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MISSING PAINTING
Oil on masonite, 3 ft. x 4 ft.
Last seen on the first floor of the CAB
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by Rob Hopt and Renata Rollins

Roberl Mar/indale
Senior

Game master Joe Lott leads fellow garners Erik Dahl and Moses Kaber in a game of "Hack Master" Wednesday
night on the thirdjloor of the CAB, The Evergreen Gaming Guild meets weekly to take a break from school with
role-playing and board games. (See the Calendar on page 17 for the guild's schedule.)

CORRECTIONS
In ou r previous issue, we made a biiig
mistake. The letter on page 14, " Why you
should be involved in the Men's Center,"
was mistakenly credited to Katherine
Hebert (who, ironically, is a woman),
It should have been credited to James
Pierce, who is the coordinator of the
Men's Center (who, as you might expect,
is a man), Your copy editors, whose job is
to catch silly errors, regret not catching thi s
silly error. We are very sorry.

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please contact Alex at
253.307.6477 or 360.867.1443.
This painting is very special to the artist, and he needs it
for his portfolio and future endeavors. No questions asked,
I just want my painting back.
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Lingo Dancetheater Returns to
Lvergreen
"If there's any signature to my work, it's ... how we as people fail to communicate with each other," says KT
Niehoff, Lingo Dancetheater's artistic director. Her acclaimed Seattle-based ensemble brings performances that fuse
dance, gesture and language to venues all over the world.
Lingo's newest work, Speak 10 Me, examines the strengths and shortcomings of language, as well as our innate
desire to communicate. Performing to a score by Maktub's legendary Reggie Watts, dancers gyrate, fall and flip .
The dialogue in Speak 10 Me ranges from murmurs to monologues, from word games to a nonsensical job interview,
sometimes serving as a soundtrack for the choreography, sometimes seeming to hold greater significance. As the
piece progresses, the movement conveys ideas more independently of the language. According to Th e Stranger,
"This ambitious piece has grown into something dense, jagged and richly stimulating."
In addition to Lingo's two performances at Evergreen, Niehoffwill teach a 12-hour workshop. For nearly a decade,
Niehoff taught contemporary technique, composition and improvisation throughout the United States, Europe, Japan,
Cuba, and Ecuador at a variety of schools, from her own Velocity Dance Center to Estudio 3 in Madrid. In her
workshop, Niehoff uses an improvisational structure to learn tools and conceptual premises for new ways to create
visual performance. She will work with dissecting personal movement vocabulary, space, theatrical elements, timing,
counterpoint, music, and more. There will also be a focus on how to work effectively inside a group dynamic. The
class will fill up quickly on a first come, first served basis. To register, contact Monique Anderson at 867.6057.
These events are funded in part by the National Dance Project of The New England Foundation for the Arts with
lead funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Lingo Dancetheater will perform Speak 10 Me in the Experimental Theater at 8:00 PM on Friday, January 30 and
Saturday, January 31. Tickets are $8 for students and seniors, $ J6 for
general admission.
For more informalion, conlacl Rachel Croulhamel a1867.6833 or
556.1867.

Harlequin Productions continues its 13th season with The Rainmaker,
opening tonight at the State Theater.
Written by N. Richard Nash, the play is set in the west and centers
around Lizzie, a spinster who is stuck on a ranch caring for her father
and brothers during a severe drought. Then a young man arrives with a
guarantee of rain for the price of$1 00, ultimately renewing the family 's
connection to magic and nature and Lizzie's faith in herself.
The play is directed by Brian lYrrell, and the cast features John
O'Keefe, Steve Manning, Megan Sanders, Peter Kappler, Jesse Hinds,
Scott Lendzion, and Dennis Rolly.
The Rainmaker continues its run through February 14, with performances Thursday through Sunday. Showtimes are 8:00 PM for evening
performances, 2:00 PM for Sunday matinees. Wednesday, January 28
is a " pay what you can" show.
Tickets are available at Harlequin's box office at the State Theater,
located at 202 Fourth Ave. E in downtown Olympia. Hours are noon to
6:00 PM Tuesday through Saturday and two hours prior to showtime
through intermission on performance dates. Ticket requests may be
faxed to 534.9659.
For ticket or general information, contact Harlequin Productions'
box office at 786.0151, or email: harlbox@harlequinproductions.org.

Internship Fair
Next Wednesday, the 13th annual Internship Fair
will be held from noon to 3:00 PM in the Library
lobbies.
Over eighty organizations will be on campus and
seeking interns for spring and future quarters, including The Seattle TImes, Experience Music Project, and
the Office of Congressman Brian Baird.
For more information, contact Academic Advising
at 867.6312 or email: advising@evergreen.edu.

compute
this!
This quarter, several computer workshops are
being offered by the Computing Center for students, faculty and staff with a variety of needs and
experience levels.
Classes are held in the Computing Center's
General Computing Classroom (GCC), the Mac
Classroom, or the Advanced Computing Classroom,
LIB2412 .
Many of the classes have prerequisites and vary
from comfort with keyboard and mouse to some
Mac experience to previous workshops in the series,
Contact John McGee at 867.6108 if you have questions .
To register, interested persons should go to the
Student Consultant desk at the Computing Center ill
LIB 2416 or ca ll 867.6231 . Registration is 011 a first
come, first served basi s, and each workshop should
be registered for individually. Eventually, an online
registration form will be posted.
Workshops began this week and continue today
with Photoshop for Web, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM ill
the Mac lab. Upcoming workshops include Excel ,
Word, Dreamweaver, Linux, iMovie, PowerPofnt,
MySQLIPHP, InDesign, Acrobat, and Dreamweaver
help sessions.
To view the schedule, VISIt http:
//www.evergreen.edu/academiccomputing/
workshops.htm.
For more informalion. conlacl Max Cohen 01
867.6231 or cccon2@evergreen.edu ,

Voices o f Color
BY
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The day we take our first breath, a little lion is
born.
Everybody has a lion.
It's a fact of Iife and when it senses fear, it gets
bigger and meaner.
We are taught as soon as possible to put it in a
cage, because of this violent tendency.
It can kill you, and not only that, it can kill
others.
I was taught to fear quite early in life growing
up with an alcoholic, homeless father, having a
stepfather in prison, being poor in a rich school,
being Indian in a white family, being white in
a black family, with my mothers' love, being
weak, being evil, being molested.
I would steal, abuse drugs, smoke, treat my
brother like shit, obsess over sex, make my own
mother cry, break my knuckles against poles,
kick holes in walls, punch holes in doors, bite
my fingertips off, wishing that somebody cared,
when I hated everybody.
I build skyscrapers of lies because I was too
afraid of the pain that living "down to earth"
brought.
I made airplanes and cars of denial to fly me
away from my problems and self hate.
These only made the lion meaner.
As the lion and the pollution grew, I couldn't
breathe.
Checkmated, my only option was seemingly suicide; I had to let the lion out of its cage.

Crying, trembling and filled with fear, I
accepted my fate and let the I.ion out.
I can still vividly remember the feeling of its
teeth sinking slowly into me .
Hurricanes, earthquakes and other forces or
nature destroyed my global empire.
All of my armies, guns, aircraft carriers,
weapons of mass distraction, and biological
weapons could not fight against fate.
And after the lion was finished, I lay in my
deathbed, mangled and torn, my blood
strewn across the earth beneath me.
Strangely though I could breathe again .
Without all the pollution I made in my lifeI could once again breathe and be united
with the little lion lance knew.
Time passed and I healed.
I still would have to make cages for my lion
because people were afraid of it; it stil! has
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teeth that can kill.
I had learned to understand why my lion
could kill and my lion understood that it
wasn't me that wanted it in a cage.
Surprised and astonished people were
when they saw my fearlessness of the lion. "Come to the circus and be amazed! The
lion tamer shall take your breath away."
And so I stand for the ones that I love: the
clowns, the freaks, the hated and the queer.
My lion and I take the breath away from
. people, but we also give it back.
I care for these people as I care for the lion.

