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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 29, Issue 17 (February 22, 2001)

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GenEd DTF Shot Down
By Erica Nelson

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Last week, three unknown men entered an apartment in Alphabet
Soup. Theywere asked to leave, and even after a female resident called the
police, they refused. When the officer arrived, three ofthe women living
in the apartment and their male neighbor had been assaulted by the
unknown men. One woman was repeatedly kicked in the head and back.
Another woman was punched in the face, the force of which threw her
into the wall and knocked her unconscious. Still another woman was
slammed into a sharp object TIle male neighbor was choked and hit in
the face. Two of the women went to the emergency room with sustained
concussions. The woman kicked in the stomach and back returned to the
emergency room the next day to check for potential kidney damage. All
victims had large, visible bruises, some in the shapeoftheoffender's hands.
This incident raises several important issues. First and furemost,
our campus tends to believe that we live in a safe, contained bubble. The
realityisthattheEvergreencampu'lisnotassafeasweorouradministration
would like to think. In fact, assaultand othervioIentcrimeshave happenro
many times in our community without our awareness or regard. Sure,
we've heard about what happened to "those" women on that one night in
that one place, but there are no hard factscorrespondingtothe rumor. No
safety bulletins, no building meetings, no public outrage. Femaleresidents
continue to leave their doors unIockedand walk alone at night
The work ofthe fumale victims after the assault revealed just how
entrenched Evergreen is in silence. After-two days, the police had }rt to
follow up on the case. That is, none ofthe victims were called or visited,
and no public wamingwas issued. The women involvecl had to press fur
their story to be heard and taken seriously. The authorities evaded taking
any responsibility. Questioningwhether or not the policewere conducting
an investigation and suspecting that the police report contained errors,
two of the female victims paid a visit to TESC police services themselves.
In the police ~eport, the descriptions of the offenders were incomplete,
and one woman's phone number was incorrect. Omitted also was the fact
that onewoman was knocked unconsciOlls and that the perpetrators were
actually loitering in front of the dorm when the police officer arrived.
Interestingly, the original caUhad not been tagged as an emergency. TIle
response of the police on the day of the crime and on the day orinquiry
remained consistent: unprofessional and indifferent.
Housing. school authorities, and peers were just as remiss. Only
after much pressllre from the\1ctimswasa safety bulletin was posted in a
few obs(w e places around campus. Unfortunately, its author made the
mistake of reterrillg to the incident as a fight, rather than an assault; it
IIsed non-gendered language, left violence against women Ollt of the
picillre, anclfailed to detail the extent oftheic'·minorinjurires." A meeting
with housing's resident director was called only after one of tile victims
went to her and revealed that many RAs do not know their residents and
vice versa. Several peers expressed clisappcintment that this incident may
discourage "partying."
TIle Friday night following the as.sault, February 16, two suspects
renlITled to campus to anend a party in an adjacent dorm. Two of the
\\1tnesses fium the previous weekend were at the parry, recognized the
perpetrators, and called the policr. When the policearrived. theyidentified
and arrested the perpetrator~. But since tile charge of simple assault
comtitutesa misdemeanor, thc)"\\'cre arraigned. escorted offc3mpusand
harred frnm returning.
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How to make My Turn
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The faculty voted down the
current proposal made by the General
Education DTF at a meeting on
Wednesday. The final vote tally was 44
against the proposal, 37 in favor, and 10
abstaining.
Though they voted down this
proposal, the faculty is advised to
approve some kind of policy to add ress
general education concerns soon. The
accreditation committee's site visit is on
April 23, and a policy is to be submitted
to the committee in writing five weeks
before this visit. However, some people
feel that a deadline is over-emphasized
and that the college is not in danger of
losing accreditation if it is not met. The
feelings over the deadline, along with the
voting numbers, reflect a division of the
faculty on how this issue should be

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handled.
Reasons for rejecting the proposal
varied. Many faculty members felt that
the model needed to be restructured and
that it was too hastily put together.
Others were more opposed to the idea of
making a set structure of required
general education courses. In addition.
some concerns were expressed over the
language of the proposals.
"[It I sacrifices depth for breadth,"
one faculty member said at the meeting.
"People should vote for this if they
think this is good . .. and if they
understand it," another said.
Faculty in favor of the proposal
. stressed that it was an experiment and
would be up for review in five years time.
"It addresses the key issues ...
enables us to offer more·programs with
quantitative reasoning," one faculty
member in favor of the proposal said.

Providing more opportunities for
student's exposure to quantitative
reasoning (math) was a main concern
of the accreditation committee.
The proposal. that they voted
down was a combination of the two
models previously proposed by th e
DTF, "Spring Festival," and "Cross
Divisional." It also included som e
amendments made at previou s
meetings. The proposal provided a new
structure that would require 40 percent
of the faculty to teach programs with
more breadth of subjects and emphasis
on general education. The other 60
percent of the curriculum would
remain unchanged.
More discussion of the issue is
scheduled for a meeting next week, and
they will vote on the new advising
proposals made by the DTF soon.

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Sarah Taylor, Ali cia Webber. and Whitney Buchman wanted to be Evergreen cheerl e.ldees
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Black History Month features
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Please stop by the CPJ office (CAB 316)
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KAOS-FM radio commemorates Black
History Mon'th (February) by broadcasting
three historical specials. The first, "Gullah, A
Legacy in Song: Marlena Smalls & The
Halleluja Singer," airs on Friday, Feb. 23 from
8-9 p.m.
The next, "Poet in Bronzeville: The Story
of Gwendolyn Brooks," is on Monday, Feb. 26
from 2-3 p.m.
The last show in the triumverate of shows
is "Gee's Bend: Songs from Beyond the River
and airs on Saturday, Feb. 24 from 5-6 p.m.

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Race relations in America
How to get involved
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the paper. One issue we'd especia ll y like stude nt
input on is whether or not we s hould keep our
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Our meeting times are as follows.
Story meeting
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Paper critique
Thursday 4 p.m.
lournalism and ethics forum led by CPJ advisor
Dianne Conrad
Friday 4 p.m.

How to contribute content

On Saturday, Feb. 24, local activist Jerome
Johnson will host a panel discussiQn on the issue
of race relations in America. Panelists will
include Anna Schlect of the Black Hills Alliance,
Billie Elliott of Blacks in Government, Zahid
Sharif of TESC and Philomena FilomenaLipska.
"This will be a very candid, open
discussion," said Johnson . "We want to get
down to the nitty-gritty of why racism still
exists, and how it operates in 2001 America."
This free event is sponsored by the
Thurston County Rainbow Coalition, Works in
Progress, and Blacks in Government and will
be held downtown at the Olympia Center from
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information, call (360) 701-8010
or email atsundown103@hotmail.com.

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Arts and the Child and The Dragon Art
Studio invite you to a free pUFpe t show for
child ren and adults at 2 p.m. on Feb. 24 in the
Longhouse.
Images of China features puppeteers
Zhengli Zu and Yuqin Wang. In their 30 years
performing with Chinese Rod Puppets, Zu and
Wang have received critical acclaim and have
won international awards.
A movement workshop for people and
puppets will follow the performance.

Bohemians and Bohemiennes

News

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On Saturday, February 17, the Giant Robot
AppreCiation Society, TESC's ani me club, held
its first ever anime convention, Chibi Chibi
Con. It was run by Starla Robinson, a
coordinator for GRAS. The con featured two
ani me rooms, a video gaming room, a role
playing game room, panel discussions,
contests, and a dance. Attendance was
estimated at about fifty.
"I've never seen so many people dressed
as Japanese school girls in my life," said Jayne
Kaszynski, who attended the dance. Peopl~ got
into the anime spirit by dressing as their
favorite characters. There was even a costume
contest with some outstanding entrants. In
addition, members of the Evergreen Medieval
Society ran a panel on cost uming .
GRAS hopes to continue Chibi Chibi Con
as an annual event, perhaps even expanding
it. People interested in the anime club s hould
go to the Edge in A-Dorm Friday nights at
eight.

You will get an interview with Stepan S.
Simek. You will persuade him to give you a
facu lty signa ture. You will procure $3000. You
will prepare yourself for a long airplane ride.
You arc in the first session summer class
Bohemia - Theater, Literature and Cu lture in
Prague and Beyond.
Your airplane will to uch down in Prague.
You w ill see theater and opera productions, visi t
cultural institutions, architectural and historical
landmarks, and s ites of cultural, political, or
historical significance. You will meet every day
for lectures, seminars and post-play discussions,
so me of which will be attended by the leading
Czech cultural figures.
You will travel outside of Prague. You will
spend ten days at an intensive writing and
th ea ter retreat in an isolated village in the
mountains of Northern Bohemia. You will write,
rehearse, and produce creative projects.
You will now look up from this
newspaper. You will remember your desire to
trave\. You will remember your love for the
unknown. You will need more information.
You
will
email
Stepan
at
simeks@evergreen.edu. Or, being a semiluddite, you will call him at x6756.

Cooper Point Journal • 2· February 22, 200 1

In an effort to cope with the energy supply
and cost crisis, TESC President Les Purce says
we shoulzzzzzzzzzsnore .. .... wha? (Oh). Right. The
energy crisis. Yeah.
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Okay, so, this press release, right? It's from
the President's office. Says "we recognize the
importance of maintaining indoor air quality and
campus safety as we reduce energy use across
campus." Does tha t mean we should turn down
the heat? Or not? Probably m eans turn down the
heat, but it's pretty fricking noncommittal. Still,
though, even Gov'ner Locke is dong his part; I
mean, he turned off the capitol dome light for
chrissakes .
So use some common sense and be aware
th at you live in the most energy-consumptive
culture in the world. Put on a sweater instead of
turning the heat up . Use the stairs instead of an
elevator, you lazy bum.
Oh, and from the Prez's office, "Thank you
for doing your part to conserve energy."

Corr ections
In last week's story "Sex Organ Saga or
Genitalia Debacle" we incorrectly
referred to Joanna LeTorre Hurlbut as the
Women's Resource Center coordinater.
Ms. Hurlbut is not the coordinator. Ms.
Hurlbut is a volunteer. Yay for volunteers!
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The comic strip "The Shape" was left
without attribution last week. "The
Shape" is written and illustrated by Ryan
Buck.

BLOTTER
Stealing, ~leeding, cursing, and other fun hobbies
by Jen I3l acHord

Ah, how the heart of darkness
that lies in every person's sou l is
troubling me this week. For indeed,
I believe that ev il is bubbling to the
surface, ready to exp lode like a kettle
of water that someone has burnt on
1\ stove in Housing.
How else does one explain the
rash of thefts tha t exte nd far beyond
the confines of food service? Wallets,
bikes, even tec hnology; every thin g
see ms to become "com munity
property," to quot e one past
offenders's excuse for theft.
Speaking of which, for your
viewing pleasure, this week's blotter
features a saga so rich that it must
be told in three parts. But unlik e
"Star Wars," [ won't make you wait.
Yep, instant gratification.
So s it back and revel in your
shadow. Dive into the murky depths
of Evergreen's seedy waters. And
who knows, perhaps you' re learn
from their mistakes.
And if you don't, well, that' s
more blotter co ntent for me.
On with the mayhem ....
Tuesday, Feb. 13
9:30 a.m.
What's a good way to
start off your day? How about
having a guy get mad at you while
you're working in an enclosed area
near gasoline fumes? That's what
happened to so meone working in a
parking booth today. Sadly for crime
fans, there is a note on the report that
while "the conduct was rude and
belligerent, it wasn't quite
harassmenL"
11:21 p.m .
Bum-ba-bum-bum .
Someone gets caught with branches
from a madrona· tree. But he says he
found them on an ant's nest a nd
didn't know they were a protected
form of plant. Since we may never
know where they come from, the
suspect is set free. And the branches?
They are placed at the en trance to FLot, near the 15MPH sign, whe re
they will no doubt remain
untouched ... for about five seconds.
since anything that isn 't nailed down
here seems to get taken.
Wednesday, Feb. 14
8:55 a .m.
A bike is stolen. Is it
the same bike that was returned to
its owner at 2:15 p.m. after being
found in the woods next to a pair of
bolt cutters? I'd like to think it was,
as it would be a nice circular event.
9:43 a.m.
Boy, it's hard to
imagine that there'd be a suspicious
person hanging at the Library Loop.
I mean, with so many "interesting"
people to choose from, how does one
earn that distinction? My guess is
that involves ei ther some heavy duty
mumbling and lurking or else a loud
fit of shouting accompanied by
repea ted kicking of various objects.
4:18 p.m.
In perhaps the oddest
theft of this week, someone takes a
PC card from a computer in the
Computing Center. 1 must admit,
that act ually has quite a nice e lement
of te c hnical profi ciency to it, far
surpassing the u sua l bike, wallet,
and backpack thefts that plague
Evergreen.
9:24 p.m.
A gu nshot rings out
in F-Lot. Well, actually, police think
it might have been fireworks on the
beach, but you know, it's pretty
much the same.

Thursday, Feb . 15
Two more people set off fire alarms.
1 p.m.
Someone stea ls a
st ud en t's wallet. Yeah, that 's really
a great thing to do , you thieving
bastard. And if you're the same g uy
who stole my wallet, then I have no
doubt that you ' ll soon ge t whilt you
deserve.
Friday, Feb. 16
6 a.m.
I vote this for the
c reepiest incident of the week . A
s tud ent wakes up to find a man
crouchin g inside her bedroom. She
ye ll s "He y," lead ing the suspect to
SilY, "Uh, sorry" and run out the front
door. Nothing more is seen of him.
7 a.m .
What is with this
school? Not on ly does another
s tudent get his wallet s tol en, it gets
taken right out of his room . Because
you know it takes so much effort to
try to earn money honestly.
Saturday, Feb. 17
12:19 a .m.
You know, sometimes
yo u think it's never go ing to be good
again. You long for the glory days,
when it seemed everything on
camp us was being set on fire while
people danced naked in the flames.
Or so mething s imilar to that. But
while we may not have that eve r
aga in, we do have an epic talc of
hitchhiking, obstruction, and a
whole lot of swearing(wh ich has
been omi tted a t times, due to the fact
it gets pretty repetitive) .
While on patrol, a police officer
notices a guy (let's call him for
conven ience, John) stand ing near
Driftwood Road, trying to hitch a
ride. The cop pulls off th e roadway
and asks "John" to come over, as he
is in an unsafe locat ion. He refuses,
but even tuall y walks over and a~ks
the police officer for a ride home. The
cop sta tes that he co uld possibly
provide "John" a courtesy ride home
and asks him for 1.0., stating he is
vio lating the "pedestri an sol icitin g
ride code" He asks the cop to leave,
ra ising his wrist "in a manner that
implied he wanted me to go ilway."
The cop does not, and repeats
his request for J.D. "John" says he
doesn't have it on him and th at he
isn't a studen t at Evergreen. He then
says "I ha ve n ever had an
identification card or driver's license
from anywhere," while "snee ring at
me , raising his eyebrows" and
" repeatedly placing his hands in his
coat pocket after being instructed not
to do so."
Another off icer shows up to
assist and finally "John" gives them
a name and date of birth. The
problem? When the police run it,
they can't find any record of it.
(Here we pause for dramatic
effect.)
Part II
The first officer inform s "John"
that he needs to give the m th~ correct
info. He replies that this is bullshit,
that all the cops do is hara ss
everyone, and that he wants to be left
alone. When told he can't leave, he
adds "This is fucked up ." What's
more, ")ohn" contin ues to try to get
a ride from two more vehicles.
He is told aga in that he 's not
going anywhere until they get his
name, and that if he doesn't, he's
going to get ci ted for obstruction .
"John" repeats that they are

harassing him and asks the cop!>,
" Do yo u cops think you ilre ilctually
doing any good here?"
Officer #1 asks him to turn
around and place his hands behind
hi s bilck, prompting "Jo hn " to give
in and stilte a different name and
date of birth. But surprise t This
information is a lso not found in the
computer. He gets <1rrl'sted for
obstruction, clnd when the police
searc h him, they find a driver ' s
license and an Evergreen J.D.
(Here Wl' piluse s impl y to
torment you .)
P<I rt 1lI
"John" admits th ilt the namL' on
those ca rd s is the right one.
He ge ts taken to Poli ce Services,
where police note that he displays ",1
wide va riety of abnormal behavior,"
including sayi ng "FLIck yo u. You
fucking pig," repeated ly, stilt in g cl
phrase in German and raising his
arm in "il possible Nazi sa lute," and
finally speaking in "what sounded
like Spanish."
At 12:-+4 a.m., "John" ge ts
advised of his Miranda warning and
the form he can sign, but he s tates
that he knows his rights and that he
won't s ign it , adding "So how the
fuck do you feci about that?" But he
does s ign a notice of infraction for
so liCiting rides ilnd obstructing a
police officer, after he is to ld that he
will get a citation if he doesn ' t.
He stLlrts to get escorted out of
Police Services but drops his
backpack. After picking it back up,
he accuses the escorting officer of
undoing it. The officer turns to leave,
but "John" insists that the cop
should "fi x his fucking bilckpack."
He is told th at it is in his bc!-.l
interests to leave at once, and indeed
he does lca\'e, but not before cal lin g
one cop" cl Nazi fascist p ig" dnd
another " a N,lZi bitch."
But that 's not all. At 1:09 a.m ., a

