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volume 31 • issue 20 • march 6, 2003
Runners-up Left Behind
Continuing Coverage ofEvergreen Scholarship Woes
by EriCa NelSoo
Why?
Stop!
Most people stop as~ing it ou~ loud at age six.
I still haven't declded to qUlt.
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It's a question that bothers me every Slngle second.
Help me, I'm stuck in this oversized/ fis~PO~d!
Why, if you have a prob!em, do you riot flX It?
Why, if you are upset wlth me,
do you ignore it to such a degree?
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Why do you wake up everyday and not doanythlng about It .
I'm not just talking about that thing you're thinking
about·
I'm talking about everything that you just block out.
Why is it, that an educated man, with all the right degrees
can sit behind a desk and make several decrees?
That sentences someone to a cage,
Where they are tortured and made to behave?
So tell me, why is it that we do this to other humans?
Why is it that we put up with everyth~ng
Why is it that we talk and talk but glve away
all of our youth to idle conv~rsations,
about projects and demonstratlons?
Why is it that we lie to ourselves,
over and over?
I know I do.
I think I am soooo comfortable·
That I have forgotten what it was like,
sitting in that country,
watching the children flee
Watching the United States bombing for liberty!
Scream!
If we don't do something about it now, we'll pay later.
We'll pay when the orphaned child~en of Iraq grow up,
Angry and passionate about on~ thlng,
.
Paying us back for all the grlef and strlfe,
We're about to kill their parents :
There's nothing you can do about lt,
Except make a change.
It was students like you and me,
that used this democracy,
To bring down the war machine,
that sent our boys off in green,
"Well its one, two, three, what are we fighting for?
Don't ask me I don't ~ive a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam. '*
*A quote from Joe Cocker
I ' l l tell you how it works· You give us your
freedoms one at a time, and I promlse you we'll keep
you safe. How else can we make sure no one is. robb~ng
you without a camera in , y'our face? The medla trles
to threaten you. Be afraid· Buy a gun! D~dn' t you
notice that someone got murdered last nlght? YOlo tu
didn't? Well, watch tonight and we'll show you
three times: 5 p.m., 10 p.m., and 11 p.m. What? Of
can't at six, that's when the networks
~ ~ ~ 1: s ea 1 ~ e the i r t ric k s • Gr e e d nee d s the g r e e nan d
thus must advertise.
work
Ove r $30,000 do ll ars wort h of
scholarships were not awa rded last yea r
due to small or negat ive re t urns on
invesred scho lars hip mo ney.
T he sc ho larships we re offered to
stu de nts. But so m etim es a stu de nt
may, fo r many reasons, have to decl ine
a scholarship offe red to rh e m. Usuall y
thar scholarship is passed on ro the nexr
altern are in rhe pool of applica nrs.
Bu r last yea r n i n e scholars hi ps
were n't passed on . No awards were
paid .
Eve ry yea r, there are so m e scho larships thar can't be re-awarded after the
f am a reservist for peac~, callid. up. to .ai:ti~( dll'tyio.dl/end ;thhtfftty and s~curitj of a/l f~opk, not just
origi nal student refuses ir. Somerimes
Americans. We cannot go on with business as usl/al, By .consumlng and commuting, we re coinp licit in the if rhe scho larsh i p recei vt:r It:aves
killing. By stoppin/; the wheels-ofco i1l7~erce, stop the;w heels.ofwar. By destroying my engfne, 1 tak~ a
Evergreen in rhe middle of rhe year,
hammer to the engme. ofthe war machm e, fiuled by my p aymer: tr atth: p ump,. I!y Mstr(!lmg my. cll:" 1
rhey u sua ll y don 'r Ie-awa rd the
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of innocents in countrieJ they have nfIJer visited, tdki11g th~ lives ofpeople they have nroer met. Prowt
,~em a I n I n g am o u n t. o men m es ,
the politit;it1m? Protest the ¢orporations? ~ have found t~e enemy and it is us. We are Bush's willing
Enrollment Se rVi ces, rhe office that
{'x{'wtioners. Wrtds not a game. War is not diplomacy. war is murder. sanerioned by the gopcmment.
h a n(\\c s sc h o lar , h i p a pp\ ica l ion s,
"Cars ba/le maimed or injured 250 millioll peopli:, "and killedmore Americans than have died in -a ll
sends our more offe rs tha n they l13 ve
w(/rs in the countlis histOlJ'. ., (Hawken.. Pdlil Naturid Capitalism: Creating the Next i ndustrial_
dol lars for because dH:y expect a lo t of
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Students Discuss Scholarship Problems
Ryan Gran ill o is a grad uate s tude nt in the M IT program . He got a
scholarship this year for masters students tha r paid one quarrer of ruition.
"Ir rook me a coup le days ro rhin k abou t, and a cou ple of drafts . .. [wrote
two sepa rare essays and a res ume." H e rh inks the work was well wo rth ir.
''I'm taking o ut a rrem endo us amou nt of student loans, its helping m e
have less deb r. "
H e was d isturbed by th e el imin ation of sc ho larships th is year. "They
ra ise t uitio n and th en t hey're el imina ti ng ways to m ake ed uca rio n more
affordabl e? That's not right."
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somerimes, th ey ide nrify alrt:rnJre
candidares for re-awardin g, and if all rhe
alterllJ res are run through and nor one of
rhem takes it, they may not re-award·.
Michelle El hardr in Enro ll menr Services
said, ''T here have been years we have;: liot
re-awarded , but th ose years it was so late
in rhe ga m e .. . or we had ro make a new
process of scoring applicants."
Bur she said t hi s is rhe fi rsr year rha t
so m e sc ho la rsh ips we re not re-awa rd ed
due to the fina ncial tro ubles of scholarshi p
acco unrs.
Specifically, Enrollment Services iden tifled the T hayer Raymond , First People's and
the Fo undation scholarships as those that
we re no r re-awarded because of fI nancia l
rro ubl e.
F rank McGovern is r he head of the
Eve rg ree n Fo und at io n . T h e fo un dation
is a non-profi t company - separare from
th e co llege - se t up specifica ll y to rai se
money fo r Eve rg ree n . T he coll ege gives
t he fo und ation ove r $500,000 in staff
salaries and benefits, office space, supp lies,
erc., to o perare eac h year. T he founda rion
also o perates usi ng mo ney that it rai ses
ill fu n draisi n g. All money do n ared for
sc ho la rship s is rh e respo nsib il ity of the
fo u ndatio n .
W hen as ked abou t the scholarsh ips that
we ren'r re-awarded lasr yea r, McGovern said,
"I don't know anyr h ing abou t rh ar. "
Sharon Harr ison works. for rhe foundarion , and she has been dealing wirh many
of rhe problems ca used by the la c k of
scholarship fund s.
She sa id of lasr year's situa tion , U\Y/e
jusr cou ld nor promise what we did not
have the mon ey to give ou r ... We wt:re
hoping to gain jusr a few more bucks to
give to srud ents rha r we re a lread y prom ised
-scholarshi ps." So me sc holarship money nor
re-awarded wa s diverred to orher sc hola rships thar were undt:r-funded.
Harr iso n found money to prop up th e
sc ho la rships from many different sources .
"I felr a lot of pe rso nal obl igarion ro find
the money ro fu lfi ll t hose prob lt:ms ... I
rea lly dug deep ro find those ex tra fund i .. .
No stud ent rhar was pro m ised anything
was denied ."
Enro llm e nt Services makes the fina l
decisio n no t to fe-awa rd.
Lasr sum mer and this year as well , rhe
lac k o f fund s h as b ee n b lame d o n t h e
eco nomy and resulting poor perfo rma nce
o f fo undati o n investm e nr s. Sc h o la rship
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survival guide full of checklists and advice so
that we ca n all "do the simple things you can
do now to prepare yourself and your loved
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Have a chance to check out the newly
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Readygov website yet? Whether you're legitimately worried about terrorism, or you're a
cynical fuckhead Greener looking for a quick
laugh like .myself, Ready.gov might have what
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March 7, 2003
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Save
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Now!
With spring around the corner, now is
the perfect time to quiz the experts with
your hardest gardening questions. Starting
As you may be aware, Art Costantino, March 11, Ciscoe Morris and Marianne
Vice President for Student Affairs, has Binetti will be in town to teach a series of
been reviewing our current arming policy waterwise gardening classes.
Classes taught by Ciscoe Morris
in response to a request by the Union.
As part of this review, he has asked include:
"So Many Plants, So Little Space:
for a report from me and input from
the Police Services Community Review Waterwise Garden Design for the Urban
Board, which has been hosting forums, Garden," on Tuesday, March II from 7
visiting housing students, and meeting to 9 p.m. and, "Natural Lawn Care" on
with specific constituencies. The Union, Tuesday, March 25 from 7 to 9 p.m.
Marianne Binetti will .teach the class
as part of its request, asked that an
"No
Work, No Watering: Building Your
off-campus expert provide advice. In
Landscape
Around Garden Accents and
response to ·this request, all community
Tough Plants" on Tuesday, March 18
members are invited to attend a forum
from 7 to 9 p.m.
to discuss Police Standard Operating
All participants will be able to win
Procedure, specifically the "Limited
gardening related door prizes, including
Arming" component. A visiting consula free rain barrel. The City of Olympia
tam, Vicky Pelzer, Chief of the University Water Resources Program is offering
of Washington Police Department and these classes. There will be a fee of$5 per
member of the Association of Campus class, and pre-registration is required. To
Law Enforcement Administrators, will register, call (360) 753-8380.
be on campus March 7 from 12:30 p.m.
Rain barrels are back by popular
to 1: 50 p.m. to listen to faculty, staff
demand . The City of Olympia will
and students. This will be an excellent hold a rain barrel sale on Saturday, April
opportunity for you to express your views 26, from 10:00 a.m . to Noon on the
about campus police carrying firearms corner of Thurston Avenue and Jefferson
during daylight hours. Chief Peltzer Street in downtown Olympia. City water
will also be consulting with the Police customers who have reserved barrels may
Services Community Review Board, The pick them up between 10 and 11 a.m.
Deadly Force Review Board, Campus on the sale date.
Over 300 gallons of water drains from
Police Officers, Union Representatives, .
Vice President Costantino and Steve the average roof during just one half inch
of rainfaU. Rain barrels are a great way to
Huntsberry.
store some of that water for later use on
small gardens and potted plants.
The 50-gallon plastic barrels are fitted
with brass spigots and screened water
inlets. The price per barrel is $20, tax
included, with a limit of 3 per customer.
Downspout diverters, which direct water
out of your downspout and to your
rain barrel, will be sold for $10 apiece.
The diverters are made to fit standard,
The Cooper Point Journal and the rectangular metal downspouts.
The ~e is open to water customers of
Evergreen Political Information Center
the
City of Olympia only, and supplies
will be working together to bring you
a special section in next week's paper are limited. Call Chris Jackson at (360)
devoted to student activism and organiz- 753-8271 to be placed on the reservation
ing at Evergreen. Our goal is to facilitate a list.
City of Olympia sewer customers can
dialogue among politically active students
also
save water a'n d reduce wastewater
that will help to raise awareness about the
many diverse organizing efforts on this flows by installing free water. saving
campus, as well as build Solidarity among kits. Kits include low-flow showerheads,
those of w working for social change. We kitchen and bathroom faucet aerators,
are currently a<;cepting essays, artwork, leak 'detection tablets and installation
poetry, activist event updates, group instructions.
Call Olympia's CityLine at 753-4444,
profiles, or any other Evergreen student
activist related contributions for the ext. 8390 to reserve a free water saving
last CPJ of Winter quarter. This issue kit.
will be released on Thursday, March
15 . . If you have.' a submission for this
special section, you can either e-mail
s:ve[~rcenactiyists@hotmaiJ.CQm or drop
Mi<;hael Cunningham, author of the
it off at the CPJ or EPIC offices by book the screenplay of the Dec. 2002 film
3:00 pm on Monday the 10. If you are Th~ Hours is based on, is scheduled to
also interested in working to' create a appear at Pierce College in Puyallup at 7
regularly released publication dedicated p.m., Tuesday, April 8 . The Pulitzer Prize
to maintaining this ongoin~ dialogue, winning book also earned a PEN/Faulkner
please come to EPIC's weekly meetings in award for Cunningham. Tickets are $15
Library 3500 on Wednesdays at 4:00pm. ($10 Pierce students). A .book signing
If you can't make it, send us an e-mail or and reception will follow Cunningham's
drop by the office.
lecture in room L244 of the Brouillet
Library/Science Building, Pierce Gollege
Student
Activism
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Performing and Media Arts at The
Evergreen State College
Presents
"Consonant"
A Butoh dance theater performance
DATES:
TIME:
PLACE:
Friday and Saturday, March 7 & 8, 2003
8 p.m.
Communications Building Room 209 at The
Evergreen State College
ADMISSION:
$5 at the door
PARKING:
$1.25 on Friday, March 7
INFORMATION:
(360) 867-6833 or www.eyergreen.edu/
acadpres
"Consonant" was collaboratively choreographed by three students during Winter
quarter. These three students began dancing together at Evergreen in the fall of 200 1.
Inspired by glacial landscapes and the inner workings of animal bodies, "Consonant" is
built from imagery gathered from the student directors' current academic work. Two
of the directors have been exploring themes of compassion and catharsis in the context
of holocausts and genocide, while the third has been studying the interrelations of
sickness and various healing modalities, including dance therapy.
The ottter dancers have varied levels of experience with the dance form. Some
having begun working with Butoh just this quarter, while others have studied
it for many years.
Butoh dance originated in post-World War II Japan. Drawing on the traditional
Japanese performance forms of Noh and Kabuki, it is a modern dance form that
breaks with classical Western forms, particularly in the way it de-emphasizes the
individual dancer. From the two founders of Butoh, Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno
Kazuo, two distinct lineages of the form exist. The connection with Ohno Butoh
lineage is clearly present in the calm, emotion-based works of Butoh dance theater
created at Evergreen under the guidance of Doranne Crable.