POET~Y
TONY B~AVE

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A tin,Y li2ht reflection in a puddle

when Shaded was the p?wer of an eclipse
The clouds seemed to stop time with
the deep bass beats of a I'!eart
something to look forward to do as the,Y revolve
around
-our dr~ular community
Closer and closer to tne top of the mountain
from rivers to trees embraced in richness
--The snow is cold but hasn't delivered pain
~at cannot be eas~ b'y a co~ leat ,
Wille! there'can be p'lerclngas If knocktng
" a primer or a tiringbodq using all its power
tosurvi';'e, b~t-fearingSilencea cried,
I was chlll'y sInce the colors are changtng before
all ~es and souls with waterH.grace - m,Ystified
the silliest of ~risoners .of seTt-containment
An unnatural ~eath b'y mixtures and wonder
Is .~ping to the source ot beginning when
lOOKing for the end of our senses
Tiringfo the point of no return was alwa,Ys ever,Ywk~
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delalj~ b'y 9uestions, it i~ tinall'y announced
Now1 w,IISe softer than aIr or water
Sweeter than an,Y nectar

Standing at the Edge of My Universe
Let me retreat,to wher~ I ma~ t<:tke long dips in onsen, drink .e;reen tea, !i,:,e in a humble place deep in the
jungle of my' mind and In an environment deepl~ saturated with uncondlttonallove and beaut~ . The onl~
wa~ to get there is to p,ick up a pen and a sword, then jump into infinit,y and hope that I don t get eaten
b~ the vicious cannibals tha~ are so affectionatel~ kn6wn as the leaders of the world.

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To submit, email your submissions to cpj@evergreen.edu,
walk in CAB 316 and drop it off (it s on the thirdfloor of
the College Activities Building), or call 360.867.6213
to get in touch with your student newspaper.

Searching for Peace ...

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Continued from COllel

by Jakob Laggner

From the dawn of humankind, people have been seeking a relationship with the divine. Be it cave paintings depicting magical images or
ceremonial use of animal bones, there is evidence that we as people
have found it necessary to be in harmonious relationship with universal
powers.
Shamanic practices provide a collection of tools that range from
storytelling to grand ceremonies. Our ancestors have collected these
tools over the course of thousands of years. The longevity of this
spiritual practice has significance; over the millennia shamans have
passed their knowledge down the line from grandfather to grandson,
from grandmother to granddaughter. Each caretaker of a lineage keeps
in his or her compendium of ways what works and adds to it when
something of value is learned or gifted to him or her. The wisdom of
our ancestors is directly accessible to us through ceremonial practice.
One must realize that differently from material goods, which often
are seen as more valuable by how new and fresh they are, in spiritual
practice that which is older holds more value. By withstanding the test
of time, shamanism has proven that it can fulfill its function, whatever
era one may live in.

The shamanic paradigm is much different from the religious paradigm, which is driven by dogma. Shamanism's paradigm functions
from a stance that is the exact opposite of religious indoctrination. It
operates from the understanding that each person has to find his or her
own unique path of reunification with a creator. This means that every
person's way towards self-realization will be different.
The shamans around the globe, even though they are separated by
continents, practice ceremonies and tell myths extremely similar to one
another. In fact, many of these are the same and differ only in content
by environmental factors of a given location. The intent, however, is
the same. The implication is that authentic shamanic practice comes
from the same source. This source is the same architectural framework
of the mind we share as human beings, or the "collective unconscious,"
as lung put it.
The point is that shamanic practices are innate to humans: they are
as innate to us as the ability to clothe and shelter ourselves. It is the
birthright of every man and woman to practice and experience shamanic
ceremonies no matter what religious or cultural background he or she
may come from.

The Shamanic Club is new at Evergreen. and meets on Mondays in
the cedar room o/the Longhousefrom 5:30-7:00 PM Next Monday:
Shamanic Drumming and Power Breathing.

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holocaust and anti-Semitism. Palestinian
wi II say (we had) Shatila from 1936, 1913,
1920, 1956, we' ve been persecuted more
than you .. . it is a debate about who is more
of a victim. Then they will go to the third
point unless someone will say we are both
victim. The third component, we have no
other place to go. The Israeli Jews will
say, ' We have no other place to go.' The
Palestinians will say, 'We are not Egyptian,
we are not Lebanese, we are not Jordanian,
we're not any of these and we have no
other place to go.' For those that attend
the dialogue, for the first time it dawned
on them: 'We're stuck with them. , They
have the same exact argument as us; they
articulate it ,like we do and with the same
compassion we do, so what do we do with
that, so what do we do. '"
Abu-Nimer worked on dialogue for
ten years, between 1980 and 1989. He
worked with Arabs and Jews together.
"They put twenty of them in a room and
said, ' We have the keys; you have to talk
to each other. ' They talk to each other .. . it
is annoying to sit a few meters from their
enemy and look into th eir face , .. they
begin debating for the first day, Second
day they are exhausted and they cannot
win this debate. The third day you see
tears in their eyes: they make a friend ,
they discover the human in the other side
and they are scared going back to their own
community. They did this in three days .. .
after three days they asked, ' What did you
learn?' They would reply, ' I learned that
they are exactl y like us. They are human. "
where did they come from . '"
Abu-N im er, the American University
Professor, says, "The question of security
is hi gh for both sides ... we have tried,only

one arrangement, more tanks for security,
and it's not working, and we've been
trying to say that since the 1970s. Tanks,
weapons, walls will not increase security,
(they) will decrease it. That's why we are
in high alert now: we are the most 'super'
power in the world. Yet we are on very
high alert for terrorism. We cannot really
be secure with more weapons. Weaponry
never secures people; it gives the [illusion]
of security."
These were important parts of the
lecture that changed my perspective.
I hope that if yOU attend with an open
mind, something similar will happen to
you. I invite you to attend at least one of
the lectures, which start at 7:00 PM and
go until 9:00 with a chance for dialogue
from 9 :00-\ 0:00 PM. This is optional
and will be facilitated . It takes place at
the Christian Science Church, on Eighth
and Washington downtown, on selected
Thursdays in February, and is free and
open to the public. I am working on the
committee that placed this series and
designed the course website, which you
can check for more information.

by Greg Bickel

To All Evergreen Students,
This letter is to inform you of
the progress being made to improve
the food service experience oncampus. Many have offered an opinion
on what can or should be done. While
constructive thoughts are appreciated
and honored, the situation is notably
complex. If we were starting from
scratch, I imagine change might be
easIer.
The Food Services Advisory
Committee is a group comprising the
heads of several departments and two
http://academic.evergreen.edulcurricular/ Evergreen students. Both students have
chosen to volunteer to help change cur"
palestinianisraelil
rent food service dilemmas. We meet
Some of the next lectures are:
regularly to discuss the present and
future status of the food offered on
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Ellis Goldberg «(jniversity of
In recent months , this committee
Washington)
Farhat
Ziadeh
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of
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Religious Dimen s ions, Febru a ry
2004
Marc Ellis (Baylor University)
Lance Laird (Th e Eve rgreen Stat
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College)

haS' b\gun designing long-term plans .
This will likely include a refurbishing
of the on-campus facilities and other
changes. The present stage of development involves touring the recently
renovated food courts at nearby campuses, including the University of
Washington.
We will be conducting an analysis
of U. W. 's layout and food preferences,
which will hopefully allow us to design
a popular, comfortable eating experience for all on campus.
Committee field trips will begin in
February. We will keep you updated.
Due to the stage of planning, and
how the student body is affected , student involvement is highly encouraged.
For additional information , contact
either Kenari at iranek@ hotmail.com ,
or Greg at bicg re2 8@evergreen.edu.

Graduating Seniors
Have you voted? If n 'o t, it is not too late!
ltVe've extended voting to January 30 th •
Vote for:
Gu.est Speaker
Class The:rn.e
Class Donation
Processional l.\It: usic
Ballots are available electronically on. the
EVERGREEN GATEltVA Y until January 30th .
lVIake your ·selections by logging on. to the
GATElIVA Y and choosing:
2004 Graduation Ballot

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The Student Conservation Association is seeking conservation crew leaders to sup~rvise .
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finalize your vote.

