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Horseshoe. Noise. Hammock.
These were just a few ofthe all·important
words featured in "Evergreen Password,"
a campus game show sponsored by the
Writing Center and BonAppetit. The 2004
edition of the show premiered Wednesday,
April 28 at 2:30 p.m. on channels 17 and
18. Lee Kepraios, as the M.e. , kept the
show moving, with Robert Hopt providing the voice of the announcer. The guest
contestants were faculty Nancy Taylor and
student Sop hal Long.
The game works as follow s: two teams
oftwo--each one featuring a guest contestant- work on identifying a work through
assoc iation. This word- the Password- is
known to the M.e. and one contestant on
each team . The announcer also shares the
word with the audience: "The Password
is .. . ' quantum .'" T he kn ow ing contestants take turns trying to let their partners
know what the Password is by saying one
word that can be associated with it. I f, for
example, the word is "toupee," one might
say " hair" or " ru g." The val ue of each

The second round brought in new
Password begins at ten points, and with
each wrong guess by one team or another, partners: Andrew Kersten replaced John
it decreases by one point. Thus, if both and Linda Meuhirter replaced Andy. This
teams deliver two wrong guesses before round was much closer, with the contessomeone gets it right, the word is awarded tants continually racing ahead of each
to that contestant's team for six points. other by scoring on words like "budget,"
Various sound affects chirp and whistle "secretary" and "meadow." With the score
depending on each contestant's degree of very close at 24-22 in favor of Sophal and
success, The first team to achieve 25 points Linda, the final word accumulated three
wins the round.
wrong ans'w ers before Linda guessed
Nancy and her first partner, John Le "people" for seven points. Sophal fared
Claire, started the first round strqng with somewhat better in the Lightning Round
ten points for "butter." Sophal and his first this time, winning $ 10 in Bon Appetit gift
partner, Andy Cochran, caught up with certificates,
nine points for "good." After both teams
"Evergree n Pa ssword ," a biweekl y
missed " loaf' and "acclaim," Andy and game show, will air on Wednesday, May
Sophal won the round with high scores for 12. The guest contestants are unknown as
"columni st" and "ox." (Strangely enou gh, of this writin g, but Lee and Robert will
Sophal got And y to say "columnist" by 'return in their res pecti ve capacities. Same
say in g "curnl udgeon," which happen s to time , same channel. You can watch it li ve
be the title of the M.C.'s weekly column .) in the TV Studi o in the basemen t of the
They were skunked, ho weve r, in th e Library building.
Li ghtning Round, in which Andy had to
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Students Energize Clean
Energy
Western Washington University
(WWU) students voted last Thur.sday
to raise their student fees by up to
$19 per quarter to be put towards the
purchase of Clean Energy. This will
make Bellingham the number one
purchaser of green power in Washington and second only to Portland in
the Northwest. WWU has a chance to
be innovative in what they, along with
Puget Sound Energy and Bonneville
Environmental Foundation, choose to
do with the $700,000 a year collected
from students. A green tag purchase
with that money would support the
production of green power to offset
100 percent of the energy used on
campus . These student fees may
allow for some form of on:'site energy
production, like the wind turbine at
Colorado University-Boulder or the
University of Oregon's photovoltaic
system on the student union building.
While WWU figures out what to do,
Greeners and Clean Energy Coalition
are exploring a similar path. What
would we do if we had the chance to
bring clean energy to the Evergreen
campus? What are our options for
possible energy sources? Come be
a part of this exciting discussion at
3 p.m. Thursday, May 7, CAB 320
in the conference room, where we
will be joined by Paul Horton, from
Climate Solutions, who, as a clean
energy advocate in Olympia for 12
years, will help us to see what is possible for energy at Evergreen.

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A Warning to All Moviegoers:
Do not go to see the release of

Shaolin Soccer!
No matter how much you want
to see it, I advise you not to. This
was the highest-grossing Chinese
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film Of~ll
bri~fion
before the America stu os . d~cided to. pick it up
and e1ease It In the UnIted States.
It was pulled from sales in stores,
and the original print of the film
was cut by 30 minutes and re-subtitled. The version you can go and
see in theaters now is a hackedup, emasculated version of a great
film. You will not be seeing the
hilarious original 'version of the
film. Better to hunt for the original version and view it on video.
Rainy Day Records, for example,
carries the film.
-Lee Kepraios

The event, which is sponsored by
S & A Productions, will be held in
the CRe. Student tickets are available
only at the bookstore and cost $8 in
advance or $10 at the door; student ID
must be presented. General admission
tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at
the door; they may be purchased at
Rainy Day Records, located at 2008
W Harrison in Olympia, or Helmer's
Music, located at 5003 Tacoma Mall
Blvd. in Tacoma.

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The Sustainability Lecture Series
continues next week with Dr. Bradley
Smith's "Education the Foundation."
Smith is the Dean of Huxley College of the Environment at Western
Washington University. He was the
first director of the Office of Environmental Education for the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency and
currently serves on several boards,
including the Department of Energy
Advisory Board.

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Evergreen undergraduates
write and publish a new book

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Defending Wild Washington: A Citizen's Action Guide
by Glenn Burkhart
In the academic year 2002-03, I was
lucky to be among seventeen Evergreen students who dedicated themselves to an environmental studies program titled Protecting
Washington Wildness. Our class, lead by
faculty members Ted Whitesell, Oscar Soule
and visiting faculty Ben Shaine, set out to
uncoverthe history of Washington's wilderness and old-growth protection movement
and to discover the current strategies used
by today's wildlands advocates.
From day one our goal was to produce
a book to be published by a major publisher
the following year. Throughout the year we
traveled extensively to all corners of the state
meeting with many wildlands activists, land
managers, policy makers, and professional
advocates . Hundreds of hours of interviews
and guest lectures provided the backbone of
our research while field visits to numerous
wild places fostered our inspiration and
desire to help protect them . We sought to
understand the movement's overarching
goals and critically analyze the direction
of the movement from our perspective. We
also wanted to tell inspiring stories of those
individuals who, against all odds, contributed significantly to successful grassroots
campaigns. "It's amazing to see how much
one person can contribute to wildland
preservation at the grassroots level," says
Caitlin Houser, a researcher and co-author
of Defending Wild Washington.

After nine months of explorative field rii.....n
study, extensive research, and intensive, collaborative writing, we produced a 150,000word manuscript. I'm happy to report that
the program was a complete success and the
book , titled Defending Wild Washington: A
Citizen 's Action Guide, was published by
The Mountaineers Books and is now avai 1able at local bookstores .
We debuted our book on April 23 at
the 2004 Wilderness Conference in Seattle. 1<~I!llJ~19;Y~t:~i";H~lw~~.v~,~
The conference was a celebration of the
I.n lla,ycg,.... l?~aLl.l;!'I,"
anniversary of the 1964 Wilderness Act
that has afforded protection to more than
105,695 , 176 acres throughout the Un ited
States. (For more information about the
NWPS, go to the National Wilderness
Preservation Fact Sheet , on the web at
http://www.wilderness.net/ index .cfm ? fus
e =N WPS&sec=fastFacts.) The book was
well received by many of the pathfinders in I l::~~d.~!l
Washington's wilderness movement as well ~'-'-'-''''''"'''"
as today's movers and shakers in the movement for a wild America . It is our hope that Goldberg, and Oscar Soule: In accordance
you will pick up a copy and learn about this with the wishes of the students in the program
state's extraordinary environmental history that produced this book, all royalties will go
then get motivated to join the movement for back to The Evergreen State College to fund
conservation education.
wildness!
The authors of Defending Wild WashThe book was made possible through
generous donations from The Evergreen ington will be appearing at:
o The Northwest Ecosystem Defense
State College Foundation, The Mountaineers
Foundation , The Friends of the Evergreen Panel, May 7 at 6 p.m. in Lecture Hall 5,
o Pacific Northwest History Conference,
State College Library, Patagonia, Frederick
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PAINTS EMPOWERMENT

The Video Camera
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by Philipe Lonestar, Evergreen Office of Sexual Assaull Prevention
someone they know has survived, and also
as windows for visions of peacefu I, loving
and consensual relationships. The tree has
picture frames hung on the trunk to honor ·
various survivors, families and fri ends. The
muralists named Frida Kahlo and bell hooks
among their inspirations for this project.
Their goals were to create a permanent
mural for others to enjoy, sec th e process
of survivin g in a story line, illustrat e the
many form s sexual viol ence tak es, bring
att ention to th e fact that sexu a l viol ence
touches people of all ge nders, sexualities,
cl asses. races, ethnicities, abilitie s and ages,
embrace th e power of comlllunity, g row as
indi vidu als working with th e oth er art ists .
let hca li ng take <l visua l form . and in spire
and empower ot hers.
T hc Illura i llill be di splaye d in va ri ous
loca ti ons around ca mpu s toward s the end
orth e qua rt er. It wi ll also include space for
resources at Eve rgree n and in th e co mmunity about hea ling fro m sex ual and dom estic
vi olenc e.
If you or so mconeyo u kn ow would like
to part icipate by pa int ing on e apa rt ment
building wind ow to honor an exp erience
of sexual assault or domestic violence, or
paint your vision for healthy relationships,
contact LI S as soon as possible to talk with us
about your ideas and we will let you know if
appropri ate room is sti II available.
If you are interested in the project or
need any resources pertaining to sexual violence call Philipe Lonestar at The Office of
Sexual Assault Prevention at 867.5221 , x5221
on campu s, relay TTY \.800.833.6388.

