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by Kevan Moore

What they say

In your own weakness, you shall see.
Your eyes will constantly be on the dead. The dead though buried wish to rise.
Yet their wishing cannot match your weakness.
The dead will remain dead and you - weak.
In your weakness there will be times that you are mistaken for strength. You will crave
strength like your own blood. Your mothers and fathers will distance themselves.
You will thirst for the life you keep from yourself - you will drink only jealousy
selves you deny.

of the

Be happy my Sisters, dance weak, act as one properly should. Brothers, remember to
remain tough and at all costs, but most

of all stay isolated. Loneliness

is your friend.

The following is part of an approximate
time line provided by the Seattle Police
Department (SPD) for Thesday, February 27:
2200 Officers don protective gear
2230 Traffic closed to Pioneer Square area
22S0 Officers arrest suspect brandishing fully
loaded semi-automatic .4S-caliber handgun.
liS Gunshots heard; suspect disappeared into
crowd
liO Officers observe crowd overturning
vehicle
liS Dispersal order given
120 Officers begin dispersing crowd using OC
spray
200 Dispersal completed.
SPD made 21 arrests for the following
reasons: 6 assau lts, 2 dangerous weapons, 1
reckless endangerment, 4 obstructions, 1
pedestrian interference, 1 riot, 1 concealed
weapon charge, and 2 thefts. Two officers
sustained minor injuries from projectiles. 42
people reported to Harborview Medical Center
of the approximately 72 injured-twoofwhom
were critical and one who was shot.
According to the Pione'er Business
Association, there was $80,000 in damages,
most of which was broken windows or doors.
Two vehicles were overturned and many others
were damaged.
What I say
I'd like to make some sense ofSeattle's Fat
Tuesday style. This will never happen.
Nervous laughter - A group of students gather in Red Square sho rtly after the
I went to Seattle so I could document
whatever happened. I parked a few blocks from
changed the way steel is now attached in
by Greg Skinner
Pioneer Square a little after 11:30 p.m. and
Washington State. The Evergreen Campus was
made my way toward the crowd and noise.
Rand Ouellette and five other student built in the late sixties and early seventies. a time
Apart from a few people making their way interns were meeting in the Library's basement when se ismology was first being reflected in
home, the first thing I saw was a Peacekeeper Digital Imaging Studio (DIS) when last building codes. nation wide. "Even the way we
(an armo red personnel carrier or tank) Wednesday's earthquake began to shake the compact fill dirt is affected by code," said George
surrounded by SWAT-type officers. Then I saw entire Northwest. "It got really loud then the
In Olympia's Marathon Park the parking
police sta nding near motorcycles and bicycles lights went ou!." Two stories above Frank lot is sp lit open in three places as water and
and atop horses. It was about 11:40 p.m. and Motley look up in his Library office and watched compact fiU shot up through five-inch gaps in the
was also the last time I saw any uniformed the ceiling tiles vaporize. Across Campus in his pavement. Evergreens parking lots suffered
officers for nearly two hours.
first floor Organic Chemistry class Jude went nothing. As the upper bUltress's of down town
While not seeing any police officers in that from trying to get the gist ofCarbon Silica Acid rained to the ground, ca mpus buildings shook
time, I did see a guy get cold-cocked out of to trying to understand what was going on viole ntly and floor s rolled , but th e concre te
nowhere by a man who quickly disappeared. As under his feet. Out in Red Square a few escapees stayed were it was put.
the disoriented man , who couldn't defend were watching the five-story Clock Tower rock
Afirst draft damage estimate sent to FEMA
himself, tried to get his footing, a second back and forth .
on Monday, March 4, set a rough repair cost at
attacker punched him in the face. The second
By the time the 4S second quake ended, $800.000 in damages that could take six l1Ionths
blow sent the man to the ground unconcious. one window popped out of the Library Building, to repair.
Once he was on the street, a third assailant a water pipe above the financial aid office burst,
George says the typical poured concrete
rolled him offhis back long enough to steal his 60 percent of the of books in Evergreen's building doesn 't cQllapse from a quake like a
wallet (an assailant because after he robbed the collection were two feet deep in the aisles and brick and mortar structure. Instead, by staying
unconscious man. he kicked him in the ribs).
all the elevators were knocked out of upright, it tends to suffer so much damage from
No one was safe; everyone was fair game. commission. With lots of minor damage the fleXing, essentially crumbling around the steel.
Carrying a digital camera from Media Loan only Earthquake turned into an injury free real-time that it must later be torn down. "Some
made me more vul nerable. For one, I was test to see how the college copes with disaster. movement is good, too much is bad." All of
looking at a screen instead of over my shoulder. Evergreen did OK.
Evergreen's structures moved just right. .BI'
Secondly, I was potentially compiling graphic I
Outside Ouellette found people crying and Thursday I1Ight structural engineers approved
evidence of various crime and criminals who , puking, but no was hurt and no buildin gs the use ofl" every room on campus 1.S million
didn't like that.
~qua re feet. The Campus Recreation Ce nter
collapsed.
All in all, Mardi Gras was the most senseless,
The Febr uary 28 quake caused an remained closed over the weekend for clean up
inhuman display of brutality I've ever seen. The estimated two billion in damages. Compared from ceiling tiles collapSing and a bUMed pipe.
fact that a gun was fired amongst the crowd, to Olympia, Evergreen got off easy. Michelle The Library stacks are still closed for clean lip.
hitting one man in the shoulder, and the police George, director offacilities, credits soil type and
While most admin istrators are focusing on
didn't start to clear the area immediately is building codes for Evergreen's escape. the success of architecture and retrofitting, a
depreSSing. The fact that medical personnel, Something is learned each time an earthquake campus wide quake discussion pointed out one
bouncers and a handful of courageous good
effects a building in the world. George pointed problem very clear. Not many people "ducked
See MARDI GRAS p. 8 out one lesson from the 1994 Northridge quake or covered." In a bit of a panic, Greeners aU over

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Olympia, WA 98505

by Perrin Randlcrte
6.8 earthquake rolled th ro ugh Evergree

campus fled for blue sky.
In Housing, people fled the buildlnF
stand on bridges near the base of 10 ~tor)
dorm. On main campus, students staff, '
facu lty moved into Red Square and ~tood
ground that was hollow. Rand Ouellette sprin
out of the library basement and under tlVO I'
concrete platforms before sta nding belleath
sky. Jude's Organic Chemistry c1a~s moved II
their chai rs to the doorway, in his class
doorway is a wall of glaS!>. Then they moved
side the building and fou nd themselve~
under two floorsofbuilding. The quake was (
before the group settled. "I remember loo~
out into the forest and thinking, is [hat J g'
place to go"!" said Jude.
"People who ran out orthe buildings I I
just lucky that nothing fell on them." sa id II
Segawa, director of housing.
Five years ago some plan was in plan
respome to an event like this. That plan lI"a '
in the sh uffle and there has been no om,
training or awareness program. ":'\0 1 for du
or fouryear5," said Ann Daily, who took anoftl
a few months ago that oversees the disa~tl
planning for Evergreen, vice preSident offinanc
and reg istration. Sile decided to pa~s tl!
respomibility to the previolls oflice holder
Chuck McKinny, dirertorofresidentiallil(
called fora thought-out and li.mded disaster pia
in an e-mail sent to Les Puree, President c
Evergreen. In response to Ihis deficiency. DaiJ:
said thai McKinney will get it. Kelley Smith'·
office of Lab Management will get funding t(
plan for chemical spills in the college labs. Jus
one week after the quake, all levels of

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w e should keep our logo (please see
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it? Do you think it's ugly? Do you have an
idea for a Cooper Point Journal logo?
Please stop by the CPJ office (CAB 316)
or phone us (867-6213) or email us
(cpj @evergreen.edu)
with
your
suggestions and comments.

How to get involved
We have a numbe r of meetings in order to better
the pa pe r. One issue we'd especially like student
input on is whe the r or not we should keep our
current clocktower-and -CPJ initials logo (see above).
If you have an idea about what our logo - or in
journalism-lingo, the "flag" - should look like,
please come up to our office, which is located on
I the third floor of the CAB building in room 316.
, Our meeting times are as follows.

A recent forum on sweat shop labor brought out the administration's lead-off hitters, namely:
President Les Purce, Vice President of Student Affairs Art Constantino and former Vice President
of Finance Steve Trotter. Student organizers, called Students Against Sweatshops, were pleading
with the school to drop its affiliation with a monitoring organization called the Workers Rights
Consortium and join a group called the Fair Labor Association instead. After two hours of
talking the aforementioned administrators agreed to consider dropping the WRC affiliation,
which they did a few days later. As a result, we are currently not affiliated with any sweat shop
monitor. It seems that TESC, the New York Times' "bastion of liberalism," is still sweating the
sweat shop issue.

Story meeting
Monday 5 p.m.
Paper critique
Thursday 4 p.m.
Journalism and ethics forum led by CPj advisor
Dianne Conrad
Friday 4 p.m.

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Arms, er... Artists

Suzi's Coffeehouse, at the Java Flow, is
Slightly West is Evergreen's literary
magazine. "1 seek lively, diverse, and seeking artists, poets, and musicians to post and/
succinctly eloquent literary and visual or perform their work. "If you are interested,"
artworks from students staff, and alumni of said Suzi, "please contact Suzi at (360)705-1867."
Also at Suzi's and the Java Flow, is Board
TESC," SW said in a press conference
GameNight
and Open Mic Night. What night?
yesterday. "r accept poetry, prose under 2500
Game
Night is Tuesdays from 5 P.M.
Well,
Board
words, photographs, and artwork that
that
answer your question? What
to
9
P.M.
Does
reproduces well in black and white. Feel free
about
Open
Mic
Night,
you ask? Oh, well, Open
to test these limits; I am open to new
Mic
Night
is
on
Saturdays,
signup begins at 6:30
representational forms."
P.M.You
know,
I've
played
a
few board games in
To submit, please remove your name
my
day.
I
enjoy
Mouse
Trap
and
Risk. And Uno.
from your work and enclose a cover letter
with your pertinent informaiton, including
a contact number or address . "Kindly
Intern wanted: Yes, that's right
enclose a SASE with the correct amount of
postage if you want your work returned."
The Women's Resource Center is hiring for
Slightly West is published twice during spring quarter and the next academic year. The
the school year. "Deadline for my spring internship will involve group work and
issue is (no teasing, now) April 1. I want to collaboration.
make clear that when I am published, all
"This is a grea t opportunity for those
rights revert to the authors and artists."
interested in community organizing and
You can drop off or mail submissions to invOlvement," says the flyer. The application
deadline is Monday, March 12 at 5 P.M. Inquire
the following address .
Slightly West
with Mary Craven at extention 5222.
CAB 320
The Evergreen State College
Students march to Police Services
Olympia, WA 98505
Yesterday approximately sixty students held
a silent march to police services. The march was
Barrier-busting Lunch
called in response to the assualt in housing
On Wednesday, March 14, at 11:30 in the earlier in February. The marchers carried banners
morning, there will be a luncheon in the saying "1 called 3 times, no one came," "Next
TESC Library builing room 4300 to celebra te time take me seriously," and "1 don't want a next
TRIO Day. What is TRIO Day, one might time," among others.
The procession began at 1 P.M. at the CAB,
wonder?
According to a press release, "for over figure-eighted Red Square, and finally came to
30 years America's federally-funded TRIO Police Services, where the banners were taped
Programs have helped students to overcome up on the outside walls. The marchers were
class, social, cultural, and academic greeted by police chief Steve Huntsberry and two
barriers."J:'he release failed to mention what other officers, and there were no altercations. The
TRIO stands for, or what the programs marchers dispersed after an organizer said, "If
actually do. Scholarships? Grants? Presents? you feel we have accomplished something, you
We cannot say.
can leave right now... "
The luncheon features Upward Bound
Afterward, the march's organizers held a
and KEY students, TESC faculty and staff, petition-signing in the CAB lobby. Steve
Les Purce, the TESC Board of Trustees, Huntsberry and V.P. of studen.t affairs Art
mem bers of the Legisla ture, as well as Costantino spoke to the organizers briefly at that
keynote speaker Rev. Dr. Leslie Braxton of time.
Seattle's Mt. Zion Baptist Church.

The Correction:
Last week's DTF info box was replete with errors. Among them, Nancy McKinney was cited
as heading a DTF.
has not worked at
for over a

mt ourn

On March 21,2001, a group of
Evergreen students and their
teacher will be traveling to the
Teacher's College of Wenzhou,
China. Students from both colleges
will engage in discussions,
presentations, workshops, and
other learning opportunities.
Through these and other informal
interactions, the students hope to
gain a better understanding of the
worldwide practice known as
teaching. As Meghan G., a student
from Evergreen, put it, "Teaching
is universal in human experience,
and sharing helps all to understand
the different ways we as humans
think, feel, and learn."
The Evergreen students are
enrolled in Arts and the Child, a
class that focuses on child
development and how art is
influential in the process of literacy.
Through illustrations, puppetry,
and poetry, these students are
learning innovative and engaging
ways to teach reading. These forms
of artistic expression will be a basis
for exchange during the trip.

Funeral for ex-Fine Host
employees
By Dori Horovi!1-

On January 11, 2001 , the
Evergreen ' Food Service Workers
(under the Fine Host Corporation)
won .union representation under
the' International Longshore and
Warehouse Union' s local 47_ Since
that day, over a dozen workers
have been fired, laid off, or quit due
to drastic cuts in hours, corporate
policy inconsis tencies,
and
unbearable working conditions.
The vast majority of remaining
workers have had their hours cut
and are now expected to do extra
work in less time with no extra pay.
In a workforce consisting only of
about 55 people, we have lost 25%
of our fellow employees. Please
help us mourn our losses on
Tuesday, March 13th, as we hold a
mass funeral procession to
commemorate those workers who
are no longer with us. The march
will begin shortly after 11 A.M. in
Red Square and will proceed
through the CAB building. There
will be eulogies spoken, drumming
and collection jars (to aid those who
now can't pay the rent) .Please wear
black armbands on Tuesday to
show your support for these Fine
Host employees. Thanks for your
support.

Add to the library; add
to your wallet
The Friends of The Library are
sponsoring a contest for students to
suggest any addition to the library
collection up to $2,000. Additions
could be books; media such as music,
CD's, film, or video; rare books; an
under represented author or genre;
reference mate~ials; maps, etc .
Winners get a hundred bucks!
Any currently registered
student at TESC may enter. Entries
must be in writing, no longer than 2
pages, and placed in the entry box
located in the Library Reference area .
Please be as specific as possible
when making your suggestion (for
example, list specific titles you want
us to buy). Students may enter as
many times as they wish (with
different ideas for each entry).
Please include with your entry
your name, address, and the best
way to be reached. All entries are
due April 15. Winners will be
announced at Super Saturday and
presented wi th a $100 check.

Suzi's Coffeehouse;
a place to play
Are you an artist in need of a
venue? Suzi's Coffehouse at the
Java Flow just may be the place for
you .
Visual artists, poets and
musicians are all encouraged to
contact Suzi about performing live
or displaying their work in this
charming, high-traffic location . For
more information, head to a phone
near you, and call (360) 705-1867.

Culture comes to Tacoma
Campus
Internationally acclaimed
pianist Dr. William H. Chapman
Nyaho will be headlining "A
Musical Journey Benefit for Phoebe
House"at Evergreen's Tacoma
Campus next week.
A native of Ghana, West Africa,
Nyaho is a graduate of Oxford
University and the Conservatoire de
Musique de Geneve, Switzerland.
He will be performing with
gospel organist Dr. Ruth Evelyn
Barnes-Kelly.
General admission seating costs
$25.00 per person. All proceeds will
be donated to the Phoebe House
Association, a non-profit group for
homeless women and women with
children. The fund raiser will begin
at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, March 16th,
2001.

eww gross nasty

LICE

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Does your ad burn and itch like
the fires of hel? Do you and your
loved ones h~ve little white bugs
jumping all 0 r you? Well my friend
-It itches! It itches! Will it
it sounds Iik you've got yourself a
ever stop itching!?!
Iii case of he
lice.
What s uld you do to kill your
-Small; clear nits (eggs)
new found "uddies? First you need
shaped like elongated
to h~li..ou and buy some poison
teardrops
stuck to the hair
death sham 00 like Rid or Nix . Take
shaft
along
the hairline.
a shower 'ng your usual soap and
shampoo I and dry your hair
- Yucky "clear brown!
thoro
. Slather on some bugamber co]or" critters
killin
poo, making sure to use
crawling, crawling,
hands to rub it into your
crawling
allover your
uch as possible. Wait about
head!
10 minutes, wash it out,
and then have a
friend use the
special "nit comb" that comes wi th your death
shampoo to check your entire scalp for critters
and rtits. You must inspect every hair! The nits
are attatched to the str
str~ngly, so put
"...,_,,,u it. According to the
dhr-A'llandout from the friendly
H",~fJII"'lr'enter, "The insecticide will
in your hair & scalp for several
to kill any new lice/nits that you
may be exposed to." Yikes!
You can get lice by sharing brushes or
combs, hats, scarves, scrunchies, beds, and
sleeping bags. Getting freaky with dirty folks
isn't generally recommended, either. Make sure
to wash all your clothes, towels and bedding in really
hot water and then dry them on high.
Dreadlocks are chill places for a louse to take up
permanent residence. The only way to ensure that they are
completely gone is to cut them off.
So, now that your head is full of bugs and none of your friends
will come near you, what should you do? The health center has
some titilating options for a night of unad ulterated lice-infested fun.
"Pick a night where everyone can get together for household lice date.
Everyone should treat their body, their clothes and the environment
all at the same time. It can be a fun household bonding experience!"
Oh, joy of joys.

