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For responses to Nat Nentoff's "Flexing Muzzles" article In the January 11 CPJ, see page 7

The CPJ needs a new

PRODUCTION MANAGER
and new

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Dorm Safety Survey
Results
Prompted by parental concern
over safety, Campus Housing sent
the residents of dorms A, S, C,
and D ballots asking for their
opinion of a proposed lockup of
the dorms from 8 pm - 8 am. The
residents responded with a
resounding NO. Out of the 345
ballots that were distributed only 4
were returned favoring the proposal
and 113 were returned marked
against it. Residents commented on
the ballots that they were more
concerned with safety issues such
as car theft in F lot and assault on
the beach trail according to Assistant Director of Housing Bob
Carlson.

Production Manager's
Photographer's responsibilities inresponsibilities include: Layout
clude photographing news events
design and layout on Tuesday and and developing your photos. Work
Wednesday nights.
as much or as little as you want.
The Production Manager receives
$4.50 an hour for 8 hours a week.

To apply for the Production Manager position drop by
the CPJ office, CAB 306A, and fill out an application.

If you want to be a photographer come to
the CPJ meetings Friday at noon.
As in a winter of childhood:
Nighttime distances vast, the room enormous,
ceiling dark and walls too for away
from the broad expanse of bed,
shivering with the echo of a heartbeat,
and the rustling of your own sheets
frays the nerves;
Ught bends around the outdoor cafe:
Dusk chases the shadows,
if not the shadow as people walk by:
an elderly man In a fine suit and hat;
two beautiful women with a baby
wearing earrings;
a man balancing a sack on his head.

Friends pass by, call my name,
break against the wave of the mood:
But the echoes return comparisons;
comparisons vary with degree of replacement;
replacement only a filling of space,
rustling the sheets of memory.
Among the ragged circles
time traces around the heart,
your voice returns to me
smiling its goodnight:
Frays the cord that binds the child within,
as time comprises only a release.
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Postmortem
And while life seems excellently evident
the people the buildings the cafe the street,
the dusk the passing bus recede,
behind the conspicuous solitude
as unreal as the distance,
the rock between us.
With you so for way
on a day like this ·it seems
I've watched you walk this street
up too meet me all too often,
know too well you cannot meet me now,
not to pretend that you will.

two poems from
Michael McNeilley
Page 16 Cooper Point Journal January 18, 1990

Cold, not stiff
It lies on marble slab,
eyes open to the ceiling,
as though waiting
for the next movie.
SOrry,
not a double feature.
separate admission required.
SOld out.
Knife slips In
slides from sternum
to the pubis bone:

Good God,
green butterfliesmusic and
circling golden IIghtsbells and a breezSshooting stars,
meteorlcno wonder It died:
It just filled up
to full Inside.
Contents released
fly through
an open window
like winged
valentines.

Michael McNeilley's work has appeared In Circus Max/mus, Delirium. The Milwaukee Review.
Rlve"un. Raw Dog and other publications, A collection 01 his prose and poetry. titled Love and
Beer. Is scheduled to be published In about a year.

EI Salvador protest:

Evergreen
student
injured
by Thomas FletCber
Police vehicles of all description lined Second
Avenue.
Big Blue Bus, sleek vans. omnipresent
scdans-all waited for their cargo of freeloaders riding
At the last street corner before
gratis to Seattle PO,
The boys
the plaza truee men waited on horseback.
had arrived in full force for this round of the game.
The eerie glow of predawn added to the air of intended intimidation. People would get what they cwne
for, direct action at the Federal Building. About 150
people milled aIound in disaIuy i~ front of the
federal building at 7 am. Protests have a reputation
for never starting on tirn&-this one was no exception,
It didn't matter, though.
People were ready: "Tell Congress:
NO Military
Aid To EI Salvador." C1SPES (Committee in Solidarity

Portion of the sign located at the head of the beach trail warning trail users
that violence against women has occured there.
Photos by Gunther Geis
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with the People of EI Salvador) members enthusiasticalIy dispensed five colors of ribbons. ElIch color repre- ""
sented a different division of forces, each one with a
different IIBsignment. Many people pouring onto the
Around 7:30. reporters and cameramen descended
plaza were confused. Two buic groups fonned onto a man burning a wool military coat. A fire
those willing to be llJ"es ted and the supporters. (I
truck soon arrived to prevent the flames from spreadneeded to obuin my puspon from the same building
ing. Spealcen roused the crowd and proleBteII wearing
we were blockadina. 10 I chose &&ainlt llJ"est. ironipink and green ann banda begm a blockade of the
cally, 1 didn't get the passport a the Pedenl Building
federal building. The people linking ann in ann in
was shut down all mornin&.)
front of locked. heavily JUlrded doon were subjocl to
The action ended aoWld 10 un. lasdnl three hours
federal arrest. Adrenalin rose u guards tried to open
and disrupting traffic for about III hour md a half.
a door to make llJ"esta. Protesters rushed to chant
The radio reported 70 mull. No major iI\jurieI were
down the authorities. A purple banner of a screamina
reported, however Jason Summers, m Hverp!ICD student.
child repJ.c:ed the large flag in the plaza. Police could
suffered a broken toe when a police hone stomped
not give an estimate of crowd size.
on him on the sidewalk. The officer refused to take
After twenty minutes of chmting the crowd grew
responsibility.
restles..
As the sky lightened.. demonstratorl Dooded
"NO MAS"
(No Military Aid to El Salvador). a
Second Avenue, stopping all traffic. Polke
the
coalition of over 20 SCattle cngmizatiOl15, sent a strong
first clearing of Second Avenue after 40 minute ••
message to Congress.
Congre.. will .oon decide
Several people refusin, to move were arrested and
whether to send $60 million in .addition..1 aid to the
loaded up into waitin& buses. A splinter groUp of 30
right wing government in ' HI Salvador.
Six Jesuit
proceeded to interrupt traffic at several in~section.
priests were lrilled since Concreu la' appropriated aid.
within a three block radiUl. The actions on the illreell

manaaed

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left only a few people remaining at the federal building. Federal agents began to arrest those who
remained in the blockade outside the doon. Disorder
in the stJeets lasted for GIOther half hour. ending with
several more llJ"ests of those sitting in the middle of
Second Avenue. As remaining demonstrators started
bac:k home, one businessman asked a molDlted police
offi<:er if it wu all ovet• "Yea," the offi<:er replied.
"it's safe to go to work now."
Despite the occasionsl over-zealous officer or
protester, relations between the two were u good as
could be expected. The nwnber of older people who
were p'esem. in COIllrut to lOme hotheaded individualJ.
gave the demonstration balmce. -MUlY commuters were
not happy with the dialmbance. However, one woman
who works in the Pederal Building stated, "It's a
mere inconvenience for us; down there [in Central
America] it', a matter of getting ldlled."
TIIomos Fletcher is a nudmt at Evergreen and will
be altDlding 1M NicaragUIIII election.r in FebrKDry,

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AIDS bill outlaws teen sex
Faculty member Gordon Beck did not
suffer a heart attack last Thursday
morning. He intended to illustrate a point
about the way history is recorded.
Security was called at 0948 by a
concerned student who saw Beck
"unconscious."
Security immediately
called 911 for medical assistance from
station 91 at Mud Bay. The emergency
call elicited an Advanced Life Suppon
(ALS) response ("hurry up and get
there").
The medical response team was
informed before they arrived that the
event was a dramatization for education
purposes. Nevertheless, station 91 was
left uncovered for any real medical
emergencies.
Rumors that Beck was to be arrested
for his pan in the action did not
actualize. Campus security chief Gary
Russell stated "[Beck] didn't do anything
that I'm aware of that would be
considered a crime."
The event Wll$ staged to demonstrate
the impossibility of total recall and
subsequent recording of history. Students
in Beck's "Classical World" program had
mixed reactions to his theatrics. Many
were angered. Some were disappointed
that Beck "could have done something so
stupid." A few supported the method of
illustrating his point But in this case, the
point was lost to many in the lecture
hall.
For Beck, the event is one which he
will never forget He was ashamed,
embarrassed and humbled by the
emergcncy response and has offered his
sinccre apology to those who came to his
assistance. In a public statement Beck
stated: "It was not my imention for
anyone but my students be' affected by
my 'event. '"

Senate Bill 5637 would eliminate the
requirement that teachers have a masters
degree.
Students can give their opinion about
this bill by calling:
Legislative Hotline: 1-800-562-7419
Higher Education Committee:
206-786-7419

4:00 p.m. to start the application process
and get more details on census
employment.

Quote of the Week
There has been much bickering and
brouhaha at The Everegreen State College
recently.
From a letter written by Senator Ray Moore sent to the CPJ
concerning the controversy surrounding .loe Olander.

588 page 9
University of Washington fraternity
Theta Xi was suspended by its national
chapter for alleged abuse of sheep during
hazing activities.
When police arrived to investigate the
reported abuse they found the pledges
wearing only underpants, their hands
covered with white grease and their
bodies smeared with peanut butter and
other substances.
The sheep were found in an
overheated and agitated condition.
The University of Washington is
powerless to act on the incident because
it happened off campus. The fraternity is
scheduled to appear at a judicial hearing
of the Interfraternity Council.

Census workers will help coUect
census questionnaires from every living
quarter in these counties this year. Most
emplO¥ees will be assigned to work in
their own neighborhoo<L The position
title is "census enumemtor."
The pay is $6.00 per hour, and
milage is reimbursed at 24 cents a mile.
Applicants must have a reliable car and
a valid driver's license, and should be
able to work a minimum of 30 hours per
week. The hours are flexible, with some
evening and weekend work.
Interested
individuals in
these
counties can call collect immediately at

The Bagwhan Shree Rajenseeshi died
of a heart attack in Puna, India on Friday
19. He was 58 years old. The Bagwhan
started his religious movement in 1974.
In 1981, he came to the United States
and began a commune in Antelope,
Oregon called Rajneesh Puram. Soon the
commune began to take over the town
itself, and the Bagwhan began to get in
trouble with the U.S . government He
attempted to flee the country in 1985 but
was stopped, arrested, and eventually
deported by the government instead.

The U.S. Census Bureau
jobs to fill in all areas of
Lewis, Cowlitz, Clark and
Counties to work on the 1990

has 1000
Thurston,
Skamania
Census.

was tom up.
Friday, January 19
2119: There was a call for a possible
domestic disturbance in C dorm.
Saturday, January 20
0949: The stop sign at the intersection of
Lewis and Driftwood Roads was taken.
2050: KAOS received harassing telephone
calls.
Sunday, January 21
0342: Tire tracks were reported on the
grassy area between the mods and the
recreation pavilion.
1505: Mter banging his head in Seattle
the previous night, a student reported
having trouble tasting and smelling. He
was transported to Black Hills Hospital.
There were 100 public services
performed by security and Crimewatch.
Eight traffic stops were made: 4
speeding, 2 defective equipment. 1 failure
to stop, and 1 expired tabs.

Evergreen President Joseph Olander is
one of two fmalists for Montana's
commissioner of Higher Education, the
state Board of Regents announced last
Friday.
Regents said they could not choose
betwcen the two finalists in a meeting
last Friday and will try again today.
The Regents picked Olander and
Warren Fox, Vice Chan~IIor for
. academic affairs in the University of
Nevada system, out of a pool of five
fmalists.

which means ...

HAPPY CHlNES,E
NEW··Y EAR!
This year's ,Asian Lunar New Year
celebrates 4870, the Year of the Horse.
The largest of the New Year's festivals
in our area will occur January 27 and 28
at the Kingdome. Over 300 booths

Security Blotter
Monday, January 15
0029: A Datsun parked in B lot had one
of its windows broken.
0533: The CAB first floor Coke machine
had its cord cut.
2248: A medical response was made to
the dorms; a student had cut a fmger.
Tuesday, January 16
0217: The cord to the Coke machine on
the third floor of the library was found
cut.
0802: The lock for an annex room 2109
had been broken.
Wednesday, January 17
0053: Orange barricades were stolen from
near U dorm.
1758: A fire alarm occurred at the
recreation pavilion.
Thursday, January 18
0948: A staged event resulted in a call
fOl a medical response (see News Briefs).
2122: The grass in the meridian of C lot .

