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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 20, Issue 27 (May 31, 1990)
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s.U.N.T. reforms SU to SG
The Student Union Negotiating Team
(see article, this page) has developed a
compromise Student Governance structure
called "Student Oovernance," or The SO.
The SO is unique from previously
attempted governance structures for
several reasons.
by Knoll Lowney
First, it has been structured as a
A Student Union Negotiating Team,
vehicle ror the empowerment or all composed of both proponents and critics
students, whereas past structures have of the "cultural caucus" amendment, has
effectively given personal power to only drafted a
compromise governance
those individuals who had the time to . proposal. The proposed governance
be continuously involved in governance. structure is called "Student Governance,"
-The SO gives students, for the first or "The SO." The SG is a
time, the "right to have an accessible, "constitutional" governance structure
effective, and accountable student which will ensure participation by a
government"
diverse group of students while
-The SO gives any student the maintaining fair representation for every
opportunity to originate a proposal for student
student government action, and provides
a structure to ensure the proposal is heard
proportionate
representation,
in a timely manner.
These
-For the first time an initiative individualism, and equality.
process will be in place so any student or goals are accomplished, in part, through
group of students can gather signatures a dual electoral process for SG Board
Members.
and put a binding question up to an all
-The SG gives students the right to
student vote.
-Students are given the right to "full participate freely in governance.
-The SO preserves an individual's
accounting of expenditures of S&A fees,"
and the right to accessible infonnation
freedom of expression and dialogue, and
needed to participate in governance.
mandates the binding authority of the
Second, through maintaining a
social contract
permauent Board, the SG becomes
-Eight positions on the Board are
more
coherent,
accessible
and
"at-large," and are to be chosen through
accountable, thus ensuring a working
a one person-one vote electoral process.
government is always available to act
on student originated proposals.
-Any student, without restrictions,
-The SO creates a representative
can run for any SO Board position, and
system of governance composed of a SO
can apply for a staff position with the
Board of up to 26 Board Members.
SO.
-Each of these members has an equal
-Any student, without restrictions,
voice and is accountable to working in
can originate proposals and initiative
the interests of all students.
campaigns.
-Any Board Member is recallable by
Possibly most important, · the SG
the constituency that chose them.
embodies the Evergreen community's
Third, the SG embodies the
values or cultural diversity, arrarmative
Evergreen community's values or
action, progressive social change, and
Student government compromise
The SO resolves the conflict between
proportional
representation
and
progressive diversity by aeating a dual
selection process for SG Board members.
The SO, outlined in this issue of the
CPJ, will be available in its final fonn at
the Student Communications Center
(CAB 2(6).
Next week. there will be an all
student referendum during which students
can confirm or reject the proposal. If
confinned, The SG will be sent to the
Board of Trustees where it will be
codified into Washington State Law. We
are working to have a governance
structure by this fall so that S&A
Reorganization. which has been stalled by
the death of the Student Union, can be
completed.
The members of the Negotiating
Team are Lyn Wicks, Ion Cawthorne.
Maia Bellon, Raquel Salinas, Hugh
Moag, and David Moseley. Resource staff
for the Team are Robin McClary and
Knoll Lowney.
gender and ethnidty equality. By
creating a governance system based upon
these values, the Evergreen community
will be taking an affmnative step towards
creating a campus environment which is
less racist and sexist, more culturally
diverse, and more conducive to imparting
progressive values than it is today.
oThe SG initially creates 9 electoral
caucuses which will each hold open.
publicized meetings in the fall to select
two SG Board Members, of unspecified
cultural background.
.
-The caucuses are not interest
groups, and the board members they
choose are · to represent the interests of
the entire student body. Rather, these are
electoral caucuses which ensure that
diverse perspectives are involved in
Board.
selecting the
-The
caucuses
are
strongly
encouraged to choose one female and one
male representatives. and not to send two
board members of the same gender.
-Caucuses and student groups are not
the same, and every attempt should be
made to maintain their independence.
-Caucuses
are:
Students with
Challenges, Older Students, Native
American, Asian/Pacific Islanders, EuroAmerican/white
students.
Jewish,
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual, African Descent,
Latino/Chicano. Additional caucuses can
be created through the amendment or
initiative process.
-The SO restates affirmative action
goals for participation, and outlines that
affirmative aetion will be used in hiring
staff.
In addition to these four
major
distinctions
between
the
compromise governance proposal and past
structures, the proposal will also contain
all those things a government should
have: gpevance process, referendums,
amendnlent process, standing committees,
meeting guidelines, proposal and decision
making processes.
Copies of The SG document are
available through the S.C.C. (Cab 206).
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...False courtesies,
Curt words, sharp tongues,
Impatient exits,
Uneasy glancesThey run away, tum away,
Find a way then stay awayl
I'm insufferable in my uncontrolled
Misery-chattery, jittery-shattery
itch-istence.
They don't want me.
They canY stand mel
I DON'T WANT...(cold compassion)
I CAN'T STAND MEl (condescending contempt)
I DON7 NEED/...
... Them
I don't want this
I can't stand my miserable self.
I don't need to stand, it
is fine ... Good just lie down,
come down ... calm down,
Here, undisturbed
In the untroubled grass ...
(tranquil, it soothes - I sigh)
And quietly,
slowly,
... peacefully...
... EXPIRE.
Dylan Walsh
Page 16 Cooper Point Journal May 24, 1990
Artist's representation of the frequently seen
slogan on the Evergreen campus and in the city of
Olympia_ FMLN stands for Fabri Marti Liberation
National, the resistance force fighting the government
of m Salvador.
or mess?
by T. F1etcher
"GO F M L N"
Security reports several sightings of
this slogan on the walls of Evergreen.
The Security Blauer also qUotes "security
is unsure what it means." The FMLN,
Fabri Marti Liberation National, is the
primary anned resistance fighting the
government in El Salvador. The graffiti
seen on campus often shows support for
this and other popular movements in
Latin America.
Someone has something to say.
Oraffiti is not new to campus, but has
seen a strong resurgence in the past few
weeks. For the past two years, the group
TM has claimed responsibly for much of
the graffiti on campus and downtown.
However, sources close to TM, maintain
the group has split up "under intense
counter-insurgency pressure," attributing
the current work to "independent
operatives inspired by the TM tradition."
Security Chief Gary Russell offers a
different view. He hopes the old group
matured and gained some sensibility. He
calls the graffIti "almost elitist, leaving
all the clean-up to someone else
namely...the maintenance crew." In
addition it is "not fair to impose your
views on others."
Most of the slogans aim at the
United St21eS intervention in Latin
America, hopes for another American
Revolution, and appeals for basic human
rights such as women living without fear
of rape.
Sexist. racist and/ or fascist slogans
are absent
The now defunct TM set the tone for
the political messages. TM began as a
small group working independently at
first but "decide to unite in the common
cause--like the founder of the FMLN in
the 70's." TM had a common goal "rid
the Evergreen Campus of the oppressive
Larry Savage." Spray paint was the
original medium but later replaced for
more mobile large markers.
TM claims direct responsibly for the
firing of Larry Savage. "We pushed him
until he flagrantly over stepped the
boundaries he had already bent in the
fllSt place." Oary Russell only smiled at
this idea.
Gary Russell and TM do agree on
one point: a solution. Both would agree
a wall set a side for graffiti would be a
comprise. Both maintain students need
a place to express important social issues.
But what if the student wanted to express
another
less
desirable
sentiment
Unofficially the walls of the Community
Center has become a place for semi
permanent graffiti. The walls of the
men's room are covered with large letters
obviously from several hands.
Oary Russell hopes graffitists will
grow out of marking walls.
Sources close to the old TM state
another opinion. Oraffiti is a right of free
expression. In a country that refuses to
listen, sometimes one must shout Graffiti
is a shout
T. Fletcher is an Evergreen studenJ
and a staff w,iter for the CPl.
8aper Saturday welcomes all
,"nation (exigent abandon)
God, I itch!
And I won't scratch,
As if it's internal...
It's an itch on my brain
-Drives me INSANEI
The gray is IMPATIENT to
Push me awayl...
All their soundsAll derision I
DonY hear what they say.
I don't want... (this vain haunt)
I canY stand... (these shaking hands)
I DON'T NEED!...
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Graffiti:
reSSIOn
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"God is not the God of the dead ... "
Sounds smothered in blanketing walls
hazily imitate familiar memories
as if the knocking stumbling outside were yours.
A quiet blizzard has stalked me
caught trapped and wrapped me
today and forever.
Prophecy
has buried usIcicles adorn my thought with jagged halos
and rain, dry and desolate as the steppes
shrouds me in a november shawl
where I've sat in the freezing cloak,
a decrepit Sadducee
waiting for Christ's apology,
waiting for the victorious death echo
of the Stone strutting back to its post.
Karl T. Steel
Mental Fatigue
Sparks
fret and. race
across the wires
co1lfli.cttng currents
taxing
the mechanism
vaguely
bUnks out
with each
revolution
subUme reassurances
oj one machine
that destroys
itself
Stuart Tennis
by Paula LanK
The 12th annual Super Saturday will
take place on June 2nd from 11 am to 7
pm on the grounds of TESC. Larry
Stenberg, co-founder of the festival, C0Chair of the Super Saturday Committee,
and Evergreen alumnus, describes Super
Saturday as "our event of the year." This
event has been declared the largest oneday festival in the Pacific Northwest
Our fllSt year, Judy McNichol, who
was th~ director of public information,
and I went to our president at the time,
Dan Evans, and said we had this idea,
but we needed some seed money to get
it started, said Stenberg. "We had been
through some tough times as a college,
and we wanted to say thank you to the
community for their support and to the
fae ulty, staff and students."
The first community celebration in
1978 attracted 4,000 people. For the past
five years 25,000 to 30,000 people have
come to Super Saturday each year.
"We discovered at Super Saturday X,
two years ago ... that even though we had
a downpour the first three hours of the
event, we still had over 25,000 people. It
didn't make any difference what the
weather was like, we were going to have
25,000 to 30,000 people here," Stenberg
claimed.
Stenberg is anticipating the same
number of celebrators this year. Over
one-hundred volunteers have been helping
to put the event together this year.
Furthennore, an increasing number of
students and student organizations
could have a real clock tower ballet
surprise this year. We might have
. something really quite smashing happen
with that"
. Although this event is still in the
planning stages, Stenberg said, "Pete
Steilberg and a collection of talented
students usually put together something
off
the
clock
for
us
midday
tower... they're going to do something.
But if we pull off what it is we want to
do, it'll really be quite sensational. So
we'll see what happens."
Super Saturday gives students
graduating the next day a unique
opportunity to give their friends and
family a tour of the campus. This oneday event has always been open to
surrounding communities as well as
Evergreen students, faculty and staff.
participate each year.
Admission and entertainment also
There will be a wide variety of
have remained free througout the history
entertainment, food and crafts to enjoy at
of the event for people of all ages.
Super SatQrday Xll. Several new events
Stenberg cordially invites you to "launch"
have ~n added to the schedule in 1990,
your swnmer with Super Saturday XII.
incljfing a Medieval Fair in the field
Paula Lang is an Evergreen student
behind the CRC Phase II and an open
and has been a consistent conJributor the
mike stage in front of Lab I.
ePJ this year, thanks Paula.
Stenberg also let on with, "we also
Dean's role in grievance process con(psing
by Tina Cook
Although they sometimes playa part
in the sexual harassment grievance
process, Evergreen deans aren't exactly
sure what their role should be.
"It isn't clear who is playing what
role and who should be playing that
role," Academic Dean Malt Smith said. "I
know that the process at the moment is
a confused and confusing one. There are
roles for any number of people to play."
Academic Dean Chuck Pailthorp
agreed. "There's not a lot of clarity about
it," he said.
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505
Address Correction Requested
Deans are sometimes brought into
infonnal sexual harassment proceedings
by the Affumative Action Officer to
serve as mediators. According to
Evergreen's Affirmative Action Policy,
"Third-party mediation is deliberately left
unstructured; this allows the mediator the
widest possible latitude. The mediator
may, at his/her option, adopt any rules or
procedures necessary to insure compliance
with due process and to obtain orderly
resolution of conflict."
In the infonnal grievance process, the
roles of investigator, advocate for the
complainant, and advocate for the
respondent are not clearly defmed,
Pailthorp said.
The lack of defined roles has left
deans wondering "who should be doing
what in respect to all this," Smith said.
_ Both Smith and Pailthorp added that
because the complainant is usually a
female student and the alleged harasser is
usually a male faculty member, there is
a tremendous power imbalance.
"I would very much like to give the
student the opportunity to have another
woman of authority invQ~ed," in the
grievance process, Pail thorp said.
