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THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
October 24, 1985
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Today, October 24
UNICEF'sSkip-a-meal: October 24 through 31 is UNICEF'S Skip-a-meal week. Support UNICEF as it targets child survival in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. They
ask that citizens skip a meal and send the money it would have cost to UNICEF. Skip-a-meal and the traditional National UNICEF Day (Halloween) collection are
compatible and will enhance each other. National UNICEF Day funds are earmarked for immunization of children worldwide; Skip-a-meal donations will be used
for Child Survival measures in developing countries. These include oral rehydration therapy and the provision of safe drinking water. Both allow UNICEF to provide
desperately needed services efficiently and effectively. Skip-a-meal donations should be sent to Northwest Committee for UNICEF, PO Box 33788, Seattle, WA 98133 .
For more information contact Sheila Payne at 352-2153.
Friday, Octo ber 25
An Evening of Vocal Jazz with The Chromatic Connection and Jan Stentz at 8:00 in the Recital Hall. This will be an evening to delight the eye as well as the ear
with this Olympian based quartet and the nationally acclaimed Jan Stentz . Admission is $6.00 general; students and seniors, $4.00.
Energy Outreach Center Open House celebrating their fifth anniversary from 4:00 to 8:00 at the center at 1620 E. 4th. The public is invited.
GRE practice testing from 8 to 12 in CAB 108. LSAT practice testing from I to 5 in CAB 108. Register by calling the office of Career Development, x6193.
Resume Writing Workshop from noon until one, LIB1213. Bring your lunch .
Heliotroupe plays at the 4th Ave. Tav.
Saturday, October 26
Lost Horizon Hill Run begins at 11 :00 a.m . For more information, contact the CRe.
Monday, October 28
Janet Campbell Hale, the Native American author of The Sailing oj Cecelia Capture, will speak from 3 to 5 in LlB4300.
The Peace Corp will have an information booth located in the CAB building from 9 to 4 on both Monday and Tuesday. They will also be holding a seminar, including
the film "The toughest Job You ' ll ever Love," on Tuesday at 4 in LlB2205. Interviews with the Peace Cops will be held on November 6; those interested should sign
up in the Career Development Office.
Creative Stress Management Workshop begins and will meet on Mondays from 3:30 to 5:00. Barbara Gibson and Paul Gallegos will help identify individual stressors
and coping methods, and finding creative ways to deal with frustration, conflict, disappointment, and the time crunch.
Jazz Dance Aerobics Program begins Monday and Tuesday at the Olympia YMCA. The 8-week program will apply physical training and ca rdio vascular conditioning
that increase flexibility, muscle tone, strength, and stamina. Enrollment is limited. Call Donna at 357-6609.
Women's Issues Workshop: A Time for Discovery. Shary Smith and Kathy O' Brien will co-lead a group for women from 1-3 on Tuesdays. This group 'will offer a
sa fe environment to develop trust and rapport, thus allowing members to share themselves with other participants and to give support to other members. Register
at the Counseling Center, x6800.
Beyond Fat or Thin: This weekly workshop will help women gain awareness of the emotional conflicts that underlie our compulsive eating habits and to learn healthy
methods for living harmoniously in our bodies. The goal is to reduce our obsessions and compulsions with food and to find healthy and peaceful ways to eat. 3:00
to 5:00 in the counseling center. Register by calling x6800.
Wednesday, October 30
YWCA Women's Breakfast Kay Boyd, president of th e Thurston County Economic Development Council, will be the guest speaker at 7:00 a.m . in the YWCA Friendship Hall , 220 Union Ave . S.E . Her topic is "Social Costs of Unemployment and What Happeris When You Don ' t Have a Job ." Cost is $3.00. Reservations are required. Call 352-0593 for more information .
Going gets tough for some at Heritage Park
by Cynthia M. Sherwood
Daniel Hansen, Lee Smith and
Larissa Wilhelmi applied for
Evergreen Housing after July I,
1985 and due to unexpected housing
demands this year, these students
and 61 others found themselves
relocated in apartments across town.
The 580 beds in student housing
were already filled. Housing officials
decided to lease space in Heritage
Park Apartments, near Thurston
County Courthouse, according to
Jeannie Chandler,
Housing
Director.
.. Based on historical data we continued to accept applications, and by
mid-July we realized we had a higher
retention rate and also more applications than we ever had," stated
Chandler.
She said the housing staff attempted to solve their problems by placing a fifth student in every mod and
a third student in one-half of the two
person studios, but this was not
enough.
Greg Williamson, the OffCampus Housing Coordinator, was
given the project last July to locate
adequate housing for the existing 75
students on waiting lists . Chandler
sa id. After scanning several of
Greg's references, the Housing
Committee decided to lease the
Heritage Park Apartments, she said,
then added, "Their policy dovetailed our existing housing policy ."
Students were then given the option to cancel their contracts without
penalty before September I, 1985
because housing could not provide
them with on-campus housing. A
small percentage of these students
did give up their contracts and chose
to find their own housing facilities,
Chandler said.
.. Distance is the greatest problem," she said, "We told the
stude nt~ that we would provide a van
shuttle or some kind of shuttle
Van service to Heritage has caused some controversy.
service. "
According to the students involved, this information was told to
them without any mention of cost.
This is now creating serious conflict
between Housing and the student
residents of Heritage Park Apartments . The students want to know
who is responsible for the cost of the
shuttle.
"We definitely should have been
forewarned," said Maria Van
Newkirk . Student residents concurred they were not warned about the
intended costs of transportation~
"Students assumed it was free
transportation," said Tory Babit!,
student van driver.
Heritage resident Val Grey said
prior to the starting of Fall quarter,
the van was made available to these
students at no charge and with no
notice as to future cost being
established. Many of the students
said they felt that housing should
pick up the cost for the van transportation due to the inconveniences they
have had to deal with in terms of
poor location .
"Housing
definitely
did
everything they could to mislead
people," said Lee Smith, one of the
many residents who must rely solelyon the vans for access to and from
sc hool.
Chandler sa id she is unsure about
whether students were warned of
possible transportation costs.
For many students, the van situation is more than just a problem of
cost, it is a problem of availability.
"Most of us don't participate in activities at night because there isn't
available transportation," said
Newkirk.
The students said they see that not
only is their social life inhibited, but
they also foresee academic problems. Rod Van Emelen, the Student Manager at Heritage said,
"Academically, life might require a
little more foresight."
Students said campus facilities
that should be easily accessible to all
housing students are not made
available to these students.
Chandler r.evealed the adjustments
Housing has made in the van
scheduling to best accommodate the
students , yet many students said they
st ill felt that their needs are not being satisfied due to the large lags of
time between van runs.
Although many students said they
felt cheated by this transportation
sit uation , very few said they would
prefer to live in the dorms. "I enjoy
staying off campus. It's cheap, and
I wouldn't mind staying here," said
Hansen.
Students who are debating the
issue said they find that they are unwilling to give up their extra spacious
rooms or the recreational facilities
avai lable to them at Heritage. Van
Emelen estimated that approximately 10 percent of the students will
transfer to campus as housing
becomes available. Many of them
said they are bitter about the cost
and inconveniences of the van situation, but as student Claire Jacobsen
said, "It's something I can live
with. "
Whether or not these students relyon transportation provided by
Housing, all expressed a feeling of
isolation. "Somet imes I don 't really feel lik e I go to Evergreen." co mmented Van Newkirk .
The students said they mu~ t stick
t.ogethcr if they are to survive among
the other estab li shed resid ent s.
Chandler said she views the s lUdent ~ '
situation at Heritage as "a little community within a larger community ."
The Housing office is committed
to including these student; in a ll a~
tivities, she said, but as Van Emelen
noted, "It is more of an effort for
us to do things."
Van Emclen sa id he doesn ' t see
the "Housing umbrell~. " as havin g
the ability to cover the distance to
the Heritage Park 'Apartments and
still remain effective.
Van Emelen explained that even
though on-campus security is a part
of Housing, the distance from th e
campus to Heritage is too great for
secur ity to effectively provide services, which has resulted in a number
of official police vis its due to
unresolved noise conflicts between
estab li shed residents and student
residents.
When residents were questioned
about the noi se problem, one said
"It sounds like a herd of elephants."
Van Emelen said managers Marvin
and Sue Anderson notified him that
several established residents had
vacated the Apartment s due to th e
excess ive noise made by students.
Students feel that their personal
friends are not welcome ther e and
they strongly recommend to anyo ne
who is planning to visit at the apartments that they park in areas other
than the immediate vicinity; because ,
they say, excessive towing has been
known to occur.
"Only the resident s who ha ve
registered their vehicles are allowed
to park in the parking lot," Ander. son sa id, "There are signs all over
the place, and we are going to tow
them right out."
Graduate School Options in Psychology, Counseling, and Social Work: a workshop being offered by Career Development. Faculty from Puget Sound Colleges and
universities will be present to discuss individual programs and answer questions. The workshop will be from 3 to 5 in LlB2205.
Last Day to Sign up for Raquetball Tournament: Beginning and Intermediate . Sign up at the CRC; cost is fifty cents.
EF student set world record in Zurich race
Future Events
by Dennis Held and John Kaiser
with translator Nicole-Renee La
Follette
A st udent.in the EF program, studying at Evergreen since Sept. 23,
was recently notified that he is the
new junior world record holder in
the 800 meter run .
Ali Laidoun, 18, a native of
Morocco and resident of France,
received word on Wednesday, Oct.
26 that the results of a competition
in Zurich this July were considered
official.
Running in the 1000 meter event,
Laidoun passed the 800 mark in
one minute, 44.97 seconds, setting a
new record for the under-19 division. The old record belonged to
Brazil's Olympic 800 meter champion Joachim Cruz.
Problems with an electronic stopwatch and the fact that the time was
recorded in mid-race delayed the
IAAF decision, Laidoun said, speaking through an interpreter.
He is here for five weeks of rest
with "light running" after a
strenuous track season in Europe.
Laidoun, born in Casablanca,
moved to France at age four. He
soon started running 6 miles back
and forth from school each day.
This proved to be enough to win the
junior crQ~ country titles Bf both _
Deiilre McCalla to..perform Noyember 2) Feminist singer /songwriter McCalla will perform at 8:00 in the Recital Hall for $4 to $6 dollars. No one will be turned away
for lack of money . Known for the rhythmic undercurrents of her music and the poetic integrity of her lyrics, McCalla creates vocal textures which glide easily from
"mocha-rich" sweetness to high-energy dramatic intensity. An inspiring, evocative performer, she has both delighted and deeply touched her audiences . Opening for
the show will be local favorite Sam Weiss , whose 12-string guitar stylings will be complemented by her new band, accompanying with bass and percussion. The performance is sponsored by Tides of Change, in conjunction with Third World Women, UJAMAA and TESC.
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Gianna Rolandi to make Seattle Operal Debut as Lucia di Lammermoor: Gold cast performances of Gaetano Donizetti's opera are 7:30 on November 2, 6, and 9.
Tickets are priced from $16 to $44. Silver cast performances are on November 3 at 2:00 and November 8 at 7:30. Tickets are $8 to $20. All performances will take
place in the Seattle Opera House, 443-4711. To promote the opera, author William Ashbrook will give a musically-illustrated lecture on Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor on Saturday, November 2, at 11:00 a.m. in the Opera I Room in the Opera House . Admission is $ 10.00. Also, there will be a preview featuring soprano Diana
Walker and tenor Peter Kazaras at the Rainier Square Atrium on Wednesday, October 30, at noon.
Basic Self-Defense for Women will be offered November 5 to 26, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 6:30 to 8:30 at First Christian Church's large hall on Tuesdays
and First United Methodist Church's Great Hall on Thursdays. Classes cover a full range of self defense options from assertiveness to mental conditioning to strategizing
to physical skills. All women are welcome . Call Debbie, 866-0488, for more information or to register. The class will be taught by FIST (Feminists In Self-Defense
Training), an all volunteer women's organization teaching women self defense for the past six years in Olympia. 866-0488.
