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Get into a conversation with someone at Evergreen about our campus forests and you're bound
to hear something like, "So, I heard there's going to be a forest canopy walkway here on campus.
Is that true?" Rumors of the walkway have been circulating around Evergreen for years, along with
other campus lore such as the existence of Happy Land, the underground amusement park in one of
the abandoned steam tunnels. Is there really going to be a walkway?
Yes, there is.
The project has been a reality since the arrival of Dr. Nalini Nadkarni, a faculty member in
Environmental Studies, who has been teaching and doing research at Evergreen for nine years.
Dr. Nadkarni, a pioneer in canopy studies research, has been exploring forest canopies for over 20
years, and wants to make the canopy more accessible to a wide range of people. A walkway would
. . accomplish that in a way that is safe for treetop visitors and non-destructive to the forest.
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Until relatively recently, access to the canopy was limited. The primary method of getting
up in the treetops was to climb with modified mountain-climbing gear-ropes, harnesses, and
carabiners. Over time, as scientific interest in learning more about canopy organisms grew,
researchers sought new tools for access th at would minimize damage, take less time, and allow for
extended stays in the treetops. These tools have incl uded construction cranes, hot·air balloons,
towers, and walkways .
Canopy walkways have been used most commonly for either research projects or for EcoTourism. Currently, there are over 100 walkways in the world, including Indonesia, Peru , Belize, and
the US : They provide access fo r scientists, to urists, children , the differently-abled, and the elderly.
Unlike other methods, they require no special skill or knowledge to use .
As a self-proclaimed "tree ambassador", Dr. Nadkarni realizes the importance of people valuing
trees and forests for their own reaso ns, and that having a personal investment in fore sts will lead
to better use and conse rvation of forests. Access to the canopy will provide inspiration to artists
and scientists alike. Congruent with Evergreen's ideals of interdisciplinary st udy and experiential
approaches, the walkway will serve many different audiences and fuq ctions. Beyond research , a
walkway on our ca mpus can also provide opportunities for education, conservation , recrearion,
relaxation, and aesthetic enjoyment.
Over th e past four years, design s and plans for walkway have been developed with the
support of the Evergreen administration with th e h elp of architects, structural engineers,
arborists, and visitors from th e outside com muni ty. T he latter ranged from foresr compani es {O
represenratives of environmenta l gro ups to two eighth-graders. They all voiced srrong interes t
in us~g th e walkway.

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Kink Night at the Mods
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"Moose intercourse takes 5 seconds!," shouted a girl from the left side
of the room.
The man at the front nodded
a nd tossed a condom at her, raising team
'Fis(' into a quick, hand-slapping cheer.
The faces in the other corner, where
team 'Creamed' huddled, formed into
a sort of group snarl. For an extra
400 points, Miles Glew, the games host,
dared the girl to perform a rendition of
the fake orgasm scene from When Harry
Met Sally. She writhed in her seat a little
bit, and yelped out a couple of a -yeah '5,
ooohs. and ahhhs, but it was hardly co nvincing; She didn't hold a rubber dick up
to Meg Ryan's act.
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whether anybody was really counting
points anyway. Last Tuesday's KinkNight at the Mods wasn't about win. ning, it was about breaking ice. The evening marked this years'first meeting of
Evergreens faction of VOX, a nation·
wide college based affiliate to Planned
Parenthood. Fifteen students attended
the affair, which began with a close game

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of Sex Jeopardy, included a condom relay
(a high-paced game of putting condoms
on), and ended in 'The Jackson's,' a duo
of rubber genitals- complete with sewn
in mats of fake pubes. In the meantime
there was a bit of discussion. VOX, in
its second year at Evergreen, has an apparent, but easy-going approach to promoting safe! fun sex.
A lot of sex education programs
adopt DARE's message of 'just say lio'
and apply it to sex, said Glew. Not VOX.
By no means is abstinence a part of their
age nd a. They give out condoms like
candy, with a wink and a nod, and really
seem to want youto get off. One devout
attendee belted out into song that nigh t,
a kind of Sesa me Street styled how-to jig
on proper condom use (grab the tip, roll ir
down, roowwlll it dowwwnn!).
''They have a message that you
can have sex, and you can be responsible
about it, and you can be safe about it,
and you can enjoy it all at the same time,"
Glew said.
A lot of times what goes along
with sex is confusion, said David Sosnow,
who was at the meeting. "When you go

off to college everything changes. Parents
and teachers aren't continually looking
over your shoulder. You don't have those
same systems of accountability. In terms
of sex and sexuality, college becomes a
place where you want {O reach out and try
those things. With VOX it becomes that
agent for helping a crowd that is out there,
alone, and nor really all that informed."
Regarding sex and the college
life ; besides providing a comfortable place
to talk and le:.rn , VOX brings in speakers.
Last year they hosted a clinician from
Planned Parenthood. Later this month a
woman will come to talk about holistic
sexuality.
"She'll look at sexua lity and all
its parts. We are sex ual beings and sex
isn't just the act, it's the way we interact
with people," sa id Emily Calhoun, who
helped {O initiate voX at Evergreen.
But smut games and sex talk can
only go so far. The group is also bent
around increasi ng suppor( and act ivism
for pro-choice issues.
"It's definitely [Q have a prochoice voice for college age students in the
state of Washington," said Moon Currey,
who attended the first meeting and plans
to continue on as a group member.
This year the organization will
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cause. Of those planned so far, there is
a phone bank targeted at getting local
pro-choice citizens to vote, a lobbying
day, and an invitation for federal representative Brian Baird to speak on reproductive rights.
"I've always grown up in a prochoice household, and that was important," said Sarah Fingers, who was also
at the meeting. "But I've never done anything about it. This is an opportunity."

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Corrections

In the front page Nader Quotes from
the previous week, there was a gross
misquoteunder Nader On SociaUnequities.
The quote should have read, " Before we
feel too sorry for ourselves, or give up on
ourselves, or get too cynical or skeptical,
how would you like to be someone who
was advocating abolition of slavery in 1830
Mississippi, or 1850 Virginia, up against
the most powerful economic interests,
the corporations of those days: the cotton
plantations, and other plantations who
broke up families they took on as slaves."
Nader on the economy should have
read, 'Whoever controls the yardstick by
which conditions are measured, controls
the agenda, controls what's going to be
done with it."
. Nader on politics was to read, ~If you
don't turn on politics, politics will turn on
you." The word "don't"was ommitted.

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WashPIRG and Students Against Hunger and H omeless ness (SAH H ) are
havi ng their big Ge neral Interest Meeting tonight in the Longhouse! Both groups
offer all you do-gooders and big-dreamers out there a chance to actually DO
SOMETHING about our world's problems instead of the usual Evergreen "Four
Year Bitch". SAHH is a stdent group with a mission and WashPIRG offers the
support of a staff of organizers, scientists, and researchers to work with you on just
about whatever campaign you can dream up.
SAHH is gearing up for a big year of activism and service to fight hunger
and homelessness with food and clothing drives, fighting the "solve homelessness .
in Olympia by outlawing it" crowd, and participating in a nation-wide st udent
campaign. WashPIRG is in high gear this fall with several campaigns: Youth Vore
2002 (educating an d turning out voters for the November election) . Ecopledge
(making coorporations accountable for the ir environmental policies), America's
Environment at Risk (a nation-wide campaign to stop Bush's rollback of our
environmental laws), and Clean Water Now! (you can figure th at ne o ut).
WashPIRG is also, currently accep ting proposals for winter and spring quarter
capaigns from students·what do you want to work on?
Students Against Hunger and Homelessness meets tonight in the Longhouse
at 6:30, WahPIRG 's General Interest Meeting is at 7:30.

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with not juSt your ordinary fanny pack . .. but a blue an~ black briefcase/fanny pack combo: No; I doh't know what the hell that means either. The illegality turns downright
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blow, blow hard for Christ's sake. A vehicle is pulled over on northbou nd
Evergreen Parkway NW when the driver displays " ... human behavior that is often associated with impairment," in this case, an amp le amo unt of weaving. The
astute cop notices thar the female driver's face is "reddish and flushed" and her eyes are" . . . very ,bloodshot and watery." While in the process of Field Sobriety
testing, the woman is subjected to a PBT. Perhaps the officer's repon will explain the mystery of this acronym: "She volunteered to take a PBT. I escorted (subject)
outside to a safe area away from distractions. I prepared the PBT for use and gave her instructions. She pretended to blow. I explained that she was not blowing
properly ... and reiterated the instructions. She did not blow properly the second time as well. " This ' wo~an's refusal to correctly utili ze the oblong, plastic, oral
device known as the Breathalyzer resulted in a verbal warning.
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8:30 a.m. Please don't steal music. It's wrong. An aud iophile gets his backpack full of tapes stolen while ~ n route toRed Square.. To console the victim, the officer on
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6:27 p.m. A car was stolen from F-Lot, but it was recovered, so if you promise not to care, I won't either.
7:20 p.m. Thievery continues to disrupt the serenity of campus when a Canon Ultrasonic is lifted from a dorm room . .It's up to the police

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$675 camera takes precedence over the fanriy pack incident.

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9:48 p.m. Some poor underage sap gets nabbed with an 18-pack of the Silver Bullet (Coors for the uniriitiated) in between F~Lot and V-Dorm. Instead of tappin g
the Rockies, the cop opted to photograph this connoisseur's brew for evidence and he then proceeded to destroy it. In related news, avalanches bearing bikini-clad
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On September 19 a waterfall appeared on campus.
A pipe that feeds into the CAB building broke and shot water up nearl y eight feet. The 4-inch water main spilled
500 gallons per minute for about an hour. That's enough to fill three small swimming pools. The Facilities Department
shut off water to the CAB for 24 hours while workers tried to fix the problem . The college lost approximately
$200, and gained a broken pump.
The college has five water pumps that feed the campus. A part that regul ates the speed of the motor broke on
one of them causing the pump to run too fast and create too much press ure. One worker was injured by hot water
while attempting to fi x the problem.
The normal rate at which water is pumped through the pipes creates 100 pounds of pressure per square inch (PSI) .
When the CAB pipe broke. the pressure was at 160 PSI. The pipes are designed to handle that much pressure, but the one
by the CAB was weak. Now that facilities has exami ned the area aro und the break, they believe it was leaking for awhile
due to the inc reased vegeration there.
Last fis<;:al year, Evergreen spent about $73,242 on
water. Blit everyd ay things like showers, toilets and
faucets don't make up the bulk of water use. So if yo ur
roommate keeps the water running for two hours in
the ba throom, the co llege isn't go ing to suffer much,
but yo ur deposit mi ght.
Rich Davis is the Faciliry Engineer for the college .
H e handles things like spec ial projects that the
college facilities department takes on and day-to-day
o perations.
"We probab ly use the most water when so mething
goes wrong," he joked. A huge amount of water use
also comes from flushing the pool and irrigating
fields.
The college gets all of its water from the City of
Olympia, which is then collected into two tanks that
can hold 1.6 million gallons each, but are kept at about
L million gallons at any given time. That's enough to
make 21 .3 million 120z. lanes. Or, if you go for drip, it
will take 42.6 million tablespoons of grounds to brew
the water, requiring 443,750 tins of Folgers. However
it gets divided, that's a lot of coffee.
So although the college lost about 30,000 gallons
of waters when the pipe broke, that's really just (excuse
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the pun) a drop in the bucket.
But Evergreen doesn't actually need all of that water
for day-to-day use. Most of the tank's supply is stored
to fulfill the requirements for fire codes.
Wattr wattr' everywhn'e on a hil' outsitk the CAB,
"If a firefight requires a certain amount of water
But not a drop to drink inside the CAB.
flow, it needs to support it," Davis said .
There wasn't much development in these woods
when Evergreen was built in 1971. The planners
of the college also thought that Evergreen's student
population would increase quite a bit more than it
actually did. So, they built an independent water structure for the college.
Most of the water that Evergreen drinks comes from McCallister Springs, the primary source of water for the Olympia
area. It is chlorinated, but contains no fluoride .

