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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 30, Issue 10 (November 29, 2001)

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volume thirty ... issue ten ... november twenty-ninth, two thousand-one.

n Vox

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Populi

— Cold and Wet, Yet Fun

How'productive
were you during
Thanksgiving break?

"More prodvictive than
1 have ever been. I
read 70 pages out of
a book!"
— Robert Bearak
"It just r u i n s my
vacation every t i m e
when 1 spend it w i t h
my f a m i l y ... I actually got a lot of filming done, 1 produced
some music, got a lot done."
- Scott Cecil
"I was not productive. I p l a n n e d on
being productive, but
1 went on a road trip
down to Big Sur, and
I caught lice. That's
why my head's bald. It's freezing
out here."
— J o n a t h a n Corey
"I.-was not productive, t h o u g h I had
plans-."
— Polly Hawver
open "unless absolutely necessary," because over it third of students live on campus,

"I did most of the
reading and 1 wrote
half of my paper ...
so I was more productive than I t h o u g h t I
would be, but a lot of
it was because I didn't have much
else to do."
- Beth Logan

"No, I was not productive at all academically over the break,
and I consider it to
be completely disruptive — and it's
been that way every year I've been
here. You are right in the climax
of your quarter and they cut you
off for that one week. People go
home, there's family, there's festivities
— these things are not conducive to
text and research and writing."
- Francesca Parker

"My Thanksgiving
break was not productive, although I
had plans to do
something, but I
didn't get anything
done. I ate some salmon, though."
— Olivia Rodger

TESC
Olympia, WA 98505
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False Alarms Waste Everyone's Time
by Jen Blackford and Rob Nielsen _

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ndy S m i t h , a f i r s t year s t u d e n t who
lives in B-Dorm, had a building-wide
a l a r m go off because of a f i r e in his apartment. According to S m i t h , a garbage can
was set ablaze by cigarette butts t h a t were
not fully extinguished.
" T h a t caused B-Dorm's a l a r m s to go
off," S m i t h said. "The whole B-Dorm had
to be kicked out of there." S m i t h wasn't
t h e r e when t h e f i r e s t a r t e d , b u t arrived
shortly a f t e r the f i r e trucks pulled up.
L i e u t e n a n t Casey Sobol, who works
at the McLane Fire Station on Mud Bay
Road, says t h a t the s t a t i o n gets c a l l e d
out to Evergreen, on average, about seven
to ten times a m o n t h . Most of the rime,
however, it's not an actual fire.
The M c L a n e s t a t i o n responds to all
Evergreen fire alarms. There are o n l y a
total of six volunteers stationed there that
rotate on twenty-four h o u r shifts. When
an a l a r m goes off, the people on s h i f t have
to respond to it.
"Before I got here, the guys had three
to six a l a r m s per shift," Sobol said. That's
because Evergreen's a l a r m s were old and
would go off e a s i l y . T h e n the s c h o o l
upgraded the alarms. Now, he says, the
alarm activation has gone way down.
That's a good t h i n g , since McLane is
tied in directly to the school. When an
a l a r m goes off at Evergreen, Sobol says
the fire station knows about it before the
911 operator.

"We're out the door in less t h a n
Most of the t i m e , the s t a t i o n j u s t
a m i n u t e , " S o b o l s a i d . T h e i r a v e r a g e responds to b u r n t food or people p u l l i n g
response t i m e to the c a m p u s , he said, the a l a r m s .
is f o u r and a h a l f
S m i t h
minutes.
said t h a t in
The f i r e f i g h t e r s
the case of
t h e n go to the
false alarms,
b u i l d i n g and check
it is a waste
o u t where the f i r e
of a firefightcame from. By now,
er's time. "I
whoever was in the
don't t h i n k
b u i l d i n g has been
kids care too
e v a c u a t e d , Sobol
much about
said. Then the fireit. I feel bad
f i g h t e r s reset t h e
for the f i r e
a l a r m and confirm
photo: Meta Hogan d e p a r t m e n t
t h a t there's no fire. Evergreen's smoldering butts, late-night pranks, old wiring, 'cause
it's
t
h
e
i
r
asses
Only then do they and bad cooking keep the McLane Fire Station busy.
let everyone else
r u n n i n g out
back in.
h e r e .
"Usually, it's not very long," Sobol says
Cara M i l l e r , a Resident A s s i s t a n t
of the evacuations. "But it depends on the (RA) in A-Dorm, agrees. "It costs the fire
circumstances. A lot of smoke on the floor department a lot of money and time when
can take longer.
people pull stupid pranks."
"We try to get people inside as quick
Resident assistants don't have to help
as we can."
evacuate the building. Miller says she and
Sometimes, that's not always possible. other RA's are trained to treat every alarm
For example, sometimes a sprinkler head as if it is a real fire. Her job is to get out
gets broken, which means that the fire- just like everyone else.
fighters can't let people back in. Soboi
Sobol said that the station has worked
says it's due to electricity problems, which with Evergreen to try and get a good solucould arise from exposed w i r i n g caught tion to dealing with the fire alarms. One
in the water.
of them, he said halfway seriously, was
But that's rare, Sobol says. It usually getting cooking lessons for the residents
happens once a year.
of Housing.
PRSRT STD
US Postage
Paid
Olympia WA
Permit #65

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So Much Fun You'll
Get an Aneurysm

by Corey Fein
Washington State's recession looks
worse than ever, and Evergreen planners
say that could mean tuition increases,
stalled projects, and cuts all around
the college.
Over the break, the state released its
latest revenue projections, showing a
budget shortfall of $1.25 billion.
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Forum on KAOS,
Down in Olympia
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KAOS radio has recently lost its
general manager and is in the throes of,
well, chaos. Would you like a voice in
how the radio is run? There will be a
forum on democracy and accountability
at KAOS 7 p.m. on Wednesday Dec.
5, at Oly World News, 116 E. 4th Ave.
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"giving special attention to the interests
of people historically ignored by the
media." Come make sure that mission
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Come learn to climb! Learn to belay
and other climbing techniques in a free
Climbing Clinic Thursday December
6th from 4:00. p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in
the Climbing Gym (CRC 228). You
can come at any time during these four
hours. Sign up at the front desk of the
Student Activities Office on the 3rd
floor of the CAB.
Normally, the cost to use the climbing gym is $1 or a non-perishable food
item donation. You can rent special
shoes for $1 or use your own tennis
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wall, you keep meaning to get in there
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England? To dance! What about the
Reformation? Martin Luther just wanted
to shake his rump! And now's your
chance! Evergreen has its own dance
team (the new name remains a highly
guarded secret until the red-ribbon cutting ceremony in January), and everyone,
regardless of skill level, is invited to
join. The dance team has given hip-hop
workshops and danced at basketball
game halftimes. The next meeting is
Wednesday, Dec. 5 from 2 to 4 p.m. in
CRC 116. For more information call
Heather or Alison at 867-6583.