The republic of Azerbaijan has
threatened to secede from the Soviet
Union unless the more than 10,000 troops
sent to the republic's capital by President
Mikhail Gorbachev are withdrawn and
the state of emergency ended.
According to the Soviet government,
93 people have been killed since
Gorbachev sent troops to Azerbaijan's
capital, Baku, to' put down a violent
nationalist uprising.

performances of the Southeast Asian
people, games and a variety of oriental
food booths will also be included.
Everyone is invited to join in the
celebration. Admission is $5 for students,
children and seniors, general admission is
$7.
Asian New Years is an extended
holiday spanning a two week
watch for a story in the next CPJ
you more about the Year of the Horse.

featuring exhibitions of folk an,
handicrafts, special Tet flowers, Ivory
sculpture, oriental astrology, and cultural

by Tina Cook
In the face of criticism from many,
some state senators are backing an AIDSeducation proposal that would make
sexual contact illegal for anyone under
18.
Although the proposal could change
what is taught about AIDS in the
classroom, making sexual contact illegal
between minors would be the biggest
change in state law.
Willing sexual contact between
persons of the same age would be illegal
for the first time.
There would be an exception for
minors who are inarried.
"Sexual contact" could be interpreted
to include "heavy petting" as well as
sexual intercourse, critics said at a senate
committee hearing last Thursday.
Sen. Jim West, R-Spokane, the
principal sponsor of the bill, explained
that he didn't expect the law to be
enforced. However, it could be used as
an excuse by minors who felt pressured
to have sex but didn't want to, he said.
Critics voiced concern thM ·making

by Suzette Williams
Congresswoman
Jolene
Unsoeld
addressed an audience of about 100 at a
Tumwater town meeting last Friday,
stressing preservation of Washington's
natural resources and tougher negotiating
with the country's trading partners.
Unsoeld expressed outrage at foreign
driftnet fishermen that catch Northwest
Salmon and Steelhead, and said she had
introduced a biD to ban nets over one
and one half miles long. Despite her
Unsocld
said,
the
Bush
efforts,
• IIdmfuiStratien_opposed the bill . .
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Unsoola also auacked the. President
: tor sancrlonink' the sbipplrlg of ni~; logs
to Japan. She compared the policies of
the United States, shipping record
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She said Canada does not allow the
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The Japanese government, Unsoeld
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The congresswoman also addressed
defense spending, explaining that her
votes in Congress against the FSX air
defense system and the B-2 bomber were
not votes against jobs.
She explained that the FSX was a
joint project between the U.S. and Japan,
in which Japan would have access to
previously restricted U.S. technology.
"Japan has said 'We want to outBoeing Boeing,'" Unsoeld said, "Why
should we speed them up in that
process?"
Her vote against the B-2 bomber, she
said, was an attempt to rearrange the
country's priorities. She said the action
was ponrayed in the media as "Unsoeld
voted against 18,000 jobs in Washington

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preventing AIDS, for many people who
already are sexually active it's not
acceptable. They must be able to make
informed decisions."
Nancy Campbell, executive director
of the Northwest AIDS Foundation,
acknowledged that abstinence should be
emphasized in educating minors about
acquired immunodefICiency syndrome
(AIDS). "But I also know that you have
to teach every risk-reduction method you
can," she said.
Sen. Linda Smith, R-Hazel Dell, bill
co-sponsor,
disagreed
that enough
emphasis is placed on abstinence now.
Most current AlDS~ucation programs
are too explicit, she said. "It teaches
how-to rather than consequences."
AIDS education in public schools
has been required by law since 1988.
AIDS damages the immune system,
leaving people · vulnerable to cenain
infections and cancers which would not
pose a threat to uninfected people. The
virus can be transmitted through sexual
contact, shared hypodermic needles, from
mother to child before or dwing birth,

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transfusions.
Slowing the spread of AIDS would
be the purpose of making sex illegal
between minors, the bill's sponsors said.
- The gravity of the crime is not
defmed in Senate Bill 6273. At the
hearing, West referred to it as both a
simple misdemeanor and as a gross
misdemeanor.
Many of the senators referred to it
as statutory rape, a felony which can
mean up to 10 years in prison.
.
The meaning of "sexual contact" was
unclear as well.
When an education
official complained that the term is not
explicitly defmed in the bill, Smith said,
"Your comments, I have to say, are
flippant. If you don't know what sexual
contact means, I can assure you a
seventh-grader does."
State law defines sexual contact as
"any touching of the sexual or other
intimate parts of a person done for the
purpose of gratifying the sexual desire of
either party."
Tina Cook is a CPJ slaff writer and
Evergreen sludent.

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them from seeking treatment for sexually
transmitted diseases and make pregnant
teenagers reluctant to get prenatal care.
The suggestion is only one pan of a
larger AlDS~ucation propOsal, senate
bill 6273. It would also delete the state's
AIDS
present
requirements
about
education in public schools, including the
condition that curricula be reviewed by
the Depanment of Health for accuracy.
Instead, it would give "parents and
local communities ... sole authority to
decide what curriculum shall be presented
in their local school districts ... "
It also would require that AIDS
education "stress that students should
abstain from sexual intercourse until after
marriage" and "teach honor and respect
for monogamous, heterosexual marriage."
The bill is strongly opposed by stale
health officials and AIDS educators.
Karen Davis, a lobbyist for the
Washington Education Association, said
that "repealing laws making AIDS
education mandatory is a step backward."
She said that all current curricula used in
Washington· do .discuss abstinence and

Cclcbratx: the chlneae
New Year of the Hone

State."
"What I did, I believe, was to help
take care of your money," Unsoeld said
of the vote. She explained that ·she
wanted to be sure the B-2 would fly, and
that there was a mission for the bomber
before spending millions of dollars on the
weapon.
She told the audience that one B-2
bomber could pay for four years of
college for 17,000 people.
During the two-hour question and
answer session, Unsoeld drew widespread
applause several times.
The audience showed its approval of
her strong opposition to spending U.S.
tax dollars to "influence" the elections in
Nicaragua when she said it would be as
if Japan tried to influence a U.S.
presidential election.
Unsoeld's policies were questioned
once, when a man asked why she voted
against the Constitutional amendment
outlawing flag burning.

She responded with an anecdote
about a prisoner of war during Vieblam
who felt pride in his country's freedoms
when captors showed him a picture of
war protesters burning a U.S. flag.
Unsoeld said she refused to take away
this freedom.
This response again drew applause.
Unsoeld addressed questions from
the audience about Social Secwity trust
funds, the capital gains tax, national
health care, off-shore oil drilling and
global warming.
She.disagreed with several members
of the audience when they asked for a
limit on the terms a senator or
representative can serve. Unsoeld said it
was more effective for the people to
make the decisions at election time.
Unsoeld challenged the audience to
create a consumer demand for the policy
changes they wanted.
Suzette Williams is currently an
intern with the Legislature.

College patron
Spielholz dies
News Release
There are many of you who knew
Hanna Spielholz and have followed her
illness with concern and with affection
for Hanna and for Jess. On Tuesday,
Hanna's courageous struggle ended.
Over 'the past twenty years, Hanna
and Jess have given selflessly of their
time and talents to the betterment of
Evergreen. They were instrumental in the
formation of the Evergreen College
Community Organization (ECCO) before
the college opened its doors to students
in 1971.
Hanna served as an ECCO leader, a
tour guide, a student, and Elderhostel
participant, and a gracious hostess. By
her enthusiasm and suppon, Hanna
fostered good will between the College
and the community. Hanna supported and
attended a wide variety of College events,
opened her home to countless numbers of
students, staff and faculty, organized
public lectures, and built support for
Evergreen's galleries and library. In
addition, she don&ted thousands of
volunteer hours to the Library's Rare
Books Room. Hanna represents the best

of what a devoted citizen can contribute
to a college community.
Over the years the College has paid
tribute to these two extraordinary people.
In 1981, Hanna and Jess were the first
recipients of the Super Saturday Citizen
of the Year Award. In 1988 they were
awarded the Distinguished Service Award
by the Board of Trustees. Also, that same
year the Evergreen Alumni Association
made them Honorary Evergreen Alumni.
Hanna has left her mark on
Evergreen and enriched the lives of those
of lis who had the privilege to know her.
Hanna's presence on our campus will be
deeply missed by her many friends .faculty, staff, and student alike.
The family is planning a privaw
service.
For those of you who are
interested, one way to honor Hanna is
through support of the Jess and Hanna
Spielholz scholarship fund established two
years ago by several of their close
friends. Contributions designated for this
fund could be sent to the Development
office (Library 3114).

S.D. 57751
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Career Development can help
Elisa R. Cohen
Charging into the seminar room like
a general ready to brief OfflCUS on the
tactics of war against unemployment,
Wendy Freeman, director of the Career
Development Center, asked the five of us
gathered around the table, "So are we all
job strategists here?" We had all come to
the Career Development Center for the
noon hour Job Search Workshop. We
smiled and accepted our new title.
The Friday noon workshop provided
a valuable glimpse into the career and
employment resources available to the
TESC students. as well as an introductory
approach to the procedure of envisioning
what one wants to do as a career, and
then the necessary steps one should take
in order to realize the vision.
According to a Massachuseus
psychologist, a large number of patients
who were searching for jobs were very
depressed. Unhappy with their misery,
the doctor set out to discover how to
alleviate patient depression while they
were on their job hunt He found that
those patients who embarked on a
thorough research of their chosen c~rs
showed far fewer signs of depression
than those who searched for jobs with no
strategies. He developed the plan which
Freeman offered to those of us who
attended the Job Search Workshop.
Freeman laid out the following career
finding strategy into five steps.
The flTSt step in the successful
acquisition of a satisfying career, she
said, is a thorough period of selfassessment. A period during which time
the job strategist analyzes her values,
preferences, interests. learned skills. and
inherent aptitudes.
Preferences
include
working
conditions, wages, benefits and activities.
The job strategist must decide if she
or in
wants to work with people
seclusion, if she wants to be physically
active in an outdoor location or sedentary
in a climate controlled environment She

must decide if she longs to lravel or root
down into a stable location. And she
must determine her fmancial needs.
After determining her preferences, she
must also analyze her values and
interests. An example illUSlrating a
conflict of interests and values would be
if the job strategist enjoyed writing and
public speaking and was opposed to the
military-industrial complex, she should

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agenCies only list
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not accept a job in public relations for
Bigger Better Bombs, Inc.
Once the interests, values, and ideal
working conditions are envisioned, the
assessment of the job seeker's real skills
and aptitudes is in order. A review of
self-evaluations, past work history and
learning endeavors is a source for
systematically listing the skills in which
one has a demonslrated proficiency.
Freeman emphasized that this flTSt
step is crucial for finding a career in
which one can obtain a degree of
personal satisfaction, as well as
realistically expect to get hired in the
flTSt place.
The second step is a paper and
pencil research, done in the well-stocked
TESC Career Resource Center library.
This library contains nwnerous catalogues
containing titles, descriptions, saJary
ranges. and ~addresses of every job in the
state of Washington as well as federal,
and international madcets. There are also
career specific indexes listing names and

addresses of professionals in the field.
During . the third step. the job
strategist gains in-depth information by
interviewing people in her chosen career
field. The job seeker should attempt rO
contact several people in her chosen
career and set up 20 minute interviews
during which time the career is exposed
by carefully written questions.
"People love to talk about their
work. If they love their career, they want
to share the experience. If they are near
a burnout stage, they will be glad to be
a mentor to a new person." Freeman
explained. "The questions should be
interesting to the subject in order to
promote talking. Examples of these
questions include, "What are some of
your daily satisfactions? If you could get
rid of one aspect of your job. what
would that be? What makes you stay in
this line of work? Is the compensation in
wages and benefits worth the time and
energy you put into each day?~
In order to be prep8red for the
interview, one should analyze the things
one wants to know about the career and
then formulate questions which will
solicit the ' answers. After the interview,
"You must send a thank-you letter for
the information and time. This pusan is
now part of your job seeking network."
Wendy insisted.
This interviewing research leads the
job strategist into the fourth step of
deciding if this career is truly the right
choice. If the career choice seems right,
the slrategist should go on to step five,
the Job Hunt. If the career does not
satisfy the seeker's need, one should go
back to step one and assess oneself
again.
The actual job hunt employs many
tactics and resources.
"I've always ..bated ·· the .,' tl:rm"
Networking," Frtem3ll .sajd Widt a ·.smile"Until one day a fellow ~ coiinseloi
described each personal contact as a point
with an interconnecting line. Several

Legislation to regulate
foreign student agencies
News Release
State Rep. Karen Fraser, D-Lacey,
will introduce legislation on Wednesday,
Jan. 17, to regulate foreign-student
placement agencies that charge fees for
their services.
Fraser
said
student-exchange
placement agencies currently are not
regulated by the stare or federal
gover1unenL She said her legislation is
a response to complaints by families who
have hosted foreign students in
Washington.
"While most placement agencies do a
good job. there are some that have
abused their responsibilities to students,
host families and schools. There have
been misuses of funds, failure to place
students in suitable homes and threats to
withhold students' return airline tickets."
she said.
"Under my proposal. the state
Department of Licensing would license
these agencies an the Department of

Social and Health Services could follow
up on complaints about student-living
conditions," she said.
Fraser said her proposal would
exempt nonprofit groups, such as service
clubs, that do not charge fees and place
students in their members' homes. The
legislation also says students should not
be required to provide services in
exchange for their placement in a home.
In addition to obtaining licenses,
Fraser's bill would require exchange
agencies to keep complete records of all
services rendered to students and host
families. Agencies also would have to
me a $5,000 surety bond with the state.
The proposal would apply only to
students under the age of 21, she said.
A public hearing on Fraser's bill is
scheduled before the House Higher
Education Committee on Monday, Jan.
22, at 1:30 p.m. in House Hearing Room
C of the John L. O'Brien Office
Building.

