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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 30, Issue 13 (February 28, 2002)
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tuition
or have services cut?
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"I would rather pay a higher tuition
because srudent services are important to a good edU.cation, which is what I
am paying for. I think
it would be worth the
extra to not have a worse
education."
-Patrick Suther
Part Time Studies Studerzt
"I think to add
some kind of diversity
to the campus I would
rather pay the tuition
that we are paying now
[rarher than a ruition
hike] and cut services
rhat are not being used as much. If
tuition remains the same then more
people would be able to attend than'
rhose who couldn't afford to pay a
higher tuition. '
-Jynette Laponite
Third Yt-ar Student
"I would rather pay
a higher tuition than
cut ,services, because
the student services
are essential to getting
my full education."
-Sara Needleman-Carlson
Third Yt-4r Student
"So, rather than paying tuition
I would rather see some student
services cut because I feel there are
a lot of people now that cover the
same kind of job as another person
on staff.. . But there has to be some
kind of in between, a third choice ...
You would think that raising tuition
would affect enrollment, but at the
same time you would think that
less services wou ld
bring people away
from the school as
well. .. I don't know
really what to say, it
is a hard question."
-Eric Reichmuth
First Yt-ar Student
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by Timothy Radar and Heather Hawksford
TESC
Olympia, WA 98505
Address Scrvice Requcsted
photo by Kevan Moore
Heavy groundwork on Evergreen's $41 million Seminar II building began last week. The construction has diverted foot traffi.c around
camp lIS, and taken lip some parking spaus. For information 011 thr constmction, call project manager Nancy Johns at extensIon 6041.
Colle e Pre ares for Cuts
Student.Servic~t+;
lV1ay .)Ujj er
bv Chris Mu/8Dv
";udentS and administrators discussed proposed cuts to the
Student Affairs budget at two meetings last week. If passed by
the Legislature, the cuts would be 2.5 to five percent of the total
annual budget, in the neighborhood of $114,000 to $230,000,
starting in July.
The cuts will affect every student. Some will lose their jobs;
others will gain less financial aid. But every student will experience
compromised services, including campus security.
Evergreen is dependent upon money from the state budget,
and because of the state's recession , the college is being asked to cut
costs across the board. On top of that, the board of trustees may
raise tuition as much as 15 percent.
But because the school is largely state-funded, Evergreen gets
hit when state money is tight.
Art Costantino, vice president for stlldent affairs, hosted the
two open meetings. He led administrators and students through
a series of proposals to cut the studen t affairs budget in all its
parts: police services, enrollment, student and academic support
services, and athletics.
Costantino asked directors from all student affairs divisions
to create cut proposals to prepare for the possiblf! campus-wide
cuts. Costantino summarized their proposals and asked individual
directors to clarify their cuts for students. Students and administrators then voted on the programs they wanted to preserve, reduce,
or remove.
Students and administration voted overwhelmingly to preserve
the Crime Watch program, financial aid workers and growth in
the Perkins loan. which allots financial awards for needy students.
Students who attended the meetings vocalized their concerns
with the proposals throughout.
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above in administration are making decisions but
to take art of the cu ts it is
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Tuition Cpuld Gdrow
Faster than Ai
bY Corey PBih
awn Stewart sits in one of the rows of chairs in the financial
aid office, filling out a yellow form resting on her knee.
Occasionally, she stands to ask the man at the counter a
question.
Stewart is applying for an emergency loan, because she
doesn't have enough money to make this month's rent.
She doesn't have a job; she says she's too busy taking care
of her two-and-a-half year-old son and taking her first year
of Evergreen classes. Her husband was laid off from a Seattle
internet company last year. Stewart is one of the Evergreen
students who depend on financial aid to live.
"It's pretty much my entire source of income," she says.
For Stewart, and the 60 percent of Evergreen students who
receive financial aid, the coming years could get tighter.
Budget cuts across the college, likely to be mandated by the
state Legislature, stand to impact services in every Evergreen
department. Financial aid is no exception.
One of the cuts department heads are considering would
halt growth in the Perkins loan program. With tuition going
up as much as 14 percent, along with more students attending
Evergreen, that plan would leave less financial aid to go
around.
And that means fewer people would be ab le to afford an
Evergreen education.
Perkins loans are subsidized by the federal government,
with low interest rates, and paid out by the college. Every year
for the past several years, Evergreen has given students about
$600,000 worth of Perkins loans.
The bu lk of that money has come from Evergreen's coffers;
for every dollar the college puts into the Perkins loan program,
the government pays eight cents. Schools are req ui red to pay for
at least one-fourth of the Perkins loan fund, but
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bY Evan Hastings 01 EPIC
,\Vlh at is TL? The Tot al Li b e rat io n
lec rure and workshop series is be ing
orga nized to promote a h o li stic visio n of
resistance and liberat ion, o ne that does nOI
privilege any parricu lar type of opp ressio n
over any ocher, yet wh ich sti ll res pects and
furthers the auton omy of all movements
in J co ntext of solidariry. For instan ce, we
want to move be),o nd the old idea that class
society is the basis of all other oppression,
or the new<'/' idea I hal gender is ar the hJsis
of a ll olher oppression . Rather we say rhal
both are, and that rhese are really just th e
beg inni ng of an u nderstand in g o( how our
t rul y multifacered world really works, /\11
of these things are truly interr\v ined and
inrerrei ,lted, they a re all "base" a nd Ihey
arc all "superstrucru re," lik e Ih e different
co nnected parts of a si ngle giant organism.
With rhis co ncep tion in mind , we are asking
speakers ro focus on how rhe subject(s) rhat
rh ey fo cll s on (be It racism, sex ism, cbssism,
h omophob ia , environmenta l degradation ,
erc.) is directl y interre lated ro other form s of
Students Pay for KAOS Antenna
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VAOS' A new ,t.lte-o(- Ih e-art anrenna'
l"-Special guesr <r.lr Les Purce. Presi denr
of The Evergren, Srare Ccollege! What do
,111 of rhese rhings add up to' A o n<,-hour
disc ussion that will focus o n rhe increased
Lovcrage area! Lisreners are e ncouraged
to c.oIl in and disc uss concerns and issues
rt'I~H ing [0 rhe anrcnna.
Th e new a!Hen/la, sit uated on top of
Tumwater I Iii!. wi ll make KAOS available
(rom Tacoma to C hehalis, from Monresano
ro Kitsap Cou nty, and all ow those living
in downtown 0lympl3 ro get KAOS even
l h:a rcr.
KAOS began as.' humble I O-wa(( slation
bro.1dcas ring on borrowed equipment. Now,
the ignal is a mighty 1,500 \Vam .
KAOS has been enmeshed in conrroversy
lately. This is especially tru e concerning
Ihe iss ue of co mmunity inclu sio n versus
student participarion. Non-s rud ents make
up Ihe bulk of un-air prugr.Ulllllns, while
studeIHs pay the bulk of rarion COSts. With
th e addition of the antenna, the numbe r of
potential listeners reac hed wi ll grow quite
a bit, while the opporrunities to studenrs
w ill remain the same . Th is disparity will
be add ressed at this forum, along with any
otber anrenna r"bted issues yo u care to
bring up.
The on-air forum wi ll rake place Tuesday,
March 5 from 8-9 a.I11., only on KAOS
89.3 FM. The phon e number for the
srud iolrequest line is 867 -5267.
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vergreen's acade mic division presented
its prelim in ary budget-curring p lan on
Mo nday. Academics is rhe co ll ege's largest
budget; it e nco m passes programs, faculty,
t he graduate progra ms, the library, a ll d the
public servi ce ce nters.
The plan would reduce fund ing for rhe
sciences, ga lleries, p erfo rmin g arts, anJ
the library. That mea ns fewer shuws, fewer
libra ri ans, and fewer books. The graduate
Sex
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asking rh al they offer some visions (cirh e r
pr.lc ti cal or th eo retical ) of how ac ri vists
Inighr cross hound:lI'icl" to fiud
[() [hest qllc~[iol1~ ~lIld
In
our !'Iocicry. and then we arc
C 0Il1[1101l
ground, while st ill re <pecling and further ing
Ihe ,Iutonomous movements of all g roups
striving for liberarion .
Ilow ca n I help plan alld organi ~e T L?
Co me to one of our m ee tings: we arc meelin g nery Mond.1), al 6:30 p.m. Jt Clancy's
in Olympi.l. \1(/hat i( I jllsl want to a[(end'
That is fin e roo, but this is nor a conference
per se . Rather thi s is a se rie s of events
spreJd Oll t over [\VO weeks . So you m ight
want to pick the parts rhat look the mo't
interesting a nd cO l11 e ro those. A schedule
will be posred on the website by mid-March
20 02.
Totfll Libadlioll lerture fI'lId works/lOp
series, April 19 10 Mflydny 2002 fit The
r."ergreen Stflte College, Olylllpifl, WidJ/liliglOIi.
GlIli 11/': ;" rp://wwu,.?,,'oci ties. colII/rillgfingers/
IOlfIlity.lJnIl I
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Fun' (duh) workshop, 7 1'.111. Thursd.1 Y.
Feb ru ary 28, on ly ,It The Edge in /\ -donn .
The workshop will cover topi c; r'lllging
from techniques for Illen ,m el wome ll using
hands, rongue or to),s, to .U1 analOmy le,son,
sate sex tips and more . You're lIever as goud
as yo u think yo u are. The workshop will be
led by representatives from Seattie-lHsed
Toys in Babe land , a "s ex to), sto re run
by women whose mi ss ion is 10 promore
and ce lebrate sex ual vitality by providing
an honesr, open and fun cnvironment,
e ncouraging perso nal empowerment, educating our commu n ity, and su pporring a
more pass ionate world (or all of us."
Housin g is sponsoring the works hup,
and the Coaliti on Against Sex ual Vi olence
(CASy) is co-sponsor in g. Quesrions? C all
the CASV at x6749.
theGoop-er Point Journal
General Meeting
Business........................................ 867-6054
5 p.m, Monday
Business manager..................................................... Sophal Long
Asst. business manager ................. ,...................... Ursula Becker
Advertising representative .............................. Kumiko O'Connor
Ad prooter and archivist ,........................................ Irene Costello
Distribution manager ........................................... Graham Hamby
Ad designer ................................................ Nicholas Stanislowski
Circulation manager..................................... ,.. Michaela Monahan
Help decide such things as the Vox
Populi question and what the cover
photo should be.
Paper Critique
4 p.m, Thursday
Comment on that day's paper. Air
comments, concerns, questions, etc.
Friday Forum
2 p,m. Friday
Join a discussion about journalism
and ethics facilitated by CPJ Advisor
Dianne Conrad.