Smith has mediated two grievances in
his three years as a dean, Pailthorp has
mediated one in two years. Both have
allowed student complainants to have a
female faculty member as their advocate
in grievance proceedings.
When asked if the installation of a
step-by-step infonnal grievance process
would help , Pailthorp said, "Some people
think so. I don ' t know . 1 would hate to
see it turned into a cumbersome process,
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NEWS BRIEFS .
Thereuenone
Most of the
1989-90 staff
Andrew Hamlin: arts and entertainment
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editor,;member of Big Dark Spot.
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Ron Austin: distribution, damn
cartoonist, perennial smartass.
Dianne Conrad: Our Lord, our advisor,
our mom
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the community
Kevin Boyer: conceptualizing figurehead
(that means editor-in-chieO
Tedd Kelleher: went from staff to
production manager to managing editor...
all in one year, will make the ultimate
ascension to editor next year.
Goodness gracious.
Edward Martin III: Business Manager, damn
cartoonist, and in a close call probably
the weirdest person in the office.
Chris Carson: Advertising Manager and
purveyor of herbs and useful
Cleveland anecdotes.
Tina Cook: was everything to the CPJ this
year ... ad layout, classifieds, reporter,
calendar, newshound, constant office
presence, a shining beacon in the darkness ...
Security Blotter
Monday, May 21
0041: Lots of graffiti was discovered in
the men's rooms of the Library and the
Housing Community Center.
0830: Somebody's laundry was stolen
from their car in B-lot
0831: The fire extinguisher was still
missing from Lab n.
1758: A car had an accident on Mud Bay
Road.
1815: A mid-aged white male in a beige
compact vehicle tried to entice a young
woman into his car.
2235: Somebody broke their toe in the
Computer Center. They were transported
to Black Hills Hospital.
Tuesday, May 22
1551: Graffiti was detected behind a
storage door on the fourth floor of the
Library.
Wednesday, May 23
0803: Graffiti was again found in the
Library, in the third floor men's room.
Thursday, May 24
0226: The CAB's second floor men's
room had been marred with graffiti.
1116: Pink chalk graffiti was found on
the walls outside the Comm building.
2355: The quarter machine in the CAB
had been brutally vandalized.
Friday, May 25
1000: Many empty .22 bullet shells were
identified near the CAB basement loading
dock.
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manager, headlines, and Add Zombie
musician.
Peter Bunch: photo editor and busy,
busy, busy man.
1744: There was an observation of new
graffiti on the pillars of the CRC phase
II entrance.
2215: A woman and her unleashed pit
bull pup were running around in F-lot.
They were warned of the pet policy on
campus.
Saturday, May 26
1921: More writing was on the walls of
the CAB second floor men's room.
2005: Burning food triggered a fire alarm
in U Dorm.
2127: There was a report that some
people on the Red Square mound
knocked down the Umoja shack.
2352: Someone was screaming very
loudly on the ' soccer field. Security
thought there was a possible assault
Sunday, May 27
0836: The window on the handicap door
was destroyed in the CAB.
1038: A toilet paper dispenser had been
abused in a Comm building men's room.
Blood was found at the scene.
Seventy-four public services were
performed last week by Security and
crimewatch. A car that failed to stop at
the Ash intersection got a verbal warning
from an officer.
James Egan has written the Security
Blotter since the beginning of this year.
He may resume writing it neXl fall when
he returns to Evergreen from his home in
Seattle.
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with promoting justice and democratic
change in El Salvador wish to pressure
U.s.. corporations operating in the
country, they must do so in a selective
and discretionary manner which would
prompt certain corporations to reform
and! or, remain, while others could be
pressured to divest all together.
With this in mind, it is our view that
pensioners could me resolutions spelling
out criteria for corporate involvement in
the "third world." After filing such a
resolution, pensioners should threaten to
divest if the corporation refuses to adhere
to the proposed criteria
A good starting point would be to
fIle resolutions making further corporate
involvement in any "third world" country
contingent upon that country's adherence
to the general principles embodied in The
United Nations "Universal Declaration of
Human Rights" (of course, corporations
themselves must follow the same
guidelines).
The following are some of the
general guidelines established under the
"Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
The third article of the declaration states
that "everyone has the right to life,
liberty, and security of person." Article
five says that "no one shal1 be subjected
to torture or to cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment".
Article 23, section 4 postulates that
"everyone has the right to form and to
join trade unions for the protection of his
interests." Article 26 notes that "everyone
has the right to education."
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everything dragged out and public."
abide by the dean's decision, the faculty
Academic Deans at Evergreen are in
member needs to acknowledge the dean
an unusual position because they rotate as an equal," Smith said.
out of the faculty. When as\ced if he
Pailthorp is also . comfortable with
thought it appropriate for deans 10 act as the arrangement. "I can think of an
mediators in grievances brought against instance where one of the deans said
their peers, Smith said, "Absolutely. The their relationship with the faculty member
deans are paid to do something. One of was a close one and asked not to be
those things is to work with their peers involved," Pailthorp said. "I think that's
and to come to accommodations in appropriate."
"The most crucial thing in the
legitimate classroom issues."
"It may be that faculty and deans immediate future is to get some clarity
could gang up on a student," he said. about internal grievance procedures,"
"My experience is that that's not true. . . Smith said.
Tina Cook is writing a series on
When deans believe there's some case to
be made around a student complaint, they seXJlll/lgender harassment for the CPl.
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potential for a downward spiral of the
market price of stocks. Such a threat
forces other shareholders and the board
of directors to re-evaluate corporate
policies towards the issue at hand. Falling
stock prices represent a loss of
shareholder's capital, which is not the
objective of a corporation. If management
sits back while the company's stock
plummets, they will find themselves on
the street. After all, it is the right of the
company's owners--shareholders--to hire
and frre management. In this form,
divestment
by
large
shareholders
significantly influences Corporate policies.
In this context Washington State
employees could apply the pressures of
divestment to all the corporations with
shady histories in Central and North
America. Before pursuing a divestment
slnllegy it is important to ask what the
goal ohuch a tactic would be? Would it
be to pressure companies to pull out of
Central American countries entirely? Or
would it be to have companies remain
and exercise their influence on local
governments to change conditions for
workers and the environment?
When attempting to answer these
questions it is vital to consider the wishes
of those who would be directly affectednamely,
Central
Americans.
Fortunately, we had the opportunity to
discuss divestment issues with a CISPES
member who had recently come back
from Central America. Through her
conversations with Central American
trade unionists on the issue of coffee
boycotts, it was made clear that complete
divestment by multinationals from the
region is not a desireable tactic.
Central America has not developed
with relative autonomy and control of
resources. Thus, campaigns of complete
divestment by multinationals, initiated by
concerned shareholders, could potential1y
lead to the removal of much needed
technology and capital which would be a
necessary component for the development
of a more just and independent society
It would be nice if Central American
countries such as El Salvador could
immediately pursue a course of
autonomous development. Unfortunately,
the historical pattern of imperialist
development policies imposed by the U.S.
and foreign capital does not allow
countries struggling for autonomy to
easily dismiss or reject the presence of
foreign capital or participation in
international markets. As a 1985 New
York Times report noted, "even Nicaragua
is drafting an investment code that will
guarantee companies access to foreign
exchange, in an attempt to lure
investment." Economist Carlos DiazAlejandro has pointed out that emerging
socialist countries have often made
conscious attempts not to " delink "i.e.
voluntary cut off trade and investment
relationships with the advanced capitalist
nations.
While control over del inking was
pre-empted by the U.S. imposed embargo
on Nicaragua, El Salvador, still in a
transitional stage, has even less power to
control the influx or exodus of capital.
The unstable investment climate created
b~ the war has I»:"mp~ de facto capital
flight. Therefore if pellSloners concerned
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by William Kramer, Sean Starke, and
Scot Wbeat
Several weeks ago we wrote an
article regarding the investment portfolio
of the Washington State Investment
Board (which constitutes the retirement
funds of Washington state employees).
We discussed the extensive holdings of
Washington State in companies involved
in
environmental
destruction
and
repression of the people of Central
America. These companies include Du
Pont, Shell, Monsanto, Exxon, Dow,
Chevron, and Bank of America.
We also noted "how the behavior of
several of these companies affect the
lives of people here in the U.S. This is
manifested in the fonn of oil spills, toxic
waste dump sites. pesticides poisoning of
foods, and loss of domestic employment
As Fred Schwartz, member of The
Commimications Workers of America
notes, "the attacks on labor in the U.S.
and other countries are closely related.
For
example,
many
multinational
corporations are shutting down plants in
the United States to profit from cheaper
labor in "third world" countries."
As we concluded in our previous
article, the substantial holdings of state
employees in the above companies could
provide levecage to instigate changes in
their destructive operations. There are
several ways in which this leverage can
be used to bring about change.
History has proven that the threat of
well publicized divestment by any group
of shareholders sends a clear signal to
other major shareholders that their
investments in those corporations are in
danger. The threat of 8 well publicized
stock sale for a given purpose creates the
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Center manipulates media .too
by Steven J. Smith
As Jeff Cohen wrileS in FAIR
magazine (Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting), it is widely believed in the
mainstream media--that while there is
propaganda of the left, and there is
propaganda of the right, most in the
mainstream media believe there is no
such thing as propaganda of the center.
The center is where objective, balanced
and fair reporting is suppose to lake
place. It somehow doesn't carry any
values, opinions or beliefs. However, this
notion is false. The political center seeks
to preserve the status quo and emphasizes
system supporting news that has a
definite bias. This bias comes primarily
from the reliance on information from
official sources of government and
corporate America This was evident in
the research I did of the news print
media in relation to the recent
Nicaraguan elections.
The two main establishment papers-The New York Times and the Washington
Post--are the principle propaganda
vehicles of the center. These papers are
used as primary information sources,
especially for foreign news, in dailies
across the U.S. I have been monitoring
one of these papers, The New York Times
and a local publication, The Seattle PI in
relation to the elections in Nicaragua In
the Times from Jan I, 1990 to May I,
1990, a tota1 of 1964.25 inches of
column space or 112 stories were devoted
directly to the elections and related
events. Of these inches, 73% or 1423.75
inches of reporting came from official
government sources and critics of the
FSLN who represent the dominant U.S.
political and economic ideology. 17% or
338.75 inches of the reporting was given
to what is considered factual information.
Facts are reported but not always in an
unbiased manner. The Sandinistas or their
advocates were allotted only 10% or
201.75 inches of column space. It was
not uncommon for FSLN quotes to be
negatively framed or used out of context
so that the FSLN's point of view often
appeared to lack credibility. In the Times
reporting of the election, the U.S.
government's point of view was
represented 73% of the time, while the
Sandinistas or its supporters were given
10% or 1/9 the column space. The bias
of the press in using primarily 'official
sources' in its reporting on Nicaragua
was clearly evident
Inherent in all the articles were
underlying, false assumptions that were
even behind neutral or factual reporting.
These assumptions included that this is
the first free democratic election in
Nicaragua, the Sandinista govemment is
a
repressive
Marxist
dictatorship
Analysis
exporting revolution, the Sandinistas
advocate a highly centralized economy,
and it's the U.S. who is bringing
democracy to Nicaragua for the first time.
The
press
minimized
and
used
disinformation regularly to support
pro-U.S. policy, while they repeatedly
highlighted the negative aspects of the
Sandinistas on a daily basis.
Of the 112 stories in The New York
Times,
nearly
all
slandered
the
Sandinistas
and President Ortega,
especially as the fear of a Sandinista
victory appeared imminent. The FSLN
and particularly Ortega were relentlessly
showcased in a nefarious manner.
Frequent articles such as
"For the
Devoted Sandinistas, an Item to fit every
Mood" (NY Times, 2/11190) or "Ortega on
the Campaign Trail" (NY Times, 2/14/90)
strongly trivialized and criminalized the
FSLN portraying them as extorting votes
by using blackmail and bribery through
their vestiges of power. Ortega was
sketched
as
a
slick,
superficial
campaigner and the next day as radical
and
emotionally
unbalanced.
The
underlying theme being that of suspicion
about his character. Ignored in the Times
was the content of what Ortega had to
say.