Resident Director of Hou~ing c a!l~
up, asking that a crim in a l trespa~!> be
issued for "John ." She s tates that
when she approached him and el ~ ked
what was wrong, he screamed
profanities at her and called her a
bitch. Thecriminal tres pass is i s ~ul'd ,
based on thi s behavior, his !>tatu ~ as
i1 suspect in a maliciou s mi~ c hivf
C,l~e , and tha t he has been known tll
~pray paint graffiti on campu s
Sidebar : Want to gue s~ thl'
number of times various form s of
"f u ck " shows up in this report?
Anybody? It 's 23. At least we know
this person is CDm fortable wi th all its
conjuga ti o ns.
2:05 a.m .
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f in' aI.lrm
is
"ma li ciously" pulled in tlw Mods . As
opposed to the usual benevolently
intenti oned ones at Evergreen .
2: 15 a.m.
An ass<lult occurs,
but I have no report on what
happe ned .
Sunday, Feb. III
1:33 pm.
Apparently, someone
was interested in science this week,
because an office in Lab I was broken
into. However, nothing was tak en .
So wha t was this person doing there?
Mondel y, Feb. 19
An eye injury oc~ur s
12:38 a.m.
in Student H Ollsing. You know,
there's nothing fun about that.
5:20 p.m.
Hey, we helve a Deli
theft this week . A man wea rin g a
dress takes sa lad and raisins ($2.50),
but neglects to leave the second floor,
deciding instead to eat them <It a
table there . The cashie r identifies th e
guy, say in g s he recognizes the dress.
While till' man docs not admit to
takin g the salad, he docs s tates that
he took the raisins because Fine Host
sto le from him first. He later admit~,
that indeed, two wrong;:, do not
make a right. He gets referred to the
Grievance Officer.

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NEWS

NEWS
"Fish Hatcheries:
"How do you feel
about the penis and
vagina sculptures
around campus?

YAlS

VICTiM

Know your strengths and weaknesses

by Cara Elliot-Seres

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Carrie Zanger

junior
"1 think this is a sexual awareness

issu e that needs to be spoken
about;
however,
I
think
communication between the
women's and men's centers needs
to be thoroughly addressed."

ToAVOID

Since the start of this academic
year, there have been five known
incidences of sexual assault on the
Evergreen ca mpus. These are just the
ones that have been made known to the
Housing staff. 75% of sexual assaults
go unreported ; that means that there
have been at lea s t 20 assaults on
ca mpus since September. To say that
Evergreen's student body is made up
of "a bunch of fun-loving hippies," as
sta ted in the February 8 Vox Populi
col umn , that would never harm
anot her livin g thing is a gross
misconception. Victim.s of sex ual
assau lt don't report their attacks
because they know how difficult it is
to prove it. Faced with doubt every step
of the way, they are the one crime
vic tim that is pegged as guilty from th e
firs t. Victims don't come forward at
Evergreen for the same reason, yet here
the doubt is reinforced by the "peaceloving hippie" state of mind . The false
sense of sec urit y that is co mm o n

among Greeners is what allows more
assaults to occur. Here, just as on any
other campus or town, we need to
watch out for each other and
ourselves.
The danger most likely isn't in
walking along unlit pathways ,
although they are best avoided.
Danger lurks in your living rooms, at
parties and in your bedrooms after a
night out. You are more likely to be
assaulted by someone that you know.
Only 29% of rapes are committed by
st ranger s and 90% of all sexual
assa u Its involve drugs and; or
alco ho l. Legally you cannot give
consent unless you are sober.
"U you're not aware of it [sexual
assault] going on then you haven' t
been paying attention or listening,
because people talk about it all the
time on this campus," said Ashly
Wilkie, a transfer student. "I wouldn't
let my friends walk a lone at night if
they weren't sober. You can' t trust

Have a sober friend walk you home

•

Party with people that you trust

•

Educate yourself about the real
dangers
Correct the myths

•
Get involved in sexual assault
prevention groups
people on this campus. 1 know too
many people that have been in violent
situations and I don 't want anyone to
have to go through it."

For more information about sexual
assault or ways to get involved, contact:
Coalition Against Sexlial Assauit at 8676749 or email us: casv2000_2001
@yahoo.com;ouroffice is located in CAB
320, office 17. Another campus resource
is tile Office of SexlIal Assauit PreventiOlI,
which ca l7 be reached at 867-5221.

Josh Blue

senior
" Who has the time to make those
things and why? It just looks like
a bedraggled slug or something. 1
do, however, enjoy watching the
prospective freshmen and their
parents looking at it."

Kristin Minto

jllnior
"The end result was good
because it started discussion. It
makes people talk about stuff
that needs to be talked about."

Steve Gortta

junior
"Art can be used to get peop Ie
thinking and can be presented in
a way that brings up issues that
can't be put any other way. I'd like
to see the artist push the limits of
[the sculpture's 1presentation."

Vanessa Lemire

22
"It doesn't bother me ... I'd like
to see more random art
placement on campus, but I don't
think genitalia should be a war."

Who's making the decisions around here?
By Erica Nelson

I have decided to begin printing information concerning Evergreen's Disappearing Task Forces, Review Boards,
and committees weekly in the CPJ. These organizations are the only venues (besides the student trustee position) in
which students can be directly involved with the governance and administration of our college.
The system of Disappearing Task Forces is relatively unique to Evergreen. Here's a general idea of how they work:
The vice presidents, presidents, and the Agenda Committee commission DTF's, usually in the fall quarter, to add ress
issues thai need to be dealt with that year. The DTF's are made up of administration, faculty, students, etc. ... Each year,
faculty are assigned to a DTF. The call for student volunteers happens in the fall , which is the best time to get involved.
The DTF's meet, get responses from the college communi ty, research, and write recommendations. The person who
comm issioned the DTF then responds to recommendations in writing, approving or disapproving some or all of the
recommendations . They also must provide an explana tion if they decided not approve some or all of the recommendation.
Sometimes, it ends there, but some larger iss ues need approval from the president and; or the Board of Trustees.
The DTF's still need stud en t participation. If you are interested in getting involved in any OTF, get in touch with Art
Costantino's office at ext. 6296. Or, you could just show up at a meeting. The CPJ will try to have a comprehenSive list of
meeting times soon. Also, if you arc cu rrently involved in a DTF, I invite you to contact the CPJ with informa tion
concerning yo ur projects, meeting times, and anything else you think the campus needs to hear about. Hopefully, this
w ill help make involvement in the college more access ible for everyone.

Food Services Facili ties
Weekly Mon 3 - 5 p.m.
Lib 2220
Nancy McKinney ext. 6501

Deadly Force Review Board
Reviews incidents where DF is used
or threatened
John Carmichael ext. 6296

Health & Safety AIC
Promotes worker health and safety
Monthly for two hours
Michele George ext. 6296

Graduation Planning
Help plan June 2001 events
Jesse Welch ext. 6310

Peer Health Advisory Board
Joanna Hurlbut ext. 6724

Communicable Disease AIC
Community Education

Bookstore Advisory
Advises on policies and purchaSing
Nancy McKinney ext. 6501

ADA Compliance
Evaluates progress Re: accessibil ity
Linda Pickering ext. 6364

S&A Fee Review Board
allocation of student act. funds
Mon. 1 Wed 4 - 6 p.m . Full
Jilime Rossman ext. 6221

Space Management
Policy and allocation of space
Student Conduct Code Hearing Bd. Quarterly and as needed
Hears student appeals of grievance Nancy McKinney ext. 6501
officer decisions
John Carmichael ext. 6296
Infraction Review Committee
Hears parking ticke t appeals
Faculty Hiring Committees
Monthly for Two Hours
Screening and interviews for all Susie Seip ext. 6131
positions
Faculty Hiring Office ex t. 6861
Prevention/Wel1ness Program
Promoting
substance
abuse
Enrollment Coordinating Committee awareness and wellness issues
.
Develop approaches to recruitment ; Liz Nyman ext. 6200
retention
Michele Elhilrd ex t. 6310
Communications Board
Provides guidance on student media
Drug & Alcohol Abuse Prevention issues
Reviews and develops policy and Twice Quarterly
preven tion efforts
Tom Mercado ext. 6220
Liz Nyman ex t. 6200
Master Plan Update
Campus Land Use Committee
Michele George ext. 6296
Michele Geor e ex t. 6115

Cooper Point Journal • 4 • February 22, 2001

Athletics AlB
Dave Weber ext. 6531
Student Rep . Selection Comm.
Advertise and assist in choosin
stud ent trustee
Hiring Priorities
Set priorities for hiring
Jeannie Chandler ex t. 6402

By AFISH

On Tuesday, February 27, 2001
at 3 pm in the Library Lobby; Leo
Baldwin will be coming to campus
to talk about the ineffectiveness of
fish hatcheries and salmon issues in
the Northwest. His talk is entitled
"Fish Hatcheries: the Silent Killer."
·Who's Leo? He knows the ins and
outs of salmon like the back of his
hand and wants others to know too,
so they can do something about it.
He spent time in the 70's touring
Alaska
and
talking
a bou t
aquaculture with a grant he won
from National Endowment for the
Arts. He ran his own radio talk show
and had an interesting hand in the
establishment of the 200-mile marine
protection zone now in place around

The Silent Killer·

the coast of the U.S. He co-invented
a contraption for salmon spawning
called the "Bionic Mother Fish
Probe" and wrole grants for the
United Native Indian Tribes. He also
had a hand in establishing the first
fish hatcheries in Alaska.
After this feat, Leo started having
questions about the hatcheries . Are
fish hatcheries good for fish? Are
they good for the ecosystems they
become a part of? Why do areas with
hatcheries have ~ returning fish?
He moved his family down to
California to study these questions.
What he found while doing his
research surprised him. He realized
that hatcheries don't help salmon;
they hurt them and even cause the
decline of wild stocks. (Among many
other interesting things he'll talk

about next Tuesday) He's spent his understand and protect the local
time since trying to figure what else habitats they live in and use. His talk
we can do to help restore salmon and will be in three parts, focusing on the
advocating the extinction · of past, present, and future of salmon
hatcheries. He's locally involved in the Northwest region. An abstract
with Stream team, a
of his speech will be
· · t Y co 11 a b ora t·lOn
for more tafo aboat
.
t rl-Cl
given
away to anyone
along with Thurston
interested and he'll be
County to help the
available to sign free
health of our local Mondays3_4 pm copies of his poem, "Old
streams. At a Stream
Third floor of CAB Salmon Friend."
Team potluck, Leo 867-6105
This
event
is
quickly volunteered to
sponsored by AFISH, a
come and speak at Evergreen. He student organization whose goal is
helps train salmon stewards who to raise students' awareness of
give tours and talks during salmon issues and their impending
spawning season, runs his own extinction. New members are
editing lab, and is a producer for welcome! Note: We have two
TCTY. He knows his stuff and coordinator positions opening up for
believes that it is the responsibility Spring quarter, four hours a week.
of every Northwest citizen to Give us a ca ll or stop by the office.

AFISH

Education Requirements usurp liberal arts point, are too hastily made
By David Marr

The traditional purpose of the
liberal arts was to investigate the
ends of life. That purpose has
survived the historical eclipse of the
liberal arts college in industrial
societies. Study of the liberal arts
(the arts and sciences) instills in the
student habits of self-criticism and
reflection . These habits of mind
enable the student to understand the
legacy of the past even as they
prepare him or her for life after
college. The centerpiece of this
course of formal study is the
student's hard-won discovery of his
or her own work: what it is, why it
is this and not some other, and what
it could become. This discovery is a
major achieveme nt and, in fact, may
be the only coherent basis for the
award of a college degree-the only
"outcome" worth crediting. A
student pursuing meaningful work,
moreover, simultaneously discovers
something else: his or her
limitations, arguably the most useful
lesson of all. It is the servile man or
woman, not the disciplined one, who
believes the sky is the limit.
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faculty and students about the issue of general education at Evergreen . This
is just one perspective on the issue, and I enco urage others to write their
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ban, Vice President Dick Cheney living nea r areas where pesticides
appears to be the key man in both are u sed, The publi s hers or the
domestic and foreign policy, and is st udy claim it is ' the first to
reported to be hirin g hi s own team thoroughly document th ese effects.
of foreign policy s taff and to be (more at www.ens .lycos .com)
building " the nucleus of an •
Federal courts ruled last week
alternat iv e
national
sec urit y that the four hydroel ec tri c ddm s on
commit t ee,"
(more
at Oregon's Snake River violate the
www.commondreams.org)
C lea n Water Act by raising water
•
Outreach agencies, s helters, and temperat ure s and increasing
soup kitchens in Washington D.C. arE, dissolved nitrogen levels above
reporting a growing number of ad ults allowed wa ler qual i ty s ta nd<l rds.
in need of services, signa ling an The Court ordered th e U.s. Army
increase in what is already one of the Co rps of Engineers to m<lke moves
h ighest hom e less rates in th e nation. to
protect
thr eatened
clnd
The si tuation in the District appecll's enda n gered salmon and s tee lh ead
to play ou t in o ther major livin g in the river within 60 days .
metropolitan areclS . Expe rts point to (more at www.ens .lycos.com)
an a rra y of reasons for th e worsening •
Shell C h e mi cals of Brazil W,1 5
problem. The ca u ses include th e orde red yes te rday by the Sao Paulo
decline of affordable housing due to State Environmental Protection
the economic boom, a breakdown in Agency t o c lean up <In area 90
government se rvi ces for s ub s tance kilometers cas t of Sao Paulo where
abusers and the mentally ill , and it spi ll ed pesticides manufa c tured
other reductions in publiC assistance . during th e 1970s and 19805 . Aldrin,
(more at www.commondreams .org)dieldrinandendrin . thethree
pesticides produced at the pl <lIlt, arc
Environmental
all highly toxic persistent organic
•
A1,000-pagereportbytheU .N's pollutants . Shel l had denied the
Intergov e rnm e ntal Panel on C limate s pills untilearii er this month . (more
. Change (IPCC), which link s nearly a t www.e ns. lv c05.co m)
3,000 experts in dozens or count ri e~ ·
House I{epubli ca n s l<lun c hed
ilnd has been studying the warming ,111 inrormal review of the 19 new
problem since 1990, warns that global nOltional
monuments
and
economic activity wi ll ha ve a monument expansions enacted
devastating impact and s teps shou ld during the C linton <ldm inis tration
be taken immediately to reverse the with the goal of c reating legislation
trend . " Project e d c limate c hange s to overturn the mea ;, ures. (more at
during the 21st ce ntury h<lve thL' www.en~.lycos.com)
potential to le ad to ruture IMge-~ca le •
C hevron ha s "greed to pay
and possib ly irre ver;, ible c han ges in p e nellti e!> or over $80{).Ol)O ror
Earth systems, resulting in imp acts violating th e C lean Air Act elt three
on co ntinental and global sca les," the o f its facilities in Hawelii . The EPA
report said. The sc ientists said they al leged that Chevron failed to ins tall
foresaw glaciers and polar icecaps air pollution co ntrols a nd limit
meltin g, co untless spec ies of animal s, emi . sions at its bulk gaf>oline
birds and plant lif e dying out, terminal s, ilnd failed to in spec t and
farmland turning to desert , rish- file reports on elj uipm entleaks and
supporting coral reefs d es troyed, and wa s tewater sys te ms at its petroleum
s mall is land nation s sinking beneath rcfinery, bothofwhichledtogreater
the sea . (more at www.ens .lycos.com ) emissions of smog creating organic
•
Seve ral
new
reports
on co mpounds.
(more
at
contaminan ts in supermarke t fish www.ens.lycos .com)
have led Consumer Reports to warn·
People for the Eth ical Treatment
against eating a wide array of of Animals (PETA) is s uing the EPA
seafood. 50% of swordfis h sampled for its use of tens of thousilnd s of
found methylmercury in excess of rodents in tests which attempt to
one part per million, and up to 8°/., of id ent ify chemica ls that effect the
a wide variety of fish had high E. co li developing ce ntral nervous system.
level s. Univers it y of Wisconsin- The tests have been crit icized within
Madison scientists said they have the scientific commun it y as
found high level s of a common irrelevant to human chi ldren. (more
chemical flame retardant in Lake at www.e ns. lycos.co m)
Michigan
sa lmon .
(more
at
www.ens .lycos .com)
International
•
A new study from the University.
France and Russ ia cri ti cized th e
of North Carolina finds a close United States and Great Britain for
correlation between birth defects and the bombing of iraqi targets within
infant mortality with pesticide "no-fly zones" set up after the Gulf
exposure in pregnant mothers . The Wilr in 1991. Iraq does n ot recognize
study indicated as much as 120% the zones, which are not specifically
increase in miscarriages for mothers authorized by the United Nations.

