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by Sop hal Long
What do you do on
weekend nights?
" I daydream ."
Greg Bickel
Fiction & NonFiction
First- Year
Evergreen J' excellent Residential Assistants take time out oftheir busy scedules to serve tasty ice cream to students seeking academic
advice. The Spring Academic Fair is Wednesday, March 3 in the library lobby.
Treetop Barbie
by Hannah Anderson
" Ride my pony
. (po-NAY)."
Susanna Pearlstein '
Fishes, Frogs &
Forests
First-Year
ART BY OLIVER FREEMAN
TESC
Olympia, WA 98505
Address Service Requested
The International Canopy Network and
Dr. Nalini Nadkarni present Treetop Barbie:
a rugged yet fashionable Barbie doll who has
all the gear she needs to climb in the canopy
and uncover its mysteries. The goal of the
Treetop Barbie project is to raise consciousness among young girl s (and boys!) about
the importance of forest canopy organisms
and interactions . Treetop Barbie can provide
a role model for kids who are interested in
alternatives to mainstream culture 's Barbie
doll image. Treetop Barbie can provide
encouragement to kids who would like to
be field biologists. Additionally, Treetop
Barbie can help to raise awareness regarding the importance of forest canopies, both
in rainforests and the temperate lone.
This project was reported in the Science
section of the New York Times (September
23, 2003), a place where scientific projects
from labs and field stations around the world
are reported to the general public . Response
to the article was astounding, and the story
was picked up by newspapers in Hungary,
Japan, Australia, and Canada. Orders for the
dolls have come from both Barbie aficionadfis who have little connection to forest
conservation and environmentally-minded
non -scientists who view it as a way of
influencing their children .
Treetop Barbi e's field clothes include
rough and tumble climbing pants, field vest
(complete with pocket holding field notebook), helmet, boots, and the appropriate
climbing gear (crossbow for shooting a line
into the tree and rope and harness to bring
herself up). The Treetop Barbie Package
will also include a letter from Treetop
Barbie as well as some information about
rainforests , both kid- and adult-oriented .
Treetop Barbie's clothes will be sewn
locally (Olympia, Washington) by Maureen
Carter, who has 20 years ' experience making
Barbie clothes .
Funds from the sale of these Barbie
clothes will be used for this and other
outreach ventures that are geared toward
di sseminating scientific information about
forest canopies . To that end, there are two
prices for Treetop Barbie: one that covers
production costs only ($50) and one that
includes a contribution to educational
programs ($100). These contributions are
tax-deductible.
If you are interested in Treetop Barbie
.edu
lease contact us at
with "Treetop Barbie" in the subject
line, or mail us at International Canopy
Network : 2103 Harrison Avenue N. W. ,
PMB 612, Olympia, WA 98502, U.S .A.
For more information , check out our
websites : http ://www.evergreen.edu/ican/,
http:// www.nalininadkarni.com/. and http :
Ilwww.evergreen .edu/canopylab/.
Treetop Barbie is expected to make her
debut this spring, just in time for the field
season .
PRSRT STD
US Postage
Paid
Olympia WA
Permit #65
Facilitation 'with Style Workshop
MUSIC AND DRAMA ARE COMING TO THE WASHINGTON
CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS THIS COMING WEEK.
This Saturday evening, the Monarch Children's Justice and Advocacy Center Benefit
Concert will showcase singer/songwriter Patty Larkin as well as opening jazz string act
Hot Club Sandwich. Larkin's guitar music centers around passionate lyrics and arrangements that defy traditional folk arrangements. The event begins at 8 p.m. Tickets cost
$26.50 and $21 .50.
Next Wednesday, South Puget Sound Community College's drama production A
Shayna Maidel opens. The play centers around a family in 1946 who are unexpectedly
divided by the holocaust. Years later, the eldest daughter finally arrives in the United
States and must learn to embrace family and a future amidst the horrors of her past. The
show continues its run through Sunday, March 7. Show times are 8 p.m. for evening
performances,2 p.m . for weekend matinees.
Tickets range from $13 for adults, $10 for students, SPSCC facuIty and staff, and
seniors, and $6 for groups. Opening night is a "pay what you can" show.
For more information. contact the Center box office at 753.8586
Student Orchestras of
Greater Olympia
Sunday, Student Orchestras of Greater
Olympia presents two concerts at the
Olympia High School Performing Arts
Center. The academy/debut orchestras will
perform at J p.m., while the conservatory
orchestra will appear at 7 p.m .
For more in/ormation. contact SaGO
at 352. 1438 or visit hllp:llwwwstudentor
chestras.orgl
Women and Trannies
Unite, Take Back the
Bike!
Ladies, mark your calendars. Wednesdays,
from 5 p.m . to 7 p.m ., are Ladies' Nights
at the Bik e Shop, located in th e CA B
Basement.
For more in/ormation, call 867.6399.
General ~e.eting
5~m.
Monday
Help decide such things as the Vox
Populi question, what tile Cover photo
should be, and what should be in the
next issue of the CPJ.
Paper Critique
12:30 p.m. Friday
Comment on that day's paper. Air
comments, concerns, questions, etc.
Also known as the "Post Mortem."
Friday Forum
3p.m. Friday
Come in and put your values to the test!
Discuss e.thics and journalism law.
february 26, 2004
Voice . . . . o Color
There is still time to sign up for the Facilitation of Style workshop, presented
by Dee Endelmen, March 3 and 4 in the Organic Farm House.
Two-Day Workshop with one Follow-up Meeting: This workshop will cover
course content on the operation of a successful meeting and offer in-class practice
offacilitation techniques. The practice will include more complicated facilitation
assignments, such as running Search/Hiring Committee and lor a Disappearing
Task Force. Dee Endelmen interviewed Evergreen personnel to plan the objectives
and program content for this workshop.
We will cover the three areas critical for successful for successful meeting
facilitation :
I. Personal Facilitation Skills:
• Understanding communication and style tec hniques to more effectively
facilitate
Core facilitator behaviors
Successful interventions
Handling the "hard to serve" group members
2. Structuring Meetings for Success:
• When to call a meeting and alternatives to meeting
• Developing successful agendas
Preparing participants for meetings
Using ground rules to set a framework for group norm s
• Documentation and follow up
3. Process tools to:
• Identify issues
• Gather information and ideas
Generate ideas
• Spur creativity
• Analyze alternative solutions
Make decisions
• Implement decisions
Dee Endelmen has over 20 years of experience in human resources, conflict
resolution, labor-management relations, and organizational development consult-.
ing and training. He has taught Communication Styles training to UW faculty and
staff since 1998 and has consulted to and faci Iitated group decision-making efforts
at the uw. In addition, Endelmen has extensive team building and management
coaching experience as well as strategic planning and retreat facilitation. He is
also facilitator for Evergreen's Management Retreat and Facilitation with Style
workshop.
-Allen Toothaker
Senior Human Resources Representative, The Evergreen State College
Toothaka@evergreen.edu, 867.6362
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~I)Vi~On~Health
Today, . the
and Commumty prog~\~d the
Washington Toxies Coalition are sponsoring a viewing of Blue Vinyl at 4 p.m.
. in Lecture Hall 4. The film is a toxic
comedy about plastics that blends
family drama, industry expose and
public health analysis, as ' filmmaker
Judith Helfand tracks the source and
impacts ofthe blue vinyl siding on her
parents' home.
For more in/ormation about the
film, visit http://www.bluevinyl.orgl
or hupJlwww.workingfilms.orgl
theCPJ
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through the 10th Thursday of Winter and Spring Quarters. .
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Persons in need of more than one copy should contact the CPJ business
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Contributions from any TESe st(.ldent are welcome. Coples of
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final say on the acceptal1a3 or rejection of all non-advertising content,
DON'T MISS VMOJA'S LAST TWO
EVENTS
by Kandi M. Bauman
Urban Warrior
Today a viewing o r the filill Urhan
Warrior wi II bi! held at South Pugct Sound
Community College. The film examines
the militarization or the country's law
enforcement and will be prese nted by
Seattle attorn ey and fi I m co ntri but or
Paul Richmond .
The event, whi ch is spon sored by
BRICK, be g in s at noo n in Building
22, Room 122. Sou lh Pu gct So und
Communi ty Co llege.
I
Walk for Hope
This Sunday, the second <l nnllal Walk
for Hope will be held at Cap it al Mall
Sponsored by City of Hope, th.: .:ve nt is
a fundraiser for breast cancer resea rch.
For more in/orm ation, call 754.8098.
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FEB~UA~Y
Demonstrators Challenge Forest Service
by Deane Rimerman
A t the National Forest and Bureau
of Land Management (BLM) offices on
Monday, February 23, in solidarity with
http ://wwww.cascadiarising.org/, activists in Portland, Bellingham, Wenatchee,
Olympia, Eugene, Medford, Ashland and
Eureka hosted demonstrations against the
rollback of Survey and Manage protections.