The
reporting
featured
the
Sandinistas as having a concrete political
advantage over UNO by being able to
utilize a sophisticated favor-granting
machinery that grew up around Ortega's
supported throughout the Times reporting.
presidency. This is not unlike incumbent
Not surprisingly, these upstanding groups
presidential candidates in the United
or individuals we support are always
StaleS running for re-election, but for the
"centrists" on the political spectrum. At
FSLN it was considered foul play.
least, that's how they're portrayed in the
Meanwhile, Chamorro and the ·
media. They are perpetually hemmed in
United Nicaraguan Opposition were
by
the extremists on the left and the
characterized as being disadvantaged, and
right
Since UNO has won the election,
a less worthy opponent surviving
the
press
has been portraying Chamorro
primarily on enthusiasm and public
in the center between the FSLN and the
support The picture drawn was one of
Contras. Much the same as Christiani in
Nicaraguans having the desire to attend
El
Salvador is depicted between the
UNO rallies but being intimidated into
government right-wing military and the
staying away. At the same time, the
Sandinistas had big tum outs primarily Freedom Fighters.
In the Times, the fairness of the
because they coerced Nicaraguans to
election
was often in question. This
attend
their
political
gatherings.
of
mainstream reporting echoed
pattern
Portrayed was a bad guy (Sandinista)
the
Bush
administration's
efforts to call
versus good guy (UNO) scenario. Left
out or marginalized was any significant into doubt the fairness of the election if
reporting on the members of the UNO .the Sandinistas won. Their . reporting
coalition, their connection to the Contras embodied the U.S. viewpoint that our
or the Somoza National Guard, administration would be the judge and
minimized was the coalition's infighting jury as to whether the elections would be
and their use of intimidation in some determined legitimate. Our right to do
regions. UNO was always characterized this was never questioned. The Times
conveniently overlooked the
1000
in a relatively positive light
international
monitors
and
the
1500
The consistent theme of the centrist
foreign
journalists
that
would
be
on
hand
position is that the U.S. only supports
upstanding individuals or coalitions to observe the elections. The Times also
neglected to explain why the Sandinistas
abroad and that it is our right to advance
democracy wherever we can. This was
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fairness, from page 4
stealing the election, such as found in the
following quote: "Administration officials
say, the United StaleS will continue trying
to isolate Nicaragua and will impose
additional sanctions if President Ortega
steals the election" (NY Times, 2/18/90).
A disinformation campaign was evident
in the Times and other mainstream media
to discredit the upcoming Nicaraguan
election if the FSLN won. Why the
Sandinistas summoned the world to watch
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Opposition won, Bush . congratulated
Ortega on the conduct of the election and
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be willing to stand by electoral politics.
Slanderous quotes were appearing from
Nicaraguans, such as "Ortega promised
jobs, food, housing, everything, but gave
us nothing." (NY Times, 3/5/90), without
inches for Sandinista rebuttal.
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governments go vinually unreported,
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emphasized on a regular basis. Instead
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mainstream reporting thereby perpetuating
an antiquated cold war mentality. Mter
reviewing all 107 articles, and knowing
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in their reporting of the Sandinistas and
Ortega, it is still amazing to note to what
degree the media promoted
the
administrations line of anti-Sandinista
propaganda
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Panama. Due primarily to reporter, Scott
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coming from a Sandinista perspective and
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denied . access to Bush's hand-picked
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Ken Cover
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Grace N. Nelson
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Robin Richardson
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Page 7
Graduation: lifelong dreaDl becoDles reality
not want me to go to co11ege. I just don '(
believe that they thought the resources to
go to school would ever be available for
me.
So I went to won:: instead: in a bank
in Minneapolis. I spent 5 1/2 years there,
working my way up to a Personal
Banker. But it never felt right to me. I
made a mediocre salary, yet I was
working day and night to help those with
money maintain their fmancial holdings.
A voluntary lay-off enabled me to pack
my bags and move to SeattIe.
The dream of going to co11ege never
left me. Finally in 1985, I applied for
admission to Seattle Central Community
College (SCCC). Three years later I
earned an Associate of Arts Degree and
headed to Olympia to attend Evergreen.
The communal structure of the
educational experience at Evergreen
appealed to me. I had some Evergreen
model coordinated-studies programs at
SCCC. One of the faculty, Gail
Tremblay, on exchange to SCCC that
quarter, was incredibly supportive and
encouraging in my pursuit to learn and
explore new and alternative ways of
thinking. She sparked my initial interest
in this school.
At Evergreen, I had the privilege to
work with such instructors as Peter
Bohmer, Ken Dolbeare, Jeanne Hahn and
Sam Schrager, among others. These
individuals redirected my thoughts and
by Thomas Mitchell Freeman
On Sunday, June 3, 1990, I will join
nearly 1,000 other Evergreen students in
receiving a diploma. I am incredibly
proud of this moment in my life and the
lives of those who are also graduating.
As my student work at Evergreen comes
to an end, I have some thoughts that I
would like to share.
The significance of my degree goes
back to a childhood dream that someday
I would be able to go to school and
obtain a formal higher education. A few
days ago a card came in the mail from
my mother's cousin. The card read:
"Congratulations Tom. You did it! You
told me many long years ago that you
were going to attend college and
graduate. I am most pleased for you."
Strangely enough, I remember that
conversation vividly.
It was at my
Great-Aunt's home in northern Minnesota.
I was no more than 12 or 13. I had just
fmished reading Hubert Humphrey's [hard
to believe] Education of a Public Man, in
which he stressed the importance of a
we11 educated public for both personal
and social growth. My dream was
derailed by many self-doubts and through
growing up in a family which neither
contained any college graduates, nor
necessarily believed that a co11ege
education was attainable for those of our
lower middle class status. This is not to
say that my Mother or Grandmother did
helped me to see the world and our
society through a totally new set of
lenses. I am grateful for the oppommities
to struggle, work and learn through their
experience and knowledge.
Attending. Evergreen was not all
peaches and cream. I confronted my selfdoubts, anger, past frustrations, selfimage, and the nagging feeling that
somehow I was an alien on this planet.
Evergreen helped me re-discovez who I
am and to mature into a more confident
and compassionate person. There are
those that I had disagreements with along
the way. There are amends that still need
to be made--but. all in all, Evergreen
helped me heal the hurt little boy in me
and let the loving man emerge.
KAOS radio enabled me to flJld
focus and develop the artistic side of my
personality. I always wanted to work at
a radio station, and Michael Huntsberger,
Juli Kelen and other staff at KAOS
welcomed me with enthusiasm ' and they
supported my concept of a public affairs
radio program that mixed socially
conscious music with interviews.
My reason for writing this is to
thank the individual students, staff,
faculty and administrators who have
supported my learning at Evergreen the
past two years. Too often we criticize the
college for failing to achieve certain
goals and objectives (multiculturalism
comes to mind) but we don't recognize
Acquaintance Rape: How It Hurts Men
the support systems Evergreen provides,
such as KEY student services, the student
to faculty ratio, the college's model of
consultation, and the collection of
students with a vision of social justice
and change. While critique is needed, I
know that I wouldn't have ever made it
to graduation day at a traditional, megauniversity.
My graduation is coupled with both
joy and sadness. I am thankful that my
family will share in the joy. But with my
life long goal finally realized at age 30,
a driving force in me will end. Where do
I go from here? I am sad because many
of my co-graduates will be leaving
forever and we many never be together
again. As expected, our community will
disperse.
Nonetheless, the joy outshines the
sadness. My genuine love for Evergreen
will continue as I perform new duties as
a staff member of the college. To those
who are leaving, I say "farewell" and
offer my best wishes to you. For those
who are remaining, may you experience
the same love of community that I feel
for The Evergreen State College.
Thanks for allowi~g me to selfindulge a bit This article comes from my
heart and I hope it might hold
significance to some CPJ readers. And to
my family I want to say, "Well, I finally
did it!"
You're probably wondering, 'What does that have to do
with me? Isn't that something that happens to women?"
Yes it Ls,jor the most part. But there are lot oj reasons
men need to know about acquatntance rape and sexual
assault In general.
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You may know someone who has been the vtctlm oj
sexual assault Some experts esttmate that one out oj every
three women and one out oj every etght men are victtms oj
rape. So take a look around you. chances are you know
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agony of sexual assault.
Support anti-rape organizations. There are many people
worktng agaInst rape In our campus and community:
Researchers have asked men and women if it was all
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ACgUAlNI'ANCE RAPE. DrInking too much can compromise
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dates and lovers. Create possibtlitiesjor honest and
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• Take "NO"Jor an answer. Men have been tal1ght
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"'YES" has no meaning.
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The misconceptions of culture
WORDS FROM UMOJA
by Aderonke Adekanbi
We built our shanty this weekend,
and I would like to take this moment and
thank all the people who came to help us
with this project. It was wonderful and it
looks great. I hope the message that
each one of us brought. can bring about
individual awareness of the racism that
exists on campus.
The question most asked by people
"was the shanty built for racism
awareness day?" It was not. The shanty
was built because of the racism that still
exists on our campus. This shanty is
therefore to fight against apartheid and
racism. The idea to build the shanty was
Ms. labulile Dayton's. I would like to
thank her for making this possible. The
shanty meant a great deal 10 all of us
who took part in the project
I would like to invite anyone who
wishes to see the shanty to please do so.
It is located on the mound in front of
Red Square.
.
As for my friends, you know who
you are. We work, we get the job done.
"Be strong and always remember that
tough times don't last, but tough people
do."
P.S. How ironic it is that Evergreen is
supposedly one of the most liberal
colleges on the West Coast and a shanty
that we built was destroyed. The AntiApartheid shanty was built in support
with other student movements to diversify
campuses around the United States. A lot
of people and student organizations spent
time building and painting the shanty on
May 19th. While we were planning the
event we knew that someone would
destroy it, however, we were hoping to
be proved wrong. Those people who
have supported UMOJA constantly
throughout this year we want to say
thank you and we hope that you continue
showing your support
by Tony Browder
we knew not
we studied
we learned all there was 10 know
we taught others
now we are taught
(by those who were once taught by us)
-knowledge(that we already had)
so ...
we study
we learn all there is to know
we teach others
will we forget ... again
then we forgot what we had learned
and then forgot that we had forgotten
The Cooper Point Journal
What it ain't got, you don't want!
THANKS TO ...
FOR ANOTHER
by Fred Dube
The
Evergreen
State
College
administration should be congratulated for
having introduced multiculturalism 10
TESC. Their vision was timely and the
problems this experiment is experiencing
are teething problems, which are not
peculiar to Evergreen, but are problems
experienced in most new innovations or
experiments. This does not mean that all
new innovations or experiments are a
wise move, becaUse some are unwise and
at times just down right stupid. In the
case of TESC, only time will tell.
So far, all of what I see seems 10
point at a positive direction. Most of our
at
TESC
come
from
students
communities which are almost exclusively
"white" with only "white" experiences.
Multiculturalism exposes them, therefore,
to other experiences, and realities and
some new information they had witherto,
not been exposed to or heard of. It also
introduces them 10 ideas they had not
been exposed to before and this, in my
opinion, is good.
PIlor to our going to a faculty retreat
last month, a memo was circulated
pointing to the existence of different
understandings of the meaning of
multiculturalism. To me the existence of
different interpretations came as no
surprise. After all, the word culture itself
has and continues to have many different
definitions. There is not today. to my
awareness, a single definition on which
all users of this concept are commonly
agreed upon. What does exist is that
users of this concept choose one or the
other of the existing definitions,
invariably the definitions chosen by a
writer or researcher is one the writer is
comfortable with or one which to them
best describes or helps them to best
articulate their study or subject.
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After all, only doers risk a chance of Evergreen's political lexicon the term
making mistakes. The doers of nothing Euro-American." The author may well
do not take any risk of making mistakes. be correct in stating that the term "EuroI personally prefer the doers to the doers American" is a new term at Evergreen,
of nothing. When I read the do nothing
even though I doubt that most people are
author of the Cooper Poinr Journal (May
so much in their own cocoons that they
17, Vol. W, Issue 25) article, I got hot do not know that this word is very
under
the collar. This author as an adult, commonly used in other: parts of United
This does not mean I or those colleagues
he could have gone to the students who States. Sarcastically but also ignorantly
of mine who prefer this Tylor's definition
the author states "To imagine there is a
agree with Tylor on all the things he says initiated the "cultural caucus" to draw
their attention to the exclusion of Arabs significant common cultural denominator
on this topic.
unite Greeks, Germans, the French,
Tylor defmes culture as a complex from the caucus. Instead of doing this,
Danes,
Swedes,
Finns,
Czechs,
of
puerile
attacks
on
he
went
to
a
tirade
"which includes knowledge. beliefs, art,
the students and some unnamed others. In
is the
Hungarians,
Russians,
and
Soviets
morals. law, customs, and any other
this
attack
he
revealed
his
own
racism
of
political
folly."