Campus Democracy: Who's In Charge?
lIy Brian Fr;]nk

David Smith raised great points
two weeks ago in his article "Student
Gov , Anyone?" in the CPJ, which
discussed the lack or power students
have over anything and everything at
EVC'fgreen, Having worked on and
see n rriends and acquaintances

working on dozens of different
campa igns to change things at TESC,
I ca n tell you tha tit is ex tremely
cha ll enging,
In general,
the
administration, eith er from laziness,
understaffing, disorganization, lack of
co n cern, or whatever else, is very
reluctant to chan ge dnything at the
college that they do not judge to be

an extremely pressing concern,
Furthermore, campus activism is a
field of activity that is only an option
for a certain sector of TESC's s tudent
body: namely those with enough tons
of time to do it.
"Student
of
The
idea
Government," in one form or another,
has been tossed around at TESC for

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Campus

The subject of student democracy is a controversial one, Organizations of this sort have run the gamut from
unpopular rule-makers who make curfews for dorms, to ineffective and inaccessible bureaucracies created by
populanty contests, They also can be useful intermediaries between students and administration and have at times
formed the basis for popular revolutionary movements for seizing control of campuses, This survey was designed
Working Group
to
gauge how students feel about student democracy in general and to gauge student opinion on specific models , II
Survey #1
was produced by the Campus Democracy Working Group, an open discussion group that is interested 'i n exploring
Ihe possibilities for democracy at TESC, When you complete the survey, you can turn it in at the Campus Bookstore, in the box near the entrance, All are
inVited 10 our meetings Wednesday afternoons at 2:30 P,M, In library Room 2129, You can reach us via email attescdemo@hotmail.com.

Democracy

General Questions:

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1. Do you feel that students have enough
say over the management of the college? Do
you feel that you have adequate information
and are able to influence various issues
currenlly facing the campus (food service
issues, the "sweatshop' issue, tuition , housing
issues (locked doors , privacy issues) , course
requirements/general education DTF, forestry
on campus, what types of research are
performed on campus, hiring of professors/
staff, affirmative action in admissions)?

If there was a student democracy of some
sort on campus, how much time would you be
willing to invest in participation (i ,e" attending
meetings each month, educating yourself on
issues, talking to other students about issues,
etc.)?
3,

Two final qyestions:
What might you fear or dislike about a student
democracy?

2.Are there positive impacts you could see
coming out of a student democracy on campus?
I What are they?

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Does Evergreen need a student democracy or
not?

Are you interested in working with the Campus Democracy Working Group or receiving
updates on our research?
Would you be willing to present this survey to your class with us?
Name: _ _ _ _ _______
Email : _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __
Class Name :
Phone: _ _ _ _ _ __ _ __
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Please indicate which modells) you
think are closest to ideal and would
work best at TESe (circle a few!!

1,Status Quo: Power resides with board of
trustees, campus administration, and state
government. Students can partiCipate on various
administrative committees, in student activity
groups, the student group allocations committee
(SM), and can initiate voting referendums (a
very lengthy and complicated process),
2.Direct Democracy; One student, one vote.
Would likely take the form of massive town
meetings or a vastly simplified referendum
process.
3.Centralized Representatives; Individual
representatives elected from the general student
body.
4.Decentralized Representatives: Individuals
elected from smaller groupings (e.g., from course
seminars or some other affinity group)
5.Student Forum: Regularly scheduled
community dialogue meetings which would have
no authority to represent student opinion or
negotiate with the administration.
6.Q1h!r;. What do you think the ideal form would
be?
7,$teel Cage Deajh Match: Gladiator-style
tournament, taking place in Red Square at the
beginning of fall Quarter each year, where the
last student remaining standing is appointed
dictator of the college.

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years. It's a concept that has excited
some, ha s frightened others afraid of
creating still greater bureaucracy on
campus, and left others disillusioned
at the fail ure of efforts to reach even
preliminary agreement as to wha t the
ideal st udent democracy s hould look
like. The issue is complex and does
not seem to be one that most Greeners
lack an opinion on. There is good
reason for this: elected representatives
can be faceless dictators or benevolent
and accessible; direct democracy can
be empower ing and invigorating or
combative and tedious.
In order to confront and exp lore
these issues a new grou p has been
formed on campus, tentatively called
the "Campus Democracy Working
Group." Our first project is creating a
survey which we hope to get as many
students to fill out as humanly
possible. In order to arrive at
information in as non-partisan and
non-dogmatic a manner as possible,
we will be starting from ground zero
with basic fundamental questions. We
will be asking questions like "Do you
feel you have enough power over how
things are run at TESC?" and "W hat
would you anticipate as the pros and
cons of a student democracy at
Evergreen?" We will also be looking
for responses to a variety of different
models for student democracies
(direct democracy, an e lected student
senate, a non-voting student union,
and everything in between) and
looking for suggestions for other
models . We are also examining
models of student government at
other "progressive I al terna tive"
colleges around the country.
Our intention is not to install or
promote a model of student
government that we like best, but
rather to test the waters, hear what
people have to say on the issue, and
hopefully get peopLe thinking and
discussing options. We hope to
publish our data in the CPJ and
possibly hold a forum or series of
forums to discuss the results as well.
This is not an issue tha t is simple
enough for a small group of people
to create a referendum and try to get
a yes or no vote on it. U a campus
democracy is to be a success at
Evergreen, it most be something that
the vast majority of students support
and feel ownership in . Anything less
would suck.
I hope that, if you h aven ' t already
thought about the possibilities of a
student democra cy, reading this
I article and David Smith' s article has
raised your interest in the issue. [
would like to encourage, cordially
invite, and honestly w elcome all
Greeners to come to our meetings.
They are every Wednesday at 2:30
p.m. in Library room 2129 . You can
contact us at tescdemo@hotmail. com.

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By Brian Frank, Craham Hamby,
Vanessa Lemire , and Sreph.:n

Karmol

This week's top stories:
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US Criticized for Bombing
Iraq
Global Warming Fears
Substantiated
Activists Clash with Police in
South Korea

Domestic
•
Napster offered a $1 billion
se ttl emen t to the music recording
ind u s try last week in h opes to
prevent b eing shutdown by the
government. The COUTts ruled earl ie r
this month thnt Napster must
remove all copyrig ht ed material
from its service, an action that would
esse ntially destroy Napste r. Naps ter
a lso unveiled a new plan in
partnership with discount CD
co mpany BMG , which would change
Napste r so that u se rs would have to
pay membership fees for u ses of
ce rtain so ng s. Napster is a musi c
trading "community" where u se rs
C<l n access up to te n s of thousand s
of songs from other u se rs' co mputers
for free . (more a t www.napste r.com)
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A new s tud y shows that more
people were sent to pri so n under
C linton than Reaga n o r Bush, ays a
report by the Jus tice Policy Institute,
anarmofTheCenteronJuvenileand
Criminal Ju s ti ce. The surge in prison
populations ha s been attributed to
former preS ident Clinton'S " tough
on crime" policies . The incarce ration
rate at the e nd of the C lint on
administration was 476 per 100,000
citizens, versus 332 per JOQ,OOOatthe
end of Bush ' s term and 247 per
100,000 a t the end of Reagan 's
administration. Current president
George W. Bush has commen ted that
the s urge in the number of prisoners
in recent years "is a necessary and
effec tiv e rol e of government protecting our communities from
predators ."
(more
at
www.yahoo.com)
•
George W . Bush cont inu ed
appointing former Reagan and Bush
Sr. officia ls to defense and national
secur ity posts this week. His choices
include Richard Armitage as deputy
secreta ry of sta t e under Colin
Powell. Mr. Armitage is a Pentagon
veteran of the Reagan and Bush Sr.
e ra, during which he played a role
in the Iran -Contra a rm s smuggling

scandal. Mr. Armitage worked ' - closely with Co lon e l Oliver North in
the secre t Reagan Whi te House effort
to trade arms to Tran and s iphon I
some of the profits to Nicaraguan
Contra rebels in defiance of an arms
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Foreign Mini ste r Hubert Vcdrinc or
Fran ce commented that thefl' Wd ~
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that Wa~hington ~ h()uld rethink it~
poli cy toward Baghdad . I::loth Fran le
ilnd Spilin have ca lled ror a rC\'IC'W
or the UN ~anc ti on~ prog rilm aga in ~ t
Ir aq, arguing that th ey arc harming
the populat io n and arc not
destabilizing the c urrent regim e as
intended . (more at www. ya hoo .co m)
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Activists hurled gasoline bomb ~
at c lub -wie lding riot orficer~
Tue s day during il prote~t again s t a
po lice raid on s triking workers at a
Daewoo Motors plant il day ea rlier.
Protesters burned two e mpty poli ce
bu se:-. while marc hing toward the
plant at Bupyong, 18 mil e~ west of
Seo ul. "I h e ra ll y, which drew about
600 people, wa s organized by the
Korea Confederation or Trade
Unions, a hi s tori ca ll y mod e rate trad e
union .
(more
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and
www. labour ~ ta rt.org)
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The s e con d eilrthqu,lke in il
Illonth to hi! EI Sa lvador ha~ left at
least 237 dcad , adding to thL' Januar y
13 th quake th at killed 872 The 6 .6
ma g nitud e quake hit ju ~ t a~
re co n~tru c li o n Wil~ underway frolll
the Januar y 7 .6 magnitude q Uclke
that left 1 ,2 million hompll'ss. (more
at www.ips,org)
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A Pclle~tinian bus driver on hi~
way to an Israeli army base ran
through ,) c rowd ed cro~swa lk ,
killing eight peop le and injuring 20
o thl'r s . The dri\'l'r , Khalil Abu
Olbeh, wa ~ th e n ~ h o t in the peh'is
and in the legs. Seven o r the e ig ht
who died were braeli so ldiers. It
was Mr. Obleh 's fir~t day back a ft e r
a week - Ion),; la yorf; hi " r e lat ives
dl'~c ribe d him as brooding over the
braeli s anctions pla ce d on Palestine
and the co n s tant wouncling of
Pal f's tinian c ivili ,ln!-> . ( mor e a t
www.guardian.co .uk )
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Another bu s in c ident in brdel
left one l'.d es tinian dead and another
s eriou s l y injured la s t w ee k. A
minibus c arr y in g Palestinian day
laborer s wa s blo c ked by brileli
so ldi ers and asked to turn around ,
and then the retreating vehicle wa s
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LETTERS
Sweatshop concerns and administrative response
Students Against Sweatshops call for definitive action ...
Three Months Certainly Was
Not Worth the Wait on

. .
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,s
CrItIque
of the admlrustratlon
response to our proposal:

Sweatshops
Well, it was about a week
The Problems With Vague
.
Responses
after our last arttcle when we
.
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.
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to kI10 w
receive a response to our
IS reassurIng
I h
adml'nl'stratl'on
rnll'ed
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thaI
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th
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proposa 10 ave e appare 111
the bookstore not be produced heav ily on recommendiltions
.
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Alth
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contained within a letter sent to
111 sweats ops.
oug 1 we
had been waiting for three the college from over 200
' response, tI le concerned
eco nomics
months for th IS
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th 't
rofesso s Thl'S pro free trade /
waltwascertal ynotwor I. P
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We
the
Evergreen globalization
group of
.economists
, ca II th emseIves th e
,
Autonomous
Students Agamst
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imagine this

you
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Sweatshops, strongly disagree
. I h
d"
t t' ,
Wit 1 t e a minis ra Ion s
response. In essence, their
I
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d th
aroun
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proposa
revo ves
.
f
d'
creabon 0 an a VISOry group.
, fl'
cl s',
a process Y\ e ee IS ex u Ive
and ex tremely limiting of the
.
d '
h .
vOices an views on I e Issue.
We need to know where the
Evergreen community stands
on this issue. Please come to the
1I0Wll Hall Forum on Thursdav,
J'
February 22, a t Noon in the
Library Lobby. We will be
I ..
h
are
exp
a lnll1
com in
g g were
from, we the
admin is tr ation
will
be
explaining where they are
coming from, and hopefully,
folks can hear botll sides and
explain where they are coming
from. Please, please, please,
come if you have any available
time.
And now to our brief

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Academic Consortium on
Illternatl'o llal Trade (ACIT)
.
This letter warned colleges not
to J'oi n any sweatshop
. orgaruza
. h' ons an d
monl'torIng
to carefully weigh out thei r
options. One option not
repr=ented in our proposal but
~J
mentioned in this letter from
ACIT was
the Social
Accountability
Standard
5A80oo. Interestingly enou gh,
Jagdish Bhagwati, one the
members of ACITs s teering
committee, also happens to be
on the advisory board of the
orga ni za tion responSible for
creati ng SA8000 - was this
letter simply an advertisement
for 5A8000? Jagdish referred 10
the UniverSity of Oregon's
decision 10 join the WRC as "a
sin." Is it a sin to decide not to
work with the garment
indus try on the swea tshop