SlMPTOMS

REDEfiNE YOUR WORLD!'

Peace Corps to visit
The Evergreen State College
Wednesday, March 13

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Information Table: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm,
Campus Activities Building (CAB)

Paint-4-Fun . 111

Ceramic Painting Studio ....

...at We have a variety of Bisque, Paint, Supplies,
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Stencils & Classes! No sitting fee. No
appointment. No experience necessary!

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"Redefine Your World" video and Q&A:
4:00 - 5:50 pm, library 2221
Learn about volunteer opportunities overseas.
View slides taken by Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and
get a glimpse of their experiences.
Act NOW to redefine 'lOUR world after I!raduation.

(800) 424-8580 • Option 1
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March 8, 20Ql ~ ,3· Cooper Point J.ourn~

NEWS
,offers supp.0rl for
Vax POPULI . Sexual Assault: Group
surVivors of VIolence
THE VOICI O. THE PIOPli

IIWhat do you think of
all the media's
earthquake coverage in
the past week?"
"1
lived
through it.
Not
t90
m u c h
damage . I
read one
article
3bout it in
the Seattle Times about an old lady
losing her glass egg collection. No
big deal."
Martin Tran

senior
"Living in
inner city
Seattle, it
was pretty
devastating,
and I kind
of understand the
media coverage, because at the
time, it felt like . the end of the
world. We're really fucking
priveleged- I can remember St.
Helens. I have a 7 year-old and was
really worried, anq they said, 'The
kids are OK,' for. 5 hours./I
Heide ·.S trangeSky .'

Junior

"1 didn't
watch the
news, .but
anyt ime
you sensationalize
disas ter, it
just sends a
.
wave of paranoia out through the
community."
Mara Collins

Junior

lame--the
m e d i a
covered all
Seattle. Oly
didn't get
shit except
the capital. Especially the. t.v. and
national news, because who reads
the Olympian? Some of the photos
[the medial took mad~ it look like
the rubble was bigger than what it
really was, too./I
Sonja Tachell

Se/tiar

"It
was
OK. The
national
media paid
it its due
and
the
I 0 c a I
media is doing what it should. I
think it's about what you'd expect."

Karl Hack,
part-time st udent

by Jen Blackford

By Chandra L ind ema n

Hi . My n a m e is Cha ndra
Lindeman , a nd I am the Sexua l
Assa ult Prevention Coordinator for
the Evergreen Sta te College campus.
I am writing this brief introductory
article to inform the Evergreen
community o f the serv ices that the
Office of Sexua l Assau lt Prevention
offers.
This office offers education,
information, resources, referra ls, and
ad vocacy including medical, lega l,
and emotional support for survivors
of violence, as we ll as for loved ones
of survivors. Al though the title of this
office and my posi tion includes only
sex ua l vio lence, I started to offer
services to violence s urv ivors of any
type-including sexual, relational and
stra nger vio lence, and hate crimes.
If you ha ve experienced violence
and you need sup port or inform ation,
you ca n ca ll the Office of Sexual
Assault Prevention or s top by to see
if I am available. I am generally in my
office on Wednesdays and Fridays
from 9a m to 3 :30pm. All services
thr oug h this office are free and
confidential. This is a place that you
ca n ca ll or co me to if vou want to
know what vou r options a re as a
survivor. Also, if you are confused or
you just need to talk, I am ava ilable .
In a ddition to mv services, we
curren tly have a male intern who is
availab le for the winter quarter. His
name is Joshua Eberle, and he is
ava il ab le by phone for information
and support. Joshua is also working
to challenge men to stop all forms of
oppress ion and to mak e positive
individual and soc ial change in
themselves and their communities.
If the Office of Sexual Assault
Prevention is not the place for vou to
have yo ur need s met, we will be sure
to connect you wi th so meone who
can . if vou choose to not contact this
office, p lease talk with someone-a

Chandra Lindeman stands in the doorway of her office.

iriend, a co unselor, a famil y
member, or a teacher- the violenc€
was not your fault, and you deserv€
support.
As many of you are aware ,
violence is an ongoing iss ue on our
campus . The most important facets
of my job includ e supporting
survivors of violence and ending
violence on our campus. It is
important that each of you know
there is help available if you arc a
survivor. It is also important to me
that each of yo u know that I am
working along with s tudents and
other key people on campus to end
violence. As the Coordinator of the
Sexual Assault Prevention office, I
am seeking to change the name of
this office to include a foc us on
violence prevention in general. I am
also hop ing to bring in additional
resources for this office so that it ca n
truly meet the needs of our
co mmunity. If you have ideas,
concerns, ques tions, or would like
to work toward ending violence in
our community, please contac t me.
There are many ways to get
involved.

The gulf between theory and
reality at Evergreen is most evident
in the General Education issue.
Students come here for an alternative
educa ti on, based on concepts of
cross-d ivis ional learn in g and the
pOSSibility of cont rollin g their own
educa tion. When they get here,
however, they face a sys tern tha t
make s it hard for s tud e nt s to
experien ce either. Cross-di v is ional
classes rarely move outside the focus
of fac ulty pl annin g units, which lead
to "c ro ss-d ivi siona l" cla sses in
subjects like histo ry and sociology, or
writing and literature. Truly crossdivision al classes, such as those on
art and environmental science, or
computer theory and writing, are
hard to find. The idea that Evergreen
s tud e nt s ca n plan their own
edu ca tion is a s ham as well. Students
wh o have co m e out of traditional
learn ing situa tions-generally a bad
mod el for tru e "education"-are
expected to s udd enly und ers tand
what they want to do and how to do
it on their own. Faculty that are
supposed to talk to s tudents about
th e ir ed ucation and future plans

There are a number of
resources available to you on
campus including:
Office of Sexual Assault
Prevention Chandra
5221
Intern of Sexual Assault
Prevention, Joshua
5517
6140
Counseling Center
on Campus
L - -_ _ _- - { : ) 6800
Coalition Against
Sexual Violence
6749 .
There a re a Iso resources
available in the larger
Olympia community such as:
Safeplace, Sexua1 and Domestic
Violence Prevention
754-6300
Crisis Clinic, Informatio
and Referral

rarely ask and even more rarely actually does. However, the body of
have concrete suggestions to offer. the proposal is very simple. Right
Furthermore, it is impossible for now, Evergreen is run by teachers
s tudents to plan their education who are split into "planning units."
when they have no control over Planning units split the faculty into
what classes are going to be offered the categories of Culture, Text and
and only know a year in advance Language, Environmental Studies,
what classes may be offered . Once Expressive Arts, Scientific Inquiry,
students receive their ca talogu e, and Social Science. Faculty within
they s till have to contend with these planning units then plan
programs that are dropped or have programs
together.
Present
pre-requisites that they can't fulfill. curr iculum requires 40% of each
Almost e very student I've planning unit to teach CORE or Allspoken to has wanted access to a Level (i.e . open to all students
variety of classes; access that they regardless of year) classeshaven't found at Evergreen. The baSically, beginning level classes.
General Education DTF has worked The other 60% teach in various other
on curricular changes that would programs (mostly upper division)
improve student access not just to with little to no restrictions on what
math classes , but to all types of type of class it is or how long it runs.
classes, making it possible for
The DTF proposal only changes
students to experiment with the first 40% who are a lready
different s ubje c ts . Right now, teaching CORE and all-level classes.
students are forced to dive in for a The 60% that are unrestricted and
full 16 credit quarter of something teach mostly upper-division classes
they're not sure of their own interest do not change. Hence, this proposal
or ability in, simply because there doesn't even touch the majority of
aren't enough beginning, cross- Evergreen's classes and faculty.
divisional classes to allow them to Furthermore, the changes to the
bottom 40% are minimal, and aimed
try a little of different subjects.
There's been a lot of confusion at solving two problems at the same
about what the DTF proposal
see GEN ED on page 20

Cooper Point Journal • 4· March 8, 2001

It's a well-known saying that you
should be careful what you wish for.
It's an even more well-known fact in
my family that when 1 wish for some
excitement in my life, bad things
happen.
Not that I'm saying that I'm
responsib le for anything. It's just that
my life vacillates between mor:nents of
high drama and great boredom.
Take this double edition of blotter. .
True, we did have a major catastrophe
(according to my sources) occur this
week. But can this make up for all the
fire alarms, stolen bikes, and lack of
case reports that plague this week's
blotter?
The answer is, of course, no, since
once again (like the police car getting
s tol e n) , I have been scooped by
seemingly everyone out there.
So be prepared for a blotter that
is mildly monotonous and ·rather
unexciting. In other words, it's been a
pretty slow two weeks. Except for the
natural disaster.
On with the madness ...

by Adam Louie

-----II EvergreenVS.Realityll----by Jay ne Kaszynski

"1 thought
it was really

Purple swim trunk travesty

,

I

Tuesday, Feb. 20
10:42 a.m.
An employee is
injured at the CRe. A dark portent of
things to come?
3:50 p.m.
Someone's bike is
stolen from K-Dorm. How inventive.
4:21 p.m.
A person working in a
parking booth is approached by a man
in a gray hooded sweatshirt and
purple swim trunks. He told her he
was "modeling" for her and asked
how he looked. Instead of being
impressed by his sartorial acumen, the
attendant is mildly uncomfortable and
becomes more'so when he asks her to
open the window. "She noticed that
the suspect had a large erection." The
man leaves when she calls the police.
To make things even grosser,
witnesses later say that at one point,
he was naked from the waist down.
Wednesday, Feb. 21
2:18 a.m.
Ah, the grandeur of a
fire alarm that involves multiple floors
in A-Dorm with "water flow "
activation on the 6th. Is anything more
splendid? Perhaps the eruption of Mt.
Vesuvius, but this runs a close second.
3:33 a.m.
Shockingly,
drug
paraphernalia is found. In an exclusive
interview, Evergreen student Erica
Nelson gasped and said, "No way,"
proceeding then to faint in her chair.
Because, you know, she's easily
shocked.
Thursday, Feb. 22
11:53 a.m.
The combination of a
nicotine patch and a bronchial inhaler
does not sit well with someone.
Luckily, this person is all right.
Keys to the COM
9:33 p .m.
building go missing for a while and
eventually turn up in a parking lot.
What an odd place for keys to be.
Friday, Feb. 23
5:38 p.m.
A student sticks two
boiled eggs inside his sweatshirt front
pocket and proceeds to walk out
without paying for them. When asked
why he did such a thing, he says that
he put them in his front pocket to
prevent them from breaking and just

forgot to pay for them.
11:29 p.m.
Molson's may go
down smooth with some people
(Canadians), but for one student, it has
a bitter taste indeed. For you see, he
was arrested for MIP.
Saturday, Feb. 24
A bicycle is found in Housing. This
means joy for at least one person and
sorrow for me, since it's the only thing
that happened today.
Sunday, Feb. 25
1:14 a.m.
The blotter editor
would like to give you this poem,
inspired by today's case of reckless
burning and the works of Willia m
Blake:
Fire, fire, burning bright,
in the day or in the night,
can usually give me lots of fun ,
but I have no facts, not even one.
2:35 a.m.
Someone else gets
drunk in A-Dorm.
Monday, Feb. 26
Thieves abounded on campus, as
bicycles, keys, and credit cards went
missing. Happily, food in the Deli
remained apparently untouched and
crime-free.
Tuesday, Feb. 27
Nothing happened today.
Wednesday, Feb. 28
Something happened today. For more
details, see CNN, MSNBC, your local
paper, or any other fine journalistic
establishment (CPJ), as sadly I do not
have a blotter page or any case reports
pertaining to what occurred today.
Thursday, March 1
12:57 a.m.
Things get back to
normal rather quickly as someone
burns food in D-Dorm, setting off a fire
alarm. It's nice to see that some things
can be counted on.
1:13 a.m.
Some people cope
with trauma by getting counseling.
Others eat a lot of comfort food and
listen to country music. But in ADorm, it is dealt with loud noises,
things on fire, and the occasional flight
of a piece of furniture.
Friday, March 2
8:10 a.m .
A p par e n t I y,
something gets stolen today from the
bookstore. Please, in the name of all
that's good and right, let it not be the
Britney Spears CD.
8:18 p.m.
A fire alarm goes off in
T-Dorm . That's it, people. Either learn
how to cook or hide your pot better.
Saturday, March 3
12:36 a.m.
Two people, their
dogs, and a van park in F-Lot to spend
the night. Needless to say, they don't
get to stay there.
Drinking and driving
1:13 a.m.
lands at least one person in trouble,
with the possibility of another one
hour later.
Sunday, March 4
More people drink, more people get
busted, and yet another person
evidently hasn't mastered the culinary
arts.
Monday, March 5
9 a.m.
A harassment case
occurs, but I have no report on this.

THE GREENER FILES
Where have you been, Police
Services? That is the question I have
QUESTIONS FROM OUR
been hearing from our community.
Remember, last year we initiated a
COMMUNITY
co lu mn called "The Greener Files ."
It was originally introduced as an There has been concern from OLlr
outreach to our community. It was comm unity that our officers are
a tes t run, and the feedback was se tting up speed traps on th e
interesting and, for the most part, parkway to ca tch drivers. To address
positive. Our community desires to this issue Corporal Neely was asked
hear from us in that format again. to explain all the enforcement. We
This past year, we have been can assure you that we do not utilize
working on a police web page, which speed traps in our jurisdiction, but
can be found within the Evergreen this may help in explaining why you
Web directory. As soon as it is may be observing more enforcement
completed, you will be able to access on the roadways.
selected portions of "The Greener The speed and traffic enforcement is
Files" within our Web page. After focused in locations that have been
entering our Police Service icon, look normally high accident rate areas .
for "The Greener
.
Sin c e
Files. "
starting the
Some
of
the
traffi c
information you will
enforcement
find in our column in
in
these
the future: traffic and
areas,
crime
stats,
acciden t s
biogra phies of our
h a v e
On Saturday, April 21~ .
employees
from
declin ed
EvergreenPolice SerVices will
parking, dispatch and
si gnificantIy.,
be sponsoring a child safety
police areas, messages
resulting in
restraint
. c. In Ii few w~ks,
from the Chief, and
a decreased
an article will appear in CPT
articles / informa tion
number of
about this issue. You may have
submitted by various
fa tali ties ,
seen a few Tescrier messages
officers / emp loyees . .
injuries,
about this or ead the
We also hope to add
and serious
Olympian
a few week~ ago
some unique items for
property
concerning ' seat belts and
fun
and
damag e.
booster
seats for children. It is
entertainment.
This
has
our desire to inform our
Because education is a
also made
community that this IS an
very important aspect
th
e
important issue for you and
of the column, we
Parkway
your 'f amily's safety.
.
hope
to
inel ude
and other
informative mate rial
major roads
that will be useful to
a
userOfficer Garland is recruiting
our community. There
friendly
students for assistance with
will also be updates
area. I have
the 'weekly CPT articles. Please
regarding what our
bee n
contact her at Ext. 5157.
officers are doing as
approached
far as training a nd
b
y
general happenings in
numerous
FREE LUNCHES!!!! That
police service·s.
bicy clists
should
grab your attention,
If anyone ha s any
and
you starving students. Chief
sugges tions of what
pedestrians
Huntsberry
and Officer
they would like to see
thanking
Garland are working on a new
in the column, please
me
for
program that will include a
feel free to contact me
monitorin g
lunch date with an officer or
with your suggestions.
these areas.
the Chief. The idea is to hear
We hope to contribute
H
helps
your input on police services,
weekly to the column.
m a k e
etc. We will ~eep you posted.
Police Services would
driv e r s
like to thank Barry
aware of
Joynes for his time and
the posted
creativity in assisting with our new speed limits and other hazards on
Web page. It is still under these roads. It has also helped th e
construction and will be for some wildlife in these areas. The number
time until we get all the information of vehicle to animal incidents in
that we would like to have on it.
these
a reas
has
declined
dramatically. I would like to thank
Thank you,
those officers who have been a part
of this activity and continue to make
Community Policing Officer
the roads at Evergreen State College
Pamela K Garland E9
a safe place for vehicles and
Ext. 5157 or email
pedestrians.
Garlandp@Evergreen.edu
Corporal Neely

March 8, 2001 • 5· Cooper Point Journal



Graduation Planning-help plan
June 200] events; contact Steve
Hunter at ext. 63]0
compikJ by Erica Ndsun

~

The Human Resources
~i'. DTF has just been
:0
formed. It will be a
\'eh icle to examine are<lS of
cll~ L'rn tu employees on camp u~ .
Th7T-lf\S DTF h<lS been c harged with
It)oi--ing into man y significant issues
sU rround ing e)..empt ,1I1d class ifi ed
employees. The c ritical issue~
include recruitment and retention of
l'mplo\'l'L'!'>, an an<ll),,,i,, of c urrent
Iluman Re~Llll rCL' ~ data and
Inlorlll.ltlL)n ~)' SlL'llls , and a review of
p""" ib k U"L' u t the Banner HUlllan
i< l',,' urll'S modul e. The Illembers are
:>.1t' rL'd ilh Huff, Ch.,ir; Kdrl'n Durar}t;
" e ll\, Smith ; Bets)' Diffendal; Josc
Domingul'/.; Ed River.l ; Patty Barnes;
LlHl'Ie Moore; John C armich.:ll'l ;
M,l i.l Bellon; Randy Cravey. Efforts
tll recr uit facul ty and staff will only
IIl[cn s ify in the coming ycars
resulting trolll three primary factors :
1
Illany of our faculty and s taff ,He
rl,.,ching retirement age;
2.
the college' will co ntinu(' to add
new positions to support a larger
and growing student body, and ;
3.
the highly co mp e titive labor
Ill.uke't resulting from a strong
economy.
Ge t more info at their website!:ill.)LL
I www.evergreen.edu/user I HRS I
dtf I home.html).

