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Table
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Contents
Cover by Jane Keating

LETTERS ................................ 3·5
INFORMATION ...................... 6-9
OPINION ................... 10,11,14,27
1NTERVIEW ........................ 12-13
FEATURES .......................... 15·17
• Paul Simon Comes to Town
• Celebrating Women 's Week

ARTS Ir ENTERTAINMENT20-23
PHO.TO ESSAY ................... 24-25
STUDENT GROUPS ............... 26
CALENDER ......................... 28-29
GREENERSPEAK ..................... 31
COMICS ................................... 32
Staff: Chris Carson, Ad Manager; Susan
Finkel, Advisor; Janis Byrd, Editor pro
tern; Kathleen Kelly, Productin Coordinator; Lisa Otey , Business Manager;
Whitney Ware, Typesetter ; Juli e
Williamson, Ad Production; Aaron
Yanick, Distribution.
Editor (suspended) : Ben Tansey
Volunteers: Jane
Keating, Photo Editor; Sheila Pullen,
Arts and Entertainment Editor; Kristin
Fontaine, Calendar 'Editor; John Robinson , Larry John Davenport, Vikki
Mich~lio§.J Maia BeI\QP~Arn:l RjJ~}'.,
J ames Oshiro, Ellen Te'p per, Kelly
Hawk, Robert Murray, and Goodman.

Deadlines for Thursday publication :

Cale nder items-one week in advance
Articles-Friday at 3:00 pm
Letters-Monday at 3:00 pm
The C~oper Point Journal is published
weekly on the Campus of the Evergreen
State Colle ge, Olympia, Washington
. 98505 (CAB 306A); (206)866-8000, ext.
26213 & 6054. Copyright © 1988.

On Being Liberal:
An Editor's Notc
by Janis Byrd
. Folks who know me we ll , know I experienced radical culture sho~k
transplanting m yself from conservative
Orange Count y, California, to liberal
Evergreen.
I was warned about all
the weird people I was sure to encounter here. Basically they referred to
the "wild" and "radical" liberals soon
to be my classmates. After 3 years here
at Evergreen, 1 still haven ' t met more
than a couple of liberals.
Attending the great experimental
Evergreen, where students demand
participatory governance, requires
knowledge of the key principles of selfgovernment. Effective "rule of the
students" requires an informed student
body, an agreed-upon social contract
and the belief in a loyal opposition.
The first two principles are obvious;
it's the third that poses a bit of a problem. Loyal opposition is the expectation and understanding that both of
two perhaps irreconcilably opposed
groups are equally interested in bett~r­
ing our school. Everyone must reahze
that opposing viewpoints are just as
valid and equally important. Then, we
must conduct ourselves accordingly.
A liberal, as defined by Webster, is
a "broad" or "open minded" individual. Thus , at Evergreen 1 expected freedom of thought, validated
by freedom of expression, i.e. speech,
publication, religious practice, etc.
Tolerance is the key. Yet, as 1 mentioned last week, there's always an inclination on the part of certain groups
to deny to others what they themselves
don't like. This is the opposite of
tolerance. And, 1 certainly see a lack
Letter Policy: All letters must be in by
2 ' p.m . Monday for consideration for
that week's publication . They should
be short and to the point (not to exceed
300 words). Editors reserve the right
to respond to points addressed to the
journalistic integrity of the paper in
the editors' column, but not in the letters ·section. Letters are subject to
review for libel , honesty, clarity and
verification. They should address a
specific issue of concern. Letters are
encouraged, however, publication is
not foregone.

of tolerance among "good liberal
students ." (Maybe tolerance should be
put in droplets and sprinkled on the
alfalfa sprouts?)
A broad minded person tends to be
long-suffering towards people with differing opinions. This requires maturity of course. But the mature person can
acknowledge other opinions without
agreement or adherence to them. True
liberals don't become contaminated by
opposition. This can be tough at times,
but who said maturity is easy?
The purpose of the liberal arts
education is exposure. It means exposure to art, history, politics,
literature AND differing opinions. It
means learning about others and how
they function. It doesn't mean changing everyone to fit your belief system.
I t does not mean everyone must adhere
.to your beliefs or shut up.
Actually, the best way to convert someone is to understand and tolerate his
or her beliefs-not through alienation
by your personal objections. Listening
to the opposition and understanding
the real meaning behind the words
will, if you allow it, hone your own
viewpoints as well as fine-tune your
argument.
After all, if you are completely convinced of the correctness of your opinion' and you are an intelligent person, calm conversation might be
enough to sway someone to your belief.
However, one thing is fairly
definite-a radical reaction to opposition tends to alienate the person you
are trying to convince. And, alienation
shuts off the mind.
All of this means thinking before you
speak, making sure of what you want
to say, understanding what you heard
the other person say, and not assuming what you think they said. Most importantly though, a true liberal always
remembers to oppose the idea, not the
person embracing the idea.
Some fear the "radical right." This
group conjures up images of fascism
and other extremes. However well
founded this fear may be, I find the intolerant . liberal equally scary. The
. person who believes whathe believes,
is convinced of its truth, and needs to
convince everyone else of his truth to
the exclusion of other beliefs, is standing
on
the
foundation
of
totalitarianism.
March 3. 1988

BLURRING
To the Editor,
I would like to respond of Janis Byrd's
Editor Note of February 25. Ms . Byrd
expresses "concern" about what she sees
as a "fatal blurring of issues" in the
g r ievances brought against Ben Tansey .
In my opinion, however, it is Ms. Byrd
(among one or two others-see" Nurturing Hyposcrisy" by Robert Murray ,
same issue) who is blurring the issue by
dragging the First Amendment into a
question of an editor's competence. The
First Amendment does not protect
anyone's right to hang on to a job they're
not performing capably. The First
Amendment protects the individual
against state censorship. Students at this
school do not constitute a state; and the
issue at hand is not freedom of editorial
expression, but of competence.
I find it hard to understand how
anyone could read the grievances that
students have brought to the Comm
Board and mistake them for attacks on
Mr. Tansey's First Amendment rights .
Students have complained about having
their articles censored-surely this is
within their rights, and no infringement '
upori anyone else's . Other studentsincluding myself-have registered
specific, CQncrete doubts about Mr .
Tansey's competence as an editor .
Nothing personal, nothing demanding
that he should be deprived of his constitutional right to speak. As part of the
Editor's job description requres that he
or she "work well with people," complaints of personal abuse and mismanagement of staff are entirely relevant. Again ,
I think it should be pointed out that the
First Amendment qo~s_ .Jlot protect
anyone's right to mismanage or verbally
abuse staff, contributors or students in
general.
I was a little surprised, therefore , to
read such a slanted editorial. Where do
the student complaints receive fair and
equal representation? Ms. Byrd implies
that they are motivated by personal
dislike . " ... accusations of incompetence
have been intermingled with mannerisms
a nd perhaps personality? " .-does thi ~
mean that all ofthe complaints have been
wit hou t app ropirate substance or

pertinence?
This editorial, in my opinion, seeks to
invalidate students by innuendo . No one,
reading it, could guess that concrete, impersonal complaints have been brought
against Mr . Tansey's editorship (note: not
against Mr. Tansey per se) by six student
groups and half of this years CPJ staff.
(Robert Murray, by the way, should be
told that the First People's Coalition comprises 5 entirely distinct and independent
student organizations.) Furthermore,
such complaints have been arisingrepeatedly-since Fall quarter: which at
least suggests that there may actually be
a problem that has not yet been addressed. I would think that the editors and advisor of the CPJ would care to take such
consistent complaints, coming from so
many different students, seriouslyinstead of trying to hush the complaints,
invalidate those who bring them, and
blur the issue with this First Amendment
red herring.
Sincerely,
Carol Poole

ELITE OPINION
Dear Evergreen Community,
Perhaps there is no better place to hide
personal biases than behind "professional" canons, because there one may
find companionship and justificatiQn in
an institutionalized behavior. The shield
of journalism was not quite big enough
to hide our editor-in-suspension, but
some others are doing their best to cover
his tracks. In the most recent issues of the
Tansey epic, two pages and five pieces
were devoted to Ben's suspension, at least
three of which supported Tansey. But no
where did complainants articulate their
views. And while unpopular letters are
now requested to be less than 300 words,
the editor's note is expanding into a
novella.
This sort of balance has precedent in
journalism. From the Canadian journal ,
Our Generation, Volume 18, Number 2:
" .. . compliance of elite opinion is revealed very clearly by what is called 'the
debate ' over aid to the contras .. . the two

major national newspapers-the New
York Tirrus and the Washington Postdevoted to this matter (first three mo.nths
1986) no less than 85 opinion pieces by
regular columnists and invited contributors . All 85 were hostile to teh Sandinistas, the overwhelming majority bitterly hostile; thus total conformity was
maintained o.n the central issues ... not a
single phrase noting that in sharp contrast
to our loyal allies and clientB, the Sandinista government, whatever its sins,
does not slaughter its own population."
Recently Ben Tansey rejected a letter
about the Palestinian people. He called
it an article disguised as a letter, claimed
the right to distinguish between letters
and opinion (the two. are mutually exclusive of course) and suggested that it'
might be necessary to limit the cO.ntent
of letters, if I persisted in persecuting the
editor with these tactics. Similarly those
who have been outspoken on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the U.S.
have (at least until recently) have denied
access to the national media and journals
of opinion including: Edward Said,
Noam ChQmsky, Stokely Carmichael,
Hassan Rahmn, and others.
Alexander Cockburn, a writer for The
Nation and The Wall StreetJournal said that
editors do not spend all day deciding
what to tell you, rather they decide what
they can get away with not telling you .
although Ben Tansey is in many ways an
innocent and well-intentioned he is also.,
in my judgement, an o.pportunist and a
conflict-driven personality who bemoans
his persecution after having thrust himself
into the middle o.f it.
In perhaps one of his most ridiculous
incidents he required that a news story
about gQvernenance day be cleared by the
administration before printing it. It
doesn't matter to me who is . editor, so
long as all members of t~e community
have fair and equal access . However, if
Ben Tansey wishes to. learn the techni~
ques of information control, there are better places for it. I would . prefer that the
CPJ,strive to be a good example of ethical
journalism for the corporate news .n:tedia .

