Presentations:
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Christine Sund presents the work of Chick Strand, including "Coming up for Air," 1986. 10-11 am, Recital Hall.
Dwayne Waller presents the work of Black Audio Collective, including "Handsworth Songs," 1982. II-noon, Recital Hall.
Di~ma Baumgart presents the work of David Erlich. Selections TBA. 1-2 pm, LH 5.
Beverly Chambers presents the work of John Waters, including clips from "Polyester," 1981; "Pink Flamingos," 1971; and
"Hairspray," 1989. 2-3 pm, LH 5.
Julian DePuma presents the work of William Wegman. Selections TBA. 3-4 pm, LH 5.
Lecture: "Men and Women of the Corporation," Management and the Public Interest, 9-11 am, L4300.
Film: TBA, French Culture, 3:30-5:30 pm, LH 3.
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Nisqually monster surVIves blast
by
Ch~is
Bader
Residents of the Nisqually area had
been reporting a monster. It was October
of 1965--a dark night near the Nisqually
Delta, riorth of Olympia. Russel Geis and
Dennis Lensagrav', two 18-year-old
Boeing employees, were driving home
skinny chest, but appeared "stumpy below
from work.
As the boys parked in a clearing near the belt." Its hands were as big ."as
Meridian Road and Highway 99, a hams."
Various residents had theories about
strange creature appeared in their
the creature. It was suggested that it
headlights.
Interviewed later, the boys described might be an albino bear, a space monster,
it as seven feet tall, with an egg-shaped . or even an escaped patient from Western
head ana large pink eyes. Its nose was State Hospital--a hypothesis supported by
small and its mouth a mere slit. Hairless, rcports that the monster wore a "white
except for bushy eyebrows, it had a smock."
Geis apparently was convinced . he
was seeing a monster. He aimed his .22caliber rifle and shot it in the head
knocking it over a patch of ferns.
'
The c~eature survived the blasl :'It
got up and took off fast, back in the
tulewamps. There wasn't any blood on
the ground," said Geis.
Several days later, Geis . and
Lcnsagrav found a trail of large footprints
near an old logging road. Branches were
twisted and broken, including ones rising
six feet above ground.
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"It was like the thing was on a big
rampage or something," said Geis.
Geis and Lensagrav disaireed as to
the nature of the being they saw.
Lensagrav never felt threatened by it.
·He did not call it a monster, but believed
it to be "reaily intelligent."
Meanwhile, Geis, though he shot it in
the head, was equally unsure about what .
he saw.
"About the only thing I can figure
out is that it' s a human, but I don't think
it's [rom our world ... .!t looked like a
monster you see on television."
Its been 25 years since the monster
of Nisqually was sighted. Geis just may
have finished it off.
Chris Bader brings readers a SlOry of
a John Lennon channeler in next week's
Another Washington .
Unwary cooks cause conflagrations
by R.J. Nesse
Don't rcad this article, watch that pot
of "soon-to-bc-boiled-dry" ramen on the
stovc. Then, as the sirens of responding
fire crews ring, you can take solace in
the fact that it's not your burning food
that has set off the alarm.
Student Housing's Fire Detection
System warrants applause. Fire Chief
Mike Peters, of McLane Fire District,
professes, "Housing residents are living in
the safest dorms in the state." He makes
this claim Witll confidcnce, knowing that
highly sensitized smoke detcctors in each
hallway inspect each passing breeze for
signs of smoke.
This is why every time dinner begins
tesc --
to smoulder on the stove, sending smoke
wafting into the hallway, sirens start to
ring beforc you can say Chef Boyardee.
Security Chief Gary Russell chuckled
as he contemplated ways to decrease
false alarms: "If we took out the fire
extinguishers and put in cookbooks, it
just might have an effect. " He also
suggesled, "burning food with the door
open isn' t suc h a good idea."
Dorm Manager Ann Lackland has
given some serious thought to burning
food, and false alarms in gcneral, and has
noticed trends emerging from the assorted
donns. D-Dorm is infamous for its burnt
rice. C and D-dorms enjoy reputations
lhat spurn from their toast a la flambe ,
singed cheese sandwiches, and blackbOllomed tea kettles. And last, and
certainly least, A-Dorm is distinguished
for nothing -other th,ID its proficient false
pulls.
Ann concluded, "Evergreen has a
notable lack of gourmets."
So let this be a warning, makers of
macaroni and the like, close your door
bcl'orc you turn tile oven 011; ,md recall
that the old wives' talc "a watc hed pot
nevcr boil s.. ." is an old wives' talc.
WATCH YOUR POTS!
R..!. Nesse has never burnt rice.
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Frost-covered tree limbs and open
spaces have not been the only indication
of a chiJJ in the air during the past week.
As our leaders have seen fit to instigate
war, a glum mood has descended among
~"--'-''-'-'''-'L~.~ pe...a.c_e ~n
the-Exergreen
commul11ty.
People who seek an escape from
media-blitz madness, censored news
repo~ts, and energy-draining rallies might
consld~r a slow walk through the woods,
or. a triP to the water's edge. Despite the
misery humans bring upon themselves
there ~s another world out there, tccming
With life, mystery, and promise.
January can be a good time to hear
resident saw-whet owls and western
screech owls hoot at night, or winter
wrens bu~ble a jumble of high whistled
notes dunng the day. Hairy woodpeekers
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form pair bonds in the wintertime, so a
pair of them might be found foraging
together in a patch of deciduous forest.
As these and other birds start to give
some indication that springtime may not
be far off, they inevitably defend
lernlones wh1cti conlam resources tIley
require for a successful breeding season.
Conflict and aggression are regular
occurrences, though they rarely result in
death.
Find solace in nature, but consider
the sandgrouse and lark and the other
innocent lives being taken in the sands
~ounding: the Persian Gulf.
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' Response
Forum
a
Protests are"democracy in action
by Paul Slusher
Today I thought about the hundreds,
possibly thousands, dead already. Today
I saw people crying, people frightened,
and pcople very ~ngry . George ~ush's
war, for eco~o~lc advantage IS the ·
m~lIgator, the Intltator, the cr~tor of all
thiS world madnes.s and all thiS needless
death and destructIOn.
But today I also went . to a ~ly,
wh~re man~ people of ~~Ing pohltcal
behefs, rehglOus convlc~ons" cu.ltural
backgrounds, and sexual onentabon came
.
toge th e.r ~ speak . Democracy .
m aclton.