Dinos not drugs
from The Jurassic Group
The Jurassic Group is a new student
organization on campus whose mission is
to provide activities for people who
choose not to use drugs and alcohol-and
provide education about substance abuse
to the Evergreen community.
The Jurassic Period was a time about
200 million years ago when dinosaurs
flourished. Our group's slogan, Dinosaurs
Not Drugs, is an attempt to distance
ourselves from the misguided "war on
drugs" and to inject humor into our
struggle to supp<>q those choosing not to

use drugs.
Starting Friday. February 9, from
9:30 to 1:00 am, the Jurassic Group will
open a coffeehouse in the Staff/Faculty
Lounge. We hope this will become a
place for recovering addicts, adult
children of alcoholics. and anyone else
who chooses not to use drugs or alcohol
to stop by and have a cuP. of good coffee
in an atmosphere of fun and support
Come by on our opening Friday
night, February 9. from 9:30 to I, in the
Staff/Faculty Lounge downstairs in the
CAB.

Page 4 Cooper Point Journal January 25, 1990

contacts created a weblike structure. The
more lines in a web, the stronger the net.
So. she asked me, is your net working?
And instantly the term shifted and
became a conceptual tool in my
vocabulary."
"lbe want ads and employment
agencies only list 20% of the job market,
so only spend 20% of your time pursuing
these leads. The other 80% should be
spent making personal contacts from the
resources in the Career Development
Center, a process which will begin the
establishment of one's own network."
The Career Development Center is
located in Lib 1400. Wendy Freeman
and Leticia Nieto-Johnson are counselors
available for scheduled career counselling,
as well as drop-in appointments on
Monday and Fridays from 9:00-12:00.
Puja Pecovsky is a Para-professional
Linda
available for resume writing.
Murphy . is the program coordinator.
Career planning and discovery groups
meet on a weekly basis. Contact the
Career· Development Center. for ·more
infonnation.
.
Elisa Cohen is an Evergreen studefll
and CPJ staff writer.

GIIJIiVANCE AND ApPEALS BoARD

Six students are needed to serve on
this board, three as alternatives. The
board hears cases of academic dishonesty,
and other issues as outlined by T.E.S.C.
Grievance and Appeals policy. The
Hearing Board is the fmal authority cases,
and can impose punishments which may
include expUlsion.
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that defendants will have a fair hearing
by their peers.
ADVISORY BoARD (PAB)
One student is needed to serve on the

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PAB.
This
Board
makes
recommendations about all·campus policy
matters to the President upon hislher
request or when college policies or
resulting rules create concern or conflict,
potential or realized, between or among
constituencies.
Additionally, student
members of the PAB act as a liaison
between the · student body and the
President. Staff and Faculty also sit in

on the PAB.
T.E.s.c.

PLANNING COUNCIL

A student of color is needed to sit in
on The Evergreen Planning Council. The
council will be updating Evergreen's
Strategic Plan, will be looking at caps on
enrollment, and studying faculty work
conditions.
The council is also
to
increase
developing
strategies
Evergreen's multi-cultura1 diversity.
STUDENT UNION BOARD (SUB)

The
Student
Union
(student
government) is hiring students to work

as paid governance staff. Responsibilities
of the six positions include various
political and organizational duties. Please
contact the S&A office CAB 305, X6220
for applications for SUB positions only.
SELECTION COMMITI'EES

Students are needed to make up
selection committees to hire SUB
members and to choose student
represenlatives for various governance
bodies. This participation requires little
time commitment, but is essential to
providing a democratic and representative
governance system.

STUDENT COMMUNICATION
CENTER HOURS:
MON'DAY:
1:00-3:00
TUESDAY: 11:30-1:00
WEDNESDAY: 12:00-3:00
THURSDAY: 11:00-1:00
FRIDAY:
10:00-12:00

You are probably wondering what is
the Student Communication Center. We
are a student run. S&A and Student
Union funded organization whose main
goal is to act as an arm of the Student
Union and educate, recruite, and involve
students in student oriented issues. We
hire students for D1F's and other various
organizations which require students to
fill positions. We need your suggestions
and we need volunteers. If you are
interested in getting involved IX' would
like to know how to get involved SlOp by
during office hours. The hours are posted
in the window in CAB 206, next to the
Deli, where the Student Communications
Center is located. We are interested in
hearing from you at our office and at the
Student Union meeting in CAB 108 every
other Wednesday.

Stanley H. Kaplan
Educational Services
'.
.

Sa6eCCa Consort

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Students are needed immediately to
serve on the following committees.
Interested students should submit an
informal statement of intent to the
Student Communications Center (CAB
206) as soon as possible.

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Students needed for boards

S&A allocations What
The Services and Activities Board is
getting down to business by considering
the flTSt ·new initiative allocations of the
year. Nine requests for funds toIaling
over $13,000 have been received, and the
students of the S&A Board need your
help in determining allocations from a
limited budget
During the past two meetings, the
board heard presentations from four new
student organizations seeking initial
funding and for varioll~ SllJdent·.iJ!itiated
projects. The Evei'green chapter of
Amnesty International, the Evergreen
Speech and Debate Team, the Evergreen
Veterans '/Reservists' Group and the
Jurassic Group ("Dinosaurs not Drugs")
all request funding to become full scale
student groups. The Veterans'/Reservists'
Group also wishes to bring to town
Wallace Terry, author of "Bloods" and a
nationally known speaker and war
correspondent. while the Jurassic Group
is organizing a specifically drug and
alcohol free, supportive atmosphere coffee
shop on weekend nights in the CAB
Faculty Lounge. Other groups have asked
the boaid to fund a natura1 history
journal, an environmental documentary, a
trip to a Nevada Test Site rally, a trip to
a Pacific Seabird conference. and an
additional student staff position.
The total requests equal $13,059, and
the board, with only $6,500 7,000
available, needs your comments on
proposals and priorities. Deliberations
start at the Monday the 29 S&A Board
meeting, CAB 108,4-6 pm. and everyone
is encouraged to attend and make their
ideas known.
More new initiative requests will be
coming, and can be made, in the next

few weeks. For information, fmd Mark
Sullivan, S&A Board Coordinator, in the
S&A office, CAB 305. Funding
deliberations for all student groups for
next year takes place this spring. Student
attendance and participation at any time
is welcome.

ReOrg!
The S&A Reorganization committee
will have its first draft done by Monday,
January 29. Copies of the fIrSt draft will
be
available
at
the
Student
Communications Center. There will be an
open discussion on the first draft in CAB
108 at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 31.
Student group coordinators will be in
attendance, arid all students are invited
and encouraged to attend.
S&A reorganization would like more
students to be involved in the process of
gaining control of student funds. The
commiuee is open to criticism of their
rough draft to help improve the next
draft. The rough draft sttesses a
commitment to the following ideas in
reorganizing the S&A: evaluations for
staff members of the S&A (both student
and no~student staff). committees to hire
S&A staff (made up mostly of students).
and contracted employees for the S&A 10
ensure continuity (first on a shut tenn
conlrael, and then possibly .a three year
conlract). S&A Reorganization hopes 10
have the finished document 10 the Board
or Trustees by March 14.

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WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT
THE STUDENT UNION?
.

For some of you, it may be a
surprise that there is a student
govenunent, called the Student Union.
It was ratified at the end of last spring
quarter, and the first meetings were held
last summer. The Student union is an
organization through which students may
pursue their own agenda separate from
the faculty or adminislration. It gives the
students a recognized collective voice and
bargaining power. In other words, it
performs the same services for students
as a labor union does for workus. This
includes the approval of the S&A budget
and the fund allocation process.
The student union does not have
elected representatives.
Each student
represents his or her own interests.
Students may also become liaisons for
other students or student groups. Any
currently enrolled student may vote and
speak on any issue. Any student may
also place an item on the agenda or bring
a proposal before the Student Union.
Recent proposals have ranged from a
request for a referendum on the El
Salvador issue to the approval of S&A
funding guidelines.
If you have a
concern that you would like laken up
with the faculty, the adminislration,
housing, or any other part of the
Evergreen community, write up a
proposal to present at the next student
union meeting. 'Ibis should be submitted
to Cab 206, ComnllDlication Centet on
the Friday preceding the meeting in
which you would like it addressed. Each
student may submit one JXOPOSal per
meeting. If you just have a concern and
are not sure what should be done about

the SU?
it, you can attend the meeting and have
it placed on the agenda at the beginning
of the session as a discussion item.
The Student Union also provides a
forum for students to keep abreast of the
work being done in committees, the
Planning Council, President's Advisory
Board, and other important groups. The
Student Union is also a useful door to
direct participation in these groups.
These groups are shaping the policy that
will guide Evergreen through the next
few years and student involvement is
critical.
If you have no personal concerns
and are apathetic as to the fate of the
college, then the Student Union is
available to you as a means to monitor
the allocation of your money. S&A
funds are student money and as students
we need to take responsibility for how it
is spent. Without student participation in
this process, S&A funds are little bener
than a blank check.
Finally, if you are looking for a job,
governance is hiring students for four
board positions: Board Member For
Administrative Action, a liaison between
the administration and the Student Union;
Board Member For Education, liaison
between faculty and the Student Union
also in charge of educational outreach on
behalf of governance; Board Member For
Facilitation, meeting facilitator and
affirmative action outreach coordinator;
Board Member For Peer Advocacy,
advocate for students engaged in the
Grievance
and
Appeals
process.
Applications may be obtained at CAB
305 and turned in at either CAB 305 or
CAB 206.

