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Part of The Cooper Point Journal Volume 30, Issue 22 (April 25, 2002)
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Students Take Pot Holiday into the
Woods on Advice ofHousing Staff;
Campus Police Make No Arrests
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t 4 :20 p.m. on every April 20 for the past several years,
about 150 Evergreen students form ed a big circle on
the soccer field to smoke pot.
No one is quire sure how the tradirion starred, or when
4/20 became a m agic number for dope smo kers,
Last Sa tLIrd ay, April 20, Mike Marrin was .It the soccer
field with his band. Martin was at rhe 4/20 party on ca mpus
three years ago: it was a sunny day, he rcmembers , and he
thought " how cool would it be ro have a band out here'"
Martin did not get to play for the crowd he expected.
Thc band pbyed to a few groups of st udents milling
around the HCC, and three Evergreen police officers who,
like Marrin, were waiting for the parry to start. But when
the clocks struck 4 :20 on 4/20, th ere was n't a doobie, bong,
or baggie ro bc seen on the soccer field.
There was no pot smoki ng on th e SOCler field, because
the real parry WaS a shorr walk away in rhe Evergreen woods,
where abour 100 people gathered in "the Mcadow."
Those people were in the Meadow because Resident
Assisrants , employees of college HOUSing. wId th c m not
w go to the field.
The RAs wId them not ro go because the police would
be there. The pol ice were at the field th at afte rnoon - but
they weren't in the Meadow.
" We'd heud th ey were probably gOllna go out to the
Meadow," police c hi('f~r('vc I lunt,berry "lid. But even though
poJi c ~ w~re there to c'n(orce t he law at the 4 / 20 gat heri ng, he
didn't se nd an officer to check o ut th e Meadow.
" ... Ifwe were gonna hunt people down , thar's ,omer h ing
we cou ld do any day of the week," I luntsbe rr y said.
photo by Gilvin Slamtfl
H e says he 's "g ratificd" that stude nts didn't smoke pot in
Siudents said they were "sketched out" by rumors before last week's
front of him, and force th e police w makc arrcsts.
"One would like to th ink that [hey got what the message smoke oul in the Evergreen woods. Some thought police planned to
arrest every student at the 4/20 party, one carload at a time . Others
was ," Huntsberry said.
thoughl police would on ly break up the party if an Olympian reporter
That message , accordi ng ro Humsberry a nd other college
showed up. As it turned out, no one was arrested at all - the only event
offi cials, is rhat the college does not condone drug lise and
lis led in the daily police log involved opening a locked door.
will cnforce the law.
Vice presidenr Art Costant ino is Hunrsberry 's boss. Two
weeks ago, they met with Housing representatives and other
RA s, or Resident Assisranrs, are the Housi ng employees
college administrators to discuss how the college would respond
who are supposed ro guide srudents an d explain the college's
to the 4/20 gathering.
policies to them.
The plan was to let Housing res idents know that the marijuana
Jenny Shutak is an RA. Shutak says her supervisor told the
laws would be enforced, a nd encourage st udents to do someth ing
RAs thar police would be ar rhe field on Saturday, and insrrucred
else on 4/20.
them to rell Housing residents not ro go to the field. Her
The police also had a part to play.
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"T heir [the police 's] intent was to go
condone drug use - especially after two
[0 the gathering a nd en force the law, "
We'd heard they were probably srudents died from drug-related causes this
Costantino sa id.
gonna go out to the Meadow...lf year, said Shurak.
When [Old the pol ice had heard that
So rhe RAs rold srudents to sray away
we were gonna hunt people
the· 4120 gathering was moving to the
from rhe field.
Meadow, Costantino replied that he trusts down, that's something we could
"I said, 'hey guys go into the woods,
chief Humsberry's judgment on whether
do any day of the week
because you don't want to ger in trouble,"
information is credible and worth following
- Steve Huntsberry,
Shutak said .
up on.
She told her residents rhar because they
police chief
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her friends, and she wants them to be
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officers ro check if rhey heard something --- --, -"safe" - or, ro not get arrested, she said.
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illegal was happening on another parr of
Andrea Seabert, a Resident Director,
campus. Parr of police work, he says, is responding to new
supervises rhe RAs. She says the RAs shouldn'r have rold students
situarions as rhey come up.
"I can't imagine rhat they Ithe police] would , if absolutely to smoke por in the woods instead of on rhe field - they should
have told students to go do somerhing else, like artend rhe Ans
convinced that the event moved, rhat they wou ld not follow up
Walk fesrival downtown.
on rhat," Cosrantino says.
As ro how the message changed by the rime ir reached Housing
When told that the RAs encou raged srudents ro smoke weed
residents, Seaben says she does not know.
in rhe Meadow insread of rhe field, Co~ra!1tino said: "I expecr
She thinks rhe college can'r control srudents' behavior and
our RAs ro enforce the law, if they'd knowingly do orherwise
rhar's a problem."
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"Boondocks" Creator to Visit TESC
8-Girls Have Mad Flava
M
y tlJmc i, Kumiko O'Connor. I JUSt starred breaking a cuup le
monlh, ,lgU when the Massive Monkees srarred coming [0 do
workshop,. Growing up in Japan there Were lut, of b-boys
,IrlHllld .lnti I \\'.l~ .d\\,;l~·.s in ,1Wl". I never .s.l\V girl'i do it Jlld I Ilt' vcr
th(l\I~11l dl,1l I"'!,~'l,dly would be ,Ibl~ to break, I'eople ,dW,I)'S S,I) you
h,l\e III h~ ,1 ~uv ,Inti he rally ,[long, bUI that i,n'l trul', :,ure, to do
lLl/\' Po\\'(.'r IlH)\c' it i .. ea .. iL' ! luvillg ,1 guy\, n111'i(k~. but girl.;; hJvt.' gO[
11.1\,\. One illll'<Hl.lnr thing ,Ibout breelking th'l[ I h;we kl[ned is th,1f
I'<lll got to h,lvl' your own 'Iyic, It i, lit>! Jboll l how many g)'mll.\S11C
/limn \'OU un tIo , il\ ,Ibout your indi,idu,llity. Ann,1 l3an,Il1J from
the 1\ l,,,,il'e Monkee, h,IS lwen such ,1/1 in'pir.lfion [Q me heuu,e ,he i,
",eh ,1 "nokin' h-girl. I:!m re,dlv excilt,tI Iwcause I know I h,we found
't)l11elhing ,'un ,Il;d ch,dknging' 1h.1I I low [Q do ,1I1d I elm going (()
l)facli\t' ,Inti pr,lctic,' . Ilopefully more kith ,It b '('rgrcen will gel into
brt"lking me) ", we c,ln gct rogethn ,1l1l1 pr,\Clice. I wou ld like to dunk
Ihe 1\ I,,,.,,,·c ,\ lonket" Unol11e, Ann,l, Flow, loe, ,Ind Brysen) for heing
,11th ,111 impir,"ion to ,til of us,
fiy TimothjLBaiiiil...and Andrew CoChran
T he bst decade has been, for the most part, a bleak one
for sY lldicated comic slr ips, Many of tit" higher quality,
and popular, favorites have come to an end (Calvin and
Hobbes, Bloom Counry/Ourla nd ), And even more bleak,
th e mid -ce ntmy ani"s that transformed the medium from
a major tocus of most major papers to a different forum
,I !t ogelher arc ,"I bllt gone (Ch" rie., Sch ull, I lank Kelchem,
I'r,llIk King), \Xfhat '(,111<1., is " IIl"V world for the sy ndic.lled
c.lrtoonl~t.
"B,,"ndoc b" ere,lIel1' A,\I'on Mel ;rllder I:ICt" Ih i, lh"n~ed
L1I1d'L''1)e eler), d,I)" "Boondocks" h,,, he,'n ce",orl,J in
v.Hyi ng c.lp,ll.itit.'~ in m.lll)' major m.Hket", From downrigh,
t,'n,or,hil' to heing ,hihed to Ihe opinion p,lge, MLCrlldt'r
h,I' Ill.HOok ,I career Olll of poiitiL.dl; cOIll"ciou"t Llnoo ning.
The nl,ljm ,hifl in Ihe 1,,,1 decade I"" heen, lor the moSI
p.Ht , ,1 ... hift ill l11.tl"k(.:t .... TilL" u . )Jnic:-. p,lge \\'.1'1 OIH...t:.' .1 \l'crioll
.1inlL,d ,It l'\'CI"; !ll.1I1l't. No\\', genl'r.ui(Hh I.lt~r. it "'lalld . .
," ,I kid, 11\,l1k\'1 wi,h Ihird-gen\·r.lIinn ,Ini,t, doing rh"ir
gralldp,lIelll' din\' w(llk (" Ikede B.lile)," i, w[\tlell hy ,I
1\hlrl \XI,tlker reLllI\e1 '!lId ,11 Ii", willing ill ,ign rllt,ir name
III other people:, work ( Iill l [),I\'i, h,I\n'r penned ,1 ,rrip 01
"C" di,' ILl " f,)r \,\"11" ),
~il1\l'l}' pu;, 1\ IcCrlld\'!' i, nile III Ihe I~'\\' m.I""ri,I<> in the
'vndiclIl'd
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the nlind", of !naIlY, Lither thl'1l "'lIT.tllllng,:1I ()d il',
Noll' 1\ kCrlld~r i, l'rin!;'"g hi , wi,dom 10 Evergreen :It
,I First ,\l11end nlt'IH Forul1l on "\pril 29. Following .1 panel
elilcll,.,ion ,\I1e1 'emin.lr (1-') p,m" 1'1.)00), McCruder will
spe3k ,Ibolll rhe pre,,"r\', Ill' r.1C~s ill pllrtillg rogether Iti,
co mil 'tr ip alld 1"1',1 At11ellll .n enl i"llt',.·1 he i()flll1l will last
from 7_1l:.\0 1'.111. willt ,I hook signing umil ') p.l11 , in !.Il l ,
QUI'JtioJJs? (~d/ 86 --h' l 53 fvr ",ort' /J~/o.
Evergreen Students Clean Up for a
Good Cause
by Scir.fl7iJeedleman-Carlton
On S3tllrd.l)" Apld .~O, nine ,t ud en t, gathen·d :11 Ih e
library lobb)' befort' he'lding to Bre,ld and Rose, to do
com.nunit), 'el'l ice 1;,1' Ihe 18rh Annll,t! IllInger Cle,1I1 Up.
Thi, lI,ilIOI1. d IOIUnl\'t'I -.,-t!lOn 'pomored hy the NJriOl1.11
Studenl (.,\lllP,li!,1I :\!;,lin 'l Ilull ger ,Ind Iloll1elr "n~"
(:sJSCA IIII ) h,ll'pc'n, on colleg" l,ll1IpU,e, .lcross the
ll.llIUl] durillg. the lI11llllh of ApI il. rhi, \\'.1.' (ill' (int
yc',\[ Ih,1t E\'\·rgreen qud~nl' p,lrriul'Jted in the eWIII,
which \\." ""Htlill,lted by Sludt' nt, l\g,li"'l Illlnger :lnd
Planting Partnerships:
Connecting Northwest Colleges
with Local Food
Scholarships Target
Public Service Students
bY Piper RapiD....
fiv
. Brenl PattRr,son
"Planting Partn e rships: Connecri ng
Norrhwest Colleges with Local Food" wi ll
be held ar rhe Evergreen State ollege Oil
Apri l 26 and 27,2002 . The COllbenLe wi ll
high light how farm-to-college program>
call illcrease fa rm er IntOme, ellhance locd l
econunli~" improve I.,rudcnr 1l1lrri[lol1:
,111d rL'~polld to in cn:~l:'l n g prc,,,,ul'l' for
,u,I,lin,lble lood ,lIld bu>ine" l'r,lcti,c's on
LOl!l..'gl' C.lIllpu.)e\,
('urrl'lIrk. t:lll1ilv Llrming in the Unill,d
SI,ltes i, il; ni,is.' Of ,til ;CCl'llJtioll' III
AllIni e;l, Etrlnillg i, i,lcing the br",lte't
decline. Farmers' ,11.Ire 01 Ihe ront! dnll..,.
11:,., dropped lrom q 1 (l'lIt, III 19')0 10 20
cents in 1')')9.