This IS real ~em~racy, whe~ we see
the people of thiS natton, and thIS world,
come together ~o say no t~ w~. ~eople
have protested m every major City 10 the
country. Peopl~ were protes~ng ~fore
the actual fightmg staned. This anu-war
movement is an unprecedented one that I
am proud to witness.
lSI
bl ked affi'
n eatt e, we
oc
tr lC m
downtown for many hours. Then we
moved on to stop all traffic, both north
d SOU th
I
5
an A
,on nktedrstate . th
s we struc
own on, e pavement
of
the
four-lane
hlghwa.y,
the
dem~nstrators ~ame ecstat~c. The
emOllons ran so high that one might have
thought that we had suddenly freed the
world. Everywhere I looked I saw people
jumping and shouting, screaming and
embracing,
chanting
and
working
together, No leaders, no hierarchy, no
laws, no violators,. simply people with
their belief in moral duty. Needless to
say, it was a powerful afternoon.
The war on Iraq, that Congress never
actually declared itself, has cost the lives
of many, all for George's famed "New
World <?rder." Mr. Bush has done the
worst cnme one can do to humanity. He
has killed for power. He has sent the
financially downtrodden military off to
kill for U.S. control of planet Earth. I
. not our leader at all,
daresay Mr. Bush IS
but ~ crim~a1, a liar, and a coconspm~tor ., m the quest for world
economic control.
Today I am angry. I am hateful. The
h!ghest representative of the people has
kdled. He has used my money. He has
used the money of millions of others to
wage war on a country and a planet that
,
. .
neither ~anted nor deserved It. Bush IS
my pubhc ,enemy ~~ber one.
Bush IS a strikmg symbol of the
' , ,
matenalistlc, power ,hungry system that
employs the world's murderers, fascists,
and destructive influences. He represents
the system by which the planet today is
in peril. He represents the Earthly
sickness from which we may all perish.
I hope others can see the crime in
this war. From the looks of it, this
campus does. As people who believe in and accelerate our advances. It is easier
peace we must take this message than one thinks. It is said "the people,
outward. We must let our fear. our anger, united; wiD never be defeated." There
and ,o ur sadness be a fuel on the fire. very well could be some truth to that.
Direct those feelings at the people who
Now that Mr. Bush has closed off
have created them. I say that George the borders, both north arid south to all '
~ush must ~o', We must mo~e to American boys between the a es'of 18lI~peach a, cnmmal wh? can. himself . 26, the situation has become ~tentiallY
~lSsent a¥ams~ ,:"orl~ oplmon ume ~d explosive. A draft could be less -than 90
ttme agam, kil~ng mnocent people m days away. Toda I am an
that m
countless ~ountnes, and then suddenly country is goin ~ ask oungry
Ie ~
stan poSSible World W8! III. on .the go and kill for ~orporateY rolts~~ I
argument that the "world IS behmd him" ask you to be angry 'thP
...~ ... _ Y
. "d'
WI shake
me. the
.lU\Uly we
and that he IS
omg wha"
tiS nght. "
must stand together and
tr .
He~ at Evergreen~ the surrounding which the powers that be are hidin;'
comm~mty, and seetr.tmgly .the w~rld, they do not respond. then we must find
th~re IS ~ understan~mg. This war IS. a the mightiest axe and chop that tree
cnme agamst humaruty. The world Will down. We must not allow this country to
never forgive him for his dec~ion. to wage war on the world. The only people
attack Iraq on January 16. For this crune
h
h
th
thi
he should be punished. His sentence: to w 0
ave
e po;er to 1stop th. s
lS
be removed through impeachment, to be ccoorPn°trrateIfwar aret f ~I thpeop e m' ll be
h n
th
ld th
d
u y.
we are 0 aI
en we WI
s 0:-v up l? e wor
at we stan
accomplices in their crimes against
agamst the likes of Bush.
humanity. However, if we are able to
We cannot afford not to. We are
d
be bl to
11
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th
ha'
all d th
succec, we may
a e
pu
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"IGvm mS ~,~ountry t t IS c e Ide humanity into a new age ... a time when
~ea.t atan m many parts 0 f th e wor.
there is no war, no hunger, and no
!hIS IS th~ c~untry ~t leads the world George Bush.
10 per capita mcarceratlOn.
,
Paul Slusher is a regular contributor
.
I.f we love ow: planet and all Its to the CPJ.
mhabltants then startIng today we should
speak out louder than ever. We should
amplify our voices. We should streamline
fr
No 'peace' for . gay and lesbian cOITlITlunities
by Patrick Wright
marginality. As a member of a
Sexuality
is
naturalized
as
disenfranchised group, my engagement
hcterosexual, therefore most people don't
with a group that marginalizes some of
my concerns requires a response that
take seriously the voices and concerns of
reflects these marginalizations. It requires
gays and lesbians. They are generally
seen as deviant or exotic. Thus, I use the
saying two or more things at once.
A poster at one of the protests read
word PANIC in the title of my column It's very hard to sing 'give peace a
to denote the reaction of ~hetcrosexuals chance' when the only peace we are
"Queers for World Peace." Gay and
lesbian liberation politics are based on
who find their sexuality may not be so singing about is the halting of oven
'natural' after all.
American military action in the Middle
visibility; on making oneself known as
This panic can be seen as an affect East.
gay or lesbian. The poster serves this
of the decentralization of a heterosexual
I want the intervention to stop, but I
purpose and at the same time protests the
identity. A modem Homosexual identity also want retribution for the gay and
war. It is rare that heterosexuals ever
is a socio-cultural identity, loosely based lesbian communities who have suffered
think that someone might be gay or
lesbian. In the context of an anti-war
on biology, which can function as an great losses because of AIDS, a crisis
- 'other!-tc-Heteresex-tlaltty;-Heteresewality-mat has occurred-with-very little---prolest-it-makes-vibJe-gays-aneHesbians
who are not normally acknowledged as
is defmed by what it is not government or cultural support. I want
Homosexuality. Homosexuality is negated. the regulations against our bodies to end;
panicipants.
Another poster read "End Racist
The historical formation of communities i,c. anti-abortion, anti-sodomy laws. I
of gays and lesbians, acts against such a want white Americans to own tlJe fact
Wars at Home and Abroad!" This points
relationship by redefining them/our selves that there is a disproportionate nurrlber of out that the war in the Middle East is
racist and that racism exists in America.
as legitimate or 'normal.' Another blacks in the military; a disproportionate
example of decentralization of an identity number of blacks have contracted HIV; It takes the critical position that the war
in the Middle East won't end until racism
is when white people realize that the and a disproportionate number of blacks
world doesn't consist of reflections of arc in jail. America is not the land of in America has ended. Both posters make
themselves and when it does, it's usually equal opportunity.