,Sincerely,
Hector Douglas

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Letters

Letters

FAREWELL
To die editor of the CPJ,

NO DISCOVERY
Editor, Cooper Point Journal,
The February 25 CPj included a Black
History Month tribute to Matthew Henson, who accompanied Admiral Peary on
numerous polar explorations. The article unfortunately perpetuates the myth
we were all taught in grade school, namely that Peary (and Henson) discovered
the North Pole. In fact, they never came
within 150 miles of the Pole, as
demonstrated in Dennis Roberts' 1973
book Peary at the North Pou: Fact or Fiction?
and David Roberts' 1982 Great Exploration Hoaxes.
Henson. howev~r. is probably
blameless in the fraud because he had
no independent method to verify Peary's
navigational calculations. Moreover,
Peary's 1909 hoax only continued the
tradition of faked polar discoveries began
in 1908 by Frederick Cook's claim to
have reached the North Pole on foot, and
subsequently by Admiral Richard E.
Bryd's claim to have flown over the
North Pole in 1926. Simple calculations
based on the number of hours spent in
the air and the maximum speed of Byrd's
tri-motor Fokker reveal that, while Byrd
achieved world fame, he never achieved
the North Pole.
The first persons actually to do so were
aboard a dirgible commanded in 1926 by
Ronald Amundsen (who actually won the
race to the South Pole in 1911). The first
persons actually to stand on the North
Pole were the American crew of a skiequipped C-47 that landed there in
1953 , and the honor of being tbe first
persons to reach the Pole by land' goes. to
a snowmobile party led by Ralph Plaisted
in 1968!
Sincerely,
Steve Jones

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A 'SHAME

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Dear Evergreeners,

Y a' all missed a great performance by
the Total Experience Choir and an ex4 cellent lecture on Black history downtown
March 1. 1988

on Friday, February 26.
There were posters around campus announcing it, so where were you? I'm surprised that more people weren't there;
you don't often find a choir as good as
the Total Experience, or a voice as
powerful as their leader Pat Wright. She
brought the house to its feet at the end
with a rousing gospel interlude.
It's a shame more people weren't
there. 'Nough said.
Darrel W. Riley

TRASH
Dear Evergreen Community,
I can't believe the amount of trash .that
has accumulated along OUR campus'
pathways! Lets' all take a few seconds to
solve this problem, especially between the
dorms and the rec center. This environment needs and deserves our care! Thank
you.
Karen KIefer

'The Mob'
To the Editor:
.As in all instances where gross insensitivity and abuse of power in a public
figure come under attack (the cases of
Nixon and Bork come to mind, alongside
that of Ben Tansey), the primary
di~course citing those insensitrvities starts
to be stalked by a secondary discourse
that portrays the public figure as an "individual," suffering from the caprices of
"the mob" or the machinations of some
wicked cabal; or. (bewilderingly enough)
both at the same time.
. Last week, there appeared a piece in
the CPj by Robert Murray, distinguished by the bold legend, "Petty Lies and
Backroom Political Conspiracies"
~oating, disemboided, in the midst of the
text.
Murray makes reference to the First
Amendment as if it is being endangered

by the efforts to remove Tansey. This
conception of the First Amendment is
highly flawed. Editors are fired by
publishers all the time. The First Amendment does not create an enormous
latitude for employus of a newspaper to
wantonly disregard its editorial policy.
Freedom of the press is the freedom of a
print entitled to constitute itself in an
editoral policy. This the CPj has done in
the EACs and in its own goals and objectives. Tansey is charged with wantonly
disregarding those EACs and those goals
and objectives. The CPj, as represented
by the Comm Board, is free to dismiss
Tansey if they are convinced that he is
in violation of these codes.
Murray makes reference to "one or
two" student groups using "their influence to extort service from another
legitimate student organization." Murray's reference to "one or two groups"
is highly symptomatic of his frame of
mind. The First People's Coalition is just
that-a coalition of five student groups
that represent a huge diversity of
cultures. Murray's breezy conllation of
such rich diversity into "one group" is
in fact a replication of the sort of insensitivity that is prohibited in the EACs, as
is his seeming inability to decide whether
the LlGRC is really a group (as
demonstrated by the concessive "or
two.")
Murray, further, has entirely lost sight
of fact that half of the CPj staff (many of
whom have no allegiance to these "one
or two groups," are also demanding
Tansey's removal.
Like the Bork nomination, which was
ultimately killed by middle-of-the-road
conservative senators, and Nixon's
presidency, which was finished off by a
unanimous Supreme Court, Tansey's
fate will not be sealed by any clamorous
mob of "one or two groups" conspiring
silently in all of their sound and fury. It
will be decided by the Comm Board,
which has been entrusted with maintaining the editorial policies of the CPJ .
Sincerely,
Jeremy Morrison

I have enclosed a poem with this letter
which I would like to be printed in your
paper.
The poem was written for a friend of
a friend that, I understand, must leave
the college to solve a family problem of
importance. I have been asked to create
this poem as a farewell.
If it is possible, please print the piece
in next week's edition so that she may
receive it prior to her departure. If this
cannot be done then please publish it as
soon as possible .
Thanks,
C . Kingfisher
A Letter from a Western Town
The girl came down in her summer
dress
and cross the field went toward me.
I had never seen her look like this,
She had done her hair in a different
way.
Her hand she laid in my hand,
rest her head upon my shoulder
and never made a sound.

DUE PROCESS
To The Editor:
Regarding my article entitled "Nurturing Hypocrisy" I wish to clarify my
intent for those expressing concern that
most of the article may mainly be directed
toward the Communication Board. Aside
from a piece of dis information about what
can be made public as well as some real
procedural errors (deviation3 from The
Evergreen Administrative Code) in the
Ben Tansey situation, I believe that the
Communications Board has and will continue to act in good faith . Their task is
to interpret the EAC (and hopefully the
CPj mission statement and staff duties)
to determine if Ben has reasonably lived
up to his job as editor.
It is also the task of the Communications Board to check the credentials
(credibility) of those with complaints.
Some complaints are quite legitimate, but
there is clear evidence that some are indeed untrue representations or have
motivations that do not help the paper
serve the Evergreen community.
Surely the most damaging and perti-

nent piece is from the CPj staff. Let's
confirm the desires of legitimate staff:
qualified as legitimate by the hours of actual production time put in or the
number of actual articles (note: it's
always more accurate to consider work as
turned in rather than as finally printed).
I have no doubt that you would be amazed at how those who most want change,
and complain the loudest, are the ones
with the least input! Some of those who
signed the staff petition and are legitimate
workers on the paper have told me that
they did not agree with the charges or
would not sign it again-also that the
pressure to sign was intense (duress).
I am not an old buddy of Ben Tansey
but I don't need to be paid off to support
someone who has stood for their own
beliefs and now has the deck stacked
against them.
Sincerely,
Robert Murray
P .S. There is no possibility for Ben
Tansey to receive full and appropriate
due process because of the fact that currently, Evergreen has no grievance
procedures.

This steel grey sky breathes
emptiness
through the yard waterholes freeze.
My father built a ship here
like his father before him .
Once she said I have his eyes,
blue as any winter storm,
blue as any winter storm,
that rages beyond a western town.
The girl drew me down to wait beside
her,
wait for her night and find tht. '3.ts.
A year has passed since we have
kissed,
A year I have been memory,
My touch is soft as a whisper
She whispersi I seem miles away
Farther than I've ever been,
miles away and outward bound,
A memory to a western town.
- C. Kingfisher

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March 3. 1988

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Information _ __

_ __ Information

Won Ldy Giving Dance Lessons
bv Corev Meador
African instructor and performer
Won Ldy Paye will teach dance at 4:00
pm March 6 in CRC-307.
During the planning of last year's Intermltio~al ~omen's Day celebration
several students of color spoke out against
one of the proposed performances, an
outgrowth of the Rec. Sports African
Dance Jam billed as "African Dance."
While the troupe performed African
style movements, none of the dancers
were actually African . It was seen as
another example of the co-opting of an
indigenous culture by the Europeanrooted majority .

That hit a nerve for some students of
color who were already feeling culturalI y crowded by people behaving as if their
limited experiences with the dress or
language of a particular culture (be it
Black, Native American, Guatamalan,
e tc .) entitled them to claim it as their own
without having to understand the context
in which those things exist. Subsequently the Rec .. Sports activity was retitled
, 'Africian Style Dance Jam" .
Recognizing the need for sensitivity
and education in this area, African Style
DanceJam coordinator Missa Marmalstein asked that Won Ldy Paye, an instructor/performer from the Langston

Hughes Cultural Center In Seattle, be
brought to campus to teach some authentic African dances.
This Sunday , March 6, at 4:00 pm in
CRC-307 Won Ldy will be teaching the
Su Pu Ton ("Moonlight Dance") of the
Dan people of Liberia, West Africa.
A donation of $3-$4 is requested,
though any amount will help, and no one
will be turned away unless the room fills.
No previous experience is necessary.

PIRG Wants
Voters
by Todd Hudak
With over 1,500 students signing in
support, the Washington Public Interest
Research Group (WashPIRG), the
state's largest non-profit, non-partisan
consumer and environmental organization , successfully completed the first
phase of its reaffirmation process here on
the Evergreen Campus. The second
phase , a referendum vote, will happen
March 9.

Every two years since its inception in
1983-84, the Evergreen chapter of
WashPIRG has gone to the student body
and gained a majority of student support
in order to retain the waivable 52.50 fee
with which it is funded . The fee was last
reaffirmed in 1986 by the Board of
Trustees after a majority of students
voted in favor of it. The chapter will be
going to the Board once again in April
to renew our contract after the referendum .vote.
The chapter would like t~ thank the
mQ[e than 2~ people who helped petition
throughout the week, and all of those who
~igned the petition. We wi!l be tabling iJ!
the CAB and other areas around campus
March 9:

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Everybody is encouraged to vote, to
have their opinion heard, on the waivable
fee for WashPIRG. We urge everybody
to vote yes.

DTF Writing New Conduct Code
by Eric Kuhner
A group of students, staff and faculty
members began meeting last Friday to
write a code of conduct for all members
of the Evergreen community.
The group, called the Grievance and
Appeals Disappearing Task Force
(DTF), has been instructed to decide
. what types of behavior need to be prohibited on campus , and to draft a list of
rules defining such behavior. Members
will also decide on penalties which can be
imposed when rules are broken, and
design a "system of justice" to establish
procedures for bIj~[ing charges against
individuals, imposing sanctions and
appealing decisions.
The DTF was formed in response to
student protest against an earlier proposal. College legal counsel Shawn
Newman, under the direction of Vice
President for Student Affairs Gail Martin, drafted a list of prohibited behaviors
and a new hearing and appeals process
which was released last November.
Students opposed the document because
they were excluded in writing it, and
because having a list of rules contradicts

the Social Contract. Several students took
their case to the Board of Trustees which
rejected Martin's proposal and gave the
Evergreen community until the Trustee's
meeting in May to corne up with an
alternative .
The eight-member DTF includes four
students, two staff and two faculty
members. The DTF chairperson is
second-year student Matt Green. The
other student members are Sung Kim, an
Eastside resident, Maureen Petan,
fourth-year student from Tacoma, and
Matt Mueller, who carne to Evergreen
from Switzerland last fall. The staff
members are Steve Bader and John
Holtz; both are Evergreen alums. Faculty
members include John Perkins who arrived in 1980, and Charles McCann who
helped found Evergreen and served as its
first President. There are also four student alternate members: Norma Baum,
Will Depesoy, David Frostad, and Ed
Love.
The DTF was instructed to consult
broadly with the Evergreen community.
The student members have committed
themselves to informing and involving as

many other students as possible with this
issue. A support group has formed to
organize forum, distribute flyers, write
articles, and coordinate other outreach
activities for the DTF .
The student members ho~ that broad
consultation will enable them to write a
document that embodies the fundamental values and desires of the students and
of the campus community.
Your opinions and involvement are being sought. If you want information, have
ideas to share or want to join the support
group, contact the Student Communications Center (next to the Deli, ext. 6785).
Student members, alternates and supporters will also be stationed in the CAB
during lunch every school day from now
until the beginning of May. Stop by and
chat with them to find out what is going
on.
The DTF meets on Fridays from 12:00
to 2 pm in Library 3121. (This location
may change-contact the Student Communications Center.) The support group
is also meeting on Fridays after the DTF
meetings at 2:30 in the CAB pit, next to
the CPj office.

Deli Expansion Questioned
by john Robinson
Vice President Sue Washburn attended Monday's S & A Board Meeting to
answer questions regarding the recent expansion of the Deli in the CAB. Many
students feel they weren't adequately consulted before the Deli was expanded .
"If you're looking for locatability, accountability .. . I'm it," she stated .
Proper 'consultation with students prior
to administrative decision making was the
main issue raised during the meeting,
and the utilization of space was the
primary concern about the particular
decision.
The ;pace in question was the "dead"
space next to the original unexlJanded
deli. It was not utilized for over a. year
following the exit of Rainier Bank. Other
banks we re not interested in the sp~e .
because it was a losing operation.
During that year, suggestions were
made abo ut h?w to use the space (some
March 3, 1988

suggestions included using it as -~. computer center, credit union, childcare
center, etc.).
With an ever-increasing enrollment
(next year funding is planned at 2900 full
time enrolled students), food services and
the bookstore were identified as the two
primary services for the CAB. Because
of the increase in students the existing deli
space was deemed inadequate . Mariott
Industries was hired to do a survey on
food services.
The result of the survey showed
students like the existing services (on the
first and secc::ind 'floors of the CAB), but
favored more variety of food.
In confronting Washburn with
, questions of accountability for the various
decisions'involved, the S&A BQard eventually arAved at the bottom of the issue:
The final decision was made Aug. 18,
when the majority of students were on a
summer break.