Farmer"" food ~c;,'I'\'itl' providL'r" \tudcnr . . ,
faculty, 3lldl0 rJ11ll1ll1il Y group'" 1t.I\'l.' lIrl!;]
ni/ed f.lrll1 lO-collcJ,:\' direLr nLlr\.:etlllg
relatio ll sh ipl to (Ollll~e r,ICl the,e Irt' IHk ,,;,
purch,lSing directly (rom loct! t:lrIlIlT', lollege'.lre >upporti ng ,I mllre l'n\ iron nl\'lll,llI:
,ound produclion (,rlt)(lll .Il1d pre,en illt:
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Joi n rood serv icc provide,,: LI1'111 t'I' .l,
studen ts, I~c\llt)', ,ld111inistLIWr" disrribu tor" cOl11l11 unilY members, Jnd polic,'
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Conference: O~ anizin For Justice and Peace ;Ei/r~7!!~~::
bY I aay Mosqueda FaCIi/tv
The Olympia Move ment fo r Justice
and Peace (OM]P) invites yo u to atrend
a conferen ce ai med at building a stro nger
justice and peace movement on Sunday,
Ap ril 28 th , 2002 at the Evergreen State
College in O lympia, Washington, T his co nfere nce is ai med at bringing together people
from Portland, Oregon to Vancouver, B,c',
who are involved in working for social
justice, who want (0 get involved or who
want to learn more abo ut major soc ial
problems such as poverty and the "U .S.
Wa r Against Te rror."
A major goal of this confe rence is ro
further organizing and netwo rking in th e
Pacific Northwest agai nst vario us wa rs,
from the war aga inst Afghanistan, to the
war against Iraq, and the Israeli war againsr
Palestinians. We also will be discussing how
to effectively further social and economic
jusrice in the U.S. and how to cha ll enge
th e currenr po li cies which are ::Inti-poor
and working people, ant i- women, antiimmigrant, harm the environment, further
po lice powers and further threaten civil
libcrries.
The conference will em phasize workshop, where participation will be encouraged. There will also be an opening plenary
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Populi question and what the cover
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4 p.m. Thursday
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Friday Forum
2 p.m, Friday
Join a discussion about journalism
and ethics facilitated by CPJ Advisor
Dianne Conrad,
2 p.m. Friday
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Mosqueda, Chris Mulally, Apryl Nelson, Kumiko O'Connor, Brent
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Rosaire Rossi, Jessie Smith, Laurel Smith, Nathan Smith, Mike
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The War on Terrorism and the Death Penalty: An
Interview with Robert Meeropol
April 16
into the present like salad dressi ng
forth, like so meo ne was mov in g lhrough cheap wax paper, mi xi ng
around in it. Kinda suspicious , memory and desire." (The Ti ck)
right? I agree. The driver was the I am ashamed of you , my stery
only person in the vehicle and his breaker inner, you. (Yes, I know (hat
seatbelt was fastened. Curiouser "breaker inner" isn't a word.) You
and curiouser. When asked why the should stay out of cars. Especially
vehicle was rocking, the driver didn't when those cars aren't yours. It
answer. It was then discovered that makes the people sad when you do
the driver had a suspended license. it. It makes people feel like they
He was placed in the patrol car, can't trust humanity. And they
and had his car searched. Lookie, can ... Because one day, it will be
lookie ... here's the reason for the your car that gets broken into. So
rocking of the car ... No, someone there!
isn't hidden under the seat, but
something else is. You guessed it,
April1B
there's drug paraphernalia hidden
Nothing ofimerest happens today
there. Well, we all know what hapon the TESC campus. But in 1955,
pens to those caught with the parain New Jersey, Albert Einstein died
phernalia .. . It's taken into the
at age sevemy-six. Meanwhile,
evidence locker. never to be seen by
stupid people continue to populate
those that would smoke it again.
the world and regale us with their
antics.
2:40 a.m. Graffiti is di scov<;red
on (he sta ll doors in the m en 's
bathroom during a walk through
of the HCC.
9:03 p.m. A fire alarm went off
in U dorm this evening. There was
no smoke or fire coming from the
room, and oddly enough, neither
was the aroma of burning food . It
seemed that the alarm was set off by
a plastic fork melting as the burner
got hot. Hmm ... I too have made
this mistake, turning on the wrong
burner and then running for dear
life as the plastic melts itself But
fear not, the smell will leave, and
plastic forks aren't that expensive,
so I'm sure everything is alright
now.
11:50 p.m. At eleven o'clock at
night, the sun is down, so when a
car is seen driving down Driftwood
with no lights. the friendly police April
officer decides to stop the driver
3:04 p.m. "So once again, we
and tell him about it. Well, it seems find that evil of the past seeps
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April 19
A young lady called police services
today to repon a susp icious person
in th e woods. No, he isn 't (h e
guy that was pleasuring him self
in th e woods a few weeks back,.
he's someone new. This perso n was
talking to himself and staring very
intently at the girl who reported
him. She felt that he was a danger
to females. Others in the area felt
that he was" unusual but harmless."
Later the suspect was seen at the
Longhouse for a function that was
happening there.
April 20
On this day in 1992, the police
cracked a ring of a thousand teenage hackers that had stolen credit
card numbers from various credit
agencies. They had used these numbers to run up millions of dollars
worth of purchases. Two teens were
arrested in Ohio, and computers
were confiscated in Seattle, New
York and Philadelphia.
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Robert Meeropol is the youngest son of
Ethel and julius Rosenberg. In 1953 the
United Srates Government executed his
parents for "conspiring to steal the secret of
the atom ic bomb" when Robert was only
six years old. Since that time, the Rosenberg
case has been proven to be a shame and
scandal for the United States government.
The death of his parents inspired Robert to
involve himself in progressive causes and
social cha nge. In the 1970s, Robert and
his brothet Michael sued the FBI and CIA
to force the release of 300,000 previously
secret documents about their parents. In
1990 Robert founded the Rosenberg Fund
for Children and now serves as its Executive
Director. The organization provides support
for both targeted activist youth and children
in the United States whose parents have
suffered because of their political activism,
On April 28, Robert Meeropol will be
speaking on T he Evergreen State College
campus in Library room 2000 at 11 :45. The
speech is part of the Olympia Movement
for justice and Peace "Organizing for Peace
and justice C onference." His speech is cosponsored by the Prison Action Committee
a nd is also a paft of Prison Awareness
Week. Rece nciy, Robert agreed to have a
to prevent this. The other change in their Administration is lightenin g up on irs
circumstances is that se ntence commuta- pressure toward immigrants an d its clamp
tions and early releases have become next down on civil liberties>
RM: No. It is full speed ahead with
to impossible.
the
clamp down . However, they aren't
MR: There are still 1,200 immigrants
above
using PR to claim that this is not
who
are
being
detained
in
'
the
United
Marco Rossi: Several political prisoners
in the United States received harsh treat- States. What is the situation like for these the case.
MR: Guantanamo Bay has created a
people, and how long do
ment and were put in
you think the government very conflicting situation for the United
lockdown immediately
plans to keep these people States. It [the U.S.] has called the con flict
after the terrorist attacks
Robert MeeropoJ will be
in Afghanistan a War on Terrorism, but it
detained?
on September 11. Can
speaking on Sunday,
RM: The problem here refuses to acknowledge captured Taliban
you please tell us about
April 28 at 11:45 a.m. in
is lack of information. I . members as prisoners of war and treat them
the situation of politUb2000.
don't
know what their situ- as such. The United States has classified
ical prisoners within
ation is. I have no idea how the prisoners as "unlawful combatants. "
the United Stares today,
For more information,
long the government will The contradiction has provoked outcry
and how has the postkeep these people detained. from even some of the United States' most
contact the Olympia
September 11 climate
I think, absurd as it may devoted allies. How do you see the situation
changed their circumMovement for Justice
stance?
sound, that people are in Guantanamo Bay resolving itself? Do you
and Peace at
being detained because believe that the USA will alter its present
Robert Meeropol:
www.omjp,org, or the
they don't have anything stance and rcspeC[ the human rights of
Political prisoners, like
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government
is hoping to cominue with its present policy?
to increasingly harsh
RM: As of now, Taliban fighters are
force "cooperation" with
and arbitrary conditions
being held in accordance with the Geneva
these detentiqns.
in prison. 9/11 has just
given those in charge a new weapon with
MR:
Delegates
from
Amnesty conventions on POWs, but the governmenr
which to isolate political prisoners. I [nternational have recently been allowed refuses to classifY them as POWs. Al-Qaeda
believe that those in charge of the prison to tour two detention centers in New members are being held in legal limbo.
system realize that 2,000,000 prisoners Jersey that are housing immig~ants who Essentially we are saying we can do wha t we
are a potential mass audience for political were detained after September 11. Do want with these people. The government's
prisoners to communicate with. They seek you think that this is a sign that the Bush See MEEROPOL page 15
brief inrerview on the current "War on
Terrorism" and the new forms of domestic
repression that citizens in the United States
are expenencmg.
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" If a bu nch of students were going in to
college CoIn do, she ~,Iy'. is give srudents t he woods to smok e por, r don 'r think
inro l marioll ,llltl let rhelll make their ow n my RAs wo ul d c.III the police," Seabe rt
,h .. icl" - Ihat\ why Housing pllr up .1 said.
ll)l'l thell kl ,rlllkllt' k now [h"r pol ice
One Ii ousi ng student , whell asked if
"'()ldd enforce m.lrijluna laws.
his RA rold him anything abo ur the 4/20
One stlldtnl s.lid
p.1 rty, said thar he
th.lt ,he '.IIV rhat
was preny sun: hi s
ther, bur it h.,,1 been
RA was at the 4/20
It's kinda stupid to think we're
debc.:J .
parry.
a/l gonna smoke up on state
Se.lbert thinks
Alison Riffer li ves
property...
IL\ WOII Id n 't be
ill Hou sing. She
- Gordon Boddinglon ,
Iike! \' to tell ,tuden ts
says her RA warned
Housing resident
to n~t 'Illoke pot on
her about the 4/2 0
,ehooll ground,. She
parry, but she di dn't
,.I id , "I rhink we'd be
go. She', new to the
college, but already
I'reny hard pressed
[U do that at thi s imtirution and srill have
has some ideas abour Eve rgreen's d ru g
,I dialogue with studem,."
enforcemem poli cy.
"We're more be hav ior-driven rhan we
"I've on ly been here a mo nth , but the
Jrc rule-driven," Seaberr sa id. That does n'r feel ing I ge t is that if you're not blatantly
mean rhar [he laws aga inst marijuana don 't disrespecrful .. . then yo u're not go in g ro get
l'xi,r, she say'; it means [hat Housing asks ca ught, " Riffer said, sittin g on a blanket.
"It's [he kinda compromi se we have ro
,tuden r' to avo id drawing attent ion ro
rhemselves .
make if we want to smoke sp liffi es in our
W h ile Seaberr hopes that the RAs front aorea," she said.
would report studenrs doing so mething
G ordon Boddingron, w ho srood next
illegal. she doesn't rhink it always happens to her, ag rees.
bccouse RAs are fri ends with the people
" [t 's kinda stupid ro think we're all
in I lousing.
gon na smo ke up on state property," he
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Three police officers - including Sergeant Darwin Eddy, pictured here - waited near the
soccer fietd Saturday afternoon, where the 4/20 party wasn't. About 100 studen ls gathered
not far away in the Evergreen woods inslead.
sa id . H e thinks that if leg islators and
Olympia res id ents knew that Evergreen
srudents co uld fl aunt the police and smoke
marijuana wherever they liked, they wou ld
want to close the school.
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commentary on world news
Senate Votes to Preserve Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Venezuelan President back in Power
Environment
Venezuela
co mpiled by Joe Carr
summarized by Joe Carr
Senate Rejects Arctic Drilling Proposal
\X':\~II I:--J l;TON,
D.C., April IR, 2002 (ENS) - With a 54-46 VO lt·. the U.S. Senate
\ (Hed rOlLI)' lO rejecr .1 prorod ro open P,1J"f of the Arctic Nation.1I Wi ldl if;' Refuge in
\1."k.1 to oil explorarion. Sen.He Republic."" Ileeded 60 vote, lO b reak .1 Democrat-led
lilihu'ler "I .rn .rmendmenl. illlroduced by Al.r,ka', senaro rs . ro the Sen.He "nergy bill.
\\a,k.1 Sen.nors I'r.lnk Murkowski .1Ild Ted ~teven'. bot h Republican s, are now expected
fl) wilhtkrw lheil .lmend Ill CI\I, cie.lring rhe way I(ll the Senare' ro pass energy leg islarion
WIthIn rhe nexr week. Unlike the I louse wr,ion of rht' b ill , rhe Senate Ye"ion w ill
11<\ t include l.,ngu.rgc to .1I 10w oil .rnd n.ltur,11 gas drilling in t he Arcric Nation.l l
\X'ildlil~' RAuge (AN\X'R),
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Global Warming Fills Glacial Lakes to Bursting
l~ENEVt\. Switzeri.lnd, April
l B. 2002 (ENS) - At least 44 glacial bkes
h:i;h in the Himalayas .He filling so rapidly lhey co uld burst their banks
in .lS lirri e JS five years, an international tea m of sc ienti sts has found.
