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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 30, Issue 13 (February 21, 2002)

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• Demanding Representation

, a nd do yo u think it's a problem on ,
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Bring this with you to Chibi Chibi Convention February
23 at TESC to be entered for a raffle.
Or drop it by
G.R.A.S. (the Giant Robot Appreciation Society) in the Student
Activities office. Must be present at the Anime Dance to wzn.

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"Alcoholism really isn't ,
up to me to determine:
what it is, because it's ,
kind of
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for me, but I th ink ,
that people shou ld be ,
responsib le for their own alcohol:

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- Steph an ie Cook
Part Time Studies, Freshman

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, "Well , I guess alcohol.
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ism is an addiction
to alco hol.. . .1 really
don't know mu c h
abo ut campus because
I don'llivc on camp us
and thi s is my first year he re so
I'm pretty out of the loop as far as
knowing ifit's a problem or no t."
- Bronwyn Bacon ,
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"Alco holism is basicall y'
when people are physi.
ca ll y addicted to a!cohoi, they cannot li ve a
normal life without it
and they have to drink
every 'i ng le day. M.,ny people ar c
"ddictcd without knowing it and Ihey
drink every day and they say that rh ey
like to drink every day, it's not an
addiction. I think thar if it's a cultu ral
rhing, people should drink; if it's a
culrural thing, if ir". a religious thing,
if it's a sp iritu al thing for th em, but
,II rill' saone tim e, ir is a p rohlem o n
c.lInpus, and it's a problem in the
l'nircd Srates, [alcoholJ is the spo nso r
"f rhe O lympics. People need to Stop
drinkin~ ,md stop wa tchin g teleVISion
and just srudy."
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, " I define it [a!co, ho lism] as somebody
thaI is Jependant on
.,!coho!. .. to maybe
help them get thro ugh
tough situatio ns, or get
them through co ll ege life ... so mcbodv who needs or cons umes alcoho l
on ~lOre than on an occasional ba,i, ...
I think with wme people, yes, it is
.1 problem. It's .lpp.lI'ent by our recon tac[s wi Ih the same people."
- Office r Tony Neely
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"Well. I'J have to saJ
if you cons istentl y ttn~1
you r,elf in trouble by
you r .licohol consump[i on, it 's worthy of
taking a look at a s a
proble m . Yeah, for sure [it's a problem
,, o n ca m pus.1 ..
, - Trevot Anderson
, Looking Backward, Senior

februar y14

TESC
Olympia, WA 98505
Address Service Req ucsted

Evagran shldml Evan Hilltings gtts assisted out ofthe Capilal ROII/na'a
wilh the help of a SllIte Trooper earlier Ihis wuk. College sll/dmls from
across Iht sial( UJent to the enpital 011 Monday to addrm propostd tllilion
hikes, Ihat lIIay reach 14 percent, along wit" SlIbstantial/y redllced
fitndillg. Evergr"n is bracingfor the hikts and preparing 10 makt CIIls
between 2.5 and 5 percent, 011 the hu1s ofa thr" pacent CLit last
year. DiSCIISJiollS on redllCliollS to the SlIidtlll AjJilirs budget - which

COVtrs Smdent and Acadtmic SlIpport Savices, studmt activiti", poliet
urvices, ath/uir" and mrollmmt strvicts - will bt htld from 12:30 to 2
p.m. on Friday, February 22, in tht boardroom on tht Ihird floor oftht
library. Only five Slt/dmlS showtd lip (or tht first forum to l((Irn Ihat tht
swim I(am, Crime Watch, First ptoples'gradualion funding, and mort
may be eliminated entirely, alongsidt wbstan/iolly reductd SIIpporl fo r
"vaal jobs and servias. - Kevan Moort

Bomb Threat Clears Tacoma Campus
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he Tacoma ca mpus was evacuated
las t week following rwo bomb
threats filled with racia l slurs. Both
calls, acco rdin g ro police repom , occllrred
on Tuesday, Fehruary 12 , at nearl y th e
same rIme.
The first call went to a receptionist at
Ihe Tac"n13 ca mpus. The caller sa id, " I
JUSt want all you nig~ers ar the sc hool [0
know that the re is a bomb and it's going
[0 blow. "
The receptio ni s t ca ll ed here to th e
Olympia cam pu s and spoke to poli ce
di spatche r Cl if Young, who told her to
call 91J. At ap proximately the sa me time,
John Carmichael, sec rcta ry to President
Les Purce, rece ived a seco nd call, this one
srating, "We want [0 let YO Il k now that up
at the Tacoma ca mpus , all the nigger' are
going [0 be blow n lip . There is a bomb.
This week."
Ca ronichad says this was a " J O-seco nd
phone ca ll." and the caller did not ask for
Purce. Borh c.llls caone in at .lpproximately
2:20 p.m.
TacomJ police searched the building and
found no bomb. Chie f of Po li ce Services
Steve l-Iuntsberry then gave permi>sion ror
the bu ilding [0 be reocc upi ed.
Abour 25 minutes after the ii1 itia l threa ts,
anot her call cam e in to Art Costa ntino's
office here in O lympia. C hief l-Iuntsberry
was in the o ffice and rece ived the ca ll.
Th e caller asked to b e co nnecte d with
people who handled conflict reso lution.

l-IuIHsberry sa id he could not do that, the n
identified him self and asked if he could
help the ca llcr. Th e ca ll er went on to say
that there were "things going · on at th e
Evergreen Tacoma campus ," that it was
"nol a happy env iro nm ent," and that there
was an atmosp here of racism at the college
that was co ndo ned and enco uraged by staff
and faculty.
l-IuIHsberry later stated that he believes
th is call was unrelated [0 t he bomb threat.
Howeve r, thi s caller also used racial ep ith ets
and call ed for a "c hange of command" at
the college.

The Tacoma Police Department is cont inu ing to investigate the threats. Because
of the racia l ep ithets used, this bomb threat
has been classified a hate cri me-whi c h
co uld mean extra penalties if the perpetrato r
is caught.
Additi onally, l-Iuntsbe rry says, this "is
[a) terrorist, " which cou ld bring eve n more
sa nctions because o f the USA Patr iot Act ,
recently passed by Congress and signed by
President George W Bush.
Sec u rity was increased at the Tacoma
campus for th e rest of th e wee k by add in g
an extra daytime security gua rd .

Dcath's Honesty

Memorial Service Held

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bout 80 people attended a Memorial Se rvice for Evergreen student Jonathan Henry
Co rey on Sa turda y, February 16. Jonathan has bee n missi ng since Janu ary 30,
w hen he presumably tried [0 cross Eld Inl et in a canoe.
The se rvice began at U do rm , where Jonathan lived, and proceeded Ihrough misty
rain to the Evergreen beach . Sky Cosby, a longtime friend of Jonathan, began the se rvice
by readi ng a Bob Dylan song:
For Ibose who figl" for wbat Ibey ca'IIIOI see
With fl kilLer's pride SfCllrity.
" blows Iheir minds 1II0S! bitterly,
For them to think rlealhs hOllesty
Won't foil upon them Ilalllrtllly,
Lift sOllletimes /liltS! get lonely.
Pastor Greg Smi th gave a sho rr eulogy. Then more than 25 people ca me forwa rd
[0 offer 'shout outs,' dedications, and stories of how Jo nathan had touched their lives
through his friendship, hi s tutoring, and his irrepressible spir it. Friends sang so me of
Jonathan's favorite songs, incl uding "By the Rivers of Babylon ," " I'm a Booze Bag," and
the o ld-time spiritual "Down By the Water," The somber event was wrapped up with a
moment of si lence and an Om circle.