Cooper Point Journal January 25, 1990

Page 5

'Rising Sun' teaches survival
by Anna Bachmann
You may have noticed some flyers
around advertising a workshop by the
"Rising Sun" School of Self-Reliance. If
you read on you would have realized that
this new school teaches wilderness
survival skills. Well, I'm curious. What
comes to mind when you think of
'wilderness survival'?
Do you get
images of khakied he-men, abristle with
weaponry, defending their little bunker in
the hills? Or worse, do you think of
rain-bedraggled, back-to-nature freaks half
starved from eating leaves and twigs? I
guess its only natural to think of it this
way with guys like Rambo running
around giving wilderness survival a bad
name. In today's world we are taught to
think that we are either nature's master
or its slave. But I want to argue that
wilderness survival is not the realm of
the over-sexed, masochists of this world.
Nor does it mean puuing up with
hardship and doing without Wilderness
survival teaches that you can live with
nature as a partner.
The key to this partnership is skill.
Survival skills are sacred. That is the
Lruest and best word for them for they
don't just keep you alive, they enable
you to experience the world without the
benefit of matches, or tent or even a
sleeping bag. They allow you to leave
the freeze-dried chicken cacciatore and
boUle of purified water behind. These are
all things that make you merely a visitor
to the natural world. When you are
wearing a 60 Ib pack full of the
high-tech accouterments of the modem

world you are more like a space alien
arriving on a new and threatening ",orld,
ever fearful 'that the umbilicat cord that
connects you to society and civilization
will snap. Haven't you ever worried
about what you would do if your tent
blew away or what would happen if you
lost your matches? Have you ever felt the
urge to taste the wild foods around you
while the chicken cacciatore melted like
stewed cardboard in your mouth? The
"Rising-Sun" school gives people the
skills they need to handle these types of
situations but it also teaches them how to
use these skills to participate more fully
in the world around them .
The school was started in the fall of
1989. It is organized and run by Louise
Gilman, Morgon Lindbergh, Eileen
Messer and Judith Wake. Eileen Messer
is the owner of Survival Living school
and Whidbey Island Nature Farm. Judith
Wake has a lifetime of experience living
in the wilderness and spent 7 years
homesteading with 300 animals. Both
Messer and Wake have had extensive
training with Tom Brown, a world
renown tracker and wilderness survival
instructor, and both have lots of
experience in wilderness education. I
attended the Advanced Basics workshop
taught by Judith Wake early this month.
The weekend of the workshop was
\
blessed with almost unremiuing rain (this
was before the big flooding that hit the
area) but it did nothing to dampen our
spirits. After a leisurely start discussing
knives and knots we dedicated ourselves
to making fire out in the rain. Now I

must confess a sort of childish glee about
making rue with a bow drill. Each time
I see someone nursing their bundle of
tinder with earnest, whispered breaths my
heart leaps into my throat with
anticipation and I can not help but to
laugh and clap my hands as the smoke
begins to curl up around their fingers and
it suddenly sprouts into flame. Making
a fire in the rain, you might think, would
tend to dampen this enthusiasm. It took
me about 15 tries,4 sets of tinder, and 2
breaks for exasperation before I got a
live coal that I was able to coax into
flame. I lied flat on the wet ground,
blowing my brains out and breathing in
smoke with each gasp for air (I had
foolishly situated myself downwind of the
fue) . But finally the wood caught. As I
watched the fue grow, the fatigue left me
completely and all I could feel was the
joy at my accomplishment "Next time,"
Judith said, "it will be easier." Knowing
the skills backward and forward is
important. It takes dedication and
practice, but the fruits of your efforts will
surprise you.
I asked Judith what she thought the
most important skill was. "Attitude," she
said after a moment of thought, "an
attitude of respect for the earth and for
what comes from tbe nat'..lral world."
Many have forgouen what !.his 'attitude
of respect' means and have replaced it
with the morals of the rampaging
commandos and beer-guzzling hunters
that blast away at every sound or
movement. Wilderness skills bring back
the true reverence for nature and tIu>.t is

something that we all need to survive in
this world.
The "Rising Sun" school has several
workshops coming up. The Wilderness
Basics workshop planned for January
will feature a free lecture by Eileen
Messer on the 26th at the. Southworth
Elementary School on Yelm Highway
from 7-lOpm and a weekend, hands-on
wilderness survival workshop taught by
Judith Wake on the 27th & 28th that will
cover fire by friction, shelters, finding
and making pure water, camouflage,
backpack essentials, stalking and nature
The workshop costs $75
awareness.
(including meals). There is also the
Advanced Basics workshop that I
attended which covered flre (in the rain),
knife sharpening and maintenance, knots,
tanning, the throwing and digging stick,
camouflage hunt, weapon safety, native
sign language, wild plants, and hours of
fascinating late-night discussions on
nature awareness, communication and
philosophy. Judith teaches the workshop
with great humor, energy and conviction
and she is more than willing to tailor the
workshop to group interests. There will
also be other workshops covering issues
from tracking and hunting to survival
horsemanship and homesteading sldlls
plus a summer, full-week workshop in an
If you are interested in
area forest
getting more information or signing up
for a workshop call Judith Wake at
866-0696 or Louise Gilman at 273-6931 .
Anna Bachmann is a 1st year, MES
student at Evergreen.

Earth Day
Countdown to Earth Day 1990
from The Earth Day 1990 Committee
On April 22, 1990, an incredible
global celebration will take place to mark
the 20th anniversary of Earth Day, and
launch the "Decade of the Environment."
Earth Day is a world wide effort
dedicated
to
raising
humankind's
ecological conscience through educational,
political, and cultural activities. Founded
in April, 1970, Earth Day began as a
response by individuals to the growing
realization of what global warming, acid
rain, ozone holes, rainforest destruction,
and general disrespect for the earth would
mean to all life on the planet On Earth
Day 1970, more than 20 million
Americans participated in a variety of
events which led to the Clean Water Act,
the Clean Air Act, and the creation of
the Environmental Protection Agency.

and community members are in the
planning
stages
for
Earth
Day
celebrations at Evergreen.
Given the
ecological ideal of interconnectedness and
the fact that environmental atrocities of
today cross all social, cultural, and
economic boundaries, we would like to
see a broad range of participation from
everyone. Some ideas which have been
suggested so far include:
a speaker
forum of individuals representing different
views of our relationship to the Earth
(e.g., Native American, bioregionalist,
Eco-feminist, etc.), teach-ins, concerts,
tree plantings, and an "energy free" day
where everyone uses public transportation,
walks, bikes, etc. to conserve energy.
Although April 22 seems a long time
from now, we need to begin planning to
make Earth Day 1990 the success it
should be. We'd like to know what
ideas and suggestions you have, as well
as what you envision for this "event of a
lifetime."
The Earth Day 1990 Committee
meets on Mondays at 6:30PM in CAB
108. We would like you to come to these
meetings to have input in the activity
planning. Also, stop by or call the ERC
(CAB 306 X6784) or the WashPIRG
office (LIB 3228 X6058) and give us
some feedback. Thanks a lot and we
look forward to worldng together!

Responses to 'Flexing Muzzles' article in the January 11 CPJ
First of all, I would like to thank
Kevin Boyer, editor of the CPJ, for
Hentoff's
article
reprinting . Nat
concerning free speech. The article was
both thought provoking and problematic.
While I agreed with many of the points
raised by Mr. Hentoff, there were
nevertheless many aspects of his
argument which were logically and
theoretically inconsistent.
Hentoff begins his article by citing
three examples of the many incidence of
racism which have recently occurred on
college campuses throughout the nation.
He then cites codes which have been
adopted by various universities for the
purpose of preventing their students from
being verbally assaulted andlor sexually
harassed. He believes these codes will
inevitably lead to the monitoring of
language in the classroom -- "as it is at
Czechoslovakian and Chinese colleges" - in which students are "afraid to explore
certain lines of thought lest they be
considered racist or sexist". In essence,
Hentoff is stating that restricting any
form of expression, such as harassment
and verbal assault, will automatically lead
to the suppression of all forms of
expression. This view is not only
incorrect,
it also
contradicts
the

fundamental principles on which the first
amendment rests.
The first amendment of the
constitution was devised to ensure that
liberty is extended to each individual
living within the United States. The
particular notion of liberty which the first
amendment ensures can be defined as
follows:
[Liberty] means freedom from
interference either by other
individUIJls or by tht! state
(emphasis mine). Liberty is
thought to guarantee individual
autonomy, the right of each
individual to establish her or his
own interpretation of truth and
morality,
uncoerced
by
established
authority.(Allison
Jagger)
Thus the flfSt amendment enables
individuals to establish and express their
particular interpretation of truth and
morality without interference from other
individuals or the state. However, there
are certain forms of "expression" which
the state has prohibited on the grounds
that these specific forms of "expression"
encroach upon the liberty of others. For
instance, it is illegal for the Klu Klux
Klan to "express" themselves by burning

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In most conversations involving
race/ethnicity I tend to keep my mouth
shut or tread delicately. The reason for
this is I never know what is or isn't
going to insult who, and what to say
instead.
I use the term "race" and
somebody gets insulted. I refer 10 a
"minority group" as "black people" and
someone gets insulted. I was raised
hearing adults speaking about "black
people" respectably as "coloreds." I think
"black people" is quite an improvement
over "coloreds," don't you? So the latest
I know of is "people of color; does that
mean I am a "people of absence of
color?" Or am I included in this
categorization? I don't know ·wbat to
call other "minorities" (or am I insulting
yet someone else there?) Are "they"
Jndians?
No, now it's "Native
Americans,"
wait no,
"Indigenous
Americans." Okay, if I say Indigenous
Americans are people going to know
what I'm talking abOut? And if so, 'is this
it? Or will it change again? I believe that
many of the old names are insulting and
I am perfectly willing to use whatever
words people want me to, but I am sick
of trying to use the respectable word and
somebody geuing insulted. I don't want
to insult people. During a workshop,

w hIC was a s e enVironment, agam ==
someone took insult to a word that I used ~

crosses in front of the homes of Jews,
blacks, catholics, etc.. This is so because
cross burning is a form of "expression"
which auempts to cram the KKK's
particular view of truth and morality
down other people's throats withouItheir
consent. Such "expression" is nothing
more than a form of harassment which
encroaches on the liberty of others, and
is therefore illegal.
In my view, there is no difference
between cross burning and spray-painting
swastikas on the office doors of student
groups (which is one of the examples of
racism on college campuses that Hentoff
cites). Such "expression" amounts to
nothing more than a form of harassment
which encroaches upon the liberty of
others. On these grounds, universities
should establish codes designed to
prevent such forms of "elCpression". Since
Hentoff fails to recognize this, he does
not acknowledge the fact that there are
certain fonns of "expression" which must
be restricted -- such as sexual and racial
harassment -- if we want to develop a
society based on individual liberty.
Moreover, Hentoff seems to think
that if codes are adopted which prohibit
certain fonns of expression, then these
codes will be used 10 censor certain
ideas. This is patently untrue. Codes of
this nature are not telling students what
ideas they can and cannot hold. What
these codes are telling students is that
th
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f
.
ere are certaJn lonns 0 expressIOn

thinking it was the "respectful" tenn. In ~ 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
reference to "black people" (or whatever
they are supposed to be called), that are
"The Twats." Hell, I'll admit the
The forces of liberalistic confonnity
usually not rich, speak "black English"
name was s tupid, but much less so than
surface at Evergreen! In the classroom
and have a female dominated household,
the reac tion we garnered from the
and elsewhere on campus, the analI used the term "black culture." Once
assembled
masses
of
protofascist
retentive antics of "concerned citizens"
again somebody was insulted. Fortunately
nonnalia. Boy, were They steamed that
have aroused the wrath of the almighty
this "whiteboy" managed to hem an haw
we dare celebrate the female pudenda in
SubGenius FisTemple Lodge of the Fatal
around until... "they didn't bring anything
such
an
indecent
manner!
Our
Madonna.
different into my life because of their
advertisements were viciously expurgated
Ambushed for labeling Obasan a
presence... " came into my mind and I
-- probably most often by swaggering
camp classic -- in slackful effort to smite
was able to sooth the persons feelings .
pink-boys trying to impress their matesthe purveyors of orgasmic adulation for
But I am not always so quick to think of
in-hipness with twisted mocheries of and
the
melodramatic
ramblings
and
liUitable responses when I discover that
MY GOD!
feignings at "sensitivity."
of
Joy
overblown
generalization
what was once a respectable term is now
And then we found out that a group of
Kogawa's novel! My worth as a person
a faux pas.
stiff-upper-rectum wanna-be-leftists had
'was questioned by the Lord of the Flies
I certainly agree that a hostile
threatened to sue Housing for "sexual
in disguise, a St:minar leader, while an
atmosphere should not be allowed on
harassment: because they thought that
Asian student vainly auempted to make
campus. Nor should derogatory terms be
the sponsors of the Comer's "Open Mike
me the issue. Both self-righteous
spoken without repercussion. But I think
Night" were behind our rascallious
mediocretins
made
the
absolutely
that intent should be considered. It is
moronitude. Don't flatter 'em, babe -bimbotic suggestion that I hold some
never my intent to insult anyone, but it is
J.R. "Bob" Dobbs is my co-pilot, not
resentment against the Japanese race.
getting to the point where I am afraid to
some bureaucracy that you can touch
Under this logic, I must hold a
speak for fear of doing just that.
with your crypto-wimpist lawsuit bullshit!
resentment against the white 'race because
Ignorance if the backbone of prejudice
Jeremy Pinkham
I dislike the representation of Nordic
and
silence perpetuates ignorance.
history in Hagar the Horrible. The
Something needs to be done to let
demonic faculty member later apologized
everyone know what the respectful terms
-- mere minutes after publicly asserting
are.
that he had "nothing to apologize for." 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
Holly ADn Smith
Ass-covering Whore of Babylon!