I n his closing comments, S&A Chairman James A. Martin summarized the
Board's problem with improper consultation : "I'd like to go on the record as saying this is a solid example of what we
mean (no real consultation) ... we always
end up losers in some sense. We'd ap. preciate it if it never happens again:
When things do happen in the summer,
at least try to do it coUaboratively."

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Information -----Bread and Roses Helps Homeless Arab and
ufevvish ~oices
by Johrz Robinson
While the house feeds both men and
The Bread and Roses hou se is tucked
women, it only houses women and
Speaking Here
away about a mile north of the heart of
children, and its five beds are always ocdowntown Olympia. Volunteers at this
two story house with yellow and red trim
have been feeding and housing the
homeless since its inception nearly five
years ago.
Four community members are live-ins
at the house; they fe ed anywhere from
10-25 people pe r night. Twenty-plus
community members now donate their
time to help out doing the shelter shifts
and cooking. The Olympia Co-op
donates its out-of-date food, which is
picked up three times a week by the
volunteers.

cupied. The length of stay is limited from
two to three weeks, and the tumaway rate
is 200 percent.
Recently , Saint John's Episcopal
Church donated its old refugee center, a
duplex, to the house's acquisitions. Tentative plans are to begin fixing up the new
addition in April. If you are interested in
volunteering at the Bread and Roses
house in any facet, your help would be
great ly
appreciated.
Internship
possibilities exist for students.
The Bread and Roses house can be
reached by calling the crisis clinic at
754-7577.

Damar in front oj a new addition to tlu Bread and Roses. Photo by Jane Keating
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Gardner: Styrofoam
by Goodman
Governor Booth Gardner is asking
state employees to minimize the use of
styrofoam cups following hard on the
heels of an anti-styrofoam crusade at
Evergreen last year.
Gardner recently sent letters to all state
age ncies and institutions asking them to
evaluate their recycling and waste reduct ion efforts. The Department of General
Administration and Department of
Ecology will lead a task force studying
how the state can reduce waste .
Styrofoam products have been singled
8 out for attention because they are not

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biodegradabl e,
and
release
chloroflurocarbons that deplete the ozone
layer around the earth.
A student protest movement at
Evergreen replaced styrofoam cups with
wax-paper cups in the Deli and Greenery
last spring.
Deli employee Kelly Arthur estimates
she gets about ten complaints a week
about the paper cups, because they are
too hot to hold when filled with coffee.
U sing two cups solves the problem.
The deli still sells seltzer water and
natural fruit juices which come is glass
bottles with styrofoam wrappers.

by Nancy Gudaitis
Two dynamic individuals will be
speaking about the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict Mar. 7 at 7:30 p.m . in Lecture
Hall 1.
Rajaa Gharbi, member of the coordinating committee for Palestinian
Human Rights Campaign, Seattle
Center Palestinian Information Center
co -founder, and local Northwest
representative of the Arab Women's
Solidarity Association will be speaking
about the Palestinian human rights issue
as an independant Arab feminist.
Neil Fox, member of No Aid For Occupation and a National Lawyers Guild
treasurer, will express the alternate
Jewish perspective of the Israeli military
occupation of the West Bank and Gaza
Strip.
The video Wild Rose documenting the
resistence of Southern Lebanese women
in the Israeli military occupation will be
shown 111 addition to the lec- '
ture/discussion.
The violent dialogue between the
rioting Palestinian demonstrators and
I sraeli military troops has escalated
within recent months bringing international media attention on a long existing
problem that is leaving Israel gravely
divided and in a state of chaos.
It is vitally important to hear about the
situation which is worsening with every
passing day. With all of the problems
within our own country we may not want
to concern ourselves with the unpleasant
internal problems of Israel. But , closing
our eyes and ears will not solve the problems. I t is not that easy .
Moreover, violence, oppression and
human suffering should not just be the
con cerns of the Israelis and Palestinians,
but of everyone who believes in the value
of human life , regardless of geographic
location.
We hope to see you at 7:30 pm Monday, Mar. 7, in Lecture Hall 1. For more
information, contact either the Women
of Color, ext. 6006 or EPIC, ext. 6144.
M arch 3, 1988

Resolution Column Seeking System Inadequacies
by James Oshiro
In an effort to better serve the
Evergreen community, the CPJ will be
providing a campus issues and problem
resolution column beginning with the first
issue to the 1988 spring term .

The purpose of the new column will be
to provide Evergreen students with
another means of seeking resolution to
problems
wi th
the
u nresol ved
bureaucracy; to re-address campus issues
students feel have been either side-

tracked or remain unanswered; and, to
utilize the power of the wri tten media to
identify and ex pose inadequacy in the
system .
The response of parties involved and
the results of the CPJ inquiry will be
printed , along with a brief background
of the request as made available. In accordance with journalistic ethics, every
attempt will be made to present all the
facts pertaining to the inquiry fairly and
obj ecti vely.

and verification of the request are
needed.
Scheduled to run weekly as needed , requests for assistance are now being accepted. Requests can be submitted to the
CPJ office, and should include a means
of contact in the advent that clarification
Because of the time required to contact
the persons or organizations involved and
to properly research the request, the CPJ
cannot guarantee an instantaneous
response; however, requests will be
printed as soon as possible.

Do You Know Where Your Caucus Is?
by Staff Members
It ' s six days ' till Super Tuesday-do
you know where your caucus is?
Student Jeff DeGarmo knows where
his is . He's the Republican Party
representative for the local Evergreen
precinct. Yes, there are a Jew campus
Republicans, so he's hosting the
Republican caucus at The Empty Space
on the second floor of A dorm (where The
Corner used to be) .
If your a dorm resident, your precinct
is "College" and the Democratic caucus
will be held at the L.P. Brown Elementary School. You will elect five delegates
to the county convention in April.
If you live at Ash, " Broadway" is your
you need to go to Capitol High School.
Elementary School and will elect five
delegates.
If you plan to attend a Democratic
caucus, but you don't live in the dorms

explaining he expects only 6 or 7 students
,to participate.

This local caucus, De Garmo said, will
send one delegate to the county convention in April.
All caucus meetings will have platform
discussions beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday

and voting is scheduled for 8 p.m.
Seventeen-year-olds who will be 18 by
November's voting day may participate
in the caucus process if registered by
March 8.
For a complete listing of precinct
meeting places, check the Daily Olympian 's
Sunday edition.

or at Ash, call 456-1986 or 357 -67 43 for
more information.
If you live in "Broadway" precinct
and plan to attend a Republican Caucus
DeGarmo was called by members of
the Robertson campaign and he agreed
to host the caucus. It's the first-ever
Republican caucus here.
"I'm not a party person," DeGarmo
said, "I'm not very polically minded but
I decided it ws about time. Since this is
my last year here, I thought I'd get used
to the real world .

THIS PHOTO is just part of Priscilla). Bell's work that will be on
display in the Rotunda March 9 and 10 between 11:30 a.m. and 11:30
p.m. The show is a multi-media presentation on family life combining film, video and still images created by Bell, a fourth year student
here at Evergreen.

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Opinion

Ben's Dismissal An Injustice
by Gary Diamond
I am writing this letter in response to
Ben Tansey's recent dismissal as editor
of the CPJ. As one who is not associated
with either the CPJ, the Communications
Board, or the groups of people who pressed for Ben's removal, I hope I might be
able to share a different perspective on the
matter. I would like to express why I feel
that Ben's dismissal was a serious injustice that in a larger sense is reflective
of a growing change of attitudes and
values within the Evergreen community.
Like many of my friends and companions, I too came to Evergreen seeking
an alternative to the die cast mold of conventional middle American values and
lifestyles. Allowing my idenity to freely
seek the paths of its own self expression
without the burden of societal obligations, I "let it all hang out" and sought
a higher ideal. I found many people here
also seeking liberation from conformity.
Together we believed we could make a
better world for ourselves by championing those laughably trite values of the
heart: sharing, caring, compassion,
understanding, and yes, even the "L"
word, Love.
These "Green" values found a natural
environment in which to flourish here at
Evergreen. The fruits they bore were an
artistic beauty int..he i.l!dividuals they inhabited and a community alive with a
sense of purpose. Intuitively it was
understood that we here at Evergreen
were a colorful example of people living
the peaceful values that could create the
unity and bonding necessary to bring
about The Big Change. There was a
great liberating joy in knowing that we
were each playing a small part in The Big
Change. We were free to be the creative
individuals we were meant to be, each of
us able to make our own contribution in
our own unique way towards the higher
ideals we strove to achieve . We became
artists and musicians . We became poets
and potters . We became the thinkers of
new thoughts and the tinkerers of new
toys . Wf became human rights activists
and newspaper editors.
10 I must confess that I was amonR those

we seek are unattainable and our efforts
benignly happy Green dreamers who
to achieve them merely a futile display of
sincerely believed that his own faith in the
unrealistic optimism?
beauty of a community such as ours was
enough to see its values and ideals spread
No.
We deserve more credit than that.
across the state, the nation, and the earth,
Given the inevitable short-comings of our
to shine like a second son dawning on a
human and physical limitations we have
new age. I was light years younger then
performed quite admirably. In standing
but I still hold high the traditional values
up for the ideals that rl!ake us what we
of what it means to be a Greener and I
are, we have done a fine job indeed, as
still believe that these values are what it
fine ajob in fact, as Ben Tansey has done
will take to bring about The Big Change.
all this year as editor of the CPJ.
But to put these values into a working
But as The Big Change continues to
reality requires organization. It would be
elude us and all our efforts to bring it
pointless to think we could walk up to a
about are confined to an arena scarcely
biggot in Johannesburg and say, "I love
larger than the distribution radius of the
you Mr. Botha. Please stop apartheid."
Cooper Point Journal, a genuine frustraYes love can and will end hatred but its
. tion sets in . The injustices we see in our
poli;ical feasability is limited. Caring and
world anger us . Frustration and anger are
understanding alone will not stop the flow
only a natural consequence of the cirof death dollars to Central America, but
cumstances we face today . How could we
they are an incentive to signing a petifeel otherwise as we watch our lofty
tion, attending a demonstration, boycotaspirations reach only so far? And yet
ting the military industrial machine, and
frustration and anger do not mix well
living a clean life that doesn't contribute
with the Greener ideal . They do not
to the self destructive madness so perfoster the compassion, caring and
vasive in society today.
understanding that we need most. On the
To this end, dozens of organizers have
contrary, they breed a subtle bitterness
been formed within the Evergreen comand contempt that in time can grow into
munity to help provide focus for the
the fear, insensitivity, and even hatred
issues in need of attention. Committed to
the Evergreen ideal, they combat
that collectively. form the womb of prejudice . Rather than strengthening us in
everything from environmental destrucour commitments to a collective peace,
tion to racism to political corruption,
they slowly cripple us by narrowing our
while promoting cultural and intellectual
vision. What started as fighting for a
diversity. These organizations are vital to
worthy cause turns into just plain
keeping us all a nice healthy shade of
fighting, and as in all fighting, someone
Green. Without them the unity we need
must come out on top and someone must
would disperse into rippling waves of
take a fall. Someone has to be taught a
chaos .
lesson . And this is why we crucified Ben
And yet after more than 15 years of
commitment by the thousands of unique
Tansey.
The word crucify is indeed a harsh one
people that have contributed to the
but I have chosen it with careful intent.
Evergreen Community, what have we acI use it not merely to add a spice of
tually accomplished? What difference
venom to a letter protesting a grave inhave we made in this world? Where is
justice, but in the truest sense of its symThe Big Change? The fact is that for all
holic implications. Ben took our fall.
our efforts the world is still as cold and
cruel as it ever was. Our forests see more
Those who helped bring about his fall are ~ ,~
scarcely to blame for their actions, for as .
chain ' saws than spotted owls, sexual
at any good cruciflXi~l!, they know not
.
abuse walks the streets, a B-movie actor
what they do . What began as a sincere
is re-elected to the Whitel:I0use , b~ ~
desire on their behalf to overcome precourt of 49 states to one-and we are not
the one. Have we failed? Can we resign
judice and discrimination, be:ame. . ~ :,.,. ~
frustration at taking on a seemlpgly.·.~ourselves to the notion that the changes