.
connections between different issues and
to the negation of another racial identity
I am simultaneously a pan of the suggest the imponance of rigorously
(i.e, Blacks, Asians, Hispanic).
protests as an individual against the war developing new critical methods to
1 have a very different relationship to
and also an outsider because of my
understand how cenain people 'are denied
' Peace,' as a gay white man than did I relationship with the notion of peace. equal rights.
Bringing home the troops isn't my only
I made a poster with three different
felt most people did at the protests in
Sylvester Park during the past few weeks. concern when I talk of peace. The key xeroxed images; a hand pinching the tip
For myself peace hasn't existed in
word is simultaneous. It acknowledges of a condom that covered a penis, a male
America prior to the bombing of Kuwait.
the
complexity
of identity
and mouth about to lick a male nipple and a
Politics of
Panic and t])esire
photo of George Bush. The two erotic
images had large yellow text above them
that read "SAFE." A red text above
George read "UNSAFE." The poster
made visible the unaddressed complexity
of issues. It was a re-write of the 'make
love, not war' slogan with a safe sex/gay
slant.
The words safe and unsafe are used
to describe sexual practices which
decrease the spread of HIV. By using
them in a political context, they make the
link between sexuality/sexual practices
and how the government polices and
stigmatizes cenain sexual practices. They
also sexuali2eBush In a very negauve
way. George Bush is obviously unsafe for
everyone.
The poster explicitly outlines the war .
Bush has waged ' against gays and
lesbians, for example by supporting the
Helms Amendment which prohibits
federal funding for safe sex educational
materials that support or condone
Homosexuality. By pUlling this poster in
the context of an anti-war protest, it
directly addresses the war in the Middle
East and the many wars being waged
locally by the U.S. government
Patrick Wright's Panic and Desire is
to be a regular feature on the Forum
page.
_
~OTI!~'s WOrm~~me £9!?-~~inl1:,~ ~ !2~~~E.~e~Udg}~~~2'uestion.
Much hypocrisy has been inves~~ in
the "responSible use of ~ang~~ge, but
few have challenged ~e Ill~glumacy of
state propaganda and Its tacltcs.
Six white male faculty and staff
walked out on Larry Mosqueda, a faculty
of color, during a faculty seminar January
17 when he said, "criminal political
system ." Allegedly the phrase is "jargon"
and "labeling" and does · not fairly
represent the "good" things that our
government does.
But that "good" is not shared equally
in this nation or in th,e world. For middle
class values there IS a comfon zone
within which to reform, but the privileged
often ~ct to retard systema~c, c~ange
when It threatens comfon. Privtleged
groups ~el~,om , give ~p their pri~ileges
voluntanly, SaId Manm Luther King, Jr.
With the Pentagon c~ntrol,ling war
coverage, a powerful case IS bemg made
for the effectiveness of sman weapons
apan from their cost in human lives. "In
the absence of moral purpose, man
himself becomes smaller as the works of
Amencans have f~l~d to ,conf~nt
~odern weaponry ~s cnmmal. King srud,
the very destructive J?O~er of modem
wea~o~~ of warfare ehmmates even the
POSSlblhty that war may longer serve as
a negative good."
The ftrst night's
caused
150,000
Iraqis
causalities
(unpublished State Department report)
considerably
exceeding
the
most
"efficient" day at Auschwitz, "We test out
our latest weapons (on the Vietnamese)
just as the Germans tested out new
medicine and new tortures in the
c~ncentration camps of Europe," said
Kmg.
Emulating Joseph Goebbels, Nazi
Minister of ~opaganda, Mike Conklin of
KaMa-RadIO, falsely reported that
protesters had defecated, urinated, and
destroyed propeny when they took over
the state house chambers on January 15.
These charges were gleefully taken up by
the Republican caucus but were absent
from other news reports. "I'm tired of
the press and others trying to brainwash
people and let us feel that there are no
Page 8 Cooper Point Journal January 24, 1991
about Vie~am.
,
Pr~panng for and instigating war,
producmg an~ deploying weapons of
mass destrucuon, engaging war against
civilian populations and interfering in the
internal affairs of sovereign nations are
all violations of international law by the
United States that imply criminality in the
legal sense.
Transferring
the
destabilizing
consequences of a militarized economy to
disadvantaged segments of the population
is criminal in a moral sense .because it
de~~anizes ma~r to suppon the
pnvdege of a few. But one day we must
come to see that an edifice which
pro d u ~ e s
beg gar s . nee d S
restructunng.... You see, my friends, when
you ~ea1 ~ith this, you begin!o ,~t~
queslton, Who owns the od?
srud
Ki~g. .
~urthermore, . "a
radical
rediStribulton of power must take place."
When people began to whine about
King's anti-war rhetoric jeopardizing
funding, he responded, "I don't determine
what is right or wrong by looking at the
"b
it safe?' Expediency asks the question,
'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along
and asks the question, 'Is it popular?'
But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it
right?' And there comes a time when
one must take a position that is neither
safe nor politic nor popular but he must
do it because Conscience t~lls him it is
right."
We celebrate King but denigrate
Mosqueda and the protesters for saying
the same things. Monday I glimpsed
white liberals all across this nation lipsynching in unison "I have a dream .. ."
But what right do we have to celebrate
his birthday? If we only identify with
Martin Luther the dreamer, forgetting
Martin Luther the radical actor it seems
that we deny a pan of King's history.
Hector Douglas
Evergreen graduate.
is
a
more Forum, page 14
recent
Balancing act
inequitable
.'8LAMr TfJf
S/M, . multiple partners, monogamy,
T
J!l,ItCh/Femme, Rubber; Man/boy lovers,
C 11 IVI :..t '1.
Drag Queens, Bisexuals, Transvestites.
Irt response to Gile R. Downes;
The divisions and unequal power
"Homosexuals are off the Deep End,"
dynamics along gender, race, and class
(December 6, 1990 CP1) written in
boundaries also function within the 'gay
response to Jim Allbaugh's !' H e t e r o s e x i s t a n d lesbian communities.