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Tired of Drinky?
by Andrew Cocnran
A deeply existential flyer on campus
is asking the question: "Are you tired of
getting shitfaced every night?" If you
are, indeed, tired of getting shitfaced
every night, then the new Evergreen
Gaming Guild is for you. The EGG will
do pleasure-inducing things like card
games, board games, and something
called "live action role games," which
do not involve dice, but do involve
acting out actual scenes using just your
wits, cunning, and ability to superfurrow your brow at your opponents.
It's all about the evil eye. If this sounds
like fun, come to an interest meeting at
6 p.m., Monday, Dec. 3 in Mod 309A.
For more information, call 867-1779,
but not too late, you viscous, viscous
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Saturday
Dunun Bonanga. D r u m workshop 1 1 a.m. - 7 p.m. at the Organic
Farm. Brought to you by the Percussion Club. Call 867-6781 for more
information.
Live Performance. New Old Time Chautauqua. Featuring members of the
Flying Karamazov Brothers, aerialist Amanda Starr, The Mud Bay Jugglers and
more. 7 p.m. at Capitol Theater. $12 general, $10 Olympia Film Society
members, $7 kids 12 and under.
21st Annual TideFest Fine Arts & Crafts Show. Features 150 Northwest
professional artists. Art on sale includes: paintings, weavings, jewelry,
clothing, glass art, pottery, wood, toys and much more. Will be held at Gig
Harbor High School in Gig Harbor. 10 a.m. — 5 p.m. Admission: $3. Free
parking. Continuous entertainment and a student-sponsored international
foods area will be featured throughout the weekend. Also on Sunday, Dec.
2 from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

£1j Trash Bash on the Evergreen Beach Trail. Help clean up the forest and prep
! ecological restoration sites. Meet at the trailhead in F-Lot. 2 — 5 p.m. For more
information, contact fortheplants@olynetwork.org.
i Climbing Clinics. Learn how to use the gym, how to belay, and different climbing
techniques. One on one tutorial and lots more! Everyone welcome. Cost: $1. 3
- 5 p.m. at the CRC climbing gym. Sign up at the S&A office or call Petrika at
866-1626. Also takes place on Friday, Nov. 30 from 4 — 6 p.m.

Friday
^ Native Arts Fair. Over three dozen vendors from Alaska, Canada, California
^ ' and New Mexico will offer pottery, carvings, fine art, jewelry, clothing, and more.
Featuring Inuit artist Othniel "Art" Oomittuk, a self-taught woodcarver focusing
on masks and a rising star among Native carvers. Admission is free. Buy a lunch
of Indian tacos. Campus parking is $1.25. Call Trudi Pulsifer at ext. 6718 for
more info. 1 1 a.m. - 6 p.m. in the Longhouse. Sponsored by the Longhouse
Education and Cultural Center.
WTO N-30 Anniversary Celebration at Evergreen.
(1) Anti-Oppression Training with Dr. Leticia Nieto. "If your eyes are the window
to the soul, it's like Windex for the prejudice stuck on them." There will be free
cookies too. 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. in Library Room 3500.
(2) Break for Change! Breakdancing workshop and performance with the Massive
Monkeys. Free. At 7 p.m. in the Library Lobby. Come get ill. Sign up in ASIA's
office for workshop or call for more info at 867-6033.
Angels in America: Perestroika. A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony
Kushner. Directed by Matt Smith. A Tony Award-winning show. 7 p.m. — 11 p.m.
at the Recital Hall in the Communications Building. This is a benefit show for
UCAN (United Communities AIDS Network). Audience is encouraged to donate
to organization in lieu of admission. Also on Saturday, Dec. 1 and Sunday, Dec.
2. Admission is free. Parking on Friday is $1.25; Saturday and Sunday FREE. For
more information call (360) 866-6833.
The People's Holiday. A Celebration of Art and Action in Seattle. Second
Anniversary of the 1999 WTO Ministerial in Seattle. Activist tables, information
sharing, speakers addressing issues of globalization, prison reform, art and activism,
real (non-GMO) food, keynote address by South African Poet Dennis Brutus,
representatives of Voices of the Global South, David Korten and many others.
Performances included (Jim Page, Faith Petric, the Flood, and many others). At Town
Hall, 8th and Seneca (Metro Bus #2). From 3 p.m. - 11 p.m. For ticket information,
call (206) 517-2694 or check out www.seattle.indymedia.org/N30.

Sunday
M^ Lecture on Critical Race Theory and Whiteness. Richard Delgado, professor
I at the University of Colorado School of Law, is a nationally prominent scholar
| and commentator on race in America. Dr. Delgado will speak on the relation
| between Critical Race Theory and whiteness studies. Discussion includes recent
I developments in the legal and ethnic studies literatures on white privilege and the
1 possibility of colorblind solutions to society's racial problems, among other topics.
\e admission. Takes place on University of Washington's main campus in Kane
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Understanding Islam: Toward a World View. An Ongoing Study of Islam. First
of three sessions. Next sessions are on Tuesday, Dec. 11 and Wednesday, Dec. 19.
Free to the Public. 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at the Timberland Library, Olympia. For
info or to RSVP, call (360) 753-0886.