(What brought about Ben's dismissal was not a lack of competence on his behalf, but rather the seeking
out of a fall guy by those people around him who needed to see a fall. '
surmountable calise, which in turn grew
into a desire to lash out against those
obstacles which stood in their way . The
Borks and Bothas of this world were not
within their reach, but with enough collective muscle flexing a humble
newspaper editor could be toppled. This
would certainly satisfy a desire to see
tangible results from their labors .
And so a mask of good intentions was
put in place to conceal an anger searching
for a convenient outlet in which to vent
itself. Charges of racism and sexism were
watered down into an easier to digest
assault .against Ben's competence as
editor. But where did such allegations
stem from? Was Ben really so incompetant in his abilities as editor of the CPJ?
Was he truly insensitive to the views and
opinions of those groups historically the
victims of discrimination? Nonsense, he
was nothing of the kind. Quite to the contrary, the journalistic integrity he brought
to the CPJ was commendable and if fact,
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past. The allegations brought against him
cannot honestly be substantiated. They
are absurd. His record stands for itself
and remains to be seen in any back issue
of the CPJ. I don't believe the community at large accepts the allegations against
him for a minute.
What brought about Ben's dismissal
was not a lack of competence on his
behalf, but rather the seeking out of a fall
guy by those people around him who
needed to see a fall. To a woman sensitive
to the feminist cause, Ben was clearly a
man-the symbolic originator and
perpetuator of sexism. To the homosex ual community he was a straight-a
potential representative of the
homophobic back alley gay bashers. To
a person of color, he was the white
man-the traditional oppressor. To the
staff member who worked under him as
editor, Ben was the boss-the last word
in deciding how their work would be applied in print. Perhaps to an Arab, Ben
might have be~n a Jew and thus a
historical rival. I do not know.
To the Communications Board Ben
was a problem. He w.1lS the focus of
repeated grievances filed against him by
numerous individuals and activist
_groups. The Comm Board's respqnse to

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the matter was not one made by a small
group of people gathered together to "let
it all hang out," but one made by a
supervisory board faced with the task of
rendering a decision as to what was to be
done to resolve the issue of whether or not
Mr. Tansey was in violation of EAC
174-163-020, 030, and 050. Their decision was to enact discipline.
There has been more and more talk
over the last year or so about how
Evergreen has become increasingly less
Green. I believe there is much validity to
this. Even the dogs in Red Square are
fighting amongst themselves now. They
seem to sense it as well . It is sad to think
that The Big Change may not be tfiat the
rest of the world will become Green, but
that we Greeners may become more like
the rest of the world. Unless we make a
conscious effort to regain the values we
began with, actively practicing,- themin our policies towards one another and
towards the rest of the world, we may
wake up one day to find, as Pete Townsend suggested, that "the party on the left
is now the party on the right."
Let's not be fooled again into thinking
that we can fight hatred with hatred.
Ben's dismissal was a regretable loss to
the community, not to mention a permanent mar on his collegiate record. It may
be too late to keep Ben on as CPj editor,
but it's never too late to learn from our
mistakes.
I hope you will get the chance to read
this, Ben . If so, allow me to offer what
consqlation I can to you. I know it mus.!....
have been difficult for you to stand up for
your convictions in the face of such seemingly insurmountable opposition,
especially at the cost of your job, but
there are at least a few members of the
community who recognize the injustice
bestowed upon you and respect the
courage and integrity with which you faced them.
Good luck amigo.
Sincerely,
Gary Diamond
Student-on-leave

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Brett Fits Both Models-With Quirks
"I think if there were a survey done
ofGreeners you would find that many of
them come from broken homes, or homes
where some family member is an
alcoholic . Evergreen attracts those kinds
of students because it provides a safe
womb-like environment to study in, free
from the outside pressures. They can excel here.
"My background is very middle-class,
and I make fun of that ~ I come from a
broken middle-class home. My pa rents
are divorced and each remarried . My
mother is the only person in her family
who did anything with her life besides
working for someone else. She owns her
own house-cleaning business . She's
razor-sharp, she never loses an argument.
When I was younger I resented losing
every argument, now I just accept it as
the way things are.
"Trying to understand your parents
and restructure your past is very difficult.
My family doesn't like me poking around
in their past. Maybe it's because they
grew up on the East Coast. People do
things on the East Coast that wouldn't
be accepted here. If you walk through the
parking lot and a car hits you, it's your
fault. Sometimes it seems like the drivers
there actually speed up to hit you."
So why , with this strong middle class
background, did Brett come to
Evergreen?
"I came to Evergreen because I didn't
want to go anywhere else . I didn't want

by Darrell Riley
Student: Brett Harris
Status: Sophomore
Program: Mass Communication and
Social Reality
Hometown: Bellevue, WA
Brett Harris is the archetypical tall
handsome stranger. In a former era he
could have been pictured as a knight
defending his lady's honor. But this is an
era where the man is supposed to be able
to discuss his feelings and be generous to
women and men alike. Brett fits this
model as well.
The jarring quality about Brett Harris which saves him from being too full
of himself and makes him totally appealing is his quirky sense of humor. He
doesn't take himself or the world around
him too seriously. For instance, ten
minutes into the interview this analysis
• came out, "I have seen the new breed of
Greener. The other day I saw a pair of
girls dressed in Greener garb getting into a Mercedes in front of A dorm. It
seems the new Greener philosophy is, 'I
hate the Establishment unless it benefits
'm e,' "

As we sat sipping our decaffinated tea
Brett said he was hypoglycemic and did
not drink, smoke dope or eat sugar.
"I feel odd at parties," he said. "People talk about getting drunk and I don't
have anything to say. Sometimes I end
up talking to the wall.

a linear education, I wanted diversity.

Now I'm stuck, Ifl went to any other college they would make me take up my
time making up the bullshit credits, like
P .E .
"Evergreen is great. Where else can
you talk politics and religion with someone? At most places the people are
afraid to talk about those subjects, but at
Evergreen you can really get into some
great arguments. However, I wish that
the classes at Evergreen dealt more with
the ~eal world .
, "Evergreen needs a reality reorientation. This school should focus more on
teaching ethics and stay away from textbooks. The internships should be reinforced. When an Evergreen students goes
out looking for ajob helshe is competing
against 4,000-5,000 students who have
graduated in their field from the U niversity of Washington or Western
Washington University. The internships
give the Evergreen student the advantage, the employer can see that the
Evergreen student has had working experience. And when the employer makes
their decision that's what they will see."
Brett mentioned a couple of times during the interview that he thought ethics

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else. It reminded me of a story in the
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paraphrasing because I can't remember
how the story goes, but the gist of it is
this . A man wants to become a
millionaire and spend his time painJing.
To get the million dollars he de,cides to
be a garbageman. By the time he had
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I have enjoyed doing these interview immensehave met people I like and respect
a great deal. From Laura Gustavson and Chris
Smith, to Audrey Streeter and Brett Harris they
have been a pleasure to talk to and spend time
with. I hope these interviews have been as much
fun to read as they have been to do. What do
you thinlc of them? Do you enjoy them, or are
t he bird-cage fodder? Come on people, we're
curious what you think, wire in and tell us.

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"I'm afraid for the women on campus," he said. "When I call my women
friends from the computer center and ask
them to come over, they say they can't
without an escort. Women can't walk

alone, that 's a really sorry thing.
"I'm also afraid that now that I've left
home the dog has replaced me . "
And what does Brett think of Olympia?
"Olympia is a small town that had a
college and a legislature dropped on it.
Someone is preapring for a huge urbanization of Olympia. Look at Top
Foods, and Mega Foods and all the new
apartments 'going up around her<; .. That
puts pressure on us, because the rent
keeps going up."
The last two things Brett said before
I left should be put at the end of every
one of my interviews.
"This is a brief article. Everyone is
more than they seem on the surface,"
Brett explained. "If people take me at
face value, a lot won't like what they see.
My surface attitude tends to clear out the
weak offaith and character. However, a
friend of mine, Karin Ganz, told me,
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Since Brett brought it up, I couldn't
resist talking to him about his belief in
God.
"My belief in God is situational, like
everything else," he explained. '''God
helped me in this situation, okay God exists. ' It would be great to ask God to clean
up my room or change the television
when I don't want to get up. However,
God is not a birth-control device or a
maid, those things you must do for
yourself. "
School isn't the only thing Brett does.
On the weekends he works at a video rental store in Issaquah. He told me he needed to do it to support his habit. When I
asked him what that habit was, he went
up to the window and pointed in the
direction of the parking lot.
"My car. I like having it so that I can
go out, or take someone out. I like taking people out. But it's expensive.
I asked Brett if he had any fears. I
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Confusion

by Dennis Held
As a student representative to the
Communications Board, I'd like to offer
some information regarding the suspension of CPj editor Ben Tansey.
So far, the board has been reluctant to
say much about the action, for fear that
any premature disclosure might violate
Ben's rights of due process. Unfortunately, this approach, however wellintentioned, has led to an "information
vacuum"-people want to know what
the hell is going on, and they aren't able
to learn much from those in the know.
As usually happens in such a case,
misinformation rises to fill the gap .
Evergreen's everpresent rumor mill has
been cranking along at predictable speed,
with predictable results. (I've been asked if it's true that Gannett has offered to
buy the CPj.)
The CPj itself, mostly through the efforts of managing editor Janis Byrd, has
tried to get the facts out. But it's been
hard, given the small quanity of inform ation released thus far by the board, and
the difficulty of working in an environment wh~re major policy and personnel
decisions are up in the air.
To clear the air a bit, I'd like to answer
some of the questions raised by Janis
Bryd's "skeptical" editorial in the Feb.
24 issue of the CPj. I will restrict my
comments and observations to material
and issues raised in public meetings, and
aviod any mention of discussion the
board has had in executive (closed)

session.
Janis raises a good point In her
edi torial: how can we ask an editor to act
, 'in a professional manner" at a college
which has "no formal communications
department providing committed journalism students and staff, or a training
budget for the CPJ?" (pg. 13) . What independent standard can we use as a
measure and say" This is what you must
do .
I can't speak for the board, but my
answer is, none . There is no single mark
to which we can ask all CPj editors to
aspire . Rather, as a member of a
decision-making board, I did what I felt
I could do in clear conscience: I attended every meeting, heard and read all the
testimony, evaluated the merits of each
piece, and added it all up.
The CPj editor is an ex-officio (nonvoting) member of the board, and Ben
has been afforded an opportunity to respond directly to any charges made to the
board . I think that, at times, Ben successfully defended himself against those
complaints. I've read everything Ben
wrote in the paper this year, and I dealt
with him in a writer/editor relationship
this year before serving on th.e board.
In the end, I spent a lot of time thinking it all through, and I made my decision, based on rational thought. I did not
ask myself if Ben had met some sort of
~xte rnal criteria for "professionalism ."
Instead, I asked myself if what Ben had
done was appropriate, given the cir,,~

____ Opinion
cumstances. The EAC requnes that I
take action if there is reason to believe
there's a problem; hence the suspension.
As I've said, I'm not speaking for the
entire board here. But it is my observation that everyone on the board appreciated the seriousness of the situation,
and acted with a high degree of personal
integrity throughout the process.
Back to the editorial. Janis questions
whether the board notified Ben of the
specific allegations against him within the
time limits set by the EAC. I think we
did exactly what we were supposed to do,
butJan.is has a right to raise the question .
But to then imply that the entire process was flawed because a part of it might
have been is faulty logic , and is perhaps
irresponsible given the volitile nature of
the situation and the privileged position
of the editoral writer.
To close, I'd like to offer a friendly
reminder to the more vituperative among
Ben's detractors: this is a human being
we're talking about here, not some sort
of abstract symbol of authority. If we take
action, it is based on a review of Ben's
actions as an editor, and is in no way a
condemnation . of Ben Tansey, the
person.
Nor is it an endorsement of any of the
reorganization plans submitted to the
board, sometimes contained in the same
documents as complaints about Ben.
These plans will be considered separately in future meetings.