Any . representation or classification
Radicals are .oppressors."
of homosexuality that purports to be
Mr. Downes, in his response ·to
Allbaugh's article, has demonstrated the
essentialist
ignores
the
historical
specificity of multi-communities organized
kind of mentality that the lesbiari/gay
community at Evergreen must work
around sexual practice.
against. He calls for a balance between .
Downes is more concerned with
homosexuals and their oppressors and
saving innocent heterosexuals from the
suggests that if gays and lesbians are not
"predatory" gay and lesbian "radicals,"
careful, they risk losing his suppon
than he is about creating a dialectic about
altogether.
the problems of representations of
I am sure that Mr. Downes is not a
homosexuals in the fantasy landscape of
homophobic. I agree with his frustrations
the western world when he says, "Do
about the overuse of that label of late. I
yourselves a collective favor and stop
respect his ideas, however bluntly stated,
trying to recruit people." The homosexual
.about the validity of his heterosexuality.
is seen as a threat to heterosexuality and
But I cannot agree with the regressive
the way one becomes a homosexual is
position Mr. Downes espouses ' on other
through contact with one. (1bis is why
subjccts of the gay and lesbian
pushed him too far he would take up
back. But, Downes has seen through the
the press had such and easy time
community.
.
with the racists.
political apparatus of vocal gays and conflating AIDS as the Gay Plague,
Mr. Downes calls for a balance
Homosexuality is a very confusing
lesbians and is going to transcend these because homosexuals were already
subject. It has no clear lines around
two options by becoming a critical construed as contagious.)
betwcen the desires of campus lesbians
and gays for freedom, respect. and
which "isms" and "phobias" can be
thinker and exposing the mechanisms at
Downes says that Jim/we are not
equality and the attitudes of the
drawn. I do not believe that Mr. Downes'
work; uncovering the truth about who making it easier for people to come out
mistakes 3.re intentional. I praise him for
really is oppressed, heterosexual men of of the closet A bunch of loud, selfhcterosexual
maJonty.
Would Mr.
Evcrgreen campus.
defined, determined faggots are not going
Downcs suggest a balance between
his awareness of homophobia and his
Downes has a lot of problems with to scare anyone back into the closet. The
African Americans and the white
successes in overcoming it. But I do not
supremacists who espouse the belief that think he realizes what he is asking. 1 do
Allbaugh's suggestion that everyone issue is visibility and for once some
Africans are 1I,0t fully human? Should not think he understands that he is asking ."cxplore (their) own homosexuality." I alienated high school students will hear
African Americans, respecting this idea of lesbians and gays to be content with the also find this problematic, but for very our voices and know that there are others
balance, agree to \ be treated as crudest,
lowest,
most
universally different reasons.
It implies that like themselves, whether th ~y agree with
Werewolves? . Balance might work in threatened status in society. I do not homosexuality is located in the body, that our political tactics or not.
marriage and political situations. It might think he understands that he is asking us
it is something one can find and
Downes has no authority whatsoever
to tell gay and lesbian people how we
work when deciding what to have for
to be happy with the above, to be examinc. This is clearly the case in
dinner or what color to paint the living grateful it's not worse. And I do not science where the term homosexuality can better respond to the constant
think he understands that, for the was first used in the 1890s by doctors as
marginalization cased by heterosexism. I
room. It does not work, however,
regarding the issue of a group's validity, conscientious Clltzen, the right to a psycho-sexual pathology, Photography
do agree with Downes about Evergreen
freedom, and dignity. There can be no discriminate is not even an option.
was also used by these scientists to
up to a point The CPJ does print letters
common
ground
between
those Drew Bennett
v~sually document "homosexuals~" They
and articles by alleged homosexuals. The
demanding the equal rights of the
bdieved it was possible to locate
Olympian does not. But why are there no
S
homosexuality by looking, that it was
"out" gay male faculty? Why are lesbians
individual and those demanding, through
either their beliefs or actions, the lack of
contained in (psycho) and on (visual) the
and gays not included as a minority
such rights. One cannot be son of equal.
e&
body. To re-articulate homosexuality as
group for the hiring of faculty? Why
In his article, Mr. Downes suggests
Jim Allbaugh never clearly defines something that pre-exists specific sexual
didn't the faculty and staff take the
that if the gay and lesbian community
radical in his anicle "Heterosexist practice(s)
is
to
ignore
social
demands of gay and lesbian students to
pushes him too far , they may lose his
radicals are oppressors." (November 29 circumstances and to deny the historical
be considered as a minority group during
suppoi=t....-1le-i s.,....in-effec t , sllggesting th~E.l)~assUIlllUlC-ll1ean s-radical~nstmction-0f-identit;y.....
. - - - - - - -i llulti-c-t:tlffiralism week? w..hy-has-there~-"might makes right" is a just and people who actively engage in and pursue
Homosexuality, as a site locatable on
never been a lesbian or gay identified
cffective means of human interaction. He social change. In Gile R. Downes' the body, also masks differences and
person in the catalog talking about what
a wonderful place Evergreen is for
is saying, "You guys had better watch response "Homosexuals are off the deep contradictions within gay and lesbian
out. If you make too much noise I will end," (December 6 CP1) Downes sees identities, because there are groups
lesbian and gay students?
return my suppon to the ignorance, campus gays and lesbians as radicals and identified around specific sex practices:
Patrick Wright
inequality, and homophobia which dcfines them as people who transform
issues into "overbearing monsters that
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threatens constantly to kill you."
He claims to be a conscientious secm to operate and succeed primarily
citizen, but at the same time suggests that through a crafty scheme of political
he has the right to oppr:ess and invalidate intim~dation."
.
,
people who do things differently than he
SlOce these radical gays and lesbians
if they do not continue to appease him. are clearly capable and have access to
He says that bigots have the right to such powerful tools of propaganda, there
oppress, and they should be thanked are only two responses, submitting to the
whenever they do not do so. I doubt that tyranny of the oppressive regime of gays
he would ever suggest, to the African and lesbians by jumping onto the
Americans spoken of above, that if they bandwagon, or by simply turning your
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Bryan Willis: .Scribblings of a native son
"Edward Scissorhands" weaves potent· tale
"EDWARD SCISSORHANDS"
A H LM BY TlM BURTON
LACEY ClN EMAS '
by Andrew Hamlin
Once upon a time there was an Avon
Lady with no Avon people to sell her
A von products to,
Out of a little
desperation and, one can only assume, a
lot of curiosity, she paid a visit to the
only house in the town she 'd never been
to before, a house no one had ever been
to before. And while she found no
consumers eager for consumption of
A von produc ts , she did find a most
fascinating young man in the comer of
the ruined a ttic. This young man had
never been bom. He was assembled, by
an old and devilishly hand some inventor
who also assembled a happy feet cookie
maker and some other interesting things.