Artists and Craftspeople Invited to Evergreen Bazaar: The organi zers of the second annual" Holly Daze" arts and crafts fair at TESC are seeking artists, musicians ,
and craftspeople who would like to participate in the Saturday, December 7, event. A booth can be reseved for the event for $25 for co,nmunity members and $10
for Greeners. Reservations will be taken through Friday, November 8. "Holly Daze" is being sponsored by the CRC as a fund raiser for the college athletic program .
Up to 50 booths wll be allowed at the fair , which will be located in the mall of the CAB. The fair will run from 10 to 6. Call x6530 .
Olympia YWCA Garage sale and Christmas Bazaar, Saturday, November 30, 9:00 to 4:00 at the YWCA. Begin now saving dishes, fl)rniture, appliances, games, toys ,
books, sheets and towels, household equipment, jewelry, TV's, etc. All donat ions are tax deductible (receipt available). Donations may be brought to the YWCA,
220 Union Ave S.E., between 9 and 5. 352-0593.
Cannen is at the State Theater through November 24.
Etcetera
Gay Men's Rap Group is being continued this quarter by the Lesbian/Gay Resource Center. The meetings are every Thursday !light from 7 to 9 in LlB3223, x654;4.
Britain and Morocco. Englishmen
ing his stay at Evergreen. "Here, I
Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett
live right above someone who plays
dominated in the early 80's, and late- an electric guitar."
ly Steve Cram has surged to hold
Laidoun will remain in North
world records in the mile and 1500
America until next March. He will
meters.
be training in Eugene, Oregon with
But Aouita broke Cram's 1500 the Moroccan national team in San
record with a time of 3:29 a year
after winning Olympic gold in the
5000. Laidoun will soon be joining
the action if he runs up to his predictions of a 3:26 in the 1500 and a 1:40
in the 800 by the Seoul Olympics in
1988. "I want to be the Olympic
champion in the 800 and 1500 meters
at Seoul and win the gold in the 5000
and 10,000 in '92." A picture of all
three Britons hangs in his room, a
constant reminder of the ensuing
drama.
Laidoun appreciated the relaxed
atmosphere of Evergreen compared
to French universities, where formal
tradition plays a far greater role. "I
like it here at Evergreen, but the
track is not very good, and it is hard
to run in the rain," he said.
Laidoun will leave Evergreen for
San Diego on November 2, where he
plans to continue taking classes with
the EF program. He will be living in
a villa provided to the Moroccan
team by the prince.
") think I wiD like that," said LaiDorm resident Ali Luidoun has set a
doun, who is living in A donn dur- .
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Lesbian Rap and Support Group meets on Tuesdays from 7 to 9 in LIB3223, x6544. This is an ongoing event throughout the academic year.
a new DirKtor of Compute Services will be hired soon by a DTF. Students, faculty , and staff are encouraged to invite qualified candidates whom they know to submit
applications before November 8. Members of the Evergreen community are urged to contribute to the hiring process during this next month by attending interviews
~ nd su bmitting comments regarding applicants .
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France and Morocco.
After earning a bachelor's degree
in math from secondary school, Laidoun eventually plans to study law
at a French university. Now Laidoun
is gearing up for the '88 Olympic
games in Seoul, South Korea. He
represented Morocco during the
1984 games in Los Angeles, placing
sixth in the 1500 meter run.
Laidoun has been turning out with
the cross-country team accompanying the geoducks to the last two
meets. Much to the disappointment
of the team he was unable to race
due to eligibility rules.
Laidoun follows a systematic plan
encompassing the latest training
techniques, sports medicine and diet
research. His blood is tested every
three months to monitor his diet and
to make necessary adjustments. He
arranged to have his meals specially
prepared according to specifications
at SAGA foods.
He comes from what must be considered one of the greatest athletic
families of our time. His cousin,
Said Aouita, set world records last
summer in the 1500 and 5000 meters,
while elder sister Zina Garrison has
moved close to the top of professional tennis.
Perhaps the most fierce rivalry in
international track is between Great
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Diego under coach Rene Ratinaud .
Then he will train with Joachin Cruz
under Cruz's coach, Luis de Olivera.
Laidoun will race in the Milrose
games in New York durin g
December and next July at the world
championships in Rome.
pholo by Dave Peltrson
world record in the BOO meter.
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news
Evergreen social contract carelessly violated'
by
Joseph
G.
Follansbee
Despite the Evergreen Social Contrac t. classes have been scheduled to
meet on Wednesdays, governance
day.
"The official policy is we don't
teach after 10 :3 0 a.m. on
Wednesdays, "said John Perkns,
Academic Dean who must approve
most requests for scheduling class on
Wednesdays.
According to Patti Zimmerman of
Faci lities, five programs and parttime courses, sometimes called
modules, were scheduled to meet on
Wednesdays during Fall Quarter.
Under the document titled Gover-
nance and Decision Making at
Evergreen, part of the Washington
Administrative Code, Wednesdays
are se t aside as governa nce days,
days for faculty and student
preparation, research , consultation,
and "all general governance. No
classes, or labs, shall be held on
Wednesdays prior to 5 p.m." it says.
The document goes on to say that
Academic Deans may approve temporary scheduling of daytime classes
on Wednesdays.
When asked to define the term
temporary in terms of frequency of
class scheduling, John Perkins said,
"One or no more than two times a
quarter. If it goes beyond that it
doesn't sound terribly temporary."
According to Perkins, faculty
make scheduling requests to Patti
Zimmerman, and if a request falls
on Wednesday, that request is referred to him for approval. "If there's
no space question involved, I don't
have a particularly good mechanism,
other than moral suasion to persuade them to schedule on another
day.
"One of the features of Evergreen
is we give the faculty a great deal of '
autonomy so thay can run their program to fit the needs of the program.
Faculty take advantage of that
autonomy, as they should, and
sometimes the advantage goes a littIe too far," he said.
Perkins sa id Academic Deans
have the power to order a faculty
member to reschedule their classes
on another day. However, they are
reluctant to use that power. "That's
not the most effective way to run an
organization," he said.
Perkins noted that a smaU minority of faculty do not particularly care
about governance, from a student
point of view or a faculty point of
view. However, they reflect a dedication to subject matter rather than a
bad attitude about governance. "It's
a matter of principle that they are
not going to give up a day of
teaching for a bunch of what in their
eyes are meetings that aren't particularly productive," he said.
Perkins went on to say that' 'most
faculty take governance quite
seriously and they lend a hand in
various committees. The vast majority want students involved in
governance."
According to Patti Zimmerman,
the five programs and modules
scheduled for Wednesday, October
23, were Spanish Forms in Life and
Art, Human Heallh and Behavior,
Natural Resource Economics,
Ecological Agriculture,and Japanese
Language.
Nancy Allen, faculty for Spanish
Forms in Life and Art, explained
that she needed Mondays as a
preparation day for lectures .
Because her program involves intense language study, she required
four class days. Since Monday is a
preparation day, the other four
weekdays became class days. She
said she has received no complaints
from students regarding class
scheduling on Wednesdays .
"I f there were a student who
wanted to be every Wednesday in a
particular meeting that was scheduled for the exact hours that they were
supposed to be in my class, that
means they would miss 25 percent of
class time automatically. That would
be a problem. If that happened, I
would consider changing the class
hours next quarter and I would also
help the student make up the class,"
she said.
Allen considered her problem a
question of priorities. Students are
here first for coursework and then
for governance. "The primary purpose of this place is for the students
to be studying," she said.
Allen said her scheduling of class
on Wednesdays does not reflect her
attitude about governance. "This
school right now very much needs
people to be involved in saying ho'w
they want things to be because we're
at a point where we might be changing direction. It's really important
everybody be involved in that process, especially this year ," she said.
Amanda Goldberg, coordinator
for the Peace and Conflict Resolu-
tion Center, who also serves as a student representative of the Governance Disappearing Task Force,
described the problem of class
scheduling on Wednesdays as a
symptom of a bigger problem.
"John Perkins would not need to
use his power if governance day were
accepted for what it was meant to
be. In reality, governance at the moment is not seen as an important
community-wide issue," she said.
According to Goldberg, students
are the most disenfranchised group
on campus. "There needs to be a
time and place for information sharing because that's the biggest problem on this campus. Information is
just not available or accessable.
That's the purpose of governance
day," she said.
She said that governance day has
not been enforced in the past,
though the problem has improved
since last year.
"Some faculty couldn't care less,
some students couldn't care less,
some administrators and staff
couldn't care less. But some do, and
as long as one student, faculty
member, administrator, or staff
member is interested, they should be
accomodated," said Goldberg.
Guatemalan national elections drawing near
by F.W. Fatseas
Northern Regions An "Armed
Camp":
Today, as Guatemala celebrates
the 41st anniversary of the overthrow of the dictatorship of Jorge
Ubico, the nation looks forward
hopefully to a new era of constitutional government as the longawaited national elections draw
near.
As election day approaches (it is
scheduled for Nov . 3) political activity here is reaching fever pitch . The
airwaves are saturated with political
messages from the eight presidential
candidates, replete with inspirational
music and images of peace and
harmony.
Candidates are falling over one
another to identify themselves with
the 1944 revolution. Not surprisingIy, there is never any mention of the
1955
U.S.-backed
counterrevolution that replaced the popularly supported Arbenz-Arevalo
government with 30 more years of
mililary dictatorship.
Typical of the campaign rhetoric
is a television spot for "centrist"
Jorge Carpio, which ends with the
reassuring image of a wide-eyed
chi ld releasing a dove. Carpio's
slogan is "Peace-Work-Liberty. "
There is no doubt that the majority of Guatemalans arc accustomed
to work.
With two weeks remaining until
e lection day, the major population
centers remain calm, but the nort hern
districts of Quiche,
Huehuetenango, Alta Verapaz, and
Peten are armed camps.
Upon entering the country, this
reporter had a U.S. Army surplus
canteen con fiscated by border
guards--no "military equipment."
may be in the possession of civilians .
Our bus was stopped several times
between the northern border and the
capital
by
heavily
armed
detachments of soldiers and National Police units, and all
passengers were forced to leave the
bus while baggage was searched for
weapons.
Violence Flares As Election Nears:
It is indeed possible that guerilla
forces, viewing the scheduled elections as a "sham" put on by the
powerful military regime here, may
attempt to disrupt the electoral process. An even more unsettling
possibility, however, and one which
has been rumoured about here, is
that the military government may
use the possibility of increased
violence to once again postpone the
elections, leading to a renewed cycle of fighting.
Get your shots
by Joseph G. Foll ansbee
All persons born between [958
and 1967 should be re-immunized
for measles, mumps, and rubella, according to Wen- Yee Shaw, a Health
Care Specialist at the Health Center.
The injections are sponsored by
the U.S. Public Health Service and
are free of charge. The shots are
available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, a t the Health Center in SEM
2110.
Shaw explained that when measles
vacc ine was first developed, it was
thought to provide lifetime protection against the disease. In the 70's,
measles outbreaks occurred and the
vacc ine was discovered to have only
a ,hort lifespan. Those people born
between 1958 and 1967 arc now
susceptible to measles and should be
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re-immunized.
Shaw said there have been no
reported outbreaks of measles on
this campus, but if there were, the
U .S. Public Health Service could require immunization of all the community or close the campus.
"If an outbreak occurred and-we
knew you had not been immunized,
we would contact you and tell you
not to come to campus for your own
sa fety . If you come . down with
measles, you could become sterile,
experie nce hearing loss, or su ffer
ot her major complications including
encephalitis," she said.