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Intetested in li chens . .. rain fo rest ecology ... how to use a ma p and com pass ... or
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No rthwest' Instructional and skill-sharin g
walks will leave fo r the Evergree n woods
every Tuesday at 3:30 P. M. Eve rgreen time.
Come if yo u wou ld like to lea rn . or if you
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8 p.m.
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March 1 &2

2002
At the Evergreen State Collefle's

Listen to [hose beats , they're jammin·. Th ey're bumpin' and rockin,' but whateve r they
arc, they are tuggi ng at your lim bs, maki ng you move. Yo u are on a dance Ooor. a moving,
li ving, pulsing oneness. O ut of the corn er of yo ur eye, yo u not ice pcopI e moving back,
form in g a circle. Upon yo ur a rrival there, you stand transfixed to the bea t. warch ing. A
coup le of peo pl e have entered the ci rcle, up- rocking and six-stepp ing.
You le t OUt a chuckle, an unintentional smile and with a twi nkle in yo ur eyes, you step
into th e citcle. If yo u'd li ke to be this perso n, please come to the Breakda nce wo rkshops
in Li bra ry 43 00, sponsored by A.S. I.A. every Tu esdays, at 4:30 p.m. and 7 p. m. T hey
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Students Call
For Action
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O n Valenrine's day, Eve rgree n stu dents
lined up at co urte,y phones on campus in
order to give their se nato rs a piece of their
minds. Th e WashPI RG-o rganized "call -in
day" was p ut in ac ti on in an attempt to
stick it to Pres ide nt Bush's energy po li cy
p la n, which cal ls for h uge subsidies for
oi l compan ies and so-ca lled "clean coal"
resea rch. "Clean coa l" is ,1 term used to put
a green veil over the jel-black "nog that coal
subsidie, perpetuate. Most grmcsgue of all
is Bu>h'~ call lor drilling in Abb's ArClic
N.lIional \X 'ildli(e Refuge .1\ .1 re'ponsible
way 10 In""1 our dependenel' on foreign
sources of oil. \'(I.lsh 1'1 RC .I, ked tht·ir I"llow
srudents to c.tli their ~cn;lIor' and r"IHind
them thH rhe 1"',1 \\,.1:- [0 ensure our energy
rUlure and ,kerra,e our dependencI' on
foreign oil is ro dccr"a~e our dependency on
uil .IIlJ [""il fuel, Ih,·nb,·11 c.,. By I',,,hll'g
for renewable and nonpolluting energy
sourc,',. such os wind .1Ild solar power, .. long
with fllel cel ls and 1110re crficielll me .lnd
prodllcllon of l'ncrgy, Wt' ca ll impro\"C

air qu.llity and protect pristine
for o,mell'''' and our ch ildren.

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Based in O lymp ia, the T ime Capsule
project is bei ng o rgan izcd to get the
Everg ree n Community to write about
9/1 1 and the events that followed . Tacoma
Campus is now gett ing in vo lved with
the project. We want to thank N l'R for
dona ting 15 transcrip ts to the time caps ule.
T h roughout events aroll nd 9/1 1, NPR
p rovi ded in-dept h detailed coverage. I
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them, and they showed great interest in th e
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Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a senio r
thes is project d irected by Molly Rooney
and designed by Patrick Delozier. O ne of
the fi rst plays written by D avid Mamet,
this dark comedy is se t in C hicago in
1976. T his play is an episodic, f.~st paced
work, which exp lores sexua l stereotypes
and the pathos of urban li fe.
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Jan usz Mark Ost rycharz. Nichole Vernita
Thein, and Joshua Rain Tu nrland.

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S-Dorm Smokes the Competition This Week, Literally
Monday, February 11

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gree nery. They
beckon the red -truck-driving,
hose-spraying
Dalmatian
b, eed"" to the p rese n ce of
two clearly smoldering glass
pipes. Instead of telephoning
the firemen to invite the m to
this smok in g sess ion, these
st ud en ts opted to use a blaring
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ahrm in S-Dorm (t hat's 1111"
feeble attempt at sire n o n(;mJtOpoeia).
I qu ole thL'
rcpot:,:ing o ffi cer direc t ly:
"There was smoke visib le
throu g hout the resi de nce. I
observed that th ere was a pot
on the SlOve and that smo ke
was co min g from the burner
.[(ea. I pbced th e pot off the
stOVe and insured th e stove
was off. .. after co mpleting rhe
check rh e ahrm was reset."
There's a lesso n ro be le'lrlled
here , kiddies. S moke your
pots on stoves. lr's lega l, I
swear.

Tuesday, February 12
· 4 2 , , · m . Th e living room window of
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individual with a lot to say and apparently lin!..: [() lose.
A po lice officer observes th e incident, approaches the
oH:h3lance messiah, and detects the odor ofintoxicants.
I'll let the beauty of direcr quares take it from here.
Se nor X says: ''I'm fucking I'! yea rs o ld, so arrest m e for
an MIP ... Yes I fu cking h ave an rD , it's in my waller."
Upon be ing pla ced into the cr uiser: ''I'm go ing to piss
in YO llr fucking co p car ... Fuck )'ou, I know my rights,
['m not a fucking idio t. You fucking pi gs, don't you
have a nyt hing berter to do bUI fu c k with m e? You
fuckers mu st be real bored." So speaketh [he gospel
of six fu ck in g shots of rum a nd two motherfu c kin g
beers.
. 2 6 p.m. A bomb threat is made to th e
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d eta il s.
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One of our boys in blue cla ims In have been. Follow!llg
the en rry of a B-Dorm room, a poli ce man was hil
with a tidal wave of the "Everb laz.c way." Most yo ung
Evergreeners would reli sh such a delightfull y fragranr
arrack, bur th e gun-toting lethal enforce r was offended
beyo nd words. Three c rimina l c itarion s were dealt,
rwo mult i-colored pipes were snatched, and 2.3 grams
of pacifism herbs disappeared into po lice cu sro dy.
Disappea red ... bwahahaha. I thoughr I noticed a (ew
heavy- lidded badge bea re rs lately.

5

. 4 5 3. m . A car gets
3 •
to c hill with
Snoop , be ing impounded and
all. Emphasis on "pound."
Exrended ex planation to satisfy
my half- page po lice b lotter
requiremen t: Snoop Dogg is
down with th e "[)ogg Pound ,"
tht' s the car be in g di sc ussed
has now bee n acce pted into
h is c rew, having received th"
orncial gang impounding.

Thursday, February 14
a.m .
The S-Dorm
1
. 2 : 3 5 "s moke a holi cs" set off
another early alarm to sta rr Ih e day off right.
I thought alfa lf.1 were those sprouts yo u pllt
in your salad. Why wou ld you be dippin g it
in hot oil' That's so me kinky shit.

This past weekend, Greeners and community members had [he opporruniry to behold
some anatOm icall y-correct performa nces as
the Vagina Monologues were discharged in
the Recita l Ha ll in the COM build in g for
all 10 see.
It was three nights, six feisty women, and a
plerhora of vaginas, coochie snorchers, nappy
du gouts-or whatever you call them.
The premiering nigh t wos also Valenrines
Day. Th e performan ce was packed fu ll of
lo Yt', and the cas t was decked out in Iheir
red and pink apparel to celebrate the holiday.
The lively audience responded positively to
this humorous and emo tional celebration of
womanhood. Supportive chec" and appropriat~ laught~r were a co mmunality throughout
I h~

10

a.m.
A
: 4 5 li ght-fearing
Gremlin s hane rs three lights
on the 4 th floor of the clock
rower. Tn rep h ce Giz.mo's
damage will ser th e sch ,)ol
back abour 50 bones. That's
slang for dollars , keep ing it rea l
th ema tically with the Dogg
Pound. Sigh.

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Excerpl' i'roll' t hi s
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what happened: '·S me ll ... buftlt. .. g ra ss ...
b lunt. ".Alas, not <Inuther Mary Ja ne o ffeIbC ,
for that would be far roo simple a riddl e.
An abandoned car was found in a ditch, it
sm elled ofburtH rubber, and Ih ere was graS\
and mud leading ftom the road way surface
to the veh icle's rest in g position . There \\,\:IT
no s ign s of blulll traUmJ . Sec, thi s i, .1
ca nnabis-free e nvironmen t alrer all.

•• 1 Op·lll· So meo ne's
1
bike is stolen.
The vic rim reporrs that it was
last used , not to me ntion last
seen, befo re winter br"ak. Let
th e thief ride-you're sure as
fuck not two -wheeling that
thing around.

Friday, February 15
Must. .. fi 11...page ... rC'luirc:mcnt. .. but. ..

d" y... vo id ... of... ac livitv. C.d ilec' C.d il .: i

wa's bnrn 011 th is dare, ; IOtlg-a~, tinte ago.
Really, really long ago. So it's no t too
importa nt , and does n't exactly have any
releva nce here in the prestigious police
bloue r. But nothing h ap pen ed roday ill
2002. so do the man a favor, til t your head
ba c k ton ight, sa lut e rh e stars, a nd give
due respect to Galileo. Even though llI ati.
blows. Astronomy's coo l though . Peace.
Big Dipper aliI. .
•

11Igh I.
"Seeing Ih e performance all Friday night

l1l:1de m . .· W;11U to go home and pr;)((icc the an

ols,·lrlove," said fiN-year 'lUden l Leab.