There
is no
'
height
capabilities and habits acquired by man
as a member of society" (fylor, 1871, pg and more, his ignorance. What does the knowledgeable historian who can agree
1.) Today, for obvious reasons, we can students "caucus" have 10 do with with this statement Those who wrote and
Is he are still writing about the history of
substitute the generic word "man" with "Zionist Terrorists" at TESC?
suggesting
that
the
student's
"cultural
Europe have in the past and present had
humankind without any damage done to
caucus"
was
sponsored
by
"Zionist
included in this history all the states he
Tylor's defmition and can also add "ways
Terrorists"
at
TESC?
What
does
the
has named and those he left out such as
of thinking, myths and prejudices," also
"cultural caucus" have to do with "the the Netherlands, Switzerland. Ireland,
without any loss to Tylor's definition.
These additions are made necessary by latest entry in Evergreen's political Italy, etc. Many of these states have
lexicon, the term "Euro-American?" This changed borders many a time as one
the existence of new infonnation and new
is not only a question of mixing apples empire rose and feU. The only state
awareness about issues which were not and oranges but a display of not only
which had for a long time remained
considered in the past, such as sexism.
ignorance
by
also
of
puerile ambiguous in this inclusion is Turkey.
Talking about culture, it is as intellectualism and arrogant reasoning.
even though a statement by a Czar of
legitimate to talk of European culture as
This author, while hiding behind
it is to talk of European cultures, pseudo intellectualism, he arrogates to Russia in one of the conferences to
discuss peace, recognition of the
depending on the context in which this
himself the right 10 tell African- independence of certain European states
word is used. For instance, individual Americans how they should define
and their fate, is said to have referred 10
land ownership is as European as this
themselves. Having defmed himself as a
idea is strange to Native Americans and Lebanese-Anlerican, he wants 10 tell the Turkey as "the sick man of Europe." If
the clustering of these states under a
Africans, at least, until this idea was
African-American that this designation of European history is a historical IUld
imposed by conquerors on these two
them, by themselves "is just as
peoples.
The same is true of the objectionable as the term black." Most of political folly, it is incumbent on the
author of this article to identify in clear
Christian religion once the Europeans
those African-Americans who have terms, that folly.
adopted this religion as their religion.
chosen this designation for themselves,
The term Euro-American was not
The list of ideas which are held in
have chosen it for no other reason than invented to correct anything but to state
common by Europeans is long, but this that of regaining their roots and their
does not mean there are no cultural origin. Anyone who is familiar with the what is and that is a particular set of
variations among them, sufficient, when history of slavery in the United States beliefs and ideas found in common
considered by themselves 10 talk of knows that the slave owners forcibly among the European and their behavior
European cultures. There is also on the through severe punishment, branding and during the period of colonialism of
basis of culture, nothing wrong with whipping, tried to erase in the minds of peoples who were regarded as nontalking of Euro-American culture, if Africans who were forcibly brought 10 Europeans. Sarcastically the author states
"apparently 'white' is now politically
culture is a variation of European culture.
this ·land in chains, any thoughts and any incorrect, since it supposedly functions to
What is racist then with stating this associations in them with their mothercategorize people in racial terms." This
truism?
land. This attempt was intended not only
Giving youth a Iatiblde to make and to erase thoughts. but also their memory implies that the use of this color and
other colors to characterize people was
learn from malcing mistakes, is considered of mother-land, Africa
ever
correct. In that case, when did
a privilege of the youth by Africans.
Let us now turn this "latest entry in these so called "whites" change their
color and become closer to pink? Do
those who object to this myth have to
object for political reasons and not to a
misstatement of fact? The author may be
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interesting thing is that he did not even
know where he was when he landed. He
thought he was in India.
Another
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the Europeans told them so.
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Proportional representation
'Would reflect diversity
by Jon Epstein
Washington States biggest one-day
festival is coming within hours! I still
remember the frrst Super Saturday at
Evergreen when you could fmd a parking
space easily. This week-end you probably
expect to see at least 30,000 converge on
the TESC campus. The beer garden will
consume fifty kegs of beer, if the
weather is favomble, and the alumni
association will have it's annual meeting.
Okay, so not many .o f those 30,000
are coming to the annual meeting.
Nevertheless, it is the end of the school
year and many people will be graduating.
It's alumni time at Evergreen. The alumni
association has their hands full on Super
Saturday with many tasks to complete. In
addition to our, ever popular, chicken
booth the alums will be serving up a
great brunch for the annual meeting and
election of the board. The alums will
again sponsored the "Super Saturday
Night Live" dance in the evening when
Stupor Saturday winds down.
If you are about to graduate or are
already a graduate of the Evergreen State
College, then you are a member of the
alumni association. If you want to have
a say in what the alumni association does
in the future then you should consider
attending the annual meeting (Saturday,
June 2, 10 am, CAB 110) and running
for a space on the Board of Directors.
The alumni association is only ten years
old and there are many exciting
opportunities for alumni to have impact
on the future of Evergreen's curricula and
strategic plan. These are exciting times at
Evergreen and we have many new staff
on campus.
If you alums want free parking or fee
passes to the recreation center consider a
two-year term with the Gooey-Board.
Many of the services that alums are
always crying for around here are within
reach if some talented alums would
contribute some time to the alumni board
and the college. Alums also have the
power to create their own currency which
js circulating around the northwest in the
form of "Joe Bucks."
The alumni board needs graduates to
serve on D1F's strategic planning
committees, student activity committees,
and of course, sell chicken. Most alums
should understand that history is the most
radical concept around. In other words, if
you remember what happened in the past
you have a much better understanding of
the present If Americans knew their
history bener they would be a lot more
pissed-off than they are now and they
would know who to be pissed off atI
Evergreen is no exception to this rule.
Alums
can
contribute
important
perspective to discussions on Evergreen's
future. Right now the alumni board is
interested in seeking graduates from the
seventies.
Most of us on the board are eighties
graduates. If you want more information
about the alumni association call our
office on campus at 6190. Stop by in
person if you are in the neighborhood.
We are located in the basement of the
lecture hall rotunda known as the bomb
shelter.
This commercial column this week
was paid for by the alumni association
with $50,000 Joe Bucks. I couldn't resist
the money!
Jon 'Eppo' Epstein is an Evergreen
student, a CPJ column writer. host of
Olympia's only talk radio show. a member
of the S&A Board. a member of the
alumni board. a man who does not pay
his taus ....
by Robert Ri~hie
Evergreen s current struggle to
represent and seek cultural diversity .in.its
stude.nt ~ov~ent ~d .admISSion
pracUces IS admirable, if pamful. The
aw~ess is growing--spurred on by the
enVIronmental movement--that we must
dev~l~p bet~r processes to '!lake s~
d~ISlons With people who thmk and live
differently than ourselves. Any structural
proc~s create<! ~t TESC: that both allows
eff~uve deciSion-making an~ better
achiev.es th~ goals of respecting and
~urturmg differences could have an
Impact fel~ far beyond the campus.
I admue the goals of the "cultuml
caucus" system, but share some of ~
doubts. that others have expressed m
recent ISSU~ of the Cn--definmg cul~
~ps Will always I?e controversial,
locomp!ete, and contradictory. Yet at the
same time, attempts at such definitions
~ helpful because they open our eyes to
diffe~nces ~ong us and to what groups
or vlewpo~ts are, curre~~y un~errepresented 10 TESC s deciSion-making
process..
The compromISe Stud~nt Government
~tructure developed this past week
lIDproves on the original plan. But if
TESC wants to ~ve an impact beyond
~e campus, I believe that more thought
IS needed on how to represent different
culture groups.
I disagree with the
Reagan era'.s. attack?" affirmative action,
but the poliucal basiS for the attack will
not chan~e .without. addressing the fears
of the f!13Jonty. Settmg up cultural groups
for ~t r~presentation while by
nt~~esslty ~ot directly representing others
qUickly Will lead to some resentment at
TE~C ~d to gr~t resentment if used in
a City l~e Olympia.
I Will qUlc.kIy reel off some groups
unrep~nted .~ the current plan: any
non-JewISh religiOUS groups such as bomagain Christians (whom we should realize
make .up nearly half of the US
populau~n): any groups defined by
economic class, perhaps the .most
important cultural distinction in this
country; women or men (the plan
encourages caucuses 10 send one make
and one. female representative, but does
not proVide for men or w~men to meet
separately to defme theIr needs and
interests): political ideology (would this
plan ensure representation of socialists or
free market capitalists?); and people of
Arab background, often victims of
extreme prejudice in this country.
As I said, defining groups and
having caucuses based on those cultuml
definitions would be an important,
ground-breaking exercise. I simply have
problems
with
the
mechanical,
undemocmtic process of giving set
representation to what by necessity will
be haphazardly-defmed cultural groups.
I am a proponent of proportional
representation, the electoral system of
choice for the great majority of the
world's democmcies, including all new
ones in easter Europe. While Knoll
Lowny reports in the May 24 cn that
the new SG pl~ "resolves the .conflict
between proporUonai represental10n and
progressive diversity," I would maintain
~t a well-informed, active student body
10 fact would elect a student government
reflecting progressive diversity if it used
a proportional representation system.
The
key
to
proportional
representation is that it allows voters to
defme their own constituencies. In the
United States single-member district,
winner-lake-all system, legislators or
judges determine regional constituencies,
and minorities within those constituencies
are usually out of luck. In the proposed
SG system, some small body within the
whole student body will determine
cultuml groups, then provide automatic
representation whether those groups even
care to have special representation and
whether undefmed groups truly might
seek representation.
In proportional representation--used
on several U.S. campuses with a structure
not requiring political parties--voters can
choose the way they want to have their
representation defmed: they can vote for
individuals who best speak for them.
The cultural caucuses could be a
significant component of a proportional
representation system by having groups
meet, talk about their needs and interests
and then field candidates who will speak
for those needs and interests. Thus,
many more cultural caucuses could exist
and still facilitating the debate, selfexamination and diverse representation
the proposed SG plan seeks to provide.
I have no illusions that structuml
changes like proportional representation
alone will provide magical solutions to
complex problems. That is why the idea
of cultural caucuses - which I hadn't
heard about until coming to Olympia
earlier this year - excites me. I will try
to incorpomte the idea into my current
work. with others seeking to encourage
the Thurslon County freeholders 10
consider
instituting
proportional
representation in the new county charter.
But talking to people interested in the
charter out here in "the real world" gives
me a sense of what simply will not fly in
a place like Thurston County, let alone a
state like Utah. I think forward-thinking
institutions like TESC should faclor in
such considerations to their thinking and
avoid cutting themselves off from the
population at large. There is a critical
difference between creative, progressive
action and dreamy, only-workable-insmall-settings-of-like-minded-people
activity.
Proportional
representation
unfortunately is not familiar to many
people in the United States, although
earlier this century it was used to elect
city councils in a number of cities like
New York, Cincinnati and Cleveland (it
was repealed nearly everywhere it was in
place during the anti-communist hysteria
of the post World War II period). lf you
would like more information on
proportional representation, call me at
459-5590 or check out articles in the
Rainbow Coalition's monthly paper
Works In Progress.
What are we celebrating?
by Brendan WitHams
We're approaching that day-long
period of revelry called Super Saturday,
or Stupid Saturday--as knowledgeable
Greeners affectionately refer to it.
This event was composed basically to
assure neighboring residents of Thurston
County that Greeners could spend at least
one day without howling at the sky,
visibly smoking massive quantities of
marijuana and/or laying out subversive
plans to infiltrate and pillage the homes
of respectable citizenry.
Now, though, the spectacle has
evolved to such an extent that outsiders
can come away reassured that Evergreen
is a lot like Disneyland--sans rides. It has
also reinforced with its t-shirts and promo
campaign the tymnny of a noxious new
phenomena, the fluorescent culture. From
the standpoint of commercial conformity
it is a success. Genuine Evergreen
students are in short supply in the crowd,
although they can be witnessed
occasionally in the beer garden ("Look
Marge, a hippy! Don't touch!").
However, we are irrevocably sliding
into this festival - regardless of our
perception of it. Since it is a celebration,
the penultimate one at that (next to
graduation), we should decide what we
have to celebrate.
We can celebrate the fact that this
college is moving towards multiculturalism. After all, everyone from
President Joseph Olander to the
promulgators of the "cultural caucus"
governance structure have assured us it is
so. Unfortunately, though, in our
headlong rush towards this ideal we've
overlooked a trifling point. The point is
that there has been no consensual effort
at this school made to defme what
cultures are, or--hence--their sum. One
can be assured that they are not solely
Page 12 Cooper Point Journal May 31, 1990
defined by race, that would lead merely
to multi-ethnicity. One wonders how long
we're going to be expected to embmce a
dream that has not been explained:
Particularly at a school where only
French (one of three language offerings
in 1990-91) is taught at the second-year
level. Multiculturalism? As long as you
speak English.