2 p.m. Friday
calendar items, see page an,
columns, comics
Noon Monday
news articles, a&e articles, letters,
sports anicles
Noon Tuesday
film
february 28, 2002
News .............................................. 867.6213
Editor-in-chiet ........... ,', ................. ,.................. Whitney Kvasager
Managing editor............................................................ Corey Pein
News editor ............... " ........ ,..................................... Kevan Moore
L&O editor ...... ,.......... ,........ " ............ ,............................ M.A. Selby
Photo editor .............. ,......... ,......... ,.. ', ................. " ............... vacant
A&E editor ................................................................. Chris Mulally
Sports editor ............................ ,....... ,", ................................ vacant
Page designers ...................................... Katy Maehl, Katrina Kerr
Copy editors ....................................... Meta Hogan, Mosang Miles
Calendar editor ................................................... Chama Calamba
Newsbriefs editor ............................................... Andrew Cochran
Comics editor........................................................... Nathan Smith
Advisor .... ,......"., ..,... ,..... ,.. ,.. ,..... ,.... ,................ " .... Dianne Conrad
Contributors ................... Meilani Allen, Steve Burnham, Chama Calamba, Eli
Chuckovich, Andrew Cochran, Erik Cornelius, Krista Fracker, Anna Gold, Justin
Jeremy Gregory, Jessica Hasenbank, Evan Hastings, Heather Hawksford,
Krystal Kyer, Whitney Kvasager, Sophal Long, A, Loskota, Maureen Elizabeth
McGregor, Alex Mikitik, Kevan Moore, Chris Mulally, Apryl Nelson, Phil Owen,
Corey Pein, TImothy Radar, Sean Rogers, David Smith, Laurel Smith, Nathan Smith,
Nick Stanislowski, Gavin Stansill
Go~d,
I
n the word s of the almighty T ick,
the man t hat is eternall y wise a nd allknow ing: SPOONI
February 1 6 - - - - - - - Everyone was at peac<' w irh themselves,
and slept a ll day.. Sigh ,
programs, lea rning reso ur ce cen t er, and
th e five public se rvice ce nlers would Jl so
lose money. Other ideas included c1o'ing
Ihe coll ege for a day or a week and " , killg
faculty (0 take sala ry c urs.
C uts won't be fina l until the Legislature
adjourns. Sec rh e CPJ as events develop.
o you find yourself giv ill g mctii,Kre
hand jobs' Co nfused "bOll I Ihc dif(nen ce bel'\¥ee n Ih e I.,bi" n,ajora a nd Ihe
IJbia mino ra> C an )'ou m,·.' IcJlh<r h.lI'n,·"
with the Cli t Blaster 2000? (; et the Jl1>wer,
opp ress ion
Culinary ·Malfunctions Galore
by Corey PAlO
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"h" OWn!, I,p, ,I lid Shnwn OIJOII ofStlldmts Agnimt Hllnga 1I1It! HOIII/'lessll(ss bllif, "I'
rlwr}inr Set ofdothillg donatiom. \\~ith eightrfaplnde; rlmlegiC/illy locl1Ied llrol/lld fIImpl/s,
S.·IHI I (olleclfd 11I00'f I;'"n 200 pie""s ofdolhillg 10 dOllate 10 loml dhlrrtirs. Among Ihe
bm"(i(idrifI are Ihe )'\\,/01, SlIj'p la ce, 51. Mich",'ls, 51. Vim-fill De?/I/I, flllt! Brefld & Roses.
S/J III I ","I call till III' 10 collect clotiles -1001: for reapldel" In tile C/18, Libmr), CNC dllrl
1~((/"fflllC Arilll5ing, or rnll x6555 /"1' mort' i1lfo. - A"dreu! Cor!;,.tlU
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b o il up som e'o' Oscar Meyer's mystery
meat franks, but forgot a bout them un t il
they became c harcoal. Poor Oscar, the
disrespect to hi s wieners ... Now they will
never be loved , nor eate n .
lO:25pm: Bicycle! Bicycle! I want to
ride my bicycle! But no t this bicycle - ir
o nl y has a fram e, no wheels. This bicycle
is bad for ridin g, b eca use it won't go
a nywhere without w h eel s.
F'ebruary 1 7 - - - - - - - 3:23am: One poor individual is lea rni ng why there a re signs posted around
the country warning you not to leave
va lu a bles in the car. The poor soul placed
her misguided trust in the lock on her
car a nd it was rewa rded with her CDs
belllg stolen a long with a handy radar
system. Maybe she should have listened
more closely ro the signs, but this thief
will get his just desse rts , Mmmmm .....
Desserts ...
7:21pm: Beep! Beep! Beep! Ah, the
first fire alarm of the week. A faulty fan
system may to blame this week, 01' maybe
not. Who knows...
7:25pm: Oh, I wish I were an Oscar
Meyer wien er... But the wieners in this
report are not in love, they are burnt!
Burnt I say! One yo ung lady decided to
February 1 9 - - - - - - - Yet aga in the fire alarm goes off. The
c ulprit this time? Hot dogs? No. Maybe
popcorn? No. It is the foul s te nch of burnt
water. The officer on duty stated : "I a m
not sure how yo u burn water, but that
was his testimony." Hmm ... How does
o n e burn water? Skill? Talent? StlIpidity?
We m ay never know . ..
it is admirable fo r them (0 realize w ha t
the legal limit is, and to want others to
know, I must be the bearer of bad news.
The theft of the sign is ILLEGALI Give
it back! Those signs aren't cheap, and it
wasn't yours ro begin with. Return it.
February 2 3 - - - - - - - It's startin g ro smel l a li ttle like danger
in here, or heavily- fried food. (the Tick)
February 1 8 - - - - - - - February 2 0 - - - - - - - Time unknown: STOP IT!!!! [ don't
care what the reason for the fire alarm
is ... Problem burner? HA! I don't believe
it!! Watch your food!
4:06pm: Stopped for speeding, arrested
for suspended license in the third degree
and caught wirh a "sandwich bag containing pieces of green vegetable mater."
Matter, I mean. Was he carrying parsley?
Or was it something more sinister? The
officer on duty believes that it was, and
sent the matter in for testing.
11 :51pm: Lose your stereo from your
trunk? Do you remember where it might
have fallen out? Fear not , loyal citizen, it
has been foul)d ... Police services does!!
February 2 4 - - - - - - - Nothing of interest happens today,
February 2 1 - - - - - - - or today...
A good Samaritan of sorts reports that
he broke a window in the MODs. He
admits to have been drinking and threw
a rock at the window in a fit of anger.
He felt guilty afterwards, and offered to
pay the damages.
February 22'_ _ _ _ _ _ __
February 2 5 - - - - - - - We have all seen the signs that warn of
the legal limit for alcohol limits that line
the road in our state. It seems that one
person not only observes these signs, but
wanted one for their dorm room . While
Culinary malfunction ... burnt food ...
However you put it, a fire ahrm went off,
again this week. Maybe there should be a
class on how to NOT burn your food .
Evergreen
er Art~ Festival 2002
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Friday 8pm Poetry Slam
Saturday
7pm Percussion Club
7: 20 Capoei ra Angola
7:50 Conceptual Performance Art
8:05 Bellydance Performance
8:35 Live music by Daniel Landin
~pm Dance Experiment
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Students, Community Members Fight Anti-Homeless Ordinaiicetry
by Phil Owen 01 SA HH
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ast fall , under heavy pressure from
downtown businesses, the O lympia
City Co un cil began co nsidering 3 set
of ordina nces thar v,uuld ban ca mping and
car " unping, estab iis h "no -pan handling"
and "alcohol impact" zones, and beef up
tresp,lSSing law, in public parks. Though
the cit y deni es it , these ordinances arc
targeted at homc less people , with the
intclH o( removing the homeless from the
community. Simil ar ordinances have been
passed, or are currcn rly under co nsideration,
in hund reds of cities across the U.S.
The trend to crimi nali ze homelessness
has grown with rhe number of' home less
people on rhe meers. Availabil ity of lowincome housing decreases every year, even
as demand for low- income units increases.
Accurding to 3 Department of Housin g
and Urban Development report, in 1971
tltere were as many low-income units as
low-income renters, narionwide. By 1998,
the number of/ow-income renters exceeded
low-income units by 5.4 million units. As
the cost of housing has increased, publi c
b~nefits such as Tem porary Assista nce to
Needy Families, and Genera l Assistance for
the Unemployable, a disability benefit, have
been scaled back. A recent srudy by the
U.S. Conference of Mayors found that a
staggering 38 percent of the urban homeless are famil ies. Low -income , se rvice
industry jobs fa il to keep up with housing
costs; abou t 20 percent of the homeless
Jre emp loyed. With a rising number of
people on the streers, the image of the inner
ci ties has declined. And that has business
owners fu rio us.
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Last fall, the Olympia Dow·ntown
Association (ODA), a business interest
group, met with City Council members to
discuss downtown "livability" and "safety."
The ODA has made the passage of camping and panhandling ord in ances its top
photo by Timothy Radar
lin Euergrun student, in front ofa group oftranJimts who may be afficted by the propoJed Olympia City Council ordinanw that would limit
panhandling in artain arcllJwaits for the bus alth, comer ofFourth Avenue and J1firson Strut.
pt iority.
In January, WashPIRG and Stude nts
Agai nst Hunger and Homelessness teamed
up with Olympia's Welfare Rights
Organizing Coalition, Works In Progress,
Columbia Legal Services, and St. Michael's
Social Justi ce Commi ttee to organize a
response to the proposed o rdinances. These
organizations agreed to
work together under the
name Coalition for Low
Income Power, and held a
community "teach-in" last
Wednesday, Februaty 20.
About 75 people of diverse
ages and bac kgrounds
attended the teac h- in ,
where arguments against
the ordinances were presented by a panel of
speakers, including a student coordinator fo r the
Students Against Hunger
and Homelessness, Phil
Owen [the author]. Owe n,
a
former
emergency
Rick Mc Veig/J. a /Jomdm mlln, glwe personal testimony about
medical tech n ician for
police haraHment lind saftty ar a leach-in held in last wuk.
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victimization of the homeless, class ~t igmas, Brown plans to do exactly thar. Hinting at
and police harassment. A homeless man, the potential for litigation , Brown told the
Rick McVeigh , also discussed stigm a and crowd, "If the city passes these ordinances,
the harassment of homeless people. "When it's gonna cost them so me money."
you find yourself in a homeless situation, .
you're at the mercy of the police. They IfYOII have questions or comments, or wOlild
to get involued with the StuaenlJ Against
will target yo u again and again ... but where liIu
Hunger and Homeumws, pUllJe call Phil Owen
ca n we go?"
or Sara Nudleman-Carlton at 867-6555. or
The city is quick to cl aim that it does email crazyco_oper@hotmail.com
not target people based on economic status.
C ity officials cite an increase in "offensive,"
"ill egal," and "a nti -soc ial" behaviors as
justification for a ban on camping an d
panhandling. Yet Tara Perkin s, of the
City officials have scheduled a "Round
Coalition For Low Income Power, points
Table~ discussion, similar in format to a
out that the ordinances attempt to curb
discussion held after a Mayday event two
the use of public space toward private
years ·ago, to hear public comments about
business interests. "What they really mean
the safety and image of the downtown ,
by 'a nti-soc ial ' is a sociality that is . .. not
area. Information gleaned at the "Round
relevant to commercial exchange .... When
Table~ discussion wiU be used to gauge
yo u ... legislate against those behaviors,
whether camping and panhandl'ing ordiyo u automatically criminalize all people
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Parking Lot Could Lose
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udget cuts across the college may end a
program that has succeeded in reducing
cnme on campus.
.
No specific cuts are final yet. but every
Evergreen depart men t stands to lose 2.5
ro five percent of its budget. If the state's
dire fundi ng estimates are any indication.
then Evergreen will likely take the larger
cut - which. department heads say. would
directly impact co llege services.