.
?
Evergreen garments?
Issue.
The administration also
,
,
Their
Proposal:
Stallmg,
makes reference to the fact that
St II"
St II'
"to the best of tI1eir knowledge"
Tha Indg, . a tlngt."" h
JOn as
(which is very little to. none), decidedearn
to crea11115
te arabookstore
"the bookstore
IS
not
'
,
.
f
purchasing advisory group
purchasing products rom
.
,
I ' W Id
which is a fancier name for a
s wea ts lOpS:
oU
YOku disappea:ing task force (DTF),
co nSider a factory t Ila l as s '
'c
.
Conveniently this group will
women If they are pregnant
.'
.
during
interviews
and
refuses
make
Its
recommendatJOn
.
.
" a b o u t a month after th e
to hire them If they say yes a '
?
h
b
bookstore docs it purchaSing
sweatshop, W at a Ollt
working
overtime
fornothe
next school
year,
, mandatory
'1
'h
is
timetable
set for
howThere
long

or hav1l1g no to! let papebr 111 t e
bathroom? W lat a out a
.
factory where three unIOn
organizers have supposedly
.
f
been fired?
. .These are some
d b0
the co nditions reporle
y
..
f.
Vente (an mdependent actOlY
monitor) during an inspection
of a Costa Rican gar me;;t
factory producmg MJ SO e
products. Yes, that's righI, MJ
Soffe, the sa me company
producing th ezip-upgrecnan d
gray hoo d evergreen
d E
swea ts Ilirts. T h e presence 0 f
these sweatshirts within our
bookstore attests to 11e
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f tIle Falr".a
" - bor
ll1ellechvenesso
. t'lOn, an organlza
. t'Ion
Assocla
· h regar d S a 11 co rpora te
w h IC
. forma t'IOn
f actory
In
as
co nfI'd en t'Ja I an d accep ta ble t 0
WI·thh 0 Id from tI1 e pu bl'!c. H ow
arc we s uppose d t0 k now
'
. are prod
w hi ch fac tOrIes
ucmg
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.

the administration will hold on
to tllis recommendation before
'
.
,
taklllg actIOn, and therefore,
there is no timetable for
Evergreen to withdraw from
,
tile Fair Labor Association. Our
.
. .
.
guess IS a deCISion will come
sometime in the summer when
most people arc gone (a TESC
.. .
'
tradition).
Words of Wisdom from Art
Costantino
In conversatiun, Art
Costantino, the Vice-President
of Student Affair!>, mentioned .
he thinks there is something to
be gained by working with
corporations who arc profiting
oft the oppression of people (in
this case, the garment industry).
Hey, Art, were U.s, companies
in South Africa helpful in
ending apartheid? How about

Ihe Holoca ust? Have you ever
he a rd what happ e ned a t
Bhopal? Peabody Coal and Fine
Host arc really making 50 me
headway on their oppressive
business operations. The
garment industry has no desire
to end the swea tshop industry,
dnd our administratiun has no
desire to end their relationship
10, and support of, the ga rmen t
indu s try
through
it!>
membership in the FLA.
Don't worry, though;
sometime in May, an exclusive
advisory group of six people
will represent everyone on the
campus and adv ise the vice
preSidents on how to fight
swea tshops . The advisory
group is an attempt to create a
"broader ca mpus dialogue on
the issue ." Good lu ck; the
process
is
co-opted,
exclusionary, and will require
efforts thaI have already been
done. For those not wilnting six
people to decide thi ~ iss ue for
elll of us in Ma y, our meetings
are Wednesdays at noon on the
fourth floor of the library in
front of the gallery. Let's figure
out what we arc going to do
aboul this una cceptable DTF
proposa I
for
figh ting
sweatshops; it might be time to
take matters into our own
hands. -- by Neal Altern, Lora
Clem, and £SAS

Administration to form bookstore purchasing study group...

details and applications ava i Iable
from Feb. 9 in CABI 316
deadline to apply: March 5
Cooper Point Journal • 8· February 22, 2001

THE EVERGRE~N STATE COLLEGE
Office of Operational Planrung and Budget
February 6, 2001
TO: The Evergreen Students Against Sweatshops (ESAS)
FROM: Steve Trotter, Executive Director of Operational Planning and Budget
SUB]: Response to your proposal dated November 14, 2000.
Thank you for your efforts this expressed concerns about the
past fall quarter that led to the e ffectiveness of both of the newly
proposal that the college end its formed WRC and FLA organizations
affiliation with the Fair Labor and suggest participation with other
Association (FLA) and join the certifying
and
monitoring
Workers' Rights Consortium (WRC). organizations, They state, "We believe
As you are aware, I have had many that the decisions on these matters by
competing demands for my lime over universities and colleges should be
the past several months that have left made only after careful research and
me unable to respond to your discussion and debate in a manner
proposal until now. I want you to appropriate to informed decisionknow how much I appreciate your making."
understanding and your continued
Asyou have already learned from
tolerance of my situation.
our bookstore manager, our bookstore
As we have discuss ed on has a history of supporting workers'
numerous occasions, I share your rights in its purchasing practices. The
commitment to promoting the welfare bookstore currently belongs to several
of workers in an increaSingly global memberships, including the National
soc iety. I also recognize tha t the Associa tion of College Stores, the
college can take steps to express its Ind epe ndent College Bookstore
support of fair working conditions Associa lion and the Fair Labor
and am aware that there are Association. All of these organizations
differences of opinion about the best share a deep concern about sweatshop
steps to take. In the case of sweatshop activity and a commitment to provide
monitoring organizations, many the bookstore with va l uable
colleges are members of the FLA, information . "out vendor activity. To
some are members of the WRC, and a the best of o ur know ledge, the
few belong to both.
bookstore is I ot purchasing products
A letter recentJy sent to the from sweatsh ops and, unlike other
college by more than 200 economics colleges, we do not have licenSing
professors associa ted wi th the agreements witl 'lpparel companies.
Academic
'. Gonsortium
on The bookstore ~equests written
In terna tional Trade warned the statements from eaLh garment vendor
college against precipitous decision- that the apparel is not produced in
maki ng abou t the choice of sweatshops. We do not purchase any
monitoring groups. These professors produc t that carries the Nike label.

Should th e bookstore discover that
garments we acquire are in violation
to statements of agreement made by
the supplier we immediately notify
the supplier ~f this violation and leI it
know that its business is no longer
welcome at Evergreen.
Since we do not purchase
sweatshop products thatwe are aware
of, and don't have the leverage of
licensing agreements to directly
influence the behavior of the garment
manufacturing industry, we arc left
with an issue that is primarily political
action in international affairs. Simply
stated, this is not a local operational
issue concerning our Bookstore and,
therefore, requires a higher level of
campus-wide attention because the
issue immediately becomes larger
than what particular membership we
jOin. We need to articulate a full
exp ression of our ideals, values and
common purpose.
It is in this context that I believe
that we must take the time to proceed
in a deliberate, thorough, and
informed manner as recommended by
the Academic Consort ium on
International Trade. I apprecia te tha t
you have already made significant
contributions toward this end. Your
work included presentations 10 13
different academic classes, various
town meetings, the posting of flyers
campus-wide,
and
co ll ecting
responses from
the campus
community. As I understand your
survey results, only nine respondents
were alumni, six were faculty and 13
were staff members from a campus
population of nearly 5,000 faculty, staff
and students. Although your work is

February 22,2001 .. 9 • 'Cooper ,Point Jou~na1

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impressive, I do not believe that the
entire campus community is ready to
make an informed decision on this
matter.
As you recall, we also discussed
the need for the college to take full
ownership of this decision and how
best to make known Evergreen 's
concerns about sweatshop activity to
those outside of our campus borders.
I believe we have general agreement
that we need 10 continue to work
together to accomplish a goal of more
fu II y ed uca ti ng the en ti re cam pus
comm un i ty
about
swea tshop
activities. That work must include
gaining a better understanding of
what constitutes a fair living wage in
various regions around the world, and
a greater appreciation of all Ihe
options available for the coIlegt. to
express its values co nce rning the
practices of the garment industry.
I will ask for the convening of a
bookstore purchasing practices study
group to be composed of two fa culty
members, two students, the Bookstore
Manager, and the Dean of Student and
Academic Support Services . This
group will be convened no la ter than
the end of February 2001. The chair
w ill be jointly appointed by the Vice
President
of
Finance
and
Administration, whose responsibilit y
includes the bookstore, and the Vice
President for Student Affairs, whose
responsibilities include all of the
variollS student support servi ::es. The
purpose of this group will be to
provide an advisory report back to the
Vice Presidents. We expect the reporl

see ADMIN on page 14

Thick,
Cold
Water
Thoughts on snow from a tropical refugee
by Gwen Gray
One of the most difticult things about
writing for a weekly newspaper is that you
have to write something every week. This
probably see ms self evident to you, but it
ca tches me off guard every time. How ca n it
be time to write again? I just did that. So I
am always pleased when an idea drops into
my lap and spares me the effort of creativity.
This gives me an extra reason to rej oice in
the recent presence of S II OW in our li ves:
whi ch is excit ing. since I already consider it
a minor miracle.
I was raised in Hawaii . There is snow
there sometimes , on top of Mauna I\ea
(wh ir h 1l1 eanS white mountain; the
Hawaiians wer~ fairly st raig htforw ard
thinkers), but it isn't very good for playing
in. Also. it's difficult to get to. As a child, I
th ought of snow th e way most people think
ort he ocean. It was a strange and wondrous
thing that you saw occasionally when you
went looking for it. Although I have lived on
the mainland for years since th en, the idea
of frozen water that falls from the sky still
seems improbable and exotic to me. I find
snow extremely exciting.
When I looked out my window a few
days ago and sa w Olympia impersonating a
Ch ri stmas card, I jumped up and down with
glee. Quite literally. Then I ran to my
roommate's room to share the news.
"Heidi-rose, Heidi-rose! There's thick
cold water falling outside!" Heidi-rose, who
was raised in the frostbitten wastelands of
Minnesota, looked at me like I'd just told her
our carpet was still beige.
"I'm going to hear about the stupid
snow all day, aren't I?" she asked in a sad and
tired voice. Slie was seriously cramping my
glee, so I went out into the living room to
watch the snow fall in peace .
I sat with our cats, transfixed by the
swirling downward glide of the snowflakes.
I en vied the cats their ability to twitch their
tails to release the suppressed excitement
involved in watching. I love to watch snow

fall; it's like some elaborate dance, or a flock
of small birds settling on the ground. I can
watch for hours. Unfortunately, school
required that I leave .my apartment and
actually touch the snow, which I wasn 't
nea rly as enthusiastic about.
Despite how fascinated I am by the idea
and appearance of snow, I am cautious with
the reality. I love to stand in snow, and watch
it fall. I love the way it tast es. I don 't like
walking through it , and I hate ice and slush.
I also hat e th e way snow looks when it melts,
but I like snow Ih at melts the same day it
arri ved so that it's scenic without being
inconvenitnt. This is partly because cold is
my least favorite physical se nsation bUI
lnostly b~cau~e the id ea of snow just seems
bizarre to me . Why doesn't snow melt once
it reaches air that isn't freezing? How come,
if snow is frozen water and ice is frozen
water, snow is light and fluffy and ice is hard?
Why is snow opaque and ice clear? Why,
si nce snow is cold, does it make such good
insu lation? Why do we call it a blanket of
snow when it's cold? Why does it look like it
ought to be warm? There are logical ,
scientific answers for all of those questions
(except maybe that last one) but none of
them satisfy me. It just doesn't seem right.
On a fundamental level, I don't think snow
should exist. At least, it shouldn't be all over
~
the place like this.
People from the mainland who visited
me in Hawaii used to ask how I could live on
an active volcano. There were logical,
scientific answers about how safe it was, but
the answer that satisfied them was that I
didn't think about it. The possibility that
molten rock would eat my house was a fact
of life , and not a very exciting one. I
understand their confusion better now.
Snow reminds me that most oflife is a matter
of perspective, and that therefore, no matter
how many weeks there are, there will always
be more to write about. I wish I found as
much comfort in the rain.

Flouride/Fire/Napster bad. Metallica/Losers Good?
by Aerin Tolbin
"Fluoridation is the ultimate triumph
of Madison Avenue advertising and public
relations 'engineering of consent.' How
else could the most educated people on the
face ofthe Earth be conditioned to clamor
for their daily dose of a cumulative enzyme
poison which [has been I classified as a
violent poison to all living tissue?" . Gladys
Caldwell and Philip E. Zafagna, MD. This
makes me angry, so you get to hear about
it.
The fall of 1998 was my first year at
Evergreen, and Housing had kindly placed
me into a six-bedroom apartment with 5
people so disparate that we're lucky to have
survived. One day, one of them used our
living room as a paint shop to create a
banner encouraging Olympia residents to
vote agains t fluoridation. That banner was

This letter is in response to Sky Cosby's
column, "Harangue: Minor in Possession," on
Feb.lS.1 take issue with several of the points that
you bring up in support of under-age drinking. I
also take umbrage with your portrayal of the
Evergreen police force.
First, your rather dismal view of the police.
You accuse the police of"accosting" the students;
"maliciously singling out students to fuck with
for no apparent reason"; and metaphorically (I
hope) saying, "Bend over kid, this is just the
beginning." As for the latter statement, I find it
un -based in reality, perso nally offensive, and
homophobic. Unless you have hard evidence that
one of the Evergreen police officers has a history
as a ~ex ual offender, let's drop the name·calling
and mud·slinging and stick to th e facts. I also
doubt whether yo u could find any substan tial
evidence to suppo rt your first two claims. either.
Addit iona lly. please don't insult th e time and
commitment that the police have given to this

campus by honestly suggesting that they become
florists. Perhaps the whole situation can be
remedied by addressing a problem that you
yourself admit to: "I don't even know who you
are." Maybe ifyoll were willing to take the time
to sit down with and get 10 know an officer, YOll
might change your mind or at least open your
perspectives a little.
Secondly, I find your reasons for wanting
10 drink and at the same time avoid arrest rather
astonishing. "Why can't I have a goddamn beer
after I get out of class?" Well, you're a minor,
correct? Maybe you can't have a beer because it's
illegal.
Granted, I'm no angel myself; I am a minor,
and I have done my share of drinking. But, when
I drank, I was also well aware of the risks
involved. Anyone who decides to drink as a
minor is also well informed of the potential
co nseq uences.
Those high fees that are levied against your
friends, up in the triple figures-they're in the

fluoridosis . The early stages are
indistinguishable from arthritis, and it
progresses into osteoporosis. Remember that
the next time you think about swallowing
toothpaste.
There is a lot of anti-fluoride
information on the Web. The international
site, fluoridealert.org, is one of the most
accessible and has a lot of information from
both sides of the issue. Some citizens of
Mountain View, California have an excellent
site called nofluoride.com, which takes a
more locally active view. Other worthwhile
sites
include:
fightfluoride.com,
fluoridation.com, and sonic.net/-kryptoxl
f1uonde.htm. I'd have been more irreverent,
but my teeth are stained and crumbly so I'm
a bit cranky.

to heat .RJf eleCtrify OU( IlolJ'les, to provide '
domestie SJlMces ~qch as water and waste
~'J'hj$~~fOtoursdloolsand
our~