We can celebmte efforts at student
empowerment. Sure we've seen some bad
ideas on the governance front, such as
the "cultural caucus" effort. That was
defeated. Now we've got a new proposal.
Reading the description of it, though, iIi
last week's seepage [Volume 20, Issue
261, I would have to say that if the
depiction was accurate this new idea is
no more legal than the last We all
should embrace, at a minimum, the goal
of "...gender and ethnicity equality" it
refers to. However, that cannot be forced.
By specifying representation on the basis
of chamcteristics--such as mce--you
violate civil rights laws. It, and the
reference to the caucuses being
..... strongly encoumged to choose one
male and one female representative,"
could be construed as coercive and
limiting language. Of course, if the article
was in error--or the proposal was refined-then this is all blown sllJoke. I hope
that's the case.
We can celebrate, in the absence of
student government. the S&A Board.
Whoops, just kidding! If I could venture
a prediction, I'd say that body--under
Hugh Moag's leadership--will see its
most tumultuous year in 1990-91. Things,
I'd portend, have to become really bad
before they get beuer.
We
could
celebrate
the
administration of our college. That would
be a bad joke too, though. After all, our
community newspaper and its star
reporter Bob Partlow appear to have it in
for Joe Olander.
What's new? Even the faculty
appears to have lost faith in him,
however temporarily, with their newfound
desire to work closely with the Board of
Trustees instead of the college president.
Plus there is the none too subtle message
in their choice of graduation speaker (et
tu, Hitchens?). Olander will, if tradition
holds, be our emissary at appropriations
hearings next year in the legislature. If
the bad publicity and power. struggle
continues, and faith is not reslored. we'll
be lucky if members of the higher
education committees put their spare
change in a hat in lieu of a budgetary
allocation.
What we can certainly celebmte is
an intelligent student body that if
properly motivated could be capable of
doing great things for themselves, and
this school. More communication is
needed, though, and a CPJ that has been
greatly improved this year could be
instrumental in the future. The possibility
for change is always there as long as the
will exists.
I know I'in perhaps guilty of painting
a generally grim picture. Does this mean
I don't plan on joining the festivities this
weekend? Well, I'll probably miss the
brunt of Stupor Saturday. I had the
misfortune of witnessing it last year. But,
why dwell on the unpleasant? Let's head
the words of that great philosopher, who
encouraged happiness at the expense of
worry. Worry? I plan on getting drunk!
See you later Evergreen. What a
long, strange trip it's been.
Williams. a reCipient of the
Distinguished Presidential Scholarship at
Washington State University, plans on
transferring in order to study Spanish.
EDI'rORIALS
The editor's year-end wrap up
Following thefine tradition of Cooper
Point Journal editors writing a final
editorial at the end of their tefWTe, I feel
compelled to write one also. Most of the
time these editorials consist of bashing the
school in some form or another, and. I
guess, after remaining is this position for
a year, there is some right to do just that
but I will try to keep it to a minimum.
First, Evergreen
Evergreen
breeds
a
love/hate
relationship. Evergreen has flaws. All
schools have them and, in comparison,
Evergreen's are small. The difference is
we all care about the problems whether
we like it or not and we attempt to
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...."". for tie oommllliy
address them. It is a healthy sign that we
are allowed to interact enough with the
workings of the school as students to be
allowed to complain about things. Other
schools are not even close to interaction.
Because of our closeiless as a
community, it is difficult not 10 see
things you want to change.
Outside of this school, I will defend
it 10 the end, even though I know it has
problems. I will defend it because I know
it is better than anything else offered in
the realm of allowing thought.
This year we have seen, as usual,
problems that have repeated themselves
year after year at this institution. These
problems include S&A budget allocations,
TESC security forces, student governance,
sexual harassment, mcism, and Marriott
food services. All these problems concern
students and since students do study and
graduate or move on, there is no
consistent force to address them and
force the administration to really deal
with them. Token gestures like putting up
signs regarding violence against women
don't solve a problem.
A student governance structure helps
keep these issues on the table even
though active students leave. The question
is, can we as students agree on what a
fair student governance structure is? If
allowed, this is a place where
experimental
governance
can
be
implemented. I applaud all involved in
generating the recent tunnoil in student
government. Not only was it very
interesting to see a real "coup de' tat" in
action (and it was very representative of
a real national coup), but it brought about
involvement and change by and for the
students.
On a larger front, a new problem
surfaced: faculty mis-trust of college
president Joe Olander. This build-up
culminated with the allegation of Olander
misrepresenting himself in his resume.
This division poses a greater threat to the
college's well-being than probably
anything the students could muster.
The allegations, seemingly done
independently from other problems with
Olander, revealed a much deeper problem
between the faculty and the office of the
president
This school was founded by 12 men,
now called founding faculty. They are the
purveyors of myth at this school and all
tell of a vision we now call Evergreen.
They and the faculty in general have had
a lot of control in the past regarding
decisions made at this school. When
Olander came into office, he began 10
lake a more active role in decisions,
sometimes without consulting the faculty.
Hence, the upheaval as faculty attempts
to regain what it feels it has lost
Mistakes have been made on both
sides--the faculty not agreeing to a vote
of no confidence, Olander letting his
emotional reactions to personal attacks
blind him from creating a workable
solution with the faculty. But perhaps the
biggest mistake was by the board of
trustees when they backed Olander 100
percent All would have been clarified
and the media hounds kept off the
school's back if they would have called
for an independent investigation and lived
by the results.
All we can do now is watch as a
battle of the wills lakes place between
the opposing sides. The issue will not go
away. Especially when Olander himself
makes the faux pas of threatening both
Gannett News Service and Impact 10 stifle
their reporting of the issue. Now, the
only solution is for everyone involved to
sit down and work. out a compromise,
free of emotions and vendettas.
The Cooper Point Journal
I never thought I would be capable
of conducting the job of editor by
myself. When I signed on with Suzette
Williams as co-editor this year I felt
assured I would never have to. .Things
have a way of changing, though, and I
found myself alone at the beginning of
winter quarter.
This paper has been another one of
the perennial problems at Evergreen.
Although the cn is for the students, the
students seemed to be the ones who
disliked it the most. This is a direct
reflection on the nature of this school.
Individuality,
creatl vlty,
and,
independence are the three most cherished
values at Evergreen. Conformity is not,
and every paper must at least demand a
low lellel of conformity to be published
regularly.
My personal edilorial policy has been
one of a "hands off' approach. This may
have lowered the overall quality. of
writing in the paper but it allowed more
student voice to be expressed and
restored some faith in the editorial policy
of the paper. I feel an editor should not
be guaranteed a space in the paper every
week just because of their position. More
people have therefore spoken their views.
I feel this year has been a success.
Some part of that success must be
attributed to the competition genemted by
the Free Press. I am a strong advocate of
multi-paper communities and the more
viewpoints the better, but cutting one
another down is not a part of delivering
differing viewpoints, it is useless. I hope
the Free Press continues to exist.
Although to a les~ amount, I still
hear the same old drivel regarding how
much we edit, how we parrot the
administmtion line, and how our coverage
is lacking or a bore. If you only knew;
our editing is extremely light; yes, we do
print news releases from Information
Services but we also print anything and
everything students bring to us. If you
still don't believe the CPJ is for the
students foremost, ask anyone who has
written for us, especially people who said
they would never write for us again or
members of Free Press who write for us
now also.
This is your community newspaper. I
would like to see it not only open for
student dialogue, but others as well, and
I think we have started that this year.
I apologize if I sound like I am
bragging
about
the
paper's
accomplishments, but I am damn proud
of the work we did this year. If this
school gave the two student media
productions on this campus equal funding
(Cn & KAOS-FM), we as a team could
help serve the students equally through
writing and broadcasts.
Kevin Boyer
My overall editor experience has been
excellent I love what I do, so I fmd it
tiresome to reitemte the same old
complaints. Perhaps the most exciting
thing I have watched ihis year is the
development of the Cooper Point Journal
office as a center for debate, news, and
information. It shows me that people
have put some trust back into the paper
they felt had abandoned them.
None of this, even this long-winded
editorial, would not have been possible
without the help of everyone who has
contributed to the Cooper Point Journal
this year. I would especially like to thank
Tedd Kelleher for his unwavering
support. Many nights it was just he and
I finishing up the paper. Thanks Tedd, it
is all yours next year.
I am graduating from Evergreen this
year, with enough experiences and
thoughts to truly say I received an
education, and enough questions to ensure
I will keep on receiving one in the
future. Good Luck to everyone in their
endeavors, and may the paper continue to
grow both intellectually and as a support
mechanism for the community at
Evergreen.
Kevin Boyer, editor
Harassment: final thoughts
I wrote a senes of arucles on
se).ual/gender hamssment this quarter for
the CPJ.
Here are some final thoughts on the
subject:
The college needs a new Sexual
Harassment Policy. It needs to require
serious consequences for those who
commit serious offenses and for repeat
offenders. It also needs to allow enough
room for people to make mistakes and to
learn from them without fear of losing
their jobs.
The Sexual Harassment Policy D1F
has been working Ioward the changes I
described above, and their work should
be supported.
'In the course of doing interviews, I
heardacadernicfreedombroughtupover
.
and over agrun.
I am tired of professors citing
academic freedom as an excuse for what
<DC
>.......
of some people
may ",,"y be
Yet I am
equally tied
who equate
being offended with being harassed.
I'm also tired of people who
complain about ludicrous harassment
campus so people can learn what
constitutes hamssment Students, faculty,
and staff need to learn about harassment
together and all of them need to demand
education in one voice.
Sexual harassment is not a black and
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pensions, from page 3
elaborated on these basic principles by
applying them to corporate involvement
in the "third world." He claimed that
"corporations cannot just pursue their own
profits to the exclusion of the nation's
needs. We must require our corporations
to
rise
above
the
bottom
!ine... Multinationals must respect the
rights of workers in the Third World. .. to
pursue decent wages and working
conditions."
By synthesizing the
"Universal Declaration of Human Rights"
with the principles articulated by Jackson,
pension fund/shareholders could pressure
U.S. corporations to act as
second
parties
in
prompting
repressive
governments to stop human rights abuses.
The violation of basic human rights
abroad has direct consequences for
workers in the U.S. The dynamics of
world labor markets encourage U.S.
companies to move to the "third world,"
which threatens the security of workers in
the U.S. Cheap foreign labor forces U.S.
workers to accept lower wages and in
many cases to be denied work altogether,
because less expensive labor can be
found in the "third world."
Were multinational companies forced
to "respect the rights of workers in the
Third World ... [and] to pursue decent
wages and living conditions," workers in
the U.S. would also reap the benefits.
There would be no alternative for
multinationals, but to accept decent wages
and employment practices in the U.S.
Jackson also expanded on this topic
in 1988. He stated that corporate
responsibility must extend to the U.S. as
well as those abroad. He "supports
advance notice to workers of plant
closing. " He believes ·.that employees
should have the right of fust refusal in
cases of corporate takeovers. They should
receive adequate severance pay and
should "receive retraining and job
placement assistance." Were the rights ef
"third world" workers respected, this
would be possible.
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The same ethics should be applied to
abuses of the environment by major
corporations in the U.S ., which must also
be reflected in the "third world." It is the
lack of restrictions on environmental
hazards which also plays a role in
encouraging multinational corporations to
move to the third world. If corporations
were forced by their stockholders to
respect the environment abroad, they
might remain here in the U.S.
All of this leads back to the
pensioners who are also workers in the
U.S. By 1995, one third of all the capital
in the U.S. will by tied up in pension
funds. This gives U.S. workers an
enormous amount of power to wield in
the face of corporations who assault the
rights of workers abroad and, in turn,
workers here in the U.S.
In our last
article we alluded to the fact that the
responsibility to use pension fund
holdings to bring about corporate
accountability was not the singular task
of state employees.
For instance, the College Retirement
Equities Fund (TIA CREF), a separate
national pension fund for college faculty,
is heavil y invested in all of the
corporations named above. Over 90% of
TESC faculty is covered under TIA
CREF.
TESC faculty could demonstrate their
commitment to democracy, justice, and
multiculturalism by working with state
employees in demanding that their
enormous retirement funds be used to
facilitate social justice rather than the represenlatives pushed state government
erosion of democracy, the miscarriage of to "break their corporate ties to apartheid
justice and the destruction of indigenous through public pension funds and other
cultures in Central America. If both TIA investments." Similar pressure could be
CREF and the state employees issued used regarding Washington State's
joint resolutions, corporate management Central American holdings.
If such a coalition could be created
would be doubly pressured to change
in this state and others, the extensive
their policies.