Food Services DTF-The objective for
the DTF was to "c reate a set of
recommendations regarding what kind
of a food se rvice program we should
put in place for Fall 2001" and focus on
the actual development of specifications
and any other documents needed to
proceed during spring quarter. Utilizing
prev ious DTFs' work, prior su rvey
work, o ther colleges' ilnd universities'
e)..pertise, the National Associiltion of
College dnd Univer~i ty Food Services,
local businesses ilnd resources, as well
(l~ profl'~sional c on~ultants , the grou p
re~ei'lfched nine different models for
luod sen'ice this past fall. T he DTF will
be forw<lfding th eir recomn1('ndations
thl~ wcek. Pleil~(, look for an inser t in
n(')..t we('k ' ~ CPJ for more information,
Here IS the initial membership: Chuck
McKinney (Committee Chai r), Alan
asser, facul ty Beci,ie Kjer, conference
sen'ices milnilger Pat Labine, faculty
Kathleen Haske tt, purchasing manager
Piper Kilpin, food services liaison Mike
Arnow, s tudent Russell Garafalo,
student Kevin Anderson, student Shoni
Schlotzhauer, student Patrick Rogers
(Turtle), student/ Fine Host employee
Robin Herring, environmental health
and safety officer Peter Kardas (exofficio). They meet on Mondays at 3:30
in Lib 2130- contact Piper Kilpin, Food
Service Liaison, at ext. 6501.

S&A Fee R'eview Board-He lps
decide the allocation of student
activities funds (see article this
page). Meets Mon./Wed . 4-6pm;
contact Jaime Rossman at ext. 622l.
Student Conduct Hearing BoardHears students appeals of grievance
officer deci sio ns; contact Art
Costantino at ext. 6221.
Faculty Hiring CommitteesScreening and interviews for all
positions; contact the Faculty Hiring
Office a text. 686l.

eel

the ir contact information, agenda,
minutes and app li cation forms for'
land use proposals . In accordance to
the Ca m pus Mas ter P lan, the CLUC
reviews a ll land use proposals for
the fo ll owing: conSistency with
ed ucational mission of the college,
consistency with the Policies and
Procedures of t h e Master Plan ,
suitability with the use criteria for
specific land areas of the campus,
and enviromental sensitivity and
SEPA compliance if required.

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lor

Deadly Force Review BoardReview incidents wher e deadl y
force is used or threa tened; co n tact
Art Costan tino at ext 6296.

Space Management-Pol icy an d
Enrollment
Coordinating allocation of space quarterly and as
Committee-The
Enrollment necded ; contact Michele George a t
Co ordinating Committee (E CC) ext. 6115.
meets i1lternating Frid a ys from 1012 in the Enrollment Services Infraction Review CommitteeConference Room . The eommittee's . Hears parking ticket appeals
members include the Assistant to monthly for two hours . THeydecide
the Dean of Enrollment Services, to either waive, uphold, or [cduce
Coordinator of Student Services- each ticket heard, and they hear an
Tacoma Campus, Curriculum Dean, average of 100 appeals a month .
Dean of Enrollment Services (chair), Made Lip of two students, a classfied
Dean of Student Academic Support staff member, an exempt staff
Services, Director of- Academic member, and a facutly member.
Advising, Director of Admissions, There is also a non-voting seceratary
Director of Financial Aid, Director who is a student; contact Sus ie Seip
of Housing Faculty Representative, ext. 6131.
Regi;;trar, and Vice President of
Student Affairs. Topics for the Communications Board-Provides
remainder of the year and beyond guidance on student med ia issues
include monitoring conversion to twice quarterly ; contact Tom
the new student record system Mercado at ext. 6220.
(Banner), reviewing financia l aid
packaging philosophy, discussion of Health and Safety A/C- Promotes
worker health and safety; it meets
new recruitment publications /
mailings, Web page design, review monthly for two hours; contact
of student recru i tment strategies, Michele George ext.6296.
review
of
integrating
Disabilities
Act
co mmunication s and marketing American
DTF recomm e ndations, and review Compliance-Evaluates progress
of summer registration process for and acceSSibility; contact Linda
Fall Quarter; contact Steve Hunter Pickering at ext. 6364.
Interim Dean of Enrollment Services
Student
Rep
Selection
at ext.6310.
Committee-Adver tise and assist in
Drug and Alocohol Abuse choosi ng student trustees - no
Prevention-Reviews and develops co nta c t info available for this
policy and prevention efforts; co mmittee.
co nta c t Liz McHugh at ext.6200.
Hiring Priorities-Set priorities for
Campus Land Use-Meets on the hiring; contact Nancy Taylor at ext.
last Monday of every month in the 6398 .
Facilities Conference room (Lab II,
room 1250) at 7:30 a.m. The Human Subject Review-Advise
committee is made up of eight and approve any sort of human
faculty and staff members and two subject research that happens on
student members. T he students are campus. Help insu re subjects'
Dan iel Moses and Moriah Eusitce, privacy, etc. No st u dents are
who
can
be
reached
at involved with the committee now,
tristedelnoche@hotmail.com . They bu t if you a re in teres ted in this ,
a lso have a website, which has all contact Lee Lytt le at ext.667B.



I

TOMORROWIFri., Mar. 9) 4pm CAB 316
Geffing Ready Forum

what do you want to depend
upon the eaitor- to do and be as the coordinator of the
Cooper Point Journal organization and editor-in-chief of the
newspaper of the students?
.
The forum will conclude with devising questions the editor
candidates will be asked Friday, March 16, at interviews by students.

Friday, March 16

4pm CAB 316

Interviews

Students will interview each of the two editor
candidates using questions that were devised Friday, March 9.
This will take about 90 minutes.

Friday,March 16 6pm-ish CAB 320
Deliberation

Students will discuss the strengths and
weaknesses of each candidate and attempt to reach consensus
on a recommendation to the CPJ advisor on which candidate to
appoint editor for 2001-02. This can take up to four hours.

Vic s P i z z e r ia

Where to find out about each
candidate: The application packet of each candidate

is on the bulletin board across from the CPJ, CAB 316.
The two candidates are WHITNEY KVASAGER and COREY PEIN.

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NEWS
Environment

VB.

Economic

G~owth:

Can They Co-exist?
Comlllcl1lary by Andrew Bucht:r

quality to be about 2.5. If an industrial
nation experiences a 10% increase in
Economic growth fosters many income, one should expect a 25%
benefits for a society. Markets get increase in the citizens' willingness to
wealthier, tedUlology gets more cutting pay for environmental expenses. This is
edge, and the pressure on the truly remarkable since the elasticity for
enviroru11ent is reduced. Rising incomes luxury cars like BMW and Mercedeslead to more willingness and ability to Benz is about 2.5 as well.
fund a c lea ner and hea lthier
Improvements in technology
environment. Economic grow th correlate positively with the qua li ty of
generally lead s to environmen tal the environment. In the United States,
improvements, beca use people w ith techno logical advancements were
higher incomes arc willing to pay more themselves cleaning the environment
for environmental quality.
before environmental laws were passed.
Once cl person's income surpasses One example is the beverage industry,
the point of just getting by, they are who wanted to increase profits by
financially more willing
reducing costs. These
and able to participate in
companies found ways to
the
red uction
or
reduce the amount of metal
avoidance
of
used per can by using
There is one
environmental
lighter
and recyclable metal.
undeniable
degradation. The quality
This change in the makeup
fact: as
of the envirorunent will
of something so simple as
nations get
actually improve. As
cans led to less ore being
wealthier, the
nations like the United
mined and processed;
States, Canada, and most
solid wastes
therefore, less energy was
European
nations
needed to transport both the
per capita
matured into wealthy
raw
and the finished
Increases as
countries, the frequency
products . Pollution was
well.
of
individuals
reduced, and the beverage
advocating for the
companies profited from it.
environment increased
The
relationship
dramatically. Businesses
between safe drinking water
and nonprofit organizations have set and income is positive. In a nation with
aside areas to protect the preservation a per capita income of $1,000, about 40%
of plants and animals.
of the population will be without safe
Donald Coursey, an environmental drinking water; whereas a nation with a
economist, has concluded that there is per capita income of $10,000 reduces the
a high degree of elasticity between percentage of the population without
income and willingness to pay for safe drinking water to only a few percent,
environmental causes. In industrial Furthermore, the correlation between
nations, Coursey has found the elasticity particles in the air and income is
for the demand of environmental encouraging. A wealthier nation will
pave roads and industrial processes will
become more efficient by emitting
smaller amounts of waste. There is one
undeniable fact: as na tions get wealthier,
the solid wastes per capita increases as
well. However, a wea lthier nation will
adopt programs and policies that will
restrict or recycle the solid wastes. More
funding will go toward research and
development with regards to recycling.
The question is, is economic growth
harmful to the envirorunent? The answer
is clear: not only is it not harmful, but it
is to the environment's advantage!

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NEWS

No fee increase
By Jaime Rassman

·The Evergreen Services and
Activities Fee Allocation Board
deliberated for nine hours this week
before finalizing its recommendations
for allocating almost three million
dollars of student fees over the next two
years. These fees provide operational
budgets for S&A Administration,
KAOS, the CPJ, the CCC (Child Care
Center), and RWA (Recreation,
Wellness, and Athletics), as well as
supporting more than sixty funded
student groups on campus.
For the first time in S&A history,
this year's Board will NOT be
requesting an increase in student fees
during the next biennium. By
rearranging distributions of funds, the
Board has been able to balance our
budget at current fee levels, even
though costs such as minimum wage
and electricity prices have risen over the

Samaritans were more willing to risk
bodily harm to themselves than 350 SPD
robocops is an outrage.
The whole night was emotional on
other levels as well. After actually being
within a bullet's range, I'm sorry that I
ever took for granted that youngsters in
this country grow up near gunfire. It's
scary as hell to hear and see a gun go off.
The power is perfectly clear when the blast
occurs-- you have none of it. I also feel
guilty, of course, that I was alone, filming
the insanity, and was too scared and
scrawny to step in front of punches and
pistol whips and bullets and chains to help
helpless human beings.
A person was shot, another died, 42
people ended up at a hospital, and at the
very least 30 more got hurt. SPD Chief Gil
Kerlikowske has said he takes "full
respons ibility" for the Mardi Gras
madness. I can respect police officers just
as much as the next guy when they are
willing to "protect and serve." The SPD
did neither of those things under
Kerlikowske's watch. They stood by as
people were beaten and robbed by thugs.
SPD, under the direction of
Kerlikowske, are a bunch of bogus
bastards and too many of the 4,OOO-some
people in Pioneer Square last week are
berserk bastards - one no better than the
other. Individuals and groups wandered
through the crowd, and random beatings
followed by stompings sprang up over
and over again. Worse yet, the police
knew what was happening.

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past two years.
The Board has allocated additional
funding to several organizations to
allow new services for students.
Specifically, the Board was able to grant
much of a request for funding to
increase the CRC's hours of operation.
Expect to see the CRC opening earlier
during the next two years. The Board
also gran ted a request for a new
computer for KAOS and approved a .
request for more summer staff for the
CCC
Next month, the Board will begin
hearing student group's requests for
funding for next school year. We will
a lso be hiring next year's Board
Coordinator, who will be responsible for
recruiting and facilitating next year's
Board . For more information about the
Board's deliberations, available
positions, and S&A at Evergreen, drop
by CAB 320 or call x6221.

Chief Kerlikowski is a chump. I'd like
to see him apologize to the citizens of
Seattle he works for and the officers who
work for him but who couldn't help
people because of his orders. 1'd like to see
the morons who unleashed the senseless
rage on each other and theirvictirns strung
up.
Seattle's mayor Paul Schell, it should
be noted, is also a spineless runt. Where
was Schell as his city gave way to vicious
violence? At home doing nothing. Josh Felt
of The Stranger points out that Schell
doesn't even think Seattleites are
responsible for the violence or that the
SPD's inaction was problematic. The onetenri wonder, again, makes us wonder.
Pioneer Square started tOCfUl11ble late
Tuesday night, not Wednesday morning.
Other than that, I can't make heads or tails
of it all.

QUAKE
continued from the cover
administration promise a plan with
contingency and training. Daily said a
simple draft would be ready by next
Monday and that they would move
forward from there.
Already, Segawa has asked
housing's Resident Assistants to change
student reaction to run while the
earthquake is still fresh in everyone's
mind. "People should not under
estimate how far building shrapnel
[glass, concrete and steel fragment] will
go," said Segawa. "You think it's safe
but you don't really know.

Bcyand the Bubble
By Brian Frank, Graham Hamby,
Srephen Karmal, and Vanessa
Lemire

This week's top stories:
New Weapon
Foot
And
Mouth
Disease
Discovered In Europe
Taliban Orders Statues Destroyed

Domestic
The Pentagon unveiled a new
weapon for use in crowd control
last week that uses electromagnetic
waves to disperse crowds without
killing, maiming, or, military
officials say, even injuring anyone
slightly The weapon fires bursts of
electromagnetic energy capable of
causing burning sensations on the
skin of people standing as far as 700
yards away. The weapon, which will
probably not be ready for
deployment by troops for at least
five years, has aliead y cost taxpayers
$40
million.
(more
at
I
www.nytimes.com/)
ABC/Washington Post polling
last week found President Bush
with an approval rating of 55%, the Environmental
Legislation was introduced last
lowest for any president since
week
that would open the Arctic
Dwight Eisenhower this early in a
National
Wildlife Refuge to
presidential term. (more at I
drilling and encourage further
dailynews.yahoo.com/)
Napster
began
filtering exploitation of natural resources
copyrighted material on its service throughout the country. The bill
last week in response to a court would also increase subsidies to the
order mandating that Napster coal, oi l, gas, and nuclear industries,
remove such material from its and exempt companies using clean
service. Popular musicians such as coal technologies from comp lying
the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix can no wi th certain Clean Air Act
longer be found on the site, with requirements. U.S. Geolog i cal
more musicians soon to follow . Survey studies indica te that there is
Napster's free and unfiltered on line a 50-percent c hance of finding, at
m USle trading service, which has most, a nine-month supply of oil in
been used by hundreds of thousands the Arctic Refuge. (more at I
around the world, now plans to ens.! ycos.com I)
A massive outbreak of "Foot
transi tion to fee-based services in the
and
Mouth Disease," an extremely
near future.
(more at I
contagious
virus which seriously
dailynews.yahoo.com/)
debilitates
pigs,
sheep, cows, and
Many Senate Democrats
other
animals,
swept much of
appear to be reconsidering their
Europe
last
week.
The outbreak led
support for campaign finance
European
governments
to order the
legislation that would ban "soft
s
laughter
of
hundreds
of
thousands
money" due to the massive impact
of
animals
in
order
to
stop
the spread
it would have on the party'S
of
the
disease.
T
h
e
emergency
finances, which are already
significantly smal ler than the caused government officials in
Republicans. Soft money donations Ireland to cancel Dublin's upcoming
are used to advertise for specific
campaign issues for a candidate.
Both major parties received nearly
$250 million in soft money during
th e 2000 election. (more at I
www.washingtonpost.com/)
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outbreak is being widely attributed
to the cond i tion s associa ted wi th
industrial agriculture that favor the
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rapid spread of disease. (more at I
published eac h week as a
www.gllardianllnlimited.co.uk/)
se rvice from EPIC, the
Numerous seed companies
Evergreen Political
have detected the presence of a
[nformation Center.
barred genetically engineered (G E)
corn in their corn seed, prompting
EPIC also publishes a weekly
fears of widespread contamination
email update on politically
in the food system. In all, more than
related events happening
28,000 truckloads, 15,000 rail cars,
around our area a nd provides
and 285 barges of corn te s ted
resources for activists at
positive for StarLink. StarLink
Evergreen .
sparked a massive recall of a wide
var iety of corn products last year
EPIC meets each Wednes day
when an anti-b iotech environmental
in Library 3500 at 2 p.m. To
organization discovered the corn,
receive EPIC's email update,
which was never approved for
to make comments on the
human consumption, in Taco Bell's
news, or for more
taco she lls. Europe and Asia have
information on EPIC, plea se
said they will refuse to buy any corn
ca ll 867-6144 or contact
from the United States suspected of
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containi ng Sta rLink, a move that
would have devastating effects on
Floods in Mozambique have
the multi-billion dollar corn export
claimed 52 lives and thousands
industry.
(more
at
I more are threatened as conditions
www.washingtonpost.com/)
are worsening. An international
One in
10
women
of rescu e effort is under way for the
childbearing age in the U. S. are at
affected 406,000 people; 81,000 of
risk of having newborns with
them are now homeless. Helicopters
neurological problems due to in
are being sent to eVilcuate villagers
utero mercury exposure, according
who are being trapped by bursting
to a government study released last
banks along the Zambezi River, and
week.
The in-womb mercury
matters will only be exacerbated if
expos ure is primarily due to
the floodgates along the river aren't
mothers'
cons umption
of
opened. (more at le ns.lycos.com/)
con ta minated fish. Mercury is
General Motors has filed suit to
released into the atmosphere by air
overturn
California's
zero
pollution from power plants, waste
emissions vehicle (ZEV) mandate,
incinerators, and other industrial
which requires a small percentage of
processes, and then is deposited in to
vehicles sold in the sta te to prod uce
oceans, lakes, and streams. (more at
no pollution em issions. GM believes
le ns.lycos.com /)
the ZEV mandate is commercially
The Earth Liberation Front
unfeasible and regrets not haVing
claimed responsibility for driving
spikes into trees to foil logging of a
see BUBBLE on page 21
wilderness area in Oregon's ~-- _-=--=-_____
Umpqua National Forest. The ELF I I ' .
claimed in an Internet communiq ue
that it hammered 3 1/2-inch nails
and spikes up to 10 inches long into
tre es in the Hardesty Mountain
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A 15-year-old high
school freshman opened
fire at his high school in
Santee, California last
week ,
killing
two
students ilnd wounding 13
other people, allegedly
smiling as he killed. President
Bush called the shoo·ting a
"disgraceful act of cowardice"
and said the best prevention is to
teach ch ildren right from wrong.
(more
at
I
www.washingtonpost.com /)
The United States will execute
its 700 lh person since the
reinstatement of the death penalty
in 1977 this week. The executed man
was Anton io Richardson, a braindamaged murderer and rapist with
an IQ of 70. More than 500 people
have been executed in the U.S. since
1993. Execution is outlawed in 108
countries.
(more
at
I
www.amnestyorg/)
Kate Sorensen, a Philadelphia·
AIDS activist who helped organize
last summer's protests at the
Republican National Convention,
begins her trial this week for
rioting, risking ca tastrophe, criminal
mischief, and conspiracy. Sorensen's
case has drawn international
attention for the scale of the charges
and her enormous $1 mi lli on bail
which has b ee n condemned b;
human rights groups as a clear
attempt to s uppress freedom of
speech.
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at
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www.r2kphillyorg/)

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
ill) (Q) Ilil

You Have No Reason
to be Bored
Tir e d o f g e llin g drunk ilnd
rand o ml y breaking th in g s? Belie ve it
o r n o t, ther l' Me a c tuall y t hin gs
g~)i l1 g o n in thI s beautiful town of
ours. Rejoi ce and get off y uur couch .