The yo ung man 's name was Ed ward,- and
he had long, sharp dangerous scissors
instead of hands. The inventor had not
meant for this to be so, but he, the
inventor, had died j ust before he could
give Edward a pair of real hands.
Edward' s
sc issors
were
very
frightening, and the A von lady, despite
her great c urios ity and bravery, almost
ran when she heard him squeaking
towards her. But when the boy came out
of the shadows she forgot about that,
because although Edward's hands were
scary, his face wore the expression of a
child that has just lost its mommy, a
<: hild that needs to be picked up and
cuddled and cooed to. The Avon Lady,
who was a mommy herself and also
possessed of a very loving heart, forgot
all about running away. She could not
hold Edward to her breast, but she took
his arm and lead him out of the house
and back to her own family, where she
said he could Slay.
This worked out pretty well, at least
got scared, and then they got angry, and
that probably would' have happened no
maLLer who the people were" because not
heart like the '
very many people have
Avon Lady ' s.
In an era where human monsters,
malevolence sugarcoated in regular flesh,
outnumber the more visually grotesque
nighunares in popular culture (see the
upcoming "Silence of the Lambs" for
example), it is not surprising that Tim
Bunon, a director possessed by the
possibilities of appearance vs. reality ,
chooses to reverse the poles and give us
humanity in an offseLLing package. Nor
do
the
reverberations
with
the
Fnmkenstein story seem out of place, for
anyoFle who watched Burton's half-hour
film
"Frankenweenie" (still , sadly,
unavailable on videocassetLe) knows
Burton 's attraction to that story and the
moral ity plays woven out of it by Boris
Karloff, Colin Clive, and dircc tor James
Whale at Universal Studios.
Resonances from other sources
abound also; Edward has the Elephant
Man' s winning innocence, a deeper shade
of King Midas' curse , Pinocchio' s wish
for humanity , and the unquenchable hean
of the Steadfas t Tin Soldier. But it is the
Frankenstein chords which sound the
strongest, and with good reason. Boris
Karlorr s monste r was a frighlened child,
born six foot eight and slathered III scars
birthed through an open grave, his fa the;
a cold blooded opportunist, his only
playmate a candelabra-bearing sadi st.
When he threw the liLLie girl into the
water thinking she would float like her
lilies, audiences gas ped not in outrage at
Johnn.y Depp as the man of the hour: 'son of Frankenstein, nephew of
the
atrocity, but at
the
tragic
Chaplin , and a big disappointment for Freddy J<reuger.
consequences of good intentions.
photo courtesy Twentieth Century Fox
Bunon , in the interests of sympathy ,
scrapes away
some of Karloff's
SOUTH
foreboding appearance (although Johnny
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Depp, in leather suit, clown white and
'\\:\'\':~;'I"
dark lipstick, is unrecognizable from "21
on a page, Steve said; "Nope. Won't do
it." They said, "$400 bucks a page.
Esquire magazine!" He said "I don't care,
I'm not gonna do it. If that's what it
t<lkes to make -it nationally ,then I don't
wanna do it," and he didn't. He kept it
as fon, as a fun thing to do,
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Q: Is he still doing Marty the Dog?
A: Yeah, he's tried to kill him off
several times. His latest story has Morty
and he kills hiln again at the end of this
story, but he just can't quite let him go.
I'm started to be reminded of that with
"Woofer" now, "Woofer" was just done
at a nurses' college in upstate new
York ...cvery production spawns another
production. I can see spending the rest
of my life writing plays, really working
hard fo r ~ifty years, and being left with
this legacy of Woofer the Psychic Dog.
photo by Leslyn Lee
A: That's inaccurate. I'd probably had a
few more produced.
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wrillen ten plays and had six produced?
(Bryan Willis' "Woofer the Psychic Dog,"
co-wri/len with two friends at Oberlin
College, is currently burning up
funnybones all up and down the nowd(fullct Route 66. and, as he notes below,
has even ticklcd scapulae at a New Yor:k
state nurses' college. Although not a
Greener himself, Bryan is an Olympia
native and his brother Steve Willis,
Evergreen alumus, is the creator of
another famous dog, the infamous Morty .
I spoke with this fu zzy doyen of Northwest
leuers about such mailers as are inscribed
f orthwith.)
Q: Is there anything you've still got out?
A: I don ' t really.,.by the time I write a
play now I've got a pretty good idea of
where it's going to be produced to start
with, and I haven't written a play that
hasn't been produced since 1984, and
even that had like a reading or so. I'm
the playwright in residence for Seattle
Public Theater now, and I'm writing a
play that'll be done in May and June. I
don't always have that luxury, but I
usually have a pretty good idea.
Q : SO your brother Steve used to do
"Murty the Dog" for the Cooper Point
Journal?
A:
Q: Did you ever write anything that
never made it?
A: Yes, 1 probably wrote for a good
four or five years before I had a non-
Steve was here with Matt Groening
romance or something horrible like that.
But it was fun and I got the bug. I really
started out writing poetry and short
stories, and I thlnk it says in that article
tht;re, I wrote all lcinds of bad poems,
and didn't really fmd my niche until I
started writing dialogue. Growing up In
Olympia I didn't really see any
professional theater. I virtually- grew up
not seeing theater until I was about
twenty. So I could tum a line pretty well,
but I had no idea of what was theatrical,
whar the- stage was all about. It's that
thing that most playwrights don't know,
which is, what makes, a play a play,
Having read for a number of different
theaters, very few playwrights know this,
especially at your age and my age, they
write plays that are TV, There's no, idea
of a stage in their writing. It's very sad.
Q : What does make a play a playas
opposed to TV? Or a movie? Or a
short story or anything?
A: Well each one of course has its own
idiosyncrasies, like, I could go on and on
about that, a few of the things, would be,
for instance if you're writing for TV, you
have to write for commerical breaks. If
you pattern your climaxes in your story'
according to every eight minutes, it's
very different from having a sustained
hour or two hours or whatever your pIa),
is gonna be. I think TV deals very well
with issues; we'll have a di~ease of the
week movie. But I think playwrighting
and plays can do more than that. I think
the contact that, the potential there for an
audience member to have with five
pcople on stage, is potentially much more
moving, and I think the theater h~ a
gfeater potential to change lives. On the
other hand, prime time, you have millions
of people see you ...