In Olympia. nearly twenty demonstrators held signs and banners and dialogued
with a PR hack at the Olympic National
Forest Headquarters from 10 a.m .-I p.m.
The event was festive with flutes and
drums, a three-car fender bender, and even
an altercation with a groundskeeper who
turned his leafblower on us. That brought
out a Forest Service cop who called the leaf
blower guy a " meathead." The real star
of the day, though, was a 36-year career
veteran PR Hack of the Olympic National
Forest named Mr. Eldrige.
Eldrige brought us back into a conference room and told us that he was there
to listen, then proceeded to talk and talk
and talk about vague ways the U.S. Forest
Service doesn't do bad things anymore .
He kept mentioning his boss, George W.
Bush, as if he was personal friends with
the guy. But later Eldridge admitted that
he never really has actually met the big
" W" before.
We also got Eldrige to admit that in
Dosewallips they may cut a huge grove
of old growth trees next to a wilderness
area in order to "rehabilitate" a Forest
Service road that leads to a campground
and wilderness trailhead .
When asked how much Forest Service
funding was available to Survey and
Manage for rare species in this threatened
forest , Eldridge admitted that the funding continues to decline. But that's how
Eldridge's boss runs the Forest Service.
The less thorough and acc urate sc ientific
studies of a rare ancient forest are , the less
reason you have to save it; thus your election campaign contributors get a big payoff
via local sawmill profits.
Our last ancient forests on public lands,
and the scientists who study them, continue
to give solid scientific reasons for ending
logging in these places. But the Bush
administration has never found a scientific
truth that cannot be unfunded, obscured or
manipulated. Last week a prestigious panel
of scientists gave a very thorough explanation of ways the Bush administration has
overridden the credibility and authority of
scientific knowledge. In essence, science
has now completely taken a back seat to a
formal policy of deception at all costs to
maximize profits at all costs.
This demonstration was the first in a
series of sol idarity demonstrations with
http://www.cascadiarising.org/. Almost all
ofthe activists at the Olympia event traded
e-mail addresses and phone numbers and
vowed to help organize a much larger demonstration against the Forest Service
How You Can Help With
by Apr yl Nelson
Sorry about the long wait, but as school
see med to have the desire to kill your everloving Blotter Writer, I had to take a short
hiatus. I know that you all were missing
the blotter, so, without further ado, THE
ANTICS!
Photos by Deane Rirnerman
Demonstrators peacefully make their opinions
known to the National
Forest and Bureau of Land
Management.
in coming months. So stay tuned .. .
"There's going to be more then just
a protest for the rollback of Survey and
Manage! With the amount of deregulation
and criminal abuse going on in the Bush
Forest Service, we could easily find a new
reason to demonstrate every day to save
our forests," said Sawyer, a logger turned
environmental ist.
Please get more involved in the
Environmental Resource Center. We
meet Thursdays at 2:30 p.m. upstairs in
the CAB.
Disaster Preparedness
International Women's Week
by Geoff Dugwyler
In these troubled times of our dawning over Japan, when only 14 hours earlier
empire's grace, when civil liberties are a magnitude-9 quake had hit the Puget
exchanged for false and undefined securi- Sound. The ocean shelf is marred by a
ties, it's easy to lose sight ofthe world and lowering of the Pacific Ocean by more than
fall into a warm, comfortable apathy. Self- 5 feet. In North America, the earthquake
pity as a result of feeling disenfranchised survives only in Native American legend,
from your own country is an old and practi- but 5000 miles away, the Japanese have
cal stratagem. However, you have nothing a well-recorded history of its delightful
to gain by giving up on the world, and it effects. Quite simply, it was the world's
certainly has nothing to gain by giving up largest seismic event to occur in the last
on you. To be a bit clearer: despite the three centuries, and another is due to come
mi serable condition of our proud Union, right next to our little Olympia.
Now let us visualize for a moment
life in America continues with abundance
and regularity. People are still dying, being what an ea rthquake of thi s mag nitude
born, eating flavorful meats, fighting one would do to, for exam pit.', The Evergreen
another, buying car insurance despite its State College. Made out of sturdy, versaimpracti calit y, and fallin g into ridiculous tile cement, all of Evergreen 's buildings
fashion trends Iike wearing sock cuttings have been created with a certain simplistic
on their forearms. But they are also losing charm that is reminiscent of a dilapidated
their homes in flood s and landslides, and pri son. It is also built with approximately
there are thousands in this area already thc sa me amount of care in regards to
marked for death shou ld two plates in the earthquake safety as the gove rnm e nt
eart h just happen to scrape against one affords all its convicts: that is, virtually
a nother. There's little you can do (aside none. It's without question th a t during
from voting) to change the current political such a di saster, nearly every building on
c lim ate, but much can be done to prevent campus would be shaken to rubble and at
a little careless harm from our one univer- the same tim e kill a fairly high percentage
sa l mother and , unfortunatel y, executioner, of the occupants.
dear Nature.
Even if this earthquake were offshore, it
Important and distant people have prob- could ravage our tender lands in the form
ably been telling you for years now about of a tsunami , despite how far back we're
the Large One, the mass ive, unyielding · . nestled into th e Sound. The last big one
earthquake that will swa llow us all in a made an indelible mark in Japanese hisg urg ling sea of destruction. It so unds nice tory, 5000 mil es away; it's not difficult to
on paper, but have yo u ever taken the imagine what might happenjust 500 mil es
tim e to think about it ? Coi ncidence ca n't from the epicenter.
adequate ly describe how, on January 26 in
the year 1700, a massive tsunami crashed
Story Continued on Page 6
by Sarah MacKenzie
Next week, March 1-6, is International tional Filipin a women 's organization.
Women 's Week . Several student groups, The movie will be s how n in CAB 110
headed by the Women of Color Coalition, at6 p.m.
Then on Thursday, we will hctve an
have gotten together to bring you a multitude of events celebrating this week evening of mus ic: Corrine May at 7 p.m.
Evergreen style.
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in Lecture Hall I. May is a Singapo re-born,
Kicking off the week on Monday will Berkeley-educated singer and songw riter.
be an open mic headlined by Shailj a Patel This event is free of charge.
in the Library Lobby at 6 p.m. Patel was
There wi II be a workshop on Saturday
the first South Asian woman to make in CAB 110 at noon called Community
an impact on the national slam · poetry Hea lth Awareness: Resources and Services
scene . She was th e 200 I Lambda Slam for Communities of Color. The workshop
Champion, and her work is featured on wi" feature speakers from POCAA N
the South Asian Literature and Arts web- (People of Color Against A id s Network )
s ite . There will be space for students to and Planned Parenthood ' s Tacoma Teen
perform before her ; to sign up pl ease see Council. There will be free oral HIV testthe Women of Color Coalition in CAB 206 ing (NO NE EDLES!) after the event in th e
or call them at 867.6006. There also may Women of Color office. This event is ope n
to everyone and will be free of charge.
be space if you show up on Monday.
That night. there will be an evening of
On Tuesday, th e re will be a panel
music
and poetry from th e Middle East put
discussion : Id entity, Struggle. and Sister
Strength. in the Library Lobby from noon on by the Si Ik Roads progra m. It wi II be at
to 2 p.m . Shailja Patel will join us again 6:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall I .
During the week , SESAME will
to di sc uss militarization and its impact on
women as well as perform a short piece. be hosting a Middle East film festival
Simona Sharoni, ZiYi Zhou , and Lucilene that will show several tilms related to
Whitece ll will also speak. Then in the eve- International Women 's Week. For more
ning, Winona LaDuke will be coming. Let information about the se films and dates.
mejust say it again: WINONA LAD UKE! contact SESAME at 867 .6033.
As you can see, thi s week will be fabuFor those of you who don 't know, she is a '
rad Native activisit who was Ralph Nader 's lous. Everyone should come check it out.
running mate. There is a NEW location for For more information on perform ers and
this event. It will now be in the SECOND general stuff, contact th e Women of Color
Coalition at 867.6006 o r the Women 's
FLOOR LIBRARY LOBBY at 7 p.m.
On Wednesday, we will show Gabriela, Reso urce Center at 867 .6 162 .
a documentary about an amazing interna-
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february 26, 2004
February 11
2:32 a.m . This is enough to make the
blotter hang its head in shame. The very
first entry in who knows how long and
what is it? A freaking fire alarm! ARGH!
I don't know why, I don 't know how .. .. Oh
wait, yes I do. It W<;lS a dark and (possibly a)
stormy night, in N Dorm, when a fire alarm
awo ke the poor sleeping residents. When
th e pol ice looked in the apartment from
w hich the alarm sounded, they discovered
a " large quantity offilth and questionable
substances" in the stove and on the burner.
Here 's a hint: CLEAN YOUR KITCHEN!
Then the fire alarm won 't be caused by
yo ur stupidity.
6:34 p.m. Another fire alarm .... This
time in the child care center. The cause?