Students and activists concerned holdings of pension funds across the
about the environment and social justice country could be used to form a voting
both domestically and internationally block of U.S. corporate power. By these
could
lend
their
support
and means workers in the U.S. could
organizational skills to state workers and essentially control their own destiny while
faculty pursuing pension investment aiding people in the "third world" in their
reform. Students could also exercise their efforts to create societies based on social
considerable
economic
clout
by and economic justice rather than
boycotting corporations targeted by state corporate profitability.
William Kramer is a known
employees and faculty. It should be
added that a significant percentage of subversive who' sactions are currently
Evergreen students will eventually be under the watchful eye of the CIA. Sean
state employees and teachers themselves. Stark and Scot Wheat are upstanding
To work at changing pension fund citizens and are also staff writers for the
policies now could guarantee a flll3Ilcially CPJ.
secure future facilitated by socially
responsible investment
Rounding out the coalition would be
progressive state legislators who could
force the hand of potentially obstinate
state pension fund managers. The antiapartheid movement was aided by
legislators Ernie Chambers in Nebraska
in Massachusetts. Both
and Mel
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by Chris Bader
Well, its been a strange year. One
full of UFOs, monsters, ghosts and dimestore psychics the likes of J.z. Knight.
I have to admit that its getting harder and
harder to find sUX'ies about Washington
State, but just recently I found a real
doozy to end the year with...
It seems that in July of 1985, a
couple was camping in the Greenwater
area of WashingtOn State. Their car was
parked off the road at a peaceful
clearing.
Just before dawn, on the morning of
July 6, the couple's peaceful trip took a
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the word "race" is unknown. What this
"unknown" usually turns out to be, is
unknown to Europeans and "white"
Americans.
This does not mean
"unknown" to the whole of humanity.
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Africa IS that the Europeans encountered
this word for the fust time in the Greek
language. Nowhere did the Greeks claim
to be originators of this word nor did the
Italians claim to be originators of the
word "race." Where it comes to the
should identify themselves?
I find
absolutely nothing wrong with Latin
Americ.ans so identifying themselves. My
reason for this is simple. The main
languages of this area are Spanish and
Portuguese and these two languages were
type. The classification of people into
groups which at times make no sense
was not invented by the slUdents under
attack in the article I am responding to,
it is as American as apple pie. If the
students in forming a "cultural caucus"
word" Arab" I have no idea, he may weU
be correct, but with so many inaccuracies
in his article I prefer to remain skeptical
on the origin of this word as stated by
him.
Having identified himself as a
Lebanese-American what right does he
,
long .ago identified by linguist scholars as
formmg part o.f what they called Latin
languages..So if. the~ people wanted to
choose a smgle Identity rather than what
separates Ihem, what is wrong with that?
Do they need a Lebanese-American to
tell them how they should identify
themselves? This is not only a display
had erred, would it not have been prudent
of this professor to show them their error
rather than to accuse them of racism only
for him to display the worse kind of
racism. What gallery was he playing to
with this article?
Fred Dube is an Evergreen faculty
member from Souzh Africa.
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Fugazi: unexpected and intense
FuGAZI
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Reviewed by Dan Snul1"m
I wasn't expecting this.
I've never beard Fugazi before. I
thought this might sound like Minor
Threat, Ian MacKaye's old band: straightedge hardcore.
This isn't straight-edge hardcore. I'm
not exactly sure what to call iL
Fugazi are Brendan Canty, drums;
Joe Lally, bass; Ian MacKaye, vocals and
guitar; and Guy Picciotto, vocals and
space. These guys are from Washington
D.C. and their music is simple and
strong. The guitars, drums and vocals all
fit together perfectly. This is tight. A
cross between Nomeansno and Rapeman,
maybe? That is about as close as I can
get, and I'm still pretty far off. Whatever
you want to call it, it's good stuff.
The title track is addictive. I have not
been able to get "repeater" out of my
head since I first heard it:
You say you need a job/I've got my
own business/You want 10 know what I
do?/None of your fucking business/But
now I'm lying hi!re/Knowing that
business/I had a name, but now rm a
number/l 2 3 repeater
It is a good thing Repeater comes
wilh Ihe lyrics because the lyrics to this
whole album are intense. They make you
think. Try "styrofoam":
Thi!re are no more cultures left to
slidelThi!re are no more people to be
triedlWe're in our minds/Five billion
pieces so defined/Read it in a book, it was
underlined/We are aii bigots/So filled with
hatredlWe release our poisons/Like
styrofoam
See? This is intense, like poetry. It's
even better wilh music.
Overall, Repeater is good stuff. Try
it. You might like it. I know I did.
Not convinced? Hear it b yourself!
Fugazi are coming here to Olympia on
June 2, 8:30 at the Chambers Prairie
Grange Hall, wherever that is. $5.00 at
the door. It should be a great show, so
don't miss it.
Dan STUljJin is an Evergreen student,
our new production manager, and the
singer-man for thi! Acid Zombies so hi!
must know what hi! is talking about.
Tempest seeks submissions
A magazine featuring Ihe best writing
of the liberal arts, cognitive science,
political science, Marxist theory to mm
theory, Tempest is meant to showcase the
finest thought at The Evergreen State
College and South PQget Sound
Community
College.
Writing,
photography, and other art from people
not attending these institutions are eagerly
encouraged.
The philosophy behind Ihe magazine:
Tempest exists to examine Ihe human
condition of the past and present, to
nurture greater knowledge of our place in
the world and our possible place in future
times. In short, this magazine, by
examining the human condition through
expression of the different views and
experiences of people allover the globe,
will bring greater understanding.
The projected features for the
September/October
issue
of
this
bimonthly magazine:
.A history of student government at
Evergreen from those students who
struggled with Ihe formation of Ihe first
effective
student
government
in
Evergreen's history, and the efforts by
some of Ihose students who ttied and
succeeded to restructure this government
through grassroots efforts. The piece,
entitled "Failed Revolution: Goo-Voice to
Student Union -to Cultural Caucus" is by
one of Ihose three reconstructionalists,
Michael C. Jackson, a second year
student at Evergreen and member of the
National Writers Club and member of the
American Studies Association. Jackson is
the editor of Tempest. Jackson will also
author the article "Dangerous Words:
Metaphor and the Cold War."
·A look at the Hungarian uprising of
1956, by Michael Foster, a University of
Washington communications student and
former editor-in-chief and photographer of
the national award-winning student
newspaper for Peninsula Community
College, the Buccaneer.
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• "The London Chronicles, January 20,
1989 to April 12, 1989" by Scott
Fleischer, a second year student at Soulh
Puget Sound Community College. In
"The London Chronicles," Fleischer
relates his , perceptions of British culture
and his difficulties in arriving in Spain
and trying to explore wilhout any
knowledge of Spanish, going from
Malaga to Algcerious to Tangier,
Morocco. Fleischer also a short story
entitled "A+B" and a poem, "Joan the
Unknown" in the upcoming issue.
·Krista Laffoon, another second year
student from South Puget Sound
Community College, is a former resident
of London, England, a specialist in
drama, literary criticism, and Marxist
theory. One of her contributions for the
SeptemberlOctober issue of Tempest is a
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VIKING, 1990
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EMMA WHO SAVED
My LIFE
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ST. MARTIN'S PRESs, 1989
470 PAGBS, $19'.95
Reviewed by Robert M Keele
What have you got to tell, Creamy?
What stories?'
Facts shi! wanted, and good stories,
the
worse
thi! better--stories of
embarrassment and humiliation and
failure,
mucky and semen-stained,
otherwise she would walk away or
something, like an unsatisfied theatregoer. But this time I was prepared.
--Hamf Kureishi
Remember the 70's? The decade
often considered "the worst cultural lowpoint in the history of the world," where
disco and Saturday Night Fever, Jimmy
Carter and "Three's Company" were the
omnipresent icons. Such nostalgia ~eems
only to evoke laughter. Certainly no one
would write a good novel--exeept perhaps
a parody--about Ihe 70's.
This review will look at two books
set in the 70's.
Neilher seeking to
present the generation as a parody; both
developing characters with enough humor
to survive the strange decade.
Wilton Barnhardt's debut novel,
Emma Who Saved My Life, is truly a
novel of the 70's. It begins in 1974 as
Nixon is resigning (the true end of the
60's) and follows a recently moved to
New York, young wannabe actor, Gil
Freeman.
The novel is written as an
autobiography, though not as one you are
reading, but as if Gil was wilh you
telling you his biography--with little
asides to his current life (he converses
with his wife, who is one of the
characters in the book, though he doesn't
tell which one until Ihe end) and with the
carefree intimacy of your best buddy.
Gil's plan was to become an actor
and take the city by storm. He is
sidettacked along the way by off-offBroadway productions, an insane city in
an insane decade, and most of all Emma.
Emma
Gennaro
is
a
celibate
hypochondriac with a wit that would
make Wilde proud. Gil may be j.n love
with her; he often finds he is not. But
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togelher they survive Gil's New York
life, the opening of Bermuda Triangle
(where the star shows up flat-assed
drunk), and the dealh of Elvis.
Barnhardt's pacing is fast and his
wit matches Emma's easily; a truly
delightful read.
Although Hanif Kureishi's (koorEE-shee) debut novel, Thi! Budda of
Suburbia. also takes place during the
70's, its, lead character, Karim Amir, has
a very different reality than Gil Karim
is a young Brit of mixed blood, growing
up amidst race riots. the punk scene, and
a declining economy.
These problems, in the film industry,
are being captured by the newest British
mm directors. People like Alex Cox (Sid
&. Nancy, Straight to Hell, Repo Man)
and Stephen Frears (Danger Liaisons,
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, My Beautiful
aren't
portraying
the
Laundrette)
declining
empire
with
a
stuffy
conservatism as its main problem, but,
instead, the nihilism of Ihe youlh and the
racism towards those who until recently
were subjects of the crown. Kureishi was
of course involved in Ihis movement,
having been Ihe screenwriter for Sammy
and Rosie Get Laid and My Beautiful
Laundrette. Now he brings these
sensibilities to the novel.
An interested thing I noticed about
Kureishi is he never tries to be shocking.
It is difficult for him, given what he
writes about. but he doesn't play things
for shock value. Everything shocking
may seem out of the norm but it is not,
it is his character's reality. I'm reminded
of Ihe · scene in Sammy and Rosie Get
Laid: chain-link fence, burning cars,
graffiti, people running and screaming
and throwing bottles, and the centerpiece,
the foreground, is the two lovers walking
hand in hand amidst the calamity.
This
everyday reality
amidst
calamity is also how Kureishi writes. The
novel is a simple coming of age story
with a backdrop of insanity. Of course
much of the insanity comes from the
soap-opera-like cast of characters Karim
enjoins in his coming of age. There's his
friend and occasional sex-mate, Jamila,
who's father is on a hunger strike against
her because she won't agree to an
arranged marriage. Karim's father decides
to become a religious leader, gives up
work and runs away from his family with
a woman' who is the mother of one of
the guys Karim is interested in. Karim's
uncle, sent by his mother to spy on his
father, instead sees Ihe sense of his
father's ideas, gives up work and
becomes a follower.
Many common themes found in
Kureishi's scriptS are explored in the
novel such as close family relations,
bisexuality, and racism. Also of great
importance is Karim's split identity with
an Anglo mother and a father from
Bombay (which, in real life, is also
Kureishi's background.)
Both novelist are great story-tellers,
having both character and plot fascinating
and unpredictable. Though bolh written
in f1I'st person, Barnhardt's is more
stylized. Considering Kureishi's material
it is amazing how straightforward he is.
Bolh novels I would recommend highly.
They could even make one nostalgic for
the 70's. Well...
Robert M Keefe is a writer who we
hope will write for the CPJ next year.
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Other features inclUde, a study of
pesticides by an Evergreen student active
in environmental issus, the Tempest letter
column, SlUTm und Orang, an open forum
for readers to communicate their views
on issues raised both in Tempest and in
current events.
.
People interested in submitting work
to Tempest should send letlers of inquiry
to Michael C. Jackson, editor, The
Evergreen State College, A422, Olympia,
Washington, 98505.
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The Cooper Point Jou-rnal
Do not read while driving or operating heavy machinery
COS S U :
by Andrew Hamlin
A car hit him in Los Angeles, and
he doesn't remember the next six
weeks after that. Actually, he doesn't
remember the crash itself, or even
being in Los Angeles. He was awake
and talking to people in the hospital,
but he doesn't remember any of it For
a while he couldn't remember his own
childhood, or the music he'd composed
and played professionally since 1980.
He lost the sight in his right eye and
had to have several teeth put back in
his head. The car hit him on the 5th of
September, or roughly when most of us
were getting ready to go back to
school.