May 8 at the Red Lion in Olympia,
• Seminar (( Open House. May 12 at 2-4
p.m. in Sem II B2107, and
• The Patagon ia store in Seattle, on May
20 at 7 p.m.
For more information, email Glcnn
Burkhart at gt_burkhart@yahoo.com .

New Video Screening by Zapatista Indigenous
Video Makers with ALEX HALKIN,
Chiapas Media Project DirectDr Dn:

SURVIVOR MURAL PROJECT

The Survivor Mural Project , sponsored
by The Evergreen Office of Sexual Assau It
Prevention, will beg in painting next week!
The group of about 15 students based the
two-sided portable rolling mural 's theme
of a world free from sexual and domestic
vi olence. The mural will honor the strength
and bravery of survivors of sexual assault,
incest, and domestic violence. The group has
bee n meeting since winter quartcr took on
th e challenge of such issues of represent at ion
as the diverse movem ent for sexu al freedom
a nd peac e. th e ba lanc e betwee n pain and
suffering and strcng th and heal ing, and the
Ill any types ofvi olcnce and survival.
The g rou p chose to usc th e im age of a
phoc ni x 10 represellI strength and rcb irth as
the foca l po int o r one sidc ofth c mura l. Thi s
side also depicts p rott~s tors . trccsofe rn oti oll .
seed s of new lire, spir its of past su rvivors
and alli es, and peop lc walk ing th c s treets
wi th out fear.
Th e oth er side o f th e mLira l de pi cts
ho mage to Th e C loth es lin e Proj ec t , a
nationa l a rt in stall ation of t- shirts paint ed
by people affected by sex ual vi olenc e. Everg ree n partic ipatcs in the Clothe sline Project
each year with the student group, Th e Coalition Against Sexual Violence, during Sexual
Assault Awareness Month . Silhouettes gaze
us at the t-shirts held up by a huge tree on
one e nd and a building on the other side. The
apartment building contains many windows
for th e viewer to see into representing the
many lives th at survivors lead . The pa inters wi II use the windows to represent sexual
assaults and dom esti c violence that they or

by Paul Shelton

Autonomv, Resistan.;e and
Sell-Representation in MeXico
WEDNESDAY
MAY 5,2004
7 pm Traditions
Fair Trade Cafe
300 5th Ave and
Water Street

THURSDAY
MAY 6, 2004
Noon-2 pm,
The Evergreen
State College
Lib Lobby
Sponsored by:
The EVergreen
State College
MECHA, EPIC and
Academic Program
For more
information:
360.867.6055

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It's dusk, with thunderheads over
black hills and a break on the water. You're
on the beach sitting cross-legged under the
last of the salty sun. You hear scavenging
gulls break mussels on barnacled rocks.
You hear the surface of a seal, a sputter
of water, a gasp of breath. You hear the
silence of an eagle overhead searching for
salmon. The sky is red under black-blue
clouds that boil underneath. Across the
bay the clang of sailboats in slips travels
across the water while it rains dark sheets
that shade the sun. The tent sits just above
the high-tide line behind you. In the trees
a kayak rests upside-down on a wooden
rack, its bright belly exposed to Iight. Then
at camp, you make a small fire to warm
your cold hands and get water boiling for
a warm meal, eaten before the last of the
setting sun. A whole island, yours for the
night. You'd be surprised at the amount
of small islands here in the south sound.
Twelve to be exact, some developed and
some undeveloped. As for islands that you
could have to yoursel f, the number one
choice for me is Hope Island.
Hope Island is situated at the
entrance to Totten Inlet on Squaxin Passage. Directly east is Squaxin Island, and
west, Steamboat Island . !t's a small (106
acres) island maintained by Washington
State Parks, purchased in 1990. Originally,
the Schmidt family purchased the island
in 1904; they were the same family who
started the Olympia Brewing Co. In 1943
the Munn family purchased the Island
and had a small grape farm growing the
"Island Belle" variety of grape named by
the botanist Adam Eckert, who developed
the grape in Glencove just a few miles to
the Northwest of Hope Island. The only
residence on Hope Island is a small caretaker's cabin on the old homestead site. It
is a stop on the Cascade Marine Trail and
has several tent sites ($\0 per night) and
trails over the island. The "pack it in, pack
it out" policy is in effect, so don't leave
trash behind. Also, bring your own water,
as there is no water source on the island.
Nice stands of old growth Red Cedar and
Douglas fir forest on most of the island, a
great pebble beach on the south shore with
views of Squaxin Island, Boston Harbor
and Mt. Rainier distant. There are also
two other small beaches and boat racks
on the west and east shore. Fires are not
permitted. The island is accessible from

Boston Harbor, a three-to-four-mile open
water crossing of Budd Bay and Eld Inlet,
or there is a boat launch at Arcadia Point
directly west of the island. The crossing
from Boston Harbor can get nasty: I've
personally caught it at the wrong time and
it was like riding a Class II river. Beginners
should take caution, and those with experiel}ce watch the outgoing rips coming from
Budd Bay and Eld Inlet, merging with the
flood from Totten passage and Pickering
passage to the north, which can create a
monster rip. Arcadia Point boat launch is
an easy one-mile paddle from Hope Island
across Squaxin Passage and the small boat
launch is free. From Highway 101 exit onto
and follow Lynch road to the Arcadia road
junction and look for the sign to Arcadia
Point boat launch, a short 20 minutes from
Evergr~en. Then there's Boston Harbor.
Boston Harbor, at the end of East
Bay/Boston Harbor Road, personally
kicks ass for paddling. (Even ifyoll don ' t
want to kayak, go there!) The Marina store
sells fresh seafood and snacks, has a great
view from the dock decks, plus they house
20+ rental kayaks, all very seaworthy, and
also have the best smoked salmon ever,
period! Single kayaks rent for $20 for a
day and $30 for a full day 's rental ; twoperson boats are a bit more. Tuesdays are
rent two boats for the price of one, a great
deal, and they will set you up with all the
gear and help you launch. From the docks
at Boston Harbor, Budd Bay opens around
the lighthouse to the south . Cooper Point
is directly west and Hartstene Island lies
across Dana Passage to the north on your
right, Squaxin Island and Hope Island on
the left. Catch the incoming tide around
the lighthouse and head for Olympia and
see the Capitol Building in the distance,
the Black Hills to the east, and the white
peaks of the Olympics over your shoulder
to the northwest. Paddle south and look for
a red house with a beach on the left and
you've arrived at Burfoot County Park,
where schools of sand dollars crowd when
the tide is low, theit purple fuzz soft to
the touch. Continue paddling south toward
Olympia and then you'll reach Gull Harbor
on the east shore accessible at high tide,
a great emerald backwater lagoon with
hanging alder, cedar and maple trees jutting out over the water. Just go explore.
It's cheap. I'll be back soon.