When asked if someone might
need more measles shots in the coming years, Shaw said, "We don't
know, but it's believed we may have
to be re-immunized for measles
every 10 years or so, likc tetanus . "
The most recent major clash between government troops and guerilla
forces here occurred on Friday, Oct.
18, in the Quiche district. According
to a government statement issued
Saturday, the confrontation resulted
in the deaths of eight government
troops and ro guerillas.
Among the guerillas killed, the
government said, were three women;
one of whom, identified only as
"Patricia," was said to be the commander of the guerilla troops . (The
government report stated that an attempt was made to save the life of
commandant "Patricia," but due to
the "rough terrain" it was
impossible.
Seven wounded government
troops, however, were evacuated to
a hospital in the region . It was not
explained why "rough terrain" did
not prevent evacuation of I.he
government troops .)
Can The Violence Be Stopped?
The major issue to be addressed
here is whether the drastic social and
economic changes necessary to end
the violence in this nation can indeed
be accomplished by any of the
candidates.
It was the attempts by the ArbenzArevalo government to institute such
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sweeping changes in land ownership
and labor rights here which led to the
U .S .-backed military coup in 1955.
Without such changes, the insurgency in the countryside is bound to
continue.
And if such real social change is
undertaken by Guatemala's next
president, will the reins of government be snatched away once again
by the Generales, and will
Guatemala find itself, once more,
under the heel of the military boot?
WHO ARE THE CANDIDATES?
The front runners:
Jorge Carpio-A self-proclaimed
"centrist", Carpio is probably the
front-runner of the eight major candidates. Publisher of "EI Grafico",
one of Guatemala's two major
newspapers, Carpio's UCN party
slogan is "Peace, Work, Liberty."
His smiling, thumbs-up image is ubiquitous here.
Vinicio Cerezo--In many circles,
the presidential race here is being
billed as the center vs. the left, Carpio vs. Cerezo. Christian Democrat
Cerezo is a 42-year-old lawyer.
could be clasified as "right-wing".
They are Mario Sandoval Alarzon
(National Liberation Movement), a
leading
"anti-communist"
spokesman; Lionel Signega Otera
(Anti-communist Unification Party).
The name of the party speaks for
itself. Mario David Garcia (Cenlrai
Authentic Nationalist Part}~;
Aleiandro Maldonado (National
Renovation Party); Jorge Serrano
Elias (Democratic
National
Cooperation Party and Revolutionary Party .
It is this fragmentation of the right
that some observers see as th rowing
the election to either Carpio or
Cerezo.
The Divided Right:
There are five candidates who
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offers Evergreen students a rare opportunity to share information
by Dave Peterson
Evergreen community members
interested in locating people with
similar interests now can turn to a
computer for help.
The Computing Resource Network, in cooperation with the
Microcomputer Center is offering
access to a computer program that
will link and catalog all entries made
in it. The software works a lot like
a good reference librarian who
knows everybody on campus by
their interests and can distribute that
information to people who ask for
it.
Sounds like 1984, you say?
Not so, says Bill Lott, coordinator
for the Computing Resource Network. Lot! says that privacy is not
really threatened by his program, as
the files contain only what information people choose to leave. There
are blanks on the electronic form for
name, phone number and address.
These are all optional and are intended to make it easier for other
photo by Dav\! Peh.'rwll
LotI, Ie fl. demonstrates the CRN syslem.
users with similar interests to get in
contact with people they find listed
in the net work.
"When I first landed here, I
wanted to tie into the community
and there was nothing," says Loti
of his arrival at Evergreen. He says
that his software could remedy this
problem by allowing new st udents to
immediately find others in the community who would share their
academic and personal interests.
Lott says that with a little more
time, effon, and of course, funding
the Computing Resource Network
could be accessible from anywhere
in the world. This would allow
students to plug into the network via
modem, from their homes before
coming to college. They could obtain
the names and addresses of students,
faculty , staff, and other co mmunity members who could help them get
adjusted to Evergreen and its bearing on their interests. Lot! says his
dream is for stu dent s to be able to
co me to campus for the first time
and be in the mid st of new friends
within 24 hours.
The program is extremely simple
to use, making it accessible to all in terested persons, not just those with
a background in computing. Lot!
points out that th e program will
tolerate spelling and grammatica l errors, and is designed to mold itself
to the needs of the user.
Another proposed use for the
system is to tie people together in
order to organize academic programs. He points out that the deans
would be much more likely to consider a program if it was presented
by a large group of organized
students rather than just a few .
The Microcomputer Center where
Loti's software can be found is a
point o f interest in itself. It houses
six Apple Macintosh sys tems and
fi ve IBM Personal Computers. with
one more IBM on order.
Although not directly involved in
the Ce nter, Loti gives it high praise
for being so accessible to stud ents .
He also mentions that the computers
are of an excellent quality. The
Macintosh machines are the first to
appear o n campus, and the IBM's
have proven extremely rare.
The Comp utin g
Resource
Ce nter.LlB 3224, is open noon to
I p.m. Monday through F rid ay.
The phone number is 866-8268.
The Microcomputer Center is
open noon to 9 p.m. Monday
through Friday, and noon to 7
p.m. on weekends. It is located in
LIB 2506. just outside the Computer
Cent er.
Chicano and Latino art and culture celebrated
Chicano art and culture is being
celebrated here during the month of
November.This begins with an installation of visual work -- both in
Gallery 2 and 4, which will be shown
through November. The exhibitions
open Nov . ' I with a reception and
celebration of EI Dia de los Muertos (the Mexican celebration of The
Day of the Dead).
Dr. Tomas Ybarra-Frausto will
lecture on "Chicano Art and
Culture" at 7:30 p·.m., Friday, in
LI B 4300. The talk will be directed
at the symbols and images present in
Chicano/Latino culture, and will be
followed by a dance presentation by
Cathy and Issac Schultz Reyes,
former members of the Mexican National Folk Ballet.
The artists' reception will include
signing of a limited addition poster
by Daniel DeSiga. The poster is a
color celebration of EI Dia de los
Muertos.
Gallery 2 (inside the library) will
feature Rita Chavez: Selected
Works. "I want to make people
think. Whal they think is their own
business. "
Gallery 4 will exhibit a group
show, Chicano and Latino Artis/s in
Ihe Pacific Northwest that was produced at Evergreen by Sid White.
"The Chicano alld Latino Ar/islS
in Ihe Pacific Norlhwest project is
the first effort to develop a major
touring exhibit ion presenting works
by Pacific Northwest Chicano and
Latino artists. This project features
interpretive materials which 'descr ibe
the soc iety and cullure of
Chicano/Latino people who have
lived in this region for generations,
and the popular and public art that
has expressed the heritage, struggles,
and aspirations of this community.
"The exhibition is the result of
almost three years of research and
planning which produced new information in areas of scholarship that
have suffered long neglect. "--Sid
White
Nine artists' work are being
represented in thi s show .
Cecila Alvarez: "My experie nces
as a Chicana/Cubana , and as a
woman, are factors affeuing my experience and percept ions . I choose
to translate these into artistic ex pression, into my own vision of beauty
and strength."
Alfredo Arreguin: "I have selectively maintained and transformed
visual elements from my Mexican
her itage as well as the American experience,
re s ulting
in
the
kaleidescopic vision of shifting
layers of pattern. "
Arturo Artorez: "I combine both
the exterior and interior in my visual
language in an effort to transform
realit y into ' magic and magic into
reality. "
Paul Berger: "I am not so much
interested in the si ngle. iso la ted
photographic image as I am in the
way that various photographic and
electronic images group themselves
together in ways that provide us with
a context and meaning."
Eduardo Ca lderon: "[I' I can be
described as an observer, my work
is not to describe ethnolog ica l
behavior, but peculiar human
situations ...
Jose E. Orantes: "Art represents
my continuing evo lution . The move
from Guatemala to Seattle has given
me a whole new environment to explore. Perhaps I'm seein g this part
of the earth with 'ojos de ext ran-
jero'--a stranger's eyes."
Jose Reynoso: " I feel that my
work speaks for itself."
Jose Luis Rodriguez: "I resist bein g ca tegori zed as eit her an
American or Mexican artis t; I am
both, and draw upon the best that
each tradition can offer. I am a contemporary artist and do not wish to
be bound by cu ltural boundaries."
Ruben Trejo: " In some or Illy
work, one can find the aspect of
American Academia a long w ith the
Mexican element of hum or. My goal
is not to follow the trends of the day,
but to find my expressio n in th e
roots of my Mexican heritage, and
to use the c urr ent industrial
technology to ach ieve thi s e nd . ,.
Ga llery 2 is open th e sa me hours
as the library . Gallery 4 is open from
noo n til 6 p.m., Monday through
Friday, and from t p.m. to 5 p.m.
The "Real" Left?
While Veniciao Cerezo is touted
as the "Leftist" alternative in the
election, ther is another candidate
who probably has more right than
any other to the mantle of "1944".
That is socialist Mario Solorzano
(Socialist Democratic Party.
Why he is written off as a dark
horse is unclear.
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Salvadorans to speak here
A death squad list, published in
the daily San Salvador paper La
rensa Gra/ica on July 12, 1985,
listed the names of two student
representatives from the University
of EI Salvador (UES) who will be
here at noon, Thursday, November
7, in LIB lobby.
Agronomy student Antonio
Quesada, president of the General
Association of Salvadoran University Students (AGEUS), and medical
student Rodolfo Rosales, vice president of AGEUS, will speak about
the efforts of students, professors,
administrators and workers to
guarantee full funding for the
university, an end to the repression
again st it and to bring peace and
justice to their country .
Quesada's stop here, one of 30
western United States campus visits,
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THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
October 31, 1985
October 31, 1985
Campbell Hale's writings bring peace of mind
by Dennis Held
Native American novelist Janet
Campbell Hale read selections from
her work to a large crowd of
Evergreen students, faculty and staff
on Monday, October 28.
Hale, author of the novels, The
Owl's Song and The Jailin g of
Cecelia Capture. read a poem,
passages from Jailing and a work
from a n unfinished book about the
Hudson Bay Company tentati vely
titl ed Here Before Chris/.
Hale remains uncertain abo ut that
title because "publi shers have a way
or changing things. My original ti tle for Jaililll!. was A Down Home
Reservation Girl. ' but . Random
House had other ideas," she said.
Difficulties in finding Library
4300 delayed Hale about 45 minutes.
She began by reading a poem.
"Vacancy," which she described as
an expression of her view that "there
are a lot of things more important
than love, and one of them is peace
of mind ."
Hale, a member of the Coeur 'd
Alene tribe in northern Idaho. then
read selections from The Jailin g of
Cecelia Cap ture. The reading
showcased Hale's strong poetic gifts,
especially her lyrical sense of rhythm
and vivid imagery.
The story revolves around an Indian woman's arrest for drunk driving, and her subsequent memories of
the past. Those memories, while not
strictly autobiographical, are
familiar to Hale. she said.
"I wanted to use a character who
was kind of like myself." she said.
"In the past, I have kind of hidden
behind other characters."
Many of the connicts in the book
involve alcohol abuse. During a
question and answer forum following the reading, Hale was asked if
that was a stereotype or Indians.
"There is a sterotype a bout Indians
having dark hair, too. Just because
it' s a stereotype doesn't mean there
isn't some truth to it." she said.
Like her character Cecelia. Hale
was in law school for a time. Hale
eventually switched to writing,
receiving her BA from the University of California at Berkley and her
MA from UC-Davis.
"At the time, I fe lt I had a duty
to serve the Ind ian people through
the law," she said. "I feel now that
my first duty is to myself, and that
se lf needs to write fiction and other
literary art."
This does not mean that she has
forsaken her people. Hale sa id . "I
serve Indian people through my
work. It touches people deeply," she
said.