One of those se rvices is the Crime Watch
program. which began just a few years ago.
The program quickly reduced the amount
of crim es - from th eft to vandalism ro
assau lt - in F-Lot. th e 325-space parking
area for housing residents.
Crime Watch employs four students ro
parrol F-Lot in the evening hours. The
srudellt on dury is eq uipped with a ca r and
a radio, ,Ind cal ls the police if he or she
no! ices
SOTllt'th i ng
susp iciou s.
Before Crime Watch slarted , police
ch ief Hunt,berr y says it wa s comlllon
to get six or seven vehicle prowls every
week.
"On occasio n. we'd get thaI many in a
night." lluntsberry said.
The program worked: vehicle prowls
dropped to abo ut one per week.
"Old car prowlers got to know th ere was
somebody in tha t lot. Word got around."
Huntsberry sa id.
Bur if Crillle Watch goes away. F· Lol
will no longer be so closel), guarded, alld
Ihe number of iu cidcnts cou ld in crease.
Hunrsberry says things like surveillan ce
cameras. fencing. and gates are impractical
in F·t.ot. and less effecrive than having a
person actually patrol the lor.
The program costs about $ 13,000 a year,
and police se rvices has been asked to trim
about $40,000. lind while C rime Watch
has reduced properry crime;, HUnLsberry
<3)'S it; eiiminJrion won't affect people's
physical safety as much as Iayi ng off an
officer wou ld.
The Eve rgreen po li ce department has I I
Security
.
officers. and there's always at least one on
dury. When no officers are sick or away at
training. Huntsbe rry says he prefers to have
rwo patrolling cam pus on T hursday. Friday.
and Sa tu rday nights.
Police services' budget reduction pl an
already decreases the amount of time officers
will be on -duty. One poli ce position is
cut to II months a yea r. another to ten
months. The time off would co me durin g
the summ er. when fewer st ud en ts are on
campus.
Huntsberry says he feels sho rt-staffed
already.
"You ask a cop, and there's never
enough cops."
l-Iunt sber ry
said. "I'm sure
if you talked
to
financial
,lid.
admissions. or health
services. they'd
say exactly the
same thing."
And
he's
righ t. Heads of
other ca mpu s
divisions say
that aftcr a
three perce nt
cut last year.
another five
percelll wi ll go
"!"light to the
bone and
campus
serVIces
wi ll
suffer. At a
budget forum
for
student
affairs
last
Friday. all bur
one of th e IS
srudents present wanted to
keep the C rime
• •
Watch program. O ne cited the November
rape in F-Lot as a cause for concern over
safery. Another added later that students
feel more comfortable around their peers.
the Cri me Watch employees. than police
office rs.
Art Costantino. vice president tor srudent
affairs. ran that meeting. and he oversees the
police. He says that while Cr ime Watch is
on the block now. it is possible the program
might su rvive the cuning process.
"We may decid e as a group that we
want to keep this program." Cos tan tino
sa id. "When people norice that it makes a
difference. it's a good thing ... ·
Costantino sits on the college's Planning
and Budget Cou n ci l. th e group that 's
working to figure out how Eve rgreen will
deal with the state-mandated funding Cuts.
The group will finish their work. and make
a recommendat ion to th e President. in
late spring.
In th e meantime, rhey are open to
suggestions from students.
.Contaci vice president Art Costanthlo
at extension 6296. or President Lu Puree
at extension 6100. For campus eseorll'. ad!
police services at extension 6140.
Services and Programs for
Students Could Take Losses
'- -
continued from cover
Fvan Hastings. a st udent.
"It makes it a non-democratic process if people making the dec isions abo ut the
budget are unaffected by it." H astings sa id.
Srudents were shocked to see stud en t affa irs directors proposIng to d iminate
Jo bs and remove whole progtams.
Steve Huntsberry. chief of Police, plans to el imin ate the C rime Watch Program.
where students sit in cars in F-Lot. monitoring for car prowls or susp icious activity.
The program has curbed cri me near Housing but costs $13 .200.
"We don't have any fat a nywhere. But [Crime Watc h] is one of the few things I
could cover WIth officers. Of all the programs we have had here. that is the most
successful. It has reduced crim e to zero," Huntsberrv savs.
"A lot of women's issues were under attack [at th~ m~etlngsJ." says Hastin gs.
The cuts endange r the integriry of many new programs and se rvIces at Evergreen
that promote diversity. These include funding for First People's graduation. First
People's advi sing and outreach, a nd Upward Bound employment.
When Cos tantino tabulated the votes at the end of the meeting. the Crime Watch
program received the most support. 15 of the thirty people in the room voted the
program as their priority to preserve.
Second was preservi ng Financial Aid workers, The thitd priority was preserving
growth in the Pe rkins loan program, which helps a bundle of students with
thei.r financial aid. and according to Costantino has grown each year to match
tumon Increases,
Steve Hunter outlined proposals to cut enrollment services. which included
reducing a financial aid employee to almost halftime, Hunter mourned losing a
wotker and said he wanted cuts to paper costs, not people,
As an example, Hunter will reduce print and radio advertising in the recruiting
department by $46.500, It will chop off an already disabled recruitment effort.
"A paper-less Evergreen is impossible," cited one staff member. But many students.
staff, and administration members voted to cut paper-production fliers instead of
cutting out a financial aid worker. which, Hunter says, will put an extra burden
on financial aid ,
"We would experience delayed response time in review and notification of
awards, and longer lines, " Hunter says, "It means fewer people doing the same
or larger workloads,"
Dave Weber is director of the College Recreation Center. He may remove
Evergreen's men's and women's swim teams if the cuts go through, He cites decreased
interest and participation, The team is worth about $15,000, He may also cut
$4,500 from the travel budget for other spons and decrease athlete per diem
on road trips.
Phyllis Lane heads up student and academic support services, That includes
serv ices such as academic advising. access services (for people with unique needs) ,
th e career development ce nte r. the child ca re cen ter. the health center. student
ac tiviti es. and Upward Bound.
''I'm meeting with people individually" in order to determine cuts , Lane ad mits.
Lane wants to cur excess fa t without amputating the integrity of her programs. Bur
"integriry" is tough to preserve in a yea r where some students in her department
may lo se thei r jobs at the front lines
of academic advising.
" It debunks the ideology of co mmunity we have at Evergree n." says
Ellen Trescott. whose job is in danger.
"It's sad to think I co uld be oblitera ted. I've devoted a yea r and half
to thi s job. I hope I'm an asset ro
the office."
Trescott is a st ud e n t and peer
advisor in academic advisi ng. She
greets studen ts. leads them to rhe
se rvices they need , and helps them
with paperwork and class schedules.
She says she knows the office really
well at this point.
From Ir.ft: Kitty Parka. dirmor acatUmic
Trescott says students dream about advising; SUVt Hunur, diytctoy ofmrollmml;
an ideal Evergreen community in Phyllit Lant. di"ctor ofstutUnt support UTI/iets;
and Mikt Stgawa. dirtctor ofhousing, listm to
which people "support each other" a summary ofcuts to thtir divisions at an opm
and student jobs really marter, but budget muting Imt wuk.
she says the budget cut. proves that
student jobs are inevitably not secure,
To conclude the meetings last week. Costantino described a four-step process
for slimming down Evergreen,
First. division directors like Phyllis Lane and Steve Huntsberry will present their
recommendations to the college Planning and Budget Council.
The council includes three students, three staff, three faculty, vice president Art
Costantino, and a few other administrators, They will mull over recommendations
and seek input from the Evergreen community. All Evergreen students can freely
attend any upcoming meetings,
Third. the Council will hand over their recommendations to
Puree. Evergreen's
President, Puree can make his final decision based on the Council's recommendations,
but he doesn't have to,
Puree will bring finalized recommendations to the board of trustees, The board
of trustees will take lhese recommendations and match them against the total
money the legislature says must be cut, The board of trustees will be in charge
of raising tuition as well.
The Planning and Budget Council Meetings aN! open to studmn. Their next meeting
is March 6 in the Boardroom (Library 3112).
An all-division muting will be held March 11 from 3-5 p . m. in a currently
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the cooper point journal
february 28, 2002
'a,rts & entertainment
BeautYfor aPrice $
Sarina Carter says submitting to todays standards
S
arina Carter's new art exhibir confronts the subject of beauty by slicing beneath the
skin's surface. Her show's subject - plastic surgery.
") want people to notice thar as a culture we are driving sixteen year old girls to
want breast implanrs, and women as
young as eighteen into believing that
rhey need facelifts and nose jobs in order
to be happy," says Carter in her artist's
statement.
"As a culture we are standardizing
beauty, and I hope that we will notice
rhe price before its too late."
Carter's exhibit is called Beauty for
a Price. It opened February 18 inside
the library entrance gallery and will
continue until March 15 . It is her last
Evergreen assignment. Her senior thesis.
The culminarion of many months of
artwork. And many months of research.
"I read medical texrs and articles on
Aesthetic Surgery as well as books dealing
with body image issues for women. All of
the pieces are based on this research."
On the left wall, wax masks are surrounded by mirrors. Next ro pictures of
ski n being pulled up from around th e
ears. The beginnings of a "facelifr."
On the back wall are deformed breasts
made from nylon stockings. The right
wall holds prints of breasts and chee ks
pulled open. Everything hangs from
sinewy red string.
")t'S not the type of work you would
buy and hang in your home," says Daisy
Cu r1ey, Evergreen's gallery di rector.
Curley says Serena Carter's arr is not
"pretty." Carter uses shocking photos to
photos by Nic:,olas Stanislowski
convey a message.
To Sarina Carter, the surgeries are the
np/71JJ~1
Molly Rooney and Patrick Dolozier's
se ni or thesis, "Sex ual Perversiry in
C hi cago," starts tonight in Evergreen's
Experimenta l Theater. It is one of the mosr
realistic and well -asse mbled performances
to ever grace the Evergreen campus. It
is beautiflll, compelling, and skyscrape rs
beyond boring.
"I find thar the more human the characters become, the more powerful the play
is," Rooney says.
"Sex ual Perversiry in Ch icago" was
originally written in 1976 by David
Mamer, an innovative American playwright. Instead of the stereorypes the play
addresses, Rooney has chosen to focus on
the character's actions beneath them .
The pIa}' follows four characters two best friends, one girlfriend and one
roommate - through their everyday lives:
at the beach, in the office, on the couch,
at rhe bar, and most dramatically, in the
bedroom. Every character is translucenr
and somewhar insecure, which makes
rhem so amusing.
All of David Mamet's work is cenrered
on confro ntation, both subtle and volatile.
Hi ... work is also noted for his intense,
macho male characters and their roughand-rough posturing.
" I had trouble playing 'a self-assured
, asshole," says Janusz Ostrycharz, who plays
I a centerp iece cha racter named Bernie.
Joshua Tuntland, who plays Danny,
I
say. s the biggest challenge for the director,
I acrors and de signers "was dealing with
's hard to say why it was. I care
II ame.lot Itabout
what we're doing. Everyone
I was searching for his or her own se nse
of confidence. But when cver}'one's doing
what they think is the best rhing, you run
inro some problems."
c
Overall. lor Molly, Josh , Janu sz, and
everyone else involved in "Sexual Pcrvcrsirv,"
"
purring on a se nior thesis play is like getting
in a boxing fight for eight hours a day,
dressing your wounds at night, and getting
up in the morning to fight again . It's
nor just difficult to collaborate, it's nearly
impossible to get anything done.