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Last weekend, Washingtonians were
treated to three days of seafood-sand bl iss,
otherwise known as clam digging.
The Washington Department of Fish
and Wildlife (WDFW) approved digging on three Washington beaches: Long
Beach (Columbia River to Leadbetter
Point), Twin Harbors (Willapa Bay to
Grays Harbor), and Mocrocks (Copalis
River to the Moclips River, including Iron
Springs, Roosevelt Beach, Pacific Beach,
and Moclips). Digging was only permitted
at Mocrocks on January 18 and 19, while
Long Beach and Twin Harbors were open
from January 18 through 20.
Copalis Beach and Kalaloch remained
closed due to domoic concentrations
(toxins) in the clams, which were above
the FDA guidelines for safe human consumption, WDFW reported.
That didn 't stop an abundance of c1am~

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happy diggers from roaming the other
beaches in search of clams. Some were
very successful and acquired their limit
of fifteen clams in no time, while others
spent hours and returned soaked with just
a handful to show for.
But harvesting clams is a feat that all
ages can enjoy. Whitney Bolibol, seven,
said she likes to come clam digging
because "we get to play squirt gun (with
the clams)." Her younger brother, Jordan,
however, thought the sand was "disgusting."
The tides last weekend were afternoon
and evening tides, typical of winter digs,
said Dan Ayres of WDFW. This spring,
some morning tides may be-offered ..
For more in/ormation, contact Ayres at
360.249.4628 or visit:
http://www. wdfw. wa.govl

Above: Clam diggers harvest razQr clams fast
Saturday at Twin , H~rbors.

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Volunteers and interns answer
the crisis hotline 24/7 and we
are always looking for empathetic community members
willing to give their time to
listen and empower callers in
need.

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The next training kicks off
February 6th, 7th and 8th.
We are still accepting applica tions for volunteers and intern\>
ship positions . Call 586-21l88
x113 for more information.

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What's Going On in the Ol~mpia and Evergreen

The Sex Workers' Art Show

Arts Scene:

by Amber Leffler
"/ like junk in my trunk. And there was
plenty. "
-Gordon Boddington-Sturs IV,
Evergreen Activist, on this year's Sex
Workers' Art Show
At 6:00 PM on Saturday night, a line
slowly formed in front of the Capitol
Theater. My Intrepid Photographer (who
shall remain nameless, as he snapped a
few illegal photos during the show) and I
had arrived at 5:30, anticipating the colossal queue of last year, to find only a few
people milling around an hour before the
box office opened.
At 6:35 the curtains of ticket office
opened, and a long line for the best seats
stretched past The Vault. I adjusted my
fishnets and argued with my Intrepid
Photographer. He took his duties very seriously and wanted pictures of everything:
the crowd, the theater volunteers, even the
dressing rooms.
" I don't want a whole roll of just this
show!" I fussed.
He shrugged . " Why not? You have
to develop the film tomorrow anyway.
Besides," he pointed to a petite person in a
red fur ensemble, "don't you want a picture
of her?" The lady in question struck a pose,
stretching her arms luxuriously skyward
for the camera's flash.
The doors opened sometime after 7: 15.
A montage of vintage burlesque films with
titles likeZabuda, Temptress of the Nile
and Madonna and her Bubbles played on
the screen. Annie Oakley emceed the show,

SAUL WILLIAMS
which, once ~ain, was dedicated to Bruce
Springsteen, but this year she kicked· off
the evening by picking up a bass guitar and
performing an enthusiastic version of the
Misfits' "I Turned into A Martian."
Dr. Ducky Doolittle swished onstage in
a tiny, fringed skirt - a look she descrlbed
as "Bordello lampshade." She instructed
the audience to exercise our PC muscles
every day, warning that she would chart
our progress.
Next, Michelle Tea read an excerpt from
an ironic tale of prostitution and rebellion.
Tea is-a very great, very fast reader, and
my favorite author in the entire world, so
I was overwhelmed with fan-mania and
the only note I made on her performance
reads, "Michelle TEA!"
Tre Vasquez performed a spoken word
piece about blowjobs as a metaphor for
class and race inequalities in America.
Annie Oakley introduced the next
performer as Erochica Bamboo, winner
of Miss Exotic World 2003 - which Ms.
Oakley explained as the equivalent of the
Miss World competition for exotic dancers.
I recognized Ms. Bamboo as the woman in
red fur who had posed for us outside.
She was completely adorable, shaking
her pasties through the audience before
skipping off in a sparkling G-string.
David Henry Sterry took the stage
for what appeared at first to bea comic
routine. He quickly took us from his very
English father's sex advice ("If it's done
properly, you can have the whole thing
done with in less than a minute") to a gut-

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ripping tale of ingesting a drugged steak
and being brutall)' raped.
At this point my word count informs
me that I will have to conserve, which is a
sin and a shame.'! will skim the highlights,
though every performer really deserves a.
page of their own (and you can go to http:
//www.sexworkersartshow.comlfor longer
bios).
Erochica Bamboo danced again,
this time gyrating to "Anarchy in the
U.K." while clad - briefly - in a rainbow
kimono.
Scarlet Harlot introduced her amazing,
glow stick-wearing self by immediately
deep-throating a banana. " Hellooo, my
little supplicants," she purred. "I am Scarlet
Harlot, Unrepentant Whore." Scarlet, a.k.a.
Carol Leigh, is also the reason you will
probably see a zillion "Support Your Local
Hooker" stickers plastered on everything
from pop machin·es to cop cruisers.
And the incredibly gracious David
Sterry, who I ran into at the snack counter, fetched Michelle Tea to sign her book
of poems for me. I got to babble like an
idiot in front of my literary idol , so that
was absolutely sublime. Thank you, thank
you, thank you, David Sterry. Thank you,
Michelle Tea.
I walked out thinking of the woman
who had won two vibrators in that evening's raffle. "How do you feel?" Annie
Oakley had asked.
"Oh, so exhilarated, " the woman
sighed.
I think she summed up the night best.

Award-winning poet/actor/musician,
and PIECE, a spoken word poet/musician.
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Evergreen students have the opportunity to be a part of the Spring 2004 Olympia Art
In the Tenth Annual procession of the
Walk! Participants are encouraged to keep in mind the importance of both quality
Species
Celebration, we wish to recognize
and variety, in works of art, performances, and display methods and locations. All
of sanctuary, harmony and prothose
acts
mediums, skills, levels, and forms of expression are encouraged. Visual works of art
tection
from
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should be original or limited in edition as opposed to works that are mass produced and
widely distributed. Performances should embrace the spirits of Arts Walk as an event and the Clean Water and Air Acts, to the
attended by both children and adults and be live or have an element oflive performance .. National Parks and other Coastal Marine
Sanctuary Systems. So hold the harmony!
Performances should not be disruptive to general Arts Walk activity.
Be the Sanctuary! And come make the joy
How to participate: If you are an artist (visual, performing or literary) .. .
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Contact any business in downtown Olympia and ask if they would be willing of the Procession happen!
to host your work. Most business owners will want to see or hear a sample of your work
prior to registration .
Once a business agrees to host your work, the artist and the business represen2.
tative should complete the registration form together. Listed artists are responsible for
paying a $10 participation fee.
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Dance, drum and batik workshops,
set up, take down, sales, and receptions.
studio tours, music. Saturday, March 6, 12:
If you need help finding a space or making contact with a local business, please 00-5:00 PM at the Procession Community
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Art Studio, 812 South Central St. (the old
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3:00-9:00 PM at the Procession Community Art Studio.