Egguus

Big Technology
You like 'em big? You like
'em musical? Well, Big
Technology is for you!
Terry
Setter's
Big
Technology class is having
a recital of their original
musical projects this
Friday, March 9th . It starts
at 8:00 PM in the Recital
Hall. It' s free

If vou don't feel like

sta y ing in Rolly Oly
(another quake reference?
Shoot), you can go see
E88 11115 up in Seattle. It' s a
spoof of the theater classic,
EqllllS about a kid who
thinks horses are Cod, or
something . I just had a
friend tell me about it; I
never read it. The funny
thing about Egglili s is that
instead of horses, it's a
chicken.
And
well,
chickens are funny. Oh,
and the play is directed by
sex columnist Dan Savage.
The
show
is
at
Consolidated
Works
located at 410 Terry Ave.,
Thursday through Sunday
at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $14,
but only $12 for members.

Art-Science Exhibit
"Who and/or what is
Jehovah?
When
is
Armageddon?
Why
Michael Jackson?" These
questions
could
be
answered by Justin Rodda
in his open house artscience exhibit. It is March
9, 10, and 11th in the
Lecture Hall Rotunda from
5 PM to 10 PM.

Pecker
Next
Wednesday,
Evergreen ' s
student
group,
Mindscreen,
continues its weekly
movie night with a
showing of John Waters'
Peeker. It's the touching
story of a gangly young
man who takes photos of
his peculiar family. It stars
Edward Furlong--you
know, the one hope for
humanity after Skynet
takes over. The movie is in
Lecture Hall 1 at 5:30.

Fools Play Improv
Where has all the laughter
gone? Well, pal, it's down
at Studio 321 at 321
Jefferson , downtown.
That's where "Fools Play
Improv" performs every
Saturday at 9:00 PM.This
week, it s Fools Play 'Our
Unscripted Lives'. What
does that mean, you ask?
Come and find out; I'm not
your whipping boy .
Tickets are $6 for adults
and $5 for students with
ID.

Polarity
Aaron Komae's Senior
Thesis project goes up this
week in the Library 4th
Floor Gallery . The show is
entitled "Polarity." The
Gallery hours are Tueday
through Saturday, 12 to 5.
On March 15 t11 , there is an
artist reception at 5:30, so
you can meet Mr. Komae
and gush over how great
he is. Probably. The snow
is open until the 23'd.

Flushed
You know who doesn't
get enou!?h credit? The
janitors. 'Flushed," by
Bret Farnsworth, is a solo
performance which, due to
the earthquake (oh, man, I
thought I'd have the one
page in the paper without
a quake reference), has
been held over for one last
show, this Friday on the
2nd Floor of the CAB at
8:00 PM. The show is free .

Theater Group
A new theater group in
Olympia called Artesian
Theater Sightings is
presenting a festival of
one-act plays and poetry at
the Midnight Sun. Plays
and Poets is being
performed March 8, 9, and
10 at 7:30 PM, with a
special matinee on the 10 th
at 2 PM. Admission is $9
general and $7 for students
and seniors.

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PROGRAMMER NAME:

JOCELYNE HIGGINS
SHOW: CO-HOST OF
SISTER SOUND AND
THE JAZZ EXPERIENCE

Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard! Tom
Stoppard!
Ain't
no
stopping
that
Tom
Stopparcf!
He is the new bard, as
far as I'm concerned. His
screenplays have become
popular motion pictures to
the delight of film buffs
(1985's
Bra z il)
and
swooning teenage girls
(1998' s Shakespeare in Love)
everywhere. His plays are
quickly becoming staples
of the American theater
scene, from Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern are Dead
(which is also a terrific
film) to The Real Inspector
Hound. Our own little
hamlet has seen its fair
sha re of Stoppard lately.
Harlequin Productions
recently performed his
play Hapgood, the 50S
Theater
program
"Becoming
Brilltant"
performed
Artist
Descending a Staircase by
him just last weekend, and
now "The Empty Stage"
program is doing one of
his better-known plays,
Arcadia. "The Empty
Stage" has been working
hard all quarter long to put
on this production. It runs
Thursday,
Friday,
Saturday, AND Sunday.
Tickets are five dollars.
Curtain time is 7:00PM.
Why 7:00, you ask?
Because the play is 3 hours
long. Now, don't let that
scare you. This is Tom
Stop pard, so just put on
your thinking caps and get
ready for an engrossing
story.

Sister sound explores the female
music scene
Sunday 10:30 to 1 :00.
The Jazz Experience focuses on
classic and modern jazz with a
peppering of experimental.
Thursday 3:00 to 5:00

Where are you from?
A g limpse behind the scenes of the "E mpty Stage" production of Tom Stoppard 's Arcadia, playing this
weekend in the Experimental Theatre. For more informal ion, see Enterta inment Briefs.

I spent my childhood in HOIlOIIIIII
Hawaii, but most of Illy Life was
spent ill the Redmond/Bellevue
area. Theil. I lived in Spokane
before coming here.

ergreen True Campus Stories

By Michael Tanner
Evergreen is ripe with legends and mysteries, from steam tunnels to "Happy Land" to Ted Bundy (who is the reason cops
carry guns). Some of these legends have an inkling of truth, and some have an extreme deficit of that. Most of these Mysteries
have clear answers; you just have to find them. Twill find the answers, r will unlock the Mysteries, and r will reveal the
Legends-here and now, with help from you.

When did you come to
Evergreen?

I trallsferred here from Eastern
Washington University for my last
year and one quaner of college.
There, I studied Media and Writing.

Charlie M. asks:
Q, I heard that Ted Bundy killed a girl in . it's not true. And the cops can and will
the stairwell of A-Dorm. Did this really "hassle" you if you do that in there. I think
that in about four years, this legend will
happen?
transfer to the new floor of the COM
A. Nope. This is an old story used to Building, because it should be about finished
frighten young co-€ds. It was B-Dorm. Ha by then.

Who are your favorite musicians?
John Coltrane, because I feel like

he takes me to another level of
consciousness. Miles Davis, Regina
Carter, Duke Ellington, Thelonius
Monk, and the band Hanuman.

ha ha, only kidding. Or am I? No, really, I
am. Kidding, that is.
CAnniasks:
Q, 1 heard that when the TESC Police
confiscate "paraphema1ia," they store it in a
cage in the basement of the Ubrary. And that
one year, a kid broke in there and got
everything out, sold it, and then donated half
the money to the school. And that's how the
Longhouse was built and that's why you can
"smoke out" in there and the administration
won't let cops hassle you. Is this true?

What is your musical philosophy?

Play what sounds good and moves
me, what speaks to me and make:.'
me want to dance.
Anything you want to say?

The international jazz scene is
really starling to open up,
especially groups frol/1 Italy and
Brazil. One ill particular is
Hellborg , Lane, and Selvaganesh.

A.

Tough guise
"Toughguise" is a film
that explores pop culture
images of mascufinity and
how they seep into men's
pyche. It is showing this
Thursday the 8th at 7:00 PM
in "The Edge" in A-Dorm.
A discussion will be held
afterward.

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Crystal Blue Persuasion asks:
Q. I heard Evergreen has a fraternity.

Well, here we are, at the end. I hope you have
been informed and enlightened. Stay tuned
for next week, where I will tackle such topics
as the "Walking Girl," "Happy Land," and
the most mysterious mystery of aU, "Why
are there so many student groups?"
Please feel free to ask any and many
questions and I'll do my best to answer them.
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Explore the
Alternatives...

On March 15) she will be
interviewing local group
"Mothers Friends)) on the
Jazz Experience.

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This is actually a really good legend, but

Mr. CHUD asks:
Q. Someone told me that Evergreen has a
series of underground tunnels running all
over campus, and these tunnels can be used
to enter any building. Is this true?

A. This isn't a question. It's a statement,
Crystal. But I'll help you anyway. Evergreen
has had several fraternities over the years.
They usually come about when a group of
friends watch Animal House or PCU too many
times and say to each other, "Wouldn't that
be the bomb if Evergreen had a frat?" And
then they usually disappear after they realize
that no one thinks that it is as funny as they
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The 9th Moon in the Mayan calendar focuses on
intention. It is a good time to evaluate your goals
and so lidify a plan of action. What do you intend
to create during this cycle? Send a focused vision
out to the universe and then release any attacillllent
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CRYSTAL SEED - KIN 64 - Day 2,
Moon 9 <PORTAL>
Tone 12 - Fueled by recent
accomp lishments, consider future
possibil i ties.
I dedicate in order to target - Universa li zing
awareness - I seal the input oEflowering -With the
crystal tone of cooperation - I am guided by the
power of intelligence.

~

Fri. Mar c h 9 - RED COSMIC
SERPENT - KIN 65 - Day 3, moon 9
,
Tone 13 - Carry learned knowledge
with you as you formu late an
attainab le goal.
I end ure in order to survive - Transcending
instinct - I seal the store of Izfeforce - With

the cosmic tone of presence - I am guided by
the power of universal water.

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Sat. MarchIO - WHITE MAGNETIC
,/
WORLDBRIDGER - KIN 66 - Day
4, Moon 9
Tone 1 - Gather conscious energy
for approaching interactions.
I unify in order to equalize Attracting opportunity - I seal the store of death With the magnetic tone of purpose - I am guided
by my own power doubled.

~

Sun. March 11 - BLUE LUNAR
HAND - KIN 67 - Day 5, Moon 9

Tone 2 - Expect friction, and make
the most of its energetiC charge.
r polarize in order to know Stabilizing healing - I seal the store of
accomplishment - With the lunar tone of challenge
- I am guided by the power of self generation.
Mon. March 12
- YELLOW
ELECTRlC STAR - KIN 68 - Day 6,
Moon 9
Tone 3 - Sensitivities are awakened
to the movement of creative energy.
I activate in order to beautify Bonding art - I seal the store of
elegance - With the electric tone of service - I am
guided by the power oEfree will.

®

KIN 69 - Day 7, Moon 9 <PORTAL>
Tone 4 - Defining your intentions
with clarity amplifies their ability
to manifest.
I define in order to purify Measuring flow - I seal the process
of universal water - With the self-existing tone of
form - I am guided by the power of lifeforce.

o

Wed . March14 - WHITE OVERTONE DOG - KIN
70 - Day 8, Moon 9
ToneS -You are capable of intense
.ft
facilitation of effort. Claim your
..
stance.
I empower in order to love Commanding loyalty - I seal the
process of heart - With the overtone
tone of radiance - I am guided by the power of
endlessness.

~

dust in case
you weren't
tired of Police
Bashing
b)' Na[haniel Hicchcock

Tues. March13 - RED SELF-EXISTlNG MOON -

One weekend, some students got together a nd
decided that their building should host a large
party for the thirsty residents of this campus.
Since these residents were responsible and did
not want to bring und ue stress upon themselves,
they notified the local powers and jumped
PICTURE IMAGES - represent the Mayan Glyph, akin to astrological signs.
through all the hoops. Six and one-half kegs of
CAPS - the Mayan glyph name of the primary energy of the day.
intoxicating
brew were consumed. Needless to
ITALIC CAPS - the tone of the day. Tones are frequencies that encourage particular action.
the
party
was a success. Having had my fi ll
say,
KIN # - the number of the day as we travel through the 260-day cycle of the TzoIkin. (i.e.-65 out of
of
the
evening's
antics, I went for a drunken
260)
stumble
with
several
friends. I returned to find
Tzolkin - the ancient Mayan chart diagram that contains the tone-glyph combinations in sacred
my roommates alone in the living room
code.
in coherently trying to piece together what
<PORTAL> - used to distinguish the day as particularly energetic, challenging, and important.
happened. J questioned them for answers but
italic script - the affirmation of the day as determined by the combined energies of tone and glyph.
soon realized that one of them had been beaten
Dot-bar code - seen in the Tzolkin, it is the Mayan counting system. Each dot equals one, each bar
delirious, and the other, so pumped on the
equals five. One bar with two dots above it would thus equal seven.
adrenaline of the situat ion , was equally
WavespeU - a thirteen-day cycle which can be used to work ~}Ut a major issue in your life. Play
distracted.
with it
The days that followed shed new light on the
In Lak'ech - Mayan blessing meaning "I am another yourself."
happenings as everyone slowly sobered up
enough to decide on the.ir story. The assailants
had worn out their welcome and were asked to
leave; before doing so, they assaulted three of
the residents downstairs and my roommate.
These men were not students. They escaped the
clutches of the one officer on duty and lived to
__.=:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;-' pill a ge an 0 the r day. The n ext
weekend , they returned. One of
them was identified and arrested.
This man was re leased with the
pathetic charge of "assault IV,"
which is nothing but a misdemeanor.
This man handed out two
concuss ions that weekend . He was
apprehended and slapped on the
Winter worries?
wrist. Several days after his release,
he was arrested aga in, speeding
A misunderstanding? away
from the red and blue with a
stolen
gun. He was released shortly
Stressed?
HARMONY
after. An officer paid a visit to my
downstairs neighbors the other day.
ANTIQUES
He gave them a copy of a newspaper
113 Thurston Ave. NE
article which documented the aboveStudents, Staff,
mentioned event. This, of co urse,
Downtown
Faculty can
inspired ma ssive paranoia. The
OIYnlpia
officer then suggested that if trul y
resolve conflict.
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LETTERS


The Men In
the Mirror
By

B~n

Letter from an Alumnus

G r~en

How many letters printed on
these, the Letters & Opinion pages,
are written in tones that are aimed
to suggest that someone or, in many
cases, everyone, is less intelligent or
in some way less en lightened than
the writer?] imagine this letter too,
will be co unted among them,
although I've not written it yet and
its contents are s till unshaped in my
mind. I am essentially reprimanding
previous submiss ions for th eir
arrogance and utter lack of selfconscious reflection.
In tones of moral superiority, we
talk about the other naive and
ignorant people who don't know
what oppression really is. This form
of one-upsmanship is no less foolish
than any other. "YO II arc overprivileged .. YOII don't know what YOII
are talking about. I grew up in The
Ghetto, so I know what real
oppression is like. My ancestors
suffered more than yO~IrS, so Illy
knowledge of my people's history is
better than yours."
This might be a Letters &
Opinions page, and I'm sure you
have the right to say whatever you
want and get it printed here, but it
doesn't
seem
appropriate,
constructive or necessary to make
personal attacks, talk about how
your past entitles you to be arrogant,
condescending or self-righteous, or
to make generalized statements
about everyone else's inadaquacies,
and how we'>v.e all failed to live up
to your justly c;;,rcacted expectations.
As Americans, we are obsessed
with our rights but tend to ignore
our own social responsibili ties while
si multaneously telling other people
to be conscious of theirs! How
socially responsible is it to berate
people and call them names? Even
when these negative ly connotated
designations are, in a practical sense,
accurate, it is the action of an
enlightened, intellige nt, or psychoemotiona lly grounded person to
choose to write ilnd print such things
instead of somethin g which attempts
to elevilte their fellows to a point
w~ere they are capab le of
understanding thilt which you
purportedly grasp?
Geez, I'm using a lot of commas.
Yes; I' m trying to write multiple
sentences at once.
That happens a lot ...
All the time...
It's no t that we're not really
trying, but it seems like we're
lacking the intention to change.

you complclin about thL' co ll l'g("~
s tereotypes have their truths.
An C'xamp le: Wilshin).';ton ' , work growth.
history revolves around logging . Lil~tly, a reques t for help . Thl' hum,ln
Hello, "Greeners !" Today, I While
tree - hugging populiltion is booming . Every day, I
write you as an alumnus. I w rite to env ironmenta li s ts are passionate am more conv in ced that thi ~ i~ the
offer you a few words of adv ice ilnd about trees, loggers a rc pilssionatl' underlying reason of milny, if not illl ,
of the world's problem~ . Whether it
e nco u fil gelllen t.
about their next
is the tr affic that makes your
First, th e bad news. As most of Paycheck understandably
you know, th e world outside of HOWEVER, milny loggers ).';ain a comm ute homp an l'xtr(l hour, thl'
Evergreen's Willis is not 1IS broader respect from the Ill(lsses huge lines a nd rude peop Ie il t
welcom ing and ilccepting as TESC. because th e ellvironmentalists make g rocery s tores, thl' cleMing of morl'
Emp loyment is
increasingly the mi s take of forgetting to "dmit forestl'd land, los!> of biodivl'rsity,
pollution, s ickness, extinction,
co mpeti tive, and while no one likes tha t they Ii VI? in
competition at work, that's what it wooden homes and u sc paper, tuition pr.ices, til Xl'S, etc., they a lm o~t
amounts to. You're also facin g higher pencils, and books_ My point is, a ll have a connection to grow th . I'm
costs of living - depending on where work hard ilt "practicing what you told we can't do anything about
you live, of course.
preach" ilnd leaving no holes for growth and overpopulation . Help
The good news is that, if you critics to punch through .
me prove that I' m wrong.
pay attention in class, give it your all,
Another example: th.e WTO I am excited for thl' communities and
and gain iI broild experie nc e in p'r oteste r who Sil t atop the Nike environment that you will take your
various disciplines, you'll excel Town building in Seilttle. What WilS Evergreen training to when you go
above most of the other college he wearing? I believe it was Nike au t in to the world. I hope you wi 11
students across the co untry. shoes. Don't let this ruin your point! be able to help open other minds to
Personally, I was ab le to design and Another bit of advice, based on new ilnd refreshing ideas and spread
work three internships at state, hypocrites, is this. While you love the community-based atmosphere
federal, and
the beau tiful fragmented fore s t throughout this large country. Good
grass-roots organizations. The over- habitats spread around college, you' luck!
quoted "The more you know" theme also know that some of these stilnds
Remember, you'll always be a
runs true.
must be cleared to make way for Greener. All you have to do to join
As for advice, I have plenty if you more buildings, more lots, etc., to - the club is pily tui tion!
have an open ear. Being iI "Greener" you guessed it - make more room for
has
its
advantages
and more people. SO when you harp Regards,
disadvantages, namely that many about not wanting these stands cut, Ben Ki nkade
people, organizations, and colleges think carefully, especially if you
will typecast you. Sometimes, the moved out from another state, before
Dear current s tud ents of The
Evergreen State Co llege,

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mishandled, and idiotic resolution
of a drunken assault. I don't care if
you are the hippies of the police
force; when a call comes in
reporting an assault, you don't
have enough time to finish that
pastry. When there is a dangerous
man with a vendetta against
innocent people, you do not allow
hirn te be released on bail because
of yo.ur incompetence in delivering
the facts.
If the only reason yO\l're here is to
hand out menial drug charges,
keep us from comfortably and
casually unloading groceries
outside our homes, and tell us that
our music is too loud, then why are
my tax dollars funding the fancy
equipment that fills your car and
hangs from your waist?