Water and Forests: The Pacific
Northwest's Most Precious Natural Resources

A Festival of Events, May 13-14,
2004 at The Evergreen State College
by Bonnie Phillips, Graduate in Environmental Studies
Three students in the Graduate Program in Environmental Studies, Mary
Middleton, Jim Dees, and Bonnie Phillips,
have been working with TESC faculty and
staffto bring three exciting environmental
events to campus on Thursday evening,
May 13 and all day Friday, May 14.
We invite you all to come to show your
interest in and support for environmental
issues! TESC has been known for its strong
environmental programs and concerns.
This is a great opportunity to learn more
about leading edge and controversial
environmental issues.
Rachel Carson Forum: Thursday,
May 13 from 6-9 p.m. in Lecture Hall
I. This popular, annual event began in
1990 when graduate student, Eli Sterling,
proposed that the students of the Graduate
Program in Environmental Studies should
bring a prominent environmental thinker
to campus. The Forum honors Rachel
Carson, who is best known for Silent
Spring (1962), which established the
impacts of pe s ticides on ecosystems .
Students select the speaker, make all
arrangements and have maintained the
Forum since its il1ception .
Dr. Eugene Kozloff, professor
emeritus of Zoology at the University of
Washington, is the guest speaker at the
2004 Forum. Dr. Kozloff will speak on
"Bigfoot's Flower Garden : The Slopes
and Valleys of the Siskiyou Mountains."
Thi s forest ecosystem is under threat from
mining and the largest fire salvage sale in
the history ofthe U.S. Forest Service. Join
us to learn about the beauty of the area,
the rare plant life that depends on this
ecosystem for survival and why the area
is worth saving.
Changing World of Water: Friday,
May 14 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in
the Lecture Hall Complex. In fall 2003,
graduate students voted on what topics
they would most like to see a conference
covered. Three choices surfaced to the
top and "The Changing World of Water"
combines those issues.
This full day conference has a host
of well-known and excellent speakers
who collectively focus on critical water
issues in the Pacific Northwest, changes
to environmental laws and regulations that
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People always gripe about bad movies,
but few of them even know what bad
movies are. Over the years, movies have
grown more skillful and less daring.
Studios and their directors are able to
achieve amazing effects and visual styles.
Anything is possible to dream up in the
movies . But few people in the movie
business (that includes the highly overrated independent film industry) have a
real artistic vision. We start with little or
no story, standard characterization, banal
dialogue and loads of cliches and plot
twists and technical mastery in place of
a good story and more importantly good
images.
What we get from all that is a movie
like Man on Fire, a flashy, artificial snow
job disguised as a dark character study.
It's one thing for a movie to be flat out.
unapologetically bad. In a way, it's almost
as entertaining to watch a truly bad movie.
I mean a real piece of shit. I enjoy watching
a director with a film try and fail spectacularly almost as much as I enjoy watching
a director succeed.
It's with a film like this that I throw
up my hands in disgust. This is a bad
movie masquerading as a good movie. A
spare pot-boiler disguised as art. That's a
downer. This is not really a bad movie . It 's
not really anything. Bad movies teach me
something about film. This movie teaches
me nothing; it contributes nothing to the
world of cinema. Because it 's made in
such a way that tries to pass itsel f off as
something more than it really is. Man on
Fire was directed by Ridley Scott's hack
son Tony Scott. And watching what he
does with this substandard material is like
watching a barker,in a carnival sideshow
promising a sensational. one-of-a-kind
experience when all he has waiting behind
the curtain is a freak show.
Some directors do this as a way of
standing aside from their work. keeping
themselves at arm's length from an essentially bad movie with style. Scott's not
willing to cop to this movie 's insipidness,
so he adopts an over-the-top visual style
to try to overextend a black-and-white
premise involving brutality and action
into an art form.
The result is a film that 's fake-arty.
Much like T./lirteen and Traffic (but at
least Traffic was about something). Dark,
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and sped-up motion. aggressive subtitles.
shaky action scenes and harsh editing contribute to a film that feels fake and wears
out its welcome very quickly.
Denzel Washington stars as a down
and out bodyguard named Creasey, a
shattered alcoholic with a past we suspect
is not pleasant. He works in Latin America,
where a bogus statistic informs us that
someone is kidnapped every 60 minutes .
His only friend is played by Christopher
Walken in yet another great supporting
role that gives him enough screen time to
deliver some cool dialogue (Walkenisms?)
and some good mugging. Walken hasn't
had a lead role in a movie in 10 years and
I think I get why. He's too brilliantly weird
to carry a whole movie.
Creasey's hired by a wealthy family to
guard their daughter played by an unbelievably precocious and almost creepily
young Dakota Fanning. We barely have
time to enjoy the nice rapport they build
before she's kidnapped and Washington
vows vengeance. He sweats, clasps his
gun. drinks, and takes no prisoners as he
moves up the ladder of criminals involved
in the ransom plot. This is just as it sounds .
A series of intimidation and torture sessions . And it's done in such a way that any
commentary intended to be made about the
blurring of the line between good and evil
as seen through the futility of vengeance
becomes moot.
Denzel Washington is one of the
finest actors working in movies today.
He knows this territory (he's only played
a law enforcer in Oul of Time, Fallen,
Virtuosity, The Mighty Quinn and Training
Day). And his talent would be completely
. wasted in this movie ifhe didn't create a
character that had some depth. It's a fine
performance. It deserves to have a better
movie around it.
Man on Fire is about a half hour too
long and ends much as we expect. It was
written by the talented Brian Helgeland,
who also wrote L.A. Conjidenla/ and
Mystic River, which leaves me wondering what this film might have been like
had Tony Scott not gotten his hands on it.
It's like watching a music video: gratuitous and irritating with far too many cuts .
I don't think Scott lingered on a single cut
in this movie for more than 15 seconds.
View at your own risk.

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Come one, come all, step forth and take

THE ANTIGREEN CHALLENGE

The Curmudgeon:
Me, an anachronism? Hogwash!

most successful.
although the act of finding a place to sleep
With all of this, whai life essentially and keep your shit may seem benign enough,
amounts to is a scenario in which we have what you are actually doing is ensuring that no
winners and losers in a contest of resource other individuals will have access to the space
acquisition. It is, in its most realistic and prac- in question. Thus, the affair is nothing more
tical sense, a contest for the resources neces- than a battle with others to secure and stake
sary forthe maintenance oflife, in which every out an area of your own, an area which will be
organism must compete with other organisms, off lim its to those you have defeated.
and in which some parties emerge victorious
In short, competition for living space is
while others languish and perish. Any suc- ' undertaken in the interest of securing a place
cess enjoyed by one organism is owing to from which others will be excluded. Through
and tainted by the lack of success and outright your successful competition , you have secured
suffering of another, ensu ring there is no true a Iittle fortress of your own, off Iim its to and
success anywhere within the scenario.
safe from any rabble that may have designs
This is the basic circumstance that appl ies upon that space. You are victorious, and you
to all living things. It is, along with two other may now enjoy the spoils. Congratulations.
accompanying elements (which are the sub- This is of course true whether you are speakjects of separate essays), the flaw of life.
ing of a fortified Beverly Hills compound or
We humans, with all of our apparent a hemp- and vegetable-growing Delphi comintelligence, and with all of the potential '11une. This model also certainly applies to
this intelligence provides for figuring ways food, clothing, etc., but I feel the living space
out of conundrums, have yet to find a way example to be the most lucid.
Now, some of you are surely thinking that
to remove ourselves from this miserable scenario. As intelligent as we are, and with all of this does not apply to you, that you are OK
our apparent accomplishments, everyone of . because you're "green ." You feel that because
us must still live according to this model. We you go to protests and do yoga twice a week,
still live in a world in which we must compete and because your chakras are in balance, you
with one another for resources, where some are somehow free from guilt. However, all
win and prosper, and where the majority lose of that is total bullshit, because there is no
and suffer. For every single one of us who escaping the fact that there is only one real
possess the resources needed to survive, we choice in Iife, that between competing or
have acquired these resources by competing dying, and that if you are reading this it is clear
successfully with our fellows, and this means which choice you have made. It doesn't matter
that there are less successful individuals the how much incense you burn-if you are alive
you are a competitor, and to be a competitor is
losers that must go without.
Perhaps the easiest way of conceptual iz- to be a miserable and loathsome creature.
This brings us to the point of The
ing this is to employ the example of personal
property, living space (rented or otherwise) Antigreen Challenge. Even with all of your
in particular. The goal in competing for this thoughtfulness, protesting, and otherwise
type of resource is of course to secure aCG~5-gF~enR~5,--the most significant and conseto a warm, safe place to lay your head. Now, quential aspect of your existence is that you

are a competitor, and i challenge any and all
of you to offer a compelling argument as to
the contrary.
It is extraordinarily un likely that any of
you will be successful in posing a solution ,
becausevery few individuals in human history
have. Nevertheless, I am pi'esenting this to you
for your perusal , if for noth ing else than to see
you try and squirm and slime your way out of
it. I'd be especially del ighted to see what sort of
crafty arguments some of our academics could
put forth in an effort to exonerate themselves . .
These individuals are of course some of the
gu iltiest in respect to what I have been saying,
since they have most certainly competed with
great tenacity and defeated many comers in
order to reach their perches.
Oh, and I'll go ahead and answer the
most obvious question first. Who the hell do
I think I am to be saying all of this? I am a
miserable and loathsome creature, just like
you. And to any of you who would throw the
Buddha, Jesus, or some other religious figure
at me, bring it. I was going to talk about such
characters in this piece, but space lim itations
prevented it, so that discussion will have to
wait.
This article explores one of many points
along the same general theme to be discussed
in the upcoming senior thesis essay, "The
Antigreen Manifesto." As stated, the author
invites any and all comments and arguments,
to be sent to either the CPJ or to his email
address, fygor@hotmail.com, which he will
do his best to respond to in email or in print.
Or, you can go straight to the author's website,
fygor.com, which will be up and running in a
couple of weeks, for similar discussions.