The Jailing of Cecelia Caplure
was written for her dissertation at
Davis. Hale said. "I wrote the rough
draft in about 18 months. let it sit
for nine months, and then finished
it in three weeks."
Hale. presently Writer in
Residence at the University of
Washington, said she is not bothered
by those who wish to catagorize her
writing . "I'm not ashamed to say
that I'm a Northwest American Indian woman noveli st ," she said .
"and I think I'm a very good one."
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Leago said he hoped that a
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George Leago. maintenance
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with the excellent performance of
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Margaux Gold. Blaine John Walker,
Tracy Gibson. Stephen Marzepa and
Patrick Dugan.
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10 hour days at $4. IO/ hr. They
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Heritage resident angry at
Housing
improve our communication system.
Evergreen has gotten larger, but we
seem to still think of ourselves as a
small community: gossip. Or telling
all your friends and assuming that
everyone knows then. But that isn't
working now. What we need is a
campus-wide system of information
galhering and distributing.
To The Editor :
1 live at Heritage Park Apartments. [ received a leller from housing just prior to the beginning of the
quarter that stated the terms of the
contract.
[ would li ke to remind Housing of
those terms: You have firsl priorily
(0 move into on-campus housing as
openings occur, and you may eXlend
your conlracl past December eilher
in off-campus housing or in Of/campus hOllsing al a laler time. Your
COf/fraCI can be Iransferred 10 on·
campus housing al any lime there is
an opening.
[ later fin d that [ was taken orf
t hat list to move on-campus, as were
a ll the other Heritage Park residents ,
and had to request to be put back
on--at the bottom. Doesn't
Evergreen have to live up to their
end of the contract too?
Housing also said that they were
trying to provide a shultle service for
us, since there was some difficulty
in getting to class on time from
Heritage Park.
They neglected to tell us that there
was an extra charge for this service.
[ found that out the first time [ avail ed myself of this service and had no
change in my pocket.
Since other residents are within
wa lkin g distance to their classes and
all the other free and non-free services of Evergreen, I think that this
service should be provided at no exI ra charge. The only place we can
walk to from here is the corner of
th e street.
I assume that parking lot F was
designated for the use of housing
residents because of its proximity to
the dorm s. Why must the residents
of Heritage Park be forced to bypass
all th e other parking lots on their
way to SdlOOI and park in F lot?
There doesn't seem to be shortage of
parkin g spaces closer (0 campus .
Bob Mc New
Heritage OK;
vandals stink
Dear Edilor,
I don'l know what's the problem
with'th e people who arc out on some
son of personal vendella with the
management at Heritage Park.
Herilage Park is an apanmcnt <:om plex where I he housing office arranged a sublease instead of leaving
about 60 of us on the street to find
,our own housing (for me t his would
have been difficult because [ just
moved here from Maine) .
Twi<:e in the past two week s someone has cut the hoses on the
washing machines. Do you have
something again st clean clothes?
Now laundry room hours are
shortened to 10 p.m , instead of 12
a.m. [ certainly hope you don't consider yourself an adult. Are you still
at the high school stage where you
feel you are supposed to rebel any
type of authoritative figure?
The managers don't ask for much
just a little respect for other people
in exchange for $150/month rent
(everything included) your own
room, sauna, two hot tubs and a
weight room. Certainly the weight
room could use some repairs, but
can't beat what we have there on
campus. I'm sure if we showed..>ome
responsibility they'd consider extending the rec room hours. What more
can you ask for?
I'm qu it e happy there. I'm sure
that there are plenty of people on
campus who would gladly take your
place. I know I want to stay there
after Fall quarter and [ hope housing extends its contract if the
managers let us. I wouldn't mind
renting direct ly through Heritage
Park, but my main concern is
whether van service would continue
([ hope so because 1 don't have a
car).
You know who you are so aliI ask
is that you grow up and buy yourself
a pair of headphones.
Babs [sak
Heritage Park resident
Campus
Communication
Dear Editor:
This campus has a major problem: communication. We don't tell
each other what special events we ' re
offering very effect ively. I noticed
this recently when I was complaining to my co-workers about finding
out about an event at the last
minute. I had a very sympathetic audience. Everyone offered a similar
story . One person offered four such
examples and he's only been on cam pus six weeks.
Later in the evening I mentioned
the evenl to several Olympia
residents who were excited by the
news. One woman said she wou ld
have bcen willing to do promotional
work if she'd known about the event
in advance. Then she told me about
a reading on campus last year she'd
heard about the afternoon before it
happened. "There were 12 people in
the audience. [ was embarrassed.
These were important writers. [
know al least 30 people who would
have been interested in hearing them
read. "
I talked to the Information Servi.:es office about this problem and
they expressed great frustration with
gelling people to tell them whal is
happening on campus. They asked
for any new ideas [ might have. A
CP J writer said there 's a problem
between information offices on campus. To Ihe besl of his knowledge the
C P J doesn ' t even re<:eive all the news
releases sent OUI by Information
Services.
Clearly, this is a campus-wide problem. Exciting events are happening
here, but they will remain the best
kept secrets of the west if we don't
Qp-inions
Sincerely,
Theresa Crater
Science and
art work
together
To the Editor:
Wendy Woodard's letter appearing in the latest CP J had one comment [ found very disturbing. Not
her comments on the survey mentioned, but those expressed in the
last three paragraphs. "Rea[ student
concerns ... ", does" Real" mean a
majority, or those who are more
concerned than others?
['ve heard peoples' concerns over
budget cuts, but none ['ve heard pits
the arts against the sciences the way
she describes. [s she aware that there
have been cut-backs all over, including the deletion of the core program "Science and Human
Thought," a move that sent many
new students scrambling to patchwork a program'!
[ came to Evergreen not because
it was a "Science" college, or an
"Arts" college. [ came because of
the teaching methods, which can be
applied to all academic disciplines.
There should be an alternative to
schools like U of W, and OSU .
Places that realize and teach the
art of expression as well as the art
of creative questioning and exploration: science. Students of the sciencearts at Evergreen quickly learn that
no theories are concrete and unqueslionable, and that one of the major
problems of the human history, not
to mention contemporary times, is
the separation of expression and factual exploration. One with out the
other is not a whole, and so it is with
Evergreen.
finally, if something goes against
personal be[iels, wou[dn't it be more
productive to wo rk at changing it,
(if not for personal gains, then for
future generation~ ) rather than leaving (or being happy to do so soon)?
Huge schools are full of p.eople unwilling to make changes.
Divided we stumble,
Jeff Bagshaw
Bicycle truce
offered
Dear Editor,
[n response to the letters of Oct.
17, 1985 , I would like to offer a truce
on the bicycle path issue. Perhaps it
was misunderstood that my initial
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letter (Oct. 3) evaded the fact that
separate bicycle paths in and around
O[ympi'a are rather idealistic. The
letter was intended to provoke
thought about bicycle planning in
general.
First of all, [ would like to thank
Todd Litman for clarifying some of
the financial details on bicycle path
construction . [ would also like to
thank Wm. R. Bagby for expressing
his opinion . Both points are well
taken and espouse practical application. Even though my stance on the
issue remains fairly adamant, my
hope is that we can cooperate and
work together on behalf of the
bicycling community.
Rhys Allen Webb
WashPIRG's
volunteers
doing best
Concerning the fact that some of
WashPIRG's workers are from out
of state, P[RG's across the country,
though they are separate organizations in each state, use one another
as resources. Through ihe P[RG network WashP[RG was able to locate
two people who had previous experience in outreach programs.
[t is the responsibility of these
. people to study the 'vast amount of
material about the work WashPIRG
is doing in the state and the methods
that are used in accomplishing its
goals.
If anyone has any concerns in the
future [ hope that I or the
WashP[RG office will be contacted
directly so that these concerns can be
addressed
personally.
The
WashP[RG office is located in
Seminar 4158. The phone number is
X6058. [f no one can be reached
there, contact me in the information
center in the CAB, X6300.
Pornography promotes sexism and abuse
by Polly Pauw Trout
The material in this essay is taken
from two sources, The first is the
film, "Not a Love Story," which
portrays two women working
through what pornography is and
how it affects them. The second is
the book Take Back The Night:
Women on Pornography, edited by
Laura Lederer, Morrow Quill paperbacks, New York, 1980,320 pages.
The quotes used are taken from
Take Back the Night.
Pornography is the propaganda of
women-hatred and it pervades our
society. It is loved by men who
derive power from the subordination
of others. It encourages abuse and
rape. [t is becoming more and more
sadistic. Individuals who support
women as equals need to see pornography as it is and move to
decrease its power.
He[en E. Longino defines pornography as: "verbal or pictoral
representations of sexual behavior
that have as a distinguishing
characteristic the degradation and
demeaning portrayal of the role and
status of the human fema[e ... as a
mere sexual object to be exploited
and manipulated sexually .. .in such
a way as to endorse the degradation"(Pornography, Opression and
Freedom: A Closer Look).
Today's pornography has expanded to include the degradation of
children and, on rare occasions,
men. This definition is reinforced by
the eytmo[ogy of the word itself:
Pornos is the Greek word for "prostitute." From the beginning, pornography has portrayed sex between
Sincerely,
Loren J ill Garber
WashP[RG Local Board Chair
To The Evergreen Community:
[ am writing in reply t<\,a letter
written last week by Wesley Karney
concerning the Washington Public
Interest
Research
Group's
(WashP[RG) Citizen Outreach Program. WashPIRG is a consumer and
environmental organization run by
students, but it exists for the benefit
of all Washington citizens.
Each summer in Olympia and its
surrounding
commullltles,
WashP[RG makes an' effort to
educate the public about WashP[RG
concerns and to gain its support for
projects in order to successfully
complete them.
One of the concerns which Wesley
has regards the fact that WashP[RG
pays people to do this outreach. [
must agree with Wesley that
volunteerism is the ideal way to accomplish the goals of a citizen's
organization . However, in this society, it is not possible to expect to find
enough people who will commit
themselves in body, as well as heart
& soul, for over 40 hours a week
without giving them some amount of
monetary compensation.
[n answer to the question, " . . .is
volunteerism something that our
loca l people are considered unwilling or unable to accept?" Sad as it
is, I feel that [ must answer yes. Taking the time to become truly informcd on the issues and the time to truly inform others on the issues takes
away from time which would be
otherwise spent on earning money
for rent, food, clothing, and school.
[ fcel that in an organization that is
run almost comp[etely on volunteer
power that it is unreasonable to expeet more out of our volunteers than
we are already getting.
It is a reflection on the values of
our society that someone who is doing \ aluab[e work to keep the en- .
vironment safe to live in and the
rights of all citizens intact is expected
10 work for free, while the people
who are doing the work to destroy
these goals are being paid large
salaries.
Error
Corrected
Dear Editor,
Last week you printed an article
of mine containing the argument
that bank structures and not bankers
carry primary blame for the Latin
American debt crisis. [n my
manuscript [ used the phrase "structural culpability." The CPJ printed
"structural capability." A close
resemblance, true, but mere
resemblance will not do. Cattle are
chattel and cummerbunds are
cumbersome, but these words are
not as freely interchangeable as one's
undershirts and words with their attendant ideas. The' former aren't
refutable. The latter are.
Please use greater care.
master and slave, not between equal
partners.
Traditionally, the opponents of
pornography have believed that the
sexually explicit nature of pornography made it immoral.
However, not all sexually explicit
material is harmful or degrading.
Some is not meant to induce arousal
at all, but merely to portray facts in
an objective and educational way.
Some portrays sexual relations
between two partners of equal worth
and power. Since no exploitation is
involved, this material is not pornography but erotica. Erotica tends
to portray sex as involving love and
mutual respect, and is usually more
subtle and artistic than commercial
pornography.