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which cannot be used to air their
particular ideas because they encroach
upon the liberty of other students. Thus,
contrary to Hentoffs views, these codes
are not established to prevent people like
Farakhan from lecturing on college
campuses. However, these codes are
established to prevent anyone -- including
Farakhan -- from spray-painting . their
beliefs on the doors of student groups.
Thus Hentoff could not list a single
factUIJI example of these codes preventing
certain lecturers from speaking on
campus; instead, he could do nothing
more than offer hypothetical situations to
buttress his "leftist" thought-control
theory.
There are obviously many grey areas
surroun<ting the issue of freedom of
expression. For instance, when does a
certain fonn of expression encroach upon
the liberty of other individuals? This
question is quite problematic -- to say the
least. While this question is problematic,
it is nevertheless quite legitimate and
needs to be answered, constantly, by
students and faculty on every college
ca mpus , including Evergreen. If we don't
acknowledge the legitimacy of this
ljuestion -- and attempt to answer it -then we will fall into a false dilemma
such as the one created by Nat Hentoff,
who believes that we must either tolerate
racial and sexual harassment on campus
or else submit to "leftist" thought control.
S
cot Wheat

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I have a dare/proposal for you as a
test or demonstration of our First
Amendment rights to free speech.
Childish and unimaginative though it may
by it is also pointed. I have actually had
this idea for years; it was a recent and
excellent article in the CPJ by Hentoff
about "Political Correct" censorship on
many campuses that fmally motivated me
to follow through. I am also reacting to
the "ignor-ance" of all the Edwin Meeses'
of our world induding the ones who
effectively shut down TESC's own
Student Art Gallery for shamelessly
displaying photos of a man who, if you
looked very closely, had a penis. But
that's perhaps another story for I have
not yet explained my dare/proposal: Print
the word "FUCK" filling the entire front
page or on the double page section in the
- middle of the paper. Again I say this is
childish
and
unimaginative
but
nevertheless a legitimate use of the 1st
Amendment if for no other reason than
that "FUCK" is an incredibly expressive
word. I'm not really trying to justify this
gesture. The First Amendment has had
better champions than I (such as the
author of the CPJ article mentioned
earlier). But generally my point is that
even if what someone says is crude or
offensive, we should hear them out
instead of switching them off and thereby
switching off the necessity of dialogue.
Andy Kennedy

Cooper Point Journal January 25, 1990

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Opinion

Letters

I like being bored, CPJ

by Josef Oguiza
The Cooper Pointer Jownal is really
boring. But I pick it up and read the
front page. Blue prints. Something about
filling in the third floor of the CAB.
God, who really cares if they're going to
fIll in the third floor? It would be news
if they were planning to fill in the clock
tower. That would be news. See, the
clock tower always looks so fragile to
me, like if I leaned against it the whole
thing would collapse. I never sit on that

bench directly underneath it because
maybe one day I'll look up to see what
time it is and --SMASH-- I'll feel the
weight of time in a big way. I'm not
afraid the third floor of the CAB will
collapse. What if they filled in all the
stairwells in the library building with
cement? I mean, just as a practical joke.
It wouldn't be funny because people
would just use the elevators. Someone
from TM might open the door to the
basement and spray paint, "Free the stairs

or else." What if the Cooper Pointer .
Journal printed blueprints of the CAB on
the back page and put the comics on the
front page? I wouldn't notice the
difference. There are a lot of "whatifs"
swimming around in my fish bowl right
now. What if everyone in the world
jumped up at the same time? We
couldn't all come down at the same time.
Maybe the weight of America landing
before the weight of Africa would throw
the World out of orbit. That would be

news. I for one would like to see
blueprints of the other side of the
Universe on the back page of the COOpel"
Pointer. There certainly would be a
feeling of unity if everyone did
something at the same time. Maybe we
should all take a deep breath. Ready? No,
wait. Not everyone reads the COOpel"
Pointer Jownal. I do though. I like being
bored.

Josef Oguiza is an Evergreen student.

U.S. needs to guard its 'back door'
by Carol B. Hall
If an intruder repeatedly breaks into
your house by busting out the glass in
your front door, you might respond by
securing that front door with decorative
iron bars and a dead bolt lock to prevent
the intruder's entry. And that's about the
time the intruder discovers you have an
unguarded back door.
Such is the dilemma of the United
States government as it fighlS to keep
South American drug merchants and their
wares out of the States. The intruders, the
cocaine merchants, have entered the U.S.
for years through the front door, our
southem borders bounded by Mexico and
the waters off the Sun Belt states.
Anti-smuggling pressure has increased
in the past year along the Mexican border
and in Florida as part of the Bush "war
on drugs." Many have criticized this
effort for not nabbing a significant
percentage of smugglers, and some
people wonder if the increased security
has changed anything at all. But even if
America's front door pressure hasn't
stopped all drug smugglers, it must be

scaring off a few who have discovered
the U.S. has left its back door unguarded.
The back door is our largely
unpatrolled 5,500 mile border shared with
Canada. Not only is this border
unpatrolled, but it fringes some of the
roughest terrain and more sparsely
populated areas of United States. In the
American Northwest and the New
England states, the border winds across
wooded hills and mountains complete
with desolate logging roads and hundreds
of isolated airstrips, and very few towns.
Ideal conditions for drug smugglers, it
would seem. A little out of the way
maybe, but otherwise ideal.
But our neighbors have been
watching our back door. In southeastern
Canada, near our New England states,
Canadians have reponed suspicious
aircraft entering the sleepy province of
New Brunswick for years. Late last year,
the Canadian Mounties got serious about
those suspicious aircraft and pulled off a
sting operation that resulted in the arrest
and sentencing of two Colombian pilots
who descended on a remote New

Just what

by Paula Lang
The transitional stage between
childhood and adulthood causes a great
deal of turmoil among society's young
people. What exactly is an adult?
According to The New Merriam Webster Dictionary, an adult is "fully
developed and mature... a human being
after an age (as (8) specified by law."
But the dictionary, like society, does not
commit to a certain age at which a
"child" becomes an "adult."
Society's reaction to this hwnan
process, though frustrating, is somewhat
humorous. A child at the age of eleven
must pay the adult ticket price to watch
a movie at most cinemas. But certainly a
child is not "fully developed and mature"

•

IS

Brunswick airstrip with tl $215 million
cocaine cargo apparently bound for the
for the UOlted States market.
Although the pilots were sentenced to
lengthy jail tenos, Canadian officials
were aware that the deal carried an
irlSurance policy common to South
American drug cartels: they promise to
send rescuers to bust ou~ their couriers if
captured. So the Canadians were ready
when four heavily anned Colombians
carrying altered Venezuelan passports
appeared in the small French-speaking
town of Edmunston, New Brunswick..
After a resident alerted the Mounties to
their presence, a search of their ear
netted an Uzi sub-machine gun, an AK47 assault rifles, hand grenades, tear. ~as,
and nearly 3,000 rounds of ammurution.
Not your usual. tourist luggage.
~e cocame bust and subseque~t
convictions of the smugglers and ~elC
wo~ld-be ~cuers are .the la~st m a
senes of major ~g seIZureS 10 eastern
.Canada,. ~ut ?ffiCials th~re suspect ~e
$300 mlil~on m ~gs seIZed thus far ~s
only the up of the Iceberg. One Mountie

esbmated m press re~ . that only 10
percent of the ~g flow 18 m~rce~ by
our northern neighbors. <;anadian .c1l1zens
near the border are afraid. ~ disturbed
by all the ~nt drug acUVlty, ~ut they
are also ':lgIiant and. . detemuned to
p~t therr cormnwnbes. They are
keepmg watchful eyes on our back door,
left o~ while we clamor for more
protection for the front door, our southern
border.
If the Bush administration does not
take action to close the back door, we
can expect to see the largest increase in
drug smuggling from the north rather
than the south. Whether or not the U.S.
can win the "war on drugs"/ remains to
be seen, but to give it our best effon, we
must attempt to secure all' our borders
and coastal areas, nOl just those 10 the
south.

Ms. Hall, an Olympia resident, writes
a weekly column about African-American
issues for an Indiana magazine.

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the legal age In

at age eleven!
Furthermore, most airlines charge
children beginning at age twelve the adult
fare; Amtrak trains and Greyhound busses
also have this policy. In addition, most
restaurants charge patrons over age
lwelve the adult prices. But, can a preteen be deemed as an adult when molars
are still erupting? I find this concept
exrremely irrational.
Teenagers can pay taxes. 1bey can
also obtain a driver's license at the age
of sixteen with driver education or at the
age of eighteen without At sixteen, a
teenager can also drop out of school.
Eighteen is the age at which Intercity
Transit begins to collect adult fare. The
legal age for voting, marriage, purchasing

u.s.?

cigareues and lottery tickets is also opinion that legal adult age is twentyeighteen. However, this eighteen-year-old one, but, in fact, it is not. Car rental
cannot gamble in Nevada or New Jersey agencies follow a policy that requires a
until the age of twenty-one. So eighteen person to be twenty-five in order to rent
cannot be legal adult age as the a ear, unless the renter has a major credit
card and a discount card issued by the
dictionary hinted, can it?
To confuse you further, at the age of particular rental agency. A person can
seventeen, a person can enlist in the legally drive for nine years before he or
armed services with parental consent. .An she can rent a car without a hassle! Now,
eighteen-year-old male can be drafted, but if you are not confused enough, and you
he cannot have a beer at the local tavern, . think you are finally an adult at age
nor can he even enter the premises twenty-five, reconsider.
according to Washington state law.
The fact is that you cannot run for
Though he is old enough to carry a President of the United States until age
weapon and lay down his life for his thirty-five. Again, what constitutes an
country, he is not old enough to drink. 1 adult?
do not see the logic here.
Palda Lang is a student at
At this point it seems to be public Evergreen.