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to choose from with more variety and
diversity. We _want to have a really wellbalanced student body. .
Q. Evergreen is sometimes seen in
the Olympia community with certain
stereotypes. The "hippie pot-smoking
stereotype" .. . some of the students were
curious .how you, personally, go about
combating that stereotype, or if you
address it at aU. (Hal Steinberg)
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people about the truth. Our population
of students is no different than at any
other institution, There are stereotypes,
We have diverse students that have diverse
interests. The reality is that the average
student is 26 years old. The majority of
them are married and have families. The
quality of. our students, academical~y,
spea ks for itself. The data is all there
. th at suppo rts th e reality o f who we are
and what our students do. We contribute
millions of dollars [0 this community in
housing and food and services, as does
o ur staff and it's a huge benefit to the
com muni ty to have an institution of the
caliber of Evergree n in the com muni ty;
n ot o nly for economic reaso ns, but
for cultural reasons ... and the kind of
enrichment you get from talented young
people and talented faculty. And that's
always the message I give to Rotary, to
Kiwanis, to the business organizations
that I participate with . .. and I think the
majority of people know that.
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'Faculty had in mind for the school? How
long will the damn rain last this year?
Okay-he may not know that last one.
But Les is the person who bears the
ultimate accountability for Evergreen.
(He does answer to the Board ofTrustees,
but they have empowered him to make
the day-to-day decisions regarding the
administration orthe schooL)

Please don't be afraid fa ask cluLllenging questiolls about issues that are
bothering you.
If you're interested in submitting a
question to "Ask Les" th ere are several
ways you can do it. You can e-mail the
questi or. to us at cp j@evergreen,edu,
you can call us at 867 -6213 (x62 13),
or you ca n drop it off at ou r office at
CAB 31G-give it to an editor or drop
it in the mail slot. Pl ease include your
name and phone number or e-mail so
we can get in touc h with you if we have
any question s.
Here are the qu estions and an swers
ftom the first sessio n of "Ask Les:"

Q. What three pieces of art, film,
music, etc. really moved you? (Kyle
Smith)
A. "The Color Purple," left me in
tears. The "Elvis Presley Blues" by Gillian
Welsh, and "The Creation" by James
Weldon Johnson .
Q. With Seminar II going up, we're
trying to increase enrollmenr by 1000
pet;>ple, right? (Kyle Smith)
A. By 2010, and of course tho se

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In 1971 student housing was put up
for the new student population . It began
with the Buildings A, B, C and 0 and the
modular housing, known as the Mods.
The Mods were built for the construction
workers with the intention of tearing them
down in a few years. After many upgrades
they still stand, comfortably housing their
residents. Since then, the more refined
living quarters known as Alphabet Soup
were built to add additional capacity to
student housing. E-K went up in 1987 and
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the most part students, particularly those
on campus, avoid the distractions of the
outside world that tend to divert people
from life's true experiences and actual
human interactions. Television, professional
sports and such don't seem to playa major
role in most students' lives.
"Living on campus is cool. It puts me
close to resources it has to offer," says Mod
resident Dale Herrin. "[ don't need a car.
I don't have to go off campus for a nything
but beer."

There are three types of housing on
Though the campus has nearly all the
campus. Buildings A-D provide the typical
essentials for daily living including so me
college dorm experience. The buildings
ex tra s like recycling and com posting, a
consist of five or te n floors of concrete
commo n gripe of students are the limited
rooms similar to th ose at the U. of W.
ho urs at the D eli and th e G ree nery. For
Alphabe t Soup was built more like an those with meal cards, options an: limited
apartment comp lex with thre e stories to . after the G reene ry closes , th e only choice
each building. The Mods lay at th e end being th e Su bterra nian . The sa ndwi ches ,
of the ho using co mpl ex on th e east side salads a nd baked potatoes offered at rhe
of campus.
studenr-run Subte rranian are wd l pre pa red
but during pea k h ours th e wa it ca n bt'
The Mods are a co mmunity unto th elll - upwJfds of thirry minu tes, thou gh worth
selves, populated w ith all man ner of th e wair. The Co rner store is a good place
G ree ners, fami lies with ch ildren a nd E.F. to pick up essentials, food and _dri nks hu r
stud ents (foreign exc hange stud ents who is lacking in fres h produce. O l1 e stud ell!
use Evergreen faci li ties , but don't actu all y suggested the Co rn er buy fruit frum th,,'
atte nd the co llege), Though the ce ilings O rga ni c Farm fo r those r], at (;lI;'t nr dnn't
ha ve asbestos in th em and they are sa id to be rhink to pi ck 50 111 (' li p in fro nt of th e
a li ttl e moldy, the Mods are still a grea t place Library.
to li ve. One grad uated st udent d esc ribed
the Mods as a sli ghtl y more mell ow area o f
No mane r where o l1 e lives, no ise CH I
campus_The sepa rated duplex-style housing be;t parential uowm ide to ca ll1pu s living.
lends itself to co ngregations that d o n't tend Whe n it's time to study and yo ur neighbors
to bothe r othe rs li vi ng nea rby. La te ni ght
:Ire JUSt gett ing started with their :III ni gh r
cc;'n vc rsarions a nd craziness Hotirish. W hen fes ti vit ies, it may be a bi t di ,rracring_ If lk.,one wand ering sp irit, Rya n Span gle r, \Va.> pe rate fo r refuge, a trip to th e Li bLtr y, CAH,
as ked w hy he spent time in th e mods he H CC or Co mputer Ce nter will suffice. Just
replied, "[ like all the monkeys."
a pair of earplugs a re a simple re med y if
The Mods make for a diverse community
that has ye t to see its soc ial pote ntial.
Though there h ave been a po tlu ck a nd
regular Wine and Cheese parties, for the
mos t part peopl e assoc iate and mingle
in groups based on their location. Being
separated from the rest of the So u p and the
big dorms, some feel a bit disconnected.
T he H CC, however serves as the . co mmon
Mic on Tuesdays, to pick up a sa ndwi ch
from th e Su bter rani an or some groceries
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from th e Corner.
Ca mpus li fe has its ups and downs, O n
th e plus side, th e bills are payed and it's close
to classes and ot hers doing similar work,
which can be potentiall y very help fu l and
enli ghten in g, No matter th e class so meo ne is
tak ing, it seems there's a good co nversat ion
to be 'had that c rosses cu rri cululll lines. For

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It is th at time of year, yes indeed-- Autumn is iri the air. Summer has draw,\ to an end
and the crops have been brought in. Well most of them, except for over-wintering le!tuce
and broccoli, and of course garlic is-just going into the ground. But th e growing seaso n is
coming to a close and it's high time to celebrate the abundant harvest! What better place
to do it tha n Evergreen's own Organjc Farm Harvest Festival?
Our-community needs a place to gather outside and give thanks. Our connection
to local agriculture is something-that runs very deep. It is our roots and is an impQrtant
piece of our collective future. The harvest festival has become a tradition at Evergreen,
and the 22nd annual is going to be a mighty special occasion! We have a full day of
workshops, music, and local organic food planned.
The workshops will go from 1-4 :00 PM this year. The theme of the workshops is
Sustainable Living and you will see a lot of familiar faces if you made it to the SEED
Sustainable Living Co nference, The workshops will roll into each other so feci free to
hop around and learn as much as possible.
The workshops are just the beginning of the fun. We will have arts and crafts vendors
with diverse. creative endeavors for sale. These will include candle makers, bee-keepers,
medicine makers, herbalists, jewelry crafters, rock hounds, batik crafts and much, much
more. The Harvest Festival is a family event and we will have face painting, juggling, fire
dancing, and puppetry to entertain the youngn's.
This year's musical lineup will get the entire family moving and grooving! The
From ~ft to right; Dave Wides, Will Mo"is, Lucas Bucci, and Seth photo by Brent Patterson
festival is proud to have so me very talented local musicians serenading the crowd with
Book- Harvest Fest all star volunteers
traditional acoustic music. T he first band is Zak Borden and the Lizzies. This trio will
be hot pickin' some mighty fine bluegrass. Some people might recognize Zak as the
mandolin picker from Evergreen's own The Casey Neil Trio. The seco nd act to take the
stage wi ll be F[DDLEHEAD. They will regale us with Irish harmoni es that resonate frolll produce is coming from local organic farms_
across the Atlantic. The star of this act is Anthea Lawrence, Olympia's prize fiddler. Our last
This celeb ratio n is free to everyo ne and will ce rt ainly be one to remember. Pl ease
aCt will take th e stage around 7:00 PM and goes by the name of HOT CLUB SANDWICH _ join the fun and bring yo ur friend s and family_ All arts and crafts vendors are invi ted.
This eclecti c quintet wi ll throw down some traditional Gypsy Swing Dance music that will This party will go on RAIN OR SHI NE. T he time is from 1-9:00 PM and th e place is
certainly send everyone home with tired feeL
Evergreen Organic Farm _ We ask everyone to please park in C lot and take the sce nic farm
The most important part of Harves t Festival is the harvest, of co urse! We wi ll be servi ng trail through the Everg reen woods.
local organi c food all day long. Com munity ga rden volunteers arc cooking the meal wil h the
[f you have any questi ons, or are interested ,in volunteering, please call 867-6145 .
help of Bon Appetit. T he menu includes a savo ry potalo so up that will warm you from the
Harves t Festival at the O rga ni c Farm; Sat Oc toher 19 from 1-9 PM . Workshop acti vi ti es
inside out, Nisqually King Salmon, colorful vegetable shish-ka-bo bs, co rn on the co b, Blue will include; Ca nning App lesa uce in th e kitchen, Herbal Salve mak ing, woo l spi nni ng
Heron Bakery bread, pumpkin pie, blueberry co bbler, and fresh pressed app le cider. All th e for bcginnns, book bind ing, beginn ers com postin g, chicken co up mana geme nt , worm
managem ent , and more. For questions or to 1IOIli nteer m1l867-6145.
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easily distracted_ Another co mmon ca mpus
phonemon, go ing a bit stircrazy, also known
as th e "ca mpus bubble" is eas il y re medie.d
with a bus ride (free with yo ur studen t I.D ,)
downtown w here yo u ca;l sa mpl e tit e local
fare, hop bars o r catch a show.
Whether here for a year or fo r all fo u r,
liv ing 011 ca mpus is an in tegra l part of
th e Evergree n expe rien ce. All in all the
affordability and co nvi ence of living o n
ca mpu s makes it a ni ce pbce to li ve if
not qu as i-tltopian. It has bee n d es igned
as a c rea ti~e labo ratory for stude nts with
minim :)1 in terfe re' nce from a uth o rit y.
Enj oy. ' .