Plastic bags over the detectors. Perhaps
I should explain. Construction workers
were there, fixing something or another
(no. I wasn 't informed of what) and they
put plastic bags over the detectors to keep
out debris . A nice thought, but it didn't
the cooper point journal
work so much because as soon as they It turned out, however, that his license had
removed the plastic bags, the alarm went been suspended! Dum dum dahl He was
off. This is a good reason not to tamper · placed in hand restraints and had hi s car
with alarms. That and the $250 fine. If you searched. Guess what was found? Here's
have an extra $250 and want to waste it, a hint: it's all sorts of illegal and green.
please email your lovely blotter writer at That's right! Marijuana! Or as it was put
nelapr30@e vergreen.edu.
in the re port, green vegetable matter that
tested positive for THe.
February 12
8: 13 p.m. Another day, another fire
1:12 p.m. Altered parking pass. Bad alarm in N Dorm . Dear lovely RA of N
student! Bad student. .. or non-student.
Dorm , teach yo ur residents how to cook .
I' m even willing to help out with that, next
quarter of course. Oh wait, it wasn 't caused
February 13
7: 19 a.m. Sleeping in the Library is bad, by cooking; the resident was burning a
and not allowed. A nice person was caught candle to "melt earwax. " That's right : TO
snoozing on the top floor of the library and MELT EARWAX! What the heck? Please,
was woken up by the ever popular police someone explain this one to me.
officer. (No, not Perez.) He went home
II :38 p.m. Walkthrough of A Dorm
peacefully; after all, he was just sleepy.
brought about some intere sting happenings. The entirety of the sixth floor
February 17
reeked of the green vegetable matter that
5:47 p.m. Going 50 mph in a 35 mph tests positive for THe. The room that the
zone will get you in tons of trouble, as this odor was originating from was pinpointed
unfortunate soul learned thi s evening. He and confronted. In addition to the room
eventually slowed, but only to 41 mph in smelling strongly of marijuana, there was
a 30 mph zone, still bound to get him in a multi-colored glass bong just sitting out,
trouble, speeding is bad. But to the really as pretty as you please, in plain sight. Good
real issue here, after the lovely gent was job, freshmen, you win a new prize to the
pulled over, he looked really nervous. The Blotter, world 's brightest Housing resident.
reason? He had no insurance and had lost The bong was confiscated, another pipe
his license, but he had his passport on him . was turned over at the officer's request and
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the case was turned over to Grievance.
February 18
I :30 p.m. Stolen bike reported. If yo u
took it, return it, or bed bugs will infest
your underpants . And we all know that
if that happens, you're going to become
a social leper and have everything taken
away by ME! (insert evil laughter)
February 19
12:34 a.m . (T he counting houri )
Anyway, the smell of weed smoke was
detected in B Dorm thi s eve ning, resulting
in the police being called on them . Ano ther
multi-colored glass pipe was confiscated
a nd has joined the one confiscated on
February 17 in the evidence locker. The
case is also being sent along on its merry
way to Grievance.
February 21
6:00 p.m. Vehicle versus telephone pole
with unknown injuries. Yup, the telephone
pole was hurt, but they didn 't know how
badly. Wait, you mean the person that was
driving the car was hurt? Oh that's way less
interesting. And that's all that was included
in the report.
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Student Trustee
In the Spring of 1998, Governor
Gary Locke signed into law a bill
allowing students of four-year
colleges and universities in the State
of Washington to have voting '
member privileges on their
respective Board of Trustees.
The Board of Trustees are the
official governing body of
the Evergreen State College.
T he board consists of eight
members, one of whom is a
student.
That student could be you!
Pick up an application
at the Student Activities
Office, CAB 320.
The Philosophy ofWashPIRG,or,
Fighting Big Money in P<;>litics!
If you have questions,
please call (360) 867-6220.
To recieve an application
via e-mail, or snail mail,
contact Ann Shipley at
shipleya@evergreen.edu
by Nicole Thein
by Brad Bishop
Congresswoman Marcia Green sat down heavily in her chair and slumped, head in
hands. She hadjust received a visit from the PoUuCorp rep. He had reminded her about
tomorrow S vote on the Polluter Pays Program. "I'm sure you'll do the right thing, "
the rep had said. "We just can t afford to pay to clean up all that dioxin, not if we're
going to stay in business and keep paying our 2000 employees. Oh, and J spoke to our
CEO, he is starting a little collection for your re-election campaign. Even incumbents
lose without money. " Marcia Green sighed as she thought of that dioxin leaking into
the bay, silently poisoning drinking water. But that spolitics, she thought. imagine if I
lose my seat and someone even worse gets it.
We know that interactions like this take place every day. Big money has a huge influence on politics. WashPIRG, here at Evergreen, and the State PIRGs (Public Interest
Research Groups) nationwide seek to address this problem. We believe that the people
should have the power in our democracy. We are a populist group seeking to engage
politically "average" citizens. We tackle environmental and consumer problems that
are caused by big money in politics but use messages that the majority of people can
relate to. For example, polls have shown overwhelming support for clean air and water,
and the preservation of our beautiful public lands. Few would argue that we should pay
needlessly high bank fees, or that students should be buried in debt by nefarious credit
card companies. This populist philosophy has made the PIRGs a grassroots force to
be reckoned with.
Recently, against the odds, the State PIRGs defeated a major Bush priority, his Energy
Plan. This plan would have given $25 billion in subsidies to the fossil fuel and nuclear
industries, and opened hundreds of loopholes in our environmental laws, including
waiving the National Environmental Policy ACT (NEPA) for all types of energy development on American ,Indian lands. We succeeded by strategically mobilizing citizens
in key Senate districts. Here's a second scenario:
The door opened, and in stepped the PolluCorp rep, squeaky clean in his Armani suit.
Congresswoman Green folded her arms and eyed him levelly over the expanse of her
desk. "[ know you've come to follow up on my vote on the Polluter Pays Plan. Before
you start your pitch. I'd like to let you know that J AM going 10 do Ihe right thing on
that bill- I'm going to vote yes. I don't want my people getting poisoned. ! have received
numerous calls on this issue, and ajlood ofletters from all over my dislricl: the yo ling,
the old, the liberal, the conservative, neighborhood groups, churches,fishing clubs and
more, There have been articles about this in the newspaper, and people are concerned.
To get re-elected, J need people 5' VOles, and I 'II get that by supporling this legislation.
so I won't be needing your money. "
We are fortunate to live in a democracy, even with all its warts. The see mingly incxorable concentration of money and power in the hands of the few is a serious problell1 ,
And there are many strategies for tackling it. WashPIRG 's is important. because we
recognize the reality that most people are disengaged from our democracy, and organize
people where they are at. '
For more info, check http ://www.washpirg.org/. To get involved, come to our general
meeting on Mondays at 4 p.m. in the CAB's third floor qran ge screened lounge. In
addition to informing the whole campus about WashPIRG for our Re affirmation vote,
we ' ll be doing a wide variety of activities, including taking lobby trips to the capital,
organizing conservative groups to save our forests, institutionalizing voter registration
at Evergreen, fundraising for local poverty relief agencies and generating a grassroots
outcry on a number of issues.
Through experience completely submitted to a higher couse
I AM NO LESS A MAN
THAN I AM WOMAN
IN SEARCH OF THE CELESTIAL BOND
From education and compassion
OF THE UNIVERSAL MOTHER
My brain is clouded
I AM A HUMANIST
Overflowed by information
A PHILANTHROPIST
A PACIFIST
Knowledge known well beyond my years
A FEMINIST
I AM MYSELF
Earth shattering
ONE OFA KIND
Gods trembling
UNIQUE, BOLD, DIFFERENT
IT MAY BE THAT DIFFERENCE
This awakening from this righteous old wonder
THAT TERRIFIES THE MASSES
ALL I REPRESENT IS ONE
Setting me free
ONE IN LOVE WITH PEOPLE
Unveiling the startling revelation
WITH ALL CREATURES
ONE IN SEARCH OF UNDERSTANDING, TRUTH
Yet has swallowed me whole
BLEEDING UNTIL RESTED
Disaster Preparedness ...
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The application deadline is
Friday, March 4, 2004.
Inspired By Old Wisdom
On a slightly less hysterical note,.floods
and landsl ides alsotake their share of property and livestock in Thurston County
nearly every year. Homes are filled with
si lt, washed away, damaged beyond repair,
and horses and cows are left standing for
days in high water before they are rescued ,
sometimes too long to be saved.
So what, you mayor may not ask, do all
these somewhat unnerving disasters have
in common? Two things: first, in most
cases they can be prevented or averted
through simple preparedness; and second,
the government can do very little to help
in any of them.
The first is quite natural and doesn 't
come as much of a surprise. Should one
have the interest, thousands of disaster
preparedness publications exist for your
preparatory p,leasore, an excellent one of
which is availa,ple free from the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
at http://www. fema.gov lareyouready/.