"Thi s whole process has been for me
an exercise in dealing with sh it that comes
your way, as opposed ro actually directing
artistically," Rooney says. "We spent rhe
first five weeks of fall quarter looking for
a play," she adds.
Besides losing an actress in week eight of
fall quarter, they lost their costume designer
to the Olympics in Salt Lake City. Add to
that their new costume designer is in her
final stages of pregnancy. She works 30
hours a week and has severe contractions
on the weekend.
They also could'.I't ger the rights to the
play because Evergreen owed money for
rhe last play. No room space sent [hem to
rehearse in lounges and closets.
"Besides the fact [that] the printer
wouldn't work," adds stage manager Emily
Carr.
According to Carr, the mix got messier
when their faculry sponsor threw a fir
because the advertisement they glued
around cam pus shows too much of Molly
Rooney's naked body.
Rooney said she wanted everyone
working on the play to focus on collabor.rlon. Patrick Dolozier was the lighting
result of American pressures ro be beautiful.
She concluded this after nine months of
book reading, interviews and gathering
statistics on plastic surgery.
Carter wants her art to tell the srory of
women seeki ng self-wo rth in an unhealthy
way. "It makes the surgery become real."
Curley says.
Curley said when she helped Carter
hang her exhibit, Carter kept spiecing facts
about plastic surgery. She knew her subject.
And Carrer has a lot of research to address.
But she is addressing something no one
does at the Evergreen Galleries. The idea
of self worrh.
C urley says no one makes are at the
Galleries about "how the world relates ro
[us] ." Instead artists focus on how we affect
the world. The difference is subtle.
"Many women have a standard image
planted in their head of how they should
look: slender, large breasted, delicate and
toned. This image stems from the media
in our culture's television, movies and
magazines," Carter says. When exercise and
diet fail women are turning to plastic surgery
to feel good about their body image.
Sa rina Career doesn't see surgery as a
healrhyalternative.
"Beauty comes from being content with
what you look like, " she says. "You can
consider your 'flaws' your own trademark,
as your uniqueness." Or you can see them
[negatively] as the things that are making
you unhappy about yourself."
She says Evergreen students need ro wake
up to their own ideas about body image. No
one is invincible from the media's influence.
Everyone looks in the mi rror and makes
february 28,- 2002
techni c ian
.
daily judgements.
"I think there's a lot of mythology that
Evergreen students are very much above
society. But if YOLl do a blind poll of issues
dominating Evergreen, I don't think they'd
be that far from the main sHeam," says
Angela Gilliam, Faculty of Intern ational
Feminism.
"There's a lot of secrets here," she says.
I n addition, Sarina Career wants
Evergreen students ro know young women
are geecing insecu re about their bodies at
younger and younger ages.
" That's new, " says Lucia Harrison,
Carter's primary advi sor. "Now plasti c
surgery is being marketed to a younger
audience. "
New and affordable:
Exfoliation
$196
Chemical Peel
$510
Laser Hair Removal
$403
Not ro mention the surgeries are quick.
Some procedures are fifteen minutes long.
The unspoken idea addressed in Sarina
Carrer's art show is you are taught you have
to look differen t in order ro be perfect.
"Bur plastic surgery is taking the differences away from people," Carta says.
Welcome to the Ze n d en. Here yo ur
mind slee ps in a hazy, aqua-opiated cu rtain.
Lyin g draped by smoky illu sions and blind
comfort , rh e psyche rcmJins twirchy and
r"srless. The fortress of Zen and peace ca n
o nly be fou nd wirh Satori (enlightenment).
Thi< des rinati on ,Iwa kens the un co nscio us.
I3dore I t,llk .1bou r Zen haiku ,I nd
poetr)" ler l1\e rei I of wh,lt co nnects rh e m:
Zen Buddhism. ZtII in Chin,1 was knowlI
." Ch·,III. These Ch',UI-Zt'lI m,I\tcrs werell't
followers ofButIdh.1 but rhoughr thq' could
,hp il'e ro pLitt' th~m\d\'l'\ IlI'Xl t o him.
In llleliir.lIioll ,lit' \cl!'-,can.. hint r 1\ done.
KOIIJlS, u\u;llh' hit;hly p,II-.ltIoAical,7ue\tiollS,
.Ire (orlll,·d. Thnc ' IU C\[JO IH .lre dirt,cted
hy th . . [l'.lLhl'r tOt thl' \UH.lelll or \lU': versa.
l ) Ill" "I the lIlor,' [unous ko.lIl\ is composed
hy IlakullI: wh.1l is the sou lid of oll e h.lI1d
cL.ppill g?
The COlli mOil lile of?:e ll practitioner., is
Olle of sdf~d iSCIp lill t" disrega rd offormalism
.llId si mpli city of livin g. To so me, Zen
resembles the lu cid world of surrealists. len
iu rruth ca nno r be fu lly defined. lr is not a
sec r, bur an experience.
For Ze ll poets, the view of poetry is
1I0t rhe same as in th e West, an art to be
culrivated. It is more an acrempr at rhe
nearly inexpressible. The beats and the San
Francisco poers groo ved on Zen. It was th e
" let go" principle rhat mJny Wesrerners
adhered their minds to.
Lerti ng go mea nt ,1 loosen in g of the
ego .lJ1d wirh ir a discovery of heighre ned
awarL'ness thdt one n CVl' r ge l S wha( is
gra.sped to r.
R.I I. Blyth's four volume I i,tikll ( 19' /9)
inspi re,! l11anv be.1t poe t' like Allen
Cinsbag, C;,try Snyd~r ,Ind Ja ck Keroll,lL.
I lcre\ '''l11e (If Cimherg's I.t'n h,liku:
Lying 011 1IIy side
III the void'
The bt'eatlJ in my nose
Jack Kcrouac publi shed haiku in SCI/llard
Poem, ( 197 1) and Trip hflp (1973) and
popubrized t he fo rm in Dhflnllll Bllms
(1958). He dosed on Zen haiku as well:
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said because
Roolley set up a collaborative environment
where everyone's voice mattered, it was hard
for the two of them to sit down alone.
"A lot of times when I tried to work I
would get nothing done, hanging rhe lights
and painting the set," he confesses.
In the last moments before the show's
opening night, both Dolozier and Rooney
are lying on a bed. Rooney's eyc;lids are
ell'
' spea ks
la lI1g [oward Iler ch ee ks . D 0 loZier
slowly with his head facing the covers.
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set, 'costumes an ig ting. ,wo quarters
training and rehearsing into the night time
when most people are sleeping. Hours
bl oc ki ng t h'
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set. They have cried in rrying to em bC'dy
Cobble of milky way,
strayillg pla,,~ts,
TIlese poems, people,
lost pOllies with
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all cI,ange, in tho lights,
As well as things.
Zen poetry used the e1emenrof Ze1lki, a
spontaneolls activity free of form s, flowing
from rhe form less self-image, leading to the
bold thrust of images. Kerouac developed
a new description for ze nki, pop--a quick
noise thar snaps you · to attention. The
teach in gs of the Void, birthlessness, and
contact with nature figure strongly in Ze n
'IS well.
The Zen poet Shinkichi
Takahashi displays so me of
the most severe potency I've
found thu s f:,r. Here's a
bi r fro m Afterimages ( 1972) :
Without Ilands and little spirit,
I'll blow and blow
Till that fresb sound comes:
I refitse to henr the fote of
wingless birds.
In this way of li fe Ze n provides a firm
philosophy. And as Chekhov writes, "i\
conscious life wirhout a definite ph il o",ph y i, no life, rather a burden .Ind a
nighrmare ..,
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.In 18rh-century master:
YOII 110 woner attllill the grellt "aid
Tllen body alld milld are losl togethn:
Helll/l:n alld Hell - a straw.
The Bllddba -realm, Ptlll,lemonilllll shllmb/es.
Listen: a nightingale stmillS her voice,
Serenadillg the mow.
Look: a tortoise wearing a 'sword climbs
The lampstand.
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their characters. Rooney says her play is
important to Evergreen.
" People don't really have a se nse
of humor [at Evergreen)." she says. " I
think this play is pretty good because it
slaps you in the face. We're saying 'you
faggot,' but it's okay, you don't have to
be freaked out about it. The characters
are all assholes."
"le's not controversial beca use it's
about relationships," Dolozier adds. "This
stuff happens. You can't deny it. You can't
fight it."
The play runs from Thursday ro
Sunday in Evergreen's Experimental
Theater, in the COM Building. Don't
fear paying the five dollars to get in at the
door. For ticket info, call 867-6833 .
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nor how much they were spend ing on what
in July, August and September.
According to officials, the main factors
that resulted in overspending came from
hiring too many summer workers, the rates
workers were Raid, the amount of overtime
some received, and higher-than-anricipated
costs of construction projects.
Segawa gives a couple of reasons for the
overspending. One is that
the person responsible for
summe r maintenan ce -
By Whitney Kvasager & Kevan Moore
Housing officials overspent
a quarter million dollars
they, failed to notice, and
won't be solely responsible
for replacing it.
The
PLAYERS
Art
Costantino
Vice
president of
student
affairs.
Responsible
for Mike
Segawa's
activities.
Mike
Segawa
Evergreen
housing
director.
Responsible
for managing
Housing's
budget. t>4ark
Lacina's boss.
Mark
Lacina
Facilities and
maintenance
director and
manager of last
year's summer
clean-up and
maintenance.
february 28, 2002
Too Many Workers, Too Many Hours
Sixty Percent ofHousing's Quarter Million Overspending Went to Pay Workers
By Kevan Moore
summer the new director hired 84, in part
Leads were responsible for organizing and
They cleaned and painted rooms.
because he was new to the job and couldn.'t assigning crews to various tasks.
They fixed furniture that squeaked conceive how al l of rhe work cou ld be
Katie Jahanmir was a part-time lead on
and sagged from decades of student use accomp li shed \,ith fewer workers.
linens; she also checked in people attending
so another batch of dorm residents could
Most of rhe summer workers were stu- confe rences on campus and who were staying
use it agai n.
dents on summer break, former students in the dorms.
They stripped down beds then washed or alums.
"I believe that we, as student or temporary
and dried dirry sheets and pillow cases
Most workers had 40-hollr-a-wcek jobs, employees, didn't do anything wrong, " she
for summer dorm guests.
and many of them frequendy worked over- says. "We did the job that we were hired to
They groomed dorm grounds and time.
do and we did it well. It's something that's
generally kept up Housing.
Summer
workers beyond our control."
Problem is, rhere were too
earned between $6.75 and
Jahanmir says most workers weren't abusIt seems strange.
many of them and tOo many
$15 an hour so overtime ing overtime, but instead were stepping up
I think if I were
of them regula rl y working
ranged anywhere between to do what was asked of them.
running
a busjness
overtime to get the work
$10.13 to $22.50 an hour.
"It was just something we had to do," she
I'd ask questions
done.