" You really do have all the sensibility and
insight of a cranky old man," someone told
me recently.
I do? Really? Surely, I do admire and in
a way almost cling to the old days, when we
were proper country and a proper people. But
are my ideas really so far behind the times?
Am I living in the past so much as everyone I
know seems to claim?
I had to fi nd out if I really am an anachronism: someone who's had his day and doesn 't
belong. (I'm considered to be one in an environment full of hippies. That's a laugh.)
I've really been thinking quite a bit about
this. I don't know what to do. I try to keep up
with current trends in speech, culture, manner
and custom and still I get called a malcontent.
A Luddite. So I had to ask around to as to why
I am guilty of living as if I am in a different
time. If I may be permitted a brief anecdote,
free of pettifogging:
Why, just the other day, I took my jalopy
over to visit a valued acquaintance. I'd not seen
the likes of him in many a month. He was a
good egg. A real straight shooter.
On my way there, I found the south road
(the one near the local Haberdasher past the
Druggist but east of the Dry Goods market)
to be blocked by a stalwart but winsome look-

ing gent. He sat there in the m idd Ie of the
street, perched atop a pennyfarthing bicycle.
twitching his handlebar mustache and glaring at me.
"Pardon me, would you mind terribly
removing yourself from the street so that my
jalopy can pass?" I asked the not- so-dandy
fop.
No answer. He budged not an inch, looking like the Kaiser: stately and menacing . A
generous helping ofloall1 was worked into his
hair. I knew I should have taken a balloon to
my destination instead. I realized this chicanery could not continue or I might be forced
to pull him down off the bike and engage him
in fisticuffsmanship.
But that appeared a bad idea itsel f once I
noticed his rollerbike physique and the cocked
Derringer he brandished in his right hand.
In finally speaking, he informed me that
what he really was after was merely a place
were he could get a good sarsaparilla. I pointed
him in the direction of the local barkeep and
continued on my way.
Arriving at the house of my good friend ,
I was pleased to see that he had changed, at
least physically, for the better. He was dressed
in his latest pinstripe number. A real Dapper
Dan if you ask me. He also had a new girl at

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White Disassociation, Continued
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h y Eric King

may 6, 2004

Corrie and Simeon Terry is that not only
were their deaths . only about a year apart,
but they both fought for social justice;
however, one has received more support
and understanding than the other. When
Rachel died , it was in many newspapers,
there was a memorial in the Library building, stores around Olympia have her picture
shown, and she has ultimately become an
item at Evergreen as far as inspiration and
admiration are concerned. Simeon Terry
only has that Iittle memorial in front of the
Women of Color Coalition; his death was
not even on the front page of the CPJ, and
has ultimately become another statist ic of
both death and incarceration for the Black
Com munity, with only the prom ise of what
he could have done with his life instead of
what he did. But I will assume that you knew
this furthered by the facts that about 80%
of prison populations are made up of Black
A mericans, and that many black males are
incarcerated and dead before the age of 21.
If you didn't know this, don't feel bad- it's
just your White Disassociation from the
problems that people of color face acting
up again. And yes, I am working on a better
memorial for Simeon Terry. Now on to more
White Disassociation.
I'm going to present a new topic called
White Disassociation of Death. As Mary
Dimatteo Benintendi proved through her

argument, death is not an issue of gender,
creed, or race. And since Mary Dimatteo
Benintendi has asked me so politely, I will
use historical examples of death and racism
and how it relates to White Disassociation.
It 's true that the original concept of death
(natural causes / fate and destiny [if you
believe in it)) is not an issue of gender, race
and creed. However, European America has
used death as an instrument of economical.
and political gain. Here is a list: Slavery:
used as a system of econom ic and pol it ical
gain. 100,000,000 dead and counted as 3/5.
See Constitution. Black Wall Street: June
I, 1921: Tulsa, Oklahoma, a self-sustaining
black community where the dollar circulated
36 to 1000 times before leaving the com munity. Burned to the ground from airplanes
flown by the KKK and high-ranking city
officials. 3,000 dead, 600 businesses lost.
Tuskegee Study: began in 1932-1972 with
the promise of free health care and checkups , poor illiterate blacks were infected
with syphilis by the US government to
discover the long-term effects. 128 dead.
Greensboro, NC: November 3, 1979: The
Communist Worker Party held a rally that
fought for better living conditions for Black
Americans; all five CWP leaders were shot
and killed.
Trail of Tears: part of the Indian
Removal Act of 1830. Moved almost 17,000

here and there, however.
But an anachroni sm? Yeah , and I'm Fatt y
Arbuckle,
Lee's New Rule of the Week: A card is
not identification. A theater chain in downstate
Illinois is promoting something called an " R
Card" which is given to people under 17 and
allows them to see R-rated movies without
an adult present providing the parent sig ns a
statement authorizing the child to do so. This
is obviously a ploy to increase ticket sales
wh i Ie letting studios get away with marketing directly to the young people they know
are stupid enough to pay $9.50 to see Freddy
and Jason hack i ng cach other to pieces for an
hour and a half. An R-Card' Just what parents
need for their kids so they don' t have to break
up their spree at the shopping mall! Note: The
R-Card is not to be confused with the V-Card ,
which, unlike the R-Card, is something everyone under 17 hopes they can get rid of

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h is s ide . A real swell dame.
I asked if they wanted to blow this joint
and see what wa s playing at the Nickelodeon
or maybe drop by th e Five and Ten Cent store
for a phosphat e. 23 skidoo and we were on
our wav.
W~ decided to walk because, frankly. I
don ' t trust the new line of autogiro. " Listen.
you mug s," I leveled with my friend and his
keen lady. " I want you to give me the straight
stuff: Am I some kinda outdated old codger,
or what?"
My buddy looked at me and I could tell
onl y by that look that he thought so. But he
wouldn 't say it. It was no hodgepodge. End
of story.
So maybe I am an old man at heart. Honestly, I have my own bowling ball, I hoard a
stash of Werther's Original , I hate hip-hop
and everything else these whippersnappers
are li stening to, I think that Jack Benny is a
class act. and I never miss (j() Minutes. People
tell me I rem i nd them of A ndy Rooney.
But as for being a real anachronism , I
don't entirely think that's the case . I have
- no back pills to take after I eat my early bird
dinner at the II-lOP while driving home in
my Lincoln doing 15 with my left. blinker on.
Somet imes I do requ ire a little Vick's Vaporub

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As I mourn for my lost friend Simeon
Terry, I would like to take this time to say
thank you to Mary Dimatteo Benintendi,
first of all for reading my article: I know
many things that I've written are very difficult to understand and even respond to as
shown through the delayed responses after
the publication of my article. Next, I thank
you for your response and I read it with great
anticipation and pleasure. Lastly, I thank you
for reaffirming my theories in White Dissassociation, which I will proceed to in a
moment.
While I do understand your point- hell,
I will even agree with you up to a point,
es pecially with the line of "death is a conversion of humanity" and that there have been
many to pass before, during, and even after
my time at Evergreen- that's about where
it stop s. Give me a break! I'm only human
and can only write about so much. I f you
knew so much about the history of those who
have passed, perhaps instead of responding
to my statements you should have taken the
time to educate, those myself included, of
all who have passed at Evergreen and had
very little response. Moreover, it was only a
coincidence that my article appeared during
the week of Jacinta's passing. In fact, I wrote
that article maybe three weeks before Jacinta
died.
The reason why I only used Rachel