"Consonant" is the first in a number of performances the group will be presenting
to the community this spring. The next performance will be part of the Chatauqua
held at Evergreen during the month of April. Another performance will take place
in Evergreen's Experimental Theatre on May 8, 9 and 10, and the group will perform
at Super Saturday on June 14.
Campus Evergreen
Advocacy Students
Program!
.for
Would you like to learn about providing legal, medical, and emotional
advocacy to survivors of sexual violence?
The Campus Advocacy Program (CAP)
through TESC Office of Sexual Assault
Prevention (OSAP) is currently looking
for people who want to work as advocates.
The CAP will provide advocacy services
to survivors of sexual violence 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week. Training for this
program starts March 24. We pay for the
training and you get the opportunity to
do life-changing work. After completing
the training, you will become part of
a team that will come together during
the 2003-2004 academic year to offer
support to survivors. If interested, pick
up an application outside the OSAP in
Seminar I, room 4130, All appliCations
must be dropped off to the Counseling
Center, Seminar I room 4126, by March
14. If you have questions, please call
OSAP at 867-5221. All genders welcome!
Ideological
Diversity
Our goal is to provide resources and
support to moderate and conservative
students, or anyone interested in fostering
a diverse spectrum of political thought.
We seek to counter wllat we perceive as
the abuses of Evergreen's radical Left,
including indoctrination in the classroom
and suppression of alternative perspec- .
tives. We seek to revive the spirit of
dialogue, lively debate, and free exchange
of ideas- all of which is sadly lacking in
the community, We need your support.
Please contact us at esid03@yahoo.com.
Author of The Hours to Appear at Pierce College
Puyallup, 1601 39th Ave. S.E.
The event is sponsored by Puyallup
Student Programs. For tickets or information, call (253) 840-8416 or stop by
Gaspard Administration Building room
A120.
Cunningham's book is based on his
longstanding fascination with Virginia
Woolf's novel, Mrs. Dalloway. The characters in his book are deeply influenced
by Woolf's novel as well. Julianne Moore,
Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep portray
them in the film version directed by
Stephen Daldry, who has also directed
Billy Elliot.
Cunningham's work has appeared in
Th~
Th~
Atlantic Monthly. R~dbook, Esquire,
N~w Yorka, Vogurt' and other
renowned publications. He has also
published two other novels titled, A home
at th~ ' End of tht' World 'and Flesh and
Blood.
Commentary
bY Matthew FOrd
ee sUna Ie toistinguish Killing from Liberation
By promoting wild fantasies of liberation for the people of Iraq the Bush
Regime has, until recently, genuinely
ignored the high cost of human life sure
to result from a US sponsored attack,
invasion, and military occupation of
densely populated cities. The price of
'collateral damage,' we are to believe, is as
usual , worth it. However, such blatant lies
cannot withstand even superficial scrutiny,
so the administration has been forced to
devi se new propaganda consistent with
what is ever more obvious.
A senior defense official on February
27 admirred that a US attack "could
result in a very high number of casualties
.. . certainly in the thousands." This
estimate is substantially less than the UN
estimate of 500,000 and comes with some
qualifications that appear to be anempts
at justifying and rallying support for a
large-scale massacre.
The high civilian casualties will result
for two reasons we are told. The first
claim, shamelessly repeated in the New
York Times, the Washington Post, and
other major sources, is that "the emerging
Iraqi strategy is to try to create an urban
warfare environment in Baghdad where
you have a dense civilian population,
potentially a high number of casualties,
humanitarian problems, mass exodus."
The absurdity of this statement cannot
be underestimated given the seriousness
of the issue.
The Bush Administration has stated
explicitly that they intend to overthrow
the current Iraqi regime and occupy
the country, in order to ' build a truly
democratic society.' To be successful in
these aims the US military would have
to capture key infrastructure including
military installations, media outlets, and
key areas of Baghdad and Basra. The Iraqi
strategy is not to create 'urban warfare,'
but to defend their infrastructure from
foreign invasion .
By placing responsibility on the lraqi
military planners for the high civilian
casualties the administration hopes to
transfer the blame to Saddam Hussein,
essentially wiping their own hands clean
of the blood . To repeat: the US cannot
'liberate' Iraq without entering densely
populated areas. Iraqi military strategy
is to defend these densely populated
areas from foreign invasion. No sane
person would act surprised by this type
of military planning. Who would expect
that generals in Iraq would send their
troops out into the desert (like Gulf
War I) while a foreign superpower plans
to "shock and awe" their country by
dropping gross amounts of bombs on
their cities? Iraqi generals are not luring
the US into urban warfare, the US is
invading urban areas. A US invasion will
r~sult
in Math and Mstruction!
The second claim is less dubious, yet
still suspect. Senior defense officials are
Empire &
bY Nicbalas Stanislawski
In the crowded library lobby, peo ple filled
most of the seats and sat all along the first
sectio n of stairs last Thursday. Several cameras
wqe strategicall y placed aro und the room . A
tab le faci ng the door held an arrangement of
va riou s political pamphlets .
The first speaker, Alan Nasser, a political
economist , spok e of Bush's new forei g n
policy. Nasse r warned about the decision of
Ihe Unil ed Stal es to make war againsl Iraq
without Ih e supp ort of allies or the UN.
Nasse r ex plained th at Bush and Rum sfeild
so ught the right to go after any Ihrea t, real
or potential, and that the US could lobate
no equal s. Nasser went on 10 talk about
oil, saying there was a projected increase
in its use, and th at our leaders wanted to
de crease dependence on Saudi Arabia's oil.
Nasser warned of Rumsfeild's effort to create
a proactive, preemptive operations unit that
would provoke terrorist acts. He related th e
plan to a previously rejected proposal to frame
C uba for various terrorist acts.
The next speaker, Therese Saliba, a professor of Middle Eastern and Women's studies,
called the US partnership with Israel an "axis
of oil ." She said Israel is playing a policing role
in the region. The possibility of war creates
fear among the Palestinians Ihat Israel will use
th e opportunity for ethnic cleansing. Saliba
claimed a double standard in the invocation of
human rights and UN vio lations: the US uses
Saddam's human rights violations as a reason
to altack while sanc tions have killcd over a
million Iraq is. Furthermore, the US supports
vio lation s by Israel, and ve toes resolutions
made aga inst it. Saliba went on to mention
that 33 Palestinians were kill ed last week and
that one and a quart er peoplc's lives were in
da nge r if there is a war.
Rick Fell ows, ac tivist and Evergree n alum ,
spoke nex t. He outlin ed how the Rockefellers
introduced the idea that oil in the ground
is priva te prop e rt y. Fellows went on to
Oil
apparently worried that Saddam has built
munitions bunkers next to schools, set
up a key military conttol center beneath
an orphanage that houses more than
1,000 children, and stationed anti-aircraft
guns on the roof of a media building
where foreign journalists often visit .
Furthermore, Saddam has also parked
military equipment next to mosques and
precious cultural and religious shrines .
Such tactics are what "worry" the officials
that there will be "thousands" of causalities.
Supposing these claims are true,
shouldn't we expect that Saddam Hussein
should do anything different? If Olympia
were being invaded by a rogue superpower
would we be justified in setting guns atop
our roofs or anti-aircraft guns near our
schools and water treatment facilities,
our orphanages, our radio stations, to
prevent the invaders from destroying our
ability to communicate information and
protect the most vulnerable elements of
our society? Perhaps I am mistaken here.
Perhaps Saddam Hussein's intentions are
entirely "evil." Perhaps he is setting up
these weapons to create outrage in the
international community. Perhaps he
plans to use "human shields," which lately
appears to be a euphemism for soldiers.
What then?
The point doesn't change: the Bush
Administration has no right to be invading a foreign country and bombing their
There was 'a protest on Monday,
February 24, against th e war on Iraq at
the campus of the America n University
of Ca iro. Abou t 300 students took part
in ,.the demon stration. At least as many
police were in the area to contro l the
proceedings and prevent outsiders from
lOllllng In.
The o rganizers planned to march from
th e cam pus onto the streets of do~ ntown
Cairo, but the government did not allow
thi s to happen. After an hour of negotiation s, it was agreed that the st udents
wQuld on ly b,e allowed into the street in
the form o f a silent, single-file march that
went a total distance of one city block and
ended up on another part of the campus.
The marchers walked between two rows
of police in riot gear.
,
After the march, the protes ters ~athered
to chant, wave signs, and give speeches.
They were on ly allowed to do this on
campus with a fence between them and
the ge neral public. One hundred or so
police stood outside the fence to make
sure the demonstration did not spread
to the street. Passers-by were not allowed
to stop and observe the proceedings.
Some students climbed up the fence and
unfurled a farge Iraqi flag, while others
waved Arabic "No War" signs.
This was a fairly large event for Egypt.
People who organize similar events for the
general public, without the protection
of an elite university, sometimes end up in
jail for extended periods of time without
berween Democrats and Republi ca ns. Fellows
response was that the appa ratus of the state
remains the sa me when different people are in
power. Nasser added that there is a momentum
to policy, and res istance on the st reets will
ca use change. Another question : could war be
An interview with Carol Burns
schools and orphanages anyhow. That is
to say, even if Saddam Hussein is putting
people on tops of roofs to shoot down US
planes we still have to ask why US planes
dropping bombs on densely populated
cities in the first place?
Given the frailty of these claims Iegarding Iraqi military strategy we would
be justified in inferring that the Bush
Regime's actual intention is to get the
public ready for large scale civilian
deaths by misplacing blame on Saddam
Hussein.
A final point on liberation
If such criticisms seem 'speculative' or
if some think that the present is different
from history, and US intentions are
genuine this time, we need only take a
glimpse at the body counts (which have
a kind of obscene and eerie feeling to
them) that resulted from US anempts to
help 'liberate' peoples of the world. [n
addition, we would do well to turn our
arrention to the current states of these
countries to see if the 'price was worth
it,' to see whether they were 'liberated.'
History has shown that the US as an
imperialist power has consistently acted
in their own interests with total disregard
for human life, resulting in obscene
amounts of death and desrruction, many
times leaving their victims in a state of .
perpetual chaos. This is some definition
of liberation.
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Protests in Egypt
bY Harold FUOer-Bennetl
spea k about how indigenous peoples were
at the forefro nt of struggles involving oi l.
Oil co mpanies have divid ed up the planet
explained Fellows, with co untri es' land being
divided by th e uil com pan ies that have control.
Fellows m ade the point that Indigen ous
people oft en pay heavily (or external control
of oil, but thai Ihey also have little voice .
Peter Bohm er, an activist and professo r of
political eco nomy, was Ihe final spea ker. He
suggested people look al the business sec tion
of a newspa per to see the connection between
oil to a possible war. Bohmer then spoke in
d epth about Venezuela , th e fo urth largest
expo rter of oil to the US and Ihe fifth largest
exporter in the world. Venczuela is a member
of OPEC, and though their oil is controllcd
by the peopl e, it is run like a corporation ,
Bohmer ex pl ain ed. Under Hugo Chavez,
the firsl non -white president, Venezuela was
more democratic than most countries the
US supports, said Bohmer. Bohmer listed
accomplishments of the Venezuelans: land
reform , prevention of the privatization of
oil , increase in school funding, and making
the needs of the majority the priority. When
Chavez was arrested by the military, Bohmer
said, the medi a claimed he quil , a nd the
perso n who took co ntrol dissolved the parliament. But , Bohmer asserted, popular support
by the people put C havez back in power.
Questioning th e validity of recent strikes,
Bohmer request ed Ihat people notice Ihe
differen ce in the dress of th e people for
and aga inst C havez. With the end of the
last speech , there was a bri ef period of
announcements, followed by qu es tions from
th e aud ience.
With the end of the last speech, there was
a brief period of an nounce ments, followed
by questions from the audi ence . Answers
varied to the queslion of how th e plans of
US leaders play out when so meo ne else is in
office? Bohmer said: Don't overestimate the
people in power, and there is little difference
Know (lur People / Canacer a Nuestra Gente
trial. They are held under the so -called
"E me rgency Law" which has been in
fo rc e since the 1981 assassinat io n o f
President Sadat. This law was originall y
implemented to give the governme nt
th e tools it needed to combat terrori sm.
It res tricts civil liberties in a myriad of
ways.
One of the major themes of Monday's
demonstration was the fact that there were
huge anti-war d emons trations around
the world on February 15, but almost
none in Arab countries . There was a
strong sense of embarrassment felt by
many speakers over this iss ue. G iven the
current sta te of c ivil liberties in most
Arab co untries , people can hardly be
blamed for not speaking out publicly
i nd in large numbers. They do so only at
great personal risk.
.
While speakers were unhappy that
large protests could not happen in Egypt,
they were overjoyed by the size of the
events in London, New York, and other
places . The fact that we have massive
demonstrations against the war does wonders fOr attitudes of Egyptians towards
the American public. I am sure that they
have the same effect throughout the
world. There truly is a perception here
that the world is being threatened by a
small group in Washington, D .C., not by
the United States in general.
The protest ended peacefully since
nobody challenged the pos itions of the
security troops. As far as I know, nobody
was arrested. Perhaps the next such event
will be even bigger.
a way to stimulate the economy? The general
respo nse was that a war at this time would not
help the economy, but th at even if it co uld, it
would not be a good reason for war.
Empire and Oil was sponsered by LASO,
and advertised by Students for Peace.