Housing payroll record s says. "It wasn't like , 'Let's all get as much
and do things
Housing needed the work
show that, by far, the most overtime as possible. '"
properly.
done, but didn 't have enollgh
common hourly rate was
Jahanmir thinks things could have gone
Somebody
mon ey set aside to cover
Only more smoothly and wonders why Housing's
$7.25 an hour.
dropped the ball...
what the summer workers
abou t 25 percent of the management didn't get more involved in
and summer work was costworkers listed on the directing and coordinating summer workers
mg.
summer payroll made more than $8.50 an and summer work.So, by mid-Se ptember after Housing hour.
"It seems strange," she says. "I think if I
had paid all the summer workers, bought
In paycheck terms, for examp le, a worker were running a business I'd ask questions and
suppl ies and materials for repairs, and who was paid $7.25 an hour earned $732.25 do things properly. Somebody dropped rhe
bui lt some covered Jreas where studenrs for 10 I hours of work in the last fWO weeks ball and ['m not sure who that was."
cou ld smoke, Housing was $25.~,000 in of July. A $ 1 O.~O-a ll - hour worker got
Casey Bruce, a student who works for
the hole.
$1,044.75 in her paycheck for two weeks in Housing in B-Dorm by assisting residents,
Paying an excessive number of tempo- August for purring in 99.5 hours.
has worked for Housing the last two sumrary workers was the bigges r expe nse
Mark Lacina , who directs all summ er mers, but thinks the last time around was
between Jul y 1 and September 15 .
cleaning, maintenance , and projects, says far less organized.
around $150,000, according to Housing employees were paid based on how much
"Maybe it's a trial by fire mentality, but
director Mike Scgawa. The extra workers expe ri ence they had, and how mu ch respon- I think people need the right amount of
cost Housing another $50,000 it didn't sibility they rook on . Some became supervi- training and to really know what they're
have budgeted for supp lies. The remainder sors who were known in Housing as leads.
doing," he says.
was what it cost to get dorm rooms ready
There were leads for mai menance,
"There were scenarios when they didn't
for expected visitors who never showed grounds, linens and custodial crews. These need to pay people for working, that much ."
up and didn't pay for the rooms.
leads generally worked extensive hours, so me
Bruce says more people could have been
In past summe rs, the summer facilities of th e most extreme cases involved working hired, trained and paid less an hour so there
director hired about 50 workers. This six and seven 16-hour days in a row.
. would have been less reliance on overtime.
the cooper point journal
dorm clean-up, construction projects and repairs didn't keep track of what
he was spending and he
didn't know how to .
"That's hogwash. Of
co urse I did ," says Mark
Lacina ) sunl luer nlainre nan ce
director.
'Tm just not gonna take the shaft on that
ast summer, HOllSingperson- beca use I don't think any Inanager in the world
manage a budget" without knowi ng
net spent an extra quarter could
how much money was in the budget.
ofa milLioll doLLars Housing
Lacina says he was never told how Illuch
didn't have/or year-end dorm could be spent on dorm clean-up and summer
cleaning and mmmer maintenallce projecrs. "Normally, there's J huge approval
process to talk about the budget," he says.
find repairs.
" I was thrown imo [summer clean-up and
Housing's short :1 quarter of a million maintenance] without a lot of paramete rs
dollars it needs to pay for normal expe nse, or boundaries. And definitely without a
fo r the rest of rhi s school year and at buclget. "
" . . .That was my frustration when all of
leasr until January 2003, say Co ll ege and
chis
hit rhe fan ," ;ays Lacina. "I received
Housing officials.
m)'
budget
numbers the day before I left on
So Housing will cur back on some activities
,md se rvices for students who live in Housing, vacation, Sept. 28."
Segawa acknowledges at no time did he tell
eliminare some maillfcnan ce projects, and
eliminate sraff travel. among other things, Housing's maintenance and facilities director
how much money was available for summer
,.ys rh e I-lousing director.
The Housing director's boss says he expects work nor did Segawa review with Lacina how
the director to [(' place rhe $253,000 and much money was being spent on what.
Beyond what Segawa identifies as the
hopes that can be don e by some time in
money-monitoring problem,
January 2003. Student Aff.~irs
Segawa says the higher-thanvice president Art Costa ntino
" maintained from
expected cost of summer
'nys the January timcframe is
day one that [the
const ruction and repairs findirector Mike Segawa's estimaoverspending/ is
ished putting them in the
rion of how long it will take ro
my responsibi ity.
$253,000
hole.
restore the quarter million.
HOUSIng is my
New
on
the Job
Segawa can h<lve more time,
responsibility.
Although Lacina ha s
,ay, Costantino, if Segawa
That's why I'm the
worked in Housing for 14
n eeds it. Both Segawa and
director.
years, he didn't acquire
Costantino say they are confithe responsibility for dorm
dent that by cu ning expenses
clean-up and summer maintenance until
IIOW and more closely monitoring Housing
~ pending now the quarter of a million will be last April.
Segawa says he did not train Lacina in his
resrored by January.
new
responsibilities nor even tell him what
Other co ll ege officials, whosc jobs focus
they were. That includes no discussion about
,ti mosr solely on money, aren't as confident.
planning, spending, or hiring.
Working Without a Budget
Segawa acknow ledges as directOr of
Housing is out $253,000 becau se
Housing officials didn't talk to eath other Housing he is ultimately responsible for
about how much money they had to spend Hou,ing's budget and for supervising workers.
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He also acknowledges it is his responsibility
to train . But he says since Lacina had been
working in Housing maintenance and facilities for 14 years, he thought it wasn't necessary
to train or closely supervise him.
"Mark has been here longer than I have,
so Mark, in some respects, has trained me ,"
Segawa says.
Segawa ack nowledges that making sure
nobody overspends is also part of his job. "In
terms of the overspending, it's my responsibility to know where we are with the budget,
how we got there, and what we're going
to do to fix it. I maintained from day onc
that [the overspendi ngJ is my responsibility.
Housing is my responsibility. That's why I'm
the director. "
Segawa says that although he's responsible
for the overspending, he won't use the word
"culpable." But, he says the difference between
"culpable" and "responsible" is pretry mll ch a
maner of semantics.
Even though Segawa did not provide
Lacina with money particulars, he expected
Lacina would keep track of spend in g and
wou ld not overspend.
" I don't rhink Mark felt he had cline
blallche," Segawa says. " I didn't give him a
blank check ." Segawa says he's never given
anyone a blank check, doesn 't now, and
wouldn't ever.
Lacina agrees he did not have Cflrte blll11che.
"I definitely didn't have a blank check but
I also didn 't have any check," he says , so
there was no way -to know whether he was
overspending or not.
"I was never given a budget all summer
long," Lacina says. "I was told to hire whoever
I needed to get the job done. Mike did not
talk to me about how many thac was. H e told
me to get it done and make it happen . I didn't
know I was overspending. I never knew I was
overspending. "
Lacina says his job was "to be the visi';lI1ary"
a nd that "the budget was someone else's
problem."
Hell Bent for Leather
In April, Lacina's best friend, who had.
been responsible for summer maintenance
for more than a decade, unexpectedly quit.
Months before, Lacina had planned to
leave in May and had su bmitted his letter
of resignation . When Scott Putziers quit,
Lacina recons idered leaving " I spent 14 years
with Scon building this [Housing facilities]
program and I wasn't willing to just let it
collapse. I felt one of us had to be here
through the transition."
Segawa also knew losing Putziers and
Lacina would leave Housing with no one
who had the experience to plan and direct
Please see SUMMER page 15
Cuts Planned to Balance Books Again
By Whitney Kvasager
Evergreen's Housing director says
he cal~ come up with a quarrer million
dollars by January 2003 to make up for
overspending last summer.
The main plan, according to Director
Mike Segawa and his boss, is to save
money by cutti ng some Housing expe nses
and to more closely monitor spending
now,
By June 30, Segawa says he will cut at
least $115,800 ftom Housing's spending.
Those cuts will show up as fewer activities
for students living in Housing, fewer
maintenance and construction projects,
and fewer summer jobs.
Next year, Segawa will cut another
$337,000 out of Housing's budget, Those
reductions will be the same kinds of cuts,
only bigger.
Essentially what all this means is that
until Housing's books are balanced again,
Housing staff won't be able ro do all the
things they had planned to do this year and
part of next.
Segawa came up with the January deadline. He says he picked January because it's
his estimation of how long it' ll take to replace
the money.
If Segawa can't replace the money
by January, his boss, vice president Art
Costantino, says they'll " have to cross that
bridge when we come to it."
The college's executive director of planning
and budgets doubts that cuts in spending
and monitoring spending will save enough
by next January.
Steve Trotter says it's more likely Housing
will have to borrow money ftom another area
of the college.
Costantino believes Housing won't need
to-extract money from another area of the
college. However, he acknowledges that's
a possibility.
Unlike Trotter, Costantino says if
Housing needed money from someplace
else, it wouldn't be borrowed. Costantino
says "borrow" isn't the right word.
Housing wouldn't be expected to give the
money back because "we function, in a
sense, as a team," Costantino says,
Trotter says if Housing took money,
Housi ng would have to pay the money
back, w ith interest.
Both Costantino and Ttotter acknowledge that the conditions under which
Housing would get money from another
area would have to be determined if
Housing needed a money transfusion~
The fact is Costantino has already
planned to give Housing some money $17,000 of the money Segawa will cut by
the cooper point journal
Please see CUTS page 15
$253,000
Described as
Relatively Small
and Easily
Fixable
by Whitney Kvasager
and Kevan Moore
The overall situation in Housing
is "solid."
So says the Housing di rector's
boss.
That's why he doesn't perceive
Housing staff spending $253,000
Housing didn't have as a major
problem.
''I'm not going to say ir's not
a problem," says Art Costantino,
Student Affairs vice president. "It
is a problem . And we're going to
fix it."
"When you look at the amount
of money that's flowed in and out of
Housing over the years, $250,000
is not that much money," says
Costantino.
Housing director Mike Segawa
says almost the same thing.
"If you didn't pick up on a
sense of urgency as you might have
expected, that's probably because we
can solve it."
In a annual budget of $3.2
million, Segawa says, "a $250,000
shortfall, percentage wise, is relatively small."
$253,000 - the amount college
officials say Housing overspent in
July, August and September - is
7.23 percent of the $3.2 million
budget.
"It's not going to take us five
years to fix it," Segawa says, " it's
going to take a year and a half.
Eighteen months isn't that long."
Segawa's plan for covering the
quarter million debt in 18 months
involves, among other things, cutting some services and activities for
students in Housing, cutting some
summer jobs, reducing repair and
maintenance projects and eliminating staff travel.
Costan tino doesn't seem to
be concerned about whether the
overspending was an issue ofSegawa
fulfilling or not fulfilling his job
responsibilities.
At Evergreen "we look at whether
things make sense, responsibility,
and what the [person responsible
for the situation] learned from the
process. Most of the energy goes into
how [the problem] can be fixed,"
Costantino says.
In regards to Segawa, "basically
what you have here is an employee
who's been with the college for a
long time and who does good work,"
Costant ino says.
"I assume the situation will get
straightened out," says Costantino.
"Mike has solved problems before. I
expect he will so lve them again."
Segawa seems to have the same
philosophy in regards to Housing's
summer director of cleanup and
maintenance. It was summer work
that resulted in the q uarter-mill ion
dollar overspending.
Segawa says there won't be any
consequences for Mark Lacina
because things were disorganized
in Housing at the time and that it
wasn't Lacina's fault.
february 28, 2002
letters aod opioioos
12
Notes from the Field
I
have found the mythica l Shangri-La, and it is in Mexico.