Tht: Vagin'l l\~0I10 1 {)gLlLS :ire ;1 11 Eve Enslcr
cn..:.llioll Ih:Jl \\';J~ originally pt:rformn1 ofr, BloaJway. The piece, were all created frum
illt<.:!vicw~ dune with hundred:, of women

or

different diversili\.·s.
1\ (iIni .. o;iol1 lickc..' l!-t to lhc performance \vcrc

granted wit h' the donation of a few
thbr.e~
dollars worrh of no n-peris hable food
irems, soaps, shampoos, femi nine items, ' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---1
an<I detergents. All the proceeds went
to Safep lace, a shelter for battered women, "only Armani" to "a flaming lightning bolt terrifying imagery and was bruta l, honest
. . grrr. " Some of the responses read by the and sorrowful.
and to the YWCA.
"Every time I hear that mo nologue, even
performers were straight from the script, so
Al l th ree nights sold out.
"It seems that the purpose of Eve Ensler's either the audience was rea lly repetitive or after all the rehearsals, I sti ll shudder. It is
play is to help women in one way or anorher, just a little [00 freaky for the masses. The very emotiona l," said cast member Laura
and the requiremenr of donarions seems readings of these responses were a time for the Nelson.
to refl ect thor Ih eme, " said junio r Leo na women in the audience to feci connected to
Not on ly were vaginas desc ribed as being
the performers, to fellow women, and most hurt , they were depicted as angry. According
Heikkala.
to "My Angry Vagina," if vaginas could talk
Valen tine's Day was not the V-day that of all, ro their poonanies.
T he pe rformers and audience rcok rheir they would complain about the co ld and
The Vagina Monologues performance was
primari ly celehrating. Rather, rhe fo cus was emot ions for quite a ride. Wh ile some of the uninviting metal stirrups at the gynecologist's
o n Vagina Day. an organized inlernal ional monologues, like "The Flood," uncovered office, or the dry and uncomfort able wads of
a mi si nfornled womanls insecu rili es and
cotton we know as tampons that peo pl e put
move ment res pond ing to rape and viu lence
aga in st wumen. Peop le go t their shampoo inhibirions regarding her vagina , others inside their vaginas.
The women in th e cas t were nOI only
bottles' worth at thi s rendition of Ensler's chronicled breakthrough moments such as
play. As ide fi-om a few minor slip-ups, rhe cast one's fir; t le,blan experience ... 111 the presence complatners, bUI moaners lOa. The recital
pcrfiHlned these monologues wilh derennined of" picture of a naked black woman with a hall w"" gelling a little hot with all the moans
gia llt Afro. T he crowd shared heartfelt laughs, and groans and sex so unds all aroun d. In spile
vigor and sens ualilY.
mimed at times, and tried to hold back tears of Ihe sex ual underton es. this performance
Prior (0 rhe show, women in rhe alldience.:
at ot hers. The inlen;ily of emorion reached was no dirty peck in to the bedroom. It I
were asked l o w ri lc down un a piece of paper
whal their vaginas would wear if they cou ld irs peak whe n a cas t member pcrrormed a was a vaginal festivity that celeb rated t1~~ I
dress up. The caSI read the responses aloud, monologue ahout rape, based on rhe story und er-ap precia led wonder of those hairy "n~
and they ranged from "nappy drcadlucb" 10 of a Bosnian refugee. The story in voked mysterious crea lurcs dow n und er. •

A repieUl of the
l'Iif[htshcelebr4tinf[ the spe{ial
organ that hils gtven trth "to t. e world--'.:fhe vligtna.

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A preview of the upcoming Beat Happening Box Set

~y~~a~n------------------------__----------------------------------__~____________________
I Jill st ill hugely indebted ro the lovely
indie buff who first force-fed me the song
" lndi:1n Summer" throughout a Minnesota
' pring. That ,pring, everything was thawing
.lI1e1 breathi ng- it always feds like the first
'I'rrng ever, afrer the winters they have there.
I"hal long became my anthem of Life, more
th"n re ll years afrer ir was recorded.
Nec·dless (0 say, over [he next year I
w.lndered blithely into the landscape of
Be.lt 11.lppeningand fo und-to my cynical
he.nt's surprise· that "I ndi an Summer" is
not the exception. At leas t half of their so ngs
:rre direcr-hit yu mmy morsels. Yummy,
because you ca n feci the lyri cs clicking
.lgain" a partially-perceived truth, and then

aga inst yo u. You listen for a while, and it
is fun , and then all of a sudden you realize
that Calvin Johnson is singing about all th e
liv~s you never lived because yo u were too
young to know, or because you were too
old ro date . And yet again you turn and
wake up to a re-appreciation of your own
life. Through nosta lgia for things ut~don e,
yo u grasp the legit imacy of things done.
Beat Happening gives you back yo ur sense
of place within the Sto ry.
When I try to pi~ture it , 1 see Calvin
and Heather and Bret stretched across the
chasm, physically bridging the gap between
our pop dream life and our mundane days.
In this way, the band reminds me of the

Talking Heads-Dav id Byrne intrepidly
pounding out the details which had seemed
so irrelevant until they were pressed in to
vinyl: "a nd now it's summer again" or "you
can't see it till it's finished." Everyone
wan ts to be able to express, eloquently and
concisely, hi s or her raw little quotidian
feel ings. Unfortunately, most of us lack t he
abi liry to see the importance of ourselves,
to follow the path between our morning
twitches and our beautiful daydreams.
That's why God made Beat Happening.
W hen the process of learning how to ex:press
ourselves has robbed us of the ability to
feel things in litrle ways, they remind us
of our unselfco nscious bits-the bits that ·
arc pressed flush against the material of
happiness. We are happy, so we redefwe
happiness and start over. It cakes a great deal
of courage to live in the moment between
petception and judgment, to let go, to lose
track of time and not be nervous. Relax;
these guy; arc on your side.

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february 21, 2002

Beat Happening has been compared ro
the early Velvet Unde rground, the Modern
Lovers, the Marine Girls, and even the
Replacements. (l say if the Modern Lovers
sang "Getting to Know You" from The
Killg alld /, and the Velvet Undergro un d
sa ng Jonathan Richman solo stuff, and the
V iolent Femmes covered Raffi so ngs, it
might verge on tile Beat Happening sound .)
Their mo re well produced stuff (mostly
fro m You Tum M e On) reminds me of the
[ Live The Life Of A Movie Star Secret
H ideout (Radio Argot). If you only listen
with one ear, you might think of any of
the low-fi bands you were introduced to in
whispers in high school.
D on't be put off by the rough sound
quality. Revel in it, dammir. How many
bands can you think of. off the top of your
head. that couple this kind of unrefined
textural music with such glorious lyrics
.. . and tend~ execution, too? What more
could you ~bly ask for? Beat Happening
is inc::redibli Sophlsticated. but mOSt people
don't "pick''Up, ~ irbecause it's the kind

of sophistication that is not ashamed to
admit innocence. Beat Happening makes
you beautifu l. Give in; your heart is safe
with this band.
For theF~

You've heard it all. Whether they are
singing about crushes or raw leather lust ,
this band p ulls each part out of themselves,
splays it flat, and gives it to you, the listening
public, with a shy nonchalance.
You know you want it. Now you can
get i.t .

The Box Set, Crasbing Through, set
for release on May 7,2002
Magical words, these, for anyone who
has ever considered him/herselfa completisr.
The only way to wrap 'your head around
a band, if the set is complete enough, and
definitely rhe best way to get acquainted.
This box set includes all five albums released
by Beat Happening (Beat Happenill X.