Wednesday
Go see a movie. Mindscreen Movie Night. 6 - 1 0 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1. Call
Mindscreen at 867-6583 for more information.
Medieval Dance Practice. Learn medieval 'dance styles. 6 — 10:30 p.m. in
Library 4300. Brought to you by the Medieval Society. Call 867-6036 for
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blotter
People Stole a Helluva Lot of Things this Fortnight
Tuesday, Nov. 13
3:24 -<>.,m.
A fire alarm goes off in
F-Dorm, but since burnt food or a person's
stupidity didn't cause it, I am at peace.
11:19 p.m.
In a one-report extravaganza, three people are caught underage
drinking in student Housing. But they
are sent to Grievance and all is well once
more.
Wednesday, Nov. 14
3:09 a.m.
Despite the weather's
turning chilly, someone decides to sleep
out in F-Lot. But though they may be able
to ignore the weather, they cannot ignore
the police telling them they are violating
habitation policy.
Thursday, Nov. 15
12:10 a.m.
Two fire alarms are noted
in the CRC. Both are on its second floor,
but while one is a faulty detector, the other
one is a possible malicious pull.
7:25 p.m.
I sing of something
stolen, of an item that \s gone.
But you shall not know its nature, for
info I have none.
Friday, Nov. 16
4:12 p.m.
Taken was the item
Unknown was its name
I know not where it happened
Nor who is now to blame
4:42 p.m.
In a strange twist to the
whole stealing thing, a mountain bike

is found in the woods. Whomever it
belongs to is a lucky person, for property at
Evergreen often goes to an "undiscovered
country/from whose bourn no traveler
returns."
6:07 p.m.
Someone is arrested for
an outstanding warrant from Gray's
Harbor. She is released to their county
police.
10:34 p.m.
Two people are arrested
tonight for MIP. One of them also gets
a possession of drug paraphernalia. And
the car is towed.
Saturday, Nov. 17
1:02 a.m.
In a celebration, perhaps,
of fall break finally coming, four people
get busted for MIP.
The first person is caught sitting on
a window ledge and is later picked up
from Evergreen by her father after she is
cited for MIP.
The second person has an open glass
container of Oly beer. She is also given a
citation for MIP.
The third person, who seems to be
connected with the second person, because
of the proximity of the Oly beer, is also
arrested for MIP
And finally, 18 minutes later, a fourth
person is given an MIP, although the case
is forwarded to Grievance.
1:30 p.m.
In an English translation
of Pablo Neruda, he writes, "But from
each crime are born bullets/That will

one day seek out in you/Where the heart
lies." While I'm not sure what that would
have to do with stolen checks and a case
of fraud, I have no doubt that it applies
somehow.
Sunday, Nov. 18
5:05 p.m.
Oh, to be a bike
that rides in autumn leaves
Because dear old Evergreen
has many bike thieves.
Monday, Nov. 19
12 p.m.
Okay, so the poems of
stealing mayhem have not been grand
things. But how else are you going to
creatively talk about the massive amount
of theft that is now plaguing the campus?
I mean, the attempted theft of a bike or
something from a car is disturbing news
indeed. At least it would be if I wasn't
so jaded.
Tuesday, Nov. 20 - Wednesday, Nov.

21
Nothing happens these two days, which
is most blessed news to the ear.
Thursday, Nov. 22
3:32 p.m.
In a reminder of
Thanksgiving and what it stands for, one
person chooses to partake in fruit of the
vine in a glass. When she sees the officer
coming, she proceeds to give libations to
the ground by dumping it out. But it is

too late and she is arrested for MIP. Still,
there is a happy ending to this for her as
she is given a verbal warning and released
without a criminal citation.
Friday, Nov. 23
9:16 p.m.
A person is stopped for
driving on a fire access road. The officer
recognizes her from a previous arrest for
MIP. This time, she is not busted for
drinking, but rather for having a bottle
of Bacardi rum (750ml) in her back seat.
Instead of it being photographed and
destroyed, as is the general custom with
alcoholic beverages, it is logged into
evidence at Police Services. The person
is given a receipt of property for its possession.
Saturday, Nov. 24
7:02 p.m.
The police stop a car that
drifts from lane to lane. While sometimes
cars do this because of icy roads or to
avoid objects flying at them, the driver
of this car is found to be intoxicated. He
is cited for a DUI and released until he
appears in court.
11:01 p.m.
In the final theft of this
edition of blotter, someone reports that
his hood ornament is missing from his car.
The value is $25, although sentimental
costs are probably much higher.
Sunday, Nov. 25
All is well and nothing happens that
I know of.

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Geoducks Take Home Opener, Move to .500
Next Home Game set for
Friday Against Simon Fraser

photos: Kevan Moore
Greg Johnson, left, elevates and scores while a pair of dumbfounded defenders from Seattle
University look on wishing it weren't so, Johnson ended up with 14points, 2 assists and 4 steals.
Mike Parker, above, goes nuts on a breakaway and the rim suffers. He ended up with
14 points.

by Kevan
The men's basketball team was a
little sluggish for their home opener
this week on the heels of an Alaska
trip two weeks ago, but managed to

play tough and beat Seattle University
71-59. They're now 3-3 on the season.
Coach John Barbee says this year's squad
has a lot of shooters, but the Geoducks
were only 5 of 25 from behind the three

point arc Tuesday.
"If we were at 45 percent from behind
the line, which is where we want to be, it's
a 90-60 blowout," Barbee said a day after
the game. "It's just one of the signs that
we're tired and looking forward to time off
in another week or so."
Before they get a chance to catch their
breath, though, the Geoducks will face

Simon Fraser University out of British
Columbia, Canada, at 7:30 p.m. on
Friday.
"They're tough," says Barbee. "Right
now, they're 10-3."
Andre Stewart led the team in scoring
with 20 points and also had 6 assists. Greg
Johnson and Mike Parker each had 14
points. Quincy Wilder had 10 points.

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Part One of a Two Part Series on Evergreen's Radical
Catholics and the Modern Roman Catholic Church
The Radical Catholics would like you to
know that their name is not an oxymoron.
In fact, there is a long tradition of radicalism
in the Catholic Church, dating back to the
founders of the Christian movement, who
broke away from the established dogma
of Roman pantheism and were frequently
martyred to nurture their nascent religion.
The Radical Catholics for Justice and
Peace at Evergreen are descended from the
Catholic Worker Movement. The Catholic
Workers were born from the efforts of a
journalist and a philosopher who started a
newspaper in 1933 promoting the promise
of justice and mercy. The Catholic Workers
advance Liberation Theology, a belief in
the innate humanism and social liberation
ot Christ's teachings. They advocate such
progressive "corporal works of mercy" as
feeding the hungry, offering hospitality
to the homeless, caring for the sick, and
visiting the imprisoned. Such works are
strongly grounded in scripture and believed
to be the responsibility of every Christian.
Some such Christians on campus are the
Radical Catholics. The Radical Catholics
are a s t u d e n t - r u n group with a faculty
ndvisor (Michael Pfeifer x6009) and two
student coordinators, Branden Wilson and