[ just relurned from spending the last week with 12
other students, one local botanist and Dr. Sleven
G. Il e rman studying th e plants, animals, agricu ltu ral
impac t, and in short, the to ta l landsca pe of a remote valley
Norrheast of J\bmos, Mexico. It h,ls been astounding.
The valley is known as Santa Barbara, ,1 ca uldera above
1,400 mel ers ( nearl y 5,000 feet ) in the Sicrr,1 M ,ldre
Occidenta ls, Jnd It i., the home of the Alverez Elm ily. Th ree
hrothers own ,Idjoining ranch e, ,Ind are engaged in 'ome
degree of wh.a seem, to be li ttle more th,tn subs i, tence
.lgricliiturc. During. ou r trJ.\'e1~ th ere f nt:'\'er ~.I\\' more thJ.1l
.1 dOlen co\\" in .1 day; Ruben "Ivcre" Oil[ host, "lid he
hJd only nine of hi, ,,;,· n. There .Ire a fcw ,m,1I1 plol s given
1)\ er to crop"
nH),iI), corn f~)[ fodder .Ind J few gourd,
g rown here for w.lf~r jllg~ and
l(HlI'i\[
rrink~r~. " "dOn l~ rl:r::,
me,1I) nothing to th" people in Ihe «)ullln'," [ \V,l> told.
.. Everything I' llle,lSlI[ed in time. how n1Jn), hOUr> il LIkes
to get frolll here 10 [here." Th" turned ou t to be quile
true, but tune, ,IS Elmtein [ells us. is rdative. Our trip lip
to Santa BarbJra mJ)' help illustrate the concept. The trip
( Jm e in Ihree srages. The f'rst c!;IY we were to drive lour
hours east on "unimproved roads" to Rancho Palo Enje rro
(more abour this larer). T he trip took fi ve and a half hou rs;
rhe rotal disran ce was 17 m iles. The one-hour ja unt over to
rhe trai lhead rook closer ro nyo. The walk up ro rhe ranch
irself, we were told , rook Ruben, who I should note is 44
years old , about four hours . This rook us about five-and a-ha lf hours. The rrail up is someth ing of a euphemism.
It is just a few months old and has only been used two
or three rimes. J wish J had rhe time and space to go into
derail on the .30 species of oaks, rhe four differenr pines,
Ihe over-grazed ra nch 10 the Northwesr or the lush verdant
Arroyo Verde. We co ll eered countless clippings and wrot~
pages and pages of o bservatio ns on birds and bugs and
repriles. We rook long hikes with Rllhen learnin g rhe loca l
pl.lIH names and the ir va riOlI ' uses, made skerc hes and
maps, and took pholOgral11b and "ideoL' pe. II was quire
,imp ly the expcrienct' of.\ [i ferime .
One of [he IIr,r things 1 heard when I woke up h.\Ck
in ALlin", wa, .1 chain saw; the), He highly prl/e,[ here
in rur,t! l\le~i(o. It slOod out because, for [he P,I't weck,
I hadn'r he.lfd rhe rOH of clll), kind of engine: rhere jusr
.I[e " 't .1111' III ~,IIIt.l 11.l[baL1. Th.lI'> hecausc Ihe on II' W:lV
,'n)'thing or ,\nyone gers 10 rhe LInch i, hy f~)or (hun;,1Il o'r
e'lui"d. G.ts \\'~ i gh s too much ,lnd jusr i,,,'t praclicJI.
[" r:lC[, the only ,ig'" of the 20th century (Ier alone the
21st) are Ihe so lar panel s on the roofs of the r.1I1ehe, .
They wcre p.ur of a o ne -rime dect! rh ar g,lye peop le ,I
sma ll p,nel .lIld balrer), for rhe equivdlenr o f 100 U.S.
dollars. They HC used 10 run a radio and one or rwo small
fluoresce nr li ghrs.
The ca ttle truck we'd hi red as back co untry transport
broke a le a f-s prin g h alfway back (0 rown on rho se
Mayday Protests are Still
Bad Tactics
I
'd like to ralk to you about creating
social change. A quick look around rhe
globe reveals much that needs changing.
Carbon dioxide levels have increased 25%
or so in the industrial era, and all George
W. wants to do about it is reduce rhe rare
that our emission levels are increasing. Th e
continues to view minimum wage
req u iremenrs and pollution controls as
" illegal restraints of trade." And, of cou rse,
America appears ro be going ro war with
the rest of the world in a unilateral quest
for vengeance. All of this must be SlOp ped ,
bur how)
The last thing I want you to think is
that I have all the answers, bur I think I
know where 10 begin. As most of you know,
America has a serious media problem. All of
America's major media ourlets are owned
oya small group of multinational corporations . Which , interestingly enough, is rhe
group most responsible for the world's
current situation. So it's not surprisi ng
that rhe issues of corporate control and
environmenta l devastation don't receive
wro
More ofan Evergreen
Student's Travels in Mexico
much cove rage. Not only that, bur man y
of these issues are blatantly distorted. As
a resu lt, 'sie can'r rely on Dan Rarlter, the
Olympian, or eve n Nat ional Publi c Radio
to make our case for us. We have to make
o ur case ou rselves, real izing thar the media
will rake every opportunity to distorr our
message and marginalize our groups.
Si nce we have to make our case ourselves,
we must make sure our message is well
received. It musl be very clear so major
medi a oudets have littl e opportunity ro
d isto rt o ur me ssage. Plu s, We have ro
broadcast our message in a way thar makes
us a pproac hable to p eo pl e who don ' t
und e rstand why we're up se t. Blo c king
traffic on Mayday might effecrive[y communicate anger, but it doesn ' t effectively
communica re why we are angry. People
who are affected by rhe Mayday streer party
won't be in the mood to listen to very
complicared arguments abo ut global carbon
has
dioxide levels or the power the
over our local government.
Blocking traffic on Mayday is not only
wro
unimproved roads. When we climbed down out of the
truck last night, tired, hungry and thirsty, the room s
seemed so much larger compared to Ruben's adobe house,
and this quier litrle town see med so much noisi er. However,
the coutrasts really began yes rerday as we came down the
trail from Sa nta Barb:Ha. Land rhat had been new and
exotic a few days befo re was clearl y ri red and overgrazed.
Trurh it seems, like tim e, is rel,nive.
I ca nnot wrire abo ur this week without trying ro do
wme just ice 10 our hmt, guide and friend Ruben Alve rez.
He brought down the an im als 10 carry our tood and ot her
gear up (some of us actua ll y go r ro ride pMt of rhe wq up),
Io.lded our junk and walked luck CIP 10 the ranch behind
his rwo donkey,. He rhen chopped firewood, made sure Ive
,1[1 h,ld a cor or,l bed, ,Ind then swcpt the nOIHS picking lip
rhe le,]\'es ctnd [irrer with his bare hands and rilclr was ju,r
rhe t'rst day. l\.1)' admi'Jtion for hi, Ch.tracl"" hi, sense 01
,tew,lIds hip for the land ,lIld hi s jOl'om n.\lure Ir,ln"end,
woreI-. \X/ hen we were boarding ths' cJttie Ir Lick to Ie ,l\ s· ,
he .I,ked C:ICIt one of u, when We would be cOllling hack.
I don'r h.lve the wurds in Engli,h or Sp.lIli., h 10 Iell him
rhe impression he and his home [1;1ve had on me or wh,1I
kind of person I knew him to be ; .tIl I coul d say was,
"Soon, I hope."
- David Smirh
an ineffective method of communicat ion , most people won 't care if we ger arrested.
The people driving to work eve ry da)'
it also plays rig h r into rhe hands of the
forces pushing for corporate globalization. are rhe ones that we have to co nvin ce Ihar
By disrupring traffic in every major city corporate globalization is wrong and will
in America, which is what is going to affect their lives. Bur we're nor go in g to
happen , the protes rers will be portrayed convince them by stopping rhem from getas a disrupti ve ~--.. -----.... --.--- - - . " - --..
ting home ;]fter work.
fringe group ,
t3locking traffic on Mayday might
Un less we ca n open up
a gro~p that
effectively communicate anger,
efFecri ve lines of comdoem t rea lly
b' d
'ff' I
muni ca tioll , rhe forces
care
about
ut It oesn t e ectlve y
pushing for global co rc< 0 r din a r y
communicate why we are angry.
porate comrol will WIn,
peop le," those
People who are affected by the
and rha r is a prospect
that dri ve to
Mayday street party won't be
thar sca re.' me grea tl y.
work a nd g e t ·
d
I'
I f you sha re my
the ir
news
In the moo to Isten to very
beliefs on th is sub jecr
fro m
Dan
complicated arguments about
and would [i ke to
Rath er. The y
global carbon dioxide levels or
help
distance
ou r
wi[1 call LI S
the power the WTO has over our
schoo l from the had
"a nar ch is rs"
local government .
press thar the Mayday
and compare
- --.-.- --.-.---. -.-.acrion will bring to
us to ·'te rror ·
ists," rhen say that our views are unfortunate
"because corporare globalization is rhe on ly
way to move the world Ollt of poverry. "
Once we are effectively isolated from the
supporr of U.S. public opinion, local and
nation al police forces will be free to crack
down on our proresrs. Since blocking traffic
is widely considered to be a public nuisance ,
LI S,
please co nract
llI e
at rogsea 15@evergreen.edu. A co py of
rhe peririon to the city co uncil condemning the racric of bloc kin g traffic
on Mayday is now ava ilable on line at
rhegeoduck.blogspor.com. Thanks for your
[JIne.
Res onse to the Comics of the Februar
- Sean Rogers
Issue
by Jessica H a s e n b a n k - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - '
. (6)
for this. ['m not about to believe that the police have gotten
a whole lot betrer at catching drunk kids (perhaps a little
And David's lips are lockt; but in diIJine
bit). I could believe that kids are gerring a litrle drunker,
High-piping PeMevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine!"
and
I could believe thar we're gerring a little dumber. I
"Red Wine!" - the Nightingale cries to the Rose
could definitely believe that the police
TlJllt sallow cheek ofhers to incarnadine.
are getting meaner, or that there are
The notion that alcoholism is
differenr police rhese days than there
(7)
were those days and they haven't been
the problem allows people to
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fin ofSpring
broken in yet.
create problems and blame
Your Winr.r-gannent ofRept!1ltance fling:
Believe me, I've had some ridiculou s
it on their addiction. If you
The Bird of Time has bllt a little way
run -i ns with the police. That is, with
have
an addictive personality
Officer Perez (I've never been stopped by
To flutter - and the Bird is on the Wi1lg.
or if you harbor depression,
any other officer at Evergreen, incidenrally.) For instance, this summer Perez
(8)
alcoholism is probably the
confiscated my shopping cart because it
Whether at Naishdpur or BabY/Oil,
_.~ymptom, ~ the cause. ,
was "stolen property." He told me that
Whether tile Cup .vith swut or bitter nm,
shopping-carr-theft is its own crime and
The Wine of Lifo keeps oozing drop by drop,
a person can be cited simply for having a shopping cart with
The Leaves ofLifo keep fall;,'g Olle by olle.
a store's name on it. Or rhere was the time he hassled us
last year in the MODs [modular housing] for drinking beer
- From Edward Fitzgerald's "The Rubaiyat of Omar
while barbecuing. He snuck up on us on his bike, having
Khayyam of Naishapur"
come through the parh in rhe woods! (The dog!) I think
Perez is a little trigger-happy on carching booze-bags.
respect Co rey Pein and what he does, but the article
The fundamental error of this article to me, though,
Iasr week on Evergreen's problems with
is the whole notion that
alcohol just made me want to shit!