Sc ielH i;rswirh rhe UnIted Na lions Environme nt Programme (UNEp) and rhe Internationa l
Cenrre for IntegrJlt·d Mountain Development (lC IMOD) and their coll eagues from
Nepal and Bhutan are warning thar the lak es cou ld overflow. sendi ng millions of gallons
of deadly floodwaters sw irling down va ll eys, purring rell.< of rh ousands of live< at risk.
http://www.e ns-news.com/cns/apr200212002 L-04 - 18-01.ht ml
Power Plant Emissions Blamed for Premature Deaths
WASI II NCTON, D.c:., Ap ril 18, 2002 - Almost 6,000 premature deaths can be blamed
each ye.lt on pollurion from 80 power plant> in th e Midwest and So urh east, charges"
reporr reIe.rsed by a consulring firm and" for mer enforcement officer from the U.S,
Environmenta l Protection Agency. T he srud y looked at the emiss ions from plants run by
eight uti li ty compan ies cited by the Justice Dep.lttmenr in 1999 and 2000 for violati ng
the Clean Air Act. The analys is also esti mates riut pollutants from lhese com panies lead
to 140,000 a5rhm., .1tt.lCks ,ltld 14,000 cases o(acutc bro nchi tis every year.
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Proposed Downtown Building Height Increase is Controversial
OLYMPIA. \'l/r\. :\pril I~. 20()2. - The OI,l'rnpi.1 Planning Commission 11.15 proposed
.1 huilding height inuea,,' (rom .1) teet to 'i'i and 7') ker .r1ong the nin e-block ,Ire.l ea't
o( rllt' I-ourrh .lIld !'iflh I\\'l'n ue hridges, .111d wesr of Columhi.1 Street. It would only
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" .,t l· dr"n!. .mel \\"(luld h.ne (() ~~l .Iro und ,r st.rr,· m.md.rred w.ltt,rti·ollt ht'ight r",triltion. In
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Protests/Actions
Venezuelan President Chavez reinstated after military
coup days earlier
Afler Ilugo ChJVCZ wa, de mocratica ll y elecred ,rs pr~side nr
of VcneLllcl a in 1999, he began
reversing many of the COUll try's
moves towa rds neoli bcralis m. He
is very pro-working class, a nd
institut"d programs such JS land
re-a ll ocation, free ed uca tion,
credit for working people. t.IX
reforms, Jnd 1l13IlY orhe". Th e
COU ll try's elites did nOl lik e him at all.
Ind eed, it wou ld be li ke Ralph Nader as
President of t he Uni ted Stares. T he
media, especia ll y, did everyrhing ,hey
co uld to tarnish his image, though
he was still immense ly popula r with
rh e lower class majo rity. Despite t his
popu larity, on April I I the leaders
of the union -gua rd, with su ppo rt
from the church and the military (all
conser"ative eli res), held a two-day
strike, virrua ll y sh urring down the
co umry. The act ion came after C havez
fi red th e execu ti ve bo ard of I' DVSA,
Venewela's ,rate-run oil compa ny, the biggest money-making indust ry, and replaced
rhem wi,h peop le who agreed wi,h his
political agenda. More thall 100,000 people
flooded the st ree ts of Caracas in pro tes t of
Chaw,., along with ahO lll 5,000 Chavez supporters,
Jlld co nfli ct ens ued, Mo.t were un,H med, but the
anti -Chavez police force, t he: pro-Chavez national
gu.trd, .rl1d many snipers on roofrops of vary ing loya llie., heg:1Il ,hooling, leav ing 1(, dead and hundreds
injured, mostl )' Ch.lveL ,upl'urrers. Shortly afterwards,
.r ",(cessful military coup wok over the capitol .l nd
rCllll)l"<,(\ Ch.lve/, gowrnmcnt, replacing it
wilh Iheir own. The l1",h Jdminislration
n':(O~1l1/c.:d thi~ new gO\l"I"IlIlH.:'lH illllllt:di-
.llt·I). oiling it.1 triumf,h of democracy.
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Bel\\et'n s",enty· tile- and .1 hundred-lhou,.lnd people frolll allover the country
t(ln\'elled in \'Clshmf',lOn D.l:.April 20 to protest Impcri 'l li'nl and Vio lence in the
form of rh,· Isr.lcli occup:llion, U.~. milil"rv illvolwmelll in the Middle LISt and L"r in
:\merica. and corpor.He globalizJllon. There were '0 c.dlcd "feede r Ill.Hche'· for ".teh
,"ue III the morning and then rh ey ..11 reconvened that aflernoon ,l( the "Mall" (g rassy
.lfl'.1 behind the \X/ashington )Vlemori.,I). The Israeli occlll'.Hion of Palesli ne seemed
'0 LIke pretClknLe - in f.lCr, org"n ilers c.lled it t he "large" ,how of .solid.lriry wit h
1'.lIl',"ni.lm in U.~, history," The c:xtreltll' dil'crsity of rhe group .1Ilowed (or muc h
inrl"f-cllimral mingling, .llong with plenty of d.lIlci ng, drum mi ng. street theatre and
e'en .r punk rock ,ho\\'. Thi, wa< the I.,rge't Was hin gton demol"tration since Septe mber
I I, and "'." a gre.ll "'al' to ;end t he mess.lge that America n anti-w.lf activi>ts are
nOl "lone. Over 20,000 people marched in S.ln Franci,co ..• Iong with prolests in
Scanle .md )alr Lake City. all in rcspome to the Apri l 19-2U G7 and IMr/Worid Bdnk
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Bllt lht: idea \\'as not his. The idea was Gregor~ " 1 just
wanted ro see what
.lCl U:r1h- h i, friend's.
"Ariel steal s all m}' good ideas." says wo uld happen."
"To meet g irls," is
Ihchel Thorne.
Thorne co nceived the idea offi nding whar he to ld hi s facha "dream date" by po,ti ng pictures of ulr), Jill Carter when
she asked him wha t
herself ,1 11 over campus.
l~ u I I\ri el Crego r\' he:1l her to ir .
t he pict ures mea nt.
Carre r said th e
~o ,he helped him hatch rhe plan.
They did Il together, .1; a te.1m , whe n photos were the
Ill"'t of the ca mpus was as lee p in th eir topic of co nve rsarion
3[ a faculty meetbelh.
\Vh.lt rhe), did was prob 'l bly a firs t Ing,
"To meet chicks,"
on Ihe Evergreen campus. And what hapGregory
told hi s
pened afterwards surprised them both.
I t all happened o ne night, abour two boss, Jocl Finch,
months ago . It was past midn ight, and at the Scene Shop
after tossi ng back so me vodka, G regory when Finch asked
reached under his bed and p ull ed out a Gregory why he
batc h of p ictu res, selt in g t he m on the put them up. Finch
g round in front of hi s friend Ra c hel said he thought the
photos were "sexy, 1
T ho rne.
guess,"
and he wonAl l of the pictures were of G regory:
poruaits and photos taken by previous dered what would
lovers or friends. Some were taken in Los happen next,
"It wasn't a week
Angeles, some in Thailand, some in New
Mexico, and some taken On campus.
before Gregory was
Gregory and Thorne' narrowed 30 approached by di~
pictures down to )0.
ferent ladies, includ- .
"I was Looking for rhe most eye- ing a boxer," Finch said.
~"(oti know what, we think it's hot, and
catching oneS," says Thorne.
.
we all want to make
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out with you."
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, out with you.
she saW his photos.
latl;r they retreated to
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Evergreen's campus. _;;.;,..;:..;:;=.,;;.._ _ _ _
It was about 2 a.m.
Gregory in the Scene
"We went to the high-tr'-ffic areas," Sh~p ~ri campus.
"We gave him shit aboutit," she says:
says Tho rn e.
"We put them in the women's bathThe Scene shop is-reeming with, actors
rooms behind the stalls," she adds.
or friends of actors. When people there
In th e Library Building, the CAB. the saw Gregory's pictures, many applauded
COM building, the Lecture Halls, and him.
various other places on ca mpus, they
" I was amused and questioning," says
p laste red Gregory's face on every bulletin Chris Yates, who is the Performing Arts
Manager in the Comrnunicarions buildboard they could find.
IIlg.
Bur on e thing was miss ing.
A nam e, a phone number, an e- mail
"I was expecting they would be followed
address, or a ny other dist in guishing label by some other pie ce of information,"
Yates s,!ys,
next to th e photo.
"Th. t would JU St be tacky," Ariel
Yates once did the same type of advertising for a show he was producing. H e pur
says.
Ariel is unwilling to talk openly about an ad in the paper that said,
"THEY'RE COMING!" and nothing
why he act ually put the pos ters up. He
does not say outright th at he was looking else.
for a "dream date," as Thorne imagined.
As the days progressed Yates gave out
more and more information about the
But he does say so mething.
"I t was a semi-veiled attempt at meeting show, building anticipation.
wome n," Ariel G regory admits, mer being
But thar d idn't happen with Gregory's
"Ir occ urred
to
me one night after a lor
of heav), dri nki ng."
Ch,lVe'l.
It i, d,fiilltil to te lllhe fUlure ofCl~ave,'s
re~ im e. lie is I'ehemelltil' .lnli-U.S ., which
m:rkc, the L' S ,1Iui-Ch:rvel.. We all know
\\'h.1t the Lt."'. docs lO le.ld ers of co untries
who dOIl 'l .Igrec \\'ilh the neo liher"I.rgenda,
e'peci.llh- <,(- a country that provide"s over
one fourth of U.S. oil. Indeed, this recent coup
\\'.1< broughr .rbour wit h a significanr amo unr
of U.S . aid a nd su p port, a nd the America n
media frequ ently compares Chavez to Castro,
calling him .1 brutal dictatOr. This conflict is
ve ry comp li cated and hard to summari ze, so I
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were
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saw the pictures
and I thought,
'This guy is really
good looking ...
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"WANTED"
up
posters for himself, and it
worked," says Schmader.
"Without any promises or
personal information, just the
fact of his face.
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Mmm',"
She asked Gregory our within a week.
" Ifyou put flattering pictu res of yourself
up, you're going to get flatte ry, " she says.
Warren heard people talking about the
pictures and she was worried someone else
would ask him out before her,
When asked about their relationship
today, which is still goi ng strong, Gregory
any promises or personal information , just
the filCt of his face .
"I've neve r heard
of anyone trying this
particular ruse to get a mate," he says.
"But in essence it's no different from
what male creatures have done for centuries to attract the attention of females,
from show-offy strutting rOQsters to
Gene Simmons wagging his tongue at the
groupies in the front row."
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Thorne and Gregory both said hey
worry that telling people how everydiing
happen«l and who the photo actually IS
wiU ruin 'the mystery.
BlIt th question remains, what' h~
pened to Gregory after he put \lP. the
pictures?
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Stephanie Warren, Gregory's classmate,
answ:ers.tha! question .
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The audience has been seated for close to an hour when they started showing his
l'xploits on "The Awful Truth," a show I've heard much about, but until tonight, have·
never seen a single frame of. It's funny stufl-~ and generally functions to amuse the
audience as the next half-hour crawls by. My ass is about as asleep as it has ever been,
and I am beginning to feel hot in this gymnasium.
I turn to the guy on my left.
"So, what's rhar fear of being around alotta people called?" I try to ask nonchalanrly,
doing my best not look down at the floor beneath my feet as ir wriggles and bucks the
soles of my shoes to its best degree of effort.
"Well, being afraid of open spaces is agoraphobia," he says. Grear, I didn't ask for
fucking agoraphobia, I wanted to know what being afraid of being around greasy,
intermingling, squirming masses of people is call ed . "It's probably a derivative of that."
This comforts me to no avail as what appears to be fetal tissue with a knife clutched in
its teeth begins to clamber up my pant leg. I try to hush the scream, but ir comes our
anyway ... just as Michael Moore walks in.
My terror is drowned out in rhe jubilarion of rhe masses, and I feel it sweep through
me. We all feel it sweep through us, I'm sure. We're here for one reason: to hear
this TV-show talkin', book writin', beard growin', hat wearin' sun uvagun talk to us
abo ut what I'm only too sure at this point is how we (being predominately white and
middle-to-upper-c1ass) are part of the problem, and should just give it up and cast
our ballots for Bush's re-election in two years. (A fantasy so many of us have secretly
masturbated to in quiet shame or extra-quiet.)