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I've been involved in the documentation of this relationship from the very beginning. I've known as
much about it as anyone who hasn't actually been there. When you Uean) were raising money for that
construction brigade, I produced a program shot at the home of Jo Curtz in 1987. It was one of Ihe
first of the series of Fellowship of Reconciliation Programs for TCTV [Thurston County Television],
before we had a studio. That tape was a bulky old format and I'don't believe it survived. There was an
amazing story to be told and I wanted 'to help tell it . I couldn't give you a date for when this project
began. My role was to review a lot of tape that had mainly been taken by other people going back to
'86 and '88 in Nicaragua and edit it down to about an hour. Some of the documentary is from footage
I took from different events in Olympia and some is from slide transfers. Stephen Bray shot some video
011 two trips to Nicaragua. I think I searched through over a hundred hours of raw footage . It was
difficult to sift through all of that material that carne from a lot of people. How many hours did it take?
Countless! I couldn't begin to give you a number of hours.
You've asked me how I should be credited for this. Producer? Director? No. Strictly speaking, I was
the editor. That role is frequently undervalued, a role in which women made their first breakthrough in
one of those obscure Academy Award categories. Naturally! For me, documentary filmmaking begins
with my own experience of seeing and learning. One of my first important films was 'ill Long as the
Rivers Run" about the local fishing rights struggle. I was there. I watched it happen, and then I
helped tell the story. But more often, I have collaborated with other people who have gathered
material. The role I play is that of editor. I did that with "PeaceTrees Vietnam, n using other peoples'
"horne video" footage combined with interviews with participants of the delegation, which went to
Vietnam. I worked on that with Chris Stegman and the "PeaceTrees Vietnam" organization. Editing
is a skill that comes from experience, a little like other kinds of craftsmanship, knowing how to take
raw materials and build something.
I was one of the people who helped get ;i public access channel in Thurston County. I began working
on this in 1981 and was employed at TCfV from 1986 to 1994. It was there that I saw Bob Basinich, an
Evergreen student at the time, wrestle with the incredible footage he had taken while on the Olympia to
Nicaragua Construction Brigade in 1988. Bob had a strong sense of how to frame his shots and worked
really well with audio and visual images, but was hampered by a lack of editing experience and fluency in
Spanish. He made considerable progress, but wasn't able to finish the film.
When your first delegation from Santo Tomas carne here in 1990, I filmed the Fellowship Of
Reconciliation interview with Padre Ignacio Gonzalez, Virgilio Bravo, and Juana Ru(z. I couldn't work
it into this documentary. I do use Bob Basanich's footage of Padre Ignacio Gonzalez [a liberation
theologist) because I wanted to show that there were Christians as well as Communists as well as
Christian Commies involved in the movement to recreate Nicaragua in the eighties. From the second
delegation, I taped Aurora Baez and Reyna Cabrera in 1995 in the home of [Methodist pastor)
Richard Smith. That interview opens the documentary and provides its title, as Aurora says (in
translation) " ... Because there are people in another place that may be very different, with different
systems of life, that want to corne and share with us in our co untry. I hope that there are many
people that want to know our people."
I continued to tape other presentations by visitors when they were here and was able to combine my
own tapes with interviews and other material recorded in Nicaragua by Stephen Bray. I've looked at
these peo ple on tape again and again. They are all amazing. You know, you could turn the TV on and
see charitable causes helping the unfortunate people of the world, but in this case, the inspiring thing
with the TSTSCA sto ry is the strength of our partners in Nicaragua. That's what I hope comes through
is their voices: what they have to say is powerful. We know these people. Through the many years of the
sis ter county relat ionship, we do know who they are and what they do with our support. We know that
it has deep meaning for us [in Olympia) as well. The documentary doesn't come up to the present day as
perhaps it should . I had to stop adding more footage and just satisfY myself with creating a hislory that
doesn't take us all the way to 2003. If! had the stamina and will [to go to Santo Tomas], there could be
more in the film about Nicaraguans in Nicaragua and what life is like for them. When I went through
all that raw footage, I sawall the ways that people set out to tell the story. I have an incredible amount
of admiration for you and all the people who've gone to Nicaragua and all the people in Nicaragua
who've lived through all they've lived through . I saw my calling to edit a sto ry, filter il down to a
historical event, which took place over many years, into something people could sit down and sec.
['m glad to have helped make this happen.
Celebrating
A Commentary by Sarah Thorn
Twenty minutes of high hilarity
at an annual retreat. Porlucks. Late
night meetings . Shared stories of
our Nicaraguan host families. Salsa
dancing. These are just a few things
that define the Thurston/Santo Tomas
Sister County Association (TSTSCA).
On Saturday, March 15th , at the
Capitol Theater, TSTSCA will celebrate fifteen yea rs of Nicaraguan
solidarity with live music, great food,
the debut of a documentary film about
San to Tomas , and the send-off of
the sixth student delegation from
Evergreen to Santo Tomas, Chontales,
Nicaragua.
The TSTSCA was founded in the
late 1980s in response to corrupt US
government foreign policy, which
funded the Contra war. This war was
brought about by a long history of
United States intervention and imperial ism in Nicaragua. Augusto Cesar
Sandino and his peasants' army successful defeat of US marines occupying
Nicaraguan soil in 1934 led up to
events which would create the pernicious and corrupt government that
dominated Nicaraguan politics for
nearly 50 years. In the same year,
the US quickly countered Sandi no's
triumph by installing the National
Guard, a private army of Nicaraguans
loyal to US economic and political
interests, to obliterate SandirJO's army
and to install Anastasio Somoza as a
puppet leader of the country. Somoza's
first act was to have Sandino murdered
and then to establish an oligarchic
government with the aims of lining he
and his cronies' pockets for decades. In
July 1979, the revolutionary Sandinista
party (based on the ideals of Augusto
Sandi no,) known as the FSLN, wrested
control of the Ni ca ~aguan government
in an ove rthrow of th e Somoza regime.
The fledgling revolution ary government instituted sweeping reforms
in land distribution, working conditions, health care, social services,
and agriculture. The US government
was quick to respond to a system
that threatened its economic interests
in Central America. Thousands of
Contras (dubbed "frcedom fighters")
were armed and funded by the Reagan
administration to immobilize the
Sandinista government. The result of
this action was a decade oflow-intensiry
warfare, in whi ch tens of thousands of
Nicaraguans died in village raids and
guerrilla warfare. Many lost their homes,
livelihoods and family members . US
trade embargoes placed on Nicaragua
during this period also left the country
deeply impoverished.
. In the late 1980s, several organizations formed in the Pacific Northwest
to build solidarity between Nicaraguans
and US citizens who oppose our government's involvement in Central America.
The first brigades that were sent from
Seattle went to assist in reconstructing
homes that had been destroyed by
Contra warfare. In 1988, the first construction brigade from Olympia went
to the Chon tales region of Nicaragua,
marking the inception of the Thurston/
Santo Tomas Sister County Association.
TSTSCA asserts that international
justice and-peace depend on the friendships of people across national, cultural
and ethnic boundaries. In the urgent
desire to engender peace and heal
the effects of past aggression and current economic oppression by the US
on the people of Nicaragua and for
the mutual benefit of Santo Tomas,
Chontales, Nicaragua, and Thurston
County, TsiSCA anI1ually sends community or student delegations to Santo
Tomas and regularly hosts delegations
of Tomasinos in Olympia (from the
FalllWinter 2002 Olympia/Santo Tomas
Quarterly). The latest Evergreen student
delegation to tr';vel to Santo Tomas
will have its official farewell at th e
March 15th Anniversary Party. Lincoln
Elementary students will be presenting
material aid to the TESC students 10
be used at the Ruben Dario Elementary
School in Santo Tomas . Please join us
in celebrating this event on Saturday,
March 15 a~ 7:00 p.m. at the Capitol
theatcr. Tickets are $5-10 on a sliding
scale and can be purchased at the door.
Todos estan bienvenidos'
15 Years of Solidarity with Nicaragua
The Thurston-Santo Tomas Sister County Association (TSTCA) will celebrate its Iyh anniversary at 7 p.m . on
,Satu,rday, March 15 , 2003, at the Capitol Theater in downtown Olympia. The TSTSCA is an all-volunteer, non-profit
organization that invites you to reflect on and celebrate its fifteen-year relationship and commitment to Santo Tomas,
a community in south central Nicaragua. Local documentarian Carol Burns will unveil her powerful video telling the
sto ry of this sister relationship and why it exists. I had the opportunity to interview Carol in February, exceq5ts from
which appear in the article below, and I want to give some context to her words.
In essence, the sixty-five minute film describes the varied work that the two communities have accomplished
together over the years. It begins with Nicaraguans talking about the value and meaning of the sister county
relationship. Moving back through the reality of the U.S. orchestrated Contra War during the late eighties, the
video introduces the construction brigades from Seattle and Olympia that helped build schools in Nicaragua while
our government was intent on destroying them . She introduces some of the members of TSTSCA and its sister
organization in Santo Tomas: the Committee for Community Development, an umbrella non-profit organization
that supports a number of community projects. Carol uses numerous interviews with Nicaraguans from Santo
Tomas juxtaposed with interviews of Olympians to paint a detailed picture of the perso nal relationships that
have been formed through this work. She weaves together footage of interactions with delegates from Santo
Tom as and images of the small-scale development projects on the ground in Nicaragua. Carol presents the
connections established with students at The Evergreen State College and Lincoln Elementary, which has a
sister school in Santo Tomas.
The documentary moves from the mid-eighties to the late-nineties, from the horrific war to the
post-war shattered economy, as Nicaragua became the most highly indebted (per capita) nation in the
Western Hemisphere. It demonstrates how people from Olympia and Santo Tomas mutually benefit
from the sister relationship while also showing how the relationship provokes us, in the North, to examine the causes of the inequities between the North and South. Through it all, there is
love, affection and commitrn'ent between the sister communities, and the struggle for a deeper understanding of ourselves and each other.
Carol had the support and gratitude of several members of TSTSCA on this project. Stephanie Guilloud, Stephen Bray and I contributed to the initial process of a storylin e
for this documentary in 1999. Steph and I translated interviews, as did Justin Umholtz, Joe Hiss, Judy Serrano, and Mike Harburg. My apologies extend to any other translators
from over the years who I cannot remember at this time. Carol says that we could have pushed her more to move the documentary along faster, but we were appreciative of her
laborious volunteer work and, besides, we weren't in a hurry!
Inviting you to the debut of the Carol Burns' documentary on March 15 and to join the TSTSCA, Jean Eberhardt
Fuel for the
Future
by SArah stetson
With the question of sustain ability of
fossil fuels and natural gas, alternative fuels
such as ethanol and biodiesel are becoming
a large source of both hope and debate.
Washington, along with other states, is
looking towards alternative fuels for fleets
of school buses and public transportation
carriers, as well as the hundreds of thousands
of diesel freight trucks that pass through
our roadways every year. Biodiesel may
prove to be a valuable fuel alternative in the
struggle for environmental friendly fuels,_
and independence from foreign oil.
A large question with any alternative
fuel source has to do with whether or not
it meets federal and consumer standards
for cost-effectiveness, renewability, and
environmental impact. But although it's
looking as if there is not going to be a catchall solution to our transportation problems,
biodiesel is beginning to look like a positive
step in the right direction.
. Biodiesel is the name of a clean burning
alternative fuel, produced from domestic,
renewable resources such as soybeans, oilseed
crops, recycled vegetable oil and restaurant
grease. The fuel contains no petroleum, but
it can be blended at any level with petroleum
diesel to create a biodiesel blend. It can
be used in compression-ignition (diesel)
engines with little or no modifications. It is
simple to use, biodegradable, nontoxic, and
essentially free of sulfur and aromatics.
Pacific Biodiesel, a for-profit company,
notes that biodiesel is only a piece of the
puzzle, being that the goal of the biodiesel
industry is not to replace petroleum diesel,
but to extend its usefulness. In their
opinion, biodiesel has an important place
in the development of a balanced energy
policy, contributing to the longevity and
cleanliness of diesel engines. The alternative
fu"el will most likely fit best into specific
markets that require a cleaner-burning,
biodegradable fuel.
The California Air Resources Board
registers this renewable resource as a fuel
and fuel additive with the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) and meets clean
diesel standards established. Neat biodiesel
(biodiesel without petroleum additives)
has been designated as an alternative fuel
by the Department of Energy and the US
Department of Transportation.
The National Biodiesel Board's website
promotes biodiesel as an ideal alternative
fuel because it does not require a complete
retrofitting of existing vehicles.
"Use of biodiesel does not require
major engine modifications. That means
operators keep their fleets, their spare parts
inventories, their refueling stations and
their skilled mechanics. The only thing that
changes is air quality."
For Washington, production and use
of biodiesel, along with it's many other
benefitS, could even provide a boost to our
strained economy. It is the fastest-growing
alternative-fuel in the country with annual
sales of approximately $25 million.
"With Washington's rich agricultural
lands for growing crops used to make
biodiesel, our state could become one of the
leading producers of this renewable fuel,"
said Rep. Jeff Morris (D-Anacortes), chair
of the House Committee of Technology,
Communications and Energy (Committee).
"Investing in biodiesel is good for the
environment, good for our health, and
good for job creation."
House Bills 1240-1243 were recently
brought before the Committee, and were
passed in early February with only minor
amendments to each bill. - These bills
propose tax incentives for the production
Brian Sullivan
and use of biodiesel.
(D-Mukilteo), a representative for alternative fuel in Washington has adopted
biodiesel as his pet project, telling the
Committee, "This package is designed not
only to clean up our air and reduce health
problems, bur also to help farmers in our
state by starting a new industry." According
to Sullivan, benefits from using biodiesel
include reducing harmful vehicle emissions
that pollute the air and conrribute to
global warming, extending an engine's life,
improving fuel -economy, and reducing
reliance on foreign oil.