Martha Deckman. They co-host a meeting choosing male disciples and the Church's
with Common Bread every Thursday own long-standing tradition. Further, it
at 7:00 p.m. in the Women's Resource claims "divine provision ... shows clearly
that
Christ's
Center, as well
way
of
acting
as an ecumenical
did
not
proworship service
ceed
from
sociThe
term
"Radical"
is
not
often
every Sunday at
7:00 p.m. in the
paired with "Catholic." Indeed, the ological or cultural motives
Longhouse. All
Radical Catholics break with
peculiar to his
are welcome to
traditional, conservative church
time" and finboth meetings.
instruction in several fundamental
ishes
"...in
The
term
order that all
ways, including the ordination of
"Radical" is not
doubt may be
often paired with
women and birth control.
removed regard"Catholic."
ing a matter
Indeed,
the
of
great imporR a d i c a l
tance
I
declare
that
the
Church
has no
Catholics break with traditional, conservative church instruction in several funda- authority whatsoever to confer priestly
mental ways, including the ordination of ordination on women and that this judgewomen and birth control. On the issue of ment is to be definitively held by all the
women as clergy, Martha Deckman says Church's faithful."
The Radical Catholics see themselves
the Church's stance is a "big problem" and
not
as an alternative to the mainstream
that "there really can't be justice if women
church,
but as continuing a long heritage
aren't involved," and says the Church needs
women in the priesthood so "we have
a voice in the hierarchy." The Church's
most recent response is Pope John Paul
II's Ordinatio Sacerdotalis of 1994. In it,
the Church again rejects accepting women
as priests, citing Christ's example of only

of faith-based activism. Branden Wilson
says, "The early church was very radical
and had a strong sense of community, of
mutual aid ... I think that runs through
the whole tradition." Community is a word
that comes up again and again in Radical
Catholic and Catholic Workers' literature.
The Catholic Church was a largely rural
religion that predates capitalism and was
based on a philosophy that might best
be described as communist. The Radical
Catholics view themselves as keeping
that tradition alive rather than usurping
conventional Church teachings.
The student group receives financial
support and spiritual guidance from St.
Michaels' Catholic Church in Olympia.
On campus, the Radical Catholics have
offered such forums as a non-violence forum
with training by veterans of the School
of the Americas protest, and November's
Interfaith Perspectives on Justice and
Peace, hosted by representatives of the
Christian, Buddhist, Islamic, and Jewish
faiths.

Wednesday's Academic
Fair Slushv but Successful

New Brand of Bargaining
Makes Union Contract Likely
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The Evergreen State College administration reached a tentative agreement
with rhe Washington Federation of State
Employees this week. The new contract
— which is expected to be ratified in early
December and signed at a ceremony on
December 14 — affects non-faculty 'classified' staff. Examples of such classified
staff are Academic Deans, as well as people
that work for Grounds, the Library, the
Bookstore, and Computer Services. For the
contract to be ratified, a majority of union
members must vote for it using mail-in
ballots.
The old contract was reached in 1982
and modified in 1987. Among the nine (out
of twenty) articles opened for discussion
are safety, hours of work, grievance and
dispute resolution, and employee benefits.
Instead of using the old 'formal positional
bargaining' in which each side comes to
rhe table with specific demands and offers
concessions in return, a new 'interest based

bargaining was employed. Interest-based
bargaining places the emphasis on cooperative brainstorming and understanding each
other's underlying interests.
Although primarily a contract between
the staff's union and the college's administration, students could be affected by the new
contact in a small number of ways. For
instance, parking rates have been frozen,
and the bar for on-campus safety in the
workplace has been raised. Despite this, no
students were involved in the negotiations.
The contract will be good for three
years, after which it will be automatically
renewed unless a challenge is brought by
either side. To facilitate communication
without resorting to another round of contract renegotiations, a union/management
committee has been set up.
Union representative Tam Tocher says
that the goal of both sides is to "work
towards a positive trust" that is more in line
with Evergreen's social contract.

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THC

Editor,
I am writing in response to a
While
letter published in die 11/15 paper, which
reading the 10/18/01 CPJ, I
criticizes your decision to publish certain "offensive"
noted with interest various interpretations of
^
cartoons. While I respect the reader's opinion, I do
the Pledge of Allegiance. In particular, the "Student's
•^
not share his interpretation of the material nor his
Pledge," which reads "I pledge allegiance to the classroom of
call to omit such material. I appreciate the cartoons'
Public Education and to the socializing for which it conducts, one
<
presence in this paper and applaud your choice to
prison of the Mind, inoperable, with ignorance and propaganda for all, "
print them. They are not "politically correct," and
caught my eye.
I appreciate that fact as well. Please remember
Public education aims at that highest of ideals — that every person can become a free
that political correctness is an insidious form
t h i n k e r - t h e very opposite of what the author of the "Student Pledge" implies.
of censorship, and should be avoided as such.
A recent Evergreen graduate, I now teach second grade in a rural, underprivileged
This is especially important when considarea of the Mississippi Delta. I mention this only for two reasons.
ering artwork and other forms of
Trustees,
First, if it weren't for my public education and what I saw and
personal expression. Thank you
I am not at all amused to read
learned from it, I'd probably be busting my butt tending
for opening your pages to
in the Cooper Point Journal of Nov. 8 that
my stock portfolio right now. Second, the reasons there
a variety of voices.
approximately 35% of 1996 Evergreen grads had no
are problems with public education isn't because it
experience in science or math. As reporter Erica Nelson noted,
is i n h e r e n t l y flawed; rather, the flaws stem from
Sincerely,
"an education at Evergreen means something." Indeed, what it
the (act that there is not equal funding and that
R ebekah
means to a prospective employer or grad program is that there is a 35%
there aren't enough teachers willing to go into the
probability the Greener knows nothing of science or math.
under-funded areas.
Zinn
In her report on the status of Evetgreen's continuing struggle with the
Perhaps instead of carping about our public
Northwest College Accreditation Committee (NCAC), Erica also noted, "And now,
education system, the author should leave the
Evergreen is in no danger of losing accreditation due to a lack of general education."
sheltered Evergreen campus and come visit
Everyone needs to understand that the most important word in that sentence is "now."
my school in Marks, Mississippi to get a
For we all know that TESC survived this last accreditation go-round only because NCAC close look at all the good being done. I've
decided to give the college another chance. And that "now" is very ominous. For we also all no doubt that when the author leaves
know that TESC has been trying for years to get more math & science into the curriculum, Evergreen for good, she will be able
but faculty gridlock has prevented it from happening.
to put her great, publicly subsidized
So let me ask you: what assurance do we current students have that TESC will make TESC education to use, working «Ji
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NCAC happy next go-round? How can we be sure that, five years hence, when we are towards socially progressive goals
competing for jobs or graduate programs, TESC won't have its accreditation revoked, ... p e r h a p s even as a p u b l i c
resulting in a catastrophic devaluation of our degrees? I realize that a revocation of school teacher.
accreditation subsequent to my graduation would not revoke my degree, and that I
could still legally claim to have a college degree. But my competitive position would
— Brian Blacklow, alum
be demolished. Without that assurance, I risk wasting years of my life in a college
whose accreditation will vanish, leaving me high and dry.
I am not amused.
Please advise: is it time for us to start looking for other colleges?