Wllat Can You
Do To End
Violence On
Campus?
by Jo shua Eberle.:

The topic of VIOLENCE ha s
been a hot topic la tely:
1. the hate crimes in housing this
past fall
2. th e assaul ts in Housi ng a few
weeks ilgo (see front page ilrticle in
las t week's CPJ)
3. the reported and ilil the
unreported assau lts
It is th e up to eilch individual in
the community to end vio lence a nd
a ll forms of oppression. I am asking
for your support in e nding violence
on campus. There is a petition that
is circulating which aims to increase
serv ices geared towards ending
violence on campus. As students our
voice hilS power. Collectively we can
bring justice to our own community;
it should be something we demand
and expect, not something that we
struggle for. Your support is needed
- yo ur voice needs to be heard.
Petitions are located in the Women's
Resource Center.
When two or more are' gathered,
Joshua-Aaron Eberle
If you have questions, please contact
me at 867-5517
P.S. Encourage your parents to call
Art Constantio and ask, "What a re
you doing to ensure that my
daughter/son is learning/living in
an environment free from violence?"
Art's phone number is: 360-867-6296;
E-mail: costanta@evergreen.edu

Know What You're Celebrating
by E. Rose Ndson

I'm sure a lot of people are
tired of hearing about personal
responsibility. But let's face facts,
shall we? If more people had it,
we'd probably talk less about it.
Pioneer Square suffered relatively
severe damage in last Wednesday'S
earthquake, so a lot of people
missed that some of that damage
was not earthquake-related but
stemmed from "Mardi Gras"
rioting. In fact, Mardi Gras and the
earthquake had the same number
o f deaths. One was a force of
nature; the other was people
unaware of the meanings of th eir
actions.
Mardi Gras, or "Fa t Tuesday,"
is an old Catholic celebration . In the
Catholic filith, Lent begins on Ash
Wednesday and lasts until Easter.
Lent is a period of forty days and
nights of atonement for s ins. At
first, Mardi Gras (that's French, by
the way) was just a way to get rid
of the food that people weren't
allowed to eat during Lent. In time,
that developed to, "Well, we've got
to atone; let's have something to
atone for!" In both of these
instances, the celebrating was the
prelude to a long period of soulsearching and self-improvement. In
other words, Mardi Gras was a
prelude to making yourself a better
person; it wasn't a cheap excuse to
drink beer and flash people . It
certainly wasn't rioting in the
streets.
Another popular "drink beer"
holiday in this country is St.
Patrick's Day. This is another
Catholic holiday; it is the feast day
of Saint Patrick. In Ireland, where
Patrick is the pa tron saint, it is
celebrated primarily by going to
church. Now, don't get me wrong.

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The Irish have been known to drink
a little beer (or mostly stout) in
their time, but they don't dye it
green, and they don't just drink.
Drinking in Ireland is more social
than that. There is singing and
storytelling; people may drink a
lot, but they drink a lot over a long
time. (My personal feelings on
Saint Patrick aren't exactly the
greatest-don't believe anything
you hear about him " peace fully
bringing Christiani ty to Ireland ."
Those s nakes he drove out of
Ireland were Druids, who were
slaughtered.) To be s ure, they can
s till get pretty drunk, but th e
alcohol is a sort of lubricant to
loosen the performers.
The third grea t "ethnic" beerdrinking holiday in this country is
Cinco de Mayo. In Mexico, Cinco
de Mayo is only celebrated in one
areil . It is not, contrary to popular
belief, Mexican Independence Day,
which is in September. Cinco de
Mayo celebrates the Battle of
Puebla, and it is primarily
celebrated in Puebla. I will admit
that I don't know how Cinco de
Mayo is celebrated in Pllebla, but I
do know that it is not celebrated in
most of the country.
If you're going to drink,
nothing I say will stop you. But
don't take someone else's
celebration as an excuse . The CPJ
does not accept anonymous
contributions for the most part ,
saying instead, "Own your words ."
I say, "Own your drinking ." If yo u
don't know the meaning behind
the celebration, you 're using it as
an excuse, and making excuses for
drinking is one of the signs of
alcoholism. If you want a party, I
have a party, but leave Lent, Saint
Patrick, and the Battle of Puebla
out of it.

Think Beyond the Present
by Megan Syverson
Greetings from an "eco-colonialist."
Beware: I have been known to pursue ignorantly
my environmental agenda "at all costs (including
human survival)."That, at least, is how Catherine
Tagnak Rexford targeted me, and other members
ofWashPIRG, in her recent editorial in the CPj.
We are working to keep the Arctic National
Wildlife Refi.lge from being opened to oil drilling.
Catherine took offe nse at our efforts; her
hometown of Kaktovik is economically
dependent upon th e oil economy of nearby
Prudhoe Bay. and drilling in the Arctic would
create jobs and revenue for her community.
I appreciate Cather in e's call to "think
before I act," and certain ly understand the
complexity of this difficult issue. I acknowledge
Ill)' respon~ibility to research all asperts of this
i,sue thoroughly. as we ll as my obligation to act
conSistently with Illy findings .
"You , who have elected to cease exploration
and development at all costs. will remove thi, tax
ba,e, along with the right of the Inupiaq to
survive economically... You are dictating to the
Inupiaq people how to control their lands." This
statement from Ca therine's letter is a broad and
unfair generalization of our actions. Despite its
three Superfund sites, we do not want to shut
down Prudhoe Bayor the other 95 percent ofthe
Nort h Slope that is already open to drilling.
Preservation of the Refuge would not take away
anything that the Inupiaq people already have.
Drilling would, on the other hand, destroy an
existi ng economy for other native people on the
"orth Slope.
Catherine asked if'we have ever engaged in
dialogue with any native person from Alaska;
I'es, and we realize that this issue sharply divides
Alaskan tribes. The Inupiaq are not the only
native people 011 the Nort h Slope. Catherine has
ronJ.~ed lIpon the issues of her people, who have
recent I)' "enter(ed) into t he cash economy." Ti,e
GlI'ich'in tribe. on the other hand. are fighting
1'0 c iferoll~ly agaillst drilling to ensure their own
sur\'il'aillear the Arctic Refuge. Drilling will take
place 011 the Coastal Plaill , what they call
"Vadza ih googii vi detik'it gwalllii." or "The
sacred place where Life begins" (Gwich'in
Steering Committee web site). Their subsistence
lifestyle, including over 75 percent of their
protein , depends upon the 12!J,OOO-member
Porctlpine Caribou Ilerd ("Cwich'in" trallslates
as "People oflhe Caribou"). The Coastal Plain is
the annlJal cail'illg groullds oft he herd. and even
the 1I10st ('lIl'irulllflentaliy responsible drilling is

estimated to decrease its population by at least
40 percent. In the words of Sarah james, a key
Gwich'in leader, "The caribou is not just what
we eat; it is who we are. It is in our dances, stories,
songs, and the whole way we see the world.
Caribou is our boots and mittens. Caribou is how
we get from one year to another." (Arctic Circle,
"Inupiat and the Gwich'in")
The inupiaq cannot speak for all native
people; their position, understandably enough,
is driven by their own economic interests.
Twenty years ago, most Inupiaq of Kaktovik
opposed drilling on environmental grou nds.
Inupiaq legislators still oppose offshore drilling,
as whale, walrus and other sea mammals are to
Inupiaq cu lture what the caribou are to the
Gwich'in. I challenge Catherine to explain why
the on ly met hod she sees for her people·s
economy to flouri sh is through the destruction
of another culture.
Who is the "colonialist" in this issue'! Is it
really the conservat ionist devoted to preserving
the current state of the Refuge? How about the
oil industry that plans to drill on sacred land,
destroy the subsistence economy and culture of
7,000 Gwich'in, and entrap the Inupiaq of
Kaktovik into an unsustainable export economy?
In her letter. Catherine demanded: ·'What
ue YOU personally doing to encourage
alternative energy? You are taking this position ...
but not participating in the establishment of
alternatives." Actually, I am running our
Renewable Energy campa ign, which is
supporting sustainable energy bills currently in
the state legislature. I invite Catherin e. and
a'nyone else interested in promoting renewable
resources, to join us.
This is an issue that aflects us all. and which
transcends cu ltural bOllndaries. To me,
irreversible harm to the environment, the
Gwich'in peopJr, and even to the future Inupiaq
of Kaktovik olltweigh a temporary economic
boon. Who will deal with the Superfund sites?
Who wi ll revitalize the economy of Kaktovik
when the last drop of oil is extracted?
Catherine challenged WashPIRG: "Think
before YO Il act." I oflt'r Illy ow n challenge. to
those who support drilling as well as those who
think that they will not be affected by this
congres,ional decision: think beyond the
present.
WashPIRG meet~ Wednesdays at 4pm in
the Lecture Iiall Rotunda. Feel free to emai l me
with qllestions or comments about drilling in
ANWR at emailmcsparingly@yahoo.colll.

THE

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We are as Violent as a basketfull of

glue-sniffing wolverines. Part one.
,
by Jrt:ne Mark Buirenkanr
Twenty years ago, Ronald
Reagan was told that 10% of old
growth remained . He replied,
"That's enough."
Tom Snyder, a TV host, asked
what the problem was, because he
observed "lots of trees" from the
window on a train trip up the coast.
Now, only 5% of old growth
remains.
The tree- harvesters have
given us comforting words such as
susta inable and manageable, but
the trees continue to being cut
down by people who make public
policy for their self-interest.
The people who founded this
sc hool promoted reading and
discussions which advanced
cri tic al thinking. Time and
opport unity were not wasted on
compe titive sports at the
beginning. (We now have three
pages in the CP) reporting on
sports.) Others, less courageous,
relying on their own conventional
wisdom, discouraged enroiling
stude nt s who weren't lo cals,
(thereby lo sing the perspectives
and experiences of students from
other areas), promoted armed
security (adva nci ng gun culture),
and encouraged the interests of
loggers. How is it possible to think
of loggi ng (th innin g the forest)
here at Evergreen?
I wish that those selfrighteous, beer-drinking hedonists
lea rned how high one can get on
creatin g solutions to the many
problems th at our society is
end uring and stop looking for fun,
fun, fun. I suggest that they attend
the alma mater of our President.

by Rusty Oliver
blithely ignore the violence we visit on
Last week's (PJ describes in some others and breed within ourselves. I'm
detail violence that was visited on not just referring to obviously violent
members of our community. It is a social norms like advertiSing, television,
difficult thing to for us to accept meat, the objectification of women, and
because, as the author pOinted out, we racism should be obvious. Nike is only a
do tend to think of ourselves as insulated little less so. Only an idiot would wear
from the violence of the world "Beyond Nike, and if you have a problem with
the Bubble .... " The allegations of that assessment come talk to me.
unprofessional conduct on the behalf of
Look at anything you own closely
the TESC Police are disturbing and and intelligently. Your clothing? Safe to
worth paying close attention to. I hope say made by underpaid mothers in
the CPJ follows up on this story.
conditions ranging from simply
However, there were two not exploitative to inhuman . Your
uncommon assumptions in the article computer? See above, plus the fact that
that are worth examining. The first is it is toxic from inception to completion
that there is little violence on campus. in virtually every component and is
This is true in the sense that, compared designed to enter the waste stream in
to densely populated urban areas, our not more than ten years. Remember too
per-capita incidence of violent crime is that every comp.onent of it involved or
low. Statistically speaking, this is was generated via human labor. It had
attributable to a few salient factors: the to be packed , checked, unpacked ,
body of people on campus do not exist shipped, inspected, etc. , and when it
in low or no income brackets (even loans gets tossed, all that effort goes as well.
and once-a-month paychecks are Your auto, or mine for that matter? Our
automobiles run on blood. It's dinosaur
income).
Secondarily, alcohol is not sold on blood, Iraqi blood, Saudi blood, "as little
campus, although it is st ill consumed as possible" American blood, or just the
and it seems safe to say that crack, blood of the tens of thousands of people
methamphetamines and cocaine are not these massive kinetic missiles kill and
broadly traficked on campus. Poverty, maim as an integral part of our
despair, and alcohol/drugs fuel violence; infrastructure and daily lives . Your
as they are presE'flt or absent, so is overt books and newspapers? Former British
physical violence.
Colombia Rainforest-I can just skip the
It's still a violent campus. Our dioxin and deforestation rant, right? I
history is violent. This whole country don't have to make the connection
was carved with a cruel and knowing between the fact that we use primarily
knife from a native body, and in the hydroelectric power and have, like, two
ongoing process of adapting the wild salmon left, right?
It's violence all along. The food we
appropriated locale to the needs of our
economy, it has been virtually destroyed eat comes primarily from exploited
by laboring women and men who get migrants working stolen, formerly
nothing from either the process or forested land with dangerous chemicals
result.
on non-native plants that are beset by
More speCifica lly, our acceptable weedy invasive species. The land is
social norms and behaviors are soaked watered from dammed rivers and, since
in violence. Being the norm makes it our little internal co mbustion
easier for most people willfully or experiment seems to have had some

unanticipated side effects, we can expect
to tap a few more rivers and shuffle the
last fish or two out of the way in doing
so. Or we could just import more
tomatoes, since Mexico can ship those
new Monsanto Tomatoes in the dead of
winter now; that way, we can export a
portion of our water shortage and mask
our shortfall by importing more of the
water-intensive produce and livestock.
Chiapas may get thirsty, but they aren't
us, so screw them .
Violence, violence violence. Blood
and axes, consumer demand and "water
shortage" in southern Mexico with an
attendant short-term spike in infant
mortality that the World Health
Organization is at a loss to explain, acute
toxicity, and proliferation oflung tissue
leading to empyshema and premature
death.
Extra tomatoes, sure ... would you
like fries with that?
This is violence. Our day-to-day
lives are .s upported by, and generate
waves of, violence that ec ho in every
sphere. It is not easy to acknowledge; it
is less easy to take responsibility for it
and decide how to attempt to diminish
the violence we create. You are supposed
to ignore it or be to busy to deal with it.
That way, it can continue unabated. It
may help to know that you won't be
given any choice in the matter; if you
want one, you'll have to make it yourself
at great personal cost. With that in
mind, I feel confident that to most of you
it is appropriate to say, "G'night, sleep
tight ; you may resume rituals of selfdistraction until next week when we run
part two, and you might not want to read
that one either."
Next week, guns and guns and sex
and violence. The fact that "our" cops
carry Glock nine millimeter semiautomatic pistols at all times has no
statistically provable correlation with
the incidence of violent crime.