The second is more disturbing. No , the
government won't help you in the first 72
hours ofa disaster unless you are definitely
about to die. They have other priorities and
are hopelessly understatfed during a di saster. Instead , volunteer citizen groups pick
up the s lack to sandbag, remove furniture
from homes in landslides, or move debri s
after an ea rthquake. Coincidentally ... I' m
a coordinator of one such volunteer group:
the Di saster Assistance Response Team.
As an Evergreen alum turned profess ional volunteer, I' m enjoying the hell out
of doing something worthwhile for the
community, and you ca n. too. Volunteers
aren't obligated to help- we call in the
case ofa disaster and ask if they ' re available. They don ' t need experience, it's
all low-key, we give free tra ining if it 's
wanted, and in all honesty it's one of the
easiest ways to give back.
Despite all this, we don 't have enough
people to respond to something Big, and
that makes me Worried. So here 's my plea:
if you know anyone (even yourself, for
example) who would like to help, please
hav e th em call 586 .7787 and ask for
Connie or Geoff. Thanks in advance.
'Im restiual
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Disclaimer: I, Doctor Troy, am completely full of shit. This is why I am highly
qualified to analyze your dreams. Send me your dreams to figure out how dysfunctional and abnormal you are in a public forum at cp.i@J!vergreen.edu. Subject:
DreamDoc. And remember, this is for entertainment purposes only, like Miss
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A few nights ago, I had a most peculiar dream. I was walking to
Costeo and at the entrance was accosted by a line of war veterans.
In order to get to the store, I had to walk past each and every
one of the veterans. I walked first past an older man, and then a
slightly younger one, and so forth. The veterans got younger and
younger. They were also wounded, disabled, disfigured. I never
reached the store itself. Then, I woke up.
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Firstly, I send my apologetic regards for your accosting. Whether a noble
war veteran or meager nut-collecting squirrel, no one has a right to accost
another, even in a dream.
Secondly, you apparently have taken up issues with bulk items. The line
had an overabundance of wounded men which prevented you, by their
numbers, by getting into a store whose soul purpose is to give its members
more food in one trip than all the citizens of Ethiopia will ever P?ssess.
Perhaps, as a child, you were required to eat too many of those chocolate
covered raisins or required to eat all the cereal in one of those double boxes
of cereal in one sitting. In order to deal with the horrors of your childhood,
call your mother and father and tell them that becaus e of their negligence,
you must fast for 40 days and 40 nights to cleanse your body from all the
bulk foods that were shoved down your throat .
Thirdly, you have too much to do. You feel like you must ask everyone
how they are doing. This is annoying . I'm sure all the wounqed men who
sacrificed so much in service to protect you and yours would appreciate
you not bothering them . They don't want to talk with you about why their
leg is missing and they have a glass eye. They just want to check out of
the Costco, go home, and feel like they never have to buy another box of
granola bars.
Fourthly, you can't finish anything. You couldn't even getthrough listening to a line of war veterans tell their war stories. Sure, most of them are
crazy and ramble on, but all you have to do is yell, "Charlie!" and they freak
out and either run away or fall into the fetal position. The others' stories
couldn't be that long . "I was walking and a mine blew up my foot/leg/lower
two-th irds of my body." There, done. You obViously asked too many followup questions. This probably also annoyed the mental stability out of them .
It certainly annoyed me, and I wasn't even there.
Fifthly, my first point, about the fact that nobody should get accosted, is
no longer applied to you. You are obviously too annoying and the soldiers
had every right to accost you and prevent you from buyil")g a 1O-gallon tub
of dandruff-controlling shampoo.
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downtown Olympia ' s Capitol
Theater will be the Fourth Annual
Stonewall Youth Drag Show, a onenight all-ages community event
and fundraise ... The show starts
at 8:30 p.m. and the doors will
open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are " pay
what you can" up to $4 for youth
21 and under, and $8-$1,000,000
for adults.
This year's Drag Show brings
toge ther a wide range of folks.
Community members, Stonewall
Youth staff. participants , and
volunteers will perform drag acts.
Additionally, spoken word artists
and a number of bands including
King Cobra, Discharge Infon11ation
System, Romantic Retard Nation ,
and Madame Morte will perform .
All of these performers are donating their time and energy.
The Capitol Theater's mezza nine will have art created by
participants, staff and volunteers
of Stonewall Youth 's weekly support gro up meeting on di s play.
Rafn e tickets will be for sa le with
prizes froll1 a number or businesses
supportive of Trans ge nder, Queer,
Questioning. Lesbian , Gay a nd
Bisexual you th , including: Quality
Burrito, Mecon i ' 5, New Moon , Le
Voyeur, Mr. Lady Reco rd s, Danger
Roo m Co mic s, Bage l Bistro and
many more'
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Two weeks ago marked the fortieth
anniversary of the Beatles' stateside
arrival and subsequent and now- historic Ed Sullivan performance. Their
U.S . appearance also helped further the
British Invasion into American musical culture, bringing us an abundance
of tunes by groups and artists such
as Them, The Dakotas, Gerry & the
Pacemakers, The Bee Gees, Donovan ,
and The Rolling Stones.
Whi Ie, at least in the beginning, the
Beatles displayed a clean-cut, wholesome image , the Stones were pure
anti-establishment by refusing to wear
matching suits, trashing hotel rooms ,
blatant substance abuse, etc. But, like the
Beatles, they too sold stacks of wax, even
if their lyrics had to be edited ("Let's
Spend Some Time Together" versus
"Let's Spend the Night Together") before
their Ed Sullivan performances. And the
band 's longevity proves their popularity
was more than just a fad.
Around the turn of the century (2000 ,
not 1900), many " Best of' lists popped
up, ranking everything from movies to
songs to albums to bands. Magazines,
radio stat ions , news and magazin es
among others all participated in this
ranking bi z. It seemed that when either
The Beatles or the Stones was nam ed
Best Band, th e other was at the top of
Best Album or Best Song .
But Iists, Iike most th ings, are not perfect. In fact, most forgot a noteworthy
feat by a 1970s rock band that featured
a former Beatie. The group was Pau I
McCartney & Wings, and their accomplishment, among many, was the most
albums sold collectively.
And then you've got to consider The
Eagles, whose first greatest hits compilation has sold approximately 28 mi Ilion
copies, more than any other single album
in music history.
And then there 's Canadian rockers
The Guess Who , whose "A merican
Woman," as Philip Seymour Hoffman 's
Lester Bangs said in Almost Famous: The
Bootleg Version (and I'm paraphrasing
here), is the best piece of gobbledygook
there is. Well, Tommy Hilfiger thought
so too. So did Lenny Kravitz and Jay
Roach (Austin Powers). Never mind the
group only managed one dually popular
45, versus the library produced by the
Beatles and the Stones. (Yeah, baby!)
So, just remember: the Beatles may
wanna hold your hand, and the Stones
may want to spend the night with yo u,
but Sir Paul can still sing you some si lly
love songs, the Eagles swea r they're
gonna find you one of these nights, and
that A merican woman wi II st i II mess
yo ur mind .
Ca n yo u dig it ? O n ~> two , three ,
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Queer youth in this region are
excited to have fun , raise money,
arid strut their stuff on stage.
Supporting these efforts and those
of Stonewall Youth as a whole in
the current climate of the non-profit
funding crunch means that community support and attendance to this
year's occasion is key.
. Stonewall Youth is a non-profit
community organization that supports, informs, and advocates for
youth 21 and under who identify as
Transgender, Queer, Gay, Lesbian,
and Bisexual or who have questions about their sexual orientation
or gender identity. The organization was founded in 1991 and
today provides a wide spectrum of
services, including Youth Outreach,
Weekly Peer Support Groups, and
Community Education.
If you are a young person
interested in accessing resources
at Stonewall Youth, check
out their web s ite at http :
//www.stonewallyouth .org/ or call
360 .705.2738.
I f you have questions about the
drag show. are interested in makin g
an in-kind donation offood, a raffle
prize item, or printin g services to
th e drag show, or wou Id Iik e to
vo lunteer at the drag show, e-mail
dragshow04 @ yahoo.com o r ca ll
360.705.2738, ext. 3.
MONDAYS 4 - 6 P.M.
Feb 28, 29
Teachings in Dzogchen meditation with
Tibetan Lama Tulku Thubten Rinpoche
March 5 to 7
Learn to Read Tibetan in One Weekend .
Tibetan Language In stitute three-day
intensive workshop
March 19
From Emergency to Emergence: Making
Sense of Spiritual Growth with
Dr. James Rush
March 20
Holotropic Breathwork practice
with Dr. James Rush
2 CREDITS
Taught by the Directors of The Writing Center
and the Quantitative Reasoning Center
for further Information, please see
www.evergreen ~ edu/writingcenter/practutoring.htm
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The Curmudgeon:
Detinite Article:
Primary Losers
YrJitf TerIJU
bv Lee Kcpraios
What happened to Howard Dean? I liked
Howard Dean . He was shrewd, ab le and, in
my opinion, th e smartest of the Democrat ic
candidates. As you know, Dean, the frontrunner fo r so many weeks at the start orthe race,
is out of the running.