Thank s to Linda Hoh l1Ja II . associate
Direc/or of Howillg fur specifics 011 the Mods
alld building histories.

Organic Farm Menu october

TESC Organic Farm Menu at Evergreen College Greenery Cafe
Wed nesday, October 23 r d , 2002 @ 11:00am
CAB Bldg - 107
First mo nthly TESC ORGANIC FARM LUNCH ho sted by Bon
Appetit ' s Chef Convil le
Featuring Potato, Parsley and Leek Stew in a Bread Bowl
Meet Pat Moore from the farm, eat t he food and support
local , sustainable, organic agriculture.
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By Chandra Lindeman, TESC Office of Sexual Assault Prevention
Domestic Violence Awareness Month!
That's October. Around the country, people
are working [(l raise awareness about efforts to
end domestic violence. In 1981, the National
Coalition Against Domestic Violence observed
the first "Day of Unity." . This was a day
on which people working to end domestic
violence gathered together to suppon each
other in their efforts. On this day, participants
would mourn those who had died due to
domestic violence and celebrate those who
had survived . In October of 1987, the
first National Domestic Violencl Awareness
Month was observed. It was also at that
time that the national toll-free domestic
violence ·hot-line started. In 1989, the
U .S. Congress passed the first Domestic
Violence Awareness Month Commemorative

Legislation. Every yeat since, similar legislation has been passed.
A lot of work has been done to support
survivors of domestic violence and their loved
ones. In addition to this, many advocates
are recognizing the link between issues of
oppression and domestic violence and taking
action. A few examples of this include working
to end the silence in the Queer community,
in communities of color, for people with
differing abilities, and in Gender Variant
communities. This has been of significant
concern to many advocates addressing the
causes of domestic violence in our society.
What can you do to help end domestic
violence? Start by educating yourself. Read
literature or search the internet for information, watch films about domestic violence,

attend events focused on this issue, talk
to people in your community. Next, get
involved . Find out about volunteering at your
local domestic and sexual violence prevention
agency, Safeplace 360-745-6300 or TTD
1-800-833-6388. Or help put on an event in
your community to raise awareness or gather
resources for survivors of domestic violence.
Possibly the most important action we can
take is to talk about domestic violence. Talk
with our families, our children, our friends,
and the larger community. Work to dispel the
myths about domestic violence and root out
the underlying causes of domestic violence so
you can begin to change them in yourself and
in your community.
Here at Evergreen, many student groups,
including Evergreen Queer Alliance and

Coalition Against Sexual Violence, are taking
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violence in our community. The Purple
Ribbon Campaign is part of that. Wear a
purple ribbon so that someone can ask you
what it signifies. This will give you a chance to

raise awareness about domestic violence. Also
this month, Coalition Against Sexual Violence,
along with TESC Office of Sexual Assault
Prevention will be showing a film, followed
discussion
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If we work together, we can end all forms
of oppression. If you'd like to get involved, or
if you need help or more information, please
·call the student group Coalition Against
Sexual Violence at 867-6479 or TESC Office
ofScxual Assault Prevention at 360-867-5221.
TID 1-800-833-6388 for both numbers.

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Let it not be said that people in
United States did nothing when their
government declared a
war without limit and instituted stark
new measures of repression.
The signers of this statement calion the
people of the U .S. to resist the policies and
overall political
direction that have emerged since
September 11, 2001, and which pose grave
dangers to the people
of the world.
We believe that
peoples
and
nations have the
right to determine
their own destiny,
free from
military coc:rcion
by great
We
powers .
believe that all" persons detained or prosecuted by the United
States government should have the sa me
rights of due process . We believe that
questioning,
criticism , and dissent mu st be valued
and protected . We understand that such
rights and va,lues ~re
always contested and must be fought
for.

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But the mourning had barely begun,
when the .highest leaders of the land
unleashed a spirit of
revenge. They put out a simplistic script
of "good vs. evil" that was taken up by a
pliant and
intimida~ed media. They . told us .that
asking why these terrible events had happened verged on
treason. There was to be no debate . •
There were by definition no valid political
or moral questions.
.The only possible answer was to be war

procedures single out certain
for unequal treatment.
In our name, the government has
brought down a pall of repression over
society. The President's
spokesperson warns people to "watch
what they say." Dissident artists, intellectuals, and professors
find their views distorted , attacked, and
suppressed. The so-called Patriot Act -along with a host of

We will not give up our right to question.
We will not hand over our consciences in
retur'n for a
J hollow promise of safety. We say NOT
TN OUR NAME.

By Erich Albrecht .

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We refuse to be party to these wars and
we repudiate any inference that -tAey are
being waged in
our name or for our welfare. We extend
a hand to those around the world suffering
from these
policies; we will show our solidarity in
word and deed.

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We believe that people of conscience
must take responsibility for what their own
governments do - we must first of all oppose the injustice
that is don e in our own name. Thus we
call on all
American s to RESIST the war and
repression th at has been loosed on the world
by the Bush
administration. It is' unjust, immoral, and
illegitimate. We choose to make' common
cause with the
people of the world.
We too watched with shock the horrific
events of September 11 , 2001. We too
mourned th e
thousands of inn ocent dead and shook
our heads at the terrible sce nes of carnage
-- even as we
recalled sim ilar scenes in Baghdad,
Panama City, and, a generation ago,
Vietnam. We too joined the
anguished questioning of millions of
Americans who asked why suc h a thing
co uld happen.

abroad and repression at home.
In our name, the Bush administration,
with near unanimity from Congress, not
only attacked
Afghanistan but arrogated to itself and
its allies the right to rain down military
force anywhere and
anytime. The brutal repercussion s have
been felt from the Philippines to Palestine,
where Israeli
tanks and bulldozers have left a terrible
trail of death and destrucrion. The government now openly
prepares to wage all-out war on Iraq
-- a country which has no connection to
the horror of
September 11 . What kind of world will
this become if the U.S. government has a
blank check to
drop commandos, assassins, and bombs'
wherever it wants?
In our name, within the U.S ., the gove rnment h as created two classes of people:
those to whom the
basic rights of the U.S. legal system are
at leas t promised , and those who noW seem
to have no rights
at al!. T he government rounded up over
1,000 immigrants and d eta ined them in
secret and
indefin ite ly. Hundreds ha ve been
dep o rt ed and hundreds of others still
la nguis h today in prison.
This smacks of the infamous co ncentration cam ps for Ja pan es e -Americans in
World War 2. For the
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similar measures on the state level -gives police sweeping new powers of search
and seizure,
supervised if at all by secret proceedings
before secret courts.
In our name, the executive has steadily
usurped the roles and functions of the other
branches of
government. Military tribunals with lax
rules of evidence and no right to appeal to
the regular courts
are put in place by execu tive order.
Groups are declared "terrorist" at the stroke
of a presidential pen.
We must take th e highest officers of
the Hmd seriously when they talk of a war
that will last a
generation and when they speak of a
new domestic order. We are confronting a
new openly imperial
policy towards the world and a domestic
policy that manufactures a nd manipulates
fear to cu rtail
rights.
There is a deadly trajectory to the events
of the past month s that must be see n for
what it is and
resisted. Too many times in hi story
people h ave waited until it was too late
to resIst.
President Bush h as declared: "you're
e ithe r with us or against us." Here is our
answer: We refuse to
allow you to speak for all the American
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The Bush administration's fanatical war
plans have gone a step further towards
advancing their agenda to dominate . Iraq,
which will have catastrophic consequences
fo ~ the entire region.
-On October 10th, according to the
New York Times, the Bush administration
announced its plans for Iraq to "be governed
by an American military commander--

Wlptng out Hussein and his regime and
installing a U.S . m ilitary commander will
allow the U.S. not only to hand out control
of oil reserves in Iraq to the companies of its
choosing, bur also to heavily influence the
oil-dependent international economy.
-Military occupation witra\sogive Bush
the ability to achieve his goal of bringing
"free markets and free trade" as stated in
the N arional Secu rity Strategy released
September of thi s year. To the neo-liberals

By Sky Cosby
The brisk, sharp dawn of realization
cuts close and clean into ignorant white
meat. This week we are confronted with
an old_ ~e rror dressed in new io rm/f~((ing
clothes with catch phrases and bearing
the name WAR.
Talks begin in groups small-Iargeinvisible-hopes are dashed, loves swo rn,

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perhaps Gen. Tommy R. Franks, com- in the Bush administration, restructuring
mander of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf." Iraq's economy means designing it to m ake
This is supposed to be the so lution to profits for U.S. corporations by exploiting
keep Iraq from fragmenting into separa te Iraq's oil and resou rces, including the labor
states after a war, for disarming Iraq and of an impoverished and brutalized Iraqi
for preventing in-fighting as has resulted population.
in Afghanistan. These are noble aspiraAnother of Bush's primary goals
t ions, but they are not all that the Bush declared in his National Security Strategy is
administration hopes to accomplish.
"to reaffirm the essenti al role of American
The most obvious aspect of their agenda military strength ... " by establishing permais the desi re to control Iraq's immense oil nent military "bases and stations within
resource s. Th e New York Times article and beyond Western Europe and Northeast
mentioned that as long as the U.S . "ad min - Asia." U.S. military control of Iraq would
istered Iraq they would essentially control establish overwhelming U.S. geo-political
the second largest proven rese rves of oil . authority over the entire region. As Jay
in th e world." According to James Pa ul Bookman asserts in an October 1st a rticl e
the Executive Director of G lobal Policy in the Atlantic Journal-Constitution, the
Forom, Iraq possesses about I J % of world US. will use these permanent military bases
rese rves and that "experts believe Iraq has "from which to dominate th e Middle East,
add itional undiscovered oil rese rves, which
including n e ighboring Ir an." The U.S.
might double the tota!."
military regime would also likel y be used
Considering how dose the Bush ad min - to destabilize ano th er "axis of evi l" Syria ,
istration is to the oi l in du stry and that two as well as apply pressure to conform to
U.S. and tWO U.K. based oil compan ies U.S. desires upon politically fragile nation s
dominate the market, it becomes evident like Jorda n, indi cated Evergree n Professor
why Bush and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Steve Niva.
Blair are campaignin g for a war o n Iraq.
As The Nat ion reported in October,
According to Neil Mackay in an October military experts suggest an occupying fo rce
7 t h a rt ic le from the Sunday Herald, a c ou ld require up (0 J 00,000 troops (0
report entitl ed "The Strategic Energy Policy stabilize th e country. Th is as sumes the
Challenges For The 21 st Cen tury,", claims: power vacuum crea ted by toppling Hussein
" Iraq remains a destab ili zing influence to ... can be filled by th e U.S. military. According
the flow of o il to inte rn at iona l markets (0 an Octobe r II th art icl e in the NY Times,
from the Middle Easr. " T his means that
Sce "Iraq " on pagc 15