9

by Lee Kepraios

hy .1 T Lachappelle
Here is a little riddle for you all to peruse.
I have presented th is to many people, but no
one has been able to come up with anything
close to a decent answer. Good luck.
It is a fact of life on this planet that living
organisms must compete with one another
for finite resources. Within this competition
you may find certain forms and degrees of
cooperation among individuals, but this cooperation is always undertaken in the interest
of perpetuating the lives of the organisms
in question, i.e., in the interest of securing
resources. You may see the formation of packs
to compete with other packs, or of nations to
compete with other nations, but the basic condition of competition is ever present. Indeed,
within these cooperative groups one will most
always find hierarchy, most often a painfully
distinct hierarchy, which is a sure indicator of
the competitive condition in operation.
.
Although the truth of the above notion is
quite obvious, I have nonetheless made fair
inquiries as to its scientific validity, in search
of things that criti-::s or enemies could use to
bash me over the head . To this end I have
talked to the lllost knowledgeable individuals
I could find in this field, and I have heard little
to convince me that the biological laws I am
employing are significantly questionable. In
fact, one professor even told me that they are
so close to Darwin that I may be accused of
plagiarism.
Anyhow, in this competition for resources,
the most successful organisms tend to be those
that are the most able to compete: the ones
most superiorly endowed with the tools for
competition, whatever those tools may be.
Whether it is a dog with stronger legs to
chase down a cat or a student with superior
math skills to secure him a place at M IT, the
most competitive organisms tend to be the

letters and opinions

Cherokees from Georgia to Oklahoma after
gold was discovered. 4,000 died.
I wish I could have used more diverse
examples, but these should suffice in proving
my point. For you see, Mary, for people of
color, death is not a natural end i ng for us;
in fact, it's a means of control and stability.
A nd for you to state that death is not an issue
of race, creed , and gender, or rather a request
to separate the two, is just another form of
white disassociation and a subtle display of
your own racism, because you are asking
people of color to forget about our ancestors who died in the struggle. Like it or not,
death is racism, creed, gender, and a part of
life. Your statements and accusations have
denounced the death of 100,007,128 people
of color who have unjustly died in just Illy
examples alone. These people DO NOT
WANT TO BE LEFT DEAD, and we, as in
people of color, fight every day to keep their
memory alive for a better future. Death is
painful, but for European Americans as told
throughout history death is a form of power,
control, and stability. AND I WILL NEVER
LET YOU FORGET ABOUT DEATH FOR
AS LONG AS I LIVE! Or dissociate the
stereotypes of your ancestors from you, as
White America will never free me from
my mine!

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have been thinking about the
nomenon of shared writing that involves zincs,
letters, group journals, and the internet. The
latter is incredibly far-reaching , but it is not
tactile ; I tend to look for sometliing to hold
and page through. I will focus, therefore, on
the booklets or pieces of paper that find their
way from hand to hand.
As a peer tutor at the Writing Center, I get
to read a lot of good writing. I get to talk with
people about their ideas and imaginations. It
is enlivening' It just makes me wish that there
was a way for the people here at Evergreen to
circulate their papers and storie s and poems.
I would like to see a kind of reading room
or corner somewhere on the ground floor of
the CAB or Library building. There would be
shelves and places to sit. It would be a place
to leave your writing and read others'. That is
all. The older writing could be consolidated
into bi nders.
Down at the New Moon Cafe, they have
notebooks that Iive on the tables next to the
salt and pepper and catsup . Hungry breakfasters write in them while waiting for their eggs
and toast. I was disappointed when I looked
through them to discover the general lack of
articulation of my fellow diners come before.
Of course, who can be expected to be at high
performance that early in the morning?
The lack of articulation got me thinking
about how we are not really used to writing
for each other. Most of the writing that we
encounter is mass-produced or has come into
being as a business tool (such as signs, menus ,
junk mail, etc.). It is good that there are local
publications such as Works In Progress, the
Voice, this newspaper, and 4th Street, but
I am thinking that it would be possible to
get even more personal with our writing by
simply circulating our handwritten or typed
creations.

I have always been intrigued by the
thought of leaving my journal out in public
to be found and read by a stranger. What I
love about this idea is that my journals are
the pieces of writing that I put the mo st
care, thought , and raw strug glin g into. The
two things that keep me from spreading Illy
journal s far and wide arc that I would like to
. have them back eventuall y and that journal
readin g can be emotionally taxing: it is nOI
easy to go through another rerson 's emotion s.
But by golly, I would be excited to find a
stranger's journal.
I see " traveling book s" all the time, the
paperbacks that people plant in cates and at
(dry) bus stop benches; on the inside cover
these books usually have a sticker that says ,
" Hi' I'm a traveling book" and lists a website.
The idea is to read the book and then put it
• back into circulation , meanwhile updating the website as to that particular book 's
whereabouts. So, on that model , how about
travell ing notebooks that folk s write in and
then pass on?
Zines, of course, are great. Copy machines
and printers are the darlings of underground
and desktop publishing. My friend said that
she encountered a zine in some little town
diner that had been put together by a fi ftyyear-old woman. Apparently the zine wa s
very small-town ish , with collected proverbs
and tidbits. Thi s zine made an impression on
my' friend because it was way outside of the
normal young person sub-culture that usually
produces such small-scale sel f-publ ications.
Let's get some ideas rolling about how to
start sharing ·our papers and poems as they
are. Drop ideas by the Writing Center for Ellen
Peterson , and I' ll start organizing them . Or email me at ellenjpeterson @ yahoo.com .

Brought to you by the Evergreen Writing
Center.

The third party that may ultimately
ddlile the 2004 presidential clection is not
Ralph Nadn; it is /\ I Qaeda . Il ow would a
terrori st strik e on U,S. so il in the days before
the NOVl'mber pres ident iill elect ion impact
YlIUr vot e? Perh a ps th is que stion will not
y ie ld a truly represelllativc re spon se hcre at
The Eve rg rcen bccau se of the heav y antiBu sh sentim ent. but behind closed doors in
gtlvcrnmcnt and at thc dinncr part ies of the
l' litc . thi s very question is being examined
e ndles s ly. " The mess a g e the terrori s ts
karned in Madrid is that attacks can change
elections and can chal]ge policy," said a senior
ad 111 in istrat ion official in reference to the new
Spani sh gov ernment 's decision to withdraw
troops from Iraq to fulti II a campaign prom ise .
" It's a very dangerous precedent to have out
there ." There is no fals e sense of security
in America any more. Our false sense of
securitv was sha ttcred with 9111. Now we
hope f~r security, our taxes pay for security,
some reople pray for security, and most likely
wc wi II elect for security. On Thursday, a
reporter asked President Bush whether he
could now assure Americans that no A I Qaeda
mcmbers were plotting on U.S. soil. He simply
re sponded , " No, I can't say that."
The shadowy terror threat that hangs over
/\merica has actor s on both sides of the politica l spectrum scrambling to get a picture of
how a terror attack would influence the voters
in thi s country. While at this point it is still
an yone ' s guess, " Few doubt that an attack
would bring the country together behind the
Presiuent,just as it did after 9/ 11." An upsurge
in patriotism may truly be the res ult of a
catastroph ic terror attack, but because of the
polarized political climate, it may not give the
President a free ticket as it once did . Question s
could be raised on how the massive amount of
money allotted to defend the homeland was

the cooper point journal

s pent , executive decisions may bc sccondg uessed, but regardles s, American s WOl1 't be
harpy-"A democracy can allow its leaders one
fatal rni s take ~ and that's what 9/ 11 looks like
to ma ny observers- but /\mcrican s will not
forgive a second one."
/\t least one se nior ad visor to John Kerry
s peculate s the oppo site. He claim s that A I
Qaeda want s Mr. Bu s h re elect ed bccau se
" he is the best poster they have for re c ruitl11ent.·' Whether George Bu sh or John Kerry
is pres ident , A I Qaeda is going to be at war
with America. George Bush may be an ideal
poster boy for recru it ing Islam ic fundamental ists, but 1\ merica's blind support tor Israel
will continue regardless of who is president .
and th is enrages the Mu sl im world enough to
continue to produce fundamentali sts willin~
to die in a holy war against the West.
Regardless of if a terrorist organization
st rikes the U.S. before the November election ,
the endless speCUlation occurring as a result of
the con stant threat can be perceived as a vic tory for the terrorists. American civi lian s are
terrified, and so are the politicians. Anal ysts
seem res igned to the fact that terrorists could
hijack the political process at any time. Is thi s
resignation in itselfnot another victory for th e
terrorists? Instead of holding our collecti ve
breaths and waiting to see what the face less
terrorist ha s in store for us, we need to und erstand the facts ofthe matters at hand . We need
to make a decision about our president without
eyes clouded by rage, ego, patriotism . .. what ever you want to call it. "Terrori sts seek to
provoke us into stripping off the mask of la""
in order to reveal the black heart of coercion
that they believe lurks behind our promi ses of
freedom." It is a must that we prove that our
freedom is more than a promise and we ",'ill
not be intimidated.

may 6, 2004

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10
Lack of "Out of Order" Signs:

It's Everyone's Problem

Anti- Semitism Awareness
a nd the

Israel-Palestine Dialogue
hy Val Saturn

hI' Connur Mo ran

In res ponse to the ongo ing debate ove r and even se lf-loathing th at can acco mp a n ~
anti- Se miti sm, I would like to ex pand on this awareness are not to be underestim ated .
som e of my previ ous thoughts. In the past, Burdened with such guilt, it is little wonder
I have tried to illustrat e the difference th at som e Americans and , more ort en.
between legitim ate criticism ofl sraeli policy Europeans are so stron gly compell ed to
and genuine anti-Semitism . As many have convince them sel ves that Jews are monsters
pointed out, however, there exists a vast and (as evidenced by Israel's beh avior toward
important gray area between the two. In a the Palestinians) and were thus de servin g
sense, in our minute dissection of whether of their fate.
Similarly. thi s dynamic plays a role in
this or that incident is anti-Semitic, we may
the
intensity
I witnessed durin g Alexander
have been miss ing the point. In what have
been called " vague feelings" and "abstract Cockburn's rec ent le cture at th e Capit ol
premonitions" rests wh at may ver y well be Theater, when he asserted. "Anti-Semitism
the key to understanding and reconcilia- is dead in America." and was embraced by
the crowd. Man y of those who are crit ica l
tion.
The specter of the Holocaust has long of Israe l but not anti-Semitic are. I beli eve.
bee n invoked as a weapon of silencing all ge nuinel y fe arlul that th e)' lII ay he anti di sse nt toward Israe l. Som e right- win g Semitic in their crit ic ism, whi ch leaves
policy ma kers ha ve utili zed thi s tact ic them eage r for reass uranc e th at they are
shamelessly. but is important to distinguish not and that anti- Semiti sm in fact does not
the moti ves of policy makers from those of even exist at all. In other words. their (underth e ordin ary peopl e amon g us wh o havt: standable) fear of moral ambigu it y translates
come fo rwa rd w ith th ei r ow n conce rn s. into a willin gness to acce pt th e comfo rting.
Howe ve r manipulated by leauers wi th th eir cut-and-dr y absolute s of dogma.
In much of th e sa lli e way th at the act ivown age nuas. the reality is th at the Holocaust
ist
comillunity
can reass ure Jt: ws . Jews ca n
has left a deep, lasting, and highl y traum atic
r't:
lieve
activ
ists
of some: of th eir ow n fears
scar upon the collecti ve psyche ortht:: Je wi sh
by
demonstratin
g
that they wi ll not allow the
Special tha nks tn i\faria/!)/' th e il1.lp i- peopl e. Some Jews have bee n able to make suppress ion of free speech unuer the gui st: of
their peace with what was done to them or
!'utio l1 lor this CO/IIl1ln .
their relati ves in Naz i Germ any. The wound "fightin g anti -Semiti sm." By ensuring tllat
Wh cll ',I' ) ,()U R l Jruh lelll :> E -m ailm c a t
th at linge rs far more powerfully is the fac t the label is neve r abu sed in orde r to silence
AI, 11'('( mOJ r(/ e verg reen.eJ u.
that th e world looked on with silence. For di sse nt , the Jewish communit y can prevell t
some, th is has produ ced a determ in at ion thi s retreat into dogma while prese rvi ng the
to ensure th at Jews themse lves never to do potency of thc term.
Nobody poss esse s the monopoly on
Iikew ise, hence the high proportion of Jews
in civil right s or social justice movements. victimh ood , nor dllt: s it make scn se to
For others. though . the Holocaust has c.aused strive toward that end. Spe;Jk ing out aga in st
a ueep loss offaith in God, perhaps more in anti-Jewi sh anti- Scm iti sm does not uetrac t
from the import ance of fightin g anti- Arab
hum anit y.
- - - --- - -- .._-- - - - -- -_
._ ---- - - - -- In our memory of suffering, Jews can anti-Semit ism. and vice versa. It has been
hI' K enu!'; BrC',I' helil
find th e moral courage necessary in speak- argued th at·Jews of European desccnt bencfit
I am one of th e ve ry few student s been around longer than myself. working ing out against injustice toward Palestinians. frol11 the privilegc ofli ght skin and relati ve
involved in the dec ision-making process within the system. I don' t be lieve. however. Just the same. members of our communit y afflu ence, particul arl y in compari son with
aro und what shoulu be uon e to so lve the that !'monly being idea li stic when I say th at mu st acknowl edge and validate th e per- other min orit y groups such as Africa nper enni a l proh lem o r foo d se rvi c\: on sustainability and practicality are in sepa- spectives of th ose in our midst who have Am erican s. Thi s is true. but it does no \
C;Jmpus. The admini stration see ms content rable from one another.
been traum ati zed by their ow n ex perience invalidat e Jewish expe riences of prej udi ce.
Sustain
abilit
y
is
not
a
"
nice
idea."
SlIStn rely on the spring weather tn keep students
of injustic e. By attackin g their concerns In fact, one of the little-recogni zed ironi.::s of
tainabilit
y
is
necessary.
If
isn't
sustainable.
d isi nt erested in boring policy dec isions that
as irrational or unfounded , the critic who rac ism is th at it is often at its most dangerou s
will come back to bite us next fa ll. and the it isn't a good plan. This word gets thrown aim s to prove them wrong succeeds only preci se ly when it is hardest to detec \. when
weather has been coope ratin g. A market- around a lot anu see ms in danger of be com- in reinforcing the trauma. Many more Jews t rad it iona I bou nd ari es betwee n majorit y
ing fi rm was on campus at th e begi nning in g a mea nin gless. fee l-good label. If you would be empowered to fig ht the occ upation and minority are be in g threatened. r\ major
of the qu arter to run loc us gro ups in order ac tu all y stop to think about the relati ve ly if given Feassurance thatth eir di ssent would catalyst fo r Jewi sh in secur ities is th e fact
sim ple concept behind it th ough, "sustain- under no conditions be used to harm their that the. Holoca ust occ urred preci sely when
to de lerm ine wh at conce rn s peo ple have
.tbo ut food ser vice. Survey questions we re ab le" Ill ea ns mo re th a n j ust "g ree n." A ow n people. To be so emboldened. those who Ge rman Jews we re enjoying unp recede nt ed
de signed usin g the material th at came up good plan has to b~ fi nanc ially and soc ially have lost their faith mu st be shown that the afflu ence. influence, and ass imilation.
Nordoes the scale of historical persecu in those sess ions. rhe sur ve y diu not end sustain abl e. as we ll as. environm ent ally. activi st community will also come to their
up inc ludin g significant questions to gauge Attaining sustain abilit y isn't simple. and defense in the event of ge nuine hate crimes tion of Jews in va lid ate the present sufferin g
of Pa les tinians. In the war of victim hood. it
peop le's co ncern s arounu issues of sustain- it ge nera lly isn't fa ncy. It oft en doesn't se ll aga in st them.
abi lity and soc i,t1 respo nsibilit y. We are wel l. It mea ns sca lin g back. simplifying,
The present rise of anti- Semit ism is fa r becomes all 100 easy for the Jew ish compa\ ing thi s pri vate marketing company over being creati ve anu resourceful , and making more complex than simply another infl am- mun ity to treat the Holocaust as a ya rdstick
S:20.000 to .. tailor" their stand ard co llege sacri fi ces. That may be hard to take, but I mation of bli nd . irrat ional hate. Though the agai nst wh ich all persecution can be used
I(lo u-service online survey to our situ ation. believt: it is our most palatable opti on.
fac t receive s little attention , the Jews are not aga in st Jews as we ll: if no persecuti on ca n
As fa r as th e ·food se rvic e here on the only ones who have been traum ati zed by be thought as serious as th e Holocaust, so too
anulO collect and analyze the results.
My ro le in thi s proc ess consistentl y has ca mpus is concerned, working toward a the Holocaust. Non- Jew ish Europeans and ca n current anti-Jewish attac ks be rendered
been to bring up the issues of sustain ab ility trul y susta in able plan for food service prob- Americans have also bee n affected by th e insigni fica nt in comparison, Instead, the sufand social responsibiIit y. Du rin g one discus- ab ly means cutting back and simpl ifying, nearly unbearable awa reness brought about ferin g of both gro ups ca n se rve as a source
, ion. someone from the senior sta ff' here said. and th at may not go over we ll in the current by thi s dark moment in hi story... the awa re- of empath y and destiny. These are all ve ry
essent ia ll y. th at sustainab il ity is a nice idea. social clim ate of un acknow ledged lu xuries . ness of the ease with which human beings diffic ult issues, but ultim ately, we can use
but that it is current ly not tina nciall y via bl e. But I th ink th at may be exac tly what we can slip int o un fath omable cru elt y and th is debate to dee pen our unde rstanding of
Several tim es du rin!! that conversati on. I was need. A smaller. simpler, more utilitari an indi ftc rence to others' sufferin g. The guilt these issues and each other.
i'ererred to as an ac tivi st and told that I don't food service could ironically contribute to
re present the majority of the students here at the very character that corporate foodservice
Evergree n. It is hard to determ ine th e pos i- lacks. It might actu ally appea l in a Bauhaus
t ion of a majorit y on many issues, and I don't sort of way to the hip Evergreen aesthetic.
presume to represent all students; I do get Food is central to commun ity, and people
a lot of support from other students when recogni ze that. Evergreen potluck culture
nea r future. They are ex pensive, but another
I ta lk with them about the issue. though. I is an alm ost-too-easy example. A com- v ice th at offers a variety of simple, healthy corporate food service with a five- or tenwould like to be ta ken seriously, not just as munit y center where people want to hang and not- so-healthy food s in an accessible. yea r contrac t will also be expensive, and it
a student, but as an indi vidua l with valid out does not have to big, brightly lit , and com fort able setting. It cannot be run by a will not sol ve th e long-term problem . Please
opinions. By dismi ssing me as an acti vist. fl ashy: in fa ct that is exactly where corpora- corporation , but by people who work for th e don't dismiss my concerns as the idealist,
and my opinion s and concern s as political. tions inva riably get it wron g. Corporations school and know our community. For now. activ ist, voc iferous views of a minority. If
never do a convinc ing job of substituting for keeping Bon Appetit on for another year or
not practical, you m iss my point.
you really think sustainability is a "nice"
It seems odd , too. that these ideas are commun ity. Atmosph ere is important, and two is the best alternative I can thin k of if idea, please think about what it means.
we are to work toward fi xing the food serconsidered politically radical , although they it can't be faked .
We need a simple, utili ta rian food ser- vice problem in a sustain able manner in the
may sound ideali sti c to someone who has