Thi s will make it tough er on the Bush
Admini stration come election time . They
had been praying they' d ultimately take on
Dean instead of the new frontrunner, John
Kerry, who looks suspiciously like myoId
hi story teacher.
Dean wasn't my main guy. Come to think
of it, I don't have a main guy. But I liked
Dean the best.
Still, ] would rather have a third party candidate in there instead of these guys, because
frankly, these guys, these Democrats, all of
them, are not addressing what are, to me, the
key Democratic issues. They don't stand up
for the poor. Every politician in this country, whether Republican or Democrat, pays
nothing but lip service to the middle class.
It's always about soccer moms and NascaI'
dads.
That 's because that 's where the most
votes are. They don't care about the poor.
I know that's wrong, but that's what the
Democrats used to care about. And why
aren't there votes among the poor? They are
allowed to vote , aren 't they? Voting booths
are made almost entirely out of cheap plastic
and particleboard. What poor person would
be afraid to step inside that?
Dean lost because he showed some anger,
some passion. He fe ll out of the race because
he got angry. This is what I don't un derstand :
when yuu show any kind of anger in America
as a political figure , then you' re unstab le. We
saw thi s with John McCa in . America ns are
always demoni zing anger. I want a President
who gets angry. I w<l nt a President to occasionally lose it for abo ut 10 or 15 minutes a
co upl e times a tern1 . I think it would be very
cathat1 ic for the political process .
I liked Howard Dean and John McCain
gettin g angry. I would have voted for those
guys. I liked th eir programs and I liked their
platfonns. I don ' t c<l re what their party affiliations were. That doesn' t matter to me_ But
that's me. I always like what oth er people
don't like about a candidate.
Reciprocally, I was a bit disappointed
when Dea n announc ed he was go in g to
s tart reaching out to more faith-based
organizations. People applauded th at but
when I heard it, I went, "No, Howard l I
liked you because you didn ' t brin g up
religion I " Does every candidate have to
pander to the idiot middle? If you start out
honest and secu lar, stay honest and stay secular! You want to know why voter turnout is
so low? It's bec<l use many people who don 't
vote are turned offby candidates saying th e
same things .
I probably won't vote for Bush in the
next election . l' m not nuts about him as a
President, but I'm not Bush-hating fanatic. I
mak e jokes about him , but I defended him
when I th ought he was ri ght. I' ll g ive you an
example. One th ing Ili ke abo ut him is early
in his campaign when they were tlying to get
him on the coca ine business. And what did he
do? He came out and said, " I' m not going to
respond to this. It's in the past. I' m not going
to play this game." He didn't get caught up in
that. I mean, you can say a lot of things about
this President that aren't flattering. I've said
many of them, and I believe them , but there 's
one thing I get about him that people like:
he's not a wuss. He didn ' t let stuff like that
bog him down.
Howard Dean showed some passion and
some a nge r and the oversensitive popul ace
reacted. There are times in thi s country when
I think we can do with a little less sensitivity
and tolerance and a little more overt anger.
And I'm sure that offends people because it
sounds really imperiali stic and jingoist. But
you just come to me in a few years when your
non-angry President is screwing everything
up worse than it 's screwed up now and we'll
reevaluate our ex pectations. Need any more
on that?
Lee's New Rule of the Week: ·Not
everyone in America is on the Atkin s
Diet! I' m getting tired o f going to a famili ar
restaumnt and seeing the dishes I like pushed
off the menu to make room for the low-ca rb
alternatives. Why does the fitne ss craze in
this country always catch on in all the wron g
pl aces? Every s ing le place you ca n eat
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now is spending extra bucks to cater to th e
Atkins crowd as if we'd all been prose lytized by anti-ca rb extremists. Even fast food
is jumping on the craze. Li sten,just because
McDonald 's carries sa lads now doesn't mean
it's a health restaurant!
You can't otfer an an-ay of salads in th e
same place where you can get a triple cheeseburger. That doesn't make sense. Someone
needs to tell Fast Food that they can't bo;:
everything to everyone. We don't want th em
that way. And no matter how many peop le
lose weight on th e Atkins diet , it will never
come close to the number one proven weight
loss tactic : Not Eatin g So Much .
m e t tw o
f my class- ::-mates to tal k
about a piece of writing I had done. As usually happens when I get together with these
guys to talk about writin g, we ta lked very
little about writing. On this occasion, we
discussed the difference between the words
" useful" and "valuable ."
I'll spare you the deta ils of our conversation . (Suffice it to say, the two words are far
from interchan gea ble. ) Instead, I'd li ke to
talk about a questi on that got brought up in
our discussion, a question I've often heard
asked in semi nars here at Evergreen . This
is the question about why it' s useful to talk
about the meanings of words. th at is to say,
semantics.
These days the wo rd "se mantics" tends to
be used dismissively. If someone tells yo u
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yo u shou ld shut up and let people talk about
something important.
Well , I'll te ll yo u what: th ere are fe w
things more worthwhi le to argue abo lit.
Why? Because if we don ' t have clear definitions for words, we do n' t have a language.
Period . (We mi ght do well to reflect on the
ori gin of the word "semantics"- it comes
from the Greek smantik6s, which mean s
" s ign i fi can t. ")
So, how do we go about figuring out
these definiti o ns? Many people see m to
think th at we do thi s by s imply coming
up with our own personal de finition s- by
sha ring what each word means to us. I think
that thi s is worthwhile only in that we mi ght
ii g ure out- <lnd the soo ner, the better- th<lt
personal defi niti ons for word s are useless.
The only way for a word to have any meaning, any use as a word, is for it to have an
acce pted , agreed -upon , correct definition.
And eve ry word has one of th ese. Some
h<lve a few. Our job, when we talk abo ut
semantics, is not to come up with what we
think are good de finition s for these words;
this is what spin doctors do when th ey try to
mis lead people. ·Our job is to Jigllre 0 111 the
currect de finiti ons of the words.
And how do we do this') A dicti onary is
useful. But really, when we are disc uss ing
people and we ' re
a topi c with a group
tryin g to get to the bottom o r what exact ly
it is we're talkin g about , th e best way to
understand a word is to LIse what we kn ow
about language a nd usage to fi gure out what
it must mea n.
We do thi s by thinking of tentati ve de fin iti ons for words, th en testing them Ollt against
the ways we know the words arc used. If
there is a d iscrepancy between the definiti on
and th e usage, then either we ' ve th ought of
a wro ng de finiti o n, or we've th ought of an
example of misuse. We decide which- usin g
or
somethin g ca ll ed "judgment "--th e n I
our definition and try again.
Thi s is someth ing we ought to be I
good at , at least those of us who have
spea kin g thi s lan guage for a w hi le
wh o have may be even heard oth ers SI
ing it. There 's a story told about Sam E
the chairman of the Senate committ(
investi gated Watergate. Ni xon, like CI
in our day , was famous for hi s vague
Ervi n, however, bclieved that the mea:
of words did not depend on one's per
definitions of them. When asked, in one
how he could be sure th<lt a word meant
he s<l id it did , he replied, "Because
understand th e Engli sh language. It'
mother tongue ." We all , I think, ought
ab le to say thi s abo ut th e words we us
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IN DEFENSE OF CAMPUS SHAMANISM
WHAT 1S COMMUN1TY?
Dear CPJ,
I have to cast a dissenting opinion against the recent "Shamanism Counterpoint" article. I think that the author of it is asswning way too much about this group and also
unfairly associating them with ideas and practices which they probably have nothing to do with.
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. Basically, I take point with the idea that " Shamanism," as a term, was considered to refer exclusively to Native Americans, while in fact the word itse lf refers to religious
practices of North Asian people and generally refers to practices engaged in by people all over the globe, including Europeans. I heartily agree that Native American religious
practices can't be lumped together under the tenn Shamanism, but none of the literature for the group that I saw had any direct references to Native American reli gious ideas .
There was the advertisement of sweat lodges, but drumming seemed to have been the major focus, and anyways the actual graphic used in the poster was from North Asia,
not America. Also, I'm not sure where the author of the piece got the idea that there was a medicine wheel on the flyer; to me it looks like a quilt pattern, and I've seen Nat ive
American religious art. Again, the fact that a Lakota symbol, which the medic ine wheel is, should provoke outrage in an area where the Native peoples had a completely different belief system is a mystery to me.
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That said, [take the fact that a fl imsy connection to Native American belief syste ms was cons idered as suflicient to start an extended argument that "the personal is political,
therefore these people are recapitulati ng th e theft of land and culture from th e Native Americans" to be an extraordinari ly self-centered and self-indulgent att. If this is all it
takes to call down the wrath of those who have set themselves up as the guardians of politi cal correctn ess, I' d hate to see what would happen if people who were actually rac ist
to il1dians, or Bl acks, or Hispanics, came to Evergreen. Actually, probably nothing would happen, because it's just this sort of reactionary rhetoric which gives rac ist groups
credibility: if they can argue that concern about racism is just the province of politi call y correct Nervous Nellies, they can discredit anti-racist organizing and make recruitment to their cause more appea ling.