Eppo reveals his hidden agenda
by John Epstein
Everybody seems to have an agenda
these days. Since I frown upon the
devilish "hidden agenda," 1 thought I
should come clean on some of mine. (
have so many agendas that 1 could not
do them justice in one column. Here are
a few to get us going.
This column:
.Why is this guy writing this stuff?
Reader beware! Don't read my columns
for factual information. My opinions are
subjective, heavily biased, opinionated,
unresearched, inaccurate and mostly
wrong. On top of this my accusations
are often outrageous. Naturally, I.Jive a
lonely existence. But 1 do see purpose in
my unusual activities. My opinions, good
or bad, seem to raise the level of
discourse,
conflict and
discussion
surrounding the issues. 1 believe that our
bureaucratic world leads us to see
conflict as a bad or W1healthy influence.
People tend to avoid conflict on many
levels. ~ a SQCiety, .we seem to deny
the humanity of conflict the same ~ay
we deny the stench of our sweatmg

bodies. I believe that conflict is a natural . it before.
order of things and to deny it, in your
I have already raised the controversial
home, your work and your life, is to
issue of why some student groups have
deny your humanity.
paid staff positiQns while others do not.
I also happen to believe that people
1 tend to support the idea of having more
don't take me seriously in this world and
money available for student groups to use
this is my neurotic response. 1 also have
on projects irlStead of salaries. It appears
this secret desire to become rich and
tl!at most colleges do not have paid
coordinators
for
student
groups.
famous and have people pay me lots of
money to come and tell them how full of
Evergreen, in it's traditional way, is the
s--t they are. Are my wee1cly columns
exception. I hope to get an important
provocative? Do you reach for the CPJ
message out to students this year. S&A
FEES ARE NOT SlUDENT MONEYII!
each week to see what outrageous thing
I've said. 1 hope so.
When you write out that check every
S&A Board:
quarter, it says TESC. S&A Fees are
.Why am 1 serving on the S&A
State money that is dedicated to suppon
Board? I bring fifteen years of TESC
Services and Activities relating to
history to the Board. 1 am fiscally
students.
conservative. I believe in accountability
The S&A Board is often accused of
of administrators as well as students
being a rubber stamp for the Board of
groups, coordinators, and boards. 1 also
Trustees.
On a legal level this is
support the growth and development of
absolutely 1nJe. The Board of Trustees
the student union and student power.
has the power to spend the S&A fees
However, with added power comes added
any way they like and the S&A Board
responsibility. Yes, let me assure you, l
simply recommends a budget which the
did invent this wonderful phrase in case
liuSUleS
will
accept
or reject.
you are wondering where you had beNd
Historically, the Trustees have let the

Page 8 Cooper Point Journal January 25, 1990

S&A Board detenoine the budget within
some implicit limitations. If the Board
s~mply tried to cut off funding for any
tier . ~e . budget (ex. CRC, S&A
AdmlDIStratiOn, KAOS, et. al.), the
Trustees wo~d likely reject the proposal
an~ .return It to the S&A BoanI for
reVISIOn. Outside of the Tier one budgets
the. S&A Board and the new Student
Uruon have a great deal of control and
power over how that money will be
allocated.
To say that those of us
serving on the Board are a rubber stamp,
does us a disservice. Remember, Board
members are not paid and we give a lot
of our time in the name of SC2Vice.
I hope to see you all at some S&A
~gs. Yom' presence and involvement
will make them much more enjoyable
and fulftlling for me.
_
Eppo is an Evergreen "fossil." He is

the host of "Mouthing Off," a Wffekly talk
radio show on KAOS-FM. He is currently
efITolled in Graduate study in Public
AdmifU:rtration and ser:tles the Evergreen
AlIUfIIII Board and S&:A Board.

Is there 'governance without governance ?'
"Let's
vote
governance out of whose activism seems to exclude only
existence." This was the rallying cry of their own campus.
I would also like to consider Mr.
Mr. Snuffin in last week's CPJ. Why .
not? The failure of student governance is Snuffin's interesting theory that student
after all only an admission that we as government is some entity apart from the
students are incapable or perhaps students. Given that every student on
uninterested in conducting our own this campus is a voting member of the
affairs. Why shouldn't we just place the Student Union it is an interesting
administration "in loco parentis" and have assertion. Had I not been guided by Mr.
done . with our short experiment at
Snuffin's wisdom I might have been
independence. .
tempted to enquire what students have
As Mr. Snuffm points out thirty five
accomplished or what efforts students
students was record breaking attendance.
tiave made through the Student Union. I
Obviously governance meetings are not
might even venture to question what Mr.
the hip place to hang out on Wednesday
Snuffin has accomplished. But clearly we
afternoons and certainly this laek of as students are not to blame it is that
popularity can only be a sign of the apathetic profitless entity, governance.
futility and failure of student governance
I should also like to thank Mr.
not the apathy and failure of students Snuffin for pointing out that we as

Evergreen elitism
If the pillar of smoke rising over Joe
Olander's reswne seems a bit wispy, it
may be that those attempting to fan the
controversy into full flame lack sufficient
fuel. If this be the case an if this be an
example of the high standards of care
which the faculty advocate, then we need
an investigation into competency and
values here at Evergreen rather than an
independent investigation into Olander's
credentials.
Honesty is equally important in
presenting resumes and allegations about
reswnes. Credentials do not necessarily
signify sound values or competency,
however they do often reproduce the
hierarchies and elitism of a society within
the society's institutions. The process by
which Olander's resume. has been brought
to public scrutiny bears the mark of
character assassination as much as it does
careful investigative work.
Behind the smoke of this lingering
controversy a more substantial issue in
the Olander vs. Evergreen conflict is
beginning to emerge. After summarily
firing Provost Patrick Hill last June,
Olander promised to reconsider Patrick's
case, and in the event that a new
provost should be sought, Olander

promised to institute a much more
consultative process. An advenisement
for the provost's position recently
appeared in the New York: Times. Yet
there had been no consultation with
faculty or other constituency groups about
the ad or the hiring process as Olander
had promised.
~ This is but one more example of
what has become a trademark with
Olander - unilateral decision making.
Despite Evergreen's petty internal
conflicts and turf battles, the institution is
based upon cooperation and consultation.
The privilege of consultation is
infrequently extended to students, but the
faculty and deans do expect it Olander's
independent agenda does not inspire trust,
and he does · not seem capable of
changing to become more cooperative.
It's as though Olander strove a bit
too hard to create an Evergreen that
would suit his own vision. He could
have perhaps tried harder to accept the
school on ilS own terms. It must be said
on Olander's behalf that Evergreen is a
difficult place to be a monarch. But then
maybe Evergreen doesn't need a
monarch.
Hector Douglas

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students need not be concerned about
world events or go to the trouble of
forming an opinion on them, much less
acting on those opinions. The students at
E.P.1.C. and the Peace and Conflict
Resolution center will no doubt be
grateful to learn that their efforts are
"worthless" and perhaps with
Mr.
Snuffin's advice they will be able to
direct their efforts to more worth while
endeavors, He had better act quickly,
however, as even now a referendum is
being planned on the EI Salvador issue
which can only involve more students in
this wasted effort.

Finally, I must congratulate Mr.
Snuffin on the novelty of his counter
proposal. He must have known that many
people would view his "let's take this
crisis, by crisis" approach as reactionary
and iIJsufficient for dealing with the
rnany Issues that are before our campus,
but assured of the superiority of his
scheme he did not deign to address these
minor problems.
( salute you Mr. Snuffm, and given
the great respect and admiration 1 have of
your opinion I hope you will forgive me
this question. How do you intend to vote
out governance without governance?
Dianna Caley

Questioning seatbelts
1 agree with many of Paula's
complaints about the Seat-belt Law such
as the lack of on Amtrak, children on
airlines, and city buses, but I take issue
with her stand on school buses.
This may be incorrect, but I asked
my school bus driver why the children
were not given the choice of seat-belts
when she was. She said that most kids
are safe in a bus accident due to the
construction of the buses. The person
most in danger of suffering injuries is the
one sitting directly behind the driver. I
don't know if this supposed safety also
applies to city buses.
As far as the reason for the law
being so that the government can make
the extra income of $57 for each person
apprehended is total haberdash. It is

obviously possible, but extremely hard for
a police officer to see if your belt is
buckled or not as you drive by.
ADd I agree with the law. It may
cut down on our freedom, but more lives
are saved just by taking the extra minute
to buckle up.
Four years ago, I was involved in a
car accident where I almost died, but
most likely would have remained
conscious if I were wearing my seat-belt.
I believe we have much more
important issues in this country . to
complain about than whether we should
save people's lives with the law or not,
although I agree it does need some
improvement.
Daniel J . Boone

A whining brouhaha
There has been mueh bickering and
brouhaha at The Evergreen State College
recently. Far from confming this infighting to camjlus, academic politicos
have seemingly honed their craft by
elevating the debate into a media war,
with The Olympian being the prime
weapon in their arsenal.
We legislators depend on the
college's trustees to act in the best
The trustees
interest of the college.
examined the charges against Joe
Olander, and they have dismissed them.

It speaks well for Olander that he has
unified the suppon of a diverse Board.
Case closed.
Those who wish to take on the Board
for their decision should keep in mind
that members of the Board are selected
by the Governor and confrrmed by the
Senate. Academic mudslingers would do
well by stopping their whining and
getting back to doing their taxpayerfinanced jobs.
Senator Ray Moore

Stop Olander hype
The publicity about the mistakes on
President Olander's resume has been
overblown and inaccurate, but 1 had
hoped that Evergreen faculty meinbers
would act more wisely.
Thankfully, they have not yet called
for an outside investigation of the
charges, but the continued discussion of
this non-issue only serves to attract more
negative auention to the college.
Anyone who has spoken to Olander
about the "mistakes" or attended his press
conference about the issue should realize
that what has been called deliberate
falsification of credentials is not that at
all.
Olander described his achievements
just as anyone else would have -- as
accurately as he could. I've estimated
dates many times when flliing out job

applications, for instance. Is this
deliberate falsification of my credentials?
A full investigation of Olander was
conducted when he was a candidate for
president, and the hiring committee was,
wisel y, satisfied with the results of that
investigation.
Evergreen faculty should be adult
enough to forget their opposition to
Olander's leadership style to deal
honestly with this non-issue. The most
prudent action would be to recognize the
resume discrepencies for what they
are -- honest mistakes.
Let Olander retwn to the business of
running this college and try to minimize
the damage done to Evergreen as an
institution as a result of these petty
accusations.
Suzette Williams

cartoon insults genitalia
I am writing because I was quite
offended by this cartoon 1 read in the
January 18 edition of the CPJ_ It's pretty
small, true. But it really bothered me.
Because I'm a boy does that mean I
should have to, "laugh and live with it,"
when it come to sexually demeaning
jokes like this? Pain is not generally
funny. But, somehow, pain to certain
sensitive parts of my anatomy is.
I'm not trying to be a censor. But,
please, next time don't grab my attention
by my genitals.
Joey MtCoy

Cooper Point Journal January 25, 1990

Page 9

Horse-sized mutant
sighted near Chehalis

England exhibit a success
by Scott A. Richardson

Sticks and stones, branches and reeds.
sheet metal. Darren England's display of
work in the library lobby during January
ended last Saturday after drawing praise
from the Evergreen community. The
display left a few questions unanswered,
but England offered some explanations.
The sculptures were assembled during
fall quarter as England conducted an
individual contract under the sponsorship
of faculty member Susan Aurand All
materials were found in the Olympia

area: the Evergreen "burnables" dump,
England's yard in west Olympia. and
other nearby locations. The metal pieces
were fonns which caught the eye of
England and provided a framework into
which organic elements could be
incorporated.
England explained that although
natural and man-made elements are
traditionally opposites in art, he wanted
to use them in a complementary manner
to create his industrial-organic theme. The
comment book from the exhibit attests to

his success.
When asked about the use of
electricity in one sculpture (the globe),
England acknowledged, "aesthetically the
cord was a problem." He is considering
using a candle instead of a light bulb in
the future, which would enhance the
spiritual aspect of the piece.
The sculptures were left untitled
intentionally. England wished to allow
onlookers the freedom of interpretation
unhindered by his own conclusions about
the work.
The ex hibit was independently
produced. After Aurand suggested the
space for the display , England did the leg
work necessary to get pennission from
various sources. Not only did he need to
investigate possible scheduling conflicts
for the space, but he also required an

"okay" from security, campus safety, and
maintenance. No selection process was
conducted; it was simply a matter of
acquiring all the appropriate signatures.
The sculptures are now stored under
tarps at England's house as they await
display elsewhere. Meanwhile, England
busies himself with life drawing. ceramic
sculpture. and an individual contract with
a Seattle artist.
Those who want to see more of
England's work can find another of his
industrial-organic works located in the
library ftrst floor lobby. The piece has
hung in the space since last academic
year.
Scott Richardson is a staff writer
who enjoys the diversity of art created at
Evergreen.

by Chris Bader
Occasionally I run across a story that
is so bizarre that I have a hard time
classifying it into any certain category.
One such story occurred in the Chehalis
area in mid 1974.
Ernest Smith, a Seattle grocer, was
deer hunting on Bald Mountain, about
twenty miles east of Chehalis, on
November 17, 1974. Upon entering a
clearing Smith came upon a very strange
creature.
Aecordingto Smith, the lnonster was
about the size of a horse and gave off a
"green iridescent light" . The thing stood
on four "rubbery legs", which ended in

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Throughout the 80's, we lampooned
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I'm lOOking for ten Evergreen
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this summer. I was in the USSR for a
month last summer and met dozens of
students who wanted contact with
Americans. I've been writing to one
student named Dema at Moscow State
University. We've. come up with a plan
for an exchange program. Now all I have
to do is find a few Evergreen students to
go with me.
Here's the plan: Ten Greeners will go
to Moscow for 15 days. to be hosted by
Soviet students. I>ema has promised tours
around the city, and surrounding towns,
with a possible trip to Leningrad. If you

ever wanted (0 walk across the real Red
Square, this is your chance. Afterwards,
ten Soviet students will come back to
Olympia with us and stay for 15 days,
we are the hosts. Both sides will be
responsible for their own air-fare. We
will pay for the Soviet's basic expenses
(food, shelter, transportation) while
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investigation team was swiftly replaced
by a special NASA team, "including a
heavily armed military unit wearing
unifonns with no insignia".
And this is where, unfortunately. the
story ends. The green horse monster of
Bald Mountain has remained in hiding,
and NASA has never revealed what
mysterious things they might have
recovered on that night in 1974.
(Quotes are from Weird America, by lim
Brandon.) .
Chris Bader is a student at Evergreen
and writes a weekJy column on strange
events in Washington State.