Sexual education and erotica help
many people know themselves better and therefore deal more constructive[y with their own sexua[ity.
They are not to be confused with
pornography, which is destructive
and nurtures myth, not knowledge.
Pornography is arbitrarily divided into soft and hard classifications.
While hard porn pictorially portrays
social[y impolite acts such as sadism,
rape and child molestation, soft
porn usually limits its photographic
content to more acceptable subjects,
i.e. nudity, foreplay, and suggestions
of more explicit detail.
For this reason, many people
believe soft porn to be "O.K. "; it
is sold in supermarkets and openly
accepted. It is important to realize
that all pornography, from Playb,oy
to Virgins in Chains, has the same
ideology: that women are subhuman
toys whose purpose is to please the
David Kucera
Greeners not
necessarily
vandals
Some recent letlers about vandalism on campus, and some
remarks I've heard, seem to assume
that Evergreen students are responsible for it. There may be some
evidence [don't know about to suggest that, but [ wouldn't
automatically conclude that this
destruction comes from meanness of
spirit at the college, rather than from
rowdy high school kids or cruising
drunks.
Yours,
Thad Curt z , faculty
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Walch oul for lire "Reminglon
Microscreen Cara/tlel Dip-on-astick." An x-ray revealed 36
rota ling razors!
For most women, it is harder to
understand why men purchase it,
especially when the consumers are
educated and liberal, rather than
old-fashioned and rednecked. [n
other words, it is easier to theorize
about the sins of the other, than to
face the behavior of fathers, friends
and lovers. For pornography is supported by many men who claim to
consider women respected partners.
Perhaps men buy pornography
because we teach boys that violence
is the key to masculinity. Men are
taught to love power, especially the
power of destruction. They are also
taught that to be men they must have
power. Pornography teaches male
domination and female servility. For
men who are insecure about their
own power, this is a balm to the ego.
Men are frightened by the power
that women possess because it is di fferent than that which they understand. They hold the power of death,
but women have the power of nejY
life. Because they are afraid, they
seek to crush women in self-defense.
The rise in sadistic and childoriented pornography has coincided
with the feminist movement. As
women have become more verbal,
pornography has pictured women
gagged. As women [earn to choose
their own pathways, the pictures
show women bound. And as women
become adults in their own rights,
rather than obedient dependants,
pictures of children in sexual submissKm have reassured men that they
are still in control.
As men have become more and
more threatened by the emergence of
feminine control and power, they
have retreated to a pornographic
fantasy world where they are still the
master.
Pornography contributes to the
oppression of women by reinforcing
sexist behavior. The ideology it
teaches paves the way for
discrimination and assault. Desensitized men come to consider
violence against women a normal,
even hea lth y, thing.
[t is said that pornography is the
theory and rape is the pract ice. In
countries where pornography has
become legalized, such as the U.S.,
Denmark, and Sweden, the rape rate
has gone up, while the prosecution
of rapists has decreased. In the
words of Ann Jones, ''It takes very
[itt[e mental equipment to figure out
that a genre depicting the physical
exploitation, humiliation, wounding, and killing of women encourages (in fact, teaches) the
behaviour that produces these
female casualties" ("A Litt[e
Knowledge").
While it seems clear that pornography is a destructive force in
our society, there are many myths
surrounding it that protect its
credibility. One of these myths is
that pornography is freedom ' of
speech and a constitutional right,
that restrictions would set a precedent for censorship in other areas.
This is false.
Pornography is, in fact, libe[ous
speech; libel is. illegal and a violation
of the freedom of the libeled party.
Pornography prints harm ful lies
about women that curtail their
freedom.
In all other areas of the media,
this law is strenuously enforced. Yet
because the libeled parties are, in this
case, women, somehow it is acceptable. [n the words of Susan
Brownmiller: "Pornography is the
undiluted essence of anti-female propoganda. Yet the very same [iberals
who were so quick to understand the
method and purpose behind 'the
mighty propaganda machine of
Hitler's Third Reich, the consciousspewed-out
anti-Semitic
ly
caricatures and obscenities that gave
an ideological base to the Ho[ocaust
and the Final Solution, the very
same liberals who, enlightened by
Blacks, searched out their own con~cience and came to understand that
their tolerance of 'nigger' jokes and
portrayals of shuming, rolling-eyed
servants in movies perpetuated the
degrading myths of Black inferiori·
ty and gave an ideological base to the
continuation of B[ack oppression-these very same liberals now fervidly maintain that the hatred and con tempt for women that find expression in ... what are quaintly called
'adult' or 'erotic' books and movies
are a valid extension of freedom of
speech that must be preserved as a
Constituional right" ("Against Our
Will: Men, Women and Rape").
Ann Jones adds this: "[s it really
too much for reasonable women and
men to recognize hate when they see
it? I f I were to see the picture of a
Jew tied, spread-eagled, stripped,
whipped, sucking cock, . I think [
would conclude rather quickly that
the person who made the picure did
not hold Jews in high esteem. But
put a woman in that picture, and
men chuckle while women turn
away" (" A Little Knowledge").
As long as ther are power-hungry,
chauvinist tyrants who can increase
their wealth and power through pornography, and as long as there is an
audience of insecure men eager to
stroke their own egos be degrading .
the status of women, pornography
will thrive.
However, concerned individuals
can increase public disapproval and
lessen the power and scope of pornography by seeing it as it really is.
Pornography is not cute, sexy,
natural, or a constitutional right.
Like rape, it is the violent insistence
that women are pieces of meat and
that they deserve, as well as enjoy,
torture and humiliation.
Science solves problems of
abortion and sterility
To the Editor:
CARL THE DETECTIVE'S
HALLOWEEN
SAFETY
TIPS: NO. 41
male, and that women not only
deserve to be subjugated and abused, but they want to be.
[n soft porn, the messages are veiled subtly and surface in cartoons or
jokes; the "just kidding" attitude
robes the hate. These innuendos
callous the reader to sexist values
and pave the way for the acceptance
of the hard-core.
Pornography is produced for a
simple reason: it gains economic and
political power for the men who
pub [ish it. Porn is a multi-billion
dollar industry. It is also a propaganda machine that supports the
status quo and protects men from
having to share their power wit h
women. By support ing the myth of
male supremacy, powerful men can
more easily retain their power.
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by David Henshaw
[n recent years there has been a
great deal of debate on whether
abortion is moral or not. On the one
hand there is the argument that it is
killing children, and on the other
hand there is the argument that the
embryo is not yet human, and that
the woman should have the choice
to have a child or not.
The paradox encountered is that
both lines of thought are right. Once
one realizes that both sides of an
argument are right, then one must
come up with a solution that satisfies
both arguments, to be truly right.
Due to recent discoveries/inventions, there is a solution. Unwanted
embryos can be transplanted to infertile women rather than being
aborted, thus curing three problems:
women dot.'t have to have children
they don't want, embryo.s aren't .killed (JOURN AM MED ASSOC,
FEB 17,84), and at the same time
this allows infertile women to have
the children they want.
Even though doctor John E .
Buster has made several surrogate
embryo trasfers (JOURN HAST
CEN REP), it has not dawned on
anyone that the collection of embryos for the process could be an option to abortion.
As it turns out, the solution seems
completely solvent; everthing gets
better. Not only are there Ihe apparent advantages : women have a
choice; embryos aren't killed; and
infertile women have a chance to
have children(10URN AM MED
ASSOC, CHICAGO, OCT 28,83) .
It also solves two other problems inherent in the present system. These
two problems are in reference to the
two ways that infertile women are
allowed to have children now.
The first of the hidden problems
is a result of in vitro fertilization,
and embryo transfer (test tube
babies). The general procedure is to
remove oocytes from a woman who
has tube damage, fertilize them, and
then put them back in (JOURN AM
MED ASSOC, MAR 2, 84.).
At first glance this seems innocent
enough, and in many c!lses it is. But
in those cases where the tube damage
is genetic (rather than causal), then
the chance of having a child with the
same defect is one in four, with a one
in two chance of the, child being a
carrier. This means that only one out
of every two such children will be
free of the defect.
The genetic problem is overcome
by the new process, because the
woman who gives the embryo is fertile (JOURN AM MED ASSOC,
MAR 2, 84). And once the embryo
is in the new mother, regardless
whether or not she has a geneti<:
flaw, the baby will born normal.
Thus another problem is solved .
The last problem is a result of the
way in which donor embryo transfer
is performed now . Now women are
becoming pregnant solely for the
purpose of transfer, so that olher
women can have children (JOURN
AM MED ASSOC, OCT 26, 84).
Unfortunately, in this process some
of the embryos die (JOUN AM
MED ASSOC, CHICAGO, OCT
28,84). To purposely become preg·
nant knowing that the Ihe embryo
will be placed in jeopardy is at least
to some extent wrong. Especially
when there is a large number of
women becoming accidentally pregnant and would willingly give that
embryo to a woman who wanted it.
Thus all of Ihe problems are solved: embryos aren't being killed;
women have a choice; infertile
women get babies; genes that produce infertile women are removed;
and from a moral standpoint, embryo transfers would seem to have
gained some credibility. Solving the
problems of the world isn't that far
away if everyone works on them
together.
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"Wow!" exclaimed Scooter as his face
became pale with excitement.
"Are they sure it was the old lady?" inquired
Metcalfe. He was the older of the two brothers
and a bit ~ore analytical.
"What makes you ask that?" queried Lenny.
"I'm the older of the two brothers and a bit
more analytical."
"Your dad's over there right now." said
Lenny.
Their father was the chief investigator with
the local police department. Which made tons
more sense than working for a NON-local police
department, like say, Scotland Yard. (Or would
that be Scotland Meter?)
Chapter Four:
.,4 Vat oj'Sour
Crean1 Bubbling
and Dee)]
Scooter and Metcalfe had just finished gobbling a plate of Oreoes and chewing down two
big glasses of milk when they heard the familiar
voice of Lenny the mailman.
"Hey, kids!"Lenny was a kindly old gent
with a smiling face and a head of grey hair.
(These were in a tank of formaldehyde back at
his run-down apartment. The boys had seen
them and were fascinated by them.)
"Did you kids hear about the murder at the
01' Murdoch place? Seems the old lady went
"binko" with a letter opener and killed her
husband ."
Inspector Kellogg's voice was forcdul, direct
and resonant, "I want everything like it was
before the murder happened."
"We all would like it that way, Inspector.
But, you've GOT to accept the fact that a man
is dead and life must go on," said the sergeant
patting Inspector Kellogg's hand and guiding
him over towards the divan.
"I should sit down," said Kellogg shakily. "I
need some coffee. Someone get me some
coffee. "
The sergeant passed him a cup of some warm
and cosy Swiss Mocha. "There's one thing we're
still missing, Inspector. We still need positive
identification of the body."
"Good idear," said Kellogg, dwelling on the
'r' for about three and a' half minutes. "That's
going to be kinda tough. We'll probably wanna find the head for to do that identi fyingthing ."
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A Dozen Severed
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"You kids are so dang loud, I'm gonna call the
house of represenlalives and have you shot for
treason!"
Lenny Ihe mailman: Later convicled of armed
robbery, legged robbery, assaull wilh ifllent to
annoy, and somelhing jusl known as "The
Bama Pie " incidenl. They never found his accomplice, Frankie Wolfe.
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The Conway Twilly cookies were indeed still
fresh. Mmmm.
The old lighthouse was deserted. The long
grass outside moved slowly in the lonely autumn
breeze. The melancholy wind would sneak in
throught the broken yellow glass and glide down
the cold steel bannister and shaking the cracking black paint free, it would pass through the
doorways and moan like a pipe organ
manipulated by the bony digits of some misanthropic reaper. No one had gone near the old
lighthouse since Mr. Nehamkin had mysteriously plunged to his doom on that drizzly October
night. They said the ghost of his crooked partner, Obediah Jaffe had pushed him. But,. it was
never proveJ1 for Nehampkin hadn't lived to tell
the tale. Not even cats or dogs had gone NEAR
o"r ANYWHERE near the lighthouse for seventy
years, so it's pointless to even mention it. I'm
sorry. I don't even know why I brought it up.