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TIlis letter.is written as a response available, thenunlber ofpregnant women

'by Runy Oliver

to George Walker Bush's decision to
rescind, byexewtive order, funding that
the United States has historically
extended to organizations that provide
abortions in conjunction with other
·health care services.
' lwould like for a inomentto assume
thatGeorgeBushiswords,thespeechthat
he gave accompanying this executive
decree, had some meaning. hi other
words, I would like to entertain the
possibility that he meant what he said and
intended thatwhat he said be interpreted
to closely resemble his intentions,
.thought, philosophy, disposition, etc.
I realize that this is unusual. I
understand thai I am expected to listen
to the President's' speech and hear it as
either empty rhetoric or as a mildly
distorted version of what the President's
speechwrlters and handlers thought he
sboui.:l say. For the moment, I am also
going to disregard the possibility that
Dubya (h omitted) was not simply

who are injured or die of proc!!durerelated complications increases '
dramatically_ This is not obscure, secret,
or debatable information. This isthe kind
of information a competent sixth grade
book reportwill turn up. .
. Secondly, if the desired outcome
were achieved and more embryos were
reluctantly brought to full term BY THE
SINGLE, POOR, AND YOUNG
MOTHERS who are disproportionately
driven to resort to abortion, then the
number of children born into poverty
would dramatically increase_ Poor
children are more prone to dying than the
childrenofmid~leandupperclasses. We
can expect many,many poorwomel1 and
children to die as a direct result ofBush's
policy.
If this assessment were somehow
wrong, then population in the affe<;ted
countries would increase. Explosive
human population groWth is arguably the
greatest challenge facing humanity. In
appeasingtheconserv~tiveintereststhat countries whose per income capita is '
engjneered his succession and take his lower than the US, it is plain that Bush's
statementtothe etred that he has "str~)J1g policy, if it were to positively affect
· personal feelings on the matter" as birthrates, would help to ensure that
sincere.
more children are born in countries
lam laying this out carefully . where they will have to struggle and
.. because, within this narrow set of' -compete to get. their b.asic needs met
aSSUrtlptions - i.e. that Bush actually There is nothing to ensure health,
means what lie said -reconciling Bush's happines.s, or even survival in such
statements with reality leads me to on~y circumstances.
· three plausible conclusions, and notle of
Furthermore, pren<1tal care is
them are pleasant.
.chronicalty underfunded, and it is the
Bush characterized his actions as most efficien t financial allocation thatcan
devolving from a belief in the,~nctity of be made to ensure the health and wellbumanlife, a beliefwhich he e,inphaticaily being of newborns. Where is Bush on
· professes even though his hands are still this? Why is he not striving'to extend
warm from the switch, and'furthermore, money to ensure "unborn childtenn exit
in aU ways consistent thewoinb alive? Ofcourse, ifDubya were
that his acti.ons
<with his "compassionate conservative" concerned about preserving "the sanctity
demeanor/posture/brand or whatever_ of human life," he would be paying
this instance,heis concerned with the attention to the povetty· that is the
· "livesoftheunoorn" Unfortunately, thispcim,ary reason women seek abortion_
sincereexpr~sionofconcernforthelives Bot ' as a strong proponent of
of the unborn will have immediate and undemocratic, poverty generating
severe effects oft the Ilves of women in apparatuses like the IMF and World Bank
Third World <;()~ntri~ , Apparel,ltly, the and ~globalizatiQI,lP ·iri. general. Dubya
'~~logic" ofthed\1cisjon is tha~ remo,ving WQldd be a Iiving ,contradiction if he
funding willdisa~~e or.namper th~ ability managed to remove the'chains ofpoverty
, ot>health care .s~vices to prOVide from anyone qut his own privileged,
abortions and that this will save human . "fortunate" self_
'lives. Therefore, his polkyJs intended to
So a cursory look ;It health, data
" sa~i human lives, :especialiy those of shows that Bush's policy cannot and will
~unbornchildren.."lfBush·sdecisionwas not translate into a situati9n that is
based Oll the idea that making abortions congruent with his stated goal. In other
Il)oredifficultforwomeninothe~, poorer, words, it indisputably will not work.
cOQntries will ·save human 'life, he is
- If We assume for the mome,nt that
grossly, stupidly Wrong on two counts. Bush lias ~easons other than those. he
Firstly, any . mode~tly intelligent stated vehemenrly, pUblicly, and
examination of health care statistics, like repeatedly for pursuing this policy, then
those of the World Health Organization, he is attempting to deceive us ineptly.

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Thoughts on the
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Representatzon
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.Middle East on Camhus
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By D:lni,,1 Fkck

A few months ago, I attended a talk at the
Evergreen campus given by a Palestinian activist
concerning the recent violence ill the Middle East
and the qu~st for a lasting peace. TIle lect ure was
orga ni zed in solidarity with the First Year Core
Program Imagining the Middle East. The speaker
was a member of a Palestinian activistorganizatioll
working towards accomplishinga lasting peace in
this volati le and complex region. The organization
had established a seven-point program, seven
imperativecollditions under which a lasting peace
combined with asense ofjustice could occur. These

seven points ranged from, first, the Israeli
leadership admitting that mistreatment of
Palestinians has occurred at the hands of Zionist
forces since the foundingofthejewish State in 1948
(an admission that apparently has yet to occur) to
the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees.On the
whole, Ifound Ius comments to be mstructlve and
beneficial to myself,and my greatcr understanding
of the dynamics of the conflict. However, upon
greater reflection, I have grown concerned by the
briefcomments that an Evergreen faculty member
made upon introducing the featured speaker - in
particular, the comparison of the recent and
ongoing Palestinian Intifada to a prison uprising.
It is my understanding that 011 other, more
mainstream university campuses, expressing
personal politics within the ITameworkofacademic
discourse is, at times, shied away ITom. Of course,
there exist mallyvaluable exceptions to this, and it
represents an important sector of American
culture: the small, dissident intellectual culture that

provides a valuable counterpoint to mainstream
perceptions delineated through mass media, etc. I
in no way advocate or imply that this professor
should be denied his right to ITee expression of his
beliefs or findings, regardless of the controversy
that pervades any specific issue he or she may be
commenting upon. In fact, it is a noble and
somewhat heroic undertaking to sacrifice prestige
and privilege to express dissident views. As Martin
Luther King once orated at the height of the Civil
Rights Movement, "It is one of the greatestglories
of America that we have the right of protest."
However, I wish to draw a distinction between the
mere expression of personal politics and the
unethical imposing of personal politics upon
relatively uninformed individuals for the purpose
of indoctrination.
One should not be contented with hearing
but one side of a story. The consequence of this
oversimplified and gratuitously one-sided
perspective can be perfectly illustrated by a

question posed by a member of the audience,
composed primarily offirst year students, during
the question and answer session that immediately
followed the activist's talk. The young girl asked,
'·00 you think that the Israelis would be willing to
accept peace according to the program put forth?"
It seems to me the more reasonable question
to ask would be to reverse it: "Are the Palestinians
willing to accept peace on these terms? Is
coexistence with Israel at all feasible for the
Palestinians under any terms?" If the historyofthe
last fifty years and the recent EI-Aksa Intifada has
taught us anything, it is that the response, many
Israelis believe, could likely only be a resounding
no. The fact remains that much of the internal
Palestinian dialogue is motivated by visions of
bloodletting, vengeance, destruction of the Israeli
society, and jihad - holy war. The fact that the
question was phrased the way it was, questioning
thewillingness ofIsraelis to accept terms for peace,
is a testament to the entire atmosphere of the

presentation, not to mention the intensive and
uninterrupted stigmatization of Israel that has
been beaten into people's brains in and around the
Evergreen community by figures of intellectual
authority, over the radio airwaves, in the student
newspaper, and, at the risk of seeming
presumptuous, in the tainting of the Middle East
Program by the personal political beliefs of its
professors. At nojuncture in this presentation was
a word spoken in defense ofIsrael; this was not its
purpose. It seems reasonable that, perhaps on a
later date- - not necessarily at the same time as the
Palestinian activist's talk, for it was not advertised
as a debate - a speaker could be invited to present
an Israeli perspective. I have seen. no flyers
announcing any such visit, and, furthermore, it
appears highly unlikely that it will ever occur, for it
directly conflicts with the beliefs of the program's
professors, and is therefore devoid ofany relevance
whatsoever.

SPORTS
Gwen Gray: 1 was just thinking...
Life with 111omasina: the agony
~.1 and ecstasy of Art in college

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In Case of Emergency:
Feign Broken Toilet
The recent assault of four
Evergreen students in their own
hpme seems like a hard thing to
ignore. However, Evergreen has
found a way, There has been minimal
attempt by the community or the
police to help the accosted students.
The Evergreen 'p opulace seems to be
more comfortable ignoring that
violence can occur on our campus.
By ignoring this incident, they are
doing nothing to prevent it from
happening again, So, to do my part
in aiding all prospective victims of
senseless, sometimes-belligerent
violence, I am providing a guide to
getting help within a system that
feels that nothing needs fixing.
If you are alone in your
apartment and a shady, insidious,
uninvited character is making you
feel uncomfortable, go outside and
yell "KEGGER." Your house will be
inundated with people, and your
would-be attacker will either be
sca red off or swept away by the
crowd as they go out to seek a real
kegger.
Now, if the kegger thing doesn't
work, p r if the attacker remains

I\h , week nine! I\. time to wish
th at the quarter WilS three weeks
longer or a lready over, <1 time to
glimp~e t h e immin en t vacation
through bloodshot eyes and shudder
with rel ief. This is especia ll y true for
people possessed by the co mpuls ion
to exp ress th e m se lves that we ca ll
"a rtisti c impulses" b eca u se th a t
sounds better than "insanity, but
probably not the dangerou s kind." At
least, those of us who have chosen to
take a program related to our art. The
thing about art is, the more you do
it, th e better you get. And th e better
you get, the harder it is to remember
to do other things . Devoting most of
your conscious hours to it for three
months is a good way to get
swallowed whole . As the end of the
quarter approaches, many of us are
doing some of our best work while
rapidly losing our tenuous grip on
sanity. This is true of every quarter
in which we allow our art to
dominate our lives, but that does not
make it any easier to live through at
the moment. Splendid examples of
this can be found in my own home .
The Empty Stage theater program
(responsible for the recent production
of" Angels in America") is preparing
for their production of Tom
Stoppard's "Arcadia." "Arcadia" is
an intense a nd witty play about time
and gardening, intelligence and
intellectuals , and the sex ual and
mathem a ti cal action of bodies in heat.
It will run from th e eighth to the
eleve nth, which means that by the
tim e YOll read this several of th e

performances may be over. And
there is no one, not the director, or
the s tars, o r anyone e lse, who takes
more sa tisfac tion in that than [ do.
Because my foommat e He idi - ros e
plays "Thomasina," one of th e
female lead s, and it's killing us both.
Heidi-rose is so busy with th e play
that s he doesn't eve n hav e time to
s leep, and J am just so s ic k of
"A rcadia " I could choke on my own
bile. I love Heidi-rose to death, you
und ers tand , but "Thomasina" is a
god-awful roommate . I have so m e
faint hope that once the play' is over
she'll move out.
I don't mind funning lines all
the time or having my library raided
to provide props. I've gotten used
to seeing my roommate less than my
professors, and considering how
little time I spend away from my
desk, it would be the same if she
were in a normal program. What
bothers me is that we haven't had a
single conversation in the last
month
that didn't invoive
"Arcadia." Not one. If I hear one
more Arcadian reference, one more
story about the trauma of being
forced to remove facial piercings in
order to playa character from the
1800's, I'm going to start talking to
our potted plants.
In some ways, I deserve it. I'm
always making Heidi-rose read my
writing, or bursting into her room
first thing in the morning to print
six copies of a seven-page piece that
I'm bringing to workshop that day,
or stealing her thesa urus beca use
it's better than mine . Worst of all, I
make her read the first drafts of
George W. hadn't been elected. She

puts up with all of thi s, just as I put
up with "T h o ma si ila ," and we
co mplain s urpri singly little to eac h
other's faces. Mostly, I think we're
too tired.
At the moment, I am so sick of
both writing and theater that I would
happily beat Tom Stoppard to death
with my laptop. What stops me is the
fact that sp ring vacation is immine nt.
I kn ow that in three weeks, I will be
fairly well rested, and I will look at
the work I have done this quarter,
and it will be good. I will probably
feel privileged to have been allowed
to burn myself out. The really special
thing about college, apart from the
fact that it allows access to career
paths that don ' t involve special
sauce, is that you get to spend four
years being yourself as hard as you
can. For the last two months, I have
spent most of my time writing and
seen the rest of my life as a petty
distraction. I have written until my
brain started making this weird
humming noise and then stopped
working all together. I need a break
desperately, but after I've healed up
a little, part of me will wish I was
wri ting obsessively again. Once I
g~aduate, I'll have to pay attention
to my life all the time. I'll have a job
to do, and rent to pay, and eventually
kids to pick up from daycare, and I'll
have to fit my writing in around all
that. I will not have the luxury of
confusing art and life . I will miss the
exhilaration and the adrenaline and
the feeling that my muse is standing
behind me all the time. I'm sure
Heidi-rose will miss "Thomasina."
It's possible that by then, I might,
too. But at the moment, I'm just
hanging on ' til the eleventh.

persiste llt and police involvement ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
seems n. cessary, DO NOT call police
servi ce' and tell them what is
actual " go ing on. Instead, follow
this SCI t:
Yo ' Hello, I live in *__ and
my toi ' is overflowing; water is
everyl\ !re. I don ' t know what to
O\'('r the last week, I have been civ il ization, this is their "s urv ey of reversed." It is the g rung e of
do. PIC' " send help .
th ink in g abou t what I s h ould talk human expe ri e nce" in less than one American history instead of th e
Th ll : What?! You say there 's about in this column . I've been rather hundred pages. Wow. The former g lory th a t we were force fed as
water
eryw here ? We'll be there sarcastic and nasty in my previous Jesuit and hi s wife/former s tud ent children.
right <1 \ 'Y- Don't worry; every thing pieces, so this week, being the first cove r, or at least touch on, most
Of less general importance than
is goin ).. to be okay.
week in Lent a nd a good time to curb major s ubj ec ts of life. Please, please the other three, but so valuable, is
Th R.A. or police might be one's unpleasan t ways, I am going to read this, even if you disr egard Mark Twain's Letters From th e
Earth. The piece of that name and the
upset
.lt you lied to them. They g ive instead of taking away. By that, every thing else I ever say.
Next is The Spirit of Laws by Papers of the Adam Family bit are
were p " )ared for a toilet emergency, I me a n that I wish to give you tool s
and y c 'lave provided them with a and knowledge instead of taking Montesq uieu. If you only ever read toge ther a brilliant look at man' s
mere d mestic abuse situation, but away innocence and misconception, one book of political philosophy, place in the universe and Christian
it is th , ' job, so they might as wen more or less . Thinking over my read this one. He discusses the whys faith . The treatment is so witty that I
se minars of the past few years,] have of states and governments without can't help but laugh while I curse
do sorr h ing about it.
humanity.
01 . the criminal has been often wis hed that everyone had read assumptions about the nature of
man,
unlike
the
more
famous
When I asked my boss, one of
a few of the same general knowledge
aFpreh, I ded, the best way to initiate
books so tha t the discourse on the subsequent work by Rousseau, the the most conscious and interesting
a com n, nity awareness program
specifics of our subject would have a Social Contract. The University of people with whom I've had the
would be to go to the grievance
common ground. I'm a manic California press edition has p leasure of interacting, what one
officer , I' d see if he can make all the bibliophile, but I understand that excellent commentary and new book she'd have everyone read, she
kids \' , have been arrested for others have "better" ways to occupy rna terial tha t might be lacking in quickly said Interbeing by Thich
H J.P.: , the kegger they went to their time. So as much as I'd like to other versions.
Nhat Hanh. A co-worker would have
after tl
left your house to work off li s t about twenty tome s of terrific
Last, but not least, is A People's everyone read The Color Purple by
their ( ,munity service by making tidings, I've limited myse lf to three History of The United States by Alice Walker. My mother would
poste l , n lightening people about major
and
one
lesser Howard Zinn o From the New York make us read Daniel QUiI1fI'S
the fa I that violence and hippie reco mmendations. Anyone of these Times Book Review: "The book Ishmael. All of these books are about
gives great ammunition for seminar. bears the same relation to relationships of various kinds. In
SdlOO I11, and do, coexist, and that
First, and arguably most traditional texts as a photographic that spirit, please take a little time
;gnor(l
' isn't necessarily a weapon
important, is The Lessons of History negative does to a print: the areas to be kind to someone who needs it
agains t iolence.
by Will and Ariel Durant. After forty of darkness and light have been this week.
years in the study of history and

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by: Shasta Smith

THE INTERVIEWS: KYLE NELSON

I'm talking to Kyle Nelson, the
Athletic Trainer here at Evergreen. He
keeps all the teams going. This is Kyle's
first year here at Evergreen. He comes
from Portland by way of California. Let's
get to know him.
CPJ: So, where are you from?
Kyle: Originally, I grew up on the Oregon
coast. I spent my whole life down there
in a little town called Heebo. A very small
town. It's one of those towns that, if you
blink when you drive through, you'll
probably miss it. Out of high school, I
went to the University of Oregon for a
couple of years, then I moved to Portland
to go to Mount Hood to ijgure out what I
wanted to do--and not spend all of my
money-so J lived in Portland for about
ten years. In that time I took some time
off from school and just worked and
explored different careers, what I wanted
to do with my life. Then, I ended up going
back to school at Portland State. I finished
both my bachelor's and my master's
degree there. I got my bachelor's in 96
and my master's in 98.

own. I just started applying at different
positions all over the country. I applied
as far as Duke, University of North
Carolina, University of Maine, and Fort
Kent. To California, the midwest-everywhere--and stumbled upon a
position at a community college in
California called Gavland Community
College. Two year school, but they had
seven sports, including football.
CPJ: Did you work on all the sports or did
you specialize in one team?
Kyle: I was the head athletic trainer there,
so I was responsible for all the sports.
They didn't have very much money. They
didn't have an athletic training staff.
There was just one person-myself. I was
the head athletic trainer, plus] was also
the equipment manager.
CPJ: How wa s the transition from
Gavland to Evergreen?
Kyle: It was very nice. The position down
in California was a good step for me. It
was a good experience for me to get head
athletic trainer experience.