Biodiesel may be coming at just the
right time; a recent stUdy by the Union of
Concerned Scientists gave the Washington
state Aeet of school buses a failing grade
for pollution . The study examined the
amount of particulates, smog-forming pollution, and greenhouse gases emitted by the
Washington Still Ranks High
for Polluted Waterways, but
Follow My Passion?
"cleanup efforts do make a difference"
bY serah Stetson
Over a decade after the implementa"We've made some real progress, but
tion of caps on dioxin emissions for we still have a long way to go ." says
Washington's pulp and paper mills, the Ivy Sager-Rosenthal, an employee of the
Department of Ecology (Ecology) reported Washington Public Interest Research Group
on February 13, 2003, that dioxin levels (WashPIRG). Rosenthal has been working
from industry emissions are finally declin- on WashPIRG's clean water campaign and
ing. Despite this progress, there is still is encouraged by Ecology's report, but feels
work to do in order to clean up the toxies that it doesn't address the toxins that are
already in Washington's waterways.
already in the water.
"The dioxin levels in th ese mill s'
"If you take a look at the toxies
discharges have
rel ease in ve ngone from very
tory from th e
low to nonEPA, it shows
detectable," said
that in 2000
Bill
Backous,
alone, pollutwho
manages
ers
dumped
Ecology's envinearly 2.8 milron men t.a I lion. pounds of
assessment protoxic chemi "I t 's
gram .
cals-much of
exciting to see
it legally-into
that our water
Washingnon's
. ."
cleanup efforts
waterways
do make a difference."
Rosenthal believes that more work will be
The EPA repons that more than 40 necessary in order to stop the dumping of
percent of tested waters in the nation do industrial waste, and to clean up what is
not meet water-quality standards. Under already there. She would like to see Ecology
federal law, states are required to develop enforcing Clean Water Act standards.
strategies to reduce the discharge of toxic
"We've found that even when industries
pollutants from identifiable sources. report that they've exceeded limits, Ecology
Dioxins are highly toxic. According to is very slow to fine them. They're more
Ecology, dioxins do not break down in likely to give them second, third, and even
the environment, and they build up in the a fourth chance to comply."
bodies of animals and humans, where ther.
. According to WASHPIRG, forty-five
may cause long-term health problems.
percent of Washington's major water polTwelve years ago, Ecology set limits luters are currently operating with expired
for dioxin emissions of four pulp-and- Clean Water Act permits. This means that
paper mills in Western Washington: Ecology isn't doing its job in monitoring
the Weyerhaeuser mills in Everett and pollution and is failing to enforce the Clean
Cosmopolis, the Simpson Kraft mill in Water Act.
Tacoma and the Rayonier mill in Port
The Environmental Protection Agency
Angeles.
reports that 640 water bodies in the state
State water quality criteria for dioxin fail to meet water quality standards, putting
is 0.014 parts per quadrillion (ppq) at Washington in the bottom fifth of states
the edge of the mixing or dilution zone, with water bodies that are not meeting
with maximum dioxin target limits of safeguards. Dioxin is of such concern in
10ppq for waste discharge and 5ppq for Washington that Gov. Gary Locke has
sludge, to provide protection for human proposed spending $309,000 in the next
and aquatic organisms as recommended budget cycle to create a chemical-action
by EPA.
plan for eliminating discharges of dioxin
into the environment.
average state school bus. According to the
EPA, use of clean fuels could help to slow
atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide,
a gas that contributes to the potential for
global warming.
The EPA estimates that 51 % of national
Carbon Monoxide emissions, 29% of
Hydrocarbon emissions, 34% nitrogen
oxide emissions, and 10% offine particulate
matter emissions come from "on-road"
mobile sources, such as buses, farm equipment, trucks, and personal automobiles.
Combustion of any carbon-based fuel
produces carbon dioxide. But the overall
impact of a given fuel on global warming
depends on how the fuel is made. In general,
fuels produced from biomass (crops, trees,
etc.) and from natural gas result in less
carbon dioxide accumulation than fuels
made from petroleum or coal.
According to Climate Solutions,
in Olympia, Washington, the National
Renewable Energy Lab found that biodiesel
cuts global warming emissions 78% over
regular diesel emissions, and B20, a 20%
biodiesel blend that can be used without
engine modifications, represents a 16%
reduction in global warming emissions.
The EPA states on their website that
"growth in the use of vehicles, engines, and
equipment works against the improvemenrs
gained by making individual veh,icles or
engines cleaner. If our reliance on, mobile
sources keeps growing without furth er
action, overall mobile source pollution will
eventually start to increase again."
Let's hope that federal and state agencies
as well as community groups and consumers
continue to promote and demand even
cleaner technology as well as participate
in voluntary programs to reduce vehicle,
engine, and equipment activity.
. Under the new Jo'i nt Terrorism Task Force, the FBI and other federal
authorities have begun to ask for help from campus police on several college
campuses.
.
Since 9/11, the FBI has been interested in college campuses, espeCially
since one of the nineteen hijackers had a student visa to go to a school that
he never showed up at.
According to Th( Washington Post, some campus police officers have been
given federal security clearance, This gives the individual with that particular
clearance access to classified information. In certain cases, the individual's bosses
(in that local branch) don't even know what they are doing.
Some groups, like a concerned local American Civil Liberties Union, have
taken on the new ordinance by filing a Freedom ofInformation Act request. These
groups are not unfounded in their concern. During the J. Edgar Hoover ~atch
at the FBI, the organization developed COINTELPRO (Counter-Intelligence
Program), which spanned 15 years. In this program, the FBI monitored (often
law-abiding) U.S. activists of civil rights and anti-war movements. It was exposed
after a group of citizens raided an FBI office and stole files to leak to the press.
There were public hearings on the matter, and the FBI set new guidelines for
the agency to follow. In the hearings, only two individuals were indicted with
anything to do with COINTELPRO. Ronald Reagan pardoned these same two
individuals in his first term in office.
On February 26, federal agents arrested Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, a student
in Moscow, Idaho (attending University of Idaho), who they say has knowledge
of how Al~Queda raises money.
When as~ed if he was approached by Federal Authorities, Steve Huntsberry
Director of rrublic Safety at Evergreen, told me, "Nope--sorry, no story here. n
However, even though the FBI hasn't shown up, it is still possible for them
to come.
Shattered
Dr~ams
by Mary MCDermott
Domestic violence is one of the most difficult crimes to understand. It always leaves the unanswered question of
"Why doesn't she leave?" The devastation resulting from assault from a significan~ othe~ bleeds into the lives of all
who are connected to the victim. The impact is different for the woman who lives with the abuse and the one
who fears the unknown from an angry, absent partner. A National Violence Against Women (NVAW) survey
found that "it is a common belief that the termination of a relationship poses an increased risk for, or escalation
of, intimate partner violence. This assumption is based on two types of evidence: Divorced or separated women
report more intimate partner violence than do married wo.men. Also, interviews wit~ men who have killed
their wives indicate that either threats of separation by their partner or actual separation are most ofren the
precipitating events that lead to the murder."
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The report also found that victims would not report the sexual aspec:t of the ViCtimization to th~ police.
Approximately one-fifth (21.2 percent) of the female victims said they were afraid their attacker would retaliate, ~d
one-fifth (20.3 percent) said the rape was a one-time or minor incident. In addition, 16 percent reported feeling
shame and the need for privacy, and 13 percent had little faith in police action. When asked why they chose not to
report their victimization to the police, nearly all of the physical assault victims .said they did not think the ~olice
could do anything about their victimization, whereas 61.5 percent of the women and 45 percent of the men saJd the
police would not have believed them. In ad~tion, approximately one-third of the women and one-quarter of the
men said they did _not want the police or courts involved.
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The NVAW Survey confirmed previous reports that much of the VIOlence against women by Intimate partners
is chronic in nature. Approximately half (51.2 percent) of the women raped by an intimate and two-thirds (65.5
percent) of the women physically assal.llted by an intimate s,a id they were victimized multiple. times by the same
partner. This clea~ly shows the dilemma of the choice of staying for repeated assaults and leaVIng to ~ce a fu~re
event that has great of odds of ending in death. This survey is utilized by the US Department of JuStIce for cru~e
statistics and judicial changes. The Justice Department figures show crime is down in all sectors, however domestic
violence continues to remain level. A clearer picture of what the statistics mean is obtained as technology has allowed
record keeping and statistical research to be more defined. The mystery remains that women still don't leave these
situations that are so obviously devastating and inhumane for anyone to endure.
Sadly, we all know her. She is the mother, sister, cousin, aunt, grandmother, or friend. She was me. Fifteen years
ago I walked away from an abusive spouse, barely alive, still asked, even now, "Why did you stay?"
I can only say that somewhere in the madness of my home, there
were moments of control that gave me refuge from the anger and the
blows. Walking away became far more dangerous for me for a long
time artd ' it took extreme measures to stay alive. The mere fact that a
human is reduced to that minimal of survival is evident to the damage
repeated abuse does to a soul.
I'll never know if I had staye4 whether I could write this or not.
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chance
either way. The end result was the reason to go, for I am
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About 30 students and faculty entered President Les Purce's office to
d isc uss taking an official stance on the potential war in Iraq. The CPJ
(notified by phone after the meeting began) arrived in the midst of a mostly
civi l, occasiona lly heated dialogue about what role a state institution should
rake and what a college president's duty is.
T he disc uss ion came as Purce was preparing to go a meeting at the
legislature. The students wanted Purce to make a public statement against
the wa r. One said , "You have a pedestal we don't... you'll lose yo ur job, they'll
(the Iraqi peo plel lose their lives."
Puree emphatically d enied he was concerned with his job, saying,
''I've never had a pro blem getting a job." Instead, he sa id his job was
to make su re that "yo u can d o what yo u're doing right now. " Purce said
that as President , it was his job to represe nt all stud ents , staff, faculty,
and Evergreen as an institution. If he made a public statement about the
war, it would appear that he spoke fo r everyone on camp us, something
he felt was inappropriate.
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• Open Stage for Peace from 7-9 p.m. at the Midnight Sun. For more information, email openstagefofFeeace@yahoo.com .
• Northwest CamariUalAnarch Gatherings. These meetings, hosted by Camarilla, involve live-action ro ~ playing. From 8 p.m.
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• MEChA meets 1 p.m. in CAB 320. For more information, call 867-6583.
• Prison Action Committee meets 3 p.m. in CAB 320, Workstation 10. For more information, call 867-6724.
• Fellowship of Reconciliation vigil from 4:30-5:30 p.m. at the 4,10 Avenue Fountain. For more. information, call Cnrissy or Simona at 867-6196.
• Women in Black vigil from 5-6 p.m . at Percival Landing. For more information, call Chrissy or Simona at 867-6196.
• Evergreen Lima Users Group (ELUG) meets from 1-3 p.m. in Library 1505 .
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Several students offered ideas to further advance the ca use of peace.
One suggested m~re dialogue. Faculty Simona Sharoni called for a "town
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Anoth er student la me nted th e lack of stud e nt represe ntati o n at
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divested in South Africa to protest aparthied. Purce noted th at he do es not
that make that decision, but he would "be glad to" ask the foundation's
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• Services and Activities Board (S&A) meets from 3-5 p.m. in CAB 315.
• Evergreen Animal Rights Network meets at 3:30 p.m. in CAB 320.
• Activists Working Against Racism at Evergreen (AWARE) meets at 6 p.m. on CAB 320. For more information, call 867-6221.
• Bike Shop: New Volunteers Meeting and Training from 5-6 p.m. in the Bike Shop (basement of CAB) . For more information, call 867-6399.
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• Students for Christ meets from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Longhouse Cedar Room. For more information, call 867-6636.
• Evergreen Queer Alliance (EQA) meets at 5 p.m. in CAB 315 . For more information, call 867-6544.
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• Women of Color meets at noon in CAB 313 . For more information , call 867-6006.
• Fellowship of Reconciliation vigil at 12 p.m. in Sylvester Park. For more information, call C hrissy or Simona at 867-6\ 96.
• Asian Solidarity in Action (ASIA) meets from 12-1 p.m. in Library 2103. For more information, call 867-6033.
• Hui 0 Hawaii meets at 12:30 p.m. in CAB 320. For more information, call 867-6033.
• Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV) meets at 1 p.m. in CAB 320. For more information, call 867-6749.
• Women's Resource Center (WRC) meets at 2 p.m. in the WRC, CAB 206. For more information , call 867-6162.
• Healing Arts Collective meets at 2 p.m. in CAB 320.
• DEAP meets from 2-3 in Library 2129. For more information, call 867-6493.
• WashPIRG meets at 2 p.m . in CAB 320. For more information, call 867-6058 .
• Men's Group meets from 2-4 p.m . in Libraty 2118 . For more information, call 867-6092.
• Jewish Cultural Center aCC) meets at 3 p.m. in Library 2129. For more information , call 867-6092.
• Students at Evergreen for Ecological Design (SEED) meets at 3:30 in Lab 1, room 2242. For more information, call 867-6493.
• Evergreen Irish Resurgence Experiment (EIRE) meets at 3 p.m . in CAB 320. For more information, call Eamon at 867-6098.
• Meeting for The Ovarian (the WRC zine) at' 3 p.m . in the WRC, CAB 206
• Evergreen Political Information Center (EPIC), Carnival and Infoshoppe meet at 4 p.m. in Library 3500. For more in formatio n, ca ll 867-6 144 .
• Student Art Council meets at 2 p.m . in CAB 320. For more information , call 867-64 12.
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• Support Group for Older Retruning Women Students meets from 7-8 p.m. in the Women's Resource Center, CAB 206. For more information, call 867-6 162.
• Open Stage for Peace from 7-9 p.m. at Midnight Sun. For more information , call Chrissy. or Simona at 867-6196.
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10
What is #*$%@!
About Evergreen:
T~ipping
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These days ... these days ... that phrase gets
tossed around a lot these days. These days
I see so many homeless, weary souls about.