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The Definite Article: Too Much of a Good Thing
by Lee Kepraios
Last week, I did a piece about what's on
television. I'd like to talk a bit this week
about a TV itself, namely my TV, which was
stolen from my donn along with my DVD
player sometime over the winter break. Boy,
I'm really pissed this week.
. It was a large TV, parti~ularly for a college
campus, and I was very glad to have gotten
it a few years ago to keep me on par and
current in my writing, while allowing me to
tune out the rest of you assholes after a day's
work. I'm not a materialist or anything, but
I really wish they'd gotten away with some
other appl iance.
No one ever steals microwaves. They
could have taken my kidney. Any other
thing, really. Too bad sentimental value
won't help you hock something. I often have
less sentiment for objects with sentimental
value than I do with something like a TV or
DVD player.
Anyway, I went to fill out a police report,
and then I went to Housing to see what I can
do about this. I knew it wouldn't be priority
one on their list, but I expected compensation. I knew I was entitled to it because this
was not a break-in. Had it just been a theft,
nothing would have happened. But I am
entitled to a reimbursement because there
was no just plain theft involved.
I was asked if there was a possibility that
it was one of my roommates or someone they
knew who could get their key somehow. Out
of the question. I've known my roommates
for three years now and I trust them implic-

itly. Besides, they're women, and that's a
gender that has not proven to be the most
prolific in the theft department.
Now, I was the last one to leave for
winter break, and when I retumed, the TV
was already missing. So if it wasn't one of
my roommates, who was it?
I'm not going to point any fingers, but I
think Housing dropped the ball on this one.
Two possibilities: a) a person or persons in
Housing and Maintenance made offwith my
TV and DVD player sometime over break
or b) Housing and Maintenance left my door
unlocked after doing one of their routine
checks over the break, allowing anyone to
just walk in and steal my shit. I know it takes
more than one person to lift the TV I had,
that's for sure.
I know doors in The Soup are designed
to shut and lock automatically. But mine, I
learned, does not lock on its own. It lacks the
extra "harrumph" it needs to shut and lock
all the way. It closes but not enough so that
it makes the click and locks in place. I know
there are motherfuckers walking around all
the time trying doorknobs until they hit the
jackpot.
I know I locked that door. I also know
that Housing telling its staff to be anal about
it does not rule out the possibility that in
making their checks, doing them in rapid
succession the way they do, they just once
forgot to pull the door shut as they left and
left it a crack open, ready for others to just
push it all the way open and purloin anything

they wanted.
Indeed they did do a check on my room
over the break. I found out that Housing
Facilities staff entered my apartment on
Monday, December 29th as part of what
they call the "winter lock-down," and get
this: the staff doing the lock-down was at
least six people. Why so many? Apparently,
not everything was locked down.
But there's a bigger issue here. What is
Housing doing in my place of residence
that's so urgent that they can't wait till I'm
around? Checking to see if lights are on,
smoke detectors are covered: all of these
things are minor risks with odds of practically nothing going horribly wrong with
them. Checking them so frequently and so
officially is just window dressing.
And why do these people have to come
when no one is in their donn in the first
place? That's an invasion of privacy. This
is not a hotel. This is where I live. Anything
I need fixed or looked at or any checks that
need to be run on this living space should
be done so by appointment and I should
be present when they're being done. I paid
good money to live here and I should be
calling the shots. Otherwise, what's the
point of even living here if my apartment is
a target or can be made into a target by any
number of careless, recalcitrant Housing and
Maintenance staff?
I've learned that when you put in a work
order to Housing, you can request to 'have
them only arrive when you are present. But

SOMETH1N~ TO TALK ABOUT
by Clare Davitt
Sometimes life hands you watermelons, and since not many people like .watcnnelon juicc, you are up the proverbial creek
without a lemonade stand. Or something. What I'm saying, I think, is that bad things, hard things, life things happen regardless
of who you are, and they can suck.
When the shit flies, and the time for short and simple sayings arrives via friends and family, you know you have arrived at, or
been thrown, a situation that falls in the what-doesn't-kill-you-makes-you-stronger category. It is at times like this - Wilt:n someone
is sick or dying, you've ended yet another relationship, you find you really will havc to drop out of school because you can't afford
another quarter, or you feel you simply don't have anything to be happy about - that a person needs others' judgment, advice, and
opinion the least. And it is of course in these moments that we do receive them, from someone who really does feel bad (we hope)
and simply doesn't know what to do or say. So they say, "Buck up," "It will pass," "It could be worse," and a tried and true favorite,
"You think that's bad? Listen to what happened to me."
When it comes down to it, most people would admit that such trite and overused statements don ' t do much for anyone, but we
of Western Society have no other option. We must say something. Right? That is what we've been taught at least, that silence is
scary and must be filled even when we know what often fills it is gibberish.
I think - actually, I know - that there is another option, and that it is in use as we speak. I am a phone line volunteer at the Crisis
Clinic Resource Network here in Olympia. The Crisis Clinic is a 2417 crisis line that was started in the Evergreen donm over thil1y
years ago. I started at the Crisis Clinic over two years ago when I first moved to Olympia, and the mission of the clinic became a
keystone in my education. The belief of the Crisis Clinic is that an empowered person has the answers for their life and that, with
empathy and compassion, a caller who believes they need answers from the outside can begin to discover they have them inside
themselves .
The Crisis Clinic's phones are answered entirely by volunteers and interns who have been trained in active listening and crisis
intervention skills. What this really means is that after intensive training I pick up the phone and listen to a caller who needs to talk
about something. I don't give advice, I'm nonjudgmental, and I never offer an opinion. Sometimes the caller might work through
their feelings to a plan of some sort; lots of times they don't. The people who call the Crisis Clinic are community members of
Thurston and Mason Counties. The callers range from stressed to abused women and men, to mental health clients, to the homeless ,
to the depressed, to the abusers, and to countless more.
In our society one does not talk about one's feelings , especially when they are feelings of fear. That is why the Crisis Clinic
exists. You can call 586.2800 and- have a confidential and anonymous listener who will let you vent, cry, laugh, or scream about
what is going on in your world. And this person is just another person who has feelings too, and they are not a professional therapist
or counselor, just your average folk who want to support someone in crisis. So it could be you answering the phone, or it could be
you who dialed in, either way, the service the Crisis Clinic provides is for you. I wrote this article because I believe in what the
Crisis Clinic does, and I think that everyone in the community benefits from its existence, which is continued by both callers and
volunteers.
Crisis Clinic Resource Network
Clare Davitt, TESt Graduating Senior
P.O. Box 2463
clared@crisis-clinic.org
Olympia, WA 98507
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360.704.331
http://www.crisis-clinic.org/

who knows that? Raise your hand if you
knew that. Apparently, it's on the Evergreen
website, but I couldn't find it.
On the way back to Evergreen, I thought
to myself, "It's gonna suck being back and
have to deal with those hippies, but at least
[ still got my TV " Now I don ?t feel safe in
my own apaltmentjust because some braindead, go-nowhere losers needed money for
drugs . I'll bet that's what they bought with
the money.
If I could find them, I'd look into their
faces after putting my foot in their collective
ass and ask them why they didn't have the
decency to at least keep what they took and
enjoy it, and they ' d look at me and answer,
"God, I'm stoned." But until that happens,
my dornl is nothing more than a Price is
Right showcase.
Lee's New Rule of the Week: Quit
acting surprised about Michael Jackson.
We all knew he's not all there. It's no major
surprise to any ,of us. Here's what really
makes an open and shut case: It's one thing
when you prey on children over something
like the Internet, something where you do the
hunting. Then you can deny it. But ifparents
voluntarily dropped off their children at the
Neverland Ranch, that should tell you that
there was plenty of opportunity. Even so, I
can't resist this line: Michael Jackson may
just be a boy who wants to be in a man's
body. Or is it the other way around?

Incredible! Terrific! Awesome! Five
ways of saying the same thing, right?
Actually, the thing these words have
most in common is not their definitions.
It is their overuse.
You know about overuse : it's the
reason why fads are always short-lived.
Pogs, Furbies, and virtual pets didn't
fade from popular culture because they
were bad toys so much as they just got
too common for their own good. Kind
of like how "Hotel California" was
actually a pretty good song the first
hundred times you heard it.
As words become overused, their
meanings tend to become broader and
less well defined . Take fabulous . It
used to be used to describe something
so unbelievable or astonishing that it
seemed to be straight out of a fable.
Now it is usually used just to mean
generally "really good." The same
thing happened to fantastic (bizarre or

grotesque, like fantasy), incredible (unbelievable or unreliable), terrific (so great or
intense as to evoke terror), and awesome
(inspiring awe, an overwhelming feeling
of reverence, admiration , fear, or wonder) .
Now these words, which at one time had
separate, di~tinct, useful definitions, arc
used pretty much interchangeably; their
mcanings have become diluted.
We all have our favorite words to beat
into the ground, and thc kinds of words
are as variable as the people who overuse
them. I was recently visiting an old friend
from high school who had acquircd a
new favorite: everything that she likcd
was a "pleasure." And I once had a professor who slipped the term " vis-ii-vis"
into every singlc Iccturc, workshop, and
conversation. I personally tend to favor
"interesting"-l use it whencver I get thc
chance. Now these linguistic infelicities
are not matters of imprecision- I think
my friend meant quite speci fically that
the things she was describing pleased her,
that is, they gave her enjoyment and satisfaction; my professor was always talking
about two things held up face-to-face, for