. -...,.----- .-- - - - - - . - - - - - - - - - alcoholism is such a big
First, I was disappointed that the deaths
Booze can destroy your body,
problem. Jr's too damn
of C hris and Jon were mention ed . The
but keep in mind so can
easy to just say, "probnorion that maybe alcohol killed these kids,
snowboarding or driving an
lem ." If I eat pizza almost
which was clearly the intended implication
automobile or working a highevery day (FYI, I do) , am
given rhe conrexr, is a misrepresentation of
I addicted? Am I a pizwhar happened. J also feel that Grievance's
stress job, Get over it, people get
zaholic? (Sure, I am,) Do I
statisrics are misrepresenrative of what is
hurt and people die.
have a problem? No way!
going on. I fGrievance continues to receive
- - - - -.---.-.---------~Addiction is part of the
38 alcohol-related cases each quarter this
human condition. We're all addicted to food, most of us
year, thar would add up to 114 cases. There were II in
are addicted to sex or affection. Plenty of us are addicted to
the '98- '99 school year, I simply don't believe rhat in
Valium, Zyban, Paxil or Christ knows what else. We start
thr~~ years rhere are ten times as many drunks on campus.
with sugar and television when we're young and move on
Thar is ludicrous'
- Gavi n Stansill
up the line; cigarettes, coffee, going to the movies (now
[ feel there are a lor of orher things that could account
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baby-c hanging tables on campus. Yet, ar
Evergreen, I co uldn't find a single one. I'd
seen babies and ch ildren and knew thar
parents existed. So I was surprised that no
parents had already resolved this problem by
getting the school to install some changing
tables. I took it
... -.-.-..
..
upon myself to
he re exists a culrure of denial at
Evergreen regarding the prese nce
or absence of young children on
ca mpus. I come to this co nclusion after
rhree yea rs of obser.- .'
vations and annoy- - ~
After working or being in school
get these tables
ances. It starred even
before I began attendall day, it's very difficult to bring
installed in seving classes here. With
a small child out to a public
eral buildings on
a 4-month old zap.
h b h
. d
campus. I was
meeting w en ot are tIre
rold that nobody
ping our sleep, my
and
hungry
..
"
A
peace/anti-war
had
requested
husband and I transgrassroots
struggle
will
never
these
before.
ferred to Evergreen a
few years ago so we
be successful if it is limited to
Teaming up with
could go to rhe same
single college students.
the
Parents'
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school and ease our
Network,
we
schedule. However,
when we were required to register for convinced the school that this was a necesclasses for fall quarter, there existed no time sary item, and they quickly obliged us.
schedule for the classes. We intended on Thank you!
Another, perhaps more important, factor
selecting classes that minimized our time
conflicts in order to keep our child our of that limits a parent's abiliry to participate in
daycare. I nsread, we ended up taking our school-related activities like teach-ins is the
ch ild to class with us regularly. Thankfully, timing of these events. As anti-war meetings
someone at Evergreen has figured our that and teach-ins are flooding Olympia since
students want and need to know when September II, more opportunities exist
for people to become involved in their
classes meet.
The second instance of denial of children community. Yet many of these meeting are
at Evergreen was discovered when it was not convenient for parents. As Professor
time to clean up that stinky doo-doo that all Simona Sharoni pointed out last month
parents dutifully do. Changing a dirty diaper ar a forum on women and the war, which
in a lounge or chair presents a potential was held at 7 p.m. on a weekday, parents
health hazard for all. 1n my experience at have a hard time making it to these meetfour other colleges, every si ngle one had ings. Herself, another professor, and me, a
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student, were the only people present who a new environment and make it to class on
had child ren, and all of us brought our kids rime. The results are rushed students and
to the meeting. After working or being in frustrated teachers. Although my daughter
school all day, it's very difficult to bring a is not in childcare, I empathize with the
small child out to a public meeting when parents and teachers. The childcare center
both are tired and hungry. As she said, these should open no later than 5:30 p.m. to
meetings need to be held on weekends. truly be convenient and useful to evening
when more people have the energy and time students.
These insrances illustrate the successes
to arrend them. A peace/anti-war grassroots
struggle will never be successful if it is and failures of the Evergreen community's
limired to si ngle college students. Instead, accessibility to parents. The first two issues,
people of all ages, colors, socio-economic class schedules and baby changing tables,
backgrounds and responsibilities must be have been successfully resolved. I applaud
che school for that.
welcomed. Parents
However, the last
are dedicated and
Most recently, I've learned that
two issues, meetmorivaced people
the childcare center on campus,
that should not be
ing times and the
childcare center
excluded from these
while expanding its hours, is
hours, illustrate
struggles. Please
still neglecting students who are
consider parents'
the failure of the
parents. [The hours don't] allow
school to meet
needs when planparents enough time to get
rhe needs of stuning events.
their child settled into a new
dents and faculty
Most recently,
who are also par['ve learned that
environment arid make
ents. Today, more
the childcare cenrer
it to class on time. The results
people of different
on campllS, while
are rushed students and
ages are attending
expanding its hours,
frustrated teachers.
college than in the
is still neglecting
past. With them,
students who are
parents. Their hours now allow students a new set of needs emerges. The college
who attend nighr classes (all graduate itself, as well as the TESC community,
students) to conveniendy use the childcare should be aware of these needs and seek to
center. Most night c1a.<:ses run from 6 p.m. accommodate them. Failing to include a
to 10 p.m. The childcare center opens distinct group of people can only hurt our
at 5:50 p.m. This doesn't allow parents learning community.
enough time to get their child setrled into
february .28, 2002
14
More M~y. be Priced
Out of TESC Education
,
.
Evergreen has usua lly paid more than
that. T he size of the governmenr's contrihu tion is not guaranteed - it depends
o n the co ntinued support of those in the
rede ral government.
Evergreen only awards Perkins loa ns
10 students who a re eli gi ble for Pell
C ranrs, students that financial aid director
\!lada Skelley call s the "neediest of the
needy."
Besides leav ing less money to help
students, Skelley says the budget cuts will
mea n longer lines, delayed award notices ,
and longer waits for telephone replies.
Financial aid is also prepating to lose a
full-time employee, a nd to reduce the
number of informational mailings sent
out to students from 11,000 to 4,000.
Fewer mailings means financial aid
would ask students to fiJI out forms
and check their aid status online, and
Skelley says that poses problems. Many
I
)
students who
need fin a nc ial aid, she
don't
says,
continued from cover
ow n co mputers; those s tudents will have to ca ll
the sc hool and ask for fo rm s by mail
instead . Also, Skelley says, some students
aren't comfortable puuing their perso nal
information on the internet.
Skelley says the cuts will dramatica llv
affect the service her offi ce ca n provid~
ro stude n ts.
"What's core to the mission lof the
college]? Serving students is core ro the
mission," Skelley sa id.
Skelley is not the only one trying to
complete that mission under pressure.
Steve Hunter, director of Evergreen's
entollment division, oversees the admissions and financial aid offices. He's rrying
to figure out how Evergreen can enroll
more students while using less money
and still give people with lower incomes
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cuts make that a difficult job.
" It 's a question of doing the lea st
amoum of harm ," Humer sa id.
His only options to protect finan cial
a id from cuts wou ld be to make bigger
c uts to other parrs of hi s division , like
recruitment advertising and publicat ion s
like the Evergreen Times catalog.
But, Hunrer says, "we're at the point
where c utting more anyplace else isn't
especially anractive either."
Hunter hopes that other areas of
the college will sacrifice more of their
budgets so th a t financi al aid ca n keep
pace with climbing tuition. But other
college departments say th ey are strained
to the limit as well.
Without money from other parts
of the college, the financial aid office
doesn't have many other options. Unlike
many older schools with bigger names,
Evergreen doesn't have a large endowment or many wealthy alumni donors.
The Evergreen
State College
Foundation,
which
raises
money for the
school,
provides
scholarships
that
don't reach the
majority
of
students with
financial need.
As
Marla
Skelley puts it,
"you
don't
think, right out
of college, of
contributing to
Th~ lin~l in Ev~rgrttnJ financial aid offiu might Itrtuh /ong~r ifth~
tkpartmtnt 10m a Itajfpolition, III th~ currtnt budg~t plan luggms.
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our students go into SOCIal services."
Al so, when graduated students pay
back their loan s, the money goes back
into the Perkins fund. So when people
don't payo ff the ir loans, the co llege has
less mon ey to give current students.
Regardless of whatever budget plan
co llege administrators come up with.
it 's likely that Evergreen will have less
money, and the cost of going ro co llege
will rise.
Steve Hunter is hopeful for the future,
though . He doesn't think sta te legislators
want to limit access to higher education
by making auendance too cosrly.
But for now, he's got budget cuts ro
think about .
"Yes, some students w ill get priced
out of higher education," Hunter says.
"Everybody loses, I think, is the truth
of it. "
CUTS, continued from page ·11
by Whitney Kvasager
will CUt by June 30. Segawa had proposed eliminating the salary for an academic counselor who advises students in
Housing during evenings. But Costantino
thought the advisor was (00 valuab le to
st udents, a nd told Segawa (0 go ahead
and eliminate th e $ 17,000 as a Housing
cost and said he wOltld find mon ey within
student affairs to pay for th e advisor.
Costa ntino says the money to pay for
rh e advisor will co m e from mon ey left
over from unfilled position s in Student
Afbirs, but wasn'r able (0 identify which
positions rhose were.
Stud e nt affairs involves H o us ing,
Stude nt and Academ ic Support Serv ices,
Poli ce Se rvices , Enrollment Services, and
At hl etics and Recreat ion.
Segawa says he plans to save money
bdween now and June 30 by reducing:
• I lou sing's faci lities payroll by $ 10,000.
Th"t will involve reJuced ho u rs an d wages
for f"ci litic, worker;.
' ,ummer clean-up spend ing by $40,000.
MJrk LJcina. th e person who ran I"t year's
c!e,lll -u p, says he can do it thi s year for
$40,000 less, accord in g ro Segawa.
• ,up pli es and equip ment costs by
S~(), O()(). Scgawa say' l.ac ina over'pent an d
hOl1g ht [no many suppli es last summer.
Now he. thinks there's enough to cover
this su mmer. "\YJe have a stoc kpil e of
Concerned?
Ewrgrem's JeadJine for fldnal student
aid iI March 6. and the jina.neia' aid
offiFe ~ncouragts students to apply IZJ
JOQn at possible. lOu can contact them at
tXtmsWn 6205.
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""m ,ner mailllel1an ce. Segawa says he knew he quickly
had 10 f'l1d 'O I11eOn(; w ho had an id ea o f what needed
to be d()II~.
Th e 111 0.\t pro,illg .,speet of summer m a inr ena nc e
i, I hal dorm, have In be cic.1 11 eJ within the week afte r
gr.,<iua[inn. That" so they're ready for people who atte nd
,Ullltnl'r confl'rcllces that .stan aI 01o . . [ imlllediately ~I ftc r
Ihe ;chool year end,.