God, I feel dumb! Forgive me.
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Dave,
Gosh, life can sure throw a fistfull of thumbtacks in your hi-tops sometimes. I don't know
when I last felt this down. I know I should be
feeling "snappin' an' happenin'" cause it's
almost Halloween. But golly, this hospital's
starting to wear on me.
My pillow is warm and comforting, but my
doctor is lumpy and tattered. I don't like the
hospital ethic. (i.e. they steal your pants to keep
you here and push drugs down your neck.) I
don't really get into the drugs here. There 's so
many! I feel like calling my congrcss!1lan or
someone else who could appreciate it more.
Well, it's noon-thirty and time for a visit from
my doctor. (" Dokterr" as he likes to be called.) He skips in with a colorful beach-pail full
of "medicine," whistling showtunes. My fave
is "If I could talk to the Animals." I don't
think they'll let him leave either. He doesn't
often wear [hisJ pants .
It's nearly Halloween and all the orderlies are
selling up decorations . I think the guys from the
morgue are going to win the prize, though. Their
stuff is so realistic! One young intern almost lost
his job yesterday. He came in dressed as a
backhoe and destroyed three million dollars
worth of scientific equiptment. The ad ·
ministrators were livid with rage, but I think he's
still working here. I saw him in the morgue
entertaining the guys by making a funny face.
They were all laughing, hut I got bored of the
same silly face after about ninety minutes so I
left. Hmmmmmmmmm. Oh well.
They put me in a room with a real weird guy
who has a hook and an eye-patch . Incidently,
the hook isn't on his arm. I thought this was
kinda strange so I told him he should at least
wear the eye-patch on his eye. He agreed. Well,
I guess he agreed. He used to do a lot of acid
in the '60's and as he tells me, "They can't prove
that drugs do anything to your brain."
He makes a convincing case of this, probably
because it's the ONL Y thing he knows how to
sa y. Don't get me wrong, he's not burnt out!
His enunciation is very articulate on this phrase.
We [actually "I"J talked the other day about
ghosts, and I remembered all those ghost stories .
Old Mr. Tate used to tell us. Remember that?
We'd gather around the campfire with Mr. Tate
and toast marshmallows. I f we were really good
he'd give us sticks to put them on, and after a
while he'd even let us take the marshmallows
out of the plastic bag.
I remember our favorite story was the
"House of Fiends!" We never got sick of hearing this one, but by God, Tate SURE GOT
SI CK of telling it . One night he started the fire
by rubbing our shins together just for mentioning it. I'd like to tell it once more for Tate's
memory, So get some let-Puffs the size of
severed hampster-heads and rub your shins
together, here's the ...
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"Wow!" exclaimed Scooter in exactly the
same tone as before.
"Your dad's probably gonna want THIS."
Lenny handed the boys a letter. On it in yellow
crayon were written the words, A clue to the
murder of Philo Murdoch.
"Where did you get this?" Asked Metcalfe
in an old and analytical manner.
"From the kid up the street."
The boys were frozen in terror.
"You mean ........... (Three more) ... KEVIN!?
".
songwriter. "Brung isn't a word! I knew if I
listened to your story again I· could spot the hole
in it! Clancy, take her out back and shoot her."
Clancy laughed. He knew Kellogg was joking. Clancy shot her dead on the spot.
Scooter and Metcalfe strolled down the
sidewalk in the sunny afternoon. Scooter scuffed his sneakers in the dust by the 01' swimmin'
hole and rattled a stick along a picket. fence .
Metcalfe whistled and kicked a tin can about.
"Hey!" came the scratchy voice of the widow
Shrimpnel. '-'What're you kids makin' <\II that
racket for? You tryin' ta wake the dead?!!!"
' ''Yeah! Norman Rockwell! "was Metcalfe's
starkly rude reply.
Scooter tossed a rock in her general direction.
"OW! My general direction!" Screamed Mrs.
Shrimpnel and slid to the ground like a sack of
peat.
"Good shot, Scooter! That was--"
Metcalfe's voice was suddenly cut off. The
two boys stoOq rooted to the pavement for, in
t!Ie doorway stood ...... (Couple more) .. KEV(N!
Kellogg strolled across the room. So this was
it! The scene of the murder! On the floor lay
the victim--well dressed, but very skinny. The
only clues had been gathered by the policemen
by the door; a giant garbage sack full of green
terrycloth socks, a vat of sour cream (bubbling
and deep), and a plate of raisin cookies shaped
like Conway Twitty.
"These aren't clues!" Screamed Kellogg.
"This is COMPLETE garbage! Go out and get
me some REAL clues! GOOD clues! Stuff like
bloody hatchets, cryptic messages, and I or an
open rifled safe. You understand me? Are these
Conway Twitty cookies stale?"
Kellogg took a bite out of Conway's
forehead, stared Mrs. Murdoch straight in the
face and blurted out,' 'Why did you kill your
husband?" amidst a violent' spray of raisiris and
crumbs.
"You're crazy! "She retorted. "I would never
have killed Donald-"
"Philo. "
"Philo, right. Gracias. I would never have
killed him! (loved him like a goldfish . I could
never have brung mysel-"
"You expect me to believe that?" Kellogg
smiled and took another bite out of the yummy treat fashioned in the image of the popular
Sergeant Stellman ran in amidst peals of his
own joy. "I found a due! I found a clue! I
found Mr. Murdoch's head! I wouldn't have
said this in front of Mrs. Murdoch, but he was
ugly. I mean UGLY!"
"That's not his head!" said a disappointed
Kellogg.
"It's not?"
"Didn't you ever carve up pumpkins 'as a
kid? "
"No. Whuffor?"
"Halloween, dang you! I remember when 1
was a tad we used to carve Jack O'Lanterns
an-It
"Hold the phone, Kellogg," said Lieutenant
Blinky. "Is this going to be a long
reminiscence? "
"Sure! Start a fire! Gather round,
everybody!" Kellogg cleared his th'roat and his
eyes drifted off independently. "I'll get 'em
later," he said and he thought back to his
childhood. "When I was a young nipper we
went about on Halloween beating up the wee
tykes, stealing their candy, and smashing their
pumpkins."
•• Whuffor?"
"We were too old for that stuff."
"Wow, forced retirement leads to crime."
"Anyhow ... " continued Kellogg, "we used
to steal Jack 0' Lanterns and drop them off
bridges onto passing cars ... " Kellogg became
sweaty and frightened. "Lotsa kids did it!' .. 1
mean it wasn't our fault. What was that kid
doin' goin' around dressed as a pumpkin? What
a dumb thing to be doin'! Whatta stupid
DINK!"
_ "Sorry to interrupt, Inspector," said Lieutenant Blinky, interrupting sorrily, "but, I've just
discovered something about the corpse."
"Look, you darned simpleton," snapped
Kellogg, "I've already solved this case! Mrs.
Murdoch starved her husband to death, then cut
off his head, hands, and feet to throw us off
the trail! There. Simple."
"No, sir. It's just an empty tuxedo on the
"Hey, (hat's not a tetherball! It's got a hat!"
Scooter and Metcalfe had decided to prowl
around in the Shrimpllel's basement, when
Scooter's eyes widened,
"Hey, that's not a teatherball, it's got a hat!"
"Let me have a look!" said Metcalfe. But it
was too late .. . KEVIN had appeared at the top
of the stairs.
... KEVIN was a weird, tall, frightening thing.
It was rumored that he killed a man with a
granola bar, No one wanted to know HOW he
had done it. It WAS done, that's all. Just that
it HAD BEEN DONE and wit~ a granola bar.
. .. KEVIN was put in a home when he was
fourteen and was given shock therapy. In fact
he had undergone SO MUCH shock therapy
that socks could still cling to his body. And once
he took his sweater o'ff so fast that three people in the room were electrocuted.
floor,"
"Oh, spit."
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his forehead.
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... KEVIN was ominous and dangerous . He
pounded down the stairs and approached the
two brothers, rocking back and forth as he
walked like a blank megalith of doom, a
washcloth stuck to his forehead .
Scooter and Metcalfe were terrified! They had
never experienced such horror as that moment
when ... KEVIN came towards them with his
hands s~retched forth! (Actually he was so tall
that his hands were "stretched fifth" .)
They had no concept of how to deal with the
simian fate that shuffled their way. So they left.
Wow! Mr.Tate used to pack so milch punch
in that line that we would have to go and change
our unders before going to bed. Which reminds
me, I was going to take care of that this week .
Have a happy Halloween, Dave.
Lee Howard
P .S. A one Mr. Kurt Kundert was upset that
he didn't get credit for inspiring the Elrod cartoon. I'd look out if I were you Dave. Oh. and
send me some pants so I can get out of here.
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Monster Holiday provides Halloween fun
LOST AND FOUND
by Melody Lee
The big screen TV
These quiet tides
And shifting sands
Bring a peace
, Like I've never known.
that lurks
behind me screams David Lee Roth's twisted
sexual fantasies
while
the emptyV neck sweatered
Young Repubduds
sit, feet and lives
propped up, Jordached asses
spread to fill the tilt-backed chair
Washing over
The fear inside
Of the small man
And life's burdens.
And the purity of
That water
And the absolute quiet
And calm
It's Halloween and so I thought
it would be appropriate to review an
album somewhere along that theme,
or one relatively contacting horror,
and our social perceptions or
Halloween,
When looking ror the right album
I realized I only had two choices here
with me; the' soundtrack to
Nosreratu and Buck Owens' It's a
Monster's Holiday, Faced with this
impossible choice I picked up
Schrodinger's Cat and decided to
review Buck .
What can be said? In 1974 Buck
was putting out the same kneeslapping, toe·tapping co untry
western he'd been putting out for
years, and is still putting out. And
Monster's Holiday is a classic like all
or the others.
"Monster's Holiday" is the rirst
song on the album, and it's a real
rocker. If this song doesn 't throw
your feet into action-be it a-tappin
or a-runnin--there's something
wrong with your neural pathways.
Lyrics like: "Uncle Bill well he
took ill and so they sent for me to
. come, well I had to pass by the old
graveyard, so I went on the run,
there wa~ screaming and moanin'g,
wailing and groaning, scary as a
mummy's curse, I said good buddy
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tell you that you're 'gonna have to
catch me first" set the perrect at·
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And the jumping pace or "Holi·
day" just makes you want to dance,
not necessarily orf of graves.
"Holiday" is followed by a
beautirul ballad, "Amazing Love,"
This is pure Buck Owens: sweet sentiments, pleasant ~ounds and music
that makes the heart glow. Sit down
and hold your lover to this one.
There are three more great Buck
ballads on Monster's: "You're Gonna Love Your's elf in the Morning,"
"G reat Expectations" and "I
Love", "I Love" is the best or the
three, but let's race it, Buck can
make any heart swell or swoon.
Another rock tune on Monster's
is "On the Cover or the Music City
News," a great parody or Shel
Silverstein's "Cover or Rolling
Stone." Another affirmation or the
paradigm that all an artist really
wants is a good reputation and
recognition, God knows that's all I
want.
The straight country tunes on the
album .. "Stony Mountain West
Virginia," "Meanwhile Back at the
Ranch" and "Pass Me By" .. have
a way or making you want to jump
on a horse and ride ofr into
adventure.
The best or the three is "Meanwhile," a riproaring good time ror
any music lover. And it also shows
that Buck isn't just a shit kicking
hick. Buck's a well rounded
Renaissance Man . He can mix art
and adventure into brilliant
homogenized songs.