He's the pianist Scott Cossu,
Olympia resident, and he plays his
Northwest homecoming concert on June
9 at the Washington Center, with
special guest Michael Tomlinson.
Appropriately, it's a benefit for the
Washington
State
Head
Injury
Foundation. The day after that, Cossu
celebrates a more private function; his
marriage to Joanna Wagner, Evergreen
class of 1990.
Cossu came from Minneapolis,
where he studied classical music in
high school while playing keys in a
rock band called B.R.U.D. After high
school came four years "totally
dedicated to classical" at Ohio
University, and a summer teaching
music in Maine. An African teacher
there advised him to try the University
of Washington for graduate study in
ethnomusicology. He landed in Seattle
in just in time for the big Boeing
layoffs around 1975.
"It was virtually undiscovered
then," says Cossu about the Pacific
Northwest "I figured I'd only stay two
or three years, but 1 loved the water
and the mountains. Mount Rainier
really blew me the first time 1 saw it."
At the University of Washington his
most important teachers were three
expatriate Gypsy musicians, expatriate
because the Romanian government
refused to recognize the Gypsies as a
culture. He spent a year with them,
learning flute and panpipes (his teacher
once beat Zamfir in a panpipe
competition), watching them dance for
money at George's Greek restaurant,
and learning what he could about the
Gypsy way of life. "Many cultures
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The last things Cossu remembers
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before the crash are his high school
Avenue (childrens apparal store) and the
reunion in Minneapolis, a concert in
,Olauezy Down (restaurant), 2()9 E. Fifth,
Ohio, and another concert in the
Olympia.
backwoods of Washington: "I see a
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vision, like a postcard of me, standing
Down open Monday Ihru Saturday, 8am-lOpm;
there walking around on a trail." After
open later after Theatre
that he visited Los Angeles to check
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after his memory stops. He has no
inexpensive and dee-licious menu. Olympia
memory of the UCLA hospital, the
Film Society just across the street Make us
first one he was in, but he recalls
dinner stoll before all downtown theatre.
"hating the food" during rehab at
With convenient one stop parking in the
Daniel Freeman, where he occupied the
heart of the theatre district.
Barks Fifth A¥eDue of Buck's
same bed Gary Busey did after his
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The ERC will be representing Region 2
which consists of Oregon, Washington,
and Alaska. Made Langston, cocoordinator of the ERC and the SEAC
representative for Region 2 will be going
to Madison, WI June 1st through 4th for
a conference with the 16 other regional
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representatives will be drafting SEAC's
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amplify the student call for change while
intensifying local grassroots action. The
two primary missions of SEAC are
disseminating information useful to
student environmentalists and harmonizing
the collective student voice on large scale
environmental issues.
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include selections from "Fantasticks,"
"Man of La Mancha," "Hair," and
"Camelot."
"Elvita" brings in the
political history of Argentina, and
"Godspell" and "A chorus line" are
showstoppers of the '70's. Within the
last few years productions in Olympia
and Seattle of "Big River" and "Cats"
have made those tunes familiar. To that
1980's offering add a little mystery with
"Phantom of the Opera" and "Little Shop
of Horrors."
The Masterworks Madrigals will be
featured in several numbers. Soloists will
include Jan Godak, Jeff Kingsbury and
Josie Preston, as well as others to be
announced later. A piano and small
combo will accompany this program.
Tickets for the Party at the Pops are
$15 and include wine and catered hors
d'ouevres. Local outlets include Yenney's
on the westside, The Bookmarlc in South
Sound Center, and Four Seasons Books
downtown.
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Masterworks
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continues its tradition of a Party at the
Pops season finale with two performances
on June 15 and 16, 1990 at the Olympia
Center. The best tunes from Broadway
musicals between 1920 and the 1980's,
sung by a chorus of 90 under the
direction of Gary David Riley, will be
featured at the 8 pm concerts.
Beginning in the [ust decade of the
twentieth century, Masterworks will sing
selections from various Cohan shows,
then moving into the well·known tunes
from "Porgy and Bess" and -"Babes in
Anns." In the 1940's appear the sofamiliar Rodgers and Hammerstein
favorites from "Oldahoma" and · "South
Pacific," as well as "Carousel" and
"Brigadoon." The 1950's continue to
produce yet another string of great works
in "Sound of Music," "West Side Story,"
"The King and I," "My Fair Lady,"
"Music Man," and "Paint Your Wagon."
More contemporary offerings will
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curriculum through individual's program
evaluations.
Create res~ICh internship positions
who would work with the curriculum
team and Academic Deans in order to
present issues of multiculturalism during
key periods of curriculum development.
Form a community group to facilitate
and advocate a shift to multiculturalism
in all aspects of the curriculum.
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around all year, malter of fact we just
can't seem to get rid of its presence.
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Advisory Board.
"The
Management Team", the Union, and atlarge members) to continue to address
issues of racism and sexism on TESC
campus.
Integrate racism awareness and
multicultural activities in orientation
week.
Create an advisory group (made up
of students, staff, and faculty) to review
proposed academic programs ont he basis
of multicultural inclusion, before those
proposed programs go before the Dean of
Curriculum.
Address issues of racism, sexism,
classism, and homophobia within the
work.
Offer a monthly workshop for
building skills in combatting racism. The
workshop would last a half a day either
on a Saturday of Sunday and would be a
requirement of every academic program.
Hold an awareness day to dispel the
myths associated with Columbus Day.
The day;s activities would include forums
panes, Native American speakers, film,
etc.
Charge a standing committee which
includes representatives from all the
campus governance bodies (ie. Academic
Deans, Faculty Agenda Committee,
Student Union, Student Organizations,
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The production of a student, staff,
and faculty handbook concerning racism,
sexism, classism, and homophobia to be
distributed to all incoming people. The
handbook would include problem analysis
and list of available resources, guidelines
for dealing with confrontation, and
schedule of related events throughout the
year.
Offer a workshop exploring racism at
the personal level three times a quarter to
ensure opportunities for participation.
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between faculty and students regarding
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New itnproved student governtnent docuDlent
Preamble
"Student Governance," to be known
as the "SG," is unique from previously
attempted Evergreen student government
structures for several reasons. First, it has
been structured as a vehicle for the
empowerment of all students, where past
structures have effectively given personal
power only to those students who could
devote great amounts of time to
governance. Second, through maintaining
a permanent Board of the SG becomes
more
coherent,
accessible
and
accountable, thus ensuring a working
government is always available to act on
student originated proposals. Third, the
SG embodies the Evergreen community's
values of proportional representation,
individualism, and equality. And, most
importantly, the SG also embodies the
community'S values of cultural diversity,
affurnative action, progressive social
change, and gender and ethnicity equality.
Rights and Responsibilities
1) Students have the right to have an
accessible, effective and accountable
student governmenl This government
has a proposal process by which any
student may originate and submit a
proposal for timely consideration.
2) Every student has the right to
participate in Student Governance
meetings, and to have accessible
information needs to exercise this right.
All students are ' encouraged 10 become
voting representatives on the SG Board
through one of the two electoral
processes.
3) Every student has the right to be
involved
in
choosing
at-large
representatives, and has the right to be
involved in an electoral caucus if they
choose.
4) Students have the right to full
accounting of all Services and Activities
Fees at all levels.
5) Every student should take affirmative
action to ensure participation of students
from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
Additionally, all must ensure that no
member of the student community is
excluded from participation on the basis
of sex, ethnicity, creed, color, national
origin, physical challenge. age, sexual
orientation, or political and religious
belief.
6) Students will suffer no impairment of
freedom of speech concerning the conduct
of the SG. Active discussion of student
affairs shall be encouraged, facilitated,
and protected within the SG.
7) The Social Contract (WAC 174-120020) is considered to have binding
authority. No student at any time will
infringe upon another student's rights as
sel forth in this documenl
Student Governance Duties
The SG will be responsible for:
.Holding at least bi-weekly, well
advertised meetings during fall, winter
and spring quarters.
• Representing student interests.
·Cooperating with the institution's other
governance. bodies
in
fonnulating
institutional policies.
.Appointing student representatives to
campus-wide governance committees.
• Exercising responsibility of conflf.ning
the appoinunent of and recalling, if
necessary, S&A Board members.
·ConfIrming the fire of the S&A
Coordinator
.Approval of the S&A Budget
.Retaining a SG Coordinator
·Acting on proposals originating from the
student body
Student Governance Composition
·The Board: The decision-making body of
the SG is composed of no more than 26
students. Although these representatives
are selected through a dual electoral
process, they each have an equal voice
within the SG. Each is responsible to the
entire student body and .will work to
represent the best interests of all students.
Board members are responsible for:
.Attending all SG meetings
·Serving on at least one standing
committee of the SG, or holding one
position on a governance related body.
.Being accessible to all students for
communication
.Recruiting and training all incoming
SG Board members
·Coordinator: The SG Coordinator serves
as the SG staff. The SG Coordinator is
accountable for providing information and
services to the SG.
The Coordinator is responsible for:
• Providing
for
facilitation
of
meetings.
·Preparing meetings' agendas.
.Retaining a minutes taker.
.Attending a multi-cultural training.
.Providing a multi-cultural training
for the Board.
•Disseminating information.
·Preparing and managing the SG
operating budget.
. ·Organizing and training the SG
Board Members.
·Communicating with other offices
and committees.
(SIbe may delegate any of these tasks,
but remains
responsible for
the
completing of them.)
Student Governance Process
.Meetings: The SG meets at least twice
monthly during Fall, Winter, and Spring
quarters. At least one meeting a month
will give priority to hearing and acting
upon proposals from the student body.
Meetings of the SG are open to the
public except in rare executive sessions
for personnel issues as set forth by
Washington State Law. Agendas will be
posted prior to meetings, and minutes
will be easily accessible.
.Proposals: Proposals for SG action can
originate from the student body, SG
standing committees, or SG Board
Members. During at least one meeting
per month proposals originating from the
student body have priority on the agenda.
·Decisions: The SG uses an agreement
seeking decision process--two attempts at
consensus followed by 2/3 majority vote.
Matters to be considered by the SG must
be submitted to the SG Coordinator. A
quorum of one half of sitting Board
members must be present to conduct
business.
·Grievance ad Appeals: The SG will
design and implement a grievance and
appeals process during the first quarter of
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For an existing caucus to change its
name it needs to follow its own existing
decision making procedures.
Board Member Selection
Board members are selected by two
different processes: through at-large
elections and through a caucus system.
The flfSt satisfies the need for
proportionate representation while the
second ensures a progressive governance
structure which will be strengthened by
diverse participation and will contribute
to a campus environment conducive to
our goal of increased student diversity.
·At Large Process: During the fall quarter
any student wishing to sit on the Board
must abide by the following process:
1) Gathering of 30 signatures of
registered students on a petition stating
the signers support the candidate for
Board Member.
2) Submittal of a letter of intent to the
SG outlining the person's reasons for
running and her/his goals for governance.
3) If more than eight students follow the
procedure an all student vore will be held
during which the eight candidates
receiving the most votes will be selected.
4) Candidates letters of intent will be
available as the only voting guide. The
selection process will last no more than
one week and independent campaigning is
not permitted.
.Caucus Process: In order to help create
a board composed of diverse perspectives,
nine caucuses will meet in the fall to
select SG Board Members. These
caucuses are not interest groups, they are
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FILMS
STUDENT COMPOSER'S CONCERT:
2 pm & 8 pm; Experimental Theatre;
free.
BARBARELLA: gates open at 8 pm,
showtime at sundown; Skyline Drive-in;
$2.50 Olympia Film Society members! $4
non-members; information: 754-6670.
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tickets: $6 - $13; information: 754-5378.
FILMS
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Sat
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CIllLD CARE: If you need help with
child care, call the Child Care Action
Council Resource and Referral 10 AM to
2 pm at 754-0810.
TEEN CARE LINE: Confidential,
anonymous, reassuring ears. 352-3322,
long distance 1-800-627-2211.
WALKING CLUB: Weekdays 4 pm;
green mound on Red Square.
SAFEPLACE is looking for women of
color and minorities to be volunteers and
offers a flexible schedule. Information:
Kimberly at 866-8754.
POTLUCKS
THE MAZELTONES: 11:30 am 1:30 pm; Red Square; free.
A Yiddish folk dance band.
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LABOR CENTER FILM FEST: 12 • 1
pm; Lecture Hall 3. The Wrath of
Grapes, They'll Never Keep Us Down UMWA & Pittson. Workers Fighting tlu!
BE&!( Campaign.
STAFF SUMMER SKI TRIP: Monday,
June 11; Timberline, Ml Hood. Oregon,
Magic Mile & Palmer chairlifts; cost: $10
transportation in luxurious Evergreen
vans, $18 lift tickets. Pay in the
RecCenter Office by June 7; depart 5:30
am from C Lot by Childcare Center.