Are We Preaching to the Converted?
By Ross Matteson, class of 1980
Ralph Nader opened his well-attended
talk at The Evergrecl1 State College
Wedne sday ni ght with a refres hingly
honest view of democracy. H e made it
clear that he loves what our count ry can
still offe r for everyone when people are
willing to participate in the system. He
emp hasized that the publ ic is the ri ghtful
ow ner and cont roller of o ur military, our
public land, and public airwaves. He also
reminded us that the public has the legal
author it y to g rant or revoke corpora te
charters in order to deal w ith corruption .
M r. Nader ill ustrated the hypocrisy
of the Bush administration's war policy
by comparing the strategies on North
Korea and Iraq . He said that the Bush
adm inistration is aggressive about Iraq 's
threat because of oil and Israel's support for
military action. H owever, North Korea's
eve n greater threat is virtually ignored
because it has no oil and Ch in a will not
'support such military action.
Nader suggested that the United States
support Israel's small but growing peace
movement, instead of their most extreme
proponents of violent solutions. He blasted
the unread, quicklycpassed U.S . Patriot
Act for deteriorating the civil liberties of
anyone who opposes the government.
Nader challenged academic institutions
such as Evergreen (0 teach true citizen ship
skills. He pleaded for improved self-esteem
and a much better use of our time . He
blasted the s up e rficialit y of most TV

See "Preaching" on page 15

Greeners ask
"What's it aood
for?"
&a

lives lost or abandoned . The
mossy sto ne starts rolling.
Choose yer side, pick yer weapon,
select yer ideal battleground . Map it
out, mark it off, lay it down low. At
Christmas thi s year will fall bombs 'stead
of snow.
WHAT ARE YOU GO ING TO DO
ABOUT IT?
That's whar I wanna know. Ripples
disturb our pond. Restless thoughts
wander weary and touch upon many
chilling things. Do we stay? Fight? Shit?
Run? Stand? Paddle? Push ? Bail wail or
worry? Fuck- whatever it is ... hurry.
Americans h ave been urged to leave
Indon es ia after th e horrific bombing
last weekend which claimed the lives of
ove r 180 people. Soon we shall see this
shoc kwave in sca le, Americans the world
over will be treated w ith the co ntempt,
hate, jealousy and rage we well dese·l: ve.
After two hundred years o n the top of the
wo rld how much lon ger ca n we expect
to stand so unaware and mighty ?
Eve ry e mpire c rumbl es. Why sh ou ld
we expect o urs (0 outlast the ravages of
rim e and wa rfare? Unfortunately the o ld
maxim does no t always hold true. The
captai n does not a lways go down with
hi s s inking sh ip.

N
~d
e

programming a nd point ed o ut
th e real potential of TV. He even
spoke about the beaury of hum an
c hara cte r, which fa r surpasses
the concept of beaury promoted by
Revlon's multi -bi llion dollar defini (ton.
At the end of his talk I asked him
a question , in essence, about the hard
work of actually communicat in g
with tho se who disagree with us.
Too often, regardl ess of our political
persuasions, I th ink that we expound
our hea rt -fe lt views o nl y to those
who a lrea dy agree with us. How
do concerned citizens build respectfu l
co mmunication bridges, for example, with
corporate leaders and elected offic ials? He
referred me back to the idea th at a gqod
c ivics education is needed (0 help our
communication ski ll s.
From my own expe ri ence, I also think
that genuine communication takes a
so lid dose of compass ion . Having spent
hundreds of unproducti ve ·hou rs in local
public heari.ngs, where extremely articulate
testimony goes by nearly unheard, I
have come to see lasting progress in our
community to be proportion ate to our
act~al care for people we disagree with
or are trying to rally. At the national
level, I wonder what series of meaningful
co nsiderations would have allowed N ad er
to participate in the presidential debates?
Putting yourself in the other person's

•••

After having clawed our w ay to the
top by persecuting third world countries
and aiding in the economic upheaval of
anyone who doesn't fit our fancy, I, for
one, say we reap what we have sow n .
So enjoy these, our just desserts, and
plan for more mind-expanding terror
in the near future.
Those who would wage war are
the
sa me
men
who
Sit

comfo rta bIy
by, collecting fat pen sio ns and pa ts on
backs. Chairman Mao Tse-Tung sa id ,
" Revo lutions and revolutionary wars are
inevitable in class soc iety and without
them, it is impossible to accomplish
any leap in social developm ent and to
overthrow the reaction a ry ruling classes
a nd therefore impossi ble fo r the people
(0 win political power."
Why is it th at our presidents are
mainly rich m en ? Why do our lead ers
not come from a m ore hone st vein?
When will we recognize the fact that
we are ruled by greed and 'l-ddi qio.J1 to
certain comfort levels? We are pampered
beings, lost in the velvet waves of obesitY.
Doomed in the annals of history (0 be
portrayed as mon ey- hungry ev il-d oers.
Unless, that is, we win. For the w inn ers
of wars wr it e the history books for th e
com in g generations to study.
. Make no mistake about it. Our time
»
is ni g h and soon we sha ll be ca ll ed up on
to act and embrace rhe rebe l's cloak
with eager ye t trembling fingers . The
means to a peacefu l end li e not on th e
road to war. Batten down th e hatc hes,
we're in for the lo ng h au l.

Nader Gets Reaction From Silent Minority
By Marrhew Wolpe

for the war in Iraq.
In a world where we cou ld effect ivel y
vote for the person whom we absolutely
believe in, Ralph would be an ideal candidate, but unfortunately it 's
not so ration aL The prag-

Ralph Nad er's solid and
witry performance last
Wednesday gave rise to
an unresolved quandary
matists and th e op tim ists
resulti ng from the 2000
of th e left dealt with a
electio n . It see m s there
serious dilemma two years
is a rarely acknowledged
Spe~cho 0 0
ago, a dil emma some of us
minority at Evergreen that
were unable to take part
may have vi ewed Ralph's presence
in. It wou ld b e fa lse to retro spec tively
in a diffe re nt li ght. Thi s muted
announce that things would be much
minority is tho se of us who were
. different had Go re made it into offi ce .
not of legal voting age for the last
but undeniably, ilther policies and tactics
presidential elect ion. Becau se of
would ha ve been implemented, different
this exclusion , the deliberation required
figureheads would be appointed to the
in the arduous process of deciding who
cabinet and foreign policy would likel y be
to vote for was postponed. Seeing and
altered slightl y. Casting a vote for Al Gore
hearing Ralph Nader made me yearn for
sometimes didn't satisfy one's craving for
an und erstanding of a conflict I would
placing an authentic ballot, but it can give
su rely have had if! were of age, and one I
a vote to a more moderate resolution of an
will have in the future . Do I vote where my
inevitab le outcome.
heart is, or do I vote with utiliry, choos ing
To say that thi s is a s imple decision is a
the better of two realistic candidates?
farce, it's a complex issue that wi ll hopefu ll y
Ralph Nader stands (with bad posture,
be around in elections to come. Fi rst of all,
I might add) for many thin gs. His virtuosit shou ld be noted that not a ll votes that
ity distinguishes him from an arc herypical
went to Nader wou ld have gone to Gore.
politician. As shown by Ralph 's warm
Many of these constituents may have voted
accepta nce, h is soc ial and envi ronmenrally
for othe r candidates, or simply not voted at
conscious policies tend to comp~ment
all. Furthermore, the obsce nely low voter
Evergreen's community-oriented disposi turnout in America may be the cu lprit for
tion. His stance to the left of the two party
Bush's victory as wel l as the lack of support
monopoly is desirable to those looki ng to
for a third party candidate. Hence, Nader's
vote in a genuine ly progressive direction,
decoy factor was not who lly taking votes
a nd towards the effort of making a viab le
away from the d emocrats. One campa igner
alternative to our binary political system, a
See "Silent" o n page 15
system that showed overwhelming support

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An a lys is
After the

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By Charles Hollis
When I first came to Evergreen I was
overwhelmed. I was not familiar with the
campus, and the Evergreen campus was
a huge place at first. I had ro unpack
all the dorm stuff from the car, shove
the shopping carr in the elevator and
reach the fourth floor of my dorm. I wasrather anxious during the registration and housing orientation. I was so anxious that
I didn't even want to look at images of
the Evergreen campus on the internet
while I was at home. But nothing seemed
overloading until I went to the Campus
Activities Building (CAB).
I wanted ro join everything that was
written on the posters. I almost felt hopeless. I felt like I could never get involved
with anything and that people would
always keep their distance from me . I
thought that I would not be able to find
my way around the campus, or it would
be too difficult to learn all the details. I
also felt that living "on my own" in the
dorm would be roo laborious, or that I
would sleep through the alarm for one
of my classes. I thought there would be

no time to do anything and that I would
not be coordinated with the locations to
where I would want to go.
To some residents of Olympia, you
My Dad did most of the registration,
might find that when the light flows
parking, and driving around campus; I just
in an endless spectrum of color it's an everymade sure I brought all the items for the
day thing. While I come from just up north
dorm, that I didn't lose anything and that
about 50 miles, there is a change. Not just
we followed the checklist for orientation
scenery and landmarks, but a
cha.!1ge i!l..~ociweek. Finally we received- the dorm keys - . - - _ _ _
and I ~id all the tedious
~7e
ety as a cohe-