Jamboree. Black Candy, Dreamy, YOLI
Tum Me On), as well as a CD of singles and
compilations-including the out-of-print
Beat Happening/Screaming Trees collaborative 12-inch and the r(!cenr single "Angel
Go ne." The seven th CD is a CD-ROM
m ingy with live stuff and early videos,
etc. A 96-p age book comes with the set
and includes a co mprehensive h isto ry of
the band, in terviews, commenta ry, and
previously unpublisheCI photos. Yum.
I can't make you do anything,
honestly, how can you .call yourself
Evergreen student or Olympia residen
you have.n't obsessed over your ta'rorlt~
member of .Beat Happening? ~ ....... ... ,
rooml1)3te, who now lives in New
has at least proposed ma:rri'lge, to ......1VlI[11
How many of you can say
fully?
Unfortunatdy for
fms. this is a lim.ited ...... 'u••
gonna get one; ~u're
tc:.(!Qttl~~.:irVi:t
and have a pilloWfight to

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Ihe presen l mom e nL Matsuo
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master s, exp lains it lik e thi"
" Peopl e
s uc h refinement
submir ro nature and befriend
the four seasons. Where they look
is nothing but flowers, what the),
think is nothing bu t tht" moon ."
Clear, vivid im ages bring
the power to haiku. I n these
images are sensations embedded
in experience. In these objects
and actions li ve emo ti on . If
stro n g
enough
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reader
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a n essen ce. In true form haiku
avoids the use of metaphor, sim ile,

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and obtains its effects prim ar ily
through the juxtaposition of
sensory impressions. If done
right, it crea tes a momenr of acute
awareness outs id e o neself toward
the unity of nature.
The recipe for a h a iku goes
like this:
In traditional Japanese, i,
is one vertical lin e with seventeen o nji , nor sy llabl es, but
sound sym bol s of phoneti c
characters. In the western version If IS a 17 -syllab le verse
form co n s ist in g of jus t three
metrical units of 5,7,5. An
Eng li sh- language tran slation of
haiku come, closer to abO ll t
12 sy ll ables in the case of
tho se wriltl'n in the orthodox
17-o nj i form. As alway, rransblion poses some challe nges to true
traditional fo rm s.
Ti·aditiona l haiku always u,,:s
113rUre or kigo, "season word."
Modern versions loosen and llIay
not even speak of nature.
Kircji, or "c utting word", indi ca tes a pause, both rhythmica lly
and g rammatica ll y. A sounded
pun ctuation usually divides the
sta nza into two rhythmicll parts
(usua ll y al the 2nd lin e), indi cating the co mpletion of a phrase or
clause. Here is a hint of Matsuo
Basho ( 1644- 1694), one of the
great masters of haiku:

Back In autumn, my poettc
cells burned in fiery leaf storms.
Co ld shifting winds pushed me
along to my mission, finding
haiku in nature. Painted fresh
in my mind by my pop c ulture
class, the Ta le of Ge nji . Japan's
classic I,OOO-year-old novel persuad ed me:- into new art. These
poetic co nversations of courtiers
soliciti ng their desires on paper
left m e c urio us abo ut waka,
Japanese poetry and haiku.
Haiku, I found, was the first
stanza in a re nga , a poem by
three or more poets who meet
to compose a poem of fifty
or one hundred st anzas long.
Haiku sets rh e seaso n. Haiku
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The oldpond
Afrogjumps in
The sound of water.
Waking in the night;
the lamp is low,
the oil freezing.
How about some haiku winler

POCI11 S:

Out of the air's spontaneolls
freezing g1'OW
Delicate fretted hexago1lS of
snow.
-Ho-o
While I turned my lJead
That tralJeler
I'd just passed.. ,
Melted into mist
-Shiki

With such strength of brevity, haiku wanders IIltO a place
so divine it becomes like reli gio n . A kind of verba l meditation, cleaning up the traffic
in our heads, in preparation
for a revelation. Some see
the pa rallel s of ha iku a nd
Ze n . I' ll pick this li aison u p
next week .
Accordi ng 10 the Haiku
Handbook
(Wi lliam
Higginson), leade rs in th e
Tenro Schoo l of haiku say that
a ll one ha s to do is go find
the poem s. We select the sPO!,
co mpose its poetry.
So take a wa lk o utside your
mind, air it o ut, find haiku. As
Basho put it: "Come out from
barbarians, depart from beasrs.
Subm it to nature, return to
nature.

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jusr have ro draw non-stop, " says Jason
Miles, anorher Aide in th e Animation
Lab.
Milt'S say' cartoo ning is a drag.
" I find it to be incredibly depressing.
You sir in " room "II day at a light table,
just dLl\l'illg for hOllrs and hours and
hours. Yo ur characters move a littl e and
YO ll get excited."
Bayky's cartoonists will have rheir hands
full , but Bayley herself is no ca rtoo n ist.
Right now she is w ri ti ng a s~ript and
storyboard in g. She makes up for her lack
of experience by sweat and ambition, and
she also knows a lor about her audience yo un g Deaf students. The ages that would
get up in the dawn of Saturday mo rni ngs
to watch cartoons.
Bayley is a para-educator for the D~af
at Mountai n View Ele mentary in Lacey.
She says the heari ng p ubl ic abandons her
students. They don'r recog ni ze ASL as a
via ble language .
She is maki ng
the
animation
because she wants
So, Deaf kids grow up without
her deaf st uden rs
movie now in the·
a huge clump of knowledge,
to have something
aLt'r, char uscd I he
un iquely personal.
\: lInc techniqut's.
This includes all the casual
"Yo u shou ld be
The ""k i, ne i- knowledge we hear on radio, on
proud to use ASL,"
nor
she says. She says
ea!\y. Je s~ica Lee , television, from parent's mouths
and friends - the dribble that
the ca rtoon 's mes-In aid
In
the
sage wi ll remind
;\nim,l!ion Lab, will
clues us into the subtleties of
her studen rs to
help Ihvlry wher·
the world. The stuff we hear
put fa ith in rheir
ever she call. But
without listening for.
own language, eve n
,he's ske ptical. She
though it is srill
S,'y~ some srudems
have dedicated an
gerring s llbstancilrire qu ,H fcr [0 jusr
dard attention.
"My Deaf kids who are tell or eleve n,
one minute of film.
Lee sa)'~ in every second of film, t here if you ask the m , what is berter, ro be
.... 1.' 30 traceable frame~ (photographs),
deaf or heari ng, rhey are go ing (0 say
flash ed up on rhe sc reen in succession, hearing," says Sue Cozza, teacher of the
which produce rhe moving imag e. If Deaf at Mounlain View. She is Bayley's
B,wl eY's animation ream rraced even five mentor, and has taught Deaf Education
o(rh~ 30 frames per seco nd , they would for yea rs.
Overall , the kids can't believe in their
have to sketch 4,5 00 pictures 10 complete
rhe piece. It 's testimony 10 the monornny langllage because their pare nrs often
don 'r.
of cartoolling.
"Mos t pare nts do nor learn AS!.," ,ays
" Ir is incredi bl y tillle-comuming. You
ndy Warhol wou ld be proud of
Evergreen sIU dent Danae Bayley
because, for her, fifteen minutes
is eve ryrh i ng.
Srarring fall quarter of nexr year, Bayley
will wrangle a Herculean assembly of
100 sllIllen t' a nd cOll1munity members
to produce a 15- minure animation flick.
100 people are how many Bayley says she
will need ro accomp lis h her goa ls. She says
., he wants rhe carronn compleled in Ol)e
"cadem ic year.
Bayley is also maki ng history at
Evergreen. When her animation is complete, it will be rhe first ever made whose
ch,lfactcrs communicare solely in American
S ign Language.
Rayley will shout Deaf acto rs li ve, performing all the dialogue in American Sign
Lall~uagc. The n she w ill use a "rotoscope"
I" ojeclor ro shoot the film imag~ onto
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Evergreen's

Drin in

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More students are having trouble

College Policy Goes Easy on First-Timers

with Alcohol. Evergreen's police,

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t's ca lled the first contact policy, and it keeps many Evergreen
students our of the hands of the law. And this year, more sllIdents
than ever are learning about it through firsthand experience.
The policy works like this: the first time Evergreen police srop a
student for minor violations of the Jawor the student conduct code
- being a minor possession or consuming alcohol. having an open
container, or possessing small amounts of marijuana - the student
does not go to criminal court.
Instead, they go see Joe Tougas, Evergreen's grievance officer.
Tougas is carcfu l ro point
out that he doesn't punish
students. He just gives them
options.
Students might be asked to
talk to a co llege counselor, or
make a public apo logy. Tougas
says he treats each casc, and
each student, individually.
If stude nts don't li ke any
of Tougas's options, they have
two others.
Evergreen grievance officer joe TOlIgm

inistrators
they don't
really know what to do about it.