Not homeless as in without shelter, but rather
destitu te of spi rit. I encounter in these folks
an absence of purpose and place. Sometimes
all that is needed is a slight shift of perspective,
acknowledging to oneself that the road is th ei r
home for the time being, coming to terms
w ith one's beatific, wandering, momentfeeding characteristics.
Perhaps it's all th e wasted time to which
I bear witness, my own included, that st irs
up in me this desire to do more, be more,
inspire others. All that wasted potential and
opportunity cou ld obviously be put to so me
be tter use than drinking beer and never
leav ing your increasingly shrinking circle
of space. I think th ere's a grave mistake (or
several) embedded deep within the psyche of
our culture. I think there is this simple little
notion that you can't achieve your dreams at
an ea rly age, th at it takes time to build up to
that level. Well, what if you used your time
more wisely? Why not actively pursue each
and every goal and ambition right now?
march 6, 2003
.
Treadwell
teachers tie credits to schoolwork actually
ends up being higher stakes than conventional
schools. Let's say I get 18 credi ts Fall quarter,
and I only got eight credits instead of 16
Winter quarter, because I couldn't deal with
the stress. Then I take 12 credits in Spring and
I don't finish a two-credit paper because my
car broke down in Seattle and my dog died, so
I come away with ten credits. Big deal, you
say. But it is a big deal, because I signed up for
this terrible four-credit class and didn't drop
it till 3'd week. I'm on financial aid, and now
I've got an academic progress hold (although
I got 36 credits, I didn't get 75% of "credits
attempted"), and I won't be getting financial
aid next year. If I were back at uw. I would've
gotten B's, C's, and D's, and kept financial
aid. Motivation you say? Sure. But this. is
very unhealthy motivation. It's basically a fear
tactic. In a healthy environment, people do
work because they want to learn, not because
they are afraid of reprisal.
Bubble-ism. Many people refer to this as
"intellectualism." Everything is conceptualized,
not practiced (l don't find it particularly
intelligent.) The effect of this is detachment
from the greater community and staying
within the comfortable bubble of an Evergreen
classroom . Evergreen gives a lot oflip service ro
our connection with the Olympia community,
but it's mostly superficial if at all. The students
at this school would benefit to learn how
to practice their art "in the field ." Whether
they are in an audio recording class (w here
they could follow around engineers) or in
a comprehensive study of Marxism (where
they could study worker control and visit
factories) 'there should be less class time or
homework, and there should be required time
for interacting with the greater community.
Unavailable teachers. This is mostly because
they are over-booked. They don't have any
time to kick it on camp us and answer any
questions you have, and when they do ~ave
time, they are filed away in the dark recesses of
the institution. Although the idea of contracts
is great, often it just means taking teachers'
time away from focus on their program. They
are our mentors! They are why we are here!
They should all be out in Red Square having
a grand old time, showing the way ro the
revolution.
War is good barrier to trade and is bad for
economies. Even in ancient times this was
acknowledged, and the most Machiavellian of
rulers kept this in mind while their empires
grew. This is just one issue of the pie. The pie
is something everyone thinks they can control
but very few really understand. I don't blame
them though , it is complicated.
What's a market? A place of (many)
exchanges is the simplest definition I can
think of. The fact that you are only one
person inhibits your ability to know the whole
situation.
Evergreen students know Evergreen economics. Things that work within this community don't work on the outside community.
These students don't seem to have a real solid
understanding of economics in the other "nonEvergreen" world. That's okay because most
people outside the "bubble" don't understand
economics either.
The most amazing thing is everyone thinks
they have the key to making the economy
work. Whether it is Bill Clinton, Karl Marx,
George W. Bush, or some other moron, they all
think they know how millions of transactions
will work to their favor.
I suppose if you're GOD, then you know
which way things will go. Taking this to next
level, all the people I mentioned above think
they are God (Would we expect anything less
from the politici ans?) Everyone knows the
answer to everything, just .su bmit to their
power and all will be well.
God doesn't exist. And even if God existed ,
he wouldn't give a damn about your 401K.
This level of omniscient being is impossible
to obtain. No one can predict the markets
perfectly (YES , that means LaRouche too.)
People just have this unrealistic expectation of
how it will all work. You don't have the key
so you can't make it work. Religious scholars
I hope would agree with me when I say, "No
one on this earth now is God."
The only market an individual can predict
is his own. How much money do you have?
How much are you willing to spend/not spend?
How are your going to budget your time? The
reason this works like it does is because we
can only control ourselves. We can only think
about things in our realm. You can't go around
guessing about how other people's finances
would best suit them. That's because the best
person to control your life is you. So next time
yo u have an idea about how something should
Right, right. .. "Be here now" is from the work for everyone else, ask yourself, "Do I
sixties, dude, we already tried that one. Just really know oth,;r people's s~t~ations?" I'll
slow down a little bit. Take a look around answer that one, No, you don r.
My suggestion is that you stay in school
your room, your life, whatever walls you've
as
long
as you can. This market place of ideas
gor. Take a good long look, remembering
(or lack there whereof) is very suiting to
to breathe of course. Ask yourself what, if
young
minds and serves as a higher form of.
anything, you could do to better the comthe
socialization
process. This place is rather
munity, whatever size it may be , that you
pred
ictable
and
you
don't have to think about
are in right now.
anything
terribly
complicated
. I'm finding
These days, too many people are afraid of
that
I'm
enjoying
this
because
I don't deal
these days, this daze of a maze of ease - days
with the real world (it's a nice break,) I just
that slip away so quickly. They just simply
deal with th ings in "Wo nderland ." We are
get overwhelmed into feeling comfortable
pretty privileged to be in this place of higher
with what they've gor. The world has gotten
education . Most Americans (or others in the
rather large and mostly out of control, and
world) don't get an opportuni ty like this one,
too many people are okay with it! They're
so don't piss it away.
willing to lie down an d die without a voice
or prayer because they don't know what else
to do. Sometimes having roo many 'o ptions fame and fortune and (old) glory. Too many
people just don't have a clue and I don't have
makes choosing one all the more hard.
I hate it when adults and kids play that the time, energy, or words to bring them
inane "What do you want to be when you 'round (and now I just sound like a closet
grow up? " game. The game that eventually radical who pops his head out whenever he
squelches their dreams when they realize that doesn't like the stench .)
Well, it smells awful rank right now and
unless they try really, really, hard they've
already been dealt a losing hand. A life that I'm considering staying outside for a while
can't, or won't, live up to their early visions of this time. So if any of you readers would care
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Class Edition
Here's one guy's criticism of classes at
Evergreen. Not the socialist commentary
meaning of "class," but rather th e courses
and programs taught by professors at this
institution. Let me preface by saying that I
think the educational theory ofTESC is bener
than any other public institution that I have
seen. It could use some work though.
AI; Evergreen does have so me freedom , not
all classes are the same. They don't all fit this
description. But it's quite likely that your class
at least has components of these problems.
Age (class) segregation. This is not a criticism of prerequisites , since there is a process
where someone can prove that they meet the
regs without havi ng taken the previous class.
The effect of segregating classes by year in
school is that the people who have been here
for a number of yea rs interact, and the first
years interact, but they don't interact with each
other very much. Joe Freshman can fairly avoid
anyo ne who isn't a freshman by going to his
First Year Program, eating at the Greenery,
and running back to A-dorm to hide from
the world.
Huge lectures. This is against the very
nature of education as a dialogue, as a discourse.
Sure, you CAN ask your professor a ques tion
when there's 70 people staring at him, but it
really makes you look Ii ke an ass.
Overplanned curriculum. When teachers
commit to programs several years in advance,
the college is unable to respond to the needs/
interests of the students, and therefore becomes
nearly as sterile and pre-programmed as the
curriculum of your average institution. Being
unable ro respond to current eve nts, teachers
can not reliably give relevant topics. The course
descriptions are a different matter entirely;
they are quite wonderful reading material , as
long as you understand them to be a work of
fiction. But when they plan so far in advance,
no wonder they have to be vague.
Inflexible syllabus. Just like most schools,
many classes here come up with a syllabus that
is not a suggestion- it's the word of God. If a
student had an interesting alternative approach
to contribute to the class, she would most
likely be unable to, considering these tight
time constraints.
High stakes "grading." While there is no
grade competition at this school, the way
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Letter to
Greeners
I wrote this muzil to my son who is
a student at TESC. Then I thought, I
bet all those young men and women
probably would like 10 know what
kinds of things go through their
parents' minds while they are gone
and growing.
Hi Buddy,
I finally had the time to really read
your journals. Thank you for sharing
with me. I hope that you are finding joy
in your search . I'm never sure whether
young people, men in particular, realize
that the search is lift! It took me such
a long time t-o get your father to realize
that THIS was/is life. He wasted so
mu ch time waiting for something . .
What, I don't know, (and in the end,
I probably didn't have that much
to do with his figuring that out.)
.W hile I hear much of my own
young voice in your writing, I worry
that you are f.,lIing victim to your dad's
same waiting, longing. Please son don't
wai r. Live each day for yourself, your
mom (hee heel and for your greater
community. There is so mu!;h to be
don e. Try to find joy and hive fun . The
joy you bring to others is what usually
returns to you .
I am concerned that your learning
empowers you. That is what I think
TESC will help you do well. Your
perception of yourself will playa large
role in your empowerment. I think
that when you graduate, you will be
"differently-abled." It is a concept that
we used to teach about people with
physical handicaps. Fortunately, or
unfortunately, being differently-abled
makes it so you have to be your own
salesman in the world. A TESC degree
is not like a degree from Yale or Ohio
that assumes a certain "body of work."
Your empowerment will come from a
deep understanding that you know and
can do "some" thing.
What I a m trying to say is that
some introspection is good, and worth
the time. Too much introspection,
though, can be a waste of time . It is
ti me that you concen trate on learning
SOMETHING. The world is a big
place. It has been my experience that
the world will have room, or make space
for you to fit in. The world will also
embrace you, as y(}u are, at any time of
your life, if you allow it roo
Refle.e t ion 5
on War from
a Soldi.er
In the twilight kingdom
I was a hollow man,
I was a stuffed man -
This is the dead land
We leaned togeth~r,
This is cactus land
headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
My dried voice, when
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
I whispered with them
Was as quiet and meaningless
The supplication of a dead man's
hand
As the wind is in dry grass -
Here I heard them sigh their last
Or rat's feet over broken glass
breath.
In our dry cellar
Here I watch them die.
Here I watch them bleed.
I became
A shape without form,
I was
They died because they believed.
They died for democracy.
A shade without color,
In this last of meeting places
I dealt
paralyzed force . .
We grope together
And avoid speech
I gestured
without emotion;
Gathered on this beach of the tumid
flver
Sightless, unless
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Kingdom
Remember me -- if at all -- not as
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
lost,
The hope only
Violent soul,
Of empty men.
But only
As a hollow man -
Between the motion
The stuffed man.
And the act
Falls the Shadow
Kingdom
a lost,
Between the conception
And the creation
eyes I dare not meet in dreams
Between the emotion
In death 's dream kingdom
And the response
These do appear:
There, the eyes are
Falls the Shadow
Sunlight on a broken column
Life is very long
Life is too long sometimes
There, is a tree swinging
Life pauses sometimes
And voices are
In the wind's singing
Between the desire
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.
And the spasm
Between the potency
They harass me
And the existence
They confront me
Between the essence
They are waiting for me
They want me
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
Please,
This is the way the world ends
Let .me be not near them
In death's dream kingdom
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crow skin, crossed staves
(This poem was an adaptation from
I love you and all your words.
Mom
(Sara Baer)
to chat, join, drink, flip coins, despair, die,
lie or try, just a little .. . my ears and eyes and
hands and mind are open. Just find your niche
and attempt to redesign the world around
you in whatever ways are readily available and
most productive. Remember, even something
small is something. Don't lose hope, you few
who truly listen; the winds and words, if
nothing else. are on our side.
the cooper point journal
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
T.S. Eliot's poem titled "Hollow
Men," which I
felt could be modified to an almost
No nearer --
perfect description of my psyche following my service in the U.S. Army
Not that final meeting
in Albania, Kosovo. and Yugoslavia.)
by Ryan Dodd
If when discussing the relative merits of Intelligence Agency investigated and proinvading and occupying Iraq, I hear another duced a classified report that said it was
person offer, "He gassed his own people," Iranian gas that killed the Kurds.
I am going to gas myself This phrase has
"Both sides used gas at Halabja, "
become a leitmotif for uncritical proponents Pelletiere suggested.
of what is clearly a morally and legally unjust
"'The condition of the dead Kurds'
act of aggression. I say this in the present bodies, however. indicated they had been
tense because I regard the twelve years of killed with a blood agent - that is, a cyanidebrutal sanctions resulting in the deaths of based gas - which Iran was known to use.
more than 500,000 children under the age The Iraqis, who are thought to have used
of five and the repeated bombing of Iraq mustard gas in the battle, are not known to
to be just as heinous as the Bush regime's have possessed blood agents at the time.'"
current plans.
Of course, this information does not
It is obviously hypocritical to claim that absolve Hussein of his other crimes, the least
Saddam's brutal treatment of his own people of which was the use of chemical weapons
is a justification for employing a "shock at all, in contravention of the 1925 Geneva
and awe" bombing strategy, which will Protocol. However, it is interesting to
certainly cause mass destruction, not only juxtapose the U.S. claims against Saddam's
in the form of direct civilian casualties, use and possession of chemical weapons (the
but in the corollary effects of destroyed materials and logistics for which the U.S .
essential infrastructure. A few important provided) to the headline of a recent article
qualifications need to be appended to this in the Independent/UK titled, "US Prepares
now cliche phrase.
to Use Toxic Gases in Iraq."