Ft·
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~ithi~;g of

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By Keith Houser
Capitalizing on the nation's fear and
anguish in the wake of the September 11 th
atrocities, the current Bush regime has so
[a~_ d_one a brutally effective job of (oiling
back our supposedly terrorist-friendly civil
liberties. A renewed campaign of domestic
social control has swept the country in
an effort to crush dissent and prepare for
the more than likely emergence of popular
unrest after a prolon ged war with Iraq
becomes too costly.
Sound familiar to anyone? Most of us
are too young to remember the police state
tactics of the FBI's Counterintelligence
Program (COINTELPRO) of 1956 to
197 1, which went as far as resorting to
political assassination to achieve its aims
of domestic pacification . Nor do very
many of us recall that from 1967 to 1974
the CIA illegally spied on Americans
in operations CHAOS , MERRIMAC
and RESISTANCE, which indexed over
300,000 U.S. citizens in a cenrral govern ment database called HYDRA. The C IA's
targets were similar to those of th e FBI's:
anti-war protestors, civil rights groups,
and student radicals (Final Report of the
Select Committee to Study Governmental
Operations with Respect to Intellige nce
Activities of the United States Senate, 94th
Congress, 2nd Session, 1976).
Now that the new terrorist threat
has conveniently taken the place of the
Communist menace, efforts to stifle
popular democratic aspirations at home can
begin anew. The Patriot Act, for exampk,
formally allows the CIA to collaborate with
domestic law enforcement. It also gives the
police a free hand to conduct otherwise
illegal wiretapping, in ternet surveillance,

/if

1- ~ S~::Ole.
nce stepped
c:vne{,\e
.;::I<. 1:-"" t'
upon the grounds of
Evergreen - I
felt -a change.
r-

tion of the \
h 0 u sin g
checklist
But ;fter
all this. life on my
own came naturally. I realized that I was
smart enough to do ordinary jobs, but still
do classwork and extracurricular activities.
After trying out certain things, my natural
options limited what I actually did for fun.
The CPJ is a great place to start: students
everywhere can contribute to it. There are
many fun activities out there and many
off-campus transient places. And lots of
people to hang out with.

esus!
By Amy Lokosta
I was asked by my fellow C P]'ers to
write a response to a comic ahout an
important misunderstanding. It featured
a clip art 50's Jesus saying his father had
molested him. I have three reactions to
this comic. The first was that it was a pop
culture response to the child molestation
sca ndal with -priests. Second was that if
you interpre ted Jes us' purity fr om all sins,
and his eventual crucifi xio n- -that might
count as "moles t" in the fl at definition.
Thitd, I ass um ed that the first two ideas
wete roo co mplex and that this was another
so rry, h al f~assed attempt at hum or and I
fig urt"d tht·y were just tryin g to ge t th ei r
C hri stia n fu nd amc nt a li st panti es in a
tw iSt.
I often cla im to have tw enty years
(ages 0- 19 and 26-2 7) of ed ucation on
the pract ices and processes of C hristianity.
So here is my bragging back to bite me in
the butt. History is inrerpreted through
our time perception of herein ow thought.
For example, a human adult of the 1600's
could easily enjoy the pleasures of a
hanging because the development of
their culture had only progressed to a
certain point. History is recorded through
the dominant values of the culture and
according to the dominant political parries
at the time. It is the popular mythos;
behind it lie layers of common man
accounts and differing interpretations.
Why use male terminology to describe
the idea of God, but if you do, why use
the paternal word, Father? This brings
up the question, is God a man? Is there
really a huge glowing old dude with a big
flowing beard sitting up on a throne like
it shows in the Chick tracts? Actually
for Mormons there is, but for prior U.S .
Christian sects there is some debate, as
refusing to refer to God as a male would
undermine the patriarchal ideals that
fundamentalist Christians hang onto like
dogs to bones.
God was first called "My Father" by
Jesus which I think applies to the very
important role that a father played in the
cultures that wrote the Bible. Yet it was
very offensive to the Jewish culture of the
day to hear Jesus call God his father. A
quote from D . Bayes, "The Fatherhood
of God and the sonship of Jesus aren't
pointing to anything biological. Ie is a way

The death of republic and signs of empire

A response concerning a comic and the
problem with father
figu res ...................... .

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of expressing the oneness of the Trinity
and the unique relationship of the three
persons within the Trinity."
The Christian Bible describes God
as formless and all-powerful.
He is
everywhere and yet within you. God is
not bound by the laws of time or space.
God in the creator sense has generative
powers. female powers that can be equated
with the Hindu Kali. both procreating and
destroying to continue the processes of
life. And God as creator set up sustainable
cycles of life on earth and wove direct
patterns of similar complexity into every
_element It is physically impossible for
God to be a man.
Who wrote the Bible? Actually there
are separate writers for each book of
the Bible. The Bible was written by
a predominantly patriarchal culture of
religious scholars. Jesus himself might
as well have been dancing around naked
cultdrally when he crossed social lines and
paid respect to women. Today. women
in th'e western world are recognized as
equal human beings to men (at least
legally we are). Behaviors such as spousebattering and child abuse are now illegal

The feeling of a home instead of
ju~t .a
school, a welcoming society
~Jt~ln .the layed-ou~ structure of an
InsUtutl?n: One thIng that caught
~y artistic eye was the full and
~Ich color of the leaves ~p?n the trees. <?reen
~ whuat I saw, ~ure, pnst1~e and untal.nted
yo. r humal11ty. The w1l1d b.lew qUIetly,
allow1l1g the b~nches.to do thelf dance a~d
the leaves to SIng their song. Only a qUiet
place could all~w their no~es to be heard.
I was surprISed as I tried to compare
what I used to call home to what would
become my home . When anxiety and
happiness arose, I knew my answer. What
can an individual ask for when it comes
to a learning environment... peace, and a
touch of serenity to fill the gap. This school
lives up to its name and I hope you all
realize what you have and enjoy it as much
as I will in the four years to come.

- willing
_~Jeasintly,
attacked;-or
_
. (other than
.
a passerby: '''study
history") . .I
_ ega-rita feel . a bit
gui1~ . ~o~, offendlng .Ev:t;rgreen's liberal seflslbllmes. Those who-'sRoke wicl1 me
deserve credit for -~eir i onviction and
fairness. -Though the individuals who
' .....J>~- discussed their beliefs were open-minded,
the distilrbing,Eact of the experiment lies
in their relative scarcity. On a camp'us 'of
apprdximat<;,ly 4,·000 sq.ldepts; ' }llOst of
them anti-waf libera~s (~hich I 'believe is
a fair assumption to make), only about a
dozen spoke to me. Quite a few people
believed that my sign was simply a joke,
that it was too ludicrous to be serious.
A number of others simply shot me
dirty looks, and passed by without much
consideration. Both cases -indicate that,
though freedom of speech and opinion are
not in danger on the Evergreen campus,
Greeners are so used to holding beliefs
which are_generally acclaimed and ranily
~hallenged that they ~eC!m to laugh off or
Ignoredissid\!rits. What does this mean?
It means, I believe, that Evergreen suffers
- .
The heart,of
from
.
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and punishable by law for the first time in
the human race. Even better, women have
access to the same religious education as
men and are allowed to speak as leaders of
some churches.
However, I believe modern day
churches tend not to use Jesus as an example
and most who go to church do not understand!~e teachings of Jesus. If He were
still around, Jesus would first cry, then tear apart the money-corrupted churches
of today. He would spit on the expensive
buildings and lack of true intimate spiritual
community, because those churches are
built under the assumption that religious
capitalism equals good works.
As for the comic, I was not offended,
but immediately deconstructed it. I offer
up one fact for future authors of comics
that have the "nothing is sacred" tilt.
Remember the assumption that everyone
in this -college is a liberal leftist atheist
or acceptable eastern/pagan religion is
incorrect. Understand that comics are a
vehicle for teaching with humor. Assume
nothing while you are at Evergreen.
Than}, to th. camp", Worn",; Mim,ur, D.bbi. BaJ's.
who ,harr' h" va,t /mowlrdg. ofTh.ology to support only
lomt of my slAum~nts.

secret searches and investigation of library
records. The Attorney General now has the
right to indefinitely detain non-citizens
when they can't be -deported . For us students, personal information gathered by
colleges can benanaed over to- the FBI and
other police agencies without any judicial
review (Patriot Act Fact Sheet, American
Civil Liberties Union,).
Soon we'll even have the nightmarishly
ominous Department of Homeland Security
to deal with . If Bush gets what he wants,
and he almost certainly will, various federal
agencies employing almost 170,000 personnel will be unified under the control
of Tom Ridge, including the Secret
Service, Coast Guard , Immigration and
Naturalization Service, Federal Emergency
Management Agency, segments of the FBI
and D ep'lrtment of Defense, and other
agencies. Serving as the current Office of
Homeland Security's Senior Director for
Policy and Prevention is Major General
Bruce Lawlor, who as a CIA staff officer
from at leas t th e early 19 70s, played a
leading role in directing interrogation
and paramilitary operations against the
Vietnamese in the Phoenix Program. For
those of us not familiar with the Phoenix
Program, it was the massive counterinsurgency campaign designed to terrorize the
Vietnamese people into submission, and
involved widespread torture of civil ians,
murder of resistance fighters ' families,
mutilations, etc. ("Flight of the Phoenix:
From Vietnam to Homeland Security,"
Douglas Valentine, CounterPuncll, Aug.
25 , 2002).
The Bush regime has also been reviewing
the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which
prohibits the military from being used for

domestic law enforcement. The military
has recently been restructured to work in
concert with the Department of Homeland
Securiry in defense of North America in
the event of a terrorist attack or natural
disaster.---t\s -0F-0ctober l sr;-2002, theUnited States, Canadian and Mexican
militaries have been incorporated into
a larger U.S.-coordinated continental
Northern Command (NORTHCOM) .
The joint U.S.-Canadian-run air monitoring agency, NORAD, has also been moved
into NORTH COM as well. Headed by
Air Force general Ralph E. Eberhart, the
new organization will also conduct military
s urveillance activities along the U.S.
borders and coastlines. ("Wider Military
Role in US is Urged," New York Times,
July 21,2002). The national situation is
likely to get worse before it gets better.
Lying dormant in the
House
Subcommirtee on Military Perso nnel is
H.R. 3598, which, if ever passed, will
reinstate the draft for able-bodied males
aged 18 to 22. And should any kind of
biological outbreak occur in the United
States, already some fifte en states h ave
passed th e Center for Disease Co ntrol 's
Model State Emergency Health Powers
Act (MEHPA), which in such an instance
would allow for confiscation of property,
regulation of "communication devices,
carriers, real estate, fuels, food, clothing,
and health care facilities," and in some
cases would make it a felony to refuse
forced vaccination (from MEHPA, as of
October 23. 200 I, written by Lawrence
O. Gostin). We live in dangerous times.
And if history teaches us anything, it's that
fights are not granted, they're taken. Hope
to see you in the streets.