A
Q : Did you ever write for television?
A: I never have. I have no ambitions to
write for the Cosby show. But I would
I studied
like to write screenplays.
screenwriting in grad school, and I have
a scrcenwriting agent, and .. .what happens
is I keep gelling these little [play]
see Willis, page 12
A C/ Dego es bon 9
by Claire Littlewood
Tacoma, Washington. January 16,
1991. ACfDC rocked a ~Qld.:()ut show in
the Tacoma Dome, just five hours'-after
war was announced in the Middle East.
King's X, a band from Texas
opened with a short, fast-paced set.
"What I would call a good, hard rock
band , they were loud." said Jerry Senff,
an Evergreen student, and a member of
the audience.
When ACIDC came on around 9pm
the pace only picked up. About 1/3 of
their set was from their latest album
"Razor's Edge," such as "Got You By
The Balls," "Are You Ready," "Fire Your
Gun s," "Rock Your Hean Out," and
ACfDC put on a show. During
"Hell's Bells" a giant bell swung from
the middle of the Dome, just above the
audience on the main floor. TI;e crowd
went wild as Angus Young, ' ~ad guitMst,
pranced around the stage doing a striptease to "Jailbreak." As money fell from
the ceiling during "Moneyta!k" the main
Iloor became one sweaty, mashed sea of
humans straining to catch the falling
ACIDC bills. And in the final minutes
o f the show, an inflated face of the devil,
who bore a suspicious resemblance to
Angus Young appeared on stage to the
sounds of "Highway to Hell." "For the
last song of the evening, cannons
exploded on either side of the stage to
"For Those About to Rock."
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husband was a good-natured man with
uncomplicated ideas about the nature of
the world, and although he did not
always do the right thing, he always had
the right intentions. The Avon Lady's
youn g son took to Edward quickly and
invitr d him to his schoo: for show-andtell. And Tht Avon Lady ' s daughter was
' a b'etllitiful blonde with the eyes of a doe,
who, although somewhat misguided by
her bovfriend (who was tall and broadshouldered and so rougishly good-looking
people forgot he wasn't very smart),
had a heart as big and tender as her
She loved Edward, and
mother's.
Edward loved her, but tile two of them
could not stay together. Some of why
they couldn't had to do with the Avon
Lady 's women friends , many of whom
were not mommies and most of whom
had grown fat and gossipy with nothing
to do but watch television and sit on
oran ge pl\lsh couches. But a lot of it had
to do with Edward's hands, which he
couldn't keep from slashing himself, or
sometimes other people, however much
he tried. People <:ouidn 't understand that
he didn ' t mean to hurt a~'yone and th ey
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ex pressive eyes, unconscious comedy and
gentle awe-inspiring plea~ure at new
knowled ge to make W.C. Fields weep.
But he 's left on the scars, and added the
hands, which alienate by function as well
as appearance.
Edward can sculpt
hcdgcs, dogs or women' s hair into
fascinating shapes, but delicate things
squirt away from his grasp, except for
Winona Ryd er, who can show him where
to put his arms. Edward cannot avoid
huning even as he tries to help, and if
that metaphor is a bit obvious, direc tor
and star work together to make it
poignant.
Like "Frallkenweenie," "S<:issorhands"
features 50's-style suburb ia contrasted
with gothic imagery--Edward 's castle
looks downright homey next to O-lan
Jones grinding "We Three Kin gs " into
quaalude soul stew--and a curious
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know at the time that Lanford Wilson
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are, and we did it at a little workshop at
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and dccent money, and passed it up. At
the time when Lynda made her break in
Esquire, Steve had the same offer, which
was $400 a page in Esquire for reprints,
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productions that I can't resist, my first
love I think will always be theater, it
t:ertainly is now, and it takes a lot of
time 50 .. .1 have an agent, I should be
living in L.A. right now if that's what I
really want to do, but I can't resist these
little productions, so I kind qf keep
putting it off. I'm trying tp write a
screenplay a year, and I'm hoping that
.. .a process I went through with plays of
working hard four or five years, I'm
hoping that'll be the same with
screen writing. With "Woofer one of the
guys, Frank, who I wrote it with, made
uinety grand last yem. He can't get his
plays produced but he's cranking out the
screenplays.
And he's never had
anything done, just options. He got his
foot in the door writing a piece for the
guys who did "Top Gun." That happens
to a lot of playwrights--they go into
screen writing and they can't really afford
to write plays anymore. But I would love
to write scrcenplays ...at some point we
have to earn a living, and the most
successful playwrights I know don't earn
it writing plays; they make it writing for
TV or for the screen. I'm realistic about
that. There's gonna be a point in my life
when I'm gonna want health insurance,
or maybe a kid. I have a dog, and my
girlfriend and I like to go out.
Q: So you wrote in London?
really feel for those people who do ·this
fcir a living forever, you know, it just
turned my mind into jelly. Of course I
was working 120 hours a week so it was
a little more intensive.,.by the end of the
summer I looked like a 92-year old man.
But I earned a lot of money, it was just
great money, and I could go write in
Englancl for nine months, and see a 101 of
theater. If you're under twenty-six you
Can buy a student pass, go to the West
End, on the fringe, pretty much
anywhere, say oIHere's my pass," a
couple pounds--the pound was almost
even with the dollar at the time--I just
saw as much theater as I possibly could,
on the fringe, on the West End. A great
variety of both new works and classics.
.,.so In London I was involved in a
group called Riverside Studios, a writer's
group that met every other week, and
they'd workshop, they had several writers
and 75 Equity actors there. A woman
named Vivian Pickles ... did you ever see
"Harold and Maude"? The woman who
plays Harold's mother, her name's Vivian
Pickles, she lead this group and she's a
wonderful actress. She'd cast the plays
and they'd do a workshop twice a year,
I got a couple of those. I enjoyed my
time there, but at the end of a few years
I knew for good or ill that I was an
American writer, and that I needed to
come home.
Q:
What's the difference
American and British writers?
Scissorhands, from page 10
sequence where Edward saves Winona's
litLle brother is clumsy, fine. Then why
do I breathe short as Depp docs when he
asks, "Qid I hurt Kevin?" The final
scenes at the castle arc somewhat
COl Itriwct-;--anu}\mh-ony-MTchacl-Ha 11-',:gun ' appears out of nowhere, fine--then
why do I hang my head when Winona
leaves the castle forever? Edward's ice
sculptures look more like plastic totoms,
and one wonders if Lhose huge blocks of
ice just grew in the front yard. Fine.