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suckers, as an octopus has on its "the glow", which they had taken to be a
tentacles. As if these details were not neon sign, the Ramsbaughs were terrified
weird enough, Smith added that the to see the same creature that Ernest
creature was covered with thick scales Smith had.
and had antenna sticking out of its head.
The story does not end here,
Although many would quickly scoff however.......
at Ernest Smith's wacky story, other
On November 14, 1974, three days
people came forward and claimed to have before the "monster" sightings, a "fiery
seen the same thing.
-object" was seen crashing to the ground
Several frightened motorists reported on Bald Mountain.
sightings of the beast, including a Mr.
Reportedly, Lewis County Sheriff
and Mrs. Ramsbaugh, a Tacoma couple.
William Wister was the first to
The Ramsbaughs were cruising along investigate the area, but was soon told by
state route 7 that night in November both the air force and NASA to cease his
when they saw a strange glow by the investigations.
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Those who feared our voice would be
muted by taking money from the federal
government didn't have to worry. In
fact, our voice was amplified.
Now it appears all that is changing.
Jesse Helms and other right-wingers have
mounted an assault on the National
Endowment, and have succeeded in
reordering its priorities. No longer is
artistic merit the sole criterion for judging
NEA applications.
Now, political
content. morality, and offensiveness are
somehow to be judged before grants are
awarded. Congress has voted to deny
NEA funds to work "offensive to any
religion or nonreligion," and John
Frohnmayer, Bush's "kinder" and "more
gentle" appointee to head the Endowment,
has declared, "I believe political discourse
belongs in the political arena and not in
a show sponsored by the Endowment."
Under the new criteria, The Dragon
~dy's Revenge, the Factwino series,
Secrets in the Sand. 1985. The
Mozamgola Caper, Ripped Van Winkle,
and Seeing Double would not have been
funded.
If the Mime Troupe is not political,
we're nothing. If we're not offensive,
we're not doing our job. We have great
plans for next year but clearly, we're
going to need your help in pursuing
them.
Spain, our epic musical about the
Spallish Civil War and the effects of
superpower
intervention
in
small
countries' conflicts, has just completed a
workshop production at San Francisco
State University; to finish this ambitious
work we need financial support. We
plan a full two-month free park season in
1990 with a new musical about the
divisioQS of class and race in post-Reagan
Am~ Seeing Double, our tragic farce
arguing for a two-state solution in
ISrael/Palestine, is in demand all over the
country and will continue touring in

1990.
In what may be our most
controversial appearance of aU time, we
have been invited to perfonn the play at
the Israel Festival in Jerusalem in June.
In the fall, in collabo18tion with the
Lorraine Hansberry Theater, we're
undertaking another controversial project
an
adaptation
by
award-winning
playwright Ntozake Shange of Harriet
Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, the
play that inspired the abolitionist
movement. At a time when America's
social problems are increasingly being
blamed on black people, this 130-yearold classic reveals an amazing prescience
about the lingering, tragic effects of
slavery.
It is a fact of theatrical life that at

people's prices, box office receipts and
touring fees don't pay all the bills.
Because our future NEA support is
jeopardized by the Bush administration's
war on dissent, and because we do not
solicit COrpo18te contributions, we're
going to have to rely more than ever on
the generosity of our friends. Please
support our plans with your tax
deductible contribution. Your check will
be doubly appreciated this year. In one
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Troupe an Advancement Grant just prior
to Frohnmayer's conf1l1lUltion. If he
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Arlls 8( Enterlainment
Girl Friday:

Busts a gut

with a sharp chin and frizzy hair, she
suggested an ostrich running around
wide-eyed. The two women jumped into
the air and came down singing the "Girl
Friday"
theme
song
in
pyramid
harmonies, Richard chiming in on his
"large instrument" The song was a little
hokey. but I said what the heck. Theme
songs have to sing praises, identify the
players. and be catchy; it·s sometimes
hard to avoid hokeyness in such
situations.
Lea grabbed a mike with a long blue
cord and launched into a ten-minUIe

Not Wally, Ward, and the Beav,
photo by Ariel Jones
by Andrew Hamlin
GIRL FRJDAY

EVERGREEN REcrrAL HALL
JANUARY

19. 1990

The Recital Hall has no curtain.
Richard's piano. or as Lea later called it,
his "large instrument," sat stage right,
three cups of water and a tambourine at
the strings end. another cup at the
keyboard end. On the far edge of the
closed lid sat a cardboard rectangle with
an oval inset bisected by a cross. I
decided that was either a radio or a
Catholic confessional.
The lights went down, the crowd
whooped, and through the door behind
my head came Richard Weinstock, the
leading male of Girl Friday, dressed as a
priest (it was a Catholic confessional). He
fumbled in his pocket-"Where are those
FUCKING rosary beads!?!" and fmding
them. sat down 10 business. The fIrSt
voice from behind the confessional told
him "I coveted my neighbor's husband,
and ) committed adultery, I coveted my
neighbor's
wife...and
I committed
adultery. I coveted my other neighbor-did I mention I'd committed adultery?"
"My child. I believe you've now
mentioned adultery three times."
") like adultery," said the voice
sweetly.
After an exhaustive litany of crime
and indiscretion. Richard prescribed
"Three Hail Marys ...and ten Our Fathers!"
Lea DeLaria, a chunky dynamo. emerged
from behind the piano, muttering. "Boy is
he tight this week!" S till wearing her
nun's habit. she duck-walked offstage.
The second voice was a meek
thirteen·year old who had "done it" with
another girl while camping. This proved
to be Kelly Edwards. the fmal third of
this most unusual perfonning trio. Skinny.

w.ere someone else; they said in stereo.
After a quick blackout, Kelly came on as
a construction worker, dragging off a
lady in the front row for a "butch
workover."· While this occurred offstage,
Lea waltzed out in a cap!ain's uniform
and sang "I Enjoy Being a Girl." The
woman from the audience came back on,
looking like a Frankensteinian clone of
Norm on Cheers, to thunderous applause.
Then it was time for everybody's
favorite soap opera, One Dike To Lick,
starring Lea as a hopelessly horny
femme. She appeared at the top of the
stairs in a flipped-up baseball hal,
gasping "Wanna fuck? Wanna fuck?" to
every woman in an aisle seal She stood
on the arms of one woman's chair. and
was making some progress when Richard
called her down to the stage. There she
underwent therapy with Dr. Lulu (Kelly).
Lea's recently departed girlfriend turns
out to be Dr. Lulu's secretary, causing
them both 10 beDow "I KNEW five
nights a week was too much for a
beginning
macrame
classl"
They
harmonized on "These Boots Were Make
For Walkin· ... and even though Richard
didn't play the descending bass line aftu
the chorus, it was vicious.
In the Subway Sketch, Richard and
Kelly were on a platform trying to get to
the Metropolitan Opera. Lea played a
mugger with a Lone Ranger mask who
ends up taking Lea to the opera with
Richard's tickets (which he surrenders
more or less willingly--he's having a very
bad night). Lea sang "Skyline Pigeon," a
song from Elton John's first album that I
hadn't heard in years and years. She
rolled from phrase to phrase and I
wondered if she'd malce the ·r ange jump
on the chorus. but she soared through it
just fine. We had some moist eyes in the
house.
The final sketch dealt with two
parents, who consider themselves very
liberal. eagerly awaiting their daughter
and her "female gay lesbian lover." The
lover turns out to be an inflatable doll
named Sunflower Seed. Mom and Dad go
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parents, no matter what their politics,
usually can't help but look at their
children from a parents-eye view. No
matter how accepting they're prepared to
be. the children inevitably find the line
and step over it
The trio sang "Twisted," an old show
tune also done by Joni Mitchell, and
fmished the last line, "Three heads are
better than one," in three-part harmony.
They signed off with a few public service
announcements--"The · Surgeon General
has detennined that if you look directly
into a picture of Yoko Ono, she will
suck the life force out of you"--and a

comedy monologue. Pugnacious. f1eetround of "The Mickey Mouse Oub." But
fooled, possessed of immaculate timing
the crowd went nuts and of course, they
and dynamics, DeLaria could have
did an encore. Lea sang the lesbian
slipped the fence when the butchers came
version of "Do Re Me." with audience
for Our Gang. She dragged the mike
participation. For the fmal round Kelly
around stage like the young Elvis: the
came out in a boxing ring' girl's outfit
sneer. the shout. the pout. She bitched
with absolutely no back to ' it, and held
about walking down the street and
up idiot cards with the wools.
"fmding myself trapped in a nuclear
What quibbling criticisms I
family," about WASP lesbians who come
had of the show have already been
just like they cough.-"I'm an Italian,
brought up by other critics: Edwards is
y'know, burp, fart, sneeze, SCRATCHI",
somewhat underutilized and rarely talces
about airplanes-"They always make you
center stage, Weinstock could experiment
fasten your seat belts. which is real good
with a more aggressive stage presence,
when you get sucked through the engine;
etc. They are indeed quibbles. I think I
and George Herbert Walker Bush--"He's
speak for the entire audience Friday night
the President of the United States, and he
when I say that these three can come
eats pork rinds." Richard plunked the
bact anytime they want, to do anything
piano and she started in on "Empty Bed
they want
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a while she abandoned the lyrics and led
Andrew Hamlin is a tlUrd year studelll
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at Evergreen. He'd liU 10 know why the
Out went the lights, and when they
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when (according to a letter published in
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thing going. Well, yah, I can see Seattle.
Atlanta. Austin is still happening a little
bit but it's not quite as hot as it was.

CPJ: There are a lot of women
perfonners out there like Tracy Chapman.
Sinead O'Connor, Michelle Shocked, and
even bigger ones like Madonna. You
have a man (James McMurtry) opening
for you. That's a good thing -- a switch.