comparison or reference; and I never call
something "interesting" if it doesn't pique
my interest at least a littlc.
No, the problem with overuse is not
rcallya problem of inexactitude, although,
as noted above, it can easily become thal.
II is chiefly an issue of blandness. Using
thc same words over and over again is
predictable and boring.
Of course, thcre arc a few words that
never seem to get old. "Thc," for example,
has a stately timelessness that is unparalleled . And thc humble coordinating
conj unctions, "for," "and," " nor," "but,"
"or," "yet," and "so," endurc steadfastly.
Thcse words will ncver seem hackneyed,
because they are so useful and distinctive;
there's really only one way to say "thc."
This is probably why these little words,
articles and conjunctions and their ilk,
arc the words that still remain from our
language's Old English roots. But these
words, the ones that can withstand very
frequent use, are rare.
Herc's thc bottom line: When you get in
the habit of saying thc samc words again
and again, they lose their urgency, their

importancc. If you keep saying something
is fabulous, when it's really just excellent,
then "fabulous" c-eases to be a very valuable word. It gets watered down. And
when you describe every other event or
idea as "interesting," you don't have to
think very much about what you're saying;
when someone asks what you think of
something, you have your answer at the
ready. And the word loses its originality,
its nuancc .
So don't call something fabulous unless
it really is fabulous. And if you find yoursclf oftcn rcpeating the same words, think
about what you're saying. Try to come up
with something a little morc, well, interesting.

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In an earlier installment of It s' Everyone s
Problem, [ dealt with the problem of getting
packages from the mail room given their
scanty hours of operation. Over the past
few weeks, however, I have found another .
frustrating postal service task on this campus
th~etting packages seem like a walk
through a particularly non-threatening park.
By process of elimination, I must be talking
about the problems with trying to send mail
on campus.
The small area devoted to the task of
automated postal service doesn't work for
several reasons. For one thing, the mail
slots are confusingly labeled. For those
who haven't had the joy, next to the large
drum intended for packages there are two
mail slots labeled "Local" and "Outgoing
U.S. Mail." Now, in my world "local" mail
would be mail that is staying within some
geographic area, say within the city or at the
smallest the zip code. Unfortunately, even
mail that goes downtown would still probably be "Outgoing U.S . Mail" and would
therefore fit into both of these categories.
The only thing I can figure is that "Local"
means "on campus," but if that is the case
the label really ought to say that rather than
the confusing "Local." After all, how often
have you heard the campus area referred to
as a locality?
But if you even get to the point where
you can be confused by the poorly labeled
mail slots, you're actually doing pretty welL
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get stamps. I r you don't have another convenient post office, you are stuck buying
stamps from one of the stamp machines by
themail slots. The stamp machines have two
major problems: poor labeling of the various
types of stamps and an aversion to giving
change. The only indication that is given of
the price of a single stamp in any package is
on the stamp itself I don't know about you ,
but squinting through the dil1y plastic of a
stamp machine is not my idea of a good time .
Making matters more difficult are the stamps
that involve a donation, because they don't
even have the value of the stamp printed on
them. And any time you have to put more
three dollars into a vending machine that
doesn't like giving meaning ful change,
problems ensue. If you're lucky, you'll end
up with a fi stful of dollar coins. I'm going
to repeat that. If you are lucA)! you get dollar
coins. What's wrong with thi s picture? But
when you are dealing with these machines,
you take what you can ge t. In spite of
spending several days tryin g to get together
correct chan ge before buying stamps, never
once have I failed to be overcharged. And
recently it's gotten even worse, because the
stamp machine that allows you to buy less
than $4.50 worth of stamps is now broken.
Broken like my once bold letter-sending
spirit.
So, I'm asking if it would be too much
trouble for some place on campus with a
real cash register and an honest-to-goodness
human being to start offering stamps so that
we can get the change we deserve.

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PA~T

ONE: THE CHANC;INC; FACE of
POPULA~ MUSIC

by Talia M. Wilson
"W here have you gone , Joe
DiM aggio?"
I' m sure I'm not the onl y one who's
had that line of music pop culture enter
their mind when li stening to what passes
for music today. What the hell happened?
And how the hell did music evolve into
thi s image-happy hell? (OKAY, granted,
not ALL bad, but the majority makes me
want to unplug MTV)
First, I wonder why the s tu ff's even
popul ar. Popular. That brings up that old
saying: What's popular isn't always right,
and what's right isn't always popular.
This is especially true when considering
the evolution of rock-n-roll into this ...
computer-generated spectacle.
Backstreet Boys. N'Sy nc . O-Town .
98 Degrees. Sound familiar? Yeah, that's
because record labeis, public ists and
whomever else have fabeled these groups

as bands. Ha! They don 't play instruments
or write their own stuff; they're more like
puppets on strings. Popular, yes, but not
rock-n-roll .
Foo Fighters. mat c hbox twenty.
Aerosmith. Metallica. Limp Bizkit. Any
wanner? These groups better fit the definition ofa band, as they play instruments and
write some (most or all) of their material.
Still popular, yet closer to rock-n-roll.
"Come to San Francisco and dig our
sound .. ."
Now, how ' bout these guys: Bob Dylan,
Jefferson Airplane, Mamas and the Papas,
Big Brother and the Holding Company,
Jimi Hendrix , Grateful Dead, Santana,
Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles, The
Rolling Stones. Not popular with everyone, though if they're not rock-n-roll in
some sense of the word, if they don't represent music as it truly was meant to be

- an expression, an art form , turning people
on, or whatever the artist/group's intention
was - then I' ll dye my hair blonde.
And for those of you who haven't heard
of the groups in the previous paragraph,
run - don't walk - to the nearest video
store and rent Monterey Pop, Don 'f Look
Back, Th e Last Waltz, Ziggy Stardust and
the Spiders from Mars , Gimme Sh elter,
Woods tock : the Direc to r s Cu t - any
rockumentary that celebrates the artists,
the times, the glamour of rock-n-roll , but
especially the music itself - before John
Phillips rolls over in his grave .
"I know I'm fakin' it/I'm not really
makin' it. .. "
And as for the singers of today? Well,
some do show promise, the ones that can
actually carry a tune and don't rely on a
computer to alter their voices. It's a shame
that an industry which was founded on

talent and stood for anti-establishment is
now so deeply submerged into the mainstream that one's image, behavior and
lifestyle are now more important. Maybe
these singers could borrow a few vocal and
performance techniques from their predecessors. Or Madonna '5 predecessors.
The performance stage should not be
a platform for striptease, erotic dancing the more clothes the better - or live music
video performances that include an entourage of professional dancers. (Seriously,
who really travels with that many people?)
And microphones should be handheld or
remain on their stands. Could you imagine today's dance divas trying to do;t old
school?
I can almost here Janis cackling.
"Oh, Lord, wontcha buy Britney a new
way ta sing . .. "

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- Ju/ene Graves and Katherine Hebert, 867.6058

Theory, which says the universe has been
and always will be the same, said that
the Radiation Theory was nothing more
than a Big Bang answer to the question of
cosmology. Unfortunately for Hoyle, the
name gripped the public's imagination and
gave rise to the theory he meant to insult.
The recently renamed Big Bang theory
had its brightest day in 1965, when, by luck
and accident, Robert Dicke surveyed the
sky for evidence of a previous universe
(in attempts to prove a different theory).
A strange hiss returned to him in all of
his surveys. This hiss became the best
support for the Big Bang. It was called
the Cosmic Background Radiation (or
CBR), the fingerprint of the Big Bang
itself. Many recent experiments, including the Cosmic Background Explorer
(COB E) in 1989, Balloon Observations
Of Mill imet ric Extragalactic Radiation and
Geomagnetics (BOOMERanG) in 2000,
and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy
Probe (WMAP) in 2003, mapped, in detail,
the CBR. As information from each successive mission is analyzed, we will further
understand the origins of our Universe.