The first is a simple addition to the
In contravention to the Chemical
original: "He gassed his own people with Weapons Convention, the U .S. plans on
our support." Also, for anyone who knows employing toxic riot-control agents, CS gas
anything about the ethnic divisions in Iraq and pepper spray, along with 'calmative'
and their relation to Britain's reconfigura- agents like the ones used in the Moscow
tion of the former Ottoman Empire, the theatre siege that resulted in 120 deaths,
Kurds, in the words of Noam Chomsky, reported the Independent. In a report given
are Saddam's own people in the sense that before the House of Representatives' Armed
Cherokees were Andrew Jackson's people. Services Committee on February 5th, the day
Putting that aside for the moment, the of Powell's U.N . speech, Defense Secretary
U.S. actively funded and supported Saddam Donald Rumsfeld announced his wish to
throughout the IranlIraq War of 1980-1988, use chemical agents.
at the height of his atrocities. This has even
The Independent reports, "The US
begun to come out in mainstream sources Marine Corps confirmed last week that both
such as The New York Times, and has been had already been shipped to the Gulf." Also,
documented to the point where it should be "A special working group of the Federation
common knowledge. Therefore, I will not of American Scientists concluded last month
delve further into the subject. In any event, that using even the mildest of these weapons
a much more interesting development has to incapacitate people would kill 9% of
recently surfaced.
them ." It added: "Chemical incapacitating
When people say, "He gassed his own weapons are as likely as bullets to cause
people," whether they know it or not, they death. "
are speaking about Halabja. This small
Now here we have an administration
Kurdish town in Northern Iraq was the making claims about an event that the U.S .
scene of the deaths of 5,000 Kurds in 1988, government supported at the time, which
at the end of the lranlIraq War. The standard might not even have happened the way it
story is that this was the result of a chemical was previously thought, to justify a war
weapons attack by Saddam's forces. This where they plan to do the same thing. Not
story has recently been challenged by an to mention that the U.S. itselfhas the largest
article in the Toronto Star ("Did Saddam chemical, biological and nuclear weapons
Hussein Gas His Own People?" David Sellar, arsenals on the planer. Therefore, the next
311/2003). The author of the article relies time someone says, "He gassed his own
heavily on a recent New York Times editorial people," kindly ask them to think before
by the CIA's senior political analyst on Iraq they simply repeat the government's slogans,
in the I980s, Stephen C. Pelletiere.
if not for the sake of the Iraqi people, at least
Sellar writes, "In the article, Pelletiere for the sake of my own mental health.
said the only thing known for certain was
that 'Kurds were bombarded with poison
gas that day at Halabja. We cannot say with
continued from page 12
any certainty that Iraqi chemical weapons
killed the Kurds.'"
am going to stay here for a while longer.
Apparently, Kurds fighting on the
I'll see you later."
Iranian side had seized the town of Halabja
I asked permiss ion and entered th e
sacred circle. There I laid down and merged
and nearby villages. A skirmish ensued
with the earth and dimensio ns usuall y
and when the dust settled, 5,000 Kurdish
forgotten to those who dwell o n this pldn~.
c ivilians had been killed. The Iranians
When
all the color was nea rl y go ne fro m
were quick to blame the Iraqis, while the
the
sky,
I heard an odd sound . "That so unds
Iraqis accused Iran of also using chemical
like
a
mountain
lion yawning, " I thought.
weapons.
"Could it be? Has Co ugar come again?"
Sellar continues to write, "" Iraq used
Note: Th~ "Collgar Calls " series is based
chemical weapons to try to kill Iranians who
on my real mcollnters with Cougar this past
had seized the town ... The Kurdish civilians
summer. The hllman characters have been
who died had the misfortune to be caught
fictionalized and made into animals for
up in that exchange. But they were not Iraq's
anonymity and fUn . I have streamlined the
main target,'" [Pelletiere) wrote.
transitions, but th~ essena of thest stories a
"The former CIA official revealed that
true account of my r~al-lift experiences with
wild Cougar.
immediately after the battle the U .S. Defense
the cooper point journal
march 6, 2003
..
t
Riiif Investigating
by Michelle
Sharp
Healthcare.•
Fusing Art and Science
Touch and Change Part I
An abundance of scientific studies deinonstrate the healing benefits of touch. Presenting
dyna mic anatomic and physiological effects,
bodywork such as massage therapy and
structural integrat ion developed the profession
of manipulating ti ss ues. Although body
work was once viewed as a luxury, successful
practitioners have established the field as an
influential addition to any wellness plan.
Body I) A mass of matter distinct from
othe r masses. 2) Co mpl ex organization of
sys tem s. 3) The main, central, or principle
part . 4) Memory bank of generations ,
Ge net ics. 5) House of th e spirit.
As with wine, body refers to full, richness
in fla vor, in musi c fullness and resonance
of ton~. We consist of hands, eyes, lungs,
hormones, cells, etc., as well as the yet to be
discovered aspects of body. Our bodies reflect
how we live, our hesitat ions, act ions , a nd
expressions. An embodiment of who we are,
the human body is beyond definition .
Work I) Energy to overcome obstacles
and achieve goals.
2) Exertion
3)
Work=mass gravityXchange in height (n/m).
4) Parti cipation 5) Skills, education, expericnce, practice.
What we do to stay alive, be happy, successfu l and thri ve; thi s is our work . We
fun ction by putting id ~as into motion. It is
an opportu nity 10 share, learn, and improve.
Work. like body, is a 1001 we have to interact
with the world around us and within us. They
are both a manifestation of power.
Combining these two concepts creates
bodywork, a form of whole healthcare with
roots centuries deep. Bodywork evolved to
now enco mpass a plethora of massage therapy
modalities. For example: Swedish, Ayurvedic,
injury treatment, neuromuscular, Hellerwork,
soma, and many others. According to Sandy
Fritz in her book Fundamentals of Therapeutic
Massage, "the word maHage is thought to
be derived from several sources. The Latin
root maHa and' the Greek roots masuin or
masso mean to tou.;:h, handle , squeeze, or
knead. The French verb masser also means
to knead. The Arabic root maH or mass'h
and the Sanskrit root makeh translate as press
softly. n
Physiological Effects of Massage
The basic massage techniques include
effleurage, petrissage, and fri ction. These
strokes affect all systems in the body.
Effleurage refers to long gliding strokes.
Through vasodilatation, effleurage causes an
increase in circuhltion, thus nourishing the
body with oxygen and nutrients. Effleurage
also increases the return of venous blood,
thus removing metabolic waste. In the same
mechanical way that effleurage moves blood,
it also drains lymph. The deep long gliding
strokes reduce heart rate and blood pressure.
Acting on the parasympathetic nervous
system, both superficial' and deep effleurage
soothe and sedate the body.
The familiar kneading, pulling or squeezing done with the hands is known as petrissage. These petrissage actions trigger the
spindle cell proprioceptors located in the
belly of the muscle. Therefore, if the stroke
is fast it stimulates; if performed slow, the
petrissage relaxes the muscle. A deeper and
more specific stroke , petrissage stretc hes
tissues (muscles, blood vessels, etc.) primari ly
by lifting. The stretching broadens muscle
fibers and loosens surrounding connective
tissue s. Petr issage warms the body and
stimulates digestion.
Opposite of effleurage, friction refers to
small, focused sideways or circular strokes with
attention to deeper tissues. By compressing
and spreading muscle fibers, Golgi tendon,
tension receptors respond . In this way,
friction breaks up adhesions suc h as scar
ti ssue. Rel eas ing tension from muscles
enhances flexibility and function . These
fundamental strokes ca n be found in almost
every bodywork session. They are key to
injury rehabilitation treatment work.
Although body workers are a dime a dozen,
truly good ones who meet your needs can
be difficult to find. I have had the good
fortune of working with Jamie Geyer, LMP
(licensed massage practitioner) this academic
year. Jamie offers full body massage; her
specialty is injury treatment work. Her
working knowledge of muscle systems and
their relationship to each other and movement
is pricelessly therapeutic. Jamie delivers
each stroke intentionally with educated and
experienced hands. She uses warm lighting,
wonderful aromas, and professionalism to
welcome you to her studio space, in the
Millennium Chiropractic office in Lakewood.
Jamie focuses on making massage therapy
available and affordable by working with
insurance companies and Labor & Industries
to ensure coverage for her clients. Currently,
she spends time working to increase the types
of acceptable insurance. Jamie Geyer presents
individual massage treatments based on the
needs of each client.
Contact Jamie Geyer at (253) 223-5515.
ItmmmllR
EltillRY by Amy ((Retired Rock n'
Roll Riot Girl" Loskota
Cover of the Cee-Pee-Jay
I
(Sorry J could not write in the chords. The
bold italics are spoken. Now you just need to
find a band of Gruners with some gee-tars and
a djembe to play this for you. The Autoharp
does not do it justiet!. I have been meaning to
do this since Fall quarter when it got stuck in
my head Ow.)
Well, we're big rocking Greeners, we've
got dirty fingers, and we're hated everywhere we motor (at least in this town)
We sing about beauty and we sing
about truth ('till we get MIPs,) for one
thousand dollars a quarter. (Right on.')
We write whole trees worth of writing, they
give us readings 'tiU we're fighting for our
sanity, but no matter how much we pay
here, it is the writing that'll get ra, when
you get yo~ picture on the cover of the
c.r.J,
C horus : (Cee-Pee-Jay) Wanna see my
picture on the cover (Like Matt Groening!)
(Cee-Pee-Jay)Wanna buy five copies for my
mother (yeah) (Cee-Pee-Jay )Wanna see my
smilin' face On the cover of the Cee-Pee-Jay
(well, it's better than the post office wa/l.~
I got a dreamy 01' lady named Ganja
Shakti who embroiders anarchy designs
on my jeans. I got my rich old gray-haired
daddy paying for my new SUV's gasoline.
Now, they say this college is designed to blow
our minds, but our minds won't really be
blown (unless you take Political Economics),
like the hit that'll get ya when you get your
picture on the cover of the c.r.].
(Cee-Pee-Jay) Wanna see our pictures
on the cover (just like Kurt Cobain!)
(Cee-Pee~Jay) Wanna buy five copies for
our brothers (Cee-Pee-Jay) Wanna see my
smilin' face On the cover of the C .P.J .
(Student: Hey, I know how, rock and roil
and get credit for it.~ [Instrumental solo: An
albino eunuch sing~ "Memory" from "Cats,»
by Kathryn Johnson
We are not the only sentient beings on this
planet and if we have any hope of continuing
to live here we damn well better start listening
and communicating with the non-human
members of out community. Presently we
humans are decimating plant and animal
populations and species diversity, and killing
those who sustain us. As Chief Dan George
said, "If you talk to the animals they will
talk with and you will know each other. If
you do not talk to them, you will not know
them, and what you do not know you will
fcar. What one fears one destroys. n I feel that
communicating with plants and animals is
foundational in global healing.
I added an element of fantasy to these
two parts of "Cougar Calls," for two reasons.
First, I wanted to convey the experiences as
they felt rather than the physical reality of the
experience, and no, I was on no drugs besides
the ones naturally occurring in my body from
a bfe of yoga, meditation and communing
with nature. Secondly, I feel that we all can
use more magic in our lives. Many of us
tend to take the events in the world and our
work (play) on the planet much too se riously,
especially us Greeners, who are trying to
save the nees and change the world. We end
up stepping on our .own feet, burnt out,
disgruntled and hopeless. I want my column
to provide an opening to remember the magic
that we often do not see. Above all else, we
must keep the vision and the hope ALIVE!
In my column I want to give the animals
and plants a voice. Perhaps what I perceive
as messages from the plants and animals is
all my own projection, yet I feel and know
in my heart that it is true. Have you ever
tried to sense what the animals, plants and
nature spirits have to say? Try it. Ail you have
to do is ask.
I knew the time had come to leave the
enchanted land of the Olympic Rainforest.
Newtle the Newt was gone and I had failed
in understanding the message from Cougar.
I thought Cougar said we would meet again
in the high mountains but when I left the
lowland rainforest and climbed up the side of
Mount Olympus, no Cougar came to greet
me. Like a stubborn, pouty child I trudged
back toward the civilization, kicking a rock
as I walked. With one hard lick, the rock
bounded off the trail and struck something
curled in the bushes with a painful thud.
"Aaaarooooo!·" A lanky gray wolfbounded .
from the bushes. "What did you do that
for?"
"Dha, geee, um , I'm sorry. I was just
upset and kicking that rock around."
"Well, next time I hope you'll be more
careful. It's okay, though. It is just as well that
I get up. 1 need to begin my journey to the
Methow Valley in the Cascade Mountains to
attend the Fairy/Human Relations Congress.
It begins tomorrow. Would you like to join
me? Perhaps there you will be able to resolve
while Jimi Hendrix plays a ocarina, then
sets it on fire, while a chorus of students
from the college's live action " Vampire:
The Gathering" sing Vaug-ner (Wagner).
Strangely large bubbles manifest in Red
Square, while naked people in drag makeup
bang on tambourines made of recycled bottle
caps and hats made of discarded flyers and
attack Bible Jim with foam boffer swords.]
(Professor: Ah, that's beautiful, kid. Now
'where's your selfeva/?)
We got a lot of little teenage blue-eyed
freshmen who do anything we say,
(Buy me Beer!) We got a genuine professor-type Guru, who's teaching us
a better way (Down with the Man!)
We got all the junk 'that money can
buy, so we never have to be alone
what is troubling you."
I perked up at hearing the word "mountains" and excitedly agreed to go. The Cougar
Spirit said we would meet again in th e
high mountains, yet did not specifY which
mountain. The Cascade Range is at a much
higher elevation than the Olympics, so perhaps
that was the key to the riddle. Perhaps my
perception of the message was true.