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E. Rose Nelson
in general-the police have the legal comparison possible here (I can say this;
We've all heard the rhetoric, some right to beat you. In the United States; , l'rnpart Gypsy). Tens of thousands of my
of it appearing in these very pages . you have recourse. You can sue the police people were shot outright, never even
The cops are The Man. The cops are officers. You may not always win (I lived making it to the concentration camps.
only there to bring you down. The in LA County during the Rodney King There is an estimate of twelve and a half
cops will beat you because they're trial, thank you), but you can try. In million dead. One hundred thousand
bored. My personal favorite was the Northern Ireland, the country is literally Gypsies are estimated to have died, as
graffiti appearing on the side of p- under martial law. Tanks roll through the well as the better-known six million Jews.
Dorm over Thanksgiving Break-"end streets, and soldiers shoot first and ask People were killed for their ancestry, a
gang violence/abolish police." (No questions later. There is a war going on, . thing they had no control over. Whether
one who had ever lived with gang and the IRA members captured and they went along with the Nazis or not,
violence on a day to day basis would imprisoned were treated like criminals, they were doomed. The Nazis were
have written this, in my opinion. not prisoners of war (For an excellent hardly providing escorts home at night.
Certainly no One who went to my high study on this, see the movie Some
Hitler's crimes, however, pale in
school would have). In contrast, ] have Mother's Son). A handful of police comparison to the horror that was
spent Thursdays this quarter learning officers, armed or unarmed, are nothing Stalinist Russia. Josef Stalin killed an
about Northern Ireland and years compared to troops carrying machine - estimated twenty million of his own
studying Nazi Germany. I have read guns.
people. An unknown number were
about the perils of the Stalinist
Last week, an article compared Fine imprisoned. The Gulag system in Siberia
regime. These are police states.
Host's prosecution of a stolen doughnut was nearly a death sentence. Stalin
In Northern Ireland-in England to Nazi Germany. There is no starved his citizens with his policies. His

Whatever happened to the ideas of honor,
triple figures as a deterrent. The whole point of integrity and personal accountability?
getting cited for a M.I.P. is that the activity is Everywhere I look, whether in the CPJ or
against the law; it subsequently follows that the standing in, line listening to people talk, it seems
judicial system doesn't want you to do it again, as though these ideas are foreign concepts.
but how effective would it be if you only had to Whether it's an MIP, or a donut that someone
pay $20? Ofcourse the fines are going to be high. "forgot" to pay for, it seems as though there must
Moreover, your theory that students shouldn't be someone else to blame. It certainly isn't our
be arrested merely so their parents won't find fault. .
out-I'm not going to even bother rebutting that
Stealing, is stealing, people. If you don't
one.
.own it, don't eat it. That doesn't seem to be a
But, above all else, don't blame the police difficult concept, but aside from Evergreen's
for something they have no control over. They own, beloved "Captain Kung-Fu", who "forgot"
don't make the laws; it's only their job to enforce to pay, people here seem to think that surely
those laws. It's not up to the police which laws those clearly posted signs regarding shoplifting
they will enforce and which laws they may want can't apply to them. If your personal sense of
to ignore-the very nature of the job is that they integrity doesn't keep you from being a thief(and
have to enforce them all. If you don't think the you are a thief, don't kid yourself), then at least
legal drinking age should be 21 and you want it take responsibility for your actions. Surely, it
to be lowered. write to your legislators-don't isn't a surprise when you get busted for stealing.
slander those who chose to serve our Take it like an adult, and quit crying. You knew
community.
the risk when you tried to steal.

Is anyone at Evergreen so stupid that they
really think stealing is not a crime here? Maybe
a few, but they are the same ones that honestly
believe that marijuana is legal on campus. I am
so sick of people saying "Since the food sucks,
it's OK", or "Since it's a corporation, it's OK. " If
it doesn't belong to you, it's not OK Didn't we
learn that in Kindergarten?
Also, don't compare anything that happens
on this campus to Nazi Germany. If, in your
sheltered, privileged mentality, you think
anything here can be compared to that
nightmare, you need more education and less
pot. [fyou get busted for a MIP, be more careful.
Sure, it's a' lousy law.
something about it.
Don't whine. Don't cry. Accept the fact that you
chose to break a law, and you got caught. Use the
experience to grow and learn, and maybe you can
work to change the law.
Just don't pretend that you didn't bring it
on yourself. You knew it was illegal before you
opened the drink or stole the bageL You got
caught. Now stop your damn whining, you child.

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*Examining all aspects of this issue thoroughly
befure Persuading otbers to join your campaign.
· *Be willing and' present in the creation and
implementation ofplans fur aiterD;itiveeconomic
dll"eJoplYlent for the occupants of the Norch
· Slope. whocummtiy depend on oil development .
fur ec.OO\)lUic Iiwlll:Jood.

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own daughter defected to the United
States. There was no freedom of speech,
no freedum of the press. There was only
one candidate per office on the ballots;
there was only one party. The average
vocal Greener would have, at very least,
ended up in the Gulags. It is likely that
most people writing editorials to the CPJ
would have died for their beliefs.
Is Evergreen perfect? No. No system
is perfect, because all systems rely on
humans to implement them . What
interests me is that people who decry
prejudice in all its forms will be
prejudiced against someone because of
their job of choice. There are no bad
cops; there are bad people who happen
to be cops. Further, if Evergreen is
compared to actual police states, it can
clearly be seen that we are living in
luxury.
.

Where's the Responsibility?
by Aaron Anderson

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wIlobave.~to cta1texploration

anddeV~t2talJ rosts, will remoVe-thiS tax
base, along·with the right for the Inupiaq to
AAViVeetonomicalIy. W~HPIRGhasdecidedto
take upon itself the ~ponsibility to "Save the
Aoctic· without Wlder$tmding all ~jlI!\:(S of this
issue. Well, WASHPLRG, your job has now
becolne more c0'!lplex_ It is nc)t as Simple as
picketingARCOonedayoftheyear, writing letters
to your legislatorS. and making signs of caribou
and. polar bears, Your job, if you are truly
determined to )l<Jlt exploration of ANWR
includes, but is. not-limited to:

Why You Are Not Living in a Police State

Cosby's Harangue was wrong
By Selby

later found on a West-side billboard. I don't New Jersey farmers who sued for damages
know how it got there. On December 15, 1998, after their crops and animals died. Between
the citizens of Olympia voted down the the government and the major aluminum
measure. Although Evergreen is not part of . manufacturer ALCOA, which provided its
the voting district that included the measure, own doctored information and plenty of the
we are part of the water district that would toxic waste that was about to become a
have been affected. We are lucky.
, valuable additive, the idea was born that it
The history of fluoridation is dark and was essential for all children to get more
twisted. Fluoride, an ion of the highly reactive fluoride. About two-thirds of the municipal
element fluorine, is a waste product of the water in the United States is now fluoridated .
aluminum and ferlilizer manufacturing It is known to cause joint and bone problems,
industries. In 1944 an unknown amount of it to impair learning and lower IQ, and, with
was released in a gaseous form from a Dupont aluminum, may be a major factor in
plant in New Jersey that was manufacturing Alzheimer's disease. The known safe amount
something for the Manhattan Project. isabout 1 milligram per day. Almost everyone
Subsequently, th e federal government paid ingests that amount or more at breakfast, and
scientists to falsify information that claimed heavy tea drinkers may get· up to 14 mg per
the fluoride was not only not harmful. but day After about 50 years of soaking up these
actually good for people. This was done high amounts of fluoride, many people
simply to provide evidence against poisoned develop a chroni c co ndition called skeletal

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· youbM ~ One ofiheiriule$, In a pemci:
wotld, you wouldn'tmve' tQ payt:wic~ . the
amount for your Qdwalb C-Monster, and all
:sti'ict4~ SI!CUrirv'f1md: al.lln-lnetrt ' sUrIourtd!ngfood establishptents would
· prepare compl~mtntary gift baskets of

llOO,Ugn, ...."'2~ .• ,. " , :de~tabl~ t~j~because yOu're you. .
'!i" IWu.gre~.I~t4elin,l1tely.•dpnIUl!e1
I . ButtbiS'is nota pemct world, lI.nd stealing a
muftID 'on 6Ur happy Evergreen cainpus will
I. is.1
" result in tb! ~ ~ent as stealing a

f-\ taf;lle,

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1+ understand why tbe .

. Fine Host: daring to .
practice due process.
Now, I don'rknow enough about.Fine
Host and the various confllcts that have arisen
between staff, students, and the company to
attack this issue from an all-encompassing
point of view. But, as a regular reader of the
CP}, I feel fairly informed and sensitive to the
currents of discontent with the food service.
The prices of food are high, 1 agree. The
cafeteria food is disgusting; I will gladly agree
to that as well. And I most definitely would

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·d1erfore be'done surreptitiously?
: was the whole Id~a_ I, caD
being
1 hungry, wanting food, and being temPted by the
1, ·come and get me" atmosphere ofebe.deli,
! I offi!r no condemnation furpeoplewboget
' away with stealing food from the deli; that's
, practically our job as indO(:trinated capitalist
consumers: fuck the systep!, get free food. But if
f. you get caught, it's not necessarily unfair, and it
, doesn't really give you a right to whine about it
Evenifyoudid"furget"topayfurtheitem,wbich
is probably a common excuse but not a common
, mistake, the deli still has arighttopunish you-

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muffin at sareway; go figure, So by a] means,

to ~ steal-4nt~owth ..ttlll:delidoesre$ervetlie

right to·try .! ostop you- -it likes food and
'money jushs muCh as yoli, and, as unfair as it
~ins, ~y have tlJe law on their si<!e.
. If Fine Host is such an I,Infair, fascist
establishment (which it very well could be; I
. don't kitowehough about it to argue that one)
then don't go there.
.
Go to the co-op, where you can get
cheaper, ~tter food, and the people are nice,
too. It's that Simple. Ultimately, it doesn't
matter how many letters you write or uproars
you initiate, actions speak louder than words.

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LETTERS
Pissed at The Man
ly Susan Rudisill

So what's the deal? Why are the American people so pissed off
It the man who is currently in charge of ruining - excuse me, I mean
unning our country? And no, it isn't because he's a man. Well, I am
, tad miffed at the idea tllat middle aged white men nul our country
!I1d that I have to see their smug, fat faces staring back at me every
.lme I read the newspaper. But this man, this man was never even
dected president. He was chooen - not by me and not by hundreds of
thousands of U.S. citizens, but nevertheless chosen to take office. (Does
this not bother anyone?) Before so much as allowing our anger to
cool, Mr. Bush (and I will always refer to him as Mr. Bush because he
is not my' president) cut funding for medical clinics tl1at perform
abortions. He did tl1at on his.first day in office. Guess he owes thooe
right wing Jesus freaks big. These clinics were already hurting for
funds. In fact, in some impoverished cities, family planning clinics
arevlrtually non-existent. What this means is that women who already
can't afford health care must travel to gettreatment.1herefore, if these
women are simply in need of having a checkup forSTDs and cervical
cancer or obtaining birth control, they are most likely to do without
because they have no means of getting to a facility.
Many organizations are on top of the situation, campaigning
heavily to keep these clinics open and to keep abortion safe and legal,
buttheyneed our help. I'm sure you've seen some of the commercials
of late, produced by some of these organizations in immense efforts
to inform the public tl1at our rights are being threatened. This is a
veryreal and serious issue. We need. to pull together and do everything
in our power to help these organizations. Also, this is not just a
women's issue or responsibilify; it's everyone's. Women don't make
babies on their own, you know. In addition, there was a rumor floating
arOlmd tl1at next on the Bush agenda is a bill requiring mandatory,
parental consent for teenagers to obtain birth control. Didn't we try
tl1at already? We cannot let these things happen. If you want to help,
CARE 2(xx) (Campaign for Access and Reproductive Equity) is hosting
a film fest and discussion. Qed< the calendar for times and numbers.

International Conservation Efforts Abound
by Shor<.: n Bro w lI
On Jiln ua ry 10, Britis h
Columbiil's Premier Ujjal Dosanjh
ann o unced the creation of 49 new
pro tected a reas totaling 303,8-15
acres (122,963 h al) in the
O kanoga n Region. T his ilc tion
means that BritC,h Columbia has
protected more Uli1 n 12 percent of
all of the I,md in the province.
O ne of liK' most , ign ificant
parts of tl1l' ilnnouncement wa~
the crea tion of the 65,OOO-acre
Snowy Prov incial Pmk, which sits
on the B.C./Washington border.
Of particular importcll1(e is lile
piU'k's loca tion conn ecting to the
25,OOO-acre Loomis Na turil l
Resources Co nservation Area,
w h ich WilS protected Iils t yec1r
th rough a private $16 milli on
fund raising effort, and w hich is
so me of th e last known ly nx
habitilt left in the Unit'e d Stil tes.
Mitch Friedmdn, head of the
NorUlwest Ecosystem Alliance,
which led that effort, sajd, "Tlus
impressive and farsighted act by
British Columbi a co mpliments
wha t we adueved o n the Loomis
State Forest by comp le ting
p rotection of a criti c,) 1 wild li fe
hilbitilt corridor."
l'remier
Do~anjh
ac knowledged the act ion by .
Americans to save tile Loomis ib
iUl important reason that he acted
to designate the Snowy Provincial
Park. The Sno",,), Provincial Park
and Loomjs protected areas add
to numerous existing parks and

the timely debate ouer the life
b \· [l.lvid W<':)' le
f t
t
t
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0
[lIS ces mus approve SUUI
III respo n se to S h o ren pliUlS.
I3rLlIVn\ "Save Our Trccs" article
Mr. Brown states Ulat o ne
III lile Idst CPJ, I would Ii ke to studen t sajd, "Most of the peop le
j'uintoutscverai inilccllraciesand we h ilve tillked to hilve been
hring to li g ht severil l om issiOllS. I s upportiv e." Havin g been
,lin d ~ltldent in lile SLL~tainablc
present a t Ule o utreilch table for
FurL'~t r y program, a nd Mr. bolil Wednesday sessions, I had
Brown ilnd I spoke a t so m e the opportlmity to talk to many
length Although he says in the people regard ing o ur ca mpu s
letter tha t he was " horrif ie d," I p roposals. If he asked that
Ul0ugh twewerecom munica ting question o f me, m y a n swer
well. Mr. Brow n complains of wuuld ha ve to be "Yes." To be
lx·in;.; told "blasphemolL~ lie~, " s ure, there were no s tudents
Whldl I will address in turn.
pounding the table cal ling for Ule
,\ lr. BrownstatesUlathewas cutting of l:r('('s, as two sltlden ts
told by.l program member lila t did for their protection, but in a ll
"ir Wl' d on 't Iog. UIe S tate is going h onesty, the majori ty o f the
tLl build il stild ium of some sort. " people I talked to have been for
'It, some tentiltl,'e
. Iy anlI some
TI 1(' S t U d e ll t ' s rc'milr k
Wil S

1Illfl'rltma te in U1Llt it mjxcs two
di ltc-rl'n t things. TIll' alllL~ i on to i1
~ t.\dl um co m e" fro m an o ld
e ml f'u" Master PleUl. At the time
liw 'llilege was bujit, enrollment
\\ , " (·\v'cted to be mudl hi g her
th ,1I1 It is now, a nd there were
f'. Ib for a wilk var ie ty of
hi d lllg~and facilities , including
1,.1 ilml, lila t dD nut exist toda y.
I, m' knowledgl', lilere a rc no
Illr a st<ld ium curre ntl y
di!>cu~sed . Wha t the
Ilt Wil~ trying tOl';-'PI"C'SS was
tl
he'lid, b,lscd on il
, , 'r~,ltio n bl'twL'c n il hi gh
1',
ng public ufficiill and the
thdtlile En·rgrl'(.·n cd mpu",
" ~t<l te 1,lnd, I\',I~ in danger
"I '1 1Ig d e\'e1 oped by other sta te
\ '- Ih I l'~ . Thi" i" nut true to the
L' \ , nt lil,lt it 1\'<1" relayed to lL~.
I I" 'Il' i~ liltle or no th rl·"t ,"t this
tllll l' of other ~talL' 'lgencie~
hllddlllg on camp\I~ . -nle bllilrd