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PSYCHOSIS IS Fill?
by Nate Hngen

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eople are trying to balance their lives constantly. We live in a society where you can take
a variety of "happy" pills to prevent you from going mad. This should be one of the first
clues to tell us aJl that something is definitely @#$@$%#@#\t that's OK, because you've got
Prozac, Ritalin, Zoloft, Paxil, and <he Brave New World's favorite, Soma. I think it would be
much easier and less costly if we just let people go nuts. What's wrong with not being able to
organize your life, be responsible, and perform such meaningless tasks as work, when you can
get along much better by completely losing it? That sounds like a much happier existence than
blowing the wad you make from your shit job on head-meds every month.
Did you ever think that it's not your fault that your life is a circus? See, they want you to
think that you are completely responsible for everything that happens in your day-to-day life.
That's why I depend on others to house me, feed me, and in some cases bathe me, right? The
latter is a long story, but you can just imagine what it's like to have an elephant hose you down.
Wait, scratch that, reverse it, and presto. Ah, that makes much more sense.
You see, it's much more fun to let it all go and spill out your neurosis onto paper so that
people know that all of us are a little crazy. Some people just prefer to be crazy in different
ways. Some Hindus believe lying on a bed of nails is good for you, nurtures the soul, brings
Nirvana. I think these people are out of their minds, but hey, whatever floats your boat.
They think we're crazy to be eating cows. And at the rate we eat them now, we'll all be
reincarnated into amoebas. Personally, I wouldn't mind. It sounds like quite a peaceful
existence, but you're hardly noticed and people don't give you the respect you deserve. I
changed my mind; I'd be a really fucking lonely amoeba. Sorry about that, but I had to
set the record straight on that one.
Now, I think I had a point to these random tangents a second ago. Oh yeah—if you let
yourself cut the invisible line between genius and madness, then you are probably on the verge
of leading a fuller life. You have to think about what will be said about you after you die. Do
you want people to say, "Francis was a boring fellow, rather normal actually. He had a petty
job as a the manager of a company that manufactures bathroom radios that hold your toilet
paper, and he spent most of his free time in his .house afraid of the outside world and took
pills to straighten out his chemical imbalance"; or "Francis the dancing, juggling, free-spirited
junkie hopped around through life without a care in the world and lost his head, oh, about six
or seven times and played every day and made a living out of being insane!" The Tao knows
that several people have done this and succeeded. If any of you doubt this statement, try
visiting Capitol Hill. Need I say more? Narfl

OIL imperanves
by Krystal Kyer

M

any people are u n f a m i l i a r with the evidence and reasons supporting the
claim that oil plays a role in the war on Afghanistan. Popular (corporate)
media is not putting forth such claims, so people who rely on them as the source
of information may think that such ideas are leftist absurdities. Therefore, I will
present some brief reasons that support the argument that control of oil in the
Middle East is one goal of the war. The information I've provided is available
on the Internet or where I've cited. Nothing can be proven absolutely, especially
when the government operates in secret and lies about what it chooses to tell
the public. Even so, the following should at least bring legitimacy to the raising
of the issue of oil in the war on terrorism.
1) President Bush and (vice) President Cheney, as well as several appointed
top cabinet members, have incestuous ties to the oil and energy industry.
They've all worked for, owned, or held stock in various fossil fuel corporations,
and many family fortunes were built on oil. I he fact thai our government is
made up of oil industry execs is enough to raise suspicion on its intentions.
Likewise, Bush's and bin Laden's families share the same business interests.
2) Bush's National Energy Policy was formulated in secret by Cheney's oil industry officials (and-who else?). 'Cheney refuses to disclose the details of
<* meetings and attendees to the public as ordered by the General Accounting Office.
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' I 3) The de facto energy policy remains the same—to ensure access to abundant and cheap oil. Economics professor Ralph Murphy has stated this
'many times, and history has supported it. Bush's new energy policy relies on it; the U.S. military enforces it.
4) The Persian Gulf War is an ongoing example of policy enforcement. Kuwait is a big oil supplier to the U n i t e d States. Iraq wanted
and still wants Kuwait's oil fields, which would increase our dependence on Saddam Hussein. Likewise, bin Laden seeks control of oil for
J
political and economic power.
Si. 5) U.S. dependence on oil is clearly explained in Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer prize-winning book and later PBS series, The Prize. In short, he says oil is
the U.S. economy as we know it today and as it has evolved in the 20* century. A suggested reading.
6) Our economy depends on oil for transportation, plastics, and pesticides. These markets are huge and entirely fossil fuel dependent. The
'transportation sector is the largest single user of oil. The auto industry and gasoline corporations expect gigantic future profits, and as long as oil is
available, they will not change their technologies to decrease our dependence. Coincidentally, since this war emerged, gasoline prices have fallen to
ninety cents per gallon in some cities! Crude oil is $17/barrel now compared to $30/barrel earlier this year.
7) A just published French book called Bin Laden, the Forbidden Truth, claims that the U.S. had been negotiating with the Taliban up until August"
2001 for a secure government and agreement to allow pipelines through Afghanistan. They also cite sources that say U.S. officials threatened the Taliban
at these meetings (we are negotiating with the Taliban?) to accept U.S. terms or prepare for a military attack.
8) Not surprisingly, Bush chose to bypass legal action through intelligence and international courts in search of justice, and opted for illegal "*
^military retaliation on the whole of Afghanistan. Hence, we've positioned even more U.S. military forces in the Middle East and gained more
control over the oil-rich region.
9) This allows the U.S. to effectively control vast proven fossil fuel reserves in the region and direct them to South Asian markets, where
U.S. corporations can profit and our government can have secure resources for a continued oil economy. In the mid-1990s, Unocal negotiated
with the Taliban to build a pipeline through Afghanistan from Turkmenistan and gain control of Caspian oil and new markets. Taliban officials .
I traveled to Texas for these meetings.
10) Oil industry journals openly state their interests in precisely that region. Numerous articles discuss possibilities for development of those oil and
•natural gas reserves, including analysis of strategic locations and possible routes to U.S.-dominated Asian markers. Afghanistan appears to be the best
route for political reasons at this time. BP also publicly spells out their interest in the region on their website.
•*;' 11) To secure our interests, military bases are established in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia and Israel. Israel receives more U.S.
J'aid than any other single country. Israel is armed and financed ($3 billion/year!) by the U.S. as a geopolitical tool for its strategic location and
as a regional ally to enforce U.S. oil interests there.
; 12) In a recent BBC article, a senior military official told them that if oil supplies were disrupted, the "U.S. would be prepared to send in
its forces to take control of the oil fields." This was the last line of an article purporting to discredit claims that the war is about oil! Oil supply
^wasn't disrupted, but preventive measures work better anyway.
I This information is enough to allow us to at least consider that what the government and corporate media are saying may not be true. |
Certainly it serves their interests, not ours. Instead of relying on their lines, each of us should look at the facts we have about the world and'
decide what makes more sense. Let all the facts speak for themselves, rather than theory, ideology or propaganda. Ignoring these facts by:
failing to put the pieces together prevents us from seeing the whole picture. It is clear that oil plays a role in our involvement in the Middle
East, and I believe that it is no small role.
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arts & entertainment
Vhat's Eating Annie