Bush stops 11-day shutdown of West Coast ports
By Sebastian Delrieu-Schulze
In the first invocation of the Taft-Hartly
Act since Nixon , Bush intervened in a
lockout that began with disputes between
management and shore workers. Lockouts
are different from strikes because it is th e
employer who halts producti on. In this case,
so me uni on offici als feel that th e lockout
was intended to create a situ ati on in which
th e president could interfere. The locko ut
began beca use the Maritim e Associati on felt
that wo rk ers were organizing slow-dow ns.
Union officials de nied these claims, say ing
th ey were just obse rving safety preca ut io ns.
Th e di:s pute ce nters o n th e use o f new

. Desi~n 'Your
Own
.,O lympia
By Eva Otto ,
Have you ever considered your relationship with the city you live in? What feels
good and what doesn't as you move through
the urban environment? Want to bring your
th,oughts to the drawing board? Well, now
you may get a chance to exal11ine and influence Olympia's future by getting involved
in an Eco-City design process. _
Terra Commons . and the Ecocity
Collaborators (an assenjbly of non-profit
groups and individuals) are planning
an eight week seminar enrided "Ecocity
Olympia" to be held .from 'October 24th
through December 15th, 2002. This seminar will ColCplore questions that South Puget
Sound residents h~ve ab\Jut the relatiqnships
connecting ecology: economy, and our
public processes and policies. The itinerary
includes 'presentations frpm guest 'speakers
familiar with a variety of urban design

topics, fadl: tated seminar readIngs, arid held
rriFs to sites demonstrating ecological design.
AI presentations are open to the general
public, field trips and the Ecoci ty book
reading seminar arc for registrants only.
The Ecocity seminar will be based on the
book written by Richard Register, that states,
"Quality of life depends largely on how we
build ou~ cities." The seminar wiU~give those
who are Interested a chance to explore what
"qualitY of life» means for Olympia.
What type of building and planning
could truly reflect .the values of the people
who live here and how could those values
be incorporated into city planning? The
Ecocity seminar will attemptto answer those
questions by drawing correlations between
local planning and the affect a new breed
of builders could have on creating a more
ecologically and economically functional
city.
Ecocities promotes a holistic assessment
?f building and developm~nt based on the
Idea that there are many Sides of humanity
~hat m~~ up a home. T~e prefix Eco means
home 111 Greek and IS the toot word of
both e ology and economy. Ecology is the
study of 'the home -and economy is the
management of the home. In order to have a
weUfunctioni.ng home there must be balance
between economic and ecological activity.
One can not exist in harmony without the
other. '
The homes a'.1 d .businesses we build must
be constr~cted wlthmthe larger cont~xt of our

-the -co'o perpoint journal

technologies whose operators mayor may
not be under union jurisdiction. Bush felr
that his interference was necessary due to
the lockout's effect on the already failing
economy. Bush also felt that the docks
needed to be open in order for m iii tary
s upplie~ to keep moving, something. which
ISespeCially Important for him , conSidering
his mu ch-opposed recent agenda to start a
war with Iraq . The Taft-H arrley Act, also
known as th e Labor Management Act,
was passed in 1947 even aftcr Presidcnt
Truman attempted ro ve to it. Truman felt
that the ac t was unjust, go ing so far as to
call it a "slave labo r bill. " Besides giving
the president the power to give an 80-day

injunction in a strike situation, it also
forbade unions to give money to political
campaigns and barred communists from
lead1l1g roles in unions. A recent study by
two University of Illinois law professors
suggests that historically the Taft-Harrley
Act has done very little to aid in labor
disputes, instead drawing th em ou t over a
longer period of time.
T he study also noted th at th e Act has
helped weaken uni ons' ro les in d isputes
with management. The current dispu tes
show no sign of ending in th e near future
and with eighty days unti l th e poss ibility of
eith er a strike or locko ut, th ere will be little
leverage for either side.

environment. Ecocmes buildIng recognizes
that there are limits to the environment
and the natural capital (biomass, ecosystem
functions) it produces. It also recognizes the
benefits that natural systems provide for a
finely tuned economy and seeks to work in
harmony with those processes. - Ecocities encompasses more than just
balancing development with nature. Its
concept seeks to evoke human characteristics
within i~s desig~ . It en.collrages getting in
touch With one s- own Inner landscapes to
make connections with others in a deeper
and more meaningful way, Ecocities invites
the opportunity for development to be fun
and creative, combining reflections of the
human spirit with the reality of economic
interaction.

activities will be realized during a four-day
community charette held from December
12-15. (A charette is a facilitated design
workshop).

Seminar and Charrette Registrant

The Goals of the Charrette are:
'''To develop - a definition of
"Community Center" to -be adapted to
Tide 18 of the City of Olympia's Unified
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Developmeri't Code (UDC).
"'To produce a map of ecologically and
culturallYfunctional locations inside the City
of Olympia's Urban Growth Management
Boundary (UGMB). _ --,
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"'To develop' a design _prorosal for
a temporary demonstration 0 nat'ural
building in Olympia's Heritage Park, which
adjoins the State's Capitol Campus.

Ecocity Collaborators:

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The Ecocity Collaborators are a group
There will be 50 openings for seminar of local NGO's and institutions supporting
registrants. The cost of registration is $100, this project through direct support, research,
and includes a copy of Ecociti(s by Richard and other resource allocations.
Register. Seminar registrants will read
Collaborators include: Terra Commons
Ecocit~t:S, ~Iong with excerpts from related
* Olymr.ia Community Freeskool .. Media
matenal, In order .to develop some shareq Island nternational" People Fo~ Puget
~ontext for discussion . We will explore
Sound • Earthbound Productions ..
Issues ~uch as water and air pollution, soil Olympia Fellowship .Of Rec.;oflciliation
degradati~n, alternatives to damaging land- * N ,o rthwest ,.£cob·u ilding' ,Guifd ..
u ~es, habitat. p'reser~ation and restoration;
C~I1!-~~n!~ ~us~ainability Roundtable ..
storm water handling, natural and green Chmate Solutions • YMCA Earth Service
building, natural capitalism, and local busi- Corps" The Evergreen' State College
ness ecologies. We will meeti:lI1a bi~w~ekly
.,: Ecocity Olympia Seminar Octqber 16
basis to listen to and converse "'rith 'guest . through.D,ecember 15.2002 PreSentations
speakers, discuss readings and examine the - and Field"Trip Schedule events schedule
charette goals. Practical application 'of our · subject' to cha~ge. '

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Stop being'such a jackass\all the 'time, Your
tude-omner stinkj to pigh !uav~n this ,omi~g
.aek, "pecially in mattm ~fftj~tuis at:ld fomJIy. '
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you're at a major supermarket chain. Or ch= on

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artist. My advice to you this"week is to make like
Martha--cut up so;"e ciinm'uction paper and make
a collage incorporating both chickens and The Real
World. Your artistic talents could lead you to a pot
ofgold and shrunken htads,

~emini~~
Do the right thing: apologize to everyone,
Everyone is mad atchu. You werm~ very fonny this
weekend, but don't we all get a sfCOn4 chance? You
get to eat right, put on your walkin'shoes .. , get over

y~:~;;~a:n ofpop music,

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You've been a s/~ve to you rulf la
Try
something new this wuk. Play D&D with Missy
Elliot. Dress up like a witch. Shave one leg and the
opposite armpit. Nothings comillg to you 011 a silvfT
plamr this week-a lat ofit, You have to make the
u want to get anything tkne.

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rgy comi~g later this wuk will
give you the gumption to 'give your,sugar the shiver
it needs. Petty heartbreaks don't mean much in
the larger scheme of things. Drink a tall glass
of sunshine and eilt a big bowl of wheat-esteem.
0000:! .sensa,tiOn4$l!:,

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Put down your hand (Ind stop masturbating!
Heres an alteT/IllIi/le thats saft alld exciting: spia up
your lift with a &aIDoll! Visit www,realdoILcom.
You've hadyour sharf ofsweet rewards lately. haven't
ya? Elljoy something savory in the bathtub, Ifyou
don't have a barhmb, stop by KFC 011 YOllr way
to the river.
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Try brushing your teeth at Fred Mryer this
weekend, at 1a.m.. What you might filld may
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right brai1l is being 1Ieg/reted. The only solutio II:
use your right brain fO 'wine up with' iUkV..r' way
to ",mOve the other hilI[ That way you Clln save
monry on opuation expenses, which you shollld

b~h~k;;i~or~
You'redauting ftimds /~ft and right with
your char';" lind intrlligenu this week. miteh out,
though: your fly is opm, clou companiors art
ftequmtly asking you to buy them dmert, a1ld
your temper is short. With these powtrs combined.
you're two shakes away ftom disaster and a bad
fashion movt.

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this week, Making new ftie..ds is easy. You may
get lin opportunitj to ap'ologiu to me--tllk, it.
'N= siam and'uco'nd chances are just a stones

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To anybody who cares about art, activism,
revolution, or feminism, you've gotta get on
down to the Voyeur on 4th Ave. and take a
look at what a group of creative and brilliant
femini sts did in creating the Radical Fat
Positive art show. The display includes body
casts of women's torsos; each created by the
individual artist. One of the most striking
things about this art, besides the aesthetic
appeal. is seeing fem ale bodies TAKING UP
SPACE with pride.
Thi s is ra re in our society: it is not
considered acceptabl e for women to take up
space, whether physical, intellectual, political,
artistic, vocal, ete. Women of size take up
more physical space th an thin women and
many men. Sizism and fat oppression attempt
to dehumaniz.e these women whom, by virtue
of existing, defY a fundamental rule of sexism.
Women are encouraged and even commanded
to make ourselves as small as possible in all
ways, but this display of large fema,le torsos
defies that societal demand, proclaiming large
as a beautiful and powerful way to be,
In addi tion to the collective power these
works hold , each also has her individual

message. Th e artists have used paint, broken
mirror, wood , hair, words, and photos to
complete their works'. Some of the pieces
are subtle, offering space for mo~e than one
interpretation, while one is in- your-face
frank, stating "Olympia is home to 16 weight
loss c1i nics and 2 women's shelters." (Kinda
makes you wonder about our priorities,
eh?) Along with th e torsos are displays of
photographs , drawings, collages, and other
works, each reclaiming fatness as positive,
filling the space with a sense of celebration
of large bodies,
Now I want to take pause from my praise
for a moment and ask all of the women
reading this to take a minute and pond er
how much time, money, brain space, and/or
emotional energy you spend each week on
trying to lose weight or on wishing your body
was thinner. Realize that the energy patriarchy
has succeeded in harnessing from you on this
issue alone, putting it to use to make you and
other women less effective in your lives. Oh
yes, regardless of what our oh-so-respected
m'edical industry would have you believe,

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, 'Stop drinking 'Or ilwlJile. Take an .,.nconventional approach to one ofyour biggest personal
probkms tlJis wuk. Every day is Halloween, Every
day is a40 Christ}nM, so dress up like a monsUr
and give e"eryone you know presents, Put on your
S,:nday best--whm Tammy Faye Bakker gill" you