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only cond itionall y. Mr. Brown
came to o ur outreach on January
31. A t th at time, few of the
co ll ected surveys had been
e nte red into the datil base, nor
had I had ilnoppOltunity tov iew
them; so it is puss ible that m y
rl'sponse, bdsed on ver bal
comm llni cd tio n w ith stude nts,
will not be rdlecled in lile final
co unt w hi ch is bei n g m ade
avai lable, a lo ng with the hard
cop ies, to the Ca mpw; Land Use
Committ('('.
Mr. Brown ra ises the
que~tion of w hen tree ha rvest
beCllmes it c1e.lrcut. Firs[.lct's get
~oml' number!> straig ht. T he
s tillld in question hilS iU1 ave rage
o f 2911 trees per ilCTe. But w hil t
trec" arc we talk in g abuu t
removing? Mr. Brown makes lile
"a n1l' mistake that industrial
fo rester;. have made for over a
cenltuy in thi.~collntry: he focusL'S

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wildemesses, induding lile North
Cascad es National Park, Manning
Provincial Park, the Pilsay te n
WildemcssJ\rca, and many more.
Combined, they total almost 3
million pro tec ted acres.
While this is grea t news for
both Ca n ad ia n a nd American
citizens, as well as the crea tures
th<1 t depend on well-connected,
protected a reas for their survival,
George W. Bush has gotte n off to
a blistering start on developing hi.~
own env ironme nta l legacy by
vow ing to undo the road lcss area
policy that was l'l.'CenUy sig ned by
Clinton.
Although Bush has Sc-ud he
wants to reach across the political
a.isle and find common gro und in
il dL'eply divid ed Cong ress, a n
early test of his will to ho nor that
sentim en t h as com e w ith his
ad ministration 's reaction to the
new Forest Service rule to protect
nea rly 60 millio n acres of wi ld
forest land across 39 states. The
rllad ll'Sl> f(lrl~t p roLL'Ction measure
included
morL'
public
involvemen tlilanever w ib1esscd
in the h i~tory of federal ru Ie
making.1 he American Petroleum
Institute, the Ameri can Mining
Association, the Ameri can Forest
and Paper Associiltion, and other
as~orted e;-.trac ti ve industrie~
have b('('n invited by the Bush
transition team to help undo the
Cli nton
adm inis tration 's
env ironmenta l protectio n s,
especially on public lands. This is

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Vaginas Speak; Oly Listens
by Se lby
Yay for vaginas! What e lse is
there to say, excep t hurrah for
vaginas? This p as t Valentine's Day,
Feb . 14, as part of a nationwid e
presenta ti o n ,
"The
Vagina

Monologues" was performed to a
packed Cap itol Theater.
"The Vagina Monologues" was
originally produced in an Obi e
Award-winning run in 1996 in New
York. Since that time, it has toured
the country and internationally. The
world tour of "The Vagina
Monologues" initiated V-Day, a
global movement to s top violence
against women. V-Day and th e VFund were estab lished in 1998 in an
effort to raise funds for anti-violence
causes. All proceed s from the
O lympia production will benefit
Safep lace: Rape Relief and Women' s
Shelter Services.
"The Vagina Monologues " came
about as a result of Eve Ensler's
in terest in how other women viewed
th emse lv es and s pecifically the ir

vagina s. It is based on interv iews
Ensler had with women of different
ages, creeds, soc io-economic
ba ckg round s , religions, races, sexua l
persuasions, etc.
This is the second time tha t
Olympia has h ad a V-Day
performance, a nd moving th e s how
to th e Capitol from the Library
Lobby made it a mu c h more
enjoyable experience. In addition to
the show itself, there was a kissing
booth, sex e ducation informa ti on,
a nd an artistic vagina se lf-portrait
booth - again, all b e nefiting
Safeplace.
Best of a ll , the p e rform e rs in
"T h e Vagina Monologu es " did a
stellar job and they most definite ly
deserved the s tanding ·ova ti on from
the esta ti c audience.

... Eliza Steinbock per for min g
"The Lirrl e Cooc hi Sno rcher
thai Co uld ."

~ The lobby packed fu ll of
vagi na enthusiasts, prou d
feminists, and Safeplace
supporters.

... N atalie Nicklert perfo rmin g
"The Woman Who Loved to
Make Vag inas Happy. " The
monologu e is based on an
interview Eve Ens ler had with a
dominatrix.

all ph o tos by Per rin Randl ett <

death of our trees continues ...