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to stimul ate their local economies and
produce affordable housing.
The assistance is due to the work of
loca l legislators who had applied for a
grant through the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development. The
grant was proposed through a five-year
pl an to curb homelessness in Thurston
County. The plan ai ms to reduce homelessness by 50 percent.
The work of the legislators shows liS
how democracy really works. The work
of local community groups and students
has brought attention to the problem of
homelessness in Olympia. The Grant was
a result o f such projects as that of five
Evergreen st udents who wilnessed and
documented th e struggle for home less
people in Olympia for their "local knowledge" class. The true credit of attaining
the grant belongs to the volunteers and
organizers who work behind the scene in
thi s city. It is organizations such as Bread
and Roses, Food Not Bombs, the Welfare
Rights Organi zing Coalition and several
other advocacy groups that have made the
real difference.
You too ca n beco me part of thi s
movement. The Evergreen chapter of
Washington's Public Interest Research
Group (WashPIRG) and Students Against
Hunger and Homelessness are working to
raise funds and provide volunteer assistance to Olympia's homeless community
whIle advocating for welfare reform. To
get involved , come to the WashPIRG
Kickoff Meeting on Wednesday, January
28 at 4:00 PM in the Rotunda above the
Lecture Halls.

As part of a class assignment, and
partly out of personal fascination, I began
research last week to uncover the origins
and evolution of our universe. There is a
single theory that has the most support and
the most evidence and is the most logical
theory above all others presented in the
past millenium. This week, I present the
evolution of the theory itself and how it
came to be accepted.
Originally called the " Radiation
Theory," the idea of the Big Bang was first
presented in 1930 in a paper by Georges
Lemaitre, an understudy of the Secretary
of the Royal Astronomical Society. The
theory was further refined by Aleksander
Friedmann, a Russian mathematician.
The theory was disregarded until two
years later, in 1932, when Edwin Hubble
proved that all other galaxies were receding from our own galaxy. The Radiation
Theory was on the rise in popularity.
By 1945, opponents of the new theory
attempted to insult the theory and supporters of the theory with a series of lectures
g iven on the BBC radio network. Fred
Hoyle, a proponent of the "Steady State"

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Homelessness
Many people fail to recognize the
extent to which homelessness is a problem in America. On any given day, up to
700,000 people find themselves without a
place to live. They come from towns large
and small, are of diverse ethnicities, have
had a variety of jobs and careers, and have
similar needs. According to the national
law center on homelcssness and poverty,
the lack of affordable housing is a primary
cause of homelessness .
In Washington State, a family must
earn close to $3 0,000 a yea r to afford
rent for a two-bedroom apartment. This
is more than double what one would earn
on minimum wage. The federal minimum
wage of $5.15 per hour hasn't increased
since September 1997. Washington's stateset minimum wage is $6.72, and it will
increase to $6.90 on Jan. I. Still, even with
the state's higher rate, the housing cost is
more than double what a minimum-wage
job will bring in.
The lack of affordable housing correlates to an alarming rate of homeless ness.
According to the nati onal law center on
homeless ness and poverty, between July
1, 2000 and June 30, 2001 , home less
people in Washington State were turned
away from shelters 15 1, 131 times, an
average of 414 times a day. In the same
period, homeless families with children in
Washington State were turned away from
shelters 47,031 times, an average of 128
times a day.
The situation here has become so grave
that the federal government has given the
City of Olympia and Thurston County a
total of $1 ,441 ,959 in federal assistance

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by Apryl Nelson

I was reading the January 15 edition
of the CPJ and was disturbed by the opinions expressed by man y ofthe responses to
Seventeen's arrival at Evergreen. Although
there were a few opinions that supported
it, a few of them ended up as nothing
more, in my opinion, than a rant against
the magazine and one seemed to be completely sarcastic in its tone.
I went to the Seventeen shindig, and
it was nothing more than a way to show
our college to many high school students
that may never hear about the school any
other way. I know that I would have never
heard about Evergreen without a teacher
guiding me into looking into the college.
A lot of students don't have that, and as a
result they need a Ii ttle bit of extra help in
actually deciding what school they should
go to. The magazine puts many different
schools in their issues every year around
the time that most high school seniors are
looking into the admissions process. This
was/is just a way to get press that is better
than Evergreen appearing in High limes as

the best pot-smoking school. I personally
am flattered that Evergreen was chosen by
Seventeen to appear in the "School Zone"
section.
Seventeen is a good magazine for youth
to read. Yes, it is a fashion magazine, and
so they are trying to sell the current fash ions, but if any of you had bothered to
pick up a copy recently, they are trying to
be more body positive by including what
could best be described as "PI us-Si zed"
models in their pages. They do much more
than tell young girls that they HAVE to
be thin to be attractive. Read a copy, then
complain about how they are destroying
positive body image. My body image was
IMPROVED by Seventeen Magazine, not
destroyed by it. I'm not trying to say that
it works that way for everyone, but I think
that those people that feel that a fashion
magazine is responsible for destroying
self-esteem are over-generalizing. Grow
a set of ovaries and calm down, for crying
out loud. If the magazine offends you,
don't read it. It really is as simple as that.

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Yes, Carolyn really does exist, and this is her lovely cornbread recipe. Preheat oven
to 400 and find an 8" square baking pan. Simply combine all dry ingredients in one
bowl. Add wet ingredients. Mix with a wire whisk just until smoothly blended. Try not
to overmix. Lightly grease your pan, pour, and bake for about twenty-five minutes.
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The 1Q Best Films of 2003, #5-1

Lvergreen Ce e brates
Lunar New Year

So here are the rest of the best for last year. First I'd like to give honorable mention to all the other really good films that shouldn't be ignored but I just don't have time to write in
detail. I was just aching to put a couple of these titles on the list but there just wasn't the room . The honorable mentions are The Cooler, Raising Victor Vargas, The House ofSand
and Fog, The Girl With a Pearl Earring, Dirty Pretty Things, Kill Bill: Volume One, The Singing Detective, Elephant, Nowhere in Africa, May, Rivers and Tides, The Good Thief,
Max, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Shape of Things, The Station Agent, The Triplets of Belleville, and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Incidentally, I didn 't get
around to seeing Monster yet, but I hear it's going to be another contender come awards time with a remarkable performance from Charlize Theron.
5. AMERICAN SPLENDOR was one of those movies that felt like it came out of nowhere.
Drawing upon the life of Harvey Pekar and running along similar lines with Crumb and
Ghost World, this original, funny, and poignant biopic mixes comic book images with real
life and actors with the real people they're based on in interview (with the actors grinning
in the background). It follows the depressed, misanthropic, hospital filing clerk who in
collabora.ion with fellow malcontent R. Crumb created the book of the title, the first ever
about real Iife with its real people for heroes. The real Pekar is a true curmudgeon, slouching
during the interviews, still ruminating on why people would want to watch a movie about
him . The rest of the time, Pekar is played flawlessly by Paul Giamatti . Hope Davis is eerily
identical playing Joyce Brabner, Pekar's eccentric wife. This film evokes every reaction
in the spectrum. Giamatti glowers a blue streak in front of a comic book background as he
soliloquizes about his wretched existence, and part ofthe film 's infectious charm comes not
so much from just watching a guy who's depressed and miserable all the time (which would
have gotten boring after a while), but fromwatching how he tries not to be so depressed
and miserable for the sake of his wife and how it illustrates that each of us is a hero of our
own story, with our own villains.