Surprisingly enough, the next hour or so is inspiring to listen to. Michael's charisma
is almost palp2ble from my place near the back of the stands. He's like a big left-wing
teduy bear you want to hug to sleep in your 100 percent natural and organically-grown
hemp pajamas. I feel the chaos of the mob-mind batter at the edges of my consciousness,
and before long, I'm clapping and cheering and shouting comments that may have been
more suited for a retarded chimpanzee than someone as self-conscious as myself. I feel
myself merge with the masses, and for one brief moment, while ralking about how we're
going to get Bush, I can't hear any words coming out Michael's mouth.
His fist raises and slams into the podium three times, his mouth is moving, and words
must be forming and being broadcast, but I can hear nothing but the mad, jubilant
howls of the crowd. For some reason, I'm reminded of those World War II political
stock shots. The leaders pound the podiums, the roar of the crowds. The batrle lines
being drawn in the sand. I see Spots and explosions in my mind's eye, and I see an
Eagle, no longer benevolently perched atop the mountains of freedom in silent vigil
against evil. but a cunning raptor, feeding on the weak and the dying. And then ir is
over, and my mind is my own again.
Michael puts on a good front, though he's obviously exhausted. He answers" few
questions. the highlight of which being a nine-year-old's in regard to his favorite book.
Michael replies, "Bu ry My Heart at Wounded Knee." A political book. It isn't surprising.
Michael is a political animal, whether he'd admit ir or not. But he does put on one hell of
a good show, and as the swarming bodies flee in virtual terror of having to spend another
seco nd in this gymnasium, which has held over a thousand people this evening, I sit alone
on the bleachers. Alone, that is, except for the fetal tissue and the geeks in line to get their
books signed. In ten minutes it will be Michael's birthday.
" I'm su re he'd rather be spending this with his family," I think to myself, as I shake
my mal-formed assassin from my shin and slowly stand. My legs feel like stiff bricks of
something that used to be gelatin before it was placed in the back of the refrigerator for
three years and slowly metamorphosed into a crust. A little walking will straight~n them
our. A little walking will straighten me our. I'm still in awe of whar I've just seen, JUS!
experienced. The power of the masses, the admiration, the joy, the excitement. I almost
throw up as I walk out of the doors of the gym, and into the night, my express purpose
now is simply to be left alone and think about what I've just experienced.
- Alan Jericho
Letter to the Editor
Congrats to all who brought Michael
Moore to TESC on April 22.
It was a tremendously positive event
that we were glad to share with students
and the Oly commu nity alike.
The lone downer of the night was nor
Moore's doses of hatsh reality but during
the Q&A session afterward.
Moore was questioned about the pay- •
ment he received from the college to speak
from someone whose shallow negativity
failed to shatter Moore's generous and
sharing vibe. While Moore is not above
april 25, 2002
tors' opinions, for just like the rest of us, they
are bound by their own lives' experiences,
their own struggles and limitations. Stand
up and demand excellence! Demand it of
your instructors and administrators. But
more importantly, demand it of yourself and
expect it of your fellow students.
Eve rgreen prides itself on being liberal,
open and capable of learning across differences. This is a noble ideal but one that is
difficult to maintain. In any organization
the cu lture tends to drive non-conformity
underground. This is true at Evergreen too.
There is a strong effort made to remai n open
to all views; still the campus cu lture has
its own socially and politically acceptable
"norms." Step too far outside of those norms
and you are likely to feel pressure to adapt
to fit in. Mosr cultures tend to try and
squash ideas that are too liberal o r nontraditional. Evergreen doesn't. But promote
roo conservative or traditional a belief and
you can probably expect some backlash, no
matter how open the culture professes to be.
I say, "Do n't roll over!" This school needs
its rebels and non-conformists from all
sides. Engage, discuss and critically eval uate
your beliefs. Listen carefully to other views
and be open to change, bur be willing to
change your stance only if the arguments are
compelling and persuasive. Don't be afraid
to be different, for without your opinion,
everyone's education suffers. It is from each
other that we learn the most, so we need to
each tell our own truths - our story, not
the story we think others want to hear. Stand
up, be heard and don't roll over!
. Mediocrity is there for marking rime .
The grl!at education available here is yours,
but only. if you reach for it. You are the
one who will look down at the diploma in
your hand and know its true value. You can
either co ngratulate yourself or only have
yo urself to blame.
- Anthony Airhart, Class of2000
- J.J. Syrja, Gina Vitale
Selling Out Big Time
A Challenge for TESC Students
Editor,
The Cooper Point Journal:
TESC is a great place to gain an education. Not merely a degree, bu t an actual
education. The nature of that education is
mostly up to you. If you approach your time
at Evergreen as an opportunity to participate
in your own learning, you will dowell. If you
expect to sit back and "receive" an education,
you will be sorely disappointed.
Only you will choose if you come to class
prepared to discuss the texts in an intelligent
manner or if you will ski m rhe readings just
enough to get by. Therefore, only you will
decide if you will leave that classroom having
learned something or instead having cheated
yourself. You can choose ro sit silen rly and
let what bits of knowledge happen by seep
into the cracks o r choose ro speak, question,
critique and learn during seminars. You can
reach out and engage the world around you,
then bring that world ro clasS and throw it
into the mix. Or you can disengage from
your learning as you walk our that classroom
door and ignore the chance to test your
education outside of ir. Cha llenge each
other and stretch yoursel f. Take chances!
Dare ro offer a differing point of view or
to air a seemingly silly question. Projects,
assignments, research, seminars - you will
decide if these will be valuable or if they
become mere busywork to mark time at
TESC.
Everything in life comes with a price.
The wide-open, diverse and often intense
education offered here has a price too. The
cost of an education here often lies in beliefs
and viewpoints limited by politic~ and bias.
That's no different than at any other college
- only the nature of the politics and biases
change. Again, it is not up to rhe college ro
smash these educational boundaries; rather,
it is a challenge for you, the student. You
ca n throw aside your personal restraints and
actually listen to what others have to share.
You can cast a wary eye upon your instruc-
being asked about this. he didn't deserve
this kind of misdirected venom.
In our eyes, writers, artists, filmmakers
and music creators should be wdl paid
for the joy and spirit of skepticism they
bring to the world. Michael Moore falls
into this category.
Perhaps the person grilling Moore
was trying to impress so meone . There
weren't many present who bought into
such cynical queStioning.
billiriyj[Q~sAk~nt~aL-
_____________
When I left Evergreen in the year 2000,
had my liberal arts B.A. triumphantly
clutched in one hand and my liberal values
clutched firmly in the other. Before me lay a
world of opportunities that I had to merely
pick from ro make my fortune and pay back
my fungus of student loans. I did a few
things wrong, the first being moving away
from Olympia. I had everything I needed
here and even had a great house to live in
and a good roommate. When I left I sold my
entire hippielgoth wardrobe and dumped
most of my fun clothes for wotk boots and
a lame uniform. [ left Oly with my beat-up
1987 Nissan Sentra attached to a moving
van full of many items of little consequence
(15 SCA outfits, a dresser, a futon, my four
poster bed, plants, and my two cats).
I got a job as a manager of a Hostel in
the Cannery Row district of oh-so-exclusive
Monterey, CA. Life should have been peachy.
I had my blank slate of non-profit management I had always desired, a budget. a
building, donations, a volunteer staff, and
my great education. Bur then I had to get
rid of my cats. I managed to keep them
long enough to take the stupid one to the
Humane Sociery and my beloved Felani
to my Aunt's house in San Diego where
she dwells happily in love with my Uncle
Greg. And then they would nor let me buy
supplies. Instead they sent me shopping with
the stingiest penny-pinching lirtle old man
who refused to buy anything new. He also
refused to rent a truck and pick up all our
furniture at the storage space.
To fast forward, after being harangued
by multiple members of the board, all out
for their personal agenda, working 90 hours
a week for three months, and opening the
dang Hostel on timc and fully furnished on
C hristmas day, I was fed up.
Right before I resigned, I went to a /Jay
fancy Chamber of Com merce outing and
dinner ar an exclus ive restaurant in Monterey.
I was nor very bent that night on "working
the room" or networking, so I watched th",
rest of them c ircu lare like the capita li stic
piranhas they were. I listened to the plans
for the next social on their private yacht
and suddenly all my upper crust dreams
unfolded in front of me. Here I would stay
and be plastic-surgeried into the tight kind of
woman to marry one of these aimless men.
I would posture and preen in front of the
neighbors, drive a new car, and never shop
Jt a thrift srore agai n. This was definitely
/lot who I was.
Then I received an e-mail from the Santa
Cruz Outdoor Education program - they
would pay me more money to come and
teach during the weekdays for them. After
one day in the woods of the Santa Cruz
Mountains, I made my decision. Before I left
I re-negotiated so that my beloved assistant
manager would be paid by the hour and
made the board aware of rhe labor rights
violations they had made. To cover these
abuses. I was given an additional fifteen
hundred dollars.
What they didn't know was that I had
decided to become homeless instead of working for them. They were that bad of employers: angry, threatening, and Machiavellian.
So I went from my own furnished flat to a
storage space and my Nissan Sentra, which
now had three cylinders again. I camped
out up and down the coasr and avoided the
extremely large amount of people smoking
pot out in the open there. I lived homeless
on the weekends until the summer, staying at
a variety of campgrounds and treating myself
to the freedom of outdoor living.
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Life in Cairo
Fungus
Transcendence
The caps lay inside small mud pies that I
,w ished back with a tea bag. My legs turned to
Jell -O and my body began ro sag. The room
swagged, the ground swayed, a nd t he day
tell down. Sound perm eated and the colors
created traces acros.' my friends' face., and the
spaces filled with visuals . Multiple individuals
inside inanimate symbo ls sung silently in a
symphonic ensemb le of wild waves. Mind
wide and whimsical atop musica l mountains
of mamllloth mystery.
I 'tared blindly into th~ 11100n and soon I
drifred ofT, stumhling down the beach uf the
Puget Sound and found a profound sense of
the dense clo uds. I proudly raised my hand as
a humble warrior to the mmhroom sorcerer
that showed mc rwo bubbles that we re people
ki ssin g and elllbr,lCing. Lights from the cabins
below, illuminated and glowed , reflecting off
the sky's window cau , ing a double sunset from
one end of the WHe r to the next. I a lm ost
reached transcenden ce and floated away, but
[() my dismay, my friend c"lled Ille ha ck. It wa.:.
my buddy Mach with a knack for knowledge.
lI e al so cosmicall y cra cked our in rhe s.lIne
prt·dicamenr as Illysclfand cou ld not hdp bur
to not allow my bein g to go through the doors
of perception, rel eased from realiry's deception.
Hc ranted about the conception o f causality
.Ind individuality ~ s a C.tse for humdniry 's
in sanity. The inre rn al jo urtley would mean
morc than all of the maner outdoors.
Ne xt door our partn er ;,aid the universe
wa s doing her and I wondered if that was
po.:.sible. Of course if you can find the SOLlrce.
The unknown is humbling when you're
stumbling, mumbling, drooling, and whi rling
with vu ln erability. I was acting silly, thinking
irrationa ll y, ant! fanrasi ~ in g about l iving
dangerously as a comic vigilante consp iracy.
Sudden ly voices from every direction. "The
nothing is coming, the nothing is coming,
and the story is never-ending." The Masters
keep send in g messiahs and prophets who call
it quits . Where's the antithesis)
Blasphemous belligerent bliss lifted me
back into the hou.:.e of warmth and I morphcd
into a monkey and observed activity. I was a
nameless unknown, hiding in the shadows,
staying quiet 'cause I know someth ing you
don't know. Whoa, I almost fell. bur rhe sirens
of survival sudd enly snatched the rafters. I still
believe tha t some other entity saved me.
The next stage of images appeared crystal
clearly on the ceiling. The pigment projector
played tWO movie .
On the first screen appeared a Greek orgy
filled w ith Adonises and Aphrodites that
flipped, flicked, fingered, kissed and licked
like there was no tomorrow.
Above the mingling forms was a sco re of
wome n worming in and our of the wood,
sifti ng , drifting, and filtering cease less ly
like so me alchemy experim ent gone horribly
wrong.
Next the gong rang and the poison slipped
deeper into my geometrical thoughr patterns
and my ideas of meaning scattered. After all
the lascivious laughter and tingling tears, a
weird feeling gave me an epiphany that every
object, thing, and being had its own life, its
own perspective, persona, and place. Then
everything became so granular. and all of my
delusions of grandeur grew smaller and smallet
until I became one drop of water.
For the last few weeks I have passed
10- 20 truckloads of armed riot police
on my way ro school each day. They are
supposed (0 keep peace, bur their real job
is ro stifle public protests against Israel,
the United States, and the Arab world.