bY Corey Pein

On

a given weekend in Evergreen housing, you won't have
trouble finding a party. Students crowd inside dorm
rooms ,lIld on balconies, mu,ic blares, kegs of beer stand
111 bathrubs ,t nd kitchens. Hou,in g residcnts, about half of whom
.He firsr -year students, li ve under a policy ti1.lr pl aces ,t premium
on prlvacy.
\'{' h.lI rh,lt me.lns for ,rudents is: yo u ca n drillk as much a, you
WJnr ro in housing, as long as you're quiet about it and stay in side.
Some students are taking that idea ro the extreme.
Adminisrraror, say they are dea ling wirh two 10 three timcs the
usu3.lnumber of alcohol vio lations. The campus counseling center has
J w.liting li sr of about twenry students either refer red ro counsel in g or
seeking help on their own. One student died on camp us. He passed
out ,tnd ~,ever woke up. Another studell! got inro a ca nOt' after going
to an off-campus parry. I lis boots and life jacket were found by the
sho re. but so f.1r not hi, body.
Co llege officials don't "II agree, and can't say definirively why more
stude nts are having bad times with alco hol. They see the results in
police files and coroner's reports, but they don't know what ro do
about the problems that happen just across campus.
If you drink in housing, it's likely that yo u will be left alone
- even if you are underage, or live in an Alcohol and Drug-Free
(ADF) building.
Campus police won't come ro a parry unless they get a comp laint,
and you won't be sropped unless an
officer happens to see you drinking or
obviously drunk. The police will not
enter a room unless the parrygoers
have first refused a studen t Resident
Assistant's (RA's) request to quiet
down.
Police chief Steve Huntsberry says
that Eve rgreen's officers are not out
to bust people, bur he is obliged to
en force the law.
"If you drink as much as you want and somebody calls, there are
gonna be consequences," he says.
Those consequences differ from situation to situation. The college
gives first- time alcohol offenders a break. They go through [he
internal grieva nce process, and often end up talking to a college
counselor. Repeat offende rs ger sent
to the city courthouse, and the mercy
of a municipal judge.
Huntsberry thinks college students
will drink alco hol regardless of whar
the law says and what the police do. So
he, along with college administrators
and counselors, encourage students
who drink to do it responsibly.
Students, however, don't seem to
have heard that message.
Art Costantino, vier pmidmt
What the college should never do
for student ar+airs
.tS te 11 st udents t h"
. k,
~J"
at It so kay to d nn
says Art Costantino, Evergr{·en's vice president for student affairs. His
job purs him in charge of the campus police, the grievance officer,
and health and counseling services. If a stude nt has a problem that's
reported, Costantino's office hears about it.
He's been here for ten years, and he's never seen a year as bad
as this one.
Costantino attributcs part of the growth in alcohol-related
offenses to increased police enforcement. But that doesn't mean police
are breaking up parties or searching students' rooms.
"We don't want to be snooping under doors," Costantino says.
Increased enforcement means, according to the police, that there
are two officers parroIling campus on weekends instead of one but th ere aren't enough officers to do that consistently. The police
say they are also maki ng more traffic stops, and catching more drunk
drivers as a result. But the grievance officer says most of those drunk
drivers are not Evergreen srudents.
Costa ntino also thinks that Evergreen's rise in alcohol troubles
comes from a smaIl group of students - two to five percent who are repeat offenders, along with students with psychological
problems who have stopped taking their medication. He suspects
the increase may be part of a national trend, adding that college
counseling centers across the country are seeing more students with
problems si nce last fall.
But the grievance officer says that small portion of students doesn't
account for the rise in alcohol problems, and that most of the increase
is in first time Minor-in-Possession offenses.

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Costantino hopes faculry and staff will Ict his office know if they
see a srudent with warning signs of an alcohol or drug problem, like
missed days and hangovers. I Ie gave th is message [0 about 30 f'lCulry
at a meeting last Wednesday.
Even if a teacher or RA knows a student has a problem, no one
at the co llege can make a studenr go La counseli ng. Students who go
through grievance are asked to speak [0 a counselor.- if they don't,
they may be kept from regi.tering for classes.
A student won't see rh e grievance officer, however, unless they
first encounter the police. And if no one ca ll s them, the police say
they probab ly won't show.
"If I haven't got" spec ific complaint, I'd just '''y ·na h'." chief
Iluntsberry said.
He says the police know abo ut 90 perce nt of the parri es on campus
in advance, because officers meet with the RAs every evening ro
gather information. Housi ng's RAs are supposed call the police if a
parry in their building gets our of hand , but so metimes the police
don't respond to those calls right away.
"We give 'em [RAs] the first shot" to calm the party down , said
lluntsberry.
He says the police wouldn't srop every parry even if they could,
because punishments won'r stop everyone from drinking.
As a result, there are a lot more people in the dorms who drink
illegally than there are people who get in trouble for drinking.
One student, a minor, lives off-campus but says she co mes to
campus to drink. A junior transfer student, who lived in the Mods
unril this quarter, said he held parties on the porch of his building
without ever seeing the police come by.
But there are those who do get caught.
Blake Henry is 19 years old. He just transferred ro Evergreen this
year, from Scatde. So far, he's seen a lot of people drinking on campus,
but only a couple of what he'd call real parries.
"People call it a parry whenever they get a keg in a room,
Henry said.
Earlier this week, he began his first ex perience with Evergreen's
alcohol policy. Henry was at a parry at hi s dorm, and the crowd
was projecting a movie onto the wall of the building. According
to Henry, rhe party had about 100 people at the peak, including
many mlllors.
He says he was standing outside the building, holding a half-empry
beer, ",hen he fclt a rap on his shoulder. It was an Evergreen police
officer. Henry was a minor in possession of alcohol.
"He seemed pretry chill about it," Henry said.
Henry says the officer didn't check inside his house, and as
far as he knows he's the only person from the parry who gOt In
trouble that night.
"Oh yeah, the party went on," said Henry.
Henry said the officer took him back to the station, and told him
to expect something in the mail.
What he got was the Evergreen version of a summons.
Joe Tougas is Evergreen's grievance officer. He starred the job last
year, and de~lt with 62 alcohol violations throughout the entire year.
By the end of last quarter, he had already dealt with 3S.
"There's a problem with drinking in housing. Anyone with their
eyes open knows there's a problem," Tougas said. The thing is, he
says, the college doesn't know how to fix it.
The college will not intervene with students unless they are
dangerous to themselves or others. Tougas says it's part of the
Evergreen social philosophy, which asks people to take responsibiliry
for their own actions. It's really up to the residents of housing to create
the kind of environment they want to live in, Tougas says. That's
because the college treats students just as if they were independent
adults - the legal rerm is in loco parentis.
Evergreen provides Alcohol and Drug-Free buildings, but it's up
ro the students who live there to see that the rules are enforced.
The adm in istrator ultimately responsible for housing didn't know if
prospective stu~ents and their parents were informed that students,
not the college, oversee ADF housing.
Tougas sees the institution's role as giving students the information
they need to make their own decisions. Sometimes people have' to
learn from experience, even when it's dangerous, he says.
"People are going to make their own choices," said Tougas. "If
you say ' it's up to you to decide how much you're going to drink
and when you're going to drink,' some people will hear that as 'you
have my permission to drink.'"
Tougas thinks the college could do a better job at getting
information to st udents about college policies and the effects of
alcohol.
Others think the co llege needs to do more than just provide

One, they can make their case to ;lJl appeals board.
Two, they can refuse ro comply ent irely, and Tougas can place
a hold on their s tud ent account - meaning they can't register
for classes.

The first contact policy applies to every student unless they give
false identification, try ro flee, are hostile, abusive, or threatening. In
any of those cases, students automatically get a criminal citation.
What's the reasoning behind the college's policy'
"We want to treat student use of alcohol as an educational issue,
rather than a criminal issue," Tougas says,
Tougas's boss, Art Costantino, also oversees the campus police.
Costantino thinks the strength of Evergreen's system is that it isn't
one-size-fi ts-all.
"There's some th ing unfair about giving some body a fine,"
Costantino said.
But the policy doesn't always work as intended. Costantino says
college counselors end up seeing the same student two or three times.
The first contact policy on ly applies to the same violation , so a
student gets one first chance for alcohol and another first chance for
marijuana. Campus housing has a student adjud ication board, which
sometimes deal s with students for the same reasons the grievance
officer would. And the police, the grievance officer, and housing
don't always share information about what studen ts they've dealr
with, and what for.
Greeners get a break with the first contact policy that they wouldn't
get off campus. Compared to the co ll ege's alcoho l enforcement
severa l years ago, however, the policy is harsh. Costantino says it
was pretty common for police tell students to "pour it out," and
never file pap·e rwork.