on what IS removed rather than retamedaswell.Theauthordoes
h ' I ft Wh M B
. th d
h
h
on w at IS e.
at r. rown not ate e ocument were I.'
didn't tell you is that the 298 trees got his definition of a c1earcut
per acre o nly accOlmt for those from, but I was able to find this
trees greater than 6 inches in f[(lm the official U.s. Forest
diameter.
The
proposal Service's
1989 Glossary:
~~~nutted to theCLUC d escribes "CLEARCUT HARVEST: A
heavies t
harves tin g
a nd
thinning to retain
regeneration meUlod
il l least 80 trees per
that removes all trees
ilcre.
Bywayof
protJosai
within a given area.
compa ri son, oldr
C learc utting is m ost
grow th s tilnd s
submitted...
co mmonly use d in
average only 10-16
describes
pine and hardwood
trees per acre. His
forests, whim require
cry of "Clearcut! "
h'
full s unli g ht to
would have been
eaVlest
regenerate and grow
muffled h ad he
tinning
efficiently."Upin B.C.
informed
the
reader that the 80

a rep lay of th e Reaga n
Gutting
a dmini s trati o n .
envirofU11ental protec tions didn' t
s it well WiUl the American public
then, and it won't s it well with
them now (Seattle Post
Int e lli gencer Edi tor ia l. 1/14 /
2(01).
T he corpora tions aren't the.
only ones in on it either. On Nov.
20, 2000, Larry C riUg (R-Ida ho)
a nd Frank Murkowski (RAlaska), p lus Reps Don Young (RAlaska) and He len C henowe UlHage (R-Idah o) se nt a le tter
concernin g the road less rule to
Agriculture Sec re ta ry Dan
Glickman, stating that they plan
to u sc the "S mall Bus iness
Regula tory Enforcemen t Fainless
Act" (a relic of the Contract wilil
America) to s top Ule policy fro m
being implemented.
Whi le it is easy for many of
us to la ugh these statements o ff,
there is il strong possibility that
there w ill be effo rts made by
co nservative Westem officials ilnd
resource extrilctive corporations to
ovemlle Ule roadk'5S ruling using
any means possible. Whi le itis not
productive to become enthrall ed
with the "envifOlUllentallegacy"
Ulilt C linto n Idt behind, there is
also a need for us to stay aware of
the actions ta ken by the Bush
a dmini s tr a tio n to undu e the
pi ece m ea l
a tte mpts
at
con se l va ti o n that C linton
advocilted. S til Y stro ng and
educated. For the trees!

to retain at
least 80
trees p er
'"
acre.

they h ave another
definition:
"Clearcut:
an
area of forest
land
from
which
a ll
merchantable trees
have recently been

grow th e re. Hi s
a rg ument is further reduced
when the reade r learns tha t in

harvested." So, this is
DEFINITELY
NOT
A
CLEARCUTI

ad ditio n to the biggest and best
trees left s ta nding. nearly all tile
snags, ilS well as nearly all live
trees less than 6 in che s in
diameter, will be re taine d .
Certlinly, tllerewiJlbc somet:rccs,
~hrubs and otller vegeta tio n that
w ill be harmed or even kil led
d uring tile extraction of the logs;
however, lile lL'il'of horses sho uld
keep Ulisdilmage tOil minullum.
In Lldditioll, tllC're is the specia l
case of that stiln d of trees whose
tops wert' broken off above lile
live cro""n in the icc stoml a few
ymrs ago. TIl= trees provide a
wonderful opportuluty for cavity
nesters if the trcc can grow as the
center rots ou t. They will be

In paragraph s ix of his
art icl e, Mr. Brown quotes a
s tud e nt p rojecti n g g lobal
demand for wood products and
claims the s tatement is "d evoid
of ratio nal econ om ic theory."
Really? The a uthor s tates, "as a
supply of a good decreases . ..
compe ting goods will enter the
marke t." Whi le it is true that
a lterna tives to wood fiber will
appear in tile market place when
tile price of wood m akes sum
a lternati"es
econo mi ca ll y
feas ible, Mr. Brown has left three
things o ut o f his equation: time,
trends, and power.
"As the su pply of a good
decreases ...." Let's talk about

Cooper Point Journal • 12· February 22, 2001

the dunm
' . 1S'lun'gsupplyofwood
fiber from our national forests in
terms of time and what it means
to forests on a global scale. In the
late 1980s and 19905, mu chneeded environmental legislation
was passed; a long with a strong
activist co mmunity, it finally
slowed unsustainable and
harmful forestry practices on
federal liUlds.11Us has caused the
annual "cut" on federal lands to
be reduced by 70% from 1987 to
1997. This w as good; it was time
to put on the brakes. Butwhat has
h appened as a result of the
reduced cut? Exactly wha t Mr.
Brown siUd would happen: as the
supply of old growth and second
"~ber dried up, pnva
. te
g row th "w
timber companjes were able to
se ll smaller d iameter logs (a
com pe ting product)foraprofil.
But the quality o f the lumbe r
produced by sum trees simply
did n o t m ee t U.s. co nsumer
expec tations and opened the
door to another co mp e ting
p rod uct, fo re ign old growth and
second growth timber, to enter
ou r milrkets. Sin ce 1990,
Ca nadian imports have risen
from 12 to 18 billion bmu:d feet
(MacCleery 2(xx)).
The point of all this is that
we live and conSLUne in a global
market. If we are not cutting the
b'CCS here, rest assured they are
bcingcutsomewhere. Mr. Brown,
in your estima tion, how long will
it take, how many forests will be
liquidated, before the "supply ...
decreases" to the point where

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continued from page 9
,1cccntua lcs the disparity between
L'conomies eve n more in the name
of " f rl'e trade ." While th e
It depend;..
It depends on th e two o th er e n vironmenta l movement has
',lctor,. Mr. I3nlwn lef t o ut in hi~ made some headway, in thi s county
.1,.Sl'SSl11ent
regarding
wOl)d ,1S we i I as ot h(' rs, so has the other
demand . Trends and powe r. When ~ide.
So, long s to r y s hort, how
.lnalY7 in g markl'l trends, it pay~ to
s
hould
we re~pond to the projected
re,lli;,1:(' th at any projectio n of the
demilnd
for wood fiber a nd
Illarke t is subjec t to e rr or, fo rtunes
,I1terna
ti
vc~
for o ur cou r se of
UP "d ined and lost every day on th l'
,
b
d' .
action?
Shoul
d
we find co mfo rt In
\.(1(1:-;"I ~of
s u ch
ore
Ictlons
r. .
the
fact
that
we
have thankfully
ConSidering th .1t nothingis ce rta in ,
pro
tected
large
trilcts
of timb er 111
,1110'" the fo ll ow in g; despite curre nt
this
cou
ntr
y
ilS
a
hedge
ag;lns t
" envi ronmen tCl I ilwareness" of u.s.
future
(g
loba
l)
s
h
ortages.
Or
ci tizens, cons ulll eris m is rema Inl ng
s
ho
uld
we
attack
the
demand
Side
~table if not increasing, and th e
overa ll poth of co ns um eris m 111 th iS ~f th e eq u a ti o n, re du c in g o ur
county (now ex po rted a round the co nsump tion while simultaneo usly
g lobe) is simp ly th e logica l ex te ns ion pra cti ci n g a forestry In our ow n
of policies enac ted lo n g ago . backya rd s that leaves a s ta ndlJ1 g,
Fur th ermo re, var io us o rgan lzalto ns functioning fo res t intact a ft er ~ac h
s uch as GATT, a nd th e World Bank en tr y a nd provides a modes t flbe~
se rve to perpetuate the co lom al s tate harvest for our now mod es t need s.
scenario where deve lo ped countn es Th e problem isn't ilS s impl e as
gai n from the li q uidati o n of natura ~ basic supp ly and demand th eory
resources in deve loping co untfl es but comp li cated by the fac t that
regard less
of. th e
n egat lv,e people dr ive markets, and people
externalities susta ined by the la tter a re in turn driven by SOCia l,
(M ayer 199R). This co ndili on political , and eco nom ic needs. We
" 'tllllf1l,tin)!, )!,utld,," __w~1 1 "ll l:~ ;
l'lll11fw tL' " wood tlb l'r? I hl ,1n~Wll.

ca n change, but it wi ll ta ke time,
int ell igent usc of reso ur ces, a nd
e nviro nm ental e thi cs, no t rhetOrIc.
As a me mbe r of the class a nd
the o n-ca mpp s thinn ing project, I
speak for th e' class when I say that
our a im is not to a lI e nate anyo ne
or run roughshod over a ny gro up
o r discipline, but to prOVide a
demonstration of h ow to man age a
forest in a sustai nable manner for
wildlife, nativ e vege ta ti o n ,
ed u ca ti on, a nd to provide a
moderate but si g nifi can t f ib er
y ie ld . What we are m ode lin g in
s us tainabl e fo res tr y are ways to
~x tr ac t some wood (suitable for
human use) while mainta ining and
eve n e nhan cin g fo res t s tru ct ura l
d eve lo pm ent, wildlife va lues, and
ca rbon accumulation. We are not
here to "clea r cut Evergreen ."
T h e discussions that our
project proposals ha ve initiated are
important. We a re a ltemp tll1g to
demonstrate
responSible,
sus taina bl e forest prqctices, a nd
in c lud e the large r ca mpu s
co mmunity. Thank yo u a ll for yo ur
interes t and input.

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to discuss whether we s h o uld join
any
sweats h o p - monit o rin g
orga ni za ti o n s, an d If so which o n e
or o n es, a nd decide whether ~ th e l
o r ga ni za ti o nal
af fili a t IOns
p OS iti o n s tat e m e nt s would b e
app ropri a te for th e co ll ege. We
would expec t th e s tud y g ro up to
c rea te a broader ca mpu s di a log u e
on the i ss u e of fair l a b or
s tand a rd s abroa d by spo nso rin g
workshops, co ntrac t s or o th er.
lea rnin g oppor tun i ti es.
It is our expec tati o n th a t th e
advisory gr o up conclud e its work
n o la te r than May 2001. I will as k
that the ir fir s t order of bus iness b e
to d eve lop a r ecom m e ndation
regardin g if we s h o uld }01l1 th e
WRC durin g th e 1I1tenm as the
advisory group proceeds with its
work. In the meantime, If yo u are
concerned about any bo oks tore
purchas ing practice or wish to be
further informe d about b ooks tore
purchases, we enco ur age you to
continue to ta lk with our b oo ks to re
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oppo rtunit y to exe r c ise .c fltl ca l
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Cooper Point Journal • 14· February 22, 200 1

THE-' INTERVIEWS:AARON STARKS
by S hasta Sm i I h

I' m talking with Aaron Starks
the head coach of men and women's
crew teams he re on camp us .. Aaron
ha s been involv ed in rowing,
competing and coaching for the past
16 years, Recently, h e coached a t
Wa shin g ton State University, and
did very well th e re . Now, he's the
head coach here a t Evergreen; let's
ge t to know him.

CPJ: So you've had some really good
s uccess at the college level.

every rower will be able to tell you a by S h as la S mirh
similar story--you're out in thi s long
60 foot boat trav e lin g ba ck ward s
President Nixon once sa id , "I'm
through the water for about a month, no t a crook." Well , I' m not. Nixon
some guy in a motor boat yelling at
was, I'm not. The guy tearing down
you sayi ng, "00 this, do th at, lift
Shaolin Aerobics posters is . People
your hands." And you're dropping
who s teal doughnuts for fun or
your h a nd s, and you're d o in g
protest are. Wha t d o you do when
eve rything wrong. Then a ll of the
you're te llin g th e truth and some
sudde n everyone in th e boa t Ju st
people in power won , t b e J'leve you.?
s tops thinkin g a nd everyo ne pu ts
I am in s uch a position. I really forgot
their blad e in th e water at th e sa me
to pay for a doughnut in th e deli
tim e, they pull, ope n up the body,
while th e Ges tapo was watching. I
sw ing togethe r, the boa t moves, a nd
rea lly didn 't s teal it. Th ey said,
there's this feeling of rushing wa te r
"Yeah, yea h, yeah, eve rybody says
under your sea t and ... I' ve got goose
that ." l3ut it 's true; [ didn ·t.
bumps jus t thinkin g of it. .. It was
Grievance doesn't believe me either.
s uch a magical ex perience, and yo u
It's like, "Yes, of co urse yo u didn 't,
say to yourself, " What ju s t
you're all innocent, but yo u mus t
h appened?" And all of a s udd en you
pay your d e bts to SOCiety." But it 's
realize all the things you h ave been
true, I didn' t s tea l it.
taught were for a reason, and that
Bes ide th e fact that Fine Host is
you can do them right! together. So
weird and vindictive and on a witch
you try and do that again, a nd it's
hunt. Bes ide the fa c t that lots of
the worst stroke on the next stroke
s tudents routinely steal for fun ,
because you're trying again .. . And
protest, or just beca use it's the wa y
that's the secret of rowing . People
things are don e. It is beside the fact
see rowing on TV at the Olympics
that the grievance process is flawed ,
and say, " Wow, they make it look so
confusing, vague, and s ubj ec ti ve .
easy; it's such a beautiful, graceful
Besid e the fact that the prosec uto r
sport." Well, those are people who
doesn't want to deal with this a t all.
have been rowing for twenty years
The truth is, quite simply, I did not
and they do make it look easy as all
s teal the doughnut. What would you
profeSSional and Olympi c level
do; it could happ en to you?
athletes make their sport look easy.
It's a very difficult sport and if you
try and just go through the motions, L _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
it doesn't work. You just have to
relax and let your body do it ... That's CPJ: Is th e r e anything else you
would like to tell the students?
my favorite, you can probably tell.

Aaron: Yes, but it's e asy to tak e
s llccess as a coach. Wha tit really
boils down to is the athletes. I've
been very fortunate to always get a
number of top-not c h athletes
interested in this sport. And th ere's
no difference he re. We've found a
group of d ed ica ted indi.viduals who
are looking for so me thIn g diffe rent
CPJ: SO, Aaron, te ll me a little bit than many of the traditiona l sports,
and they're willing to go all out at It.
about you rself.
Again, I'm very lucky. I'm g uessing
Aaron: We ll, I'll sti ck to the rowing about 100 peo pl e hav e co m e to
parts. J s tarted with rowin g sixteen prac ti ce, d ecided whether or not it's
years ago at Everett and .f ound that I for them ... mos t of th em decided it's
was rea lly enjoying thIS coaching not. We currently have a roster of 30
thing, and 1 got the 'o pportunity to people both men and women, and
they've come in from all sorts of
get involved with that.
backgrounds, all sorts of experie~ce
CPJ: And that was early on in your levels in the s port, and they re
coming in at different times of the
caree r?
season. The team really wants to put
Aaron: Yes. Early on, when I was a out the effort and make a
high school student, I'd ride with the commitment to each other.
coaches of other teams and talk with
coaches whenever I could. So, CPJ: So what l.<ind of a coaching ethic
shortly after high school, when I was do you bring to a group like this?
getting my Associates degree, I ~ot
the opportunity to coach novice Aaron: It was a bit of a transition for
women at Everett for two years, and some of these students to deal with
me. I come straight out of a PAClO
did that and had a lot of success.
program where competition and
excelIence are assumed, that's just
CPJ: Where did you go to college?
the basis . To come into a program in
very first year and decide to build
its
Aaron : I was going to Everett
it
along
my lines, which weren't
Community College at the time. I
necessarily
the lines of what some
went to Western to get my Bachelor 's
people
were
expecting ... how could
degree and got the opportunity to
coach an Everett varsity team. I be any more vague with this ... I'm CPJ: In your experience as a coach,
Following that, I went to Washington a hardass, and that took a lot of how do you think this team will
State to coach their lightweight men people by surprise. Just because match up against the competition?
for two years and had moderate these students go to Evergreen
doesn ' t mean they aren't also
success with them.
Aaron: We've turned the heads of the
athletes. We compete with similar
rowing community in the Northwest
CPJ: Were you competing while you schools with strong athletes, and to already, and that's something most
spend nine months practicing. to ?,et new programs don't do. The first
were doing this coaching?
into a race and not plan on wmrung
year of most programs, to finish the
Aaron: No. Coaching and being a is absurd. So we go hard and go race is a big achievement, and we're
strong and we intend to try and win,
student were my vocations.
coming in the middle of ra·ces. We're
and if anybody beats us, we're gonna
beating programs with a twentyCPJ: So how did your Wazzu tea ms make them work hard .
year history, and that's really
do?
amazing. The athletes ... I can't say
CPJ: In all your years of coaching,
enough about the athletes, they want
what's
the most memorable moment
Aaron: The first year we competed
to go fast and the faster you go the
as lightweight novi ce and go t second you 've had ?
better you place. So I think we're
place on the Pacific Coast. The n ext
gonna do quite well , but I don't
year we took third place on the Aaron: My most memorable moment wanna jinx it.
in rowing was as a new rower--and
Pacific Coast.

e're

THE DOUGHNUT

Aaron: If you're interested in
rowing, find a rower and tal~ to
them, but give them a time limIt
because they are not gonna shut up
'cause they love the sport so much .
If you're up in the CRC and you see
someone who looks like they know
what they're doing on the rowing
machine, talk to them; find out about
the program. Go to the web page on
the Rec Athletics page; find a link to
us. If you ' re interested in rowing,
email me; my link ~s on the page .
We're not taking anyone new this
year, but next year, we're looking for
a team. People can let me know
they're interested, and I'll keep their
name and number, and we' ll get in
touch probably la te summer,
so ... we're looking for rowers .

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SPORTS
MEN'S

WOMEN'S

BASKETBALL BASKETBALL
by Gin Harbold
On the 13th of February, Evergreen
played Concordia on their home
rourt.The three point win, 66-63, boosted
£vergreen's 3 game winning streak to 4.
This win was hard-earned, with
Evergreen rallying from an 11 point
second half deficit.
Andre Stewart, the NAlA Division
D National Player of the week, continued
to put up big numbers with 27 points, 8
rebounds, and an exceptional 7 steals.
Trelton Spencer, of course, also made a big
contribution with 20 points, 5 assists, and
3 steals.
Coming off of a 4 game winning
streak and some excellent games for
seve ral of its players, the Evergreen
basketball team began its final weekend
of regular season games energized and
ready to win. The first game on the 16 th
was against Albertson. With a record of
13 and 4, they were expected to be tough
competition.
Andre Stewart continued to lead the
team in scoring with 28. He also had 6
rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 steals. Trelton
Spencer had 22 points, 7 rebounds, 8
assists, and 5 steals. Greg Johnson had 11
points.
With 15 minutes and 52 seconds left
in the game, Evergreen led by 14 points.
Unfortunately, Evergreen could not stop
the Albertson rush as they went on a 16
point streak. This put the Yotes back in the
game, and eventually led to their lastsecond lead of 2 points. Despite their
effort, Evergreen was unable to retake the
game, and it ended 72-70. Hopefully,
Evergreen will get a chance to rematch
Albertson in the playoffs.
The next game of the weekend, and
final regular season game, was played at
home on the following day against
Eastern Oregon. The gymnasium was
filled with energy, having triple the usual
attendance at 600, a squad of cheerleaders,
. a mascot, a halItime dancing show, and
three fired-up Evergreen seniors making
their last appearance on their home
basketball court.
All five starters, A.J. laBree, Garrett
Zwar, Jimmie Richardson, Jackie
Robinson, and Trelton Spencer, put up
impressive numbers. All of them scored
in the double digits exceptA.J., who came
up 1 point short. Greg Johnson had 6
points and 8 rebounds, and Abel
Koeltzow, who had 9 points, also made
great efforts.
Evergreen dominated the entire
game finishing the season with a 9 point
win, 82-73. The fan s roared in support as,
Trelton "Tuggie" Spencer walked to center
court in the last 10 seconds of the game
and kissed the hardwood, saying goodbye
to the Evergreen gymnasium. This was
followed by a standing ovation as he
walked off of Ule cO llrt for good. Good
luck, Trelton, Gar rett, and A.]. with
whatever co mes next.

The Evergreen Dance Team showed
Iheir stuff during halfrime of the las r
men's home game

by Gin Harbold
On February the 13th, the women's
basketball team played Warner Pacific in
Portland. The game was a good one withEvergreen pulling off an upset and
coming back from a five point deficit in
the first halI winning 59 to 52.
Michelle Ramsgate led the team with
20 points and 9 rebounds. Heather
Johnson had 18 points and 9 rebounds. It
was a big night for Heather Johnson, who
became the fil"$t woman at Evergreen to
score 500 points in a season.
Three days later, Evergreen played
Albertson. Unfortunately, the team's
winning streak did not continue, and they
lost 80 to 36.
Heather Johnson had 14 points and '
6 rebounds. Michelle Ramsgate had 11
points, 5 rebounds, and 3 steals. Lindsey
Lawrence had an impressive 5 blocks.
The girl's basketball team played
their final game on the 17th . Unluckily,
however they were not able to finish the
season with a bang as they had hoped.
They lost 55 to 33.
Heather Johnson had a double
double with 16 points and 10 rebounds.
Michelle Ramsgate finished with13 points
and 6 rebounds.