'cgawa ,Isked Lacina to stay and take o n portion" 'Jf
Putziers's job, espec ially summer clean- up and mai nte nance.
Lacin.1 was >till r<:>l'o ll,ible for his origina l job du ties, that
il1voh'cd idenlifYing and su perv isi ng needed construct ion
.l11d II l.li ll[CnanCe projects.
Laci na "')" stud~ lm who do summer work ro r Hou~ing
.hk<J him It> <tal'. too.
l.., ci nJ told Segaw,1 hc'd ,ta)', bu t he had cond it ions .
"The ,it·.ll wa;, I'd stay but I got to run clean-up howeve r
W,[l1lcJ," La c ina >.lY>. To him. th.lt ml'ant he cou ld
hire as man v wnrker> as he felt wae nece"a ry and pay
Ihem ," ',~ u ch as he thought they de,erved "depend in g
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Segawa, who says he will strongly co nsider their
advice when he begins restructuring Housing.
"The people in th ose groups have more
expertise than I have on any of those topics,"
Segawa says.
. Segawa says he does not have a set date to
begin restructuring Housing's internal systems
because he doesn't know what th e groups' recommendarions arc, yet.
Bil! Zaugg was the first perso n to notice
Housing's overspending. He's also a member of
the how-ro-monjror·financcs group. He says each
group was given a specific issue to address, but
group members got to decide what the problems
were in (har area and how to go about rcsearch ~ ilg
and solving them.
Segawa says he sel the groups up like that
because each group has "the people most directly
impacted by each issue" as members.
Segawa set February, March, April. and May
deadlines fnr the various groups to report their
recom mendations,
Cos tantino has sot no deadlin es by which
Segawa must res pond to Ihe recommendat ions,
"The January deadline is Mike's goal. My goal
is for (he situ:Hion to be rect ified," Cost<lnrinu
says. He also says that Segawa is always open
[0 sugges tiuns an d new ideas, but Segawa will
only be expected (0 acr o n (he recom mendat ions
Segawa thinks are sound .
"Implicit in taking the recommendations is
that the ide.... arc good ideas," Costantino says.
" I don't kn ow what Mike's plan for th e
completion is. He feels there is good progress,"
Costanrino $ays.
Costantino says he doesn't knQw what the
progress is, exactly, but si nce he and Segawa talk
". couple times a week," that's no problem .
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_When Hqusing Director Mike Segawa examall this stuff now, why not use it?'" Segawa . ines the causes of Hou._ing's $250,000 debt,
says.
he says he sees two major problems: the way
o the staff travel fund by $5,000. Segawa
Housing staff monitors money and Housing's
says this will ful ly e liminat e all staff summertime employment practices.
Segawa says he needs help figuring out how
Iravel.
to fIX those things to make sure what happened
o spending on activities and events for
students in Housing by $15,000. Segawa last summer never happens again.
That's why he's created four advisory groups
says he's cutting Housing's orientation and
traditional Thanksgiving dinners . "When and asked college money and employment experts,
along Housing staff directors to participate.
you invite 1,000 people to dinner, it sta rtS
Segawa presented the idea for the four groups
to add up ," he says.
and a list of possibl,e members to his boss at one
Segawa is also going to elim inat e of thei r first meetings about Housing's money
most of the Housing staff's cell phones , trouble.
which wi ll save $ 1,800. He says only a
"We've done what needed to be done to
few Housing staff will be allowed to keep stop ,he bleeding, and the four groups arc ro
make sure the bleeding does n't start again,"
their cell phones.
And he's going to sell Housing's tractor Segawa says.
Vi ce president An Cost.ntino agreed advisory
for what he ho;:>es witl be $7,000. Segawa
gro
ups would give Stgawa the help he said he
bought the tracror for plowing snow, but
needeJ.
now plans to se ll it to Evergreen fac iliti es.
O ne gro up is supposed to defi ne the rob
"If we need it, we ca n probably get o ur of I lousing's student and temporary employees,
h. nds back o n it. " Otherwise, "we' ll just create Housi ng h irin g pracrices and policies. and
shovel a lot mo re often," Segawa says.
cre,it e compensation guidel ines. AnOlher group
Segawa had also planned to pur all IS 10 come up with ways for I lous ing staff to
exempt staff (n on-u ni on worke rs) on bene r moniror H ousing's finances, incl udin g
leave wirhout pay for one month. That , pend ing. A third group is to identifY ways in
wou ld have saved ano th er $20,000, b ut wh ich Housing could curtail spendi ng and save
CostantI no says he "; uied aga inst that ," money nex t yc:tr. The lasr gro up is ro dev ise a
beca use it wasn't fair for those people and S-year fin ancial plan for Housi ng.
5eg,,,va came up with those groups because, "I
wou ld have made too much work for other
[hough[ that they just fell into place. There wasn't
Housing sta ff
any science ro it, ie's just that I looked a[ rhe
issues," and saw what needed to be done.
The groups are
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in volves.
Do rm clean-up and the rest of summe r work en tai ls
suc h things as how many people to hire, what they could
be paid per hour, how many regular and overtime hours
they could and sho uld wo rk, how to trai n people to work
efficien tl y, and how to determine what work needed tJ be
done by how many people.
Lac i l1a an d Segawa agree the cos t of th e 208 dorm
clean-up workers in late Jun e was not th e reaso n for
H ousing's quarrer million dollar probl e m. The probl em
ca me after June clean-up. Segawa says Lacina kept on too
many workers and paid them too high an hourly rate for
too many hours.
Lacina says that's Segawa's opinion .
"I fel t I was paying people appropriately. In hindsight,
it's ob vious I kept roo man y peop le o n, but without a
budget there was no way to know that. Have fun tryin g
to manage thtlt concept.
"$ 11 an hour to do what they do all day is a joke.
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"I would have argued with [coll ege officials) until the end
of time that peo pl e dese rved what they were getting."
Learning on the Fly
Before the schoo l year ended , Lacina ~ ppo inted a handful
of slUdents already working in I-lousing to be responsible
for hiring the rema inder of the people needed to clean the
do rm s and do su mm er wo rk. Lac ina did not in struct the
students as to how many people to hire.
" I don't run the June cleanup, the student workers do. I
know I'm in charge but I like the student workers to make
most of the big decisions," Lacina says.
Lacina likes that because he says H ousing is a training
gro und for the rea l world where students ca n learn how
to handle respon sibiliry. H e says helping stude nts grow
and helping , rud ents lea rn is why he sta rred working in
H ousi ng to begin with and why he decided to stay for
rhe summer.
The big decis ion Lac ina did m"ke IV,'S how many
dorm clean- up wo rkers to keep 011 after Jun e 30 for the
rest of the su mmer.
Lacina says the wnrk force of past SUIIIIHers has always
been aru und 50 pcople.
"That would be a normal surr:mer sta ff. Were we above
thaI this year? Yes, we were, " says Laci na in exphining why
he kept 84 workers. "Did I know that? Yes, I did.
"The reason we did it was beca use I didn't think we had
the sta ff to get [th ~ necessary summe r work) done."
Lac ina okayed rhe 84 people and d ete rmin ed their
hou rly wages. Lacina sa)'" stud ent su perviso rs watched
how eac h worker perform ed durin g dorm clean-up, and
d eci d ed who was capa bl e o f m o re responsibility. The
superviso rs suggested workers who dese rved to stay. Lac ina
kept those people on for th e rest of the summ er. So me
received a rai se.
Who's Wa[ching the Money?
La ~ in a says "six or seven times" d uring th e summer
he asked the person in Housing responsible for tracki ng
spending wherher too mueh was being spe nt on summer
work.
But, Se/rwa says, Fred Sw ift cou ldn't tell L-.cina, because
Swift did not have up-to-date reco rds.
That , Segawa says, is because Lacina wa s not keeping
any and beca use the co llege wasn't providing any. Spendi ng
reco rds weren't being se nt b a~ k to Hou sing by the co llege,
Segawa says, and , although Lacina and another H o usi ng
facil ities superviso r were signing time cards every two weeks,
neither was keeping track of the total payroll.
Not true , Lacina co unters. He kept track of how much
was being spent all summer, but never knew how much he
was supposed to o r allowed to spend . "Wa tching the budget
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...
wasn't my gig," Lacina says.
Segawa acknowledges he never asked Lacina why he was
questioning Swift, nor why Lacina was not keeping track of
how much money he was spending.
Sound the Alarm
Nobody in Housing knew they were overspending until
Se ptember, when the money advisor for Segawa's boss
noti ced on Housing financial statcments that something
was wrong.
"I called up Mike and said, 'Hey, this can't be right,'" says
Bill Zaugg. What wasn't right was Housing was spending
hundreds of thousands of dollars it didn't have.
Zaugg says Segawa was surprised and told him he'd call
back after he talked ro his staff
Segawa says, at the time, he didn't know the source of
the overspending nor why anybody was spending money
I lo using did n't have.
Za ugg also told Segawa's boss - Art Costa ntino, studenl
affairs vice pre side nt, who supervises th e direc tors of
housing, student and academic support services, enrollment
services, athletics and rec reation, and poli ce services.
" It was the first news I had had that there was a
problem," Costantino says.
Costantino says he was taken aback and was co ncerned
because he had no idea why Housing was in the red. H e
qu ickl y ser up a meeting with Segawa for a few days later.
At that meeting Segawa characterized the overspend ing
as a fi nancial reports problem.
Each month college accountants compile informatio n
on how much money each area - from the president's
office on down to individual student act ivities groups has received and spe nt. Eac h area tben receives a report
on it, finances ; for examp le, how much was spent to pay
workers, cover benefits and pay for supplies, pho nes and
equipment.
Costantin o says Segawa told him the informatio n he
wou ld have needed to recog nize there was a problem Jidn't
show up soon enough in the summer reporrs.
Costantino says Segawa also told him th e overspending
was ca used by "some things we cou ld do better o n in
Hous ing. "
Segawa told Costantino he was forming four advisory
groups to address those things: the need for a five-year
finan cia l plan , improved policies and practices rega rding
student and temporary workers, co mmunica tion among
the va rious directors and staffs in Housing and tracking
facilities and maintenance needs.
Th e four groups are to devise recommendations to
preve nt a similar situation from happening again.
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alternatives now under consideration by the Fish & Wildlife Service, concluding with
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To Laugh or Not to Laugh: A Series of 01le Act Plnys Presented by Tragic
Relief. No Exit, Shadows & Fog, How I Learned How to Drive, Op heli a's Wake,
Bloom Counry, Hamlet, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. On Saturday - Dark
Journey: Life & Deat h On the Murky Streets of Thebes, Laughing Wild, Bodas De
Sangre, A Doll's House, Voices: Oral History Project, A Clockwork Orange, Night
Momer. 7 p.m. at the Recital Hall, Communications Building, TESC. Adm ission is
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Se nior Thesis Production by Molly Rooney & Patrick Delozier. T his performance
conta ins adult themes & language, br ief nudity, and cigarette smoke. 8 p .m.
in TES '.I Communicat ions Building in t h e Experime n tal Theater. Tickets:
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Go see n play: "MacIJillal" Writte n by Sophie Treadwell in 1928. Directed
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