Lei bovitz?

Seventy of Annie Leibovitz's photographs hang at the Seattle Art Museum until January 6
by Chris Mulally
Seeing A n n i e Leibovitz's e x h i b i t
WOMEN at the Seattle Art Museum will
stop you from having sexual fantasies. Her
photographs say you cannot use people
to please yourself, demean people, or take
advantage of them w i t h your t h o u g h t s
or words. But you c o n t i n u e to do t h a t ,
don't you?
But r e a l l y how could you t h i n k of
women as objects of beauty? What of our
noses and hips and cheekbones? Why do our
FUNCTIONAL body parts-lend toward
objectification? How are our mouths, eyes
— so drenched in sensory function — how
have they become barometers of beauty?
It's because we are bored. Bored! I know
that's it.
But are only men guilty? No. Women
too. Our minds are too fast and we constantly make up things that don't exist - like
beauty. How can a nose be beautiful? Look
at it! Two nostrils! Sinus cavities strung up
like spaghetti strands! A beautiful sense of
smell? It's for smelling, 1 swear!
H a n g i n g in the gallery the color of
rain at the Seattle Art Museum, Annie's
photographs are large, total about seventy,
and sit just above us, looking us down. The
people in them have authentic expressions.
They are sad. All with the juice of their
professions spilled in the lines on their faces,
in their grinless m o u t h s , in their clothes
— some dirty, some starched pressed and
clean. These are some of our people thai
have died onto the film. Our Americans
Our mothers and us.
Because the pictures are blown up we
can revilly sit our eyes on the skin of their
pores, on their bruises (tor the domestic
violence photos), on their breasts (tor the
dancers), on t h e i r eyes (if it is the photo
of Leibovitz's mother), or their arms (it it's
the athletes).
Annie shot America, or at least tried
to, and America lies dead in the heat of
their lives in the photos. Wh.it ol t h i s

r

though? Everyone looks run down, btil by
w h a t ? Susan Sontag, in
her forward to the book
"Women" by Leibovitz
(that accompanies the
exhibit) says women have
been run down by men.
We know t h i s already,
right? Or do we?

We know men have
ha missed women for millenia. Bui there's a deeper
sadness t h a t exists in
the faces on the w a l l s
— something regarding
money and mirrors and
makeup and objectification and time and death,
but what? What is eating
Annie Leibovitz w i t h her
photos?
Posted on the w a l l
ot the exhibit, Sontag
says "We assume a world
with a boundless appetite for images in which
people, women and men,
are eager to s u r r e n d e r
One of Lei/witz'sphotographs displayed nt the SAM
themselves to the camera.
But ii is worth recalling t h a t there are parts camera film, naked w i t h clothes on them.
of the world where to be photographed They seem unreal looking at the camera.
is s o m e t h i n g o f f - l i m i t s to women. The But 1 know they're real because when I walk
imperial rights of the camera — to gaze at, through the museum everyone I see viewing
to record, to exhibit anyone, a n y t h i n g — the exhibit seems to have walked out ot one
are an exemplary feature of modern l i f e , as ot the life-size photos on the walls. Here we
are a hundred breathing photos, a thousand
is the emancipation of women."
I he c u r a t o r ol the museum stabbed breathing items in Annies womb. We are
nudes next to clothed, cheerleaders in Texas picture parts of some kind ot dream. But
next to Barbara Bush; Venus and Serena what is really e a t i n g A n n i e l.iebovitz?
When your parents were young and
Williams next to larmers. Tennis players,
breast cancer surgeons, BMX riders, strip- Vietnam was giving birth to Hell, Annie
pers, Madeleine Albright, Drew Berrymore, L e i b o v i f z m a d e h e r m a r k w o r k i n g f o r
Mic (aggers w i f e and son, Senators, teach- Rolling Stone. In 1970 she was 21 and she
ers, philanthropists, weight lifters. America, received her first assignment - to photograph
Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane. Then
' right? Not exactly, but . . .
The p h o t o g r a p h s are people tied to a lew years later she shot John Lennon with
the gun of her camera, just hours before
he was assasinated! (You h a v e seen the
nude picture ot John draped over clothed
Yoko Ono).
Since t h a t point she established herself
as a photography artist. Highly influential
in this Century. Working lor Vanity Fair,
Vogue, Life, Time. She sought to record but
not alter reality and
1 has been awarded for

A Modern^
Sexual Dispute

by Suzanne Lea Morrison

Ever since Eve ottered Adam the apple,
humankind has asked the question: who
is the fairer of the sexes? This question was
relevant to 1 8'''-century French playwright
Marivaux when he explored h u m a n virtue,
thrived in the new intellectual freedom
ot the E n l i g h t e n m e n t , and wrote his
famous play La Dispute. This play, which
is sure to tantalize and entertain, will be
performed at Evergreen as a Senior Thesis
project under the clever direction ot Jon
Tallman.
The plot of La Dispute focuses on four
children who have been held captive and in
isolation by a Prince tor his own perverse
experiment. When these children come
of age, they are released into an empty
palace where they encounter each other
as fresh minds and bodies. How will they
behave? How will they 'naturally' act with
the opposite sex? Who will betray whom
first, the man or the woman?-Z,a Dispute is
a play of emotional and sexual ping- pong,
filled with tension, playfulness, cruelty and
innocence. The characters are charismatic
and animated.
Stephen Wadsworth, a translator, says
of Marivaux, "He captured the fallible,
changeable, scheming, rapturous heart of
any lover, in any time. He plotted life's
wicked ironies beautifully."