CPJ: In sports medicine?
Kyle: In a related field . Health and fibless
promotion was my bachelor's and a
master's in public health, and I had a
minor in athletic training.
CPJ: Where'd you go from there? After
you graduated?
Kyle: Once I graduated, I knew t11at [

needed to find a job and get out on my

CPJ: How do the athletes you work on
here compare with athletes that you've
worked on at other schools?
Kyle: The atheletes here are more
involved, and ] think they have a little
more investedt in what they are pursuing.
CPJ: What is the best moment for you
since coming to Evergreen?

Kyle: I think the best moment so far has
been .. .1 guess a bunch of small ones ... it's
the times that the coaches or the atheletesmaybe the athletes introduce me to their
parents, or the coaches introduce me to
other people, and they say, "This is our
athletic trainer, and he's doing a great job
forus. This is his first year, and he's doing
a great job." Athletic trainers are in the
backstage or behind the scenes. They
don't get a whole lot of recognition, and
we don't expect a whole lot. When we
get something like that, it makes us feel
good as athletic trainers. You ask any
athletic trainer around; they enjoy getting
recognition. I don't know one that
doesn't. Everyone likes to get recognition,
but that's not the reason we are in our job.
The reason we are in our job is to take care
of atheletes and to make sure everyone is
healthy. When we do get some small bit
of recognition from people, it makes it all
worth it.
CPJ: Are you interested in having students
that want to volunteer or that are on
contract come work in the training room?
Kyle: Yes. Definitely I would . It is one of
my goals. To try to, one, add educational
courses here that satisfy the requirements
for becoming certified, and two, to start
an actual athletic trainers' program to
have student athletic trainers come in.
Ideally, it would be something I could pay
people for, or they could get credit. Maybe
workstudy. So I could draw a -good
number of students in and it just elevates
the amount and quality of care we can
provide the athletes. We can get into that
situation where if I have a couple of

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students; I can send a student with a
soccer team on the road, every time they
go on the road, and they have one person
that always takes care of them. So that
helps.
CPJ: How would you go about instituting
that? What is the start?
Kyle: I think just justifying true need for
it, and, with the addition of three new
sports in the fall of next year, that's a point
in our favor. Saying, "This is what you
have now. You're adding three more
sports. You need to step up your support
staff as well. Increase your support staff.·
And the acknowledgement is there. They
know they need more help. But on the
other side of that is obviously the funding.
Whether we get the funding to support
an increase in support staff. As far as the
courses ... I'm still getting used to the
Evergreen system of education, and I'm
not sure what the proper steps are to take.
I've talked to the Athletic Director and the
Assistant Athletic Director, and different
people in the CRC, to find out what would
be the best way to go about that. You could
include it in an existing program like,
Health and Human Performance, or
another program. Maybe you can throw
in a couple of athletic training cources,
and at lea s t the st ude nt s get some
experience through taking these cources.
CPJ: If any students are interested in
athletic training, come talk to Kyle in the
CRe. Maybe something can get going
once student interest can get generated_
Talk to your teachers and see what you
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SPORTS

SPORTS
S W I MMIN G

AXIOMS: TRUE or FALSE

Sports Briefs

by: Shasta Smith

Spring Athletics are starting up, and while there will be a lot to se.e and do, Evergreen's only NAIA team
is tennis. On the club side there will be a myriad of teams to join and a couple to watch.

,

TENNIS
The season has started and the men's tennis team is showing signs of life. On March 3,d the men traveled to
Ashland, Oregon to face Southern Oregon in the morning and Northwest Nazarene in the afternoon. The men
started by beating Southern 9-0 and ended the day losing 6-3 to Northwest Nazarene.
The number one doubles team of Mike Butte and Mike Schor lost their opening set 5-3 but came back to
send the match into a tiebreaker where they won 7-4. Both members of the number one team are new to the
team and school this year.
The number two singles player, Will Tubman, rallied in the third set of his match to defeat Dan Graham of
Southern 6-4, 3-6, 7-6.
Senior Neal Ahern, playing number three on the singles side, had two victories in two singles matches,
beating both his Southern and l)..is Northwest opponents.
Mike Schor, the new player from North Bennington, was perfect in the afternoon, winning both his singles
matches and both his doubles. Schor was teamed with Ahern for the Northwest match-up; they won 8-6.
The men's program has turned a new leaf and is moving on up; it will be interesting to see where they go
this year.

CLUB SPORTS
Women's rugby and Ultimate are two club teams that are always looking for athletes. The women ruggers
are looking for that last handful of players to round out their team.
The men and women's crew teams are in full gear and have been since school started. Their regattas and
duel meets start up in March and go nearly every weekend until the end of May. The team is working very hard;
I had a chance to go to one of their early morning practices. It takes a certain breed of person to get up every
weekday morning at 5 AM and get onto freezing cold water. It will be exciting to see how the new crew teams

ADMINISTRATION
It's house-cleaning time for the Evergreen Athletics Administration. Without the NAIA intercollegiate
responsibilities weighing too heavily, the college can 'focus on getting money for its club teams, fundraising for
the upcoming fall NAIA season, and recruiting.
The women's volleyball team,.one of tRe new programs for the fall season, has instituted a huge fundraising/
recruiting drive. Coach Bill Lash is running weekend tournaments to generate revenue and show prospective
Evergreen 'freshmen what his system and new school are all about. There are literally hundreds of girls that are
coming through the CRC and getting to see what a college gym looks and feels like.
Coach Arlene McMahon is consistently showcaSing the school to prospective student athletes. Her theory is
that, once the prospects see the beauty of the Evergreen campus and get a feel for the student body, they are way
more likely to return to play.
Coach John Barbee and his assistant Bill Benton have a'list of 50-75 prospects from the area and from around
the country. Coach Barbee is looking for specific elements to flesh out his team. "This makes the recruiting
process that much harder," Coach Barbee said, "because you are looking for the right player, not just another
body to train." The team is looking for some size to hit the boards hard and a point guard who can come in and
help run the offense. Coach Barbee has had good success in California (Trelton Spencer) and will be hunting
down there for more star talent. The problem with recruiting in and to Washington is the 12 schools that the
players can choose from . The players that are highly coveted can pretty much pick where they want to go.

NEW MASCOT PICTURE
In other news, the administration plans to make the school mascot more visible to the public and to the
campus. Matt Groening and his brother were hired to draw a picture that could be put on the gym floor and
around campus on T-shirts and the like, but they backed out. There is talent working on the image, so don't be
surprised to return next year and see the mascot everywhere.

Axiom 1: Boxers traditionaly abstain
from sex for days, weeks, or months
before a fight to save energy.
True. I understand the term
"wobbly knees;" it's factual, and not just
during the earthquake.
Axiom 2: Athletes are meathead jocks.
False. Well, sometimes. A lot of
athletes are intelligent, creative, even
sensative.
Axiom 3: Team names matter in sports.
Absolutely true. Raiders, Strikers,
United, Bears, uh ... Geoducks?
Axiom 4: Evergreen teams arc losers.
False. Not anymore; not since the
kung fu team started the winning streak
and went to the World Championships.
Not since Dave Webber took over and
new coaches are coming in with
enthusiasm. Not since Shasta covers it
all on Shasta's Evergreen Sports Show
and in the CPJ sports section.
Axiom 5: Eddie Haskel is dead.
False. He is alive and well and
living at Evergreen.
Axiom 6: Uniforms matter; color and
design is important.
True. Black warm-ups and dark
green tops for Women's Soccer, Arlene
rules. Men's soccer: teal green and
white. You make the call.
Axiom 7: Evergreeners are "pot heads."
True. There were a group of
students who called themselves the "pot
heads." They attended home basketball
games banging pots with wooden
spoons.
Axiom 8: You can even get credit at
Evergreen for hanging your clothes.
True. I've got my sports jerseys
hanging behind me on my sports show
while I'm talking, editing, and brin~i(tg
you sports news.
Axiom 9: You can't have sex on a
trampoline.
False.
Axiom 10: Shasta can't walk and chew

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The Evergreen State College
Department of Athletics and
Recreation announced Friday,
March 2, not to renew women's
basketball head coach Rick

Harden's contract for the 2001-2002
season. This is the end for the only
women's basketball coach thus far.
Harden, a former three time coach of
the year in Australia's National
Basketball League, couldn't seem to
get it going a t Evergreen, ending
with a 13-95 record.
Coach Harden will remain the
tennis head coach through the 2001
season.
The administration is looking to
fill the open coaching position as
soon as possible. The athletics
department wants to offer a full-time
position at the college, combining
the women's basketball coach
position with a current full-time job
that is open in recreation. Evergreen
plans to bring all of its coaches into
the college in fulI-time positions
eventually. John Barbee, the men's
basketball head coach, already fills
that role and with the women's
basketball spot open, another
basketball coach can get to work full
time here as well.

by Shasta Smith

The man and women's swim team
did exceptionally well at the NAIA
National swim meet in Burnaby, Canada.
The women improved six places from last
year to finish 8th overall. Ryan Miyake the
entirety of the men's swimming team,
showed the power of one and placed 10"'
overall on the men's side, beating out two
other teams.
"The noisy atmosphere generated
enthusiasm for the team and made us
swim well" claimed Coach Bendock. "It's
a small facility, so the crowd feels like it's
right on top of you." The meet was a big
mix of teams, some of which were huge.
Evergreen was the smallest school there
as most every :;chool fielded at least one
men's and one women's relay teams.
Ryan Miyake had been battling a
cold going into the meet but still swam
tough. His top finishes were both 6th as
he did extremely well in the 200 fly
(2:14.11) and the 1500 free (17:18.65).
Senior Captain Bonnie Martin did
outstandingly, finishing in the lop 6 in the
200 breaststroke; she finished with a time
of 1:20.85. She did very well anchoring the
relay team as well giving season best split
times. As a special honor, Martin was
awarded one of six NAlASchoiar Ath.lete
awards for the 2000-2001 season, this is
the second year in a row Martin has
received this honor.
Amber Totz placed 11 th in the 100 fly
with a 1:11.53. She had some fierce
competition on her way up through the
ranks before she placed in the top twelve.

Misty Westphal toughed out a hurt
back to place 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. In the 400
free, Westphal placed 2nd with a 4:32.94.
In the 1500 free, she placed 3rd with a
17:57.70, and in the 200 free, Westphal
captured 4th with a 2:09.06. Westphal had
seen a doctor for painkillers before the
meet, but they made her nauseated, so she
toughed it out and swam excellently. The
Olympia native wanted a first place finish
and is hungry to return nex t year.
Alison Aylesworth had very solid
performances in her leg of the relays,
helping the team to its great success.
Aylesworth had an eye-opening
experience and will be ready to race in the
singles events next year. The women's
relay team had season best times on all
t11eir races. The top finishes for the four
women were a 7Lh in the 800 free with a
9:40.88 and a 7'" in the 4oo-medley relay
with a final time of 4:48.46.
The swim team returned with 13 top
12 finishes. "The team received lots of
compliments on its progress," said Coach
Bendock. "We can do better with more
conditioning though, and a larger team,
recruiting will help. The NAIA values that
you hear about were evident at the meet.
Everyone was screaming bloody murder
when the race was on, but afterwards,
swimmers would shake hands and
congratulate
each other.
The
sportsmanship added an electric element
to the races and made it a real positive
environment for the swimmers."
Congratulations to the swim team as
their 2000-2001 season draws to a close.

Mens
Basketball
by Gin Harbold
and Shasta Smith

The men's season has drawn to
a close, but not quite in the fashion
we had hoped.
Evergreen men's basketball had
a heartbreaking loss in their first
round playoff game against
Southern Oregon. Trelton Spencer,
the most talented player that
Evergreen has ever seen, and the two
other seniors who worked so hard
for a championship ring, missed
their last chance. The game ended 94
to 85. Trelton Spencer finished the
game with 21 points and his career
with 1740 points . Spencer holds five
single game, nine single season, and
twelve career records for Evergreen

basketball. Andre Stewart played
exceptionally well again, s.coring 29
points and grabbing 10 rebounds.
Stewart also became the sixth player
ever to score 18 consecutive
freethrows without a miss in one
game, an impressive feat from next
year's team leader.
Coach Barbee said it was a good
game and is disapointed that the
season is over. Assistant Coach Bill
Benton had some really good
comments. "We really grew as a team
this year," he said. "The loss of
Trelton is going to be big for us, but
we bring back a lot of experience next
year that hopefully we can take with
us and use. I'm proud of the effort
nigh t in and nigh t out."

Sw immers ready to race Jl the Northwest Conference finals held here ,It Evergreen .
Notice the Evergreen cap on the near swimmer. Evergreen was swimming
exhibition in the races.

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GENED
Comme nrary by Jason Adams

tlllle: the drop out rate for freshman up for the sttldents s/he has lost.
In spring quarter and a lack of access Thi s , of course , means that the
teacher has over twice as much work
to diverse classes tor all students.
to
do, making it unfair to the teacher,
CORE classes arc mostly made
lip of freshmen . 17'\, of Evergreen ',- the students who stay, the s tud ents
Ir eshmen leave thl' school entirely who leave, and the students who take
during their freshmen year. Out of contracts with her / him. But not all
the students who leave
the students that stay in
want, or can get, a
year-long CORE classes,
.f() "lo leave their program
contract. Who is expected
"The
Gen
to teach those students?
during spring quarter.
The problem of these
l3ased on these statistics
Ed DTF
"lost"
students
is
and student input , the
proposal
exasperated by the fact
DTF has come to the
asks for ...
tha t, of the 40% of teachers
conclusion that year40% of the
who teach CORE and alllong CORE classes are
level classes 90% have prenot
working
for
faculty to
requisi
tes during spring
students, no matter how
drop all prequarter. Besides this, there
much the faculty like
requIsites
is the problem I mentioned
them. To remedy this
for spring."
a t the beginning; there is
problem,
the
DTF
not enough access for
proposal asks for more
students who wish to
two-quarter,
crossexperiment in general.
divisional, all level
To remedy all three of these
classes instead of three-qua rter long
issues, the Gen Ed DTF proposal asks
CORE classes.
for
the bottom 40% of the faculty to
Student access is a problem year
round at Evergreen, but it too is drop all pre-requisites during spring
worse in the spring . When 40% of quarter. It's a free-far-all learning
these CORE class students leave s ituation every spring (at least for the
their programs, there are very few 40% of the school who choose to
places for them to go to . The amount participate.) This allows freshman
of teachers tha t a progra m has is students to move freely during
relative to the amount of students in spring quarter, evens out the student
it. Since th ere is a 25-1 teacher- to teacher ratio, and most
student ratio here a t Evergreen, a importantly, gives all s tud ents the
class with 25 students has one opportunity to experiment with new
teacher, and a class with 75 has three. subjects by creating more truly crossHowever, when nearly half of those divisiona l classes without pre75 students leave in spring quarter, requisites.
This is a very loose proposal,
their teacher stays. Sometimes their
aimed
at opening up opportunities
teacher ta kes on con tracts to rna ke

for everyone without posing undue
restrictions on anyone. While
providing more chances for students
to experiment with different
subjects, it als0 still allows faculty to
teach year-long programs, upperdivision programs, short, in-depth
programs and individual contracts.

planning units write every year. For
the past ten years (roughly), faculty
have written in these reports that
they believe students are not getting
enough bread th-Science s tud ents
don ' t get art, and vice versa. This
points to at least nominal faculty
acceptance of the bread th I access
It does 1I0t impose allY type of restricll(lll problem. Second, the Gen ED DTF is
or requirement UpOIl ti,e stlldellts. also responding to a state mandate
Rather, since Evergreen professes to that all state learning institutions
believe that studen ts should control must have "learning outcomes" for
their own education, and that their students and a plan to address
students will make good decisions said outcomes. As much as
regarding their education if given a Evergreen would like to ignore the
chance to, the DTF also believes that assumptions and ideas of the outside
by
open in g
up
world, we must speak to
possibili ties to take
our funding source. We
different subjects, many
ca n find ways of doing so
students will choose to
" ... stu dents
that are subversive and
take subjects outside of
adhere to our ed uc.ational
need to be
their emphasis of their
standards, but we must
given In
own
volition.
answer
somehow.
reality what
Furthermore, the base
Without s tate funding,
they are
assumption of the
only the wealthy would
proposal is that it will
be able to take advantage
provided in
be part of a five year
of
Evergreen's education,
t heory... "
experiment,
with
making Evergreen elitist
ongoing conversa tions
by economics if not
between
faculty,
theory. Third, and most
administration, s taff
importantly, studen ts
and studen ts about what Evergreen need to be given in reality what th ey
shou ld look like. It is not permanent. are provided in theory-crossS hould it not work, it will be divisional learning and a chance to
disassembled and a new curricular control their own education.
approach will take its place.
If these reasons-especially the
The proposed Gen Ed changes last-are not enough to convince
have not been created just because Evergreen faculty and students that
of our accreditation process. First of th ey should try a five year change in
all, the accredi tors based their report c urri cu lar planning, then perhaps
on the faculty self-studies (which are we should change the five foci to
like faculty-school evals) that reflect how the school is really run.

The

Women's Resource Center
Invites you to

Intern this Spring!