- .Program Acquin-tance Syndrome Strikes

14

by Ellen Tepper
During a lapse in the conversation, she
said, "So, are we all sitting at the same
table because we like each other, or is it
just because we're in the same
program?"
The consensus seemed overwhelmingly
in favor of the latter theory . As one group
member responded, "It's because we
have something in common, "-namely
our study program.
At that moment , the harsh truth hit
me: I had not made a single close friend
since my arrival at Evergreen nearly
three years ago. Sure, I say hi to quite
a few people and engage in friendly con-

vinced myself I must surely co-exist, I
versation on a regular basis, but neverhave come up with an appropriate title
theless, this issue offriendlessness would
for this syndrome; "The Ellen Syndrome
not leave me alone. The more I thought
of Interaction Between Mulitple Factors
about it, the more I began to observe a
Engaging in Similar Points of Interest in
study program related pattern of tema
State Funded Public Institution of
porary acquaintances emerging over the
Higher
Education as Related to the Inspan of my life at Evergreen. Of course,
,
dividual's
Specific Educational Goals or
Evergreen is not the sole reason for my
Lack
Thereof."
-Or," "ESIBMpredicament. My own reclusive nature
FESPISFPIHERISEGL
T," for short.
and individualistic ideas, along with a
. "Having thus given the situation a tibusy schedule, have, no doubt, contle, I propose that those who suffer from
tributed to the situation . Still, I could not
this syndrome simply walk up to a
shake a conviction that I was not alone
stranger and ask, "So, do you have
in my friendlessness .
ESIBMFESPISFPIHERISEG L T?"
And so, for the benefit of the throngs
I guarantee interesting results ...
of friendless individuals with whom I conMarch 3, 1988

What Simon Says Disappoints
by john Robinson
U.S. Senator Paul Simon, presidential
candidate for the democratic nomination,
decided to drop in on the State of
Washington Tuesday .
Included on his trip was a short stint
at the Capitol Bar & Grill here in Olympia. I thought to myself, 'This is quite a
man'-after all, he was shunning the
"delegate rich South" and the other
blathering nominee debates to come talk
to us Washington folks before heading
down to California's delegate gold mine .
Maybe this guy really had something
to say-something that would hit a rational chord in myself and others. Since
he was out of money, or pretty close,
maybe he was starting to see the reality
that confronts so many Americans .
Maybe he was going to tell it like it really is.
I hopped on the bus, trying to envision
the event. I mean, there had to be plenty of people coming, what with him being a national figure and all .
I guessed correctly. The event was
scheduled for noon and when I arrived
at 11: 45 there was close to 100 people
already there. The building was draped
in well-placed "Paul Simon for President " signs and banners in resplendent
red , white and blue.
Before I went in I noticed a steady flock
of overcoat clad legislators, etc. headed
my way. I guess this was a big event.
Maybe this guy was for real after all.
I made my way in avoiding the oncoming rush and was backed up before I got
through the doorway. Three or four peo ple stooped over a table signing
something. -A bowl full of Paul Simon
pins was also on the table-available to
interested buyers for a buck apiece.
I didn't have much interest in signing
anything or buying a pin since I hadn 't
had a chance to hear even a murmur
from Simon's mouth. I headed towards
the "speaking room ," but was halted
after only a couple of steps by an older
woman sprucely dressed in a bright red
suit complete with a red, white and blue
bow tie. A red ribbon held back her gray
hair. Pretty, uh ... impress ive .

A big smile lit up her face.
"Have you signed the sheet?," she
as ked. "No, what's it for?," I answered
back . "Oh , it 's just to get an idea who
came and how many," she answered
phlegmatically. "I ' m just the same , " she
assured me, "I want to know exactly
what I'm signing."
I nodded , bent over the table and filled out the sheet. It was the same old stuff:
name, address, precinct, etc. I didn't
check the "send me something" or "I
want to help" boxes.
I even put on a name tag to show the
woman my goodwill, and smiled at her
as I walked towards the backroom. Every
table I passed had a "reserved" sign on
it. I walked towards th e standing room
only crowd.
Meanwhile, a stout guy named Bob
(nametag and pin) kept filling up his coffee cup in the station. He polished off a
pot before Simon ever showed up. The
waitress gave up.
Finally, word was simultaneously
spread that "he's here" and the crowd
started clappin g and chant ing frantical ly "We Want Paul. W e Want Paul." I
watched Simon walk the same path I had.
H is fac e turned crimson as the cheering
grew louder. He shook a few hands along
the way and walked right past me to the
makeshift stage.
H e was so close to me when he walked
by I could have pulled on his rul:>bery face
and snapped it back like a slingshot. The
security men somehow discouraged me.
Once he got to the stage the silence was
astounding-even he was flabbergaster.
He began by making references to his
Aunt Ida in Oregon and a nother relative
"who still lives in Olympia ... doesn't
she?"- he asked an aide.
I wasn't a good start. People looked
around a t each other questioning the
comment. He tried a di scla imer . "Well,
when yo u're as busy as I am, you lose
track of relatives."
H e was going nowhere fast . No, he was
going down-very fast.
H e survi ved though, by resorting to a
couple of his mainstay stances : balancing
th e budget through Co nstitutional

Amendment, and taking the opportunit y to work with a willing Gorbachev on
the continued reductions of nuclear arms.
He spoke inside for about 10 minutes
declaring that the "lunch period is over"
for the U.S. "We have to quit borrowing from our children and grandchildren," he said.
I was not impressed with the presentation. It was a vague and insubstantial"
speech that seemed well-intentioned, but
with nothing to back it up.
What impressed me least was one of
Simon's quotes about a past candidate:
, 'He means well, feebly." Despite his
claims to the opposite, in his own speech
Simon only meant well, very feebly. He
kept referring to "a host of other issues,"
but would not elaborate on any of them.
He spoke of the severe high school
dropout rate (28 percent) in the U ,S., but
gave no specific ideas for reform. He
merely listed the issues of health care and
environmental concern, failing to explain
his stance on them.
When speaking to the crowd of 200
outside the restaurant., he reiterated the
Same innocuous blabber. i was more impressed with the elaborate {or~ation the
security men had formed throughout the
crowd and the guy who stood among
them imitating their " swivel-like head
movements .
The stump speech outside lasted
another 10 minutes with:aides motioning
that he had two more minutes, one more
minute, etc. I figured in this western
sw ing maybe Simon would spend quality time with his audiences and take questions fro.m them. I was wrong-it was a
rush job . He seemed to be just going
through the motioits .
When he stepped down from the st~ge,
his entourage pulled up. Six motorcycle
policemen, . a shiny black, Caddy for.
Simon, and five other police cars followed. Just before the car pulled ,away, illady
came walking by me witJi a bqwl full of
money .. I said to her "Hey, I like this
guy, he gives a~ay .c ash>, She laughed
loudly.
I didn't see liny pil1s in the hqttom of
the bowl.
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Struggles and Achievements:

Evergreen Celebrates
by Whitney Ware
Women's Struggles-Women's
Achievements" is the tone-setting theme
for this year's National Women's Week
and International Women's Day
celebration .
N ext week, Mar. 7 through 13, has
been dedicated by Evergreen and the surrounding community for recognizing and
celebrating the accomplishments and
capabilities of women throughout the nation and across the world.
International Women's Day is an annual celebration on March 8. Its origins
lie in a strike led by 30,000 female garment workers in New York City during
the winter of 1908-1909 . The long strike
was followed by a demonstration on
March 8, 1909 commemorating the
struggles of the working woman. This
e vent inspired Clara Zetkin, the leader
of the German Social Democratic Party,
to begin organizing the first International
Women's Day , held March 19,1911. In
1913 the date was changed to March 8.
Evergreen plans an all-day program
for Tuesday, Mar. 8, with opening
ceremonies presented by Evergreen's
Special Assistant to the President for Affirmative Action Margarita Mendoza de
Sugiyama at 10 a.m . in Library 4300.
The ceremonies will be followed by a
slide presentation by Cecelia Alvarez
discussing her experiences as a Chicano
artist; a lecture by Dr. Maxine Mimms,
Director of Evergreen Tacoma Campus
on "Women's Ever Changing Roles";
the experiences of Janet McCloud as a
Native: American woman; a lecture by
Elaine Zakarison, Director of the YWCA
Services to Student Associations, concerning student groups and an upcoming
National Student Assembly convention in
Chicago over the summer, the focus of
which will be internat ional racial justice,
social action and women ' s concerns; a sec ond slide presentation by Marilyn Ham
concerning: her experiences as an artist
with physical challenge~ the film
Born In Flames.
Off campus, four International
Wo~en's Day observan5 ~~ Q.I<!.!!Ile.d ,16 Startin g Saturd<l), ~rarc h 5, the group

hold an International Women's Day
march in Seattle beginning at noon from
the Seattle Central Community College
at Broadway and Pine, ending with a ralI y at the Langston Hughes Cultural Arts
Center, at 17th and Yoder.
The second observance will be a reception between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Monday , Mar. 7, at the YWCA Friendship
Hall where women, people of color and
representatives from local organizations
throughout Thurston County have been
invited to share in a "social evening of
networking and information sharing."
Space for the reception is limited,
however, and invitations are required. If
you are interested, contact Evergreen's
Women's Center at X6162 immediately
in order to attend.
The third event will be held at noon
Mar. 8 in South Puget Sound Communi-

ty College Student Activities BuildingStudent Center . Respected poet Zoe
Anglesey, reading selections of her work,
is the featured guest. She will also present translations from IXOK AMAR GO:
Central American Women's Poetry jor Pf!ace,
a poetry collection she gathered and
edited. SPSCC is also sponsoring a
poetry reading by 1987 Pulitzer Prize
winner Rita Dove at 7:30 p.m . March 8
at Carnegie's Restaurant in downtown
Olympia. Admission is $2.
While Tuesday is dedicated to international women, the whole week through
March 11, is a national week of recognition for the women of America. Women's
H erstory Week, first celebrated in 1982 ,
honors the continuing contributions of
American women to the history of the
United ·States.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
Women's Struggles-Women's Achievements
Tuesday March 8, 1988
10:00 am. Lib. 4300. Margarita Men doza de Sugiyama will present the opening
ceremonies.
10:30 am, Lib.43oo. Celelia Alvarez
will present a slide presentation and lecture about her experiences as a Chicano
artist.
I I :30 am, Lib. 4300. Dr. Maxine
Mimms, Director ofTESC Tacoma Campus, wi ll lecture on: Women's Ever
Changing Roles.
Break, 12:30 to 1:00 pm
I :00 pm, Lib. 1612. janet McCloud will
share her experience orl being a Native

American Woman.
2:00 pm, Lib. 161 2. Elaine Zadarison ,
Director of the YWCA Services to Student Associations, will discuss the upcoming National Student Assembly convention in Chicago this summer.
3:00 pm, Lib. 1612. Marilyn Ham will
present a slide show and lecture about
her experiences as an artist with physical
challenges.
5:00 pm, Lib . 1612 . Closing
ce remonies .
7:00 pm, Com 110. Film Born In
Flames.