"By the way, the name is Wuvyu, Wuvyu
Wolf." He whistled and a pink baby unicorn
emerged from the forest. "This is my companion , Tink. She'll give us a lift to the
gathering. Hop on ."
Within seconds, we were soaring above
the dense green canopy, higher and higher.
It was quite the wild ride, dodging, flocks of
birds and jet planes. Tink had just learned
to fly and had never before carried so much
weight. She was easily susceptible to the wind
currents and would struggle to stay on course.
Finally, we landed in the peaceful valley high
in the Cascade Mountains.
What a sight to see! Fairi es, gnomes, dve"
and the funkiest looking hum ans you could
imagine were si nging and dancing in a giant
ci rcle in the mountain meadow. Everywhere
children were running and playing. Tink,
Wuvyu and I were swept into a timeless
dimension of lighthearted joy. As the sun
began to sink and its co lors draped ac ross
the sky, our wild trio scampered inw th e
mountains above the meadow. From th at
height, the beings attending the gathering
looked like sunlit raindrops on a grassy field,
glimmering with rainbow colors.
"Mmmmuuuoooooo! Mooooo. " Ju st
behind us the grazing cows were calling out
for attention. We turned and watched as they
lumbered, grazing the bare desert slopes.
"Sec those creatures, Tink?" said Wuvyu .
"They don't want to be eaten and that is why
we don't eat meat." Tink was only a baby
unicorn and Wuvyu had been granted the
job of teaching her how to live on Earth as a
steward and servant of Creator.
"How do you know that the cow wouldn't
gladly give its life to nourish another is it was
asked with the utmost respect and honor ?
Is the cougar not serving creator when it
hunts its prey? Perhaps what we eat is not so
important as how we relate to the sacrament
of food, be it plant or animal." I said quietly,
gazing trough the horizon, feeling the fireorange light glint in my eyes.
"Wow! Come over here, guys!" Tink sung,
already bounding for another adventure. "It's
a magical portal . .. the fourth-dim ensional
space." She was standing just in front of a
circle where the grass looked as though It
was moving, even when it stood still. It was
multi-colored in shades of green, brown ,
purple, red, yellow, and blue. In the center
stood a gigantic purple Lupine.
As Tink and Wuvyu bounded back down
toward the gathering, I called to them. "I
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%'Ertca 1Velson _
money comes from endowments given by individuals, trust funds and private
companies. Some scholarships are also funded from a large po~ of general money
called the annual fund, raised by the Evergreen Foundation through such
things as mailings and telethons. The interest earned from these endowments
is used to fund scholarships.
.
The foundation uses Merrill-Lynch and a UW investment group to mvest
the donations. Poor investment performance is a problem affecting colleges
and universities nationwide.
Scholarships are short on funds this year too. Some have no amounts specified
in the scholarship brochure. Some other scholarships were eliminated after
they were advertised. Others, like the Thayer Raymond, (which covers full
in-state ruition), are waiting for money to come from other sources so that
they can be funded in full.
. .
No other public four-year institution in Washington state has ellmmated
scholarships, according to a CP] survey. Washington State University actually has
more money than normal for scholarship awards this year. UW and Central are
Fou~d~ti()ll- 40 , ~sliaIlyawarded, . 4
not
awarcled.$13,764 not disbursed*
*One Foundation scholarship was not reawarded because a student dropped out of
Evergreen in the middle ofthe year.
both &Inding at normal levels and not ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
making any Cuts. Eastern and Western
universities are reducing some of their
award amounts, but are not cutting any
~cad:mic
a~d
sc hol arships entirely, as Evergreen has.
Sue Hinz, director of WSU's n ews
bureau, said, "Our main emphas is [for
to
fundraising] over the past year was
sc holarships." She added, "Our scholarship initiative was at the right time . .. to
to
support our srudents. "
M cGove rn explained Evergreen's sit uation. " M a ny of our sc holarships are
much newer," he said. "We haven't been
able to build up sufficient money."
The foundation is asking for money
from original scholarship donors to
m a ke up the additional shortfalls, as
they did last year. McGovern says that
r~cieved
an a nonymous potential d0410r has
~his
ex pressed interest in helping them cover
scholars hips. He said the president of the
college would meet with the anonymous
potential donor in April, after they
receive an updated report on the state
o f th e sc holarship funds. They would
ask for mon ey "o nce we know how short
we are. "
998 schol arship applications for 03-04
were received as of last week . That
doesn't count the two applicant pools for
scholarships with deadlines later in the year.
Students Discuss Scholarships .. Continued from cover
Dolly England applied for five scholarships for this
year
didn't get any. But her first year here, she got a cultural dIverSIty scholarshIp
. .
. .
equal tuition.
"The only way I can be here is by scholarships, and If I do not get aId m that
way I will not be able
return, irs as easy as that.".
.
She is an RA, which is helping her pay the bIlls thIS year. She can afford
housing or school, but not both.
.
.
She spent all of Christmas break and January applymg for 0.3-04 scholarshIps.
"Its not a five second thing... I had to get recommendatIOns and that took
awhile. It's a lot of work."
Nathan James is senior at Evergreen. He applied for six scholarships and tuition
a cultural diversity tuition waiver for this year. He
waivers last year, an9
could not have affordea school
year without the waiver.
"Even with the scholarship ... I barely eat now. I am working 15 hours a week
and taking 20 credits ... I make up everything above tuition with loans and.
work. Every penny counts."
.
.
Jamesworried about the eliminated scholarships. "If I had put m the effort to
apply and the scholarships were taken away ... I'd be really upset."
Traditions
Cafe & World Folk Art
&1
U
'Fair(y tradea 800ds from {ow-income artisans
and farmers from around tfi.e wor(d
Ij'lcoustic concerts, forums, c(asses, yoetry, and
We provide the ride.
You provide the fun!
Intercity Transit is your ticket off
campus! Rld.:'r•• with your
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The Life of David Gale
Hilmar by Lee KepraiDS
Films about the death penalty can be supportive (as with Th( bucutionm
Song) or opposed (like D~ad Mm Walking,) but when a director and the
actors find themselves impassioned with the subject, the film's stance on
the issue becomes arbitrary. Smart moviegoers should be able to respect and
think about a film regardless of it's stance, as long as it treats the subject
carefully and intelligently.
And the more intelligent you are, the less respect you will have for Alan
Parker's The Lift ofDavid Gau, a film so metriciously disgusting and morally
bankrupt that any thinking moviegoer will be spellbound at the low level of
corrupt dishonesty it displays during it's painfully overlong running time. It
lures you in under the pretense of a somber Death Row drama but climaxes
with a "Woodstein" style investigation (complete with it's own version of
Deep Throat in the form of a shadowy man in a I O-galion cowboy hat
driving a pickup truck.) If that's not enough, it proudly displays its hatred of
all things southern, being set in the heart of Texas, and showing even greater
contempt for it's unscrupulously pathetic anti-capital punishment activists
then for its stupid, inbred bloodless citizens.
We follow Kate Winslet as Bitsey Bloom as she heads down to the good
01' land to do an interview with teacher and activist David Gale (Kevin
Spacey), who is on Death Row for the rape and murder of his friend and
co-worker in the death penalty movement, Constance (Laura Linney of The
Truman Show and You Can Count on Me). Gale claims he was set up most
likely by a right-wing group to be made into an ironic example. Of course,
what starts out as the story on the interview of this tragedy turns into a silly
whodunit that is vile and exploitative and so poor on texture, movement, and
characterization that the script consists entirely of cliches and spare dialogue,
some of which contradict previous dialogue. At one point Spacey desperately
tells the Winslet character that he doesn't want her to fight to save him and
only minutes later do we hear, "I'm running out of time."
Not only does David Gale contain more holes than a tea bag but also
there are edited sequences showing words like "anger," and "hate," that
precede and succeed the flashbacks that make up half the movie. We are
being told what to feel. And the script has the characters clearly describing
their intentions and personalities. Bitsey states clearly, "Because I play by the
rules." We are not left to think about anything. It is shameful, lazy writing.
In a good film, dialogue would have conveyed the character's intentions and
behaviors with subtext and we would have to read between the lines. In a
great film, they can be revealed with images and facial expressions and body
language on the part of the actors. This film, however, is so abound with
stereotypes, implausibilities and cliches, we stop carillg after the first half and
spend the second wondering what the hell this film is about.
Director Alan Parker makes films that are maddeningly provocative but
never like this. He's on autopilot here. His ham-fisted direction is insipid
and lacks any imagination whatsoever. Spacey and Linney are also insulted
here. Did anyone of them ever stop to ask if the story would hold up under
even the slightest scrutiny? Spacey especially. His voice and presence are
commanding on screen and his face holds a quiet dignity. Parker has targeted
that for the role and exploited it. Watch Spacey's performance. He seems to
be in on it. He's playing along. He just recites his lines, acts drunk when the
screenplay requires him to, and that's it.
Thi~ movie hates you. It is easy to write olf movies like Old School
for their blatant plotlessness and unfunny stupidity, but a film like David
Gale is the real cinema mercenary, with its utter contempt and disrespect
for the integrity of its audience and characters. Its fake drama and cheap
thrills are only meant to give the audience something to gasp at, and
the later explanation of the thrills and investing your emotions in them
makes you an idiot.
The last shots in the film are the final insult. They involve the surfacing
of the very last piece of evidence that comes in after everything has been
carried out and we think the characters couldn't be any more contemptible.
What I want to know is, if what we see in the very end is true, doesn't that
negate every single thing that David Gale told Bitsey in private? Wasn't
everything she did meaningless? What was the whole point of the digging up
of the evidence? The shadowy stranger? The tape hanging from the ceiling?
When you realize that you were expected to care about the characters and
the outcome, the movie kids you and lets you know that it was all in vain, if
by that time you haven't already started setting fire to the projection room,
that is, after just so much pap.
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I might not be Brad Pitt but surely I must be at the very least, mildly attractive. So why the hell won't girls make
out with me? Do I smell funny? Am I a bad person? Seriously, what's wrong with me?
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I started asking myself this burning question, which on the fraudulent, mean-spirited "holiday" known as
Valentine's Day, seared inside of me like nothing you'd ever seen. I spent that day crying and thinking. It was of
course, viscous, damp thinking but thinking nonetheless and besides, I had to do something to kill time while
waiting for the pizza guy to show up. I actually never got to the door when he arrived because my bawling was
so loud and my eyes were more watery than a Hardee's coke after the ice cubes have melted. I reached only
this conclusion: There has to be somebody that wants to make out with me.
I don't even really want to make out with anyone. Well...actually no, that's a big fat lie, but it's not
something I think about constantly like some people do, I guess. And yes, I may be a guy, but whether you
want to believe it or not, I really don't think about sex all that much. But it just seems like there are way more
people making out with each other while I get left by the wayside. But that isn't even really t~e problem. I
know why I'm not making out: I'm just a lazy bastard who just doesn't want to exp~nd th~t kmd of.energy
right now. Actually no, that too is a big fat lie and the reason has a lot more to do WIth being neurotic than
just lazy, but the two aren't always mutually exclusive, as I've noticed. What I want to know is, "Why a~en't
girls making out with me," not "Why am I not making out with them?" Do you know what I'm saying?
Probably not, but I'll continue as long as I have your attention.
Why aren't girls inviting me over? Why aren't they taking me out to dinner? ~y aren:t they inviting me
into their rooms? Why aren't they the ones making the moves? Why aren't they puttmg theIr arms around my
shoulder? Why the hell do I have to do ail that shit?
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Yes, I know that was a paragraph composed entirely of questions but I need answers. I could just answer
all of those questions by saying that I have nothing to offer the opposite sex and that my appeal is just not
of a nature to warrant any of that sort of attention. But that's bullshit and you and I know it! Not that I'm
Don Juan d'Olympia but hell, if there are girls out there willing to fellate horses, then surely there must
be someone out there who finds me attractive.
Yeah, I know that making the moves on someone and making out with them and stuff like that is hard,
and there are a zillion different factors to worry about and ail that sort of business (there's a reason why
I'm not making out with anyone right now,) but why do I always have to be the one to undertake that? It's
.
not like I'd be difficult to make out with. I am a
human being after all, and I'm drunk sometimes
which would only make the task easier. So why
aren't I getting made out with?
I decided a while ago that I was never going
to accept someone else's phone number anymore,
but rather I was only going to give out my number
and then leave the calling up to the other person.
Yeah, that backfired bigtime! Girls would be
willing to offer up their phone numbe'rs, which
of course implies that they want me to call them,
but when the roles are reversed, all desire to
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communicate seems to evaporate. Maybe girls just
don't like me, which is fine because sometimes,
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I'm really not a likeable person, I guess. But there
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comes a time when you have to stop blaming shit
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when I''(e been really drunk and proceeded to
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exclaim to everyone within an earshot, which is
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really a great distance because I'm a pretty loud
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bastard sometimes, that I was in a perfect state to
be taken advantage of and that. as such, any girl
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that desired to take advantage of me should take
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the chance and it never happened. I've never been
taken advantage of. I guess it's for the best but
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still, it's nice to feel loved and that's something
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in my life.
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co m peti tors is primed to make their presence known in the competitive martial
arts CirCUIt.
Sa turda y's Eas t-West Gathering of
C hampions open ma rtial arts tournament
ill Ce ntra lia, WA, s ponsored by wellknown Master Donny Omega, featured
several high-o ctane forms and fighting
divisions.
Team Evergreen's black-belts and
under-belts dominated in all divisions.
The day started with the beginners,
who were all in their first tournament
with Team Evergreen, competing in a
division against several graceful Kung-Fu
performers.
The newest members of Evergreen
nearly swept the division, with Greg
Thomas taking fourth, Devon Waldron
taking second, and Andy Cyders coming
they'd need to raise themselves to the top hook kicks.
away with first prize.
O'Keefe and Haskin, who recently
The current "next generation" of Team of any fighting division .