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One apartment.
Six roomates.
Tuesday night,
7 o'clock.
It could be anywhere in housing...
go, that's a serious problem," said Jason Kilmer, who works in
information.
Brian Price is a faculty member, and the college's dean of Evergreen's counseling center.
Many of the students who parry in the dorms might never
first-year students. This year he started a weekly program
in housing to give students an alternative ro drinking and find Kilmer's office, all the way across campus, tucked in a
doing drugs . He says the co llege's lack of comm unication corner of the fourth floor of the Seminar building behind three
about programs and activities sends a message: go ahead and doors and a receptionist. But Kilmer is the one who deals with
many students who've had a problem with drinking - at least
do drugs and alcohol.
"On this campus it is coo l to drink and do drugs, It is the ones who got caught, or came in voluntarily, Right now
lll1cool not to," said Price. Students who abstain from alcohol he's tesearching college stude nts' use of drugs and alcohol at
have a hard time starting a social life here. Some of them leave Evergreen and the University of Washington.
Whether he's talking to a student or a class, his message is the
the college, Price says.
Price understands that co llege students drink and use drugs, same: drinking while you're a minor is illegal, but if you're going
but he thinks that those who want ro parry more than they to drink you sho uld understand the consequences.
He echoes the idea that people make theit own cho ices
want ro learn should not be here.
"There are plenry of people who would give their right arms abo ut drinking, Kilmer's approach to counseling is to find a
specific person's "hook." That's the one piece of information
ro go ro this institution," Price said.
When students' alcohol use interferes with other students' that can cause a person to retllink or change their behavior. So
work, Price thinks the college should intervene, because students Kilmer casts as many lines as he can.
Drinking can cause health problems.
will not always police themselves.
It's expensive,
"Respons ibility run s both ways," Price said. "Load ing
You're more likely to mah
everythi ng on the backs of IS-year-olds the first minute they're
decisions that you'll regret later.
away from home is just stupid ,"
And it's dangerous - espeHe thinks the campus police shou ld enforce the law,
cially
if you drive a car, or use it
but he's more concerned with curtailing the constantly
wi
th
other
substances.
disruptive parties, hard drugs, and drug dealing on campus
Sometimes his message is misthan occasional use of alcohol and marijuana,
understood, and students think
Price wouid also like to see mandarory alcohol, drug, and
he's teaching them to drink in
sexual assault awareness programs for incoming freshmen,
moderation.
The college offers those kinds of programs every year during
Kilmer says he never instructs
orientation week, but they have never been mandatory.
Attendance has often becn low. Blake Henry, the student who jason Kilmtr, alcohol counulor
students how to drink safely, he
teaches them how to reduce the
was caught drinking, said orientation week was the biggest
risks
if
they
choose
to
drink
- what Kilmer calls a step in
parry of the year, He says he knew about the programs and
the
right
direction.
workshops, but didn't go to a single one.
"I can't tell people what to do, and I don't tell them what
The idea of a mandatory alcohol program surprises some
to do," Kilmer said. "Just say no" programs don't work, he
people at the college.
" It seems so contrary to the cu lture of housing," said Joe says, and when colleges ban alcohol use people eften just go
elsewhere ro drink.
Tougas. But he doesn't rule out the idea.
But until Evergreen's policies change, students who want
Even if such programs weren't mandatory, some want
the college to better advertise and supporr the services it to drink on campus woh't have to travel far. Just stop by any
building in housing on a weekend, A-Dorm through alphabet
offers now.
and you're likely to find a parry.
soup,
"If peoples' barrier to counseling is not knowing where to

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Making Drinking Less Risky
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ollege students drink.
That's the idea college administrators, police and counselors start with when trying to handle
alcohol use at Evergreen.
"I don't think the problem is any different now then when I was in college," said police chief
Steve Huntsberry,
Huntsberry; a~ld college administrators, take the pragmatic approach: If you're going to drink,
they say, do it safely and responsibly.
That can be a tough thing for some students to do.
Jason Kilmer, an Evergreen counselor and specialist in addictive behaviors, makes presentations to
classes and deals with many students who've been caught drinking on campus or who've sought his help.
But many students who drink never see him.
"Some people haven't thought about [alcohol] use being a problem," Kilmer said.
So Kilmer tries to show people how drinking can be a problem, because of the high cost, health risks,
and the damage alcohol can do to relationships, academics, and work.
The ultimate goal of his program is for people to abstain from alcohol, but Kilmer recognizes
people often tune out pleas for abstinence.
"When you have a 'just say no' expectation, you overlook a lot of successes," Kilmer said,
So he tells people that , while underage drinking is illegal, they can reduce the risk if they
choose to drink.
Here's some of his advice:
• Know what you're drinking. Don't accept mixed drinks unless you know what's in them. Or,
bring your own,
• Don't pound your drinks.
• Eat first, and alternate between alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. Drink a lot of water hefore,
berween, and after alcoholic drinks.
• Plan how much you're going to drink and stick to a limit.
• Alcohol affects everyone differently, How drunk you get depends on your body weight, gender, your
tolerance to alcohol, and how fast you drink.
• 12 ounces of beer, four ounces of wine, and one ounce of hard liquor contain the same amount
of alcohol.
Students who would like more information about drinking from Kilmer or another Evergreen
counselor can call the counseling center at extension 6S00.
Information about drinking provided by jason Kilmer and ETR Assoeiaus, a company that publishts
pamphlets about drugs and alcohol.

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photos by Kevan Moore (center party). Whitney Kvasager (Art Costantino, Joe Tougas), and Corey Pein
(Dumpster, Steve Huntsberry, Jason Kilmer)

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TheMen's Violence
Prevention Project
~~Ghd~lall~~

Th~u iconoclastic musicians are trying to
clJang~ the way mm vi"" women--and the way rlJey view t/Jemselves.

performs In "CAB

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On Valentine's Day, fo ur men , including one Evergreen slUdelH, lurned Ih e seco nd floor of rhe C AB
inro ,I karaoke bar. They rapped uwr 'y nthesi'lcd hear, an d guirJrs in frnlll of abour 30 gawki ng Greeners,
while a sa lt: srudenr dan ced in a red velver dre".
The performance marked the evo luri o n of rhe Men'., Violence Pre ve nti o n Project. Members o f
th e Projecr have ' pe nt rhe b st rwo yeJrs cre,lrin g a musical CD an d using rhe co ll ecrive vo lu nteer
efforts o f more lhan 40 men of all ,Iges to spread ,I message of ant i-violence, particul,nl)' rh e vio l<'nce
of Illtll towards WOlllL' n.
Proj ec r organizer Todd D enny says he helped prod uce the C D ro exa min e c urrenr gender roil'S
and Ihe rigid molds of masc ulinity rhar young boys and l11en alike feel they have to fal l inro in fear
of be ing bbcl ed "gay."
This includ es acring tough and looking ar \vomen in ways rhat 3fe objecrifying and degr'lding.
Th e underlying m ess age of the 0 is rhe old adage that rhe way we view rhe world shapes our
actions towards ir; hard -as-nails, unfeeling masculiniry leads to sexual violence and other verb,,1 and
physical abuse towards women.
"Conremporary ideas and beliefs about ma~c uliniry 3nd becoming a 'man' ca n be viewed 3S a m,ljor
healrh issue rhat impacts girls and women as surely as ir does men, " Dcnny says in a rece nt e-m,,,1.
Adrian Martinez, J stud ent who was one of the performers, says mid-performan ce, " I've been trving to
th ink of how to integrate a socia l message wirh performance art." M," tinez rhen pops up [0 beat-hnx wirh
another performer. He rhrows bass-ri dden, rhythmic sou nds into a microphon e. Both performer, lean
forward and stand on the ball s or rheir lOes as they whirl their lyrics forward.
The songs range from old-school rap lO folk ditties and heavily mixed , synthes ized rock. Their rhem es
range I'tom anti-homophobia to appropriate drinking behavior, from name-calling to healrhy sex.
People at Evergreen had mixed emotions about rhe performance. Joe Carr was we3ring a uniqu e
shirr with while spots hewn onto it , and he was rhe one dan ci ng - barefoot. Sometimes th e perform ers
looked at him wh ile they were singing .
" I love th e beats. But it's a tad preac hy," Carr said. He said rhe m essage would be more digcstible if it
was more subtle, locked in amongsr surrou nding poeric rhyme.
Evan Hastings, who sa r next ro Carr, .a id , " It 's a good message. Men fi'ol11 privilegc ' pc,lki ng laboll t
these issues I is really esse mial rhese da ys. "

Evergreen
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Festival 2002

rch 1-2, Library Lobby
ART ON DISPLAY ALL WEEKEND
PERFORMANCES Friday and Saturday:
Friday Night: Poetry Slam, 8:00
Saturday Night: Capoeira Angola
the Evergreen Dance Experiment,
Drumming, Shadow Puppets, Fire Dancing)
DJs and more!