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4. THE COMPANY is the latest film from the always underrated Robert Altman, whose
career spans decades and boasts forty-four films , a number of which are now American
classics. For decades, Altman has never caved in, played studio games or compromised
his artistic vision to sell more tickets at the demand of the mainstream movie machine, and
it's cost him . His films sink or swim (his Gosford Park was luckily both a masterpiece and
a success). With each film he makes, he has to start from scratch, raising budget money
himself and editing the film manua lly by splicing the reels together. His new film, The
Cumpany, an unlikely choice of material, stars Neve Campbell (who also wrote the story)
as a member of the fam ous Joffrey Ballet Company in Chicago, Malcom McDowell as the
head of th e company, James Franco as a talented young chefw ho falls for Campbe ll, and all
urthe act ual members of th e company as themselves. There's very little rea l story and as
usual, the dialogue is mostly improvised. Essen tia lly we just follow the company as they put
on a show from start to finish. Altman shoots his subjects in a matter-of-fact documentary
style and uses various locations around Chicago's loop to hi ghlight the nonsto p pace of the
ba llet school. I'm not th e biggest ballet fan in the world. but I was struck by see ing how
rnuch work goes into the show and how much urgency and pressure the dancers take with
them to rehearsal. Note the bittersweet coac hing McDowell gives his company. Look at
how the producers have to bend to the will of th e budget while still trying to get their vision
across . You know somethin g? This is the most autobiographical film Altman has made yet.
I k deserves an Oscar. But see The flawr . That·s why·-he ' II neve r get one.

as a retired professor living in a small provincial town and rock icon Johnny Halliday (often
"ailed the Elvis of France) as a bank robber who arrives into town and wants to assemble
a crew and rob the local baitk. He stays with the professor and as time passes the two men
become obsesseq with each other. Each craves the other's lifestyle. Each man wants to be
the other. More curious than intense, the obsession here further illustrates Leconte's love
for his characters (he writes screenplays for his films under pseudonyms) but more deeply,
The Man on the Train is a brilliant look at the humor of paradox. Characters speak with
wit and irony and human comedy lurks beneath everything. This film is flawless . It comes
together with a ending that is quiet, introspective, poetic, civilized and kind of transcendent
in its handling of the fate ofthese men. So few films about male friendship work without
romantic implications or any other engines that drive the plot. This filmnot only frees itself
from those trappings but manages to be beautiful, mysterious, moving, and whimsical all at
once. If you're going to bother to check out one movie on this list,.make it this one.

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I. LOST IN TRANSLATION is a precious little gem of a movie that was as funny
or sad as anything I've seen this year. It was directed by Sofia Coppola, who did good
work with The Virgin Suicides a couple years back and here shows that she's an inventive,
competent director. The second and third films are where you see the real talent, and she's
the real deal. Bill Murray stars in an Oscar-worthy performance as an American movie
star who wanders Japan during a visit to film some whiskey commercials and can't stop
wondering where his life is going and why. He meets Scarlett Johansson as the stranded
newlywed ofa photographer that happens to be staying in the same hotel, and he come s to
find out that she has the same feelings. Like the friends in The Man on Ihe Train, the two
main characters in Losi in Translation become friends and never let it go beyond that point
because romance is just not what they 're looking for. The Murray performance is perfect.
He's not be ing funny the way characters in comic scenes are funny. He's being funny
th e way a normal person would be funny. It takes a certain kind of gen ius to convince an
audi ence of the humor that just comes naturally to so me people, to be quietly funny or sort .
of mildl y funny, a lthough the character it turns out is not the least bit unlike the real Bill
Murray. Johansso n is excellent as well. but her performance in 0"ir/ with a Pearl Earring
is the better of the two. There are still better films scheduled to so nie out th is yea r. but as
of ri ght now. th is ti 1m is the II I for 2003.

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3. MYSTIC RIVER, based on the bestse lling novel. was a terribly moving knockout of

for O.,e Year!

a lilm loaded with tour de force performances and madc all the more authentic by director
Cl int Eastw ood's decision to shoot the film in the actua l worki ng class Boston neighborhoods
whe re the story takes place. We a ll love or at least identify Eastwood on the sc ree n but he's
'-ll so a savvy director. He 's directed over twenty-four films. and this is his best effort since
( i/1/iJrgiven. Sean Penn . Tim Robbins. and Kevin Bacon play the residents of this neighborhood who have tried to put the shamefu I past of the ch iIdhood abd uction and molestati(,)Jl
of Robbins behind them. O nl y Bacon has moved on to become a detective. Working with
:l is partner Lawrence Fishburne. he tries to solve a murder case involving Penn 's daughter.
Marcia Gay Harden and Laura Linncy play the two wives who find it harder to cope with
their husbands as the new tragedies bring back to th e surface old traged ies, whi ch we learn
the men have not yet gotte n over. Nfvstic River perfectly balances the police procedural
with th e real subject there. which is ultimately abo ut a life long grief and the pathology of
a wo und ed childhood and stolen innocence .

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"Eat, drinkand
make merry"
Next month, Harlequin Productions will present the Fantastical Theatrical Arts Auction and
Historical Fashion Show.
The event, which will be held February 21 at the
State Theater, will showcase the history of fashion
through an exhibition of Harlequin's costume collection and provide guests the opportunity to bid on
artists' works and entertainment packages.
Tickets cost $60 per person and $100 for VIP
seatirig. Attire should be "chic or something like
it. "
For more information, contact Harlequin
. Productions at 786.0151 or visit their Web page
at http: //www. harlequinproductions.org/art/
index.html.

Monday's:
Karaoke 9pm-1:30am
Karaoke Contest- Judged at 12am
$50 1st prize ($5 entry fee)
Hosted by OJ Nuttz

(Tavern wide contest coming soon!)

• Washington resident and
citizen or green card
• No other Medicaid coverage

Tuesday's:

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DepoProvera, diaphragm,
IUD, cervical cap, condoms,
foam, contraceptive patch

Uve Music 9pm-2am
OJ Jeff Siakey

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Micro Brews on Tap, Bottled Beers, Wine

Olympi'l Community Yog'l Center
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Thursday's:
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Saturday's:
OJ Adam J &OJ Omar 9pm-2am

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Next Wednesday, January 28, live Hip Hop at the Bar Code will feature Qwel and Sleep. Also starring are Pale Soul, Scratch Bastid and the Saints of Everyday Failu~es .
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Qwel is the front man for Typical Cats and also one of the premtere MCs out of Chtcago. He has
a unique lyrical style that blends poetry and street flavor. Check out http://www.galapagos4.comlfor
more information.
Sleep and Pale Soul hail from Portland's Oldominion crew .and have been touring wit~ Qwel. th~s
winter. Sleep and Qwel will be performing tracks they have wntten tog~ther as well ~ theIr own indIvidual sets. Olympia is the last stop on the tour and the only stop that Includes speCIal guest Scratch
Bastid_ Scratch Bastid is the 2003 Scribble Jam champion!
Music begins between 9:00 and 9:30 PM, so be on time because you don't want to miss ~lympia's
own Saints of Everyday Failures, whose high-energy hooks never fatl to get the crowd moving!
-Orin Bentley

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2. THE MAN ONTHETRAtN was my favorite film of2003 . It 's the latest film from one
of my favorite directors. Patrice Leconte. His films (see Ridicule. The Girl on the Brid~e,
The Hairdresser j. Husband. The Widow a/St. Pierre. Monsieur Hire) have me smiling all the
way through, even in the moments of sadness. His work is like one tremendous essay on
human obsession. Man on the Train stars the great veteran French film star Jean Rochefort

The Lunar New Year, which is one of the most important festivals in
Asia, will be celebrated tomorrow and Saturday at the Longhouse.
Internationally acclaimed master Chungliang AI Huang will lead a Tai
Ji movement workshop 10:00 AM tomorrow. Beginning and advanced
students are welcome to attend.
. The Community Lunar New Year Celebration will take place at 2:00
PM Saturday and will feature a Lion Dance, Chinese Music, calligraphy,
and dance performances by Chungliang AI Huang and Beijing opera star
Chao Chen.
For more information. contact Hirsh Diamant at 867.6736 or Muki
Khanna at 867. 6752 or visitlhe Webpageathttp://academic.evergreen.edul
curricular/silkroadsltimeline.htm.