For instance: "A James man
named J esse got careless and messy
while hanging a picture on the wall, can tap and sing along, cry and
art appreciation caused de-escalation laugh, but still be enlightened by one
so pay close attention y'all" from or America's greatest thinkers: a
man on the forefront or progressive
"Meanwhile" is not just a fun
music ,
rhyme.
This Hallowe~n, dance, laugh,
Blake himselr could have written
those lines. Buck calls out to modem wonder, and contemplate our rough
society to rorget its self·destructive , and tumble, rull of turmoil, going
slide into barbarism and hedonism. into the cesspool world with Buck
Buck Owens is truly a genius. You Owen's It's a Monster's Holiday,
Hurt helps make "'Spider
Woman " a cinema classic
by Beverly Walker
In a prison cell somewhere in
Latin America, two very dirrerent
men warily conrront each other.
Molina (William Hurt) completes his
morning toilette by wrapping his
head in a towel, in the shape of a turban, as Valentin (Raul Julia), bearded and classically macho in ap·
pearance, watches with a mixture or
fascination and revulsion,
On the walls behind Molina's
make-shift dressing table are pin-ups
or Rita Hayworth. Lana Turner,
and Dietrich, On Valentin's race are
deep cuts and bruises, and a large
scar as yet unhealed.
Thus begins" Kiss of the Spider
Woman," a rilm by Hector Baben·
co, produced by David Weisman
and
starring William Hurt, Raul Julia
and Sonia Braga now showing at the
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Only "Hershey" makes kisses.
Look out for "Ric" or
"Gillette" kisses. They could
mean trouble,
the anonymous
Umbrella Dweller
passes through
his Slippery-Wet World
-soon unseen: his steps
are covered with the spreading film,
His slickened brain
and thoughts of sponges
show him the way .
He passes,
and I hear the moist reality
between his toes:
The squeak of wet shoesthrough srubbed clean foliage
and the puddles
in the lawn.
Sonia Braga as the Spider Womall.
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Independently financed, it was
shot in Brazil in the English
language, and is being released in the
United States by Island Alive .
The rilm received its world
premiere in competetion at the 1985
Cannes Film FestivaL William Hurt
was named Best Actor for his work
in this rilm.
A complex story or friendship and
love, "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
explores the enforced relationship -through imprisonment .. or two men
with radically dlrrerent perspectives
on lire. Molina, a window dresser by
proression and openly homosexual,
entertains his revolutionary cellmate
with rancirul narratives drawn rrom
some or his ravorite movies.
Valentin, a political prisoner who
has been systematically tortured, is
at rirst diverted by Molina until he
realizes that the movie being "told"
., which the audience sees in black
and white .. is a Nazi propaganda
rilm about which Molina knows or
cares nothing!
When challenged to a story point
by Valentin, he defends himselr by
saying, "I don't explain my movies;
it ruins the emotion."
later, Valentin warns him the
"rantas ies are no escape," and
thereupon are drawn philosophica l
swords ror skirmishes on fundamental issues dealing with identity and
personal responsibility, Alon g the
way, a remarkable relationship
evolves,
"Kiss or the Spider Woman" endows the cinema with an almost
mystical aura. In that way, it has
somet hing in common with Woody
Allen's current "Purple Rose or
Cairo" and H~lbert Ross's 1981
rilm , "Pennies from Heaven ."
Interestingly, those rilms are set i n
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October 31, 1985
North' Carolina dancers perform at Center
by' Joseph G, Follansbee
and Jennifer Seymore
Ranging from mystical to
melodramatic, the North Carolina
Dance Theater brought its own style
of dance to the Washington Center
for the Performing Arts this past
Monday,
The troupe opened its foursegment performance with Act III
from "Napoli", choreographed by
n.L'I<U>l Bournonville in 1842, This
classical interpretation of Italian folk
movements seemed forced at times,
but as an exercise, it was fun and
energetic,
"Pentimento," an original piece
performed to Bach's "Four Suites
for Orchestra," was visually rich and
colorful, full of nights of imagination and fancy, and was a satis fying
theatrical climax, "Pentimento" is
defined as the reappearance, on canvas of an
which has been
painted over, Beginning with dance
in its abstract form, a dozen dancers
lying on their backs and then
gradually coming to life, the piece
seemed to move backwards in time
toward traditional roots in dance,
The dancers gradually costumed
themselves, onstage and off, in extravagant Shakt!spearean clothing,
altering their dance movements as
well, to fit the ever-changing mood,
The low point of the evening was
"Women", a laughable, contradictory, pointless feminist manifesto in
dance to the music of Grace Slick,
e women, apparently trapped in
th 'r lingerie, danced in an exag-
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it s Second Annual Olympia him
F,, ·, !iv~ 1 for one "'~ek in Novembel
at the State Theater. II will be a rare
opportunity for viewers to choose
among 38 diverse films ,
Screenings are at 5: 15, 7:30 and
9:45, which will offer a choice of
nine films within Ihe divided theater.
There will also be midnight showings
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday,
Tickets are $4 for non-members
and $3,50 for members, Yearly
mcmberships are ava ilable for $5,
The Olympia Media Exchange is
a lso sponsoring Ihree films wilhin
the festival.
The Second Annual O lympia Film
Festival will run from Friday,
November 8, through Thursday,
November 14, For further information, check next Wednesday's inserted schedule in the Olympia News
52, or call 754-6670 or 352-4010 during the festival.
gerated and melodramatic fashion ,
However, "Satto (Wind Dance)"
made the evening worthwhile , Two
dancers on a bare stage evoked
mystical a!1d primitive images full of
passionate strength and energy, The
mood was intense; the choreography
lyrical.
All around, the evening was satisfying, though perhaps not worth as
much as $16, The audience received
the troupe well and will no doubt
welcome them should they return,
The Dance Theater, which travels
20-30 weeks each season, originates
as a professional affiliate of the
North Carolina School of the Arts,
Founder/Director Robert Lindgren
has asse~bled an excellent group of
young performers,
The Washington Center, however,
may not be the best place to show
their talents, The dull, boxy proscenium reminds us of a TV set, only we are looking out from the inside. Its colors are like a Washington
winter, metallic grey and green. The
place could use some plants and
pieces of artwork to fill the empty
corners and bleak walls,
Scheduled next week at the
WCPA are the Olympia Symphony
and Masterworks Choral Ensemble
performing Beethoven's Ninth, See
them November 3 at 7 p,m, Tickets
range from $4 to $10 ,
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A prese'n tation by
Feminist author, playwright and poet.
Rarely does an event come along that
has the potential of bringing together
two of Olympia's most active groups -the women's movement and the anti
war / anti - nuclear movement. This
promises to be such an event !!
at the RECITAL HALL
Lecture: A Woman Thinks About War
when: Nov. 15, 1985
at 8:00 p.m. (friday)
Workshop: Femin;sm and Nuclear War
_when: Nov. 17, 1985 C.A.B.l08
from I - 4 p.in. (sunday)
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by Bob Reed
GOEDUCKS StUN
MEN'S SOCCER
PLU
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The Evergreen men's soccer team
combined a strong defensive effort
with a productive offense to forge a
3-\ first-ever victory over Pacific
Lutheran University,
"It was a good first-half of soccer for both teams, We played more
of our best overall soccer during the
first half. We were fee ling our way
and played a bit tentatively offensively, but had good defensive intensity," said Evergreen coach Arno
Zoske,
Kevin Schiele, with two goa ls and
an assist for Evergreen, found the
nel 10 minutes into the second hall'
and then again with seven seconds
remaining, Tim Joyce took a pass
from Schiele and scored the cl incher
two minutes later. PLU's goal came
on a penalty kick with two minules
left in the game,
Schiele said, "We were up for this
game, We were the underdogs but
we didn'r let that get us down,
Everybody just played their hearts
out. "
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Zoske singled out the play of
goalie Doug Smith and the midfield,
He said, "Mid fielders Steve Robbins
and Kevin Dahlstrom had their best
defensive games. Adam Kasper and
Sean Medved had good offensive
and defensive games ,
"This ~as our most important
win this season and possibly our biggest win ever."
The game was the first district
counter for Evergreen, The final two
Goeduck district games are with
Whitman and Whitworth, Saturday
October 26 and November 2, The
winner of Evergreen's bracket will
likely play nationally ranked Simon
Fraser.
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On Saturday, October 26, the
Goeducks scored their second
district victory with a 2-1 victory
over Whitman, Sean Medved and
Adam Kasper each scored goals in
the first 10 minutes to give Evergreen
an early lead, Whitman scored their
lone goal just before the end of the
first half.
"I t was pretty much an even
game, Both teams had other opportunities to score, Whitman is, like
Evergreen, a young team, They
played hard and well and never gave
up," Zoske said,
Zoske singled out Ihe play of
defenders Darrell Saxton and Steve
Robbins , Zoske said "Our passing
could be better. We were pressing up
too much and then leaving ourse lves
open on defense," Evergreen has its
final district game this Saturday at
home al 2 p,m, against Whitworth,
The Goeducks need a tie to go on in
post-season play,
our problems were with people being unmarked and lack of communication to remedy that situation,
especially between the goalie and
defenders, The UW team, with their
experience, has the ability to confuse
the opposing defense,
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"Our players need to talk about
defensive coverage, Offensively I
feel like we're holding on to the ball
too long and then forcing our passes,
We need to work on passing
sooner. "
WOMEN IMPROVE IN 3-0 LOSS
TO U OF PORTLAND
"We played a lot better this time
against them than the previous
game, when we lost 5-0 , We had
some really good moments offensively, had better ball control and
were more together as a team,
"We used the whole field, Maria
Gonzales and Erica Buchanan really hustled on offense. The halfbacks
did an excelle~t job of giving sup-
port," said center-fullback Cindy
Broadbent,
The Goeducks again had most of
their trouble in the second half.
Behind I'{) at the half, the team gave
up two goals in the last 20 minutes,
Broadbent said that the team needs
to work on more accurate passing
and better defensive coverage,
especially in the midfield area,
The team goes to Lewis and Clark
for it s next game on Friday,
November 1.
WOMEN'S SOCCER TEAM
LOOKS TOWARD PLU AFTER
TWO LOSSES
It is unfortunate that the women's
soccer team could not stop their
games after the first half. If they
could, according to coach Jane
Culliton, the scores would look
much better. She said, "I feel like
we let up mentally in the second
half. "
The University of Washington led
1-0 at the half and then scored three
goals in 10 minutes before eventually
winning 5'{). Culliton said, "We had
a great first half: we spread out and
moved the ball well.
"During the second half a lot of
The Wilderness Center is starting to put
together their winter schedule and still has
some fall trips yet to come, Assuming
non - snowy weather and sufficient interest, there will be a 50 mile bicycling
trip Sunday, Nov. 3rd, This trip is intended for those people not familiar with cycling trails around Olympia, According to
director Pete Steilberg, "this has been the
most sucessful year ever for the CenterWe've had at least 75 people for each
trip." Ski mountaineering and x - country
skiing will be winter program hiighlights.
Check with Pete in CRC 302 for details.
Women's Basketball??? All those interested in intramurals can contact Coordinator Leah Johnson at 866 - 8085.
Get Wrecked!!! this will be the sock-hop
party of the year! The action begins at 70
p,m. on Friday Nov. 8th. and runs
continuous through 7 a,m.There will be
games, a Beer Garden, pool, saunas, and
Hot Tubs, too. The infamous "Turkey Trot"
will follow on Nov. 76th. Check with
Corey in CRC 302 for details . ..