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Who brought the ba 'Y to the party? You're
foming this weeltmd"':'st;nking up the dance floor
with' your WD-40 pit-stains. How you gonna
handk that? Get your nails done, get your hairaid.
You;" in touch With tile
this wt!ek-~t'Xpms it
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our sociery's collective striving for thinness
ain't got nothin' to do with health. It's just 01'
daddy misogyny trying to make you obsess
endles sly about your body so that: a) you
won't have the time ro knock down the walls
of this cheap joint, and b) you'll make yourself
so thin and weak that you won't be strong
enough to knock 'em down , and c), d), e),
etc. are a bunch of other shitry reasons that
overall make you a less powerful member
of whatever revolution you may choose to
be a parr of. Not to mention simply taking
time away from things you enjoy - reading,
gardenin g, making art. writing computer
code, dancing, fixing your bike, licking pussy,
doing math problems, or whatever else tickles
your fancy and makes your life rich .
I magine how much you could accomplish
if you traded your mental and financial
allegiance to the multi-million dollar diet
industry that exists both to oppress you and
distract you from your oppression, and spend
the energy instead ro help create a revolution
like th ese women in the Fat Positive Collective

are doing. Don't let guilt and shame about
your body, whatever its size, seize any more
of your time and brilliance - pull your head
out of the patriarchal sand and put yer mind
where yer pussy is.
And to you men, who are reading this,
think about what you have done or said lately
ro perpetuate sexism or make a woman feel
like shit about her body, and repent. Then
get off your ass and go down to the Voyeur to
support radical fat activism and art. Nobody
forget to give the Voyeur thumbs up for using
their space for such a worthwhile thing, It
also couldn't hurt ro let the women in this
collective know how much they all rock,
how much you appreciate what they've done
and how much they've inspired you - and
believe me, they will. The Radical Fat Positive
Collective's art show will be at Le Voyeur, 404
4111 Ave, through the end of October.
Con tact
the
collective
ar
radfatolywa@hotmail.com.

by .Jerry Chiang
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The nice guys of rock and roll, hailing from Mesa; Arizona, are coil~ctivelykh~w~
as Jimmy Eat World. Such a name was probabl}' conSidered, upon its' in~ption,
s~mewhat pompo,us and greeted with snide remarks from cynics. Well, nic~guys<'do
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smugly chic genres of indie-space-art-sex-wave-trip-rock) portrays a ho peless, tortured
age of anxiety, then Beck 's Sea Chal/g e is a little glimpse of hopeful, remarkably
well-adjusted realiry,
On Sea Change, Beck is Britney Spe:1rS sitting on the couch all day in a pair of old
dirry (soiled) overalls, eating an extra-large meat-lover's pizz.a and drinking Oly beer until
she passes out. Beck is Thom Yorke making out with Brirney Spears for J. few hours,
BeckisJ,Lo laking, a, c,rap", My, ~1Q im is, 9IJ S¢'qql.clng ~ ,l? eck i s asroundingly human ~ ,
vulnerable, emorionally accessible and humble.
Touted rele ntlessly as Beck's most self-revealillg album, it willds up being the
least self-importallt album he's ever made. ' The songs reveal more about the universal
Heart of humanity and the self-doubting, struggling modern soul than any of his
previous efforts.
This album constitutes a marriage between Beck's singer/songwriter, folk (anti-folk)
influences and his more recent spit-shined studio freak-outs. The songs use primarily
"traditional" instruments (meaning fewer synth esizers, drum machines, vocoders
and computer magic), but have a smooth, studio-polished sound. The result is an
overwhelmingly real, gorgeously organic sound throughour the album that leaves more
breathing room than any Beck song has in quite awhile, The few synthetic sounds
that appear are beautiful, understated and effective. The album was produced by Nigel
Godrich (Radiohead, Travis, Beck's Mutations) .
And oh my goodness --- the album art is so fancy.
Sea Challge will make you feel forlorn and lonely (we all need that). Sea Change might
make you do sentimental things like drink Earl Grey tea, rip out whole pages of ex-friends
in your address book and burn them in your oven, water a plant, start a family, or even knit
a sweater for your gay uncle (you have one somewhere, believe me).

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It was just any other day on the Evergreen campus.
Students moved about across red square, the clouds were
hanging in the sky threatening to rain , the giant crane was
at work on the new building. Meanwhile in Gallery #4
of the Library, the very first art exhibition of the school
year tided New Idiom Painting was taking place. About
forry people showed up to the opening, which officially
began at 4:00 p,m. on Wednesday the 9th with showings
between 10:00 and 2:00 p.m. up through Nov 9th . The
five-artist show, which was compiled from work created
as piit of thel.iiidergtaduite program Vision Expression,
began with opening remarks from teacher/ curator Paul
The jeawl'ed artists of Ne w Idiom Painting bmk i1l the glow of opening
night,
Sparks who gave an informative discussion of the purpose
behind the class and the works that were accepted fo~
the exhibition.
"An Idiom is a kind of language. It's a mode of
expression, What it talks about is a target that we may nor necessarily have hit. ... I think the main agenda in our program
all along, has been a critique of contemporary art. . .. the critique that drove us or was part of our own dialog with the
communiry we had, was the notion that art has become academisized ... in a sense, art has become divorced from its' audience .... "
Sparks said during his opening discussion.
This was art created here in the Evergreen communiry, We may sometimes overlook the little things that as a whole make
this place great such as the wealth of artists and writers among the faculry, as well as in the student communiry, and the freedom
granted by Evergreen to pursue and share in our artistic endeavors.
I spoke briefly with Nathan Smith, one of the student painters in the show, about his thoughts on the matter of academic
and creative freedom granted to students and faculry at Evergreen. "I think more important than the freedom that Evergreen
has, was I think the value of my faculty."
The paintings on display by Casey Tompkins, Nathan Yovu, Tim Roberts, Nathan Smith and Chauney Peck, varied in sryle
and content, some touching on issues of sexuality, race, and just the good old poetry of everyday life, and are prime examples of
the rich diversiry behind the Evergreen art scene. From the beautiful multi-image sryling of Tim Roberts' "Texas" painting and
the highly abstract paintings ofChauney Peck, to the intriguing work by Nathan Smith, Evergreen has proven with this first art ~
exhibition, thar the art scene here is nothing if not specracular.
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If Quenrin Taramino received royalties from movies that have tri ed miserably at intimating his cult-classic. Reservoir Dogs. he would have enough
cash-money to out-bling-bling Master P
Knockaroulld Guys is another addit ion to the niche of Reservoir Dogs imitators, except this film is so horrendous that it gives the cheap inlitators
a bad name. If Samue l L. Ja ckson, reprising his role as Jules from Pulp Fi ction. had seen this movi e, Jackso n wou ld have excla im ed, "that's so me
fucked-up repugnant sh it! "
For the sake of thi s review, I shall compare Knockaround Guys to Reservoir Dogs. Kllockaroulld GIIYS is about a group of whiny, scraw ny, stupid and clumsy
guys who want to be "made" in the ~afia world . These unfortunate idiots are led by Barry Pepper, the son of modern-day Don Corleone, played by Dennis
Hopper (without relish), who is trying his best to prove his worth in the "family."
Seth Green, who made audiences laugh as the wise-ass son of Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers trilogy, plays a real bumbling ass, and presumably the filmmakers
cast him for some co medic effe ct. It is a shame he wasn't ve ry funny.
When Pepper gets an ass ignment from his old man. a simple task of pi ck in g up a bag of money. Pepper gives the pi ckup job to Green becau se he has a one-e ngi ne
plane. The film picks up when G reen fucks up the ass ignment and forces Barry and his friends to fini sh up the job.
This is where Yin Diesel, the unbelievably mu scular hunk who made female aud ience members orgasm by merely taking off hi s jacket, comes in as the tough
guy who will supposedly save the day. Yin Diesel is pretty much the male version of a Hollywood bimbo. His job is to look good on the screen and fl ex some
muscles, whereas a Hollywood bimbo's job is to look good and show some cleavage.
Admittedly, Diesel 's performance in The Fast and the Furiolls was enjoyable. Diesel's performan ce in Knockaf"OlIIu/ Guys. wh ich was film ed before
The Fast alld th e Furiolls and XXX, is as effective as a limp di ck. Diesel literally has two sce nes where he shows off his muscle by bashing video game
arcade machines and beating the li ving fuck o ut of a Montana redneck . The on ly hi gh light of the film was when the redneck got his ass kicked, because
[ enjoy seeing red necks getting fucked up in movies.
When the goon squad can't seem to get the job done, Pepper's uncl e, the gleefully psychoti c John Malkovich, comes and cleans up the mess. I don't need to
elaborate any further on Malkovich, except that he does a wonderful job as a psyc ho, a role that has become a career stap le fo r him .
I will say nothing more about what goes on in the film , but instead rant o n about why the movie is so bad.
In Reservo ir Dogs, the action sce nes are violent and succinct, yet very pungent and powerful. In this movie, the actions scenes are sparse, ineffectively
directed and downright lifeless. In Kllockaro/./lul Guys. during the fin al scene where the Mexican standoff takes place, the tension doesn't even get built up
and the characters just shoot one a nother without explo iting the situ atio n for dramatic suspense. In Reservoir Dogs. the characte rs are multi-dimensional
and skillfully developed. Who could ever forget the loquacio us Mr. Pink and the psychotic Mr. Blonde? Reservoir Dogs also features smart, witty and acerbic
dialogues. In Knockaround Guys, the characters' personalities are non-existent and flat as a saltine cracker. The dialogue is asinine, and don't even get me
started on Diesel's di alogue, which basically consists of him grunring.
All in all, this ftlm should have stayed in Hollywood limbo. There is a reaso n why the film was put on hold indefinitely, even though it was supposed to be
released in January of 2001. If you want to see a real action/crime drama and witness what true velocity and ferocity can do to an audience, then save some
money and rent Reservoir Dogs. Look at it this way-if you want to read a book about war and its devastating impact on society and human relationships,
you should read Tolstoy, Crane or Faulkner, not Tom Clancy.