RAY: Yah. it works better that way
actually. Well, we really never pay much
attention to that stuff. Well, we have
another lOur coming up where a woman.
a girl. woman. whatever, a friend of ours
is opening up who isn't signed. She's
gonna' open up on our tour in January.
It really depends on what's happening. I
mean we don't Icriow James McMurtry.
We like his music but normally but
whoever opens for us is someone that we
know. They've called us or our manager
and we have connections. It's regardless
of male or female kind of, although it
tends to work better if it's a male, I'll
say that. There's a difference--vocally
there's maybe a little difference in what's
going on. But James was someb04y that
our agency hooked us up with because he
needed the gig and I'm
really happy about it because we
wouldn't have known 10 ask him to do it,
you know. It's kind of cool because we
get to meet somebody new. But that was
something that was arranged... I thought
he was bigger than he is, I guess. I was
suprised that he'd be opening for us.
CPJ: How about the E~ tour'? You
in
and ot1K:r phices--foreign
speaking countries. When all the words
are in a different language. does the
message still get across?

were Berlin

RAY: I don't know if it does or nOl It's
hard to know. There's the language
barrier. Also, we were opening for bands.
We were opening for 10,000 Maniacs, a
band called The Saints, and Rory Black.
It's hard to know because of that and
because of the language barrier if you're
getting through. It seemed like we
were. In a lot of the Scandanavian
countries, we do really well because they
speak a lot of English up there. Germany .
was a little bit harder than all the other
countries to get through and I think a lot
of it has to do with the fact that the
people are very preoccupied with what's
going on. I don't know how much they
want to hear songs about personal politics
when basically it's like there world is
either falling apart or it's coming together
and they don't know which one it is, you
know. So I'm not so sure how well we
went over there but we feit good about
it People embraced us- to a certain
extent.
CPJ: What do you think of the situation
in Europe now?
RAY: I think that it was a very political
move to bring the wall down because
they wanted to take some of the air out
of the refonners' baloons'and son of
make it look like they were gonna' be

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reforming when what it really did was.
you take the wall down and everybody
leaves from the east There's no one
there to build the country up and it sort
of makes people falsely think that
everything is better instantly. The real
truth is everyone over there is very
concerned with problems with fascists
who want to unify Germany and with
problems with East Germany that has lost
its work force -- whether or not people
will be willing 10 stay in East Germany
.. - and how many people will be willing
10
come
to
the
protests
and
demonstrations to reform East Germany.
It's a big deal.
I mean, now this thing has
happened and it's up 10 the people 10
take it and make it something positive for
everybody. It's very hard to do when
everybody automatically thinks it's
positive. I mean, people think. "Okay. it's
d9ne. I'll go shopping in the west," and
it's hard for them to think past that
because they've been oppressed for so
long. It's a really confusing situation I
mean we must have talked to like dozens
of people and everyone had a different
perspective on it Basically. America's
son of in the dark about the whole thing
because like I see some of the news and
it's not as accurate as you would think it
would be.
CPJ: You have songs like. "Hey Jesus."
and "Secure Yourself," (10 Heaven). What
are your religious beliefs?
RAY: We were brought up Methodist I
was a religion major and Emily's dad is
a Methodist minister and a theology
profe~r. But we don't consider our
songs geared toward Christianity. We
consider them geared toward a spirituality
that no matter what faith you have, you
can relate to them. We don't want 10
alienate anybody because we don't
believe in seeing specifically through one
faith.
So it plays a big part in our
personal lives and it plays a big part in
our music but not in a way that some of
the Christians would want it to play.
CPJ: Campus police want to carry guns
and, of course. students do and don't
disagree with them. They've never had
them. What do you think of Evergreen
security carrying guns?
RAY: Well. I believe in very strict gun
control laws. I don't think that guns are
necessary for campus police. I really
don't. At the college I went to. things
like that happened and I'm not sure if it
would have made any difference if the
campus police had a gun or not But
when something like that happens,
though. the police force in the city itself
should probably be involved in some way
for protection. But I'm a pacifISt and I'm
very against guns. People try 10 change
my mind and I just don't think guns are
a very good idea.
CP]: Okay. how long do you think you'lI
be around? When will you have your
farewell tour?
RAY : Oh. God. Uh.
predict,
um .... (Long pause). 15 years. I don't
think we could be playing much more
than that. Not at this pace.

Erich Shuler is an Evergreen srudenr.

CORRECTION
The Nomeansno show has been moved to
the V.F.W. Hall on 2902 Martin Way .
Show up anyway. It takes place January
26. 1990. 8 pm.

TIckets $7,00

ENDS THIS WEEK
~oumal

CPJ: The big music areas have changed.
There was Georgia and especially Athens,
then it went to Austin, and now there's
Seattle.
RAY: Yah. Atlanta's a pretty hot place
right now. There's about five people that
just got signed which is a real good
amount for a relatively small city. But I
haven't heard anything about Seattle but
then Seattle's on the other side of the

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CPJ: Who were your influences musically
and non-musically?

COUNSELING & THERAPY
BARBARA J. MONDA M.S., M.A.

Isn't it time you
got together?
So, before you fold
another sock get on
down to the

RAY: No, uh, Emily worked for a long
time until '87 for a travel agency ... She's
had a lot of jobs. I can't remember them
all. I worked at, uh. Pizza Hut The job
I worked at the longest was at a place
called, "Georgia Record Pressing; and I
pressed records and loaded boxes-very
blue collar. But it was a good job
because I ended up pressing our own
record."

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CPJ: You're dressed like waitresses in
the picture. Is that one of your old jobs?

RAY: Emily arid I are both influenced by
literature as much as we are by music.
CPJ: You two are doing very well. Why Emily would mention her family as a
major influence but both of us read a lot
do you want to do what you're doing?
of Southern literature -- Faulkner,
O'Connor,
Anne
Tyler.
RAY: Well, I'm obsessed with it so I'm Flannery.
obsessed with music. I'm not sure what Musically, she's influenced by Joni
Mitchell. I mean that's pretty much her
it is exactly that I need except to sing.
idol. I would say, and her inspiration. I
It's more like something is son of going
like her too but I wouldn't consider her
through me -- like channeling type stuff.
I mean. I really don't believe that I'm an influence. I would consider Bob Dylan
I like
100% responsible for everything myself probably more of one.
underground bands, you know--college
so it's more like a gift and it's just a
type underground bands like The
matter of using it responsibly and Emily
feels pretty much the same way ... She's Replacements, Husker Du, The Pixies.
talented in literature as well as music so Those are the bands that really inspire
me. And both of us were heavily
she"had to ~~ what to pursue. I only
Iuiv~f''dti$... l o'lt~ 'lii.fr'sO;~: i1S~ 'haef' more ' influenced by the Atlanta scene -- the
~6'it\ s~')2b1jt~ 1i8%''80ncf so '!"tbirit . mUsiciaJis diai 'a re 'like ten years older
than us. They sort of helped us get a
it took her 'little longer but we both
start and they aren't signed and they
feel a son of sacredness and magic about
probably won't ever be signed. They're
what it is that we do -- not giving
either breaking off into new areas or
ourselves credit for it but j~ recognizing
that it is that way. I mean it would be giving it up. I hope they'll get signed but
the chances are really slim because I
stupid to deny it
guess once you get like a certain age it's
like the record companies don't look at
CPJ: On the inside sleeve of "Strange
you.
Fire," you're in a bar with people who I
guess are friends and relatives?
CPJ: Well, how old are you two?
RAY: Yah, that's actually the bar that we
RAY: We're 2S, uh, Emily's 26, I'm 25
played at for three years, It's called, "The
and I think that's...yah, wait, am I 25?
Little Five Points Pub." It's a really great
place. It's still going real strong. It's These people are like 35, 36. Although
where a lot of original bands play in
there are some country singers that got
Atlanta .. Usually, if you want to play.
picked up when they were forty so we're
. ._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. . . hoping there's a chance for the others
but ..

Saf. Place

THE PROCRASTINATOR

yOU just ask them and they'll let you
play a couple songs. And those people in
the picture are like, me and Emily's
families, managers of the pub, waiters
and waitresses, and the people in the
back are musicians.

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OLYMPIA. WASHINGTON 98502

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 25

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31

Kate Harkins reads her poetry as pan
of the Four Seasons Thursday Night
Speaker series. The bookstore is located
at 421 S. Water Street The 7:30 PM
presentation is free.

Free Consumer Education Seminar,
Find out everything you need to know to
pay for
your college education.
Sponsored by the Washington State
Employees Credit Union, 1:30 - 3:30 PM,
TESC, Library 1612. To reserve a seat
call 943-7911.

Into the Snow Zone
Olympic Outfitters
The Washington Center, $7.50, 6:30 and
8:30 PM.
A breastfeeding class will be offered for
expectant and new mothers at St. Peter
Hospital. 7 - 9:30 PM, $10 per family.
Call 456-7587 for more information.
Self-Worth in Children and Parents, an
educational program for parents, will
show at I :30 PM on KCTS/channel 9
and at 9:00 PM on Cablearrn channel 27.

An internship orientation for Spring
Quaner 1990 will be held in L-1406.
For more information on other dates
contact Co-op Ed at X6391.
Pianist and Composer John Aikins will
perform, noon - 1:30 PM, student center,
SPSCC. Free.

FRIDA y, JANUARY 26
TESC swimming and diving team vs.
Simon Frasier, 3:30 PM. Call X6530 for
more information.

ACT season subscriptions, from $42.50
to $ 107, are still available. Call 2855110 for more infonnation.

I-lear that Snake Moan, a rap & funk
dance party to benefit the 89-90 album
project will start at 8 PM, Lib. 4300.
S2 at the door.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27
The Composers. A stunning array of
original works will be presented as a
uibutc to Dr. Martin Luther King by
Evergreen's performing arts faculty and
staff.
8 PM, Experimental Theatre,
TESC. $6 general, $4 students and
seniors.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 28
The Centrum Chamber Players will
play at University Center, PLU. Free to
PLU students and staff, $10 general, $5
students.
Call 535-7143 for more
information.

MONDAY, JANUARY 29
Deadline for the next Olympia Fellowship
of Reconciliation newsletter. Send your
calendar items and announcements by
today. 491-9093.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 30
The Sabella Consort will appear at
8 PM in the Student Center, SPSCC.
$3 general, $2 students and seniors.
Michael Sonnleitner explains Gandhian
nonviolence, 7:00 PM in Library 3500 at
TESC. Call Josh at 866-0804 or Glen at
491-9093 for more information.
Benefit concert for Safeplace Children's
Services At the Washington Center,
international recording artist Joseph Lee
Wood. MTV video filming at concen.
Tickets $7.00.
The Olympia Old Growtb/Rain Forest
Group will sponsor the film "Rage over
Trees," shown at 7 PM at TESC, Lecture
Hall 5. Free. Call 866-6000, ext. 6784
for more information.
Out of Order, a film by Jonnie Turpie,
will show at the Contemporary Arts
Center in Seattle at 7:30 and 10 PM.
$5/$3 members, call 682-6552 for more
information.

Applkations are now being accepted
from professional artists interested in
participating in the Washington State Arts
Commission's Artist in Residence
Program for 1990-91. Applications from
sites wishing to sponsor residencies are
also being accepted. Artist applications
are due March 9, 1990, sponsor
applications are due March 23, 1990. Call
753-3861 for more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Looking for an with AlDS/HIV issues
for an exhibit at TESC. Call Amy Harris,
X6200.

Jan Harris will give a slide show on his
climb of Mt. Ohmi Kangr, 7:30 PM, $3 S2. TESC.

The Olympia Parks and Recreation
Department Advisory Commiuee is
currently soliciting ideas for the 1991 1995 Capitol Improvement Program. If
you have an idea for a parks project, call
753-8380.

Volunteers needed for TESC's annual
Asian Tribute. Call 866-6000 X6190 for
more information.
Applications are being accepted for
summer lifeguard positions at several
National Park Service sites in the eastern
U.S . For an application and information,
call 1-800 NP 8 SWIM.

The
Evergreen
Natural
History
Journal, Evergreen's only natural history
magazine, needs student contributions.
Submit neatly typed, double spaced
natural history and environmental essays,
original
scientific
research,
and
reproducible artwork. All submissions
must be anonymous. Put name, address,
phone number, and title(s) on a separate
cover sheet.
For a complete list of
submission requirements, stop by Lib.
3311. Submit work to Lib. 3311 before
Fcb. 16, 1990.

News Release
March 13th is the date for this year's
Democratic Precinct Caucuses.
The
Precinct Caucuses are the beginning of
the 1990 Caucus/Convention Cycle for
Democratic
voters
from
around
Washington State. The Caucuses will
begin at 8 p.m. that night to elect
delegates and discuss local, state and
national issues.
The precinct caucuses are open to
anyone who is a resident, registered voter
and considers him/herselves a Democrat.
The caucus is the Democratic Voter's
chance to meet with friends and
neighbors to discuss issues and begin the
formulation of the parties 1990 Platform.
The Delegates elected at the Precinct
Caucuses will attend the County
Convention and Legislative District
Caucus.
The Legislative District Caucuses will
be held on April 21st and the County
Conventions will be held prior to April
30th. Delegates and alternates to the Stale
Convention will be elected at either the
county convention or the Legislative
caucuses.
.The Washington State Democratic
Convention will be held in Spokane at
the Convention- Center on June 9, 1990.
State Democratic Chair Karen
Marchioro
encourages
Democrats
everywhere to become involved in what
promises to be a very exciting and
important election year, and stan by
attcnding their Precinct Caucus on March
13.
For additional information on the
caucus/convention
cycle
the State
Democratic office at (206) 583-0664.

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