Stufr brea ks. It' s a fac t o f life. all
the more true on a college campus where
hundreds of people use (and abuse) communal devices every day. Throw in the
propensity for active vandali sm, and you
get a lot of broken things. It's a pain in
th e ass, but there 's really nothing that
ca n be done except wait for maintenance
people to fi x the problem. However. when
one of these broke n devices takes money
and then refuses to work, the problem
ge ts more severe. Eithe r the would-be
user just get s screwed or bu sy people
have to get bothered in order to refund
the money. When something high-traffic
like a laundr y room change machine or
wa sher or drye r stops working. thi s can
become a major irlto nvenienc e for a lot
of peo ple. But it could easily be changed
into a minor inco nve ni ence with the help
of one little dev ice: a sig n. A sign say ing
"OLIt of order."
I' m not Slire why thi s is a problem.
Most pl aces have no prohl em slappi ng
up a piece of pape r fo r thi s purpose. and
eve n here yo u see the signs every once in
a while. Butl know of num erous instances
where a broken devi ce remained broken
and unm arked for weeks or month s. And
there is not hing more fru strating tha n put-

Concert Reviews Continued ...

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ting your laundry in a dryer, putting in
seventy-five cents. waiting an hour and a
half, then opening the drye r to find that it
does not generate heat and did little more
than give your clothing a nice ride . And
when broken devices go unmarked, it is
never clear when they are fixed , meaning
that those who get burned once are likely
to avoid a change machine or vending
machine or washer or dryer long after the
problem has ceased to be.
I don ' t know what the hold-up is
on putting sig ns on thi ngs. Perhaps the
problem is that fell ow students. being the
rapscallions they are, ta ke down signs. If
so, STOP IT. Those sig ns serve a very
important purpose, a nd the only peopl e
who ge t screwed are other student s. But
I think that it is more likely that the signs
j ust never get put up. So I have another
request for the student body. If you are vietim ized by a broken dev ice, take matt ers
into yo ur own hand s and create your ow n
sig n. II' we band togethe r. we ca n beat thi s
thing. The seve nt y-fi ve cent s stop s here.

Some Thoughts on Sustainability

and Our Food Service Mess

may 6, 2004

Half A'ag Of Chicket1

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(Avril Lavigne, April 7 at South Center Mall)
by Rev. Christopher Altenburg
I go to check out of the hotel room and
overhear a conversation that the day clerk
is having with someone about all of the
meth labs that have been busted in that
hotel and the ones in the surrounding area.
Of course I had to work my way into it. too.
Then I remembered that my lady friend is
still waiting in the car for me. I take her
10 visit her family, and I become elated
about not making it back to Oly when
her sister tells me that Avril Lavigne is
throwing a surprise concert at Tukwila 's
Southcenter Mall at 5 p.m. I had to see
that shit because it was bound to be crazy.
I could stay in town and then see Kool
Keith the next day.
The show turned out actually taking
place in the parking lot outside of the
Bon Marche and Mervyn's. We got there
at abollt 5: 18. but it was al ready over.
Apparentl y. it was an acoustic set with
her and one other guy. and although they
had started a little early, the whole show
didn ' t last more than half an hour at most.
Peopl e herded Ollt, but when they were
through, a large crowd still remained.
Most of it. was around a vendors ' table.
T he man behind it with a black tie and
white short-sleeved shirt expl ained in his
broken Engli sh that they were selling miniC D singles that we re contai ned in the lid of
a Sban'o fountain drink . You could fill it up
inside the mall and pl ay the min i-CDs on
normal pl ay ers and CD-Roms. They were
$3 a piece. There was a tattered newspaper
fl oating around just like the paper bag in
American Beauty . It had a huge article
abo ut the lO-year anniversary of Kurt
Cobain 's death . It settl ed under the Payless
kicks of some eight- year-old girl who was
waiting in line. Pay ing no attention whatsoever, she did the peppermint twist and
tore the shit out of it. I was paint-huffing
spun with the irony of it.
I intervi ewed the mother of two red-

haired little girls, who said that she had
been waiting for the show since I p.m.
I boasted that Leslie had seen Debbie
Gibson at the Tacoma mall and we chatted
about the chaos, but when I mentioned that
a .couple of my homies had seen Britney
Spears at Southcenter back when they used
to take a lot of acid, she let me know that
Avril was a step or two up from Britney
in her "book."
Later, I saw a man who looked like a
Mariners fan or a Boeing employee. He
was middle-aged with a beard , glasses.
and a brown bomber-style jacket over
his button up shirt. I looked down to see
another news articl e that clearly paled
next to pre-teens standing in a parking lot
hoping to see someone write their name. It
was only on the UConn Final Four championship game. I figure that he's there with
his kids and would get a decent chuckle
from it. Fortunately, when he mentioned
finding out about the event on her website
and exposed himselfas a fan, it was before
he realized that I was talking shit.
When Avril came out to sign autographs
to the line of people waiting along the
fence, she was tiny and looked' extremely
fri ghtened by all of the commotion. I was
able to get my Book of Mormon signed
by her but received no reaction, not even
when I pointed out what it was and told her
that Ike Turner had signed it. She wasn' t
focusing on anything except getting the
fuck out. When we left we di scussed how
freaked out she looked, and Lesli e brought
up how we met a 40-year-old man there.
"She's probably scared," she said. "She
probably has people stalking her. " Guess
what? She was right. Apparently, somebody who had been sending her crazy
e-mail s and messages from somewhere
in Washington State was arrested that day
and had hi s house raided.
NEXT WEEK:

by Kylin Larsson
The students in the Working Small
program, led by faculty Jean Mandeberg,
produced excellent artwork during fall
and winter quarters. The central medium
to alrthe pieces is metal. Many incorporate
stones, feathers, words, paper and wood as
well. As the name of the exhibit indicates
all the pieces are small, most small enough
to fit in one hand.
The collective artist 's statement accompanying the work proclaimed: " Inspiration
is a subject that has been at the core of our
studies for the last two quarters, and we
have found that a flash of insight, stimulation, like sudden epiphany, came from a
vast number of sources." The inspiration
series ranges from pregnancy, dreams and
nightmares to nature, lingerie and sleep.
All of the work in the exhibit was of
high quality and could have been shown
in the recent illustrious Arts Walk. The
talented individuals of Working Small
learned many skills enabling them to
express their aesthetic visions in silver
(fine and sterling), copper and other metals
in addition to various mixed media. The
artists "all overcame hesitation, developed
. . . de xte rity, and retrained .. . eyesight, in
order to produce work that was intricate,
complicated, and fascinating," reads the
artist statement .
To whet your appetite to vis uall y consum e these pieces, I will detail a few for
you . Erik Walden's theme " Dreams and