They don't make me feel safer; they
just remind me of the oppression the
Egyptian people have been continua ll y
living under si nce Anwar Sadat's assassin ation in 1981. Freedoms guaranteed
in the Egyptian Constirution of 1973
provide for the freedom of express ion
(Article 47), freedom of asse mbly (Art icle
54) . and freedom of the press (Article
48), simil ar to the rights guaranteed
under the First Amendment in the
United States. Unfortunately, in Egypt
these rights have been suppressed si nce
th e imposition of a state of eme rgency
in 1981. Presiden t Hosni Mubarek
Ius successfully renewed the state of
emergency 10 times sin ce then. and the
restriction of freedom s has only gotten
worse.
.
The people who do participate in
the current demonstrations risk their
freedom edch t ime t hey chant, "One,
two, where are the Arab armies' " (Ir
rhymes in Arab ic.) They are subject to
indefinite detainment under Egypt's
Emergency I.aw No. 162 for putting the
pllblic order in jeopardy. I am outraged
at the oppression of the people and reliewd
that I have a choice. I can choose ro live
under Egypt's authoritarian regime or I
can choose to live in the United States;
This photo was taken by a friend from outside the gates of the American University in
Cairo during one of the campus demonstrations . The university allowed Ihe peaceful
demonstration, and because il is an American inslitution, Ihe pOlice are prohibiled
from entering Ihe grounds unless universily security needs their inlervention to stop
violence or property destruction . Generally, the University Provost cooperates with the
students and allows them to demonstrate peacefully even if it means classes have to
be cancelled as they were on the day this piclure was taken.
unfortunately, the difference between
the two seems to have shortened since
September I!. ram left wondering if I will
continue to have the freedom to criticize
my government and the choices it makes
or if [ will feel, like thc Egyptian s. that
there is teally nothing I can do .
- Marti Wheeler, Study Abroad at Th e
Ameri can Universiry in Cairo
This is a submission to the Time Capsule. The CPj
will be running a sen~s of selected submissions for the
Time Capsule with permission foom the writer. .v.,u may
e-mail submissionstoevewempro.lw200J@qahoo.com
until the first of May. I hope you can find the timl!
to contribute.
.
- Nathan Hadden, Time Capsule Organizer
(no title)
At the end of Winter Quarter,
Michel George in Campus
Facilities suggested sending an
in vitation to Governor Gary
Locke, Senator Maria Cantwell.
and Stan Biles, the Mayor of
Olympia, inviting them to participate with the 9/11 Time Capsul e
that will be set up at Eve rgreen.
Just recently an e-mail was
received from Governor Locke's
office saying that they wished to
contribute to the Time Capsule.
So not only do we have transcripts
from Na tional Public Radio, but
the Governo r's office is also interested in submitting. We also hope
that the other representatives will
contribute to the project.
I h ope the submissions that
the Cooper Point Journal has
been running have encouraged
you to co ntribute. We want to
re-em phasiz.e that our deadline of
May I is f.'St approaching. Written
submissions should be e-mailed to
evergreenproject200 l@yallOo.com.
Please feel free to e-mail me with
questions or submissions.
- Nathan Hadden
EI Dia de Los Mllertos
Should be every day
This yetlr. the ties bnwun
The land ofthe living and
The land of/he dead
Grow stronger;
I sa through tbe thin veil, swollen
With immigrant ghos/s;
Those on tbe other side,
Ajgham and Americam,
V0rtch ollr lights wink in and Ollt
And prepllre greetings.
We are so far away
It's hard to see
Details Open mouths sta ined
Green, the small
Still ribcage.
More details slip quick past
Evening news casts The Red Cross bombed ,
Food wasted at the border.
We drop tokens of our good will,
Packaged peanut burter,
Into minefields.
Caught between famine 's dark lips
And the terrifying fields
A sister holds her
Thin brother, they chew white
Bones, and watch
Mothers, husbands , lovers, friends
Gamble a step for a meal
Until
Shards of metal sliver them
To tiny pieces, 100 small,
To hope or ca re for food,
A red heap of bones,
An ex pired date .
In the fragments of these lives we
Try to piece together an enemy
We build it up and shoot it down,
We give our children Rags and guns
And send them into the streets to play
6,764 miles away
From consequences.
But those who lost
Mothers, husbands, lovers, ch ildren,
Under the towers' collapsed fists
Arc closer In the white space of
A husband's bed, he sleeps
Near an Afghan.
Both turn ro face the dawn with eyes
As empty as a hand begging
Which Our bombs will never fill.
EI Dill de Los Mllertos
Should b~ way day this year.
r can see throllgh /h< thin v~il,
Across the dark riva, to the
Truth.
Ask me which sid~ is winning
['II t<II you
The
oth~r
side.
Jayne Kaszynski
2002
11
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to Remembe
First-time contributor ,Sret Srintzenhofe walks downtown
to experience art, music and . .. well, you know.
Timothy BBdar
I believe it was in Ocrober of 1992, when
Ma rk Lanagan said on stage that, "t his song
is written by Beat Happening," th at my
relationship with K records began. It seemed
that everything that seemed vital and amazin g
about music at the time had a con nection
with the beautifully small Olympia label. Beat
Happening had recorded with the Screaming
Trees (who were about to find mainstream
success only months later) in the late eighties,
Kurt had a K tattoo, Fitz signed on to the K
roster, and oh so much more. As an Olympia
narive who ' had been introd uced to shows
Clarice and Layla's Movies
and Indy music at a tender age in the early
nineteen-nineties, K had been the impetus
for everything pertinent to music.
However, as a loyal member of the church
of K. I have been skeptical and wary of the
momentum of the label. It had seemed
that a niche had been carved by Beat
Happening and Some
Velvet Sidewalk in
the sense of a lo-fi,
do - it -yo urse lf ethi c
that
has followed
through ro a number
of artists whose music,
no matter how a mazing and interest ing,
sounded. all too similar.
I have been searching
for th e vitaliry of the
label t hat introdu ced
love rock, lois, and the
mighry thunder gods
karp. Si mpl y put, in
the mid - nin e ti es, K
was releva n t, and K
was god ! However,
now it seemed the
label was in a monotonous downward spiral
of similariry and boredom. [Admimdly,
it had brighT spors
(Enemymine,
Microphones)]
Now, ten years after
m y "kick in," the label
has stepped o ut of
the shadow of unce rt a inty following th e
dissolution of Valley
Music distr ibu tion
and subsequent medi ocre releases, with
the exception of two
releases vastly different
In scope.
Kyle Fields, new
ro the K roster under
the moniker "Little
Wings," m ay have stepped ahead of his
singer/songwriter and sonic contemporaries
Phil "micro phon es" Elvum and Mirah with
the third in an increasingly amazing trilogy,
"wonderue." The San Luis Obispo native
had captivated aud iences with hi s blend of
intensity and honesty for nearly two years
before embarking on his co mpletion of the
wonder city trilogy. Fields is one of the rare
performers rhat no matter what co nrext - live
or reco rd ed - holds the abi li ty to st un the
li,rcner wit h sheer simplistic emotion, in the
way that only Will Oldham and Cat Power
ha ve been able to do in the last decade. foor
those looking for so mething ro add to their
bonnie prince billy, papa m, cat power, (smog)
record feti shes, Little W ings is a su re ber.
And to eve ryone else, Little Wi ngs may be the
most vita l new rdease to K in five years.
In his most ambitio us release to date , K
imp resario Ca lvin Johnson opted ro releage
a seven-CD and book box set spa nni ng t hc
career ofK's firsr golde n nugger (a nd Johnson',
long ti me band), Beat Happenin g. "Crashing
Through" co mbin es a ll fi ve LPs, sin gles
(i ncluding the Screami ng Trees collaboration),
an d a stunn ing oral history combined by rhe
ever-so-amazing Lois Maffeo. Ma ny locals
have specu lated rhar this may have been the
nail in the coffi n of the suuggling, long- time
label. But I sincerely thi nk rhat this beauriful
document of a band that changed oh so m any
people's lives will bring the label back to its
mid -nineties heyday. (A n era with releases like
Beck's "O ne Foot in the G rave," t he Kicking
Gia nr 's "Ali en Id ," a nd of co urse, EVERY
BEAUTIFULLY SIM PLISTIC BLUEPRINT
FOR D IY CULTURE relea se d by Bear
Happening.) Beat Happening remains o ne of
the most co nfrontational and vital punk bands
in the hisrory of the American unde rgro und
movement. And their invo lve me nt wit h
everyone from Greg Sage to Fugazi m ay
on ly be a wea th ervane to their greatness.
K has been , fo r a long time, the symbol of
everything I enj oy abo ut music, and finally
after a fWo-year hi atus, it remains so. Thank
you god.
Worth Your Money
bv llisuf8 Becker
When Barney rose ro fame, an outdated Caprain Kangaroo san k into a depression and
fanrasized rhar o ne day he wo uld seek revenge on the fun- loving purple dinosaur thar
innocently destroyed his career. Take this scenario and app ly rhe imagination and skill of
Robin W ill iams as the aging chi ld entertainer and Edward Norton as the oversized stuffed
animal ,I nd you have "Dearh ro Smoochy." Edward Norton of "American His[O ry X" and
" KeepIng the foaith " puts out yer another award-deserving performance as Smoochy, rh e
child entertainer with a good message and, mosr importantly, a c1e:lIl record. Smoochy Serves
as th" rep l.tce ment after his predecessor, Rainbow Randolph, played by Robin Will iams,
i, banished from kids' televi,ion in sha me 'lm id a scandal. Though Robin \'V'illiams' recent
dlOlCCS in films have been questionable at besr (need we remind yo u of"Bicenrcnnial Man"'),
J\lork has finally returned , and with a veng~.lnce. The acror has redeemed hitmd f with rhis
I.,ugh.out-Ioud (\vist"d dark comedy.
.
Thnc to allow Williams to redeem himself is the warped mind of director Danny LkV ,to,
who II ,lho respon sible for such class ic films as 1987's "Throw Momma From The Train" and
I ()8')', "T he \'( '. tr of The Roses. n He does a wonderful job with this unconvclllional comedy.
[),Yllli e\'ell succe~ds in direCting hi/melf in a sma ll er part. T he entire cast is overall quite
t,llen tcd, with ,ul'l'orring roles by Catheri ne Keener of" Being John Ma lkovich," Jon Stewart
"f'''Thl' D,lilv Show" on Comedy Ce ntral, and Michael Ri spo li of ''The Sopra nos." DeVito's
rolorful set': elaborately c h or~ographed dances, and c"tchy children's songs arc co nvincing
and \·"t sJtiric. But th is is by no mean s a children's film, des pi te the c uddl y chara cte rs.
It " 'Lned R for language and sexual references, so beware: the jokes are down and dirty,
lit only for the mature mind.
"Smooc hy" is a notab le movie that will hop~(ully de velop a cu lt following in th e
future, sin ce box office sales have been dismal. It is a crime that thi s fabulous picture
has raked in less than a founh of the box office profits of Brirney Spears' "Cross roads,"
raking in JUSt over $8 milli o n ove r alm ost four weeks. For anyone with a nighr o ut and
$8.00, " Death to Smoochy" is a must see. For more info rmation, this biza rre movie has
an equa lly twisted web site for those mo re ca utiou s viewers. You can check it out at:
death tosmooch ymovie. wa rnerb ros.co m/ sp lash. h tml.
april 25, 2002
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the cooper point journal
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I'm new at Evergreen.
When I initially volunteered to write an article for Artswalk,
which happened last Friday and Saturday, I had some
preconceptions about what mighr happen.
I imagined visiting a bunch of litde galleries, oohing and
aa hing at the artwork.
Maybe some watercolors fraught with religious meanings
and the collapse of American consciousness, bursting with
paradoxes.
I imagined discussing whar I saw with the talented young
painters stationed by their groundbreaking work . Thar
didn't happen .
My first contact with rhe Arrswalk crowd was as a petitioner
against the anti-homelessness ordinances.
The crowds in the galleries seemed unwelcoming, so that
meant no conversations with groundbreaki ng young arrists.
My obligation to review the work gnawed at me , bur
without the iniriative ro act on my guilt, I just followed my
comp anions aro und .
We visited rhe Gas Huff"r show briefly, wound around to
Archibald Siste rs ro see the giant Easter Island-esque heads
in the front window (co mpl ete with bats on a mobile very impressive) and stopped at the Capitol Theater, where
kids' art was displayed.
I purchased "Volcano With Srars," a stunning piece by .. .
I can't remember, But if you read rhis, dear artist, just know
I will enjoy and appreciate your artwork.
As I was filling out my purchase form, I bumped into two
other Evergreen students, John Flodin and Laura Johnson ,
who were buying a piece by the young artist Rod Lawson,
entided "Ch~i Dinner." "Wow," is all I can say. Wow.