International Women's Week
The week-long celebration was agreed
on by the Senate and House of Represent atives in August of 1981 in order to
recognize that "the role of American
women in history has been consistently
overlooked and undervalued in the body
of American history."
Here on campus, the week's observances start Monday, Mar . 7, continuing until Friday, Mar. 11, with a series
of lectures, speakers, and films on
American history and the women involved in the country's formation.
The week's celebration begins Monday
with a lecture and slide presentation by
Dr. Joyce Hardiman on the Roles of
Women in Ancient Egypt and The
Twenty-First Century at noon in Library

? 100. It will be followed with a lecture
by speakers Rajaa Gharbi and Neil Fox
at 7:30 p .m . in Lecture Hall 1. The
women will address the Palestinian
Human Rights issue; the film Wild Roses
concerning the struggles of Lebanese
women will also be shown.
At noon Wednesday, in Library 3500,
Jane Boyalian will speak on Special Issues
in Health-Care--Getting What You
Need. That evening, at 7 p.m. in Lecture Hall 3, Sheila Pullen will speak after
the film Tell Them I'm A Mermaid, addressing the experiences of a physically
challenged woman.
On Thursday, Helen Lee will speak
about Why Women Join Trade Unions
a t noon in Library 2100. The film Women

WOMEN'S HERSTORY WEEK
M.onday March 7, 1988

(followed by a talk by Sheila Pullen).

12 :00 pm, Lib. 2100. Dr. joyce Har diman will lecture on the Roles of
Women in Ancient Eygpt and The
Twenty First Century.
7:30 pm, LH I . Rajaa Gharbi, with Neil
Fox, will speak and present a film on
women in the Middle East.

Thursday March 10

Wednesday March 9
12:00 pm, Lib . 3500. jane Boyalian will
speak on Special Issues in Health CareGetting What You Need.
7:00 pm , LH 3. Film: Tell Them I'm
A Mermaid. A film depicting a physically challenged women's experience,

12:00 pm, Lib. 2100. Helen Lee will
speak on Why Women join Trade
Unions.
7:00 pm, LH 3. Film: Women For

America-Women For The World,
A film about women in the peace
movement.

Friday March 11
12:00 pm, Lib . 3500. Ann Cameron
will give a lecture and workshop on tradi tional women 's circles.
7:00 pm, LH 3. Film: Maedchon in
Uniform. A lesbian classic from 1931.

for America-- Women For the World, dealing
with women in the peace movement, will
be shown at 7 p.m. in Lecture Hall 3,
followed with a discussion led by Katie
Cameron and Ginny Carlson.
On the last day of the week, a lecture
and workshop on traditional women's
circles, hosted by Ann Cameron at noon
in Library 3500, will conclude the series
of women's seminars, while Maedchon in
Uniform, a classic Lesbian film made in
1931, will end the film presentations.
In conjunction with the on-campus
happenings, artist/educator Betty
LaDuke's exhibit "Multicultural Images" in Gallery 2 is open 'and wili

M usica Femina
Sheds LIght
by Kristen Elliot
How many classical women composers
do you know?
Well, we no longer have to remain in
the dark! Musica Femina will shed light
on the subject March 4 at 8 pm. in the
Recital Hall.
Janna MacAuslan and Kristan Aspen
are Musica Femina. The duo will int roduce audiences to both famous and
forgotten women in classical music. In
honor ofInternational Women's Day, a
presentation of a Concert/Informance
will include classical women's music from
the 1700's to the 1900's.
Musica Femina is Rediscovering
Women in History, Returni!lg the Muse
to Music . MacAuslan and Aspen will
give a lecture at noon, March 3 in
Library 2100 which will include an overview of important women in music
history. It is perfect for learning more
about music history, women's history or
women in the arts. The lecture is full of
talented women that history books have
omitted.
This event will make you think of how
many women have been left out of music
and what would have happened if women
had been given a chance to be equally ex·
pressed in music. Come join us!
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The Noise Snow Makes
by Mike Melton
The snow falls silently in the street, and
makes haloes around the solitary
lightposts as two young men walk
together. The evening is brisk, and they
are dressed warmly in the attempt to keep
out the invasive cold.
"I like the way the snow crunches
"under my feet," says Simon.
Alex, the other young man, hesitates
before answering. "Boy, is that a cliche."
Simon is confused. "What is?"
"The 'snow crunches'. How many
times has that been used to describe the
sound snow makes when walked on? Too
many."
"Well, it does crunch, doesn't it ?
What word would you use to describe it
better?"
Alex thinks as they listen to the notcrunching-but-something else noise of the
snow. "I think it's more of a popping
noise, actually," he finally answers .
"A popping noise? Are you kidding?
How do you hear that?" Simon listens
carefully as they walk. "It's much more
a creaking noise than a popping, if you
can't .u se the word crunching."
"Creaking is too cliche, too, I think . It
has to be something more creative."
Simon is having trouble understanding
Alex , as he has known him for four years
and nothing like this has come up before .
"But Alex, 'crunch' is the noise that
walked upon snow makes. Why do you
have to make up something else? It is based completely in reality, and is an accurate description of the noise that snow
makes when it is stepped on!" Simon is
geting a bit excited.
"Well," Alex says loftily, "I think one
should try to be a bit more careful when
discussing such matters ."
What has brought this on? Simon
wonders. Maybe he'sjust in a bad mood .,
He decides to change the subject. "It's
a lovely evening."
"Lovely? What kind ot word is that?"

18

March 3, 19Hti

"OK , it's a .. . a ... swell evening."
Alex gives him a foul look . There is
silence, except for the not-crunchinga Imo s t -creaki n g-no t- hardl y-popping
sound of their feet in the snow. The tens ion burns between them in the cold
night air.
"And that 'tension bu rning between
us in the cold night air' is another cliche,
too, you know ."
"I wasn't even awa re of it," Simon
lies.
"It seems like a clever trick-you
know, the polarity of the 'burning' and
, cold ' -but it's just a mere device. And
an overused one at that."
" But it is effective, isn ' t it ?"
Another glaring look . Simon thinks
some more about this . "I actually like the
sound of the ' tension burning in the cold
night air'. It almost creates a presence
betwee n us . How would you say it to
make it better?"
"Well, something like ... uh .. . 'the two
yo ung men were having a disagreement '
would be sufficient, I think ."
Simon laughs , rolling in the snow, un til he thinks he is going to die.
"A nd stop laughing until you think
you' re going to die! That's another
disgusting cliche, " Alex yells angrily .
This makes Simon laugh even harder,
and it takes a few minutes for him to
recover
"Well , I did think 1 was going to die
for a second there."

This week's quote is taken from The
Dora Russel R eader, 57 Years of Writing and
J oumalism , 1925-1982. This excerpt was
written in England between 1926 a nd
1930 for publication in El So l, a Spanis h
period ical.
"And these are the very qualities
demanded by a democratic sodety --the
power to work as an individual, and the
power to live with one's fellow creatures .

"No, you didn 't. It 's j sut a figure of
speech ."
"What's bothering you ?" Simon asks.
Alex doesn't answer , bu t pulls his head
into his coat like a turtle , to avoid the cold
a nd the question .
"I'm not like a turtle either!" he yells
at Simon .
, 'I never said yo~_ were!"
"But you thought it, I could tell ," Alex
says defensively . "And I'm sick of this
entire place , too. Those ordinary-looking
streetlights were described as having
haloes around them, of all things . What
was that supposed to symbolize? Are they
supposed to be holy or somediing? And
then the whole scenario: two young men
walking down one snowy evening attempting to 'keep out the invasive cold. '.
Cold can't be invasive-it's just a weak
attempt at anthropomorphization . It
makes me sick. "
"Well, we are walking down a snowy
street. It's just reality ." Simon wonders
if he should add that the streetlights do
look like they have haloes around them,
but decides not to .
"But whose reality is it? I'd much
rather be in some exotic land than here
on this cold, snowy street. It's so ... so ...
common. Whoever created this has a
weak imagination ."
"But we are where we are, and life
isn't always imaginative ," Simon says.
They walk on. "And it is a crunching
noise. "

It is easy to be a moral and intellectual
slave; it is easy to live with one's superiors
or inferiors; easy to toady and flatt er;
easy to bully and oppress . But it is not
easy to respect your equal, to help him
work, to share with him the good food
and play things. Yet this can be learned
. almost from the cradle, a nd once learned universally, democracy wo uld be a
real possibility instead o f the sham it is
19
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Arts & Entertainment __

Splendorous Brass Brought to Oly
Seattle's Emerald City Brass Quintet,
sponsored by the Masterworks Choral
Ensemble , returns to Olympia Saturday,
March 5, with "Splendor in the Brass."
The concert begins at 8 p .m . at Lutheran
Church of the Good Shepard , 1601 North
Street.
The Emerald City Brass Quintet plays
music ranging from the Middle Ages to
the avant-garde. The quintet's repertoire
has steadily grown with its members' own
arrangements of music from all periods.
This concert will include brass classics,
including the Romantic movement, a
Baroque transcription of Handel , Gershwin, Debussy and Mozart transcriptions and contemporary pieces .
The Emerald City Brass Quintet was
formed in 1983 at the University of
Washington, where several members
were in the School of Music . Thp

membership has not changed, contributing to the strength of the group's
sense of ensemble.
The group's first album was released
at Christmas 1987. Widely acclaimed by
c ritics, it became a local bestseller in

shgntly more than a month. The album
will be on sale at the March 5th concert.
Tickets for "Splendor in the Brass"
are available for $5 at Venney's, Pat's
Bookery, South Sound Music and at the
door .

Tacoma Accepting Crafts
The Tacoma Art Museum announces
a craft competition for Northwest Artists .
"NW Crafts 88" is an all craft media
com petition.
The Juror for the exhibition will be
Paul J. Smith, Director Emeritus,
American Craft Museum, New York.
Museum Board member, Gloria
Crouse, announced that this year's biennial competition has been expanded to include neighboring States. "We want this
exhibition to become The major Craft
Competition in the Northwest, allowinJ.{

the public to view the highest quality contemporary crafts, for both the established and the emerging Artist/Craftsman" .
Cash awards will be made. Entries will
be by 35mm due April 1, 1988. The entry fee is $10 .00; limit 3 entries (six
slides). For prospectus, send SASE to:
"NW Crafts 88", Tacoma Art Museum,
12th & Pacific Avenue , Tacoma,
Washington 98402.
The exhibition will be held at the
Tacoma Art Museum , July 8 ,
1988-August 28, 1988.