29, 2001

this work. She has won photographer of the
year awards, been featured in S m i t h s o n i a n
retrospectives, photographed t h o u s a n d s
of f a m o u s and n o n - f a m o u s people trom
Greg Louganis to Mic jagger, to Whoopie
Goldberg, and people t h a t don't get paid
a lot in between. And she even handled
some ot the "Got Milk" photos with m i l k
mustaches.
Maybe Leibovitz is being eaten by the
t r u t h ol her art form. Sometimes the t r u t h
about photography is that it's a lie! A hoax!
I'm always looking at pictures of others
or myself wondering do I really look like
t h a t ? I don't. Photographs t r a p or kill time.
I hat's the living moment being murdered
right in the casket of the negative. But
that's not the reason why everyone is sad in
the Seattle Art Museum's exhibit. 1 hope
you can carpool to Seattle and pay a few
dollars to cut your eyes on her photos and
find out why.
•Chris Mulally can be reached by email
at ctnulally@holiTiail.com
•The Seattle Art Museum can be reached
at (206) 654-3100

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_hy Cherie del Calambra
V.S. Naipaul's collection of scories
In a Free State opens w i t h excerpts
from a travel journal: observations of
an itinerant tramp travelling by ferry
between Greece and Egypt. T he tramp
is in pitiable condition, not in his
right mind: edgy, poorly socialized,
eccentric. He is bullied, then forgotten
at trip's end by passengers pursuing
their separate ways.
With its i n t i m a t i o n s of t r a n s i t
and despair, the excerpt is a fitting
prologue for the stories that follow:
"One Out of Many" p o r t r a y s the
wanderings of an I n d i a n cook who
travels to Washington, D.C., where he
•is bereft of his former understanding
of life, and loses his purpose for living.
"Tell Me Who to K i l l " charts the

strivings of an Indian Trimdadian in
London who crumbles to the realization that his brother- fixed in his mind
as redeemer of their squalid past — has
lost courage and renounced pursuit of
redemption. At story's end, the man
wonders who to kill for his debased
state of affairs.
Naipaul paints a bleak picture with
his collection, and he strikes gold (of
a tarnished, smutty variety) with his
evocation of feelings fearful and dark.
In comparison to characters in Arlene
J. Chai's The Last Time I Saw Mother
— another work in which yearning and
restlessness play large part — Naipaul's
are lonejfer, poorer, and less-educated.
The^works' common ground lies
in their,', depiction of transience:

people move from the Philippines to
Australia, the provinces to Manila,
Bombay to D.C., Trinidad to London.
Relationships disintegrate, people die,
nothing proves stable—neither home
nor love nor life.
"One Out of Many" and "Tell Me
Who to Kill" conclude with characters
drained of their resources for living.
Chai's characters meet intimations of
mortality and the vacuum of definitive
purpose with the age-old antidotes
of family, socializing, and religious
piety. With or w i t h o u t antidotes,
however, all despair, wander, and
wait: for stability to materialize, for
the end, for answers. In essence, Chai
and Naipaul's are the same story of
human despair.

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How much does

the real reasons
that can never
be
revealed.
Only the goldenA review of a biography of Kurt Cobain
haired boy from
blistering set that included covers of the light. In this,
Aberdeen and
Velvet Underground's "Here She Comes he reveals a
his heaven know
Now" and Portland's own Wipers' "D7." portrait of a
that story. I only
Though my mind has only a fuzzy recol- man whose
hope Kurt's trip
lection, my body remembers how it felt to c o m p l e x i t y
into the next
be present on the verge of something great. and secrets no
world made him
My friend Randy said, "These guys are one will ever
lighter
somegonna be big." He turned out to be right. know. Cross
how.
I'm sure many others felt the same way that answers some
CAUTION
night. It was utter magic.
questions, but
A B O U T
I saw Nirvana one other time. They Cobain's vioDEPRESSION:
opened for D.O.A. and Coffin Break. I lent
death
Those who are
still have the flyer with Nirvana printed only
begs
a l r e a d y
in tiny letters like an afterthought. I never more quesdepressed and
saw them post the album "Nevermind." I tions
than
contemplating
never caught Nirvana fever. They were just even a very This man, Kurt Cobain, grew up in Aberdeen, Washington, suicide should
another band to me.
astute
and which is maybe two hours from Olympia by car. That
use the utmost
But I followed their story j u s t like skilled author county, Grays Harbor, has an unusually high suicide rate.
care when readeveryone else I knew. The story that grew could answer.
ing this book.
bigger than them. The story that blew up
One question that is never adequately And if you are feeling suicidal, please call
in Kurt's face in the end.
answered when someone commits suicide the Crisis Clinic or go to the Counseling
Author Charles Cross paints Kurt is "Why?" Every explanation carries Center on campus and tell someone. There
Cobain in loads of shadow and very little encoded w i t h i n it the expectation of is always hope as long as you're alive.

Heaven

by Verna Doherty
Nirvana's music will always be tinged
with Kurt Cobain's blood. I cannot listen
to that gritty guitar and those virulent
vocals and not think about what might
have be<p, what never was, and the leftover
shadow of pain and death that lingers and
hovers around Nirvana's music even years
after Cobain's suicide in 1994.
So I very hesitantly picked up Charles
R. Cross's book "Heavier Than Heaven - A
Biography of Kurt Cobain," and reluctantly
started the journey through Kurt's life in
this bio-after-the-fact. It was a cover-tocover, late night, under the blankets read.
There were moments that sucked me in
and times when I had to leave the book
and go back to my own life, so as not to get
sucked under in the narrative of depression,
addiction and suicide.
I first saw Nirvana at the Satyricon
Club in Portland, Oregon. It was New
Year's Eve. 1990 was giving birth to 1991.
In my hazy memory, Nirvana played a

MORE HARRY POTTER?

by Jen Btackford

Why, someone might ask, am I review- with what it's like to live in an altered state
ing Harry Potter? After all, it's a heavily- of reality.
hyped children's series that has more
merchandise attached to it than I have The Books
Reading them is like a crash course in
things in my house. And you would make
the
world of fantasy literature with the usual
a good point.
But I'm still going to review it because elements of magic, destiny, and general
many people I know at Evergreen saw this .strangeness.
I wouldn't judge them as classic literamovie or read the books (even if they won't
ture.
They're not meant for that, and
admit it) and are at least semi-familiar
although
someday in
the future
(perhaps
winter
quarter),
someone
will
get
credit for
studying
them, they
shouldn't
be read for
analysis.
Instead,
the
four
books in
the series
(currently)
should be
read
as
e n t e r taining
children's
books that
"Buy Harry Potter toothpaste, or lose 10 Hogwarts'points!"