Information: Corey at x6537.
The Little Thief: 6:30 & 9 pm; Capitol
Theatre; $2.50 Olympia Film Society
members! $4 non-members; information:
754-6670.
DANCE
DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE: 8
pm, Unity of Olympia Church.
Simplified folk style spiritual dances; all
welcome.
SATURDAY
TUESDAY
EVERGREEN
SUPER SATURDAY!
MUSIC
ALUMNI
SUMMER SENSATIONS: 8 pm; Recital
Hall; tickets: $3 - $10; ticket reservations:
866-6000 x6833 . .
Student and faculty compositions and
petfonnances. An evening to celebrate the
beginning of summer and to benefit the
fund for students' stolen musical
instruments.
ANNUAL ALUMNI BREAKFAST: 10
am - noon; CAB 110.
ON STAGE
AMADEUS: 8 pm; Capitol Theatre;
tickets: $6 - $13; information: 754-5378.
KAOS
RADIO SAV AGE: 12 - 2 am on KAOS
89.3 FM.
Avante-garde artsy-fartsy, hosted by
Morris Martzapan .
MEETINGS
EVERGREEN
GRADUATION: 1 pm; Red SQ,uare.
SG, from page 20
10am-7pm
BICYCLE TOURS: For people aged
18 - 30. 1990 Summel" tours range from
12 - 47 days and cost from $635 $2365. Tours go to various locations in
Ewope. Information: 1-800-736-2453.
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life outside Evergreen. This is a forum to
discuss feelings and an opportunity to
seminar.
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Committees:
Each
representative tot he SG is obligated to
sit on at least one standing committee or
hold one position on a related governance
body. The four standing committees are:
• Academics Committee
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The Academics, Services, and Planning
Committees are responsible for selecting
a chair from among their membership,
making appoinunents to related DTFs,
communicating with related campus
offices and governing bodies, soliciting
student opinion, and making policy
recommendations to the SG. The S&A
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communication between the SG and the
S&A Board and for serving on hiring
committees for the S&A Board and S&A
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least 400 students on a detailed petition,
a binding vote may be put on the ballot
pertaining to any issue within the SG's
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proposals or amendments to the SG
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students are eligible to vote. Prior to a
vote, students shall be provided with at
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argument for each side of the issue, and
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voting booth. A 2/3 majority will carry
the vote.
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to find out the feelings the student body
has about a particular issue.
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Document can be made using the
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selected them. The caucuses are free to
choose any student as Board Member,
regardless of hel" or his culture or
background.
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and Latino/Cbicano. The caucus may
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equal access to participation by all
members of the caucuses' constituencies.
Due to the narrow purpose of the
electoral caucuses, and the small time
commitment involved, they will likely
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SEA SHEPHERD: Driftnet '90. The
M. Y. Sea Shepherd is berthed at Lake
Union Dry Dock 1515 Fairview, Seattle,
Exit 167, 1-5 N. Volunteers welcome.
Information: 782-3044.
FACES OF SANTO TOMAS: You are
invited to a display of photos taken by
Evergreen grad Sheryl BeicOOr during two
trips to Thurston County's sister county
in Nicaragua. at The Asterisk.
OPEN YOUR EYES.
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HELP YOURSELF.
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, THINK...BIG..
DREAM A LITTLE.
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TODAY.
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Cooperative Education Offlce, LIB 1407.
The early deadline for submitting all
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Information: 866-6000 x6391.
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than do student organizations. Although
student organizations may be called upon
to provide assistance to caucuses, all
efforts should be made to maintain the
independence of the caucuses; for this
reason, student group coordinators are nOl
eligible to be SO Board Members.
In the first month of Fall quarter,
board members will be chosen. The
selection process is as follows:
1) The existing representatives will call
their respective caucus meetings for the
expressed purpose of selecting the year's
Board Members.
2) Board Members will be selected in
accordance with each caucus' decision
making rules at a well advertised
meeting.
3) The selection process will be overseen
by the SG staff to ensure adherence to
each caucus' process.
4) Each caucus is strongly encouraged to petition which stated the reason for the
choose one male and one female Board recall drive.
Member. If two people of different
SG Coordinator Seledion Process
genders cannot be found, it is requested During May, the standing SG will
that only one representative be selected. conduct a hiring process for the SG
5) If a seat becomes vacant at any time Coordinator position for the following
during the term, it may be filled for the year. The selection will follow all student
remainder of the term through a process personnel
hiring
procedures
and
satisfying points 1-4 above.
Affirmative Action guidelinel'.
Recall Process; Each Board Member can
be recalled by the constituency which ·Term: The SG Coordinator's term of
selected her/him. A caucus can hold a employment will normally begin in July
meeting and recall a Board Member and end in June. No person will serve as
SG Coordinator for more than one term
through their regular decision making
process provided that the Board Member of employment. If necessary, the SG may
terminate the employment of the SG
is given two weeks notice to respond to
complaints and her/his rights are nOl Coordinator prior to the end of the term
of employmenl In the even that
abridged. Any caucus constituent may
disciplinary action or termination should
call a caucus meeting, provided it is well
occur,
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can recall an at-large Board Member by institutional policies and procedures.
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Page 21
Sea Shepherd II seeks support
News Release
The conservation ship Sea Shepherd
II is being readied at Seattle's Lake
Union Drydock Company to embark on
a high seas mission to confront a "pirate"
fleet of drift net fishers in the North
Pacific. A spokesperson for the ship says
they're hoping to pick up donations and,
possibly, a few new crew members
before they leave port, June 1.
The alI-volunaeer crew led by Captain
Paul Watson, founder of the interruitional
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, is
seeking to halt activities by Japanese,
Taiwanese, and Korean fishing boats that
they claim amounls to strip mining the
seas. They say the fishing fleet uses drift
nets to form a massive barrier down the
center of the pacific Ocean that intercepts
fish, birds, and mammals alike.
Sea Shepherd officials say use of
drift nets violates the Treaty on the
Protection of Migratory Sea Birds. More
than a million sea-birds are cruelly
strangled in the submerged 30 to 40 mile
long plastic nets each year, as well as
many other endangered, threatened, or
protected species, they say.
A founding member of the
Greenpeace
Foundation,
Watson
established
the
Sea
Shepherd
Conservation Society in 1977 as an
independent,
nonprofit
organization
dedicated to the conservation and
protection of marine wildlife on an
international level.
The Society's unabashedly more
aggressive and direct style prompted The
New YorA: Times to describe the 20,000
member group as "front line soldiers in a
war of the whales...willing to risk their
bodies as well as their time and
energies."
Sea Shepherd actions have been a
conSlant source of controversy. In 1979,
the Sea Shepherd ship rammed and sunk
a pirate whaling ship off the coast of
Portugal. In 1982, the Society negotiated
an end to the slaughter of dolphins at
Japan's Iki Island, earning them the
nickname
of
"the
samurai
conservationists." The following year, the
Sea Shepherd successfully blockaded the
Canadian sealing fleet, and, more
recently, Sea Shepherd members halted
the annual killing of grey ' seals on the
Fame Islands off the English Coast and
in the Scottish Orkney Islands by putting
CARTOONS
your boat is engaged in killing marine
mammals, we will put you out of
business."
Taylor says the goal of the Sea
Shepherd II's upcoming expedition is to
capture one of the large drift nets and to
document the drift net fleet's activities on
fllm in hopes that it will increase public
awareness.
Volunteers are needed to help with
maintenance work and painting of the
Sea Shepherd II, a converted fishing
trawler which has had its hull sandblasted
while in drydock. Contributions of food
and supplies as well as money to cover
fuel costs and to buy new equipment are
also being sought
There are still openings available to
serve as part of the ship's crew. The ship
sails with a crew of 24, most of whom
pay their own way. All are expected to
work hard and to take risks.
The
average stint for a crew member is two
months, says Taylor. Ages of the crew
themselves between the seals and the members signed on for the current
sealers' rifles.
expedition range from 21 to 65 years old.
Sea Shepherd also provided the only
Joanne Sandrin, a 21-year-old
known footage of dolphins being killed student from Toronto, Canada, recently
on a US tuna boat for a recently-aired joined the crew of the Sea Shepherd as
TV documentary and has been outspoken its youngest member. "It's a great
in urging a public boycott of canned opportunity to be able to do something,"
tuna.
says Sandrin who will act as the ship's
"We take a no compromise s,land," helmsman, but who has spent her first
says Sea Shepherd spokesman Joh!l two weeks painting, scraping and
Taylor. "Zero captivity, zero killing 9f chipping rust off the ship. "I've got
all marine animals--including seals, blisters on my hands for the rust time."
dolphins and whales--that's our goal."
"I've never done anything like this
Sea Shepherd members do not earry before, but I believe this is the right
weapons and do not use explosives, says thing to do."
Taylor. "We won't do anything that will
intentionally harm another person. But if
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Cooper
Point Journal May 31, 1990
Page 23
Seven years of missing out
all in one good look
your eyes
before the fat made you sly
little Sue in love with John
reconstructed
right there in the next booth
tny loss
~ratI{ ITrIl
getting ready to leave
These doors are supposed to be locked.
I turn the knobs
on these .doors ,
and they spring open.
They were alw~ys locked before.
I can't be blamed,
can/?
I didn't expect them
·to open;
I didn't mean to be here,
inside these rooms
I was tricked.
These doors were supposed to be locked.
Really, I'm not supposed
to be able to
get in here,
Go through these drawers.
Out In the Rain
You ieave things out In the rain
and they shrink and pucker and fade and run,
stick together and wrinkle and rust and rot.
and things grow. In the spaces between.
Small animals move and bugs begin to eat.
worms crawl through
in harmony with the earth,
as the underside whitens and pales.
Poems From Two Guys
The earth reclaims things
left out in the rain whether it
wants them or not, giving final
protection In decay
natural reclamation and recycling. as
nothing Is ever really lost
something Is always gained,
while memory persists if memory pertains.
Tossed Salad
A rumbling churns the guts
the subway
beneath your bed
shakes the windows
!1rfitJiDd~
your house looks like
a tossed salad
your smile frosts a halo
round the moon
Hand me another beer. Frank.
The world is tied around my neck tonight like a wormtonight my heart sits on my head like a hat,
and it's not enough just to dry off
it's not enough just to get In out of the rain.
in out of the rain .
transfusing frozen blood
you can feel it
going up the vein
chills the bone
.~ _ Letters
'Tibet' correction
Un fortunately an error was made in
editing my article [Vol. 20 Issue 26]
Chinese destroy Tibet such that meaning
was distorted in one part.
Concerning the destruction of Tibet I
said, "meanwhile, the rest of the world
sits in passivity, afraid to confront China
for fear of retaliation or for hope of
increased trade benefits to secure China's
1.6 billion people with Coca-Cola or
Ivory soap perhaps."
You said I said, "Meanwhile, the rest
of the world sits passively, afraid China
will deny the United States access to it's
market of 1.6 billion people." There is
literally a world of difference between
these two statements! Perhaps the rest of
the world doesn't give a flying banana
whether or not the U.S. government
makes trade agreements with China
(unless trade will mean allies in war,
which it usually does!) I mentioned Coke
or Ivory only to stress the point that
Bush is currently negotiating with
Chinese officials regarding trade, despite
the Chinese government's horrendous
violation of human rights at home and in
Tibet, plus the severe threat nuclear build
up of missiles in Tibet presents to the
whole world and especially to Asia.
(Which is the largest continent in the
world.) Think about it!
Wendy Schof'Jeld
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Failed mISSIon
Now that TESC has gained more
general community approval, it is
attracting conventional people who are
insensitive to its mission. The mission is
hard to describe, but you mow when it
has been violated. For 20 years TESC
has been examining The Establishment,
provoking intellectual Curiosity' and
encouraging individual thinking. What do
we firl'! here now? Creeping pollution of
our scn;.ibilities.
For example a commercial Coca-Cola
sign is in our midst. While we're waiting
for a teiephone call to be switched noisefill, commercials and music(?) confiscate
our peace and quiet These are subtle
signs of somebody changing our direction
toward mediocrity.
We don't reinvent the wheel. Aping
is human. Man, however is supposed to
be better able than the tree dwelling
primates to examine and evaluate
inventions. Don't the decision-makers
recognize what being crass means? Has
TESC taken a hard road to zilch?
Irene Mark Buitenkant
Scott A. Richardson's birthday
is the 31st. happy birthday Scott.
... seepage for the community
Page 24 Cooper Point Journal May 31, 1990
almost a parody
of the nervous person
but closer than the
last one
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