WOMEN'S
SOCCER
by Shasta Smith
Recruitment is a huge part of
collegiate programs, and with the
advent of some scholarship money to
bring in athletes (albeit a small
amount), The Evergreen State College
has an opportunity to bring in some
incredible talent from the West Coast
and even spots around the cDlmtry.
Most notable in the field of
recruitment is Women's Soccer Head
Coach Arlene McMahon. She put
together a field day for potential
transfers and incoming freshmen.
There were even some junior and
sophomore high school students out.
The day was an opportunity for Coach
McMahon to see her potential players,
and for the players to see their
potential schooL
The field day was a reality check
for some of the returning women on
the women's soccer team. The speed,
confidence, and young talent showed
some of the women what the team
could become. There is much
excitement among the women as they
realize their game play could be
brought to a higher level in the
upcoming 2001 season. There will be
fierce competition for those starting
spots and fiercer competition for the
wins as the women get prepared for
the next soccer season.

SWIMMING

Trelton Spencer using the opposition
in his final
regular season home game

Jimmie Richardson driving strong
to the hoop

by Shasta Smith
For the Northwest Conference
Championships, we were guests in
our own pool, and, fittingly enough,
the men's and women's swim team
broke eight school records . Misty
Westphal broke half of those on her
own. The swimmer phenom broke
her own records in the SOO-free, the
200-free, the 100-free, and the 1650free. Coach Bendock said Misty was
miffed that the announcer claimed
another competitor had faster
qualifying times in all the events,
and that gave her more incentive to
win. In the SOO-free Westphal beat
the entire field and beat her old
record by four seconds (5:11.79). The
200-free record was smashed as
Westphal became the first Evergreen
female swimmer to record a sub two
minute swim (1 :56.88). The 100-free
was a personal best time for
Westphal at (54.32) . In the 16S0 free,
she beat the field by an astounding
15 seconds with a time of (18:02.72).
Ryan Miyake beat his own record in
the 200-fly with a (2:00.40). He had his
fastest 1650-free time of the season as well
at (17:07.03). The sophomore from
Bellevue ha s now qualified for the
National meet in 5 different divisions: the
200-medley, 200-fly, 400-medley, 500-free,
and 1650-free.
The women 's relay team, consisting
of Bonnie Martin (breaststroke), Amber
Totz (butterfly), A liso n Aylesworth
(backstroke), and Misty Westphal (what
goes here?), broke the last three records.
The 200-medley was brought down to
(2:00.29), the 400-medley to (4:25.29), and
U1e 800-free to (8:48.06).
The swim team is now preparing for
the National NAlA swim meet in Burnaby,
hosted by last year's champions Simon
Frasier. The women's team is looking to
improve on last year's 14th place finish,
and individual members have an
opportunity to place extremely welL

Cooper Point Journal • 16· February 22,2001

BUBBLE

EVERGREEN
ATHLETES
UNION
NOW
FORMING
by Ronen Johnson
and Shasta Smith
What are the priorities and
expectations of athletic programs
through
the
eyes
of
the
administration? What are the student
athlete
priorities
and
fair
expectations? What does the
administration have in mind for
Evergreen's ath letic success? Do we
get to know or participate?
There are a number of issues that
face the population of student athletes
here at Evergreen. From the highest
levels in the college to the immediate
administration of each team, there are
obstacles and challenges that affect the
growth and development of Evergreen
athletics. What are players' wants and
needs? The negative commentary and
obscured perception regarding the
framework of what a team should "be"
has never been known to improve
upon the programs in question .
In collegiate athletics the teams
that are able to improve their
individual records by taking the
initiative and finding alternative
methods of' forward progress by and
large are the programs receiving
unsolicited support from aU aspects of
the academic community. The abovementioned situation seems to
propagate a catch-22. In the free-from
environment that Evergreen provides,
we have student athletes diligently
working to improve upon previous
seasons, but realistically there is only
so much that student athletes can
accomplish without support and
structural aid. Integrated goal setting
and structural progression establish
the necessary platform from which
any accredited univerSity can initiate
a successfully representative program.
What does Evergreen have in relation
to these points?
The Evergreen Athletes Union has
been formed to support the players'
individual and team success ethic. We
need to address the campus' pride or
lack thereof in their sports teams. Why
do we compete? Why try to win? What
are the goals of the athletes? Have
coaches
and
administration
adequately addressed the necessary
issues?
It is th e purpose of this
organi za tion to ensu re that all student
athletes are given the necessary and
adequate to o ls to succeed on and off
the field of competition. We invite you,
the s tud e nt athlete population, to
come discuss--and attempt to resolveiss u es ranging from decisions
concerning poliCies that affect specific
teams, individuals, coac hes, or ethics,
to problems that affect all collegiate
athletic programs. Wednesd ay the 28 th
of February in CRC 112 at 3 PM corne
voice your opinions and concerns. For
informa tion on the Evergreen Athletes
Union email Ronenlohnson@aol.com
or smisha13@evergreen .edu. Thank
you.
Ronen Johnson and Shasta Smith

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fired upon. Istael is currently under
fire for its assassina tion policies,
which allow clemency for such
actions, by human rights groups, the
European UniOn; and even the
United
States.
(more
at
www.hrw.org)·
•
A press conference of Tibetan
rights groups, labor unions, and
environme ntalists was held last
week to pressure PetroChina, BP's
largest foreign investment, to leave
Tibet. The organizations claim that
PetroChina's corporate governance,
environmental record, and oil and
gas exploitation of the Tibetan
plateau are unacceptable . Not only
are Tibetan rights groups concerned
about the consolidation of Chinese
control over Tibet, but also of the
impairment of the arctic wildlife
refuge in Tibet. If the reso lution
were passed it would require BP to
divest $578 million worth of
holdings . (more at www.ips.org)
•
Simultaneous riots occurred in
29 prisons in the Brazilian sta te of
Sao Pau lo last Sunday that left at
least 15 inmates dead and a
sensation of penitentiary sys tem
collapse. Twelve of the deaths
occurred in clashes with rival gangs,
and the 25,000 participating inmates
were ev idently influ enced by a
organized crime group ca ll ed the
First Commando of th e Capital
(PCC). The transfer of 10 PCC
leade rs triggered the riots, and the
demand of the rioters was the return
of the inmates. Nearly 92,000
prisoners are held in San Paulo,
which is almost half of the
population of the state. (more a t
www.ips.org)
•
Canada's top court, going far
beyond pa s t rulin gs on capi tal
punishment, ruled t h at two
Canad ians who a ll eged ly confessed
to brutal triple murder must not be
sent to the United States to face the
death penalty. The cou rt said that
a rg ument s have grown stronger
against sending people away to face
possible execu tion. "Canada is now
abolitionist for all crimes, even those
in th e military field," it said ,
referring to a 1998 law which
formalized the practice of not
exec uting soldiers . Canada has not
put anyone to death since 1962.
(more at www.yahoo.com)

Evergreen has survived as long said before: No plausible case for hiring continues at even a modest
as it has for a number of reasons (not general curricula~ reform has been pace, it will likely take several years
the least of whiS;h is luck). But in my made. Requests for a ~ase to offer eac~ Dream Program once.
opinion, Hie primary reason is that, consistently have been met with
all in all, its faculty, ·trustees, studied indifference, with "if only 2. Beginning in Fall, 2001, remodel
presidents, vice-presidents, and you could see the big picture," and the part - time curriculum in the
deans have kept the faith, vague and with the same old recitations of following way:
confused as it has been. It is not for fragmentary survey data, not to A student may take ONE 4-credit
nothing that we ask faculty mention the ploy that says, "Trust us . course per quarter. Eliminate 8applicants to describe their dream We know better." This is ca ll ed credit programs.
programs and then judge applicants' "democratic conversation." We have
suitability according, in part, to actually been asked to take seriously, 3. Beginning in Fall, 200], remodel
those dreams. Evergreen cannot for example, the alleged comp laint individual contracted study :
survive if its faculty and its leaders- by alumni who regret not having
president, vice-presidents, deans, stud ied mathematics while at A . To b e eligible for individual
trustees-do not believe in it. If the F.vergreen. Who made their contracted study, a student needs to
faculty, for example, entomb their educationa l decisions for them? Who have at leas t sophomore s tanding .
dream programs in the cemeteries forgot to tell them to take their
B. An individual contract must be
called Curricula Vitae, the game is mitties?
up . So, too, if the president and
Ironically, the one solid datum for a minimum of 12 credits.
trustees, vice-presidents and deans in this entire mess often seems on the
do not believe in the place, they will verge of being forgotten as time goes 4. Get s mart-and soon-about
be unable to explain and defend the by : the fact that the accreditation student recr uitment. This is first of
College to outside audiences : th e report calls for us to look into ways all an adm ini strative respons ibility,
state government, councils of to improve mathematics education not a faculty re s ponsibility. The
presidents and vice-preSidents, at Evergreen. I believe this to be an relevant administrators are th e
accrediting commissions, the Hec important goal. However, I remain loca table and accountable leaders in
astonished at the open-air sleight-of- the all-important matter of student
Board, possible givers of gifts.
You,
worthy
The General Ed ucation reform hand by which thi s quite specific recruitment.
movement over the past year and a goal immediately became the pretext administrators, bring the s tud en ts.
We, the fa cu lty, will teach and learn
half signifies a weakening, if not a for large-scale curricular reform .
While Nero fiddl es, Rpme is with th em.
collapse, of management and
administration 's belief in Evergreen. ablaze with another irony: the seve re
(Owing to hi s newness, President declin e in
applications
for To what problem, pray tell, is the
Purce s hould be exe mpted from this admission . Perhaps the governor's above 4-part proposal addressed?
charge for now.) Dress it up any way budget cuts will disguise thi s sign of
you please, the fact is that we have Evergreen's steadily e rodin g appeal Answer: The problem (if tha t is the
bee n asked to accept a non sequitur: to students, as has happened in the right word) of Evergreen's imminent
namely,
that because so me past. One wonders what keeps them implosion. GenEd will only has ten
administrators and a few lik e - away in suc h large numbers. Or hour of coll apse. Something like th e
minded faculty members find drives them into twelve or s ixteen above sche me just might put it off for
Evergreen
ind efe n s ible ,
the credits of so-called part-time study a w hill'. A t the ve ry lea s t, Pa rt ]
curricul urn should be overha uled . I once they get here. Perhaps it is the should give recently hired faculty
refuse to accept thi s concl usio n . Let absen ce
of
distribution members a more meaningftd stake in
me make this even cleare r: I a m not requirements, "access" to which (we the outcome of events.
now, nor ever have been, opposed to are assured) they long for fervently.
making Evergreen better : in teac hing
and learning, in faculty evaluation, A Proposal:
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in hiring, in curricular planning, in
passing the baton to new fa cul ty 1. Beginning in 2002-03, offer a
members; on th e contrary. I am, large .selection of the Dream ~ FINDERS KEEPERS
howev e r, opposed to the GenEd Programs that faculty memb e rs
reforms, for I am convinced they hired in rece nt years designed in the
pOint us toward Southwest course of applying for their jobs here.
Washington State College. However, These designs were exciting. The
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If ever there was a set of wrong shows that good teams come about
reasons presented to the Evergreen as affinity groups, a process that is a
facul ty for their consideration, those pleasure, not a chore. There are more
given us by the advocates of General Dream Programs backlogged than
Education are it. I repeat what J have can be offered in one year. If faculty

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10 P.M.

EQA is ho lding il " l'n~ sy in Pink" /lOs
Dance w / DJ Dead Air il nd DJ Fruil
Bilt. UB 4300 $3-5. C heap is good.

Sat, Feb 24
Noo n
The Cilmpaign fo r A ccess and
Reproductive Eq uit y (CARE 2000) is
s howin g two film s al th e Cap ito l
Thca ler: LCSIl/ , Bill 0111 of Reaell and
Abort iOIl DCllICd. Free to the publi c.
Sponsorcd by a whole bun c h of
peop le. 1-800-822-7857.
1 P.M .
A (candid) Disc uss ion on Race and
Raci s m . Hos ted b y Je ro me Jo hnson.
Presen ted by Thu rsto n Cty. Rainb ow
Coa lit ion, Works in Progress, and
Blacks in Gove rnmen l . The O ly mpi
Cen ter,
Room
101 - 102.
Refreshmen ls l Ca ll 701-8010.

CU ll//Jill, Merellglle, 1~ ll chl'ra s, Sa/sa y
11lil S wi lh OJ Ol ivia Sa la zar. LIB 2000 .
Dance until you drop' Ca ll x6583 .

Tue, Feb 27
Noo n
T he ERC il nd th e Na tura l Hi s to ri es
Program sponsor env ironm en tal
speaker and a uth or Susiln Davi s.
Bewarp co rpora te mon ey. LIB lobby.
3 PM
AFISH hosts loca l ilctiv is l a nd ilut hor
Leo Baldwin, who will speak of Ihe
his lo ry o f Nor thw est sa lmon and the
dan ge rs of f is h hiltcheries. LIB
Lobby. Call x6105.

6 PM .
C JSPE S - Th e Co mm i lt ee in
So li d a rily w ith Ih e Peop le of EI
Sa lv ado r h m ee tin g in LIB 2100 .
Dis c uss th e so lid ari ly mov e m e nt,
neo li beralism and sw(:a tsh ops. Short
film. All welcome. Call x6513.

Thu, Mar 1
6:30 P.M.
Salmon Stewards hip Works h op.
Learn what yo u ca n d o to help
Sil lm a n, and voluntee r. Reg is tr atio n
requi red, Call 704-7785.

Sat, Mar 3'
6P M.
See " The Fool's Ball . An eve nin g of
ritua l and ce leb rati o n in th e
Reclaimin g Trildition .... wilh ... Amy
Mo on Dra go n ." CLEAN AND
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Olympia
Unitarian
Unive rsa lis t Church . $10 donation.

Wed, Feb 28

Ongoing Stuff

1 P.M.
G rou nd Zero at th e EQA, in CAB
108."C ome and be hea rd ... reshape
th e EQA so it rea ll y be lon gs to us
il ll ."

"Janie's Fortune," a senior thes is
production featuring thea tre, music,
and video opens THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 22 at 8 P.M. a nd runs
through th e 24th. It's FREE and it's
in the COM Building'S ex pe rim en lal
theatr e. Mas te rmind ed b y Sind i
Somers, th e s how is not for babies
or kids und e r 10. They wont let 'em
in, rea ll y. ca ll 867-6833.

5 P.M . 7 Maybe?
Mindscreen presents th e film (w /
fr ee popcorn) "Run , Lol a, Run ."
Lec ture Hall l. Free! a nd popcorn!

The O lympia Film Soc ie ty is goi ng
ultr a mad crazy yo thi s month .
"Shad ow o f th e Vampire" s tart s
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23 a t 8 P.M .,
and runs through March 2. I wa nn a
see that yo. The fun doe s n't s top
th e re: doub le fea tuin g w ilh that
movie I was jlls l talkin g abo ut is
"Requiem for a Drea m, " which is
abo ul drugs o r somethin g. Yo. More
movi es, a ll th e tim e l
Its only $60 to go to co nga drum clilss
pres e nted by Mi c h ae l O lso n of
Obrador. Studio 32 1, N.B. Je ffe rso n .
Thursady March 1,8, 15, a nd 22. 7-9
P.M. Ca ll 786-8257 for reservation s .

Gingerbread by Dara

The Eve rgree n Queer A lli ance is
hirin g two 9hr. / wk . positions . Apps
(,wa il a bl e in CAB 320) are due
FEBRUARY 23rd . Inte rviews wi! 1be
o n Feb . 27 a t 5 P.M ., or some ot her
time if yo u set it up. App licants mu s t
be available for 2001 /2002 .

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The Me n 's Center is hiring. They
m ee t Wedn esdays to talk about
m en's issues . Paid , 4/ hrs a week.
Pick up a pps from the S&A sec re ta ry
o n CAB 3rd floor. Ca ll 867-6092.
Oscar Sou le h as ticket s to the
Mariner' s Ope nin g night. H e's
sell ing them for $15. If ya wanna pay
a littl e extra the money goes to
TESC's Jackie Robin son Scho la rs h ip
fund . Oscar is in LIB 1411.

Student Group Directory*
Amnesty International
International human rights org.
work in g to free prisoners of
conscience, ens ure fair triil ls, and
promote justice.
Meeting tim es: 5 P.M. eve r y
Monday in CAB 3 10
More info: x6724
AFISH
Advocates For Improv ing Salmo n
Habitat welcomes all interested in
env ironmenta l & sa lmon iss ues .
Meeting tim es: 4 P.M. Mondays in
CAB 320
More info : CAB 320 or x6105
ASIA
As ian St u de nts in Alliance
welcom es everyone.
Meeting tim es : 1 P.M . every
Wednesday in CAB 320
More info: Emiko Atherton, Miral
G himire a t 867-6033
Bike Shop
We are a vo lunteer opera ted, doit- yo urs e lf bike shop.
Meeting times: Call or stop by;
sc hed ul e is on door
Mo re info: Ari o r Jayro at 867-6399
Capoeira Angola
M eeting time: Thursday 6:30 P.M.
in Lib 4300
More info: c.J. Hanekamp at 8664811 or han ekamc@evergreen .edu
Common Bread
We are a C hri s tian Co mmunity
wo rkin g for jus tice and peace.
Meeting times: 5 P.M. every
Monday in C AB 110
More info: Juli e Boleyn 943-9144
Evergreen Animal
Rights
Network
To promo le the e thi cal trea te m ent
o f a nimab.
Meel ing t im es: 5:30 every

Tuesday in CAB 320
More info: Laurel and Tom 866-6000
ex.6555
Evergreen Dance Team
Meeting times : Wednesday, 2-4 P.M.
in CRC 316 and Thursday 3:30-5 PM.
in CRC 116
Evergreen Investment Club
Meeting time: Thursday, 2:30 in CAB
3 15
More info: Andrew Buche r, Adam
Smith-Kipnis, 786-9161
Evergreen Medieval Society
Students interested in recreating
m e dieval martial arts, crafts, a nd
performances.
Meeting times: 5:30 P.M. eve ry
Thursday in CAB 320
More
info :
medievalsociety@mail .com
866-6000 or x6036
The Evergreen Swing Club
We teach East Coast Swing and
Lindy Hop basi cs. We welcome
beginners, and you don't need a
partner!
Meeting times: Friday, 7 P.M. on the
first floor of the library
More info: David, 866-8324; Kristina,
867-4939
Evergreen Queer Alliance
Meeting times: 5 P.M. Tuesday (Gen.
interest) in CAB 314;
.5 P.M. Wednesday (Film Fes t
planning)
More info: 867-6544
evergreen queer alliance@botrnail.com
Feminist Majority Leadership
Alliance
We work towards the goal of having
politi ca l, economic, and socia l
eq uality for women.
Meeting times: 1 P.M. every Friday

More info: Whitney Bindreiff 8882166 or x6636
Giant Robot Appreciation Society
Evergreen's Anime Club!
Screenings Friday, 8 P.M. at the Edge
More info: Ken Koontz
squirelfox@hotmail .com
MEChA
The Chicano shldent moveme nt of
Aztlan strives to c reate a space
where members can educate
themselves, inform others, and
confront issues .
M ee ting tim es: 2 P.M . every
Wednesday
More info: x6143
The Middle East Resource Center
Meeting times: 4 P.M. Wednesdays
in CAB 320 in office 15.
More info: 867-6033
Mindscreen
Free movies on campus
Group meetings 3:30 P.M. every
Wednesday in CAB 320; Free movies
every Wednesday at 5:30 P.M . in
Lecture hall 1
More info: x6480
Slightly West Literary Magazine
We publish TESC's Literary Mag.
Meeting times: 2 P.M . Monday, 9
P.M. Thursday
More info : Patricia Kinney, Jen
Levinson x6480
Umoja
An activities and support group for
all students of African decent.
Meeting times: 1-3 PM. on Feb. 21,
March 14, April 4, 18, May 2,16,30
More info: Umoja office, x6781;
Cossetta Stroud, (360) 455-0470;
Loretta Bradley-Allen, (360) 3529906

Cooper Poinr Jourry al • 18· February 22, 2001

WashPIRG
We run environmen tal, social,
and consumer campaigns .
Meet'ing
times :
4
P.M.
Wednesday i n Lecture Hall
rotunda
More info:Rebecca x6058
evergreen_washpirg@hotmaiLcom
The Wilderness Center
We run trips outside (rafting,
rock
cl imbing ,
hiking,
snowshoeing) as well as skill
workshops.
More info: Stop by CRC 208 or
call x6533 for more information.
For information about all
Wilderness Center events, look
on their board on the second
floor of the CAB next to the deli
inbetween the bathrooms
Women's Resource Center
A resource center that provides
meetings, a library, events, and
a drop-in center.
Meeting times: general meeting
Monday, 3 P.M .; Zine meeting
MOnday 5 P .M .; Evergreen
Cliteracy
Foundation,
Wednesday 3 P.M.
More info: x6160

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February 22, 2001 • 19· Cooper Poinr Journal