Then why do I cry when Edward slashes
Winona's palm open and tumbles forever
from grace? Why do I choke at the
sight of him in the castle, his only home,
nOL weeping, scissors surrussing as he
carves his love a dancing angel?
Andrew Hamlin now owns his own
copy o/"Bat Out a/Hell," but he'd like
Tedd to bring the tape back.
between
like mUch, but for instance--to get away
from the heart, but a technical thing-Americans, we constantly interrupt each
other [snaps fingers], we're right on top
of each other. In American radio if you
have that much dead air [snaps fingers]
then you've made a pretty big boo-boo.
In England when the hour comes up they
have a couple seconds of silence, the
actors give each other a little pause
before they speak, being courtequs to one
another. I don't want my dialogue to
have a little pause betwecn each line, it'd
completely kill my work.
Q: What do you think of "Woofer" as a
play?
A:
It's a tough play with a small
audience, you need a lot of people in
there. It's the only comedy rve ever
written. It has to be gloriously corny to
work, you can sec the plot gears grinding
away ...
Q: How did you decide to use a statue
for Woofer?
A: I saw a Shakespeare play in England,
a fine production, but they had a live dog
in it. It was one of his early works, and
in reading Shakespeare I noticed that in
his early plays he used a lot of dogs and
a lot of kids, and then he stopped doing
that. After I saw this dog running amuck
all over the stage, stealing the focus
completely, I realized he'd learned a
lesson.
Q:
A: We speak differently, of course. We
also act very differently--I think
Americans, though they're not trained as
well, have a little bit more heart. Very
subLle things which probably don't sound
How'd you come up with the idea?
A: Well being in England, they're just
crazy about their budgies anddog:" -IDld
pets, and they're also very into
spiritualism. They've had their own paper
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on spiritualism since th~ twenties. I
actually went to this spiritualist church
while I was there, I was going OUt with
this woman whose mother , was a
spiritualist, she found out I was going to
England and said, "Go to the spiritualist
church, promise me you'll go." So I
promised and meanwhile I was working
on "Woofer" and thought, "I'll doa little
research.;' So I go and this woman · Edith
Appleby, a little middle-aged woman,
short hair, very mainstream' looking, gave '
a speech and she'd say to a person, "Oh
I see this, and this," you're supposed to
kind of respond as she'd· read the aura,
mostly little old ladies wanting to hear
that Herbert was fine and this kind of
thing. She turned to me and she said,
"You're American." So I said, "Yes, it's
true," big deal lady, even I could tell
LhaL, and she said "Why are you here?" I
said, "I'm on a holiday." She said,
"You're on holiday, but you're on a
working holiday. You're a playwright,
and you're doing research right now."
Then she said, "You're going to be a
very famous playwright, you have this
Irish paternal figure, Henry, who's
following you in your dreams and giving
you many of your ideas." "Henry" didn't
make any sense. She said, "Well when
. you go home tell your Mom this story
and she'll tell you who Henry is." I
went home, told my mom, and she said
"Uncle Henry took over the family when
your grandfather died. He ruled with a
fairly iron fist."
Q: Do you ever dream of Henry and
remember it?
A: [laughs] No, but once in a while I
ask him for a little help when I'm stuck
on lines.
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Talking or I'll Tell Everything I Know,"
tales and morals from Afro-American oral
literature deep-fried in scalding stage
lights. Tonight through the 26th at the
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experience necessary, anyone 13 years or
older can participaLe. To reg~ ter call 8666000 x6530 or write: Leisure Education,
CRC 210, The Evergreen State College ,
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WAR SUPPORT GROUP: Sherrie Smith
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Library 2100. Ralph . Murphy, program
war; those wishing for someone to talk to
Olympia, 9 pin.
director, will give an overview and
about their feelings are invited to meet
answer questions. Call 866-6000 x6707.
infonnally at noon by the' couches in the
SKI CHEAP: Sign up aL 4:30 pm in the
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CRC office.
STRANGERS WITH CANDY: "One of
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MEDICAL ADVISING SESSION: Noon
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Way. Call 352-9247.
call 525-2238.
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REIKI: Free introduction to the Japanese the Latona Pub whatever.
"Scheherazade," a dance by James
healing art at 7 pm, the Reiki Growth
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Center, 2002 Capitol Way. Call Andrea "HOME IS WHERE. THE HEART IS":
Tickets are $20 for students and $30 for
Mikana at 352-9247.
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This was a contest, co-sponsored by
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Young Voices Magazine and South
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"Les Porteuses De Mauvai~ Nouvelles something about home--their own,
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folk/blues duo with guitars and vocals,"
the 26th at On the Boards, 153 14th Tonight the winners read and show their
the Spokane Opera House. Call 509-326and a stunning case of Siamese twins
Avenue, Seattle. Call 325-7901.
who arc also father and son. Seattle's
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work at Four Seasons Books, 5th and
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Water, in Olympia at 7:30 pm. Free.
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and "The Seventh Seal," two films by the
HAPPY FEET:
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Swedish director, tonight free at 8 pm
pm. Call Mark Pinkham ad52-9247 .
HE LIKES MARX BROTHERS FILMS
and 9:30 pm respectively . Part of Rashid and African Roots at the Capitol
HIMSELF: The Dalal Lama of Tibet (a Mindscreen Productions ~ Winter Quarter Theater, 206 E. 5th Avenue, dt'u' s open
candidate for this year's graduation International Film Festival.
at 8 pm . Alcohol-free. Cooperative
MASTER
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$8 at the door. Call 866-2631.
6:30-8:30 pm in Library 2100, with Luci a '
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LonighL at 7 in Lecture Hall 4.
unemployed workers in Italy with "The
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YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS AND
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MOUNTAINEERING: parody of same with commercials and
TREEHOUSE AND ROCKIN' ROD
"Surviving
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AND THE STRYCHNINES: Hammer
Weather .. .Equipment and Clothing," is the and Monday at the Capitol Theater, 206
down.
Hammer down. Rabbit Ears.
North Shore Surf Club, 9 pm. $5.
subject of this sessions, the fust of three East Fifth. Admission $3 for Olympia
scheduled. CRC Room 112 at 7 pm. Film Society members, $5 for . nonELLEN MARX TRIO:
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there" I did that and liked it so much that
after I graduated in '83, I headed back.