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hooks 'Foundered in Confusion' When Asked
About Transgendered Love
To whom it tnay concern:
I f you read a book rhat was written in
English, and the author of thar book came
to you r schoo l, would you ask rhe author
why .she hadn't written in another, better
language, wirhour first trying to find out
wh ether she knew the language in the first
phlCC '
To my eyes, that is what happened when
a rransgendered individual asked bel l hooks
why she hadn'r written about love ourside
of the binary gender system .
bell hooks r<,sponded wirh a great deal of
d~fensivene,s to this qucsr ion, a defensivenns partiall y ba s<,d in the facr thar Ihe
que ... riOI1l"f wa~ 'lsking her:1 qllt:~lion abO~I[
hcr wlt"lc lrilogy when they IHd, in (Kr,
onlv [t'ad one of tll C boob. However, before
I he real longue-lash i rIg Cwit ich was harsher
lha" rh e qlle'lion", dese rved ) bega n, bell
Itooks founde red in confusio n, excla im ing
Iltat ,h<' did,, '1 know why she wa s being
:" ked [hi, 'Iu es rion , ,in ce , lt e had wriuen
Illa" y things "boul Illen loving Ill<'n and
\VOln cn loving \VOln t' ll.
Til my eyes, rhi , w :" ,I clear ind ication
thH she d idn'r know ",har rhe hell a binary
ge nder ')" tem was, beca use she had no
idea what lay o uts ide of ir. She showed no
aw:tr~ n ess of a world -view in which peo ple
arc alkHVt'd to choo<c their own destiny
in<te,ld of having a nlOrsel of flesh between
lh eir legs fo rm a mold into which they are
crushed from birth onwards, with no regard
fi'om sociery ro whar thar mighr do to the
individuJI's inn ,lte c reariviry, flexibiliry,
31~d self-esteem. H er critiques were born of
ignorance. It is possible rhar her ig norance
came from ignore-ance, rhe act of ignoring
that which is ill fronr of you r face because
it i, uncomfortable for you to see. It is also

possib le thar she had orher oppressions
thrusr inro her face that loomed so large
thar she could nor see the oppression largest
in rhe eyes of Micah, one audience member
among many. To me, she seemed appalled
that, even rhough she had rried to preach
love and feed rhe sou ls of so many, there
existed someone srill unsatisfied and hurt.
It fe lt like she was hir in a place rhat hurt
her, and she responded by shutting down to
anythi ng that Micah had ro say,
Ir is always unco mfortable when a role
model rums out to be flawed, because that
makes them less of a ,up port, while ar rhe
same rime, requiring rhe person outside
of the podium to step forward and rake
an increased amount of respo nsibility for
putting their heart and message forward.
Perhaps it was th e day, or lhe moment, or
her high perch above a 'c. of faces thai
made bell hooks answer 3 heartfelr quesrion
so sharply. Perhaps anot her day or place
would have found her asking rhe same
perwn wise questions and enlightening
herself. The people who were offended by
her cond uct were offended for overwhelmingly valid reasons-their own pain at rhe
weight of society's oppression s -and ir
seems that they assumed rhat she, from the
heighr of her privilege, should be obligared
(0 hear. Bur how could she hear when she
didn'r speak the langu age) And how does
one person come (0 place their own pain
over another's' Who is rhe ultimare judge of
how much privi lege each of uS holds )
In a world offinite lifetime, rhe challenge
is rhis: (0 give all equal access (0 speech , (0
hold no one's voice above another's.

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And Just Pisses People Off
I'd like to talk (0 you all about Evergreen's
reputation in Olympia, We all know abour
rhe nasty letters abour us on the Olympian's
edi(Orial page, but has anyone else noticed
how often Mayday is menrioned? Mayday
is quickly becoming rhe event rhat defines
us in rhis community. The Procession of
rhe Species, Arts Walk, and Super Saturday
are . 11 being overshadowed by the Mayday
action. I'm not againsr Mayday itself, but I
am against blocking traffic without a very
good reason .
Direct aerions arc powerful starements.
Wh y s hould we wasre s uch a powerful
statement on a holiday rhat nobody knows
anyrhing about) Good direcr actions have
speci fi c rargers. Events like nuclear waste
being unloaded at rhe POrt of Olympia or
the wro com ing [0 rown are good reasons
for a direc t acrion. May I isn 'r a good
.reason. Blocking rrafflc just [0 rhrow a party
on Internarional Workers Day isn't going
to be effecrive, :lnd shows an in c redibl e
lack of respecr for the rest of Olympia.
It just pisses people off, and afrer it's all
over rhey will rake th eir anger out on the
whole college.
If you haven'r been paying attenr ion,
our state is in the middle of a budget crisis.
The latest word I have is 15-20% tuirion
hikes in addition (0 funding cuts. Les Purce
will have to go before the srate legis lature
and make a case for rhe school's proposed
budget. The la sr thing he needs is (0 be
deflecting insinuations from conserva tive
legislators about rh e school's responsibjlity
for Mayday. After Les leaves, the legislature
will then decide how mu ch money each
school gers. The legislature was in [Own

last Mayday, and rhey remember what
happened. Conservative politicians will use
Mayday as an argument to limit our school's
budget. The bottom line is that Mayday
will cost our school money.
So , in order [0 isolare our school from
rhe bad feelings (and bad press) that Mayday
will bring us, I wish [0 announce rhe forma tion of another disappearing task force:
The Evergreen Coa lition Againsr Blocking
Traffic. The purpose of this group is [0 sp read
rhe message thar not all Evergreen community members support blocking traffic on
Mayday. If you would like to help, contacr
m ~ at rogsea15@evergreen.edu.
The plan, so (1r, is to circulate a peririon
condemning the tacric of blocking traffi c
o n May 1 and pledging not [0 participate.
Shorrly before Mayday, rhe peritions will
be presented [0 the Olympia City Council
in front of all rhe local media we can ger
to show up and as many people from the
Evergreen comm uniry as wish ro .nend.
Anorher plan, one rhar is much less worked
our, is to c reare an alter narive Mayday
celebrarion rhat doesn't involve blocking
traffic.
I did go to the Mayday Action
Comminee [0 tell them my concerns, bur I
couldn't convince rhem rhat blocking traffic
would be a bad idea. So, I come [0 you.
These are my concerns. Thi s is whar I wanr
ro do about them. Bur ['m just one guy.
Whar do you rhink? Write your own CP]
arricle so I can find out. We really need [0
talk about this.
I'll be back next week with another
edirion of "Don'r Block Traffic," so stay
tuned.