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sheets are the typical noise makers, it
College Recreation Center gymnais not unusual to see traditional marchsium following a men's basketball game ing instruments, such as trumpets or
without experiencing the "Pot Heads", saxophones adding their voice.
the unofficial band for each and every
"You associate the "Pot Head" band
home
with Evergreen State," added Coach
Basketball
game
permanently Barbee.
recorded on memory.
But what is interesting, is that not
Comprised of Evergreen students, hide-nor-hair have been seen of the "Pot
this ever changing number of metallic
Heads" this fall.
Musicians, grab whatever piece of
In an unprecedented first, both
metal cookware and wooden utensil the women and men soccer teams are
they can find, congregate outside the turning
dorms and begin a rhythmic parade
heads on the college soccer scene,
across the athletic fields before each with each team currently ranked fifth in
home basketball game. Their unique NAIA Region I, the men for the second
sound can usually be heard emanating week in a row.
from the upper rows of the bleachers in
"I dig them ," said men's soccer player
the gym. opposite the home bench.
Kinnan Murray, in this third season.
"The 'Pot Heads' are a cornerstone "They bring school spirit, with enthusito our fan base," said head men's bas- asm. "
ketball coach John Barbee. "No place
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this season, by both the men and women's teams, on only one occasion has
there been any facsimile of the notorious band. During the Arno Zoske
Tournament, the weekend of August
30th, a lone tom-tom player beat out a
rhythm for the men's team.
"It would be nice to have them at
our games," Kinnan added. "To go as
far as we can go we need a home field
advantage. "
On the current six game home
stand, there are only four more opportunities for the Pot Heads to play at a
women's soccer game. This Friday they
host first place Concordia at 3:00 p.m.
on Field 4. Next weekend, Friday and
Saturday, they play Southern Oregon
and Oregon Tech, respectively, at 2:00
p.m.
In all likelihood the women will
see post season play. However. in the
Cascade Conference format, the first
place team hosts a two-day tournament.

Currently the women (6-3) reside in
third place, three and a half, games
behind Concordia (lO-O).
"This has been an incredible year for
soccer at Evergreen," Kinnan remarked.
"More than I have seen in the last four
years."
On the road this weekend, the men's
team has three remaining home games:
Thursday (Oct
17th) against
Concordia, Saturday (Oct 19th) against
Cascade, and Friday (Oct 25) against
Albertson .
"Our schedule this year is perfectly
suited for a conference title stretch run,"
said co-head coaches Tom Boatright and
Andy Hill. "We beat Albertson at home
(2-1 Oct 22) and lost to Concordia
(2-1) in overtime last weekend."
The men's league uses a different
format for the Cascade Conference
Tournament. If the men's soccer
team finishes either first or second they
will host a playoff game, scheduled for
November 8-9.

Home

Away

Overall

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Away

(4-2-0)

(2-4-0)

(6-7-0)

(3-5-0)

(3-2-0)

(2- 1-0)

(2-2-0)

(0-0-0)

(6-4-0)

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L
L
L
W

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1-0
1-2
0-1
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3-2
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at Pacific Lutheran
at George Fox
Northwest
Walla Walla
at Albertson
Western Bap'tist
Western Pacific
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at Cascade
at Western Baptist

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9
9

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at Concordia
Seadle Universiry
at Western Baptist
at Cascade
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at Oregon Tech
at Southern Oregon
Eastern Oregon
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W

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It could be said that familiarity makes
for a tougher opponent.
However, the simple truth is that the
two teams, Evergreen (2-6 Conf, 4- 13
Overall) and Pacific Lutheran (3-3 Conf,
8- 5 Overall), who faced each other for
the second time this season, were in good
mid-season form.
The floor general for the Lutes was
junior setter Jenne Heu-Weller, who
lead her team to a
3-1 (30-17, 15-30,
30-24,30-28) victory over
the
Geoducks.
Sophomores
Julie Locke and
Heather Johnson
provided
the
power for PLU's
offense, recording 17 and 11 kills respectively.
Evergreen's attack res ted in th e arms
of se nior Co rtn ey Bra ndon (Pomeroy,
WaiPomeroy HS.) wh o pounded out
13 kill s, and freshman Kristen Barrley
(Lubbock , Tx/Monterey I-lS.) who found
the empty spot on th e fl oor 12 times in
four games.
As th e sco re sh ows, PLU came out
focused and domin ant in the first game.
After on ly twenty-eigh t serves th e Lu tes
lead 19-9, never giv ing the Geoducks a
chance to get into the game.
Sophomore Hanna Plunk (Broomfield ;
Co , Broomfield HS .) and se nior walk-on
Jessica Smith (Miami, FI/Fairfield Senior
HS.), who suited up for the first time this
season, controlled the second game fo r
Evergreen. Each rolled off at least four

consecutive points each time they stood
behind the service line.
With a 15-9 lead in game three it
appeared that PLU was designed for another
quick win . Freshman outside-hitter Elyse
John so n (Elko, Nv/Elko HS.) got the
Geoducks back into the game, but HeuWeller awoke the dozing Lutes, who held
on for a 30-24 win .
It was a refusal to die that brought PLU
back in game
four. Trailing
9-19 the Lutes
nailed eleven
kills,
committing three
errors, to tie the
score at 28 all.
.. The
key to us turning game four around, " sa id PLU head
coac h Kevin Aoki, "was the girls' understan ding that we could not trade po ints. We
had to play defen se and make Eve rgree n
pbyball."
Joh nso n's se rvice ace gave PLU a 29-28
lead . Johnson's ki ll , on a set by Hen -Weller
gave PLU the crucial 30-28 win .
When asked if the Eve rg ree n/PLU
ga mes were developing i~ro a rivalry,
Evergreen assista nt coach Donna Lasey
firmly said , "NO. C oach Aoki is a grea t
guy and we look forward to pl ay in g aga inst
his team ."
Next on th e agenda for Everg ree n i:s
a three gam e road trip on subse quent
weekends. The Geod ucks will not be home
until Friday, Oct 25, wh e n th ey ho st
Warner Pacific at 7:00 p.m. in the College
Recreation Center.

"We had to play
defense and
make Evergreen
play ball."

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heart wanted to vote for Nader but ultimately chose the dems, had actually followed their
instinct, than the Green Party may have achieved its goal and a profound statement would
have been made. Instead, the Closet Nader supporters compromised and did not uni,te
with the number of others that were in their same position as themselves.
On the other hand, it should be seriously nored thar (as exhibited by Wednesday's
audience) a large amount of Nader's support comes from the upper and middle class, most
of them white folk. These people have the ideals of the collective good in mind, however
what might be most effective for the minorities and people of color that are hurt from
the Bush administration, is an immediate remedy, or at least some amount of immediate
relief. This immediate relief may come from a compromise. In a sense, choosing Nader
over the democrats can be seen as a privileged perspective, and may not be helping
out those who need immediate assistance the most. In a world of many autocracies,
one optimistic viewpoint is to acknowledge the fact that at least we have a dual party
system, and choosing the better of the two may be the best we can do under these
constrictive circumstances.
Unfortunately we were left with Bush winning the electoral vote by a trivial (maybe
even fraudulent) margin, Gore winning the popular vote but not the electoral, and
Nader not getting his five percent. Was the Green Party responsible for such a lackluster
outcome, and furthermore, with such an outcome, do they justify their own existence?
In another two years we can only hope there will be a similar scenario, with a third party
candidate on the margins of rhe race. The minority at Evergreen unable to deliberate
in such a way [\.,.0 years ago must go through the critical process of examining what
the greater good actually is. and use sound action. Having Ralph was enlightening and
essential, but questioning Ralph's existence is equally so.

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temptation to personalize evil (or good).
What will make my opponent want to
work with me, or even to just listen
to me? What will inspire my neighbor
to join a neighborhood association, a
boycott or a petition drive?

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I think we can build Thurston
County into a healthy
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If we use the golden rule, as was suggested in an introduction remark, I think we
can build Thurston County into a healthy democracy. Unfortunately, not many are
willing to do the real work that it takes.
If we set an example in each of our individual lives free of hypocrisy - keep our
"family" support systems as strong as possible and stay tirelessly alert to ways (like
voting) that make democracy work, true respect and dialogue with our opponents
can be generated. It is possible that on occasion someone else may even have a better
idea about something than we do!
Nader has many good ideas, is a very courageous man and is an incredibly devoted
advocate for American and human rights. He has a big agenda. I especially like that part
of the agenda that reminds us of the work that we can all do right here at home,

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The project is currently envisioned as consisting of three parts, all of which are wheelchair
accessible. First, the "Campus Core Walkway" will link the third-floor lobby in,the rear of the Library
Building to the forest directly behind it. Second, we have designed a "Seminar Pod" that will be
connected to the Core Walkway that will serve as a covered but open space 60 feet above the ground
for seminars, meetings, and meditation. The third element is the Wildlands Suspension Bridge that
will traverse a steep ravine near the Evergreen Beach Trail.
"Well, where is it?" you ask. Evergreen is currently raising the funds to construct and maintain
it. The estimated total cost for the projecr is $1.7 million, which includes an endowment for
maintenance and site protection. To date, fund-raising efforts of the Evergreen Foundation resulted in
nearly $100,000 in pledges and cash. Recently, we received $30,000 from Debbi and Paul Brainerd,
who are prominent supporters of regional fijf'ironmenral projects. In spring, 2002, we submitted a
proposal for $500,000 for the walkway projrcc to the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. Their program
director recently visited our campus, and they will make a funding decision in November.
Your support is welcomed . To learn more about the project, visit the walkway website at
<hrtp:llwww.evergreen.edu/walkway>. You can also stop by the Forest Canopy Lab, located in Lab I,
Room 3064. We have "Canopy Lab Lunches" every Monday from 12: 15-1 :30, and anyone is welcome
to come by and learn more about what we're up to. If you wish to con tribute financially to the project,
please contact The Ever~reen FoundatilJn in Library 3122, extension 6300.
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shoes amd expressing appreciation for what they do right, inspires good timing and
focused messages. I can think of several people and organizations in Olympia who have
alr.eady put this strategy to work. It can be done without compromising the truth. eady
pur this strategy to work. It can be done without compromising the truth. Our actions
prove our words and eventually make our words heard.

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some experts warned that "a prolonged American military occupation
ofIraq could inflame the t~nsi~f.s in
the Mideast and American m~itary
occupation of Iraq could inflame
the tensions in the Mideast and the
Muslim world ." Groups competing
for power or auronomy could be
violently repressed by U.S forces for
revolting.
The transition to an Iraqi civilian
government is supposed to occur in
a period of months to years. Similar
scenarios include post-World War II
Japan where U.S. military command
ruled for 6 and a half years, and
in Germany where U.S . military
command lasted for 4 years, and U.S .
military troops are still stationed in
these countries. Such a long-term

deployment in Iraq, an important
Muslim country, could increase
anti-American sentiment in the
region and exacerbate violent political repression from which terrorism
will emerge.
The Bushadminisrration's plan
for the military occupation ofIraq,
despite being illegal under international law, is ar rogantly se lfinterested and seemingly dangerous.
This will be a long, violent and
expensive commitment th at will
provoke heightened versions of
the violent, repressive and impoverished circumstances it claims to be
designed to eradicate.
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more Americana oriented material at the Limelight.
Opening will be C.Gibbs and the Cardia Bros. Tickets
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