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do get darker, deeper, and longer the farther
you get in the series.
The Music
The CD score of the movie arrived a
few weeks ago at the CPJ office. Of course,
it somehow made its way to me, she said, as
she ripped out of the editor's hands.
It's pretty music and if you actually keep
track of who does the music for movies,
you could tell it was John Williams. And
the main theme of the movie was quite nice
until I heard it on way too many ads.
It's a score that works better outside
the movie than in it. Often in the movie,
it could be distracting and overly dramatic.
At times, you might say, "Yes, I know this is
an important point. You don't have to raise
the violins to tell me this."
The Movie
And then there was the movie.
Well, British actors are cool and it's nice
to see that Alan Rickman's doing well. And
giant three-headed dogs named Fluffy are
usually good for a few laughs.
And the kid actors didn't irritate me,
which is a bonus, since most child stars
make me want to put my head under a
faucet until they shut up.
Whatever I tell you, you've probably
already made up your mind whether or
not you're going to see it. If you go to it
expecting a masterpiece of children's cinema
and the best movie of the year, you're not
going to find it. But if you go to it looking

for something fun to watch that won't
make your ears bleed, you'll be in good
shape.
The Merchandise
If the books, the commercials, or the
movie trailers didn't convince me to see
the movie, why do people assume a fiftyfoot tall billboard will suddenly spark
my interest? This is the one thing that
really irritates me about all the Harry
Potter insanity. It's a sign of our times,
I know, but it doesn't have to be quite
so large.
Recommendations
Books: The Dark is Rising series by
Susan Cooper, The Lord oj the Rings
trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien, and anything
written by Neil Gaiman.
Music: John Williams did a whole
bunch of scores, so if you like his work,
you can get a lot of CDs with it. Like Star
Wars, Jurassic Park, and other delightful
movies that made quite a bit of money. Is
that a coincidence?
Movies: Labyrinth comes to mind. It's
a tale of a man named David Bowie who
wears tight white pants and is supposedly
king of the goblins. He also sings. A lot.
But seriously, it's fun and it has puppets.
Merchandise: I cannot, in good conscience, recommend any commercial
products. Unless you count the really cool
Ghostbusters marshmallow man pencil
sharpener I got when I was 10.

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Performers Crawl out
for Works in Progress
by Thomas ChenhaJT

Saturday, Nov. 7, in the post
twilight hours, some of the greatest
musicians in Olympia gathered for
an amazing four-hour performance
to benefit our local watchdog newspaper. The call came out from a
Works In Progress (WIP) volunteer,
'Here ye, bring yon ass to Oly World
News on Saturday," and the place
was packed.
Over 110 folks plunked down
five bucks to see a tremendous show
that included local icon Calvin
Johnson, singing seamstress Rebecca
Pearcy, countrified rapper Sandman,
punky troubadour Jason Traeger,
and entertainment renaissance man
Andras Jones. With so many great
performers donating talents and so
many local music lovers donating
their hard-earned cash, WIP was able
to raise over $520 to pay the printing
costs that allow the volunteer, nonprofit progressive paper to reach the
Olympia community each month.
First up, at eight o'clock sharp,
was a nut-ball unnamed duo of
performers slinging songs about
p u b l i c transit, disenchantment,
and the WWF. The other song they
performed (a self-titled "icebreaker")
was an intense song in the time
signature of 10.
Next up was Rebecca Pearcy. Talk
about a beautiful performance - this
one was tops. My favorite was the
song about getting back to the big
city, and why she doesn't live in
one.- Also very well performed was
a dynamic trio of love songs. A's she
stated, these three songs cover an
epoch. Love grows, flourishes, and
dies. Forever remembered will be her
amazing, "F-ing Out of Mind".
Third to perform was the dynamic
Sandman. Always the amazing performer, sometimes known as the
"Hip-Hop Cowboy," Sandman slid
effortlessly between smooth hiphop poetics to crisp country tunes
covering everything from 187-JOE
(the name of his old car's license
plate) to That Sweet Italian Girl
(under his tree).
Fourth up was K Records' Jason
Treager. What an amazing surprise.
Jason presented all new songs for this
show and hadn't played a show in

nearly 6 months. Jason was thinking service by recording the whole show
of quitting show biz for good until to disk. CDs of the show are not
a WIP volunteer called him up and available yet, but maybe soon they
requested his presence. I would call will be.
Jason's "SEX CHICKEN" the most
Last to perform was Calvin
oddball piece of KFC propaganda Johnson. Like all the other acts,
ever to surface from the KFC under- Calvin played a solo gig with just
ground. Not that it was all fun and him and his guitar. Direct from a
games - Jason had some seriously fast trip down from his performance
well written material
to
play, educating us
about the
difficulties in relationships.
J a s o n
e v e n
threw out
a special
jingle,
"You'll
l e a r n
something you
didn't
know at
the Jason
Treager
Show." It
was
an
excellent
A capella and angry at the Nov. 7 Works In Progress benefit
jingle, as
far as jingles go.
Next
came a powerhouse hour long perfor- with Built To Spill that same night
mance by Andras Jones. Beautiful in Seattle, Calvin was surprisingly
music poured from Mr. Jones's strings energetic. He went through some
as potent lyrics came through. It's hard positive songs and some spooky
to explain the sort of music Andras songs, and soon he was chanting
makes. It is certainly very political, like an Indian. The show with Built
and could be a modern kind of folk To Spill was just a warm-up for this
music. He sung one song that was show at Oly World News, Calvin
inspired by the elections, ending with said. He went on to talk about his
"Doesn't anybody remember what feelings about Works In Progress,
it was like before September? We America's recent rash of flag waving,
hated him!" Also played were a couple and spoke in a very personable way
songs from an up-coming album to about a variety of things going on
be produced next month in British in the world.
Overall, the show was a smash
Columbia. He played a very catchy
song called "Flag Free Zone," and hit and exceeded expectations.
went on to talk about the imponant Hopefully the next Works In Progress
role Works In Progress plays'in the benefit will be just as good For more
community as a watchdog newspaper, information seek Works In Progress:
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comes out. Please, oh please,
get all of your submissions, stuff,
uh, things, letters, comix,
classifieds, and advertisements in
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