Dear Working Class Greeners,
Do you work your ass off just to
scrape by as a student at Evergreen?
Do you loathe the fact that so many
wealthy students who go here don't
have to work at all and have a lot
more time to finish aSSignments than
you do? Do you ever look around
you and wonder why there seems to
be fewer and fewer working class
students and s tudents of co lor in
Evergreen's ranks? Are YOll ready for
things to get EVEN WORSE THAN
THEY ARE?
On Friday, April 6, do yourself a
favor and co me join up with
hundreds of fellow st ud ents,
teachers, teaching assistants, campus
workers, and supporters from across
the state of Washington in a mass
protest to protect access to higher
ed ucationJrO? low-incom e people
(like yourself) and to demand decent
salaries, wages, and working

conditions for all who work in the
education industry.
The Governor claims that
budget cuts froml-695 and other
initiatives leave no option but to
either raise tuition, cut wage and
salary increases for ed uca tion
workers, or decrease social services.
We .are standing up on April 6 to let
Locke know that we won't let him
define the parameters of this debate.
We want to know what isn't even
being considered for cuts. We want
to know why $6.34 billion-24% of
the state budget-is being spent on
tax breaks and other s ubsidies to forprofit corporatio ns in the timber,
computer, and other industries, and
why this massive corporate welfare
is not even being considered as a
place for cu ts ins tead!
Since most people haven't heard
about this (hmmm, why would that
be?), let me go over a few of the basic
points in Locke's budget proposal : 1)
tuition caps will be raised by 10%

annually and by 40% over six-year
periods; 2) control of tuition is taken
away from the legislature (who are
at least nominally accountable to
students) and given to appOinted
officials-such as regents- instead;
3) allows different tuition rates to be
set for different majors , i.e.
engineering classes would cost more
than art classes. This would force
low-income students into cheaper
majors, which have lower expected
earnings at graduation; 4) it allows
unlimited tuition increa ses for
graduate and professional programs.
Some administrations have already
s tated that, if this aspect of the bill
passes, tuition for some programs
will double within the next 3 years.
Thought you might want to become
a teacher? Locke thinks you should
think again.
Some people think that tuition
increases don't excl ude anyone
because of the old myth that
"financial aid goes up when tuition

Mullah Mohammed Omar, the
Taliban's spiritual leader, which
stated that all idols were to be
destroyed because they were unIslamic. The statue was built in the
3ed century. The decree has rekindled
international outcry against the
Taliban, which in the past has been
directed at the TaJiban's severe
repression of women and religious
groups.(more
at
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www.observer.co.uk/)
Rural Colombian farmers and
villagers are enraged at the massive
destruction of food crops as well as
rashes and vomiting following
blanket pesticide sprayinglaimed at
eradicating coca, the plant used to
make cocaine. The spraying is being
funded by the US's "Plan
Colombia," a $1 Billion military aid
package ostensibly initiated to
eliminate coca production in
Colombia. The plan has also been
widely criticized by human rights
groups for strengthening the power
of Colombia's corrupt military.
(more
at
I
www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/)
A 13-year old Palestinian boy

was amongst those killed last week
in the continuing conflict in Israel.
A Palestinian suicide bomber killed
himself and three other people and
injured dozens of others, which
sparked the lynching of another
Palestinian man later in the day.
(more at Idailynews.yahoo.com/)
Thousands
of
antiglobalization activists converged
on Italy's Group of Eight (G8)
ministerial meeting last week in a
protest remarkable for its lack of
large-scale arrests or tear-gassings.
The G8 summit is a meeting between
the leaders of the world's 7 richest
nations, plus Russia. (more at I
asia.dail ynews. yahoo.com I)
U.S. personnel have become
involved in fighting in Colombia's
37-year civil war for the first time
two weeks ago, rescuing the crew of
a helicopter brought down by leftwing guerrillas. The US is funding
the world's largest aerial eradication
program in an attempt to destroy
drug crops in Colombia. In an
engagement last week, guerrillas of
the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC) fired on a crop-

goes up." This is patently false. For
instance, at UW, tuition is $3,76l.
There, 25'X, of in-state st udents
qualify for financial aid. At the
University of Illinois , tuition is
significantly higher at $5,020-only
17% qualify for aid. At the University
of Michigan, tuition is a whopping
$6,513, and there, financial aid is
even less, as only 16% qualify for aid.
Clearly, as tuition goes up, lowincome attendance at a college or
university goes down. Also, tuition
increases hit women and people of
color the hardest. Since 1-200 (which
abolished Affirmative Action) passed
in California in 1997, minority
enrollment ha s nosedived by a
whopping
32°1<,
despite
administration promises not to let
enrollment go down. That was
enough of a blow; this increase will
make it much worse. We cannot
allow this to go through - we won't
go back to the bad old days!
For more infbrmation, ca ll me at 8666106,
email
me
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not having more say in the mandate.
(more at I ens.lycos.com/)
Web activists targeted the web
site of a US investment bank which
saved a cont.roversial drug testing
company from liquidation with an
attack designed to make its site
unavailable to web users. The
investment
bank,
Stephens,
provided finance to Huntingdon Life
Sciences in January after the Royal
Bank of Scotland withdrew the
firm's overdraft following protests
by animal rights activists. The attack
was organized by the Animal
Liberation Internet Tacticai Response
Network, using a hacking tool called
Floodnet tha t sends a barrage of
repeated download requests to the
site, making it too busy for others to
use.
(more
at
I
www.theregister.co.uk!)
International
The world's largest stone
Buddha, a 175-foot tall statue
carved out of a mountainside in
Afghanistan, was demolished by
artillery fire last week. The ruling
Taliban government made the move
in response to a decree issued by

dusting aircraft and supporting
helicopters, downing one of them .
Before u.s. personnel were rescued,
they engaged in a brief firefight with
FARC guerrillas. Critics hav e
painted to this incident as the U.s.
crossing the line between counternarcotics and counter-insurgency.
(More at Icommondreams.org/)
Nike admitted that its
Indonesian
workers
suffer
widespread verbal and physical
abuse at its factories. A report
funded by Nike found workers at the
nine factories studied were bullied,
forced to work overtime, and had
limited access to health care.
Workers also reported that some of
them were punished for being late
by being made to clean toilets or run
around factory grounds. There were
also widespread reports of female
workers being coerced to perform
sexual favors, and that foremen and
managers fondled assembly-line
workers. About 85% of workers in
Nike's contract factories in Indonesia
are women averaging 23 years in
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End overseas
Sweatshop Labor;
L---.-- -D bring it, here.
by Moe DibinidLy
By Shasta Smith

Nom de plume of Russell Garofalo

human and civil rights? Are you
judge and jury?
.
Have you seen the multitude of
letters and articles that hav~
appeared in the paper? To disregard
what students say repeatedly is
ignorance to the llighest degree. I
am
against the assumption
that
are
and

As you have surely heard, there
is great concern over the sweatshops
that produce goods for the
Evergreen bookstore. I share in this
concern. Poor people in lands of
which we likely know little about
are trudging away for just enough
money to stumble home to a meager
existence.
This situation is simply
reprehensible. Why not have inhouse
swea tshops?
Local
sweatshops? Why go overseas when
the myriad of benefits of sweatshop
labor would be increased tenfold by
moving them into the community?
Although our local community only
boasts a 1.3% minority rate
(statistics care of F.U.C.D*), there
are certainly sufficient people
already here from countries we still
know very little ar')ut. The

in its sharp intelligence and
ifs unlike any play about our deep raCial

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changeover
can
be
made
immediately; we will erect a small
circus tent-like covering, similar to
the one set up for smokers by Adorm. Of course, this will only be
temporary, but this winter has been
rather favorable as to temperature
and rainfall, which may be a sign of
years to come.
Soon thereafter would come
establishing a permanent structure
in what is now the outdoor eating
area of the Greenery. It will be
constructed entirely out of Plexiglas.
! can only guess a t the flood of
students wanting to do contracts
involving our new Plexiglas Allied
Laborers Studio, (P.A .LS.). We can
recreate the industrial bar-room
atmosphere that seems to be so well
loved overseas, complete wi th
mood-enhancing exhaust that fosters
the instinctual vigor of full bladders.
The time with our PA.L.S. will be an
ongoing exhibit. A cultural view
over a nice lunch that came from
somewhere else. Reflect and
envision: the assembly lines of
Henry Ford, the comforting
red undancy imagined by La verne
and Shirley, the efficiency and great
abilities of the Third Reich. Viewing
the members of the studio, working
diligently, will provide a cathartic
experience that is severely
undernourished for students of the
college.
The value is as infinite as the ·
tangentia l thoughts of the viewer of
our P.A.L.S. So I will not press on,
but just let this out to flourish like
the mighty evergreen does.
'Fore ign ers, Up
DevelopmE:n t.

and

Coming

PISSED OFF?
Submit to the CPJ to
get your opinion
heard!
Brine your article. or artwork
up to our oiliee on the third
floor, damnit.

Show your Evergreen student 10 when
you hop an I. T. bus and ride free.
It's that easyl Skip the parking hassles.
save some cash. and be earth-friendly.
I.T. is your ticket to life off campus!
For more info on where IT can take you.
pick up a "Places You'lI Go" brochure
and a Transit Guide at the TESC
Bookstore. Or call IT Customer Service
at (360) 786·1881 or Visit us online at
www.intercitytransit.com.

DJ,ntercilY T ran s i !

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Cooper Point Journal • 22· March 8, 2001

CALENDAR

--10
Thu, Mar 8
It's a veritable nuthouse of nuttiness,
music, sed uction, nu tiness, speech
impediment, an ocean liner, and
nuttin ess in Tom Stoppard's
"ro lli ckin g farce" Rough Crossing.
"Lose your blues on an ocean
cruise." Runs through the 31st at the
Sta te Theilter, Cilll 786-0151 for ticket
info, $15-$22. "00 /1 '1 miss the boat. "

admission with a canned food
donation . Irish music, Irish stories,
Irish everythin g. Call 753-8380.
7:30 P.M.
It 's the OLYMPIA OLD-T IM E
COUNTRY DANCE!!I The dances
will be an "[intr iguing, seductive,
and also J interestin g mix of Con tras,
Squares, and Bi g Circle s tyles. " At
the South Bay Grange. $6 at the door,
$3 cheaper for the young and old.
Call 357-5346. " ... feel welcome. "

7 P.M .

Wanna be on TV? Shit, yen. Dance 0'
Dance invite~ one and all to
participate in th e ir live monthly
taping. Go to St udi o A, 440 Yauger
way at this time. Ca ll 866-4524, or
v isi l www.danceodance.com.
In the "Edge ." In "A Building." Yea.
See TOllgh Guise, a " radical film that
identi fies the relationship between
the images of popular culture and
the social construc tion of ma sc uline
identities ... " A discussion will
fo llow. Yea. Ca ll x5517,

Sat, Mar 10
11 A.M.

The Procession C ommunity Art
Studio, down on South Central, yo,
is open for the you, the community,
yo. Th e re's a volunteer meeting,
right now. Ca ll 705-1087.

Sun, Mar 11
Th e Olympia Film So ciety goes
craz y I State alld Maill , starring Alec
Baldwin opens at 4 and 9 P.M ., and
SllOW Me Love, Swedish, opens at 6:30
PM . Wait a minute; is this stuff going
on? I thought the Ca pitol Theater 's
Roof fell in . You should call th em ;
in the book.

6:30 P.M.
"How do we addre5~ and trea t il
popul a tion tha t has been diagnosed
with Co-Occurring D isorder? "
Grea ter Lakes Mental Healthcare is
h o ldin g a free "Mental H ea lth
Monday," co n ce rning Subslance
Abuse and Mental Illness. That's a
double-whammy. At Lakewood
Library, 6300 Wildaire Road .
I

Noon
Begorrah l The Olympia Parks Dept.
is holdin g the ir 16th annual Irish
Cottage Fair at the Olympia Center
on 222 North Columbia. Free

Wed, Mar 14
5:20 PM.
There's not much space left in this
column, so I'm going to start writing

S~udent
Amnesty International
International human rights org ..
working to free prisoners of
conscience, ensure fair trials,
and promote justice.
Meeting times: 5 P.M. every
Monday in CAB 310
More info: x6724
AFISH
.Advocates FOI Improving
Salmon Habitat welcomes all
interested in environmental &
salmon issues.
Meeting times: 4 P.M. Mondays
in CAB 320
More info: CAB 320 or x6105
ASIA
Asian Students in Alliance
welcomes everyone.
Meeting times: 1 P.M. every
Wednesday in CAB 320
More info: Emiko Atherton,
Miral Ghimire at 867-6033
Bike Shop
We are a volunteer operated, doit-yourseU bike shop.
Meeting times: Call or stop by;
sched ule is on door
More info: Ari or Jayro at 8676399
Capoeira Angola
Meeting time: Thursday 6:30
P.M. in Lib 4300
More info: C.J. Hanekamp at
866-4811 or
hanekamc@evergreen.edu
Common Bread
We are a Christian Community
working for justice and peace.
Meeting times: 5 P.M . every
Monday in CAB 110
More info: Julie Boleyn 943-9144

now ... Mindscreen is hosting John
Waters' film Peeker. In Lecture Hall
One! "Free Popcorn and Movie l
Whoa Ha!"

Thu,Mar15
Today is dead lin e to sub mit to the
Word and Deed wri ting antho logy.
Get your s tuff dropp ed off at th e
Lea rning Resource Center by NOW!
... don' t forget the CPJ, geez ...
If you don 't write, th en you can
s ubmit YOUR BLOOD. Darlene at
th e Student Health Center would
like yo u a ll to know that the BLOOD
BANK will be on campus today from
10 A.M. to 4 P.M. Call x6804.

Fri, Mar 16
6:00
At the TESC Tacoma Ca mpus,
inte rnationall y acclaimed class ica l
pianist Dr. William Chapman Nya bo,
and also inte rnationally accla imed
gos pel organist Dr. Ruth Kelly play
it benefit for homeless wo men and
their chi lde r. $25. Call 383-7791.

Sun, Mar 18
Th e Olympia Film Society goes
crazyl Qllills, directed by Philip
Kaufman, opens at 4 and 9:30 P.M.,
and HOli se of Mirlh, with (o h lordy)
Gi llian And e rson AND Dan
Aykroyd, opens at 6:30 P.M. Wait a
minute ; is this stuff going o n ? I
thought the Cap itol Theater 's Roof
fell in. You sho uld call them; they're
in the book.

Mon, Mar 19
6:30
"Curiolls about as trolo gy? Don ' t
know where to beg in ? Well, here it
is ." There's a free ast ro logy
workshop at Radiance Herbs und
Massage, taught by Rosie Finn . Call
705-1430 . Amazing h ow our
personalities and ac ti ons ar e
determ in ed by the orga ni za ti on of
gala tic bo d ies It ' s even mor e
amazing when you co ns ider thd t
those objects, of which there arc an
uncountabl e number, happen tu
affect us only when they line up In
ce rtain ways v iewab le from earth .
which is only o ne of tho ~l'
un countab le
bod ies
amon ):;
bajillions. Incredible.

Ongoing Stuff
It 's International Women' s Week
Th e last tw o days, a nyway. Th e
Coalition of Sexual Violence and th e
Women's Re source Ce nt e r hild
things going on. This nli ght be tno
late. Damn natural d isasters.
Burrito Heaven i ~ providin g
en ter tainment as well as burritos this
month. Blues ami Fo lk every Friday,
Karaoke Saturdays and Sundays.
Oscar Sou le ha s ti cke ts to Mariner 's
Opening Night at Safeco Field April
2nd . Anyth ing you pay above the $15
that it cos t Oscar to buy the tickets
will go towards the TESC Jacki e
Robinson Scholarship. Get 'em while
they're hot in LIB 1411.

Group Directory*

Evergreen Animal Rights
Network
To promote the ethical trea tement
.
of animals.
Meeting times: 5:30 every Tuesday
in CAB 320
More info: Laurel and Tom 8666000 ex.6555
Evergreen Dance Team
Meeting times: Wednesday, 2-4
P.M. in CRC 316 and Thursday
3:30-5 P.M. in CRC 116
Evergreen Investment Club
Meeting time: Thursday, 2:30 in
CAB 315
More info: Andrew Bucher, Adam
Smith-Kipnis, 786-9161
Evergreen Students for Christ
To Understand, To Grow, To Serve.
Meeting times: Tuesdays 7 P.M. in
LIB 1507.
More info: ES4C@ao!.cQID
The Evergreen Swing Club
We teach East Coast Swing and
Lindy Hop basics. 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 Fest
planning)
More info: 867-6544
evergreen queer alliance@hotroail.com
Feminist Majority Leadership
Alliance
We work towards the goal of
having political, economic, and
social equality 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 student movement of
Aztlan strives to create a space
. where members can educate
themselves, inform others, and
confront issues.
Meeting times: 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
Evergreen Medieval Society
Students interested in recreating
medieval martial arts, crafts, and
performances.
Meeting times: 5:30 P.M. every
Thursday in CAB 320
More info:
medievalsociety@mail.com
866-6000 or x6036
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

March 8, 200 1 • 23· Cooper Point Journal

Umoja
An activities and support
group for all students of
African decent.
Meeting times: 1-3 P.M. on Feb.
21, March 14, April 4, 18, May
.
2,16,30
More info: Umoja office, x6781;
Cassetta Stroud, (360) 455-0470;
Loretta Bradley-Allen, (360)
352-9906
WashPIRG
We run environmental, social,
and consumer campaigns.
Meeting times: 4 P.M.
Wednesday in Lecture Hall
rotunda
More info:Rebecca x6058
evergreen_washpirg@hotmail.com
The Wilderness Center
We run trips outside (rafting,
rock climbing, hiking,
snowshoeing) as well as skill
Women's Resource Center
A resource center that provides
meetings, a library, events, and
drop-in center.
Meeting times: general meeting
Monday, 3 P.M.; Zine meeting
Monday,S P.M.; Evergreen
Cliteracy Foundation,
Wednesday 3 P.M.
More info: x6160

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*This list is not
comprehensive. If you
want Y0ul student group
listed, drop off your
information at the CPT
(CAB 316)

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