Racism isn't a Shamanism club on campus, and neither is colonialism. Racism is people being beaten to death in the South because of the color oftheir skin and not a damn
th ing being done about it. Colonialism is the U.S. government giving out scalp bounties for every Indian who a person can prove to have killed, which existed in all fifty sta tes
at one time or another. It's not a bunch of people beating drums in the Long House and engaging in practices which cross all cultural boundaries and which have nothing to do
with the actual exploitation of Native people.
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It can be documented that ancient Germanic religion, for instance, had something called "Seith," which was a partiCUlar type of magical practice demonstrably close to Asian
shamanism, and which was sort of the bad boy counterpart to the established practices, which fall under the category of "Galdar,"
What does the fact that someone who, for all I know, is not even Native American herself took it upon herself to try to prevent this club from getting going before any sort
of "ceremonies"(her words) took place say about the climate here?
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I'm for free speech, free assembly, and the free exercise of religion . Camille Paglia once wrote that if cultural discussion gets to the point where neo-conservatives have more
rational and informative things to say than radi cals, you can kiss the left good bye. I suppose there 's Libertarian Socialism, which ~ roughly locate myself under, and Authoritarian
Socialism, and never the twain shall meet. But if it comes down to Authoritarian Socialism versus conservatism ... at least old guys in tweed coats ~itting in libraries aren't hying
to pin the sins of the nation on people who never even said they were interested in the topic. People shouldn't have to make that choice.
Sincere1y,_ .
John S. MadzIarczyk
february 26, 2004
the cooper point journal
On e of th e more prono un ced ca tc h
phrases at Evergreen is "communi ty. " Ju st
like "susta inab ility," no one rea ll y feels like
th ey have to define what they are ta lki ng
abo ut. I a m told the term is supposed to
describe itse lf.
How can a cOl11munity speak for itself
th oug h" Th is is a serio us quest ion that few
are wi ll ing to ta.ke up- The idea of communi ty to me s<::ems lik e a semi-abstract iuca .
The "co mmuni ty" isn' t a n obj ect I can toucll
or fee l like a CLIp, and it is o nl y somethin g I
call read about in the co ntext o f ot her "COI11munit ies_" When yo u find YQLlrse lf definin g
a term wi thin a term, yo u ha ve a problem.
One tenn people on th is campus th row
around all the time is, " th e Evergreen co mmunity." What the hell is that supposed to
mea n? The term starts to mean less when it
is fiv e people sitting at a desk in the stud ent
act iviti es bui ldin g talk ing abo ut the "community" a nd what is good for th e "co mmunity."
Th e way I see it, comm un ity is a term
often used by the few to describe the masses .
(A nother way I see it is a way the masses
incorrectly describ e themselves. ) The few
have this omnisc ient insight into life and they
seem to know what is better for everyone
else. If invadin g Iraq was a good idea and
there was doubt --and there was considerab le doubt-- why didn ' t George Bush hire
a private mercenary arm y to dd cat Saddam
and instill "democ racy" in Iraq'.' The itka
makes se ns e because if George Bus h 's
sup erior in sight was correct, we all might
be thanking hi m later beca use of th e " imminent threat" th at co unt ry posed. Instead he
dra gge d everyo ne else in, whet he r you
agrecd or di sag reed, and made th em pay for
it. One of communit y 's great est hils .
Thi s is o ft en what the noti on o f communit y fee ls lik e- an exclusionary conce pt put
in place to ma ke the peop le yo u are excludin g fe el better. I knew what community was
li ke grow ing up . T he communi ty I grew up
in dicln ' t li ke me, so th ey d ispatched th e law
on me to teach me a lesso n .. . and a vio lent
one at that. (Someth ing I'm sure few, ifan y,
of you had to deal w ith.) Ah, comm unity at
its fin est work .
Community, in practice , has left unanswerabl e qu est ions in my mind. This type
of mythic think ing must derive from th e new
concept of the " nati on." (Historicall y, the
ideas of a nation-state and a national identi ty are very new concepts ... with disastrous
res ults.) Wh y isn 't the term "communities"
used instead? In practi ce this would seem
more of what we have th an what is ac tu-
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a ll y talk ed abo ut. Whether it is a pluralit y
of views or so me thin g e fse, th ey fa ll in
(in variably) und cr th e same heading .
Ir you look around th e E vcrgrecn campu s,
you' ll see many different co mmuniti es happening. He re I take com munities to ITlean
people int e ra cting in diffe re nt group s
acco rdin g to th e sam e princ iples (or diffe re nt ones chosen accord ing ly). Th e onl y
thin g the 'Tve rgreen commun ity" reall y has
in coml11on is tha t all th e me mbe rs atte nd th e
s<lme school.
The point is all of this Icads to a proble m:
When you address somethin g as a "we" lorce,
exactly to whom are you re ferrin g'l Can the
" we" move as one, especially when the many
that make up th e " we" have different paths
and goa ls? It 's a pretty arrogant notion to
assume that you know how everyone around
you is feeling or th inking. The "we" fall s
ap<lrt and soon all that is left is the " I." And
that is what it all comes down to, the " I" that
invariably makes up th e "we" or the mul titude of "we" places. None of this should
be meant to answer what community is. It
shou ld just serve to explain notions that surround cOlmn uni ty. And for me, thi s is already
a good enough answer. The community can
kiss my ass because I've got some othe r
things I have to do- like surv ive .
february 26, 2004
Thoughts on a too-short visit to TESC, the Synergy
Conference, and Alexander Cockburn on The Politics
of Anti-Semitism
To the Editor, Cooper Point Journal:
As the parent of a first-year student at
Evergreen, I was pleased to be able to visit
the college this last weekend to see my
son and to attend some of the events at the
SEED/Synergy conference on politics and
ecology. We could not stay through the
question and answer session of Cockburn 's
talk on Sunday, so my so n agreed to give
me parental pe rmi ss ion to write to the
Cooper Point Journal.
First off, I was generally very favorably impressed with Evergreen and with
the Synergy Conference in general. For
example, I found myself in hearty agreement with almost everythi ng said by Kevin
Danaher of Global Exchange, under whose
a uspices my son and I s pent two weeks
in Cuba along with a group of Berkeley
High School students and teachers last
year. And the talk by Derrick Jensen was
a brilliant tour de force on th e current state
of the culture and a commentary on what
. we might do to make it better. He awoke
the audience with an artfu ll y timed repetiti on of the reminder that those who were
most Iikely to survive were the rebel s of
the Warsaw G hetto. Ind eed, rebellion
a nd ri sin g up against oppression are lifeenhanc ing a nd hea lth y re s pon ses, whi le
s ubmitting, step by step. to oppressive
aut hority is a certain path to enslavement.
death and destruct ion.
Which brings me to the next event my
son and I attended Sunday af1ernoon at the
Capital Theater, not part of the conference
but another example of the healthy intellectual investigation I was eager to explore
at Evergreen.
Alexander Cockburn's talk, like his
recently publ ished book, is entitled The
Politics of Anti-Semitism, and having
just returned from Europe where a major
discuss ion is taking place conce rning
the apparent reappearance of tliis worrying phenomenon, I was receptive to
what light thi s well-known journalist and
Oxford-educated thinker would shed on
this difficult subject. Especially with the
fervo r generated by thi s forthcoming film
of Mel Gibson and the remarks of the
filmmaker's father that seem to be invoking a major and c lassic inflammation of
a nti-Jewi sh se ntim ent, I had hopes that
Mr. Cockburn would illuminate this very
topical and important issue .
. I was, to say the least, disappointed . Mr.
Cockburn instead repeated to a very receptive audi ence the ev ils of the Israeli oppression of the occupied territory in th e contested area of the Middl e East, the terrible
tragedy of th e dea th of Rachel Co rrie~but
nothing that I cou ld di scern that put these
disputes in a deeper co ntext.
, I I' I had gotten to th e microphone, I
would say to Mr. Cockburn that I think
he has it backward . Anti-Semitism is not
the result of Zionism and the national aspirations ofa segment of the Jewish people
to recreate on a historic site a national
homeland for a beleaguered population
that had undergone a traumatic ordeal, had
lost a sizable part of its number to the gas
ovens of the Nazis. Rather, it is a residual
anti-Semitism that lead s to the blanket
condemnation of every action that Israe l
takes to preserve itse lf from those whose
ultimate wish is to destroy it.
Here is a big subject, and a complex
one, too big for an op-ed or letter to the
editor. I am by no means uncritical of
Israel ' s actions. But when an Eve rgreen
stud ent got up to raise these questions,
citing other progressive Jewi sh intellectuals Michael Lerner and Todd Gitlin, as
critical of Israel but sup porters of its ri ght
to surv ive, Mr. Cockburn retolted with a
personal attack o n both these individual s
that was greeted by applause from the
a udi ence . A nd I think that this is what
most unsettles me and made me want to
stand up and speak out ! The Eve rgreen
student struck me as quite courageous
to stand up in th e Cap itol Theater and
ask for something more substantial from
Alexander Cockburn, who had promised
an anal ys is of the politics of anti-Semitism
and had in~tead recreated what felt to me
like a version of it right then and there in
the guise of an unquestioned progress ive
agenda.