Somehow we finally ended up in the alley behind the Spar,
encircled by moshing hipsters, where rhe evening peaked.
And when I say peaked, boy, do I mean peaked. We've all
met Travis who works at the Market in the CAB. If you don't
know him personally, you might not expect him ro be half of
the hip-hop outfit Team Fresh. Only, in Team Fresh, Travis is
not Travis, he's Roboid. Team Fresh combines discordant beats
with funky rhymes to create a magical musical experience. I
may seem sarcasric, but truthfully - it was rad. Roboid, in
his eighties techno snow boots and bejeweled plastic crown,
worked the beats and his compatriot, Iffoboddle, freestyled in
a litde white sailor hat. That alley was bumpin'.
All in al l, Fridav night was not the night I imagined to
have. Other than an exhibit of art by pre-teens (which I musr
stress - I loved) , I skipped the whole "visual art" aspect of
Artswalk. I dodged my duties as a co ncerned, active citizen to
do drugs, and I ended up in a dark alley.
Regardless, Arrswalk was a night ro remember. (Insert
inspirational tune here.)
p/;oto by Bret Brintunhoft
Check This Music
Out
4 reviews by Jerry Chiang
Unwritten Law: Elva (Interscope Records)
Good things come ro those who wait. Unwritten Law, a veteran band of ten years out of
southern California, finally gets irs chance to shine. Unwrirren Law had a hit sohg abour
fo ur years ago, and it was a cute, melodious rock serenade by the name of"Cailin." Now the
band is back with a solid rock album.
T he band's experience can be heard from its refined rock sound that's full of heart and
craftsmanship; it pumps you up and amacts you back for more. Scott Russe's raw yet gende
voice undulates nicely to the music
T his album will prove to be a respectable soundtrack to rhe summer. Do yourself a favor,
check it our, and you won't be disappoinred.
Calling All Breakdancers
My name is Alex Mikitik, an d I am
definately hardcore abour breakdancing. It is
someth in g that I enjoy doing and pursuing.
I have been teaching myself how ro break for
about two years now, ever si nce the end of
high -school. Ray Bish ir joined
me ea rly last year as well.
But we , as in, stu denrs who
li ke breakdancing, arc man}' now.
There is Kumiko, Sophal , Nare,
Evan and Becka.
We try pranicing (\"0 to three
times a week in eirher the CRC,
Library (4th floor}, li Ce. or Red
.. SlIU~H~. Since: wt":'re novices. we
. just practice and go at it. Th ere's
not much formal it}' ro speak of.
Also, wc're alway, look in g for
Folb who wanr [0 learn how
to break and acrually pursue it.
Mosr of rhe time, if people don't
"learn it" after showing up once,
we never see 'em aga in. We are
willing to teach and are beginners
o urselves.
CO I,,"a Kumiko 111 867-6033,
tb, A.5.l.A. Club exunsioTl.
spot lind (/ new
movt'.
photo by Chris Mufalty
Nine Inch Nails: And All That Could Have Been
(nothingllnterscope Records)
Before I started co ll ege, my dad gave me some advice to keep in mind. He told me to
sray away from crack, speed and live albums. I may not always agree with myoid man,
bur he was right in telling me to stay away from those three things. And my advice to
you' Stay away from them roo.
Bands pur our li ve albums because they want rhe fans that can't make it to their shows to
feel what it would be like if they were at the concens. However, the littl e voice in my head
call ed cynicism tell s me otherwise. It says , "bands put our live albums in order ro recycle
rheir old material and make money."
NIN's new live album is just that, a recycling of old favorites. If you have been a NIN
fan for a while, I take it thar you have most of their albums, or all their hits like "Hurt"
or "Closer, " so what's the point in getting the music you already own? The songs sound
the same, albeit a little unrefined with fans screaming for the "live" ambience. Nothing's
spec ial on this disc, and considerin g how lackluster and disappoinring this album is, the
tide is ironically appropriate.
And You Will Know Us
Codes (lnterscope Records)
by the Trail of Dead: Source Tags &
Better known as Trail of Dead, this Austin, Texas, quarte t will rock your ass with
unpa ralleled ferocity. Not o nly is this band's name undeniably cool in a fucked-up so rt
of way, its mu sic is or igin al and unlike anythin g else on the radio ri ght now. Trail of
Dead so unds like Built to Spi ll drank roo much, passed out, and woke up wirh At the
Drive In a nd Refused.
The who le alb um is amazing. The so un d is lo ud , abrasive, f..st and captivar in g. The
singer's vo ice screams and roars ove r the cacop hony of frenzied percuss ion s and melodious
distortions of guitar and bass. The lyrics are virtua ll y undecipherable, but worry not,
beca use what lacks in lyrical comp re hens io n is made up from the beautifu l son ic chaos
thar will leave you brearhless.
Phantom Planet: The Guest (Epic Records)
Jason Schwartzman is blessed. He is a movie scar, rclated to Francis Ford Coppola, and
he's t he dru m mer of Phanlom Planet, a wo nd erful new band that knows how to make
grea t pop songs. Co mparisons have been made to Weezer, but tint is inaccurate. It is more
acc u rate to say that Phan tom Planet so un ds like rhe Scorrish band Trav is. Like Travis,
Phantom Planet makes easy-on-your-ears and sweet pop so ngs ful l of great melodies. They're
non-threatening and very likable.
The albu m stans off with the piano-driven "Californ ia." Just by li sten in g to the first few
piano notcs, yo u know you've come across so me catchy mu sic. The easy-go ing vibe co ntinues
with "Always on My Mind, " an up-tempo t rack rh at ca lls to mind Sterephon ics. Then things
slow down a bit with "O ne Ray of Sunlight," bur the sweet melodies are still putting grear
thoughts in yo ur head. "A nthem" is a standout track beca use, like the name, the so ng deserves
to be an anthem. Ph antom Planet gracefully ends rh e album with "Something is Wrong," a
'
simple aco ustic track that is endearing.
Phantom Pl a ne t h as lots of potential. They ca n writ e great pop songs, and their
propensiry for melodies is reminiscent of the Beach Boys. This is th e type of music that
:will tak e you ro your happy pla ce and make you smile and feel all warm inside. What
more could you ask for?
the cooper point journal
april 25, 2002
Inga ' Muscio brews
interested in helping
recruit next year's
student newspaper staff?
"Psychic Self Defense"
for
Sexual Assault Awareness Week
- by.1\aty Maebl
There must be sol/lelhil//i in the world
th.\! pi., ,,,, yo u orT. L."t Tucsd.,)' in the
middle "f Sexll.d A".lldt AW'lrcne~s Week,
Inga 1I111scio ..luthor of Cillll, <repped .lside
from her speech to offer this si mpl e guide
to rt·m.lining he.dthy .lnd sane:
·III/"r/" tlcep{J' d lid quickly tiJrougiJ 'your
1JOJt'.
• RmlliJe lOIll YOla dillp/ml({'lI.
w.eek!y
horoscope
a r .es
by Jen Blackford '
Despiu your fortune cookie's
a vice to keep yo"r plam secretfor now,
it's best to La your evil miniom know
about your goal o· orld dominatio'l.
·IlI/"rI, d,eply tllld quick{y r/nollglJ YOllr
}"olltil. tllking ill ('l'('n wore air.
Now you're ready to release.
• Foms all 1/;111 0111' Ihillg. rim kl/ou' the
ollt'--ir illji"';/lUJ YOII.
-Now screlllll-.jron, )'our gIll.
(For fxtrrl til-hallie d"t/lISlIIg, follolll h",
PI'I"SOIlfr/lllflif: r/Jro71' YOllr shop tIS YOII srream,
Ihen /'111/ aJ1tr il. pick il lip alld r~petll.)
After the ~udience practiced three times,
she also stopped to ask that everyone who
believes rh ey have not been affected by
violence remain seated. From whar I could
see, everyone stood up. One of In gas
solutio ns: a grandmother-run government.
Alier sharing the sta tistic that one out
of eve ry three biological women h av ...
been raped , she then ask"d us ro cons ider
p'emini
,
Ifa lalklllg Ctll i" a large bat appears
(/IJd asks you to eat green eggs, it's time to
put your bOllg aw(/y.
"A Casual Evening"
~
1i ; ;~itarserenade.
ill
It may sum like a good occupatiOIl, b"t ""st me, being a chicken
pluckl'r witt 01/0' bring yOI/ heartache.
~
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SCOrp10~
Birds may suddenly appear l'very
time you draw near, but sadly. iI's not
becatlJe they long to be close to you.
sagittarius
Thanks to a mix-up in papal
'decrees, yo" wili be declared the
patron saim ofoffice s 'Pplies.
capricor
By proving that a watchedpot never
boib, you break 5('vl'7al scientific II1WI,
thereby MItroying lift itself a lId YOllr
prospects ofeating lunch.
a uarius1r
While. watching infomercials late
at night, you wili diScover the meaning of lifo. un minutes liller, yo"
will forget it when yo" wimeIS the
wondm ofjuicing.
pisces
0'"
Exactly 963,
people have to die
for you to rule Sweden. You'd better
get cracking.
april '25, 2002
and, how about guiding production
of each issue of the
student newspaper?
fhe art was ma~,c by me: Ryan ,~wa nson. I graduared from Evergreen last fall. My
art ,how was tttled Monster Love.
canc&j:
Shakespeare said "If music be the
food of10VI', play on. "Sadly. this will
backfire whm yo"r date Mvelops a
cravingfor rutabagas in the midst of
does creating guideli~es for
content appeal to y~u?
r
/laked ill Ihe middle of Red Square
while carrying #2 pel/cib is 1/01 a
good idea. Not I/;at there's all)' rellSon
17n tettillg you tillS.
.,
£',ugreen gradl/are Inga Mmcio wrote Ibe all-empowering
book CUllt. 51(/"di fig in fronl ofa podium ill Ih,
LOlighome, Ihis 10m tbe first lime she'd bem back to
mmpllS ill awhile.
_ .1 you w.lIlder~d in to Chopsticks, the hip new downrown eatery, for Arrswalk last
I ' n~ay or Saturday. ),ou may have noticed some new art hangin g on the wall.
~ ~ just to let you know that rUl/nillg
virgo
photo by Chris Mulall y
wanna have a voice in figuring out how
to make the CPJ more representative
of the viewpoints and opinions of a
wider range of students?
Evergreen student
hangs art at CHOPSTICKS
bl ancient reeCt!, bulls were made
Ihe center of religious fistivals. Today,
howeva, the best YOIl can bope for is
a free smoothie.
I
this: What if one out of three
C.E.O.s of multinational
co rporations were raped~
" Don't you think that'd
callse kind of a ruckus'"
She urged everyone to think
about why our c ulrure
think s it's okay to ignore
some rape and violence and
not others, and ro seriously
question what is considered
important or newsworthy.
And if thinking abour" it
s tarrs to make you angry,
follow I nga's suggestion to
purge the fu m i ng frustra ti on.
(-;0 ho me and practice scream·
ing in the tub.
The artiIt of Monster Love, Ryan
Swanron, was ' born on November
10, 1979 in 'Arizona, but grew ttp
in Northem Virginia. He received a
Bachelor of Liberal ATtr in 2001 from
The Evergreen State Col/egi! ofOlympia,
Washing/oTl. IfSwanson were a momter,
he wo,,/d be the 1loodle-eating octopus.
Each piece is • me~sagc in a botrie, castaway from londy Olympia\
.
wlnrer In LlZY attempts for springtime seren ades. Each drawing i< a date I
wtsh I were on: a picnic benea rh California sunshine , a favorite lIleal cooked
in my kirche-n, or longing for constcllations revealed behind a clear night
sky. Drawing "monsters" gave me .m opportunity ro reveal the lo ve between
Mou<t' and Cheese or the sca ndalou s and rarher dangerou., pi cni c held by Mi"
Ant and the cake monster.
Each piece is a drawing in pen. pencil or chalk scanned inro a computer
and reworked , pulling samples from my daily experience. I meticulously
coll ecr burnt smears from the bottom of pans, stains on rortured o ld
envelopes and rhe greasy bits of paper that see m to trail behind me like a
cape. I pin each of these behind glass like prized insects. recording
specimen after specimen wirh an image scanner. I pull each from th e
coll ecror's case then apply and rewo rk the m inro my drawings. lending color
and texture. A rusted lin lOp beco mes a stuffed rabbit's coat and a kitchen
cuning board becomes the afternoo n sky.
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carob or chocolate chips
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4 ripe bananas or two large apples, peeled
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MEEROPOL from page 5
Game on at the Pavilion Twice a Week
li)LMaik Germano
"Eh ' No more a thar! Pick up rhe pace!"