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by Kyra Berkovich
It's late on a Saturday night, and I've
just spent the past two hours watching
a sports film. It doesn't really matter
which one, because they always make
me feel the same way: hopeful. Quite a
contrast to the way my roommates feel
about sport films and sport in general:
turned off.
Oftentimes it's really hard living with
a bunch of girls, but on this campus,
I'm sure it would be hard for me to live
with the majority of people found at
Evergreen for one simple reason : I like
sports. I love sports. I play sports. I watch
sports. I talk about sports. I know about
sports and constantly want to learn more
about any sport I come across. I want
to work in sports when I finally leave
th is town . I am the Sports and Leisure
coordinator for this page. And I dream
about sports.
I know it shouldn't, but it often hurts
me to think how negative many people
are to sports. I wasn ' t going to apply for
this job at the CP J until the day before
the deadl ine, and that was on Iy after
-being coerced by someone who wanted
me to shut up and quit whining about the
lack of sports enthusiasm at this school.
Trouble is, I' m not sure how mllch good
I've done. The job's a lot harder than I
thought.
Like many people at this school, I
came with a goal to change things. The
first thing that I changed when I got to
Olympia three years ago was myself.
Now, rm trying to change the at1itude

toward sports and other physical hobbies. But with a challenge of this nature, I
cannot even see where to begin. I thought
maybe I had a few good ideas about how
to get people interested in sports when I
started, but I'm not sure anymore.
So how's this: I start a recurring
column about lesser-known sports and
I describe them and explain the rules.
Maybe people don't play sports because
they don't know how or are afraid to ask
the rules. Then I run into the problem
that I have to get people to read this page
first. Not sure if that's even happening.
Maybe the first thing I should have
changed was the bar on the top of my
page that says "SPORTS" to something
more Greener-friendly, like: "Groups of
People That Get Together to Fight for a
Common Goal." Maybe that would grab
their attention .
But then I'd still run into their stubborn streak that tells them that sports are
bad, a waste of time. Why would any
sane person be doing that when they
could be saving the economy, helping
stage a demonstration against the evils
of corporate America, or watch ing some
documentary on TV after they got back
from the co-op? God only knows. Bunch
of crazies.
At the risk of sounding like any pissed
off college student, I'd like to propose
this: shouldn't we, as a generation, a
community. a person, try to deal with
ourselves before we take on the world?
Speaking only for myself, I know that

I've still got a lot of growing up to
do, and many many things I still need
to learn before I'm confident enough
to say ['m smart, that I'm right, that
you're wrong.
The place I go to learn a thing about
myself is a court. It used to be a field,
but as I grew up, I found that courts
were more conducive for a loner-jock
like myself. I play any racquet sport I
can find, because then I play for me and
not for anyone else. When I've had a
terrible day at work or at class, I come
storm ing into the apartment, throw my
bags on my bed, grab my racquet and
slam out the door before anyone has a
chance to ask what's going on. If they
have the courage to see what's wrong,
I can easily be found pounding a green
rubber ball against a wall for an hour.
When I've got that much adrenaline
built up inside me after a day's whatever,
I know the on Iy way to take care of it
without yelling at an innocent is for me
to run to the CRC and work through my
raging thoughts alone. It helps me: the
repetitive motions, the fast pace. YOIl can
easily see when you've made a mistake
in your swing, stepped with the wrong
foot, hit the ball too hard. After a day
of worrying about whether I've made
the right decision about whatever when
things aren 't as easily seen, it 's a comfort
to have such quick feedback.
I'll count how many consecutive hits
I've had against the wall. These aren 't
baby hits or half-assed swings, but full

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shoulder motions" footwork and lots of
sweat. So far, the record is 243 before
my eyes start to haze over and I lose the
ball, letting it bounce more than once
on the ground. I know I can do better
than that, and that's why I keep going
back, because this is one area in my life
that I know I'm good at and can keep
progressing in.
There are so many variables in a
person's every day routine that make
life difficult sometimes. As a student
athlete working part-time at the bookstore and the CPJ,taking twenty credits
and finding time to do anything else is
a bit trying. My family is worried I've
taken on too much, and they suggest constantly that I let some things go so [ don't
overwork myself. Sometimes I consider
it, and I know that many people would
think that the first thing to go should be
the athlete bit, but it won't. It'll be the
last thing to leave me as 1 fall into my
grave, because how can [ let a passion
dry up? I'd just as soon tell the student
body that speaking their opinion is now
a punishable offence.
Old habits die hard, and this one will
only die when I die. My only hope is to
kindle a bit of a fire in someone else's
heart, because when you've found something so rewarding to you, don 't you
want to share it with everyone? Don't
you want people to respect the choices
you ' ve made and the accomplishments
and milestones you've set? How can that
be wrong or foolish?

10$:00 AM-I :00
and 3:00 PM-S:OO PM: Cele'6rate the Chinese New Year! Master Chungliang Al Huang is hosting a Tai Ji movement workshop in the Longhouse
$40, 20 forTESC students. Info at 867.6736.
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5:30PM: Community ~otluckfor young adldts at the Temple Beth Hatfiloh. For info/directions, contact the Iewish Cultural Center at 867.6092
7:30 PM: S&A productIons presents Slam starring Saul Williams in LH I. Free admission!
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cI:~ Women s Resource Center IS hostmg a bake sale to raise funds for the "March to Save Women's Lives" in D.C. on the second floor of the

Evergreen women's
soccer coach Arlene
McMahon resigns on
January 9
by Dave Weber, Director ofAthletics

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OLYMPIA - Arlene McMahon, head
women's soccer coach at The Evergreen
State College for the past seven seasons,
has resigned. It was announced Friday,
January 9.
No immediate successor was named.
The position, which has been part-time,
may become a component of a new fulltime position with others duties beyond
soccer coaching.
For the moment, assistant coach Luise
Frank will handle day-to-day duties
within the soccer program.
"Arlene did some great things here,"
said Evergreen athletics director Dave
Weber.
"She has done a lot to establish
Evergreen as a legitimate force in college soccer."
McMahon guided Evergreen to the
playoffs in two of the past three seasons.
The streak might have been three
appearances in a row: In 2002, the
Geoducks compiled an 11-6 record on
the field but ultimately forfeited eight
games after self-reporting the inadver-

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those victories.
She was also on the sidelines in 2001
when the Evergreen men's team, losers
of thirty-four consecutive games and in
transition after a coaching change only
days before, snapped that dismal streak
with an historic 4-0 home victory over
Northwest College.
"I have thoroughly enjoyed being at
Evergreen," said McMahon, a former by Kyra Berkovich
University of Washington goalkeeper
It's hard to play outdoor sports in this town during the winter, isn't it? So perhaps
who originally joined the Geoducks staff
the
answer is to pop in a good sport film to pass the dreary day away. Check out these
as goalie coach under then-ht:ad coach
Jan Smisek in 1994. "I've gained expe- recommended titles and maybe you'll feel the athletic bug bite you on the ass to get
rience and knowledge but most of all up and go to the CRC again. These titles cover a range of sports, so try to find some
enjoyment from working with students that fit your tastes:
Soccer (or Footie, as it's called in the UK): Bend it like Beckham, The Cup
and student-athletes."
Baseball: The Sandlot, Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, The Natural, 61, A League
McMahon, who has a full-time
career in the medical field, also served of Their Own
Football: Rudy, Remember the Titans (I know it's Disney, but whatever); Any Given
. in a number of other part-time capaCities
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at Evergreen over the years, including
Boxing: Ragirig Bull, Rocky (I & Jl), Ali, Girlfight, The Hurricane
men's and women's swimming coach
Basketball: Hoosiers, Hoop Dreams, White Men Can't Jump
and recreation coordinator. Her overall
Golf: Caddyshack
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record as women's soccer coach was
Hockey: Mystery, Alaska; The Mighty Ducks (the first)
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Every week they descend upon the S&A area like locusts, devouring all the tables in
their path. They are the gamers of the Evergreen Gaming Guild. They come each and
every week to play games with their friends, to test their skill in such ancient games
as chess and go, while also trying new and exciting games such as A Game of Thrones
and Cosmic Encounter. They play to win, they play for fun; but most of all they play
for the friendship.
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Every week, ten to twenty members return, and still more come. The coordinator of
the Evergreen Gaming Guild, Joseph Lott, talks briefly about business before the gaming
frenzy commences. Mostly, these brief business discussions are all about how to get
more members. The games start at 4:00 PM and go on 'til, well, late. Some members
stay until midnight or even later, on (gasp) a school night!
The gaming goes on, a brief and much-needed break from the harsh school schedule.
To play, all one must do is show up on these Wednesday nights in CAB 320, bearing
one's favorite game, or ready to play one of the numerous games in the S&A library.

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