I would conclude my observations of
my weekend in Olympia with an expression of hope that yes, just as we must criticize Israel for overreaction in destroying
buildings and harsh curtailment of the
civil rights of Pal est inians, likewise we .
should consider an equal criticism of
the misguided and evil action of suicide
bombers who, in their delusion and zeal,
ki II and maim countless other victims, and
who have resisted political negotiation and
settlement. Is it any wonder that Israel
feels compelled to erect a wall to protect
its citizens from such attacks? The cyc le
of violence must be interr upt ed, but this
can only happen through an even-h anded
evaluation and interventi on. not by viii fying either side unilatera ll y.
I hope to be able to return 10 Everg reen
to participate in the lively intellectual c limate of controversy and activi sm sometime again in the near futu re. and now
re turn to th e academ ic communit ies of
Berkeley a nd Stanford appreciative of th c
fact that my son chose such an invi goratin g
place to exam in e controversial iss ucs and
to purs ue hi s further ed ucati o n.
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IT'S EVERYONE'S PROBLEM
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In recent weeks and month s, the CPJ has run a number of articles raisin g important a nd meaningfu l questions
about the nature of food servi ce here on campus. This is not one of those articles. I have a very minor beefw ith
food service, which, hopefully, can be eas il y so lved. The probl em is, litera ll y, sma ll potatoes . That's right, I' m
talking french fries .
Making a fry order at the Greenery is a total crapshoot. Paying th e additional money for a large fries doesn ' t
seem to have any effect on whether or not you actually get any more fries. An optimist would perhaps see thi s
as an advantage, a sort of game. You pay your small fry price and you never know how many fries you ' re going
to get. You may hit the jackpot and get one of those heaping piles that bury the organic burger they're next to.
You may crap out and get a few soggy bottom-of-the-pot leavi ngs. Check the odds, make your bets, and roll the
dice! Yeehaw!
I don't agree with this view. Sure, it 's nice when you get the heaps of golden saturated fat, but what I rea lly
want is consistency. Sometimes I' m really hungry and I want to have more fries that usual. I pony up for the
large fries . Then I get the same amount I got yesterday for less money and feel like a total sucker. Shouldn't the
consumer control portion size? Isn't our sustenance too important to put into the hands of fate?
I say yes. That is why I propose that in the kitchen they get two di fferent sizes of fry scoop. One should be
large enough to accommodate the large fries , the other smaller for the small fries. The friendly kitchen worker
would then only have to fill up his or her fry scoop and dump it onto a plate. No messy calculations, no annoyed
customers. The Greenery gets to finally offer an actual incentive to pay for the large fries. And finally, the power
over the portion falls where it belongs: with the customer.
Whats YOURproblem ? E-mail it to me at Morcon03@evergreen.edu.
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Ya,We ThinkThey're
Sexy: Evergreen Baseball
Finds That Swing
Geoduck's
Life
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by Karen Cafe
1 love being a student at Evergreen.
What I love even more is being a
student/athlete that maintains a semifull time job.
by Talia M Wilson Sports analysislcommentary
Approximately 20 spectators gath- What would Jeremy do? WWJD!" Well,
ered this past weekend at Black Hdls Trainor replied with a line drive to left
High School in Tumwater to support field, sending Harrison-Smith home, and
Evergreen's club baseball team as they made it to third base. The Geoducks would
faced the boys from Bend, the Central score one more run, this time during the
fifth inning when second basemen John
Oregon Community College Bobcats.
Undeterred by the University of Each's hit sent outfrelder Jeramy Villianos
Oregon's sweep the previous weekend, home, after Villianos had managed to steal
the Geoducks took to the field and played third base.
The Geoducks face Central Oregon
better than before. Was it more practice,
again
May I and 2 in Bend, O~egon. ~he
more fan support, or that sexy image? As
team
will take a breather thIS comtng
one onlooker put it, "Those uniforms leave
weekend, but will be back in action the follittle to the imagination."
Nevertheless, the Geoducks have found lowing weekend when they host Western
their game. Though they lost Saturday'S Washington University.
But last weekend's losses were not for
game and Sunday'S doubleheader, agam
naught.
Pitcher/head coach Sean Presley,
it was not by lack of effort, merely runs
who pitched the first game Sunday, has
scored.
On Saturday, Central Oregon led off, 12 record strikeouts: one less than the
scoring first when outfielder Geoff Wagner Bobcats' Wilson, and has pitched more
managed to steal home . Then Bobc at innings than anyone else in the league. In.
pitcher Tyson Neuhaus attempted the same addition , Presley has a batting average of
but collided with Geoduck catcher Ross .333 and has stolen five bases, the third
Trainor, whose hold on the ball resulted best record in the league. Pitcher Ev an
Kearley, who pitched Saturday, is only
in the Bobcats' final OUl.
three
slots behind Presley in most innings
During the bottom half of the inning,
Geoduck outfielder Jeremy Harrison- pitched, and Harrison-Smit~ .is tied with
Smith stole home. That run was the first four others for the next pOSItIOn. He and
of only two the team scored; the second Each share the record for most at bats. It
came in the fourth inning, when outfielder just goes to show that ac hievement isn't
James Stippich hit a double , allowing always about winning the game.
While the Bobcats may have taller guys
Joe Erickson to score. And though the
Geoducks wouldn't score again , they held and Yankee-ish pinstripes, the team lacks
that down-home sexy quality. Besides, no
the Bobcats to only eight runs .
one
can prance like a Geoduck.
A fter some R&R , the Bobcats came
And
there's that age-old adage of "it's
back Sunday morning and swept the
Geoducks 12-0 and 22-7. The Bobcats not the size that matters, but how you use
clearly dominated the first game, not allow- it." The Geoducks may have lost, but they
ing any runs and only a handful of hits. The used it welL
Maybe it was Ja sm ine (the n.ew bat)
hi ghli ght may have been both teams hlttll1g
Kin
sey's announcer-style words of encourfoul balls within close proximity of spectators when Bobcat pitcher Nolan Wilson, agement, or those tight pants.
As another spectator remarked, " I have
Pacific Mountain Conference's Pitcher of
my
glasses on. I can see luts or things."
the Week. nearly nutted the umpire. Upon
dang hot'
Yeah.
catc her Derek Doubrava ask ing if he was
O K, the umpired rep li ed. "Yeah. Illim:hed
Pacific Mountain Conference Standin gs:
soon enoul!h .,.
Duri ng ~the later game, the Geoducks
Universit y of Oregon
struck first. scoring three rUlls in the first
3
win s. 0 losses
innin g alon..:. which the Bobcats quickly
answered . but the Geoducks scored two
Central Oregon Co mmul1lty Co ll p.ge
more in the third . In the fou rth inning,
3 wins . 0 los5":s
1larri son-Smith hit a high pop to left field
The Evergree n State Co lle ge
and manageq to gel to second base before
o wi ns. 6 losses
the Bubcat s' defen se gu t near the bai L As
Western Washington Uni versity
Trainor approached the plate, first base
o w ins. 0 losses
co ach Dirk Ki nsey shouted. "Hey, Ross!
It isn't just the fabulous treatment
that the athletes at our school are given
(which, regretfully, has entailed a lack of
respect or people assuming I'm unintelligent) but more of a personal satisfaction.
I enjoy feeling accomplished, and
though it can be difficult to have your life
scheduled away, I've become so accustomed to it that once it stops, I don't know
what I'll do with my free time.
We have one hundred and sixty-eight
hours in a week. Thirty of mine are occupied by work, another sixteen by class
and at least another twenty by practice or
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In front of the Library building Wednesday afternoon, the Evergreen women's crew team held their annual
erg-a-thon (whose name comes from the "erg," the manual rowing machine found in athletic clubs). They hoped
to eam donations to help them on their way to the Dad Vail competition in Philadelphia this spring. After all,
"It's just a really good way to have fun," agree many team members.
Freshman Linnea Rothenmaier said this is just a first step in getting funding to take them to one of the largest
regattas in the country. But finding $7,000 isn't an easy task, and the team spoke of approaching the S&A board
to help gamer the additional money that the fundraisers don't generate.
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The atmosphere of the erg-a-thon was excited, with races starting sporadically, generatmg a fun , competItive
atmosphere. But crew isn't about physical achievements as much as it takes incredibly strong mental convIctIon.
"It's about a quarter physical and three quarters mental. It's the most intense sport '."ve played. You go all o,u~,
rowing as hard as you can, and then when you come close to the end of the race, you Just find more and push tIl
it's over," said Rothenmaier.