Ultimate Frisbee players of all sexes
meet Wednesday and Friday from 3 - 5
and Sunday from ,) - 6_ According to the
"Ultimate Experts" the game is great
exercise, lots of fun and one of those rare
athletic activities that integrates intense
competition and fair play with without the
need for referees or officials_
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Rediscovering the bicycle
by Todd Litman
solo adventures, freedom,
' ,s 100 years ago that the first
, ', ' rn bi.:ydcs went into producJ " , Since tht>n bicycles have touchI practically everybody's life from
,e million" in China to the children
next door. Most carry fond
memories of bicycling, presents
from randparents, visits to friends,
The bicycle is a tool and symbol
of fun, adventure and increasing
responsibility. Bicycling is probably
as close as most get to flying like
birds. Soaring swiftly through the air
propelled by rhythmic motions,
quiet and independent, but with a
hmt ot dan er.
Bicycling is a terrific form of
transportation, Not only because it
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Any realistic utopia is sure to rely on
bicycling for much of its transportaion. Little wonder the western
world is rediscovering the importance of bicycling.
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There are a lot of tobacco pushers
at Evergreen. They offer cigarettes
to innocent students like you in
hopes of getting you addicted to that
"demon weed" for life. And they
make it look so cool and fun that
you're tempted to take a few puffs
or even (God forbid) a drag.
. Well, just DON'T YOU DO IT!
Stop to consider the following
highly documented facts about
smoking:
• In addition to tobacco and
chemicals, the average cigarette contains a number of "secret ingredients" which supposedly give a
cigarette its characteristic flavor.
Among these ingredients are pus,
slime, amputated limbs, and live
small children .
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• Jerry Falwell has scripturally proven that smoking is an abomination
against God using the following
biblical passage:
"Smoking is the root of all evil"Acts 11:6
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• Excise taxes paid on cigarettes
allow the United States Government
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I was desperate. I'd been looking
for an apartment near campus for
months. The first three weeks of the
quarter I'd been sleeping in my '64
Bug, twisted, cradled, and suspended in positions that would amaze
Masters and Johnson, (and maybe
even Joan Collins).
I saw one of those ads for a hempsmoking,' left-handed, politically
compatible, gay, Rajneeshie, Latvian juggler and one man band.
With a tolerance for others.
I was willing to fake it. I rubbed
the Buddhas' tummy and waited for
them to answer the door. The moment they grabbed me I knew.
I was in the hands of the most insidious group of fanatics ever to
spring forth from the bowels of this
campus. THE VEGETARIAN
CONSPIRACY.
The smell of bean curd lingered in
the air like cheap perfume. I studied
my captors. None of them weighed
more than 110 pounds, but they
were the toughest bunch I'd ever
seen.
All the legends were there ,
"Wholistic" Herbie Wannamaker,
the mastermind behind last week's
suicide truck bombing of Fulton's
Fish Market; Deborah "Sunflower"
Goldfarb, whose daring midnight
raid on the biology lab liberated over
500 white mice and small wingedreptiles (rumor had it she was the
gun runner for the Animal Liberation Front); and their legendary and
mysterious leader, the one known
only as "Okra."
If I live to be 100, I'll never forget
the look in his eyes. It was a cross
between an Indian pain mystic and
a little boy who'd just discovered the
unspeakable thrill of frying a"nts with
a magnifying glass.
The others held him in awe
because he wouldn't even eat yogurt
(live bacteria).
"So, at last ve meet, Mr. Smith .
Ze last meat-eater at Evergreen. Ve
haf been waiting for you for a long
time," he said, holding an emaciated
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Olde Ben: "Could you possibly loan
me some moolah so I can shoot
craps with the other old forts?"
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The money you spend on cigarettes also winds up in the hands of
tobacco farmers from North
Carolina, most of whom are Klan
members.
• Children exposed to smoking early in life become delinquents and
vandals who roam the streets opposing the idea of a Reagan third term
and refusing to register for the draft.
• The filter of the average cigarette
remains radioactive for more than
10,000 years after its use.
• Smoking causes you to use dumb
phrases involving the word "shit",
such as "slicker than shit on a
doorknob", "well I'll be dipped in
shit", and "smiling like a skunk
eating shit off a wire brush."
• Smoking has been linked to
COWS, a painful viral infection in
which cows grow out of al\ parts of
the body.
• Every cigarette you smoke
shortens your lifespan by 35 years.
• After years of smoking, the
kidneys begin a slow migration
toward the anterior part of the body,
eventually causing the throat to swell
to enormous sizes.
• Smoking robs the blood of important compounds that keep you from
imploding and becoming a black
hole.
The vegetarian
conspiracy strikes!
by Larry SmIth
THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL
cat in his lap while sounding surprisingly like Ernst Stavro Blofeld in a
James Bond movie. They gloated,
showing me all their unspeakable
tortures; the dreaded tofu gauntlet,
the dripping Red Miso torture, and
the dehumanizing "anything goes"
stirfry.
In their laboratory they performed ghastly experiments. They forcefed them fungus, algae, seaweed.
and tree sap. AlI in the name of
science, they said. But those were the
lucky Ol\es. The converted ones
looked and talked like lobotomized
moonies at the airport.
They were to be the shock troops
in their horrifying plan for worldwide conquest in their unholy cause.
"Today ze (:orner, SAGA, undt ze
Asterisk, tommorrow . . . ZE
VERLD!!"
I was almost ready to break but
they pushed me one step too far .
(shudder) ~HEY PUT SPROUTS
ON MY NACHOS!! The fiends. I
snapped .
I can't remember what happened
next, but it was right after I saw
Rambo.
Maybe we can get Chuck Norris
to take care of 'em, or maybe Uncle
Ronnie wilI be will in" to support
Contras to overthrow this threat to
our way of life. But until then, be
brave. Don't give in. I didn't believe
the stories about Evergreen either at
first. There can't realIy be people
like that. But there are. Let's be
careful out there.
Getting the story: Writer
journeys to Heck and back
by Duane Anderson
Vowing not to be bamboozled
once again by that dam deadbeat,
Dave tile Editor, I made my way into the diabolical office of the Cooper
Point Journal. On the walls of this
tainted place, pictures ranging from
Quizmaster to a congressman's
llama were pasted up. On the floor,
remains of innocent writers' articles
lay in shreds. The shredding had
been done by x-acto-knife-happy
Dave the Editor, a man who lives for
yellow--if not full blown jaundiced-journalism. Tempting fate itself, I
foolishly thought I could get Dave
to pay back the five thousand bucks
I loaned him for his African
roadtrip.
"Hey Dave," I uttered so that he
would notice me.
"Hey buddy," Dave breathed
through a smile so big it would have
taken two Crest Patrol teams to proteet it from the Cavity Creeps." Boy
am I glad to see ya, buddy, 01' pal,"
he exclaimed in a manner that made
me feel real warm. "Hey ya crazy
scamp," he went on, "You're hand
is in the hot art waxer."
After blowing a good deal on my
scaldering[sic--really] hand, I asked
Dave why he was oh so glad to see
me.
"Well, dear heart, the staff was
laying out this week's paper and we
found a big hole which we had no
copy to fill with. Now, bud, you
know I'm no fan of White Art and
so I need some filler within a few
hours, and, by golly, you're just the
sucker--I mean friend--to crank out
some filler. . Maybe some kind of
Halloween chit. Great. This is realIy nice of ya. Well, I'll see ya when
you're done."
Stunned by Dave's words, I turned to leave. I was trying to remember
what Halloween was when Dave
shouted to me, "By the way, I
ordered two Domino's pizzas, but
I'm fresh out of money. Now I know
ya don't wanl mf' to lose my i"h over
some stupid scandal over pizza, so
could ya spot me twenty-five bucks?
Oh what the hey, make it thirty.
Even more if you have it."
Now, completly broke, I found
my way towards the CP J exit, but
I just didn't know what to write.
Just as I was about to leave, though,
I noticed a picture of Olde Ben.
OLDe BEN! Yes that's my answer,
I figured . Olde Ben was sure to be
good for a story or at least or at least
he probably knew what in the world
Halloween was.
me on the head with his turkey
So I picked my way through the
drumstick.
Evergreen campus, in search of that
When I came to I found myself in
wise guy sage and possible alien
a place that could only be Heck. I
from space: OLDe BEN. I found
mean the temperature wasn't real
Ben going through the dumpsters in
high, but it was hotter than tepid .
the dorms' courtyard .
Now, one might usually get despon"Hello, Mr. Olde Ben, sir," I utdent over such a predicament as wintered with more than just a little
ding up in Heck, but I took comfort
respect for his wisetude and possiin the fact that the bunny had not
ble alienness.
asked to borrow money from me .
"Boy am I glad to see you, after
Well, Heck turned out to be what
all this time," Ben exclaimed while
you would expect Heck to turn out
smiling a smile so big you could use
to be. Some pseudo-elves, who were
its glow for a lighthouse in darkest
not quite attractive and hadn't bathAfrica--except for the fact that there
ed in a few weeks, made me sit in a
are no rocky, ocean coasts in darkest
lounge chair that was missing some
Africa. "Say, since you are my
of the webbing and they made me
dearest friend," he purred like a lion
watch old Ronald Reagan movies
with gas, "Could you possibly loan
but with the audio of Gilligan's
me some moolah so I can shoot
Island reruns dubbed over the
craps with the other old farts?"
original soundtracks.
Olde Ben looked so tragic that my
After the films, the unornamenheart really bled for the guy. So it
tal elves made me go to bed without
was with shame that I told Ben that
my supper. In the middle of the
I had given my last red cent to Dave
night these soiled elves woke me up
the Editor.
by throwing a pie in my face and
"I bet it was a red cent, you comthen they proceeded to tell me dead
mie pinko pig!" Ben all of a sudden
baby jokes.
.
screamed at the top of his lungs.
In the morning, those stinky elves
"But, Ben, Ben ... ," I beseeched.
woke me up by tickling my feet and
"Get out of here, you harpseal
then they told me that I had to go
mangler," Olde Ben growled. Then
see the dickens, himself. Needless to
he stomped off in utter disgust at my
say, I would have quaked in my
ingratitude.
boots at this moment if I had been
Well, I just sat down on the spot
wearing boots. I mean, gosh ... the
I had been standing on and began to
dickens!
cry. Surely this was my darkest hour.
So anyway, the gamy elves rolled
I felt real bad for how I wronged
me down a longish hallway. Then I
Ben.
had to open a door made of elm and
Then I felt a tap on my shoulders.
thread my way through a littered
I looked up and saw what could onroom that smelled of decaying
Iy have been the Halloween Bunny.
journalists.
He was white and well over six feet
Then, to my left, I heard a cackle
tall. He wore a red stocking cap and
and these words : ' 'I am the
he was gnawing on a turkey leg .
dickens!"
"What's wrong with you,
Iturned, and there, leaning across
chump?" grunted this massive
an immense desk, was no other
bunny.
than ... Dave the Editor!
"Well, Mr. Bunny, sir, I have
"I am the dickens," he sinisterly
wronged the most wise and most
repeated. "Where is my filler copy!"
possibly alien person on this fine
Dave chortled nastily.
campus," I whined, but' with much
I looked up and on the wall I saw
respect for his elongatedness.
the picture of that congressman's
"So?" The albino rodent snarled .
llama. Now it all was beginning to
"Well, I mean ... Gee Whiz ... "
make some sense .. .
"What did you say?!"
I turned torwards the door and
"Well ,... Gee Whl'z . "
began t0 run, wen d'109 my way out
"How dare you take His name in
of the room at '! breakneck speed.
vain?! Don't you realize Gosh darns
In the end, though, I can take
people to Heck for taking the name
comfort in the fact that I learned
of his Son, Gee Whiz, in vain? Oh
something from all this: Next time
you nasty excuse for a human!"
someone tells me to go to Heck, I'll
And before I could utter, "Wha'
know to go to the office of the
the?" the elevated bunny wopped
Cooper Point Journal.
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