These are sO llle of the sounds rhat can
he he.lrd in .I nd around rhe Pavilion on
c.llnpus on Sundays and Tuesdays. The
co.trse voices belong to a mi x of Greeners,
loc.tls .Ind exchange srudents rhar are part of
.1 1t ultknown group of cultural refugees rhar
J,,'nw .1 megaphone here .n Evergreen.
These misunderstood people make up
Evergreen's ro ller hockey club. They ger
rogeth er every Sunday at 2:3 0 p.m. and
Tuesday ar 8:00 p. m . They are hockey
culrure refugees w ho have come ro Olympia
from rh e Midw esr, rhe Easr Coasr and
Canada, Some of rhml have been playi ng
for years, some are coaches from the YMCA's
yo ut h k'ague , and or hers are just beginners
who like ro play. This is the refugee camp
where rhey culminale.
Club members drtve from as far away as Tacoma and Cent rali a on Su ndays and
Tuesdays to meet at the Pavilion.
" Most people rhink of hockey players as
bruti sh Norse men moving fast on ice with
rheir blades," says Harald Fuller-Bennett,
a regular participant in Evergreen's roller
hockey club for the pasr three years. This
is a co mm on mis understanding. There is
a strict eriqu ette rhar is respected among
players. Hardcore fans en joy rhe spo rt for
rhe dy namic skill thar is required to play
rhe game well.
'A rrue fan despises rhe per,on who
warches hockey for the tights . The sport is
roug h, wi rh o ut ;\ douht, hut rh i, makes a
good player's grace ,hll1e even more. One
ClnnO[ illsr he rough or iust be skillful to
p!J.y. "You've ga r [0 rake th e ro ugh with
rhe smooth," ,II Dc,mond Dekker once
s.lid.
F.verg re,'n is rhe on ly loca l pI-ICe for rhem
ro pia". rhe ncare,l ice hockey rink is in
T.ICOn1.1, ,wJ rhere arc no covered roller
hockey rinks ro be found e1me by. Some of
the cl uh Illelllher, drive from ;" fJr alVay
,I S TlCOnl.l ,Ind Cen[[,t/i.l ro pl.l)'. Recenriy,
they have ",ked missing rhe N I IL pb),ofE
wldy for the s,lke of scrimmagin g.
However, like many orher recreational
organil.<llions, the roller hockey club h".'> had
a lOugh time trying 10 secure faci lities for
their meet ings. A studenr 1.0. is required
[0 unlock th e rink [0 the public, and a
srudenr is not always among the players
presen t. Al rogether, th ere has not been a lor
of suppo rt for the club from the Evergreen
facility managers. This has nor sto pped
these ded ica ted individu als from playin g.
tho ugh.
T he club ha s been rrying [0 generare
,uppo n and inreresr among the Evergreen
co mmun iry. "I know there's mo re studen t,
interes red in hockey. We'd love ro ger a coed
team roge rher. We co uld rock! " said Ron
Prarr, a vete ran member of rhe c1l1b.
"There's eno ugh good plavers In rhe area
lor a ream to be pllr rogerher. If we cou ld do
that rhe n we could co mpe re agall1sl te;lIm
from o rh er areas. We wanr ro bring pride ro
Ihe cOlllmunilY, " "lid Dave Ol,on, ;!norher
longtime ll11'mber.
All Ihar is relillired is J pail of in -line
, kares,.1 hel mer ,lllti JIl inrere" in the g,lIne.
Sh inp,lds and cup' ,He recolllmended hut
nor required. Th~ ICJm is "I'en ro people
of all skill ieds.
for lIlore hzjom/il/iOI/ m////dl'Old FIIL/<'I'Bellllell {II
(360) 866-9356.
Jessie Smith, Evergreen Alum, Teaches Sexual Assualt Awareness
liv Ke0n Barrett
-Jessie Smir h came to O lympia nearly
five years ago t o a rrend The Everg ree n
Sta te College. Since then, s he h as
earned a #! ranking in the NW in both
the National Black Belt League (N BL)
and International Martial Arts Counc il
(IMAC), a top five finish at the N BL
World Championships 2000, and a
position as captain of the Women 's
National Bak Shaolin Eagle Claw
Kung Fu Team. She also graduated
from Evergreen in 2000 with a focus
in Psychology and Women's Studies.
Smith now teaches Shaolin Eagle
Aerobic Kickboxing in Olympia and
has recenrly formed a local Women's
Fighting Team and class.
In the past four years Smith h as
gd ined fame and notor iety as a fighter
a nd fema le m3[tial arrist. On rhe
co mpetition circuit, S m ith recently
sco red rhe ne a rly unheard of 'hat trick '
by winning rhree Grand C h a mpion s hip
tirles a t the Coca-Cola National s tournamenr in March.
Smith has also remained active in
the Evergreen community, In February,
Smith held a two-hour women's sel idefense seminar on campus sponsored
by the student group the Sexual Assault
Coalition (SAC). At the request of
the SAC, Smith presented a balance
of mental and physical skills . Smith's
main points were taking yourself seriously, not thinking of yourself as a
victim, and taking action when you
really mean ro .
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HARMONY ANTIQUES
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Downtown
Olympia
OPEN DAILY
(360) 956-7072
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Your friendly neighborhood antiques, collectibles, &
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) mi t h belie ves t h at self
defense i, nor abour b lam e,
bu t respo nsib ility. Women
need ro rake rhemselves
ser iou s ly
and
behave
re spo nsi bly. It is a perso nal
responsibility, because no
one else knows your life as
well as you and will protect
it as well as you can, Once
a woman starts to blame
outside influences for negative situations that arise,
she immediately becomes
a victim, A victim is someone who refuses or does
not understand her own
power.
A fte r th e in trod uctory
portion of the sem in ar, Whitney Bauer,
coordinator for the Sex ual Assault
Coa liti on, s tated , " I apprec iated the
d isc u ss ion on vicrimiz.ation ... that
women a re not victims. Other se lfdefense seminars th a t I attended did
not address thar. They wou ld say, ' If
yo u get attacked, it's n ot you r faulr. '"
Brynn Warriner, a sru de nt at The
Everg reen S t ate Col lege, sa id that
Sm ith's words were "st rong a nd e ncouragi ng. I t was an empowering experie nce
for me. "
Smirh 's new ly formed fighting class
elaborates on the topics a n d tec hniq ues
addressed in her se min a r w hil e inrroducing new o nes as we ll.
For Jnore information conttlcl Jessie at
(360) 352-5173 or see her ill actioll at
www.bakshaolille{/glec!{/w.com .
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A sunny 4-20 iri · Seattle, there was a "Wake up
Washingto n" rally at Wesrlake, and you know it was the haps.
People were representing for the Israel/Palestine co nflict and
addressing rhe ourrageous U.S. aid ro Israel. After that the
In fernal Noise Brigad e (lNB), a radica l marching band, got
people rockin' under the H ammering Man . We marched on rh"
sidewalk while police violen rly arrested anyo ne who step ped off
the sidewalk, then the cops beat up and ar re red a man who
was crossin g t he street in a cross walk with the march when
the " Don'r Walk" sign glowed still. The m arc h continued on
th e sidewalks up ro Ca pirol H ill. As usual I was climbing and
dancing on streer pole" newspaper boxes and such, rhe spirits
were hig h. O nce th e march reac hed SCCC on Cap ital Hill ,
there was an 1M F/Worid Bank alld G8 Teach -in.
Clowns ran around and food not bombs se r up a
ni c.e buffet , yer not hin g like t he vega n ca teri ng we
experienced during th e WfO demo nstrations. After
the reach-in a band pl ayed, then some MCs rocked rhe
mic. The INB returned and we took to the streets for a
"parry." The RTS (Reclaim The Sn eers) "parry" occupied
an inrersecrion and my friend Emily got up in a Tall -Ir ipod.
We drummed , d anced, and sidewalk chalked while a
crew climbed o nto the roof of the adjacent Bank of
America and dropped a ban ner over the Ba nk's sign.
The bann er read , "Cap irali sm is Killin g Us," and
had a white skull on it. At rhis poinr there were
no poli ce in sighr, Afrer arou nd 45 minures of
festive resistance, Emi ly came down from the tr ipod.
is was where the poli ce used terrorist tacti cs. Wirh
no warning to the crowd the police ambushed th e
"parry" on foot , bike and ho rse. The cops bea t their
way rhrough the crowd and tackled Emily - who rh e
ctowd left to the wo lves like she had rhe plague.
The re were many orher actions around the globe
o n 4-20. Th ere was a solid ariry action in Zag reb,
Croatia. Zagreb had rwo days of lect ures leading up to
4-20 demonsrrar ion, [hen rwo days of lec[u res after. At
the protest, "one Egyptian an d Croatian tried to
burn rhe American flag and have bee n arres red.
On the! m ai n sq uare t here were inform ation
sta nds, food nor bombs and free food , take ir
or leave ir .... " a qu o te from an e-mail I rece ived
from my friend Irena "bori ,c," who li ves in Zagreb,
Croati a.
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attempting ro keep irs options open. The long as we are a relatively few voices c rying
bigg er rhe domesti c and internati o nal in the wilderness th ey can let us say whar
ou rcry against rhe government' s actions, we will.
MR: Will th ey usc the new laws to
the more likely it is that they will abicle by
squash us if we s tarr to ga t her a m ~"
intern atio nal law.
MR: The d ea th pen alty has become co nst itucncy?
RM: This one could go either way - ir
an em barra ssmenr for th e United States
over the years. The USA's use of thc dearh is roo soon ro tell.
MR: On Mumia Abu-Jamal' s reco rdin g
pena lty has raised critic ism even from its
European allies . How have Europe's views "All Things Censored," you made a stateon rh e death penalry changed, if at all, sin ce ment aho ur rh e need of rh e Unired Sra[es
government to "flex it s muscle" every
Seprember 11 )
RM: As far as I can tcll, 9111 has not generation and show thar it will no r be
changed Euro pe's a[[itude roward the death p<:r,u.ld ed by politica l dissidents. What rype
pe nalry. To th e m it remain s a ba rbaro us of "flex" do you rhink rh e nexr generarion
uf dctivisr can expect?
pract ice.
RM: Righr now the new fl x will be a
MR: Th e Bush admin isrratio n has made
sO lll e minor changes in how the tribuna ls wav<: of "ca piral conspi racy" C'bCS . T hat is,
will be co nduced. One c ha nge was that the government aski ng for rhe dearh pena lry
rhe d ear h pe nalry co uld on ly be used if lor people charged with cons piracy as they
rhe decision ro use ir is unanimou Iy va red did in my parents' case. Another flex will
upon. Do yo u think rh ar rhis change will be to rry ro eq uare those who di ssenr with
have a n y significant effect o n how t he terrorists. This has already begun,
MR: Do yo u think it will be mo re difmilirary tri bunals will be run>
RM: No (but J must. add that it is far f1c ulr ro spea k out againsr rhe government
from ce rtain thar there w ill be any milir" ry than it has been in the pasr?
RM: Yes, bur ir d epen d s upon whar
rribu nal s) .
rime
in rhe past. Disse nt has usually been
MR: Should anr i-dearh penalry act iviri es
sramped our during wars. What Bush is
co nsid er this a win?
RM: No. The biggest currenr'chall enge of . trying to do is g<: t us in a state of neveren ding low-level war (il la "1984 ") and use
r h ~ U.S. ant i-cap ital punishment mo vc menr
is Zacharjas Moussadi' s case. Th e gove rn - rhat as an excuse to stamp out all opposition
menr has un ril 3/29 ro d ecide whether to
Robert Meeropol will be speaking on
ask fonhe death penalty. I predict they will
Sunday, April 28 at 11:45 a,m. in Lib
a nd rhen the batrie will be jo ined .
2000.
MR: Do you think rhat the new
For more information. COTltact the
PATRIOT ACT has the potential to totally
Olympia Movemtmt for Justice at,d
change lega l an d c ivil in sritution s in rhe
Peace at www.omjp.org, or the Prison
United States?
Action Committee at 867-6724.
RM: Yes, it se rious ly und e rmin es all
o ur rights.
MR: To whar ex renr do you see righrs
such as free speec h, peaceful asse mbl y, and
privacy bei Ilg res rricted?
RM: The po rential is c llunn uu,. The
resr will come whcn opposition grows. As
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12 noo n -I p.m ., Library 1507.
Total Liberation Project Events:
Mic"ael Albut C reating effec tive, intercon nected , holistic socia l change and the
theory of Co mplimentary Holism. 7 p .m .-9 p.m. , Library Lobby.
ATUlrcbism & People Of Colo r Sp ea ker: Lo renzo Kom'boa Ervin, auth o r of
A ,wrchism and the Block Revolurio n. 12 noon - I :30 p.m . in the Library Lobby.