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Invocation a senior thesis dance theater

piece by choreographer Kelly Mills, will
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in the Library Lobby .
"Last August," remembered Mills, "I
was having visions of something dark, of
fear. The image was of a rapist. A short
time later, two more bodies of "Green
River" victims were found. These were
the first "Green River" victims to be
found since 1984."
Their occurence deeply affected the
choreography that Mills was working on
a t that time.
, 'I wanted to do something to
counteract what was going on," she said, .
referring to the "Green River" murders.
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for the first section of "Invocation" . It
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and is ominously titled, "Green River".
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Other images used in the piece illustrate the power of human sexuality .
Surreal depictions of death, revenge,
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Experience Fills Cast of Shepard's
'Curse of The Starving Class'
by John Robinson
C ompl e te ly losing yourself in
so mething is no easy task. Yet if you 're
in the acting business, it 's probably your
main bag.
I spent the past week talking to the four
main actors involved in the production
of Sam Shepard ' s play The Curse of The
Starving Class. The play will be performed Mar. 9-11 at 8 pm in the Recital Hall
here at Evergreen.
This is an honest and hard-nosed play.
Director Bru ce Wood describes
Shepard ' s characters as the" hard-pan"
type .
Don Brown , cast as Weston the
drunkard father, says " this is not a
cosmeti c play. There 's not a lot of focus
on a ppearance. It's important to be
h_ones! to _the feelings <?f thoe characters .
The approach we're taking blends in well
w ith Shepard's focus."
Brown , who has spent quite a bit of
time on the stage both as an actor and
in ba nd (to years), talked of his strong
d esire to play the part of Weston. In fact,
he has dealt with aspects of the role in his
o wn life.
" I wanted to play Weston from the
beginning, " he ~aid . "I know him. He
r eminds m e a lot of my old man. I could
see his rage in myself at times . I was
d ett:rmined to play this part. Some other
actor would have to be really good for me
no t to get it , because I wanted it so
ba dl y. "

Auditions for the Curse took place at the
, end of fall qu arter. There were two audi,- tion nights and one c.allback. Director
W ood described the selection process for
. . . the cas t as " one of the toughest things
'. I' ve ever done ."
Senior Laura Hamshaw plays Ella,
W es ton' s wife . She attended Boston
Unive rsity' s Acting School for two years
before eventually coming to Evergreen.
She has cherished acting as a valuable
· 22 outlet sin ce junior high .

"It was great to be able to express feeling in another character," she said
claiming Ella as the biggest challeng~
she's had as an actress .

"Living in this woman is an incredible life to live, " she said. ' 'You really get
drained as a result."
If the "spine" of the play is to be effectively conveyed, the spine of each
character must be fully realized and actualized by its players. As the rehersal
process continues, each actor develops a
solid line of reasoning for their characters'
every move.
'''You have to do homework on your
character, " Hanshaw explained. "You
start with the playas a whole, then act
by act, scene by scene and so on. One
problem I sometimes have though, is
over-intellectualizing the character. I
worry about getting her so correct that
it interferes with my performance. When
I'm really on as an actress is when I'm
relaxed. "
Wood has used varied relaxing exercises to open many rehearsals.
"Ideally it can clear out all the stuff
that has happened during the day," said
actress Leslie Myers, who, last year, was
on th~ ot~er side of the coin while direcing her production Baby
"You try to
forget about jobs, school, or whatever.
Myers plays Emma, the daughter of
Weston and Ella. She says the result of
the exercises is varied. "It really depends
on your focus . I like to visualize my
character-it helps me get into her more.
At first I didn't like to do them (the exercises) . But now it seems almost
necessary . "
Recently she has seen a major shift in
rehearsal process.
There's a point where you can use
mental and emotional recail to remember
a past incident in play that worked . "
Myers explained. "Now I don't have to
r ecall some other incident because I can

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create it at that moment. Things are really coming together-we are beyond the
lines."
David Dickinson, who's been acting on
and off for 8 years, plays Wesley, Emma's. brother. He has seen a similar
evolution among the cast.
"The family has really grown
together," he said . "It was nice in the
beginning, and now we really know each
other and where we're going. "
Along with the rest of the cast, Dickinson's experience working with director
Wood has been very positive.
"It has been terrific working with
Bruce . He's the first student director I've
worked with and he's good. He's given
us a10t of insight and help into what we're
doing. "
He continued, "In the beginning I had
a one dimensional view of my character
and by using masks Bruce helped me to
see that there was a lot more to him."
Myers echoed similar praise.
"He's very intuitive and sensitive.
And patient .. a director needs to be. I
think he has a real drive for this playhis strength comes from that," she said.
Whether in character during rehearsal,
or just getting on with regular life,
everyone involved in this play has been
deeply affected by it.
",when you rehearse almost every
night, it's impossible to go home and
forget the play-it sticks with you, " said
Brown .
Hamshaw spoke about sometimes being so involved in character that it is reality. It is not easy to jump in and out of
character for these actors because there
is so much substance to the characters
themselves.
Steeped in emotion and true to life in
many ways, this production of Curse
should have a lasting effect on all who
attend .

The Best of Films and Politics
by Larry John Davenport
Media and politics have walked hand
in hand since the ancient Greeks, and
with the Washington caucuses just
around the corner, March 8 to be precise,
I thought I would share with you my list
of my top ten favorite pol tical films .
Ten: Secret Honor (U .S . 1984). Robert
Altman's homage or homicide of the fmal
days of the Nixon administration is a one
man tour-de-force that rivals James
Whitmore's portrayal of Harry S .
Truman in Give 'em Hell Harry!
Philip Baker Hall plays Nixon as
Chivas Regal drunk who vents his anger
and frustrations in tirades against Kissinger, Castro, and Kennedy. Secret
Honor looks like Hunter S . Thompson
writes .
Nine: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(U .S . 1939). James Stewart plays the title character, a junior senator who finds
corruptions at every turn. Except for
Frank Capra's too-good-to-be-true ending this is probably the first important
film to tackle politics.
Eight: Inhereit the Wind (U.S. 1960).
With Pat Robertson in the race for president, this fUm is particularly timely today. StanleY,Kramer's dramatization of
the Scope's Monlcey Trial starring Spencer
Tracy as the Clarence Darrow-like attorney for the defense, and Fredric
March as the Bible-thumping prosecutor ..
ba~ed on William Jennings Bryan, is a
classic trial movie and a lesson in
religious zealotry that harkens back the
Salem Witch trials.
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Seven: Z (France, 1969). Many critics
I , ~ omplained the ftlm was too "talky" but
Z is a great fUm about the aftermath of
a shocking, brutal, and true story of
political assassination. Starring Yves
Montand and directed by Gosta-Gravas
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-(Missing).
Six: All the Ki{rg ~" . Men (U .S . . 194~).
Another movie dramatizing a true story,
All the King's Men is based on the life of
Huey P . Long, perhaps the most
politically corrupt man !in American, and
_~:~lir how he almost be-came president .
Broderick Crawford in an Oscar winn-

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Academy Awards for Best Film, Best Actor (Crawford), and Best Actress
(Mercedes McCambridge in her first
role) .
Five: All the President 's Men (U.S .
1976). You can't get much truer than
Watergate. Robert Redford and Dustin
Hoffman play Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein, the Washington Post
reporters that broke the biggest story of
the Seventies, perhaps the century.
Ranks with Network and Broadcast News as
the best media ftlm.
Four: Seven Days in May (U .S . 1964).
A horror story of extraordinary
magnitude. Bu rt Lancaster plays the
head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who are
planning a military coup and the
assassination of the president. Kirk
Douglas is an Air Force colonel who uncovers the plot and risks his life to warn
the president (Fredric March) . I said
Seven Days in May is a horror story because
after seeing it, you'll believe it's possible .
Three: Twilight's Last Gleaming (U.S.-German 1977). What if the only reason
the U .S. was in Vietnam was to prove
how cruel we can be? What if a colonel
found out, and after demanding the truth
be told, was framed for murder? What
if the colonel breaks out of prison with a
couple of fellow inmates, and captures a
missile silo capable oflaunching a nuclear
strike on the U.S.S .R.? What if the only
way to prevent World War Three was for
the president to go on international television to tell the truth? A frightening

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political thriller starring Burt Lancaster,
Charles Durning, and Burt Young.
Two: Parallax View (U.S. 1974). I first
saw this movie because of Warren Beatty and the Space Needle. This is another
frightening fUm about political assassination, but with a twist. Rather than
murder for a cause, Parallax View is about
murder for profit. Warren Beatty is a
Seattle reporter investigating the
mysterious deaths of witnesses to the
murder of a presidential candidate in the
Space Needle, and his subsequent
discovery of a company that provides
assassins on a world-wide scale. Particularly interesting is the . Warren-like
- commission that provides a framework
for the film.
One: Manchurian Candidate (U .S. 1962)
it's been sixteen long years since this fUm
has been shown due to Frank Sinatra's
paranoia, but now it's back (Market
Theatre). It's an allegory of the McCarthy era, brain washing, Korea, and
presidential politics. Angela Lansbury is
elegantly evil as the mother of a man who
is traine_d to obey whenever he sees the
queen of diamonds . Manchurian Candidate
. asks the ultimate queston: "What if those
who point their fingers shouting Commie, are themselves communist spies?"
The above fUms are my ten favorite
political fIlms . There are many more I
would liked to have included (The Candidate, Winterkills, Fail Slife) but ten is all
you get. When election day comes
around, be sure to vote, but don't vote
for anyone stupid. Or dangerous.

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Student Groups

Film Festival Focuses on
Dispelling Sexual Stereotypes
of gay stereotypes; gays are not exhibited
by Madeline Murphy and Allison Radke
for comic effect, but described as complex
The First Northwest International
individuals in their complex situations.
Festival of Lesbian and Gay Films is
These films offer a variety of cultural
history in the making! This is the first
perspectives as well as a variety of gay
time such a number of gay and lesbian
relationship situations, thus serving to
films have been present ed in any of the
dispel cultural and sexual stereotypes.
Northwest states. Award-winning films
from 10 different countries, lauded at
All promise to be rich inspirations for
festivals in San Francisco and New York,
lobby and cafe symposiums, raising
will be shown at The Evergreen State
issues of personal relationships under
College on the weekend of Thursday,
political pressure in the German-occupied
April 28 through Sunday, May 1.
France of Novembmrwon, and attacking inMaedchens in Uniform will be the first of
stitutions of medical science which
four appetizer showing fundraiser films
threaten women's health and autonomy ,
presented by Evergreen's Lesbian/Gay
in the Australian On Guard. We'll see gay
Resource Center. Showtime will be 7:30
relationships within the contexts of
March 11 in Lecture Hall 1.
mystery and suspense in La Triche, excepIn the past, mainstream mass media's
tional in its conveyance of sexual nuance
distorted characterizations of homosexual
and tension in a relationship complicated
men and women have caused many inby professional roles and suspicion of
dividuals distress when the y recognized
murder, and in the surrogate family
their own homosexuality-" I have these
formed by gays discarded by urban sociesex ual feelings, but I know I can't be one
t y in The Outsiders, the first film with a
of them." With the birth of the Gay
homosexual theme to be licensed by the
Liberation Movement, gays and lesbians
government of Taiwan .
began to speak for themselves-to each
The contemporary dramas were
other and the outside world-by creating
foreshadowed by the 1931 lesbian
works about the experience of being gay
classic-Maedchen in Un-iform, a visuallyin a homophobic culture, the search for
striking film about the struggle for love
a positive idenity, the solace and
despite patriarchal oppression in a Gercha ll enges of relationships and
man boarding school for girls. The genres
community.
of film are bhurred into new forms by the
The film medium is expensive to proSpanish Law oj Desire, combining
_d\U& aDd a challenge to distrib!lt~ou_!side _
outrageous humor with fantasy, mystery ,
of mainstream channels. The growth of . and comedy; and Pervola, Tracks in the
the economic and socialpower of the gay
Snow, an adul~' fairy tale of feuding
community has allowed filmmakers to
brothers on a trek through a surrealistic
assert their gay identities and risk producwasteland of the far-north .
ing films for and about gays. The
Community response to adversity is
emergence of film festivals such as this ' represented in The AIDS Show, a
one support and encourage gay and lesdocumentary and film presentation of the
bian filmmaking by developing alternate
San Francisco smash hit theatre producdistribution channels and an alternative
tion, directed ~l.-!he men who g~v~ us _
audience.
The Times oj Harvey Milk and The Word Is
In the last 10 years, filmmakers have
Out. And we are given to discern a hero
been integrating homosexual characters
romance between the runaway teenage '
into the familiar forms of narrative fLlm.
girls in TiT7ll!s Square who make their stateHomosexuality is not the dominant subment on mass culture by pushing TV sets
j ect of the work, instead it is displayed as
off city buildings and go on the radio to
part of the mosaic of the story; same-s~x
call for their peers to break from the
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restraint of family and take to the streets.