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prevIOus generMark Germano, and recenrly graduated the new tacation
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Evergreen coma nd third respectively. Judges commented them by Sifu
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opponents, winning within the fir s t
minute in both of his . fights. Then te3.m
captain Ke vin Barrett showed his whining opponents what it means to fi ght a
hard-core, east-coast Kung-Fu fight er.
Finally, new team member Waldron fought
extremely well, winning both his fights.
Due to a judging and scoring foul -up ,
Waldron was denied a fight for first place
against Germano's opponent. Bresnik
and Barrett took second and third respec tively.
Mter the intermediate team members
fought, beginners Greg Thomas and Andy
Cyders entered the ring for the first
time. Thomas surprised both opponents
and teammates with quick and tricky
techniques, throwing several kicks that
found their way to opponent's faces .
Cyders also made use of techniques learned
from Sifu Daniels, easily defea.ing his
first opponent. Thpmas and Cyders took
first and second in their fi rst fighting
division.
Also at the tournament for Bak Shaolin
Eagle Claw was the first appearance of
Jessie Smith's Shaolin Aerobic Womell's
Fighting Team. In a rough intermt:diate
division against more experienced competitors Niki C harneski took second place
with the aid of Smith's coaching.
At the end of the day Team Evergreen
put together a team of four continuous
fighters to square off against four black
belt point fighters from different tea ms.
Haskin, O'Keefe, Bresnik and Germano
trounced their more experienced opponents. The fight was the perfect finish to
a great day for th e next generation of Bak
Shaolin Eagle Claw co mp etitors as well as
the seasoned veterans.
Team Evergreen wou ld like to thank
Sifu Dana G. Daniels and Grandmaster Fu
Leung for their countless hours of inst ru ction and support. For more info rmation
on Evergreen Kung-Fu, contact Kevin
Barrett at (360) 35 7-913 7 ur chec k out
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Raft Guide School! March 20-30
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Raft Guide School is an intensive nine-day course designed to produce
quality first-year guides. Participants will become familiar with all ~spects
of river raft guiding, including raft handling , hydrology, geology, sWlft water
techniques, water reading, and dutch oven cooking. This is a experiential
formatted course, which means you'll receive the majority of the information
while on the river! We plan on rafting the Cispus, Deschutes, Wenatchee ,
Methow and other local runs depending on water flows.
Great way to spend
Spring Break and an even better way to secure a guiding job for the upcoming
raft seas on.
The cost of the course is $275_ You can sign up at the Equipment Checkout
Center located inside the CRC building, but act fast as space is limited! The
deadline to sign up is Friday, March '7 .
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car boots, and underage drinking! You gotta love the blotter.. But we better start with tbe antic-y antics before I give it all away.
February 24
2:20 a.m. Why would yo u throw a televi5ion off of a dorm building? I mean, sure this is a college where some people may choose to abstain from the tel evision , but
for many people, the TV was our nanny. Of cou rse , around 2 in the morning there's not much on television except Howard Stern on E, and he's a strange duck. But no
matter how upset you get at Howard Stern, or whatever show you were watching, there's no need to go hucking TVs off of dorms. It's dangerous. There's the glass and the
heaviness. It's just a bad idea all around.
February 26
1:39 a.m. Police Services received a call about a deceased raccoon in the elevator in A dorm. Upon arrival, the officer looked in the elevator in question and saw a motionless racca n.
After determining that it was in fact dead, he removed the poor animal from A dorm, and ruled that foul play was not a factor in the raccoon's demise.
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February 27
5:50 p.m. Graffitti on the various doors ofN dorm.
8:00 p.m. KITT~! Cats are good pets to have in your house, so long as that house isn't a TESC Housing house because that violates the pet policy.
11:45 p.m. In New York, some people play in fire hydrant water during the summer (or else I am completely mistaken and too trusting in the media. Either way . .. ) Howeve r, in
Washington in the middle of winter, there is no bloody need to play in the water. Unfortunately, one group of guys didn't feel that way. They tapped into the fire hydrant betvveen P
dorm and the MODS. It's too friggin' cold to worry about playing in water, not to mention, there's a POOL in the CRe.
February 28
2:50 a.m. A fire alarm went off in some dorm. It was caused by the blackening of bread.
5:50 p.m. One guy is happily spray painting away at the graffitti wall when he is detained by police services. Growl. That's just not cool. The problem is, police services were never
apparen tly TOLD that the grafitti wall existed. Since police services and apparently no one else but CLUC and the managing producer for Evergreen performing/media and expressive
art program knew, this could cause a serious problem with further unwarranted detainments and arrests could happen.
March 1
12:04 a.m. With the creation of the grafitti wall, you'd think that people would go there to leave their mark on the Evergreen community. Looks like they aren't doing that
though because there was grafitti tagging in outdoor pavilion .
March 3
7:40 a,m. Some dude reported having stuff stolen out of his car. He said that he had parked the car at 1 a.m . and when he returned, he noticed that his car had been rifled through
and that various items were stolen. Excuse me, mean [hief, you need to return dude's stuff.
11:30 a.m. Someone stole someone else's meal card. You should be ashamed. What if they are a freshman living in A dorm? Now how are they supposed to eat? There aren't
any stove's there. FOR SHAME! Return your ill gotten booty.
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In the first to urn :lI11c:nt af,er a t\',o month off-seaso n, Everg ree n's Rak Sh ao lin
bgle C bw Kun g Fu tea m cam e out with
an' indomitab le winning sp irit , proving
tha r rh e ne xr ge neration of Eagle C law
competi tors is primed to make their prese nce known in the competirive martial
arts circuIt.
Sa turd ay 's East-West Ga thering of
C hampions ope n martial arts tournament
in Ce ntralia, WA , spo ns o red by wellknown Master Donny Omega, featured
several high-o cta ne fotms and fighting
divisions.
Team Evergree n's black-belts and
under-belts dominated in all divisions.
The day started with the beginners,
who were all in their first tournament
with Team Evergreen, competing in a
division against several graceful Kung-Fu
performers.
The newest members of Evergreen
nearly swept the division, with Greg
Thomas taking fourth, Devon Waldron
taking second, and Andy Cyders coming
away with first prize.
The current "next generation" ofTeam
Evergreen then took center stage. This
time it was a clean sweep. Andrew Bresnik,
Mark Germano, and recently graduated
cap tain Kevin Barrett took first, second
and third res pectively. Judges commenred
that though all co mpetitors did the same
fo rm , each of th em h ad th eir own distin ct
l·nergy.
Bres ni k la ter co mp eted for und erbel t fo rm s grand championship alongside
Cvde rs and half a doze n co mpetitors from
h~st Donny O mega's Eas t-West Karat e
sc hool. Rresn ik combined g race, spirit and
power ro ove rco me th e ho me team bias as
~ c took his first G rand C hampions hip for
Team Eve rgree n.
It wo uld be a paramount da y for
Bresnik and th e Eagle C law interm ediate
co mpetitors.
Afte r an extrem ely successful forms
pe rfo rm a nce, Team Eve rgree n took to
the fi ghtin g ring with d o ubl ed e nergy.
Wo rking closely with Sifu Dana G . Daniels
in recent weeks, th e tea m h ad all th e
tact ical kn ow -ho w and s moot h ene rgy
they'd need to raise themselves to the top hook kicks.
O'Keefe and Haskin, who recently
of any fighting division.
appeared
in the January and February
The black-belt competitors blasted
the heavyweight division first . Using issues of Inside Kung Fu alongside the
previous generthe new tacation
of Team
tics given to
Evergreen
comth em by Sifu
petitors,
have
Daniels, Sam
now
both
opened
H askin
and
their own Eagle
Ow · e n
Claw
Schools in
O ' Keefe, both
Olympia
and
E vergreen
Seattle.
alumni took
Then ,
second
and
after a long wait,
third res p ecthe intermediate
tivel y.
T he
competitors
s i x-foot,
finall y took to
two-hundred
the ring. First
plus Kun g-hi
up was Germano
fighter!, comwho
fought hard,
bined
their
but
barely lost
power with an
out
on pOints
un ca nn y grace
aga inst a fight er
to nail ka rate
who spent most
black belts in
Team
Captain
Kevin
Barrm lays one in on his way to
of the match o n
the head with
third place point fighting.
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his
back. Next ,
li ghtning fast
Bresnik made short wor k of two of his
opponent s, winnin g wi thin th e fir s t
minute in both of his. fights. Then tel m
captain Kevin Barren showed hi s whining opponents whlt it means to fi gh t a
hard-core, east-coast Kung-Fu fi ght e r.
Finally, new team m ember Wa ldron fought
extremely well , winning both his fights.
Due to a judging and scoring foul-up ,
Waldron was denied a fight for first pl ace
against Germano's opponenr. Bres nik
and Barret[ took seco nd and third respectively.
After the intermediate team members
fought, beginners Greg Thomas and Andy
Cyders entered the ring for the first
time. Thomas surprised both opponents
and teammates with quick and {[icky
techniques, throwing several kicks that
found their way to opponent's faces.
Cyders also made use of techniques learned
from Sifu Daniels, easily defea;:ing his
first opponent. Thpmas and Cyders took
first and second in their first fighting
division.
Also at the tournament for Bak Shaolin
Eagle Claw was the first appearance of
Jessie Smith's Shaolin Aerobic Women's
Fighting Team. In a rough intermediate
division against more experienced competitors Niki Charneski took second place
with the aid of Smith's coaching.
At the end of the day Team Evergreen
put together a tea m of four continuous
fighters to square off against four black
belt point fighters from di ffe rent tea ms.
Haskin. O ' Keefe, Bresnik and Germano
trounced their more ex pe rienced opponents. The fi ght was th e perfect fin is h to
a great day for the nex t ge ne rario n of Bak
Shaolin Eagle C law co mp etitors as well as
the seaso ned vetera ns.
Team Evergree n wo uld like to rha nk
Sifu Dana G . D ani els and Gra ndmaster Fu
Leung for their co unrI e~s ho urs of instr uction and supp o rt. For 'more i nforl11ati o n
o n Evergreen KLing-Fu, co nt act Ke vin
Barrett at (360) 3 57-91 37 o r c hec k o ut
www.bakshaolineagleclaw. co m.
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Raf t Guide Sc hool i s an inte ns ive n i ne-day course designed to produce
q ual ity first-year gu ide s. Participants will b ecome famil iar with all ~spects
o f river raft guiding, including r aft h a nd ling, hydrology , geology, sWlft water
techn iques, water reading, and dutch oven cook i ng. This i s a expe~iential,
forma tt ed course, which means you'll receive the majority of the lnformatlon
while on the river! We plan on rafting the Cispus, Deschutes, Wenatchee,
Meth ow and other local runs depending on water flows.
Grea t way to spend
Sp ri ng Break and an even better way to secure a guiding job for the upcomi ng
raft season.
The cost o f the course is $275. You can sign up at the Equipment Checkout
Center located i nside the CRC building, but act fast as space is limited! The
deadline to sign up is Friday, March 7 .
For more information, contact The
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Antics Galore! Woo hoof Gotta love those antics! I think that
just trying to take up space here, but there are a lot ofgood things this week. There's an arrest,
car boots, and underage drinking.' You gotta love the blotter.. But we better start with the antic-y antics before I give it all away.
February 24
2:20 a.m. Why would you throw a television off of a dorm bui lding' I mean , sure this is a college where some people may choose to abstai n from the tel evision, but
for many people, the TV was our nanny. Of course, around 2 in rhe morning there's not mu ch on television excepr H oward Stern on E, and he's a strange du ck. But no
man er how upse r YOLi get ar Howard Stern, or whatever show you were watching, there's no need to go hucking TVs off of dorms . It's dangerous . There's the glass and the
heaviness. It's just a bad idea all around .
February 26
1:39 a.m. Police Services received a call about a deceased raccoon in the elevator in A dorm. Upon arrival, the officer looked in the elevator in question and saw a moti onless raccon.
After determining that it was in fact dead, he removed the poor animal from A dorm , and ruled that foul play was not a factor in the raccoon's demise.
February 27
5:50 p.m. Graffitti on the various doors of N dorm.
8:00 p.m. KITTY!! Cats are good pets to have in your house, so long as that house isn't a TESC Housing house because that violates th e pet policy.
11 :45 p.m. In New York, some people play in fire hydrant water during the summer (or else I am complerely mistaken and too trusting in the media. Either way ... ) However, in
Washington in the middle of winter, there is no bloody need to play in the water. Unfortunately, one group of guys didn't feel that way. They tapped into the fire hydranr bet\veen P
dorm and the MODS. Ir's too friggin' cold to worry about playing in water, not to mention, there's a POOL in the CRe.
February 28
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2:50 a.m. A fire alarm went off in some dorm. It was caused by the blackening of bread.
5:50 p.m. One guy is happily spray painting away at the graffirri wall when he is detained by police services. Growl. That's just not cool. The problem is, police services were neve r
apparenrly TOLD that the grafirri wall existed. Since police services and apparently no one else but CLUC and the managing producer for Evergreen performing/media and expressive
art program knew, this could cause a serious problem with further unwarranted detainments and arrests could happen.
March 1
- 12:04 a.m. With the creation of the grafitti wall, you'd think that people would go there to leave their mark on the Evergreen community. Looks like they aren't doing that
though because there was grafirri tagging in outdoor pavilion.
March 3
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7:40 a.m. Some dude reported having stuff stolen out of his car. He said that he had parked the car at I a.m. and when he returned, he noticed that his car had been rifled through
and that various items were stolen. Excuse me, mean thief, you need to return dude's stuff.
11:30 a.m. Someone stole someone else's meal card. You should be ashamed. Whar if they are a freshman living in A dorm? Now how are they supposed (0 eat? There aren't
any stove's there. FOR SHAME! Return your ill gotten booty.
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