Hardcore and Hip -Hop Sbow Vitamin X, Higher Gro und of Struggle, To See Yo u
Broken, D econditioned and Merciful Allah. 9 p.m. - 12 a.m. , Longhouse.
Mi,,,iscrull Fru Movies witb Popcom: Buffalo 66 1998 , C hristina Ri cci. 6
p.m.- IO p.m. Lecture Hall 1. Brought to you by Mindscreen.
LieJ, Sissies and FiaJcoes: An Evening with Ira G~s The Washington C enter
for the Perfo rming Arts, Olympia. $21 to $25. Buy tickets at WCPA Box Office by
calling (360) 753-8586. Ira Glass is host/producer of ThiJ American Lift. Glass delivers
an intriguing discussion of rhe art of radio and the nature of narrative epics, while
projecting a "child-at-a-windowpane" sensibility. This American Lifo can be heard on
! KPLU 88 .5 FM Sundays I p.m. and on KUOW 94.9 FM Fridays 7 p.m. & Saturdays
I 11- a.m.
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Liberation Project Events:
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Aragorn!: The Rel4tion Between InJigenous Worldviews And AfUlrI:hist Strategy
;Aragorn! is author of Oppmsion Song, Community and Aftn the Rtvolution and is
Icurrently active in the Bay Area anarchist group Revolutionary Anti-Authoritarians of
I Color (RACE). Noon-l :30 p.m ., Library 1000.
The Anarchist Smackdown: Anarchism cfr the 21st Century Paradigm
; Conversation & debate on commonality and difference within the anarchist milieu.
, Featuring the Number 3 Collective, Killing King Abacus, John Zenan, Arrhur Miller
I and Aragorn! 7- 11 p.m ., Longhouse 1007.
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Attend A Thesis Presentation: Permanently Protected Parks for a Dynamic
Society By Master of Environmental Studies student and National Park Service
professional Megan Bro kaw. Examines how the NPS and its related non-governmental
organizations are defining the issue of racial and ethnic diversity in national p ark
visitation. 12- 1 p.m , (Bring your lunch') , Library 2126.
Pl4nting Partnerships: COllnecting Northwest Colleges with Local Food Th e
co nference will highlight how farm-to-college programs can in crease farm er incom e,
en hance local eco no mies, improve student nutrition , and respond to increas ing pressure
for sustainable food and business practices on college ca mpuses. Spo nso red by TESC
and the Co mmuni ry Food Securi ty Coaliti on (C FSC). W ill be held at TESC. Cos t:
$30, $ 10 studems, Inc lu des three meals. Also on th c 27th. For more info or to reg ister,
visit www.eve rgree n. e du / eve nrs / fa rm roco ll ege4 0 2 / or co ntac t Pi pe r Kdp in :
867-6501 or b pinp@evc rg rccn ,edu .
The \Ylrellchers' Ball: RegiJler j or the l 5'" A llf/llal Birycle COllin/lifer COlltest 6-
Kef your bike til II ed-up jar flu. Regis tcr h"re. Experienced mcchanio ,He ready to get
rour bike in good working co nd it ion in tim e lo r May. Also ava il able: pain t, flowers
Jnd ot her fun th,ng' to nuke ~'llllr bikl' in to an art-b ike ma\ tcrpieu,. Free priLes from
Illc.tI busines"" I(H all conte.l t p,lrticif'Jms, ,I" w.:ll .tS co n testc pri7es fo r those w ho
rid" the moq mil ...s, or the mo't eonsi,tenrlv, during the month of MJY. Deadline:
:-- 1.1)' .~ Regi,ta Iw li liti ng \Vww.clirn.lIntll tl tjoll~.org, c.dling 3~2-1 '763, I'i,iting
.1 sponsor, or ,\ltcllding one of Ihe , ' 1','1)[1 (l ikc ,hi, one ). ,\r Ihe Oll'lnpi,l Tr,ln , it
( ·cllt.:r, ~ a.l1\, - 6 p.m.
saturday april 2 7
Of Co urse: Th e To tll / Libl'l"fltioll l'mjl'r{ \'V'orbh0l" C.dofl'. Fro m 10
7 p.m. \\:' ill he held ill Lihr.IrY 1000. 16(J(), 150"'. 1')08, & 1')0') .llld
I.ecrure I-b lls 1 & '). C heck o llr rhe ,ched li le online .11 1V1V1V,OIYIlt: lwork.o rgl
rm.ll libe ral ion. Con racr 867-6144 o r SG7-60')8. Emad .lsaya52@) h o rm a il.co lTI
I) r ring fin ge rs@yah oo.co lTI.
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sunday april2B
Prison Awareness Week Events:
Speaker: Robert Meeropol Oil Military Tribunals & the Death Penliity The
youngest son of E[ hel and Juliu s Rose nbe'g. In 1953 the U.S, government execured .
hil parents f;>r "co nspiring to stea l the secret of the aro m ic bom h." Th e Rosenberg
L'I'" has si nce been pru ve n to he a shame and scanda l for the U.S. gove rnm en t.
In 1990 Robert fou nd ed rh e Rose nberg Fund for C hil d ren an d 1l0W serves as its
Exec ut ive D irecto r. The fun d IUf' po rrs ho rh r"geted Kr ivis[ yo u th and c hild re n
In the U.S. whose paren ts have 5uffered because of their politica l activ ism. 11:45
a.m ., Library Lobby,
M idnigl, t Sp ecial Lllw Collective I\n independent non-prollt o rg.l nizatioll
dedicated to proviJing leg.,1 tr ainings ,Ind .lcces5iblc, rclev.l nt, de m ocr.lti c and
~ccnu n table leg.ll support [() a wide range of .Iccivists. Cove" basic legal info fur
ITHel~lC t ions with police. Top iCS include: qllc~tioning, \c.nches, s<tfery. Inrer.lcr ive
fo rmar allow, puct ice in re.tii"ic ,elf in[;.\, CAB 108. 2:.10 p,m, H osteJ by the
Pr i... oll Action C0J1111,itret:.
CO llfuence : O' gu nizing for jlls t ice UllrI Pt'(IC<' Prese n ted b~' the O lympi.l
,\ I<I\" lllellt for J"'licl' .lnJ I'e"ee (0i\1]1' ). I h i, i, ,I !',Ieif,c Nurthwest regio na l
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' If illl migrann. , h.·.lrllrL' ~ one-hour wor k .. h ops . COSts: Don~ri() n c;; appreci:ued .
I," .1 $ 'i - I () dnnarion , l1uke Ollt check Iv : OMJP. No one will be turned ,\\Va)'.
t hd dure: hel' - pk.lSe let u, know by cont .lcting eMiie at ca rr icj l@attbi.com
Dr 0\1J1' at R~~-881-1560. Parking: Free. ReglSr ratio n: In advance hy ph o ne (360)
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Workshop. It's never too late or early to do this . 12- 1 p.m., Libra ry 1509.
Prison Awareness Week Events:
Lormzo Kom'boa Ervi,.: The Prison-Industrial Complex Beginning his politica l'
activity with the I 960s protest of Jim Crow laws, Ervin joined the NAACP Youth
Group, the Student Nonviolem Coordinating Committee and later the Black Panther
Party and became a traveling organizer. In 1968, a so-called " Black Power" grand
jury convened to investigate activities of the Black civil rights organizations, Framed
up on charges of "gun-running" and facing "shoot to kill" orders by police and FBI,
Ervin was forced to flee the country. Captured and beaten by U,S . agents, Ervin was
I returned to the U.S . to face more charges. He served almost 15 years of a two-life
sentence in federal prisons until an international defense campaign won his release
in 1983.11:30 p ,m " Library Lobby.
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A member of the Everywoman's Delegation talks on Political Prisoners The
I delegation is a coalition of grassroots women sponsored by the Institute for Global
I Security Studies, an official NGO. "We are uncompromisingly committed to a vision
of universal peace, justice and human 'rights for all people. We recognize tnat
I the realization of this vision is inexorably and intimately linked to the full social,
Ieconomic and political participation of Everywoman in every family, in every
community, and in every nation ." This working delegation includes women of
diverse economic means as well as cultural and ethnic heritage. Members are active
I in numerous grassroots organizations and campaigns in rne Pacific Northwest.
' 3 :30 p.m" CAB 110.
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Forum 071 the 1ft Amendment. Keynote Speaker: Aaron McGruder, crea tor
of " Boondocks" cartoon. 7p.m. Lecture Hall 1. Also, a discussion on free sp eech
and individual rights: A Day of Dialogue. 1-5 p.m . Library 4300. Admi ss io n:
, Free, For more information, call Stanley Bernstein at 360/867-604 2. Sponsored
by The Olympian and TESC.
-for 0. we.ek.
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Prison Awareness Week Events:
P"isoll activist 0- i"dig~no,.s poet: Chrystos Her wo rk a.' a Nat ive land .lIld trea ty
rights activisr has been widely recognized and is an esse ntial part of her writing, She i<
wo rking toward freedo m for impriso ned Indi an acrivists Leo nard Peltier .tn d Nu rm a
Jea n Croy. T he ot her majo r aspect of her work is les bi anism . whic h is outspoken
and persona li zed in her ulove-and-Iusr" poe ms. H e r works have appeared ill Ilu ny
anr hologie<. including This Brid..~' Call,d My Btlck: Writillgs by Rddiat/ U';'mrll o/e%r
(I 'JS I ). She is the w inner of the Audro Lorde IlItcrnario n.11 Poe try COJ11~,,,titiDn in
I 994 and of the Sapp ho Award of Dist inct io n from the Ast raea Nation .11 I I',hi'ln
Actio n Founda lion in 1995. 12-1 :30 p.m., Library Lobby.
Pat Tassoll i 0 11 O~ympia Cop Watch WOI'ksbop Par Tassoni i, .1 I'c'eran ,I( tivi"
in the Olympia He.1. He is involved in several projects , including thi, 11I011,hl)
paper Wurks In Progress and the Thurston County Te n.tnrs Union . I Ie h." r~lI l .li"ed
con,randy a~ t ive .lnd dedica red ro Thurston Counry for '01 eral y,'af\, .Ind \Vork,
endlessly tow.ted rad ical social change in th," ,1ft'.1. 4 1'.111 .. Longhouse Roul1I 11)0 7.
r.lrr uf Pri,on Awarene" Week .
7111's Is My Body \'V'o rk" hop .tn d closed disc lI " ion gru u p for ,,,n,,'ur'
,\ssa u lt. Call ext. 5221 to preregister and get locat ion.
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job Searc" : job HWlfillg Orientatioll Ca reer Devdopment \X'orksh,,!,. \'\'e ,dl
need to fi nd a job sometime, 12 p,m,-I p.l1I .. LibrHY 1505,
wednesday may 1
Mayd"y Cekbrtztion 6- Reclmm tlJe Streets Action ill O~Yn/p i{/ Wid, tile 11I{el'llal
No ise Brigade lind Other Festivities:
2:22 p.m.: Reclaim th e Streets conve rgence at Sylves ter Pa rk, Bigelow Park, and
ol d Val ue Vill age , C riti ca l Mass rides fro m Oly T ra nsit Cen te r. Do It You rse lf
a nd ma ke yo ur day what you wa ll t it to be; br ing yo ur creative bri lliance a ll d
stu ff to barter.
5:30/6 ish : Vigi l a t Percival La nd ing fo r wo rkers intern.l ri o n all y, ~po"'"rd
by [he SSCCc.
6:3 0p,m .: Co mmuniry St reet Fair on Beth el between 4th and Srate (in front of the
O lym pian). M tlsic, food and fun for all ages. A ten t city will be erected in Ih" "wn lllg
in suppo rt of Olym p ia's ho meless commun ity
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mea ls to bene fi t MamaZine, the local radical pa renting 'zine. Kids eat free , 6:.10-8
p.m, QlI<"rion,' Ca ll 866-1597,
/11ay D ay Ra lly 6- lVlarch for lmmigl'tlltt & Lflbor Rights Seartle C:~ l1 t r .d
Co m mun iry Co ll ege march towards Victor Steinbrlleck Pa rk. Join LIS in ,I nat ioll al
d,\)' of prute,t to demand a gen.:r.1 amnes ty for all immigrant' in defe",e of Oll r I.,bur
Jnd hll m.1I1 ri ghts, (\11 over rhe U.S, th ere'll be demo nsrrat io ns heing held with ;1
lIar iona lly coordillated lobbying effort occu rr illg at the same time in Washlllgtvn
D.C. to demand protection for all imm igrant workers who remain UlldUl"IInll'nred
yet con tribute ro our Sfatc system w ith the ir hard labor. I p,m, ror n",," inf" coil
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