The women's crew team practices three to five times a week, from six to eight in the morning, before classes
start, demanding a level of commitment that surprises people. ''I'm really impressed ?y their commitment to
their sport. They're hardcore," said Katie Thurman, who took the opportunity to race novIce crew member Kendra
Scheuerlean 500 meters . Scheuerlean commented that Thurman rowed pretty well in the end, coming up about
40 meters behind as their raee ended.
Some members of the team expressed a desire to hold fundraisers more on a weekly basis, rather than a yearly
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six hours a night on days when 1 don't
work at four in the morning, which takes
away another forty-two .
The remainder would be a whopping
forty-three hours a week. I'm damn bu sy
and I love it! This summer is full of open
gyms, individual practices, weights, class,
and for the time being, Gold's Gym .
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season starls in October (not in January).
The support the basketball teams have
received this year has been amazing.
You'd be surprised what that can do for
your win record . In fact, our team has
made it to Ihe playoffs!
To an athlete, it 's phenomenal, to faculty, not so much . Missing class in the
eighth week isn ' l someth ing I' d like to
be making up eitber.
The down side of thi s exciting life is ·
that it never allows time for rest. I've had
fourteen- and sixteen-hour da ys back to
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Most role·playing games have a very
unfair stigma these days. The most widely
known of these is Dungeons and Dragons.
We ' ve all heard the jokes, and some people
have actually taken them for fact. That
people who play Dungeons and Dragons
have no life, are boys who couldn't get
a date if they tried, and that many of the
players are Satanic in nature and somehow use the game to worship their Dread
Lord. From all the gaming groups I've ever
seen or been in, this isn 't true. Of course,
I can 't totally deny that there are some
groups with people who shouldn 't leave
their houses on any occasion, due to their
flimsy grip on reality. I can assure you,
however, that such groups are few and farbetween, and such people generally don 't
last long. Also, people tie the game to the
absolutely horrid movie that was released,
which I can assure you is nothing like the
game itself, not by a long shot.
Dungeons and Dragons is mostly a fun
way to escape reality for a couple hours
and work towards a goal with a group of
people you mayor may not know. I started
playing the game when I was around
eleven or twelve and still like playing it
today. Of course, the characters I play
get more and more complicated as time
goes on, and certain situations that didn't
come up in my first game arise now. This
is mostly because we don ' t play in a rec
center with a Dungeon Master that has to
be constantly looking over his shoulder
to make sure parents won't get the wrong
ideas about any of their children's "adventures." The characters I' ve seen played and
have played range from a gay elven bard
who fell in love with the major villain of
the campaign, to a mighty warrior named
Kroger the Mighty who liked wenching
and boozing a little TOO much. No matter
what the campaign, we always had fun
because our Dungeon Master was talented
and our group was fun-loving and solid.
To play D&D, you generally need a
Player 's Handbook, which is usually sold
in all chain bookstores and is shelved by
the graphic novels. This magical book lets
you know everything a beginner would
need to know about how to play the game,
as well as tips on how to create a good
character. Any other book is usually used
for extra things in the game, or to keep
tabs on the Dungeon Master. The three
major cnre rulebooks are the Dungeon
Master j. Guide, Player s Handbook, and
Monster Manual. Everything is fairly selfexplanatory, and once you get a character
created, you ' re ready to start playing with
a group.
Dungeons and Dragons is a game based
mostly on strategy and chance, relying on
dice rolls to decide fate. You roll to attack,
to dodge, to climb a wall, and to do many
other things you may require in any given
storyline. While this system can be quite
inconvenient, it can also allow single players todo massive damage or critically slip
and cut their pwn arm off. The main bonus
of the game is the fact that you don't know
what's going to happen, or if you and your
party will return from any given adventure
alive, or even the same sex as when you
left. It all depends on the whim of the dice
and the overall mood of your Dungeon
Master. Thus I encourage everyone to
give this game a second chance and try
playing it yourself, even if it is in a dark ·
corner where no one can see you.
For more information, check out the official website at: http://www.wizards.com/
or just Google "Dungeons and Dragons. "
Friday, Feb. 27 -Sunday, Feb. 29
7:30 p.m. Shambhala Meditation Center of Seattle Presents: "The Art of Being Human'" Valerie Sanford will present an introduction to th e Shambhala Training
path and Meditation! $75. For more info contact Gaylord at 206.322.0372.
Saturday, February 28
Noon. Chibi Chibi Con! Sponsored By GRAS! Costumes, Workshops, Anime and Great Prizes! For more info, see http :// www.just-peach y. com/grasl.
1 p.m. Geoduck Lacrosse Team Plays Linfield College at TESC!
8 p.m. The Historic Spar Restaurant and Lounge presents: Live Jazz ! Featuring Ocho Pi es! For more info or reservation s call 357.6444.
Sunday, February 29
Noon. Chibi Chibi Con! Sponsored By GRAS! Costumes, Work shops, Anime and Great Prizes! For more info, see http :// www.just-peachy.com/gras/.
3-5 p.m. "Organizing for Social Justice in Your Community," presented by Monica Peabody from the Welfare Rights Organizing Committee (WROC), Pat Tisoney
from the Tenants ' Union, Vince Brown from Columbia Legal Services, and Phil Owen from Bread and Roses Advocacy Center, will meet at the Olympia Publ ic Library.
Free. Register at http://www.freskoolco-op.org/.
Monday, March 1
3-5 p.m. S&A Board Meeting in CAB 315. Share your views!
4:30-6 p.m. TESC Writing Center Presents: "RE-Visioning Your Academic Essay." LIB 2218 . For more info. contact 867 .6420 or http://www.evergreen.edu/
writingcenter/ .
Monday, Mar. 1-Friday, Mar. 5
5-6:30 p. m. The Kung Fu CI ub meets ror practice in LongllOuse 107-1 07N. A II are welcome! For more info contact Mark at 357.9137 or yngmrk@co mcasl.nel.
Tuesday, March 2
7:30 p.m. Mindscreen Movie Night presents Kippur in Lecture Hall I. Admission and Popcorn are free!
Wednesday, March 3
Noon-5 p.m. Get ready for the Career Fair at ST. Martin's Pavilion! Meet more than 100 employers serious about hiring' Sponsored by T ESC ' For more info contact
the Career Development Center 867.6193 .
2-3 [l.m . TESC Writing Center Presents: "Parallel Structure" in LIB 3407. For more info, contact 867.6420 or http://www.evergreen.edu/writingccnter/.
4:30-6 p.m. TESC Writing Center Presents: "Evaluation Writing" in LIB 2219 . For more info. contact 867 .6420 or http: //www.evergreen .edu /writingce ntcr!.
MAR..CH 1.;6 IS INTER..NATIONAL WOMEN'S WEEK!
For info, contact 867.6006 or visit CAB 206.
Monday, 6-9 p.m. Giving Voice to Our Lives: Open Mic and Spoken Word performance with Shailja Patel in the first floor Library Lobby. Free.
Tuesday, noon-2 p.m. Identity, Struggle and Sister Strength : A Panel Discussion in the second floor Library Lobby. Free.
Tuesday, 7 p.m. Winona LaDuke, writer (All Our Relations), will speak in the CRC gym auditorium. $5 suggested donation.
Wednesday, 6-8 p.m. Gabriella: Film and Discussion in CAB 110. Free.
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10 p.m. Soul Good Thursdays. DanCing with a Live DJ! At the Mark, 407 Columbia Ave. For info: 754-4414. Free! 21 +.
Every Friday
9 p.m. Fantastic Fridays at the Vault. Dancing with a Live DJ! 425 North Franklin. 21+, $3 .
Every Saturday
10 p.m. Supa'Saturdays at the Fourth Ave Tavern. Dancing with a Live DJ! 210 Fourth Ave. For info contact: 786- I 444 . 21 +, $ I.
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3 p.m. Environme.ntal Alert Project Meeting: Sponsored by WashPIRG. Help work to protect our National Forests and pass tough environmental laws in Washington!
Vote to continue to optionally fund WashPIRG at http://www.evergreen.edul. For more info contact Sarah at sgrimes@copirgstudents.org.
6-8 p.m. TESC Writing Center Presents: Scrabblelicious! In LIB 3407. Come play the ultimate in word board games with like-minded folks! For more info contact:
867-6382 or http://www.evergreen.edulwritingcenter/.
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Every Tuesday
5:30 p.m. Evergreen Ammal Rights Network (EARN) meets on the third floor of the CAB!
9 p.m. Tuning In Tuesdays. Dancing with a live DJ at Charlie's Bar and Grill at 620 Fourth Ave. For more info call 786-8181.21 +, free!
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. .3 p.m. Hunger and Homelessness Project Meeting: Sponsored by WashPIRG. Support local poverty relief agencies and shelters such as Bread and Roses! Vote to .
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4 p.m. till late! TESC,Gaming Guild Presents: Gaming Night! Located in CAB 320. For more info:~67-6036.
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5-7 p.m. Ladies Night in the Bike Shop! Women. and Trannies Unite, Take Back the Bike! Located in the Basement of the CAB Building. For more info, contact
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