Nightmares" gave birth to an M.e. Escheresque multi-dimensional-appearing staircase made of various metals. Another piece
in the series consists of five scary looking
clawed tips one would put on his or her
fingers. which immediately call to mind
Freddy Kruger even though they are not
knives.oArtfully arranged in a circle, they
seem like they are rising out of the shel f
they rest upon.
Another very well crafted se ri e s
embraces the theme " Lingerie." In the
theme, arti st Rebecca L. Bechtol! fashioned four pieces of lingerie from silver.
The clothing is presented on tiny hangers
on department store rolling racks. Th e
theme brings up ideas of what makes a
wom an a woman and sex iness for sa le.
"Sleep" is the the me se ries created by
Mark Gerth. He created three identica l
bed frames, and upon each rests a mattress
each made of a ditTerent medium : clear
glass or crystal , black and white checkered cloth and copper with large hol es.
Around the beds arc ditTerent pictures of
flam e and fires reminding the viewer of
the song '"Bringing Down the House" by
the Talking Heads.
T he many fru its o f th e ir la bor a re
exhibited in Lab II in thc basc ment level,
the second fl oor and the third fl oor. Thi s
visual feast is reall y wo rth searching OLlt :
you will be we ll rewa rded .

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by Talia M. Wilson
"Tell me we didn't accomplish some- given away and summed it up as such :
thing remarkable! "
"The Evergreen offense fizzled out, and
Once again, Evergreen's club baseball Evergreen was once again defeated, but not
team faced tough competition- the Central after giving COCC a run for their money
Oregon Community College Bobcats- and and, I bet, a little bit ofa scare."
the team suffered its final series of losses:
In the second game, Presley handed
14-3,20-1 and 12-0. But, as always, it was over the glove to third base coach/infielder
not without a noble effort.
Justin Porter. The Bobcats hit more conThe Geoducks show their real selves foJlowing Saturday's
"It's not like we never gave any sort sistently each inning, their lead pulling
doubleheader in Bend. (from left to right) Back row: Jeremy
of opposition to the other teams ," head further away. The notable Geoducks '
Harrison-Smith, Tucker Waugh, Jeramy ViJlianos; Middle
coach/pitcher Sean Presley said. " We offensive moment was when Presley led
row:
Justin Porter, John Each; Front row: Whalen Dillon,
actually competed very well in about off the second with a single, then, with
Sean Presley, Ross Trainor.
half. The losses were in most part due to a steal jump start, killed the double play
Photo courtesy of Sean Presley.
the youth ofthe program, the inexperience option when Porter grounded to short. That
of the coach and players, and established was followed by the team 's only run of
competition. "
the game, when Waugh hit a double to the 0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Last Saturday found the Geoducks opposite field. Though the score at the end
in sunny Bend, Oregon, at Vince Genna of the inning was only 4-1, the Geoducks
Stadium. In the first game of the double- managed only one more hit, by Villianos,
header the team led off. After catcher in the fifth . Tubman pitched a two strike
Ross Trainor walked, he advanced to out in the fourth, relieving Porter, and
second base on a base hit by infielder Villianos pitched the long, hit-filled fifth
Will Tubman, who has been "on fire at inning.
the plate" with five hits and two doubles
The game should have ended after the
in the last 13 at bats. Though Trainor was top of the fi fth, with the mercy rule, but
picked off at second, Tubman advanced to "neither team wanted to waste a night of
second when Presley singled. The Bobcats playing under the lights, so the game conscored one at the bottom of the first , but tinued, much to the kindness of spectators by Kyra Berkovich
the Geoducks would answer back.
who thanked the team graciously for staySo I've been told that this is the fastest (178 feet , 8 inches), with an open wall
With one out at the top of the second, ing in and playing, even though we were
game
o'n Earth. And I would be inclined to that runs lengthwise. The two opponent s
outfielder Jeramy Villianos sing led and getting killed," as Presley put it.
then advanced to second on a Bobcat error.
Sunday's game featured Tubman on bel ieve them, especially when I read that a stand facing each other, with one re ce iving serve. The object of the game is to
After infielder John Each's pop to right the mound, though the game was short- serve has been clocked at 188 mph .
Right.
But
first,
I
should
explain
hurl
a ball against the front wall of the
field outfielder Whalen Dillion hit his first ened because of the mercy rule . The only
what
Jai
Alai
is
.
Jai-alai
(pronounced
court
with as much speed and spin that
double of the season, bringing Villi anos Geoduck hit was "a long one" by Harrisonhome for the Geoducks' first run . Then Smith in the third, over the right fielder 's hi-uh-lie), is a descendant of handball , the other player cannot catch or return it
outfielder Jeremy Harrison-Smith walked head and all the way to the 350-foot wall and has been played by ancient Egyptian on the first bounce.
The only way a person can score is by
and Trainor sin g led to load the bases, in center field. Harrison-Smith made it to and Greek royalty 4,000 years ago. http://
w~w.dainia-jai-alai.com/
tells
us
that
the
catching
the ball in the air, on the fly as it's
though Tubman would get the third out third, but the inning abruptly ended with
sometimes
called, or on the fir st bounce.
game,
"What
is
now
the
super-speeded
up
at the plate. The Bobcats responded with a strikeout.
another run.
Though the Geoducks ' season is and sophisticated Basque sport of jai-alai Again, this seems harder than it should
In the third, Pres ley hit a lead-off officially over, there are some future non- developed from a simple game which was be, especially when the ball if coming at
single and advanced to third, thanks to league games in the works, possibly with played long before an anonymous Meso- your head at 188 mph . Now, keep in mind
infi elder Tucker Waugh' s hit. Villianos' the University of Montana Grizzlies and , potamian built the first wheel. Handball that the fastest recorded serve in tennis
ground ball brought Presley in for an RBI , the University of Idaho Vandals, against was old when ancient Greeks called it has only recently been set at 156 mph at
'pi los' and played it as a form of exercis·e this year's Davis Cup.
though Vi II ianos was called out at first on a . whom the team played very well.
For the most part, the game seems
qlJestionable call by the field umpire.
Looking back on the team, Presley's outdoors on rough ground. The Romans
played
'pi
latta,'
while
French
and
Engli~h
a
mix
of handball and racquetball , and I
The Bobcats were held to four runs ti II sentiments are heartfelt and honestly
can
easily
see why this sport is so popular
monarchs
tried
their
hands
at
the
game
111
the fifth , when the Geoducks scored their depict the team's unity: "Although the
the
fourteenth
and
fifteenth
centuries."
throughout
the world. What I don't underfinal run. Tubman led offwith a single, fol- Geoducks went winless in regular season
means
"merry
fesstand
is
why
it's not popular in the US. It's
In
Basque,jai-alai
lowed by a Presley single. Then Tubman play, I would rather have lost every ball
advanced to third on a wild pitch and was game with these guys than win every game tival ," and it was as these merry festivals fast and sometimes violent. (Four deaths
that the game became popular. The tools have been attributed to this game, but this
brought home by a Waugh single.
with anyone else."
After that, the Bobcats put it in the bag,
And there's always next year, new of the game include a curved basket that was before the introduction of helmets in
which, according to Presley, was the result players, (possibly) new opponents, and a is strapped to the right hand of the player, 1967.) What more does America hold dear
of pitching: " My fastballs were missing clean start. "We will definitely be a force regardless of the player's dominant hand. in a sport?
As I begin to run out of things to say,
their mark, and my curves started to hang to be reckoned with next year," Presley Most of these "cestas," as the basket is
called,
are
tailored
for
the
individual
I'll
point
one more time to the website. It
over the strike zone." In addition, Presley said.
player.
But
the
game
reaJly
changed
with
also
provided
a Iist of celebrities who enjoy
acknowledged that the game wasn't just
the discovery of rubber and its consequent this sport, something [ never thought I'd
Remarkable, indeed.
use in the making of balls for sport.From find . Some of these names include: Tom
this new ball came a never-before-seen Berenger, Larry King , Ed McMahon,
Pacific Mountain Conference:
speed, and just as much excitement came Art Garfunkd, Ernest Hemingway, Babe
Final 2004 Standings
with it.
Ruth, Harry S. Truman, Eleanor RoosToday, the game is played in an evelt, Paul Newman and Gene Hackman .
(Conference) (Overall)
elongated version of a racquetball court Weird .
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