In the summers I worked in Alaska to
support my writing habit, at a cannery-but by the end of the summer it was
difficult for me to sit down and read a
newspaper, much less open a textbook. I
fixation on the artificial is occasionally
shallow, as in the family-cookout-with- - -Etlwarci-seel'le;-whieh-is Gary Larson oneshock weirdness whcre it could have
showed more, but on the whole it works
to play up Edward's estrangement, as an
artificial boy among those who think
themselves human, and to deliver the
archetypical character quality one expects
from a heartfelt fairy tale.
A fairy ta lc must engage the true
emotions, and here Burton comes out
winner, even if his film is a litlle bit
ragged technically. I could pick apart
(;erwin points until the cows came home,
but this would be analogous to scanning
a child' s skinned knee dispassionately
while it sat bawling on my lap. The
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Forum
Comics
Evergreen .should ..hire conservatives
by Dario Depiante
Here is an addendum to the article I
wrote last week regarding intellectual
diversity at Evergreen.
TESC was founded in 1971 as new
approach to higher education. This was
twenty years ago. Yesterday's young
progressive ideologues have become
tOOay's aging and dogmatic adherents to
the
TESC
party . line.
This
institutionalized, knee-jerk lefty chokehold
on the extremely limited spectrum of
political debate is far more repressive
thun philosophies espoused by many socalled "conservative' thinkers.
To the Administration: I beg you to
'clean house,' so to speak; and interview
at least some qualified potential faculty
. of more moderate political standing, thus
provldmg a balanced and farr educational
diversity at Evergreen, and may well ask: conservatives value education.
True
"Why
!ntroduce
these. people , conservatives are opposed to any
(conservatives) to our commumty; so that limitations on personal liberty (Yes,
they can pestroy everything that we've reproductive rights count as a personal,
created here as . they've destroyed our liberty.) True conservatives believe . in
economy, our 'soci'ety, and ultimately, our using our tax dollars in our own country,
~oun~?"
.
.
and not to · prop up oppressive
It js imperative that people do not governments the world over (Nicaragua,
confuse conservatives with reactionaries. Panama, Israel, et al.). And lastly, True
Our government is an illegitimate group conservatives oppose this war. Let's put .
of big " business, big money puppets, the things that distance us in everyday
whose major objectives are increasing the life aside and unite on this issue.
wealth of their inLernationaiist free-trading
Bring our troops home and stop this
backers, and other one-world concerns, war. It is most certainly not un-American
and, more disturbingly, enhancing their to be against this war. Peace.
.
own power under the euphemistic ·banner
Dario does not like the space
of the "New world order". This is done limitations the CPJ editors place on him.
under the guise of conservatism .
Make
no
mistake.
True
o~portunity. T~ the s.tudents: Instead of
blindly
agreemg
With
your
faculty,
9uestio~ them, re~iew carefully their
Ide~loglcal standpomt, and understand
theIr biases. I suppose that a tainted
education is beller than none at . all,
however, we, as students, are obligated to
ca:efully assess those that we've entrusted
With our education.
Furthermore, I'd like to apologize for
what may appear to be the ill-timing of
my article. Some may think that
conservative policies are to blame for the
war that our country is currently engaged
in, and indeed, for the sorry state that
our nation is in as well. In this
misguided view, these people will take
umbrage at my agitation for intellectual
'N0 war' is not enough
Who you gonna call ....
by Andrew Craig
situation on January 15 up at the Capitol
The United States is now' involved in did this, as well as all the graffiti
a war that has issues which can (and downtown, especially on shopkeepers'
.
probably will) blow up in our faces. walls.
Before the night of January 16 several
Throwing papers iDlO the air and
demonstrations took place here in the entering
into
the
House
of
Olympia area. Many protesters chanted Representativ es
chamber
was
slogans suc h as "no blood for oil" and counterproductive to the goals of the
"U ,So troops out of the Middle Easl."
. Capitol march, People who sec anti-war
These slogans did not succeed. Now graffiti (or who have to clean it off their
George Bush has entcred this country own property) are likely to misunderstand
into war. The protests attest to the what peace demonstrators stand for.
growing division between people who Ignorance builds.
support the Bush administration's policy
The people who commit these acts
and peopl e who do nol. The issue of fail to realize that these property owners
whether anyone in this country supports are a great resource, and, possibly, could
the armed forces (wo men and men) who walk alongside you in a future
They
are
now,
arc doing the actual fighting is not an demonstration .
issue. 1 think there is a unanimous unfortunately, lost forever. In their eyes,
support for them. Let me repeat it once peace demonstrators are just a bunch of
again, we all support the troops,
young, dazed, long-haired hippies who
This is a point where I believe many have no respect for other people's
people fail to make a distinction . Just property or the troops. The governor and
yesterday (January 19) in downtown the legislators also have some feelings of
Olympia I passed several people on Fifth ill will towards peace activists after
Avenue holding American flags and signs people scratched desks and caused ' other
saying "Support our troops in the Middle damage in the House Chambers.
East," and "Support Bush and Annihilate
Many people in the pro-Bush crowd
Hussein ." And yet others had both of also stereotype peace demonstrators and
these ideas on the same sign. These view them as un-American. Since the war
people-rravelhe -right-to--assemble:,.- - - has-staned,--lhey-say,all -the-eth~r-is-su Now, both of these groups (peace and against military conflict in the gulf
Bush supporters) have different ideas brought up before war began should now
about the war in the Middle East. Some be forgotten.
of these differences may be too hard to
Full steam ahead they say, "U.S.A.!!
reconcile, but the issue of support for U.S .A.!!" This is where a lack of
troops should not be one of them. And knowledge on their part shows through .
here, I think, is an issue that the peace Several issues which were very apparent
dl:n. onstrat;· 'ns (publicly) have not during the military buildup between
stressed enough. If there could be some August and January are still relevant.
way for peace demonstrations to show These should become the rallying points
this off, publicly, it may change many for which peace demonstrators can focus
people's opinions of where that group upon. A simple "NO WAR!" by peace
stood, or at least define that issue better. demonstrators isn't going to cut it with
A second criticism I have of peace anybody now that the war has begun.
demonstrations is the damage of public Think about that for a moment. Peace
property. This tactic is . stupid and demonstrators need other issues now.
irresponsible, and worse, plays into the
In next week's CPJ Andrew will
hands of others. The situation on January describe eighl risks we areJacing because
15 up at the Capi tol did this, as well as oj the war.
all the graffiti downtown, especially on
shopkeepers' walls.
.
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