- Serena D. Burroughs
- Sean Rogers

The Young, The Wise, The Pretentious
ever be not ignorant. Next, being self-righteous is also
impossible because abso lute truth doesn't exisr, ever. You
see, even rhat point negates itself. What's a poor sappy
unenlightened intellectual [0 do?
If young people in general were collectively able [0 admit
that we'll never know all the answers, and learn to discuss
different ideas rather rhan shove them down each other's
throars, then maybe we'd find a way to move forward
towards a berter romorrow. Now, I have just contradicted
myself by stating a solurion [0 one of our many problems
as a collecrive sociery of brainwashed, dilured, ill-bred,
damaged, condirioned wonderful people. Humans aren'r
all that bad; we jusr don'r get it. We function on the same
level as we did say when Rome was the center of the world's
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activity. Thar's jusr anorher theory, not my own discovery.
Here, I am nor trying [0 prove or disprove any rheories
on exisrence or knowledge, I am merely stating that our
You know why no one li srens (0 rhe yourh of America obsession with ourselves as humans has gotten us nowhere.
about polirics , the environ ment, and social change) Because Why the hell do we rhink that we're so damn special? I
lYe don'r know anyrh ing and we have very linl. power and
don't know, cause we can build stuff and have orgasms.
money. Sure, we act pretenrious and ro a certain degree Not roo impressive to any foreign life form. Yeah, I sri II
we are rarher intelligent, bur we don'r
love us and all that jazz, but when
have all the answers and many of us
the mosr powerful men in rhe world
would prefer a world where we didn'r
Why the hell do we think
arc busy decla ring war and making
have (0 do anything. The corporarions
sure everyone locks their door, I lose a
that we're so damn
.Ind governmenr in charge, who have
lirtle hope. This is why no one in their
special? I don't know,
been preying on all classes excepr the
right mind should take life literall y
'cause we can build stuff
rich rheir entire lives ro ensure profits
or se riously, ir's not worth ir. Now,
and have orgasms.
and hi gh sranda rds of li ving, sec rhings
is this an apathet ic arrirude or one
differently. Anyone see a problem
of exposure and new lighr) Probably
here'
neither as mosr of what I have been
I do, I can't pin it down, and won'r, in order [0 sound at saying is misguided babble and hearsay.
lea st ,I lirtle modest. Although , I do understand rhar rhose
Still, I nor anybody else should be parading around on
who claim to have rhe ultimare answers that wi ll lead us ro their high horse preaching universa l laws, and if you catc h
tora l liberarion may be intending to be th" masters. This anyone doing this Cas you have already caught me), feci
is an old philosophy, but one thar makes sense. You can'r free to rurn them in [0 the terror police, or you can just
claim to know everyrhing or say thar yo u aren't ignoranr for give them a swift kick in the burr. Remember, all of rhis
rhese exact reasons, ir isn't fucking possible, Considering chao; will only be allowed until I am your leader and rhen
the word ignorant means lacking knowledge, no one will all shall live in harmony. PEACE!

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El Salvador CISPES Teach-In: The Currellt Couditiolls in El Salvador

februar
Evellillg ofPoehJllllld Stories fi'Oll/ the ~r Frollt With Ar.lb-Amer ica n
wr ite r Joall ll.1 Kadi and writer & rece nt delegate to Palestine, li-evor Baumgart ner.
In cludes co mmunity co n versatio ns a nd strategizing on the escalat ing war. Joa nna
Kadi i., J writ~r, ITIl!>ician, poet and teac he r. She is the author of Thillking ClllSs:
Skrtdm
III II Clllillml Wor,('{'r (South End Press, 1996) and editor of Food For
GilI' Cl'llIItilllolhl'rs: Wl'llillp by Amb-JlmrriCtlI/ {llId /lmb-Cfl/lfldiflll }-' I'I11illisIS
(Sou lh i--:nd Pre", 1994), the first collection of its kind published in the Unired
Statl". Trl'vor BJumgartner i, a writer Jnd recent member of an internat ional
delegation [0 the Occ upied Terrirori es in January 2002. Ilis essays have appeared
in Eat th" S[.l[e. 7- 9 p.m. in TESC Longhouse 1002.
H I - - Callery OpenillK Receptiolls 4'" Floor Gallery: Corky Clai rm on t and Lucia
Il.rrri,on (Er:"ing the Land,ca pe: Journals About Place) . In Ga ll ery II, Beauty for
,I Pri ce: A SL'n iorThcsis Ex hib it hy Sarin" Ca rrel'. 5-8 p.m.

Econolllic Co nditi o ns. G ra ss roots Organizing, Resistance & Alternatives.
Featured speake rs and workshop facilitators: J oh n Regan - "Current Economic
Polici es in Ce ntr al America & th e Alternatives"; Brad Andrews - " La
Coo rdinadora- Grassroots Organizing in EI Salvador "; Alcjandra Castillo "Fighting for the Alternative in EI Salvador & the USA. " 1-3 :30 p.m, at First
Ch rist ian C hurch, 7 0 I Franklin St. SE, Olympia (between Sylvester Park and the
downrown libra ry). Al l are welco me. For more info , ca ll 867-6513. Sponsored
by: C ISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the Peop le of EI Salvador) and OMJ P
(Olympia Movement for Justice & Peace).

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C,'eative Writi1lK Group Come do group exercises/activitics, read your
works in progress, practice sla mming. 6 p.m. in MOD 312B. For more info,
ca ll Veronica at 867-1148.
Poetry ReadinglOpe1l Mic at Rise',,'Sbille Bake1J1 G00J food, good
atmosp here. Every Sunday at 7 p.lll.

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PlaY/JIlck TI,eat7'e Pe,jorlllll7lce: Audiellce-Up H earrspar kle Players. A
'peeial perfo rm.IIlCl' where memb c rs of the audience are invited up on stage
with I eart'IMrkle Pla yers to help pLtyback the eve nin g's stor ies. Playback
The.Hrc i, a ,pomaneo us col laboratio n betwee n perform ers Jnd audience. People
tdl mOllll'nt, from their li ves, then watch them re -created with movement,
mu,ie allll di,tlogue. 7:3 0 p.m ..It Traditions Cafe, 300 5'" i\ve. S\X/ (downtow n
Olymp ia ). Cost: ~ugge"ed donation $5-10 ( no one is turned a\ny). Ca ll
')'1j -()7~2 for more info.
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monaav february 251
Wimer Arts Festival Submissions Due The Festival will be held Friday,
March I & Saturday, Match 2 in the Libra ry Lobby, showcasing art in any form
imaginable. See friends be'artist ic! Tell the family co come see your latest painting!
This is a show for stud ents by students. Visual art displays will be se t up all day
and performances will take place in the cveni ngs. Bc a part of the Friday nigbt
Poetry Slam ' (s how is at 8 p.m. ). 0" Sa turday, sta rting at 7 p.m., see Capocira
Angola and the Evergreen D:tnce Experiment do their latest; live music from
some of Evergreen's best musicians; sbadow puppet theater; OJ Cool Hand Luke;
r:lREOANC ING; and much more! This eve nt is FREE. Turn in arts submissions
by this date. Call ext. 6412 for details or come by the Student Arts Cou ncil
office Monday and Wednesday from 2-5 p.m.

I Wal/t to Scream: A Workshop DealillK with Gellder 6- Other Factors that
LCllri to SexllalAssalilt 5 p.m. Potl uck , 5:30-8:30 p.m. Workshop in CA B 108.

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[_intited to 2'5 peopk. Spaces will fill up quickly. Ca ll the Offi ce of Sex ual Assault
Prevention (or information or to sign lip. 867-5221.

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Chibi CMbi Co 11 veil tioll: Allime GaminK & Allime Dance With OJ Mog.
Ir " ,til free I II a.l11 .•md onwJrd. TESC Lecture I ],lIs. Persons younger th an 18
11111\[ lw :tCconlJ.':lIlied wilb "n ,,,hilr. Bro llght to you by GRAS.

Girl Mal/keys Get Greasy Too: 2-Day Womel/$ Auto Maintenance 6IlIfl'O to Mechllrlics Worksbop 12 p.m . in the parking lot under CA B building.
Sign lip sonn at CAB 206 (Wome n'" Center). Limited space available. Brought
10 you by the Women's Resource Center.
H - - Music Composed with Text ill Milld Th e 40-piece Olympia C hamber
Orchc,t ra wi[1 perform the third conccrt of their seaso n at TES e. .) p.m.
T LSC oml11un ications Building, Recital Iiall. Tickets: S I 5 genera l, $10
'Iud<nr., & 'eniors over age 62, $5 youth und er 14. Ca ll (360) .1'>2-6223
lor infolm,ttion.
'-+-- Slide SIJOW & Presentation by the Cascadia Forest Aliiance On ly 2% of
Oregon's original forests remain uncur. Cascad ian activists are defending ancient
frees in Orego n's coastal mountain rainfotest lands . Come learn more about this
<tory and how you ca n get involved. Followed by music with Happy Savage and
guem . Se.mle band Happy Savage plays funked- up blues, rock, reggae & world
be,ll d.mcr groov~" Donation s will benefit CFA and the legal and medical costs
of those Jrrested and injured. 7 p.m. in Lib 1000. For more info, call Lauric at
ext. 648 7 , Presented b thc ERe.

details and applications avai lable
from Feb. 8 in CAB 316
deadline to apply: March 8

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ACLU Talk on Sept_ 11- Doug Honig of the American Civ il Liberties
Union will speak and answet questions on the current state of civil liberties
since Sept. II and will address related legislation, including the USA Patriot
Acr. 2-4 p.m . in Lecture Hall 2 at TESe. Brought to you by COPRED
(Co nsortium on Peace Reseatch, Education & Development) & PSA (Peace
Studies Association).

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modern li'(7 ing.

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