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Produced by Rober Stigwood (Saturday
Fever), this picture offers a glimpse of cult
hero Tim Curry, of Rocky Horror Picture
Show, as the iconoclast deejay.
'- This festival will be a chance for th e
gays, lesbians, and interested others scattered throughout our area to meet
together and enjoy four days of special
fUm entertainment. There will be van service from Seattle and Portland to Olyrh:
pia on the first day of the festival, and a
return shuttle on the last. Reservations
have been made for overnight accomodation in motel and community rooms. Free
childcare will be provided.
There's lots of work to be done ,
volunteer support is needed! Context the
Lesbian/Gay Resource Center, ext . 6544.
These fUms are products of the growing ability of filmmakers to present
homosexual lif!! experiences and aesthetic
sensibilities through the powerful and immediate sensual impact of film. Come
hear the visions and witness the visi8os!
Other appetizer showing fundraisers
include : Club de Femmes, April 1; Bride oj
Frankenstein, April 8; and an episode of
Two in Twenty, on April 15. All showings
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by Darrell Riley
I was honored to see Hector Douglas'
letter in the February 25 issue of the CPJ
about my letter on Black History.
However, I was confused by some of the
language. His letter says in part, "Try
standing up to some militant Black
teenager on the streets of New Orleans,
who is angry about the of jobs on the
street and the lack and opportunities, and
try telling him you know where he's coming from . I had to learn the hard way that
while genuine empathy is essential, it is
not a substitute for experience."
What does that statement mean? I
wouldn't tell a white businessman I knew
where he was coming from, or a Chinese
"sweathouse" worker, or anyone else,

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because I don't know 'where they are
coming from'. I only know how their
situation appears to me, and my
understanding. Whenever I read or hear
something like, 'I know where you are
coming from' it reminds me of a story my
. aunt tells. A man doing a survey asked
her what it was like to be Black in
America. She said, "I don't know, I' ve
never been Black anywhere else."
What experience can a person have
which allows them to understand another
person? We are all of different cultures
with differe_nt b~ckground. yet we are all
the same. The -~xperience that helps us
understand each other is the human experience. Human experience allows a

white businessman to communicate with
inner-city ghetto children. Human ex perience allows a Black man to understand the experiences of a Native
American girl. It is that experience ,
regardless of culture, which allows people to live together.
Please, Mr . Douglas and other
members of the Evergreen community,
please don't create a world of Issues.
Behind Issues are people, and the best use
of your time and resources is to understand people . A militant Black teenager is
an Issue. Gegory Waller is a human being, first, then a militant black tee.nager.
Martin Luther KingJr. and Malcolm X
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ON CAMPUS
Thursday 3
EPIC is sponsoring "Demystifying the
caucus system"; a talk concerning the
caucus system and how you can
difference in the election by getting involved. The talk will be held in CAB 110
at 5:30 pm . For more informationi call
X6114.
Friday 4
The duo Musica Femina will perform in
the Recital Hall at 8 pm . Cost is
$4.50-$6.50.
Saturday 5
The LlGRC will be sponsoring a
Safeplace Donation Dance at 8 pm in
Library 4300. This event is to raise
money for Safeplace .
Monday 7
Andrew Buchman, composer and
Evergreen faculty , will present a lecture
entitled "Where does music come from,"
at noon in COM 117 . This presentation
is free and open to the public .
Tuesday 8

Thursday 10
At 11 :30 am the Sue Washburn Community forum will meet in 3500 lounge .

bands will be DUMI, ALGORITHMS,
and MULTIPLIERS . Admission is
$4~$6. Proceeds will go to international
rainforest preservation groups. For more
information contact Chris at 8166-1785.

ON GOING
Every Thursday at 5:30 pm EPIC holds
its weekly informal potluck meetings.
These meetings are held in L3222, call
X6144 for more information.
Four Day Spring Break Ski Trip. Cost
is $129, not including food. March 22-25.
F or more information contact Corey at
the REC center X6530 or 357-8181.
"Light Ceremonies for World Peace"
will be held by Mountain of the Heart
every Thursday at 7:30 pm in CAB 110
through March 31 . For more information
call 754-0940. Admission is free.
"The Cunning" will be presented March
4-5 in the Experimental Theater at 8 pm .
Seating is limited to 50 seats per show.
For information/reservations call
866-6833 . There is no fee.
"Invocation" will be presented March
11-12 in the Library Lobby at 8 pm. Due
to the intimate nature of the piece,
seating is limited. For reserVations call
866-6833 . Admission is free.

Rolling Stone magazine is sponsoring the
1988 Rolling Stone College Journalism
Competition. All entries must have appeared in a college publication between
April 1, 1987 and April 1, 1988. The
deadline for applicants is June 1, 1988.
For more information/applications call
212-758-3800.
The Clown Theater Institute is accepting
applications for its upcoming session,
June 20-July 22, 1988. Enrollment is
limited to 26 professional movement artists with experience in mime, dance,
clowning or theater. For application information write or call: Performance
Support Services, Clown Theater Institute, PO Box 19377, Seattle, WA
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near downtown on buslines. Shared
kitchen & bathroom. $200.00 Includ••
all utllltl•• (Except phone). CALL ANN
357-5405 or 866-6000 x6286.
RENT for LESS. Private rooms in
lorge home. Share living & dining ·rooms,
kitchen, baths, appliances, wosner, dyer.
CLOSE IN. ALL UTILITIES INCLUCED
with RENT. $205.
786-1649 (leave message).

ON GOING
The Maianne Partlow Gallery presents
and invitational exhibition entitled

HOU SINf, WIINTED

OFF CAMPUS
Friday 4
ODC/San Francisco Dance Co. will present a master dance class at theJohansen
St. at 7 pm. The cost is $5. For more information
call
753-8585 .

CRUISE SHIPS

Pleasant, professional. local, married
coupl. with no children or pets ore
••• klng a year-long hou .. ,.I"lng
pOlltlon. We bring redecorating &
maintenance skills, if desired.
Call 943-4142.

NOW HIRING. M/F
Summer & Career Opportunities
(Will Train). Excellent pay plus
world travel. Hawaii, Bahamas,
Caribbean, etc. CALL NOW:
206-736-0775 Ext. 425H _ _,

Saturday 5

Zoe Anglesey, editor of IXOK AMAR GO:
Central American Women's Poetry for Peace,
will be reading translations from it and
her own poetry at noon at South Puget
Sound Community College in the student
activities building.

Maarava will be sponsoring speaker
Marvin Stern of the Anti-Defamation
League of Seattle, to address the current
Israel-Palestinian West Bank issue on the
second floor of the CAB building, noon
to 1 pm.
Wednesday 9
In CAB 110 at 7:30· there will be an
Overseas Development Network meeting
to evaluate the student interest of the Network. For more information contact
EPIC at X6144 or stop by the office in
28 L322·2.

There will be a Socialist Study Group
meeting at 7 pm in CAB 108. The group
is sponsored by Young Socialist Alliance
and The Militant. For more information
call 723-5330.
Student Activities is sponsoring a van
back and forth from Tacoma to attend
the Conference on Minorities in Higher
Education March 9-11. The cost of the
conference is $75. Registration forms are
available in Student Activities.
Evergreen Expressions presents the
Underground Railway Theater on
March 13 in the Experimental Theater
at 8 pm . Tickets range from $4.50-$6.50.
Reservations can be made by calling
866-6833 .
Friday, April 1 at 8 pm in L4300 there

will' be a "Rain Dance" . Performing

The American Collegiate Poets Anthology International Publicationsis
sponsoring a National College Poetry
Contest. The deadline for submissions is
March 31. For more information write
International Publications, PO Box
H044-L, Los Angeles CA 90044.
The Task Force on Latin America and
the Caribbean announce "Americas
Connections-A North South Exchange." For more information call
403-423-1626 .
March 18 is the deadline for Honeywell's
Futurist Competition. For registration information write: Honeywell's Futl,lrist
Awards Competition, Box 524, Minneapolis, MN 55440, or call
1-800-328-5111 X1581.
The United Churches at 11 th and Capitol
Way will be sponsoring "Music For
Lent: lunchtime organ recitals" Wednesday at 12: 15. The church will be open at
11 :30 for those who would like to bring
a sack lunch.

COOPER POINT JOURNAL
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ODC/San Francisco Dance Company
will be performing as a part of the
Washington Center's Artist Series at the
Washington Center at 7:30 pm . Tickets
range from $7.50-$21. For more information call 753-8586.

INTERN WANTED

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The Energy Outreach Center will be
sponsoring a roofing skills workshop at
the Lacey Community Center, 1147
Willow in Lacey at 9 am. For more information or to register call 943-4595.
Free .

FOR SPRING QUARTER

FOR THE UPCOMING
SPRING PUBLICATIONS.

Sunday 5
The OSC/SF will be performing the
Velveteen Rabbit at the Washington
Center at 2:30 pm. Tickets range from
$4-$12.50. For more information call
357-8586.

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CONTACT SUSAN F.N.KEL, CAB lO6A, 166-6000 X6211 1 1 1

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house just isn\ the
same without me,
even though its

GreenerS eak

So how's your final project and/or studying coming along?
supposed to turn in one a
week, and sojar I've turned in . . . none, no; actually
I've turned in one. - That
is not to say that I haven
writtm any. I just hav,en

a lot cleaner."

It's total chaos. I'm
leaving jor Japan in eightem days, I have a jinal
project, ajinal exam, packi ng, registration, jinancial
aid. .. In other words; too
much to do all at once.

I'm working on
about everything I've
this quarter, since I've
bad and haven't turnin a paper yet. We're

I 'm in the teacher cert. program and right now I'm
trying to decide what to do
about a conflict I have in
the observation I'm doing
in the public schools in the
jifth grade, because the
teacher wants me to do a
unit that represmls the War
oj 1812 as this great,
patriotic, American victory
in which we "crushed
English sea power. " I'm
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Tepper
Photos by Kelly Hawk

Slowly. I'm working on a
project on yoga. It's a healing project. I'm working in
a group and we 're gonna do
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the

just because your Mom
is far away, doesn't mean
you can't be close. You can
still share the love and
laughter on AT&T Long
Distance Service.
It costs less than you
think to hear that she likes
the peace and quiet, but
she misses you. So go
ahead, give your Mom a
call. You can clean your
room later. Reach out and
touch someone~

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How to build abetter world.

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Allow US to suggest three ways. MacOraw·
SupcrP'Jint. And the astronomically able Space Edit.
The combination of these programs, along
with a Macintosh··personal computer, will give
architectural students new freedom to create.
For everything from drawing buildings or
designing urban landscapes.Th drafting engineering
and construction plans just as beautifully
Which is just another example of how
Macintosh helps students work smarter, quicker and
more creatively And t1Y: beauty of Macintosh is, you
don't have to know diddleyabout computers to use
one. So get a Macintosh.
The world will be a better place for it.

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